Upcoming releases

Electronic Sound issue 145 puts David Bowie on the cover for the 50th anniversary of Low, with a feature by musicologist Leah Kardos, bundled with an exclusive double CD of new commissions, originals and covers inspired by the album's electronic instrumentals.

A new Merzbow album, not a reissue: modular analog synthesizer passages and electroacoustic pieces that recall the early cassette years, recorded at Munemihouse in 2021-2022. 2LP on hand-poured Wax Mage vinyl, 300 copies.

On Eleven Poems, Chris Philpot, Justin Rhody and Abigail Smith bring fractured language into contact with bowed taishōgoto and vibrating percussion. Recorded in Santa Fe, these eleven miniature encounters trade conventional accompaniment for a shared attention to timbre, spacing and resonance, letting poetry and sound unsettle one another.

*Edition of 100* K/S/R (Ben Kujawski, Abigail Smith & Justin Rhody) have been performing and recording together since 2022. Recorded by the band themselves during a full week of day-long sessions - violin, percussion, lap steel, accordion, flute, guitar, harmonica, and rhodes piano were each stretched, damaged & made to sing through various extended techniques. The trio's non-concentric approach to collective improvisation mirrors the dark harmonic density and symbiotic formal structures of the …

Giuni Russo's 1981 CGD album, produced with Franco Battiato and Alberto Radius and arranged by Battiato and Giusto Pio: electronics, experimental pop and avant-garde singing, remastered on 180g yellow vinyl.

Sun Ra's 1970 Saturn album, cut with a skeletal Arkestra of three sidemen and Ra on Rock-Si-Chord and Minimoog in a near-pop mood. Cosmic Myth's expanded 2LP adds six bonus tracks, including a 1971 TV concert and a 1973 live quartet.

Vilhelm Bromander returns to Warm Winters Ltd. with his second album written for an extended woodwind ensemble. For those uninitiated, 2022's 'Aurora' was a collection of pieces Bromander wrote for an ensemble of friends, most of whom were playing on instruments unfamiliar to them. 'Aurora II' builds on the last album, but the ensemble of friends grew, and so did the sound, which has evolved into a deeper, more expansive one. Each of the compositions has it’s own attunement space which invites t…

Music history wasn't written solely by the major record labels. Beyond the charts, a vibrant scene of independent musicians, producers, and small labels emerged in the 1960s and 70s, whose recordings are now among the most fascinating discoveries in the history of soul, funk, and R&B. Often with no prospect of commercial success, they created their music with remarkable determination-uncompromisingly and on their own terms. For many of these artists, this was the only way. They founded their own…

*150 copies limited edition* With Ritual and Radio Waves on the Plains of Elysium, his second album for Unexplained Sounds Group, Rapoon conjures the vast, open spaces of the American deserts and plains, translating the experience of crossing those landscapes into sound. The music captures the hypnotic rhythm of endless travel, where time loses its grip and the scenery becomes a continuous, shifting presence: brief flashes of towns, gas stations, roadside stops, night skies, and distant radio fr…

Faitiche presents the release of a new album by Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek (faitiche13). Since their debut (Bird, Lake, Objects, faitiche03, 2010) they have played improvised concerts around the world. Japanese vibraphonist Masayoshi Fujita prepares his instrument with various percussion elements as well as metal objects and toys, while Jan Jelinek layers loops made using small-scale electronic devices. Schaum (German for froth, foam) is the duo's second album. "The river, forcing its way th…

Paul Pèrrim returns with Arati – a raw, expeditionary palindromic companion to his 2025 debut, Itara. Exploring a rawer, harsher, and more rugged landscape than its predecessor, Arati pushes deeper into the wilderness. The anthropologist- musician continues to guide listeners down paths trodden by akaleidoscope of cultures, offering a sound that is profoundly singular, primal, and timeless. The album’s surreal compositions weave together an eclectic arsenal of textures: mutant maqams, Africanist…

Sucata Tapes and Annihaya proudly present Delia, the hypnotic new album by Munda (Selu Herraiz), following up on foundational explorations of ritual and territorial memory. Recorded in September 2021 during a residency at Konvent—an old convent set within an abandoned industrial colony in Cal Rosal, deep in the lower Catalan Pyrenees—Delia is forged from the physical ghosts of a former textile factory. Within high ceilings, terracotta floors, and walls vibrating with low frequencies, Herraiz cap…

*100 copies limited edition* Fuglen flyr godt (“The bird flies well”) is the second solo album by Norwegian multidisciplinary artist Espen Friberg, following 2022’s Sun soon (Hubro). Recorded in the coastal town of Hvitsten, Norway, through the winter and spring of 2025–26, the album consists of eleven pieces made entirely on the Serge Modular synthesizer. Through improvisation and experimentation, Friberg treats the Serge as a shifting network of relationships, developing a vocabulary of idiosy…

*70 copies limited edition* A collection by Peruvian visual artist Jonathan Castro between 2024–26 at home studios while living in Amsterdam, then Rotterdam, NL. The compositions were made using various synthesizers, samplers, electronic percussion, congas, and an array of effects pedals. Knackered out salsas, looped up and chucked down into a custom dub chamber. Given his background living in music, listening to music, and in music — the regional rhythms on display are not a surprise. It seems …

Matthew Shipp on piano and William Parker on bass in only their fourth duo album, the fruit of a four-decade friendship that began in the David S. Ware Quartet. Recorded in Brooklyn in June 2025, CD on Tao Forms.

Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore's score for Threshold, the documentary on cross-country ski champion Jessie Diggins: sixteen cues with an open palette of harp, voice and more, after their duo album Tragic Magic.

*165 copies limited edition* Lumberton Trading Company is pleased to announce that Andrew Liles has a new LP coming in January/February 2027. Limited to 165, the first 65 will be pressed on special black/red 'colour in colour' vinyl, while the balance will be simply black vinyl. The red/black vinyl edition will be only available from the label. Here are Andrew's own words on the LP: "The title 'Mondo Cane' is a reference to the 1962 Italian film directed by Gualtiero Jacopetti, Paolo Cavara, and…

The state51 Conspiracy is proud to present the reissue of The Human Beast’s legendary (and sole) album ‘Volume One’ - a visceral slice of the late 60s Edinburgh underground. Remastered by Grammy-recognised mastering engineer Sarah Register, this definitive edition gives both collectors and casual buyers the chance to own one of Scotland’s cult hidden psych hard rock gems, complete with updated sleeve notes, never before seen photos/ephemera and an art card signed by the band. The sedate gentilit…

Although humans possess language as a means of communication, we sometimes hurt each other simply by intending to. In war, bullets kill people. If we consider words to be like bullets, they can be violent and cause mental suffering. However, when communication causes problems, the only way to solve them is through more communication. I thought: wouldn't it be wonderful if those bullets could turn into flowers instead? In everyday life, when we talk, laugh and share moments with friends and famil…

“Variable,” an album by Hybrid Leisureland－the project of Hidetoshi Koizumi, who has been active as an electronica and ambient composer and arranger since his debut in Paris, France, in 2010－is now available on CD.