Upcoming releases
Betsy Jolas: Femme le soir
Femme le soir immerses listeners in Betsy Jolas’s world of memory, inquisition, and fleeting radiance, performed by Anssi Karttunen (cello) and Nicolas Hodges (piano). These pieces unravel at the tempo of spoken thought, suspending lyrical lines in unhurried motion and sudden illumination.
Selected Works 1985-2005
Selected Works 1985-2005 by Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors assembles eleven transformative pieces from two decades of percussive ambient innovation. This 2025 repress captures their hypnotic blend of ceremonial rhythm, improvisation and deeply spiritual overtones, threading together global traditions and ecstatic energy to create immersive soundscapes meant for both movement and contemplation.
Solar Wind
Solar Wind, the singular album from OM led by guitarist Seiji Hano, is widely regarded as a milestone in Japanese ethnic jazz. Recently reissued, this masterwork summons a refined blend of acoustic purity, melancholic resonance, and wabi-sabi beauty, drawing subtle influence from ECM contemporaries like Oregon and Codona while breathing unmistakable Japanese spirit. With each track, from the mesmerizing “Windmill” to the final notes, Solar Wind achieves a seamless, moving elegance - a flawless e…
Gong
Gong, newly reissued on CD with bonus tracks, finds Sissy Spacek at their inventive peak, transforming the noise duo format into a meticulous, sprawling environment. The album’s two extended pieces are collages of violently manipulated junk noise, shattered electronics, and warped musical fragments, merging chaos and structure. Through masterful tape edits and dense, eerie atmospherics—including glass, metal, piano, and field recordings—the band delivers an immersive, unpredictable journey into …
Raiser
Raiser captures a 2013 Bronson session of Sissy Spacek—Phil Blankenship, Charlie Mumma, and John Wiese—in Los Angeles, channeling an intense fusion of harsh noise and noisecore. The album is a relentless, cathartic experience: shriek-laced blasts, searing electronics, and disintegrating metal fragments, all reassembled into monstrous, meticulously pieced sound collages. The result is sonic destruction made compositional, a full-spectrum assault that melts into jittery static and transformed debr…
New York About the Polywave
New York About the Polywave chronicles both recent and archival New York performances by The Haters, the iconic noise and conceptual art collective led by GX Jupitter-Larsen since 1979. The collection includes the ferocious 2025 “Digging Through Time” show at TV Eye, where shovels and a large wooden clock met their entropy-fueled fate, as well as earlier interventions involving calculators against fans and amplified hole-punch devices. These actions expose The Haters’ unique sonic and conceptual…
Los Angeles, Not the Totimorphous
Los Angeles, Not the Totimorphous surveys The Haters’ uncompromising presence in Los Angeles, led by GX Jupitter-Larsen since 1979. This documentation compiles both contemporary and archival performances: the 2024 45th Anniversary Show at Coaxial Arts Center with GX, AMK, John Wiese, and Elden M weaponizing transistor radios, turntables, tape, and rust; a 2011 suitcase-smashing set at LACE; and a 1991 event devoted to tearing paper. Each iteration presents entropy and action as its own aesthetic…
Porch Music
Porch Music is a double album uniting Mitchell Brown (Gasp), Paul McCarthy, Joe Potts (Airway), Alex Stevens, and John Wiese (Sissy Spacek) from the Los Angeles Free Music Society, documenting the group's studio session at McCarthy’s studio and their inaugural live set from The Box gallery. Crafted from melting cinematic sounds, this release captures the ensemble's exploratory spirit with artwork by Ace Farren Ford.
Porch Music
Porch Music documents No Hope Orchestra, an ambitious large ensemble led by Paul McCarthy and featuring core members of the Los Angeles Free Music Society. Recorded live at The Box gallery concert in Los Angeles, the project harnesses a vivid assembly of improvisers—Mitchell Brown, Elaine Carey, Dennis Duck, Ace Farren Ford, Juan Gomez, Mike Gonzalez, Joseph Hammer, Keith Lubow, Nathaniel Mellors, Joe Potts, Rick Potts, Trevor Rounseville, Alex Stevens, Molly Tierney, and John Wiese. This releas…
Ex-Org
Ex-Org is the fourth album from Extended Organ, featuring Paul McCarthy, Fredrik Nilsen, Joe Potts, Tom Recchion, and Alex Stevens. Recorded in January 2018, the album documents two sessions: one as-performed and another “decomposed” by John Wiese. Here, Extended Organ conjures an unpredictable sonic environment - Joe Potts’s Chopped Optigan, McCarthy’s improvisational guitar and vocals, and a dense fabric of homemade and vintage instruments combine to create a powerful blend of immersive ambien…
Akashaplexia
Akashaplexia is the culmination of Merzbow and John Wiese’s decades-long partnership, offering over three hours of new music across four CDs. Recorded together in Tokyo, the album balances Merzbow’s psychedelic intensity and Wiese’s meticulous sonic architecture, presenting a vast and intricately detailed landscape of noise, improvisation, and unpredictable dynamic shifts.
Le Grand Couturier
Le Grand Couturier debuts with a self-titled album that threads together imaginary exotica and daring contemporary experimentation. The trio crafts a distinctive palette of analog warmth, improvisational spirit, and whimsical elegance, resulting in a record that both intrigues and soothes with its lush arrangements and unpredictable textures.
Konoma
Konoma by Takuro Okada is an evocative exploration of musical identity informed by Afro-American traditions and a Japanese artisanal spirit. With eight tracks that weave intricate guitar textures, this album reflects Okada’s meditation on cultural connection and the possibilities of stylistic fusion, pushing boundaries in contemporary instrumental music.
Get Out
Get Out by Pita unfolds as a seminal work in laptop-based experimental sound, capturing the raw interplay between digital entropy and sonic melody. Rehberg’s compositions navigate between turbulence and clarity, aided by precise electronic manipulations and a single-minded commitment to his artistic vision, setting a benchmark for subsequent generations of experimental musicians.
Music / Sangam
Paris, 1978. Don Cherry walks into a French studio with a suitcase full of instruments nobody expected and meets Ustad Ahmed Latif Khan for the first time. No rehearsal, no plan, just two musicians who recognize each other immediately as kindred spirits. What happens next is one of Cherry's best efforts - an album only hardcore fans know about, recorded in Paris, released only in France in 1981, disappeared, and now back again in a special edition that demands attention. This is what "world musi…
"Chaire" and "Live at Pomigliano D'Arco - 1973"
Chaire is an album built on compositions written between 1974 and 1983, newly arranged, restored, and recorded by Cervello with voice tracks of Gianluigi Di Franco restored from archival tapes. Centered on the multifaceted meaning of its Greek title—blessing, greeting, care—the album moves between memory and present, fusing Mediterranean roots, symphonic structure, and visionary arrangements into a contemporary progressive suite. Paired with Live At Pomigliano D'Arco - 1973, which documents a hi…
Melos
Cervello's Melos stands as a singular gem in the Italian progressive rock canon. Released in 1973, the album draws inspiration from Greek mythology, weaving Mediterranean folk elements into intricate prog rock compositions. Dominated by dense flute harmonies and shifting time signatures, Melos envelops listeners in a dreamlike blend of mythic storytelling, technical virtuosity, and poetic lyricism.
Fire of God's Love
Sister Irene O'Connor’s Fire of God's Love, reissued by Freedom To Spend, is a visionary 1976 private-press recording from Australia, blending devotional song with experimental electronics and echo-drenched vocals. The album’s raw spirituality, home studio inventiveness, and tape manipulations grant it a unique place in outsider pop, now made newly available to contemporary listeners in beautifully restored form.
Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?
Refracting beatifically through realities and mirages flickering along his aural parade route, Animal Collective’s Geologist rides the high country on a hurdy gurdy of many colours. Via the mystery science of musical engagement, we take his sonic kaleidoscope of encounters into our own experience as we listen. That’s the beauty of Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?, the debut solo transmission of the heart and soul and life and times of Geologist.
L'Étrange Femme des Neiges
Ensemble 0 presents L'Étrange Femme des Neiges, a fresh addition to their exploratory discography and the official soundtrack to a new film featuring Blanche Gardin and Philippe Katerine. This release demonstrates Ensemble 0's knack for understated textures and melodic invention, crafting a sonic atmosphere that seamlessly blends cinematic intimacy with expressive minimalism.