Mega tip! *80 copies limited edition bundle.* Ideal Secret Circle It's an 11 CD limited-edition set of albums packaged in digi packs designed by Philip Marshall. The series is curated by Joachim Nordwall.

1. Sins For Beginners - We Don’T Need No Music (For Pita)
2. Susana Santos Silva - The Fabrication Of Time 
3. Merzbow - Gareki No Niwa
4. Jim O’Rourke - Subtracted
5. Spykes - Memoirs Of Pogonophores Vol. 2.
6. A. Bolus - Evil Moisture Plays Music In The Style Of Organ Of Corti
7. Eternities - Forever Asap
8. Rozenhall - Presents The Unfathomable Delights Of Sex, Drugs And Electroacoustic Music
9. Joke Lanz - Chants And Growls By Mika The Dog
10. John Duncan & Joachim Nordwall - Ethereal
11. Organ Of Corti - Orbis

Below are the album selections described and interpreted by Joachim Nordwall in his curatorial process:

1. Sins For Beginners - We Don’T Need No Music (For Pita)

The duo of Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Joachim Nordwall has been around for some years now but this is only their second release under the name. First formed as a guitar duo, the string duty is now in Hausswolff’s hands and Nordwall is relegated to his analog synths. This change of weaponry is giving their music a more focused, concentrated sound. This is deep listening music from two generations of Swedish experimental music. The album is dedicated to friend Peter ”Pita” Rehberg. The title is from a piece by Pita and Micki said something similar when we interviewed him for Swedish national radio years ago. 

2. Susana Santos Silva - The Fabrication Of Time 

To experience Portugese trumpet player Susana Santos Silva live is like being in front of a force of nature. Raw vs sensitive energies float and Silva often make her instrument sound like a possessed modular synth. She is a steady collaborator and improviser with musicians like Fred Frith, Anthony Braxton and Joëlle Léandre and is constantly touring, playing and finding new ways for music and sound to travel. Susana Santos Silva is also compising electro-acoustic music. ”The Fabrication of Time” is a solo trumpet live recording from a Club iDEAL night at 3:e Våningen in Gothenburg on May 11th 2024. 

3. Merzbow - Gareki No Niwa

One of the first artists iDEAL wanted to work with was Japanese noise legend Masami Akita (b. 1956) aka Merzbow and we consider his 7” for us as the first release on the label. His work is of course very well documented since his start in 1979 and we have been obsessed by his noise since we first came across it in the late 80s through that double LP on RRR. Merzbow is unique and has always kept his own corner in the experimental music world. ”Gareki No Niwa” is harsh, psychedelic and rewarding. It’s great listening and to us an essential Merzbow album!

4. Jim O’Rourke - Subtracted

Jim O’Rourke (b.1969) is based by the foot of the Fuji mountain in Japan and is an artist working mainly with music but also as a film maker. He is freely moving between improvised stuff through drone to electro-acoustic recordings to art pop and rock. We have been fans of all of his different faces though the years and was thrilled when he agreed to record ”subtracted” for us. We first got excited though the rough ”Solo Guitar” tape for our fav label Sound of Pig in New York. It’s still getting a spin every now and then here. ”subtracted” is a rich, moving, psychedelic, synth drone thing that is taking you places. Jim O’Rourke is really one of today’s most important composers. 

5. Spykes - Memoirs Of Pogonophores Vol. 2.

Spykes is John Olson (American Tapes/Wolf Eyes) and his solo works has been in focus for us for years. Usually available in small editions and gone before they were recorded, these things are (to us) highly collectable. ”Memoirs of Pogonophores Vol. 2” is five pieces of oscillators and probably effects trying to survive Olson’s harsh and/or gentle treatments. We think it’s a clarinet in there too giving it some kind of extraterrestial jazz feel to it all. We love SPYKES. This one comes with an insert of a print of a painting by John Olson.

6. A. Bolus - Evil Moisture Plays Music In The Style Of Organ Of Corti

We saw Bolus lurking around the stage when Organ of Corti played a show in the Paris suburb Bagnolet. He seemed comfortable but we could not expect that he would make something like this as an effect. It’s probably what the title says but with that special touch Andy Bolus / Evil Moisture has. It’s the great sound of things decaying, falling apart or struggling to survive. What we have been so into ever since we first came across his music and art decades ago. Bolus is Bolus. His art is Bolus and Bolus is his art. Also check out the split 7” between him and Organ of Corti on iDEAL. Of course somehow connected to this lovely album. And it got me to obsess over that old school Evil Moisture 7" on Stomach Ache too. 

7. Eternities - Forever Asap

Eternities from Brooklyn is the duo of sound artist Bob Bellerue and bass clarinetist Katie Porter. We worked with Bob in different ways through they years and we are proud to include his new project in the series. Eternities play overtone magic. Resonant electronic feedback meets a harmonic wind instrument and this is new minimalism as its best! Not always pleasant listening but always deep and transcendent music. The way we like it, really. Don’t know why but this one makes us want to have a shot of a decent bourbon. 

8. Rozenhall - Presents The Unfathomable Delights Of Sex, Drugs And Electroacoustic Music

Daniel Rozenhall is one of the hidden masters in the more harsh electro acoustic scene. His works are deeply psychedelic, moving in several psychic sub levels of your mind. It is challenging stuff, yet meditative and inviting the listener for a special trip. Rozenhall has released a sparse catalogue, often in limited editions. Here, we have been blessed with two albums previously available in editions of very few vinyl LPs. This CD is limited too so I guess we don’t do much to help his music to get out there. Best title of an EAM album since that Hafler Trio CD ”FUCK” with CM von Hausswolff’s penis on it. 

9. Joke Lanz - Chants And Growls By Mika The Dog

When I invited Joke Lanz for this one he wrote me: ”I'm working on the Inner Circle CD. It's something I wanted to do since years. Recordings of my/Irene's old dog Mika who died in 2020. Mika was making amazing sounds, singing sounds with harmonies. I recorded loads of it. This will be an album made out of dog sounds only. Completely border collie mix compositions. I hope to get approx 35 minutes ready in the next weeks.” It’s a beautiful, deeply personal and moving album. Joke Lanz has always been present in my world since I first discovered his actions in the early 90s, as Sudden Infant and as part of the always influential Schimpfluch Gruppe. 

10. John Duncan & Joachim Nordwall - Ethereal

John’s art and music has been with me since my early teens and we started working together in different ways a bit more than ten years ago with his ”YEAH!” collab album with Jim O’Rourke. John Duncan is one of the most important conceptual artists today. His art is confrontative and sometimes brutal, it stimulates thinking and going beyond your own limits. It also proved to be too much for the fancy gallery world as his long time gallerist Niklas Belenius dropped him for lame reasons. Me and John has made a few records together and ”Ethereal” is a long, deep thing where we used shortwave radio, analogue synths and some effects too. 

11. Organ Of Corti - Orbis

Organ of Corti is me, Dan Johansson of Sewer Election and Mattias Gustafsson of Altar of Flies. We have a common idea on music; we like it raw, repetitive and if it can mess with your mind too - GREAT! ”Orbis” is a new thing made out of archival recordings, used and unused. Deep, repetetive, filthy…  Nowadays, this trio might be my main focus musically. 


I am proud an honored to be able to include and present such a fine series of great works for the iDEAL Secret Circle. I am deeply grateful.
- Joachim Nordwall, Gothenburg, September 30th 2024.