The Eighteen Minute Gap
The Eighteen Minute Gap lets you embark on a mysterious journey into a world of ethereal ambient music, where beautiful and soothing listening experiences await. Using field recordings and manipulating textures and sounds, Sonmi451 creates minimal yet tantalizing soundscapes, filled with intimate whispering voices.
Since 2005 Bernard Zwijzen is creating his own blend of minimal, soundscape-laden atmospheric electronics under the moniker Sonmi451 (a character from David Mitchell's novel "Cloud At…
No More Darkness, No More Night
*200 hand-numbered copies limited edition* Danny Clay is a composer who often utilizes classical instruments, open forms, found objects, analog media, and digital errata in his work. He has collaborated with musicians and ensembles throughout the US, including Kronos Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, Third Coast Percussion, Volti, the San Francisco Girls Chorus, Wu Man, Sarah Cahill, Phyllis Chen, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Ensemble Dal Niente, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and …
Sisarusten Toistuva Uni
Sisarusten Toistuva Uni is the sophomore album from Juho Toivonen, a young sound artist based in Pori, Finland. It follows up the piano-heavy debut album Kasveille Ja Eläimille released in 2023 - a record that was one of the major highlights at the Discreet Music HQ last year. The new album revolves around a recurring dream that Juho and his sister Ida-Sofia shared unknowingly. The 8 songs on the album resemble childhood memories, lacking clear borders or narrative, yet painted with strong, rich…
Here In, Absence
*200 copies limited edition* After a first release in 2019 on IIKKI ("All Other Voices Gone, Only Yours Remains"), a second one in 2020 on Laaps ("We Were The Hum Of Dreams"), Craig Tattersall (The Humble Bee) and Jason Corder (Offthesky) come back with a third stunning out-of-time beauty, paired with the Mikael Siirilä photography works.
Sounds Of New Music
2024 stock. Sounds of New Music is a collection of 18 compositions from the 1920s to the mid-1950s representing attempts at a "new means of musical expression." Some use familiar instruments in new ways, while others experiment with new instruments; the formats of the compositions range from structured musical scores written for orchestra to electronically altered music using tape-recording devices. Composers include Edgard Varèse, Henry Cowell, and John Cage, whose "Dance" is played on a transf…
In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
*2024 stock* In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country is an EP by Scottish electronic music duo Boards of Canada. It was released by Warp and music70 on 27 November 2000, in the period between the duo's albums Music Has the Right to Children and Geogaddi. The four-track collection centers around the theme of the Branch Davidian religious sect and their Waco retreat. The title of the EP refers to a vocoder-processed and slowed voice sample used on the third track, which repeats "come out and live …
Live at Cafe Oto
Tip! *50 copies limited edition*
Recorded at Cafe Oto.Sagome event on the 3rd of December 2022. London, UK.
Contains live versions of the tracks previously released on Faitiche and Muscut labels.
Jorden Forst (LP)
Huge Tip! An emotionally charged and bizarrely evocative look at radical environmental advocacy groups, mainly Earth First! and Earth Liberation Front, channeled through the memories of the Swedish Plogbill-movement and their actions throughout the early 90's. Monologue, snippets of interview segments, protest songs and site recordings are mixed up with the rather raw kosmische synth music Arv & Miljö has explored during the last couple of years. The result is a mesmerizing and multi-faceted aud…
Esercizi per esistere
*200 copies limited edition, CD comes in a gatefold digisleeve + 52 page booklet A5 with poems by Nazim Comunale and drawings by Peter Bartlett* All tracks are inspired by Nazim Comunale's poems in the companion booklet.Elio Martusciello: guitars, percussion, computersAlexandra Staraşciuc: voice
inTRASPARENZA - Chamber Music & Solos
*2024 stock* Sergio Armaroli is certainly considerable among the most important musicians on the contemporary scene. An unparalleled performer in his own right, this monographic disc gives us some of his most important chamber masterpieces while offering a glimpse into his compositional output that is no less than the many composers he has found himself interpreting during his long career. The musicians who take part in this composite project are of the highest caliber, such as Irvine Arditti wh…
Vice-Versa, Electronics & Concrete Works (2005-2020)
*2024 stock* Sergio Armaroli, composer, percussionist, jazz player, poet and painter, can consider himself a musician and even more a complete artist. "Vice-Versa" is his latest project that collects works dedicated to electronic and concrete music, united with each other by their inspiration to important figures from the world of both music and cinema such as Buster Keaton, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Charles Ives, John Cage, Luc Ferrari, Demetrio Stratos, Nanni Balestrini, Luigi Russolo until arriv…
Io
"Io” is the result of a process that started in 2022 during the composition of the music for Bertolt Brecht's play ”Life of Galileo”, directed by Carolina Frände, at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. In Galileo's search for the unseen, he points his telescope to the sky, expanding human perception and our understanding of the world. Here, the electromagnetic fields of the theatre stage are recorded using a sort of anti-radio, an artisanal pocket electromagnetic detector, in line with the …
Open Close Open
In 1998, Carsten Nicolai, also known as Alva Noto, visited a sound installation created by Robert Lippok for a group exhibition in Weimar, Germany. Soon after, he invited Lippok to release music on his label raster-noton. »Open Close Open« was released in 2001 and marked the beginning of Lippok's solo career. Before, Lippok had already played in Ornament und Verbrechen (with his brother Ronald Lippok) and To Rococo Rot (with Ronald Lippok and Stefan Schneider).
The title of the EP is a linguisti…
Sunder
*300 hand-numbered copies limited edition* "Sunder is the first full-length collaboration between Brooklyn-based Thomas Meluch (aka Benoît Pioulard) and Denver-based Jason Corder (aka offthesky). After years of independent work amid a like-minded community of ambient experimentalists, the two were brought together by the collaboration-centric Laaps label, for whom Corder has previously worked with Craig Tattersall (aka The Humble Bee). Across Sunder's eight chapters, we hear careful construction…
Rustine
*2024 stock* "Rustine" is the result of the photographic works by Simon Vansteenwinckel and the music of The Three Oldmen’s Birds (Mathias Van Eecloo) initiated by IIKKI, between September 2021 and July 2022. The complete project works in two physical imprints: The book and the disc (cd) It should be experienced in different ways : the book read alone the disc listened to alone the book and the disc read and listened to together. The Three Oldmen's Birds is a solo music project by Mathias…
Musique de l'a.s.m.a._chronos de Telehor et Space Modulator_plan I, Ii, Iii, Iv
Staggering new chapter in Unglee Izi's Musique de l'A.S.M.A. journey. 2 x 70 minutes long compositions make up this major milestone in the French artist ever widening sound exploration. Unglee Izi's mastery of textures and precision along with his singular DIY sound architecture offer on Chronos de Telehor et Space Modulator an absolute work of deep emotional electronic soundscapes, piano and organ. This is delicate music of savage finesse that only wants to address the stars and nothing else. L…
Shadow's Praise
*300 copies limited edition* Akhira Sano was born in 1992 in Niigata, Japan. Artist. Focusing on the imperfections and irregularities of form and sound, he creates, observes, records, and extends them secondarily through drawing, graphics, installation, videography, and music composition. His major works include "Penetrating, For Filtration" (Important Records, 2019), "Particle Dialogue - Observation and Recording" (The Trilogy Tapes, Inc. 2022), and major solo exhibitions include "Perspectives …
Sense / Margin
*200 hand-numbered copies limited edition* Born and raised in Kanagawa, Japan, Iu Takahashi is a sound artist based in Tokyo. She produces her own musical worldview mainly using synthesizers, ambient sounds, and voices. Iu Takahashi used to do her artist activities as a vocalist before, and now she has created mainly ambient music since 2018, provided her tracks to background music such as exhibitions and introduction videos. Inspired by Japanese ambient music such as Hiroshi Yoshimura and Satos…
Reste Envie
"To need, to be needed, in four corners. Sleep and privacy, gases come and gases go, and now you are the only one in the room you sit in, you are one with the room you sit in, as if there are no negatives and no positives--did you know that you are an extension of your apartment? Did you know that you are in a codependent relationship with your apartment? Did you know that your apartment knows and appreciates all of your secrets?--I feel safe, which is not a new need for human beings, but a very…
Therapy
On Therapy, his gripping third collection for Imprec, Alexandre Bazin creates concise melodic electro-acoustic environments with ripping timbres, deep staccato sequences and a dramatic immediacy. Elements of classical, minimal techno, modular-ambient and drone music permeate this aptly titled album, Therapy, from Alexandre Bazin. Bazin himself describes this album as "new experimental electronic music." Melodic progression, pulse and timbre play key roles in his delicately crafted work. Saturati…