Wounds of Melody
*200 copies limited edition* Furtherset, the musical project of Venice-based composer and visual artist Tommaso Pandolfi, debuts with his first album for Kohlhaas, the sixth in his career, 'Wounds of Melody'. A layered image of devastation and beauty, where Renaissance tears merge with the incandescence and violence of phosphorus, the artwork is the first encounter in the emotional itinerary that unfolds in the five tracks making up the LP. Over its forty-one minutes, the album's beatless but me…
No Floor
More Eaze and Claire Rousay’s collaborations are effortlessly joyful, their music evoking the warmth and respect they have for each other. Their bond goes back to their youthful hometown of San Antonio, Texas where they played in country outfits and noise rock bands respectively, and each pushed their music to extend beyond the traditions and conventions of genre. more eaze (the moniker of violinist/multi-instrumentalist mari maurice) and rousay have spent the past decade pushing boundaries, sta…
Invictam
Invictam represents Olivia Font’s solo debut, an album co-produced with producer and composer Pedro Vian, set to be released in early 2025 under his label, Modern Obscure Music. This work explores themes of resilience and adaptation after loss, developing these ideas through a sonic journey that blends strings, analog synthesizers, electronics, and experimental percussion. The narrative is guided by a female voice, which, although not the central element, appears intermittently throughout the al…
Moko
*200 copies limited edition* TON is thrilled to present “Moko”, the eighth album by FourColor, the solo project of Keiichi Sugimoto. With a remarkable discography spanning labels like 12k and Apestaartje, FourColor has established itself as a master of blending processed and raw guitar chords, drones, synthesizers, and samplers into a warm, evocative, and deeply immersive sonic landscape. “Moko” continues this tradition, yet it also marks a new chapter in Sugimoto’s artistic journey.
The album’s…
Volta
*100 copies limited edition* Kurt Liedwart unveils his new label, TON, with the release of “Volta”, the inaugural album in a planned series of five. After a decade immersed in experimental electronic and occasionally improvised music, Liedwart returns to his roots in techno and ambient—genres he has been passionate about since the early 1990s when he first began crafting music in these styles. For “Volta”, he revisits and reimagines sounds from his unreleased techno albums of the late 1990s, ble…
Kisetsu
*70 copies limited edition* In Japan, there are many words for seasons other than spring, summer, fall, and winter. Every day is a season, and at every moment it is changing. Hidekazu Imashige aka Gallery Six (Archives, Stereoscenic, PITP, Neotantra) is an artist and composer from Hiroshima, Japan. Based on his theme “Multidirectionally considering aesthetics which are very familiar, often forgotten, concealed in nature or events, and finally reveal them”, he has been making ‘sound sketches’ mix…
Less Hype More Hyphae
*70 copies limited edition* This album is inspired by Fantastic Fungi by Paul Stamets. Fungi can be medicines, poison, and ritual tools for healing and personal internal journey. This album is made for a sound/musical journey to celebrate Blue Mushroom experiences. Ai Yamamoto (Room40, Dragon’s Eye Recordings, PITP) is a composer and sound designer based in Melbourne, Australia. Her music style varies from soft melodic and shimmering abstract melodies to dark explosive tones. Her main area of in…
Raspad
*50 hand-numbered copies* Raspad is the debut cassette by Lisa Viktorova (wjerstean), an artist living in Armenia since 2022. Darkly unsettling yet profoundly intimate, this album resists easy genre definitions. Born out of a time of legal persecution, it weaves together reflections on a tangled reality shaped by ongoing war and an elusive, uncertain future. Through her project, Lisa explores the interplay between the explicit and the hidden, between words and phonemes, between sound and speech.…
Postales
*110 copies limited edition* "For this new record I've been inspired by some of the most breathtaking landscapes in Spain. These are 11 tracks where, like musical postcards, I've tried to reflect the beauty of the Irati Forest in Navarra, the Flysh of Zumaia in Gipuzkoa, the Albufera of Valencia, the Gorafe desert in Granada or the Somiedo natural park in Asturias, among other amazing places." - David Cordero
Kiso Three Rivers
Exploring the water engineering relationship between Japan and the Netherlands across a trilogy of experimental releases, the third and final part of Field Records' Waterworks series is courtesy of Yui Onodera. Pairing delicate synthesis and instrumentation with field recordings and negative space, the accomplished artist and sound architect examines the impact of water engineering on Japan's Kiso Three Rivers.
The location refers to the confluence of the Kiso, Nagara and Ibi rivers on the Nōbi …
Orchadia
Ambient explorers SWIMS unpeel another heady debut, with the maiden effort by Korean artist Soo Kyung Kim, also known as soo:k. The curtain raises on Orchadia with an elysian glow: electro-acoustic compositions painting a golden topography of impossible fruit and uncanny astronomy. soo:k's utopic brushwork finds obvious comparisons in the work of Hiroshi Yoshimura, and his meditations on the glacial pace of hidden, verdant spaces. Frida Kahlo's portraits of everyday life, intertwined with pain a…
For Lave
2010 release ** Edition of 98 copies in painted handmade sleeves. "Ottaven exists since 2003 and is the the audio project of Canedicoda (Giovanni Donadini), a multi-disciplinary artist who works in music, performance, fashion and design. He is also currently active playing in Primorje, Tambour Doux and has 24 years long project as duo with the dancer Roberta Mosca called Musica per un giorno. Mainly his idea of sound is a result of minimal inputs, poor electronics, spurious rhythms, fragrant loo…
Me And The White Lash
2012 release ** Packaged in fabric sleeve. "Behind Me And The White Lash are Stefano De Ponti of Passo Uno and Eleonora Pellegrini. The project accentuates on one hand the ambient/soundtrack vocation of Passo Uno, on the other it merges it with more traditional forms, giving life to gentle and dry “songs”, almost folk one might write, during which you can appreciate Eleonora’s voice: the contemplative “The Island”, for example, not to mention a sorrowful “La Morte Del Tocco”. Part of this materi…
Кольца Жизни / Circles Of Life (CDr)
2007 release ** With unique paste-on sleeves. Limited edition of 160 handnumbered copies.
Kreuzung Zwei (Creatura Per Creaturam Continetur)
2008 release ** "The second in Kreuzung collaborations series. The basic sound sources and samples made by Reutoff especially for this release have been treated, arranged and mixed with an addition of their own instrumental parts by Troum. Dark profound harsh ambient with some occasional rhythmic patterns intertwined with transcendental prepared guitar loops and perfect drone noises - a perfect blend between two project distinctive features and creative manners. The concept of this work is based…
Calligraphy (Wood cover CDr)
2003 release ** First edition with printed fold-out cover between two painted wooden plates. Hand-numbered limited edition of 80 pieces. "Experimental music from Latvia! Salikapalikau create a very own kind of bizarre ambient music, using lots of strange electronic and non-electronic sounds (water, voices, electro-drones and loops, floating guitars..)... reminded us on Vance Orchestra, ID Battery, etc., very interesting and well executed! Comes in a green-yellow painted wood-cover with handwritt…
Giant Clowns Of The Solar World
1996 release ** Packaged in oversized A5 folded paper sleeve with a plastic cover. Instruments used: computer, oboe, voice, violin, guitars, keyboards, tapes, drums, xilophóne, marimba, wooden chimes, glass chimes, kalimba, ethnic percussion, shells, bonesclappers, tibetan bell and others. Mix di Eraldo Bernocchi e Paolo Bandera (Sigillum S).
Avarie
2007 release ** Limited edition packaged in a mirrored plastic box with Digipak-CD, t-shirt, pin, sticker and post-cards set. "Uranium USSR 1972 (YPAH CCCP 1972) is a project by Angelo Bergamini, founder of Kirlian Camera and member/collaborator of various projects, including Stalingrad Valkyrie, Spectra*paris, Hipnosis, Siderartica, Ordo Ecclesiae Mortis. Debut album "Avarie" saw the light in 2005. Also in this work, Bergamini relies on the collaboration of his inseparable musical partner Elena…
Un Pensiero Intrusivo
A name that breathes, a voice that whispers and howls in soliloquy. Collecting the echoes that follow—field recordings from Colombia, murmured poems, the spectral songs of birds—she stitches together a sonic diary, an audible thread between past and present. Like the shifting landscapes of Colombian magical realism, she bends nature as memory bends truth. From this alchemy arises Un Pensiero Intrusivo: seven folk incantations, captured live in Cagliari, Italy.
A new genre, steeped in something u…
Ubikuitous - Music inspired by Philip K. Dick's dystopias
*200 copies limited edition.* Philip K. Dick's narratives are a cornerstone of dystopian literature, delving into complex and unsettling visions of the future where the boundaries of reality blur, personal autonomy is undermined, and humanity is redefined. His worlds are characterized by an intricate exploration of societal control, the fragility of identity, the consequences of drug use, and the implications of virtual reality. These themes, often presented with a prophetic tone, resonate with …