Before Aksak Maboul - Documents & Experiments 1969-1977
Belgium’s avant-rock legends explore their prehistory in a special archival project. Retrieved from long-forgotten reel-to-reel tapes and cassettes, this collection of previously-unreleased tracks unveils some of the meanders which eventually led to the inception of Aksak Maboul in 1977. These 17 tracks and 80 minutes of music will take us for a stroll through moments of free rock, improv, quasi-kraut, modular & ambient electronics, and various experiments. Out on November 21 on digital, limited…
Morality
*500 copies limited edition* Following the limited edition CD reissue of Broken Flag’s 'Never Say When' compilation earlier this year comes this new reissue of 1985’s 'Morality', also originally released as a cassette on the same label. Featuring too many tracks to go on one disc, however, 'Morality' is now presented as a 2CD set remastered by Puppy38. As with 'Never Say When', this compilation documents the nascent work of many artists still active today in one form or another besides a number …
Kielholen
Herpes Ö DeLuxe’s Kielholen dives headfirst into the murky waters of industrial decadence. With Hinterzimmer as its unsettling core, the record dissects German cold wave through rusted machinery and post-human irony, a claustrophobic yet hypnotic experience simmering between performance art and corrosion.
Light Patterns
Big tip! *2025 repress* An early ‘80s ambient jazz gem from the archive of Manchester’s Kevin McCormick & David Horridge. In 1970, Kevin and David met whilst they were working in the Labour Exchange Office on Aytoun St, Manchester. Both played guitar and had been searching for other musicians who played atmospheric music. Kevin had been playing in small clubs in Manchester and David performed in a few local bands. One evening, they jammed together at Kevin’s family home, and quickly realized tha…
Victual Vittle Bottle Cunt
*200 copies limited edition* Iris Our is the new surrealist duo of artists Kiera Mulhern and Sydney Spann. Recital is honored to present their debut album, Victual Vittle Bottle Cunt. Both Mulhern and Spann have released celebrated solo works on Recital: Mulhern’s De ossibus 20 (2020) and Spann’s Sending Up A Spiral Of (2023). Close friends, they would meet up weekly on Saturdays to record; channeling their love, angst, and wit. The synergism of their friendship is evident: poems read in tandem,…
Musiikki 2
*2025 stock* Mahti are a Finnish four-piece group presenting a unique mixture of ambient-rock, electronic music and traditional Finnish-Karelian music.
Lengthy semi-improvisational pieces are built on top of complex, hypnotic grooves which are layered with opaque guitars and strangely soothing noise elements. In the heart of it all there's kantele, an ancient Finnish string instrument played by Hannu Saha, who has studied Finnish folk music in theory and practice for nearly five decades.
The oth…
Musiikki 1
*2025 stock* Mahti are a Finnish four-piece group presenting a unique mixture of ambient-rock, electronic music and traditional Finnish-Karelian music.
Lengthy semi-improvisational pieces are built on top of complex, hypnotic grooves which are layered with opaque guitars and strangely soothing noise elements. In the heart of it all there's kantele, an ancient Finnish string instrument played by Hannu Saha, who has studied Finnish folk music in theory and practice for nearly five decades.
The oth…
Tender / Wading
Tender / Wading finds Matthew Sage, aka M. Sage, in the foothills and pastures of Colorado, writing, recording, and returning to a patch of his homeland and identity, one act of sympathetic care informing the next. Constructed primarily on piano and clarinet, and then embellished with guitar, modular synthesizer, percussion, and field recordings captured around the perimeter of his home, the album is a sweeping, serene vision of vitality, radical softness, and the reassuring sense of coming home…
Njurra Wänja
"The process of making music together in Hand to Earth is unlike any other we have experienced. It is not free improvisation but it is not composed either. It is somewhere in between, and it feels like ‘weaving.’ Through Hand to Earth, we weave the threads of our different histories, different lives, and different perspectives together, and become family. Daniel weaves the ‘Manikay’ (public songs) in his first language, Wagiläk - into the syntax of our shared practices. He talks about the ‘rak…
Wrong Filament
Wrong Filament embodies Robert Piotrowicz’s creation of fictional traditional music — not studied but invented, a utopian and oniric construct that becomes tangible in sound. These imagined traditions act as communal forces of music-making, resisting dominant structures of power. The album unfolds in six dense compositions built on rhythm, repetition and minimal melodic gestures that draw on archetypal patterns of Eastern European traditions. Entirely synthetic yet strikingly instrumental in cha…
Normification
London-based label Diagonal is proud to announce the release of Normification, an ambitious new project by renowned sound artists Florian Hecker and Marcin Pietruszewski. Conceived as a multidisciplinary exploration between design, algorithms, and sound, Normification arrives as a deluxe 2CD package, accompanied by two 16-page booklets designed by acclaimed Zurich-based studio NORM.
At the core of the project lies the radical idea of translating graphic design procedures and algorithmic proces…
D-Generation Magazine 2 (Magazine + CD)
*400 copies limited edition* Centred around Genesis P-Orridge and the industrial scene in England, this issue has features articles by: Mark Perry (Alternative TV, Sniffin’ Glue, Good Missionaries), Dorothy “Max” Prior (Rema Rema, Psychic TV, The Weekend Swingers).
Plus: Val Denham is interviewed by Carl Abrahamsson; Sinan Revell (SPK) is interviewed by Chandra Shukla; Einstrürzende Neubauten interviewed in the ‘80’s by Gary Parsons; Paul Lemos (Controlled Bleeding) is interviewed by John Wisnie…
The Battlefield is Everywhere
*300 copies limited edition* Since the release of This World is Not My Home in 2014, Gary Mundy (Ramleh, Breathless, Broken Flag) has been releasing one new album per year by his critically acclaimed solo Kleistwahr endeavour. The idea driving this is to keep producing an album a year until he is no longer capable of doing so. While the dedication to this pirouettes starkly between insanity and an admirable stoicism, it’s quite an undertaking when one considers the sound palette Gary works from.…
Local Maxima
This release is a journey, a weaving together of fleeting visions from parallel, yet intertwined sonic realms. It ventures boldly through a rich tapestry of sounds and textures, each track born not from rigid intention but from an unrelenting pursuit of the elusive, those shimmering, transient spaces in the soundscape, like the mysterious limbo of Vaalbara. The music unfolded live, forged in real-time with an arsenal of synthesizers. In these moments, delicate interactions gave way to sudden sto…
Sleepwalkers
Grönland Records announces the highly anticipated revised and remastered reissue of Sleepwalkers, the acclaimed compilation album from renowned English songwriter and sonic architect David Sylvian. This collection, available as a gatefold double LP with exclusive art print and a digipak CD, features a meticulously curated selection of Sylvian’s most essential collaborations from the 2000s, reimagined for new and longtime fans alike. The new edition also includes the previously unreleased track “…
Beast
*70 copies limited edition* Beast, the 4th installment in the series of Ameel Brecht's sleep-inspired compositions is out on June 20, available on limited edition cassette and digital. As the earlier parts of this series focused primarily on in between phases and manifestations of sleep, this penultimate volume shifts its attention to the absence of sleep. Without sleep, never resting, never dreaming, what would we experience? A monochrome fever-quality fog, a void of unrealities.
Benelux
Recorded during the legendary 'benelux minus lux' tour, first side material by Dolphin Hospital performed in Amsterdam as a soundtrack to first ever screening of motion picture 'why i am afaid' by Wassily Bosch, thanks to Kryptogen, Jaco, Green tribe and everyone else involved.Second side material by Mårble & dolphin hospital recorded live at Camping 58 in Bruxelles thanks to shorlax and everyone else involvedcover pictures taken in de Bereklaw during the same tour thanks to Oransky and everyone…
Acid Mt. Fuji
Susumu Yokota’s 1994 ‘Acid Mt. Fuji’ is reissued for its label’s 30th anniversary. The album blends ambient acid, techno, and Japanese mysticism, inspired by Hokusai’s ‘Red Fuji’, pioneering Japan’s rave scene and Yokota’s global influence.
Skintone Edition Volume 1
Skintone Edition Vol.1 begins the remastered reissue of 14 essential Susumu Yokota albums from his Skintone label (1998–2012), released individually and in two box sets over 18 months, celebrating Yokota’s innovative legacy in ambient and electronic music.
A Danger to Ourselves
Lucrecia Dalt’s A Danger to Ourselves is a fearless reflection on the unfiltered complexities of human connection. Stripping away fictional narratives present on the artist’s last several album endeavors, A Danger to Ourselves arrives from a place of emotional sincerity. Sonically unraveling like a deeply personal conversation,Dalt’s voice is foregrounded and formidable, supported by a lush array of acoustic orchestration and processing, collaged percussive patterns, and an esteemed cast of coll…