The Tinnitus Chorus
The Tinnitus Chorus, a new album from Michael Scott Dawson, is a collaborative ambient project reflecting on his personal experience with tinnitus. Joining forces with an eclectic cast from the worlds of experimental folk, jazz, and electronics, Dawson weaves tape loops, gentle melodies, and field recordings into a quietly unified journey through sound and vulnerability.
Poiesis
Poiesis by o[rlawren] deepens his exploration of sound as organic process, merging modular synthesis and field recordings into a meditation on creation and renewal. Released in 2025 by Dronarivm and Fonodroom, the album extends his dialogue between the natural and the artificial, sculpting an emotionally resonant landscape at once fragile, tactile, and alive.
The Intimate Overlap
On The Intimate Overlap, o[rlawren] refines his immersive approach to ambient electroacoustics, weaving field recordings and digital textures into a delicately crafted soundworld. The album unfolds with understated depth and resonance, inviting careful listening into the nuanced emotional spaces that lie between nature and technology.
PIA: Flight 813/761
*50 copies limited edition.* PIA: Flight 813/761 by Drekka .This cassette is a 30 minute sound journal recorded in the airspace of Pakistan on October 16, 1999. While traveling home from Nepal that day, my friends and I were delayed for a few hours in Karachi airport because there was a coup happening in Islamabad! We weren't in any danger, but it was still quite intense. Side A features an extended spontaneous harmonium piece entitled 'Ke Garne' (Nepalese for 'What to do')... layered harmonium …
Prescient / Legend
2019 release ** "The second Search Ensembles artifact sees the return of Cédric Peyronnet (Toy Bizarre, Kaon / Ingeos, Sechres Mound,), Cyril Herry (Ninth Desert, Sechres Mound), Phil Legard (Xenis Emputae Travelling Band, Hawthonn), Michael Northam, Alan Courtis (Anla Courtis, Reynols), Jani Hirvonen (Uton), Slavek Kwi (Artificial Memory Trace), Jon Tulchin and Dale Lloyd (and/OAR, Seattle Phonographers Union, Lucid), plus first time involvement from Eric Lanzillotta (Eye Music, Ri Be Xibalba,…
Sound As Language
2014 release ** Limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies copies in oversize card sleeve. "Observatoire, a Russian label known for its eclectic sound art and ambient music, is limited to 100 copies and available only on CD-R format. This split album features Emmanuel Mieville, a collector of environmental sounds from around the world; Dante Tanzi, a composer independently discovered by the label, a major achievement for the label; and the mysterious Japanese composer Hiroki Sakaguchi. This alb…
Horns of Death
Is it possible for an instrument to be cursed? Every sound on 'Horns of Death' comes from a replica fox-hunting horn bought online. The album is an open-ended investigation of this replica, exploring how a copy of a tool designed for a specific function could act as an instrument when misused and removed from its intended role. Recorded in a bedroom in a small flat in south-east London then squeezed into a computer, for some tracks the horn is (literally) pulled apart to find what other sound so…
Downriver
*50 copies limited edition* »Downriver« unfolds like a dérive through obscured geographies, echoing the psychogeographic journeys of Iain Sinclair. Just as Sinclair’s writing blurs the tangible and the imagined, Sequences, the project of Antwerp-based artist Niels Geybels, drifts into spaces where memory and environment overlap. Single-take recordings stretch into slowly mutating drones, fractured textures, and ghostlike voices that seem to seep in from unseen thresholds. The atmosphere is one o…
Frammenti
*150 copies limited edition* The six Fragments of this album are stages of a personal journey, stories, events or moments that marked us and stay inside us like shards, foreign objects we learned to embrace. Mirco Salvadori wrote the stories. Barbara De Dominicis sings, declaims and whispers words and excerpts of the text.
Federico Mosconi composed the music playing guitars, devices, live electronics and field recordings. 'My music would have been incomplete without Barbara and Mirco, I'd like t…
Mutable Depths
Matt Shoemaker's art focuses upon the treatment of sonic phenomena. Shoemaker manipulates sound, sourced from both natural and electronic means, in an affected and often grotesque manner, so as to convey compositions that uniquely imagine a space encrypted to the point of vanishing definition.
Overture
2022 release ** R. Pierre (Caleb Dravier) is a Los Angeles based artist and composer exploring minimal / “absolute” music through reductionism and the recontextualization of small-sound phenomena in processed field recordings and microelectronics.
Eineandereweltstrasse
2010 release ** Limited edition of 100 copies in cardboard sleeve. Collaboration with mise_en_scene (Shay Nassi). Source material: field recordings - Berlin, Germany - recorded by Simon Whetham.
Search Ensembles
2015 release ** "The Search Ensembles is a collaborative work, not so much a working group as it is a concept where many people contribute recordings to. Initiated by an/OAR founder Dale Lloyd, the Search Ensembles is a collection of old field recordings and new studio recordings that are intended to be sonic voyages to unexplored places, past and present, mysterious and evocative. They are abstract field recordings, aural textures of alien fields and landscapes that have traces of familiar trib…
Radiostilte
2012 release ** Comes in three-panel silver foil Digipak with magnetic strip for locking the panels.
All Natures Most Mundane Materials
A Colourful Storm proudly presents remastered first-time vinyl and digital editions of Lone Capture Library’s modern-day DIY environmental masterpiece, All Natures Most Mundane Materials. “Environmental”, you say? Well, this certainly wasn’t recorded for dinner party ambience nor was it commissioned by Harrods. But it does document a haphazard wander through the English countryside, feeling the air and the earth, detaching oneself from confinement while attempting to make sense of it all. Its pr…
Fabbriche Silenti
“Silent Factories” is a sonic journey through abandoned industrial spaces, blending analogue photography with improvised electronic sounds and field recordings. The project explores the quiet reclamation of nature, inviting deep sensory and perceptual immersion.
Nadiyaan
Yakima’s valley, surrounded by mountains, boasts rare acoustics. “Nadiyaan” (“Rivers”) is a raw, 60-min field recording from Yakima & Naches Rivers, blending nature and industry under freeways—inspired by acoustic ecology pioneers.
An Unfinished Rose
*300 copies limited edition* Slowly yet firmly blooming into focus, An Unfinished Rose is the new album from Australian duo Troth. This is their first since relocating to Hobart, Tasmania and their introduction to Night School Records. With a detailed web of past releases on labels A Colourful Storm, Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox, Knekelhuis and Bowman’s own Altered States Tapes imprint, An Unfinished Rose is the group’s most realised and composed work thus far. While still drawing on the improvisat…
London Pirate Radio Adverts 1984-1993, Vol. 2
The second volume in a two-part collection of pirate radio adverts & idents, taken from recordings of London stations between 1984 & 1993. Many thanks to Wayne Anthony, Simon Reynolds, Stephen Hebditch & The Pirate Radio Archive.