Experimental / Ambient

There are constellations within the grooves of Cymbalom Solos. Innumerable points of light, rendered audible in glowing, radiant sound. There are entire worlds too - undiscovered, yet familiar -- both terrestrial and celestial. There are moments of quiet comfort and exultant discovery. And all of it conjured by one man with a handful of ancient and invented instruments, recorded mostly-live, with precious few overdubs. Michael Masley has been a fixture of Berkley, California, since he arrived fr…

Abstrakce recover this lost gem recorded in 1999 and published by Keliehor himself in a very short-run CD named "Create Music", which had almost no diffusion.

Space Afrika, the Manchester/Berlin-based duo of Joshua Tarelle Reid and Joshua Inyang, make raw, intensely detailed, visceral music with shades of ambient, trip-hop, techno, and modern classical, drawing spacious urban dubscapes from the contours of their city. 'Quiet Storm', the duo's highly anticipated follow-up to their 2021 LP on Dais Records, expands on its predecessor’s sound and scale in every direction as a sprawling, collaborative vision shaped with profound patience and intention. The…

Brett Naucke's vinyl debut, from 2013: six electronic pieces of subtle melodies and eerie organic abstractions by the head of Catholic Tapes. 300 copies with risograph covers.

Hali Palombo's audio-visual work built on slow-scan television, the narrowband system radio amateurs use to send pictures: a 45-minute video on USB and its soundtrack on chrome cassette. Edition of 50.

The first full-length collaboration between Steven Stapleton and Tony Wakeford, originally on Tursa in 1992: Wakeford's songs set inside Stapleton's surreal tape landscapes. First vinyl edition, on transparent green or blue vinyl, in a gatefold.

The Hafler Trio's double LP Idiots: Laughing Matter, years in the making and seeded with early material by Wire's Bruce Gilbert: four long sides of slow, dark drones, spoken passages and sudden loud bursts. Embossed metallic Pantone jackets.

*2026 stock. 60 copies limited edition* Sometimes it takes a moment of stillness and silence to discover a new direction. Midday marks a subtle shift from my earlier ambient work, leaning toward more structured compositions, minimal melodic fragments, soft pulses, and loops. I wrote midday between December 2024 and March 2025, taking inspiration from Sunday outings that carried a sense of calm that lingered. I took the album artwork during one of these outings, while I was picking oranges in the…

*100 copies limited edition* Tsss Tapes presents Slani pejza​ž​i by the trio formed by Manja Ristic (Serbia), Joana Guerra (Portugal) and Verónica Cerrotta (Argentina).

In August 2022 the Australia-based, French born new age musician and electronic music composer Ariel Kalma was invited to participate in BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction series of special collaborations. The program pairs artists who have not previously worked together to create new music cooperatively. Kalma was quick to suggest working with two musicians whom he had never met – International Anthem recording artists Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer, whose critically-acclaimed duo debut Recordings …

*Coming in a hand made & screen printed box* Hey, did I ever tell you about that time when things are going ok. When the music is never over, and stars are crushing down on you. Since I was little, I come to this music store every chance I got. I sneak in through the alley. I still make this trip a lot. Some weeks ago, during a trip, they played this “A Mistake by Mistakes” cassette tape compilation, out on that enigmatic Berlin, Neukölln based label Kashual Plastik. Sick folk-not-folk-modern-fo…

Devra Hoff alone with her acoustic double basses, sometimes layered: original pieces and arrangements of traditional songs, a meditative companion to her Anne Briggs album, with Tara Jane O'Neil and Julia Holter on two tracks. Edition of 500 CDs.

On Echo - Variations, Arp opens the atmospheric world of Drifts to an international circle of sonic explorers. Glitch, electro-acoustic detail and club pressure reshape its suspended textures, while new tracks and alternate mixes reveal further possibilities within the originals. Less a remix appendix than a study in productive transformation.

Trás os Montes Records presents Live Performance, 2018 by by Gabriel Ferrandini, Maria Reis and André Cepeda. Recorded at the Blues Photography Studio, Lisbon, November, 2018. Voice - Maria Reis, percussion - Gabriel Ferrandini, Smoke Machine, Slide projection and Photography - André Cepeda, Recorded and Mixed by Miguel Abreu, Master by Tó Pinheiro da Silva.

The sophomore release from vocalist Theo Bleckmann and electronic musician & producer Joseph Branciforte, LP2 is a follow-up, companion piece, and elegant evolution of the shared musical language first developed on the duo’s debut, 2019’s LP1. Branciforte & Bleckmann return with a meticulously crafted album of even greater scope and complexity, further dissolving the boundaries between improvisation & composition, live performance & studio production, human & machine-generated sound. The duo has…

Faitiche presents the release of a new album by Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek (faitiche13). Since their debut (Bird, Lake, Objects, faitiche03, 2010) they have played improvised concerts around the world. Japanese vibraphonist Masayoshi Fujita prepares his instrument with various percussion elements as well as metal objects and toys, while Jan Jelinek layers loops made using small-scale electronic devices. Schaum (German for froth, foam) is the duo's second album. "The river, forcing its way th…

Paul Pèrrim returns with Arati – a raw, expeditionary palindromic companion to his 2025 debut, Itara. Exploring a rawer, harsher, and more rugged landscape than its predecessor, Arati pushes deeper into the wilderness. The anthropologist- musician continues to guide listeners down paths trodden by akaleidoscope of cultures, offering a sound that is profoundly singular, primal, and timeless. The album’s surreal compositions weave together an eclectic arsenal of textures: mutant maqams, Africanist…

Music for Dewey Dell's dance piece on the Chauvet cave, by Demetrio Castellucci and Zu bassist Massimo Pupillo, with Attila Csihar on one track.

First vinyl edition of Vinyl Requiem, the 1993 piece by Philip Jeck and Lol Sargent for 180 record players and projections, on Touch.

German ambient musician.He was briefly a member of the krautrock band Popol Vuh in the early 1970s where he played on the albums Hosianna Mantra and Seligpreisung. Comes in jewel case with slipcase.

The astounding second outing from the duo of Midori Takada & Jakob Bro, arriving on Copenhagen's Loveland Records just under a year after 'Until I Met You'. Across six tracks, subtle abstraction amongst sprawling ambiences, "Fourth-World" sensibilities, and pulsing minimalism. CD edition.

*200 copies limited edition* Two beautiful pieces merging piano, electronics and field recordings. "you had that uncertain landscape / in your mouth / a slightly opaque breath / chewing distances / into the ear of a land still without a name / the morning had settled askew / on the slow stones / and the motionless grasses / everything seemed to be waiting / for something very ancient / that never quite arrived / on my side / i had filled my pocket with silence / and repeated several times / what…

Isik Kural’s Motorcycles and Cherry Wind is a sonic travelogue of stories waiting and wanting to be told, of seekers passing through a loop of time as they become witnesses to the glories of the ancient ruins. The album holds sounds of timeless quality—like inherited folklore, draped with secondhand nostalgia—taking the shape of whoever is eager enough to claim it as their own. Rich and full of character like the dusty mystery of an archeological site, Kural whispers to the living and the long g…

Wil Bolton’s forthcoming album, Strewn with Crimson, is an evocative sonic portrait of East London’s Lea Valley. Shaped by the region's wetlands, marshes, and industrial edgelands, the project weaves together site-specific field recordings, found objects, modular synthesis, and processed acoustic instruments. The album’s title draws inspiration from the wild poppy and herb-robert flowers growing across derelict Victorian filter beds, symbolising a complex landscape where rich biodiversity and ec…

The writer Max Sebald often pondered over the nature of human memory, specifically, how our thoughts and desires - and their results - overlap and mutate over time. In A Place in the Country, he writes of the significance of what see as “similarities, overlaps and coincidences”. Are they the “delusions” of the self and senses, or manifestations of “an order underlying the chaos of human relationships, [...] which lies beyond our comprehension”? Song of the Night Mists, the new album by post-clas…

Guatemalan cellist and singer Mabe Fratti meets guitarist Bill Orcutt: songs built from Orcutt's solo guitar sketches, cello and voice, recorded between Mexico City and San Francisco. CD edition on Unheard of Hope.

Electric guitarist and composer David Torn announces "now i imagine a place not the same," an expansive new double LP out May 29 via Kou Records. Produced by Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Thurston Moore), the album revisits the raw electricity of Torn’s early processing language while carrying it forward with the perspective of decades of exploration. Visceral yet weightless, it deepens his long-standing dialogue between alternate tunings, looping systems, and touch-sensitive electronics. Melody, noi…

Liz Harris, aka Grouper, collects two scores for short films about water by Tanja Engelberts and Takashi Makino: two long pieces of Mellotron, tape loops, Wurlitzer and field recordings. On Kranky.

I started to think about the verb 'superimpose' and the implications this verb has in moments of intense work in dialogue with another and how ideas overlap. I also think about that moment when you feel you don't know anything and you are soft like jello and any fork can go through you. And ideas change and grow on that soft spot where there's a question mark. Feeling like you don't know makes you softFeeling like you don't know makes you confusedMaybe feeling like you don't know will transform …

The producer of Sunn O))) and co-composer of the Mandy score makes his own 'science fiction music' from a Philip K. Dick lecture, with Jim Jarmusch, Cyro Baptista and Charmaine Lee.

William Basinski's first new album in six years: a single 40-minute piece for solo piano and subtle electronics, inspired by a past-life regression practice and by Morton Feldman.

Clawhammer banjo meets synthesizers, loops and pedal steel: Allison de Groot and Nashville's Rich Ruth turn a planned solo record into a shared album of cosmic, tender instrumental music.

2007 release ** "A completely remixed/reworked version of the first Mimir album which was originally recorded between 1989/'90 and released in 1991: Edward Ka-spel, Andreas Martin, Silverman and Christoph Heemann concentrate on a variety of analog synths and Krautrock guitars: '...immediately after he caught sight of the lights marking the town, he pressed the ejection button and felt himself flung upward with a greater violence than he had expected. For a moment he was enveloped in darkness; th…

German ambient musician. He was briefly a member of the krautrock band Popol Vuh in the early 1970s where he played on the albums Hosianna Mantra and Seligpreisung. Comes in jewel case with slipcase.

Christina Kubisch’s Stromsänger finds this legendary sound artist at the top of her game mixing electromagnetic wave recordings with a score for six voices, creating powerful results.

On The Chair and the Faucet, Etelin transforms a Zen‑retreat image into 33 minutes of quietly volatile modular synthesis. Alex Cobb’s Serge system traces dry, microtonal drones and wavering harmonics that drift without resolution, making stillness feel less like peace than a lucid encounter with electricity’s own unstable, living grain.

*2026 stock* "Magnetic Tape is able to record, store and playback audio recordings. It enables repetition and the capturing of time in a sonic shape. It frees listening from the confines of chronology and thus of history and creates a sonic pluriverse where everything can be played at once, again and again sounding between the familiar and the unfamiliar the particular darkness of the human heart and the peculiar density which surrounds everything that is real. Thus giving access to time’s plast…

Gabriele Gasparotti’s second full length album, Tropismi, is a collection of mesmerizing compositions with masterful polyrhythmical textures and harmonies, strings, prepared piano, magnetic tape and field recordings. Gasparotti's unique style uses classical composition techniques such as counterpoint, canone inverso and serialism to create morphing expanding harmonies continuously. Tropismi features stunning cellotronics by Benedetta Dazzi, cellist and sound designer with which Gasparotti establ…

Jessica Roch is a London based, award winning composer, multi instrumentalist, sound designer, and improviser. Her solo work moves fluidly across genres, weaving ambient and electronic textures with elements of minimalism, jazz, folk, and experimental music. A classically trained violinist and pianist, Jessica creates music for film, games, and contemporary media, while also collaborating as a session musician with artists including Super Furry Animals. In 2025, she received a Composer Spotlight…

On his 2023 release “Arc Of Day” Danny Paul Grody gathered an ensemble of musicians and gave us compositions that conjured not just bird-like flights but the supportive skeleton of a bird itself - intricate, delicate, but able to carry a body (or a listener) through bright, airy spaces. That same ensemble, since renamed the Danny Paul Grody Duo, now bring us "Arc Of Night" - a sister collection to "Arc Of Day", shaped from core collaborations between Grody and percussionist/drummer Rich Douthit …