Already in Heaven
*Edition of 100* K/S/R (Ben Kujawski, Abigail Smith & Justin Rhody) have been performing and recording together since 2022. Recorded by the band themselves during a full week of day-long sessions - violin, percussion, lap steel, accordion, flute, gui…
Energie
Giuni Russo's 1981 CGD album, produced with Franco Battiato and Alberto Radius and arranged by Battiato and Giusto Pio: electronics, experimental pop and avant-garde singing, remastered on 180g yellow vinyl.
Horses in the Sky
The 2005 album of the Montreal ensemble, back for its 21st anniversary: six songs of protest and love for strings, guitars, piano and group voices, recorded at Hotel2Tango with Howard Bilerman.
Irrational Rhythms and Shifting Poles
Saxophone and laptop: the first record of Chris Pitsiokos’s project on four-channel audio, rhythms from irrational numbers and shifting polarity. Each copy with original artwork.
Carny Cant
A one-man studio album: Chris Pitsiokos on saxophones, harmonica, bass, electronic drums, voice and electronics, with Rick Eye and Jason Nazary on some tracks.
The Great Learning
All seven Paragraphs of Cardew's The Great Learning by the Scratch Orchestra Strasbourg under Didier Aschour, an orchestra born from an open call and two years of shared practice: 4CD box with a 116-page booklet.
Roman Ruins
Alvin Curran conducts the Iato Orchestra, thirty musicians with voice, reeds, brass, strings, harp, accordion, guitars, vibraphone, basses, two drummers and four electronics players.
Sympathetic Resonance
The “Sympathetic Resonance” LP by Momen is released on Unheard Of Hope and marks the debut of the London-based duo. Momen consists of Iván Muela (piano, guitar, electronics) and Nat Philipps (saxophone, electronics); in eight movements they explore a…
Deep Drive 2+
The identity of Deep Drive comes in large part from the way Peter Zummo moves through the world. Using his smartphone, he records daily fragments: of daydreams and conversations, signage and slogans, moments that that strike him as insightful, odd, a…
3 X 1
Third album by Glass Triangle, Zeena Parkins on electric harp, Mette Rasmussen on alto saxophone and voice and Ryan Sawyer on drums: a studio session moving from delicate passages to dense, kinetic interplay.
The Mortgage Burn
Weston Olencki's compositions for the Quebec percussion trio Bascaille: tuned fiddles, homemade zithers, watershed debris, speaker cones and an upright piano in two long pieces of friction, resonance and lopsided pulse.
Rosenberg Museum
Four CDs from Jon Rose's Rosenberg Museum, the decades-long project around the violin: homemade and hacked string instruments, true and invented violin stories, and 37 tracks from the museum now housed in central Australia.
Nouvelles Ethnologiques de l’Obscur Museum
On Nouvelles Ethnologiques de l’Obscur Museum, NEO Museum forge a fierce, finely cut collision of free jazz, radical rock and European avant-garde composition. Born in mid-80s Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, the trio turns saxophone, guitar and drums into a com…
What Is the Difference Between Stripping & Playing the Violin?
Miya Masaoka's orchestra, recorded live in San Francisco in 1995 and 1997 with George Lewis, Vijay Iyer, Trevor Dunn and others: strings, Asian winds, shamisen, electronics and turntables under her whole-body conduction.
Abstract Repressionism: 1990-99
Elliott Sharp writing for strings: Orchestra Carbon's violins, viola, cellos and double bass with electronic percussion, recorded in New York in 1992. Dense, restless pieces between contemporary chamber music and noise.
Ursa's Door
Zeena Parkins' 1992 album recorded in New York: electric harp, keyboards and tape with Ikue Mori on drums, Chris Cochrane on guitar, David Shea, and her sisters Margaret and Sara on cello, violin and voice.
Quiet Days in Cliché
Uncorking the well of wit, whimsy and cool, refined fury that’s fueled his path around this world, Mayo Thompson pours out a new round: a first ever album of solo guitar music, not to mention a first solo album in almost forever, Quiet Days in Cliché…
Ascending the Depths
Ithaca trio of Sarah Hennies, Willie B. and Keir Neuringer, three percussionists reaching into vibraphone, saxophone and piano. Eight studio improvisations, playful and energetic, held against a meditative core.
Apocalypse of Intimacy
"Apocalypse of Intimacy" immerses you in a distinct sound universe of Concrète Pop. Strange and inventive, yet unmistakably felt. As if some not-quite-human entity wished to become a folk singer. A contemporary, experimental-electronic work with 11 i…
Spring Back, Ball Forward
*300 copies limited edition* Spring Back, Ball Forward is the Soda Gong debut from Jung dj, nom de plume of shapeshifting multi-instrumentalist Randy Riback. Following a series of uniformly great self-releases and cassettes on the dearly missed Lille…