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Selected Works 1985​-​2005
Selected Works 1985-2005 by Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors assembles eleven transformative pieces from two decades of percussive ambient innovation. This 2025 repress captures their hypnotic blend of ceremonial rhythm, improvisation and deeply spiritua…
Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?
Refracting beatifically through realities and mirages flickering along his aural parade route, Animal Collective’s Geologist rides the high country on a hurdy gurdy of many colours. Via the mystery science of musical engagement, we take his sonic kal…
Reality Is Not a Theory
Reality Is Not a Theory by Mark Fell and Pat Thomas is a vivid collaboration exploring the friction between theorized structure and lived musical experience. By fusing Fell’s technologically limited triggers for creativity with Thomas’s exploratory i…
The Birds of Marsville
The Birds of Marsville, the seventeenth album from Friendly Rich, is a whimsical and experimental sound guide to 76 imaginary birds inhabiting the fictional island of Marsville. Featuring orchestrion, chamber ensemble, and a playful mix of genres, th…
The Smell Remains The Same (LP)
Second pressing on black vinyl of the 2007 compilation released in a limited edition of 500 copies by Anarchymoon Recordings collecting tracks by the wacky LAFMS-related collective released on 7"s between 1990 and 1995.
Scream With A View (12"EP)
1982 Italian re-issue of the beautiful and outstanding 1979 EP by the truly avant-garde electronic new wave band from San Francisco. Black labels edition.
Divine (LP)
Original Dutch edition on Philips of the 1982 album with music for a ballet by Maurice Béjart, a milestone of experimental chamber music.
Suite En Sous-Sol (2x12"EP)
Original edition on Italian Records of the 1982 album of beautiful exotic experimental chamber music released in Italy as a double EP with gatefold sleeve.
Time To Lose / Blind (12"EP)
Original edition on Les Disques Du Crépuscule of the 1982 EP with three pieces of beautiful electronic chamber music.
Nuova Consonanza (LP)
condition (record/cover): EX/VG+. One of the rarest artifacts from Italy's most radical composers collective! Formed in Rome in 1964, the Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza brought together extraordinary minds - Franco Evangelisti, Ennio Morr…
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…
Cadaverous Condition – Destroying the Night Sky
**Marbled Black Smoke Vinyl & Inlay, issued to 230 copies. Cover and Inlay artwork done by Steven Stapleton.** The Circle Music proudly presents: Cadaverous Condition – Destroying The Night Sky. Many years ago Death Metal band Cadaverous Condition in…
Zungsang
Zungsang by Joke Lanz takes listeners on a disorienting and surreal sonic journey marked by sharp observations and idiosyncratic soundscapes. Anchored in the spaces between performance art, improvisation, and experimental noise, the album weaves toge…
Simultaneous
Simultaneous reveals Pamela Z’s fascination with the intersection of speech and music, blending voice, electronics, chamber ensemble, and video into an immersive, multi-layered exploration. Through looping, gesture control, and narrative fragments, t…
The Book of Job
The Book of Job is a boundary-pushing work by Super Grupa Bez Fałszywej Skromności, merging avant-garde jazz, spiritual recitation, and sound experiments. Conceived in martial-law Poland, the album is both requiem and protest—an immersive journey thr…
L'eil au centre de L'oeil
L'oeil au centre de l'oeil by La STPO distills decades of avant-garde experimentation into a collection where tumultuous rhythms, surrealist poetry, and unrestrained instrumentation converge. The album’s elliptical structures mirror the disjointed vi…
Soul Chateau
2025 stock No shortage of dune buggy up the canyon honey slide action here. The first tinges of sonic solvent action provide a loosened effect, but just as the tongue gets lazy, the swagger is spat gently from the tip as clarity bursts into the room …
Eternal Brink
Floris Maniscalco’s double LP Eternal Brink is a genre-fluid, exploratory release grounded in Basel, Switzerland. Spanning meditative textures, fragmented rhythms, and voice contributions from local collaborators, the album unfolds as a sonic diary d…
Mantra
2014 release ** "Composed in 1970, Mantra, for two pianos and ring modulation, was one of the decisive turning points in Karlheinz Stockhausen’s career. The 70-minute piece not only signalled a break with the text-based intuitive works, relying heavi…
Recital I (For Cathy) (LP)
condition (record/sleeve): VG+ (occasional pops) / VG- (browning on bottom back cover + general wear) A stunning vocal tour-de-force! Cathy Berberian delivers an extraordinary performance of Luciano Berio's Recital I (For Cathy), a groundbreaking wor…
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