Folklore & Concepts
Folklore & Concepts, the latest release by Smegma—now five decades into their outsider avant-garde career—extends the band’s legacy of ritualistic collage, spontaneous improvisation, and anti-academic noise. Infused with tape, synths, prepared piano, horns, and voice, the album melds shamanistic energy with surreal group interplay, creating an unpredictable and stubbornly original sonic tapestry.
Depois do Silêncio
Elations Recordings presents "Depois do Silêncio", an intimate, forward-looking acoustic bass, digital keyboard and synthesiser recording by Brazilian avant-garde jazz luminaries Zeca Assumpção and Lelo Nazario. This release celebrates almost fifty years of the duo's friendship and musical affinity, continuing a musical dialogue between long-time collaborators. The duo began working together with Hermeto Pascoal's "Grupo Vice Versa" in the mid 1970s before forging one of Brazil's most adventurou…
Zürahümnah
For two decades, Bart De Paepe has navigated the psychedelic underground, creating a singular artistic path through labels like Astres d’Or, Ultra Eczema, and No Basement Is Deep Enough, and through collaborations with Sylvester Anfang’s funeral folks, Louise Landes Levi, Timo van Luijk, and Raymond Dijkstra. Zürahümnah distills his expansive vision into four immersive tracks that blur the line between light and darkness, time and reverie.
Sùrtum
Massimo Silverio is one of the most distinctive names in the new Italian music scene, carving out a niche within the independent landscape with his unconventional idea of songwriting — influenced by the folklore of Carnia, electronic textures, and a highly personal approach to songwriting.
Surtùm arrives two years after Hrudja (2023), the album that established Silverio as one of the most intriguing emerging artists in Italy, blending the metalinguistic folklore of Sigur Rós, the gothic arrangem…
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, the work brings together carnivalesque sonorities, witty narratives, and a centuries-spanning tradition of birdsong composition.
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 invited a stellar line up of experimental artists to completely dismember, rearrange and reconstruct songs of their “To The Night Sky” album. The result being “Destroying The Night Sky”, one of the weirdest collaborative albums ever assembled. Extreme …
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 vividness of dreams, mapping an abstract and ever-changing sonic landscape that refuses conventional boundaries and draws listeners into a whirlwind of meticulously orchestrated chaos.
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 with the urgency a hungry baby. Delicate without feeling soft. Brash without feeling harsh and at times Dimples swing fucking hard, like JJ and Leon without forcing it one bit. But if you don't like 'new music' this might not be your cuppa. Soul Chat…
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 heavily on improvisation, that had come to dominate his output towards the end of the previous decade and a return to fully notated scores, but also introduced the idea of melodic formulae, the “mantra” of the title, which Stockhausen would eventually dev…
Musica Per Percussione (CD)
condition (disc/cover): NM/NM . Teresa Procaccini (b. 1934), distinguished composer and longtime professor of composition at Rome's Accademia di Santa Cecilia, presents her percussion works in this focused collection. Winner of the Viotti Competition, Casella Prize, and San Francisco International String Quartet Competition, Procaccini has created a vast catalog of over 150 works blending neoclassical values with bold rhythmic invention inspired by Bartók and Stravinsky. Her percussion writing e…
Musica Da Camera (CD)
condition (disc/cover): NM/NM . A prolific composer with over 150 compositions spanning opera, orchestral, chamber, and band music, Procaccini has developed a distinctive voice balancing neoclassical values with modern expression. Trained under Fernando Germani (organ) and Virgilio Mortari (composition), her chamber music showcases sophisticated formal construction, lyrical melodic invention, and rhythmic vitality inspired by Bartók and Stravinsky. These works feature diverse instrumental combin…
Musica Per Chitarra, Pianoforte E Orchestra (CD)
condition (disc/cover): NM/NM. Teresa Procaccini (b. 1934) showcases her mastery of concertante writing in this spectacular collection featuring guitar, piano, and orchestra. Performed by the exceptional duo of guitarist Lapo Vannucci and pianist Luca Torrigiani with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra under Nicola Giuliani, the program includes Procaccini's Concerto for Guitar, Piano and Orchestra Op. 246 (2017) – a work of joyful vivaciousness, lyrical intimacy, and elegant wit. The central Andan…
Enrico Renna (CD)
condition (disc/cover): M/M. Enrico Renna (b. 1952, Salento) is a significant Italian contemporary composer who studied with Umberto Rotondi in Milan and with Luigi Nono. This self-titled CD presents chamber, symphonic, electronic, and theatrical works by a composer whose music has been performed throughout Europe and the United States.
Sonetti A Orfeo (LP)
condition (record/cover): VG+ (light surface noise) / EX- (small tag on front) Gatefold sleeve. A remarkable collaboration between composer Fernando Sulpizi and virtuoso flutist Roberto Fabbriciani! This release explores contemporary possibilities of the flute through works inspired by Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus. Fabbriciani, one of Italy's leading interpreters of new music and a close collaborator with composers including Luigi Nono, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Sylvano Bussotti, brings his excepti…
Luca Mosca - Pianoforte
condition (disc/cover): NM/NM A significant release featuring works by composer Luca Mosca (born 1957)! Mosca, who studied with Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and later with Gérard Grisey in Paris, developed a distinctive compositional voice that synthesizes Italian post-war modernism with French spectral influences. Contemporary Italian music for piano by: Arduino Gottardo, Bruno Cerchio, Nicloas Bacri, Elisabetta Brusa, Alessandro Lucchetti, Paolo Ugoletti, Riccard…
Autori Italiani Per Clarinetto (LP)
condition (record/cover): M/M (still sealed) An important survey of contemporary Italian clarinet repertoire! Distinguished clarinetist Gaspare Tirincanti presents works by leading Italian composers, documenting the rich output for clarinet in post-war Italian music. A remarkable program beginning with Gaetano Donizetti's Studio and Nino Rota's Sonata in Re, then moving into the contemporary avant-garde with Niccolò Castiglioni's Daleth, Alearco Ambrosi's Iara, Luciano Berio's landmark Sequenza …
Folk Songs (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/EX . Contemporary composers reimagine folk traditions. Commissioned by the Festival Musica '900 (Trento) and Incontri Internazionali di Musica Contemporanea (Bolzano), premiered November 14, 1988.
Salvatore Sciarrino arranges Ary Barroso's Brazil. Luca Francesconi, Carlo Galante, Claudio Ambrosini, and Andrea Mascagni contribute new works alongside international voices: Betty Olivero (Israel), Zygmunt Krauze (Poland), Walter Zimmermann (Germany), Hubert Stuppner, and…
Mémoire Magnétique, Vol. 3
Transversales Disques presents Mémoire Magnétique Vol.3, a revelatory collection of short and secret music by electronic music pioneer Bernard Parmegiani, spanning 1967-1971. This third volume offers unprecedented access to unreleased rarities from Parmegiani's personal archives - intimate glimpses into the working methods of one of electronic music's most visionary composers. The late Bernard Parmegiani (1927-2013) stands among the founding fathers of electroacoustic music, a core member of the…
Kagome Kagome
Two decades of French experimentalism meets Japanese spiritual practice in this haunting collaboration. Recorded around a 104-year-old harmonium, Dora and Suzuki channel otherworldly beauty through voice and electronics - music of prayer, magic, and genuine mystery.
Electric Catapult
*2025 stock. 300 copies limited edition* Bursting with high energy and unpredictability, "Electric Catapult" showcases Lehtisalo's evolution as a solo artist, moving away from his previous electronic maximalism into a realm of impressionistic soundscapes. The album's frenetic, all-over-the-place pace and eclectic composition reflect Lehtisalo's willingness to push boundaries and explore new sonic territories. Drawing inspiration and style from early 00's New York and New Zealand improv groups li…