Welcome to All the Pleasures
Chris Shields on organ, Ed Atkins on voice and Magnus Kaslov recording, live at KoncertKirken in Copenhagen in 2024: the organ reduced to air leaks, mechanical hesitation and shifting overtones. Liner notes by Sarah Davachi, edition of 200.
Music For Air
On its latest album „Music For Air“, the Berlin-based interdisciplinary duo GAMUT INC explores new possibilities of the computer-controlled pipe organ — from hypervirtuoso excess to nuanced automation and rhythms beyond the fixed grid. Composed and r…
split
*40 copies limited edition* We’re living through a difficult period to be publishing creative music (which is really the least of our problems!) And the 7” format seems to have taken an exceptionally hard blow, with apparently little interest from pr…
Unit of Heart
*300 copies limited edition* A quiet intensity permeates Chantal Michelle’s music, like a veiled flame. Even at its most spare and delicate, an undulating tension unsettles the ear through wavering microtonal interference and uncanny spatial juxtapos…
Bugs
*100 copies limited edition* Inspired by macro photography, field recordings and the hidden world of insects, "Bugs" explores the fragile boundary between nature and electronics. Built through instinctive improvisations with analog synthesizers, acou…
Nubes
The Finnish-Norwegian trio of Olavi Louhivuori, Eivind Lønning and Kim Myhr make their debut with Nubes, released by We Jazz Records on September 25. Recorded at We Jazz Festival in Helsinki in 2021, the album’s organic flow moves beyond genre, build…
Lummernikt
Lummer is the Swedish name for the now protected family of vascular plants (Clubmoss/Lycopodiaceae). Lummer grows slowly and the spores with which it reproduces can take 12—20 years to develop. These spores, known as Nikt in Swedish, were once ground…
The Rest Is My Ghost
Nostalgia is not an ideology, though in this moment, we could be mistaken for thinking it might be just that. Over the past years, the idea of nostalgia has been filtered through various political and technological lenses and has become a tool used f…
Untitled - Solo for the Building of a Museum
On Untitled (Solo for the Building of a Museum), Tony Conrad stages an unseen encounter between amplified violin and his self-built Long String Instrument. Recorded in 2002 behind a concealing sheet, the performance turns drone, friction and physical…
Parallels & Diagonals
Which is the more productive situation for improvisation: the shock of the first time encounter, unhindered by history or habit, or the long-term association and the evolution of more complex interactions? It's an unresolved, perhaps even undecidable…
Murdúchann
'Murdúchann’: Where layered vocal transformations summon siren songs and sonic phantoms from within the source. The word ‘Murdúchann’ comes from a Middle Irish word evoking a siren-like being—a sea singer or mermaid. It derives from ‘muir’ (sea) and …
Atropa
*2026 stock. 100 copies limited edition* "Bill Harris is a community builder first and foremost. As one of the founders of the Amalgam collective, he has helped to keep Chicago’s storied improvised music scene together through the dark ages of the 20…
If I'm Not A Woman Why Do I Ache Like One
If I'm Not A Woman Why Do I Ache Like One is performed using a Roland FP-30 digital piano and a pedal board. The title relates to my experience of being on the receiving end of misogyny as a gender fluid, transmasc person. I always feel a level of ge…
Azoth : Music For The Pyramis Harp
The trio Bolt Of Void reveals signals that arrive across warped space-time. Their alchemical soundings glide through ancient forms, pulling the listener in and out of a lucid state of being. It is in this arc of descending and ascending motion that s…
Music To Make Your Body Suffer
*2026 stock* Polish drummer and composer Tomek Chołoniewski presents Music To Make Your Body Suffer, a visceral and uncompromising album that treats percussion not simply as rhythm, but as a force capable of transforming the entire body. Raw, intense…
Swerve Of Shore
Composed, Performed, Recorded By Mark E Kaylor. Instrumentation includes : analog drum machine, drums/percussion, piano, vibraphone, c tenor sax, c & Bb soprano sax, trombone, tuba, tenor guitar, electric guitar, analog oscillator, bass clarinet, ten…
Drumming, Recordings on ECM
* Discounted Bundle * Two three-LP boxes, released together on 2 October for Steve Reich's ninetieth birthday, covering the years 1974 to 1982 in full.
Drumming; Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ; Six Pianos is the Deutsche Grammophon se…
Drumming
The 1974 DG recording of Drumming by Steve Reich and Musicians, with Six Pianos and Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ. Remastered from the original four-track tapes for the first time, cut all-analogue at Emil Berliner Studios. Numbered …
Pierced (June17th)
To be pierced is a process of change: what’s inside opens to what’s outside, and vice-versa. 'Pierced (June17th)' is a document of such a process, a series of reorientations following a rupture.