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, acoustic instruments, drum machines and environmental recordings, the album unfolds as a collection of immersive sonic landscapes suspended between twilight and darkness. Rather than describing the natural world, "Bugs" magnifies it, transforming tiny mo…
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, building a sound world that gains intensity slowly and surely as the piece progresses. The music of the trio, documented when joining forces here for the first time, sounds unified, confident and searching, taking the listener to places far from the obvio…
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 into an extremely flammable light yellow “old woman’s gunpowder” that was used for early theatrical pyrotechnics. Volatile and explosive, Lummernikt requires careful handling. There is something of the small scale dangerous in Finn Loxbo’s Lummernik…
NK012
*150 copies limitede edition* Originally released by Umor Rex on cassette in 2015, NK012 documents the first-ever musical meeting of Berlin-based musicians Aidan Baker (Nadja, Canada), Andrea Belfi (Italy), and Erik Skodvin (Svarte Greiner / Deaf Center, Norway). Now, more than a decade later, the album is available on vinyl for the first time, newly remastered for the format by Rafael Anton Irisarri. This marks the third release in a series of four special, limited reissues to be released in 20…
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 for forgetting, rather than remembering. Instead of embracing histories’ complexities and inconsistencies, this version of nostalgia seeks only singular recollection. This contemporary phenomenon of nostalgia has become a methodology at best, and a we…
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 resonance into an act of radical listening - music whose hidden actions remain inseparable from its vast, exposed sound.
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, question. This recording brings together four improvisers together in a multi-layered situation which combines multiple permutations of the untried and the familiar. The four had never all played together before but the quartet contains various his…
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 ‘dúchann’ (chant, song). The singing melodies said to hold sway over seamen were characteristic of the sirens of classical mythology—likely imported into Irish literature via Homer’s Odyssey.
"Over the past decade I have been working with a vast sour…
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 2020s. Additionally, his studio space Marmalade has hosted performances from some of the most boundary-pushing voices of contemporary experimental music - artists such as Charmaine Lee, Brandon Lopez, Sandy Ewen and more - during a time in which such s…
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 gender dysphoria whenever I am perceived as a woman, but when that perception is paired with misogyny it adds a whole other layer of anger and ache. Being told I am less than because someone perceives me as female not only makes me feel dysphoric, it a…
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 spirit is congealed from the fog of nothingness. Through a hypnogogic portal the ear is met with something intimately close and delicate, and also evading perception along a distant horizon, heard but unconfined. Sound in its ability to be perceived a…
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, and deeply physical, the record explores the boundaries between composition and improvisation, control and release, structure and collapse. In Chołoniewski’s hands, the drum kit becomes a laboratory of sound: an instrument of impact, resistance, re…
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, tenor recorder
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 set of 1974, recorded at the Polydor Studios in Hamburg that January by Steve Reich and Musicians, with Cornelius Cardew on glockenspiel in the final part. It was the first time a box set had been given to a minimalist composer. This edition has been r…
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 3LP box, 180g, original artwork.
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.
A Requiem For Prime Time TV
A Colourful Storm's Fleetway Tapes series follows classic entries from Time Is Away, Vladimir Ivkovic, Felix K, Young Sparks and others with a heart-stopping selection put together by Berlin-based film journo Florence Scott-Anderton, a fathoms-deep, laser-focused mix that doesn't come around often, engulfing high-art/low-culture TV samples with a series of cues excavated from film - think of it as a sort of Blockbuster Video nostalgia-tinted answer to Time Is Away's flawless thematic mixes.
Acid Heath
Cambridge-based improv collective Concrete Gazebo present their latest collection of open-hearted, quantum splice-downs, via Goldsmiths University label NX Records.
"Acid Heath" documents the ebb and flow of a collective in flux; online and in-the-flesh improv sessions form the raw material to be welded into new and fantastic forms by the group's hive-mind. Instruments falling into the pot this time around include a heavily effected Harmonic Art Handpan, the Yamaha PortaSound PSS-50, live-trigge…
NEST
*2026 stock* "NEST is a Mass for the Tenant, not a Mass in the traditional sense, but I see the piece as a Mass for the tenants of the past and the present. NEST is also a critical response to the theme of home in Éamon de Valera's 1943 radio address, 'On Language and the Irish Nation'. With a libretto by Eimear Walshe, the line, "they come to make a ruin", repeats throughout the piece like a congregational response. A line that traverses periods and regions, it conjures different scenarios, fro…
Live from Camden
*200 copies limited edition* Recorded live at The Jazz Cafe in Camden, London, on the year's so called "Blue Monday," Live from Camden captures The London Ambient Orchestra in a single evening of collective improvisation. Conceived during the depths of winter, the performance reflects the ensemble's commitment to creating music that encourages presence, reflection, and restoration. While Blue Monday began as a marketing invention, it has since become associated with conversations surrounding men…