Experimental / Contemporary

irr. app. (ext.) is the sound-engineering project of Californian M.S. Waldron, whose liminal slippages and detourned croons have been spotted recently on stage in Nurse With Wound. Yet for all of the antics that are required for the NWW spectacle, Mr. Waldron still dedicates himself in the parallel pursuits of irr. app. (ext.) with a discography that reads more like a wunderkammer of uncanny investigations into futility declared as its reverse. Kreiselwelle is the third and final installment to …

Marc Behrens presents six extended surrealist songs ranging from psycho rock to dismantled R&B, crossing into doom jazz and spoken word. Animal field recordings; electronic boom and buzz; synths; detuned sitar; violins played by Portuguese master musician Carlos Zingaro. None of this is in any way what you would expect.

Sarah Lipstate’s work as Noveller, the vehicle through which she explores the possibilities of instrumental, primarily electric guitar compositions, has resulted in a rich body of work, one that has elevated her to the level of similar innovators like Vini Reilly and Roy Montgomery. Arrow continues that journey, further developing her darkly beautiful work in songs that combine the tranquility of meditation with elements of tension and unease. Album opener “Rune” is based around a deep, pulsing …

**Edition of 50 copies in original recycled, silk screened sleeve, signed and numbered.** A suite of spellbinding ambient folk meditations from Timo Van Luijk, the boss of Belgium's exquisite Metaphon label. A regular collaborator with the likes of Andrew Chalk, Raymond Dijkstra, and Christoph Heeman, among others, Timo operates at the core of Belgium's current avant-garde and experimental circles. Produced and released under his Af Ursin alias on the La Scrie Dorée label set up for such purpose…

SA Recordings present a new LP from the acclaimed New York composer, performer and sound designer Lea Bertucci. A work of three interlinked incarnations, ‘Acoustic Shadows’ began as an event, which then became an album and has inspired a sample library for other musicians. The Event (recalled by Lea Bertucci) “Acoustic Shadows I-III was a series of site-specific musical performances and a sound installation that took place in the enclosed hollow body of the Deutzer bridge in Koln, Germany, 2018.…

Seven works by the Argentine composer Elsa Justel from 2001 to 2017, from radio pieces and a danceable electroacoustic tango to commissions for the GRM and Musiques & Recherches, and Yegl, a lost file haunting everyday machines.

Musical seed from the febrile imagination of composer / bassist / freer-than-free alto saxophonist Stefano Scarella (ex- Promenade), nurtured by the twin talents of rosenwinkelite / chorinho zealot Mario de Simoni and Nornthern Irish multi-instru/mentalist Joel Cathcart.Hybrid, exploratory instrumental music. Merging and melding. Titling and retitling. Punk meditation. Oedipal jazz. Accidental body art. Space shuttles out to launch.Stefano Scarella - bassMario De Simoni - guitarJoel Cathcart - d…

"Dix Ailes is a musical proposal for 2 female voices, 1 percussionist, 1 electronic device and 1 place with high reverberation. Between minimalist music and pure pop, Dix Ailes plays on an acoustic illusion, that of making indistinguishable the origin of the sound (instrumental, loudspeaking or architectural), based on work on harmonics, frequency vibrations, the physical resonance of the place, psycho-acoustics.Essentially centered on the voice, Dix Ailes addresses the notions of empty and full…

With L’Inattingible, Delphine Dora’s music unfolds by drawing upon a new palette of colors. It will not escape anyone, that after having sung, in foreign, invented languages, or through extended vocal techniques, the musician resorts for the first time, to solely using the French language; and that after having often set texts and poems by other authors to music, she authorizes herself here to sing her own texts and fragments.But beyond these formal enrichments, the new musical ambitions develop…

**300 copies, white vinyl** Following Not Waving's stellar recent recordings with Jim O'Rourke, Colin Potter, and Jay Glass Dubs, Downwelling finds him in a striking Pas de deux with alternative rock god Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, QOTSA). It's one of those rare link-ups that truly transcends the sum of its parts, with Not Waving's rolling range of nuanced electronics acting as backdrops for Lanegan's smoky baritone storytelling. Delivered in a husky but pliable voice that has come to define …

Martina Verhoeven has been working on the development of her own photographic style for about 20 years, almost parallel to this process Martina took up the electric fretless bass when recording the two criticaly-acclaimed 3 Seconds Of Air albums (with Dirk Serries). As her photography continues to grow, expand and develop, slowly mutating into collages on canvas, so does her approach to music. Switching from electric bass to double bass to piano, she slowly mastered a technique that's exceptiona…

eRikm: 1 turntable + FXMartin Tetreault: modified turntable + surfacesOtomo Yoshihide: 1 turntable + guitarRecorded on 22th may during Musica Genera Festival 2004 by Artur Nowak.Edited & mix : erikm.Cover artwork : Trace Cut / eRikm

Max Eastley: arc (electro-acoustic monochord)Fergus Kelly: invented instruments, found metals, electronicsMark Wastell: tam tam, metal percussion, piano frameRecorded at Studio 3, Stoke Newington, London on 8th March 2017 by Rupert Clervaux. Edited, mixed and mastered by Fergus Kelly. Produced by Mark Wastell.

The UK’s network of crumbling sound mirrors - an early form of radar - supply cues for blues experimenter Mike Cooper and pivotal improvisor Mark Wastell (Company) in an inquisitive collaboration on Wastell’s Confront Recordings. The strange, austere relics of WWI were erected between 1916 and the 1930s and are found dotted along the South East and North East coastline of England, sometimes in farmer’s fields who’ll let you in for a look if you ask nicely (out to my guy in Boulby).With Cooper ma…

**200 copies** Lebanese saxophonist Christine Abdelnour brings an impressive, extended instrumental vocabulary to Joachim Nordwall’s cryptic electronics in this live recording made at Ystad Konstmuseum for Sweden’s Firework Edition Recordings.Falling deeply within the label’s taste for sounds that exist on the liminal edge of perception, A Higher State of Body and Mind sees Abdelnour coaxing spittle-inflected small sounds and bestial whimpers from her brass tool while Nordwall colours the negati…

**300 copies** Inevitable Music is a collection of pieces based on the work of American artist Sol Lewitt, begun by Sébastien Roux in 2012. Each piece is a sonic translation of a wall drawing using Lewitt's instructions for the realization of the drawing, or the drawing itself, as a score. This fifth installment of Inevitable Music is the first to propose all instrumental compositions for guitar, bassoon, clarinet, trumpet, violin, cello, viola and voice. The pieces were composed in 2016 during …

Regular Music were early instigators of the UK post-systems movement whose work straddles the spheres of rock, minimalism and post-punk. The band was formed in 1980 by composer / performers Helen Ottaway, Jeremy Peyton Jones and Andrew Poppy who met at Goldsmiths College in SE London where they studied music in the 1970s. Rather than wait for commissions they looked to models such as Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Gavin Bryars and Michael Nyman who formed their own ensembles to play their music.The …

**250 copies** Two personalities. Two different instruments. Christine Wodrascka, pianist and improviser, and Jean-Yves Evrard, guitarist and improviser, have produced a unique musical matter, both homogeneous and complex at the same time, showcasing a form of freedom hidden between the musical notes. The two musicians, free from the typical conventions in both their content and the shape of their work, become receptors and then transmitters of the vibrations surrounding every space. In unison, …

One of the most authoritative, competent and entertaining chronicles of new music, collecting articles written for The Village Voice between 1972 and 1982 by the dedicated journalist and composer, a must for anybody interested in experimental music and sound art. A massive 540+-page anthology published by Het Apollohuis in 1989 by Het Apollohuis and never re-printed, thus rare. With presentation card.

Still sealed copy of the 1987 album on Dischi Ricordi coupling a 1979 version for soprano and ensemble of the 1965 graphic-score piece of experiemntal music theater with the 1981 composition for large orchestra.

Brilliant performance of the 1975 Etudes Australes Libro I (N. 1-8) by pianist extraordinnaire Bruno Canino, released in 1978 as a double LP set by the obscure Italian label I Dischi Dell'Ippopotamo. Never re-issued on either CD or LP.

Four composistions spanning from 1942 to 1984 performed on contrabass (plus voice or percussion) by Joëlle Léandre who also contributes a tape music hommage to the American composer, released on Montaigne on CD only in 1995.

The 1957 indeterminate composition performed here by four pianos and also simultaneously with Atlas Eclipticalis with the addition of flutes played by Eberhard Blum, released by Hat Art on CD only in 1993.

The pioneering early electrocaoustic pieces for turntables, radios and percussion composed between 1939 and 1952 performed in 1995 under the direction of Jan Williams and released by Hat Art on CD only in the same year.

Three fantastic composition from the mid-1980's including the electronic sounding string quartet plus two beautiful electro-acoustic pieces for solo instrument, performed by the Arditti Quartet, Eberhard Blum and Frances-Marie Uitti and released by the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD in 1988 on LP only, never re-issued on either CD or LP.

Rare 1987 re-issue on Edition RZ of the 1985 LP on Electrocord with the Rumanian composer's powerful hyper-spectral music for orchestra in two superb compositions from the early 1980's.

Rare 1987 album on Edition RZ with the Rumanian composer's powerful hyper-spectral music, a composition for double-bass performed by Fernando Grillo from 1979 and one for two double basses, prepared piano, Javanese gong, crystals & metal objects performed by Grillo and the composer himself among others. With insert.

Fantastic experimental compositions for synthesizers including the Moog and the mythical Syn-ket from the 1960's plus a micro-tonal concert piece for woodwinds, released on Decca in 1969 and never re-issued on either CD or LP.

Great dynamic electro-acoustic music for voices, instruments and tape composed in the 1960's and early 70's by the founder of the Peabody Electronic Music Studio and released by Folkways in 1973, never re-issued on either CD or LP. With insert.

Still sealed copy of the sole edition of the excellent 1979 album on Hungaroton with a superb long minimalist electro-acoustic piece from 1977 in addition to other unusual compositions from the 1970's for ancient metal plates, small ensemble, and solo piano by the Hungarian experimental composer.

Very rare first edition of the wonderful 1978 album self-released by the Belgian composer on his own Editions Walrus label with his very personal piano music here incorporating tape loops, field recordings, synthesizers, organ, percussion, and early electronic drones. Except for a 1979 second edition, never re-issued on either CD or LP.

Rare mid-1980's re-issue of the amazing 5LP box set on Wergo with a selection of the composer's many masterpieces spanning from 1953 to 1972, including electronic music and compositions for organ, string quartet, various ensembles, choir and orchestra. Absoutely essential. With booklet.

Test pressing of the LP Red Hair Girl At Lighthouse Beach by Gigi Masin, Rod Modell, on 13 (Silentes).

Commissioned by ZKM Karlsruhe, Lea Bertucci's work for flutist Norbert Rodenkirchen sets his Renaissance, Medieval and Neolithic flutes inside electronic process: an electroacoustic piece that sounds like an ensemble reaching across centuries.

Mary Jane Leach's Pipe Dreams II and III, recorded on the organs of Miry Concertzaal, Gent (2023) and Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne (2024): beating tones and antiphonal clouds of sound, following the 1989 original issued by Blume.

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…

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.

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…

Descending from the first volume, Variierende Töne vol.II retraces the essential threads of the label, this time through two parallel perspectives: membranes + machines. A continuity of path, where past and future blur into new readings, into sounds that move between repose and tension, between presence and absence. The work is divided into two movements. Side A: an immersion in organic matter—field recordings, acoustic research, surfaces shaped by Hanna Maria & Mattia Onori, Marco Ragni & Leona…

1985 composition with the perfect fusion of turn of the Century Romantic music with Minimalism, released by Nonesuch on the "Meet The Composer Orchestra Residency Series" contemporary music series in the same year.