Tela
*2026 stock. 60 copies limited edition* Tela is the full-length debut of Stockholm-based composer Simon Hansson and was recorded in April 2024. Across its four movements, waves of pulsating feedback are woven into a dense sonic fabric. The title 'Tela' refers to plain weave, or simply cloth, reflecting the intricate processes of over-under interlay that structure the material. Recursive patterns and constant iteration unfold at a glacial pace, continuing Hansson's exploration that defines his si…
Fancy cannot cheat
Ten arrangements, dialogues, compositions. Direct, diverse, dating you quietly, never naming the act. They arrive on tape, twisted sided. Shaped by Belgian drummer and sonic wanderer Karen Willems. A mover between scenes. Breaker of frames. Restless in sound. She likes to step into that space, where you can push, strike, remain in motion. Where curiosity earns its name by never staying the same. “Fancy cannot cheat” is title for her latest beat. There is ambient breath. There is classic stretche…
Utisetur I
*100 copies limited edition* Utisetur I is the sixth album by Canadian ritual project Undirheimar. Marking the beginning of an ambitious trilogy, this new work delves deeper than ever into the project’s uncompromising spiritual and sonic vision. Utisetur I unfolds as a six-part ritual chant rooted in the ancient meditative practice of Utiseta. Stripping away all instrumentation, Undirheimar constructs the entire album exclusively from layered overtone singing, creating a dense, immersive field o…
Paradoxal Innovations
Philatélie proudly unveils Paradoxal Innovations, the groundbreaking new double cassette release by visionary artist Uton, the enigmatic Finnish producer known for his immersive sonic exploration.
Instruments of Forgetting and the Singing Bone
This project is a dynamic exploration of songwriting from an instrumentalist’s perspective. Rather than following a fixed path, it fluctuates—drifting between the sonic possibilities of instrumental textures, timbral exploration, and sound processing. These elements give rise to evolving patterns: from abstract soundscapes to clear, repetitive melodies and canons. The music weaves together experimental, improvised, contemporary influences mixing with avant- pop creating a collage of shifting moo…
Winter Spawning
Drones, hums and overheard sounds, bladders and strange vibrations, air currents, roars and ticking, friction and the thudding of a drum-beating fish, the wail of a dervish’s mixer, the manic circling of a dreamt-of tone by sonic lathe-workers…
The Path Where Fairies Pass
Double LP ltd to 300, black vinyl, 3 color (silver, dark blue & black) silkscreened jacket with obi (dark blue or paver red), with Miyanishi Keizo notes in French, English and Japanese, lyrics in Japanese and English and a postcard. 妖精の通る道 (The Path Where Fairies Pass) is the debut vinyl release by Reimaki, the duo of Rei Yokoyama (Triggers Flowers, Stakaidan, Lapiz Trio, 新井薬師自警団, and Fujio, Chiko Hige and Rei), and Maki Miura (Tsubamegami, Les Rallizes Dénudés, Shizuka, Fushitsusha, Ohkami No J…
Spheres Collapser
Black Vinyl. XKatedral, in collaboration with La Becque Editions, announces a new album from Stephen O'Malley, co-founder of SUNN O))). Les Sphères (effondrez-les) presents two long-form compositions for pipe organ, performed by O'Malley alongside Kali Malone and Frederikke Hoffmeier. Recorded on Christmas 2021 at Église Saint-François in Lausanne, Switzerland, the album captures Les Grandes Orgues, an instrument of extraordinary lineage: Scherrer (1777), Walker (1867), Kuhn (1995). Three centur…
Line Drawings
*75 copies limited edition* Layered improvisations converge to form a duo of longform drone harmonies, composed entirely with the bow chime. This esoteric instrument, comprising a large stainless steel resonating sheet paired with an array of tuned rods, produces a rich spectrum of tones and pitches when bowed. The recording emphasizes its deeply resonant qualities, unfolding in a continuous sonic line — fluid, unbroken, and immersive.
Mutual Consuming
Relay For Death is the noise project of the twin sisters Roxann and Rachal Spikula. Their hermetic works consistently reflect a bleak nihilism, all the while carving an autonomous space for survival as the rest of the existence crumbles. Previous works have been published by Hanson, No Rent, Total Black, and RRRecords.
The twins offered the consideration that "Mutual Consuming comes from a concept in the philosophies that underpin traditional Chinese medicine theory, where the two opposing sta…
Discorde
** Few available. All pantone offset printed glossycovers, pantone printed insert. **Prepare to be transported by Discorde, the mesmerizing debut LP from Megabasse-the solo alias of Pierre Bujeau, acclaimed guitarist of Tanz Mein Herz and Omertà. This highly anticipated repress, strictly limited to 300 copies, comes housed in stunning Pantone offset-printed glossy covers with a matching Pantone insert-a collector’s dream, crafted with the same meticulous care as the music within. Recorded in 201…
But Remember what You Have Had
Stephen O'Malley crafts a meditative exploration of resonance and memory, blending drone guitar textures and minimalist compositional strategies into a single, immersive soundscape that reflects his distinctive approach to contemporary experimental music.
Séance of Sleep I: The Saraswati Dreamcraft
*150 copies limited edition* Drawing on decades of musical studies (Indian classical music, archaic Appalachian fiddle music, Microtonality, and early electronic experimentation), David Wunder Brägger has woven together a minimalist and analog-driven “séance” of sounds through his uniquely assembled electronic devices and acoustic drone makers. The results are epic, strange, calming, and wondrous. An immersive and stunningly beautiful cosmic bath of sound, DW Bragger’s “The Saraswati Dreamcraft”…
For Renstemt Klaver
Though the piano arrives on stage without a player, it is not alone. Mounted on steel bars within the instrument are electronic magnets, one per piano key, that have been connected by a thicket of wires—reminiscent of monstrous braces, as though the instrument were suffering youth under orthodontic siege. The magnets come down to the strings, and, as they vibrate at the strings’ own frequencies, the instrument speaks. Wobbling yet fulsome tones suffuse the room, sounding almost nothing like thei…
Mermaids Are Real
Mermaids Are Real is the collaborative project between Niki Dimitriadi & Selfish Limbs, based in Thessaloniki, GR. Their debut self-titled album explores themes like love, loneliness, and death, where the existential anguish alternates with a light-hearted playfulness. Spoken word, vocal live-looping, and drone soundscapes blend together with repetition and improvisation approaches. Somber fairy tales meet the dark ambient textures and together create a world where magic and reality can’t be dis…
Gatha
*200 copies limited edition* Laden with abstraction - one foot in the ethereal, mysterious, and ancient past, the other arching into unknown futures yet to be seen - “Gatha” is a total world, imagistically rising through sound. Saz, tanpura, sarangi, autoharp, synths, bells, flute, percussion and numerous other acoustic sound sources, intertwine in a droning, delicately percussive tapestry, amounting to a brilliant musical hybrid, the depths of which few have realised since the days of La Monte …
The Other World
*300 copies limited edition* "The Other World was recorded in the spring of 2023 by Greg Norman at his home studio in Chicago. Each track was done in a single take without editing or manipulation. The recordings were made using a Stratocaster running into a minimal effects chain, which was then fed into a small solid state amplifier and captured by a pair of stereo microphones. I was interested in a sound palette that was very blanketed and gray, which led me to cut the high end tone of the guit…
Redux
Few available, sold out at source. Offset printed covers, gloss varnish. Stamped labels. Released October 2024 in co-production with Desastre. Tanz Mein Herz’s latest, 'Redux', out via Standard In-Fi, encounters the French collective pushing at the boundaries of folk tinged experimentalism, psych, and drone. Sprawling across two long tracks, it’s an absolute burner of throbbing, hypnotic sound and stunning creative interplay.Les Adieux is a send off, a tale of energy, death, bliss, cosmic yearni…
Na Boca do Alvanel
* Limited to 100 hand-numbered copies. Pink colored c40 cassette with white imprint. Comes in regular jewel case and 4pp 170gsm paper covers. Includes download code. * In a forthright response to the always speculative query, "Which musicians would you like to see collaborate", Coherent States proudly presents the "Na boca do Alvanel" album by David Maranha and Stefano Pilia. Delving deeper, "and why?" becomes clear: Stefano’s extended guitar manipulation and David’s ethereal violin, flute & org…