From Red Black to Black, from Blue Black to Black
David Grubbs' commissioned music for Josiah McElheny's singing paintings, wall works with hand-blown glass discs that resonate sound: one 30-minute piece for lap steel, electric guitar and Serge synthesizer, built on microtonal slide.
The Mild Temper
On The Mild Temper, Kevin Drumm stretches his language of drones, electronics and micro‑acoustics across six hours, fashioning vast, slow‑shifting fields of frequency where restraint becomes a kind of pressure and detail blooms only if you stay. Mast…
Variations for Light Waves
On Variation for Light Waves, Linnea Talp deepens her dialogue with the pipe organ, stretching it toward breathy extremes where foggy harmonies, brittle overtones and glints of electronics hover like weather systems suspended between memory and illum…
Avaeken
Black Vinyl. American experimental composer Stephen O'Malley releases Avaeken, two sides of immense, immersive, self-annihilating music via Dais Records. The record preserves site-specific work: O'Malley installed Avaeken as part of Wish You Were Her…
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 Ka…
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 m…
Models of Duration
*Limited edition of 400 copies.* The latest from the uncompromising John McCowen is a split release between Dinzu Artefacts and Astral Spirits. Models of Duration follows the same trajectory as McCowen's other amazing solo releases - Solo Contra (Int…
Arch of Motion
In recent years Swedish musician Linnéa Talp has grown interested in liminal spaces of sound, increasingly searching for her breath deep within passages of a song when instruments gently and patiently bridge the verses. In 2020 she released Cochlea, …