Erica
A collection of photographs of everyday life, just passing by, on a constant search for those minimal hidden details, mysterious, yet full of awareness, meditative yet bristling with fervor. Mira’s debut for Maple Death ‘Erica’ reveals the artist’s constant transformation, a dense collection of six melancholy vignettes that spin cinematic neo-classical minimalism into slow-tranced lullabies and ancient folklore chants. Based between Rome and Torino the violinist and composer is a beloved figure …
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Aurora Central presents a cassette by Concepción Huerta & Jiyoung Wi, merging visionary soundscapes and avant-garde experimental sounds.
Decay Music 9: Liminale / Decay Music 10: And I Entered Into Sleep (2LP bundle)
*200 copies limited edition* This bundle includes the latest and final releases in Die Schachtel's Decay Series: Luigi Turra & Elio Martusciello "Liminale", and Sergio Armaroli & David Toop "And I Entered Into Sleep".
Returning with its ninth and tenth instalments, Die Schachtel's Decay Music series extends its explorations of inspired contemporary experimental efforts of the ambient, ethereal, and emotively abstract with Luigi Turra and Elio Martusciello’s “Liminale” and Sergio Armaroli and D…
Decay Music 10: And I Entered Into Sleep
*200 copies limited edition* Reconfiguring the notion of bridge building on a multitude of terms, it feels fitting that the tenth and final installment of Die Schachtel’s Decay Music series, Sergio Armaroli and David Toop’s “And I Entered Into Sleep”, was co-created by an artist whose work featured in the first suite of LPs issued by Brian Eno’s Obscure Records in 1975, the groundwork toward which Decay Music’s own efforts nod. Since that auspicious debut, “New and Rediscovered Musical Instrumen…
Decay Music 9: Liminale
*200 copies limited edition* Since its founding in Milan during the early years of the new millennium, Die Schachtel has occupied a singular place in the landscape of experimental music, issuing a carefully curated body of reissues and archival releases by historically significant figures and projects like Christina Kubisch, Luciano Cilio, Marino Zuccheri, Prima Materia, Claudio Rocchi, Lino 'Capra' Vaccina, Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, Roland Kayn, and numerous others, balanced a…
Fiat Lux
“Creative collaboration could lead to tension or disagreements, but here it’s all about freedom, joy, and acceptance. Deeply rooted in respect and love. And that radiates through the music. I lived the process, but I hope people will feel that vibe.”
— Robbie Kuster
Melos
Melos is an ongoing series of site-specific works for organ and electronics. By merging sampled organ tones with sustained chords, it creates evolving, immersive textures unique to each venue. Each piece explores and expands the organ’s expressive limits through electronic means.
Dimension Scrolling
"For his first Mondoj release, Finnish musician Olli Aarni journeys to the wide oblique, where shapes are implied by slants of light previously thought impossible, coming from sources dispersed and hidden. The paranoid eye turns them into phantasms: distant pop songs, fields of fair folk spinning vocoded fudge, an exquisite tasting menu, the shiny towers of an inflatable castle protruding from underground. Scientific inquiry reveals spoken word, diatonic harmony, wide stereo fields, spectral she…
Eikon
Two years following his work 'Monumento Fiume', Giovanni Lami returns to Kohlhaas with a new release, once again investigating the intricate relationships between memory, the sonic medium, and decay. 'Eikon' originates from a series of acoustic cello recordings, subsequently disassembled and transformed by Lami, resulting in a unique deconstructed and layered object, lying somewhere at the intersection of soundtrack, decomposed ambient and video game music, shaped through the use of samplers, a …
Fried Brains
"The trio Rapid Zen creates a dynamic blend of really unique music by fusing rhythmic patterns with audio experiments. They achieve this by combining a layer of turntable sampling and scratching that provides a distinctive and varied sound interacting with a broad palette of different techniques on double bass, percussion, and voice. Fried Brains is the first release of the project." - Vito Camarretta
''Don’t hold your breath in anticipation of instant karma or rapid enlightenment, but with such…
The Heart Of A Whale
Paul Wallfisch has played in bands like Firewater and Little Annie, while Dana Schechter has logged time with American Music Club, Angels of Light and her own Insect Ark, among others. They’ve been friends since meeting in New York in the 1990s. Years later they forged a stronger connection as bandmates in Botanica and palying with Swans. Over the years Paul Wallfisch has been a prolific composer for film and TV, including Dummy, with Adrien Brody and Milla Jovovich (which the musician also appe…
Rules For Living
CD3 transform familiar sounds into primordial folk art with Rules For Living. The duo's melted reconfiguration of popular styles creates mysteriously ahistorical music - ancient yet pertinent, stripped to skeletal essence.
Carnival Squatters
At the beginning of 2024 I found myself on a trip up to North-West with my fellows Virginia and David (of Jooklo fame) in their legendary green Scudo van. I was ready for whatever adventure and trying to up-lift my friends from an uncomfortable situation they had at that time in a small town of the Ruhrgebiet named Moers, where they were temporarily based. The mood of the road that week was of rebellion, feeling of fixing injustice, and consequently the strenghtening of belief in underground bro…
An Asura In Spring
*200 copies limited edition* Musician Ken Ikeda lived in New York and London for many years. Since his return from London in 2020, he has been based in Tokyo. Renowned British improviser, drummer and percussionist Roger Turner has been active on the music scene since the early 1970s. The two musicians performed together several times when Ikeda lived in London.
Turner toured Japan in the summer of 2023 and performed with Ikeda at Ftarri, Tokyo, on August 19. This CD documents the two duo perform…
Last Breath’s City Looks Kind Heart
*200 copies limited edition* Michael Thieke is a clarinetist and composer living in Berlin. Known for his delicate, deft playing style, he is involved in many projects on the improvised/experimental music scene. Thieke is also known for his work in the clarinet duo The International Nothing, which has released several CDs on the Ftarri label. Beat Keller is a guitarist, composer and sound engineer based in Winterthur (Switzerland) and Berlin. He plays the distinctive "feedbacker electric guitar"…
Erasures
*250 copies limited edition* Quentin Tolimieri is a Berlin-based pianist, composer and improvisational musician. He earned a bachelor’s degree in composition and piano from California Institute of the Arts in the U.S. and a master’s degree in composition from the University of Southampton in the UK. He has released recordings on labels including Wandelweiser Records (Germany), pfMENTUM (U.S.), Creative Sources (Portugal) and elsewhere (U.S.). Musician and sound artist Eric Wong, also based in Be…
Light Industry International Co.
*200 copies limited edition* Tom Soloveitzik is a sound artist, composer, improviser and sax player from Tel Aviv, Israel. From 2022 to 2024, he lived in Tokyo and performed with many Tokyo-based musicians. From late March to early April 2024, Soloveitzik toured in Beijing and Shanghai, and on March 31 he carried out a recording session with the up-and-coming young electronics player and improviser Sun Yizhou, who is based in Beijing. This CD contains three performances from that session. (The f…
Quilted lament
Under the right conditions, half-remembered dreams can meld seamlessly into hazy present moments. Time spent alone can be an emotional blank canvas, and an opportunity to deconstruct sense and feeling; a patchwork of snippets both rooted in memory and abstracted from reality. The title of ‘quilted lament’ perfectly captures the way Gretchen Korsmo and claire rousay’s overlapping missions come together to do just this. Worn polaroid melodies and snatched everyday noises seem overheard through win…
Farri Gathering
*2025 stock. 250 copies limited edition* Tam Thi Pham (born in 1990) is a Vietnamese musician based in Hamburg, Germany. She plays the dan bau, a traditional Vietnamese one-string instrument, which she incorporates into improvisation and composing. On the occasion of a visit to Japan in December 2023, Pham performed at Ftarri, Tokyo, on December 11, together with Yukiko Shiina Sakurazawa (contrabass), Minami Takei (percussion) and Masahide Tokunaga (alto sax). This CD contains the two sets (of 3…
Deux études
*250 copies limited edition* Marie Rose Sarri is an Italian musician and sound artist who makes skillful use of both analog and digital instruments, field recordings and all types of sounds in composing and creating works of music. She releases recordings on labels of various countries, and performs and exhibits her creations in many festivals, art museums, galleries, art spaces and more. French musician Bruno Duplant, who also uses both analog and digital instruments in his performances, has ma…