Derma
*150 copies limited edition* Derma emerges from my dialogue with music, space, and silence. It is an immersive sonic experience where every gesture is guided by the here and now—by raw emotion, sensory perception, and the act of creation itself.
Through the use of extended techniques, the performance evolves into a unique, unpredictable path where distinct soundscapes merge into a deep, continuous flow. The core of the sound lies in the tactile relationship between the drum skin and the objects …
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.
Figures
*50 copies limited edition* Paul Sakai identifies as a cultural nomad, existing between cultural and physical spaces. Born in the United States, they are a yonsei Japanese American raised as part of the international community in Southeast Asia as a Third Culture Kid. Their work is an act of grounding – a practice of connecting their present body to place, people, and cultural histories. Their project, Roy Kiyo, is an extension of this practice. Works under this project are broadly catalogued as…
Quiet scenes fromTokyo
Debut solo album by the cellist and composer, half of the duo Live Footage: sixteen miniatures for cello and Roland Space Echo cut in a Tokyo apartment facing a freeway, extended technique standing in for portamento, filters and noise. Mastered by Rashad Becker. LP on Faitiche.
Solos II
On Solos II, Anton Toorell turns two simultaneously played guitars into a shimmering architecture of tone, tension and air. Recorded in an Italian wine cellar, its three extended pieces use altered tunings, open strings and resonant decay to create lucid, microtonal currents - rigorous in design, but touched with the ease of unhurried improvisation.
Dalok
*300 copies limited edition* Adela Mede & Štefan Szabó never set out to make an album. United by their Slovak-Hungarian heritage and a deep love for folk music, they initially started meeting weekly to sing... just sing. Both coming from very different musical backgrounds, each brought distinct characteristics and elements to the table. Over the course of roughly a year, they met almost weekly, each bringing Hungarian folk songs that they found on old vinyl records, scouring internet archives or…
Pneuma
Double bassist and composer Henry Fraser announces the release of Pneuma, a new solo album out June 12 on Kou Records and recorded, mixed, and co-produced by Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Jóhann Jóhannsson) and Ben Greenberg (Uniform, Marc Ribot). Across eight concise movements, Fraser explores breath, resonance, and the evolving relationship between composition and improvisation, shaping an intimate sonic landscape in which the double bass seems to inhale, bloom into overtones, and dissolve back int…
États des lieux
Invited in September 2011 by sound engineer Philippe Teissier du Cros, double bassist Bruno Chevillon spent two days improvising alone in the Lutheran Protestant Church of Bon Secours in Paris. The building is as much a protagonist as the player — its acoustics shaping every bow stroke, every silence.
Twelve tracks traverse extremes: commanding attacks that send sonorities boomeranging through the nave, hushed melodic arcs, raucous physical confrontations with the instrument's body, and the exis…
Voice
On Voice, Sofia Jernberg compresses a lifetime of radical vocal exploration into a stark solo document, treating the larynx as full‑spectrum instrument - from split tones and pitchless friction to fragile lyric shards that hang in charged silence.
A Broadcast Of Your Silence
And I sing again. This time I won’t whisper,
because this time it’s for you. I hear about you on the radio,
and I’ve seen the pictures of the boss and his henchmen—
Hatred and determination in their eyes.
Their actions leave no doubt:
to them, you are garbage.
The history that came before echoes faintly.
And here, routine carries on.
On the radio,
a broadcast of your silence.
'A Broadcast of Your Silence' came about almost by accident, after several failed attempts to write for solo do…
Rörane
Rörane showcases an adventurous blend of free improvisation and jazz-rooted exploration from Swedish experimental ensemble stalwarts. Recorded with bassist Nina de Heney, pianist Karin Johansson, and drummer Henrik Wartel, the project melds deep spontaneous interplay with Bothén’s decades-spanning creative voice in avant-improvised music. A boundary-pushing sonic journey that reflects both the collective’s empathic interplay and their shared drive toward expansive musical expression.
Jeux de mains
Jeux de mains, a striking new album from acclaimed double bassist Joëlle Léandre and inventive composer-performer Rémy Bélanger de Beauport, arrives as a vivid exploration of spontaneous musical conversation. Recorded with immediacy and an acute sense of shared risk, the record captures two master improvisers at the peak of their creative powers.
Across the album’s immersive tracks, Léandre’s visceral arco, percussive pizzicato, and fearless extended techniques meet Rémy Bélanger de Beauport’s t…
Portal (LP)
Rare 1983 album on the tiny Lumina Records of solo music for saxophone, clarinet and ocarina played with extended techniques bridging contemporary classical music and free jazz. Copy with authograhed inscription.
Entrega / Batelages
Two cassette releases by Mexico City experimentalist Rolando Chia, heard by almost no one on their original release, now appear on vinyl for the first time. Batelages and Entrega - sound collage, concrete texture, extended guitar - two lost chapters of the Latin American underground.
Two Thousand Sacred Steps
*200 copies limited edition*
Chris Abrahams - Steinway grand pianoMark Wastell - cymbals
Recording engineered by Andrew LisleVortex Jazz Club, London, 8 May 2025
Grazing (Two Live Cello Solos)
This solo release captures Hannah Marshall at her most immediate and expressive, presenting improvisations that pulse with presence and physicality. Her playing radiates warmth and curiosity, offering thoughtfully shaped improvisations that feel both spontaneous and deeply grounded.
Silence is a Sharpened Blade / Ashes / The End Site / A Pearl in the Jaw / Flautas Ahogadas para Jacobo Grinberg
*75 copies limited edition*
DNZ122 Drew Wesely – Silence is a Sharpened Blade
Silence is a Sharpened Blade speaks in the language of materiality — a stripped bare mantra of nylon and wood conjures unspoken and veiled interiors, channeling the intimacy of a single guitar alone in a room. Silence is a mirror, a shadow, an absence. It speaks when words fail in the poetry of negative numbers. Where do we go when the lights burn out? What is beauty in hell? What can pierce a heart of stone? Silence i…
Idutydu
Frantx is a glit-noise band based in Paris that creates music in a dimension of hyper-speed where individualities get blurred, immersed in post-internet sonic drifts. The four members of Frantx explore the limits of their instruments and new modes of interaction through extended techniques, heterodox amplifications and electronic extensions. Frantx was born to question our roles as musicians and target the political dimension in which we are supposed to exist in this contemporary context. Music …
Polyvalent Creativity
Polyvalent Creativity is a new CD release on Confront Recordings featuring free improvisation by bassist Dominic Lash on electric guitar and percussionist Mark Wastell on drums and percussion.
The album comprises four tracks: "Potential," "Commitment," "Activation," and "Fulfilment," blending jazz improvisation with rich, textural soundscapes. Reviews highlight its unconventional approach, starting with tuning-like sounds that evolve into emotionally resonant free jazz.
Critics praise the duo's …
Guitar Recordings V
*2026 stock. 15 copies limited edition* In just 22 minutes, Steve Touchton redefines what a solo guitar record can and should be. The brilliance of 'Guitar Recordings V' lies in Touchton's ability to completely liberate themself from the inherited legacy of the instrument, discovering an entirely new perspective on both the guitar and the amplifier it resonates through. The opener, 'Apparitions,' features ghostly chimes that resemble the timbral scope of a prepared piano, subtly frosted with rad…