Experimental / Free Improvisation

*75 copies limited edition* Emerging from the resonant stillness of a centuries-old monastery, Monastero unfolds as a series of improvised modern compositions — each track a spontaneous dialogue between space and sound. The instrumentation drifts fluidly between structure and abstraction, allowing reverb-soaked tones and percussive textures to breathe and bloom within the natural acoustics of stone walls and vaulted ceilings, giving the music a haunting, sacred dimension.

The legendary double bass master is not appearing in our catalogue for the first time, but for the first time we have the honour of publishing music that has not appeared on Paul Rogers' albums many times before. A recital for solo double bass! If one could wish for the bass to speak, we believe that it does so most fully and poignantly when played by this wonderful master.

*2025 stock* Normil Hawaiians had a transformative 1982. With two 7” singles and a 12” EP under their belts they suddenly found themselves disillusioned with the increasingly generic sounds surrounding them, so they forced the hand of change and began reaching out with that very hand. The band’s true constant in Guy Smith soon found himself with a new crew of musicians, Simon Marchant, Noel Blanden and Mark Tyler. Normil Hawaiians’ communal take on post punk quickly sprouted leaves from its mout…

2016 release ** Cardboard sleeve.

The final album of Henry Birdsey’s (Tongue Depressor) textured and immersive country laments project, Old Saw.  This final document highlights the range of the project’s vision, evading easy categorization.. Some of the most direct and emotive music yet from Birdsey.

Tip! Benjamin Bennett has worked as an improvising percussionist for 10 years, touring North America and Europe as a soloist, in various ensembles, and ad-hoc collaborations. He developed a unique approach to percussion which took the lineage of free-jazz, free-improvisation, Berlin reductionism, and extended technique playing as its foundation. In searching for an expanded sonic palette, and more fluid movement between various techniques, he distilled the drumset into a small collection of drum…

First time meeting of Sam Wenc (US/pedal steel + objects) and Stefano Grasso (Milan/percussion + recorder). The record is one take, broken into 10 tracks, exploring the boundaries of the rhythmic grid, never quite landing inside it, but hovering on its perimeter, through extended technique, melody, and disharmony.

Fantastic 1979 recording by the duo of Eddie Prevost and Keith Rowe under the AMM III moniker. Original 1979 edition on Japo.

One of the best ever recordings by the mighty AMM, here composed of Eddie Prevost, Keith Rowe and John Tilbury. Original 1992 CD on Matchless Recordings.

Superb 1996 triple-CD set on Matchless Recordings presenting 3 exceptional full live recordings spanning 25 years (1969-1994). AMM: Cornelius Cardew, Christopher Hobbs, Lou Gare, Keith Rowe, Eddie Prevost and John Tilbury in different combinations.

A testament to one of Italy's most radical musical experiments, now available in this carefully crafted limited edition for a new generation of adventurous listeners.

Original 1974 UK edition of the first solo album of adventurous guitar explorations by Henry Cow member.

Original 1979 LP on Metalanguage, the first encounter by the two giant guitarists.

Original 1980 LP on Metalanguage of adventurous solo guitar explorations. Never fully re-issued on either LP or CD.

Original massive 2LP set with gatefold sleeve on Metalanguage from 1981 of adventurous guitar explorations featuring Magic Band's John French a.o.. Never fully re-issued on either LP or CD.

Molly Raben's In the Kingdom of Flowers arrives as one of the year's most revelatory debuts - a breathtaking collection of solo organ improvisations that reimagines one of music's most ancient instruments through the lens of contemporary experimental practice. Released by Pennsylvania's Love's Devotee label in a limited edition of 300 copies, this remarkable album showcases Raben's extraordinary technical prowess alongside her deep understanding of the organ's mechanics, history, and social cont…

Massive 1985 3LP box set documenting the activities of this German experimental music theatre group from 1971 to 1985, with echoes of MEV and Nuova Consonanza. With insert and never re-issued on either CD or LP.

1993 white vinyl single, the first volume in Table Of The Elements' limited edition Guitar Series 7"s, deservely dedicated to solo guitar improvisations by the AMM member.

Landmark release on Deutsche Grammophon from 1974, an amazing 3LP box set with booklet with the cream of European improvisation: New Phonic Art (Carlos Roqué Alsina, Jean-Pierre Drouet, Michel Portal, Vinko Globokar), Iskra 1903 (Barry Guy, Derek Bailey, Paul Rutherford), Wired (Karl Heinz Böttner, Mike Lewis, Michael Ranta, Conny Plank). Fundamental and ever re-issued on either CD or LP as a set.

Original first Italian edition on Caroline from 1978 of the second volume of the Guitar Solos series featuring Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, G.F. Fitzgerald and Hans Reichel. With original innersleeve. Never re-issued on either CD or LP.

Original first US edition on Red from 1979 of the third volume of the Guitar Solos series featuring Henry Kaiser, Chip Handy, Peter Cusack, Keith Rowe, Fred Frith, Eugene Chadbourne, Davey Williams and Akira Iijima. Never re-issued on either CD or LP.

Friends and colleagues for over 25 years, John Zorn and Dave Lombardo are two of the most uncompromising and powerful musical visionaries in modern music and “Memories, Dreams, and Reflections” presents these two extreme virtuosos in an exciting session of pure improvisation. Drum shaman Dave Lombardo and renegade sax alchemist Zorn are at their freewheeling best here and their connection has never been tighter. Intense, telepathic, filled with love, surprise, respect, and an insatiable curiosit…

''Beingness is the source of inspiration which moves silence towards its manifestations as form in sound. Each gesture animates in the infinite space between thought and non-thought awareness. The fluidity of spontaneous sonic projections reflect the esssential being of nature, which is change'' - Adam Rudolph ''A voyage from the Corner to the Cosmos. As the tracks titles reveal, there's a connection to the authentic spiritual search and devotional imperative in jazz that goes all the way back t…

"Garden Variety" explores interdependence and intimacy through the emergent behavior of percussion instruments. Inspired by Anne Carson’s concept of Eros, the series blurs sonic identities, creating a composite instrument from motion. Amplification invites listeners into a tactile, resonant sound world.

A saxophone, filtered live through electro-acoustic manipulation, creates unpredictable soundscapes. Fred Wallich and Pierre Audoynaud improvise, challenging jazz conventions and expectations, inviting listeners into new, bewildering auditory geographies and experiences.

Fierce, complex and multi-layered progressive sounds from this significant drummer / composer.

*2025 stock. 30 copies limited edition* Renowned experimental guitarist and avant-garde musician Eugene Chadbourne presents Milanesa / Astral Traveling, a bold new release available now via the German label Frei zum Abriss Kollektiv. This two-track album showcases Chadbourne’s signature blend of free improvisation, wit, and boundary-pushing soundscapes, further cementing his status as a true pioneer of the underground music scene.

"If you think that the constellation of Nicholas Bussmann, Sven-Åke Johansson and Yan Jun is a sort of dream lineup, you are not far off the mark. The joint improvisations that you hear on tea time capture a sound that once came to Bussmann in a dream and that he made a reality with the help of his fellow musicians. The trio recorded the five pieces across two days at Johansson’s SÅJ studio with engineer Andrew Levine, working with Bussmann’s curious piano robot while Johansson was on percussion…

"The beauty and power of Meshes of the Evening doesn’t come from isolated passages or specific exchanges, no matter how exciting and satisfying they may be. What has riveted me each time I’ve listened to the music is how Davies and Beins occupy a single space together, totally aligned and in a zone that makes time irrelevant. It would be wrong to say they’re in a shared trance because music that’s so detailed and subject to constant transformation requires a heightened awareness. Yet Davies and …

Originating from a Lisbon residency, Joana Guerra and Yaw Tembe’s duo explores slow, tectonic musical landscapes on ‘Orogénese.’ Their blend of eclectic instruments and ethereal voices crafts mysterious, timeless soundscapes, revealing hidden sonic futures through organic collaboration.

Snakes & Thunder explores the coexistence of meanings and sound as motion, focusing on balance, connection, and similitude. The album reflects on proximity and rhythm, inviting wandering, myth-making, and embracing the strange.

Peachfuzz’s ‘Impeachment’ showcases innovative interplay among Lisbon’s João Pereira, João Almeida, and Norberto Lobo. Their music spans meditative drones to energetic bursts, blending acoustic and electronic elements with playful spontaneity.

In the ongoing battle between technical virtuosity and authentic expression, most guitar "shredders" have chosen the wrong side - trafficking in overwrought drama while remaining devoid of soul, viewing music as competitive sport rather than spiritual exploration. Enter Cyrus Pireh, whose latest Palilalia release Thank You, Guitar represents nothing less than a revolutionary approach to "transcendental shred electric guitar music" that upcycles the despised 32nd-note neck sprint into something g…

A moment of first encounters, Circuits is the sound of four musicians (Savvas Metaxas, Evi Nakou, Giannis Arapis, Dimitris Tigkas)navigating an unfamiliar terrain in real-time, their individual languages dissolving into a shared improvisational space. Subtle drones, resonant feedback and textural gestures underpin the ensemble’s interplay. Circuits is the sum of raw, expressive utterances—melodic remnants shifting from pulse to friction, from bow, to frets, through fingertips. A single-take impr…

*2025 stock* 1983. A distinct malaise afflicted the nation. The UK was about to re-elect Margaret Thatcher by a landslide, cruise missiles arrived at Greenham Common in Berkshire, six people were killed by the IRA outside Harrods, nuclear reactors suffered system failure in the USA, Russia, Argentina and Germany. The Face magazine showed an exhausted youth that everything was OK as long as you looked ‘right’. A curious revisionism had become prevalent. The Jam had become the Style Council and st…

Earth Ball’s ‘Actual Earth Music Vol. 1 & 2’ captures raw live energy and experimental collaboration, from Vancouver chaos with Wolf Eyes to a transformative, improvised London summit with Beresford and Corsano.

This album is the result of an invitation extended to João Pais Filipe to develop a composition for the film Teocalli by the Colectivo Los Ingrávidos. Its original composition was presented in February 2024 at Batalha Centro de Cinema, during a performance that accompanied the screening of the film as part of a broader programme dedicated to the collective’s work, curated in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Based in Porto, João Pais Filipe (b. 1980) is one of the mo…

Angelo Bignamini, Italian sound artist, presents "Batelli a Vapore," inspired by Rimbaud's "Le Bateau ivre." Gentle noise, subtle melodies, and quiet voices evoke poetic journeys, ending with a serene guitar, closing the lyrical narrative.

Pat Thomas, Tony Orrell, and Dominic Lash, known as Bleyschool, here perform as Lifeline, swapping acoustic for electric instruments in a spontaneous blend of noise, dance, and rock—exploring new sounds while maintaining deep musical rapport.

With solid training as a classical musician, Sophie Agnel took a close interest in modern jazz before committing in the early Nineties to the shifting, deliciously uncertain ground of free improvisation, thanks to her fascination for the powers of expression displayed by a few great keyboard-heretics such as Keith Tippett, Fred Van Hove or Christine Wodrascka. She began reworking the prepared piano techniques imagined by John Cage and transformed her instrument into a sort of extended piano. Com…