A Far Within
A shimmering meeting of three fearless voices, this new recording invites cellist Isidora Edwards, violinist Biliana Voutchkova and Hardanger-d’amore virtuoso Zosha Warpeha into a luminous space of spontaneous creation. Intuitive improvisation and rare timbres intertwine to explore liminal sound-worlds where silence breathes and time suspends. The result: an immersive sonic journey that defies genre, yet feels deeply human and unbound.
Spark Gap
Birgit Ulher and Nicolas Collins are pleased to announce the release of Spark Gap, the first record of their ongoing duo project. Two trumpets, two different approaches: one electronic, the other acoustic. While Collins programmed a computer to imitate hacked circuits and wired to a speaker inside the instrument, Ulher uses metal sheets, radios, milk frothers and other everyday objects to extend her sound palette from brass to silicon. The opposed approaches yield oddly similar sonic results.
Away, I Was
"Over 40 years of sustained performance and publishing, English saxophonist, improvisor and composer John Butcher has shaped much of what the soprano and tenor saxophone can do, and what their roles and vocabulary in improvised music might be. There’s a situated purposefulness to Butcher’s music. It is always concerned with its context, flexibility, space and company: how group playing works and flows; how aspects of improvisation fit into a living musical world; how and what the saxophone can b…
A Window, Basically
Peter Evans and Mike Pride push the outer limits of improvisation. Combining Evans’ explosive trumpet virtuosity with Pride’s kaleidoscopic drumming and percussion work, this collaboration is equal parts high-wire intensity and deep listening. With sharp turns, dense sound clusters, unexpected silences, and moments of raw, unfiltered expression, this is improvised music at its most daring and unpredictable. Whether erupting into chaos or threading through intricate interplay, Evans and Pride pro…
Mnemonist Orchestra
Mnemonists, on the first album called Mnemonist Orchestra, is U.S collective of avant-garde musicians from Colorado, led by Mark Derbyshire and William Sharp. Their music is a mixture of modern classical, experimental sounds, noise, industrial, avant-garde and free jazz. Their releases were published by their own self-produced label Dys between 1981 and 1986. By 1985 the group had split off into separate groups for visual and audio work. From that time, Mnemonists operated only as a visual arts …
Split
Tip! *245 copies limited edition* Overjoyed to announce the release of this monumental record featuring two very different sides of the free-improv coin, pressed on heavyweight 180 gram mixed color vinyl. This intergenerational, wide-minded split LP blurs the hedges of national borders and the traditions of composition, marking a niche interzone inhabited solely by the uncles of punk and their experimental stepchildren.
Canadian noise pioneers, Nihilist Spasm Band, deliver a ripping side-long o…
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…
Hubris
** 2026 Repress ** First released in 2016 and long out of print, Hubris has come to feel like a pivot in Oren Ambarchi’s catalogue - the moment when his fascination with groove, repetition and ensemble friction finally detonated into something both overwhelming and weirdly precise. This new edition gives that record the sonic treatment it always deserved. Working from the original mixes, mastering engineer Joe Talia revisits the album with what can only be called forensic care, teasing out layer…
variable densities
Tip! *2026 stock* The klingt.collective is a viennese music group founded in 2022. it’s nine members are an essential part of Vienna’s experimental music scene and have been collaborating in various groups for many years. Previous collaborating projects include: the klingt.orgestra, Radian, sonic luz, TWIXT, The Vegetable Orchestra... The internet platform klingt.org has been a home for the musicians and many of those projects since the early 2000s – thus the name of the ensemble.
The nine music…
Punctum
What does a venue sound like? One might approach this question by assessing the technicalities of how it handles sound: the room acoustics, the quality of the PA etc. Instead, this trio seek answers by enlivening those loose inanimates strewn silently around the venue’s edges – whatever the players could find throughout the backrooms and corners. Pots, pans, dud domestic appliances and old bicycles are hauled up from the groundfloor basement of Punctum in Prague, along with a few stones and tree…
Rustlings
'rustlings' is an album of two pieces written by Stockholm-based violinist and composer Maya Bennardo. One of the pieces, 'dormant gardens i' (2022), was written for and performed by andPlay, a duo of Bennardo on violin and Hannah Levinson on viola. The other, 'summer rustlings' (2024), is a solo violin piece performed by Bennardo.
Both pieces were inspired by Bennardo's move to Sweden from New York City, where she developed a new relationship with nature through walking. Her solo and compositio…
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 …
Start Soft
*Limited edition of 100 copies* In 2017, Oli Heffernan took to the stage in Dundee to play bass for Damo Suzuki, the legendary former frontman of Can. Backed by a one-off ensemble featuring Griff (Interrobang / Regular Fries), Harry (Chumbawamba) and E-Da (Boredoms), the group walked on with no rehearsal and no plan. Suzuki offered a single instruction — “start soft” — and the set unfolded from there.
Like all of Suzuki’s performances, the music was entirely improvised: tense yet fluid, explorat…
Zermisz
*150 copies limited edition* If you have been paying close enough attention to the often strange yet alluring part of the world Richard Youngs operates in, you should have noticed that since the middle of 2025 he embarked on a new sonic journey that has subsequently become a trilogy of LPs on Fourth Dimension Records. Each of these is limited to 150 and is named after either a mythical Babylonian king or entity of Richard’s own devising, while the music itself has been of an instrumental nature …
ambiguous garden
*250 copies limited edition* Tokyo-based electronic sound artist Takuma Kuragaki began his musical activity in the 1990s. In 2020 he released his first solo album, "Bottomless / Blank," on the Hitorri label. The recording earned considerable attention for its extremely minimalistic style, made up only of short, murmuring computer sounds and silences. Pierre Gerard is a Belgian improviser and composer. Energetically engaged in musical creation, he makes skillful use of a variety of instruments in…
A Waiting Room Creation
*300 copies limited edition* Xiang was born in 1984 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. She started her experimental music activities in earnest in Chengdu in 2017. In performances she uses field recordings, violin, noise and body as materials. She listens attentively to subtle changes in sound and space and carries out site-specific performances adapted to each environment. In addition to solo improvisation and composition, Xiang carries out many performances and collaborative projects with ot…
innocently, uneven
*250 copies limited edition* Kumamoto-based musician Yoichi Ichikawa also carries out his activities under the name peeq. Making skillful use of various instruments ranging widely from electronic to acoustic, he creates truly diverse and remarkable music. Ichikawa is also known as a member of the team that runs the online label tokinogake. VKHNC is a Seoul-based South Korean musician active on the electronic music scene.
In early March 2025, peeq visited Tokyo along with VKHNC, carrying out conc…
electro electro acoustic
Tip! *250 copies limited edition* Beijing-based electronics player Sun Yizhou is a representative of China's new generation of experimental musicians. In October 2025, during a visit to Berlin, he had the opportunity to make a recording with Berlin-based trumpet player Axel Dörner. With his groundbreaking playing techniques, Dörner has been a leading figure on the international improvised music scene since the 1990s. This CD contains three improvised duo pieces performed by Sun Yizhou and Axel D…
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…
Alight in the Fog
*2026 stock. 20 copies limited edition* Hikikomori, a sonic entity forged in the crucible of London's north and south fringes, stands as a testament to the power of chaotic synergy. This avant-garde duo, comprised of Tom Wilson wielding synths and pedals and Dean Valentine Smith commanding the drums, isn't merely playing music; they are conducting sonic experiments that delve into intense and exhilarating new realms. Their sound is a powerful fusion, a volatile cocktail of free noise and jagged …