Some Attributes Of A Living System
The first album under the Mnemonists name, released in 1980 in 500 copies on the Colorado collective's own Dys label: 22 'Fragments' of improvisation between modern classical, noise, industrial and free jazz, by the circle that became Biota. Reissued on CD by Klanggalerie.
Reona
Tokyo tap dancer and metal percussionist Reona on a wooden platform with bells, bowls, chains, signboards and a loudspeaker; produced by Randall Dunn, with Atsuo of Boris on one track.
Prophetic Perfect Tense
Oren Ambarchi alone with the guitar: two sides, two single takes with almost no effects, recorded to tape at Studio Dede in Tokyo and produced by Randall Dunn.
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Σ [sigma]
'Σ [sigma]' is the new album by composer, saxophone player and improviser Antonio Raia. The first chapter of a trilogy dedicated to Berlin — where Raia spent several weeks recording alongside producer Francesco Donadello in different locations — 'Σ [sigma]' reflects on the relationship between body, space and sound, understood as a performative gesture closely linked to the space that hosts it.
Recorded inside the Wasserturm in Prenzlauer Berg—the oldest water tower in Berlin, built in 1877—'Σ …
Caperea
Two familiar faces within the Kohlhaas fold—Stefano Calderano as part of the trio McCorman (2023), and Giovanni Di Domenico through his solo works "Polvere di rabbia" (2021) and "Stella Maris" (2025)—join now forces on "Caperea". Bridging Rome and Brussels, where Calderano and Di Domenico are respectively based, the record marks the first collaborative LP by the two musicians. Born from a shared sensibility and a mutual curiosity for non-linear structures, what began as a brief two-day session o…
Volume 1
Weekend With Friends is a collective featuring Jacopo Buda (trumpet, electronics), Alberto Brutti (double bass, electronics), Mattia Bellei (clarinet, electronics), and Demetrio Cecchitelli (flute, guitar, electronics). At its core, the project thrives on organic improvisation and the fluid freedom to drift across diverse musical languages. The result is a captivating, symbiotic dialogue among the musicians—weaving a sonic narrative that is simultaneously cinematic and introspective, yet inheren…
The Dream Will Freeze In Midwinter’s Memories
John Clyde-Evans played in that formidable band called Hood in the early 90s. In the years that followed, he was one of the most adventurous figures in the incredibly diverse British underground scene. His productions from that era ranged from blissful tape loops of string instruments to bizarre, mind-numbing noise experiments—created using, among other things, traditional Indian instruments from the time he spent living there... Then, for nearly twenty years, he completely fell off the radar...…
Nos Vemos El Próximo Año
Hell is empty and the salsa is all there is. Chúpame el Dedo are back! After years of terrorizing the avant-tropical underground with their manic, mock-satanic metal-cumbia madness, the legendary Bogotano duo of Eblis Álvarez and Pedro Ojeda have officially scrubbed the pentagrams off the drum kit. They aren’t worshipping the dark lord anymore; they've found a much more chaotic deity. Please lower your expectations and raise your instruments: Chúpame el Dedo are now officially Geobah Witnesses.
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Guitar Solos North of Latitude 30
A solo acoustic guitar record by Atsushi Tsuyama, of Acid Mothers Temple and Omoide Hatoba, who has also spent fifty years as a mountain keeper in the Ina valley. Vinyl only, 200 copies, in a silver screen printed sleeve.
Nantes Files
Tip! *200 copies limited edition* Here at last is another entry in FMOA’s ‘Cozy Mysteries’ series: collaborations between artist duos focusing on acousmatic processes, and sound freed from “conceptual” moorings and imposed meanings. Alan Courtis, who appeared as part of our label’s “Audio Postcards” series, returns here for a set recorded in Nantes with Julien Ottavi. Both are storied veterans of music based in experimentation, “extended” technique and the creative re-use of previously un-creati…
Studies in Tonality*
This is a set of improvised studies made on the Clavemusicum Omnituonum, a harpsichord designed in1606 by Trasunto with 31 keys per octave. With this 2016 copy made by Markus Krebs for Studio31(Basel), I let the music unfold out of the gestures the hands were able to make thanks to the newpossibilities - and obstacles - created by such a keyboard. As a classically trained harpsichordist, Irelished the opportunity to fully embrace the oblique angles opened up by the keyboard’s disorientinglayout,…
Kinetic Void
*150 copies limited edition* The ambient lineage, from Brian Eno’s Music for Airports forward, has been characterized as sounds that can recede into the background, creating an absence that exists laterally to the listener’s attention. The Kinetic Void originated from a different premise. The compositions assembled here retain a commitment to atmosphere, putting texture over melody and suspending conventional notions of meter. But they embody an inverted relationship to density from that of the …
Mirror/Leaks
*20 copies limited edition* D. Stine and Doug Fogelson return to LAD with their latest long player, Mirror/Leaks. Recorded shortly after their beguiling first collaboration Dusk Breathing, a slightly different approach is evident here. This followed their desire to chart a different course, as well as new geographic realities. Rather than being led entirely by their improvisational muses, the pair approached the recording dates for this album with more of a sense of intentionality.
Shortly aft…
Free Jazz Dell’Inferno (No Self, No Swing, No Jazz)
Úgjü is a sound reflexes. A guttural protosonic babble or screech. The first phase of language acquisition among humans. Úgju, is a powerfull “Name" from something like a deity in that secret universal spoken language in the first months of life by all the newborns of the world; a protolanguage that transfers all the ancestral codes together with our DNA ... like a biologic operating system installation. So “Úgjü” is the beginning, and “Sectas” (in the sense of all religions) that destroyed…
If I'm Not A Woman Why Do I Ache Like One
If I'm Not A Woman Why Do I Ache Like One is performed using a Roland FP-30 digital piano and a pedal board. The title relates to my experience of being on the receiving end of misogyny as a gender fluid, transmasc person. I always feel a level of gender dysphoria whenever I am perceived as a woman, but when that perception is paired with misogyny it adds a whole other layer of anger and ache. Being told I am less than because someone perceives me as female not only makes me feel dysphoric, it a…
Azoth : Music For The Pyramis Harp
The trio Bolt Of Void reveals signals that arrive across warped space-time. Their alchemical soundings glide through ancient forms, pulling the listener in and out of a lucid state of being. It is in this arc of descending and ascending motion that spirit is congealed from the fog of nothingness. Through a hypnogogic portal the ear is met with something intimately close and delicate, and also evading perception along a distant horizon, heard but unconfined. Sound in its ability to be perceived a…
Swerve Of Shore
Composed, Performed, Recorded By Mark E Kaylor. Instrumentation includes : analog drum machine, drums/percussion, piano, vibraphone, c tenor sax, c & Bb soprano sax, trombone, tuba, tenor guitar, electric guitar, analog oscillator, bass clarinet, tenor recorder
Arid Parallel
*2026 stock* "When two desert ecosystems collide, the arid terrain blossoms with thriving biological and geological diversity, generating the feeling of existing in two superimposed universes at once. It is deeply appropriate that Cecyl Ruehlen and Derek Monypeny–living, respectively, in the Sonoran and Mojave deserts–would meet at High Desert Soundings festival in Wonder Valley, CA, not far from where those vast southwestern deserts converge. This fated introduction, along with the duo’s shared…
Gate
*2026 stock* Bolt of Void was sleeping in the dark, earthen soil for almost 7 years, and like the locust, the group emerged again, anew -- Gate is a wormhole, unlocked ceremonially -- A star-gate traversal that reaches terminal velocity and the feeling of moving forwards, backwards, and not at all become the same. Centered around extreme noise, drone clusters, and atonal portal jumping, the trio's dense sound is powered via three expanded lap steel guitars, bells, and resonant metal. Bolt Of Voi…
Errands
Errands is the first duo recording from Marja Ahti, Swedish-Finnish sound artist and electroacoustic composer, and John McCowen, a native of Southern Illinois, now residing in Iceland, whose work centres on a radical exploration of clarinet multiphonics. Working without the aid of electronics, McCowen has spent years finessing performance techniques that allow him to layer beating patterns and split tones that belie their source in a monophonic instrument. Ahti, in contrast, has built up a stunn…