Experimental / Minimal

Faitiche presents the release of a new album by Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek (faitiche13). Since their debut (Bird, Lake, Objects, faitiche03, 2010) they have played improvised concerts around the world. Japanese vibraphonist Masayoshi Fujita prepares his instrument with various percussion elements as well as metal objects and toys, while Jan Jelinek layers loops made using small-scale electronic devices. Schaum (German for froth, foam) is the duo's second album. "The river, forcing its way th…

Third album by the Swiss musician Elischa Heller: two side-long drone pieces meant to resonate with the room, mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.

David Granström brings the electric guitar into his long-form, digitally precise music, recorded partly at EMS Stockholm, with Maria W Horn on hurdy-gurdy.

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.

Second duo LP by Sarah Hennies and Tristan Kasten-Krause: two sidelong pieces grown from a live work played in darkness, singing bowls, gongs and double bass drifting into waltz-like pulses and field recordings. Numbered edition of 200.

Four decades after Prati Bagnati del Monte Analogo, Francesco Messina returns to his hundred-year-old Schimmel piano for seven pieces of hazy drone and ambient minimalism, written with no deadlines after playing that 1979 album live in Milan.

*50 copies limited edition* 1. The Habu (2020). The Habu is a pit viper endemic to the Ryukyu Islands. The violence done to these islands reverberates through. The Habu is venomous, mostly nocturnal. Spectral. From the dense vegetation it morphs into the island’s mind. The Habu is less a subject than a presence. In fragmented recordings, the work moves like the snake itself. 2. The Frog (2026). Like a frog, this work jumps and jumps. Until it just sits there and evaporates. Ribbit! 3. A Transcri…

Mary Jane Leach's Pipe Dreams II and III, recorded on the organs of Miry Concertzaal, Gent (2023) and Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne (2024): beating tones and antiphonal clouds of sound, following the 1989 original issued by Blume.

Ritual music for the accumulation of male sexual energy Throughout history man has made and used music for two distinct and separate purposes. In recent years, particularly since the advent of sound recording, the most popular use of music has been for entertainment - the temporary amusement and distraction of as large a number as possible. As a consequence, many people tend to overlook its more fundamental and ancient use as a tool for affecting man's body and spirit. The many varieties of reli…

Kali Malone's first solo album since All Life Long, recorded over two nights on the Bach Organ of Leipzig's Thomaskirche with Lucy Railton and Stephen O'Malley. Seven pieces that abandon canon form for a slower, more intuitive unfolding of chords, steps and bridging tones.

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.

Black Vinyl edition. XKatedral is proud to present a new full-length album by label co-founder Maria W Horn. Melting Pillars of Snow is a collection of new compositions from the renowned Swedish composer written for Contrabass Recorder, Shō, Percussion, Electric Guitar, Voice and Electronics performed by Horn together with a chamber ensemble consisting of Anna Petrini, Mattias Hållsten, Magdalena Meitzner and Mats Erlandsson. The album also features narration by Horn as well as a guest appearanc…

Black Vinyl. American experimental composer Stephen O'Malley releases Avaeken, two sides of immense, immersive, self-annihilating music via Dais Records. The record preserves site-specific work: O'Malley installed Avaeken as part of Wish You Were Here, the exhibition by renowned American artist Banks Violette, underscoring the tension between presence and absence, life and loss. O'Malley and Violette have developed a distinct language of sound, space, and sculpture over the past two decades, rev…

On Variation for Light Waves, Linnea Talp deepens her dialogue with the pipe organ, stretching it toward breathy extremes where foggy harmonies, brittle overtones and glints of electronics hover like weather systems suspended between memory and illumination.

Very rare and obscure 1982 privately-released album of experimental minimal synthesizer music by Swiss keyboard player and producer.

Very rare and obscure Astrian compilation produced and released in 1984 by the Hochschule Für Angewandte Kunst in Wien with diverse experimental/electronic/NDW/minimal/free "acoustic materializations of 15 imaginary films/videos in the form of an LP" by artists appearing only here and including Hans Weigand, Gudrun Bielz, Lisi + Rose Breuss, Karl Kowanz, Tommy Schneider, Rupert Putz, Inge Graf + Zyx, Ebba Sinzinger + Anna Petschinka, Christina Brandauer + Ralph Ralph, Helmut Rainer, Gary Texas, …

On Country / The Country, J.WLSN and Liam Keenan pare things back to the bone, using repetition, space and grain to sketch a faint, flickering idea of “country” where landscape, memory and rusted‑out song forms quietly bleed into one another.

On State Music, Laurent Güdel turns his fascination with classic electronic studios into a political instrument, folding EMS, KSYME, Radio Belgrade and Columbia CMC into a critical sound‑essay on funding, soft power and the uneasy bond between DIY dreams and state apparatus.

On Uchuu, Oowets drifts into their most abstract work yet, blending tapped cloth boxes, reed organ warmth and bedside field recordings into a gentle, cosmic meditation where minimal rhythms and environmental sounds merge science and nature into a single, weightless drift.

Great and beautifully packaged first uncompromising album of solo violin improvisation and electronically-processed violin tracks by Hideaki Shimada, self-released on Pico in a limited edition of 300 copies in 1986.