Ondanaconda
Ondanaconda does not compose with the jaw harp, but through it. For their self-titled debut album, the quartet turns this lamellophone, often perceived as archaic, into the record’s sole sound source. Found for centuries across continents, from Asia …
Early Music
Jon Collin announces the repress of his album, Early Music, a contemplative collection that reimagines the sounds of the past through a modern, intimate lens. Blending baroque textures, minimal instrumentation, and contemporary songwriting, Early Mus…
High Peak Selections
High Peak Selections, the evocative new album by Jon Collin, arrives as a luminous collection of instrumental and ambient compositions that map the emotional contours of mountainous landscapes and quiet introspection. Recorded with meticulous attenti…
Terrain Vague II
*300 copies limited edition* Arbitrary presents Terrain Vague II - the second album by Danish electro-acoustic trio Mesmer. With this work, the trio creates a sensuous and reflective space to inhabit in a time marked by speed, noise, and digital frag…
Trilogy Live
Tip! *80 copies limited edition* The journey together started 2017 with “SC00” the debut release of Scatterwound featuring two tracks recorded during their Microphonics + N Tour in 2010. Followed by their live debut as Scatterwound in 2017, when they…
Tela
*2026 stock. 60 copies limited edition* Tela is the full-length debut of Stockholm-based composer Simon Hansson and was recorded in April 2024. Across its four movements, waves of pulsating feedback are woven into a dense sonic fabric. The title 'Tel…
A Thought For Two
*2026 stock. 350 copies limited edition*
Keith Rowe - Guitar, Electronics, DrawingKjell Bjørgeengen - Video, Dave Jones Synthesizer
Recorded by Byron WestbrookExperimental IntermediaNew York City, NY, USA5 December 2010
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
D…
three melodicas
Sam Andreae, Li Song, and Rory Salter are UK based artists. All of them perform and present their works in a minimalist style, and they are all noteworthy figures among current artists who take an experimental approach. As the title suggests, this wo…
fold/interval
Tip! *300 copies limited edition* fold/interval is an audiovisual project and publishing and curatorial platform founded by Giuseppe Ielasi, Fabio Perletta and Giulia Bruno. This is their first release. Thirty minutes of guitar and electronics duos w…
Liskoaivo/Alkeis
In Finnish language Alkeis is not exactly a full word, but functions more like a prefix, meaning rudimentary or primitive. It communicates well the habitus of the crude oscillations that are inspected here: the smallest possible, single-cell organism…
Extended Topography
*2026 stock*
Anton Ponomarev - saxophones, bass clarinetLi Xing - guitar, effects, mixing
Liu Ying - masteringIvan Yakushev - design/art
Recorded in August 2021 Basel, Switzerland
01.03.25
*80 copies limited edition* Since 2013 on NTS, Time is Away (Jack Rollo and Elaine Tierney) has redefined the concept of radio storytelling. Theirs is a cultured and visceral assemblage that weaves ambient, sacred music, dub, and field recordings wit…
Alyssa
*300 copies limited edition. Black sleeves with paste-on artwork and a postcard* Debut LP from a new Gothenburg duo consisting of Irma Krook (Makthaverskan) and Dan Johansson (Sewer Election). Alyssa takes elements from Irmas Military Arms 12" rele…
Live Unison and Unison Continued
Live Unison and Unison Continued is the latest collaborative effort from American composer-performers Kieran Daly and Sam Weinberg. Unison marks the fourth album released by the duo since 2022 with this release documenting the second live recorded pe…
Rejoining
Before history will be made by machines, British musician Thomas Bush sends a new humane record. DIY chamber music, for the Kashual, no Plastik. Ten curious arrangements, looking for new horizons, those hiding behind the previous. They are short, the…
Light Sensitive Materials
Sapphire Goss is an artist based in the UK. She uses obsolete and expired materials to create an “analogue uncanny” where light, time and materials come together in unexpected ways.
Pakachume
Emerging from Studio HC Orchestra, Pakachume is a collaboration between producer Adrien de Maublanc and multi-instrumentalist Yonatan Levi. The album blends minimalism, jazz, chamber music, Afro-carribean sounds, and ambient electronica, recorded int…
Manifestations In The Shadow Of An Uncertain Land
Manifestations in the Shadow of an Uncertain Land unfolds through aleatoric composition and intuitive process, shaped by deeply entangled political and aesthetic lineages. Rooted in lived experiences of bodies and minds navigating the localized and g…
Vernacular
'Vernacular’ is the debut studio album by improvisation-based artist, and founder of life is beautiful, Aloisius. built entirely from layers of improvised instrumentation recorded via laptop microphone, using various instruments such as: guitar, pian…