Birds Measuring Space
During a 2016 trip to Colombia, I was very fortunate to be welcomed by the staff of the Rio Claro Natural Reserve, located in the central Cordillera. After several days of recording in the caves—the ones open to the public—inhabited by small colonies of cave-dwelling Guacharos (Steatornis caripensis), Juan Guillermo Garcés, director and founder of the Rio Claro sanctuary, allowed me to access a secret location outside of the reserve, home to what ornithologists reckon is one of the largest known…
Bright Lights, L'il City
Bright Lights, L'il City was recorded from November '22 until August '25 in Chicago, Kilkenny, Cork and Glasgow. Played, Recorded and Mixed by Sam Scranton and Neil Quigley
Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory Anthology Vol. 3 - The Stray Sod
The Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory (K.E.R.L.) announces the release of the third and final volume of its acclaimed anthology, a richly layered exploration of experimental sound, artistic collaboration, and the cultural phenomena orbiting the enigmatic Kiely cousins, Owen and Tom. Bringing the series to a compelling close, this volume bridges archival research, oral history, and critical reflection, tracing the roots and reverberations of a uniquely Irish avant-garde movement. The b…
Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory Anthology Vol. 1 (1965-89)
A curated collection of music and sound experiments from the archives of the now defunct Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory.
Corn Alone
This is my ode to corn in 3 parts, all featuring corn as corn himself. There are 6 pieces composed for 7 handmade instruments, made entirely out of different parts of corn, with some thread and wood glue as well. There is a cornfield recording, taken on a day they were harvesting just under a mile or so away. And there is a musique concrete type of piece featuring field recordings and the instruments.
This album was made during my residency at Art Farm in Marquette, Nebraska, surrounded by infin…
Lights shimmered like whispers in the depths of the trees
Textures of belonging, relentlessly woven into the epigenetics, layer upon layer, building palimpsests of human existence that are both fragile and resilient, with nothing but a wobbly strand of DNA. The way our grandparents' experiences spill across our systems, the way their grandparents’ experiences formed them in the first place, like a busy cityscape humming in the background, keeping the flow, making things operate, and despite their physical peril, hearts still flicker and divulge poetry …
Live at Somewhere
"I call it ‘the Shadow Pattern Vignette’. A fragmentary and pleasingly non-discriminatory exercise in audio capture which, when sequenced, compiled or arranged alongside other such vignettes, leads to the finished work of Nate Ivanco’s Shadow Pattern. You can reach into the hermetic depths of his Hamilton Tapes micro label, recent transatlantic appearances via Infant Tree, Chocolate Monk or adhuman, or indeed, this new LP ‘Live at Somewhere’ and find the Shadow Pattern Vignette. Forever in evide…
The Dream Island of Birds
Mike Cooper returns to Discrepant with »The Dream Island of Birds«. Neither documentary nor abstraction, »The Dream Island of Birds« sits between field recording, memory, and invention — an island heard through time and circuitry.
In the early 1990s, Cooper met illustrator and writer Charles van Sandwyk while walking on a small island in Fiji. Van Sandwyk was living there quietly, working from a modest bamboo house near the beach. Years later, Cooper learned that following a serious car accident…
Fragments of Soaring Vessels
The tracks that make up Fragments of Soaring Vessels are conceived as “sensitive vehicles.” Although they seem quite different at first listen, closer listening reveals multiple points of intersection—often overlapping, sometimes paradoxical. The Inexpressible Feeling of Dereliction approaches an attempt at a sonic transposition of a feeling of emptiness and rupture that may arise in an extreme situation, in which a pious person is confronted with a moment of absolute disillusionment regarding t…
Uneven Geometry
*27 copies limited edition* A limited edition of 27 reel-to-reel tapes, assembled by hand. Housed in a rigid black 'pizza' box and sealed with a pink sticker, each copy carries traces of manual handling and slight variation. The reel sits exposed within the case, held in place by a minimal support, while the inner inlay carries tracklist and credits on one side, and a photograph by Francisco Meirino on the other, echoed in the digital artwork.
ИМА (イマ)
Tip! ИМА (Ima) is a work by KiMiMi, the solo project of musician Shin-ya Ohno, which captures the layers of time and the presence of people inhabiting ‘Arimasuton Building’—a self-built structure created over 20 years by architect Keisuke Oka, located in Mita, Tokyo, and reconstructs them into music. A multi-instrumentalist who masterfully handles a diverse range of instruments, with the gaida (an ancestor of the bagpipes) – which he studied in Bulgaria – at the core of his sound, KiMiMi has pre…
Tired
*80 copies limited edition* Tired is Thomas DeAngelo's first full length solo effort since the 2023 Voiceprints & Aircuts CD on adhuman, and his second for More Mars following Standing Water released in 2021. Much has changed, both domestically (DeAngelo resides in Philadelphia, USA) and geopolitically in the interim, but, as the title suggests, maybe not really. Employing a sort of seasick, off kilter symmetry and befouled mirror logic, Tired accentuates the form/content dialectic, with motifs …
Guilty Paradise
*80 copies limited edition* Guilty Paradise is an almost 30-minute, fascinating glimpse into Michał Fundowicz’s journey to Japan. There, in the city of Kobe, he met Tim Olive, and over the course of three days they recorded the material that eventually took shape as Guilty Paradise. Both artists engage in improvisation: Tim Olive works with magnetic pickups, oscillator and tuning forks, while Michał Fundowicz manipulates cassette tapes.
What can one expect from this collaboration? The two exte…
Entrega / Batelages
Two cassette releases by Mexico City experimentalist Rolando Chia, heard by almost no one on their original release, now appear on vinyl for the first time. Batelages and Entrega - sound collage, concrete texture, avant-garde guitar - two lost chapters of the Latin American underground,
The Book Of Dingenskirchen (LP)
Ultra rare re-press in a handful of copies on clear vinyl with paste-on cover of the already ultra limited (20 copies) 1987 LP by the Aachen band wonderfully fusing noise with German psychedelia.
Interstellar Static (LP)
Very rare second album of mysterious psychedelic electroacoustic/noise music by the wonderful Kangaroo Kourt (later Mauve Sideshow and several different names), self-released on Castle Records in 1987 with hand-painted title on back sleeve. Fantastic.
Messages In Ether (LP)
Very rare third album of mysterious psychedelic electroacoustic/noise music by the wonderful Kangaroo Kourt (later Mauve Sideshow and several different names), self-released on Castle Records in 1990. Fantastic.
Paradoxal Innovations
Philatélie proudly unveils Paradoxal Innovations, the groundbreaking new double cassette release by visionary artist Uton, the enigmatic Finnish producer known for his immersive sonic exploration.
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 devoid of thought, driven by instinct.
Liskoaivo is a finnish word for "lizard brain", the region of the brain that regulates our primitive reactions.As sophisticated as oscillators and modular synthesis might be, at the core lies an unexplainable u…
Maja
Philatélie is thrilled to announce the release of Maja, the latest album from the experimental noise project Circle of Shit.