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Tip! A dream within a dream - Innocent and whimsical song-craft from a vibrant pocket of the contemporary Italian underground via Naples-born Lucia Sole aka La Festa Delle Rane. New split release between ANF and Tokyo friends Conatala.
It’s impossible not to be totally captivated by this. Lucia’s explorative, imperfect song-writing leans into a sense of cranky, domesticated nostalgia and soft melancholy - songs (you can just about call them that) are just about held together by a loose thread …
Edition of 400. Belgian percussionist and composer Karen Willems presents her debut solo statement with A Fool's Guide to Reality, a work that transforms everyday objects and chance encounters into transcendent musical exploration. Released on Fanny Chiarello & Valentina Magaletti's Permanent Draft label, this album represents Willems' most personal artistic statement - a fearless dive into uncharted sonic territories where convention dissolves into pure experimentation. A serial collaborator wh…
Nurse With Wound presents 3 Lesbian Sardines, a live recording from their performance at the legendary Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo, 2019, as part of the "Great Monster Dada Show" - the largest exhibit of Dada art and artifacts this century. Available as a limited edition of 500 copies on neon green vinyl, the album captures the band's final appearance at this historic exhibition featuring over 250 artworks by 43 artists including Kurt Schwitters, Jean and Sophie Teuber Arp, Hannah Höch, Tri…
Super Limited edition. Housed in heavy gauge single sleeve with insert on transparent aqua marine vinyl. The legendary Nurse With Wound, helmed by the visionary Steven Stapleton, returns with Living Oysters, a mesmerizing collaboration with Irish experimental musician Diarmuid Mac Diarmada. This limited edition vinyl release presents a heady freerange mix of krautrock, experimental and toe tapping psychedelia, leaning towards a slightly more rock orientated sound that pushes the project into exc…
Deluxe edition, gatefold cover – The State51 Conspiracy is proud to announce the highly anticipated vinyl release of Nurse With Wound's extraordinary new album Healsgebedda Budgerigar (meaning "beloved budgie" in mangled old English). Originally released as an exclusive offering to subscribers of acclaimed music publication The Quietus, this mesmerizing sonic journey is now available as a limited edition 1LP pressing. Writing for The Quietus, critics John Doran and Russell Cuzner describe the al…
* Limited edition of 200 copies, comes with insert * La Festa delle Rane (literally the frog's party) are one of the most singular outputs from the vibrant Italian underground community of the last couple of years. Innocent, at times flawed, full of candour and tenderness and just enough spice to make things take a grandiose detour into the eerie and unsettling. Il lago è il cielo del bosco e tutte le rane cantano in coro originally released on tape for Ruego in 2022 and now remastered for viny…
300 copies in Dark Crystal vinyl. The enigmatic sound architects of Nurse With Wound return with Backside, a haunting new studio album that bridges four decades of underground sonic archaeology. Released through Rotorelief in an exquisite limited edition pressing, this latest opus represents Steven Stapleton and Andrew Liles at their most revelatory, breathing new life into fragments of the long-lost Bladder Flask sessions from circa 1980. The paths of Nurse With Wound and Richard Rupenus's Blad…
**180g vinyl, 12″ sleeve with capped obi, 12pp booklet, gold-foil letterpress, offset printed, full colour on premium matt paper** In the final month of 2024, Meitei arrived in Beppu, a city long steeped in vapor, myth, and mineral memory. Invited to create onsen (hot spring) ambient music commemorating Beppu’s 100th anniversary, he immersed himself in the city’s geothermal psychogeography, where sound rises from the ground and time clings to mist. Known for his Lost Japan (Shitsu-nihon) works, …
** Double Single-Sided Art LP. Edition of 100. ** My Cat Is An Alien releases The Secret of the Space Bubble / Eternal Beyond IV, a double album documenting two distinct collaborative approaches within the Italian duo's ongoing experimental practice. Brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio present new work with French musicians Talweg and Joëlle Vinciarelli, expanding their exploration of extended compositional techniques and spatial audio processing.
Issued on May 2, 2025 by Elliptical Noise Recor…
*60 copies limited edition* "Why do people experience grief and suffering?How do grief and pain manifest as physical ailments in the body?How does the body remember emotions?How is the body formed?I wondered.Listening to the body,in language, wind, soil, fields, water, rice, yeast, wine, electronic circuits.Shaping the form,grow forth hair, head, forehead, eyebrows, eyes, nose, ears, mouth, feet.Body, come alive.Soul, awaken." - Cia Himiân Lí
*350 copies limited edition* An’archives are proud to announce the release of the debut album by Tête de Chou, the trio of Mark Anderson, Kurumi Kido, and Arlo Wynks. Some may know Anderson for his membership of Greymouth, 番長Taste, Mysteries Of Love, and Suishou No Fune; Kido and Wynks have more personal, sporadic musical histories, which informs the intimacy and gently exploratory nature of the eight pieces contained here. The trio’s movements seem spontaneous and open-ended, which makes sense …
2025 repress. "Natural Information Society, like their partners in time Bitchin Bajas, live their days in flow motion. Rhythms come and go, instruments sound as a means to a greater end. Music is the way of their life. Their debut convergence, Automaginary, feels as natural as it does inevitable. Both groups were first heard in 2010, both emerging from solo endeavors that accessed a vastness, more room than a single player might ultimately fill -- a place then for fellow travelers! Joshua Abrams…
300 copies. Marie Guérin (aka Marie de la Nuit, meaning Marie of the Night) is a sound artist. Since 2001, she has been manipulating field recordings, radio archives, traces left on the airwaves by "hertzian ghosts". A mixture of voices, textures, grains, anecdotal sounds, her work questions the sound heritage, its supports and the traces left on these supports; her music passes from radiophonic grammar to music. --- "Transportées is an electroacoustic work. From archaic to electronic trance, a …
Holidays Records is on fire! Hot on the heels of their recent incredible vinyl releases of the Italian sound artist and musician Ezio Piermattei’s “Gran trotto” and the duo Acchiappashpirt’s “Ninulla”, they return with one of their most important and captivating releases to date: Hartmut Geerken’s “Requiem for the Snake of Maidan”, a mind-blowing body of archival recordings from the 1970s, made on a stony ridge in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan, encountering the artist locked in a sprawl…
*50 copies limited edition* 3-way collaboration featuring Mkl Anderson, Evan Hydzik and Mark Trecka. The two lengthy recordIngs that make up this release have a dreamlike looseness while also maintaining the psychic precision of practiced ritual. Recorded over 2 nights in May 2015, the first inside a concrete box and the second in front of an audience at the Hideout. No computers, no overdubs, no file trading. Liminal, textured, organic, folk industrial music.
Huge Tip! Limited Edition Green Petrol Grey Marble Color Vinyl LP. Full-color cover artwork printed on Italian fine art 250g linen textured paper; hand-pasted on pro-printed reverse cardboard jackets. Includes two inserts. Cover artwork by Roberto Opalio (35mm slide film, Indian ink drawing). This vinyl-only follow up to the eponymous 2018 CD-only album is in memory of Auko Dijkstra, one of My Cat Is An Alien's first fans, who founded Aukam Records in 2023 appositely to release this LP in collab…
* Limited edition of 100 copies, gold etched title on front cover. * Last year, Holidays delivered “Ad Invisibilia”, their first LP working with the composer Andrea Penso. It totally blew our minds, making his return to the label with “Oh! Uomo” that much more exciting. Penso has been active on the Italian experimental scene for the better part of two decades, working within collaborative projects like Surava and We Wait for the Snow, as well as issuing more than a dozen releases under the monik…
6-track EP from the German experimental dark folk duo Brannten Schnüre. A shimmering, pastoral collage of acoustic instrumentation, electronics, field recordings and haunting, austere vocals, the songs on ‘Ei, Wir Tun Dir Nicths Zuleide!’ comes together to something quite astonishing and otherwordly. Luboš Fišer’s soundtrack to Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders comes to mind, as does the essence of Astrid Lindgren’s summer scenes with fragments of the ambience of something akin to Nico’s Desertsho…
Tip! *25 copies special limited edition with handcrafted crochet case* Organica is the new album by the Florence based artist Pietro Michi, founder of Biodiversità Records and active under the monikers FossaDelRumore and P I T since 2016. His work including his own imprint is strongly influenced by themes of biology, ecology and relationship between nature and digitalization. Topics explored by means of drone, noise and soundscape at large. The album was composed with generative synth patterns m…
Irene Bianco is an Italian-born percussionist, free improviser and composer based in Copenhagen. Starting playing drum-kit at an early age and then trained as a classical percussionist, her music influences span from baroque and orchestral music to 90s rock and club music. Other than in solo, she is an active freelancer and a member of Damkapellet collective and Wolfskin Ensemble. Now Permanent Draft, London based all-female label run by Valentina Magaletti with Fanny Chiarello, is making this d…