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Haarlemmerhout
Polack returns to the park in south Haarlem made famous by Nicolaas Beets's Romantic 1839 novel Camera Obscura, and uses it as the field for an exercise in urban escapism. Local recordings (pigs from the petting zoo, birds migrating north from Africa) are torn apart and rebuilt with layers of synthesis and electronics, blurring the line between unprocessed source and synthetic counterpart. Field-recording ambient in the lineage of Chris Watson, but tilted toward romantic synthesis.
Paintings
Final work in a trilogy (Sketches, Drawings, Paintings) marking Philipp Bückle's return to music after closing his Teamforest project. Recorded in 2014 across Copenhagen and Dortmund, the album combines a visually organic sensibility with experimental composition, the titles functioning as discrete sound paintings spanning warm September evenings, rainy days, a seascape, a wedding. Mastered for vinyl by Stephan Mathieu. Ambient drone abstraction grounded in figurative diaristic detail.
Worn Tape
Imanishi's first album for the label, presenting eleven miniatures built from small sounds drawn from his immediate environment: paper, objects, radio, field recording, microphone. The work is abstract in vocabulary but warm and slow in effect, a deliberate counter-position to bombast. Its strength lies in the precision with which discrete, unspectacular materials are placed within reduced frames, locating the music in the lineage of Japanese onkyō and post-Schaefferian micro-concrete.
It Deel I
First album in IT DEEL, a multi-year project by the Kleefstra Bros (Jan Kleefstra on poetry, Romke Kleefstra on guitar) with Popfabryk, addressing the ecological degradation of Frisian nature. Each volume is composed in residency at the Thomaskerk in Katlijk and presented live before pressing. Volume I is built with Polish composer Michał Jacaszek, whose electro-acoustic vocabulary surrounds Jan Kleefstra's Frisian-language spoken word with ambient and drone landscapes.
It Deel II
Second volume in the IT DEEL project. The Kleefstra Bros invited Norwegian duo Streifenjunko (Eivind Lønning on trumpet/electronics, Espen Reinertsen on sax/electronics) into the Thomaskerk in Katlijk, composing between improv, jazz and sound art. Streifenjunko brought field recordings from the forests around Oslo, brought into dialogue with the Frisian forests around the church and Jan Kleefstra's Frisian-language spoken word. A meditation on how we treat our local forests.
Smolders / Delaere / Nijs
Composition trio between Jos Smolders (electronics), Guido Nijs (saxophone) and painter Koen Delaere, whose abstract pigment surfaces serve as compositional model. Five tracks named after pigments (Aureolin, Barium, Diarylide, Bianco di Titanio, Indigofera Suffruticosa) translate Delaere's clashing, superimposed colour material into sonic canvases. The work grew out of two years of free improvisation; on Diarylide, the duo is extended with Eric Van Der Westen on bass and Aron Raams on guitar.
Caveman
Caveman is a document of Stamou's live practice: two complete extracts of solo improvised performances using his 'portable electroacoustic studio'. The setup combines acoustic instruments (prepared zither, reeds, recorders, objects) with handmade electronics, modular synthesis and live-processed feedback loops, producing long continuous pieces built on sustained tonal textures and free improvised solos. What the artist calls ritual noise: a slow-burning, immersive electroacoustic atmosphere.
Equal Weights
Companion to Various Weights, pursued through an inverted method. De Waard prepares two empty acoustic containers of predefined length with his own sonic brushstrokes, then sends them to Comes, who completes the 'paintings' by filling in the blanks - the two artists collaborate without ever directly responding. The electroacoustic timbres triggered a sentimental mood in Comes, and the two long-form tracks develop themes of memory, grief and longing. CD with an A5 eco-printed book.
A Concrete Pasture
Follow-up to Haarlemmerhout, pushing Polack's hyper-local Haarlem practice out into the wider world. Four long pieces are built from material gathered across continents - the temple of the reclining Buddha (Wat Pho, Bangkok), Schiermonnikoog in the Dutch Wadden, Hong Kong traffic lights, Gamelan percussion - then routed through electronic processing, nostalgic power chords, electroacoustic crescendo writing, and a final tenor saxophone gesture reminiscent of Albert Ayler's raw expressivity.
Inheritance
First collaboration between the brothers Sietse and Tjeerd van Erve - Orphax (drone and electroacoustic) and PONI, Person Of No Importance (dark lo-fi guitar songs). Inheritance is a near-translation of the family name van Erve, and the album returns to shared early influences from their father's record collection, late-night Dutch radio and the Belgian Studio Brussels station. Opener As Received builds slow drone into post-rock intensity; later tracks reach toward late-period Swans territory.
En De Stilstaande Tijd
Continuation of the same piano source material used on the Piano Music 7-inch, here developed into a long-form work. Orphax takes a postcard he bought in a Spanish village in 2001, while studying geology, as imaginative axis: the tranquillity of small houses, church and sand road as a place where time appears to stand still. The album builds organ-like, slightly dissonant tonal fields whose slow evolution renders that frozen-time atmosphere as patient, quiet, nostalgia-saturated ambient drone.
Crystalline Tragedies / The Procession - Distant Motionless Shore
An unusual collective release: Comes and Aldinucci composed their two pieces in complete isolation, exchanging neither studio time nor materials, but both worked from the same Nietzschean opposition - the moral codex of the Christian church against the radical surrender to emotion. Aldinucci builds his side from a single field recording of a procession in rural Tuscany; Comes's Crystalline Tragedies traces three distinct sections through the affective dimension of major life passages.
Keiji Haino + Musqis
'This is a powerful live recording without any arrangement by Japanese independent music icon Keiji Haino, who has been active in avant-garde activities straddling rock and free music in the underground realm since the 1970s, and Musqis, a performance group with an indefinite number of members led by multi-instrumentalist Hidenori Noguchi. Keiji Haino has been active since the 1970s, playing voice, guitar, hurdy-gurdy, polygonora, and various other instruments in solo performances and in bands su…
Akashic Records
*2022 stock* Japanoise queen and one of the noise innovators, Mayuko Hino (original member of the legendary C.C.C.C.) releases her first solo album! Akashic Records is blockbuster work of beautiful noise about the concept of a record of the activities of the soul of mankind. The world's only 6-strand theremin oscillator (coloured pink!), originally ordered by Ryo Araishi (ichion (Shrine.jp)) and harsh noise with brass plates etc. as the main sound sources. Recorded live with an emphasis on thril…
Phillo Jazz
Phillo Jazz winks at improvisational traditions Akita has always both honored and subverted. Jazz's spontaneity finds its noise equivalent - though the relationship is more conceptual than sonic. Where jazz improvisation operates within harmonic frameworks, Merzbow improvisation occurs in texture and density, shape and duration.
The "Phillo" prefix remains mysterious - perhaps referencing philosophy, philology, or simply playing with sounds. These recordings demonstrate fluidity at its best: not…
Of Ghosts And Buildings
Long-running Scottish act Cindytalk have transformed numerous times throughout their existence, going from industrial post-punk to electronic noise with an ever-shifting lineup. Now, the group will be compiling their recent recordings in Of Ghosts And Buildings on Japanese label Remodel.
Foliage
Foliage is a long-form graphic music score by Elliott Sharp, consisting of eighty risograph prints offered as abstract instructions open to any number of realisations by any instrumentalist or ensemble. Sharp works in the lineage of post-1945 graphic notation but with a contemporary twist: the score was produced by routing his own conventionally written music through graphics editing software, distorting, layering, inverting and blurring it until notation explodes into retinal artwork.
Salon De Sachiko
2007 release ** "Since the late '90s Sachiko M has been stirring up the improvised music scenes in Japan and the west--and gaining an enthusiastic following--with her unique sound, consisting entirely of sine waves. This is Sachiko M's first solo album since "Bar Sachiko" (Improvised Music from Japan, IMJ-517), released three and a half years ago. "Bar Sachiko" was a work made up exclusively of sustained sine wave tones. In contrast, "Salon de Sachiko" is comprised throughout of short, very thin…
Music For Two Exits
*200 copies limited edition* Jun-Y Ciao (born in 1978 in Shanghai) is a musician whose main instruments are sax and clarinet. Having studied in Dusseldorf and Mainz, Germany, in the second half of the 2000s, he is currently based in Shanghai and Dusseldorf. He has numerous releases on Zhu Wenbo's cassette label Zoomin' Night. Beijing-based Zhu Wenbo is known both for his own performance activities and for running Zoomin' Night, which plans events and releases cassettes. A musician with many conn…
Cabbage Field: time passing, things changing
*200 copies limited edition* Born in Tokyo in 1959, shibatetsu has been active as a piano and melodica player since the 1980s. In recent years he has also been engaged in performances using electronics. Masamichi Kinoshita, born in Ono, Fukui Prefecture in 1969, is a Tokyo-based composer of contemporary classical music who also regularly performs high-volume electronic noise improvisation.
Over the past few years, shibatetsu has presented a concert series featuring electronics, titled "shibatets…