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Psychic Geography
DOVS are the duo of Vienna’s Johannes Auvinen, aka Tin Man, and Mexico City’s Gabo Barranco, aka AAAA. Psychic Geography is their second album together, but it differs considerably from both their respective solo work and their 2019 debut LP together, Silent Cities: Where that album’s hardware-based acid kept its gaze focused squarely on the dancefloor, Psychic Geography is a strictly ambient affair. The album has its roots in a trio of beatless tracks that peppered Silent Cities; this time, the…
1979
"Two years after he first appeared on Balmat with 1977, Mike Paradinas returns with 1979. The sense of continuity between the two records is clear, and not just from their titles. Both capture the Planet Mu head venturing into the wilderness, seeking something—half-formed memories, thoughts caught in midair—in some of the most abstract, searching music he has released. Just like 1977, 1979 surveys a synth-heavy array of ethereal soundscapes, ominous crevasses, and strange, psychedelic fugues. Li…
Second
When you’re running a label, a demo occasionally comes across your desk that makes you reconsider everything you thought your label was all about. For Balmat, such was the case with this stunning album from Stephen Vitiello, Brendan Canty, and Hahn Rowe. It sounds like nothing we’ve released so far—and that very otherness opened up a whole new world of possibilities for us. Fans of ambient, experimental electronic music, and sound art will be familiar with Vitiello, a New York native, long based…
Dew Point Harmonics
Balmat began our journey in 2021 with the release of Luke Sanger’s Languid Gongue. Now, three years later, we turn an important corner as the Norfolk musician rejoins us with Dew Point Harmonics, the first repeat appearance on the label. Sanger’s new album feels like a natural extension of his inaugural record for Balmat: It’s a bewitching collection of esoteric synth sketches that slips unpredictably between consonant repetition, poignant melodies, and gnarled bursts of noise that catch in the …
Duvet
In the winter of 2023, Ingri Høyland and Ida Urd retreated to a Danish sommerhus, or summer house—the tiny, tidy shacks that are a central feature of the national culture, where for generations, Danes have whiled away the warm months with their families. Picture the scene: an abiding quiet all around. Gardens carpeted by snow; beach grass silvery against the silvery sky; a tendril of smoke rising from the chimney. Not another soul in earshot. This sanctuary was the origin for Høyland and Urd’s D…
Projections Of A Coral City
Coral Morphologic and Nick León’s Projections of a Coral City marks a series of collisions between distant worlds: the organic and the artificial, the Eocene and the Anthropocene, sea and cement—and even, perhaps, ambient music and activism. Coral Morphologic are the Miami duo of marine biologist Colin Foord and musician J.D. McKay; since 2007, they have used a variety of multimedia projects to generate environmental awareness of marine biodiversity—most notably Coral City Camera, an underwater …
Reel 19 36
Reel 19 36 by Verto splices tape‑saturated psych, loose‑limbed prog and a faint industrial undertow into extended pieces that feel like fragments of some lost rehearsal reel, restless ideas bleeding into one another in real time.
8 Petites Pièces De Variété
On 8 Petites Pièces De Variété, Urbi-Flat compress a playful, genre‑hopping imagination into miniature form: eight short pieces that treat “variety” as licence to slide between jazz, musette, pop and cartoon‑score pastiche with light‑footed charm.
Subversion
Subversion’s lone self‑titled effort is a jagged artefact of post‑punk dissent: sharp‑edged guitars, brittle rhythms and urgent, slogan‑skewering vocals carving out songs that feel like manifestos scribbled in the margins of a collapsing system.
La Vieille Que L'On Brûla
La Vieille Que L'On Brûla by Ripaille is a baroque‑tinged prog fable: harpsichord‑like keys, acoustic guitars and theatrical vocals recounting witch‑trial tales with a mix of pastoral charm, satirical bite and intricate arrangement.
Quad Sax
Quad Sax’s self‑titled release revels in the possibilities of four saxophones and nothing else: tightly voiced chorales, pointillist counterpoint and raw honks spinning from cool modernism to playful chaos without ever touching a rhythm section.
La Clef Des Songes
Pentacle’s La Clef Des Songes unlocks a distinctly French prog dreamscape: lyrical vocals, flowing guitar work and subtle symphonic touches combining into songs that feel like folktales told in shifting, mist‑lit harmonies.
The World Of Genius Hans
The World Of Genius Hans finds Moving Gelatine Plates stretching out into longer, more intricate forms: extended suites, rich horn voicings and mercurial grooves building a strange, storybook universe where virtuosity and eccentricity walk hand in hand.
Moving Gelatine Plates
On their self‑titled debut, Moving Gelatine Plates fuse Canterbury whimsy with French jazz‑rock bite: knotty horn lines, fuzz bass and nimble drumming tumbling through tunes that are as playful as they are technically fearless.
L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo
* Black vinyl edition. Gatefold cover * Dario Argento’s opera prima ‘L’uccello dalle piume di cristallo’ was premiered in 1970 and marked an historical and revolutionary debut, being a truly original and innovative thriller. The stylistic choices of Argento mark a clear step forward from the thrillers of that era and even the soundtrack was something utterly special.Argento assigned the score to Ennio Morricone, composer of the soundtracks for ‘Comandamenti per un gangster’, ‘C’era una volta il …
Il gatto a nove code
2025 much-needed repress. Black Vinyl. "Il Gatto a Nove Code" (The cat o 'nine tails), filmed in 1971, is the second film by Dario Argento, a horror thriller still distant from his horror works for which he will later become famous on an international level. The collaboration with the composer and conductor Ennio Morricone, already known for his work on Sergio Leone’s western movies, is here renewed after the success of "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage", and will continue with the third insta…
Et après...
Mémoriance’s Et après... is a cinematic slice of French symphonic prog: narrative suites, mellotron swells and dramatic vocals unfolding like a dystopian concept film scored for rock band and orchestra in miniature.
Racines Synthetiques
On Racines Synthétiques, Joël Fajerman and Jan Yrssen plant electronic seeds in pastoral soil: vintage synths, sequencers and string machines tracing lyrical miniatures that imagine nature re‑composed through early‑digital circuitry.