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Elliott Sharp writing for strings: Orchestra Carbon's violins, viola, cellos and double bass with electronic percussion, recorded in New York in 1992. Dense, restless pieces between contemporary chamber music and noise.

Anthony Braxton's 12+1tet live at Victoriaville on 20 May 2007: Composition No. 361, seventy minutes of layered Ghost Trance writing with Taylor Ho Bynum, Mary Halvorson, Steve Lehman, Nicole Mitchell and others.

Evan Parker's ElectroAcoustic Ensemble with Sainkho Namtchylak, recorded at Victoriaville on 19 May 1996 and released in 2021: saxophones, bass, violin and percussion processed live by Walter Prati and Marco Vecchi.

Fred Frith and René Lussier's duo, recorded at the 1986 Victoriaville festival and finished at Studio Victor: guitars, bass, violin, voices and tape in short, playful pieces. The CD adds four tracks recorded in New York in 1992.

Evan Parker's soprano and tenor saxophones with the voice of Sainkho Namtchylak, live at the Music Gallery in Toronto on 15 May 1996. Circular-breathed lines against throat singing, overtones and wordless cries.

Eugene Chadbourne and Paul Lovens on tour in May 1996, recorded in New York, in Michigan and in an Italian restaurant in Traverse City: guitar and banjo against drums, cymbals and saw, a suite for the waiters of the world.

Lindsay Cooper's song cycle on texts by Sally Potter, about the divided Europe of the Cold War, live at Victoriaville in October 1989 with Phil Minton, Hugh Hopper, Marilyn Mazur, Alfred Harth and Elvira Plenar.

André Duchesne's large ensemble live at the 1989 Victoriaville festival: three electric guitars, saxophones, cello, piano and drums, with Yannick Rieu and Claude Lamothe, in composed Montreal musique actuelle.

Pierre-Luc Senécal's Growlers Choir, fourteen metal vocalists, live at FIMAV in May 2021 with poet Fortner Anderson: growls and throat-singing-like improvisation over electric guitar tapes, between metal, noise and drone.

Keiji Haino and Masami Akita as Kikuri, live at Victoriaville on 21 May 2007: guitar, voice, strings and drums against electronics and computer, in their first concert together outside Japan.

Jean Derome's written music for a Montreal ensemble of flutes, clarinets and saxophones with bass, drums and percussion, recorded at Studio Victor in 1988. Composed jazz with a nod, in the title, to Japanese court music.

Rova Saxophone Quartet's studio album of compositions from 2013 to 2017, recorded in Oakland: Bruce Ackley, Steve Adams, Larry Ochs and Jon Raskin moving between written structures and group improvisation.

Montreal turntablists Martin Tétreault and Kid Koala, live at Victoriaville on 21 May 2005, vinyl only: old self-help and demonstration records, scratches and loops, from the noise side and the hip-hop side of the instrument.

Satoko Fujii's Min-Yoh Ensemble with Natsuki Tamura, Curtis Hasselbring and Andrea Parkins: trumpet, trombone, accordion and piano on Japanese folk songs and new pieces in the same spirit, recorded in New York in 2006.

Evan Parker's trio with Alexander von Schlippenbach and Paul Lytton meets Peter Brötzmann's trio with William Parker and Hamid Drake, live at Victoriaville on 19 May 2003: two tenor saxophone giants face to face.

Thurston Moore on guitar with drummers Tom Surgal and William Winant, live at Victoriaville on 17 May 1996: a single album-length improvisation of feedback and percussion, named after a Tibetan Buddhist deity.

Satoko Fujii on piano and Tatsuya Yoshida of Ruins on drums, live at Victoriaville on 18 May 2002: a fast, loud and funny duo with voices, jumping from free improvisation to metal, boogie-woogie and tango.

René Lussier conducts Vancouver's NOW Orchestra, recorded in February 1995: guitar and daxophone with Paul Plimley, Peggy Lee, Dylan van der Schyff and a full reed and brass section, in a suite of quick-changing vignettes.

Dr. John Chowning (b. 1934) is a pioneering computer musician, composer and professor who, in 1967, discovered the FM synthesis algorithm. This breakthrough in electronic music allowed for  simple, yet rich timbres described as sounding "real." With this discovery, Chowning composed singular, dramatic electronic music and changed the timbre of music forever. Chowning utilized the potential of computers to synthesize sounds according to programmed instructions. The composer's use of his own FM al…

*2023 repress* Born Again In The Voltage is an astonishing collection of electro-acoustic pieces for Buchla 200 system, cello, and voice composed and produced by Caterina Barbieri at Elektronmusikstudion (SE) between 2014 and 2015. Cello by Antonello Manzo. Images by Giovanni Brunetto; Photography by Angelo Jaroszuk Bogasz; Layout by Important Records. Mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi. Edition of 500. . "One of electronic music's most interesting new voices." FactMagazine

With Nothing in this room is new except the dust, Ivan The Tolerable returns not to a room but to a weather-beaten tract of being — a north-facing interior where wind has a voice and the light is a thin animal nosing the corners. The trio who forged Black Water, Brown Earth and An Orphan Form — Oli Heffernan, Mees Siderius, and Elsa Van Der Linden — move here with the patience of creatures that have learned the seasons of each other’s blood. If the earlier records surveyed land, this one digs in…

*200 copies limited edition* "This record is the crystallization of a friendship and musical partnership that started when Sonelius and I first met in 2012, when I was making my documentary on Rahsaan Roland Kirk – The Case of the Three Sided Dream. Sonelius appears only briefly in the film, and that’s mainly because of his ethereal approach to conversation, answering questions, and life, really. He doesn’t so much answer a question, rather, his responses usually generate more questions and are …

Debut by My Face Is Dancing, the family collective led by drummer and producer Federico Ughi with his young sons: avant-soul and abstract hip hop built from recordings made across the children's early years. Black vinyl, 100 copies.

Joe Colley as Crawl Unit: sound events composed and constructed in Sacramento between January and July 1997, with one track recorded live at Sound Culture 96 in San Francisco. Original Povertech Industries CD in digipak.

One of the most singular and quietly devastating works in The Caretaker's long catalogue. Out of print for over a decade, Patience (After Sebald) returns in a 2026 pressing on History Always Favours The Winners, limited to 500 copies. Conceived by James Leyland Kirby as the score to Grant Gee's feature-length documentary of the same name, originally released in 2012, the album traces a path through the work and shadow of the German writer W.G. Sebald (1944-2001), following the long coastal walk …

*2026 repress* 'Persistent Repetition Of Phrases' success comes from the attention it pays to the function of 'the loop', not only as a narrative ordering system in modern music, but as a means by which the brain itself recalls and interprets information; it's as old as recorded sound itself, but in this context the repetition of small shards of auditory information becomes an elegy to fading memory and the worn-out synapses of old age. The track titles offer signposts through Kirby's labyrinth …

"Recorded at the same time as I and Then C93 were channelling Swastikas For Noddy, Imperium was the BackSide GrimStory to the Bright 'n' Breezy (Locust) SummerTime Whistkes of Swastikas For Noddy. I was very ill whilst making both records, and my main memories (along with Speed And Vodka, ThankYou, ThankYou) were lying sick on a grimy couch at the long-gone IPS Studios in Shepherd's Bush. There was a heavy leak in the kitchen and the water was running over the studio floor and up my distressed, …

A cornerstone of the acousmatic tradition, finally on vinyl. François Bayle's Jeîta ou Murmure des Eaux arrives as a limited LP via Recollection GRM and Shelter Press - one of the composer's most singular and spatially ambitious works, composed in the wake of a concert given at the Jeita Grotto in Lebanon in 1969, where Bayle had traveled to mark the opening of the cave's newly discovered upper gallery. Bayle joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in 1960, studying under Pierre Schaeffer and …

Brazilian guitar music has a way of folding the whole century into a single instrument, and few players carried more of it in their hands than Luiz Bonfá. Most listeners know him through the songs he wrote for Orfeu Negro, the ones that helped carry bossa nova out of Rio and across the world. Introspection, cut for RCA in 1972, is the quieter counterweight to that fame: eight original pieces for solo guitar, recorded at a moment when Bonfá had stopped chasing the hit and turned inward.

Anichy & Lyemn reduce electronic sound to patient, glowing essentials: slow harmonic rhythm, canons, repetitive phrases and gently shifting layers, across two unreleased remix pieces that treat minimalism less as a genre tag than a way of feeling time stretch and fold.

In September 1968, Amon Düül played the "International Essener Songtage", Germany's first rock festival of five days duration, which was initiated by the later Ohr label boss Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser. The Berlin hit producer Peter Meisel heard and saw the band there and spontaneously signed them, along with Tangerine Dream and Birth Control. Amon Düül was close to the Berlin "Kommune 1" and came together at a time when everyone was an artist who wanted to be one. Anyone who wanted to could also be a m…

The first record on Moving Shadow, cut in 1991 by Neil Sanford and Simon Carter: three tracks of British rave psychedelia, with 'No Idea' still the perfect way into that catalogue. Reissued and remastered by Blank Mind.

Silence Records announces highly anticipated reissue of Träd, Gräs Och Stenar's Legendary Self-Titled debut album - Swedish Psychedelic Pioneers' Groundbreaking 1970 Masterpiece Returns with Exclusive Poster

William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops, the old tape loops that crumbled as he transferred them in 2001, complete across eight LPs in a new remaster by Josh Bonati, with a foreword by Laurie Anderson.

Tip! ** Edition of 150 White Vinyl ** Xing presents the new LP Cosmic Silence 5, fluorescence 4 by Margherita Morgantin with Ilaria Lemmo and Beatrice Goldoni, sixth release of XONG collection – artist’s records The release is on clear/white marble vinyl, in a limited and numbered edition of 150 copies. The collector's edition consists of 15 copies, each accompanied by a limited edition artwork by Margherita Morgantin: an eV (electronvolt) steel scalimeter with an intervention by the artist. Cos…

Big Tip! Known for her contributions to the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s, Sarah Webster Fabio published a plethora of poetry collections and works of cultural criticism. Together to the Tune of John Coltrane’s “Equinox” is her fourth and final record for Folkways, and sees her vivid language and distinctive voice becoming enmeshed with a dynamic backdrop of exploratory jazz. Fabio pays homage to Black jazz and blues musicians Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and John Coltrane. F…

The first recording by these pioneers of electro-acoustic improvisation, AMMMusic stands the test of time both as a remarkably prescient session and as an utterly powerful and deep piece of 20th century music

The new issue of Electronic Sound dives into the world of tape music – from Pierre Schaeffer and Delia Derbyshire to today's sharpest loopers – and comes bundled with an exclusive Steve Reich CD, Tape Pieces, pairing his mid-'60s phasing landmarks Come Out and It's Gonna Rain across some 30 minutes.

On In Filth Your Mystery Is Kingdom / Far Smile Peasant in Yellow Music, Dagmar Zuniga threads five years of Tascam‑4‑track recordings into a porous, tape‑hazed songbook: fragile transmissions where harmony, hiss and fingertip detail make lo‑fi feel widescreen.

Hardcover Edition, large format. A treasure trove of rare information and imagery, Pressing News is the latest book by Richard Morton Jack, author of Nick Drake: The Life, Labyrinth, Psychedelia, Galactic Ramble and Endless Trip. A huge number of new records came out in the UK every week in the 1960s and 70s, many of them accompanied by press releases. These offered important and fascinating information but were almost all discarded, meaning that very few have survived. The product of decades of…