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This 2013 meeting of baritone saxophonist Daunik Lazro, bassist Joëlle Léandre, and drummer Paul Lovens is a deep dive into spontaneous creation at the highest level of free improvisation, uniting three of Europe’s most adventurous and seasoned impro…

The Hotel is honoured to present Passage Through: A Ritual, Philip Corner’s soundtrack to Stan Brakhage’s 1990 film of the same name.

Tip! New collaborative work by two veterans of the European experimental scene, Dirk Serries + Asmus Tietchens. Dirk Serries and I have long been colleagues and friends. Since the 1990ies we have exchanged sound materials to be reworked and published…

*300 copies limited edition* The musical material on „Lichthöfe“ is based on modular recordings by Thorsten Soltau. Conceptually these recordings deal with the spaciality of sound and the stereo field, while still maintaining an improvisational chara…

300 copies, deluxe box set. Australian experimental industrial and ambient music band from the early 1980s Laughing Hands complete discography with several bonus.  Laughing Hands worked in the experimental music scene in Melbourne in the very early 1…

**Released in a limited edition of 500 numbered copies** A compilation of live recordings specially released for a Die Stadt label night feat. Released in conjunction with a live performance on the 29. April 2012 on the MS Stubnitz in Bremen. Initial…

First archival volume of the Swiss pianist and composer Lotti Tauber: minimalist, intuitive piano music from her privately pressed albums of 1981-1986, restored and mastered by Stephan Mathieu.

Anushka Chkheidze + Robert Lippok continue their collaboration with »The Sky Was Out of Tune«. Its eight movements form a long-form ambient piece in constant flux: soundscapes emerge from electronic synthesis and layered textures, while small melodie…

Casebound 3CD with 28 page booklet, gathering the whole of Jon Hassell's final chapter: Listening To Pictures (2018), Seeing Through Sound (2020) and Music Is Invisible, a recording of his last ever concert, played in London in 2015 and unheard until…

Electric guitarist and composer David Torn announces "now i imagine a place not the same," an expansive new double LP out May 29 via Kou Records. Produced by Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Thurston Moore), the album revisits the raw electricity of Torn’s e…

** First ever standalone vinyl reissue. Carefully remastered. 4 page booklet with rare and unpublished photos. Heavyweight 180 gr. LP ** While he was working on the repertoire for the new version of his group Malagasy, with young Malagasy musicians h…

Ennio Morricone's score for Bernardo Bertolucci's 1976 epic, from the piano theme Tema di Ada to the opening Romanzo. Quartet's 50th anniversary CD, restored and remastered by Chris Malone, with a 20-page booklet.

Sixth annual volume of Graphème, the publication of experimental and graphic scores edited in Berlin by smallest functional unit, with works by twelve composers.

Saxophone, double bass and drums trio of Michael Foster, John Moran and Joey Sullivan, in two long parts recorded in Philadelphia on May 8th 2025.

Dani Gal fed recordings of his own brain waves during sleep into the EMS Synthi 100 at Radio Belgrade, under voices reading the dreams of people living under political oppression. Record #08 of Ediciones Inauditas with n.b.k.

A single 51-minute piece for four Wuhan cymbals played with bows, without electronics or amplification, timed on a recording of the composer's breathing while asleep. Recorded in Bristol in 2026.

Seven pieces by Morgan Evans-Weiler (violin, electronics) and Carlo Costa (vibraphone, percussion), composed and recorded by Evans-Weiler in September 2025.

Regrouping for a third album under their 'On' moniker, Steven Hess and Sylvain Chaveau have created another body of chilling improvised recordings at their Chicago studio. As with previous records the results were passed to a guest musician for re…

Necessary reissue of a truly seminal, minimalist totem and founding document of the avant-garde underground!

2024 Repress. Truly essential double LP set by Finnish legend, Mika Vaino

Flocks is a new duo, formed by drone specialist Werner Durand and Uli Hohmann.

Live performance of The Pyramid Trio, Roy Campbell on trumpet and flute, William Parker on bass and Zen Matsuura on drums. Recorded 21 February 1985 at The Joint, Usdan Student Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Special thanks to Roy’s sister …

Minutiae is the first full-length release form Stockholm’s Ināra Quartet, made up of brothers Kasper (guitar, banjo, mandolin) and Mauritz Agnas (bass, cello), Johan Graden (piano, harmonium, synths) and Mischa Grind (percussion). Drawing on wide per…

Bureau B present a reissue of Heldon's fourth album Agneta Nilsson, originally released on Urus Records in 1976. Agneta Nilsson opens with a mind-paralyzing track that proves stillness can have a pulse. "Perspective I" spends ten minutes poring throu…

On L’oreille Voleuse, Brunhild Ferrari opens her archive of “ear memories” to Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O’Rourke, who treat her magnetic-tape recollections as a living landscape, improvising a drifting, prismatic electroacoustic Hörspiel about time, lis…

Ennio Morricone's 1977 score for Pasquale Festa Campanile's road thriller with Franco Nero, Corinne Cléry and David Hess, with Edda Dell'Orso and I Gladrags: first reissue since the 500-copy original, restored from the master tapes, in a digipack.

Caravan's 1982 album, which brought the four original members back together: Pye Hastings, Richard Sinclair, Dave Sinclair and Richard Coughlan, recorded at home in Herne Bay, Kent, with Mel Collins on saxophone.

*  Art Book CD – Silver Collection – augmented album Deluxe Art Book cd of 24 pages sewn – All artworks by Babs Santini * This 1983 period in which Gyllensköld was recorded was a fantastic time for the evolution of Steven Stapleton’s audio art. His c…

In the wake of the acclaimed Inland See, the on-growing analog ecosystem being animated for ten albums now by Bitchin Bajas boasts new high energy views. “Isle Peaks” speaks of directions in beats of time, weather and the heart to wherever coast they…

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.

*2022 stock* It may come as a surprise but one of the leading creators of keyboard music in the twentieth century is a composer by the name of John Cage. Cage’s reputation is so deeply associated with the avantgarde, with chance music, graphic notati…

This is the sound of dream Texas, the cinematic Texas conjured in film and 20th century literary and art myth… big dark blueing horizons swallowing the infinite distance, a lonely poetry of sound, but also a stock taker of the iconoclastic, psychedel…

Soccer Committee has always been an consistent exercise in restraint, and offering space. And on ‘♥ /Lamb’, this approach has been taken to perfection. The arrangements are still minimal, with plenty of time for the tones and melodies to resonate wit…

More than 25 years after the start of collaboration with Acid Mothers Temple mastermind Makoto Kawabata (including the INUI series and the classic Kawabata/Youngs release) comes the first proper VHF LP by the prolific quintet. One of an occasional se…

On Tearing Down The Coliseum Wall, Pink Floyd deliver The Wall in full at Nassau Coliseum on February 28, 1980, captured in a limited bootleg edition that documents one of rock's most elaborate spectacles during the album's brief, expensive first tou…

** 2-LP gatefold with 12 page full-color booklet insert ** This double LP of instrumental Hindustani, Carnatic and folk 78rpm shellac records from India comes with a full color 12-page insert of gramophone record ephemera, shops, labels, manufacturin…

Roxy Music's 1973 second album, the last with Brian Eno, expanded and curated by Bryan Ferry: the remaster, twenty unheard demos, rehearsals and AIR outtakes, Peel sessions, singles and instrumentals, a DVD of 1972-73 TV and live footage and a 116-pa…

We're excited to announce the reissue of the revolutionary album "Second Nature". This iconic album was the result of a collaboration between the outstanding musicians Bill Laswell, Atom Heart, and Tetsu Inoue. First released in 1995 on the legendary…

Since its debut on two releases from 2011 and 2012 (the live Hit & Run with Joe Talia and the studio Audience of One), the epic structured improvisational piece ‘Knots’ has formed a staple of Oren Ambarchi’s live performances. Like a jazz musician se…

Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore's score for Threshold, the documentary on cross-country ski champion Jessie Diggins: sixteen cues with an open palette of harp, voice and more, after their duo album Tragic Magic.