My room is an oyster
First cassette from my friend Jeff, hopefully many more to come.Side a is quite tense, side b is really sweetlovely tapeMy Room Is An Oyster
Side A
A series of dissociative solo guitar compositions inspired by overstimulation and political desperatio…
Prey detection in web building spiders
*Dubbed on new ferro tapes* Second release from L. Linebacker. Needy guitar handling and eventually a talkative radio recorded directly to tape. Only rough edits and simple reamps done afterwards.
I’m going to have to ask you to
*Dubbed on new ferro tapes* One long composition for each side. Reminding me of an ultra-stretched version of the beautiful interplays on talktalk’s spirit of eden. Brittle percussive repetitions and muted trumpets slowly maneuvering into lovely tens…
Compiled loops & experiments
*Dubbed on new ferro tapes* Tape loops, wind-up gramophone manipulations, and other audio fascinations. All of these sounds share the fact that they didn’t fit into any other release. Collected throughout 2024 and 2025, they were set aside on my hard…
Ghosted III
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, and Andreas Werliin return with Ghosted III, their most immediate and adventurous collaboration yet. Recorded at Stockholm's Studio Rymden, this third excursion into spontaneous rhythm creation blends ambient neo-jazz,…
Hyderomastgroningem
2025 stock Along with the Boredoms, Naked City and very few others, this amazing drums/bass duo are masters of quick-change, stop/start tempos, time-signatures and textures. Ruins' explosive and intricately composed tunes are sung in a peculiar lang…
Mandala 2000 / Live At Kichijoji Mandala II
2025 stock A blistering live performance at one of Tokyo's longest running avant garde venues by one of Tokyo's longest running avant garde bands. A breathtaking performance of over twenty stop-on-a-dime Ruins classics, Mandala II captures the raw p…
Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach
2025 stock A double-CD collection of Tzadik artists and special guests paying tribute to one of the great geniuses of American music. Burt Bacharach's compositions explode the expectations of what a popular song is supposed to be. Advanced harmonies…
満天に赤い花びら A Skyfull of Red Petals
First-ever vinyl reissue of Mizutama Shobodan's 1985 sophomore album A Skyfull of Red Petals, mixed by Fred Frith. A theatrical, uncompromising women-led ensemble at the height of its powers, balancing the contrasting voices of Kamura and Tenko over …
乙女の祈りはダッダッダッ！A Maiden’s Prayer
First-ever vinyl reissue of Mizutama Shobodan's legendary 1981 debut A Maiden’s Prayer DA-DA-DA!. A wild theatrical mix of avant-post-punk worked out by one of the most uncompromising women-led ensembles ever to emerge from the Japanese underground, …
Environments 12: new concepts in acoustic enrichment
Environments 12 reimagines field recordings for the digital age, blending real and synthetic voices in speculative soundscapes. Machine Listening’s debut LP challenges reality, blurring nature, tech, and human creativity into a mesmerizing, genre-def…
It's A Love Song
After Caspar Brötzmann’s 2024 LP with Bass Totem, Caspar Brötzmann Massaker releases new live recordings of “All This Violence.” Founded 1986, the band’s intense, influential sound shaped underground rock, inspiring acts like Sonic Youth and SUNN O))…
Erica
A collection of photographs of everyday life, just passing by, on a constant search for those minimal hidden details, mysterious, yet full of awareness, meditative yet bristling with fervor. Mira’s debut for Maple Death ‘Erica’ reveals the artist’s c…
L'ivresse transfigurée
Piano and electronics merge, transforming sound into ghostly landscapes through tape and distortion.
Liebestod
Alexey Shmurak & Heinali’s “Liebestod” blends song, poetry, and electronics to explore love, death, and history with vulnerability and intensity.
Les Météores du Coeur
Yvan Etienne creates sound installations and performances blending composition and perception. His work explores acoustic and electronic spaces, memory, and psyche, often in site-specific contexts.
Sen’nyū
**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…
Copia
People Like Us returns with "Copia", Vicki Bennett’s first new album since 2018. Exploring the abundance of collage and sampling, it reflects on timeless connectivity and the fluidity of past, present, and future. "Copia" reshapes sound into a rich, …
String Figures
String Figures, Felicity Mangan’s debut solo LP on Elevator Bath, blends tactile drones, electronic tones, and wetland field recordings into inventive, emotionally rich compositions. Using string timbres and digital processing, she crafts angular, am…
Itara
Itara is the debut solo album by Paul Pèrrim—guitarist, composer, and anthropologist—blending acid folk, abstract blues, Eastern jazz, ambient, and improvisation. Drawing from ethnomusicology and a rich sonic palette, he crafts vivid, experimental gu…