Residue Of The Residents
Residue Of The Residents collects outtakes, rare tracks and other experiments from this legendary San Francisco collective. Originally released on Ralph Records in 1983 and spanning The Residents' career up to that point, this first-time vinyl reissu…
Kang gling meeting
A DVD + 45RPM single by Vincent Epplay around the Kang Gling instrument. Recorded in Germany and France in 2013. Like a new procession music made with these bones trumpets used in Tibetan music. Gunter Schickert is a German musician who has played…
Nouveau saxhorn nouveau basse
Hayward found the noise valve, then in 2009 built the first fully microtonal tuba, then in 2012 made the Hayward Tuning Vine to see the harmonic space it had opened. Three extremely quiet and extremely long pieces for that instrument.
Empty orchestras
Peter Orins project could be called an accompanied solo. The drummer has designed an electronic device autonomous enough to influence him in his play in an almost unpredictable way. Therefore a kind of dialogue is established between the musician and…
Songbook 5
In May 2013, Disembraining invited Mattin to Australia to conceive a series of works addressing the question What is not music? The question refers respectfully to the long-running Australian experimental festival What is Music? reframing it as negat…
Positions
13 tracks selected from an archive of field recordings collected in Europe and U.S. during 2005-2013. ZimmerFrei is a collective of artists (Massimo Carozzi, Anna de Manincor, Anna Rispoli) whose complex practice is located on the crossways of cine…
Oslo Tapes
Mats Gustafsson, aka King Skronk, aka Skronkmeister General, aka The Skronk Controller, aka Squeaky Pete, aka Skronkmaster Flash, joins forces with another experimental giant Lasse Marhaug (aka The Ear Destroyer, aka Mr Skreee, aka Electro Crunch Bas…
Untitled
** 2026 Stock. Edition of 350 numbered copies. ** Atsushi Reizen, uses electric-guitar-based sound sources with drone, noise and minimalist techniques. In 2007 he formed the ambient quartet Nerae, but he has now left the group to focus on his solo mu…
Cubic Zirconia / Bad Karlshafen
Kye is proud to present a new 7' coupling from Philadelphia's Good Area, expanding and refining the signature sound first heard on 2013's 'French Antarctica' LP. 'Cubic Zirconia' offers a coarse instrumental homage to the cubic crystalline form of zi…
Split
While Dylan Nyoukis has become on the great out vocal performers of the past two decades, his backbone of crude fluxus certified tape collage is what got him into the main event scene back in the 90's. Secondary Skin is almost a throwback album for t…
Purf - Outrelande
Early 70’s, a group of musicians around Jean-François Gaël, André Chini, Philippe Gumplowicz, Pierre Buffenoir and Youval Micenmacher formed Sonorhc in 1971 near Paris. This discreet band had released only three albums in twenty years : « Purf » (LP-…
Pataphysic Power:The Underground Retrospective
Obscure 1970's French underground band cantered around Robert Diaz and Florence Leroy. Other members have included Armand Miralles and Kristof Temple. Feeling like a mix of Etron Fou Leloublan and Faust (in acoustic mode that is), with hints of Alber…
Things That A Mutant Needs To Know
A collection of fifty-five short tales and fifty-five brief musical works composed by a momentary collective of eighteen musicians. Reinaldo Laddaga has created the fictional second volume of an anthology that Argentinean writers Jorge Luis Borges an…
Live at Area Sismica
Ken Vandermark, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, clarinet. Paal Nilssen-Love, drums, Terrie Ex, guitar, Andy Moor, guitar. 'Live at Area Sismica' is Lean Left's fifth live recording, the second released on Unsounds, and by far the best, most vers…
The Unattended Serge 1978 / Five Evolutionary Things 1979
A rare window into the early modular explorations of David Chesworth, The Unattended Serge 1978 / Five Evolutionary Things 1979 is a playful, minimalist suite for Serge synthesizer, predating his work with Essendon Airport.
Spectral Arrows: Sidney
Spectral Arrows: Sidney presents Marco Fusinato’s durational guitar and electronics performance, channeling the intensity of Sunn O))) and the conceptual rigor of Alvin Lucier.
Naked
One of the wildest Austrian bands in the late 60s and 70s, with their own mix of progrock, hardrock, art, porno and extreme live-shows. Now after more than 30 years a one time repress of 750. Erwin Novak - drums, Walla Mauritz - vocals, Peter Travnic…
Neuklang Kirchenlied
German bands and solo artists bring old hymns into contemporary music. The spectrum ranges from jazz to pop, from rock and metal to acoustic art. An essential part of the concept is that text and melody are preserved. The tradition of hymns is a livi…
Naked Tape and Others
Ten pieces for hurdy gurdy and tape (forty minutes) recorded between 2008 and 2013. With book-based covers about the human body (each one unique), this is a truly elaborate package, with an insert, gut-string, cotton, ninety-minute private sound r…
Quasispecies Four
A document of a quartet session by Toshiji Mikawa(Incapacitants, hijokaidan), Hideaki Shimada(Agencement), Nobuo Yamada(Artbreakhotel), and Katsuyoshi Kou(Soundings), recorded at Hatchobori Nana Hari on April 28, 2012. At the time Hideaki Shimada …