Fata Morgana
In november 2017 I was on a guest visit at CalArts hosted by Michael Pisaro-Liu. It was the first time I was in California, but even though it was my first time there, the Californian landscape seemed oddly familiar to me. I remember when driving from the airport to Valencia (and CalArts) looking at the passing hills experiencing a sort of deja vu.
Even though the air was different and the colours and temperature was (very) different from that of the marsh landscapes of my childhood in Denmark,…
Eternity's Pillars B/W Raise The Chalice & Reverential
Eternity’s Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential consists of three brand new tracks created and performed by the iconic duo of Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson and co-produced by sunn O))) and Brad Wood. Brad Wood recorded the material at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville and Sea Grass in Los Angeles in 2025. The tracks on this maxi 12” are the first official sunn O))) studio recordings to feature only the original core duo on heavily saturated electric guitars and synthesis. sunn O))) g…
Prayer
For Sara(.es), who has resonated with numerous musicians, this is a special solo live recording, her first in about a year. Weaving together the sounds of bells, water-emitting instruments, harmonica, crystal bowls, triangle, and more, an energy-filled piano solo unfolds. From 1 May to 14 June 2025, the solo exhibition ‘Prayer’ by artist Keiichi Ikegami was held at Gallery Nomaru, the home of .es (dot es) and the base for Utsunomiya MIX. Following the sudden passing of Satoshi Hayashi, former di…
Fill With Empty
January 2025, Osaka contemporary art gallery ‘Gallery Nomart’ hosted Hideo Takashima's solo exhibition ‘Fill with Empty’. This was Takashima's first exhibition at Nomart, and featured the first live collaboration between British heavyweight drummer/percussionist Roger Turner and sara (.es).
The exhibition title ‘Fill with Empty’ refers to ‘a state filled with margins that contain diverse possibilities,’ according to Takashima. Takashima explains that the exhibition title, ‘Fill witt Empty’, refe…
Poor_in_Spirit | the (Re)constructed Pipe Organ
Australian, Copenhagen-based composer Calum Builder delves into a sonic journey inside the body of his dismantled pipe organ.
Cras
*40 copies limited edition* Nazlo Records proudly presents Cras, the latest tape release by the enigmatic experimental artist Pakhom. Known for pushing the boundaries of sound and texture, Pakhom dives deep into immersive sonic landscapes with this captivating work. "Cras" weaves layers of spoken word, haunting melodies, and visceral atmospheres, embodying the spirit of nomadic experimentalism that defines Nazlo Records.
Recorded and released in limited edition tape format, "Cras" invites listen…
In Concert
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world,” a first-class snob once stated. So rightful, he was. We feel so petite when the journey is elite. Like during the concert that Kashual Plastik drops here on cassette. For this release, a visual and material concept was carried directly into the artwork: since the artist performs his concerts illuminated only by a single candle, the cassettes were packaged inside matchboxes — a tribute to that fragile, flickering source…
Folklore & Concepts
Folklore & Concepts, the latest release by Smegma—now five decades into their outsider avant-garde career—extends the band’s legacy of ritualistic collage, spontaneous improvisation, and anti-academic noise. Infused with tape, synths, prepared piano, horns, and voice, the album melds shamanistic energy with surreal group interplay, creating an unpredictable and stubbornly original sonic tapestry.
Ancient Moment Part 1
With centuries of history, traditional instruments carry physical vibrations shaped by human breath and touch. In contrast, electronic music generates vibrations through inorganic principles such as electrical signals and circuits. When the subtle tremors of traditional instruments resonate with the intricate tones of electronic sounds in an improvised dialogue, performers from distinct realms expand each other’s languages, creating a new sensory experience. The project album Ancient Moment mark…
Best Wishes
Following years of activity in the UK scene and beyond, and a debut tape in 2020 on don't drone alone, Rekem is proud to present the new release by Leeds based artist, Helen Papaioannou.
Kar Pouzi is Helen Papaioannou’s solo project of electronics, baritone saxophone and vocals. Best Wishes, spans the past two-three years of Kar Pouzi’s output, featuring both longer standing pieces from her live sets alongside new tracks. The album reflects Kar Pouzi’s fascination with repetitive tasks, sounds, …
Kost Nix
*2025 stock. 300 copies limited edition* "Two guitarists with wild and bold aesthetics met for no cost – Kost Nix, an explosive, freewheeling set... Often it is impossible to know who is doing what. They build on the opening, 20-minute piece «Quiet Concessions» massive walls of sound, delicate and raw, strange, poetic and totally weird at the same time. Byron Coley... hears in this piece echoes of early Grateful Dead, and Sonic youth, but you can add Fred Frith’s Massacree and Sonny Sharrock’s L…
BBBB
*2025 stock. 100 copies limited edition* Four words become four incantations in BBBB, where Elena M. Rosa Lavita and Samuele Innocenti strip language and sound to their skeletal essence. "Bad," "Bare," "Black," "Bones" - each title a minimalist manifesto realized through bass, bow, objects, and processed voices, with additional production by Nàresh Ran and mastering by Attila Folklor.
Recorded at home in 2021, the collaboration captures the intimacy of isolation transformed into sonic ritual. Ro…
Nomia e Hool
** Edition of 80 copies. LP + Artist’s Signed Drawing "Aura" and "Bagatelle", "Continuum", "Pieghe" Artworks. ** HeghL’s Nomia e Hool takes the listener beyond traditional boundaries, presenting two extended tracks as part of a larger multidisciplinary exploration. Originating from a project by Lisa Baume and Francesco Trabattoni, the album gathers creators from diverse backgrounds - music, visual arts, writing, philosophy, science, and more - into a single creative studio. The result is a colle…
Riverside
Dark ambient folk horror fairytale by Italian maestro Heilige!I recently had the pleasure of delving into the enchanting and eerie soundscape of the four songs instrumental tape release "RIVERSIDE" by the dark folk ambient outfit HEILIGE!. Themed around the dark woods and well… riverside, the release is a journey into the depths of the human psyche, as the artist expertly weaves together haunting melodies, atmospheric soundscapes, field recordings and intricate instrumentation.From the opening t…
Ouroboros
Ad Lux Tenebrae, one of the most interesting phenomena in Russian ritual/drone music, have proven themselves as uplifters of first-class ritual sound. Each of their few works, is the fruit of serious musical practices, long-term loneliness, and consequently, the identity, the roots of which can also be seen in an unusual tools and authors. Great powerful sounds from primeval Ural woods. To create music they use original musical instruments - bubens, handmade drums, blowing horns, flutes and othe…
A Dream
After the re-releases of ‘A Thousand Winters’ and ‘Treat’, AlanTrench and his Neo-Folk project ORCHIS finally returns with an ALL NEW album – the first one since 1999 (Mandragora/Trisol)! ORCHIS is an English Dark Folk band consisting of Tracy Jeffery, Amanda Prouten and Alan Trench (formerly one of the owners of World Serpent). Orchis so far released 2 albums with World Serpent and Trisol plus the special rarities collection ‘Treat’.
"A Dream", probably, last return of Orchis band, and here y…
A Thousand Winters
Orchis is an English Dark/Acid Folk band consisting of Tracy Jeffery (who also sings with Cunnan and J Greco's SQE), Amanda Prouten and Alan Trench (Cunnan, SQE, Twelve Thousand Days(with Martyn Bates), Temple Music). We have so far managed to release four albums to date starting in 1994 with The Dancing Sun (cryptanthus /World Serpent), which was more a collection of formative pieces than anything else, then in 1997 the concept album that was A Thousand Winters (cryptanthus / World Serpent). Ma…
In Riot We Trust
Anti-sexist rumblings from mr. Putin's favorite riot squad! CD edition! Limited to 300 copies.
Fortepian Chopina
How Warsaw remembers, commemorates and what it does with the memory of Frederic Chopin? Where this memory is good, and where it fails? What the mind doesn’t want to remember, and where memory turns into a myth? Radio play by three Warsaw artists coming from various disciplines of the arts in Warsaw: Marcin Masecki, Wojtek Zra ek-Kossakowski and Marcin Lenarczyk is an attempt to reconstruction (because “reconstruction” is the most appropriate word here) of the wide memory of great/biggest/most Po…
Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985–1987
Blue Abstraction compiles a selection of Jessica Williams’ lost prepared piano recordings. These recordings document the beginning of a vital, solitary phase in her career: a period of intense sonic experimentation that began with physically altering a 6’4” grand piano—creating a new instrument, and from there, creating a new music. The results are breathtaking; from melancholic soundscapes with Satie-esque lyricism to forcefully controlled cacophony, always grounded by the distinct emotional vo…