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*50 copies limited edition* Franz Kirmann returns to Bytes for his eighth solo album, available exclusively on Bandcamp from October 29 on cassette and download (released on all platforms on November 5). The “Almadies” are long wooden boats used by Senegalese fishermen. It is also the name of the neighborhood where Franz grew up, in the suburbs of Dakar near the Atlantic Ocean. "These new compositions are the result of sound experiments conducted over the past few months and reflections on the c…

French cellist Martine Altenburger and British guitarist John Russell recorded this live performance at the Musique en Mouvement Festival in Jarny, France in November 2008. Altenburger, Toulouse-based and conservatory-trained, moves between performances of Cage and Scelsi and improvisation with sound explorers like Michel Doneda and Lê Quan Ninh (who mastered this session). Russell, a London hardcore improviser, brings decades of experience to this encounter. One reviewer describes listening to …

“Split mixtape” by Pablo Mirón (Miradasvas, Ediciones Fontebro…) and Tom Val (Orion Music Workshop, Les Disques Omnison…). 2 x 45 minutes dive into their collections and influences of forgotten and outsider psychogeographic musics : may it be avant-jazz, piano solo or broken folk.

Deep into inner struggle to find harmony… Abstract noise, spooky atmpspheres and sparse melodies from South Czechia by the restless M.B. ( Chevallier Skrog, Cosmic Cause Productions….).

*200 copies limited edition* FOQL, aka Justyna Banaszczyk, returns to Pointless Geometry with a new album after 10 years. It was her record that opened the label’s catalog, and now, symbolically, we close a decade and open a new one with her release. Bug Poems leans towards sound poetry, exploring the voice, touching on strange emotions—the fear of the alien-insect, but also the fascination with it. It is an attempt to capture a feeling. The new album by FOQL is the result of months of research …

*200 copies limited edition* "Opposite directions, two different places, other means of expression—and the same extraordinary sensitivity with which Rożynek guides her sonic narrative. Two acousmonia, in which sound gradually gains vibration and density, finally blooming open and unfolding straight towards us. Pathopoeia is a term borrowed from the theory of rhetorical figures used in Baroque music—codified melodic progressions with specific assigned meanings. This figure leads sounds downward, …

Latest output by Angelo Bignamini. All recorded with Casio Tone Bank, Roland Sp 404, Sony Tcm 200 dv.

Original 1989 UK edition of the last album by radical all-girl band from the early no wave scene. With original innersleeve.

Rare 1983 Belgian edition on Rough Trade of the band's first LP, one of the essential early albums of alternative rock. With original innersleeve.

Original German edition with gatefold sleeve of the 1986 hommage to the wonderful music of Ennio Morricone from the NY sax player and composer, surrounded by Arto Lindsay, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith, Jody Harris, Christian Marclay, Anton Fier and many others.

Rare original 1991 UK edition on Earache with gatefold sleeve of the super-group's wild second album featuring The Boredoms' Yamatsuka Eye.

Rare original 1991 cassette version on Shimmy Disc sleeve of the super-group's wild second album featuring The Boredoms' Yamatsuka Eye.

Rare original 1991 edition on Earache of the first avantgarde jazz / grindcore album by the trio of Zorn, Laswell and Napalm Death's Mick Harris.

Original US edition on Antilles of the essential 1978 No Wave manifesto produced By Brian Eno and presenting Mars, Contortions, DNA and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. With original innersleeve.

Original US edition on Antilles with inverted innersleeve of the essential 1978 No Wave manifesto produced By Brian Eno and presenting Mars, Contortions, DNA and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.

1984 repress with alternate rim text on labels of the essential 1978 No Wave manifesto produced By Brian Eno and presenting Mars, Contortions, DNA and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.. No innersleeve.

1990 first LP re-issue on Danceteria of a cassette previously released by ROIR in 1982 with a selection of rare singles by mid 70's founding punk / new wave , including Patti Smith, Television, Richard Hell, Model Citizens, Theoretical Girls, Erasers, Come On, Marbles, Nervus Rex, U.S. Ape, Invaders, Mumps, Speedies and Student Teachers. With insert.

Edition of 300. One fine evening in Rotterdam, after witnessing him walking around in a circle with a stick for half-an-hour, Lukas Simonis asked Dominic Robertson (aka Ergo Phizmiz) to join him in a rapid-fire songwriting bonanza. Many songs resulted, tunes about mermaids, mistakes, compost manufacture, celebrity perverts, geometry, and so on. Lukas is a guitar wizard and a king in the world of weirdoes. Dominic is just... a weirdo, but he is England's greatest entertainer, so that's ok. Make w…

1998 release. Pluto is the sporadically-recording Berkeley-based improv outfit, here featuring MX-80's Bruce Anderson (guitar) and Marc Weinstein (drums), plus Ken Kearney (bass) and Russ Schoenwetter (drums, voice). These 1996 recordings act as a follow-up to their debut CD on Rastascan, Shoe Horse Emerging. The LP is housed in an elaborate full-color gatefold sleeve designed in the style of the old French ethnic music label Ocora.

2025 stock 1992 release. Frank-O-Fest is a loose grouping of Milwaukee old-timers led & directed by John Frankovic, who recorded this in one cloudy session in a church in 1992. Utilizing percussion, sitar, bouzouki, trombone, pipe organ, jews harp, didgeridoo, bass, cello, bamboo & clay flutes & more, this is a long, form-defying floatation exercise in space-out improvisation.