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Tyondai Braxton’s Splayed Werks (his first full-length since the 2022 Telekinesis sessions) opens a new chapter: over 70 minutes of electronics and detailed sound design spread across 15 tracks, most under five minutes, favoring shorter forms over his previous long-format work. The album merges recent compositions with pieces written across the last decade—reworked, remastered by Matt Colton, and sequenced into a single continuous statement that reads less like a compilation and more like a real…

On Phren, Marta Salogni and Stefano Pilia build a shared electro‑acoustic architecture where guitar, tape machines and field recordings circulate like memory in motion. Signals move through modular processes, echoes and Revox loops until origin and reflection blur, turning six slow‑unfolding pieces into a living study of sound, time and feeling.

Black Vinyl edition. XKatedral is proud to present a new full-length album by label co-founder Maria W Horn. Melting Pillars of Snow is a collection of new compositions from the renowned Swedish composer written for Contrabass Recorder, Shō, Percussion, Electric Guitar, Voice and Electronics performed by Horn together with a chamber ensemble consisting of Anna Petrini, Mattias Hållsten, Magdalena Meitzner and Mats Erlandsson. The album also features narration by Horn as well as a guest appearanc…

The astounding second outing from the duo of Midori Takada & Jakob Bro, arriving on Copenhagen's Loveland Records just under a year after 'Until I Met You'. Across six tracks, subtle abstraction amongst sprawling ambiences, "Fourth-World" sensibilities, and pulsing minimalism. CD edition.

8mm Records’ latest - Gate’s "Winter Songs" - gathers three long form works of hazy fuzzed out guitar drones from the The Dead C’s Michael Morley, that amount to engrossing meditative expanses at the borders of ambient music, minimalism, and stoner rock. Inward looking and delicate, while bubbling with fury and life, it stands among our absolute favorite releases from one of the most interesting artists working today, and rides high among the best albums of the year so far.

With what might just be the richest immersion for the combined senses of the ears, eyes, and mind that we encounter in 2026, Marhaug Forlag returns with "Re-Make Re-Model", a stunning collaboration between Lasse Marhaug and Bruce Russell. Issued as a beautifully produced, highly limited Book / 2CD edition, capturing these two legendary artists mining the other's deep catalog of recordings, reworking an astounding 16 tracks into more than 100 minutes of blistering, radically experimental music, w…

Somewhere in the Wind is the third record that Loren Connors and I have made together. Of the three, it’s the first that consists exclusively of electric guitar duos and it’s the first that was recorded live. To me it feels very much like a live record; this music happened in crowded rooms in Brooklyn on two dates in 2025 and there’s an urgency to connect with others and a pleasure in doing so that can be heard on both of these tracks. On the first of our duo records (Arborvitae, 2003) I primari…

Tanz Mein Herz's new double LP, recorded in Cherbourg in August 2025: guitars, bagpipes, bass, drums and electronics, from the nineteen-minute climb of Depuis Longtemps to long tones and dense drone.

Solo double LP by Guilhem Lacroux of Tanz Mein Herz for Gretsch Duo Jet and Korg Volca: fifteen pieces on four named sides, from plucked figures and fast repeated strumming to bell-like tones and organ-like chords. 300 copies, black vinyl.

A sound piece in two parts, composed in 2021 by the late Peruvian musician José Javier Castro as a tribute to the Italian artist Gianni Toti. 7-inch, limited to 250 copies on Buh Records.

On Echo - Variations, Arp opens the atmospheric world of Drifts to an international circle of sonic explorers. Glitch, electro-acoustic detail and club pressure reshape its suspended textures, while new tracks and alternate mixes reveal further possibilities within the originals. Less a remix appendix than a study in productive transformation.

*Edition of 100* K/S/R (Ben Kujawski, Abigail Smith & Justin Rhody) have been performing and recording together since 2022. Recorded by the band themselves during a full week of day-long sessions - violin, percussion, lap steel, accordion, flute, guitar, harmonica, and rhodes piano were each stretched, damaged & made to sing through various extended techniques. The trio's non-concentric approach to collective improvisation mirrors the dark harmonic density and symbiotic formal structures of the …

On Eleven Poems, Chris Philpot, Justin Rhody and Abigail Smith bring fractured language into contact with bowed taishōgoto and vibrating percussion. Recorded in Santa Fe, these eleven miniature encounters trade conventional accompaniment for a shared attention to timbre, spacing and resonance, letting poetry and sound unsettle one another.

** 2026 Repress ** The Tumbling Psychic Joy of Now, a ritualistic and expanding collaborative album between Holy Tongue and Shackleton, will be released by AD 93 on the 23rd August 2024. Holy Tongue are a trio composed of Valentina Magaletti, Al Wootton and Susumu Mukai. Accomplished musicians in their own right, they combined to create psychedelic, free-form, high energy, spiritual dub-dance music across a trilogy of critically acclaimed EPs and their debut album Deliverance and Spiritual Warfa…

Space Afrika, the Manchester/Berlin-based duo of Joshua Tarelle Reid and Joshua Inyang, make raw, intensely detailed, visceral music with shades of ambient, trip-hop, techno, and modern classical, drawing spacious urban dubscapes from the contours of their city. 'Quiet Storm', the duo's highly anticipated follow-up to their 2021 LP on Dais Records, expands on its predecessor’s sound and scale in every direction as a sprawling, collaborative vision shaped with profound patience and intention. The…

Brussels string quintet BOW in its most extensive document to date: three days of unplanned, unedited improvisation in the small stone church of Vinalmont, between chamber intimacy and free improvisation, on three CDs.

**Limited vinyl edition LP / 400 copies, hand numbered Gatefold cover, hand stamped Lp's with acrylic paint** The compilation covers a large period from 1981 to 2010. It features 11 tracks mastered by Noel Summerville and selected by original members of the legendary ensemble. They propose a plural look on their music : revealing both its experimental, radical and deviant approach of rock, as well as more melodic aspect.  The Work was the missing link between Captain Beefheart and This Heat. It’…

Gregorio Paniagua's early, baroque and self-built instruments meet Lucia Bosé's spoken and sung verses in Italian and Spanish: playful, psychedelic medieval music from 1981. First reissue, licensed from Sony.

This is supposed to be a 40th anniversary reissue. Well, it still is, but with year of a delay. It was told enough about the early Metgumbnerbone recordings. We just keep some quotes here. "It’s hard to imagine anything more haunting than the folk horror ritual sounds which Metgumbnerbone conjured forth in the Ruins of Industry." - Kristian Olsson, Shock Tilt "Working mainly with percussion, Metgumbnerbone evolves an improvisational continuum that depicts subterranean and old, eerie, murky templ…

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 early processing language while carrying it forward with the perspective of decades of exploration. Visceral yet weightless, it deepens his long-standing dialogue between alternate tunings, looping systems, and touch-sensitive electronics. Melody, noi…

Second Atlantic album by the Melvins, recorded and mixed at A&M Studios, Hollywood, and released in October 1994, with King Buzzo, Dale Crover and Mark Deutrom, produced by the band and GGGarth Richardson.

There are constellations within the grooves of Cymbalom Solos. Innumerable points of light, rendered audible in glowing, radiant sound. There are entire worlds too - undiscovered, yet familiar -- both terrestrial and celestial. There are moments of quiet comfort and exultant discovery. And all of it conjured by one man with a handful of ancient and invented instruments, recorded mostly-live, with precious few overdubs. Michael Masley has been a fixture of Berkley, California, since he arrived fr…

Abstrakce recover this lost gem recorded in 1999 and published by Keliehor himself in a very short-run CD named "Create Music", which had almost no diffusion.

Brett Naucke's vinyl debut, from 2013: six electronic pieces of subtle melodies and eerie organic abstractions by the head of Catholic Tapes. 300 copies with risograph covers.

Andy Ortmann and Ben Vida on one record again, sixteen years after the first Nihilist release: seven electronic pieces for analog synthesizers, modular systems and computer. Edition of 250.

Hali Palombo's audio-visual work built on slow-scan television, the narrowband system radio amateurs use to send pictures: a 45-minute video on USB and its soundtrack on chrome cassette. Edition of 50.

Andy Bolus (Evil Moisture) and Andy Ortmann (Panicsville) after fifteen years of working together: a live side recorded in Paris in 2006 and a studio collage built between 2001 and 2016.

Dick Flick's tape-collage project The Broken Penis Orchestra, back on Nihilist after the Testicle Difficulties LP: six pieces from 2005-2011, each C-44 chrome copy dubbed in real time. Edition of 99.

Split LP from 2018: two parts of Grussverweigerung by Kommissar Hjuler und Frau and three Panicsville pieces, made at Nihilist Studios in Chicago with vocals generated by speech synthesis software. 100 copies on black vinyl.

Andy Ortmann's two-hour triple LP of electroacoustic pieces, musique concrète and speech synthesis, the work that his 2023 set Psychoacoustic Electronics picks up from. Edition of 300.

Andy Ortmann and John Wiese, long-time collaborators from St. Louis, recorded together in January 2006: four tracks of harsh electronics, collage and ambient soundscapes.

Panicsville's electroacoustic anti-punk album, recorded at Nihilist Studio in 2019-2020 with Anthony Janas, Jeremiah Fisher, Weasel Walter and Ka Baird: drones, feedback, archaic drum patterns and lock grooves. Vanta black vinyl, edition of 200.

Two unheard live pieces by Salvatore Martirano on his SAL-MAR Construction, recorded in Chicago in the 1970s with video processing by Dan Sandin: cassette, flash drive with the video and the 101-page thesis on the machine, cards and a button.

Andy Ortmann's triple LP sequel to Pataphysical Electronics: twelve pieces, over two hours, on psychoacoustic effects (masking, missing fundamentals, binaural tricks), with EVP recordings and a collaboration with Bryan Lewis Saunders.

Diana Rogerson's first solo album in nearly two decades, a sound story about a trapped bluebottle and other small creatures: her voice, guitar, synth and household noise, mixed with Matthew Waldron. 4-panel digipack.

Four long collaborations between The New Blockaders and Stephen Meixner, Ice Yacht (Philip Sanderson) and Das Synthetische Mischgewebe: a quieter, musique concrète side of TNB, one piece built on readings from their manifesto. 6-panel digipack.

The first full-length collaboration between Steven Stapleton and Tony Wakeford, originally on Tursa in 1992: Wakeford's songs set inside Stapleton's surreal tape landscapes. First vinyl edition, on transparent green or blue vinyl, in a gatefold.

The Hafler Trio's double LP Idiots: Laughing Matter, years in the making and seeded with early material by Wire's Bruce Gilbert: four long sides of slow, dark drones, spoken passages and sudden loud bursts. Embossed metallic Pantone jackets.

I first met La Monte Young at a 1981 performance of his piece The Well-Tuned Piano at the Dia Art Foundation’s beautiful Harrison Street space. When I got a chance after the show to speak with La Monte and his wife, Light artist Marian Zazeela, I was surprised at their friendly demeanor and sense of humor. We began working together shortly after that. Since then, I have been playing music in Harmonic Series tuning. When Brian [Chase of Chaikin Records] first spoke to me about the possibility of …

*2026 stock. 60 copies limited edition* Sometimes it takes a moment of stillness and silence to discover a new direction. Midday marks a subtle shift from my earlier ambient work, leaning toward more structured compositions, minimal melodic fragments, soft pulses, and loops. I wrote midday between December 2024 and March 2025, taking inspiration from Sunday outings that carried a sense of calm that lingered. I took the album artwork during one of these outings, while I was picking oranges in the…