A Circle of Skin
A Circle of Skin is music to give solace during the dark autumn evenings. Creating images and patterns of comfort to deflect from the hallucinogenic disorientations of reality. As ever with these things, there are always demons and spirits lurking within the shadows of the album. Showing us with a sharpened realisation to be mindful, as things can always get worse. These are the murky undercurrents of a soundtrack which keeps us moving forward and alive. The sounds present are at once both organ…
ambiguous garden
*250 copies limited edition* Tokyo-based electronic sound artist Takuma Kuragaki began his musical activity in the 1990s. In 2020 he released his first solo album, "Bottomless / Blank," on the Hitorri label. The recording earned considerable attention for its extremely minimalistic style, made up only of short, murmuring computer sounds and silences. Pierre Gerard is a Belgian improviser and composer. Energetically engaged in musical creation, he makes skillful use of a variety of instruments in…
A Waiting Room Creation
*300 copies limited edition* Xiang was born in 1984 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. She started her experimental music activities in earnest in Chengdu in 2017. In performances she uses field recordings, violin, noise and body as materials. She listens attentively to subtle changes in sound and space and carries out site-specific performances adapted to each environment. In addition to solo improvisation and composition, Xiang carries out many performances and collaborative projects with ot…
innocently, uneven
*250 copies limited edition* Kumamoto-based musician Yoichi Ichikawa also carries out his activities under the name peeq. Making skillful use of various instruments ranging widely from electronic to acoustic, he creates truly diverse and remarkable music. Ichikawa is also known as a member of the team that runs the online label tokinogake. VKHNC is a Seoul-based South Korean musician active on the electronic music scene.
In early March 2025, peeq visited Tokyo along with VKHNC, carrying out conc…
electro electro acoustic
Tip! *250 copies limited edition* Beijing-based electronics player Sun Yizhou is a representative of China's new generation of experimental musicians. In October 2025, during a visit to Berlin, he had the opportunity to make a recording with Berlin-based trumpet player Axel Dörner. With his groundbreaking playing techniques, Dörner has been a leading figure on the international improvised music scene since the 1990s. This CD contains three improvised duo pieces performed by Sun Yizhou and Axel D…
House with No Light (field notes on two occurrences)
*200 copies limited edition* Dana Ollestad is an American multimedia artist living in Tokyo. He regularly carries out concerts in which he structures performances while producing sounds from light through the use of light-emitting objects, from which he also releases intense light. This album documents two solo performances by Ollestad at Ftarri, Tokyo, on March 25, 2023, and November 9, 2025. Arranging light-emitting objects around a table bearing an array of performance equipment, he made skil…
Guitar Recordings V
*2026 stock. 15 copies limited edition* In just 22 minutes, Steve Touchton redefines what a solo guitar record can and should be. The brilliance of 'Guitar Recordings V' lies in Touchton's ability to completely liberate themself from the inherited legacy of the instrument, discovering an entirely new perspective on both the guitar and the amplifier it resonates through. The opener, 'Apparitions,' features ghostly chimes that resemble the timbral scope of a prepared piano, subtly frosted with rad…
Alight in the Fog
*2026 stock. 20 copies limited edition* Hikikomori, a sonic entity forged in the crucible of London's north and south fringes, stands as a testament to the power of chaotic synergy. This avant-garde duo, comprised of Tom Wilson wielding synths and pedals and Dean Valentine Smith commanding the drums, isn't merely playing music; they are conducting sonic experiments that delve into intense and exhilarating new realms. Their sound is a powerful fusion, a volatile cocktail of free noise and jagged …
Big Gamble
*2026 stock. 10 copies limited edition* Although Jackson and McLean spent many of their formative years playing in an array of dubious named and increasingly outsider rock groups, ‘Big Gamble’ is the first time they have ever made music purely as a duo. In the intervening years since their last band activities together. Jackson founded Thraa and began to focus on prepared guitar experiments in a series of aurally challenging and investigative solo records issued on his own Fr33zehead imprint. Mc…
Bristol Sessions
*2026 stock* Bristol based musician Luigi Marino & Manchester based musician David Birchall got together back in March 2024 to lay down what became the ‘Bristol Sessions’, their 1st recording as a duo. Cut in Marino’s living room, crafted from his percussion & DIY circuits, with Birchall’s Ebows & banjo. Creating interwoven tension & cinematic drone, Marino & Birchall subtly blend ambient saturation & dissonant intonation.
The Evening Sun Turns Crimson
2026 stock A live musical performance to Derek Jarman’s In The Shadow of the Sun. Recorded live at Cafe OTO, London, England — May 23,2017. Derek Jarman’s In The Shadow of the Sun forms part of a series of films, shot and edited on s8mm, grouped under thecollective title The Art of Mirrors. In The Shadow of the Sun is the longest of these running at 54 minutes. Filming took place between 1972-74 and the film was completed in 1974. When Derek showed the film he would play Verdi’s requiem as anacc…
The Songs That Brought Us Home
*70 copies limited edition* “The songs that brought us home” spill out like sapphire wine from the cup of Hastings collective Necessary Animals, staining everything they touch. Based in the south‑coast town since 2016, the band operates as an alt‑psych/classic‑rock/experimental organism, with a revolving cast of musicians, writers and artists feeding into records, films and performances. On this album they lean fully into that hybridity. Multicoloured drops of sound dissolve into multi‑refractio…
25 Pièces Sans Vide
Across 25 pièces sans vide, Le UN turn a 25‑strong improvising society into a living ecosystem: three discs of large‑ensemble swarms, smaller constellations and street‑level interventions where sound, space and social experiment are impossible to separate.
Deep Time
“Deep Time” is a tape composition commissioned in 1991 by the Deep Listening Institute for Deep Listening Band. Fritz Hauser’s tape features recordings of sounding stones (manufactured by Arthur Schneiter) and various watches and clocks (thanks to the Bucher family in Switzerland for permission to record that family clock!). The performers improvise with the tape. On October 26, 1994 Pauline Oliveros, David Gamper, Urs Leimgruber and Fritz Hauser recorded 2 versions of Deep Time. Both of these 3…
Suspense and Romance 1987
This cassette release features live performance recordings from Suspense and Romance, Dumb Type’s first large-scale exhibition, held in 1987 at Tsukashin Hall in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture.This work marks the first time composer Toru Yamanaka created and produced all the music for a Dumb Type project. It documents a unique musical collaboration with saxophonist Harry Kitte.Developed under the theme of “Suspence and Romance”, Yamanaka's compositions weave together the cinematic lyricism of jazz …
De Lusioni
2026 stock Formed in Rome in 1984, this is a newly mastered release of ARPIA's first demo tape from 1987. “De Lusioni” is comprised of 7 songs -clocking at 71 minutes- which the band has described at an "experimental demo but of rich forms and ideas later developed in a more organic way." The massive reverb on the vocals and guitar on the opening track, "1783," immediately reminds one of Paul Chain. Some songs find the band dropping into the experimental/theatrical realm with vocals that sound…
The Way Things Will Be
2026 stock Rediscover the blistering raw power of Italian hardcore legends Funhouse Originally an LP, this Minotauro edition unleashes 10 tracks of relentless d-beat fury, metallic riff assaults, and unfiltered anarchist rage—capturing the band's prime-era ferocity from their Vicenza underground lair.
Behind Eleven Deserts
In Behind Eleven Deserts, Stephan Micus braids suling, sarangi, sitar and bodhrán into a quietly radiant ritual, a 1978 desert mirage where distant traditions dissolve into one slow, breathing, unmistakably Micusian song.
Westwood One In Concert, Broadcast July 18, 1994
2026 stock Westwood One In Concert, Broadcast July 18, 1994 captures a live radio broadcast performance by the British synthpop duo Erasure, featuring Andy Bell and Vince Clarke.
This recording stems from a Westwood One promotional series, airing on US radio stations in mid-1994 amid the promotion of their album I Say I Say I Say. It showcases the duo at the peak of their commercial success, with hits like "Always" dominating charts that year.
The setlist likely draws from their 1991–1994 repert…
In A Different Climate
2026 stock In A Different Climate is the second and final studio album by the American rock band Mallard, released in 1976 on Virgin Records.
Formed by ex-Captain Beefheart Magic Band members Bill Harkleroad (guitar), Mark Boston (bass), along with vocalist Sam Galpin, keyboardist John Thomas, and drummer George Dragotta, the band leaned into a progressive country-rock sound with swampy blues elements.
Recorded in Wales and produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange, it features Harkleroad's signature…