Upgrade & Afterlife
Upgrade & Afterlife stands as a pivotal and singular recording in the catalog of Gastr del Sol, the duo of David Grubbs and Jim O’Rourke. Originally released in 1996, this album is frequently cited as a landmark of post-rock and experimental music, praised for its blend of avant-garde abstraction, folk minimalism, and a restless, exploratory spirit. The album opens with “Our Exquisite Replica of ‘Eternity’,” a piece that has become emblematic for many listeners: a slow-building, cinematic sounds…
Seven Hats For John Cage
2012 release ** Featuring Bernard Clarke, Stella Luncke & Josef Maria Schäfers, Chris Mann, Goran Vejvoda, Armeno Alberts, Laurent Estoppey & Anne Gillot, Peter Graham.
If It Pleases The Court
2025 stock "Oh joy, oh rapture! Sweet, sharp noise music by the transcontinental trio, the sound of our men’s small wills writ large. Microscopic made big. I mean, to think it’s been nearly half a decade since we’ve heard from these guys! And is this the end of the road? It's different. While their preceding statement focused on strident bandmember solos, If It Pleases The Court sees Zwangsbeglucktertum finally enjoying each other once again, showcasing an energy that can only manifest through i…
Women In Revolt! Underground Rebellion In British Music — 1977-1985
2025 stock Women In Revolt! is an exhibition of work by over 100 women artists working in the UK during the 1970s and 80s. In a first of its kind showing, it explores how women used radical ideas and rebellious methods to change the face of British culture. With music, painting, sculpture, photography, film, and performance, they forged a path for women's liberation in the UK, against a backdrop of extreme social change.Drawing on the work and experiences of women outside the establishment and o…
Minimal Guitar
2025 stock On the first Monday after the summer holidays Arnold decided to not start the morning with a pile of emails about canceled, rescheduled or possible concerts but instead walk around Amsterdam. Following the Ring road A10, both from the inside and the outside, he walked without a map, tried to keep as close to the highway as possible but got lost several times. When home, he sat down and played what came to mind. The recordings of those sessions will be released in limited edition. Arno…
Minestra Affogata In Brodo
For years I hunted for some trace, find or legacy of this band from the deep South, from Martina Franca, Taranto, to be precise. I had little and vague information: their participation in the Festa della vita in San Paolo di Martina Franca in 1973, their presence at Giangià, also in Martina, a typical underground club of the 1970s, and little else.
A band fading between the historical reality of the 1970s and the mythology of the alternative scene. Just when I had resigned myself to giving up se…
KANNON
B-STOCK, Tear On Spine Latest release by shakuhachi player Kenji Ikegami, who fuses ancient Japanese ethnic music and ambient/experimental music in a unique worldview. Includes two long pieces with cellist Yasutsugu Seto, who inherits the spirit of Terry Riley, and UtaE, a player of the traditional Ainu instrument mukkuri. Produced by Chee Shimizu.
KENJI IKEGAMI, who digs out madake bamboo from the mountains and plays the jinashi shakuhachi he made himself; the long tones of the shakuhachi layer…
Camphor II
First time on vinyl for this mainly instrumental collection of David Sylvian’s collaborations with Holger Czukay, Bill Nelson and Rain Tree Crow. This 11 Track compilation has been re-sequenced by David and contains an exclusive edit of “The Beekeeper’s Apprentice” from his 1999 Ambient masterpiece Approaching Silence.
Night As Day Day As Night
Texturally varied but seamless and dreamily brief, Night as Day Day as Night is the mesmerizing debut studio recording from a trio of remarkable Norwegian musicians. Christian Winther, Anja Lauvdal, and Espen Reinertsen all have rich musical histories, performing and recording a wide variety of styles from avant jazz to leftfield folk and ambient music. “I think all three of us,” Winther says, “are very interested in music that lingers in the in-between state of things.” And what these musicians…
Cavum/Of Salt and Sea
*100 copies limited edition* Metallic silver cassette tape with black direct imprinting housed in a clear norelco box. Loaded with FerroMaster C456™ super ferric, ultra-high performance type-1 music grade analog tape. Cassette box housed in a thick, matte O-Card wrap. Shrinkwrapped. Cassette design and layout by Zach Frizzell. Pressed and printed in the US, exclusively for Post. Festival, 2025 by Past Inside the Present. Marketed and distributed by Post. Recordings and Past Inside the Present.
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Past Inside the Post Sampler
*100 copies limited edition* Fluorescent blue cassette tape with housed in a custom printed PITP X POST pouch with resealable zip closure. Cassette loaded with FerroMaster C456™ super ferric, ultra-high performance type-1 music grade analog tape. Pressed and printed in the US, exclusively for Post. Festival, 2025 by Past Inside the Present. Marketed and distributed by Past Inside the Present2.
This special sampler was curated exclusively for Post. Fest 2025. It showcases a collection of post-roc…
Organic Music Tapes Vol. 4
*100 copies limited edition* In keeping with tradition, the new year brings another offering from Portuguese pianist and composer Tiago Sousa. The fourth volume of the Organic Music Tapes series concludes this cycle that has significantly transformed Tiago Sousa's music. Compositions in a fluid state, forming nebulae of sounds with vague contours for piano, organ, and tape loops, based on techniques pioneered by American minimalism, particularly by composers such as Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and…
Mannheim HBF
So the bad news is, in a fit of pique, I asked Chat GPT (nicely) to compose a one-sheet for the new Shit and Shine double album, ‘Mannheim HBF’. The even worse news (yes, even worse than resorting to such tactics) is that the resulting biography is halfway passable and on some levels, superior to the sort of thing being published by what’s left of our weekly coupon-shoppers. But for fuck’s sake my friends, Craig Clouse did not get to where he is today today by settling for halfway passable an…
Of How Hits
In attempting to write this dispatch on the second Voice Imitator album my instinct is to pitch them as somewhat of an antidote to the current ills of what could be described as the post-Noise Rock landscape. I’m trying not to tread too far down the path of negativity and slander, so let's just say that while on paper they share basic characteristics with popular groups in the pigfuck to frat rock pipeline, Voice Imitator possess a tact and vision scantly seen in Repetition Orientated Rock. On ‘…
Ashmadai
*2025 stock* "Two adepts of the sonic arts return with a morality play in four sides. Gone are the appeals to the winged serpent, the tree of life, or other past luminaries; these days they can be seen in consort with only one: Ashmadai. It is said that Ashmadai is not to be feared. When you say to it: 'In truth thou art Ashmadai,' it will give you a wonderful ring. It will teach you geometry, arithmetic, astronomy and mechanics. When questioned, it answers truthfully. Released on two twelve inc…
Dead-Loop
*2025 stock* Tim Barnes’ latest full-length: DE∆D-LOOP (AMI 038R/W), is his first solo release since 2002’s All Acoustics. DE∆D-LOOP offers another arm in Barnes’ wide-ranging body of music and work, as well as supplying an additional thread connecting the House, pop and sound art conversations the album engages. In many ways DE∆D-LOOP is House music that takes a sideways approach to the language of dance music. As both a concept and a practice, Barnes aims to turn House on its side, reconsideri…
Cabanes
It has been almost seven years since the release of Alpestres, the impressive debut by Matthias Puech on Hands in the Dark. While that first experience took us on a mystical journey through fascinating fictional landscapes, 'Cabanes' lets its narrative unfold in a confined space: eight pieces each resembling small structures or makeshift shelters that, while enveloping and isolating the listener, remain open to their surroundings. These are not merely interiors; they are handcrafted spaces throu…
If We Can't Dream, They Won't Sleep!!
*2025 stock* Strange connections -- Bilbao meets Japan via Berlin on a record that will put you in a constant state of WTF. ASMR rock? Post internet punk? A political manifesto in times of generalized madness? After his acclaimed 2017 destructo-punk single on Munster Records, Al Karpenter now delivers his mature, complex debut LP on the world's premier record label for adults, New York City's Ever / Never.
Al Karpenter is an elusive figure. On this record, he comes off like "Che" Guevara front…
The Forthcoming
*2025 stock* On their third album, Al Karpenter merges its singular vision with a host of collaborators. After finally becoming a band in 2022 with Marta Sainz and Enrique Zaccagnini from Santander joining Al Karpenter and Mattin, and in synchronicity with a recent CIA Debutante team-up, this group rises to the challenge of expanding its parameters. As Al Karpenter’s resident theoretician Mattin explains, “The last record was a result of the pandemic, introverted, isolated and with a blues energ…
Al Karpenter & CIA Debutante
*2025 stock* A collaboration between the Spanish Cabalists, Al Karpenter & French Rosicruanists, CIA Debutante, was not specifically foretold in the Fama Fraternitatis, but read between the lines, friend. That is where the truth lurks. The bilious Marxist splatter of the former, coursing alongside the dystopian surrealism of the latter, is a nefarious seance gambit born in the ether. Many voices are heard-fractious, cryptic, suffused, fading one into the other, the results often as hazy as the m…