Experimental / All styles

A devastating cry for Palestine, nearly five decades later, this radical 1977 masterpiece returns to vinyl via Black Sweat Records. Demetrio Stratos, Gaetano Liguori, and Giulio Stocchi created a powerful sonic testament to the 1976 Tall el Zaatar massacre - a devastating blend of free jazz, experimental vocals, and Mediterranean traditions. More than music, it's unflinching historical testimony that remains painfully relevant today.

After months of silence, Pancrace returns with Papotier - a mesmerizing acoustic ritual where a baroque organ becomes a speaking entity. Recorded in a 14th-century church, the album conjures a world where sacred airs and absurd gestures merge, collapsing the divide between voice, instrument, and myth.

Here are two extremely entertaining concoctions by two nineteenth-century American Romantics who wrote music on a grand scale. After a broadly lyrical first movement in the grand tradition of his friend and mentor Hector Berlioz, Gottschalk introduces, appropriately enough, a Cuban rumba into the second and final movement of his breezy south-of-the-border excursion, Night in the Tropics. The sources of Heinrich's musical style are in Haydn and to some extent Beethoven, but with the ornateness of…

Kommun, led by Swedish guitarist Finn Loxbo, resides in the tension between the experience of circular time; an elongated now, and the expectations contained within our linear perception of time. The ensemble explores the tension between the individual’s own lines and the collective meaning-making. Every sound is equally important, concrete in itself, as much a building block as a decoration. The ensemble collectively improvises phrases that are formed together as a singular element. They are di…

“Mine is the Heron” is the new Tom James Scott record, the first document of his solo work since 2017. Over the past decade, the UK-based composer has released a diverse body of recordings via labels such as Bo’Weavil, Carnivals, Where To Now?, and his own impeccably curated Skire imprint.

“Gyropedie,” Anne Guthrie’s third record for Students of Decay, takes us further into her hermetic practice, wherein expertly captured field recordings, French horn, and electronics are woven into potent and richly imagined electroacoustic environments. In Guthrie’s own words, “Quite literally a record of pilgrimage from East to West. Remnants of Midwest and East Coast soundmarks, instruments sold to lighten the travel load, sketched out and then buried under the new. Winter birds and crunching …

*75 copies limited edition* Campo Amaro is the fourth album by Rosso Polare, the Milan-based duo of Cesare Lopopolo and Anna Vezzosi. These compositions were inspired by observing the waterways that surround the fields of various Italian regions, the so-called ditches (fossi), bodies of water that are often polluted, but may also be full of flora and wildlife, lined with bitter and edible herbs. Throughout this land, small and distant chants emerge, twisted traditional songs of resistance or mad…

*75 copies limited edition* Operating since the late 2010s, Vienna-based sound artist the concept horse has quietly amassed a distinctive and diverse discography, drawing inspiration from the rich traditions of musique concrète, noise, plunderphonics, microsound, and free improvisation. “Public Detail” follows releases on labels such as Falt and czaszka [rec.], as well as the artist’s own eë editions, and neatly encapsulates the polyglottic breadth of the project. Patinaed piano loops and wistfu…

Following releases on West Mineral and Lillerne Tapes, Iggy Romeu’s inimitable Mister Water Wet project makes its Soda Gong debut. “Top Natural Drum” feels like a double entendre ode to digging culture, drawing equally from the plantlife in the dirt and the grooves in the stacks. Tracks like opener “Soak” concoct a haze of resonant ceramic/wooden percs, skittering drum programming, and addictive yet diffuse melodic and harmonic textures. Dusty-fingered nodders like “Caged at Last”, “Classicfit,”…

A Hiss of Light is the first recording made by sound artists Alanas Gurinas and Sholto Dobie. Both artists work with acoustic sound sculptures and self-made instruments made with everyday materials. In the case of Gurinas, vibrating and taught paper objects emit pulsing sine tones, organic chirps and shimmering noise that drift like weather fronts whilst in Dobie’s work, air is the main material, compressed and channeled through a set of valves, tubes and timers, into pipes of various origins. I…

2008 release ** "This is the first album by Mitsuru Nasuno (Altered States, Fushitsusha, Ground Zero, Korekyojinn, etc.), the top bassist in Tokyo's most cutting-edge scene, also known as the groove master. As the title suggests, the recording took place between 1998 and 1999. Two of the tracks (the third and fourth) were already included in the 10-disc box set "Improvised Music from Japan." This work is the complete version, so to speak. This complete version, which has finally seen the light o…

*Edition of 300 handnumbered copies* Milanese avant-pop label Ad Astra Dischi debuts with a 7" EP offering some experimental pieces bridging tradition and innovation.  Exploring the intersections of avant-garde and pop, “ADASTRA001” features three distinct tracks from Italian artists Dduma, Tadde, and Prima Alba, offering a concise yet rich introduction to the label’s vision.On Side A, Salentine artist Dduma channels the raw intensity of Mediterranean folk into “Fimmine de Guerra”, sung entirely…

2003 CD on United Durtro / Anomalous with an 'automatic' re-mix of the first NWW album by irr. app. (ext.) Matt Waldron.

Cassette edition of the second NWW album from 1980 manufactured and marketed by RRRecords in 1987 on behalf of United Dairies.

Cassette edition of NWW's 1983 LP with re-worked tracks from their 2nd and 3rd albums, manufactured and marketed by RRRecords in 1987 on behalf of United Dairies.

Very rare first edition of 500 copies on United Dairies from 1981 of the fourth NWW LP, with original A4 insert. Superb copy.

Very rare first edition of 500 copies on United Dairies from 1982 of the fifth NWW LP, with original A4 insert. Superb copy.

Original 1988 remixed second edition on United Dairies with gatefold sleeve of the classic 1985 album. With a host of guests including David Jackman, David Tibet, Diana Rogerson, Edward Ka-Spel, John Balance, Graham Revell, Brian Lustmord, Foetus, Robert Haigh, William Bennett, Karl Blake a.o.

Cassette edition of the seventh NWW album from 1986 manufactured and marketed by RRRecords in 1987 on behalf of United Dairies.

Cassette edition of the 1986 NWW anthology album manufactured and marketed by RRRecords in 1987 on behalf of United Dairies.

Original 1987 cassette on RRRecords / United Dairies with remixes of pieces previously released in different forms, and completely different from the LP compilation with the same title released two years later.

Cassette compiling the two 1984 12" EP's by NWW manufactured and marketed by RRRecords in 1987 on behalf of United Dairies.

Original 1987 cassette on RRRecords / United Dairies compiling odds and ends from the early years of NWW.

1989 compilation on Idle Hole Records of tracks from the first three classic NWW albums, released in a limited edition of 1000 copies.

1990 re-issue of the first the first three classic NWW LP's plus an extra album with two early compilation tracks, released as a 4CD set in LP-size box, with original insert.

1992 CD-only compilation on United Dairies collecting pieces from EP's from the late 80's plus a previously unreleased mix.

1993 CD-only compilation on United Dairies collecting pieces from albums and compilations released between 185 and 1991.

2006 live (an improvisation on Salt Marie Celeste and Echo Poeme) CD on ICR / United Dairies.

Very rare 2012 privately released CDr with unique hand-made and signed (by Steven Stapleton) covers only sold at gigs. A live recording from 2010 with the classic line-up of Stapleton, Colin Potter, Andrew Liles, M.S. Waldron.

Rare grey area mid-80's LP on Concrete Company (previously released as With All Its Special Effects) with an early/mid-80's live recording of NWW featuring a.o. Annie Anxiety, Chris Wallis, David Tibet, Diana Rogerson and John Balance. Probably limited to about 100 copies with paste-on cover.

Cassette edition of the 1986 split LP with David Jackman manufactured and marketed by RRRecords in 1987 on behalf of United Dairies.

Re-issue of the first NWW / Current 93 split cassette from 1983 manufactured and marketed by RRRecords in 1987 on behalf of United Dairies.

Re-issue of the second NWW / Current 93 split cassette from 1984 manufactured and marketed by RRRecords in 1987 on behalf of United Dairies.

Rare grey area split 7" EP from the late 80's with pieces from live recordings and compilation cassettes. Second edition of 93 copies with yellow cover.

Original 2001 edition limited to 500 copies of the collaboration with Petr Vastl. CD packaged between fragments of a large artwork: two 5"x5" hand painted pieces of wood held together by a ribbon on one corner and a bolt & nut on the other. With full color brochure and a 2-page press-release from Aranos.

Original 1996 edition on clear vinyl on United Durtro of the second collaboration between Stapleton and Tibet under their own names and sister album to Musical Pumpkin Cottage. With insert.

2009 expanded re-issue as a double CD set in gatefold cardboard sleeve with insert of the charming 1992 collaboration album.

1990 partly re-mixed re-issue on Harbinger with picture sleeve of the split 7" single originally included in the first 1000 copies of C93's Nature Unveiled.

1988 re-issue on L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords, with beautiful new cover by Steven Stapleton, of the very first C93 record release from 1984, with David Tibet, Stapleton, Coil's John Balance and 23 Skidoo's Fritz Häaman.