Improvised Music
Mail collaboration for electronics, violin, and audio letters.
Drugs Are Nice
Originally self-released during 1990, a tapestry of noise, girls talking into tape recorders, pre- and post-song material.
La Donna del Lago
** Edition of 100. Beautifully designed sleeve by Bruno Stucchi/Dinamomilano. ** Die Schachtel's latest follows naturally from the sonic territory explored within the label's Decay Music series, while pushing well beyond. La Donna del Lago is the debut release from the geography-spanning trio of the Italian bassist and composer, Massimo Pupillo; the Canadian soprano singer and conductor, Barbara Hannigan; and the French composer, sound engineer and musician David Chalmin. An immersive tapestry o…
Avàvâgo Zamran!
*300 copies limited edition* “Avàvâgo Zamran!” marks a new ritual transmission under the name Arrokoth, a project initiated by Guillaume Cazalet (Neptunian Maximalism, Zaäar, Sol Kia...) as an ongoing exploration of musical primitivism, liminality, and distant cultural imaginaries. Conceived as a vessel rather than a fixed ensemble, Arrokoth brings together collaborative works with Dimitar Dimitrov (Corpus Diavolis, Antelogos, Haiku Funeral) and John McKusick (Three Dragon Alley), resulting in a…
Olympiad - Vol. 4 - Curling
On John Zorn’s Olympiad Vol. 4 – Curling, John Zorn exhumes one of his rarest 1970s game pieces, a slow‑burn study in sustained tones, handing it to ROVA Saxophone Quartet and the William Winant Percussion Group, who turn its minimalist rules into 45 minutes of hovering, hypnotic sound.
Oi! Oi! Oi! (Nazi Skins Are NOT Electric)
"Oi! Oi! Oi! (Nazi Skins Are NOT Electric)" is a provocative 7-inch single by experimental performers Chris Lunch and Frieder Butzmann, released around 2005 on Mauerstadtmusik in Berlin. This anti-fascist punk track satirizes Nazi skinheads with its raw, electrified Oi! energy, flipping the genre's working-class roots into a sharp rebuke of far-right appropriation. Butzmann, known for his dadaist noise and performance art, teams up with Lunch's chaotic vocal style to deliver a jubilant, rebellio…
3M
Gate's "3M" is a 7-inch vinyl single released by New Zealand experimental musician Michael Morley, known for his work with The Dead C, on the German label Toneschacht. This record captures Morley's signature lo-fi, noise-drenched sound, blending distorted guitars, feedback, and abstract structures typical of his solo Gate project from the 1990s.
Sunshine / Ives
Gate is a New Zealand-based experimental project led by Michael Morley of The Dead C, known for its raw, noise-infused soundscapes and limited-edition releases on labels like Siltbreeze and Precious Metal.
The 7" single "Sunshine / Ives" captures Gate's signature style from the late 1980s to 1990s era, blending distorted guitar, drones, and abstract textures across gritty, lo-fi tracks that push boundaries between noise rock and avant-garde.
Pieces For Broken Piano
Pieces for Broken Piano turns a weather‑wrecked 1916 Gebrüder Stingl grand into an accidental “prepared” instrument, as Miroslav Beinhauer navigates new works by Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Milan Knížák, Gordon Monahan, Elliott Sharp, Milan Gustar and Yoon‑Ji Lee written specifically for its fractured voice.
Generic Flipper
Generic Flipper, the debut album by Flipper, remains the most absorbing full-length LP to emerge from the early San Francisco punk scene. A constant source of imitation for so-called "noise rock" bands, it has yet to be surpassed in its nihilistic glee. Recorded between October 1980 and August 1981 and released in 1982 on the indispensable Subterranean Records, this album functions as a chaotic, sticky mass of individual personalities: the magma-like bass eruptions and dual vocals of Will Shatte…
Lahar
LAHAR is the new musical work of Bandung power duo KUNTARI, Indonesia. A deeply atmosferic, bone-melting session of ancestral doom sounds delivered by the contemporary Indonesian primal music specialists. LAHAR is a Javanese term which was adopted in geology to describe a violent type of mudflow or debris flow composed of a slurry of pyroclastic material, rocky debris and water. The material flows down from a volcano, typically along a river valley. Lahars are often extremely destructive and dea…
Fabu and Teche
Fabu and Teche extends HeghL’s “camera mista” into two impersonal, semi‑ghostly surfaces, where language and technique rebound, hybridise and thin out into fragile, flickering forms that are neither one thing nor another, yet stubbornly refuse to disappear.
Du Jeu Idéal
Du Jeu Idéal turns HeghL’s philosophical play into sound, as Tekelerobutor (op.el) stages Luca Pedeferri’s piano against works by Lisa Baume and Francesco Trabattoni, treating Deleuze’s “game without rules” as a constantly mutating musical event.
Mise
Mise extends HeghL’s mythography of the “Outside” into an invented archive, staging the rediscovery of anonymous scores as an excuse for a radical piano‑led reconstruction of the imagined oeuvre and unfinished world of the elusive Andrea Firewell.
L'Entretien Infini
L’Entretien Infini finds HeghL translating a philosophico‑theatrical chain of voices into sound, as clarinet, violin, piano and double bass improvise around Maurice Blanchot’s “infinite conversation” and the elusive “Thought of the Outside.”
Guitars Infernal
The Greatest Living Guitarist returns! Following the acclaimed Broken Heart Surgery in 2025, Roy Montgomery delivers another stunning chapter in his ever-expanding sonic universe. Recorded in 2016 during a period of great turbulence in Montgomery's home life, Guitars Infernal emerges NOW - a decade later - because, while wholly instrumental, it "speaks" to extremely turbulent times in the world at large. Hold on to your hats. This is HEAVY.
Nine tracks of pure six-string electric guitar alchemy.…
Issue 86 (Magazine)
Audion 86 arrives as a concentrated blast of deep listening culture, a 44-page A4 issue that treats the margins of rock, jazz and experimental sound as its natural centre. First published on 6 February 2025 in simultaneous printed and pdf editions, the magazine continues Audion’s long-running refusal to follow fashion, pursuing instead what its editors call “explorations in sound and music” - the points where history gets strange, regional scenes bloom in isolation, and aesthetics mutate far fro…
Reflections Vol. 3: Water Poems
** Edition of 300. Glacial Blue Vinyl ** On Reflections Vol. 3: Water Poems, Félicia Atkinson and Christina Vantzou channel their friendship and atmospheric artistry into ceremonial focus. Spoken-word environments and orchestral imagination flow like tributaries into a unified stream, resulting in a collection of dreamlike songs and soundscapes anchored in sea, sky and stone. Through electro-acoustic instrumentation, voice, and environmental sound, Water Poems invites listeners into a subconscio…
Music in Continuous Motion
Bill Orcutt is back with what might be the most beautiful record in his 21st-century guitar quartet series. Music in Continuous Motion (Palilalia, LP/CD) pointedly steps away from the cut-and-paste constructivism of Music for Four Guitars into a sonic stratum that's - as Tom Carter writes - "yearningly melodic, resolutely human, and built for performance." Four guitars, twelve tracks, most hovering around two-and-a-half minutes each. No waste. No fat. Pure music.
Where Music for Four Guitars ope…
Untitled
Four exclusive tracks. Released in conjunction with a live performance at the Lagerhaus Bremen on 17. April 2004. Record One features two very dynamic untitled tracks by legendary industrial percussionist Zev recorded and mixed in early 2004 , while record Two features Zerfall-Gebiete a new collaborational project by Thomas Köner and Ulrich Krieger (former Zeitkratzer member who besides his solo work also plays in various other projects e.g. in a band project called Text Of Light with Lee Ranald…