A Fine Chance for Permanence
*100 copies limited edition* A Fine Chance for Permanence captures a pivotal moment in contemporary improvisation, where a new generation of musicians reshapes the language of spontaneous music in response to an increasingly fragmented, hyper-connected world. Drawing from decades of experimental traditions—from 1960s free music to the reductionist movements of the early 2000s—the album proposes a fluid, “both/and” aesthetic that resists fixed ideologies in favor of multiplicity, dialogue, and sh…
Kite
*200 copies limited edition* Mysterious lycanthrope and sound-explorer from Gothenburg, Sweden and surrounding forests - behind the name Ratvader is the composer Oscar Sidoff Rydelius. Discreet Music crossed paths with Oscar for the first time during 2025, a chance meeting that resulted in the enchanting 14-track album Kite now released on Gustaf Dickssons in-house imprint Frihetens Förlag. Evocative and strangely moving soundtrack-style compositions that at times feels like the medieval bastard…
Live at Somewhere
"I call it ‘the Shadow Pattern Vignette’. A fragmentary and pleasingly non-discriminatory exercise in audio capture which, when sequenced, compiled or arranged alongside other such vignettes, leads to the finished work of Nate Ivanco’s Shadow Pattern. You can reach into the hermetic depths of his Hamilton Tapes micro label, recent transatlantic appearances via Infant Tree, Chocolate Monk or adhuman, or indeed, this new LP ‘Live at Somewhere’ and find the Shadow Pattern Vignette. Forever in evide…
The Dream Island of Birds
Mike Cooper returns to Discrepant with »The Dream Island of Birds«. Neither documentary nor abstraction, »The Dream Island of Birds« sits between field recording, memory, and invention — an island heard through time and circuitry.
In the early 1990s, Cooper met illustrator and writer Charles van Sandwyk while walking on a small island in Fiji. Van Sandwyk was living there quietly, working from a modest bamboo house near the beach. Years later, Cooper learned that following a serious car accident…
Movie
*150 copies limited edition* Filmmaking and music-making share a common element of worldbuilding. Whole cloth, environments are raised in which a perspective can be placed; the viewer, the listener, is taken on a ride into the unknown for a time. Movie, the newest album by DMV-based duo Lifted, is like a film shot with microphones rather than cameras, using the pacing, spatialization, and semiotics of cinematic sound design to lead us through a surreal soundworld that draws as much from Foley ar…
Fragments of Soaring Vessels
The tracks that make up Fragments of Soaring Vessels are conceived as “sensitive vehicles.” Although they seem quite different at first listen, closer listening reveals multiple points of intersection—often overlapping, sometimes paradoxical. The Inexpressible Feeling of Dereliction approaches an attempt at a sonic transposition of a feeling of emptiness and rupture that may arise in an extreme situation, in which a pious person is confronted with a moment of absolute disillusionment regarding t…
In C (LP)
Late 1970's re-press on CBS of one of the most beautiful, ground-breaking, original, psychedelic, influential, riveting, etc. experimental music album ever made, originally released in 1968. Essential unsurpassed masterpiece.
In C (LP)
Late 1970's re-press on CBS of one of the most beautiful, ground-breaking, original, psychedelic, influential, riveting, etc. experimental music album ever made, originally released in 1968. Essential unsurpassed masterpiece.
A Rainbow In Curved Air (LP)
1980's re-press on CBS Masterworks of possibly the most beautiful, ground-breaking, original, psychedelic, influential, riveting, etc. experimental music album ever made, originally released in 1969. Essential unsurpassed masterpiece. Carrollton Pressing.
Persian Surgery Dervishes (2LP)
Original edition on Shandar of the Minimalist/repetitive tour-de-force for electric organ & feedback released as a double LP set in 1972, some of the most original and genuinely psychedelic avant-garde music ever. Essential masterpiece.
Lifespan (LP)
1978 re-issue on Stip of the superlative haunting and atmospheric soundtrack to the 1975 film Le Secret de la Vie. One of the most beautiful and enjoyable Minimalism-related albums.
Shri Camel (LP)
Rare original US edition of the 1980 album with the beautiful 1978 improvisation for electronic organ and computerized digital delay. Pitman Pressing.
No Man's Land (LP)
1985 LP on Planisphare with the beautiful Indian-tinged soundtrack blending synthesizer, piano and vocals with sitar and tabla.
Cadenza On The Night Plain And Other String Quartets (2LP)
2LP set released by Gramavision in 1985 with the string quartets in collaboration with the Kronos Quartet moving beyond the Minimalism of the early period. Includes catalogue.
Church Of Anthrax (LP)
Original UK edition on CBS of the very unique 1971 collaboration bridging Minimalism and experiemntal rock in a very unusual way.
Portal (LP)
Rare 1983 album on the tiny Lumina Records of solo music for saxophone, clarinet and ocarina played with extended techniques bridging contemporary classical music and free jazz. Copy with authograhed inscription.
En Concert (LP)
Rare canadian album released by Music Gallery Editions in 1979 of improvised experimental music played on self-built instruments with occasional use of electronic sound-modification techniques. With insert.
The Expanding Universe (LP)
Very rare album released by Philo in 1980 with superb, innovative and engaging, experimental computer music pieces, realized in the mid-1970's by the synthesizer pioneer.
Silver Apples Of The Moon (LP)
'The' Buchla synthesizer album and a seminal and influential timeless electronic music classic, released by Nonesuch in 1967. Essential. Allentown pressing.
A Sky Of Cloudless Sulphur / After The Butterfly (LP)
Excellent 1980 LP on Nonesuch pairing two compositions from the late 1970's: a full electronic synthesizer/tape piece and composition for trumpet with ensemble and live electronics (the "electronic ghost score").