EX! Magazine Edition 6 (Magazine)
This is the sixth issue of EX! Magazine for Experimental Art (audio, visual, text, etc.). There are two versions: print (Book/Magazine) and digital (Digital Album). The print version (Book/Magazine) includes the 100-page zine (printed climate-neutral on recycled paper), the digital compilation, and a download code for an exclusive album by Limestone Ziggurat.
EX! Edition 6 is feat. Andy Billington, Anna Mainz, Christina Ruf, Corina Retzlaff, Fabian Eichstaedt, Ingrid N, Isabelle Gagné, Łukasz Po…
Shutsumin
Shutsumin, the debut recording from the generation spanning duo of Japanese legend Otomo Yoshihide, toggling between guitar and turntables, and rising saxophonist Kei Matsumaru, a native of Papua New Guinea, who moved to Tokyo after studying jazz at the Berkelee College of Music in Boston, where he's become a close collaborator of Eiko Ishibashi in addition to leading his own genre-defying solo projects. Both musicians casually ignore lines between jazz, experimental music, and noise, fashioning…
Veneration for the sacred action
‘Compilation one: veneration for the sacred action’ is the first compilation release by london-based independent record label ‘life is beautiful records’. Released in celebration of the 3 year anniversary (of the label & the gesamtkunstwerk that it exists within), the compilation brings together members of the life is beautiful septet collective, as well as various collaborators and special guests from previous life is beautiful events of the past 3 years. the compilation highlights a range of t…
White Sands
*150 copies limited edition* "Later, listening back to the recording, he was surprised to find how the sound of the gulls and wind, the slap of waves, evoked not the grim reality of the crossing but the romantic ideal of a sun soaked cruise." - Geoff Dyer Compared to my last couple of albums (Mote Music and Borrowed Out of Time) White Sands is somewhat of a departure in style. This album has a heavier emphasis on conventional instrumentation and harmonic structure which is something that I have …
Pneuma
Double bassist and composer Henry Fraser announces the release of Pneuma, a new solo album out June 12 on Kou Records and recorded, mixed, and co-produced by Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Jóhann Jóhannsson) and Ben Greenberg (Uniform, Marc Ribot). Across eight concise movements, Fraser explores breath, resonance, and the evolving relationship between composition and improvisation, shaping an intimate sonic landscape in which the double bass seems to inhale, bloom into overtones, and dissolve back int…
Looks Far Woman
Cellist and composer Aliya Ultan announces Looks Far Woman, a new solo album out June 26 on Kou Records, recorded, mixed, and produced by Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Jóhann Jóhannsson). The album takes its name from a guiding figure in Aliya's personal mythology — a seer who moves between worlds carrying the medicine of patience, prophecy, and transmutation — drawn in part from Jamie Sams' The Thirteen Original Clan Mothers. Structured as a six-part song cycle — Wind Song, Road Song, Mountain Song,…
Shade Zero
Flutist and composer Taiga Ultan announces the release of Shade Zero, her debut full-length album out June 26 on Kou Records and recorded, mixed, and produced by Randall Dunn (Anna von Hausswolff, Annea Lockwood, Danny Elfman). Structured as a three-part work, the album traces a gradual transformation from virtuosic flute performance rooted in classical discipline to extended techniques, spoken language, and poetic reflection. At the center of Shade Zero is an investigation into the relationship…
Ecliptic
*100 copies limited edition* Across two decades of restless exploration, Haptic—the trio of Steven Hess, Joseph Clayton Mills, and Adam Sonderberg—has earned a reputation for meticulously assembled recordings and compelling live performances that veer from rigorous minimalism to densely textured, immersive sonic environments. Consistently blurring the lines between different genres and disciplines, their experimental practice has expanded to include installations, soundtracks, and unique site-sp…
Suspended Movement
*100 copies limited edition* Granny records is a record label founded in Thessaloniki, Greece publishing works by contemporary musicians. Granny also supports acts of innovative artists by organizing events in the city of Thessaloniki.
Savvas Metaxas - modular synth, electric & acoustic guitar, baglama, double bass, objects & soundsEvi Nakou - flute on part IFilippos Raskovic - piano on part III
Quiet Storm
Space Afrika, the Manchester/Berlin-based duo of Joshua Tarelle Reid and Joshua Inyang, make raw, intensely detailed, visceral music with shades of ambient, trip-hop, techno, and modern classical, drawing spacious urban dubscapes from the contours of their city. 'Quiet Storm', the duo's highly anticipated follow-up to their 2021 LP on Dais Records, expands on its predecessor’s sound and scale in every direction as a sprawling, collaborative vision shaped with profound patience and intention. The…
Electronic Dance Music, 1966-1989
Often credited as the father of multi-media theatre, Alwin Nikolais (1910-1993) took complete creative control over his productions - including cutting-edge approaches to lighting and costume that transformed human bodies into shifting sculptural shapes, while also composing wildly innovative electronic music as accompaniment.
After initially experimenting with musique concrète and tape manipulation (as demonstrated on the 1959 LP Choreosonic Music of the New Dance Theatre of Alwin Nikolais) Nik…
Man Eating Tree
Tip! Man Eating Tree is the first solo album by Belgian-born, Oslo-based pianist Jonas Cambien. On prepared piano and electric organ, Cambien channels a soundscape of meditative repetition and oscillating rhythms. Cambien's background is dappled with diversity. While training in classical piano at the Conservatory of Brussels, he focused on contemporary repertoire. This would deeply shape his playing and ensuing projects, largely in Norway, where Cambien has embedded himself as a pillar of Oslo’…
Ossiach Live 1971 (2CD)
Rare 1994 2CD re-issue on Four Aces Records of the 1971 3LP set documenting a wild festival of jazz/rock/fusion/free/electronic/ethnic music with exclusive live tracks by Tangerine Dream and Anima as well as Weather Report, O.M. Zykan Ensemble, The Dave Pike Set, Franz Hummel, Friedrich Gulda & Filharmonïja Zagreb, Parikh/Bellare, Madrigalchor Bukarest, Le Groupe Liturgique De Tunis, Surman/Phillips/El Mahdi/Ponty/Martin/Slama/Gruntz/Osman/Jouini/Fuchs and The Trio.
Fallersleben (LP)
2004 EP on Vinyl-on-demand in an edition of 250 numbered copies with poster signed by Wolfgang Muller, with 1981 recordings by the experimental/NDW performance art and music group.
Strudelsölle (6LP box)
2004 6LP box set on Vinyl-on-demand (their first release) re-issuing the first six tapes from the early 1980's by the experimental/NDW performance art and music group.
Motherfuckers GmbH & Co KG (LP)
Very rare original edition on Ohr of the weirdest, most experimental, original and radical albums of Krautrock, released in 1972 but recorded in 1970, one of the essential masterpieces on the NWW list for whom it was a major influence.
Energie Für Alle (LP)
Very rare and obscure 1982 privately-released album of experimental minimal synthesizer music by Swiss keyboard player and producer.
Fünfzehn Tonspuren (LP)
Very rare and obscure Astrian compilation produced and released in 1984 by the Hochschule Für Angewandte Kunst in Wien with diverse experimental/electronic/NDW/minimal/free "acoustic materializations of 15 imaginary films/videos in the form of an LP" by artists appearing only here and including Hans Weigand, Gudrun Bielz, Lisi + Rose Breuss, Karl Kowanz, Tommy Schneider, Rupert Putz, Inge Graf + Zyx, Ebba Sinzinger + Anna Petschinka, Christina Brandauer + Ralph Ralph, Helmut Rainer, Gary Texas, …
Now I Imagine A Place Not The Same
Electric guitarist and composer David Torn announces "now i imagine a place not the same," an expansive new double LP out May 29 via Kou Records. Produced by Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Thurston Moore), the album revisits the raw electricity of Torn’s early processing language while carrying it forward with the perspective of decades of exploration. Visceral yet weightless, it deepens his long-standing dialogue between alternate tunings, looping systems, and touch-sensitive electronics. Melody, noi…
The Will Of Tongues
Hardback book style packaging, 24 page booklet + 140 minutes of music - The most ambitious work of Sarah Davachi's career to date. Spanning more than two hours of music across three LPs, The Will of Tongues arrives on the composer's own Late Music imprint as a vast, deeply considered statement - a meditation on the act of listening itself, and on the mental spaces that sound, given duration and reduction, continually opens.
Over the last decade, Davachi has emerged as one of the most singular vo…