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Deep Time
“Deep Time” is a tape composition commissioned in 1991 by the Deep Listening Institute for Deep Listening Band. Fritz Hauser’s tape features recordings of sounding stones (manufactured by Arthur Schneiter) and various watches and clocks (thanks to the Bucher family in Switzerland for permission to record that family clock!). The performers improvise with the tape. On October 26, 1994 Pauline Oliveros, David Gamper, Urs Leimgruber and Fritz Hauser recorded 2 versions of Deep Time. Both of these 3…
Suspense and Romance 1987
This cassette release features live performance recordings from Suspense and Romance, Dumb Type’s first large-scale exhibition, held in 1987 at Tsukashin Hall in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture.This work marks the first time composer Toru Yamanaka created and produced all the music for a Dumb Type project. It documents a unique musical collaboration with saxophonist Harry Kitte.Developed under the theme of “Suspence and Romance”, Yamanaka's compositions weave together the cinematic lyricism of jazz …
De Lusioni
2026 stock Formed in Rome in 1984, this is a newly mastered release of ARPIA's first demo tape from 1987. “De Lusioni” is comprised of 7 songs -clocking at 71 minutes- which the band has described at an "experimental demo but of rich forms and ideas later developed in a more organic way."   The massive reverb on the vocals and guitar on the opening track, "1783," immediately reminds one of Paul Chain. Some songs find the band dropping into the experimental/theatrical realm with vocals that sound…
The Way Things Will Be
2026 stock Rediscover the blistering raw power of Italian hardcore legends Funhouse Originally an LP, this Minotauro edition unleashes 10 tracks of relentless d-beat fury, metallic riff assaults, and unfiltered anarchist rage—capturing the band's prime-era ferocity from their Vicenza underground lair.
Behind Eleven Deserts
In Behind Eleven Deserts, Stephan Micus braids suling, sarangi, sitar and bodhrán into a quietly radiant ritual, a 1978 desert mirage where distant traditions dissolve into one slow, breathing, unmistakably Micusian song.
Westwood One In Concert, Broadcast July 18, 1994
2026 stock Westwood One In Concert, Broadcast July 18, 1994 captures a live radio broadcast performance by the British synthpop duo Erasure, featuring Andy Bell and Vince Clarke. This recording stems from a Westwood One promotional series, airing on US radio stations in mid-1994 amid the promotion of their album I Say I Say I Say. It showcases the duo at the peak of their commercial success, with hits like "Always" dominating charts that year. The setlist likely draws from their 1991–1994 repert…
In A Different Climate
2026 stock In A Different Climate is the second and final studio album by the American rock band Mallard, released in 1976 on Virgin Records. Formed by ex-Captain Beefheart Magic Band members Bill Harkleroad (guitar), Mark Boston (bass), along with vocalist Sam Galpin, keyboardist John Thomas, and drummer George Dragotta, the band leaned into a progressive country-rock sound with swampy blues elements. Recorded in Wales and produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange, it features Harkleroad's signature…
Primati
2026 stock Hailing from the raw energy of Italy's underground scene, Frend unleash Primati, a primal roar of distorted guitars, pounding rhythms, and lyrics that claw at the soul. This debut LP channels the ferocity of ancient apes with modern edge—think explosive riffs echoing evolutionary chaos, from the brooding opener "Scimmia Urbana" to the frenzied closer "Dominio Perduto." Blending post-punk grit with shoegaze haze and a dash of no-wave frenzy, Primati is a savage evolution: 10 tracks of …
Soft Rains Will Come
"Soft Rains Will Come" is the second collaboration between G.W. Sok and Ignacio Córdoba, following their 2024 experimental collage album "Is This A House". This time, the pair rebuild their fragmented sound within a band - This House - alongside drummer Søren Høi and synthesist Kristian Tangvik, turning abstraction into something loud, rhythmic, and alive. At its core, the record treats rhythm as architecture. Every instrument acts as percussion, each with its own colour and instability, orbitin…
Hiver Profond
Nantes based Kévin Couapel aka Pont Alexandre III crafts a sonic world grounded in ambient and experimental electronic music, where slowness, repetition, and texture shape the core of its language. The music unfolds as an immersive architecture of sound, balancing shadow and light, density and silence. The compositions favor understated emotional narratives, allowing traces of nostalgia, isolation, and delicate serenity to surface. Synthesizers, hazy and enveloping, are treated as organic matter…
Two Moons for Eyes
*70 copies limited edition* The sweet night thickens like boiling jam. Two muted moons transmute into silent eyes, its rays glowing through different stages of reality. A path through haze unfolds as Niko Karlsson's gentle guitar unfolds like a twisted flower and recedes back into invisibility under a shower of fern's seeds.
Tertous
*100 copies limited release* Tertous is the first album by the duo formed by Mélanie Loisel and Rachel Langlais. It consists of seven acoustic instrumental pieces recorded at GMEA in Albi (France). A double bassist with a classical background, now engaged in free improvisation and experimental forms, Mélanie Loisel also develops the solo project Borguefül, in which she explores a ritual, transfigured double bass at the crossroads of imaginary languages and reimagined traditions. Rachel Langlais,…
Totem flotté
*100 copies limited release* With Totem Flotté, Brice Kartmann delivers a first solo album of instrumental electronic music, in which the modular synthesizer becomes a true field of exploration and immersion. Sound engineer, musician, sound designer, and composer—particularly for documentary cinema—Brice Kartmann shifts his experience of image and narrative into a purely sonic realm. The album’s nine pieces function like autonomous organisms, each endowed with its own breath, internal tensions, …
Erosão Percussion Trio
Drummer, singer, composer, and producer Mariá Portugal (BR) joins Berlin-based percussionists Burkhard Beins (DE) and Emilio Gordoa (MX) to form the Erosão Percussion Trio, which is now releasing its debut album through Kassiani Records and Fun in The Church. Their performances are strongly grounded in improvisation, drawing on a wide variety of percussion instruments — ranging from the traditional drum set to other unconventional instruments. The trio’s sound is enriched by the percussive use o…
Underground Vein
'Underground Vein' is a mystifying and curious recording for two electric basses. Focusing on prepared techniques, modulation effects and the odd sighting of looped phrases, Masatake Abe and Ken Ikeda create an undulating sea of texture and atmosphere across the albums 12 pieces. A strange, alien landscape of sounds and moods, Masatake had the following to say about the albums creation and inspiration: "Ken Ikeda is active as an electronics player, but it may not be well known that he was origin…
A Room In The Void - The Collected Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly, The Game Players Of Titan & The Transmigration Of Timothy Archer were originally released on cassette by Tribe Tapes as Philip K. Dick Volume One. Dr. Bloodmoney (mislabelled as Lies Inc.) & Second Variety were originally released on cassette by Detachment Programs as Philip K. Dick Volume Two. Flow My Tears The Policeman Said & We Can Build You are previously unreleased material from the original sessions and are exclusive to this release.
To The Cloud-Cuckoo Land Of Color Wheels!
Dark Companion Records is truly thrilled to add this extraordinary band to our family of artists. This album marks their debut for our Unifaun Productions. To The Cloud-Cuckoo Land of Color Wheels is the third album by Malesh, a Wyrd Folk project hailing from the hidden caves of Tuscia. The album was written and recorded by the duo Pablo Monterisi and Martino Petrella at Domitia Jovian’s Viburnum Studio in Monterano, while the visuals and costumes are the result of a collaboration with Roman art…
Thirty-Second Annual Report
Thirty years on from the original, Throbbing Gristle returned to the source material of The Second Annual Report - their catastrophic debut of November 1977, pressed in a run of 785 copies on their own Industrial Records with white labels, a "Nothing Short Of A Total War" sticker, and a Xerox warning strip about the shortcomings of the pressing - and reinterpreted it live at La Grande Halle-La Villette, Paris, on 6 June 2008. That performance was captured in full and issued as this 12" 180gm LP,…
Changing Bodies
On changing bodies, Thomas Peter treats the world as a resonant instrument, folding field recordings, objects and synths into five patiently mutating pieces where motion, texture and silence feel as physical as touch.
Health & Safety
On Health & Safety, Johan Surrballe Wieth drags his post‑hardcore sensibility into a hushed, modern‑classical fever dream: 25 minutes of grief‑stricken keys, corroded drones and ghost‑violin traces that move like medicated insomnia.