Lucciole
Lucciole is Silvia Tarozzi’s luminous follow-up to the intimate reflections of Mi specchio e rifletto and the deeply rooted folk dialogues of Canti di guerra, di lavoro e d’amore with Deborah Walker. Here, Tarozzi draws together voices, memories, and musical lineages to create an album where avant-garde composition, personal narrative, and collective resonance exchange freely. The album opens with a radiant brass ensemble—chosen for its popular, celebratory, spiritual sound—and closes with the P…
01.03.25
*80 copies limited edition* Since 2013 on NTS, Time is Away (Jack Rollo and Elaine Tierney) has redefined the concept of radio storytelling. Theirs is a cultured and visceral assemblage that weaves ambient, sacred music, dub, and field recordings with literary and cinematic fragments. A work on memory and sonic resistance that culminated in the acclaimed compilations Ballads (2022) and Searchlight Moonbeam (2023).
We invited them to an event in collaboration with Quindi Records at the Church of …
Alyssa
*300 copies limited edition. Black sleeves with paste-on artwork and a postcard* Debut LP from a new Gothenburg duo consisting of Irma Krook (Makthaverskan) and Dan Johansson (Sewer Election). Alyssa takes elements from Irmas Military Arms 12" released a few years ago and combines it with the mind expanding synth stuff Dan has explored with the Psychic Panorama recordings recently. Adding a few larger-than-life piano bangers and whatnot, the result is a dreamy and mesmerizing night time album …
Geschrieben in Wasser
On geschrieben in wasser., Klaus Lang pares the piano quartet down to a faintly breathing organism, letting soft, slowly shifting harmonies hover at the edge of audibility like something written on water just before it disappears.
For a Lemon Tree
On For a Lemon Tree, Kristofer Svensson, Maya Bennardo and Erik Blennow Calälv cultivate a fragile, glowing sound‑world where violin, bass clarinet and kacapi trace slow, intertwined lines, turning silence, breath and overtone into their primary compositional materials.
Clarinet Quintet
On his Clarinet Quintet, Jürg Frey stretches time until it feels almost weightless, using soft clarinet breaths and hushed strings to trace a slow, luminous drift where tiny inflections become whole landscapes of feeling.
Flare
On Flare, Sylvia Lim turns six chamber works into a series of luminous close‑ups, magnifying tiny shifts of timbre, breath and touch until fragile sounds bloom into something cathartic, raw and quietly destabilising.
Tending
On Tending, James Creed threads four ensemble works through a shared practice of careful, collective attention, letting sparse parts, quiet doublings and gently unstable textures accumulate into music that feels like weather slowly forming in the air around you.
Sonatas And Interludes For Prepared Piano (2LP)
Cage's very rare first album of his landmark 1946-48 compositions performed by Maro Ajemian, released as a double LP set on Dial Records in 1951, it can't get more seminal than this. An essential piece of history in embossed heavy cardboard gatefold sleeve with stickers.
John Cage / Kenneth Patchen (LP)
Very rare ultra-limited first release from 1988 on RRRip of very early electro-acoustic pieces from the 1940's including the collaboration with experimental writer Kenneth Patchen.
John Cage / Christian Wolff (LP)
1970 re-issue on Mainstream of the 1963 split LP on Time Records experimental music series curated by Earl Brown, with Cage's 1960 wild noise/industrial (20 years in advance) electronic piece performed with David Tudor, backed with three compostions by Wolff for duet and string quartet. Essential.
Variations IV (LP)
First volume of excerpts from the ground-breaking and mind-blowing August 1965 sound collage performance (predating Nurse With Wound and Bladder Flask for about 15 years), released by Everest in 1966 (this is a 1970 re-press with different labels). Essential.
Variations IV Volume II (LP)
Second volume of excerpts from the ground-breaking and mind-blowing August 1965 sound collage performance (predating Nurse With Wound and Bladder Flask for about 15 years), released by Everest in 1969 (this is a 1970 re-press with different labels). Essential.
Microphone (LP)
The astonishing and influential first solo electronic album by the pianist/composer and one of the rarest on Cramps' superlative "Nova musicha" experimental music series, released in 1978. Some of the best and most extreme electronic music ever.
Music For Merce Cunningham / Dialects / Untitled (LP)
Rare 1998 red vinyl LP on Rotating Arts Press in a limited edition of 200 numbered copies with an undated recording of a satellite broadcast of the electronic environment for a live event by Merce Cunningham, plus two 1988 live radio recording.
Albumin
Tip! Jim O'Rourke and Jos Smolders teamed up again after their first collaboration, Additive Inverse from 2021. Over a period of three years, both artists worked in sessions of a day, each in their own studio.The result is sometimes like a warm cloud of sounds, suddenly breaking up into a rhythmic, irregular pattern, after which it dives into introverted mindsets. The music is in constant flux. The project followed the same workflow, but this time Jim took the lead and kicked off with a salvo of…
Live Unison and Unison Continued
Live Unison and Unison Continued is the latest collaborative effort from American composer-performers Kieran Daly and Sam Weinberg. Unison marks the fourth album released by the duo since 2022 with this release documenting the second live recorded performance.
Right Into The Sun
Stern Records is proud to announce the first-time reissue of tself perpetuating plunderphonic classic, Right Into The Sun by Pol Maló.
♫ ⎜ II
After its first release in 2023, the tiny big band Parasite Jazz brings its public iterations to fruition with “♫”, a testament to an alternate reality, matured voyaging across France over the span of four seasons. It sees the music flee through exuberant forests and steep troglodytes ; a parallel genre movie with a soundtrack of diluvian rhythms, mocking chants, jazz noir and voodoo accidents. In this shifting, autonomous world, the elastic orchestra—whose members keep on appearing and disappea…