Obscure Residue
On Obscure Residue, Dimples - the bicoastal duo of Greg Hartunian and Colby Nathan - sharpen fifteen years of friendship into bittersweet, uptempo pop where orchestral arrangements lift codeine‑dream melodies while lyrics circle time, scars and the quiet truth that some currents just turn you around.
As I Slip into the Sky
As I Slip Into the Sky reflects a particularly small sliver of time compared to Where the Smoke Goes, with recordings taking place in early 2025, while Johnny Coley was bed-bound in an assisted living facility with multiple sclerosis. Alabama born, Portland based artist Joel Nelson helms the nearly entirely electronic backdrop, posing a new canvas for Johnny, with Buchla music easel bubbling up between Johnny’s lines. This album captures Johnny in a remarkably tender and emotive form. Love and a…
Where the Smoke Goes
We are honored to present the final two LPs from the late Birmingham, AL-based queer poet and artist Johnny Coley, who passed away in 2025 at the age of 76. Tender, lucid, and slippery poems unspool in Johnny’s signature drawl, charting oblique journeys through the sidereal and mundane. He composes painterly landscapes of his beloved Alabama and imagines waking up in the crowded streets of London. This is Southern Surreal story-telling where each new word opens a door to the familiar unexpected.…
Birds Measuring Space
During a 2016 trip to Colombia, I was very fortunate to be welcomed by the staff of the Rio Claro Natural Reserve, located in the central Cordillera. After several days of recording in the caves—the ones open to the public—inhabited by small colonies of cave-dwelling Guacharos (Steatornis caripensis), Juan Guillermo Garcés, director and founder of the Rio Claro sanctuary, allowed me to access a secret location outside of the reserve, home to what ornithologists reckon is one of the largest known…
Bright Lights, L'il City
Bright Lights, L'il City was recorded from November '22 until August '25 in Chicago, Kilkenny, Cork and Glasgow. Played, Recorded and Mixed by Sam Scranton and Neil Quigley
Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory Anthology Vol. 3 - The Stray Sod
The Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory (K.E.R.L.) announces the release of the third and final volume of its acclaimed anthology, a richly layered exploration of experimental sound, artistic collaboration, and the cultural phenomena orbiting the enigmatic Kiely cousins, Owen and Tom. Bringing the series to a compelling close, this volume bridges archival research, oral history, and critical reflection, tracing the roots and reverberations of a uniquely Irish avant-garde movement. The b…
Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory Anthology Vol. 1 (1965-89)
A curated collection of music and sound experiments from the archives of the now defunct Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory.
The Art Of Joan La Barbara (LP)
Fantastic album with the great singer performing with her extended vocal technique and electronics three compositions for voice, instruments and electronics by herself plus one piece for voice, cellos, English horn and synthesizer by Subotnick, released by Nonesuch in 1985.
Music On A Long Thin Wire (2LP)
Rare 2LP set released by Lovely Music in 1980 with the ethereal droning investigation into the physics of the sound of a thin wire. Evocative truly experiemtnal music.
Frieze For Four Pianos / Pulse Music III (LP)
Rare 1987 LP on Edition Michael Frauenlob Bauer pairing a superb 1979 electronic piece with aminimalist and playful 1974 compoaition for four pianos. Never re-issued on either Lp or CD.
Face The Windmills, Turn Left (LP)
Great electronic/tape pieces realized in 1976 at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center and released on the composer's own Finnadar label.
Documentations 1986-91 (VHS)
Very rare privately released in a very few copies 1991 VHS documenting five sound installations including his famous Speaker Swinging and his works with Aeloian strings, films unavailable in any other format.
The Dresden Interleaf 13 February 1945 / Music From The Venezia Space Theatre / Megaton For Wm. Burroughs (LP)
Outstanding 1979 album on Lovely Music with three powerful and groundbreaking electro-acoustic pieces realized in the mid-1960's for theater and multi-media performances. Essential, with some of the most uncompromising and extreme electronic music ever released.
The Dresden Interleaf 13 February 1945 / Music From The Venezia Space Theatre / Megaton For Wm. Burroughs (LP)
Outstanding 1979 album on Lovely Music with three powerful and groundbreaking electro-acoustic pieces realized in the mid-1960's for theater and multi-media performances. Essential, with some of the most uncompromising and extreme electronic music ever released.
The Dresden Interleaf 13 February 1945 / Music From The Venezia Space Theatre / Megaton For Wm. Burroughs (LP)
Outstanding 1979 album on Lovely Music with three powerful and groundbreaking electro-acoustic pieces realized in the mid-1960's for theater and multi-media performances. Essential, with some of the most uncompromising and extreme electronic music ever released.
Op. 30 Hairy Vibe + Double Identity (LP)
Grey area late 1990's vinyl re-issue with silk-screened cover of a self-released 1992 cassette with rather Dadaist sound manupulations by Fluxus-related composer. With insert.
Four Organs / Phase Patterns (LP)
1974 re-press of the 1970 LP on Shandar with two seminal compositions for 4 organs (one plus maracas) from the same year, performed by Philip Glass and Jon Gibson among others, along with the composer. Essential minimalism.
Drumming / Music For Mallet Instruments Voices And Organ / Six Pianos (3LP box)
Mid/late 1970's re-press of essential 3LP box set on DGG with three seminal phasing minimalist compositions from the early 1970's of evocative beauty, with Cornelius Cardew, Joan La Barbara, Jay Clayton, Glen Velez and the composer himself among the performers. With booklet
Music For 18 Musicians (LP)
Rare original 1978 edition on ECM of one of the most beautiful and evocative Minimalist pieces ever, composed in 1976. Essential Minimalism.
Music For 18 Musicians (LP)
Rare mid-1980's re-issue on ECM New Series of one of the most beautiful and evocative Minimalist pieces ever, composed in 1976. Essential Minimalism.