Synthesizer
All records with synthesizer · Solo synthesizer only
Miraggi
Argento is David August's new project: an imagined soundtrack to the Tyrrhenian coast, synthesizers and field recordings with Lorenzo Setti on drums and percussion, in the wake of Italian library music.
The Pulse Of Atoms
Dark ambient pioneer Lustmord and drummer Dave Lombardo meet as Lustmord Lombardo: evolving walls of low-frequency sound shot through with percussion and synthesizers, mixed and mastered by Lustmord.
Allison de Groot & Rich Ruth
Clawhammer banjo meets synthesizers, loops and pedal steel: Allison de Groot and Nashville's Rich Ruth turn a planned solo record into a shared album of cosmic, tender instrumental music.
Docu-Fictions
Yves Daoust's documentary fictions from 1995 to 2021: Lily, built on a courtesan's confidences, in acousmatic and violin-accordion versions, a Chopin-based Impromptu 2, and Calme chaos, recorded at its 2012 premiere by the Nouvel ensemble moderne.
Minnets Långa Kedjor
First recorded work by Swedish drone composer Mats Erlandsson and double bassist Gus Loxbo, friends for 25 years: free improvisation, electroacoustic drone and doom, reshaped in the studio through digital processing and tape work.
Moho Abyss
Maurizio Bianchi with P.U.M.A. (Luca Valisi and Monica Calanni Rindina): ten pieces of drones, synths, field recordings and voice titled after THX 1138, Eraserhead, Stalker and other dystopian films. CDr, 100 copies.
The Runner (Original Soundtrack)
Score to The Runner, the short horror film written and directed by Boy Harsher: eerie instrumentals, drones and piano sketches born in lockdown, with dark pop in fragments and two guest songs (Mariana Saldaña of BOAN, Lucy).
Exposure
The 2022 Fourth Edition of Fripp's 1979 debut, mixed from the original multitracks by Steven Wilson, with the alternate vocal tracks on CD and hi-res and 5.1 versions on DVD.
From Red Black to Black, from Blue Black to Black
David Grubbs' commissioned music for Josiah McElheny's singing paintings, wall works with hand-blown glass discs that resonate sound: one 30-minute piece for lap steel, electric guitar and Serge synthesizer, built on microtonal slide.
Camminando di Notte
Following two remix EPs featuring reworks by Mad Professor, Peaking Lights and Danilo Plessow, Sensible Soccers return with Camminando di Notte, an album exploring the space where instrumental electronics, organic rhythms and dub-inflected textures converge into a sound of warm, hypnotic and subtly disorienting beauty.The album opens with “Chuva Morna” and "Balsinha Mentirosa", setting the tone with softly played guitars, hazy electronics and rarefied percussion. Rather than moving towards a con…
Accomplices
CCMC in its trio line-up of Michael Snow, John Oswald and Paul Dutton: piano and synthesizer, alto saxophone and sound poetry, recorded live in Toronto, Jonquière and Victoriaville in 1996 and 1997.
Sudori
Pino Minafra's Sud Ensemble in the studio in Milan, January 1995: trumpet, didgeridoo and ocarina with Carlo Actis Dato, Lauro Rossi and Giorgio Occhipinti, mixing southern Italian band music, free jazz and theatre.
Ursa's Door
Zeena Parkins' 1992 album recorded in New York: electric harp, keyboards and tape with Ikue Mori on drums, Chris Cochrane on guitar, David Shea, and her sisters Margaret and Sara on cello, violin and voice.
Oh Moscow
Lindsay Cooper's song cycle on texts by Sally Potter, about the divided Europe of the Cold War, live at Victoriaville in October 1989 with Phil Minton, Hugh Hopper, Marilyn Mazur, Alfred Harth and Elvira Plenar.
Confitures de Gagaku
Jean Derome's written music for a Montreal ensemble of flutes, clarinets and saxophones with bass, drums and percussion, recorded at Studio Victor in 1988. Composed jazz with a nod, in the title, to Japanese court music.
Antiphoneys: The Single Collection
34 tracks from Felix Kubin's singles, EPs and collaborations, 1998 to 2019, chosen by Kubin himself for this Japan-only 2CD, most never on an album and many new to CD. Limited to 300 copies, issued for his June 2026 Japan tour.
At Takutaku
Akira Sakata x Triple Edge live at Takutaku, Kyoto, February 2024: 65 minutes with Tsuboguchi, Hayakawa and Fujikake, plus Takayuki Kato on guitar and Hiroshi Funato on contrabass, built around the two-part Takutaku Suite.
Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory Anthology Vol. 2 - Raidió na hEorpa
Second volume of Miúin's Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory anthology, turning to the music cultures around the lab, including commissions by its engineer Tony Quinn. Cassette with book and A3 poster, curated by Neil P. Quigley.
Compressed Happiness
Compressed Happiness pairs Eiko Ishibashi with the Japanese noise project K2 across two pieces, Cold Pastoral and Sweet Paranoia's Heaven Version 3. Limited edition CD on Phage Tapes, 2014.
My Face Is Dancing
Debut by My Face Is Dancing, the family collective led by drummer and producer Federico Ughi with his young sons: avant-soul and abstract hip hop built from recordings made across the children's early years. Black vinyl, 100 copies.