Voice
Au Nom Deus Asos
Elizabeth Vogler sings in Occitan and other South-West dialects to harmonium alone in the church of Lescun, in the Pyrénées: six songs between ancient folk and experimental music, first time on vinyl, 100 copies.
Occam Ocean 1-4
The first four volumes of Éliane Radigue's Occam Ocean on five CDs: solos, chamber pieces and orchestra, all shaped through oral transmission around images of water. Bundle of four Shiiin releases.
The Great Learning
All seven Paragraphs of Cardew's The Great Learning by the Scratch Orchestra Strasbourg under Didier Aschour, an orchestra born from an open call and two years of shared practice: 4CD box with a 116-page booklet.
Asiago
New music for cello from the Asiago plateau and its Cimbrian community, by De Marzi, Gárdonyi, Sollima, Schmitt, Dreyer, Ali-Zadeh and Silvestrov, played by Julius and Hyun-Jung Berger with guests; mostly first recordings.
Chattering Birds
Percussion works by Péter Eötvös, Vinko Globokar, Sara Glojnarić, Dai Fujikura, Ursula Mamlok, Toshio Hosokawa and Uroš Rojko, played by Leonie Klein solo and with Isao Nakamura as ISANIE Percussion Duo. Co-production with SWR2, mostly first recordings.
Ein Traumspiel / Denn Bleiben ist nirgends
Aribert Reimann's first opera Ein Traumspiel after Strindberg, live at Theater Hof on 17 March 2018 (Franziska Rabl, Hofer Symphoniker, Walter E. Gugerbauer), with the Rilke melodrama Denn Bleiben ist nirgends (Martin Engler, DSO Berlin, Manuel Nawri).
Deep Siesta
Amen Feizabadi's chamber opera Deep Siesta, on a libretto by Dilek Mayatürk about two artificial beings, with Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and Zafraan Ensemble conducted by Yalda Zamani, plus AI voices and electronics. A Deutschlandfunk Kultur coproduction.
Crunch
Portrait CD of Eloain Lovis Hübner: crunch modes 1.0 and 3.0, [untitled] and Trauma und Zwischenraum 1-3, played by Schallfeld Ensemble, Spółdzielnia Muzyczna, AuditivVokal Dresden, airborne extended, the Arditti Quartet and Lange//Berweck//Lorenz.
Impulsive Lieder
Portrait CD of Benjamin Scheuer: Impulsive Lieder, Sprachmaschine, Vier Attrappen, Regal and Lachtherapie, performed by Andreas Fischer and ensemble, Vanessa Porter, Schola Heidelberg under Walter Nußbaum, ensemble risonanze erranti and Nikolai Rosenberg.
Absolutio / Abgesang / da ispravitsja - gebetsraum mit nachtwache
Portrait CD of Marko Nikodijević: three orchestral works, Absolutio, Abgesang with soprano Anna Sohn and da ispravitsja with organist Jakub Sawicki, played by the hr-Sinfonieorchester and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Jonathan Stockhammer and Vladimir Jurowski.
Couture
Portrait CD of Genoël von Lilienstern: Voz Comercial, Couture, Big Picture and Top, with Johanna Vargas, Soetkin Elbers, Ensemble Garage, the SWR Symphonieorchester under Ilan Volkov and Ensemble Interface.
I Figli Chiedono Perché
Morricone's 1972 score for Nino Zanchin's film, from the original mono masters: a love theme sung by Edda Dell'Orso and psychedelic harp pieces with echo, back on CD after twenty years.
Starters Alternators
The Ex's 1998 album recorded by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio, their first for Touch and Go: eleven songs of interlocking guitars and stark drums, on vinyl for the first time with a booklet.
Victorialand
*2026 stock* Released in April 1986, Victorialand finds Cocteau Twins creating a world of extraordinary delicacy and atmosphere. Built around Elizabeth Fraser’s otherworldly vocals and Robin Guthrie’s shimmering guitar textures, the album floats free of conventional rock rhythms, inviting listeners into a landscape shaped by sound, silence and feeling.
Recorded by Fraser and Guthrie as a duo, Victorialand takes a more spacious, restrained path than the band’s earlier work. Its nine tracks unfold…
Rabbit Trap (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Lucrecia Dalt's score for Bryn Chainey's folk horror Rabbit Trap, a film about the power of sound: humming drones, unnerving loops and garbled fairy chatter, with Aaron Dilloway on one track.
Iglu
Carl Ludwig Hübsch (voice, tuba) and Ignaz Schick (sampler, turntables) between abstracted song, sound poetry, noise improvisation and radio play, from sessions in Cologne and at Morphine Raum in Berlin.
Roman Ruins
Alvin Curran conducts the Iato Orchestra, thirty musicians with voice, reeds, brass, strings, harp, accordion, guitars, vibraphone, basses, two drummers and four electronics players.
Flying Dreams
Spencer Clark returns as Monopoly Child with five electronic sound paintings inspired by Rome's Villa Borghese gardens: distorted voices, transformed bells and luminous synthesizers as a manual of levitation magic.
Self Embalmed
Wolf Eyes' first full-length as the core duo of Nate Young and John Olson since 2023: twelve tracks of warped kicks, skittering drum synth, narcotized vocals and Olson's homemade reeds.
The Outsider, The Music Of Jules De Corte
Belgian improvisers Linus and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy reimagine the songs of Dutch songwriter Jules de Corte: slowed, expanded folk miniatures on religion, love and loss, with guitars, banjo, clarinet and lap steel.