New Arrivals
Geophonics
Cello feedback through a bass amplifier set against a grand piano, whose strings answer in dense overtones: three long pieces recorded in a former convent in Belgium, between drone and spectral music.
Folkways Records: A Visual History
Large-format hardback from Soul Jazz on the sleeves of Folkways Records, most by designer Ronald Clyne: hundreds of covers for Woody Guthrie, John Cage, Lead Belly, Allen Ginsberg and many more.
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.
Stu the Goat
Merzbow at pocket size: two two-minute parts of harsh noise recorded at Munemihouse in March 2026, cut into a 5" lathe disc in a folded cover sealed with a hand-numbered sticker. Fifty copies, a goat on the sleeve.
Music For Solo Percussion And Electronics
First reissue of the Norwegian percussionist's debut, recorded in 1981 at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter: vibraphone, marimba, bells and synths over environmental recordings, between Midori Takada and Fourth World.
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.
Instant
The Ex's 1995 album of 32 instrumental miniatures with Han Bennink, Ab Baars, Wolter Wierbos, Tristan Honsinger and Michael Vatcher: small-ensemble improvisation, on vinyl for the first time.
Sky Yen
Pete Shelley's 1974 electronic recording, made two years before Buzzcocks on a home-built oscillator and a two-track tape recorder: drones, feedback and echo, on CD for the first time.
Parallel Commutator
CZN, the trio of Valentina Magaletti, gong maker João Pais Filipe and Leon Marks, in two long pieces of drums, handmade gongs and cymbals recorded at Abbey Road: the first release on Orator.
Remix EP
Three Panasonic remixes made in 1996 by Zoviet France and by Muslimgauze, found on DAT decades later and issued by Sähkö in 2020: one side of Zoviet France, two Muslimgauze pieces. Repress.
The Fourth Annual
Korm Plastics' yearbook on music, fourth edition: Michel Faber, Robin Rimbaud, Klaus Maeck with Einstürzende Neubauten in 1981, David Elliott on Heldon, feminist labels, Popol Vuh in Norway, the No Fun Fest and more.
Tune In! - An Artist’s Guide To Radio And The Electromagnetic Spectrum
Wouter Jaspers' guide to radio for artists: crystal sets, shortwave, SDR, home-built antennas, the politics of the spectrum, fifteen artistic approaches from Kubisch to Kogawa, exercises and a timeline of radio art 1909-2026.
Limen
Duo of Lino Capra Vaccina and Luca Formentini recorded during a five-day residency at Ritmo e Blu Studio in 2025, five movements between improvisation and composition; CD in digisleeve.
The Definitive Music to Make Human Pyramid With
Dj Balli explores human pyramids from the Italian gabber scene to Catalan castells, Dahi Handi, Bo-Taoshi and the Venetian Forze d'Ercole; CD in an envelope with nine cards, November 2026.
After the Fall
Six pieces by Gianluca Becuzzi (guitars, basses, effects) and Vrna, Gianluca Martucci (strings, percussion), between guitar drone and ritual ambient; St.An.Da., November 2026.
Live Dream
Live set by Fabio Orsi at Kina in Rome on 31 May 2026, a ritual in three sections made alongside the a sad song for A. project, with samples by Hiseka; October 2026.
Live Panic
Electroacoustic collage by Anacleto Vitolo recorded live in five sections, between frenetic passages, drones and quiet pauses; CD in digisleeve, October 2026.
Short Circuits
Short ambient-electronic tracks by Spielerei drawing on techno, IDM, downtempo, dub, glitch and Berlin School, mastered at Ultimae Studios; 200 copies.
Paraconscious
Ambient and drone album by the Chinese sound artist Guofei (Oscpllex), from field recordings made in Venice during the 60th Biennale, in Milan and Florence, processed in Shanghai; 200 copies.
Mystica Tribe Meets Scopeotaku
Dub alliance of Mystica Tribe (Taka Noda) and Scopeotaku (Scott Prentice) between dub, techno and psychedelic electronics; CD in digisleeve, 13, October 2026.
