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Music from the Caucasus – The Archive of ORED Recordings, 2013–2023
The label Ored Recordings was founded in 2013 by Circassian friends and fellow musicians Bulat Khalilov and Timur Kodzoko, in order to start an activity which is dedicated to documenting and preserving the traditional and post-traditional music of the North Caucasus. Khalilov and Kodzoko, were just as excited about this music as it sounded like a force that transcends borders and in which time dissolves and community becomes the only compass. Through hundreds of field recordings, which have been…
Muzak For The Encouragement Of Unproductivity
Inspired by Sam Kidel’s ›mimetic hacking‹ concept, Berlin-based composer Jasminev Guffond pipes opiated brass and woodwind motifs into a reverb chamber modelled on an Amazon fulfilment centre.
»Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity« is a poetic inversion of Muzak’s traditional role in stimulating seamless productivity in the workplace. Beginning as a pre-radio music distribution network (1934, U.S.), Muzak was transmitted along electrical wires with the intention of being at once ubiquit…
Dou Dou Doudo: Ao Vivo Na Cooperativa Árvore
*300 copies limited edition* Audio taken from a live performance by Anar Band (Jorge Lima Barreto and Rui Reininho) with E.M. de Melo e Castro in November of 1978 at Cooperativa Árvore, Porto. The performance was filmed. A segment was included in »Obrigatório Não Ver«, a weekly programme presented by Ana Hatherly on Public Television’s Second Channel. It was not possible to determine the exact date of the event, and no documentation seems to be available in the relevant archives. »Encontro que T…
Studies On A River
»Ka ora te awa. Ka ora te iwi. The river is well, so the people are well«, says artist and writer Hana Pera Aoake. »In a Māori worldview, everything is connected and contains mauri, the life spark or essence inherent in all things, as they contain the residue of ancestors through whakapapa, or genealogy. Within Western environmental histories, there is a gap in knowledge around what we can learn through an act of listening.«
Hana Pera Aoake’s words resonated with Hinako Omori when they were invi…
Quinteplus
This first-time reissue of Quinteplus’ 1971 album revives a key moment in Argentine jazz, featuring crisp trumpet and tenor sax, electric piano-driven funk and modal grooves, and a tight, spacious rhythm section. It showcases prominent figures like Jorge Anders and “Pocho” Lapouble.
Quinteplus was born in Buenos Aires at the end of the 1960s, emerging directly from the ideas and experiments of the legendary Agrupación Nuevo Jazz. Founded in the early ’60s, this collective brought together some o…
In A Few Places Along The River
Soft Echoes presents the first physical edition of ‘In a Few Places Along the River’ by Abul Mogard as a limited run of 500 vinyl copies. Originally released digitally in 2022, the album now appears in its intended form, marking the label’s second release.
Three long pieces, composed between 2019 and 2022, emerged from Mogard’s meticulous experimentation with analogue and digital instruments. Slowly evolving harmonic fields of layered drones and spectral textures drift across the record. They ar…
Standers
The devil’s in the details. It always was and it always will be. It’s there for those who seek it out.
City Lights
Tone Poet, the series created in 2019 to mark the 80th anniversary of the blue label, continues its releases. The Blue Note vinyl reissue collection was created with the intention of celebrating the musical and sonic journey of the great artists who have travelled their creative path in the grooves of the label's great albums, helping to make the brand a legend. The series stems from Don Was's (President of Blue Note) admiration for the exceptional reissues for true audiophiles produced by the i…
En Mexico
A hidden gem from bossa nova pioneer João Gilberto resurfaces with the reissue of 1970 En México, capturing the artist in artistic exile during his time in Mexico City. This intimate album blends timeless Brazilian classics, sultry boleros, and jazz standards, all filtered through Gilberto’s signature whisper-soft vocals and minimalist guitar accompaniment.
Recorded live in the vibrant heart of Mexico City, En México showcases Gilberto’s unparalleled ability to transcend borders. Standout tracks…
Regnum Nubium
The mist ravaged the tall treetops. With it carried the distant prayers of the friars isolated among the rocks, who knelt before God every day. And, in the stillness, echoes of tragedies. Of frenzied jealousy. The moribund voice of a stabbed brother, and the tearing of murderous flesh. Deep valleys and flat clearings. What remained of the calamity and pestilence impregnated in the stone he trod upon. Brothers in God, brothers in death. Stones erected in a circle. Overwhelmed by the mist that dis…
In The Harrowing Distance
This record is a reflection on the end of existence, marked by the illness, the courage, the struggle and the final departure of N. Gomes during its making, to whom it is dedicated. May you wander freely in the shadowless lands!
"In the harrowing distance" stands out from previous Karnnos records. Experimentalism and musicality are woven together on pieces that range from subtility to agressiveness. With a renewed focus on electronics and a new set of instruments (the zither and the harmonium we…
On Beheading the Thalassocratic Vipers
Snapshots of an empire downfall black helixes elongated insectile forms a projection over the desert burning surface scimitar smiles through pillars of black smoke emerald shards lit night eyes that see all crosshairs obsidian steel ghosts haunting the night geography in flames born under treason's ulcerous mouth.To behead the vipers one by one.
4 Ways To Maul Your Face
Rasga is proud to unleash 4 Ways To Maul Your Face, a limited cassette compilation that gathers four of Portugal’s most uncompromising noise and experimental acts: CAB, Portuguese Funeral, Mijo Preto, and Hypomania. This tape is a visceral journey through dissociative frequencies, absurd conceptualism, and punishing sonic violence, capturing the raw energy of the Portuguese underground in 2025.
4 Ways To Maul Your Face is structured as a double-sided ritual of noise, each side curated to build…
Racially Ambiguous
Slumlord Unleashes New Tape Racially Ambiguous – A Free‑Form Noise Rock Assault from the Portuguese Gutters.
A Love Supreme
*2026 repress* "One of the most important records ever made, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme was his pinnacle studio outing, that at once compiled all of the innovations from his past, spoke to the current of deep spirituality that liberated him from addictions to drugs and alcohol, and glimpsed at the future innovations of his final two and a half years. Recorded over two days in December 1964, Trane's classic quartet-- Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, and Jimmy Garrison -- stepped into the studio and …
No New York
*2026 Repress* No New York: The Legendary 1978 Snapshot of NYC's Underground Punk Explosion Returns to Spotlight. One of the brightest and most famous projects of the entire punk/new wave scene, No New York captures the raw chaos and innovation of New York City's underground art and music world. Originally released in 1978 on Island Records' sub-label Antilles, this groundbreaking compilation—produced by the visionary Brian Eno—features four of the most daring, rule-breaking bands from the NYC s…
Ascend at Sharp Angles
Experimental electronic artist Heat and White (Olof Persson) announces the release of his new full-length album Ascend at Sharp Angles, now available worldwide via Bandcamp and all major digital platforms.
A follow‑up to recent works like Violence Patterns and Slo‑Mo / Signal Echoes, Ascend at Sharp Angles is an immersive, introspective record that blends ambient textures, subtle rhythmic pulses, and delicate melodic fragments into a cohesive sonic landscape. Over eight carefully crafted tracks…
Have You Heard About the World Coming to an End?
Death Is Not The End present a compilation gathering a cross-section of early gospel choirs and vocal harmony groups recorded between late 1920s and the mid-1950s - a period when spirituals & jubilee traditions merged with blues, jazz and early rhythm and blues, providing the musical routes for the coalescence of the civil rights movement born out of the black church. In the modern world these perennially vital recordings provide a fitting tonic for the near-dystopia we find ourselves living thr…
Milano Undiscovered - Early 80s Electronic Disco Experiments
*2026 repress* 40 years after the beginnings of the Italo disco movement 'Milano Undiscovered' leads us to discover the first ferments of the Milanese post-punk dance scene. In the early 80's future producers began to veer towards a form of dance music not yet defined, what once seemed like an experimental form, today sounds like a cornerstone for future development in the club scene of key city as Berlin, Paris, Stockholm and Amsterdam.
Italo disco was first mistreated, then exalted, forgotten …
Spectre Code - The Art of Sound and Poetry in Algorithms (Book)
Spectre Code – The Art of Sound and Poetry in Algorithms is a collection of code-driven poems, composed in the Python programming language. Each poem functions as both an executable script and a standalone work of poetic expression, generating rich soundscapes and algorithmic visuals. Whether read on the page or run through a compiler, Spectre Code Invites an experimental and innovative interaction with poetry.
The author, who works under the name C:\VEhF\, is a sound artist and experimental ele…
