New Arrivals / Last 2 weeks
Hildegard: Vision in Vision
*200 copies limited eidtion* Boston based The Pandora Consort, a dynamic force in early music, is excited to release a 16-work album of their sought-after concert program, Hildegard Reanimated: Vision in Vision (Hildegard Von Bingen) with a dedicated performance recorded in the stunning acoustic Sanctuary space at Epsilon Spires in Brattleboro, Vermont. The release is a collaborative effort of Sedimental, The Pandora Consort and Epsilon Spires with In-Situ Polyculture Commons who sponsored the p…
Half of Dust
*200 copies limited edition* Wolfe's debut solo LP documents the personal and distinct sound and approach equally to both her abstract sonic instrumental meditations and her understated and haunting song craft and guitar playing. The release, to be experienced as a whole, melds the deeply personal and the cosmically timeless in a complete and holistic way. Amber Wolfe is best known as one half of Zizia (w/ Jarrod Fowler) including their collaboration Pisaura with Michael Pisaro-Liu released on S…
Temporary
Berlin-based Dutch-Italian composer and musician Aimée Portioli aka Grand River presents the new album Temporary, returning to the renowned Editions Mego label with her most expansive and focused LP yet. Rooted in existential ideas of impermanence and flux, Temporary is a deeply emotive work centred on the rich interplay between resonant guitar work and innovative electronics. Written in the wake of profound personal grief and loss, the album sees Portioli infuse her music with a raw, expressive…
Sion Transcriptions
Window into the performance of someone else’s hands, traced and cut up in pieces, computer-aidedrecomposition into never-ending patterns, hocketed between worn keys and machines, the spacesounding in answer. I’m wondering what the Alps above the Val d’Anniviers are up to, moving when noone’s looking, approaching and receding, their parallax caught by melody, valley bells sing in antiphony,transmitting their beautiful view. Arranged into four parts, Sion Transcriptions’ skips, splices, and dances…
Nonalith
“This album resulted (like many things) from experimentation, and actually from composing etudes formyself to practice justly-tuned chords. From that starting point I began to think about space, not justspace like the silence around sound events, but also the hollow, resonant spaces in my sinuses andmouth, and the space where the sounds were recorded, or the space where the sounds were listened to.I wanted to show the many colors of the sounds, even the hidden ones, like Pauline Oliveros who sai…
Studies in Tonality*
This is a set of improvised studies made on the Clavemusicum Omnituonum, a harpsichord designed in1606 by Trasunto with 31 keys per octave. With this 2016 copy made by Markus Krebs for Studio31(Basel), I let the music unfold out of the gestures the hands were able to make thanks to the newpossibilities - and obstacles - created by such a keyboard. As a classically trained harpsichordist, Irelished the opportunity to fully embrace the oblique angles opened up by the keyboard’s disorientinglayout,…
Walk in Praise of All Metals
Recorded in rural eastern Washington State, Walk in Praise of All Metals reflects the raw expanses of the‘Channel Scablands’, a region which gladly bares the scars of ancient volcanism, ice age floods, &hydroelectric power. Like the landscape—born of cataclysm, yet steady in its austerity, the music speaksthrough sustained resonance and momentary intersections. Structure emerges through sharedharmonics, with passages from Matt Sargent’s re-tuned guitar (13-Limit just intonation) activatingsympat…
The Great Liberation Through Hearing
The Great Liberation Through Hearing (1995) is scored for amplified, just-tuned string quartet and digitallytransformed human voice. Generated from a phonetic analysis of the names of Buddhist deities describedin The Tibetan Book of the Dead, the piece explores connections between Eastern mantric science andWestern linguistic structuralism. It brings together the compositional linguistics of Kenneth Gaburo andthe intonational theories of Harry Partch through two simultaneous mappings of the anal…
Frightened Birds Head House
“Frightened Birds Head House” is a compilation. It is not a “sampler,” a term that implies the practical function of serving as a label’s calling card. (…) Toward the end of the 1970s, records and cassettes made by independent record shops and individuals rather than large corporations—ones that required little more than a name, a logo, and something they wanted to release—were also playing that role, whether or not their creators intended them to. In Manchester, there was Factory. In Brussels, …
Patterns
Inner Channel lands on Indefinite Boundary with the surrealist Patterns EP – an immersive tour of polyrhythms, fourth-world analog synthesis and wasteland jazz processed through an unfiltered view of reality. Patterns builds on and expands from Inner Channel’s debut release Culture On Wind, released in 2024 on Diskotopia, with more nuanced instrumentation, hypnagogic production and monistic lyrical avenues.
Cutting a salient path from the winding intersections of no-wave, dub, and outer-dimensio…
A Life in Folk (and Other Bitter Songs) (Book + CD)
A Life in Folk (and other bitter songs) brings Kan Mikami’s uncompromising voice into English through his 2000 autobiography, expanded with further writing, interviews and a previously unreleased 2017 Sapporo concert. Part confession, part cultural history and part raw oral transmission, it follows Japanese folk’s great outsider from provincial beginnings to a life lived against conformity.
Ginga (Book + CD)
Ginga gathers the restless visual and sonic imagination of Seiichi Yamamoto in a newly expanded English-language edition. Reworked in full colour with fresh art and previously unpublished photography, the 244-page volume arrives with an exclusive CD of remixed and new material by Omoide Hatoba and Suido Megane Satsujin Jiken - a compact cosmos of noise, image and unruly memory.
Creating Enka - The 'Soul of Japan' in the Postwar Era (Book)
In Creating Enka: The “Soul of Japan” in the Postwar Era, Yusuke Wajima dismantles one of modern Japan’s most durable cultural myths. This prize-winning history shows how enka - often treated as timeless tradition - was actively remade after the war, becoming a powerful, contested symbol of national feeling, commercial culture and popular memory.
Today's Special
On Today’s Special, Hanne Lippard and Renato Grieco turn speech into score and accompaniment into acoustic typography. Reduced, exacting compositions for voice, viola da gamba, piano and Wurlitzer shadow the rhythm and contour of language, transforming wordplay, online debris and intimate anecdotes into a dryly comic, strangely moving suite of musical rhetoric.
Live at the KiMo Theater Albuquerque 1979
On Live at the KiMo Theater Albuquerque 1979, Cecil Taylor leads a newly reconfigured Unit through a rare Western American performance of volatile grace and immense detail. Piano, alto saxophone, violin, bass, cello and multi-instrumental percussion form a shifting, luminous organism - less gladiatorial than Taylor’s 1978 bands, but no less radical in its freedom.
Live at Pageant : Soloveev
The date was May 10th, 2025: a warm spring day in Philadelphia, and a damned hot night over at Bainbridge and 6th. Inside the Pageant Soloveev gallery an evening of music presented by Open Mouth Records was escalating fast. Sharing the bill were Strapping Fieldhands’ Jacy Webster (a rare live appearance!), living legend Roger Clark Miller (Mission of Burma 5eva!) and, right in the goddamn middle, Body/Head’s Bill Nace + Purling Hiss’ Mike Polizze faced off in a taishogoto/guitar duo for the very…
Röntgen
"Röntgen" is Ø's (aka Mika Vainio) subliminal, minimal techno classic, and was featured on the first Sähkö Recordings release in 1993. Spatial, silvery-sharp, and reduced yet frenetic, it's a blueprint of drum machine and synth work that helped redefine an era in techno. This special-edition 12" also features a full-side cut of a previously unreleased Ø track from 1995. The untitled B-side carries the same approach as the title track—minimal TR-808 and acidic synthesis—but in contrast to the har…
Cold Calling on the Spirit Line
A transmission from the borderlands of sound, Cold Calling on the Spirit Line brings together the singular musical world of Perzeptiverdampfkesselqualmtbesinnlich and the unmistakable voice and imagination of Edward Ka-Spel. Strange, intimate and quietly unsettling, the album unfolds like a late-night conversation with the unknown. Its songs move through fractured landscapes of dream logic, spectral electronics and shadowy atmospheres, where familiar signals become distorted and every message se…
Energy Center (Book)
In Energy Center, Ed Hazell tells the essential story of Studio Rivbea, the Lower Manhattan loft where Sam Rivers and Bea Rivers made radical music possible on its own terms. Drawing on new research, photographs, posters and an unrivalled sessionography, the book restores 24 Bond Street as a home, school, rehearsal room and self-determined cultural engine.
Tellus: The Audio Cassette Magazine, Vol. 1
Long before streaming services, podcasts, or even the compact disc, there was Tellus - a radically ambitious publication that imagined recorded sound as an exhibition space. Founded in 1983 in downtown New York, Tellus transformed the humble audio cassette into a magazine, commissioning and publishing new works by musicians, composers, visual artists, poets, writers, choreographers, and performers who were reshaping the boundaries of contemporary art. Each issue invited listeners into a world wh…
