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Aspects Of Memory
Aspects of Memory is the first meeting between Lawrence Casserley (signal-processing instrument) and Emil Karlsen (percussion). Casserley has devoted his professional career to the creation and performance of real-time electroacoustic music, culminat…
Eyre
For their fourth album, and second release on Bead, light.box augments the duo of Alex Bonney (trumpet, electronics) and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (bass guitar, electronics) with a special guest, Tom Challenger on tenor saxophone.The album explores a…
Quartetics
"Quartetics" captures a unique encounter between four seasoned improvisers, who first came together in this quartet formation on May 15, 2019. Although new in this configuration, these musicians share extensive collaborative histories: Lash has longs…
Appearance/Music for Solo Performer
Big tip! Beyond Rare! These historical recordings of a 1967 concert at Hope College in Michigan involving John Cage, Toshi Ichiyanagi and David Tudor, performing compositions by Ichiyanagi and Alvin Lucier, were recently discovered in an archive in J…
No One Notices the Fly
On No One Notices the Fly, Zander Raymond turns marginal sounds into the main event, building fragile songs from scraps, glitches and room tone. Fourteen pieces drift between collage, improvisation and diaristic field recording, inviting the ear to l…
Churchills
Cut in 1969, this self-titled album feels like the first fully immersive psychedelic rock statement from its own scene. At a time when local airwaves were ruled by polite pop and lightweight fare, Churchills arrived riding waves of fuzz and twisting …
Soufflements Cardinaux
Soufflements Cardinaux invites the listener into a cartography of breath: Ensemble In(dé)fini map the four directions through extended techniques, hushed noise and prismatic overtones. Winds, strings and electronics trace invisible weather systems, t…
Next
CD version. "While they have collaborated a good many times, Next is the first recorded evidence of Danish guitarist (or more properly Bastardist) Jørgen Teller playing with American ex-pat multi-instrumentalist Mark Cunningham. The pair both have lo…
Engravings
Created by electronic producer and composer Matthew Barnes, and originally released via Tri Angle Records, 'Engravings' received instant acclaim from the likes of Resident Advisor, Pitchfork, The Guardian and saw Barnes take his hypnotic live show ac…
Impending Divulgence
Startled out of a nightmare, words and melodies echo – emissaries of the Tempted Dissident. Minimalist analogue electronics and haunting vocal lines emerge from the darkness and get caught in the folds of the brain. That’s how you might feel after li…
Déjà Si Mort
Déjà si mort is a manifesto of inconsolability. The eponymous title track is deeply moving. At its core lies a female voice of disarming authenticity, permeable and vulnerable. This creates an immense emotional density: pain that is not staged, but l…
Heliogram
*125 copies limited edition* Heliogram is a limited edition book/flexi disc that combines field recordings made by Robin Watkins and a series of risograph prints by Nina Canell. In their own way, they examine the ecological effects of static electric…
Playing, Praying
*50 copies limited edition* On a quiet Tuesday night in April, three musicians—Max Ridley, Eleanor Elektra, and Nat Mugavero—gathered at The Lilypad in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for an evening of deep improvisation. What unfolded was Playing, Praying…
Huys Opnamen
*50 copies limited edition* Venediktos Tempelboom is the alias of Gentenaar Benwa Meneers. Using the 12-string guitar as his main instrument, the self-taught musician takes fingerpicking Americana and Eastern transcendence into the Flanders fields wi…
Deux Adresses Anciennes
*50 copies limited edition* Insects chirp and rustle, birds are calling and chimes are being played, gently and patiently. A soft layer of lo-fi noise covers everything up like a thin and comfortable blanket. These are the nocturnal sounds that occup…
Als de nachtwind die fluistert door de spichtige halmen der duingras
*50 copies limited edition* ‘Als de nachtwind die fluistert door de spichtige halmen der duingras’ (Like the Night Wind That Whispers Through the Spindly Culms of the Dune Grass) is the second solo album by Dutch guitarist Marijn Filius. It follows a…
The Black Empathy Box
Introducing The Black Empathy Box by Tzii — a groundbreaking concept album that plunges listeners into a deep, visceral journey through a low-fidelity culture club atmosphere. Crafted around a hypnotic dancefloor rhythm of 27 BPM (±150), this album c…
Hold . Waiting (disorienting) . Acceptance
Experience the enigmatic soundscape of The Rêve Orchestra with their latest cassette, Hold . Waiting (disorienting) . Acceptance. This release immerses listeners in ghost melodies and cerebral improvisations that evoke a landscape both haunting and c…
Musique De Produire
Experience the avant-garde soundscape of Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy’s latest cassette, Musique De Produire. Known also as jb, tachycardie, and 0.5 pneu, Geoffroy crafts a unique fusion of conceptual music using computers and synthesizers, redefining elec…
Merzbeat
2025 Edition. 100 copies only! In collaboration with Wax Mage, Aurora Central brings you the definitive edition of Merzbow's groundbreaking album Merzbeat. Every copy features an incredibly beautiful hand-poured colored vinyl - each one unique - hous…