New Arrivals / Last 4 weeks
Jazz Meets India
Villingen, 23 October 1967. Irène Schweizer's trio with Mani Neumeier and Uli Trepte, a year before Guru Guru, meets Dewan Motihar's sitar, tabla and tambura, with Manfred Schoof and Barney Wilen. Three pieces, two of them long, and the seventeen-min…
Occam XIII, Occam River XI, Occam V
Three late acoustic works from Éliane Radigue's Occam cycle, written with and performed by bassoonist Dafne Vicente-Sandoval and cellist Charles Curtis: solos and a duo built on minute shifts of tone and resonance, on LP for the first time.
Le Api dell’Invisibile
Four decades after Prati Bagnati del Monte Analogo, Francesco Messina returns to his hundred-year-old Schimmel piano for seven pieces of hazy drone and ambient minimalism, written with no deadlines after playing that 1979 album live in Milan.
Music for Strings
Three string works written between 2020 and 2023, performed by Ensemble Modern: a nonet locked in seven-eight, a piece that splits sound the way a prism splits light, and a score written in mirror notation. Ikeda's electronic precision, played on bow…
Portal
Long overdue reissue of the first Windy & Carl album and first ever vinyl pressing. Originally self-released by the duo as a cassette in 1994, Portal set the template for their singular sonic explorations to come.
“…ethereal soundscapes that will tra…
Nos Vemos El Próximo Año
Hell is empty and the salsa is all there is. Chúpame el Dedo are back! After years of terrorizing the avant-tropical underground with their manic, mock-satanic metal-cumbia madness, the legendary Bogotano duo of Eblis Álvarez and Pedro Ojeda have off…
Interpreter
This is the sound of dream Texas, the cinematic Texas conjured in film and 20th century literary and art myth… big dark blueing horizons swallowing the infinite distance, a lonely poetry of sound, but also a stock taker of the iconoclastic, psychedel…
The System (OST)
"A quick scan of the world’s favourite crowdsourced discography reveals that Sonic Youth co-founder Lee Ranaldo was not a total stranger to crackling electric experimentation in the years following his songwriting turns of the 20-teens. Yet »The Syst…
Night Rider
Madelyn Byrd returns to Glasgow’s Somewhere Press with a hazed set of weightless soundscapes. »Night Rider« opens in widescreen with the chirp of cicadas dancing across a desert landscape, before Shiroishi’s saxophone eventually cuts through the dark…
Automatic
Following the critical acclaim of her 2022 breakout solo debut, Sweet Tooth, and her rock project Deerlady, which was named a Stereogum Band To Watch, the eight-track album was born out of years of listening to repatriated recordings that came back t…
hotel room
*300 copies limited edition* In 2023, Kraków-based composer Martyna Basta and Los Angeles-based sound artist claire rousay were invited to Poland by Unsound for a short residency, where they spent a few days trading ideas and concepts, and brainstorm…
Grass Is Greener
*100 copies limited edition* New York City ensemble Part-Time Samurai introduces Grass Is Greener, its debut album for 577 Records: a collection of music shaped by movement, uncertainty, memory, and the gradual recognition that a life in transition c…
Your Life Is Worth Nothing
Industrial veterans Satøri (with notable releases on Broken Flag) soundtrack a broken society. The endless attempt to document humanity's failings continue with their third album for Cold Spring. More noise. More anger. Just more.
"They think it. Som…