New Arrivals / Last 4 weeks

Brussels-based producer, composer, and field recordist Le Motel has developed a distinct body of work rooted in environmental sound, collage, and immersive electronic composition. Across releases, collaborations, and audiovisual projects, his music b…

Worriedaboutsatan return with Outland, an eight-track album from Bradford, UK musician Gavin Miller. The record moves between expansive ambient passages, electronic textures, and shorter, more fragmented pieces, creating a shifting landscape that unf…

IKSRE (I Keep Seeing Rainbows Everywhere / Phoebe Dubar) presents "in all her forms (sound meditations vol. 2)", a deeply immersive one-hour sound bath album where water functions as both physical element and guiding metaphor for transformation.Acros…

r beny returns with feedback memory, a new five-track album that moves through delicate textures, melodic fragments, and gradual shifts in atmosphere.The album opens with the concise title track, “feedback memory,” followed by “suspended in the lilt …

Doug Carn created a personalized strain of jazz music that expressed a loving hopefulness. He found a home at the Black Jazz label, where African-Americans called the shots and, of course, racial tension was nonexistent. Who was this 22-year-old whos…

With confident touch, a solid sense of swing, and emotion seeping through its dynamism, Ryo Fukui lands in New York and approaches the essence of bebop alongside the rhythm section of his mentor, Barry Harris. Ryo Fukui, who passed away in 2016 after…

Seychelles is the debut solo album by Japanese guitarist and composer Masayoshi Takanaka, released on Kitty Records in July 1976. Named after the Indian Ocean archipelago, it introduced the bright, melodic fusion sound that would become his signature…

Recorded in a water-closet. Berlin, 2026. Cut up, mixed and mastered in a closet. Paris, 2026. Cover art by Pakhom, design and layout by Agendathnethaim.

*40 copies limited edition* 4-way split noise tape between Hglauque + Church of Hate / Facialmess / Theo Nugraha / Torturing Nurse

*40 copies limited edition* Recorded and mastered by Wassily Bosch. Design and layout by NeNe. Thanks to Secret Place crew and everyone who came to listen.

The idea for this record was inspired by a short script I read about ten years ago. It stayed with me, and I found myself wondering what might have happened beyond the small window it provided. I liked the idea of creating a score for an imagined nar…

Since his 2013 debut album, Body Issues, Max Ravitz—better known to you and me as Patricia—has been zeroing in on the kernel of an idea. Across seven albums for labels like Opal Tapes, Spectral Sound/Ghostly International, and Acid Test, he’s applied…

*23 copies limited edition* the reel-to-reel tape with the original material, that appears to be an experiment with analog tape-echo effect probably achieved by 3-head tape recorded manipulation or or multiple microphones / recorders, was probably re…

An Insatiable High is the third studio album by Japanese jazz-fusion guitarist Masayoshi Takanaka, originally released by Kitty Records in 1977 and reissued in 2024. The album blends polished jazz fusion, disco, city pop, and sun-soaked West Coast fu…

On Barker Final, Ivan The Tolerable closes the door on 1a Barker Road with a set of songs conceived, performed and mastered entirely by Oli Heffernan. The album feels like a final dispatch from a long‑running home studio, where restless experiments i…

This album Mere Mortals is composer-producer Floating Points’s (Sam Shepherd) first full-length ballet score. Shepherd, who is known for mesmeric live sets that often combine acoustic and electronic instruments, wrote the work in response to a commis…

Recomposed by Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald is an extraordinary album that combines classical music and electronic sound art in a fascinating way. The two electronic music pioneers draw on recordings of Ravel’s Boléro and Rhapsodie espagnole, as wel…

The album Friendship Survival Guide by the late Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson and his close friend and composer Adam Wiltzie features a number of collaborative orchestral psychedelic drone compositions. Wiltzie, co-founder of the now-legendary…

Originally released in 2006, Mount A is Hildur Guðnadóttir’s debut solo album. Recorded alone with her cello and released under the pseudonym “Lost in Hildurness”, it marked the beginning of a deeply personal body of work created as a space to “hear …

Drawn from two September 1964 sessions at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio with producer Bob Thiele, The Voice That Is! features vocalist Johnny Hartman in his third and final album for Impulse! following a celebrated collaboration with John Coltrane. The al…

Best known for his association with Charles Mingus, the Texas-born tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin was a distinctive soloist with an assertive and immediately recognizable sound. One of Ervin’s pinnacle statements as a leader was the first of his two …

Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard burst out of the gates taking the jazz world by storm with his Blue Note debut Open Sesame in 1960. Within 14 months he had recorded three more hard bop classics—Goin’ Up, Hub Cap, and Ready For Freddie—each one a showcase f…

Cut on February 23 and 25, 1965, at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio and released later that year on Impulse!, Dear John C. marks drummer Elvin Jones’s first album for the label as a full-fledged leader, boldly looking forward while honoring his transformati…

Following the genre-redefining revelations of A Love Supreme in 1965, John Coltrane began a dramatic shift toward spiritual free jazz, abandoning familiar forms in favor of a more abstract sonic palette and bold questions he'd spend the rest of his l…

A saxophonist of striking originality, Sam Rivers’ music had a strong avant-garde undercurrent though he kept a foot planted firmly in post-bop and the blues, a sound heard to great effect on his masterful 1964 debut Fuchsia Swing Song. The last of R…

The “Sympathetic Resonance” LP by Momen is released on Unheard Of Hope and marks the debut of the London-based duo. Momen consists of Iván Muela (piano, guitar, electronics) and Nat Philipps (saxophone, electronics); in eight movements they explore a…

The identity of Deep Drive comes in large part from the way Peter Zummo moves through the world. Using his smartphone, he records daily fragments: of daydreams and conversations, signage and slogans, moments that that strike him as insightful, odd, a…

The writer Max Sebald often pondered over the nature of human memory, specifically, how our thoughts and desires - and their results - overlap and mutate over time. In A Place in the Country, he writes of the significance of what see as “similarities…

Yuki Nakagawa’s musical roots lie in the improvisation and noise scenes of the Kansai region in Japan. After performing with electric bass and effects, he transitioned to the cello as a self-taught musician, developing a unique sonic language over mo…

Masahiko Togashi's 1976 Denon Jazz album: six 'Expressions' for a percussion-led ensemble with Sabu Toyozumi, Tatsuji Yokoyama, Masahiko Satoh and three woodwind players, recorded in Tokyo with early PCM digital technology. LP reissue.

2026 stock Forgetting You Is Like Breathing Water, the self-titled debut from the duo of trumpeter Will Evans and guitarist, synthesist, producer and multi-instrumentalist Theo Trump, arrives like a vault revelation. It feels like a decades-old yet n…

Aldo Chimenti's history of Death In June, written with Douglas P.: from the punk years of Crisis to Operation Control (2023), with photographs largely from Douglas P.'s own archive, some never seen before. Softcover with French flaps, 516 pages.