New Arrivals / Last 4 weeks
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…
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*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.
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Jazz Dari Angkasapuri
Jazz recordings by the Malaysian trumpeter and composer Johari Salleh from the 1970s: modal grooves and jazz funk with Malay folk themes, until now available only on a few dozen locally pressed copies.
Hawalat
Charif Megarbane's follow-up to Marzipan looks outward, to the diaspora and to exile: instrumental grooves built on the idea of hawala, with Somali, Mediterranean and jazz colours and a collaboration with Sven Wunder.
Habibi Funk: A Selection From Libyan Tapes
Habibi Funk's third compilation, drawn from the Libyan cassette scene of the late 1980s to early 2000s: reggae, synth disco, pop, house and funk, much of it recovered from the TK7 cassette factory in Sousse.
Bourj Hammoud Groove
Compilation of Ara Kekedjian, singer born in 1946 in Bourj Hammoud and a central figure of Beirut's Armenian pop scene in the 1960s and 70s: Armenian rhythms, hard drums, funky guitars and organ, compiled with Darone Sassounian.