New Arrivals / Last 4 weeks
Vertical London (New Year’s Day)
On New Year’s Day this year I set off from my home in Loughborough Junction to undertake a rather idiosyncratic journey. For a long time now I have wanted to try and trace a vertical trajectory in London – and New Year's Day with its connotations of renewal and starting-over seemed just the time to attempt to flee upwards, if you will. The spine of this album is that journey from roughly minus 20 metres below sea level to 240 metres above on that cold, short wintry day. It was a quiet day, by Lo…
Musics for the savage planet
Musics for the Savage Planet' is the new album from Bloodcog, part of a year-long project to record a new soundtrack to the 1973 animated movie 'Planete Sauvage' (also titled 'Fantastic Planet'). As well as the full 70-minute OST, 'Musics for the Savage Planet' is compiled from two takes to form 13 discreet tracks. Bloodcog is a band from the North-West of England featuring five of the region's top improvisers, with a sound part rock, part free jazz, part musique concrete, part electronica (and …
Secuelas
*60 copies limited edition*
Benjamín Vergara - trumpetEdén Carrasco - alto saxophone
Precious Moments
*100 copies limited edition* Sculptural, dreamlike and intimately detailed, Precious Moments is the fourth album by singer and composer Oliver Mann - this time in collaboration with acclaimed Bologna electro-acoustic composer and guitarist Stefano Pilia. A tender remembrance across nine short tracks exploring the affinity and thrills of friendship in a time when we all have internalised distance, the album features guests Mick Turner (Dirty Three / Mess Esque / Cat Power) and a scene stealing ca…
The Twenties (Book)
Set in the heady atmosphere of revolutionary Moscow, The Twenties is the young poet and communist Varlam Shalamov’s celebration of the new culture of the Revolution, the brave crazy brilliance of his generation of writers, the mass poetry readings, the boundless optimism and creativity. Shalamov writes of them all with the wonderful subtlety and empathy and humour that secured him his place with these dazzling new talents, and have made him known as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth c…
Canto de Olho
German saxophonist Luise Volkmann and Brazilian guitarist / vocalist Kiko Dinucci return with intimate, devotional new album Canto de Olho.
MGQ Live Im King Georg, Köln
*2026 stock. 200 copies limited edition* As the title of the album suggests, the new album by spiritual jazz legend Muriel Grossmann, MGQ live im King Georg, Köln, is a live recording of a concert at King Georg Jazz Club in Cologne. Recorded on November 11, 2022, the symbolic start of the Cologne carnival season, the album will be released three years later, at the end of the carnival season on Ash Wednesday, March 5. 2025. If by chance a concert in Cologne takes place on the November 11, it's o…
Sub Re
Kassel Jaeger (aka François J. Bonnet) returns to Shelter Press after Swamps / Things, Shifted in Dreams, and the recent reissue of the classic Zauberberg, co-composed with Akira Rabelais and Stephan Mathieu. With this major new album, entitled Sub Re, Bonnet continues his long exploration of the musical possibilities of sound, extending the concrete approach developed at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales, the historic and essential Parisian studio that Bonnet has been directing since 2018. Sub…
Rivage(s)
*300 copies limited edition* In 2021, at the invitation of Chant du Moineau, Le Un experimented in collective spontaneous creating on a section of the Dordogne River. In an aquatic and poetic logic of space, Le Un continued its research along the Gironde estuary. Three working sessions with three different teams, ultimately bringing together the entire orchestra and our guests: Claire Steimer, historian, Olivier Chadoin, sociologist, Eric Chauvier, anthropologist, Guillaume Bonnel, photographer …
Sky And Future
*2026 stock* This is the Big Band version by Otomo Yoshihide Special Big Band (OSBB) of the 48-minute suite "Sora to Mirai to," written entirely for this performance. "Sora to Mirai to" was originally composed at the request of conductor Yutaka Sado and premiered by the Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra on January 17, 2025, the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. Although it is an orchestral work, it includes elements of improvisation; soon after its premiere, Otomo imme…
Live At Cafe OTO 2024
*2026 stock* A precious documentary capturing Otomo Yoshihide Special Big Band’s (OSBB) first European tour. It’s their first live release in ten years.
Formed in 2013, OSBB has performed concerts and live shows, contributed scores for productions including Ama-chan and Idaten, and taken part in many unique and demanding projects—most notably the Bon Odori that began in Fukushima. For this tour they undertook 12 performances across seven European countries. Prior to the tour, the band changed th…
Ramune And The Power Plant
"Ramune and the Power Plant" is the first duo album by Otomo Yoshihide and Ruike Shinpei, who have performed together many times in groups such as ONJQ. This recording captures almost the entire completely improvised live set held in October 2024 at the café-music gallery Kakululu in Ikebukuro. In this project Otomo primarily uses turntables as his main instrument and, on some tracks, electric guitar; Ruike plays trumpet as his primary instrument and employs electronics on certain pieces.
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Wormhole
*2013 release, 2026 stock* Dive into the experimental sounds of Wormhole, the 2013 electronic album by Oshima Teruyuki and Sakaguchi Mitsuhisa. Recorded at Fool On The Hill Studio, this CD release blends glitchy textures, ambient pulses, and deep sonic layers. You can download or listen online to tracks like "Quark 1" and "Quark 3," each offering a journey through digital landscapes. With a 5.0 rating, Wormhole is praised for its immersive and innovative approach to electronic music. Fans of uni…
Hokuriku
*2026 stock* The third album of the quartet "Akira Sakata x Triple Edge," in which Masayasu Tsuboguchi, Takeharu Hayakawa, and Masataka Fujikake gather to create a rare improvised world with dynamism as if diverse organisms were wriggling under Akira Sakata, a giant tree several thousand years old.
Honnomajika~Naharu × Keiji Haino
*2026 stock* This is the first album by the trio "Honno Majikanaharu" consisting of Lapis (guitar & vocals), Hiroshi Higo (bass & vocals), and Masataka Fujikake (drums) in their activities over 10 years since their formation. This is a live album with Keiji Haino in their more than 10 years of activity since the formation of "No-Maji-Kanaharu".
Quantum Gate
*2026 stock* The first collaboration between Atsuhiro Ito (optron) and Masataka Fujikake (drums) is a quartet featuring Yasuhiro Usui (guitar) and Hideki Tachibana (alto saxophone). 55-minute sound scroll edited and reconstructed from a live recording at Shibuya Park Avenue Classics.
Understatements
*2026 stock* This is the first recording by the unique trio of Tetuzi Akiyama (guitar), Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixing board), and Masataka Fujikake (drums). This is a full album of six songs recorded at the now-defunct Asagaya Yellow Vision and is an isolated work in which the inner universe of the three members is clearly imprinted on the disc.
Honnomajika~Naharu × Otomo Yoshihide
This is the second album by the trio "Honnomajika Naharu", consisting of Lapis (guitar & vocals), Hiroshi Higo (bass & vocals), and Masataka Fujikake (drums). This is their first release in about a year since their last album (Honnomajika - Naharu X Keiji Haino: FDR-1052), and is a live album with Otomo Yoshihide (guitar & vocals) as a guest. It is another miraculous work, completely different in type from the previous album, as if the multiple layers of expression have been crystallized into on…
In∞fi∞ni∞to
The new transmission from Turin's My Cat Is An Alien, Maurizio and Roberto Opalio's long-running cosmic project, issued in a hand-numbered limited edition of 99 copies on their own Opax Records imprint. Two long-form pieces built around what the Opalios describe as a genuine creative breakthrough: applying their established practice of spontaneous composition in reverse, working by subtraction once the "apogee of real-time creation" had been reached, in service of an idea of infinity passing thr…
1001 Est Cremazie
On 1001 Est Crémazie, the self‑titled orchestra of middle‑schoolers and Cégep staff capture the exuberant birth of modern Quebec: raw jazz‑rock, DIY tape lore and Quiet Revolution aftershocks pressed into one unlikely, fiercely alive school‑band artefact.