Near a remote village with a not-so-important name lies the entrance to a dungeon, sadly notorious among the local inhabitants. Legend has it that no one has ever come out of it alive. This is the only certain truth; all the rumors about what awaits you inside are wildly different and often contradictory. This peculiar dungeon is actually a magical dungeon, the foolish (or perhaps amusing?) experiment of a diabolical 36th-level wizard: the dungeon is constantly changing, or perhaps it does not eโฆ
Arriving from the island of Cyprus to the HDK catalog is the Mediterranean dungeon-synth of "Idylls of the Last King." The prolific artist continues his tale of suspended narratives, ancient stones, and echoes of bygone splendor.ย "A Year at the End of Time" comprises ten tracks recounting the fall of empires through the metaphor of the changing seasons, from the frost of winter to the fading of autumn. Included with the cassette is a handy tool for creating the perfect decadent settings for yourโฆ
Somber, damp, and tactile, the sound emerges slowlyโlike water timidly seeping through rock, swelling drop by drop into a steady flow: stern drones, buried melodies, and musique concrรจte chase one another, transforming a sparse landscape into an increasingly dense, unstoppable mass. It is music that smells of rotting leaves, pine needles and wet earth after a storm โ of something ancient breathing underground...We were captivated by the sound of this dungeon-synth foray by Blood Resignation; we โฆ
Welcome to the second chapter of โGlimpse into Horror,โ a journey into the most twisted and bizarre corners of pulp horror.ย We return to the United States of the early 1950sโthe brief but glorious era of horror comics that predated the Comics Codeโa frenetic time when newsstands were overrun by walking corpses, vampires, severed heads, mad scientists, and outlandish monsters.Between 1950 and 1954, before the advent of the Comics Code Authority, American horror comics enjoyed a period of extraordโฆ
The first album of new studio recordings of Philip Glass's film scores: Brussels Philharmonic and Dirk Brossรฉ play 29 pieces, from Koyaanisqatsi to Kundun, with over half an hour of unreleased music from the composer's archive.
Goblin's score for George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, released for the first time under the film's original title: New York Comic Con 20th anniversary edition on black vinyl with new artwork, limited to 750 copies.
Museo Rosenbach's 1973 debut on Ricordi: a Nietzsche-inspired suite of Mellotron, Hammond and heavy guitars, sunk at the time by accusations of fascism and now one of the cult records of Italian progressive rock. Music On Vinyl reissue on 180g transparent vinyl, gatefold.
The producer of Sunn O))) and co-composer of the Mandy score makes his own 'science fiction music' from a Philip K. Dick lecture, with Jim Jarmusch, Cyro Baptista and Charmaine Lee.
A canon for three bassoons inspired by Hilma af Klint's 1915 Altarpieces: multiphonics, beating dissonances and whistle tones, between Scelsi, Radigue and Sunn O))). Produced by Randall Dunn.
Tokyo tap dancer and metal percussionist Reona on a wooden platform with bells, bowls, chains, signboards and a loudspeaker; produced by Randall Dunn, with Atsuo of Boris on one track.
Oren Ambarchi alone with the guitar: two sides, two single takes with almost no effects, recorded to tape at Studio Dede in Tokyo and produced by Randall Dunn.
William Basinski's first new album in six years: a single 40-minute piece for solo piano and subtle electronics, inspired by a past-life regression practice and by Morton Feldman.
First archival volume of the Swiss pianist and composer Lotti Tauber: minimalist, intuitive piano music from her privately pressed albums of 1981-1986, restored and mastered by Stephan Mathieu.
Third solo album by the Syrian keyboard master behind Omar Souleyman's sound: cosmic electronic dabke recorded in Iceland, produced by Randall Dunn with Mark Gergis.
Ten pieces built around Aimรฉ Cรฉsaire's 1950 poetry collection Corps Perdu: processed hand-played melodies, field recordings and static, a companion to Works in Metal.
David Maranha's electric organ and Rodrigo Amado's tenor saxophone in a single 41-minute piece recorded live at Out.Fest 2025: drone, noise and free jazz, with liner notes by Stuart Broomer.
Experimental electronic music made entirely from processed recordings of Brazilian stingless bees, by the artist and researcher Joรฃo Machado, whose bee recordings are held by the British Library.
Argento is David August's new project: an imagined soundtrack to the Tyrrhenian coast, synthesizers and field recordings with Lorenzo Setti on drums and percussion, in the wake of Italian library music.
Faith Coloccia's unadorned voice over Tashi Dorji's glacial, howling guitar, with piano, organ and tubular bells: songs about land, property and loss, recorded between Anacortes and Asheville.
Marina Herlop's most ambitious work, self-released: one unbroken body of music built on the Hero's Journey, with orchestral brass for the first time and gamelan recorded in Bali.
Vanishing Twin's new album pieces together daily recording sessions swapped between rural France and London: a playful collage of postmodern songcraft where the trio trade instruments and roles.
Dark ambient pioneer Lustmord and drummer Dave Lombardo meet as Lustmord Lombardo: evolving walls of low-frequency sound shot through with percussion and synthesizers, mixed and mastered by Lustmord.
Clawhammer banjo meets synthesizers, loops and pedal steel: Allison de Groot and Nashville's Rich Ruth turn a planned solo record into a shared album of cosmic, tender instrumental music.
New Zealand sound artist Rachel Shearer listens to the Earth through Mฤori and Western practice: field recordings, electronics and voice on her first full album, a deluxe 45 RPM gatefold from Thin Wrist.