New Arrivals / Last 4 weeks
Desolation Row
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.
Meliponica
Experimental electronic music made entirely from processed recordings of Brazilian stingless bees, by the artist and researcher João Machado, whose bee recordings are held by the British Library.
Miraggi
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.
And Their Power Was Alive
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.
Dja Dja
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.
Archives
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.
The Pulse Of Atoms
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.
Allison de Groot & Rich Ruth
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.
Te Oro o te Ao
New Zealand sound artist Rachel Shearer listens to the Earth through Māori and Western practice: field recordings, electronics and voice on her first full album, a deluxe 45 RPM gatefold from Thin Wrist.
Anima Pepsi + The Days Pass Quickly (2LP Bundle)
The two new Blume LPs together: David Tudor's Anima Pepsi, composed for the Pepsi Pavilion at Expo '70, and Lea Bertucci's The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity, written for Norbert Rodenkirchen's flutes.
Project Pallo '85
First vinyl reissue of the 1985 Pariah Tapes triple cassette by Toshiji Mikawa's Incapacitants: seven long tracks of pure electronic distortion, remastered by Andrea Marutti. Second pressing, 99 hand-numbered copies in a wooden box.
Idir
Roger Doyle's third solo album on Allchival: new fixed electronic works, software piano improvisations and voice, a response to Finnegans Wake and music from Operating Theatre's 1986 The Pentagonal Dream, read by Olwen Fouéré.
Mirage
Seven unreleased BBC radio performances from 1969, the last year of the Don Rendell / Ian Carr Quintet with Michael Garrick, Dave Green and Trevor Tomkins, saved on the drummer's own tapes and issued on CD with notes by Richard Morton Jack.
Minnets Långa Kedjor
First recorded work by Swedish drone composer Mats Erlandsson and double bassist Gus Loxbo, friends for 25 years: free improvisation, electroacoustic drone and doom, reshaped in the studio through digital processing and tape work.
Flowerage
Chicago trio Axis: Sova follow up 2023's Blinded by Oblivion on Ty Segall's God? Records: post-punk songs worked out live on tour, then recorded with Cooper Crain at Electrical Audio, all earworm hooks and phased, fuzzed guitars.
The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity
Commissioned by ZKM Karlsruhe, Lea Bertucci's work for flutist Norbert Rodenkirchen sets his Renaissance, Medieval and Neolithic flutes inside electronic process: an electroacoustic piece that sounds like an ensemble reaching across centuries.
Anima Pepsi
Two pieces David Tudor composed in 1970 for the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka, built by E.A.T.: Pepsibird, from tapes of human and animal brain waves, and Anima Pepsi, from insect and animal field recordings.
X3 / Phonophani - Until the Fish Eyes Shine
Split LP in the Portraits GRM series: Amina Hocine blends sine waves, field recordings and her own foghorn organ in X3, while Espen Sommer Eide revisits his Phonophani years and the Tromsø ambient techno scene of the late 1990s.
An Iris Crackled Like Eyelids / All Solids Melt Into Aether
Split LP in the Portraits GRM series: Jules Négrier’s two-movement electronic piece An Iris Crackled Like Eyelids meets Maria W Horn’s All Solids Melt Into Aether, organ chords pushed to their limits against computer-generated tones.
Issue 142 (Magazine + 7", Clear)
Electronic Sound issue 142 puts Faust on the cover, with a cover story on the four albums released on the same day by the band's four surviving original members, bundled with an exclusive clear vinyl seven-inch EP, Four From Faust, one track from each album.