Two recent side-long works by Kees Tazelaar, long-time head of the Institute of Sonology in The Hague, both built on Georg Trakl's poem De Profundis: algorithmic electroacoustic music with voices and violin. Signature Series IV, 300 copies.
Three LPs of Hans van Koolwijk's Bambuso, the large organ of bamboo and air he built himself: mostly live, unreleased recordings from Amsterdam to Warsaw, moving from quiet acoustic drones to a dense, dissonant wind orchestra.
First CD issue of Michael Ranta's self-released 1984 LP, recorded at Conny Plank's studio: two long suites for dozens of ritual and self-made percussion instruments, plus an unreleased piece played on a sound sculpture by Günther Oellers.
Kemialliset Ystävät mark three decades with Joskussaaret, their first album in eight years: a collaged hike through a fictional island resort, built by Jan Anderzén with Ben Chasny, id m theft able, Islaja, Dialect and many others.
Black Truffle's 150th release: Graham Lambkin and Emmett Kelly fold finger-picked British folk, psych jams and loops of natural sound into a tape-collaged record, with Jim White on drums for one track.
AMM in its classic trio of Eddie Prévost, Keith Rowe and John Tilbury, live at Goodspeed Hall, University of Chicago, on 20 April 1996. An audience recording approved by all three, 100 copies on green vinyl.