New Arrivals / Today

Gregorio Paniagua's early, baroque and self-built instruments meet Lucia Bosé's spoken and sung verses in Italian and Spanish: playful, psychedelic medieval music from 1981. First reissue, licensed from Sony.

The expanded edition of the scores of Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru's piano music: the 16 pieces of Éthiopiques 21, with photographs, drawings and handwritten letters from the Emahoy Music Foundation archive. 128 pages, 29 x 29 cm.

A zine on the ten years of Kaoru Abe in Tokyo's free jazz scene, 1968-1978, with excerpts from an unpublished 1973 conversation between Abe and Shinto recorded in a small Shinjuku coffee shop. English and Japanese.

Fourth issue of the Sound Series by Ningen Paper Press, on the musical world of Pierre Bastien and the mechanical instruments of his early years. A 24-page zine in English and Korean, edited and designed by Ganghyeon Paeg.

Third issue of the Sound Series by Ningen Paper Press: Ikue Mori from the drums of DNA in the New York No Wave scene to computer music, her move from Tokyo and the meeting with John Zorn. A 20-page zine, 2024.

Sister Irene O'Connor remembers her first years as a young nun at a kindergarten in Singapore and how she began making music. Made with Freedom to Spend after the Fire of God's Love micro museum in Seoul. English and Korean.

An 88-page A4 book on the DIY bootleg cassettes of the 1980s: Portastudio, Walkman and home Xerox, tapes copied in small numbers and shared like letters, and the lo-fi experimental, noise and improvised music they carried.

Transcript of a conversation between Mississippi Records and music scholar Thomas Feng for the 102nd anniversary of Emahoy's birth: the release of Church of Kidane Mehret, Portland and New York, her legacy. 20 pages, English and Korean.

Second issue of the Sound Series by Ningen Paper Press, on Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, the Ethiopian nun and composer whose piano music offers solace and reflection. A 20-page zine edited and designed by Ganghyeon Paeg, 2023.

Drew Sullivan returns to The Disappearing Collective six years on: analog synths, treated guitars, rain and strings in seven nocturnal ambient pieces, closing with the eleven-minute Blue Suburban Skies.

Saxophonist Patrick Shiroishi and Randall Taylor of Amulets meet as Bon Odori: tape loops, treated guitar, alto sax and noise built by correspondence in a few weeks, with guests Pauline Lay, Courtney Swain and otay:onii.

Rome duo Simone Ticconi and Francesco Colagrande return on Hermit Records with a 12-inch of slow, deconstructed dub techno: four originals moving through ravines, oceans and forests, plus remixes by Virtual Reality and Adelmo.

Esplendor Geométrico's second album from 1985, from their noisiest and harshest period: subsonic drones, minimal machine rhythms and distorted melodies. Expanded with a second LP of the Bruitiste tracks and rarities, remastered in 2026.

Ikeda's op.6 for ten players and 100 cymbals set in a 10 x 10 grid, performed by Les Percussions de Strasbourg. Commissioned for the LA Phil's centennial, it is the near-silent answer to his earlier piece for 100 cars.