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Survival Of The Laziest
2026 stock. The latest effort by the legendary noisers...Incapacitants (インキャパシタンツ Inkyapashitantsu) are a Japanese noise music group formed in 1981. It consists of Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai, whose stated aim is to produce "pure" noise, uninfluenced by musical ideas or even human intention, using primarily feedback, vocals, and various electronics. The group was formed in 1981 in Osaka, Japan, as the solo project of Mikawa, a member of the noise improv group Hijokaidan. Mikawa, a bank empl…
Turning
When James Lyon touches a violin, people listen; he can turn a phrase or a tune like few others. So, after a long career teaching at Penn State, it is high time he had a solo album to his credit: Turning is a deeply personal collection of works that celebrates his 35-year tenure at the institution.
The title Turning carries multiple meanings for Lyon, reflecting both transition and opportunity. “For well over three decades, I have been taking my turn being a professor of violin,” Lyon explains. …
Fumée
Smoke, sometimes, gets in your ears. Neuma Records announces the release of Fumée, featuring world premiere recordings of three major orchestral works by British-American composer Geoffrey Gordon. Each composition transforms visual art into music: Willem de Kooning’s explosive Abstract Expressionism, a haunting Belle Époque chanson, and the early-20th-century Synchromist movement’s “color orchestration” all find new life through Gordon’s vividly imagined scores. The album opens with Gotham News …
Continuous Interior
With Continuous Interior, Abby Fisher unveils a solo album that reimagines percussion and electronics. The album includes two immersive works that explore scale, space, and perception. The title track – the evocative Continuous Interior by New York composer Robert Honstein – draws inspiration from the modern experience of limitless, bounded spaces – shopping malls, airport terminals, vast warehouses – and translates that feeling into waves of resonant sound, where vibraphone tones sparkle above …
Kinesis, Vol. 3
If 3 is the perfect number, Galan Trio’s third installment in their series dedicated to the American piano trio hits the jackpot. Following the critical success of the first two volumes, which explored works from the easterly states, Kinesis: Volume 3 expands the project’s acoustic horizons by incorporating electronics for the first time, all while remaining true to the series’ guiding principle: dynamic motion. The double-album presents thirteen world-premiere recordings that treat the piano tr…
Yet
“Most times in trauma, there is no exit,” composer Sarah Genevieve Burghart Rice writes in her album introduction. “Yet every once in a while, a door is ajar and we are left to wonder if we really could leave. All the music of Yet revolves around suffering in captivity juxtaposed with the possibility of liberation.” Yet is a powerfully imaginative and intimate collection of contemporary classical music that navigates the stark – sometimes Surreal and satirical – landscapes of trauma and hope.
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Waldmusik
Forests have inspired composers from Schubert to Messiaen, but Christopher Shultis takes it one step further with Waldmusik, a sonic chronicle of fourteen years of walking and listening. This cycle of compositions traces a personal and artistic evolution sparked by solitary walks in woodlands and mountains across the globe. The genesis of Waldmusik dates to a 2003 residency in Taos, New Mexico, where its core idea—”walking in woods / listening … / what I hear”—became a lifelong creative mantra. …
LIVE au FIMAV
*2026 stock* This concert recording is something of a miracle. Nothing suggested that this album or even the performance it documents—pro- duced in extremis, in the middle of a global pandemic, with ever-chan- ging public health orders—would see the light of day. A few weeks prior to the event, no-one knew if the concert would happen, nor did I know what we would be performing! Really. Almost half of the program was composed four weeks before the show. From the outset, I knew that the set list w…
Live @ Victo
*2026 stock* "The quartet sounded like they had been working together for many years. Everyone got to solo and stretch out at some point and all four members shined at different times. This was a near-perfect set and one of the highlights of this fest. This quartet was fabulous and should have a live recording out!" - Bruce Lee Gallanter
Fatrasies
*2026 stock* A Fatrasie (jumble) is a poem in which meaning cedes the initiative to sound, notably using syllable repetition systems. This accumulation of sentences with particular sounds sometimes hides criticisms or pamphlets of those in power.
Rare
*2026 stock* “The interaction between the two musicians was quicksilver incisive, with not a false step.” Chamberlain, Mike. « All About Jazz », May 27, 2024
“[...] performance by veterans Sophie Agnel and John Butcher set a high bar for attention to detail and interplay while continually discovering new shapes.” Hill, Eric. « Indie Dependence », May 30, 2024
“These two musicians work together very well, exchanging ideas, creating a fascinating ongoing dialogue.” Gallanter, Bruce. « Downtown Mus…
Cuts Cut
"As expected, the set began with some brain-blasting brutal noise [...] Although Merzbow is known for his extreme electronics, he is much more diverse and creative than most give him credit for. The best part of the set was when both Merzbow and Mats [Gustafsson] worked more carefully with their electronics while Mr. Pándi played some cerebral, shifting currents on his drums [...] which brought this set to a grand climax [...]". » Gallanter, Bruce. « Downtown Music Gallery », June 2018
"The fest…
Fictions
Lamasz and Grandbruit return to Past Inside the Present for the first time in more than five years with Fictions, the first collaborative recording from brothers Pier-Luc and Francis Tremblay. Following four acclaimed solo releases across the label, Fictions brings together the defining elements of both artists into a single body of work.
Drawing from the tape loop driven structures of Nature Morte (PITP-C016, 2020) and Broderie (PITP-C021, 2021), alongside the layered guitar compositions and en…
Kel Tamasheq
Studio album from Bamako-based Tuareg band Amanar de Kidal. "Kel Tamasheq” is years in the making, a self produced DIY album, recorded in the small studios of the Malian capital over the past few years.
Carrying on in the tradition of assouf, the Northern Malian style of Tuareg guitar popularized by artists like Tinariwen, Amanar pushes the sound forward into tight upbeat groove and kinetic rhythms, reflecting the rich diversity of Mali and the energy of the capital. The band takes its name from…
Still Life with Lemons
Still Life with Lemons began as a ‘Reflex’ commission from the Amsterdam venue Bimhuis. This album is a live recording of that special first performance. Powerful musical characters meet on stage in a spirit of exploration, friendship, and openness, through the energetic and interplay-driven world of Marta Warelis’ compositions, where each musician’s distinct approach shines collectively. They explore the multilayered and the multiphonic, with a special interest in beat frequencies. This collect…
8 breaths
Tape loops and noises from our friend dolphin hospital, initially they were performed live this spring in Paris, being overwhelmed during the shows, we just asked for the live recordings and decided to release them, voila!!!
Live at Relais Biardo
Smittness enjoys playing live. Recorded in Paris in April 2026, this album brings together songs and fragments written between 2017 and 2026. It holds the fragile charm of live performance: a voice that might break, a word that might slip, a moment that only exists because people gathered in the same room to listen. For smittness, whose songs often live somewhere between promise, memory and hesitation, a live album feels like the most fitting first physical release – a small document of somethin…
Greek Variations & Other Aegean Exercises
*2026 repress* Recorded in '69, Greek Variations & Other Aegean Exercises is irresistible on two counts. First, for its daringly conceived and brilliantly performed music, inspired by Greek folk songs and instrumental textures and deep enough to reveal all its treasures only after many repeated listenings. Second, for being recorded at the moment when the Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet, a major force in British straight-ahead jazz since '62, had broken up and Carr's equally influential jazz-rock b…
Phase III
Endless Happiness reissues the 1968 British jazz classic Phase III by The Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet, showcasing their creative peak and innovative spirit.
Jazz In Britain '68-'69
*2026 repress* John Surman's Jazz in Britain '68-'69 is an overview disc of his '60s band and one of the more enjoyable vintage British jazz records. These tunes come from several different sessions recorded in the late sixties, as evidenced by the alternate drummers - Alan Jackson and Tony Oxley - and the use of different instrumentation, like the three-horn modal piece "Bouquet Garni," from 1968 that places Surman in the company of only two other horn players - Alan Skidmore and Mike Osborne -…
