New Arrivals / Today
To March Is To Love
Cellist and composer Janel Leppin's second album with her Washington D.C. sextet Ensemble Volcanic Ash: progressive chamber jazz recorded live in the studio in one day, dedicated to Abdul Wadud and Pablo Casals. On Cuneiform, CD edition.
Existence
Guitar solos by Shin'ichi Isohata and six duets with Otomo Yoshihide, electric and acoustic, 24 tracks recorded in Osaka in early 2013. Jigen Production.
Almost Waking
Guatemalan cellist and singer Mabe Fratti meets guitarist Bill Orcutt: songs built from Orcutt's solo guitar sketches, cello and voice, recorded between Mexico City and San Francisco. CD edition on Unheard of Hope.
Soundpath
Soundpath, the big band work Muhal Richard Abrams wrote for Bobby Zankel's Warriors Of The Wonderful Sound, recorded in 2018 after his death with Marty Ehrlich conducting seventeen musicians. Clean Feed CD.
MNE Is Not NME
MNE is Toshi Mikawa of Incapacitants and Hijokaidan on electronics, Jun Numata on guitar and electronics and Martín Escalante on saxophone: dark, extreme noise improvisation recorded in Tokyo in December 2023. Digipak CD.
Insetti / Cartesius
Split release on Minotauro: Thomas Hand Chaste's Insetti, where progressive rock atmospheres meet dark minimal ambient and dirty industrial sounds, paired with Felis Catus's Cartesius. Seventeen tracks in all.
Whatweare
Second album by Giuseppe Fantini as Zerogroove: eight short songs on obsessive drum-machine beats, dirty and minimal guitars, keyboards and synths, and a voice soaked in reverb. Retro-futurist pop from Italy, in a glass-mastered CD of 150 copies.
Floating Frequencies / Intuitive Synthesis I-IV
The complete Floating Frequencies / Intuitive Synthesis cycle on four cassettes: Eleh's three foundational volumes of pure analog tone (2006-2008), dedicated to La Monte Young, Charlemagne Palestine and Pauline Oliveros, plus Volume IV. Remastered by Tom Eaton in 2025, Cassauna.
1978-1983
The first band to make music with networked microcomputers: Jim Horton, John Bischoff, Rich Gold and Tim Perkis's KIM-1 recordings from the San Francisco Bay Area, 1978-1983. Limited double LP on Death Is Not The End.
Music For Two Films About Water
Liz Harris, aka Grouper, collects two scores for short films about water by Tanja Engelberts and Takashi Makino: two long pieces of Mellotron, tape loops, Wurlitzer and field recordings. On Kranky.
All Ages
Lorenzo Senni's first album in six years and his sixth overall: experimental trance and rave seen through hardcore punk, skateboarding and straightedge culture, with his own voice for the first time and guests Chad Muska, Jamie Thomas and Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu.
Squall Line
Brian Pyle and Merrick McKinlay's Humboldt County duo returns to Discrepant with seven ritual pieces of voices, violins, flutes, synths, drums, bells and field recordings: end-time visions for the unquiet spirit.
Shadow Web
The Swiss trio's new double LP turns from brutal, linear minimalism to slowness and immersion: four long pieces of guitar, bass and drums recorded almost entirely live, with a drum machine for the first time. On Cuneiform.
A Whole System Of
Matthew Shipp on piano and William Parker on bass in only their fourth duo album, the fruit of a four-decade friendship that began in the David S. Ware Quartet. Recorded in Brooklyn in June 2025, limited LP on Tao Forms.
Hurry Red Telephone
Marc Ribot's first all-instrumental album since Live at the Village Vanguard: a quartet with Chad Taylor and the saxophones of James Brandon Lewis, Brian Settles and Briggan Krauss, between free jazz and No Wave. On Pi Recordings.
NAD
French-Moroccan singer Basma Otmani sings in Darija over Temir Alcy's mix of ambient, leftfield and experimental folk: eleven songs on grief, a broken love and a slow return to light. Released by Stroom.
Music For Film
The first album of new studio recordings of Philip Glass's film scores: Brussels Philharmonic and Dirk Brossé play 29 pieces, from Koyaanisqatsi to Kundun, with over half an hour of unreleased music from the composer's archive.
