New Arrivals
Oacis
**2025 Stock** As regards content, acoustics and optics, raster-noton.oacis goes beyond the momentary. The texts by top writers like Rob Young (The Wire), Pinky Rose, Peter Kraut (NZZ) and Martin Pesch (e.g. Frieze, Spex, Kunstforum) examine how rast…
The Bliss of Bliss
With The Bliss of Bliss, Pat Thomas distills four decades of radical pianism into a transcendent live improvisation. Recorded in Geneva in 2024, the album transforms the solo piano into a realm of shifting densities and ecstatic form, where each note…
Os Afro Sambas
Recorded in 1966, Os Afro-Sambas is a groundbreaking album that fuses traditional samba with Afro-Brazilian spiritual rhythms from candomblé and umbanda. The collaboration between virtuoso guitarist Baden Powell and poet Vinícius de Moraes creates a …
Sakura
With Sakura, Susumu Yokota unveiled an ambient masterpiece that blends sampled fragments of jazz, minimalism, and Japanese melody into a contemplative whole. Released in 1999 on Skintone and later on The Leaf Label, the album turns repetition into po…
Magic Thread
First released in 1998, Magic Thread finds Susumu Yokota navigating the liminal space between club rhythm and ambient reverie. Blending vaporous beats, dub inflections, and microscopic detail, the album traces the moment he stepped from late‑night da…
Grinning Cat
With Grinning Cat, Susumu Yokota continues to refine his delicate ambient universe through a dreamlike balance of melody, texture, and silence. The 2001 album merges found sounds, piano fragments, and vaporous rhythms into an otherworldly narrative o…
Theusz Hamtaahk - Trilogie Au Trianon
A monumental document of Magma at their most powerful! Recorded over two nights during the band's 30th anniversary celebration at the Trianon theater in Paris (May 13-14, 2000), this is the first and only recording to present the complete Theusz Hamt…
Invisible
On Invisible, Mike Majkowski delivers a set of six immersive compositions situated at the intersection of ambient dub and textural electronica. Spanning 2019 to 2025, the album’s subtly evolving loops and enveloping atmospheres invite a deep listenin…
Jeux d’eau
Jeux d’eau by Copenhagen Clarinet Choir and Anders Lauge Meldgaard is an electro-acoustic meditation inspired by the fountains of Villa d’Este. Blending clarinet resonance with the fluid timbres of the New Ondomo, the work reveals a continuous dialog…
Late Autumn Sunshine
Late Autumn Sunshine by Michael Garrick, released by My Only Desire Records, gathers two rare BBC Maida Vale sessions from 1973 and 1978. With Norma Winstone’s ethereal voice and Henry Lowther’s lyrical trumpet, Garrick’s compositions glow with his c…
The Midnight Hour
The Midnight Hour by Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad is a lush confluence of soul, jazz, and hip hop that bridges eras with analog warmth and orchestral finesse. Rooted in the duo’s shared reverence for Black musical heritage, it unfolds as bo…
Twelve Reasons to Die
The Twelve Reasons to Die by Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge is a darkly cinematic concept album that fuses Wu-Tang grit with the operatic scope of Italian horror and soul symphonies. Executively produced by RZA, it tells a revenge myth steeped in…
Abaete
Abaete by Abaete is a cult classic and one of the rare treasures from the 1970s Bahian scene—a masterfully woven tapestry of jazz-funk samba, built by a mysterious vocal trio whose only full-length album is now finally gaining renewed attention throu…
Quarteto Novo
Quarteto Novo is the only album from the collective Quarteto Novo, released in 1967. Renowned for fusing northeastern Brazilian baião styles with bebop and folk, the album has earned a reputation as a masterwork that shaped Brazilian jazz’s global ev…
Le Pont Suspendu
Le Pont Suspendu is a four-part album by David Sani and Pierre Gerard, released by Ftarri in October 2025. Crafted from individual studio sessions in Siena and Liège, it unfolds as a restrained, minimalist exploration of sound, silence, and the limin…
To(r)ri Infranta
To(r)ri Infranta by Mitsuhisa Sakaguchi and Yoshiki Ichihara is a radical two-track improvisational work. Combining live electronic manipulation, extended percussion, and fractured sonic spaces, it evokes the eerie tactility of improvised performance…
Altered Fetes
Altered Fetes is the most focused work to date from A'Bear, carving a distinctive space in contemporary electronic music through its innovative, rhythm-driven fusion of dance, psychedelia, and experimental sound textures. The album stands out for its…
Desolation
Decomposed at Emoptyc studio in Opera between the spring and the autumn of 2024. Audiochemical treatments by Pharmakustik. Cover by Miguel Angel Martin.
Hyper Vigilance
SGG is thrilled and honored to announce the impending release of the new studio album by Ramleh, a band whose longstanding, uncompromising artistic trajectory is rivaled by none. Birthed from the early 80s UK post-punk and industrial ecosphere and fi…
Bluebeard
With Bluebeard (1972), Ennio Morricone explores the gothic absurdity of Edward Dmytryk’s erotic thriller through a score oscillating between melancholy, parody, and psychological unease. By blending chamber restraint and baroque flamboyance, Morricon…