New Arrivals
Perfect Prey
While stumbling through the Shiek's Bazaar of the Bizarre, I came across
Idaho Joe serenading a flea circus under a rug. Corum hovered nearby
conducting with tea tree oil toothpicks. Fortunately, the tape was
running. The smoke is thick but you ca…
New / Rediscovered Instruments Volume 1 (Booklet)
A long overdue, larger, reprint of the 1975 classic pamphlet by Hugh
Davies, Paul Burwell, Max Eastley, Evan Parker, Paul Lytton, and David
Toop. A rare look into the maker culture inherent in the 1970s UK
experimental music scene with description…
Sound American Vol. 1
Finally, the online magazine Sound American is available in a lovable,
givable, carryable, trainable form! We’ve culled our favorite articles
from the first three issues and commissioned some special new works not
found at soundamerican.org for …
Tarab
**limited edition marbled vinyl + download voucher** In a handful of improvised albums circumnavigating the troubled waters of the contemporary Mediterranean -Greece, with the eponymous Oiseaux-Tempête (2013), Turkey and Sicily for Ütopiya? (2015), L…
Quitratue
Self-released edition of 100 copies. Marta De Pascalis (Rome, 1987) is an italian composer living and working in Berlin. Her solo works employ analog synthesis and tape loops, incorporating free playing into steady, repetitive patterns. A slow burnin…
Headcrack
Released as a vinyl-only album on Sterile Records in 1986, Controlled Bleeding's Headcrack is a monumental album of industrial-noise meets ambient soundscapes. The original record is hopelessly out of print, and Toronto-based Artoffact Records reissu…
The Stratus Seekers
Doxy presents a reissue of the George Russell Septet's The Stratus Seekers, originally issued in 1962. Joe Goldberg, from the original liner notes: "'Color'
is a word that crops up with great frequency whenever George Russell
discusses music. 'Dixi…
The South of the East
The South of the East is the debut album from Tenggara Trio, comprising of improvisors from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Like previous Lao Ban Records releases it has Yong Yandsen gargling, screeching, skronking and more on the tenor saxophone,…
Sextet
While touring Europe in autumn 2017, Minami Saeki (voice), Wakana Ikeda (flute), Yoko Ikeda (viola), and Taku Sugimoto (guitar) visited Switzerland and joined up with Swiss composer/musicians Stefan Thut and Manfred Werder. This CD is a recording of …
Electric Powered Music Concert
This is the 2nd CD release commemorating the 6th anniversary of Ftarri,
the CD shop in Suidobashi, Tokyo. In recent years composer Masamichi
Kinoshita, cello player Tomoki Tai, and composer/computer musician
Takumi Ikeda have departed from their u…
Trio and Septet
This is the 3rd CD release commemorating the 6th anniversary of Ftarri,
the CD shop in Suidobashi, Tokyo. It documents a concert held at Ftarri
in June 2018, featuring Beijing-based musicians Zhu Wenbo and Zhao Cong.
The first set was an improvise…
The Ruins
From the ruins of hours of multi-channel recordings created during his residency at EMS Stockholm, Francisco Meirino has created a definitive statement of time and discovery. Inspired by the Serge and Buchla modular synthesizers, he felt as if he wer…
Today is Horrible
**Theatrical harsh noise stalwart, Peter J. Woods displays a tightrope of
finesse and bravado. Dynamic work ranging from sound art, spoken word
and power electronics in a miraculously short span. Milwaukee’s finest** Recorded between 2014 and 2018,…
Chamber Electronic Music
Sub Rosa presents Gilles Gobert's Electronic Chamber Music. Musical genre: trans, hybrid, crossbred, mongrel, whoreson, mixed, unclean, intricated, blended, interracial, bastard, harmonized, bouillabaisse, pandemonium, disorder, bewilderment, muddled…
Unusual Sounds
Double LP version. "In the heyday of low-budget television and scrappy genre filmmaking, producers who needed a soundtrack for their commercial entertainments could reach for a selection of library music: LPs of stock recordings whose contents fit an…
The Air Around Her
This record documents music made by two women — one American and one Korean — who have both made a profound impact within experimental music. Ellen Fullman’s Long String Instrument has been a long-term life-work of incredible ambition and dedication.…
Silo 003
Founded in September 2015, Silo is a collective of young artists. The Silo project concentrates both a label of contextual and experimental music as well as a publishing house practicing both lead and digital. Its fields of research, experimentation …
Silo 001
The label offers to the artists involved in the project the possibility
to gather and experiment a unique sound setting. Inside a large concrete
silo, the sound endlessly twirl sand spins around.
A narrow door made of cast iron gives access to thi…
Guts Magnet Sea
Chik White is the moniker of Darcy Spidle, jaw harpist,
tape collagist, non-institutional locally-sourced field recordist, and
founder of the OBEY Convention festival. Spidle was part of the Canadian
crust-punk scene in his younger years, but he e…
The Sea Within
Composed by Maarten Van Cauwenberghe, Elko Blijweert, and Bjorn Eriksson, The Sea Within is a thrilling ménage à trois of acclaimed soundscape artists. As it's already given away by the title, their first collaboration comprises the original scores t…