New Arrivals
Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines and Tomorrow's Music Today (Book)
In Futuromania, critic Simon Reynolds assembles essays and interviews into a time‑spanning narrative of machine music, tracing how electronic pop, from Moroder to Burial, has channelled science‑fiction fantasies and anxieties into new futures for sou…
Ukrainian Field Notes: Sound, Music And Voices From Ukraine After The Full-Scale Invasion (Book)
In Ukrainian Field Notes, Gianmarco Del Re uses more than 300 interviews to trace how war reshapes listening, following Ukrainian musicians as they compose amid sirens, shelters and displacement while forging new local and diasporic sonic communities…
La Cuccagna
On La cuccagna, Ennio Morricone sketches early‑60s Italian life in miniature: light, bittersweet themes, small‑combo colours and gently ironic swings that mirror a young woman’s fragile hopes inside a consumerist daydream starting to fray.
La ragazza e il Generale
In La ragazza e il generale, Ennio Morricone threads anti‑war irony through bittersweet melodies and marching figures, mixing folk‑tinged themes, choral snatches and tense orchestration into a score where tenderness and absurdity share the same battl…
Danger: Diabolik
On Danger: Diabolik, Ennio Morricone weaponises pop, jazz and electronics into a hyper‑stylised heist engine: fuzz guitars, wordless vocals and mod orchestration turning Mario Bava’s comic‑book caper into a delirious, late‑60s sonic hallucination.
Thrilling
In Thrilling, Ennio Morricone’s widescreen sense of drama condenses into a tightly wound suite of themes: tense strings, ghostly choirs and razor‑edged rhythm figures that turn suspense into something almost voluptuously atmospheric.
Cosmic Music: The Life, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane (Book)
In Cosmic Music, Andy Beta traces Alice Coltrane’s journey from Detroit church pews to avant‑garde bandstands and ashram altars, revealing a visionary composer, bandleader and spiritual teacher whose work radically reshaped the possibilities of Black…
They Came Like Swallows - Seven Requiems for the Children of Gaza
On They Came Like Swallows – Seven Requiems for the Children of Gaza, Bonner Kramer and Thurston Moore channel decades of noise, songcraft and studio sorcery into seven slow‑burning laments, where volcanic drones, grief‑stricken melody and a haunted …
Release Of An Oath
Originally released in 1968 on Reprise Records, Release Of An Oath is the fourth studio album by The Electric Prunes and a radical departure from their earlier garage-psychedelic sound. The album was fully composed and arranged by David Axelrod, draw…
Istikhbars and Improvisations
On Istikhbars And Improvisations, Mustapha Skandrani turns solo piano into a bridge across the Mediterranean, translating Arabo‑Andalusian vocal modes into crystalline keyboard meditations that move like a modal Goldberg from Algiers to Paris and bac…
Cavejaz
Rio de Janeiro guitarist and composer Fabiano do Nascimento returns with new album Cavejaz.
L’uso e gli attributi del cuore
Certain paths necessitate and call for one singular long sequence in order to arrive at a fully formed conversation or reasoning. Nothing seems to broadcast it more clearly than the trajectory Brussels based Italo-Vietnamese artist Nguyễn Zen Mỹ emba…
The Bubble of Love
Modern Obscure Music presents The Bubble of Love, a new collaborative album by Pedro Vian together with Ustad Nawab Khan and Naved Nawab Khan — the 9th and 10th generation of a distinguished santoor lineage from Rajasthan, India.
Now Transitioning
*50 copies limited edition* Now Transitioning is a collection of performances built around a time of personal change, discovery and evolution - waiting for a second child, switching over to a new day job, moving into a new home, looking forward and t…
Poems without Words
*40 copies limited edition* Poems without Words brings together fourteen improvised guitar solos by Xu Cheng, recorded over twelve years. Xu Cheng first emerged in the Shanghai underground in the early 2000s, as an early member of the harsh noise pro…
Bill Nace Plays the 2 String Taishogoto
Bill Nace turns a traditional two‑string instrument into a focused sound laboratory, contrasting a feedback‑touched, spiralling first side with a pared‑back, bodily repetition that slowly blooms into vast harmonic space.
Rex
Rex is a solo cello record written and recorded while I’ve been living in the former home of Rex Brasher, a self-taught painter who created over 1,200 watercolors of North American birds. Composed for acoustic and electric cello, the record reflects …
Soul Food Taqueria
Barbara Moore's seminal 1981 library music masterpiece Bright And Shining receives its first-ever vinyl reissue, limited to 750 copies worldwide on 140g vinyl. This breezy, dreamy fusion of jazzy soul grooves, Fender Rhodes, pumping bass, and celest…
Cafetic Atom
On Cafetic Atom, Magic Nousiainen & Wonderful Lehtisalo turn the Finnish DIY cosmos inside out: ecstatic free noise, cosmic hiss and bliss‑bleeding feedback spirals coalesce into a strangely serene, meditative storm of pure, glowing otherness.
