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“On their new record, nykolaes & Daniël Paul explore the pastoral side of folk and 90’s grunge nostalgia, guitars leading the way. Diary shredded to bits, church bells sound the crack of dawn and sometimes you have to wake up, sometimes u don't. Folk in the age of cut and paste, an intimate collage of references, blind inspiration, and intuition. nykolaes & Daniël Paul both bring their own styles to the project, nykolaes’ pro-post-anti-singer-songwriter modernism and Daniël Paul’s intimate, eyes…

DCJ 2 is 114 pages, a quarter of which are in color, and printed on deluxe 8.5" x 11" paper -- (comb bound as always). Cover story is an interview / tour diary with Being & Psychic Sense Organs... Plus Editorial and artwork features from Hex Minora, Vincent Dallas, Manuel Pereira / Narcolepsia, Jason Hodges, Flag Day Recordings, Ted Sweeney, Frans de Waard, CB Cobb / Reanimated Miscarriage.

*300 copies limited edition* More than twenty years of friendship haunt Vrhältnis, the new album by Antoine Chessex and Dave Phillips, out now on Coherent States and Krim Kram. Its source material reaches back twenty years, originating from live performances during a 2005 joint tour in Lausanne and Basel and a studio session recorded the same year at the Dynamo/Popkredit Studio in Zürich. Both sessions were then filed away, the recordings disappearing into the archive, untouched for nearly two d…

Caprice returns to the Öppet series, their curatorial collaboration with Mats Gustafsson and Roger Bergner, with Fyra, Öppet number four, dedicated to the Norwegian vocalist Karin Krog. Two never before released sessions made in 1970 in Germany: raging radical experiments, hard blown free jazz fire, and thrilling reconstructions of vocal based jazz.

Black Truffle is thrilled to announce a second volume of unheard concert performances from legendary Pakistani kyhal singer Salamat Ali Khan, recorded at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie as part of the MetaMusik festival in 1974. Like the first volume, the immaculate recording by Michael Hönig (of krautrock legends Agitation Free) captures Khan performing a single extended raag in the company of Shaukat Hussein Khan on tabla and Hussein Bux Khan on harmonium. In addition to his stunningly inventive…

Dark Entries is Elbow Deep in the Hoopla thanks to J.D. Slater. Legendary actor, director, and composer J.D. Slater is sometimes known as “the Lou Reed of gay porn.” Slater cut his teeth in the New York punk scene, even opening for the Talking Heads and Blondie at CBGB with his project Frenzy. A true polymath of the erotic, he co-founded Raging Stallion Studios with Chris Ward in 1999, which has remained a prolific outlet in the world of gay pornography. Elbow Deep collects the scores from three…

Dark Entries is Filling Your Silence with the help of J.D. Slater. Legendary actor, director, and composer J.D. Slater is sometimes known as “the Lou Reed of gay porn.” Slater cut his teeth in the New York punk scene, even opening for the Talking Heads and Blondie at CBGB with his project Frenzy. A true polymath of the erotic, he co-founded Raging Stallion Studios with Chris Ward in 1999, which has remained a prolific outlet in the world of gay pornography. Having spent years in front of and beh…

*100 copies limited edition* Inspired by macro photography, field recordings and the hidden world of insects, "Bugs" explores the fragile boundary between nature and electronics. Built through instinctive improvisations with analog synthesizers, acoustic instruments, drum machines and environmental recordings, the album unfolds as a collection of immersive sonic landscapes suspended between twilight and darkness. Rather than describing the natural world, "Bugs" magnifies it, transforming tiny mo…

The artist’s name and the title of the work alone would be enough to introduce this release: Ennio Morricone and “Nuovo Cinema Paradiso.” On one hand, the world’s most famous Italian composer and conductor; on the other, one of the most beloved and celebrated Italian films of all time, Giuseppe Tornatore’s masterpiece, which in 1990, two years after its theatrical release, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Love, nostalgia, and melancholy permeate “Nuovo Cinema Paradiso” and come to l…

Recorded in 1972 and unreleased for nearly twenty years, Buon Vecchio Charlie’s self-titled album belongs to that select category of works that, despite not seeing the light of day at the time of their creation, have over time managed to carve out a prominent place in the history of Italian progressive rock. The band formed in Rome in the early 1970s, within a particularly fertile musical scene, centered around guitarist and composer Luigi Calabrò and keyboardist Alessandro Centofanti. After jus…

Pharoah Sanders' 1996 Verve album with Bill Laswell producing, Foday Musa Suso, Hamid Drake, Bernie Worrell and Charnett Moffett: hip-hop pulse, Gambian kora and the full-cry tenor on one record. Back on vinyl for the first time since the rare French original, on 180g black vinyl

, 11 x 17 cm, 68 pages. Conceived and written by members of INA grm (Groupe de Recherches Musicales de l’Institut National de l’Audiovisuel), drawing on more than fifty years of experience in diffusing and presenting electroacoustic music in concert, the »Acousmonium Handbook« offers a synthetic exploration of the issues, techniques and methods applicable to acousmatic diffusion and sound spatialisation. As a manual, it provides numerous keys to designing a multiphonic sound diffusion system of …

Reissue of the 1971 DEA Records double album in which Barbara explains black, white and gray witchcraft, tests whether you were born a witch, and performs chants, prosperity rituals and exorcisms. Second pressing of 500 copies.

The complete Jonestown "death tape" (FBI Q 042), recorded on 18 November 1978. Second pressing of 500 copies, dedicated to Christine Miller, the one voice that argued against the poison.

JJ Whitefield dives deep into the golden era of library music, drawing inspiration from KPM, De Wolfe, Bruton Music, CAM and the composers who shaped the genre. Slow Moods presents 14 original instrumentals packed with atmospheric grooves, exotic touches and meticulously layered overdubs. East Asian and East African influences meet locked-in rhythms and sharp arrangements.

Faust unbound, curated by keyboardist Hans-Joachim Irmler. Drones, grooves and collage roam free, another founder's window onto the collective's fearless, uncategorisable body of work.

The Faust vaults through Jean-Herve Peron's eyes. Songs, sabotage and tender strangeness sit side by side, a personal cut of the krautrock legends' boundless, unruly tape archive.

More from the Faust archive, chosen by drummer Zappi Diermaier. Rhythm-driven fragments, noise and studio mischief, the collective's fearless early spirit heard through a founder's own ear.

Faust's vaults, opened by the band itself. Co-founder Gunther Wusthoff curates unheard tapes and fragments, motorik grooves, collage and pure invention from krautrock's great disruptors.

The third dig into Germany's synth-wave underground, 1981-86. Cold drum machines, cheap keyboards and DIY nerve from the NDW margins, a trove of minimal-wave obscurities rescued from the cassette age.

The Merzbow 108 CD Box turns Merzbow’s vast archive into a monument of productive excess: 108 discs spanning lost albums, alternate mixes, outtakes, rehearsals and recent work, assembled by Slowdown Records across nearly a decade. Its Buddhist number signals 108 worldly desires - but this is noise as discipline, mutation and inexhaustible liberation.

A longtime favorite among Brazilian music collectors, Trio Ternura’s ‘A Gira’ blends mid-tempo grooves with percussive funk and soul in a way that feels effortlessly timeless. Originally released in 1973, the track was written by the group’s father and uncle as a heartfelt homage to the Candomblé deity celebrating nature and spirituality. Trio Ternura was a true family project, made up of three siblings with deep musical roots. According to them ‘A Gira’ captures “the dancing, the expression, th…

*300 copies limited edition* Soave returns with Dusty Colors, an astounding new full-length by Roberto Musci, one of the most enduring and important figures in the movement of Italian Minimalism. Utilizing the composer's longstanding, singular approach to electroacoustic composition that first altered the collective consciousness back in 1984 with the legendary LP, The Loa Of Music - intertwining field recording, samples, and Musci's own instrumental interventions - Dusty Colors draws its primar…

*200 copies limited edition* Bitter Sea collects 25 pieces from the most prolific period of composer Sean McCann’s early catalog. Recorded across California between 2008 and 2011, this two-disc set draws from tapes, CDrs, live recordings, and previously unreleased material. McCann made roughly 40 developmental albums during these years, mostly while living in San Francisco’s Sunset District and studying audio for film. Working from a small studio apartment, he recorded this wave of albums with v…

A holy grail! This is one of Marcos Valle's best-ever albums – and it's certainly the one to best realize the larger scope he was heading for in the years after the bossa – that sublime mix of jazz and more expansive arrangements – a perfect fit for the growing sophistication of Valle's songwriting. The record is fantastic – done with a sweeping sound that still leaves us breathless after all these years – and put together with an approach to composition that is virtually indescribable. There's …

Passerine began in the fall of 2024 when my older son left home for college and friends began to ask if I were experiencing empty nest syndrome, or half-empty nest syndrome, as was the case. Each time, my reply was a simple, “nah, I’m good…everybody’s good.” And that was true. My wife, the boys, and I were all doing relatively well after many difficult, often harrowing years of helping our first-born navigate deep and dangerous mental health struggles — struggles so severe that we’d already had …

This is the first in the series of releases drawn from Finnish electronic and experimental music pioneer Pekka Airaksinen’s vast archives of unheard music to be released by Other Power. The playful yet deep Hevajra, from 1985, will be released on 23rd October on LP and digital formats. Pekka Airaksinen (1945–2019) was a versatile artist known particularly as a pioneer of electronic music and a significant figure in Finnish avant-garde. Born in Helsinki, Airaksinen was a painter, musician, compos…

With Statica Memoria, zakè returns to Affin for his third solo album. Over the past years, his work with the label has developed into a distinct and continuing body of work, shaped by an ongoing exploration of duration, resonance and the spaces that emerge when sound is given enough time to unfold. zakè has developed a particular way of approaching long-form ambient music. His compositions create an open environment in which listening can move freely between close attention and complete absorpti…

Ahead of their final studio album 'Danceteria' coming out later this month, we have the one and only Soft Cell on the cover of the latest Electronic Sound. There's a 16-page Marc Almond interview inside the magazine and we're bundling the issue with an exclusive blue vinyl seven-inch by the synthpop superstars. Make sure you don't miss out on this!  As most of you will know, Marc Almond's Soft Cell partner Dave Ball died nearly 12 months ago, just two days after they'd finished recording a new a…

Tokyo-based producer aus debuts on Squama with his new album mere meer. Grounded in the question of how a specific environment can emerge through voice and memory, rather than through recording of an objective reality, the album stands in the tradition of modern Japanese Ambient and Kankyo Ongaku. aus is the solo project of Tokyo-born composer, producer, and curator Yasuhiko Fukuzono. His music is characterized by a precise combination of cinematic strings, acoustic instrumentation, and concrete…

*200 copies limited edition* The music on ‘Remanens’ is the result of a commission by Art Cinema OFF off and B.A.A.D.M to score the short silent film ‘Positano’ made by french actor and filmmaker Pierre Clémenti in 1969. The film itself is an ever-shifting series of glimpses, without much context, of a family vacation to the island Positano. The short cuts are similar to a dream or obscured, residual memories where chronology has fallen apart. The score was reworked into album format on ‘Remane…

Schizo (Frog Funk/Collobrakis) was developed from the remnants of the band Empire. I started with Empire in early 
1977. When summer came, we found ourselves in the drummer Peter Lundgren's house rehearsing new songs. A little symphonic, a little fusion and simply some odd music. We hadn't scraped together any major repertoire, so we rehearsed some cover material. We only played local gigs, at youth centers and schools. Once a year Kjell 'Hagge' Haglund, who ran the club Wroom on Östra Berget, w…

*250 copies limited edition* Kramp was a band from Hallstahammar and Västerås (in the middle of Sweden) who started out in 1975 and played together until 1984. During those years the boys in the band jammed whenever they met but never released any records. Luckily some marvy unpolished and no-frills rehearsal space recordings from 1978, recorded on a small cassette player, survived and can be heard here in all their unpolished glory.

Across western Algeria, the gasba, a reed flute central to Bedouin folk traditions and ceremonial music, continues to appear in new forms. Once associated primarily with saint festivals and trance rituals, its distinctive hypnotic sound now sits alongside the drum machines, synths and electronic textures of contemporary raï. The recordings collected here come from Oran, the port city of Western Algeria widely regarded as the birthplace of raï. Before raï became an international pop phenomenon, i…

After many requests to reissue the seldom heard cassette EPs and VHS releases, Akuphone compiled this archival release which illuminates the group’s early development from 2008 as enigmatic practitioners of post-apocalyptic folk and ritual psychedelia. These recordings capture Ak’chamel’s signature sound in its most primal form: thoroughly f*cked lo-fi production, warped tape hiss, detuned instruments, and melancholic hysteria captured on cassette.

As the first entry in its catalog, Akuphone presents a reissue of Lily Chao’s Chinese Folk Songs, originally released by Four Seas Records in 1968. This edition includes four previously unheard titles and exclusive liner notes containing Lily Chao’s biography and lyric translations. Chao Xiao-Jun aka Lily Chao was born in Taiwan in 1948, while mainland China was rapidly undergoing major changes immediately following the end of the Chinese Civil War. After experiencing hard times in her girlhood,…

On October 23, Animative, Johnson’s third album under his own name and his first for International Anthem/Nonesuch, arrives to turn up the wattage on his artistry. More than any release to date, Animative shows why musicians and a growing community of listeners know this Chicago native and longtime L.A. resident to be one of the most imaginative electroacoustic musicians today, not to mention one of the most stunningly versatile. On Animative, the harmonically rich, loops-inflected sound Johnson…

Corbett vs. Dempsey is thrilled to announce the release of ‘Reason’, the second album from international free music quartet The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.

Many of the field recordings on this album I recorded standing still with my phone or zoom capturing quiet moments. But like silence, true stillness doesn’t exist. Our perception of time creates the illusion of stillness. That perception is not rigid, it can fluctuate and bend. Everyone around us experiencing time differently. I built the foundation of the music around this idea. Nothing in sync, many different loops varying in length. Some fairly recent recordings, others from years ago. I've u…

Grisaille is shaped by reduction, intuition, and time. Woven from a deliberately restricted palette, the pieces emerge from musical systems set in motion and allowed to unfold according to their own internal logic. Rather than following a fixed compositional path, they drift, accumulate, and transform: forms revealing themselves gradually through interaction, repetition, and change. The work foregrounds the first gesture. Takes are retained as they arrive rather than rehearsed into place, preser…