New Arrivals
Where Trees Go To Die
Emerging from the solitude of a remote Spanish mountain hamlet, Stone Anthem announces the release of its latest album, Where Trees Go To Die—a dense and captivating journey through organic textures, dissonant beauty, and meditative drones. Crafted in the quiet embrace of forests and the echo of stillness, the album reveals a profound synthesis of ambient trailblazers’ influence, decaying industrial landscapes, and the raw vulnerability of psychedelia.
Embracing imperfection as a creative force,…
Barney And Tete (Grenoble '88)
A rare gem from the vibrant European jazz scene finally resurfaces with the release of Grenoble ’88, a captivating live recording that unites two masters of post-bop expression: French saxophonist Barney Wilen and Catalan pianist Tete Montoliu. Captured in 1988 in Grenoble, France, this performance showcases the remarkable interplay between two artists whose lyrical sensibilities and sophisticated phrasing made them cornerstones of modern jazz on the continent.
Known for his poetic tenor sound…
The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim
Elemental Music proudly presents the reissue of The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim, a timeless recording that celebrates the artistry and influence of one of Brazil’s greatest musical icons. Originally released in 1965, this classic album showcases Jobim’s unique ability to merge the sophistication of orchestral arrangements with the delicate sensuality of bossa nova, a genre he helped define and bring to international acclaim.
Produced at the height of the global bossa nova wave, The…
Bruce Lee The Big Boss - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Revised)
A landmark moment in film music history is reborn. The Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra’s legendary soundtrack for Bruce Lee’s breakthrough classic The Big Boss returns in a newly revised and definitive edition. First composed in 1971, the score marked an extraordinary fusion of East and West, where Thomas’s adventurous arrangements met the raw intensity and cinematic power of Bruce Lee. From percussive bursts of tension to sweeping orchestrations and funk-infused grooves, the soundtrack captures no…
And the Sun
As humankind strives to create artificial intelligence what will faith, love, or morality look like to a nascent consciousness? Will it be capable of understanding its creators who often hold logic and superstition within themselves? In return how will humans comprehend its hallucinations? And the Sun, a ball of hot plasma oblivious to our existence continually burns hydrogen until it runs out and swallows its three closest neighbours. Fresh from his music (as featured on these records) being pi…
Cobra
"On a remote gravel-covered spit of land on the east coast lie the abandoned buildings of a government facility for weapons testing and experiments with radar. In the mid 1960s this site witnessed the construction of an over-the-horizon radar, a technological marvel bouncing signals off the ionosphere, built to covertly monitor the activities of other nations. The reflectivity of the ionosphere is a function of frequency, time of day, time of year and of the solar cycle. In essence, a sympathy f…
Oppet Tre
Sweden's late '60s creative explosion saw Roland Keijser's quartet forge unprecedented music, bridging American free jazz, minimal composition, and Swedish folk heritage. These lost Öppet Tre recordings capture a pivotal moment when Swedish musicians created sounds never heard before
Soil (30th Anniversary Edition) 3LP
Deluxe 3LP set. Terre Thaemlitz's Soil receives a timely reissue, returning one of the most challenging and prescient albums of the 1990s to circulation. Originally released in 1995 as the seventh installment in Instinct Records' "Instinct Ambient" series, the album represented Thaemlitz's deliberate assault on the contradictions he perceived within the contemporary ambient movement. When Thaemlitz signed with Greenwich Village's Instinct imprint, the label assumed he would be "another Moby," pr…
Abaco Cruise
Tip! Little jewel of a single - a Balearic classic in waiting on the A Side and a blissful B too. Both unreleased on a 7" until now, these are 1983 laid back Bahamian vibes by Car Gottlieb, well known radio entrepreneur and groovy guy about the islands! A 7" full of laid back sunshine. 500 copies only. No repress.
Modesty of the Magic Thing
Composer, harpist, improviser, and educator Zeena Parkins has been a mainstay of the Downtown scene since 1984, performing with Fred Frith, John Zorn, Bjork, Ikue Mori, Yoko Ono, Pauline Oliveros, and countless others. Her newest project, years in the making, pays tribute to the fearless American visual artist Jay DeFeo. Zeena captures DeFeo’s bold experimentalism and love of beauty with a lush, exotic extended work for harp and percussion. Performing with her on a unique instrument built by leg…
Collected Works
*2025 stock* PainKiller's Collected Works presents the complete documentation of one of experimental music's most brutal and boundary-pushing collaborations. This four-CD compilation gathers all studio recordings and essential live performances from the trio of John Zorn (saxophone, vocals), Bill Laswell (bass), and Mick Harris (drums, vocals), documenting their three-year assault on the boundaries between avant-garde jazz and extreme metal. PainKiller was formed in 1991 when NYC downtown giants…
Shredded Nerve / Form Hunter
In the summer of 2023 Shredded Nerve and Form Hunter embarked on an east coast tour that culminated at the Initial Shock festival in Montreal. This CD is a reissue of a limited edition tour cassette available at those shows, and also features a brand new track from each artist, totaling 4 tracks and more than 40 minutes of music. Psych-noise incantations colliding with metal junks avalanches that rip the forest to shreds. Smashing cassette players into oblivion with a baseball bat to the cheers …
Music For Organic Performance
New Forces presents Kjostad's Music For Organic Performance. These six new recordings emerged from solitary performances conducted on-location in northern Minnesota. An attempt to rethink the collection of "source sounds" and invite the listener into moments that would be otherwise inaccessible. Electronics and other machines were introduced later in the process, a form of synthesis that added additional depth and contradiction to the original recordings. Listeners will feel the edges of glaciat…
Warlord
Warlord is the latest full-length album from Kjostad, the follow up to last year's Extinctionist released on Chondritic Sound. This is the evolution of Kjostad's approach in every aspect, an attempt to distill 7 years of development into the project's finest work yet. The place-based field recordings are more intimate. The environmental explorations are more harrowing. Hissing tape loops collide with pulsing electronics. The noise clatters, clangs, and grinds across six tracks that investigate a…
All Pressures Past
Primitive Isolation Tactics is the foremost example of how the current generation of Canadian noise builds on the foundation forged by some of the country's textural masters while expanding into new and ever more dynamic territory. There is plenty of monolithic crunching to sink your teeth into on "All Pressures Past," but the sounds skitter, jump, and implode into a satisfyingly damaged wreckage of burned wires and fried voltage. Primitive Isolation Tactics wields both patience and restlessness…
Wilderness & Industry
Perfected Grave Vault is the high octane noise duo of Charlie Mumma and Aaron Aspinwall. Following on the heels of their highly regarded 2023 CD Mutative Forecast (Oxen), this latest offering is a constantly shifting, fast paced flamethrower of a recording. Evoking the Americanoise crunch of classic acts like Skin Crime or Macronympha, "Wilderness and Industry" manages to to achieve a monolithic heaviness without bogging down in static minimalism. This is a quick moving recording that seizes you…
Whitby
David Boulter, best known as a long-time member of Tindersticks, returns to Clay Pipe Music with Whitby - an evocative mini album inspired by the stark beauty and unsettling calm of England’s North Yorkshire coast. Unlike the familiar seaside towns of his youth - Great Yarmouth, Scarborough, Filey - Whitby held no particular memories for Boulter until he visited with his family in the summer of 2024. "I’m constantly inspired by my surroundings, or memories of them," he says. "Sat on an almost de…
Transcendence - Raga Darbari
*2025 stock* A towering figure of the Kirana gharana tradition, Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan unveils Transcendence: Raga Darbari, a recording that captures both the majesty of Hindustani classical music and the deeply meditative power of one of its most revered ragas.
Renowned for his profound mastery of raga interpretation, Khan brings an unmatched depth of expression to Raga Darbari, a raga historically associated with dignity, solemnity, and introspection. In Transcendence, the artist’s voice be…
Transcendence
*2025 stock* Renowned Indian classical vocalist Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan unveils his latest album, Transcendence, released by Nimbus Alliance. This masterful recording celebrates the profound depth and timeless majesty of Hindustani classical music, spotlighting the legendary art of the Kirana gharana through the soulful raga Darbari.
Featuring a stellar cast of collaborators including tabla virtuoso Anindo Chatterjee, harmonium maestro Kedar Naphade, and tanpura support from Michael Harrison and…
Njurra Wänja
"The process of making music together in Hand to Earth is unlike any other we have experienced. It is not free improvisation but it is not composed either. It is somewhere in between, and it feels like ‘weaving.’ Through Hand to Earth, we weave the threads of our different histories, different lives, and different perspectives together, and become family. Daniel weaves the ‘Manikay’ (public songs) in his first language, Wagiläk - into the syntax of our shared practices. He talks about the ‘rak…