Heavenly new age ambient synthesis and 4th world navigations by two leading lights of their field, flocking to a mutual spirit at the behest of Australia’s eternally reliable Good Morning Tapes. Riyl Asa-Chang & Junray, Jon Hassell, Nueen, Enya, David Toop.
Meeting for the first time on record - although it sounds like they’ve been making music together forever - GRM alum Ariel Kalma brings some half a century of experience accrued deep in synth music’s most esoteric realms, to Leaving Records’ …
Buenos Aires or any city in the world. Daniel Melingo is in a rehearsal room. The musicians accompanying him have left, exhausted. The instrumentalist musician has been playing all the instruments, which for him are extensions of his body, for hours. The piano, the drums, the guitar, the bass, the xylophone, the saxophone, the bouzouki. He conducts an orchestra made up of himself. As if he was looking for the secret formula in his laboratory where every sound - even if it is not instrumental - i…
*200 copies limited edition* Makt is a Swedish supergroup by "Henrik Nordvargr Björk" (Folkstrom / Bøltron / MZ.412) and "Anon" (Apex Parasite). Makt 2xCD contains the two previous limited and instantly sold out tapes (on Freak Animal and Ominous Recordings) as well as a complete unreleased album ("Dead Nations").
Makt is truly Harsh Power-Electronics analyzing "Power" in all its ugly forms; the eternal Male/Female Conflicts, Religious and Political Abuse, Power and Control. Unfiltered, raw and …
*300 copies limited edition* "Brand new TCU album! Uncompromising Power-Electronics from Oakland / USA. Those guys are real practitioners of cultural terrorism: "You better find God before God finds you..."
"Now fully ensnared in these times of Artificial Intelligence and fabricated facts supporting self-serving confirmation bias, the concepts first illuminated in 2019's Data Industrial Complex seem even more prescient and applicable today. Hence the emergence of The Data Industrial Complex II, …
*300 copies limited edition* "I hate covers. I have never heard a cover version that outshines the original recording. Thus, it is a mystery why I did this. Being me it makes no sense. I have always enjoyed Marco Corbelli´s work and while all of it is not to my liking there is always something unmistakably special about it. I really got sucked in by his Mörder Machine project, but the last few years I have been listening a lot more to Atrax Morgue.
Sometimes when I was a bit out of ideas in the …
"As I sit down to pen these words for Stilluppsteypa's latest vinyl release on the enigmatic Futura Resistenza label, I find myself jumping back a year or two, reminded of the profound impact this Icelandic ensemble has had on the northern landscape of experimental arts for four decades. Emerging in the early 1990s, Stilluppsteypa began their journey as a punk-oriented band with multiple members. However, their insatiable curiosity for the unconventional soon led them to explore more abstract an…
This is the first release from the Japanese shinobue and flute player Yuki Fujiwara. Boarding Yuki's musical ship feels as if the pier exists in a strange space between the past and the future going to a journey to a land which is not here anymore and is not still there. A deep connection to the music world of Toru Takemitsu!
''But Glass Colored Lilly is not just a modern take on Japanese traditions, not at all. Small details on the production and small scale contributions from all the musician…
"Don't be scared by death," Alice Kundalini (aka She Spread Sorrow) calmly instructs at the beginning of her collaborative Grimorian Tapes with partner Luca Sigurta. Her words slithers from her lips with a subtle, sinister unease, compounded by the unsettling quality of her whisper. The fear of death, this most profound condition, has long been a subject of philosophical, spiritual, and existential inquiry. To fear death is undeniably human; to transcend that fear is often seen as reaching a hig…
Ivan The Tolerable is the alter ego solo project of Middlesbrough based musical wizard Oli Heffernan. Aside from his solo work as ITT, Oli has played in numerous bands over the years including Year Of Birds, King Champion Sounds with members of the Ex, Detective Instinct, and Shrug, and has collaborated with icons like Mike Watts of the Minutemen, and J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr.
On Black Water/Brown Earth, Heff called in the help of his Dutch friends Mees and Elsa in King Champion Sounds again and …
Assembled and recorded to tape in 2011 by Oli Heffernan.
''A full-stop on my 20's in mixed media.''
Remastered for vinyl in 2024
Sleeve by Ack! Ack! Ack! Design
Cover Photo by C-Dyer
Released by Industrial Coast 2025
Recorded live at The Waiting Room, Stoke Newington, London on friday 13th Sept 2024 - between 8pm - 8:37pm
Oli Heffernan - bass guitar, synths, kalimba, drones, arps
Dedicated to the memory of Stan Brakhage: 1933 - 2003
Design by Ack! Ack! Ack! Design
Reissue of 1994 cassette originally on Art Konkret. A notable deviation from the earliest Macro tapes yet still building up to the sonic form of the '95 era. Last track features voice samples from Keith Brewer.
First on-record meeting of Randy Greif and long-time conspirator Alva Svoboda. A more abstract, electronically-processed work than their collaborative tracks on Golden Joy Club or Shadow Traders.
*2025 stock*
Written, produced, engineered and mixed by Marco GiambroneRecorded and mixed at Casa 53 - Cammarata (Italy)Additional Recordings: b.a.d Instruments Studio - Alessandria, Nocino's Studio - AlessandriaMastered by Giovanni Versari at La Maestà - Tredozio
Marco Giambrone: Vocals, guitars, percussions, balalaika, vibes, noises, samples, synth, violinCaterina Fede: Vocals, organ, harmonium, synth, autoharp, cymbals, percussions, noisesAlfonso De Marco: Bass guitar, percussions, backing vo…
A more than welcomed re-issue for the iconic post-punk band coming all the way from Watford. The album showcase a collection of unreleased recordings – mostly conceived between 1981 and 1983 – and it is a right companion to their two studio masterpiece: "Epic Garden Music" and "Feeding The Flames".
Yowzers is a new album by Chicago composer, improvisor, instrumentalist and musical folklorist Ben LaMar Gay. The twelve track collection is a leap forward in the lexicon of Gay’s recorded output, and a veritable masterwork of ancient inner-body rhythms and intuitive melodic storytelling. It’s worth mentioning that a leap forward for Gay is no small feat. The musical ground he has covered in the last decade, both as a bandleader and collaborator, is immense. His de facto debut album—the 2018 com…
*150 copies limited edition* “In September 2022 I bought a piano. I had had access to pianos previously but had quite limited knowledge on how to actually record it in a good way. Especially since I had also acquired a dampener for it and was mainly interested in capturing that piano tone, which lacks a lot of the overtones that it normally has. So the idea was to write and record something quickly, using mainly piano and mainly first takes. To go with my gut feeling and leave the mistakes in th…
Denis Frajerman started as composer in the French experimental band Palo Alto. With a strong interest in literature and orality as a musician, he collaborates regularly with storytellers and writers for radio sessions, oratorios, or records. Strongly linked to the work of Antoine Volodine, his first solo album, Les Suites Volodine was directly influenced by his writings. They both share a taste for haunting atmospheres, black humor, witchcraft. Volodine and Frajerman also worked on creations, D…
During a 50+ year career across the spectrum of music saxophonist Larry Stabbins has worked with most of the important figures at the cutting edge of European Jazz and Improvisation from Mike Westbrook to Keith Tippett and Tony Oxley and Germany’s Peter Brotzmann, as well as with Robert Wyatt and Jerry Dammers Spatial AKA. Alongside this he played in the seminal pop group Weekend and formed Working Week with guitarist Simon Booth, a project that took a melange of latin, soul and jazz into the wo…
This release from composer / saxophonist / poet Keith Jafrate, together with a top flight band of Discus Music regulars, is a powerful and beautiful spiritual work. Never rushing, and always deeply involving, this music creates a peaceful yet mindful vibe in the midst of troubled times.
Keith’s liner notes explain how Uroboro’s 2nd double album on discus came into being: “John suggested, during our very first recording session as a quintet, in august 2022, that i should write a pamphlet entitled…
For a few fleeting moments during a sunset, the sky is cast a vivid shade of amber. A dramatic flare of colour, a moment belonging to both the day and the night. It is within this vibrant, ephemeral world, that Mongolian-born, Munich-based Enji has written her new album Sonor. Sonor is a record full of life and optimism, from an artist finding the beauty of existing between two worlds, much as a sunset does. Between the cultures of Mongolia and Germany, tradition and innovation, nostalgia and ex…
A long-time best-seller of the MEG-AIMP collection and long out of print, this album of sanza music recorded among the Gbaya people of the Central African Republic by ethnomusicologist Vincent Dehoux was originally released on CD in 1993. It is now being reissued to coincide with the exhibition Afrosonica - Soundscapes. It features a selection of 'songs for thought': an intimate repertoire conducive to introspection, accompanied by the repetitive, meditative sound of lamellaphones.
The Hotel is proud to present its first release – Roots of Empathy, the debut album from London artist Henry Cyer. Written and recorded over the span of four years, the project manifests itself as an album of songs, a collection of photographs and a series of music videos. Roots of Empathy explores fear as an entity – both personal and impersonal, alien and familiar, real and dreamlike. The album pulls the listener into a mystical otherworld, where the self is dissolved and projected through a m…
Originally issued on cassette in limited runs between 1989 and 1990, At That Time is a long-overdue excavation of Nostalgie Éternelle – one of the most quietly crucial names in the European DIY underground. The compilation brings together tracks from three early self-released tapes – Damned Forever Those Who Listen To This Tape (split with Due), Art Is The Tool (split with From Nursery to Misery), and Virtual Reality (split with PN 4632402) – issued on the band’s own One Last Dream label and cir…
After previous under-the-radar releases on the fabled Low Comapny and The Trilogy Tapes, Zaheer now appears under his own name on Thomas Bush's Men Scryfa. The sixth Screfys release, an image of wingless flight through flowing darkness. Focused Buchla studies exploring the process of unbelieving and realisation of the ultimate heretic as the self.
Zaheer Gulamhusein is a Leicester-based musician and lifelong student of esotericism, with previous releases appearing under the aliases XVARR, WASWA…
Previously unreleased (mostly) these tracks are the missing link between the band's Untitled 10" and Scene In Mirage LP, exploring both naive beat-driven electronica and ambient experiments. As its name suggests, 1983 Unearthed is an excavation of OYC’s early years based on a deep dive into the band’s archive of cassettes and master tapes. The music here is from the period immediately prior to the recording of OYC’s seminal debut album, Scene in Mirage, in 1984, highlighting a definitive year fo…
Infant Tree is excited to present a new solo release by Crystabel Efemena Riley, recorded In July 2024 at Ormside Projects, as part of Susu Laroche’s Seraph FM series. Crystabel performs on a kit constructed of recycled skins of drums and shells, specifically centered in the space. This performance inter-connected with an exploration of metal smelting and sculpting that was happening in tandem in her work as a make-up artist uniquely preoccupied with the the infinitely recyclable and ritualistic…
Two legendary titans of the extreme metal scene - Iggor Cavalera (Cavalera Conspiracy / Petbrick / founding member of Sepultura) and Shane Embury (Napalm Death / Dark Sky Burial) - join forces for this unique split of brooding dark ambient, industrial strength noise, and heavy synth-laden electronics, creating what feels like the lost soundtrack to some dystopian fever dream.
Setting the tone for this double-headed behemoth with creeping, cinematic dark ambience, Iggor Cavalera's side-long 'Neon…
Americanoise act Heat Signature return in 2025 with “Trench Trapped”, a new full-length assault for Input Error. Never-ending labyrinths of mud-caked tunnels and ditches are traversed and dissected one-by-one, and the first glimpse of enemy combatants along the way is met with rampant, clip-emptying fire. War is both hell and the unknown.
Additional mercenary support sounds are included from Keith Brewer, Ahlzagailzehugh, and Diaphragmatic.
A trio of leaders in their own right performing pianist Satoko Fujii's demanding compositions, bassist Takashi Sugawa and drummer Ittetsu Takemura rise to the challenge in a set of six exciting works that push and pull this remarkable piano trio in unexpected directions, responding to the twists and turns of Fujii's intense and intricate directions; superlative!
Celebrating her 65th birthday with her first compositions for strings, pianist-composer Satoko Fujii writes for the specific musicians of GEN, a sextet of violin, viola, bass, piano, electronics, and drums, in a suite inspired by Nagano's mountain views, leveraging microtonal string techniques for an expressive and texturally rich sonic landscape.
Right out of the gate one feels the energy and excitement between Japanese trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and NY drummer Jim Black, each pushing the other through strong instrumental character and outrageous technique over nine Tamura compositions recorded in the studio in Switzerland, their first recording in 25 years since their 1999 Buzz Records album White and Blue.
Propelled by the confidence and intimacy that a familial relationship brings to two improvisers, imbued by each player's masterful technical skills and creative drive, the husband and wife duo of pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura expand their catalog with this set of magnificent dialogs, sometimes quirky, always powerful and implicitly lyrical.
*Limited edition of 91 copies, a landmark collection of Avant-Garde harp innovation, includes download code.* Celebrated Irish harpist and improviser Rhodri Davies redefines the boundaries of his instrument across eight seminal albums in "WYTH", a meticulously curated box set showcasing his radical explorations in sound. This limited edition box-set compiles Davies’ groundbreaking work on his Amgen label, offering a panoramic view of his fearless experimentation with the harp—from abrasive textu…
Geniuses at work. Composers and multi-instrumentalists Valentina Magaletti Susumu Zongamin Mukai shielding the rain with giant sonic umbrella made of radio waves. Impromptu recordings, proto postpunk from the mist of East London basements for a trip to Maryland that is yet to happen. "It's Cold in Baltimore" is an invitation from V/Z to dream of flying without taking off, elevating the spirit until the clouds start screaming of joy. The future never sounded better.
SUDA Seishu (1947–) is a master of the Satsuma-biwa and Heike-biwa, traditional Japanese instruments. He was born in Tokyo and studied Satsuma-biwa with Tsuji Seigo and Heike-biwa with Kindaichi Haruhiko. In 1970, he won the Biwa Music Competition and has been a leading performer in the biwa world for over 50 years.
The biwa is a Japanese string instrument with a long history. It came to Japan during the Nara period (710–784 AD) and is thought to have originated in Iran. It is related to instrum…
Monooto represents a genuine encounter with objects. The whispers of countless items draw us into an unfamiliar realm, directing our ears toward the shadows where they reside. This is the emerging music genre known as “monooto”. Interestingly, the Japanese term “mono” (もの), meaning “thing” or “object,” carries a subtle eeriness. According to the Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “mono” can also denote deities, spirits, or objects of fear and reverence, including ghosts and vengeful spirits. Terms like "mon…