New Arrivals
Water Ladder
*In process of stocking. 2022 stock* Following their recent solo releases Soniscope (Dauw) and Cells #5 (Important Records), Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist Midori Hirano and Tokyo based string experimentalist Atsuko Hatano have teamed up for their first collaborative full-length: Water Ladder. An intense, multilayered continuation of earlier collaborations (Atsuko was featured on Midori’s debut LP back in 2006), the foundation for this new collaborative album was laid when they shared stages…
Perimetral Observation Under Critical Circumstances
Eight-footed Mole is an ongoing interdisciplinary research conducted by Eva Grieco and Alessandro Ciccarelli about dance, sound design, video, photography, poetry, painting and live installations.
Tantalus Rite
Tip! *In process of stocking* PKWST & Teuthis Galore take you into a multi-plane realm of drone, free jazz, ambience, and tape loops that comfort and confound the listener, leaving them free to roam in a Venn diagram of emotional states and experimental sounds. "Tantalus Arise! We offer our child for the sacrifice of your hearing!". Experimental sound and multimedia visual artist PKWST is involved with Butoh Sonics, Smogma, Sugar Pills Bone, Claustronaut, Schadenhaus, Bitch Hog and solo projects…
Newfoundout
*In process of stocking. 2022 stock* 'Over the last decade, Toronto-based composer Nick Storring has become well known for his unique, painstaking compositional style of layering performances on a plethora of objects and musical/electro-mechanical instruments to deeply moving effect. ‘Newfoundout’, his seventh album, follows last year’s lush and nocturnal ‘My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell’ (Orange Milk Records) with more rhythmical material and an almost theatrical, phantasmal sensibility. …
Moonbuilding Summer Special
Colin Morrison's Castles In Space label has launched a new publishing venture in the shape of Moonbuilding mag. The A5, 48-page full-colour title is fronted by former Electronic Sound commissioning editor Neil Mason and comes with a 13-track sampler CD featuring previews from forthcoming CiS releases and a number of exclusive tracks. While Moonbuilding is a Castles In Space publication, it also covers a raft of like-minded DIY labels and artists. The debut issue stars I Monster/The Sound Of Scie…
Psychedelic Picnic - A Breath Of Fresh Air
Picnic - A Breath of Fresh Air is a sampler issued originally by the Harvest Records label, originally released in 1970 and is remarkable for including the full-length version of the unreleased Pink Floyd song, "Embryo". EMI as a record label did not generally have a reputation for taking risks; however, having seen that progressive music had become popular, the niche Harvest label was launched in 1969 to take advantage of that market. As with many record labels at the time, a budget-priced show…
Songs In Heat
*In process of stocking.* While Dredd Foole would stamp his legend as a foundational figure in the New Weird America free folk underground of the 1990s and 2000s, that is just the second half of the story. Forty years ago, in February 1982, Dredd entered the studio with Mission of Burma, stepping off a remarkable decade of post-punk activity that drew comparisons to The Stooges, Tim Buckley, and various outsider musicians. They would never tour and lacked ambition, so their powers were largely w…
Domes
*Limited edition of 150 copies.* After having released solo albums on Western Vinyl and Preservation, Domes presents the first entirely instrumental work of the California based multi-instrumentalist Heather Woods Broderick. Domes is a collection of meditative pieces based around the cello. While not being her primary instrument, the cello holds a very special place for the artist. Throughout the past 2 years, Heather often felt the need to find moments of respite in response to the chaotic and…
Atollo
Tip! *Limited edition of 40 copies.* »Atollo« is the debut solo album of the Italian percussionist and composer Daniele Di Gregorio, a virtuoso of the marimba and the vibraphone who has worked with a large number of artists, including Donato Dozzy, Giorgio Gaslini, Tony Scott, Randy Becker, Luis Agudo, as well as Mina, Andrea Bocelli, Fabio Concato, Malika Ayane, and many others. He also has a long-standing collaboration with poet and composer Paolo Conte. His latest work »Atollo« is divided int…
New Primes
*Limited edition of 200 copies.* An investigation into the compositional properties of prime numbers from Vermont-based electronic musician Greg Davis, New Primes employs custom-written software to translate prime number sequences into a mesmerizing universe of sound. Davis pares his sound materials down to their most basic — a network of pure sine tones — to create a collection of pieces ranging from the almost-tonal to the harmonically alien.
In summer 2016, greyfade founder Joseph Branciforte…
From The Machine: Volume 1
*In process of stocking. Limited edition of 200 copies.* The first volume in an ongoing collaboration between composers Kenneth Kirschner and Joseph Branciforte, From the Machine explores the application of software-based compositional techniques — including algorithmic processes, generative systems, and indeterminacy — to the creation of new music for acoustic instruments. Featuring members of Flux Quartet and International Contemporary Ensemble. Although digital approaches to music-making are …
LP1
*In process of stocking. Limited edition of 150 copies.* The debut recording from Grammy-nominated vocalist Theo Bleckmann and electronic musician & producer Joseph Branciforte. Vocal loops of hushed beauty framed by artificially-synthesized tones, deep subharmonic oscillations, and gently layered sheets of noise, with a shared musical language drawing upon ambient, choral, microsound, and free improvisation.
In the early days of spring 2018, Theo Bleckmann and Joseph Branciforte retreated for t…
Muzeum Historii Naturalnej
*Includes a 24-page A5 booklet.* This first vinyl release from photographer, musician and visual artist Mateusz Woś was recorded at home in Warsaw during the winter of 2021 and was conceived as the sequel to his Skamielina tape. Muzeum Historii Naturalnej consists of two side-long excursions into eerie pastoral dream states. Imagined worlds where the earthly and cosmic collide. You'll like it there.
Healing Music
*Limited edition of 100 copies.* "Disclaimer: Joachim Nordwall is one of those artists whose work I've been following for a long time, from the spastic no wave of Kid Kommando to the sprawling drone rituals of Skull Defekts, from the industrialized meditations of Saturn & The Sun, his collaboration records with the likes of Mats Gustaffson or Mika Vainio, to his multifaceted solo outputs, under his own name or the Idealist moniker... well you might get the point: I am a fanboy. So I write from a…
In the Open
*Limited edition of 300 copies.* More than five years after Federico Durand (12K, Spekk) released his solo record Adormidera through Dauw, the label announces his first collaborative full album together with Tomoyoshi Date (Home Normal, Baskaru) and Asuna Arashi (Faitiche, Home Normal): »In the Open«.
When Durand, Date and Arashi were touring together during the Spring of 2017 in Japan, they decided to visit the old city of Kanazawa. On one hand they wanted to wander through the streets, visit …
La Casa Stregata - Mia Moglie E' Una Strega
After Il Ragazo Di Campagna another release dedicated to Maestro Detto Mariano, with this CD release featuring two unreleased soundtracks, La Casa Stregata and Mia Moglie E’ Una Strega. Two movies with a common male protagonist, Renato Pozzetto, facing some esoteric plots, in the former movie in a bewitched mansion, in the latter having married a right a witch. Co-star gorgeous Gloria Guida and beautiful Eleonora Giorgi.
Two scores waited since a long time by Maestro’s fans, finally available in…
…Continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità
After the release of Lo chiamavano Trinità soundtrack, and its 50th anniversary edition we couldn’t miss the meeting with its famous sequel …Continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità, featuring the soundtrack by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis, the two musicians brothers among the most popular authors of soundtrack and other music in Italy. Since a while out of catalogue again available in this super collector’s edition on 180 colored vinyl, white featuring a green stripe in the middle. On the cover Renato C…
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly/Il Buono, Il Brutto E Il Cattivo
* Blue vinyl, 2022 repress. 100 copies limited release. In process of stocking * The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is neither more nor less than the perfect soundtrack to the most wonderful of western movies, the third and final act of the "Dollar Trilogy" directed by Sergio Leone. A film not only rated among the best of the genre, but universally considered among the most successful in the history of cinema. Ennio Morricone, a higher caliber composer to whom each musician usually relates with the …
London Pirate Radio Adverts 1984-1993, Vol. 2
*2022 Stock.* Talk about a time capsule. While the obvious nostalgists out there scour and share their cassette eight packs, desperately converting the mixes they contain to digital files before the inevitable unspooling renders the original recordings obsolete, here comes Death Is Not The End - a record label that lends its name to (well, hosts) a show on NTS Radio - with the ultimate trip back to a time many weren't lucky enough to live through. As the name suggests, this is literally a collec…
Bagman Live At Cafe Oto
Bagman, an imaginary character dreamt up by this experimental jazz trio, roams around in the figurative soundscape, collecting sonic debris. From a piano played on the inside and outside, electronics, saxophones, drums and junk objects shape a frenetic musical environment. Captured live at Cafe Oto in London, Pat Thomas (Piano, Electronics), Raymond Strid (Drums) and Sture Ericson (Tenor, Soprano Saxophones) assemble fragmented sounds in haphazard, creative and thrilling directions. After years …