New Arrivals
The Day of Forever
HDK is honored to present a new artist, Alo, who debuts with an album of romantic Berlin-school electronic music in which each track is a fragment of a suspended world, a contemplative and restless electronic experience: hypnotic sequences, pulsating synthesizers, and melancholic textures evoke abandoned cities, decaying technologies, and forgotten memories.
The album (and its title) is a tribute to the English writer J.G. Ballard (1930–2009) and his frightening imaginative power.
Bloodsport Gambler
Bloodsport Gambler is a table-top board game for 1 or 2 players, focuses on a tense & seedy story of risk, luck, and the efforts that sway fate in your favor. Thrust into desperation by swelling debts, you must gamble on the foul pit fights of Ghoulmorrah in a last-ditch struggle to pay off a merciless syndicate of moneylenders. With looming payments fast approaching, the only way to beat the odds is to sleuth, scheme, and sabotage. While a sure bet is favorable to warding off debt collectors, t…
Pirateborg
For the first explorers, the Dark Caribbean was paradise. They had found only deserted islands and rich treasures. It was only when thousands left their overcrowded and corrupted homelands to colonize the islands that the Scourge appeared… Frightening screams echoed across the beaches, and from the night-black waves the undead rose. Terror spread like wildfire. First they came one at a time, then entire hordes, and soon the settlements were submerged by rivers of lifeless, nameless creatures. Po…
Kapitel 1: Fornhistoria
HDK launches its "Educational Series" with this cassette of experimental Swedish music on a prehistoric theme. Suitable for all children in primary and secondary schools, it will accompany them in their learning of history. The cassette is also ideal for adults with rather limited historical knowledge. Unfortunately, for now, it is only available in Swedish. The cassette includes a final test for self-assessment of learning.
Tangerine And The Invisible
*250 copies limited edition* Three Chinese musicians performed at Ftarri, Tokyo, on January 2, 2024. Li Song is a computer programmer and musician who lives in London. Zhao Cong and Zhu Wenbo are experimental/improvisational musicians based in Beijing. This album is made up of two performances (each over 30 minutes): "The Invisible Tangerine," a duo by Zhao Cong and Li Song, and "Three Lines," a trio by Li Song, Zhao Cong and Zhu Wenbo.
The compelling feature of "The Invisible Tangerine" is the …
Spring
*250 copies lmited edition* Bryan Eubanks (born in 1977) is a Berlin-based American musician who performs using soprano saxophone, electronics and computers. Gert-Jan Prins (born in 1961) is an Amsterdam-based musician whose performances make use of electronic noise and percussion. Both are well known on the international improvised music scene and carry out wide-ranging musical activities, including composition and sound installations in addition to improvisation. No-input mixing board player T…
Tatazumai
*250 copies limited edition* Lucio Capece is an Argentinian composer and improviser based in Berlin. His highly creative activities have been a focus of worldwide attention. Takako Suzuki is a Japanese dancer living in Berlin. A founding member of the dance company Sasha Waltz and Guests, she has performed in international festivals since the 1990s and carries out numerous collaborations with musicians. Masahide Tokunaga is a Tokyo-based alto saxophone player with a distinctive performance style…
Fumine
*200 copies limited edition* Born in 1954, Katsura Yamauchi is a saxophone player based in Oita, Japan. Since he began performing in earnest in the early 2000s, he has been touring and expanding his distinctive musical activities in Japan, Europe, North America and Asia. Koto player Kohsetsu Imanishi has an active career inside and outside Japan, performing music of various genres including classical Japanese music, improvisation and contemporary classical music. In addition to performing as a s…
Object, Monochord, Circle
*200 copies limited edition* Philadelphia-based artist Morgan Evans-Weiler performs on violin and is known as a member of the contemporary classical music ensemble Ordinary Affects. Percussionist Carlo Costa, who was born in Rome, has lived in New York since 2005.
"Object, Monochord, Circle," a collection of works composed by Evans-Weiler for violin and percussion, is made up of 12 pieces under 10 minutes long (almost all are between 1 and 5 minutes). Sustained violin and percussion sounds flow …
Live At Ftarri
*200 copies limited edition* Gintė Preisaitė is an up-and-coming pianist from Lithuania. Currently based in Copenhagen, she is active on the improvised/experimental music scene, using electronics and vocals in her performances in addition to piano. During a visit to Japan in September 2024, she performed at Ftarri, Tokyo, on the 23rd in a duo with no-input mixing board player Toshimaru Nakamura. An internationally active musician known for improvised performances using mixer feedback, Nakamura h…
Support Surface
*200 copies limited edition* French musician Bruno Duplant, who uses both analog and digital instruments in his performances, has produced a succession of excellent solo and collaborative works and released many recordings on numerous labels including Ftarri. Pierre Gerard is a Belgian improviser and composer. Like Duplant, he makes wide-ranging and skillful use of various instruments, including guitar, piano and electronics, and has presented many works on Ftarri and other improvised/experiment…
Before Time Began - Radio Broadcast 1967-1970
Renowned rock pioneers Pink Floyd's Before Time Began - Radio Broadcast 1967-1970 is a captivating collection capturing the band’s formative era through rare radio and television broadcasts across England and continental Europe. This meticulously curated set features performances spanning from 1967—when Syd Barrett still led the band’s creative vision—through to 1970, including iconic appearances on French radio and a memorable concert at London’s Paris Theatre hosted by John Peel. The recording…
Eclipse (recordings for john peel at the BBC Paris Theatre, London)
This remarkable collection of vintage concerts captures Pink Floyd live in 1971, recorded by BBC Radio and originally broadcast as part of their legendary Rocker series. The performances were introduced by none other than iconic DJ John Peel, whose influence helped shape the progressive rock scene of the era.
Recorded at the historic BBC Paris Theatre in London, Eclipse showcases Pink Floyd’s extraordinary lineup during a pivotal moment in their career. The band features David Gilmour on guitars…
Play Boy / Descarga Rogers’
Two almost-impossible-to-find Amazonian rarities, finally reissued together for the first time on a single. On one side, Los Playboys’ instrumental ‘Play Boy’, packed with all the hallmarks of psychedelic cumbia—playful surf-tinged guitars and a hypnotic, dancefloor-ready groove. On the flip side, a fiery Cuban-influenced Descarga jam from Iquitos’ obscure band Los Roger’s.
Iquitos, one of Peru’s most remote cities and the capital of its Amazon region, was the epicenter of the psychedelic cumbia…
Cumbia Cumbia Cumbia!!! (Vol. 4)
The historical origins of cumbia are nebulous and imprecise. The mythology surrounding it suggests an ancient past when Amerindian, African and European musical sounds were mixed together. After digging deep into the overwhelming archives of Discos Fuentes, Codiscos and Discos MAG in our previous volumes, this fourth instalment in the series “Cumbia Cumbia Cumbia!!!” comprises 28 Colombian cumbia bangers for the dance floor from the deep vaults of Discos Tropical, all of them originally releas…
Tilaye's Saxophone With The Dahlak Band
Tilaye Gebre was a central figure in Ethiopian music during the mid- to late 1970s, a period now hard to document but rich with talent. His saxophone and arrangements are likely featured on many recordings from Addis Ababa of that era. Despite Ethiopia’s limited formal musical institutions, Tilaye trained at the Haile Selassie First Theatre music school, where he began studying saxophone instead of guitar under mentor Ato Aymre Gemeda. This instrument became his lifelong expressive voice.
Tilaye…
Lo Borges
Before he turned 20, Lô Borges released one of the most captivating albums to come out of Brazil’s rich musical landscape — a record that somehow flew under the radar at the time but has since become a cult favorite for listeners around the world. Recorded in the same whirlwind year as the legendary “Clube da Esquina” — the groundbreaking collaboration with Milton Nascimento and Beto Guedes — this self-titled solo debut finds Lô Borges in full creative flight. Pressured by Odeon Records to deliv…
Axis Dissected
We are thrilled to introduce Axis Dissected, the debut release of escéptica, and a bold statement from Dangel. A sonic excavation of found sound, field recordings and musique concrète abstraction. Recorded between Berlin and Chile from 2022 to 2024, this album assembles fragments of reality and reconfigures them into a haunting sound experience.
Dangel works with intuitive precision, sculpting scenes of acoustic memory and spatial debris. There is a tension here between control and chance, betwe…
Salò, or The 120 Days Of Sodom
The first time on any format for Pier Paolo Pasolini's controversial 1975 vision of the Marquis De Sade's 120 Days Of Sodom, featuring beautiful and discordant classical compositions, in stark contrast to the shocking and cruel events unfolding onscreen. Three weeks before the scandalous release of "Salò, or The 120 Days Of Sodom", Pasolini was brutally murdered in Ostia, Italy. In the wake of the tragedy, legendary composer Ennio Morricone wrote 'Addio a Pier Paolo Pasolini' (Goodbye to Pier Pa…
Music for clarinet and piano
Experience a captivating dialogue between clarinet and piano in Music for Clarinet and Piano, a compelling new release by renowned clarinetist François Houle and visionary pianist Georg Graewe. This album showcases a sophisticated interplay of contemporary composition and improvisational mastery, carving a unique space in modern chamber music.
François Houle brings a lyrical sensitivity and technical precision to the clarinet, weaving intricate melodic lines with emotional depth. Georg Graewe’s …