New Arrivals
10th Annual Report - Anniversary Edition
"Unexplained Sound turns 10! Ten years of aural disorientation and exploration in the field of the most experimental and adventurous music from the international panorama, involving hundreds of projects from over 70 countries across the globe. A journey marked by passion and dedication, enthusiasm and effort, cultural exchange, and intellectual challenges. We extend our deepest gratitude to all the musicians, artists, technicians, listeners, labels, partners, and everyone who has supported us on…
Begging the Moon: Phleng Thai Sakon & Luk Krung, 1945-1960
Begging the Moon is a collection focused upon an early-to-mid 20th century style of Thai popular song, commonly named Phleng Thai sakon (meaning "song which is both Thai and universal"). With recordings taken from the end of WWII until the start of the 1960s, many of these tracks may also be referred to as Luk krung (meaning "child of the city") a more urbanised style of popular song that is in contrast to the Thai country music known as Luk thung ("child of the field").
Following the Thai cultu…
Listen and Die!
Tip! The reissue of the legendary six-cassette box set "Listen and Die!" by Slaughter Productions, first released in 1997, is now available once again. In 2015, this iconic collection was first released on vinyl, with an initial pressing of 300 vinyl records for each title produced in Germany without covers, featuring lacquer cut by SST. However, only 199 covers for each title and matching boxes were crafted in Italy, each hand numbered and subsequently made available for sale, while the remaini…
Mercurated
*Limited Edition of 99 copies. Gold vinyl, Soundohm exclusive * We are excited to announce the eagerly awaited reissue of Merzbow's seminal album 'Mercurated' on double vinyl, originally released on CD in 1996 by Alchemy Records. This milestone in the noise genre captures the essence of Masami Akita's innovative approach to sound, an exploration of the boundaries of auditory experience that continues to resonate with artists and listeners alike. The new vinyl edition features a remaster by James…
The Albums: 1968-1972
14LP box set, black vinyl, slipmat, and a 64-page book. 1968 to 1972, saw the release of 6 studio albums from Folk’s first supergroup Pentangle. Featuring the songwriting talents of guitarists Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, alongside bassist Danny Thompson, drummer Terry Cox and singer Jacqui McShee, their innovative folk-fusion encompassed elements of jazz as well as pop, which left a lasting influence and legacy. The first 5 albums were released on legendary Folk label Transatlantic, while Sol…
Henry House
CD housed in 6 panel digisleeve. 12 pages booklet and Obi. Henry House is a recurring dream song. Combining closely tuned instruments and sinetones, tape-music editing techniques, field recordings, and voice, this eighty-minute, five-part song cycle is an evolutionary step away from the spontaneity of the free jazz/noise aesthetic usually found in the music of Nate Wooley. Henry House expands on the ecstatic, durational work found in Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain, a six-part composition that ha…
The Seeds That Were Silent
Latest from Zac Davis, 80s style industrial / harsh noise collage.
The Joy of Cacophony
*Bilingual Edition Italian/English* Sonia Boyce engages with the artist and sound theorist Brandon LaBelle, who guides us through the artist’s poetics, considering sound as a form of radical inclusion, a medium capable of generating interaction, narratives and new understanding. Sound and listening construct processes that challenge human individuality and conventional languages. Sound, by its porous nature, and the cultural and symbolic manifestation of music fostering social connections, exert…
Music For Diego Marcon's Works
Art edition, LP + booklet, English / Italian, 31.5 x 31.5 cm, 36 pages. Starting with the film Monelle (2017), music has been a fundamental part of almost every work by the artist Diego Marcon. Federico Chiari’s compositions emerge from his ongoing dialogue with the artist. The music and the imagery take shape together, riffing off one another as they are interwoven to define both the structure and the emotional temperature of the pieces. The collaboration between Marcon and Chiari revolves arou…
Circles Of Song
For two hours, the public and passersby are invited to freely join the singing improvisations directed by three choir leaders: Liévine Hubert, Tom Mannaerts and Baptiste Vaes.In this moment of collective singing, people who do not know each other will share the same tune, creating spontaneous complicity through rehearsals. Circles of Songs is a performance by Raffaella Crispino, commissioned by BOZAR Center for Fine Arts Brussels, performed on the 21st of December 2022, as part of Rebirth/Third …
RING!
*Limited Edition 150 copies* Ring! is an artist album by Francesco Cavaliere and Dick El Demasiado created during A Week From Monday 2023, an artistic residency organized in Umbria by Viaindustriae Publishing and Holydays Festival. The residency involves a week-long research and production phase, in which the artists divide their time between Foligno's industrial zone and the mountain village of Scopoli with the intent of exploring possible points of contact between visual and sonic artistic lan…
You Know, My Heart Is in a Thousand Pieces a Day
Recorded in Venice, Italy 2022/23, Mastered by Money Lang.
Swing Low
Modern Obscure Music is proud to present Pierre Bastien & DJ Low's “Swing Low”, a work that fuses the poetic inventiveness of Pierre Bastien with the visionary legacy of the late DJ Low (Tom Deweerdt), a central figure in Belgian independent music and founder of the influential Lowlands label. This album, which interweaves memory and experimentation, represents Bastien's debut on the Barcelona label's catalog and a testament to the creative bond between the two artists. The album, composed of se…
Basic Instincts
Collab/split from Pittsburgh harsh noise artists - CD debut for both.
October Etch Bath
Well-crafted US noise using field recordings, metal and glass sounds.
Strobe Radio
Reissue of a 1985 cassette. Psychedelic delay abuse, ahead of its time.
Pensieri 17-23
Tip! Recorded Between 2017 and 2023 in Rome, Drawing by Vito Stassi, Master by Polysick. Limited Edition Cassette. Giulia Crispiani is a writer and visual artist based in Rome. Her practice brings together her backgrounds in industrial design, object making, philosophy and art theory, which are manifested in live and printed formats such as performances and publications.
Costruzione dell'Universo
*Bilingual Edition Italian/English* Costruzione dell'Universo: Artists’ Magazines and Publications after Marcel Duchamp is a research project that gathers artists’ magazines and publications by various artists who were active in the realm of “periodical and irregular” printed matter from the 1950s to the present day, beginning with of the work of the visionary artist Marcel Duchamp. This significant and hitherto overlooked sector of artistic production explores the dimension of the newspaper and…
Dark Rome 1982-1985
*Bilingual Edition Italian & English* This book gather Dino Ignani's Dark Portraits collection, a selection of approximately 200 photographs that are part of a much larger series of shots, mostly portraits, taken over the course of five years, and effectively evoke the spirit of the 1980s in the dynamic city of Rome. Ignani's research is a window on the look of the young adults who animated the clubs of the so-called Dark scene in Rome, a scene that was in fact diverse and multifaceted, presenti…
John Cage memorial
Big tip! The Kiyosato Museum of Contemporary Art was located in Kiyosato, Yamanashi prefecture from 1990 to 2014. It was a private art museum with a permanent exhibit based on a collection of unrivalled scale. The museum also collected and mounted exhibitions on the work of radical contemporary composers, including John Cage. The museum’s primary informant on music was sound designer Yutaka Hirose, one of the pioneers of Japan’s environmental music (kankyō ongaku) movement in the 1980s. In 1992,…