Best of 2021
Recherche Dans Le Rêve (LP)
Tip! ' Edition of 300' After a couple of limited art releases on Des Astres D’Or (now Astres d’Or) this is the first more widely available release of Wendingen 1918. Aural analogue surreal investigations by the trio of Raymond Dijkstra (Asra, bhaavitaaH bhuutasthaH, Santasede), Bart De Paepe (Ilta Hämärä, Innercity, Bombay Lunatic Asylum) and Frédérique Bruyas (Emmanuel Dilhac, La Poupée Vivante, Nivritti Marga). A hybrid mix of dynamic electronics, spatial sounds and poetry expressing a dazzlin…
End For The Beginning
**700 copies** We are proud to introduce this new Superfly reissue, produced in collaboration with Universal Music Japan and Production Dessinee. Beautiful modern jazz album with modal and spiritual vibe all the way. This is a state-of-the-art quality repress with vintage Japanese quality touch, with obi and insert, strictly limited to 700 copies.
Music for Tape and Spectral / Granular processes (2xTape)
Tip! Born in 1992, Guido Gamboa is an American artist that works in the sound and visual mediums. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he studied sound art and art history. His sound practice is informed primarily by the histories and ideas of musique concrete, sound poetry, computer music, electroacoustic music and contemporary composition. These works often involve the use of field recordings, magnetic tape, non-standard tunings, indeterminate…
The Complete AYNA sessions 72-76
** Wooden box set, numbered and limited to 400 copies. From the original master tapes. Includes a booklet. ** The entire series of LPs released for AYNA Records, Florence, Italy, between 1972 and 1976 getting its first ever commercial release on CDs in a box set via Cinedelic/Soave Records which has the merit of making this music available again that collectors have been competing for a long time for hundreds of euros in the original editions. An exhaustive and fascinating cross-section of the w…
Light Patterns (LP)
An early ‘80s ambient jazz gem from the archive of Manchester’s Kevin McCormick & David Horridge. In 1970, Kevin and David met whilst they were working in the Labour Exchange Office on Aytoun St, Manchester. Both played guitar and had been searching for other musicians who played atmospheric music. Kevin had been playing in small clubs in Manchester and David performed in a few local bands. One evening, they jammed together at Kevin’s family home, and quickly realized that their playing blended …
Once More
Xing presents the first release of the XONG series: the artist record Once More by Kinkaleri performance group and the photographer and artist Jacopo Benassi.
The release is on white vinyl, in a limited and numbered edition, and it comes with a 24-page booklet with photos by Jacopo Benassi.
Once More (White LP) / Martellate. Scritti Fighi 1990-2020
Two stunning debuts from Xong - the new label launched by Bologna based cultural platform Xing - Lydia Mancinelli and Marcello Maloberti’s 'Martellate. Scritti Fighi 1990-2020' and Kinkaleri and Jacopo Benassi’s 'Once More', take deep dives into singular creative frontiers that rest at the boundaries of the theatrical, sound art, experimental music, noise, the poetic, and the generatively performative. Both are absolutely incredible - blurring the boundaries between action and the act of listeni…
Sonic Waters, Underwater Music 1979-1987
A work that literally immerses the listener into an acoustical substance. The sound becomes almost like matter, like jelly. Soon, you're swimming in sound, getting lost inside it
Breathing Spirit Forms (Book + CD)
* Matt laminate and embossed sleeve, insert card, CD and24-page book with text by David Toop, drawings by Akio Suzuki and photography by Lawrence English * In August 2013, David Toop and Akio Suzuki visited Australia. During a residency on Tamborine Mountain (an anglicized version of the Yugambeh word Jambreen), the pair were joined by Lawrence English for a series of site specific, environment-led improvisations created around the fringes of the Tamborine plateau. Embedded in place, these reco…
A Mirror Holds The Sky (Book + CD)
* Matt laminate and embossed sleeve, insert card, CD and 48 page perfect bound book featuring photographs by Lawrence English, taken on location in the Amazon * From Lawrence English: "In late months of 2008, I had the great fortune to spend some weeks in the Amazon. The visit, facilitated through Francisco Lopez's Mamori Artlab residency, remains one of the most deeply affecting experiences I have had . . . Living in Australia, tropical rainforests are not foreign to me. I would even say I am …
The Radio - Airria (Hanging Garden) - Vein Stem is Calm
Sonoris is pleased to announce the release both on vinyl and cd, with a new mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi, of some important works from the influential and respected artist Steve Roden. These tracks, which mix conceptual composition and musicality, transcend the ambient or lowercase categories too quickly applied to his music, due to its ghostly beauty. In the tradition of John Cage’s Cartridge Music amplified objects, Steve Roden extracts a fine and delicate music through his manipulation of spe…
People Pleaser Pt.II / Electric Rag (2LP in bundle)
This special bundle collects the two recently issued albums by acclaimed experimental percussionist Will Guthrie, including his latest collaboration with Jean-Luc Guionnet:Will Guthrie "People Pleaser - Pt. II" LPWill Guthrie / Jean-Luc Guionnet "Electric Rag" LPWill Guthrie "People Pleaser - Pt. II" LPA singular exercise in Will Guthrie's discography, “People Pleaser”, a series initiated in 2017, sees the Australian partially put down his drumsticks and wear a producer cap for a result offerin…
Door Open at 8 A.M.
Much needed repress of Merzbow's 1999 masterpiece, "Door Open at 8 am" remastered by Masami Akita, it includes new artwork created by Masami Akita himself. This limited edition on orange vinyl (200 Worldwide) includes two bonus tracks, a poster with new original art, and a download code.
The Healing Music of Rana, Vol. 1, Vol. 2 and Vol. 3 (4LP in bundle)
This special bundle collects Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3 in Randall McClellan's The Healing Music of Rana trilogy of albums released by Aguirre.Originally released on cassette in 1983, now released on vinyl for the first time. Exceptional recordings by this new age maestro. Only recently re-discovered by his friend JD Emmanuel and the band Sun Araw. Randall McClellan was a founding member of the electronic music studio at the Eastman School of Music in 1967 where he later received a Ph.D. in…
Blue Rot (LP)
Razen are back with a second album on HITD, follow up to last year's release 'Robot Brujo'. On 'Blue Rot', the band introduces a softer palette and a new quartet, as the core duo of multi-instrumentalists Brecht Ameel and Kim Delcour is augmented with new band member Berlinde Deman on Serpent and guest Thomas Bloch on Glassharmonica and crystal Baschet. Drawing inspiration from late 19th-Century Symbolist art, 'Blue Rot' summons heartbreak and the perils of isolation in languid, hypnotic modes,…
Lucy & Aaron
Tip! * Lucy & Aaron is the debut collaboration LP from the duo of Lucrecia Dalt (RVNG Intl.) and Aaron Dilloway (Dais Records). Full length LP in full color cover with printed inner sleeve featuring art by artist Pieter Schoolwerth. * “I met Aaron in Madeira around 10 years ago, and I was blown away by his set, when I was going to tour the US for the first time, Forest, my US my booking agent asked me if I wanted to tour with someone from his roster and I suggested Mr Dilloway, the first show we…
The Appointed Cloud
An absolutely stunning statement by one of the most important experimental artists of the last 100 years, Saltern's first ever vinyl pressing of Yoshi Wada's seminal, long out of print 1987 performance, "The Appointed Cloud", is an immersive and creatively brilliant gesture of durational tone and complex structure that rethinks the terms minimal music in real time.
Merzbeat
** Limited edition of 100 tapes, 50 on original colored version and 50 on green and pink colored version cover (this one). Remastered by Masami Akita, an Riso Printed artwork by Tori Press. ** A beautiful and distorted dream of drum samples, jazz, swing, noise and bliss, by Harsh Noise giant, Masami Akita (Merzbow), remastered for the first time since its release.
The April Session
Tip! This journey, this slowly drifting sonic meditation, is an 'inner soundscape', a dialogue between the senses, the conscience and the world, inside / outside, interconnected. Like waking up from a long dream, and being stuck into its echo. The April Sessions immerges the listener into a drone-ish universe, full of random acousmatic events, inner monologues and a vast and unwritten subjective map to be drawn. The April Sessions has been living in a seedy hotel in Brussels for a few months. S…
Beyond Enclosures
On his captivating new solo album, is an Ireland-based, Australian-born Robert Curgenven - highly regarded for his majestic, coruscating pipe organ through to feedback, immersive resonances via turntables and custom-made vinyl, as well as carefully detailed field recordings, experimental turntable techniques inter-woven with piano and extended pipe organ techniques with an enveloping, often ecstatic and mystic effect recalling resonances and sound intended as a physical field of perception.The 3…