Upcoming releases
Un Théâtre aux yeux clos / A Theater with closed eyes
French artist The Dead Mauriacs (Olivier Prieur) has been releasing many works based on a collage style. This album is the second release on zappak. "Un Théâtre aux yeux clos / A Theater with closed eyes" is based on a quite minimal collage style. There are some spaces like silence, and subtle electro-acoustic sounds are placed quite carefully. They sometimes whisper and other times roar. In between 45 minutes the curtain falls and rises, you might see a play that you have never experienced befo…
Open the windows and let the spirits in and out
Warm Winters Ltd. welcomes Argentinian, Berlin-based composer Ángeles Rojas with her new piece ‘Open the windows and let the spirits in and out’. Originally commissioned by the Buenos Aires festival Ruido, the work documents Rojas’s closing performance of its 2023 edition.
Performed on a Klais Opus 1912 organ with an ensemble of violin, cello, soprano flute, piccolo, baritone saxophone, trombone and bass clarinet distributed throughout the space, the piece unfolds over 30 minutes. Sustained tone…
Continuum
Late one afternoon, my son and I took a short walk to Prospect Park, Brooklyn, to sit together at Monuments to Motherhood, the elegant looping bronze sculpture by Molly Gochman. At the sculpture, we listened and made a series of recordings of small string and reed instruments. I wanted the ambient sounds of the environment to filter into the recordings so they wouldn’t have the sterile sound of a studio, but rather the warm ambience of the site. I crafted these recordings into a series of loops,…
Blue Hour
Blue Hour is the most recent release from Friday Night Plans, recently signed by Modern Obscure Music. The project marks FNP's shift from their ‘pop’ roots towards a more experimental and ambient sound. Friday Night Plans is pioneered by singer/songwriter Masumi who has collaborated on this project with acclaimed Japanese producer Ena. Together, they have created a collection of songs that represents the quiet introspection and emotions of the AM hours, using improvisation during the production …
Atlântico
577 Records announces the release of Atlântico, the new album by Portuguese vocalist and composer Manuel Linhares, arriving June 12, 2026. Shaped between New York and Porto, the record moves through experimental and contemporary currents, marking Linhares’ debut on the label. Atlântico carries the dim, melancholic glow of music born along the shores of the Atlantic. At times it cuts—restless, sharp, and full of forward motion; at others it drifts, steeped in a dense blue, where tones deepen and…
Ghosts Beneath The Brine
Amsterdam-based collective Wanderwelle concludes their trilogy on Important Records with an album that confronts the climate crisis and its devastating impact on coastal ecosystems. From overfishing to warming and acidifying seas, the group documents the decline of fish, seabirds, crustaceans and other marine life. Following 2024's All Hands Bury The Cliffs At Sea and 2022 Black Clouds Above The Bows, Ghosts Beneath The Brine is another mournful take on the woes of the natural world. There's ris…
Searching
*2026 repress* Searching was self-recorded in Ronald’s living room on a 4-Track Tape Recorder in 1984. The recordings symbolise his engagement to cross-over everything that was known to him musically at that time. Most importantly, all recordings reflect his personal way of searching; searching for his own characteristic sound. Rhythmical patterns meet well balanced distortion, shaping the music into a mirror of his character. He was part of several Dutch Latin and Jazz bands, including Cascada …
Paradoxal Innovations
Philatélie proudly unveils Paradoxal Innovations, the groundbreaking new double cassette release by visionary artist Uton, the enigmatic Finnish producer known for his immersive sonic exploration.
Kujodada
This is the mental junkyard of evaporating dreams, disintegrating memories and fading recollections. Industrial Gagaku.
Liskoaivo/Alkeis
In Finnish language Alkeis is not exactly a full word, but functions more like a prefix, meaning rudimentary or primitive. It communicates well the habitus of the crude oscillations that are inspected here: the smallest possible, single-cell organism devoid of thought, driven by instinct.
Liskoaivo is a finnish word for "lizard brain", the region of the brain that regulates our primitive reactions.As sophisticated as oscillators and modular synthesis might be, at the core lies an unexplainable u…
Maja
Philatélie is thrilled to announce the release of Maja, the latest album from the experimental noise project Circle of Shit.
Anti-Ironic Harsh Noise
Debut solo tape by this up and coming Dutch project associated with notable artists like awenydd, Jonathan Bergen, JSH, Moozzhead, Richard Ramirez and Vincent Dallas.
Cataclysmic Reprogram
Psychedelic Harsh Noise from Finland with previous releases on Freak Animal, Narcolepsia, Satatuhatta and Tribe Tapes. Relentlessly heady mind frying electronics from the man behind Uton.
Expecting Different Results
Lusters is a duo between Finnish projects Edge of Decay and Circle of Shit. This is their first proper full length CD following cassette releases on Freak Animal, Satatuhatta and Tribe Tapes.
Valtakunta
Black Vinyl. Eero Koivistoinen is one of the foundational figures of Finnish jazz - a saxophonist, composer and arranger whose career spans six decades and whose influence on the Nordic scene is impossible to overstate. Valtakunta, originally released in 1967 on Otavan Kirjalliset Äänilevyt (a book publisher, of all places), was his very first album, and it has remained one of the most elusive and sought-after records in the Finnish discography ever since - available only through a scarce CD rei…
Love, Diskito
There is an abruptness to waking up to the sight of the other person’s back, a quiet violence hidden in the impression of intimacy, that’s leaving an aftertaste of emptiness. The feeling of losing oneself completely in a love that is given but never returned. Or the slower, less immediate one - the gradual disintegration of a world into which so much was once invested. Love, Diskito is like a worn out overdubbed cassette found in a drawer, with its underlying tracks flickering between contrastin…
The Ark
Time To Get On Board A New Black Universal Express. With each new recording Anthony Joseph presents an imaginative, personal vision of contemporary black culture, and The Ark is yet another compelling album by the award-winning Trinidadian poet and musician. This second part of a sequence of two albums launched with last year’s Rowing Up River To Get Our Names Back, finds Joseph giving full vent to his desire to explore many thought-provoking themes. However, there is a specific thread running t…
Jakuta's Dance
*50 copies limited edition* The boundary-defying percussion ensemble Onilu debuts on 577 Records with a work of striking scope, depth, and creative fire: Jakutá’s Dance. The group delivers a sonic vision that is at once elemental and exploratory—rooted in tradition yet unbound by it. Founding members Kevin Diehl and Joe Chambers are joined by Craig McIver and Daniel Villarreal, forming a dynamic quartet whose collective experience spans generations and geographies. Together, they draw from an ex…
Tasogare
A pinnacle of City Pop beloved around the world returns in a limited clear yellow vinyl edition. Featuring Makoto Matsushita’s refined arrangements and Mai Yamane’s commanding vocal performance, Tasogare stands as a legendary album that has also shaken the global music scene as a highly influential sampling source. Mai Yamane’s voice—powerful yet tinged with husky melancholy—perfectly captures the atmosphere of “tasogare-doki” (twilight), just as the title suggests. This timeless masterpiece env…