Sound Mind Sound Body
Sound Mind Sound Body was inspired in part by the working principles of Fripp & Eno, extrapolated by Rafael Toral via a unique signal path leading out of his guitar. He paid notice to the massive impact of discreet gestures, creating slow-moving tones and spacious orchestral resonances, drifting and droning with glacial majesty, hardly recognizable as guitar much of the time. The first pieces were recorded in 1987; in 1994, a collection was released on Portugal's AnAnAnA, producing an hour’s wor…
Wave Field
Digital album is the 2025 Edition, available on CD. Wave Field, released in 1995, was a departure from the first album into new composition methods involving the dirty textures of rock guitar, sounding in the open ears of many listeners (like Jim O'Rourke, who issued the disc in the US on dexter's cigar) as a synthesis of disparate elements — a nexus where Alvin Lucier, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine and Eno blend together. Here, the clangorous potential of the guitar was emphasized, giving a …
Mega Mercy
*300 copies limited edition* Manchester’s sferic label return with a debut from ungoogleable Greco-Canadian anomaly Anastasia Patellis, aka Any, featuring additional instrumentation and co-production from Klein/Lolina cohort LA Timpa. It's a set of "squat pop" experiments that thread nocturnal soundscaping and pop hooks through hallucinated outlines written on harp and broken synth.
Greco-Canadian artist Any was bedding down in a Cretan squat when the album's title, μέγα ελεός in Greek, boomed …
A New Life
A New Life is not an album. It does not belong to a ‘genre.’ Not aesthetic, not ironic, not for consumption. Not intellectual—it is felt. It speaks from coherence—structure beneath the noise. Grief, anger, stillness are not flaws here—they belong. Featuring harp and saxophone by Róisín and Cathal Berkeley. A return to truth. To be human without the mask. Integrated, not performed or bypassed. "May we all live freely, knowing that all is well— ever was, ever will be. Not by ignoring what’s here, …
Stanza IV
Benoit Pioulard’s Stanza series, begun in 2015, explores meditative, lo-fi guitar loops as sonic journals. Stanza IV, the first on vinyl, deepens this ambient journey, accompanied by diverse reworks and a unique, limited-edition package.
Earth Mother Spectral Pilot
Bristolian artist, illustrator and toymaker Ed Cheverton debuted as Earth Mother Spectral Pilot with a cosmology-inspired melodic ambient album on SWIMS. We are now treated to a long overdue re-release. Known for his features in publications like It's Nice That, Juxtapoz, and The Guardian, Cheverton widens his creative scope to music via a project that borrows its title from a series of comics of his. Influenced by ambient and atmospheric soundtracks, one can hear the connection to Kawai Kenji, …
No Wind
Tokyo-based Rhucle, aka Yuta Kudo, has been crafting sublime ambient for more than a decade and in all, there have been over 70 works that blur the line between synthetic sound and the natural world. Using soft synths, delicate piano lines and field recordings from everyday life, he crafts gentle, immersive compositions that invite introspection. Each track unfolds slowly in its own time and is shaped by the textures of the moment, whether that's passing rain, distant voices or subtle room tone.…
Destruction
Destruction marks something of a new direction for Reuben Sawyer as he fuses clear, direct vocals with ambient textures. This latest album from the musician and visual artist meditates on destruction and rebirth while reflecting on the tension between enduring natural forces and fleeting human constructs. It opens with themes of nature's resilience and humanity's relentless desire for novelty, then gradually explores the collapse of civilisation and is inspired by Bill Fay's Who Is the Sender. I…
Winds Of Eternity
Following releases on labels like Inner Islands, Home Normal and Muzan Editions, Japanese composer and sound artist Kenji Kihara is back with a new album that expertly channels the tranquil surroundings of his coastal hometown, Hayama, which is nestled between sea and mountains. What comes out is an immersive ambient work that is indebted to nature, marbled with field recordings of rustling leaves, waves and birdsong, and serene compositions that exude warmth through meticulous tonal layers. His…
Nuit Blanche
*100 copies limited edition* In da Woods is the sonic project of Paris and Berlin-based composer and sound designer Antoine Eole, formerly of the electro-rock band Bad Pilot. Known for his work across TV series, documentaries, theater productions, and major ad campaigns (MTV, Disney, Hermès), Antoine blends cinematic soundscapes with the raw edge of experimental and future garage music. With Nuit Blanche, Antoine explores atmospheric and bass-driven compositions, featuring the ethereal vocals of…
Meidän täytyy valvoa jottemme nukkuisi, sillä maailma on liukas
Tip! Meidän täytyy valvoa jottemme nukkuisi, sillä maailma on liukas is Pietu Arvola’s first album under his own name. The album was created during a year of loss and a remarkably grey time when most of the formerly distinctive seasons coalesced into a seemingly endless rainy period.
Field recordings captured in the last natural forests of southern Finland are interwoven with the swirls of microtonal bells and disorienting clatters. Acoustic and synthetic sounds are detached from their sources, …
Thank You Kirin Kiki
Rindert Lammers' debut album, Thank You Kirin Kiki, weaves personal narratives and cinematic imagery into ambient jazz, offering a heartfelt expression of gratitude. Born in 1994 in Gulpen, Netherlands, and raised in a creative household Rindert's passion for composing began early. Inspired by Genesis, he started writing his first songs as a teenager in the attic of his parents' house, before joining a prog rock group in 2014, and then launching a spoken word ambient project with his brother in …
solidarité avec les morts
Limited to 15 copies only! with a sticker attached to the blach sleeve, handmade cross aplication and outer plastic sleeveproduced in france, cut in armenia, assembled in paris in german package recorded and mixed in France 2023 - 2025track one made for film by Stanislav Dorochenkovartwork by Daniil Borisov
dedicated to Artiom Vasilenco (sanspatrïè) and all our metaphisical siblings dead or alive (but mostly dead)released on the occation of annual celebration of our label's patron's birthday an…
On In Out
Advanced Public Listening Records is the new Japanese label established by Miho Mepo, a veteran of the Berlin music scene as a booking agent, label owner and manager of artists for the past 22 years. After recently coming back to Japan, she decided to start this new, highly conceptual label that symbolizes her unconventional musical vision, experience and network that she accrued while living in Europe. As she has stated, “This is my dedication to the musicians and music lovers everywhere. What …
Southwind From Hachijo
FJLP-05 continues with Forest Jams recent trend of Japanese re-issues from the 90s. This one is E.S. Islands Southwind from Hachijo a deep ambient exploration that is more tribal and spiritual than prior E.S. Island releases. This was recorded on Hachijo Island featuring several traditional instruments with the bulk of the music being played by Eisuke Takahashi (R.I.P.) and Nene Sanae. Limited copies.
Subterranea
Newcastle-based electronic artist Bartholomew delivers Subterranea. An album which delves deep into emotional terrain—fusing generative electronics, orchestral flourishes, and raw sonic textures into a poignant meditation on instability and resilience.
All Natures Most Mundane Materials
A Colourful Storm proudly presents remastered first-time vinyl and digital editions of Lone Capture Library’s modern-day DIY environmental masterpiece, All Natures Most Mundane Materials. “Environmental”, you say? Well, this certainly wasn’t recorded for dinner party ambience nor was it commissioned by Harrods. But it does document a haphazard wander through the English countryside, feeling the air and the earth, detaching oneself from confinement while attempting to make sense of it all. Its pr…
Degrees of Freedom
Future music doesn’t come from nothing. It’s out there in latent space. This new Berlin-based imprint is devoted to the natural world in her oldest and wisest form. Not green spaces, or living things, but underneath it all: potential.
Almost - Not Exactly
Tara Cunningham’s Almost – Not Exactly marks a bold move into beat-driven sound, using shells, driftwood, and guitar sculpted into warped rhythms and textures. Released by Nonclassical, the EP includes dance films by Jemima Seymour and remixes by Liam Noble, Morgan Noise, and Christos Stylianides.
Twilight Of Perception Redux - Volume Two 1995-2002 - Zoharum Edition
A 3CD collection of unreleased Vidna Obmana tracks (1995–2002), showcasing deep ambient textures, tribal rhythms, processed acoustic sounds, and rare vocal elements. These 16 pieces, mostly unheard until now, reveal the depth of Dirk Serries’ archive and his fully formed sonic vision.