Seven Dances To Embrace The Hollow
On their debut album Seven Dances to Embrace the Hollow, Zurich-based artists Magda Drozd and Nicola Genovese, as Sopraterra, offer exactly what’s announced: seven compositions which, as they unhurriedly flow into each other, mark potential entry points to discover what might be lying underneath. By choosing Sopraterra, which translates to “above the earth” in Italian, as their shared project’s name, Drozd and Genovese indicate their own position in this archeological-looking endeavor, hinting a…
Balance
2025 stock The new album of Swiss artist Martina Lussi joins what no longer is conjoined. Conceived and realized over a period marked by changes in both the private sphere and the world at large, none of which were thinkable before, Balance brings together the before and after. “Fragments of Attention” is the fulcrum of the album: it separates the first half, written before Covid, from the second, composed during the lockdown. The six-minute track serves as a rupture and bridge between a career …
Economy And Failure
2025 stock Brendan Dougherty’s LP Economy and Failure is a work stemming from two tumultuous years for the artist: births, deaths and other big changes. The music was made in hotel rooms, airports, cafes and various studios using a basic setup of laptop and headphones.In contrast to Dougherty’s 2016 LP Sensate (Entr’acte), which used heavy synth patterns to create jittering rhythmic pulses without drum sounds, Econ-omy and Failure sees the drums return on longer arrangements that bear some re-se…
Walls, Corridors, Baffles
2025 stock Walls, Corridors, Baffles is the debut album of Swiss musician and producer Samuel Savenberg aka S S S S. Following various releases on Haunter Records, aufnahme+wiedergabe, and LUX Records, the LP tries to find an approach to an artistic expression beyond tropes of darkness, harshness and excess.
The aesthetic of Walls, Corridors, Baffles is radically and uncompromisingly sober. Instead of treating the sound with an abstract, conceptual or symbolic overlay, Savenberg emphasizes its m…
Why I Went To The Woods
With "Why I Went To The Woods", I retreated once again into my hauntological dream worlds. With the woods being the place one traditionally goes to clear one's head, I went there with these recordings to fortify myself with a deliberate rejection of the Now. Inspired equally by both the fictional filmed landscapes of psychedelic folk - the bucolic British countryside of the 1960s and 1970s which, though I've never witnessed in real life, still fill me with an inexplicable melancholic yearning to…
Creature Comforts
I started recording "Creature Comforts" with 'Allegiance' on the night of November 4th, as the election results were coming in. I found myself craving lullabies, but ugly and reflective ones, that saw the world with an acute sense of horror and bewilderment and bereavement. Lullabies that didn't protect me from these feelings - or rather did protect me, but did so through immersion. I finished recording on March 10th of 2025. Visual inspiration came from a series of mixed-media works by my gifte…
Deathbed Piano Pieces
*24 copies limited edition* Professionally printed CDr inserted in a professionally printed cover.The cover is made of high quality embossed cardboard (250 grams thick) and is approximately 13x15 cm in size. (closed) and 39x15 cm. (developed).Inside there is also a little bookmark. Composed By, Performer, Recorded By, Mixed By – Bleeding Cosmos. Layout – Antonio Benini.
Arkeomene
*42 copies limited edition* Composed By, Performer, Recorded By, Artwork – Maurizio Bianchi. Layout – Antonio Benini. Mastered By – Pharmakustik.Professionally printed CDr inserted in a professionally printed cover. The cover is made of high quality embossed cardboard (250 grams thick) and is approximately 13x15 cm in size. (closed) and 39x15 cm. (developed). Inside there is also a little bookmark.
Testament of Pain
*24 copies limited edition* Professionally printed CDr inserted in a professionally printed cover. The cover is made of high quality embossed cardboard (250 grams thick) and is approximately 13x15 cm in size. (closed) and 2615 cm. (developed)Il disagio di chi si trava in un mondo non suo sapendo che il proprio non esiste.
The Second Death
*42 copies limited edition* Professionally printed CDr inserted in a professionally printed cover.The cover is made of high quality embossed cardboard (250 grams thick) and is approximately 13x15 cm in size. (closed) and 39x15 cm. (developed).Inside there is also a little bookmark. Based on Revelation chapter 21, verse 8.
Strada Senza Uscita
*30 copies limited edition* Professionally printed CDr inserted in a professionally printed cover.The cover is made of high quality embossed cardboard (250 grams thick) and is approximately 13x15 cm in size. (closed) and 39x15 cm. (developed).Tracks 12-14 are bonus tracks. Composed By, Performer, Recorded By – N. Layout – Antonio Benini.
Desaceleradas
There's a bridge in Monterrey called El Puente del papa, and beneath it, on the dried-up Santa Catarina riverbed, something happened in the 1990s that nobody planned. Gabriel Dueñez was playing cumbia one night when his turntable's motor overheated and slowed everything down - voices became ghosts, accordion drones stretched into infinity, drums turned to liquid. The crowd kept dancing. Cumbia rebajada was born from a technical failure that revealed something true about memory, about displacemen…
Lite Hits
In the early 90s there were a few like minded friends making a unique style of lo-fi pop music. At the core of this non-scene were Sukpatch, Land of the Loops and The Ah Club, who all tended to play on each other's recordings. As the decade went on each of them learned how to use their instruments better, smoothing over the edges, but in typical fashion, the early home recordings had a special feeling that couldn’t be replicated with cleaner fidelity and nicer equipment. Sukpatch especially were…
Oneiric
Clay Pipe Music is thrilled to welcome to the label Norway’s Rural Tapes - the alias of producer and multi-instrumentalist Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen. His new record Oneiric is one for the dreamers - a trippy, cosmic aural experience of mostly instrumental music, recorded on analogue equipment at his Nygrenda Vev & Dur studio in rural Norway. Arne is also joined on two vocal tracks by long-time collaborators Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip) and Gary Olson (The Ladybug Transistor).
He says: “The word Oneir…
Gone To Earth
Gone to Earth is the third solo studio album by English singer-songwriter David Sylvian, released on 1 September 1986. A double album, Gone to Earth is the follow-up to his debut record, Brilliant Trees, and peaked at No. 24 in the UK Albums Chart. The album is a two-record set featuring one record of experimental rock songs with vocals and one consisting entirely of ambient instrumental tracks. Guest artists include Robert Fripp (who co-wrote three songs) and Bill Nelson (who co-wrote one). Thi…
Secrets Of The Beehive
Secrets of the Beehive is the fourth studio album by English singer-songwriter David Sylvian. The album was released on 19 October 1987 in Europe and the United States. The album peaked at No. 37 in the UK album chart. The album was released in Japan on 21 November 1987. This re-press is on corona yellow opaque black vinyl and uses the most recent remastered audio.
Alchemy An Index of Possibilities
Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities is the second solo studio album by David Sylvian, Alchemy is an intermediary album, released between his first solo album Brilliant Trees and his next solo album Gone to Earth, and it is made up of various separate projects. Re-presses were released with an earlier b/w photograph of Sylvian instead of the original artwork. This version is pressed on corona gold opaque red colour vinyl and uses the most recent remastered audio.
Nite Closures EP
Mark Fell inaugurates his new label - The National Centre for Mark Fell Studies - with his first solo electronic material in years; a slinky, ravishing volley of unique dance drills that have been in the works for over a decade, feeling somehow like Derek Bailey dissecting Singeli, or Autechre and Hermeto Pascoal dancing in hyperspace. There’s nothing else quite like it.
Back on the ‘floor for the first time since dealing a pair of deep house 12”s with DJ Sprinkles, sending a contemporary classi…
Sickness In The Right / Gulf War Syndrome
Unreleased archival wrekordings/artwar from The Grey Wolves and early Vatican Shadow cassette manipulations/desert storms including ‘Ready To Die’ - a new vatican shadow track with Salford Electronics. Presented with massive poster, inserts of unseen artwork packaged in sturdy jacket of 6-color desert camo on one side and night desert camo on the other - 40 days and 40 nights! Co-release between Total Black and Hospital Productions.
Spots
Moving freely through time and space via experimental DIY recordings since 2009, Joasihno return with their fourth album "Spots".