Electronic / Free Improvisation

2004 release ** "Atolón, whose four tracks are further proof that the barriers that once existed between free improvisation and noise are coming down fast. And in the sunshine of Barcelona at that. Alfredo Costa Monteiro and Ferran Fages have release…

Special discounted bundle. Two essential releases from Les Disques Omnison redefining the boundaries of contemporary experimental music. On one side, HWYUIOD with The Window: ambient drift and processed sounds floating somewhere between the meditativ…

In many respects Earl Howard’s (b. 1951) music is an anomaly that resists categorization and the seductiveness of genre. He is an important force in improvised music and yet his work employs complex structures and rigorous transitions of sound and te…

2010 release **  "The Low Frequency Orchestra is a small ensemble of 'paetzold' recorders, electronic devices, voice, double bass and drums and they team up here with one Wolfgang Mitterer who plays organ. The starting point of this CD is a live reco…

1995 release ** "Bruit TTV is a sound research collective comprising artists associated to Obscure. Situated at the frontier of music/non-music and organized noises, Bruit TTV’s performances ally and oppose composition and improvisation, traditionnal…

2011 release ** "French soprano saxophonist Michel Doneda and Swiss accordionist Jonas Kocher are joined by Slovenians Tomaz Grom (double bass) and Tao G Vrhovec Sambolec (laptop) in four tight, tense improvisations recorded at the (DA)(NE)S Festival…

2010 release ** "Sabine Ercklentz plays trumpet and electronics and Andrea Neumann plays inside piano and mixing desk. Especially music by the latter we came across in the field of improvisation, and this disc is surely another fine work in that dire…

2009 release ** "Composed and recorded between the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009, Third Segment emphasize even more on the basic idea of 3eem: electronic rhythmic structures, alteration of sound sources, textures of saxophone and guitar betwe…

2008 release ** ASp is a parallel project of neapoletan impro trio A Spirale, consisting of the duo Mario Gabola on sax, feedback and electronics and Maurizio Argenziano on electric guitar. / SEC_ is one of the new talents of italian electro-acoustic…

2009 release ** "„Cooks & Devils“, a single track culled from a performance at the Kunstverein Göttingen in Summer of last year, shows just how far  Ignaz Schick has come. The „Snake Figure Arkestra“, the latest formation to flow from Schick's fantas…

August & November are two albums by Mike Majkowski. One acoustic and one electronic, both with their own distinctive atmosphere. Each album contains pieces which are closely linked in terms of approach and structure. Listeners are invited to delve in…

1999 release **

2011 release  ** "Live recordings from Syntjuntan’s first two years. Music especially composed for textile accessories. The music is tangled with lace and long stitches, embroidered with electronic sounds, square waves and curled noise. Syntjuntan is…

Norman Westberg (guitar), Giridhar Udupa (ghatam, konnakol, khanjira, percussion) and Jacek Mazurkiewicz (double bass, electronics). An extraordinary meeting of three artists from three different musical worlds and three different continents. Norman …

2025 stock ** "Very strong studio session recorded in June 2012. Free improvisation consisting of small sounds – whining, rustling, grumbling – produced by a bass clarinet (Koch, commanding techniques), electronics (Badrutt, mysterious), and percussi…

*In process of stocking* "There was this large, abandoned, cylindrical metal object, maybe an oil tank. In 2009, several people cam to the site and made some noise. They were Otomo Yoshihide, Ryu Hankil, Yuen Cheewai, Yan Jun, Sachiko M, Yang Ge, Xia…

1994 release **

2025 stock ** "Hild Sofie Tafjord has re-written the sonic possibilities of the French horn and established herself as one of Norway's most arresting musicians. Pushing the limits of her instrument for years, whether acoustically or electronically, s…

2025 stock ** "Alfred 23 Harth, reeds, kaosspad. Hans Joachim Irmler, organ. Günter Müller, iPods, electronics. The last time Harth and Müller met was in 1987 as part of a quintet at the Festival Willisau, including Andres Bosshard, Phil Minton and S…

Trestle Records is pleased to announce the new record from Tout. The aptly named Fourth. Fourth ushers in a change of direction with core members Nick Downes and Jonathan Fryer composing the principle tracks as a duo in their London studio. Once thes…

A house is something that is so deeply temporary, yet it can hold so much energy. How do we carry or leave behind those energies while transitioning into new spaces? How does each space we occupy for some time shape us and how do we tear ourselves aw…

Schizo-improvisations by Swiss artist Joke Lanz (turntables and electronics) and American vocalist and composer Shelley Hirsch (vocals). Recorded 1 July 2011 in Berlin / 25 September 2011 NY

'Flipperen' takes the randomness of pinball and turns it into music. Using recordings from old pinball machines, the music mixes chaos and structure, reflecting the Fluxus spirit of play and chance. It's a wild ride through sound, where things don't …

Static Teller is Jørgen Teller's unique solo project. He has a long career as electric guitarist, vocal and electronic musician and released many records solo and with Jørgen Teller & The Empty Stairs. He collaborated with players like Rhys Chatham, …

"A beautiful solo album by experimental electronician/multiinstrumentalist Jean-Marc Foussat. The album is clearly dedicated to his son Victor Foussat, a young poet and painter who died this year. One of his paintings his reproduced on the inner slee…

Restock 2023. Tokyo quartet Minamo occupy a privileged place in the Japanese music scene.They remain one of the few ensembles to consistently produce work that simultaneously refines and expands upon their existing themes and aesthetics. Their largel…

Isolde Touch is Asha Sheshadri, a composer and multimedia artist based in Southern California. Secretary of Sensation is a seven-chapter narrative occurring in Our Town (1052–1119). Voice, synthesis and original text. The music Asha Sheshadri makes a…

"Defeat, resistance, betrayal, heroism, torture, execution and conspiracy were the topics of the first conversations he overheard."

*40 copies limited edition* Multiinstrumental Noise-Improvisation, Rhythm Experiments and Ambiences. On C40 Tape Cassette lim. 40. Art by Claus Poulsen, Art by Grodock

*2024 stock* "This is a work for the art exhibition "36 Degrees North" opening in September 2021 at Space 1302 in Lanzhou. It was released as a cd with the album. These three pieces are improvised electronic music. The instrument used is a circuit bo…

Ah, CP #200; never in 12 years did I think we'd make it this far. Those of you keeping count will realize that, despite the catalogue number this is actually the 181st title in the series; that said we're definitely winding down & what a great run …

The Hordijk community has members from all over the planet and it’s a bit like a secret society; many don’t know any of the other users. After extensively trawling social media, I was delighted to find so many captivating artists dedicating their lif…

Tip! Troekurovo Recordings is a production team made up of Toki Fuko, Vadim Basov and Evgeny Vorontsov and they have been hidden away deep in some enchanted Russian forests recording music. Now they are putting out the results on this superb double p…

Flag Day Recordings presents Violence Against the Evidence, a collaboration between Roel Meelkop and Das Synthetische Mischgewebe. Roel Meelkop - analog modular synthesizerDas Synthetische Mischgewebe- acoustic assemblages

** Housed in a 6 panel fold out cover ** Definatly one of the grimmest releases on UE so far... a swarm of bees are after you in your own house, they're everywhere and you can't run out either cos in front of the only door of your "crib" the half man…

*2022 stock.* Two CDs at the price of one! In 2007 Voice of Eye ended their 12-year silence with 2 CD-R improvisation volumes: Emergence and Immersion. The works were released for their European tour in editions of only 100 each and sold out fast. No…

Enter, venture into the landscape, in search of the "Génie du lieu". Music vibrates with the world, introducing a sensitive listening to Life. It touches on the invisible and the mystery that inhabit things, space and time.

Limited Edition of 400, it comes with several inserts  "Two of the most intense young 'free' dudes from different parts of the globe (Greg Kelley from Boston, Alex Neilson from Leeds) unite for this completely weird record, taking free music to a dif…

*300 copies limited edition* "Six Crossings" is c_c’s ultimate recording with the electronic setup he has honed for nearly 10 years of live performances: several drum machines and a sampler interconnected to a mixing system and feedback effects, anal…

*2023 stock* "Alternate African Reality is a follow-up to several compilations I have published on Syrphe since 2007 (the first one, Beyond Ignorance and Borders included various artists from Africa and Asia), and even earlier on my defunct tape labe…