Scomparire
Simon Balestrazzi's new solo effort calls for the ear to linger on things shrouded in fog, sounds meandering between vision and reality. Highlighted by the mysterious shots by Adriano Zanni you can now enter an awkward soundworld where nothing can be traced anymore. "Scomparire", to disappear, Vanishing. Pretending to vanish in a thick fog, never to be found again. The detachment from one’s identity. Leaving behind the constant paranoia of what is real and what is not. Leaving behind everything:…
Everything Collapse(D) - Piano Versions
This is an unreleased and “lost” new album by Deison and Mingle conceived in 2014 /15 right after the recording and the release of their debut collaboration-album "Everything Collapse[d]". After the passing of Andrea Gastaldello (“Mingle”) in 2021 and founding these forgotten tracks led us to think that this work should have been listened to understand the essence of the original album. Published by a co-production of three label who have released various works by the duo in the past (Loud!, Fin…
Slow Dances And Still Memories
Slow Dances and Still Memories is the convergence of two musicians from distinct generations, Andrea Bellucci & Giulio Aldinucci — a languid waltz of fragmented memories and fleeting emotions, tied to moments in life, whether they arise from a dancefloor or a remote rural setting, from the hum of the night or the stillness of silence. Electronics here functions much like time itself: they blurs, distorts, reshapes, and subtly deceives memory… A choreography of ancient voices that intertwine in t…
There Will Be Fireworks
The London based singer and keyboard player Dominic Appleton, known since the early eighties for his musical activity in the post punk/dream pop band Breathless, and perhaps even more for his vocal contributions to the legendary This Mortal Coil project on 4AD, joins forces with the Milanese producer and sound artist Matteo Uggeri, active from 1993 behind several projects spanning from industrial to post-rock and ambient soundscapes, known for collaborating with artists such as Maurizio Bianchi,…
Processing Music
Casimir Geelhoed’s Processing Music is a probing exploration into the subtle, elusive boundaries between software-driven sonics and fragile acoustic realities. This album intensifies recurring themes of transiency and overstimulation, inviting listeners into a shifting landscape where memory and perception interact with innovative digital processing techniques.
Gates of Horn and Ivory
Tina Records presents the apocalyptic visions of Nokuit. Constructing a hellish diorama across six tracks of industrial electronics, Gates of Horn and Ivory uses biblical allegory to map out our current End Times. With sleeve notes by Andy Sharp a.k.a The English Heretic.
Eurosleaze film composer by day, Nokuit has developed a distinctive cosmology over a mutating series of releases on underground labels including wannamarchi.club and NKT. Alongside Cut Hands (William Bennett of Whitehouse), he …
Currents and Orders
Teresa Rotschopf, a musician and composer from Vienna, presents her second solo album, »Currents and Orders« – a radical, delicate, yet grandiose sonic journey between experimental pop, new music, and improvised composition. The album will be presented live on August 27 as part of the »Pop-Kultur« festival (silent green, Berlin) and at the »ORF RadioKulturhaus« (Vienna) on 12 September. »Currents and Orders« was recorded in an unusual location: a stalactite cave in Styria, Austria. Together with…
Riftworld
The follow-up to the celestial ambient Panic Landscape, AEVA's Riftworld has now officially left Pre-Alpha and is fully accessible. Beta testers can enjoy early access with psychic mind-control enabled. Eternally integrate all aspects of the psyche to complete Riftworld. Take a journey across soil, ruins, land, and sea; venture through decades of alienation. With more ways to escape than ever before, play solo or in multiplayer mode. Inhabit the hazy photograph of a sunset horizon, found on a lo…
Ashes
When war erupted in Ukraine, French sound sculptor Lambwool found himself overtaken by an overwhelming surge of fear and anxiety. The escalating threat of nuclear disaster, the looming specter of global conflict, and the harrowing imagery of destruction awakened in him a long-buried childhood trauma: the paralyzing terror of an impending apocalypse. For ten days following the outbreak of war, Lambwool was engulfed in a state of absolute panic. Searching for a way to purge these suffocating emoti…
Silentium
"zakè (aka Zach Frizzell) has consistently built goodwill and community through his renowned family of labels (Past Inside the Present, Zakè Drone Recordings, and Healing Sound Propagandist) since 2018, and with the collaborative anthology Silentium, those roots bear remarkable fruit in the form of 22 compositions across more than two hours. It is a towering testament to care and kinship, as well as to the artist’s noble ambitions as a creator and curator. During an extended period in early 2024…
After The Town Was Swept Away
*100 copies limited edition* In music, form is sometimes so intimately connected to experience as to speak meaning more compellingly than any word could. On After the Town was Swept Away, out September 5th on Leaving Records, BlankFor.ms, aka Tyler Gilmore, finds in rhythm a new vocabulary of self-collection. Confronting both grief and joy, its twelve tracks of tape loop manipulation festoon and murmur — the imperfect cyclicality of tape itself at once a metaphor for the record’s meditations on …
The Process (Book)
Hardcover, large format, 144 Pages, 561 four-colour process printing plates. The Process, the inaugural publication from light-years imprint, is here. This limited edition book features the photographic work of Swiss-born, New York-based artist Georg Gatsas, documenting five pivotal years (2002-2007) in New York City's experimental underground and capturing artists who would reshape contemporary culture during a transformative period in the city's history. In the aftermath of September 11th, as …
Cantos Yoruba de Cuba
Italian guitarist Walter Zanetti presents Cantos Yoruba de Cuba, an extraordinary exploration of sacred Afro-Cuban music translated through the intimacy of classical guitar. Basing his work on compositions by Cuban guitarist-composers José Angel Navarro and Hector Angulo, Zanetti recreates the spiritual essence of Santería batá drum songs in a groundbreaking collection that bridges cultures and musical traditions. Santería, the Afro-Cuban syncretic religion also known as La Regla de Ocha, emerge…
Amon-Ra Nipnoiz
A descent into shadow, a meditation on entropy — Amon‑Ra Nipnoiz marks a new chapter in the uncompromising sonic journey of M.B. (Maurizio Bianchi), one of the seminal architects of Italian industrial and experimental noise. Across two long-form compositions, M.B. manipulates subharmonic frequencies and spectral drones into a ritualistic soundscape. Like the solar deity Amon-Ra staring into the oblivion of the modern machine age, this work radiates an unsettling energy—hypnotic, yet fractured, i…
Local Maxima
This release is a journey, a weaving together of fleeting visions from parallel, yet intertwined sonic realms. It ventures boldly through a rich tapestry of sounds and textures, each track born not from rigid intention but from an unrelenting pursuit of the elusive, those shimmering, transient spaces in the soundscape, like the mysterious limbo of Vaalbara. The music unfolded live, forged in real-time with an arsenal of synthesizers. In these moments, delicate interactions gave way to sudden sto…
Aire EP
*100 copies limited edition* Aire EP features four improvisational, loop-driven pieces created with minimal instrumentation and hardware-based processing, including electric and bass guitars, tape machines, and pedals. Written, recorded, and produced by zakè and Tyresta. Mixed at KTS by zakè. Mastered at Ambient Mountain House by James Bernard.
Mesmerine 111
Illustrious Company presents... Mesmerine 111. This is a 3D soundscape based on / inspired by the frequency 111Hz, which has been historically and scientifically proven to induce a trance-like state. Findings of MRI scans suggest that at exactly 111hz, the brain switches off the prefrontal cortex, deactivating the language centre, and temporarily switches from left to right-sided dominance, which is responsible for intuition, creativity, holistic processing, inducing a state of meditation or a t…
Duvet
In the winter of 2023, Ingri Høyland and Ida Urd retreated to a Danish sommerhus, or summer house—the tiny, tidy shacks that are a central feature of the national culture, where for generations, Danes have whiled away the warm months with their families. Picture the scene: an abiding quiet all around. Gardens carpeted by snow; beach grass silvery against the silvery sky; a tendril of smoke rising from the chimney. Not another soul in earshot. This sanctuary was the origin for Høyland and Urd’s D…
Drømme I Langsomt Stof
*200 copies limited edition* øjeRum is Danish musician and visual artist Paw Grabowski, known for his meditative compositions and analog collage works. His music – released on labels such as 12k, Room40, LINE, IIKKI and Opal Tapes – unfolds through fragile melodies and a deep sensitivity to stillness, memory, and decay. Working across sound and image, Grabowski aims to create a cohesive, introspective world where time seems suspended and meaning slowly dissolves. His hand-cut visual collages acc…
horizonte
*300 copies limited edition* Funcionário delights in the freedom of creating freeform music for the first time in his career. On “horizonte”, he loosens the reins, his sound follows a wavy, organic structure rather than a rigid, formal one. If it feels freer and more colourful, that’s because it truly is. Eight years ago, when we first encountered his work, he was composing soundtracks for imaginary video games and crafting sonic landscapes that felt like destinations for sci-fi anime characters…