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.
Single# One
This 7" unveils rare Muslimgauze tracks from unlabelled DATs, featuring vibrant, rhythmic experiments—Side A with upbeat synths, Side B embracing dub textures—showcasing Bryn Jones’ relentless innovation.
Music to Watch Seeds Grow By 005: Stella Z (Fig)
Following the contemplative explorations of previous works in the series and hot on the heels of the beautiful Cosmos from E Ruscha, Stella Z's "Figs" emerges as a delicate meditation on growth, patience, and the hidden life of fruit. Recorded in London yet deeply inspired by distant memories from China, the album is a musical documentary that explores the fig—a plant with a profound personal significance to Stella. "The fig tree was the big, generous presence in our old home, feeding my family …
Water Witches
Water Witches is an immersive box set that gathers the early, shadowy works of Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement, Dominick Fernow’s most enigmatic project. Remastered by Paul Corley, it offers over five hours of haunted ambient and drone, conjuring dense, hallucinatory soundscapes that blur the line between ritual and environment. A definitive grimoire for those drawn to acousmatic magick and deep listening.
El-Hadra - The Mystik Dance
Official reissue celebrating the album’s 35th anniversary.
My Government Is My Soul
Mannequin Records reissues "My Government Is My Soul", a searing 1989 statement from Bourbonese Qualk, one of the UK’s most defiant and politically engaged experimental acts. Originally released on the group’s own label, this LP captures the uncompromising spirit of a band deeply embedded in the resistance movements of 1980s Britain. Recorded during a turbulent period of social unrest, "My Government Is My Soul" stands as a fierce response to authoritarianism, surveillance, and the neoliberal de…
Prehispanic Mystic Rites
1994 release ** "Mexican Pre-Hispanic Rites by renowned Mexican artist Jorge Reyes. Using authentic pre-Columbian instruments along with modern synthesizers, Reyes creates an extraordinary mystic experience for the listener.""
Crossing Ngoli
1992 release ** "Greinke and Angus met at Penn State where they started composing and performing together. In 1982 they moved to Seattle and began playing in clubs and festivals, working with a variety of musicians in various bands and projects. Their work as a duo was documented on the classic album Crossing Ngoli (Ear-Rational, 1992)."
Meanwhile
1995 release ** "Trance Mission creates powerful electro-tribal ambience with a variety of standard, traditional, and eclectic devices. Meanwhile, their second CD, is a collection of tribal atmospheres forged with respect and passion. Stephen Kent, Kenneth Newby, Beth Custer, and John Loose are constantly on the same page. They impact the respect and reflect the passion. It is all done with varying degrees of urgency. Kent's didg creates the drone from which Newby's atmospheres arise. Custer's r…
All Our Ancestors
1994 release ** "Tuu is one of those bands that manages to straddle the seemingly disparate worlds of traditional ethnic music and ambient electronica, somewhat the same way that African Head Charge and Mouth Music do, but with very different results. In this case, the interactions between synthesist Mykl O'Dempsey, exotic percussionist Martin Franklin, and flutist Rebecca Lublinski (who spends most of her time on either the bansuri or the Chinese flute) result in a music that is dark and strang…
Club Tounsi
Since the release of Ammar 808's debut »Maghreb United«(2018) – a rumbling pan-North African electronic classic – the Tunisian producer has been in the vanguard of artists navigating the intersection of traditional and contemporary sonics.
His deep-rooted, room-shaking 3rd album »Club Tounsi« isn’t just a powerful statement of his Tunisian identity. It’s also a joyous celebration of the dancefloor, blending Mezoued rhythms and instrumentation with an impossibly infectious blast of bass-heavy fut…
Vespers
1994 release ** "Voice Of Eye have a strangely unique sound. They manage to combine Ambient beauty with dark mystery and make the two seem like natural bedfellows. I guess that's the true image of what Gothic should be - angelic choruses sung in deep, cavernous cathedrals which might just have been naturally-formed caves - visions of holiness which might just concentrate too obsessively on the kind of things one might encounter posthumously if one doesn't live a 'Good Christian' life - demons, S…
Ethnoloopography
1994 release ** "37 Strange (and not so strange) ethnic rhythms, chants and musical pieces sampled, repeated, distorted or transformed in nightmarish landscapes... it's not new age effect, this scares...."
Namakar
1998 release ** CD in a card sleeve held in an A5 wraparound card folder. "Mathias Grassow is a decidedly diverse performer. Most of his solo recordings fall into the electronic minimalist style. On many of his collaborations, he goes to the tribal ambient style. On Namakar, he takes that route solo. This is a set of deep tribal minimalism. Grassow augments his signature synth drones with incessant didgeridoo drones. He surrounds those drones with some gentle synthesizer atmospheres and melodies…
The Venerable Dark Cloud
1999 release ** Packaged in an oversized A5 folded paper sleeve with a plastic cover. "An ambient hybrid of traditional Indonesian soundscapes and electronics."
In Search Of Sanity
1993 release ** "In Search Of Sanity is dedicated to the spirit of the Slieve League cliffs and the famine village of Port in County Donegal/ireland. As these compositions are also tales about searching sanity by the way of lonelyness and hermitage I made the work in silent honour of the monks of Skellog Michael. All sounds are composed, played, arranged and recorded by Mathias Grassow between 1992 and 1993, except "Conjuration" and "Troubles", wich are composed and played by mathias Grassow and…
Giant Clowns Of The Solar World
1996 release ** Packaged in oversized A5 folded paper sleeve with a plastic cover. Instruments used: computer, oboe, voice, violin, guitars, keyboards, tapes, drums, xilophóne, marimba, wooden chimes, glass chimes, kalimba, ethnic percussion, shells, bonesclappers, tibetan bell and others. Mix di Eraldo Bernocchi e Paolo Bandera (Sigillum S).
Cidar (Redux)
Since 1992, Robin Storey (founding member of the pioneering post-industrial band Zoviet*France) has been creating innovative and thought-provoking music under the Rapoon moniker. Drawing inspiration from his early days with Z*F, he continues to push the boundaries of ambient, industrial, and world music genres, earning him a dedicated following across the globe. Originally available in 1994 as a limited-edition DAT tape through Staalplaat Records, Cidar was later included as a bonus CD in the re…
Pluma De Piedra
2002 release ** "Two spirits, one sound: making music that moves. Moving onwards, in the open, invisible fields. Moving towards their own souls. Creating his personal path into the pure and mystical depths of pre-hispanic richness, Mexican musician Reyes encounters Dutch sound-sculptor Blauw, who makes use of digital communication tools to pave the way for vulnerable, powerful and everlasting nudity. This joint-adventure erases virtual differences between the old and the new, between wholesome a…
Dorje Ling
1992 release ** "Since 1975, David Parsons has made numerous trips to India to absorb the culture, study the music, and record performances by indigenous artists. In addition to producing three albums of Tibetan ritual music, in the Sacred Ceremonies: Ritual Music of Tibetan Buddhism series, the composer and synthesist has translated the essence of his journeys into the lush, yet, profound soundscapes of Himalaya and Yatra, two critically acclaimed albums of original music. Dorje Ling, was inspi…