Experimental / Abstract

**Edition of 300** Ambient tone loop collage by Mike Adams (Crossroads of America, Burnt Toast Vinyl, Sounds Familyre, Joyful Noise)... special one-time LP that can be played forwards and backwards. Original source tapes provided by MklAnderson (Drekka, Dais Records), Jared Cheek (Flannelgraph), Tyler Damon (Thee Open Sex, Tashi Dorji, Darin Gray), JohnDawson (Thee Open Sex, Magnetic South), Greg Dixon (Quixod), Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie, Microphones, K Records), & Rachel Yoder (Madera Wind Quin…

**Art Vinyl edition limited to 250 copies** Appearing prominently on many of Drekka's releases, including both recent Drekka Lps for Dais Records, Belgian singer, Annelies Monseré has long been a collaborator, muse, and source material for Drekka’s sonic explorations and dream-cinema soundscapes. Primarily the work of Mkl Anderson, Drekka's sound owes debts to the poetic soundscapes of Cindytalk or Coil, to the Artemiev soundtracks for the films of Tarkovsky, and to the gravity of early industri…

Inspired by the philosophy of George Gurdjieff, whose mystic meditations surely linger in the magick of their work, Smirne was born as a open minded experimental project. Generated by the fusion of different realities, the line-up at the time of the debut is composed of Andrea Reali and Tiziano Doria, members of Lavorazioni Carni Rosse, together with Anna Vezzosi and Cesare Lopopolo, from the electro-acoustic duo Rosso Polare. A thin line between improvisation, electronic exploration and Aegean …

* Edition of 300 * 7 intense Egyptian shaabi remixes by Cairo's finest. Master & lacquer cut par Frederic Alstadt - Angstrom Studio Back Cover Photo by Hendrik Hegray. Side Hossam: ABADIR – 2030, 1127 - gharbala 2020, 3Phaz – babababababawar, ZULI - etay el baroud. Side Ibrahim: KZLK - abo waleed; Nadah El-Shazly - sekket el amwal; Youssef Abouzeid – drpapgad.

* Edition of 200 * New frequency challenges in this new dub flavored album by Paris' singular and mysterious Unglee Izi. 2 side-long tracks of sharp and meticulous digital sound architecture covering a wide spectrum of sonic precision and melodic beauty.

* Edition of 200 * Chicagoan Brian Case is returning to Hands in the Dark with his fourth release under his own name, Parallel Voices. In a sense, the album is elliptical: Whilst, musically speaking, the American artist comes back to the start of his solo work by producing a fully instrumental album, he also delivers a story which informs the landscape Case lives in now, and always imbibes it with a sense of tension and dark undercurrents. You might think at first that the voice he uses is abstr…

**Limited edition of 50 cassette tapes with extractable paper crochet holy image on white matte rough paper. Includes digital download**Created to non-exist in the depths of East Rome and now relocated to France, John Poubelle defines her music as "punk fragile de sous-sol" (fragile punk of the subsoil), raw and spontaneous yet intimate and vulnerable. "Pléistocène supérieur" gifts us with acid synthetic "psalms" steeped in haunting reverbed vocals reminding of Nico's piercing plaint."SSS" is hi…

Mountains Are Mountains is a solo album that presents the sound of many moments scattered all over a period of Berke Can Özcan's (Ex-Konstrukt, Big Beats Big Times) personal time on this planet. He is a drummer, composer, writer, producer who keeps experimenting with all that is available to his one ear. Gongs, aquadrums, a vibraphone, a steel drum, a prepared piano, a vintage harmonium which smells exactly like a vintage harmonium, log drums, kalimbas, as well as his self-made instruments made …

Almost completely unknown in the west, Masahiro Sugaya has been composing and producing music since the 1980s in an exceptionally wide range of fields and practices. From arrangements for musical acts like the acoustic guitar duo Gontiti to acousmatic diffusion at spaces like Paris’s Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), Sugaya’s reach is almost exhaustive in its breadth, but it was in the 80s bubble-era kankyō ongaku scene that he first found his musical voice. Horizon, Volume 1 presents a wind…

Fischgeist is the third solo album by Tomoko Sauvage, a Paris-based Japanese experimental musician and sound artist. For more than a decade, she’s been working on her unique ‘natural synthesizer’ by combining water, hydrophones and glass or ceramic bowls. The album was recorded in a former water tank in Berlin, a building with a special architecture and acoustics. Sauvage was inspired by the building’s history that she discovered by coincidence during her recording sessions. bohemian drips, a Be…

Makoto Inoue and Yasushi Yamashita’s Inoyama Land project spans nearly four decades, still active to this day. A portmanteau of their family names, the “Land” of Inoyama hovers between imagined mythical space and concrete reality, extending beyond physical releases into installations, site-specific sound design and theatre scores. After their famed Haruomi Hosono-produced 1983 release Danzindan-Pojidon, the duo became involved in the budding environmental music business that was taking shape in …

* Edition of 100. Green Radioactive cassette * Tsss Tapes presents Stien a new Philip Sulidae cassette release. Each track explores the organic dimension of the body of a different fruit: Apricot, Damson, Peach, Plum, Nectarine, Loquat... using improvised open forms with a minimalist extension. Composed and recorded in Hobart, Australia, 2020. Released on September 4, 2020. Mastered by Francesco Covarino.

**Came inside hand silk-screened foldover sleeve with two-color riso printed insert. Edition of 150** The only known studio work of Post-Materialists that was recorded in 2015. Iconic album for Russian underground scene showing the most powerfull side of experimental punk free form music. Contains the most well-known "songs" performed in their original live style. Produced by Sergey Efremov and the infamous Russian store Stellage. Single sided colored vinyl in edition of 150 copies came inside h…

In collaboration with Markus Acher’s Alien Transistor label, Morr Music presents a collection of hard-to-find Japanese independent music, compiled by Saya, who plays with Ueno Takashi in the iconic duo Tenniscoats. They are part of a current music scene, which is little known outside of Japan. "Minna Miteru"“ focuses on that very scene: the featured bands and musicians share a certain idea of DIY, and are also connected through frequent collaborations and mutual appreciation.

Bureau B present a reissue of Conrad Schnitzler's Con, originally released in 1978. Conrad Schnitzler: In the electric garden by Wolfgang Seidel, May 2020: "... Whilst on shore leave in Düsseldorf, Conrad Schnitzler heard about a professor at the School of Art (Kunstschule) who also accepted students into his class without high school diplomas. Conrad Schnitzler became one of them. The spirit of a fundamental new beginning bonded this generation of artists together, with Karlheinz Stockhausen an…

About the Con-Struct series: Conrad Schnitzler liked to embark on daily excursions through the sonic diversity of his synthesizers. Finding exceptional sounds with great regularity, he preserved them for use in combination with each other in subsequent live performances. He thus amassed a vast sound archive of his discoveries over time. When the m=minimal label in Berlin reissued two Conrad Schnitzler albums at the outset of the 2010s, label honcho Jens Strüver was granted access to this audio …

**Edition of 200. 12" Vinyl LP. Risograph print cover** The ability to create moving music with no words, no beats and no conventional instruments is rare, but San Francisco Bay Area-based modular synth artist Austin Cairns - who records under the name r beny - is such an example. Belgian label Dauw are reissuing his first four albums separately and as a box set.Cascade Symmetry was his 2017 sophomore effort.

**Grey Marble Vinyl, Edition of 100** "No Tracks in the Snow" is a collection of tracks from the early days of Drekka’s history; the third offering for Dais Records and an appendix between the second and third parts of the 'Tarwestraat' trilogy of LPs for the label. For over twenty years, Mkl Anderson has curated a vast archive of recorded material for his cinematic ritual ambient industrial project, Drekka. He works with memory not only as a subject but also as a healing process, continually de…

"Unbeknownst to the Participants at Hand" is Drekka’s second offering in a trilogy of full-length releases on Dais Records. Continuing his work with memory not only as a subject but also as a process, Michael Anderson has culled many of the sounds on this record from the past. But this is not a record of rehashed material or remixes. Rather, Drekka's music is made through continually delving into an archive, digging up and repurposing old recordings, live performances, and forgotten snippets of …

**240 copies in handmade covers** Två - Ett Barn Glömmer Ingenting is the second album from Oroskällan, a musical project from Gustaf Dicksson (Blod, Enhet För Fri Musik) and Dan Johansson (Sewer Election, Neutral, Enhet För Fri Musik).

Tip! With a requisite crackle, hum and drone, you're fixed to slide into the dis-rupture in stereo that is guitarist Bill Nace and - well, THIS is a nice surprise - Bill's got his own record out this time! Sweet - in the past 15 years or so, Bill's been a trusty improv partner to so many: Steve Baczkowski, Chris Corsano, Paul Flaherty, Greg Kelly, James Twig Harper, Samara Lubelski and Thurston Moore, plus Body/Head, to name but a handful. Bill's appeared on probably more than 50 albums - but ot…

**Edition of 250 copies in tipped-on sleeves with Japanese obi, insert and postcard. Entirely handmade sleeve edition of Painted Screens – designed & assembled at Impression Lointaine.** Music box : intimate music with a large palette of instruments ; Voices and sounds, mixed feelings and mysteries…A window opened on travelling memories, half-awakened thoughts and shared moments – dreamed and nocturnal wandering atmospheres, with undulating rays sporadically lighting a subconscious painting. In …

A 49-minute work in nine movements by Chantal Dumas, commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Kultur and premiered in 2018, on the undulating motions of the Earth: earthquakes, mantle convection, geysers, earth tides, geomagnetism and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Six acousmatic works by Belgian composer Todor Todoroff from 1991 to 2017, from the quadraphonic Baudelaire piece Obsession and a computer-simulated pendulum to Requiem for a City, written after the Paris attacks of November 2015.

Lunar Error is a group of musicians based in Lille. They work in the field of drone, continuum but mainly acoustic. After Sêlêne published in 2017 on the same label, they decided to work with Jean-Luc Guionnet who, here, considers contemporary composition for ensemble as a work both plastic and reflexive, using drawing, writing, typography, diagram, plan, non-idiomatic notation, questions of musical writing, interpretation, as well as individual and collective playing techniques, up to the sound…

“Intuitive Mathematics” is illustrative improvisation registered with the use of percussion instruments amplified by piezoelectric sensors and an instrument I constructed myself called the Soundboard. I mounted metal springs, screws and tongues onto a pine board. Highly enhanced piezo amplification brings all sounds closer to the audience’s ears and allows them to hear rich harmonies of the percussion set as well as “non-musical” elements such as friction, shrieking or vibrations that occur insi…

Pedestal's Complement is a recording of a concert from the Ambient Festival in Gorlice, which took place in July 2019. "All our performances are pure improvisation from scratch. I use the piano and the guitar, on which I play the e-bow bow. A lot of the sounds come from inside the piano, which is prepared. Jurek supports the Eurorack and Buchla modular system" -  Andrzej Karałow.

"Nights Are Numbered" LP forms a world of apparent apocalyptic ambience of sounds which are produced mainly with conventional instruments such as double bass, grand piano or accordion, however, located outside their classical use, but also with some contrasting, organic and archetypal objects such as bones or dried plants, amplified in studio conditions. This specific accord of dissonances coming from various sources shifts the listener into the realm of sonoric experiment [...] The rich, meticu…

Debut CD by the trio of Yann Charaoui (cymbals, table-top samplers), John Lely (piano, prepared bal-bal tarang) and Seymour Wright (alto saxophone), recorded at Gateway Studios, Kingston-upon-Thames, on 2 August 2000.

We announce the joyous return of the spacecraft known as IQ+1 to Planet Earth. After more than six years, which its members spent on experiments, improvisational side-missions, solo excursions, and hunting for material, we can finally welcome a third mission, following on from the highly acclaimed Tváří v tvář (2011) and IQ+1 (2013).The current line up – George Bagdasarov, Veronika Hladká (Pio), Jaroslav Tarnovski (Gurun Gurun, Wabi Experience, Jipangu), Petr Vrba (Rouilleux, Poisonous Frequenci…

Slowdive’s Simon Scott debuts his new Index project with a visceral new sound that absorbs and transmutes political, ecological and psychic dread into a caustic, dissonant style of drone and textural sculpture for iDEAL Recordings, a worthy follow-up to last year’s The Sacrificial Code album release on the label by Kali Malone.

**200 copies** Western Songs marks the first time Nathan Amundson is releasing music under his own name. This record is his first for Silentes, and features two side-long late night instrumental guitar jams evoking the vast, arid landscape surrounding his home state of Colorado.  Minimalist singer/songwriter Nathan Amundson began recording as Rivulets in 1999, when his self-titled debut was issued by Chairkickers Union, the Duluth, Minnesota label run by the veteran slowcore outfit Low. Since t…

**300 copies, white vinyl** Following Not Waving's stellar recent recordings with Jim O'Rourke, Colin Potter, and Jay Glass Dubs, Downwelling finds him in a striking Pas de deux with alternative rock god Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, QOTSA). It's one of those rare link-ups that truly transcends the sum of its parts, with Not Waving's rolling range of nuanced electronics acting as backdrops for Lanegan's smoky baritone storytelling. Delivered in a husky but pliable voice that has come to define …

Recorded in Brooklyn, Germany, and Memphis, Silver Tongued Sisyphus followed Cloudland Canyon's well-received Requiems Der Natur 2002-2004. The album's secular calls to prayer with humming, looping, and loping ambient passages are interspersed with bursting rhythmic energy and agitated guitar lines. Pulling influences from the foggy ether of generations past, the band stakes their claim to the shadows of the cult musical culture of the late 1960s and early 1970s German underground scene. Live sh…

We don’t write record reviews often these days thanks to the current paradigm of online music journalism.  Considering our hyperactivie information age zeitgeist, why do you need some blowhard like myself describing a record to you when you can just pipe in the preview on Last.fm or whatever? With that said, it takes a certain type of album to convince me that I have some serious science to impart on others, and spirit warriors Cloudland Canyon’s latest, Fin Eaves, is just that type of work. Thi…

'Popsongs' is the new project by Underthesnow. A collection of thoughts and sounds about pop. The cd is attached to a 40 pages 8" booklet that includes eleven collages by Stefano Gentile, two exclusive drawings by Massimo Giacon, an exclusive card designed by Lapo Belmestieri and writings (in Italian and English language) by Vittore Baroni, Manuel Gentile, Paolo Cesaretti and Marco Pandin. Under The Snow is Gianluca Favaron: fields recordings, objects, mics, tapes, synth, analog and digital…

Recorded live by Michal Kupicz in Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Warsaw on 13th December 2014 during the Playback Play #7: Adwent. Curated by Michał Libera and Michał Borkiewicz. Cover Design by Kama Sokolnicka. Mix by Gerard Lebik, David Maranha. Mastering by Joe Talia. Phil Minton - voiceDavid Maranha - organGerard Lebik - generators

**300 copies** The second in the Zoviet France reissue series compiles a pair of their early 12”s. Less murky and more stripped-down, rhythm driven than their debut, Garista (1982), the tracks on both $oviet France (1982) and Norsch (1983) are more easily identifiable as products of the post-punk / post-industrial era, yet they still sound as though from a parallel musical universe or overlapping timeline. We’d attribute this perceived difference to the rest of UK tape culture and post-industria…

**300 copies** Vinyl-On-Demand kick off a keenly anticipated Zoviet France reissue scheme with Garista, the sui generis Geordie unit’s 1982 debut slab of cranky, atavistic expression. Industrial-not-industrial, ambient-not-ambient, and so on, Garista gave the first glimpse of Zoviet France’s sprawling, organically freeform soundworld on a self-released tape in 1982. Like cracking open Hellraiser’s puzzlebox, all the variegated, phantasmagoric hallmarks of their sound began to emerge from their d…

35 years after the release of their critically acclaimed 1981 album, Vibrant Stapler Obscures Characteristic Growth (SR 428LP), the British dadaist group Hastings Of Malawi release their second album, an epic sound poem entitled Visceral Underskinnings. It is a 40-minute film without light that reflects on the human condition, on modern society, on the nature of telephony and electricity and an attempt to make sense of the world in which we live that provides no answers. It is a sound collage of…