Roman Ruins
Alvin Curran conducts the Iato Orchestra, thirty musicians with voice, reeds, brass, strings, harp, accordion, guitars, vibraphone, basses, two drummers and four electronics players.
Logrende tunger
Tip! “Logrende tunger” documents the first meeting between accordionist Kalle Moberg and saxophonist Kei Matsumaru — both extraordinary instrumentalists who pay great attention to the purely sonic qualities of their instruments, but also share a prof…
Audiopinturas: Estructuras Verbales Para Voz (1972)
The work of Jorge Eduardo Eielson (Lima 1924 - Milán 2006) in the fields of visual and sound poetry has been conspicuously absent from the international anthologies pertaining to these disciplines. One of the reasons of this absence may be the limite…
Rootless
*200 copies limited edition* Rootless is Andy Guthrie’s fourth album for Students of Decay, following 2022’s Gyropedie. Created in part during a 2024 residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts, it finds the San Francisco-based multi-instrumentali…
Idir
Roger Doyle's third solo album on Allchival: new fixed electronic works, software piano improvisations and voice, a response to Finnegans Wake and music from Operating Theatre's 1986 The Pentagonal Dream, read by Olwen Fouéré.
The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity
Commissioned by ZKM Karlsruhe, Lea Bertucci's work for flutist Norbert Rodenkirchen sets his Renaissance, Medieval and Neolithic flutes inside electronic process: an electroacoustic piece that sounds like an ensemble reaching across centuries.
Book of Carols
Sarah Davachi's commissions and longform pieces from 2023 to 2026, for The Broad, MoMA, Sonic Acts, Ghost Ensemble and NO HAY BANDA: six works across six CDs in a rigid slipcase, companion to The Will of Tongues.
Schattenstimme
The starting point is E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Sandman: a world where perception and reality drift apart, and the question of identity remains unresolved. Recognition, in Hoffmann, is never quite secure. The doppelgänger is less a figure than a condit…
Abhaile
Compositions by Finola Merivale for field recordings and electronics, with Catherine Sikora's tenor saxophone moving through shifting sonic environments between stark minimalism and dense, evocative layers.
Caperea
Two familiar faces within the Kohlhaas fold—Stefano Calderano as part of the trio McCorman (2023), and Giovanni Di Domenico through his solo works "Polvere di rabbia" (2021) and "Stella Maris" (2025)—join now forces on "Caperea". Bridging Rome and Br…
Volume 1
Weekend With Friends is a collective featuring Jacopo Buda (trumpet, electronics), Alberto Brutti (double bass, electronics), Mattia Bellei (clarinet, electronics), and Demetrio Cecchitelli (flute, guitar, electronics). At its core, the project thriv…
Varier: Berlin
Renowned saxophonist, woodwind player, bandleader and composer Tamar Osborn stands at the heart of the UK’s forward-thinking music movement. A multi-instrumentalist whose genre-slipping creativity has made her the go-to voice for artists within the n…
What Is the Difference Between Stripping & Playing the Violin?
Miya Masaoka's orchestra, recorded live in San Francisco in 1995 and 1997 with George Lewis, Vijay Iyer, Trevor Dunn and others: strings, Asian winds, shamisen, electronics and turntables under her whole-body conduction.
Abstract Repressionism: 1990-99
Elliott Sharp writing for strings: Orchestra Carbon's violins, viola, cellos and double bass with electronic percussion, recorded in New York in 1992. Dense, restless pieces between contemporary chamber music and noise.
Ursa's Door
Zeena Parkins' 1992 album recorded in New York: electric harp, keyboards and tape with Ikue Mori on drums, Chris Cochrane on guitar, David Shea, and her sisters Margaret and Sara on cello, violin and voice.
Pianostops
"Limpe Fuchs at the piano. Playing for the moon, four drawings on the wall, one on the cover of the LP (RESLP022). A musical improvisation, a voyage, visions, meditation, presence and absence... the subtle art of a silent film pianist. Like Schirren …
Welcome to All the Pleasures
Chris Shields on organ, Ed Atkins on voice and Magnus Kaslov recording, live at KoncertKirken in Copenhagen in 2024: the organ reduced to air leaks, mechanical hesitation and shifting overtones. Liner notes by Sarah Davachi, edition of 200.
Music For Air
On its latest album „Music For Air“, the Berlin-based interdisciplinary duo GAMUT INC explores new possibilities of the computer-controlled pipe organ — from hypervirtuoso excess to nuanced automation and rhythms beyond the fixed grid. Composed and r…
Unit of Heart
*300 copies limited edition* A quiet intensity permeates Chantal Michelle’s music, like a veiled flame. Even at its most spare and delicate, an undulating tension unsettles the ear through wavering microtonal interference and uncanny spatial juxtapos…