Experimental / Contemporary

*40 copies limited edition* "Midlife Crisis Ambient Moniker" is a Personal Greatest Hits. A Selected Ambient Works Volume 1. Lost Episodes. Archival Deep Dive. Bastard tracks with no home nor family, but with proximity to one another. Unreleased recordings dating as far back as 2014, with source material as old as 2004. There’s even a few songs that once saw the light of day, but never got their time in the sun (“Drain, When It Hit Me,” excerpts from “Earth Day…”). Many of these recordings were …

Neuma presents Drumming in the Dark by Steven Schick. Engineer, Josef Kucera. Production assistance: Roger Reynolds and Terry Longshore. "In 1938 when John Cage formulated his famous dictum, "Percussion is revolution," I doubt that he had my mother in mind..." - Steven Schick

*2026 stock* Recorded at Rimi/Imir Scenekunst, Stavanger. Recorded and Mixed by Gaute Granli. Mastered and cut by Frédéric Alstadt. Cover design and print by Drid Machine. foil by Bokbinderiet Erland. Financial Assistance: Stavanger kommune. THANK you: Rimi/Imir Scenekunst and Kafé Hærverk. Thore Warland uses SLB electronic drums.

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.

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.

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.

Pierre-Luc Senécal's Growlers Choir, fourteen metal vocalists, live at FIMAV in May 2021 with poet Fortner Anderson: growls and throat-singing-like improvisation over electric guitar tapes, between metal, noise and drone.

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 new wave of jazz and improvised music, Osborn now unveils her most ambitious and exploratory project to date. Well known and highly regarded as a bandleader and featured player across a wide number of groups - most notably her modal ensemble Collocuto…

"In the fall of 2016, after many years away from making music, I started Tyresta as a creative outlet to help process everything I was going through at the time. It took me a few years to find my voice as an artist, but I feel like the project truly came into its own around 2019–2020 with the recording and release of All We Have on PITP. After releasing All We Have and its follow-up, Small Hours (2023)—albums centered on grief, loss, and healing—I found myself wanting to write music that reflect…

*2026 stock. 200 copies limited edition* No Regrets For Our Youth return with I Follow the Birds, an evocative new album shaped by movement, memory, and the instinct to keep searching for somewhere beyond the horizon. Balancing introspection with a sense of open possibility, I Follow the Birds unfolds as a journey through departure and return, uncertainty and desire. Its title suggests a simple but powerful gesture: trusting what moves freely, following a direction that cannot always be explaine…

Taping, expanding, and challenging the parameters of how we perceive rhythm and percussion, comes “Notte”, the debut solo LP by the Italian journeyman drummer and composer Piero Perelli. Ranging from the infectiously hypnotic to complex abstractions and sheets of ambience, every step of the way it's an engrossing listen that shouldn't be missed.

Silvia Bolognesi - Upright Bass, Voice, Poetry, PercussionDudú Kouate - Percussion, Voice, Ngoni, KalimbaGriffin Rodriguez - Electronics, Voice Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Griffin RodriguezRecorded December 14-16, 2021 at Shape Shoppe Paradiso - Siena, Italy

64-minute piece by Antoine Beuger, composed in 2004, and beautifully realised by Apartment House.  "It’s from a series of pieces I composed, each for a different number of players, from two to twenty. And the number in each piece is really important, because everything that happens can only happen in a situation where there are, in this case, six people. The question I was really involved with in this whole series was how is it to play with this particular number of musicians? It’s quite easy to…

Kassel Jaeger (aka François J. Bonnet) returns to Shelter Press after Swamps / Things, Shifted in Dreams, and the recent reissue of the classic Zauberberg, co-composed with Akira Rabelais and Stephan Mathieu. With this major new album, entitled Sub Re, Bonnet continues his long exploration of the musical possibilities of sound, extending the concrete approach developed at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales, the historic and essential Parisian studio that Bonnet has been directing since 2018. Sub…

Ylang Ylang’s Will to Love suggests both a challenge and a determination simultaneously. What does it actually take to love? Amidst the inherent contradictions of the self and the world around us, how do we come back to the foundation of love? The songs on this album sit in that place of friction: stillness and action, fear and desire, poison and medicine, reluctance and momentum, the pull to protect and the pull to stay open. You can look at the process Catherine Debard undertook in recording W…

"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 (RESLP003) did, but never recorded. Now, here, Limpe in front of the screen on the wall, the light projected on it through the dark theatre, like the sun on the moon, and the images reflected on our faces, our eyes, her eyes. One of the almost lost a…

Tip! *250 copies limited edition* The "Films Made of Antimatter" series is a new experiment from the Fifteen Minutes of Anonymity label, based on the concept of soundtracks for films that have not yet been made. It's an idea that is already familiar to a great number of sonic artists, as many of us have deliberately set out to create a "cinema for the ear" which would, in effect, cause us to imagine film-like narratives within our mind's eyes. This project aims to take things a step further: com…

Tip! Comprising 10 tracks of creative expression, veteran experimentalists, Ben Vida and Lea Bertucci, deliver “Murmurations”, their first release as a duo, incorporating live tape manipulation, modular synthesis, sampling, and real-time instrumental and vocal improvisation, into a joyous tapestry of playful, boundary blurring sound. Longstanding figures in New York City experimental music scene - both noted for pushing electroacoustic music into highly individualized realms - Ben Vida and Lea B…

Tip! The Well & The Gentle, two of the major works of Pauline Oliveros, are presented here in a first time reissue on double vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with extensive liner notes. If Oliveros had followed a more conventional path she may have, all social obstacles aside, been considered among the major composers of her time. However, Oliveros approached composition in a more egalitarian manner. She wrote music for musicians to interact with or, in the composers words, she wished to create "an in…

The pioneering electronic sounds of Daphne Oram reimagined by Taahliah, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Marta Salogni, Arushi Jain and others using tapes from Oram's archive. To mark the centenary of overlooked electronic pioneer Daphne Oram, Nonclassical - together with Oram Trust and Oram Awards - have commissioned new music by a set of contemporary visionary minority-gender electronic artists celebrating the next generation of trailblazers. This group of artists span early-career to high-profile DJs and m…

Eleven pieces built on Prophet and Oberheim synthesizers tuned to an eighteenth century temperament of Rameau's, with Julia Holter singing. Wada grew up in the Fluxus co-op building in Soho, with Simone Forti next door and Nam June Paik one floor up, and studied with James Tenney.

2026 Repress. In Muto Infinitas, Catherine Lamb extends her distinctive approach to microtonality and just intonation, crafting a forty-minute dialogue for quartertone bass flute and double bass performed by Rebecca Lane and Jon Heilbron. The recording, realized without electronic alteration, invites deep listening, unspooling at an unhurried pace in a luminous acoustic field. Lamb’s music here is uncompromising in its patience: the two musicians linger in the borderlands of pitch and timbre, ca…

Big tip! Sarah Davachi returns with “Music for a Bellowing Room”, the first ever release of her audio / visual collaboration with the artists and filmmaker Dicky Bahto, originally commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Sprawling to an incredible three hours of sublime, minimalist drone - composed for tape loops, synth and delay - that draws the ear toward microscopic shifts and details, we've adored every second of this truly monumental work.

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.

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 recorded during a two-week residency in Toulouse, the pieces move between harmony and noise, conjuring a euphorically intoxicating maelstrom of overlapping, accelerating sound.

*40 copies limited edition* We’re living through a difficult period to be publishing creative music (which is really the least of our problems!) And the 7” format seems to have taken an exceptionally hard blow, with apparently little interest from pressing plants in making the format affordable again. But at Physical we’re thoroughly convinced that the little record is a perfect platform for big ideas, and we plan to stay a believer despite financial hardship and almost zero commercial viability…

*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 juxtaposition. She takes seriously the mandate of the composer to foster new relationships between various types of sounds, bringing together disparate field recordings, instrumental stems, and the sounds of circuitry in unheard configurations. Resolution is…

2026 Repress! Custom die-cut rigid slipcase, 5 CDs in double card sleeves, 96 page perfect bound book including an interview between Seymour Wright and John Chantler and additional texts by silvia tarozzi, magnus granberg, nate wooley, valerie mol, pär thörn and lars grip and drawings by guillaume delcourt and aliocha delcourt. Limited Edition of 500 copies.  [Ahmed] is the quartet of Pat Thomas (piano), Joel Grip (double bass), Antonin Gerbal (drums) and Seymour Wright (alto saxophone). Togethe…

*In process of stocking* Since 1995, Cindytalk has continued in both group and solo form, across live performance and recordings. During this period, Cindytalk increasingly embraced improvisation in live settings and electronic work through recordings. A series of solo and predominantly electronic albums on the Editions Mego label, from The Crackle of My Soul (2009) to The Labyrinth of the Straight Line (2016), saw another formidable body of work developed. Most recently, Of Ghosts and Buildings…

Huge Tip! Further Explorations follows on from Gentle Fire’s 3CD retrospective box set Explorations, released in 2020. These new archive recordings came to light in the process of unearthing the tapes for the 4CD box set by their fellow Stockhausen collaborators Intermodulation. The pieces used on this CD are taken from two sessions recorded for German radio in 1973 and 74, one for Sender Freies Berlin and the other for Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt. These beautifully recorded and preserved p…

*300 copies limited edition* The first Af Ursin album in a decade, this release features extraordinary Belgian vocalist and performer Bénédicte Davin. Ad Fontes is a personal response to the fractured reality of our time. Created in the wake of visible social decay, manipulation, and institutional control, the album serves as a sonic mirror to an era defined by corruption and systemic failure. Instead of preaching political manifestos or claiming to have answers, this work is an intimate persona…

Live in Rhein-Main by Gestalt et Jive documents the group’s most audacious mutations through two pivotal live sets, revealing an intricate interplay of improvisation and postmodern eclecticism. The album’s raw edges and unpredictable transitions expose the band’s commitment to redefining avant-rock’s boundaries, blending kinetic jazz idioms, punk dissonance, and European experimental traditions into a deeply engaging experience.

An introspective journey into darkness through an oblique and fascinating song form. This, and much more, in Enten Hitti's beautiful new album. There is something particularly transcendental about 'A Tutti gli Uragani che ci Passarono Accanto', the new Enten Hitti album released on 25 May 2020 by Lizard and ADN Records. It is a work that welcomes the song form, but dished out with the classic researched and experimental approach that has distinguished the band's work in recent years. An album of…

1999 re-issue on Blue Chopsticks of the EMI LP with two landmark instrumental compositions respectively from 1967 and 1970.

This vinyl release is a 2x12-inch with printed sleeve and inner sleeves. Also there is a a CD insert of all the tracks. Osmo Lindeman is one of the main developers of electronic music in Finland. He was active in Europe, USA and Finland from 50s to end of 70s. In the beginning Osmo Lindeman studied and worked as a modern classical composer. During the 1960s he shifted making electronic music only at his home studio. Lindeman is a Finnish hybrid of Monty Norman, Krzysztof Penderecki and Edgar Var…

*100 copies limited edition* Inspired by macro photography, field recordings and the hidden world of insects, "Bugs" explores the fragile boundary between nature and electronics. Built through instinctive improvisations with analog synthesizers, acoustic instruments, drum machines and environmental recordings, the album unfolds as a collection of immersive sonic landscapes suspended between twilight and darkness. Rather than describing the natural world, "Bugs" magnifies it, transforming tiny mo…

“A vinyl-based 'plane of consistency' able to fold, deform, and compress time and space so deftly that one has the impression of hearing echoes of distant worlds and times – 'everything everywhere all at once.'”

Ignacio Cordoba, an improviser and composer from Madrid based in Copenhagen, and Agata Ciurkot, a Polish pianist, improviser and composer residing in Berlin, first met in the fall of 2017 at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen. Both navigating across jazz, free-improv, and contemporary composition, Agata was drawn to Ignacio's mastery of the sound produced by his machines and effects. In the summer of 2018, Ignacio travelled to Berlin to visit Agata, and they recorded “Ethereal, Basal”…

"Garden Variety" explores interdependence and intimacy through the emergent behavior of percussion instruments. Inspired by Anne Carson’s concept of Eros, the series blurs sonic identities, creating a composite instrument from motion. Amplification invites listeners into a tactile, resonant sound world.

Textures of belonging, relentlessly woven into the epigenetics, layer upon layer, building palimpsests of human existence that are both fragile and resilient, with nothing but a wobbly strand of DNA. The way our grandparents' experiences spill across our systems, the way their grandparents’ experiences formed them in the first place, like a busy cityscape humming in the background, keeping the flow, making things operate, and despite their physical peril, hearts still flicker and divulge poetry …