Suite blanche
Double CD with Suite blanche, composition, and Angelica, a live concert.
Milanesa / Astral Traveling
*2025 stock. 30 copies limited edition* Renowned experimental guitarist and avant-garde musician Eugene Chadbourne presents Milanesa / Astral Traveling, a bold new release available now via the German label Frei zum Abriss Kollektiv. This two-track album showcases Chadbourne’s signature blend of free improvisation, wit, and boundary-pushing soundscapes, further cementing his status as a true pioneer of the underground music scene.
Tea Time
"If you think that the constellation of Nicholas Bussmann, Sven-Åke Johansson and Yan Jun is a sort of dream lineup, you are not far off the mark. The joint improvisations that you hear on tea time capture a sound that once came to Bussmann in a dream and that he made a reality with the help of his fellow musicians. The trio recorded the five pieces across two days at Johansson’s SÅJ studio with engineer Andrew Levine, working with Bussmann’s curious piano robot while Johansson was on percussion…
Orogénese
Originating from a Lisbon residency, Joana Guerra and Yaw Tembe’s duo explores slow, tectonic musical landscapes on ‘Orogénese.’ Their blend of eclectic instruments and ethereal voices crafts mysterious, timeless soundscapes, revealing hidden sonic futures through organic collaboration.
Local Customs
2009 release ** "Tom Hamilton is unquestionably among the most inquisitive minds around. Local Customs explores some obscure notions about music theory and performance practice, leading to sound combinations that are at once unsettling and yet somehow familiar. One discovers that there is very little in Local Customs that follows from conventionally intentional music writing. It is perhaps better to regard it as a group of artifacts of little-known origins, modified through new transformations i…
Eternal Ghost
Raed Yassin’s “Eternal Ghost” (Fourth Sounds) offers two modular minimalist tracks. Berlin-based, Lebanese-born Yassin explores identity and memory via electronics, accompanying his London debut exhibition.
Natura Morta
1989 release (RARE) ** Original first edition on Cramps. "Composed for a grand piano covered in fruit, Natura Morta is simple and slow with no punctures, peaks, or destinies. A very simple sequence of piano accidents, according to Robert Ashley one of the most beautiful piano pieces ever recorded."
Seven Dreams
Dominique Pifarély, Lina Andonovska, and Izumi Kimura—three versatile, internationally acclaimed musicians—unite in a unique trio project born from a residency.
I’m going to have to ask you to
*Dubbed on new ferro tapes* One long composition for each side. Reminding me of an ultra-stretched version of the beautiful interplays on talktalk’s spirit of eden. Brittle percussive repetitions and muted trumpets slowly maneuvering into lovely tensions.
Decay Music 10: And I Entered Into Sleep
*250 copies limited edition*
Fiat Lux
“Creative collaboration could lead to tension or disagreements, but here it’s all about freedom, joy, and acceptance. Deeply rooted in respect and love. And that radiates through the music. I lived the process, but I hope people will feel that vibe.”
— Robbie Kuster
Hrafnamynd
Balmat 17 marks both a return and a new frontier. It is the second album on the label from Patricia Wolf, whose 2022 album See-Through is one of the most beloved in Balmat's catalog; it also marks the first time that Wolf has turned her hand to a film soundtrack. The results are every bit as magical as fans of the Portland, Oregon, composer's music might expect. Hrafnamynd--Icelandic for "raven film"--is a new feature-length documentary by experimental filmmaker Edward Pack Davee. Shot on a mix …
Edge Runner - Noema
Giovanni Di Domenico as a master of his instruments produces bulky sound rugged and dark atmospheres but also plainly beautiful through stark contrasts. Improvisation is therefore more as a state than an outline or shape, the timbre is the actual carrier of the form, drone is the crucial element. Edge Runner is sophisticated, refined even, balanced despite its obvious unwillingness to compromise, carefully crafted regardless of the mad surface structure. Noema consists of a live recording of an …
Pro Fake No Reject
An ace technician who studied at the New England Conservatory, Erez Dessel is in no way conservative. Indeed, his bracing approach to the keyboard and deeply intuitive sense of form can be explosive, uncorked energy summoning references to Cecil Taylor and the Don Pullen/Milford Graves duets, and an almost Russian Romantic darkness – imagine an improvised Mussorgsky – offset by keen emotional intelligence, with joyful melodicism and an airborne quality. And nestled within Dessel's playing there'…
Lema
In the Minoan culture of Crete, the sea was seen as a transitional zone to reach the afterlife. The sun reflected on the water took on the features of a path to follow in order to be reborn into a new life. Angeli crosses this place of passage, leaving behind granite for a sweeping lava-like transformation. While Lema passes through the concept of loss, within the space of his guitar-orchestra, the Sardinian musician celebrates an album that embraces both tradition and musical countercultures, c…
Delightfully Deceitful
"A note, a sound, an air, you can write them down and then leave them to be read or played; but you can also write nothing, just sit down, play your note, watch it flow and expand, add another to it and then another, and on and on. There may also be two of you: the second sits down, plays a note, watches it flow, adds another to it, and watches it drift and blend with the others. And then there can be three; the third arrives, sits down, plays a note, adds another, and another, and watches them …
On Separation
The link between sound and memory is vivid in Heather Stebbins’ mind. On the Washington, DC-based composer and sound artist’s new album On Separation, echoes of past selves reverberate into the present, years dissolving into a gauzy translucence that hovers between the music’s genesis point and the listener’s ears. What began as a reintegration of dormant musical practices slowly shifted into a meditation on the nature of nostalgia itself, a prodding at how the brain relates to the pain and plea…
Ruzawi
*200 copies limited edition* Lee Noyes (born in 1977) is a Canadian musician who lives in Sweden. Lance Austin Olsen (born in 1943) is a Canadian artist and composer. The two musicians have been collaborating for over ten years, often performing graphic scores composed by Olsen. In late autumn 2023, Noyes received two graphic scores from Olsen. After carefully considering how best to approach them, Noyes recorded both works at once, on a night in January 2024, using InputLoop sampler and percuss…