Experimental / Drone

A single 51-minute piece for four Wuhan cymbals played with bows, without electronics or amplification, timed on a recording of the composer's breathing while asleep. Recorded in Bristol in 2026.

*150 copies limited edition* With Ritual and Radio Waves on the Plains of Elysium, his second album for Unexplained Sounds Group, Rapoon conjures the vast, open spaces of the American deserts and plains, translating the experience of crossing those l…

The final concert of Swans' Big Sound era, recorded in Berlin on 28 November 2025: over two and a half hours of mostly unrecorded material by the line-up Michael Gira reconvened in 2010, with a DVD of the whole show. On Young God.

Music for Dewey Dell's dance piece on the Chauvet cave, by Demetrio Castellucci and Zu bassist Massimo Pupillo, with Attila Csihar on one track.

Third album by the Swiss musician Elischa Heller: two side-long drone pieces meant to resonate with the room, mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.

David Granström brings the electric guitar into his long-form, digitally precise music, recorded partly at EMS Stockholm, with Maria W Horn on hurdy-gurdy.

Elizabeth Vogler sings in Occitan and other South-West dialects to harmonium alone in the church of Lescun, in the Pyrénées: six songs between ancient folk and experimental music, first time on vinyl, 100 copies.

CZN, the trio of Valentina Magaletti, gong maker João Pais Filipe and Leon Marks, in two long pieces of drums, handmade gongs and cymbals recorded at Abbey Road: the first release on Orator.

Skullflower's 1989 Broken Flag debut, the birth of British drone-noise-metal, back on vinyl for the first time in over thirty years, with Matthew Bower, Stuart Dennison, Stefan Jaworzyn and Stephen Thrower.

The 1993 RRRecords session, the heaviest Skullflower record of the first decade: Matthew Bower, Stuart Dennison and Russell Smith in five long pieces of droning, chaotic dissonance.

Yuki Nakagawa’s musical roots lie in the improvisation and noise scenes of the Kansai region in Japan. After performing with electric bass and effects, he transitioned to the cello as a self-taught musician, developing a unique sonic language over mo…

Liz Harris, aka Grouper, collects two scores for short films about water by Tanja Engelberts and Takashi Makino: two long pieces of Mellotron, tape loops, Wurlitzer and field recordings. On Kranky.

Brian Pyle and Merrick McKinlay's Humboldt County duo returns to Discrepant with seven ritual pieces of voices, violins, flutes, synths, drums, bells and field recordings: end-time visions for the unquiet spirit.

Faith Coloccia's unadorned voice over Tashi Dorji's glacial, howling guitar, with piano, organ and tubular bells: songs about land, property and loss, recorded between Anacortes and Asheville.

Clawhammer banjo meets synthesizers, loops and pedal steel: Allison de Groot and Nashville's Rich Ruth turn a planned solo record into a shared album of cosmic, tender instrumental music.

First recorded work by Swedish drone composer Mats Erlandsson and double bassist Gus Loxbo, friends for 25 years: free improvisation, electroacoustic drone and doom, reshaped in the studio through digital processing and tape work.

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.

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.

Boris and Michio Kurihara reunited at Tokyo's Fever club on 29 December 2018, playing nearly all of Rainbow plus Boris pieces, Kurihara solo songs and covers. Live sound by Soichiro Nakamura of White Heaven, on 2LP in a gatefold sleeve.

Boris and Michio Kurihara of Ghost and White Heaven first joined forces on Rainbow in 2006. Drag City now issues it on vinyl for its 20th anniversary: heavy psych, droning jams and short pop songs, in a tip-on sleeve with a vellum lyric insert.

Remarkably, Tim Depraetere is releasing his debut solo LP only now. It feels like he’s been one of the strongholders of the Belgian underground for years. Which he is, really. We were introduced to his work when he was a member of Maan – the duo that…

With In Sore Bless, Cecilia and Ali emerge as The Discretes, following and cultivating diverse veins of sound. Post-noise ballads, distilled jams, fragments of Anatolian-Trip-Hop and other genre-amalgams, all become a supplicant at St. Cecilia’s alta…

Sachiko primarly performs live in Tokyo with drone music centered around her voice. Here, in this new studio album, her voice seems concealed within the silence of the outer space or among a forest settling into stillness. The soundscapes are careful…

A Kind Of Magic by Astral Syndicate, led by Tommaso Ristori: drone flows, falling percussion and dreamlike voices across five psychedelic pieces. Limited edition cassette on Tocco Magico.

Long overdue reissue of the first Windy & Carl album and first ever vinyl pressing. Originally self-released by the duo as a cassette in 1994, Portal set the template for their singular sonic explorations to come. “…ethereal soundscapes that will tra…

This is the sound of dream Texas, the cinematic Texas conjured in film and 20th century literary and art myth… big dark blueing horizons swallowing the infinite distance, a lonely poetry of sound, but also a stock taker of the iconoclastic, psychedel…

The Portuguese percussionist turns drums and cymbals into generative sources: seven tracks of spectral tones, sub-bass rumble and warbly VHS tones, shaped by electronic manipulation and by the chromatic dissonance of Carlo Gesualdo.

Four decades after Prati Bagnati del Monte Analogo, Francesco Messina returns to his hundred-year-old Schimmel piano for seven pieces of hazy drone and ambient minimalism, written with no deadlines after playing that 1979 album live in Milan.

Eight Untitled pieces by Francisco López made in 2011 from field recordings gathered around the world, from Tokyo and the Amazon to Bogotá and Lima: short snapshots and processed collages of animals, objects and weather. Limited to 444.

Dariusz Wojtaś (Hati) recorded Tibetan bowls, field recordings and vintage reverb units in Toruń; Z'ev processed and mixed them in London into two long, shifting metallic drone pieces. A5 gatefold cover, limited to 350.

First vinyl by Long Swan Tongues, the improvised drone duo of Alex Wilson (Gnod, Ghold) and Edd Sanders (Kalkin, Red River Dialect): two long, thunderous pieces for four-stringed instruments on 180g vinyl, mastered by Miles Whittaker.

*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…

Mary Jane Leach's Pipe Dreams II and III, recorded on the organs of Miry Concertzaal, Gent (2023) and Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne (2024): beating tones and antiphonal clouds of sound, following the 1989 original issued by Blume.

*2026 stock. 150 copies limited edition* Sounding waves between the inner and outer spaces, electromagnetic forces from the breathing ether.

Telekinett is pleased to unveil a narrative that delves into themes of darkness and metaphysics, spotlighting John Duncan, a distinguished figure among contemporary Electroacoustic composers.

*100 copies limited edition* Written, recorded, mixed, and produced entirely by Bessel, Illusion of an Inland Ocean expands the worlds of Visitation (2023) and Mirror at Night (2025) into his most expansive and mysterious work to date. His recent wor…

*150 copies limited edition* The ambient lineage, from Brian Eno’s Music for Airports forward, has been characterized as sounds that can recede into the background, creating an absence that exists laterally to the listener’s attention. The Kinetic Vo…

Úgjü is a sound reflexes. A guttural protosonic babble or screech. The first phase of language acquisition among humans. Úgju, is a powerfull “Name" from something like a deity in that secret universal spoken language in the first months of life b…

On KKKAAARRREEENNNIIINNNAAA, Charlemagne Palestine, Oren Ambarchi and Daniel O’Sullivan turn a 1997 “magic song” for a beloved dog’s spirit into a towering trio ritual. Organ drones, phase‑drifting cassette voices, Leslie‑swirled guitar and viola blo…

*2026 stock* Alluvium, a collaborative project of Nika Kaiser and Nathan Stickel, uses a combination of composed and improvised video projection, field recordings, and experimental sound. They create performative installations responding to site-spec…