Experimental / Drone

Berlin sound artist Ira Hadžić in two parts for gongs, recorded on a six-month tour of New Zealand and Australia in 2026 and shaped by Pauline Oliveros's Deep Listening. A study in resonance on cassette from Karlrecords.

A single 72-minute piece built from Andrew Anderson's field recordings of rescued chickens at an animal sanctuary, looped and processed by Colin Sheffield. Sleeve by Merzbow, mastered by Lawrence English. 300 copies.

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, third and final pressing, red cover.

First CD issue of Michael Ranta's self-released 1984 LP, recorded at Conny Plank's studio: two long suites for dozens of ritual and self-made percussion instruments, plus an unreleased piece played on a sound sculpture by Günther Oellers.

Tanz Mein Herz's new double LP, recorded in Cherbourg in August 2025: guitars, bagpipes, bass, drums and electronics, from the nineteen-minute climb of Depuis Longtemps to long tones and dense drone.

Solo double LP by Guilhem Lacroux of Tanz Mein Herz for Gretsch Duo Jet and Korg Volca: fifteen pieces on four named sides, from plucked figures and fast repeated strumming to bell-like tones and organ-like chords. 300 copies, black vinyl.

Second Atlantic album by the Melvins, recorded and mixed at A&M Studios, Hollywood, and released in October 1994, with King Buzzo, Dale Crover and Mark Deutrom, produced by the band and GGGarth Richardson.

Andy Ortmann's triple LP sequel to Pataphysical Electronics: twelve pieces, over two hours, on psychoacoustic effects (masking, missing fundamentals, binaural tricks), with EVP recordings and a collaboration with Bryan Lewis Saunders.

The Hafler Trio's double LP Idiots: Laughing Matter, years in the making and seeded with early material by Wire's Bruce Gilbert: four long sides of slow, dark drones, spoken passages and sudden loud bursts. Embossed metallic Pantone jackets.

On Le Carnaval Perdu, Elizabeth Vogler turns voice, shruti-box drones and electroacoustic transformations into a personal folklore. Invented languages meet Béarnais lyrics; echoes of celebration flicker through dense sonic layers. Drawing on pop, bal folk and Bulgarian polyphony, the album makes carnival a threshold between communal ecstasy and loss.

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.

Ten arrangements, dialogues, compositions. Direct, diverse, dating you quietly, never naming the act. They arrive on tape, twisted sided. Shaped by Belgian drummer and sonic wanderer Karen Willems. A mover between scenes. Breaker of frames. Restless in sound. She likes to step into that space, where you can push, strike, remain in motion. Where curiosity earns its name by never staying the same. “Fancy cannot cheat” is title for her latest beat. There is ambient breath. There is classic stretche…

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.

*150 copies limited edition* After 8 years since their last release, Becoming Forest is the fifth full-length record by Amuleto. It comes from an encounter between the group’s core duo, Francesco Dillon and Riccardo Wanke, and multi-instrumentalist performer and composer Stefano Pilia (Mike Watt, Rokia Traoré, 3/4HadBeenElminated, Massimo Volume, Afterhours, Zaire). This meeting — developed from long-term parallel collaborations and converging musical paths — produced a set of tracks that combin…

*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 landscapes into sound. The music captures the hypnotic rhythm of endless travel, where time loses its grip and the scenery becomes a continuous, shifting presence: brief flashes of towns, gas stations, roadside stops, night skies, and distant radio fr…

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.

Ten years ago, La Tène released their first record, then as a trio with Cyril Bondi, d’Incise, and Alexis Degrenier. A decade, four albums, and multiple collaborations later, the group returns with Moreïne/Déclives—an album that feels as much like a celebration as it does an upheaval. True to its identity, La Tène continues to explore the cracks between tradition and experimentation, between hypnotic drone and repeated gestures, but this time they choose to move onto new ground: the hurdy-gurdy,…

German ambient musician.He was briefly a member of the krautrock band Popol Vuh in the early 1970s where he played on the albums Hosianna Mantra and Seligpreisung. Comes in jewel case with slipcase.

Tip! The compositions on this album, written between 2022 and 2024, form a conceptual suite and an observance of the mental dances that we construct to understand acts of passage; the ways that we commune, memorialize, and carry symbols back into the world beyond representation. To this end, The Head as Form’d in the Crier’s Choir engages two references to the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus: Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus, a collection of poems from 1922, and Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, an early baroque op…

The most ambitious work of Sarah Davachi's career to date. Spanning more than two hours of music across three LPs, The Will of Tongues arrives on the composer's own Late Music imprint as a vast, deeply considered statement - a meditation on the act of listening itself, and on the mental spaces that sound, given duration and reduction, continually opens. Over the last decade, Davachi has emerged as one of the most singular voices working at the intersection of minimalism, early music, and electro…

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.

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 more than 15 years. His practice spans composition, performance, and direction, as well as collaborations with dance, theater, and contemporary visual art. As one half of the duo project Kakuhan(with Koshiro Hino), he has performed at festivals in Japa…

*200 copies limited edition* For more than three decades, Germany’s drone ambient pioneers Troum have explored the liminal zones between sound and sensation, shaping immersive sonic environments that dissolve boundaries between ritual, memory, and matter. Emerging from the industrial-ambient underground of the 1990s, Troum have remained devoted to a singular artistic intent: to create transformative listening experiences, dense with atmosphere and charged with inner movement, where sound becomes…

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.

Cosmic, heavy amplified rock drops and ripples, auras radiate and expand into cloud forms, through which lightning bolts. Tides rise, the moons wax upon a place somewhere between Link Wray, Hex-era Earth and early Tangerine Dream. The echoes return, leaving a trail that blows and drifts, creating a separate piece. Ensemble Pearl are Atsuo, William Herzog, Michio Kurihara and Stephen O'Malley. Their debut album also features the elemental forces of Eyvind Kang and Timba Harris. These playe…

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.

Oxblood vinyls. Nearly three decades into an activity that has consistently redefined the outer territories of heavy music, Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson return with their tenth album - their first for Sub Pop, and the first to bear their own name. Recorded in January 2025 at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville, Washington, co-produced and mixed alongside Brad Wood, sunn O))) finds the duo stripping the project back to its irreducible core. For the first time, all instrumentation was performe…

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.

German ambient musician. He was briefly a member of the krautrock band Popol Vuh in the early 1970s where he played on the albums Hosianna Mantra and Seligpreisung. Comes in jewel case with slipcase.

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.