Malign Seeds
There was no premeditated methodology in place when Swedish electronics manipulator Joachim Nordwall and American guitar mangler Aaron Turner decided to collaborate on an album together. Initial experiments involved Turner submitting improvised guitar compositions to Nordwall for dissection and reassembly. While these exercises yielded interesting returns, the project truly began to bloom when Nordwall pitched several beat-oriented tracks for Turner's perusal. Beginning from a place of structure…
Shipwreck Radio Volume One (Seven Sonic Structures From Utvær)
2025 Repress This is the original double CD, which has long been out of print, remastered, with additional tracks made with the sounds recorded during the project. The album finds Steven Stapleton and Colin Potter spending time on Norway's lofoten Islands inside the arctic circle with no instruments and minimal equipment and sending regular broadcasts to resonance fm via lofotradioen local radio. This double disc on Potter's ICR label contains 7 of these broadcasts. Windswept field recordings, f…
Abacomancy
Abacomancy (defined as "a form of divination based on the interpretation of the patterns in dust, dirt, silt, or sand") is the first record by the duo of Derek Monypeny and Kevin Corcoran. Monypeny and Corcoran have a decades-long personal and musical relationship; they played in the free-improv trio DMPH with the late tenor saxophonist Chad Stockdale, who released a 7-inch on Stockdale's Weird Forest label in 2010.
Abacomancy is the result of a one-day recording session in Monypeny's adopted to…
Particularly Dangerous Situation
*150 copies lmiited edition* Ian Wellman's “Particularly Dangerous Situation”, his first release for Elevator Bath and first vinyl LP, is a meditative, at times harrowing, interpretive document of the catastrophic California wildfires of 2025. Wellman's stunningly descriptive field recordings plus his signature tape loop textures and sampled drones combine for a dramatic ten-part narrative that is both frightening and sorrowful in its depiction of calamitous events. "On January 7, 2025 Southern …
Prophecy
*328 copies limited edition* Prophecy finds Eye in form familiar to those who've had the good fortune to hear their 2016 album Other Sky, but even more compacted and condensed, a band simmered and reduced to their pure essence. And then the volume increases. Prophecy is a pummeling din of guitar clouds shot through with electronic disruption. Stapleton's relentless motion drives Porteous' icy guitar streams in leaping waves. 'Catch Them' opens the album with Peter's vocals, croaking out from the…
Black Ships
*333 copies limited edition* As Stapleton's illness progressed over his last years, instead of lamenting what doors had closed to him, Stapleton with the truest, highest understanding of what free improvisation suggests, asked himself what doors remained open and walked through them. Stapleton entered a grand tradition of master improvisers for whom changes in physical ability were approached with the same practical acuity that a great improviser approaches their instrument with every time they …
Close Position
The concept is therefore to propose an immersive type of listening, in which the rather extended durations of sustained and seemingly static sounds create a certain tension generated by the anticipation of variation.
The live performance involves the use of samples, as the composed balances require multiple timbral layers to be active simultaneously. The closeness in pitch and the mimicry between instruments highlight the psychoacoustic phenomenon of beating: in fact, our auditory sy…
Eternity's Pillars B/W Raise The Chalice & Reverential
Eternity’s Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential consists of three brand new tracks created and performed by the iconic duo of Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson and co-produced by sunn O))) and Brad Wood. Brad Wood recorded the material at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville and Sea Grass in Los Angeles in 2025. The tracks on this maxi 12” are the first official sunn O))) studio recordings to feature only the original core duo on heavily saturated electric guitars and synthesis. sunn O))) g…
Poor_in_Spirit | the (Re)constructed Pipe Organ
Australian, Copenhagen-based composer Calum Builder delves into a sonic journey inside the body of his dismantled pipe organ.
BBBB
*2025 stock. 100 copies limited edition* Four words become four incantations in BBBB, where Elena M. Rosa Lavita and Samuele Innocenti strip language and sound to their skeletal essence. "Bad," "Bare," "Black," "Bones" - each title a minimalist manifesto realized through bass, bow, objects, and processed voices, with additional production by Nàresh Ran and mastering by Attila Folklor.
Recorded at home in 2021, the collaboration captures the intimacy of isolation transformed into sonic ritual. Ro…
A Dream
After the re-releases of ‘A Thousand Winters’ and ‘Treat’, AlanTrench and his Neo-Folk project ORCHIS finally returns with an ALL NEW album – the first one since 1999 (Mandragora/Trisol)! ORCHIS is an English Dark Folk band consisting of Tracy Jeffery, Amanda Prouten and Alan Trench (formerly one of the owners of World Serpent). Orchis so far released 2 albums with World Serpent and Trisol plus the special rarities collection ‘Treat’.
"A Dream", probably, last return of Orchis band, and here y…
Civic Floor
Sung Tieu employs sound as a critical tool to dissect how social and political power manifests within sensory realms. Through layered compositions, the artist examines the emotional and psychological effects of controlled environments, transforming space into an immersive auditory experience that highlights the structures of surveillance, bureaucracy and institutional design.
Civic Floor examines the evolution of prison architecture, tracing the shift from the radial model developed in Britain i…
Euro TV
Euro TV is an ongoing instrumental collaboration begun in 2021 by artists Nicholas Cheveldave and Will Sheridan Jr.. Blending piano, trumpet, and other instruments with recordings of night buses, glass breaking, drifting voices, and the hum of empty streets, the album traces a journey through the city’s after-hours pulse. Moving in and out of bars, clubs, and moments of soberness, romance, and exhaustion, the work pieces together a rhythm of ‘interpersonal sound’—an echo of lives half-remembered…
Sur Les Bords
*300 copies limited edition* Dominique Grimaud, a historical figure in French musical avant-garde, is known as a founding member of Camizole and Video Aventures, two groups that profoundly shaped the underground scene of the 1970s in France. Camizole, formed in 1970 in the wake of the May ’68 protests, stood out for its improvised performances and happenings, inspired by the Living Theatre and characterized by radical expressive freedom and a rejection of commercial musical conventions. The grou…
La canción del ciempiés / Quise ser búho
Ø+yn offers a compelling sonic journey with "La canción del ciempiés / Quise ser búho," blending intricate rhythms and evocative melodies. This release showcases innovative experimental sounds that captivate and inspire. A must-listen for fans of boundary-pushing music and rich auditory experiences.
Low clouds hang, this land is on fire
For his third new album release for Drag City, Tashi Dorji turns to the electric guitar. After the furious acoustic improvisations that drove the previous two—"Stateless" and "we will be wherever the fires are lit" — it’s easy to imagine an album of his electric guitar improvisations as an encompassingly incendiary essay. Especially when titled low clouds hang, this land is on fire. After all, this is a man capable of tearing up the place with the tactile musical violence of Bill Orcutt and Dere…
Longing
Longing is a new work by maverick multi-instrumentalist David Coulter with contributions from Julia Kent and Simon Fisher Turner. 'This piece was composed to accompany the Walks of Sadness I was taking every day during the Spring of 2020 as the World was spinning us in a very different and unexpected direction. I experienced terrible loss during this time and the sense of longing for my family and the isolation I was feeling became overwhelming. Longing is an exploration of slowness and stillnes…
A Guidance
*300 copies limited edition* "Full focus. Recorded in one day on the Element Studio in Gothenburg. For some reason, I had decided to play the grand piano through effects. Leif had brought only texts for some vocal action. Linus had a sound in mind. Daniel had chosen a cover image already. I remember it so well, that it all sort of just happened. We did not talk about what kind of energy or tension we were after. Sometimes it is just like the music is just there and you don’t have to do anything …
Pivot Rotations
A continuous choreography of tape loops, motion, and quiet friction live recorded at Meakusma Festival and other shows.
Porch Music
Porch Music is a double album uniting Mitchell Brown (Gasp), Paul McCarthy, Joe Potts (Airway), Alex Stevens, and John Wiese (Sissy Spacek) from the Los Angeles Free Music Society, documenting the group's studio session at McCarthy’s studio and their inaugural live set from The Box gallery. Crafted from melting cinematic sounds, this release captures the ensemble's exploratory spirit with artwork by Ace Farren Ford.