Retinal Rivalry
Retinal Rivalry is the soundtrack to Cyprien Gaillard’s new stereoscopic film, Retinal Rivalry (2024). It is an entrancing journey through Germany’s urban landscape and its layers of historical and social significance. Building on his previous explor…
Understrøm
kÖök continues their journey into the unknown and invites vocalist Sarah Camille and folk musician, Harding fiddler and harpist Tuva Færden into their musical universe. Over a few days in the studio, the four musicians have played and experimented wi…
Almadies
*50 copies limited edition* Franz Kirmann returns to Bytes for his eighth solo album, available exclusively on Bandcamp from October 29 on cassette and download (released on all platforms on November 5). The “Almadies” are long wooden boats used by S…
Bug Poems
*200 copies limited edition* FOQL, aka Justyna Banaszczyk, returns to Pointless Geometry with a new album after 10 years. It was her record that opened the label’s catalog, and now, symbolically, we close a decade and open a new one with her release.…
A thousand tiny mutinies live
Bassist and composer Joseph Franklin returns to NM for a wildstyle heat exchange, actioned live in collaboration with synthesist, composer and improviser Ben Carey. Modestly, this one does what it says on the box, however ‘a thousand tiny mutinies li…
Aura
Sound images collected in abstract tales: this is perhaps the aspect that emerges from the explorations of “Aura”, a research in which the continuous recoding of signs is drawn at the same time from the temptation of unlimited semiosis and the struct…
A/Version
P'derrigerreo is a project by G Patrick Foley and Pierre Plantevin, who live in the United States. Although they look mysterious because they have released few works, they create very interesting sound collages with their unique sense. This work has …
Culmus
Culmus (Latin for "stalk") marks the latest chapter in an ongoing collaboration that began in September 2023 and continues to evolve. As co-inhabitants of a shared ecological and mental space, Franki Wals and Chang Deng-yao navigate a sonic continuum…
Fractured Landscape Vessels
Fractured Landscape Vessels is a collection of deconstructed sonic ceramics. Each of the four pieces is a vessel containing interconnected vignettes of space and place. Inspired by local Cornish landscapes and the drift and drag of everyday life, the…
Glaciers
Thorsten Soltau is a Germany-based artist who has been working since 2009. Until now his works were released on labels focusing on noise/soundscape such as Auf Abwegen, Gerauschmanufaktur, Chondritic Sound, Sentimental Productions, and so on. Glacier…
Rumanikos, Kokin, Mixolydian, Kourd Atar, Pigmy, Slendro
In a sonic dialogue that balances delicacy and depth, Clinton Green and Barnaby Oliver explore the shifting textures of acoustics and resonance. Employing bowed aluminum bowls, strings, and a grand piano, their work unfolds in patient layers that pro…
Blindfold test
Movement, unpredictability and found sound take center stage as Clinton Green and Ernie Althoff bring together turntable constructions and hand-built kinetic instruments. Their joint work finds a magnetic middle ground between gentle percussive chaos…
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…
The Yellow Box
As trans-Atlantic alchemists pulling from a shared dialectic that somehow encompassed both postmodern deconstructionist tendencies and a delightfully subversive sense of poptimism, it’s easy to see how David Cunningham and Peter Gordon immediately hi…
Stable Processes with Slow Ornaments
Theo Alexander’s Stable Processes with Slow Ornaments, released by Flung Records in 2025, is a 36-minute single-movement work for viola, bass clarinet, and eight tape players. The composition fuses acoustic and electronic textures, unspooling as a pa…
Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?
Refracting beatifically through realities and mirages flickering along his aural parade route, Animal Collective’s Geologist rides the high country on a hurdy gurdy of many colours. Via the mystery science of musical engagement, we take his sonic kal…
Microphonies 21
Microphonies 21 by Marc Billon is a long-form electroacoustic exploration centered on the resonances of a tam-gong. Blurring the line between acoustic gesture and electronic transformation, the work unfolds as a slow, tactile meditation on vibration,…
Unterhaltungen mit Larven und Überresten
Unterhaltungen mit Larven und Überresten by Läuten der Seele (Christian Schoppik) unfolds as a haunting electroacoustic collage. Looping fragments from vintage “Heimatfilme,” field recordings, and diverse instruments evoke a surreal, dream-prone nost…
Dragon's Return
LP with obi strip, incl. booklet. Australian composer Oren Ambarchi and Norwegian guitarist Fredrik Rasten present Dragon's Return, a compelling new score for Eduard Grecner's 1967 Slovak cult film of the same name. Released via Viernulvier Records, …
Che mi Guardi Attraverso Una Fiamma
Tip! A dream within a dream - Innocent and whimsical song-craft from a vibrant pocket of the contemporary Italian underground via Naples-born Lucia Sole aka La Festa Delle Rane. New split release between ANF and Tokyo friends Conatala.
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