Experimental / Electroacoustic

*40 copies limited edition* "Midlife Crisis Ambient Moniker" is a Personal Greatest Hits. A Selected Ambient Works Volume 1. Lost Episodes. Archival Deep Dive. Bastard tracks with no home nor family, but with proximity to one another. Unreleased reco…

*2026 stock. 10 copies limited edition* Although Jackson and McLean spent many of their formative years playing in an array of dubious named and increasingly outsider rock groups, ‘Big Gamble’ is the first time they have ever made music purely as a d…

Wistful meta-folk from the American Midwest, self-published by US musician and occasional ANF customer Erik Kramer - totally floored by this.

*2026 stock* Recorded at Rimi/Imir Scenekunst, Stavanger. Recorded and Mixed by Gaute Granli. Mastered and cut by Frédéric Alstadt. Cover design and print by Drid Machine. foil by Bokbinderiet Erland. Financial Assistance: Stavanger kommune. THANK yo…

Gabriele Gasparotti’s second full length album, Tropismi, is a collection of mesmerizing compositions with masterful polyrhythmical textures and harmonies, strings, prepared piano, magnetic tape and field recordings. Gasparotti's unique style uses cl…

What happens over the lifecycle of a commodity? Where do its components come from? How are they extracted, processed and put together? Where does it travel? How is it used, thrown away, re-used, broken apart and reconstituted? These are the questions…

Michel Doneda on soprano saxophone, eRikm on samplers and scratches, Jean-Marc Montera on guitar and electronics, recorded in Metz and Lons-le-Saunier in May 1999. Liner notes by Thurston Moore.

UK multi-reed master Evan Parker brings an all-star electroacoustic septet to the 2014 Victoriaville Festival for the massive and wonderfully detailed two part composition "Seven", performed with Peter Evans, Okkyung Lee, George Lewis, Ikue Mori, Sam…

Pierre-Luc Senécal's Growlers Choir, fourteen metal vocalists, live at FIMAV in May 2021 with poet Fortner Anderson: growls and throat-singing-like improvisation over electric guitar tapes, between metal, noise and drone.

Tip! Spartiti Spariti is a composition in which diverse practices and experiences converge and overlap: the processing of ‘concrete’ sounds, magnetic-tape collage, field recording and the manipulation of acoustic instruments. At its core lies a profo…

John Clyde-Evans played in that formidable band called Hood in the early 90s. In the years that followed, he was one of the most adventurous figures in the incredibly diverse British underground scene. His productions from that era ranged from blissf…

Renowned saxophonist, woodwind player, bandleader and composer Tamar Osborn stands at the heart of the UK’s forward-thinking music movement. A multi-instrumentalist whose genre-slipping creativity has made her the go-to voice for artists within the n…

Oruma is a trio formed by Ola Rzepka (drums, zither, percussion), Artur Rumiński (electric guitar) and Mat Barski (electric guitar). At its foundation is the musical dialogue previously developed by Rumiński and Barski as a guitar duo and documented …

Jessica Roch is a London based, award winning composer, multi instrumentalist, sound designer, and improviser. Her solo work moves fluidly across genres, weaving ambient and electronic textures with elements of minimalism, jazz, folk, and experimenta…

"In the fall of 2016, after many years away from making music, I started Tyresta as a creative outlet to help process everything I was going through at the time. It took me a few years to find my voice as an artist, but I feel like the project truly …

Is art artificial, is it a rhythm, or is it an algorithm—this is the question Ulf Herold poses, and the answer sounds rather affirmative: the two are not necessarily to be understood as opposites, but as dynamic counter-poles—this becomes evident in …

*250 copies limited edition* Venus is a new LP by Swedish group Organ of Corti and marks their fifth release on Dead Mind Records. For the occasion, Chinese-American vocalist and musician Audrey Chen enters the magnetic world of Mattias Gustafsson, D…

*100 copies limited edition* Corpse Magnetism is a collaborative project between Rudolf Eb.er and Johnny van de Koolwijk. Rooted in ritualistic sound practices and primitive outsider aesthetics, the duo creates immersive pieces built from organic dro…

Eat The Rich is an eclectic intersection of two serial collaborators: Giffoni (No Fun Fest / No Fun Productions) continues to explore new dimensions in sound, primarily using modular / synths (with recent full lengths on Ideologic Organ and Room40), …

Silvia Bolognesi - Upright Bass, Voice, Poetry, PercussionDudú Kouate - Percussion, Voice, Ngoni, KalimbaGriffin Rodriguez - Electronics, Voice Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Griffin RodriguezRecorded December 14-16, 2021 at Shape Shoppe Paradiso -…

*300 copies limited edition* Reliques de Roses, musical tandem formed by two household names of the European underground: Laure Boer (Edition d’Art, Arbore...) and Tom Val (Orion Music Workshop, HWYUIOD...). Bridging the Berlin-Paris experimental con…

*200 copies limited edition* In February 2019, multi-instrumentalists Maurizio Abate and Luca Venitucci crossed musical paths as part of an artist residency at Standards in Milan. Over those few days, their respective instruments engaged in a dialogu…

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…

*300 copies limited edition* In 2023, Kraków-based composer Martyna Basta and Los Angeles-based sound artist claire rousay were invited to Poland by Unsound for a short residency, where they spent a few days trading ideas and concepts, and brainstorm…

Kassel Jaeger (aka François J. Bonnet) returns to Shelter Press after Swamps / Things, Shifted in Dreams, and the recent reissue of the classic Zauberberg, co-composed with Akira Rabelais and Stephan Mathieu. With this major new album, entitled Sub R…

Big tip! Forty years of cassette releases, pressed for the first time on vinyl. First of two instalments exploring the previously unreleased sonic archives of one of Poland’s most enigmatic living artists - with its first volume focused on his deep l…

*100 copies limited edition* A surprise archival LP collecting scattered recordings from across Juho Toivonen’s recent work. Following Kuun Sininen Rinki, Sekalaisia Äänityksiä brings together pieces previously released on small-run compilations, rar…

Big Tip! These three previously unreleased tracks reflect the cultural influences of a very young Riccardo Sinigaglia. In particular, the Anti-psychiatry movement founded by Ronald David Laing, author of the influential books The Politics of Experien…

A spontaneous musical transmission exploring healing, unity, laughter, and limitless possibility.

Tip! Vincent Grimaldi’s "Amorce De Champ" is a sonic exploration of studio and field recording. Driven by a particular focus on the technical modalities of sound recording and reproduction, the work delves into recurring motifs across various electro…

Ylang Ylang’s Will to Love suggests both a challenge and a determination simultaneously. What does it actually take to love? Amidst the inherent contradictions of the self and the world around us, how do we come back to the foundation of love? The so…

*200 copies limited release* After Le jardin perdu (2023) and Depuis les cimes (2025), Antoine Bellanger takes another new turn with La flûte, an album that continues along his singular path between song, poetry, illustration, and documentary storyte…

Transversales is very glad to announce the release of Mémoire Magnétique Vol. 2 spanning 1966-1993, revelatory collection of short and secret music by electronic music pioneer Bernard Parmegiani. Since the late '50s, Bernard Parmegiani, a major figur…

*50 copies limited edition* 1. The Habu (2020). The Habu is a pit viper endemic to the Ryukyu Islands. The violence done to these islands reverberates through. The Habu is venomous, mostly nocturnal. Spectral. From the dense vegetation it morphs into…

*300 copies limited edition* Tara Cunningham’s guitar glitch miniatures draw patterns in negative space on new mini-album Warm Ground. Operating predominantly within improvisational and experimental music, guitarist Tara Cunningham has developed a di…

*300 copies limited edition* Spring Back, Ball Forward is the Soda Gong debut from Jung dj, nom de plume of shapeshifting multi-instrumentalist Randy Riback. Following a series of uniformly great self-releases and cassettes on the dearly missed Lille…

DINGGGDONGGGDINGGGzzzzzzz!!!!!!! In the newest record by the iconoclastic Brooklyn-born composer Charlemagne Palestine (b. 1947), find two mesmerizing works for carillon, the keyboard-controlled bell tower derived in the 16th century. On side A, a ne…

Animal Sociale is three people’s exploration into the beauty of chaos and the chaos of beauty. It pulls out pieces of time, shuffles them, assembles them anew. Lyricality bordering on the baroque mingles with dionysian iconoclasm of a level truly sca…

Pierre Bastien’s "Tools" pays tribute to the Meccano screwdriver, the origin of his mechanical instruments. Using self-made devices, Bastien explores sound’s raw materiality, embracing chance and discovery, and inviting listeners to experience new mu…

Ghédalia Tazartès left us in February 2021 when we had just finalized the editing and the cover art of his new album with him. Unfortunately he will never see the finished object. This record is therefore particularly important for us. He opened his …