Almost Waking
"Mabe Fratti is a Guatemalan cellist, vocalist, and composer based in Mexico City, celebrated for her experimental yet deeply melodic work. Blending cello, voice, synthesizers, and electroacoustic textures, she builds songs that move between improvisation, ambient soundscapes, and off-kilter pop forms. Emerging from Mexico City's improvisational and experimental scene, she has become a key voice in contemporary avant-pop. Bill Orcutt is an American guitarist and composer known for his raw, highl…
Live at Ritual Botanica
"Messrs. Corsano and Dorji are both familiar names in the Feeding Tube discography. Chris has played drums on eight FTR LPs (and recorded two other), and Tashi has played guitar on six (details upon request if you are lazy.) But this is the first time they have appeared on vinyl as a duo, and we are damn proud to have them. Over the past years Chris has recorded with a lot of the era's best guitarists -- Bill Nace, Ben Chasny, Thurston Moore, Nels Cline, David Vanzan, Bill Orcutt, Rick Bishop, G…
È Ora Di Farlo
*300 copies limited edition* Ansgar Wilken and Chris Dreier are Berlin-based visual artists as well as seasoned practitioners in many, often improvised, contexts of experimental music. Dreier started her experimental sound practice in the 1980s as a member of the legendary collective Die Tödliche Doris. Ansgar Wilken started his career out of Bremen, where he was a member of the post-rock band Ilse Lau and started his own label Happy Zloty, which is still active today. This album is the second d…
Tela
*2026 stock. 60 copies limited edition* Tela is the full-length debut of Stockholm-based composer Simon Hansson and was recorded in April 2024. Across its four movements, waves of pulsating feedback are woven into a dense sonic fabric. The title 'Tela' refers to plain weave, or simply cloth, reflecting the intricate processes of over-under interlay that structure the material. Recursive patterns and constant iteration unfold at a glacial pace, continuing Hansson's exploration that defines his si…
Flicker, Scratch & Ivory
*2026 stock. 350 copies limited edition*
John Tilbury - Piano
Keith Rowe - Guitar, Electronics
Kjell Bjørgeengen - Video, Electronics
Recorded by Shaun CrookCafe Oto, London, UK26 March 2018
Mixed & Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Artwork by Kjell Bjørgeengen and Salvatore Panatteri
Leaves Never Fall In Vain
*2026 stock. 350 copies limited edition* The recording features the poem “Democracy Destruct” by David Henderson, produced by Kjell Bjørgeengen at Harmolodic Studios, New York in 2003. The title leaves never fall in vain is taken from the Japanese poet Chori (1739-1778).
Performed and recorded at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, 31 October 2023.
Kjell Bjørgeengen – Dave Jones synthesizer and Flood CoilInga Margrete Aas - Double bassAimée Theriot - Electric celloIngar Zach - Vibrating membraneDavid Hender…
Un Théâtre aux yeux clos / A Theater with closed eyes
French artist The Dead Mauriacs (Olivier Prieur) has been releasing many works based on a collage style. This album is the second release on zappak. "Un Théâtre aux yeux clos / A Theater with closed eyes" is based on a quite minimal collage style. There are some spaces like silence, and subtle electro-acoustic sounds are placed quite carefully. They sometimes whisper and other times roar. In between 45 minutes the curtain falls and rises, you might see a play that you have never experienced befo…
Continuum
Late one afternoon, my son and I took a short walk to Prospect Park, Brooklyn, to sit together at Monuments to Motherhood, the elegant looping bronze sculpture by Molly Gochman. At the sculpture, we listened and made a series of recordings of small string and reed instruments. I wanted the ambient sounds of the environment to filter into the recordings so they wouldn’t have the sterile sound of a studio, but rather the warm ambience of the site. I crafted these recordings into a series of loops,…
Blue Hour
Blue Hour is the most recent release from Friday Night Plans, recently signed by Modern Obscure Music. The project marks FNP's shift from their ‘pop’ roots towards a more experimental and ambient sound. Friday Night Plans is pioneered by singer/songwriter Masumi who has collaborated on this project with acclaimed Japanese producer Ena. Together, they have created a collection of songs that represents the quiet introspection and emotions of the AM hours, using improvisation during the production …
Krope
Krope is a six-part conceptual album by Belarusian sound artist and producer Anton Anishchanka. Rooted in archival folk songs recorded between the 1960s and 2000s, it transforms fragile voices of the past into living, cinematic sound worlds. Created in collaboration with ethnographer Iryna Vasilyeva, the album weaves Belarusian traditional music with field recordings, acoustic instruments, and analog synthesizers — an immersive journey where memory, landscape, and resilience converge.
Flowing as…
Fundus
*2026 repress. 300 copies limited edition* After serving for years as a sought-after harpist in various constellations and genres, Laura De Jongh now shares with us an intimate insight of what sounds like the Third Space of her daily, rooted life as a music teacher and mother of two offsprings, where she composes meandering miniatures free of ego, validation and urge.
With references to New Age, ambient and the proximity of field recordings, Laura De Jongh teaches us that music doesn't need to g…
Paradoxal Innovations
Philatélie proudly unveils Paradoxal Innovations, the groundbreaking new double cassette release by visionary artist Uton, the enigmatic Finnish producer known for his immersive sonic exploration.
Kujodada
This is the mental junkyard of evaporating dreams, disintegrating memories and fading recollections. Industrial Gagaku.
Instruments of Forgetting and the Singing Bone
This project is a dynamic exploration of songwriting from an instrumentalist’s perspective. Rather than following a fixed path, it fluctuates—drifting between the sonic possibilities of instrumental textures, timbral exploration, and sound processing. These elements give rise to evolving patterns: from abstract soundscapes to clear, repetitive melodies and canons. The music weaves together experimental, improvised, contemporary influences mixing with avant- pop creating a collage of shifting moo…
Starving Of Lesser Desires
Satatuhatta is extremely proud to present the debut album 'Starving of Lesser Desires' by a new Finnish project, Silos. The album draws from arcane themes, moving through the fragmentation of the mind and its gradual healing through esoteric awakening. The material combines digital and analog acoustic sources, stripped of their original context and reshaped into something unrecognizable, resulting in a unique sound that feels both intimate and alien at the same time, without losing its sense of …
Winter Spawning
Drones, hums and overheard sounds, bladders and strange vibrations, air currents, roars and ticking, friction and the thudding of a drum-beating fish, the wail of a dervish’s mixer, the manic circling of a dreamt-of tone by sonic lathe-workers…
AP/RO
*2026 stock*
Anton Ponomarev: saxophone, electronicsRyoko Ono: saxophone, mixing, mastering
This record was originally released by Fort Evil Fruit (Ireland), July 15, 2022.
Albumin
Tip! Jim O'Rourke and Jos Smolders teamed up again after their first collaboration, Additive Inverse from 2021. Over a period of three years, both artists worked in sessions of a day, each in their own studio.The result is sometimes like a warm cloud of sounds, suddenly breaking up into a rhythmic, irregular pattern, after which it dives into introverted mindsets. The music is in constant flux. The project followed the same workflow, but this time Jim took the lead and kicked off with a salvo of…
Rejoining
Before history will be made by machines, British musician Thomas Bush sends a new humane record. DIY chamber music, for the Kashual, no Plastik. Ten curious arrangements, looking for new horizons, those hiding behind the previous. They are short, they are epic. A great beautiful mess, in which Thomas Bush occasionally sings and speaks in veiled pitch. On hallucinated rhythms. Along the guitar, that’s everywhere. As chord. As melody. As sound. As a sliding desert stoner. Droning, zoning. Keeping …