Una volta era Circle
Circle was a short lived group formed in mid seventies by Ruggero Tajè and Riccardo Sinigaglia, both pupils of Angelo Paccagnini and later composers and professors of electrinic music at Milan conservatory. Paccagnini was one of the great italian post weberian composers along with Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna and Giacomo Manzoni. Ruggero and Riccardo joined theit friend Roberto "Brillo" Gotta who played double bass in Gaetano Liguori's group and other jazz groups in the Milano area. "Brillo" Got…
Érosions programmées
*2025 stock* A composition by Kasper T. ToeplitzBertrand Gauguet : alto & baryton saxophones Kasper T. Toeplitz : real time electronicsTotal Time : 46:48+ booklet 8 pagesCover work by Marine PagèsLes Intermédiaires. 2019. Crayon, graphite aquarellable et encres sur papier, 64 x 46 cmGraphic design by Atelier Ter Bekke & Behage
Friends' Portraits
Original copy of Maurizio Marsico's 1982 second release as Monofonic Orchestra on Italian Records, one of the most, bizarre, original and enjoyable releases of Italian avant synth wave.
Synesthesia
Composed and performed by Ronan Courty, this piece for solo double bass slows down the layers of time by invoking an invented age-old music, somewhere between imaginary folklore and early music. Acoustically produced, the violent and obsessive friction of the bow on the string gradually reveals hovering layers of harmonics that extend the suspension of the moment while evoking a kind of electronically produced ambient sound; the illusion created by the emergence of sustained tones is particularl…
Love-Fidelity or Hiss Goodbye
"Love-Fidelity or Hiss Goodbye" is Dmytro Nikolaienko’s fourth solo album released on Muscut. Similar to his previous work, "Meta," this new album adheres to the same principles and limitations, focusing on acoustic and electro-acoustic instruments. However, the range of instruments used is more expansive this time. In addition to the metallophone and tape, it features samples from bass guitar, xylophone, bongos, saxophone, clarinet, and flute. These samples were borrowed and then tape-looped fr…
Strata
*20 copies limited edition* Melantónia presents its first album on the label, a concept LP produced in Matera and inspired by the rock sedimentation process in which the southern Italian city was built. Strata is an experimental electronic music composition combining electro-acoustic improvisation with cutting-edge sound design. This daring project brings together a collective of accomplished musicians and sound designers, who have crafted an immersive auditory experience, building upon the iter…
Strata
*300 copies limited edition* Ten years on, Joana Gama and Luís Fernandes show no signs of slowing down. Over the past decade, the duo has released five albums, composed soundtracks for film and television, and created pieces for performing arts. With “Strata”, they embark on a bold exploration of their musical identity, breaking new ground by seeking the primordial, the raw, and forging a deeper creative synergy. This evolution makes their music feel less like a conversation and more like a unif…
Glory Fades
*300 copies limited edition* Glory Fades is a song book written using a common collaborative musical language developed by Yair Elazar Glotman and Mats Erlandsson, building intimate musical spaces, primarily focused on acoustic instrumentation with electronic counterparts contributing light and shade. Throughout the eight songs on the record, each piece unfolds according to its own logic while simultaneously reflecting the overarching tonality of the song book as a whole. The music focuses on th…
Panoptikon
Panoptikon is a suite of vocal & electronic music composed by Maria W Horn for an installation in the disbanded Vita Duvan panopticon prison (The White Dove Prison) in Luleå, Sweden. From the opening of Vita Duvan in 1856 until its closure in 1979, prisoners were detained for theft, perjury, drunkenness, domestic violence, and vagrancy. More than fifty women were charged with miscarriage & abortion (which was labeled as child murder); however, they did not spend much time at the prison before fa…
Whistle from Above
Reinvigorated by months of shutdown woodshedding, David Grubbs developed new works for guitar, as well as a piano piece and an exceptionally eerie bit of musique concrète. Inspired by the deep dive into Gastr del Sol’s duo magic that facilitated last year’s compilation box, David opened his deeply personal solo pieces for engaging conversational gambits with modern masters Rhodri Davies, Andrea Belfi, Nikos Veliotis, Nate Wooley, and Cleek Schrey.
Turnar
Acclaimed Icelandic theremin musician Hekla returns with Turnar, her third album of devastatingly heavy, spectral soundscape-songwriting, entering a sublime paranormal plane of haunting dread. Now augmenting her virtuosic solo theremin work with cello, voice, and the sacred church organ of Icelandic master Kristján Hrannar, the evolution of Hekla’s unique magic summons new worlds with Turnar. The album was recorded partly in (and named after) a medieval castle tower in rural France, its ruinous …
Antigone
Big tip! Antigone is Eiko Ishibashi’s latest musical masterwork, one rife with chilling speculations for the future calling from inside her own head. Out March 28th, it marks Eiko’s first “traditional” songcraft album — that is, with lyrics and singing — since 2018’s acclaimed The Dream My Bones Dream, arriving on the heels of her celebrated soundtracks for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s films. Within Antigone, Eiko teases out images from a dystopia not unlike the one we’ve already got. Hers is suffused wi…
Bàardum Guùmuse (For Your Red Tongue)
*302 copies limited edition* "I have been lucky enough to release through Anomalous Records many of my favorite artists that were active in the 1980s such as Hands To, Total, Andrew Chalk, Agog, Ellen Fullman, The New Blockaders, and founder of P16.D4, Ralf Wehowsky. Now I am able to present a new composition by Giancarlo Toniutti, whose work I first heard on the compilation LP "Never Say When", which also introduced me to the music of the aforementioned Andrew Chalk and Total. His track there, …
Night
Tip! "I first played with Magda in 2012 in Zürich. Since then, we've had further concerts together in Germany, Australia and Switzerland. It would be fitting that this, our first release, would be recorded at the Werkstatt für Improvisierte Musik Zürich, the same room where we originally first played together thirteen years ago." - Jason Kahn
Jason Kahn // electronicsMagda Mayas // piano, objects
The Music of Butterfly
More than two decades since he blew minds with a suite of brilliant releases on Warp, Vincent Gallo returns to the world of music at long last in Butterfly, his duo with Harper Simon, with the project’s full-length debut, “The Music of Butterfly”. A gesture of gentle, DIY / bedroom left-field pop, falling within the rough territory for which Gallo became renowned during the late '90s and early 2000s, while interweaving fascinating flirtations with minimalism and experimentalism, it’s a truly ca…
Biscotti
*60 copies limited edition* "After our first concert together in Savignone in Feb 2020 just before the pandemic stopped everything , we had a second chance to play again thanks to Matteo Casari and Disorderdrama in Genova as the opening act for “75 Dollar Bill. The venue was packed full, the air was full of energy and anticipation and everyone listened with open ears and hearts. I tried a new tuning on my double bass to match the Bb tuning of Andy’s guitar, and I think things worked out well. I …
Ephemeral, Basal
Ignacio Cordoba, an improviser and composer from Madrid based in Copenhagen, and Agata Ciurkot, a Polish pianist, improviser and composer residing in Berlin, first met in the fall of 2017 at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen. Both navigating across jazz, free-improv, and contemporary composition, Agata was drawn to Ignacio's mastery of the sound produced by his machines and effects. In the summer of 2018, Ignacio travelled to Berlin to visit Agata, and they recorded “Ethereal, Basal”…
Rotations +
Rotations+ is a trio project of Sven-Ake Johansson with German turntablist Ignaz Schick and Austrian trumpeter Franz Hautzinger recorded live at the beloved Berlin experimental venue KM28 in September of 2023. The collective improvisations are instilled with a deep interest in color and timbre, and each track offers a fresh perspective. While Johansson toggles to accordion on the album’s final track, squeezing tender lines alongside Hautzinger’s moody brass and Schick’s scratch-pocked layer of w…
wræżlivøść
*200 copies limited edition* wræżlivøść involves intense emotions, messages, memories and experiences, blending contrasting styles beyond conventional genres. From post-romantic piano to radical electronic sounds, the final shape of the album was formed in the last two weeks of August, when Kamil Piotrowicz combined recordings made over the past year: from a noise-ambient session in New York, through home recordings in the village of Strzeń near Warsaw, to the recording of his graduation concert…
Incendies
"Incendies" is a piece that sings the jolts of a world on battery. Just as we watch a fire with fascination, its beauty and its destructive force at the same time, one can listen to analog signals enriched with saturations and give birth to the space created inside a stereophony. Or meditate on the carbon footprint of the same action. And for your information: the number of megafires will increase by 30% by 2050 (according to a report by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) which also d…