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*80 copies limited edition* "What wonders can be found within a single square meter? Inspired by George Haskell’s book The Forest Unseen, field recordist Tomáš Šenkyřík decided to limit himself to a meter of wetland near his house, only to discover that the area was so blessed in biodiversity that it might even be too big. A warbler comments from the weeds; a buzzard flies overhead. But beneath the surface of the water, the real wonders are found. The plants yield the subtle sounds of photosynth…
Ganz im Gegenteil
*2026 stock. 40 copies limited edition* "Ganz im Gegenteil – the title of Andy Klingensmith's new album – roughly translates to “quite the opposite”. This element of a slightly surprising shift in perspective is at the core of the record. Equally inspired by the pain and catastrophes caused by human ignorance and the vast natural beauty of the Death Valley (the lowest point in North America), Ganz im Gegenteil was composed and assembled using recordings which explore the tactile sounds of variou…
Vstal
*2026 stock. 60 copies limited edition* "Vstal is a collection of seven songs created in a dialogue between the experimentalist and composer Manja Ristić and the meticulous observer and field recorder Tomáš Šenkyřík. The album takes listeners on a journey across the European continent, from Ristić’s home on the Adriatic coast to the Czech-Austrian borderlands and the Moravian floodplain forests, which have long inspired Tomáš Šenkyřík’s sonic explorations. This broad scope, sensitively linking t…
Lemures Loci
*200 copies limited edition* The latest release from Makoto Oshiro and Takahiro Kawaguchi, who have been collaborating since around 2008. Side A, loco, reconsiders the nature of improvisation by weaving together sounds from self-made devices and (non-)instruments—air horns, electromagnetic relays, air compressors, washers—alongside environmental recordings captured outside the studio. Side B, loci, brings together field recordings captured by both artists, each starting to record at the exact sa…
For the Birds
Edition of 250. Deluxe edition + insert. For eighteen months, between 1984 and 1985, Patrick Lysaght played flute, strings, and percussion inside the Rainforest Birdhouse at the Rio Grande Zoo in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His audience and collaborators: 150 birds of 42 species.
The result is one of the earliest and most radical documents of interspecies improvisation. Predating the current wave of sound ecology by decades, For The Birds sits comfortably alongside the biophonic research of Bernie …
sedimentary flesh diary
*50 copies limited edition* The object of listening emerges from within the fragmentation. Wilful and artificial abstractions are merging with the world in which we perceive, from the outside, with regard to what those sensible materialities seek to listen within us. From a global perspective, this composition is the semantic complexity of a voyage. Micro-level of emotional transactions between the perceived and the perceptive; commentary of sonificated sieves of embedded experiences. To formula…
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 …
The Buzzer
The Limited Edition 12" vinyl emerges as the sonic counterpart to the photobook "The Buzzer", through a collaboration between producer Pedro Augusto and photographer Miguel Proença, centered on the reimagining of a sound archive. The compositions trace the geographic and psychological terrain of the photographs, weaving together field recordings, voices, and signals from a mysterious shortwave radio, long believed to be of Russian military origin, into a landscape of memory and uncertainty.
Pax Westphalica
*200 copies limited edition* While listening to old [Multer]-recordings for a potential 25 years anniversary edition we were highly impressed by the direct two track recording of this concert in 1999 due to both the concentrated and quiet audience and the setup of some of our songs, which were preversions for the following Neskt-10” release. All in all this concert is very intense, so instead of the anniversary edition we decided to release this concert; we hope you like it too…
The group starte…
No One Notices the Fly
On No One Notices the Fly, Zander Raymond turns marginal sounds into the main event, building fragile songs from scraps, glitches and room tone. Fourteen pieces drift between collage, improvisation and diaristic field recording, inviting the ear to lean closer until the smallest sonic twitch feels like a full emotional weather system.
Deux Adresses Anciennes
*50 copies limited edition* Insects chirp and rustle, birds are calling and chimes are being played, gently and patiently. A soft layer of lo-fi noise covers everything up like a thin and comfortable blanket. These are the nocturnal sounds that occupy the opening segment of ‘La Maison Forestière’ (The Forester's House). It seems the early dawning of the day, a moment of slowly waking up. The perfect moment for us, the listeners, to join this strangely familiar world of sound. Other percussive in…
Fata Morgana
Fata Morgana is a work in two parts; The first part, took place and was recorded in a a forest close to Niels Lyhne Løkkegaards childhood home in the western part of Jutland, and is a recording from 2021 of Løkkegaard playing the alto recorder.
The second part is thought as a replacing of the first part, and was made in 2024 by Michael Pisaro-Liu in California.
Babb's Bridge
Babb's Bridge by id m theft able is an experimental sound art album released in 2014. The album is inspired by a historic 19th-century bridge in Windham, Maine, and captures natural and environmental soundscapes with a unique approach. The music blends acoustic sound sources alongside id m theft able's signature use of unconventional instruments and field recordings, creating an immersive auditory experience reflecting the atmosphere and history connected to the bridge and surrounding nature. No…
Notes from the nave
*100 copies limited edition* Notes from the nave is the debut album by 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗦. - Michiel Dondeyne’s alter ego. It’s a musical correspondence from the refuge of an introvert: the ‘nave’ - or the middle part - of a church in Antwerp, Belgium. It’s there, where he established the improvisations on piano that sprouted this album. Loose ideas became the blueprint of extended collages, wherein piano, subtle loops and samples conflate with the cello of Clémence Clarysse and the tenor saxophone…
Meditations
Meditations is a set of 8 works based on the experience of meditation practice. Music made for both meditation and reflecting the realities of a life of daily practice. The breath, the quietness, the listening, the distracted dissonant and consonant thoughts that pass through. The texts throughout the pieces are fragments of the Buddhist Heart Sutra, the shortest and created from a mixture of traditions and sources, produced long after Buddha's death and meant to be chanted or sung as a ritual a…
Concert For Bats,Voices And Natural Sounds
At the end of the 1980s, Mariolina Zitta approached the world of natural sounds, studying musicology and developing a passion for speleology. Her encounter with Walter Maioli was fundamental, guiding and influencing her definitive research into sound archaeology and the primitive sources of musical acoustic phenomena. In these recordings Mariolina conducts a magical ritual as a cave priestess, celebrating the icons par excellence of the mysteries of the night: bats. The specific frequencies of t…
Everyday Infrasound In An Uncertain World
*300 copies limited edition* Even though you can’t hear it, infrasound fills the air. And because the atmosphere doesn’t absorb it like regular sound, infrasound comes from hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away. If humans could perceive frequencies lower than 20 Hz, then changing ocean currents, wildfires, turbines, receding glaciers, industrial HVACs, superstorms, and other geophysical and anthropogenic sources from across the planet would be part of the quotidian soundscape of our lives, w…
Vies Sylvestres
*200 copies limited edition* blickwinkel warmly welcomes Brussels-based composer Roxane Métayer to the label with her new album Vies Sylvestres, out on November 21 on vinyl and digital formats. The album was conceived and developed during performances and travels in Japan in 2023, where its sounds and ideas gradually came together.
Vies Sylvestres continues the direction of her previous release on Kraak, where Métayer built imagined narratives unfolding in forests or urban spaces inhabited by an…
Various Small Whistles and a Song
*200 copies limited edition* Various Small Whistles and a Song, the new album by Chicago-based artist Lia Kohl, incorporates notions of space, social relations, and humor. As the title suggests, the album responds to Ed Ruscha’s 1964 photographic artist book Various Small Fires and Milk, which Kohl sees as a wondrous celebration of ordinariness, one that reveals Ruscha’s trademark deadpan humor and depth. In the spirit of that publication, Kohl created her own series of sonic vignettes, with gue…
A Fine Rain Anoints The Canal Machinery
*50 copies limited edition* "Enough sun finally came up on the Wyoming prairie that I could relax my fears. I shut off the studio lights and watched a dune of snow reveal itself under the squat, black graphs of denuded trees. I drank old coffee. In a rare interview, Wendell Berry defended a concept of community as being a collection of all the living things that surround you. The farmer-poet was careful to clarify that this community wasn’t simply made up of those like you but must also include …