Limbo
Recorded at Harmful Sound Studio, outside & at home 2020-2023.Field recordings, Roland D50, found & stolen sounds for tape, sampler and Dictaphone.For Riitta-Liisa Danielsbacka.
Water
Coherent States is excited to announce the release of "Water", a new cassette by the media artist Anna Schimkat. Drawing upon her background in sculpture and music, Schimkat's practice investigates the intersection of sound and spatial perception through immersive installations and performances. Highlighting themes of fluidity and interconnectedness, her work examines natural, social, and cultural phenomena, often within site-specific contexts. "Water", conceived during her residency at Salzamt …
Circuits
A moment of first encounters, Circuits is the sound of four musicians (Savvas Metaxas, Evi Nakou, Giannis Arapis, Dimitris Tigkas)navigating an unfamiliar terrain in real-time, their individual languages dissolving into a shared improvisational space. Subtle drones, resonant feedback and textural gestures underpin the ensemble’s interplay. Circuits is the sum of raw, expressive utterances—melodic remnants shifting from pulse to friction, from bow, to frets, through fingertips. A single-take impr…
Los Bosquesinos (People of the Forests)
Collaborative field recordings with the Wampís in the Amazon led to four improvised performances of ancient animal songs, highlighting nature-culture unity and the urgent need to protect Indigenous territories from mining and deforestation.
Sen’nyū
**180g vinyl, 12″ sleeve with capped obi, 12pp booklet, gold-foil letterpress, offset printed, full colour on premium matt paper** In the final month of 2024, Meitei arrived in Beppu, a city long steeped in vapor, myth, and mineral memory. Invited to create onsen (hot spring) ambient music commemorating Beppu’s 100th anniversary, he immersed himself in the city’s geothermal psychogeography, where sound rises from the ground and time clings to mist. Known for his Lost Japan (Shitsu-nihon) works, …
Eikon
Two years following his work 'Monumento Fiume', Giovanni Lami returns to Kohlhaas with a new release, once again investigating the intricate relationships between memory, the sonic medium, and decay. 'Eikon' originates from a series of acoustic cello recordings, subsequently disassembled and transformed by Lami, resulting in a unique deconstructed and layered object, lying somewhere at the intersection of soundtrack, decomposed ambient and video game music, shaped through the use of samplers, a …
Planetarium
An aural exploration of the solar system by Sonologyst, using data from NASA's probes.
The Tree Of The Left Hand
* Edition of 250. LP housed in hand screen printed front and reverse sleeve * Arianne Churchman and Benedict Drew present The Tree Of The Left Hand on Folklore Tapes, a mystical journey through folk magic and theory fiction exploring tree folklore. Through harmonium, analogue synths and layered vocals, they create a dream world where everything is reversed, recorded at the haunted Suffolk bungalow of artist Mary Potter.
The Tree of the Left Hand begins at the Tree itself, where through mycelium …
Cyclical Tombeau
Zach Rowden presents Cyclical Tombeau on Second Sleep, a haunting exploration of repetitive structures and drone that transforms the double bass into an otherworldly sound-making device. Through prepared techniques and extended bowing, Rowden creates circular funeral dirges that blur the boundaries between acoustic instrument and spectral presence. Connecticut-based Rowden has established himself as one of the most innovative voices in experimental bass music, known for his work with Tongue Depr…
Ocarina Solo
Stefano Portello is an artist who works with music and ceramics. For years, Stefano has been shaping ceramics to give shape to small ocarinas that he builds and plays himself. Each ocarina is born as a unique piece, becoming a perfectly functioning musical instrument. Its shapes are essential and inspired by nature. The melodies he plays are simple, repetitive, almost hypnotic. They do not seek virtuosity, but evoke a sense of calm and a return to the essential. Stefano Portello's work is an inv…
Split
*50 copies limited edition* H.Flora is a moniker of Leipzig-based Felix Birke with an interest in modular synthesis, field works, biophonics & electro - acoustic exploration of musical and non-musical content from below and beyond the big global "Geräuschesammlung" . His practice includes aswell Live Improvisations & Performances with the sonic live noise-cooking unit Radial Taste Wokout. Sound Works have been released on different Labels around aswell on his own curated Micro- Label Frenetic Ma…
Hrafnamynd
Balmat 17 marks both a return and a new frontier. It is the second album on the label from Patricia Wolf, whose 2022 album See-Through is one of the most beloved in Balmat's catalog; it also marks the first time that Wolf has turned her hand to a film soundtrack. The results are every bit as magical as fans of the Portland, Oregon, composer's music might expect. Hrafnamynd--Icelandic for "raven film"--is a new feature-length documentary by experimental filmmaker Edward Pack Davee. Shot on a mix …
Tom’s House
In “Tom’s House”, a new audio-drama from artist and writer Jacob Dwyer, we listen to the meanderings of someone who’s returned home for the first time in 15 years. Walking up Haddon Drive he spots the house of an old friend, Tom. The front door is open, so he goes inside. Wandering around the empty Tudor cottage - making cups of tea, rearranging CD collections and zoning in on the minutiae of domestic space - he ruminates on ideas of emotional intimacy, friendship and grief.
"Hello? Hello?" echo…
Idylla
Idylla is the third of part of a trilogy of nature-based recordings that Polish composer Michał Jacaszek has recorded for Touch. The first, Catalogue des Arbres (Touch TO:94), was a collaboration with Kwartludium that celebrated the earlier inspiration of French composer Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue des Oiseaux (1958). Gardenia (Touch TO:117) was a response to a field recording workshop organised by Francisco Lopez in Limpopo province in South Africa, on the border with Botswana, the participant…
The Years After
*200 copies limited edition* "Our first album we made together, "The Days After", was initially released on Three Poplars in 2003. Then, afterwards in 2007 it was re-issued with a new version of the second track, "Flaxen", on Faraway Press.
After having found the earliest version of 'The Days After' in my archives last autumn, there was an excitement that grows with the beginning of something in the creative process and the sparkle of an idea that can never be recreated. Furthermore, there was …
Quilted lament
Under the right conditions, half-remembered dreams can meld seamlessly into hazy present moments. Time spent alone can be an emotional blank canvas, and an opportunity to deconstruct sense and feeling; a patchwork of snippets both rooted in memory and abstracted from reality. The title of ‘quilted lament’ perfectly captures the way Gretchen Korsmo and claire rousay’s overlapping missions come together to do just this. Worn polaroid melodies and snatched everyday noises seem overheard through win…
We Are Now Approaching Mo I Rana
*2025 stock. 150 copies limited edition* Florence Cats is a musician and visual artist who lives in Brussels. Her debut solo album, "Ys," was released as a cassette tape and digital download on the Belgian label Edições CN in December 2022 and received high praise. "We are now approaching Mo i Rana" is the next physical solo album release after "Ys."
This 20-track album consists mainly of the series pas, made up of field recordings that capture the soundscape of a forest walk in spring. The othe…
Mind Shadows
*250 copies limited edition* Canadian artist/composer Lance Austin Olsen, born in 1943, is active as an experimental music creator. In recent years, he has released "Coïncidence" (ftarri-964, 2022), a duo CD with French musician Bruno Duplant, on the Ftarri label, and the solo CD "The Pit" (hitorri-965, 2023), on the Hitorri label. Belgian improvisational musician and composer Pierre Gerard, born in 1966, energetically carries out musical creation in both solo work and collaborations with other …
Polymères 3
*50 copies limited edition* I selected short parts of "Polymères" (never published in print) because they reminded me of the inner world of David Lynch, to whom this soundtrack is dedicated.. From Polymères excerpts, originally composed between December 2011 and March 2012 for theater - with organ recordings (played by Jean-Luc Gulonnet), field recordings, and electronics Remixed in January 2025
Terraform - I Knud Viktors Lydspor
*300 copies limited edition* Terraform - I Knud Viktors Lydspor was a residency program in conjunction with the exhibition and cultural program Put Your Ears to the Ground - Sound Painter Knud Viktor on Samsø.Knud Viktor grew up in Pillemark on Samsø island. He later moved to the South of France where he became a pioneer in field recording and acoustic ecology. In 2023, the art council of Samsø organized an exhibition and event series with a focus on Viktor, whose works were presented at a numbe…