Experimental / Guitar

Black Truffle's 150th release: Graham Lambkin and Emmett Kelly fold finger-picked British folk, psych jams and loops of natural sound into a tape-collaged record, with Jim White on drums for one track.

Somewhere in the Wind is the third record that Loren Connors and I have made together. Of the three, it’s the first that consists exclusively of electric guitar duos and it’s the first that was recorded live. To me it feels very much like a live record; this music happened in crowded rooms in Brooklyn on two dates in 2025 and there’s an urgency to connect with others and a pleasure in doing so that can be heard on both of these tracks. On the first of our duo records (Arborvitae, 2003) I primari…

Solo double LP by Guilhem Lacroux of Tanz Mein Herz for Gretsch Duo Jet and Korg Volca: fifteen pieces on four named sides, from plucked figures and fast repeated strumming to bell-like tones and organ-like chords. 300 copies, black vinyl.

Guitar solos by Shin'ichi Isohata and six duets with Otomo Yoshihide, electric and acoustic, 24 tracks recorded in Osaka in early 2013. Jigen Production.

Master of myriad styles, Sir Rick Bishop takes in baroque, flamenco, surf, and harder to place fusions of phantasmagoric sound design, Gaelic folk and Indian Raga, and more lysergic expression in this bounty of a new album. Five years after Tangier Sessions, Sir Richard Bishop, we presume, is back from his travels around the world. With Oneiric Formulary, he’s dug deeper into his bag of extra-musical gestures from the eternal and unknowable, along with a few sounds we might recognize, all transm…

Boris and Michio Kurihara reunited at Tokyo's Fever club on 29 December 2018, playing nearly all of Rainbow plus Boris pieces, Kurihara solo songs and covers. Live sound by Soichiro Nakamura of White Heaven, on 2LP in a gatefold sleeve.

Boris and Michio Kurihara of Ghost and White Heaven first joined forces on Rainbow in 2006. Drag City now issues it on vinyl for its 20th anniversary: heavy psych, droning jams and short pop songs, in a tip-on sleeve with a vellum lyric insert.

*2026 stock. 25 copies limited edition. The cassette features interchangeable artwork* Featuring amplified sonic drones, atmospheric qualities and scraping textures. The theme of this record is centred around 'Abrading' - to scrape or wear away by friction or erosion, using the headstock of an amplified guitar to create sounds by using the walls and floor of the rehearsal room. 'Internal Waves' and 'Above The Fog' are home recordings made up from two layered amplified guitars played with a bow. …

Italian Surf Academy, led by guitarist Marco Cappelli, reworks the 1968 film soundtrack of Barbarella by Bob Crewe and Charles Fox, recorded in Paris in 2013, post-produced by JD Foster and mastered by Brian Brandt and Paul Howells.

David Grubbs' commissioned music for Josiah McElheny's singing paintings, wall works with hand-blown glass discs that resonate sound: one 30-minute piece for lap steel, electric guitar and Serge synthesizer, built on microtonal slide.

Uncorking the well of wit, whimsy and cool, refined fury that’s fueled his path around this world, Mayo Thompson pours out a new round: a first ever album of solo guitar music, not to mention a first solo album in almost forever, Quiet Days in Cliché. With The Red Krayola, Mayo made three albums of pop music in the late 1960s, taking the idea of rock ‘n roll songs farther into the hoped-for realms of possibility than 98% of their psychedelic brethren before or since. Following the demise of the …

*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, rare physical editions and limited formats to another limited release presented by New Zealand imprint What Lies Beneath.  Side A includes much loved “Peura”, originally released on the Kashual Plastik’s A Mistake By Mistakes compilation, “Kanava 5” fro…

*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 discrete sonic language that reveals the full textural and timbral range of her instrument. Marking a new chapter for Cunningham that builds on her solo debut, Almost – Not Exactly, released on Non Classical in 2025, Warm Ground unfolds across seven co…

Late-90s guitar pieces by Loren Connors, most on vinyl for the first time: the unrealized 1996 double 7" Battle of Clontarf, The Five Points EP, the Star of Bethlehem suite and Gershwin's I Love You, Porgy. 180g LP, edition of 300.

*300 copies limited edition* Kitsune No Yomeiri, which translates to the fox’s wedding, is an endearing expression used to describe sunshowers. Dawson returned home from a recent tour of Japan with a collection of field recordings documenting the spring rain he encountered throughout his travels. These curious sounds, stretching from peaceful shrines to clattering city streets, underpin the material. Dawson also credits the wonderful folks he met on that tour with profoundly shaping the directio…

Body/Head's Bill Nace on taishogoto and Purling Hiss' Mike Polizze on guitar in their first duo set, caught on a phone at Philadelphia's Pageant Soloveev in May 2025: twenty-three minutes of amplified free string playing on a one-sided LP.

Remember hearing music while dreaming, fully confident that you’ll be able to reconstruct it once awake? Music that, as it turns out, you were the sole witness. In retrospect, why ruin the experience by something so vulgar as hearing it a second time, much less having to share it? We don’t mean to alarm you, but David Grubbs and Liam Keenan have returned from the dark side of the pillow bearing Your Music Encountered in a Dream.

*2026 stock* Split The Sky, Sheets Dipped In Chrome is a new album from Chaz Prymek & Seth Andrew Davis. This recording was a long time coming, with both Prymek & Davis in discussion for a long time about when and how to collaborate after connecting online. The duo first performed together in Kansas City at Farewell in December 2022 and from there developed a sound together. The music heard here varies from sparse introspection, energetic catharsis, and the exploration of a new landscape created…

Circling guitar lines; the rise of fall of delicate bass; deep, breathy horns: sonic elements that exist in a state of slow, perpetual motion, like ideas sprouting from some kind of cognitive compost. With wonder and charm, G. S. Schray's new solo album, Whispered Something Good, evokes a realm of new growth while offering a fitting soundtrack for its exploration, as if tailor made for both the daydreamer and silly adventurer. We start in the darkness of "Unlit Center" with elliptical phrases of…

German guitarist Olaf Rupp combines elements of traditional flamenco (rasgueados, arpeggios, picados) with the fractured cadences of Derek Bailey, fusing them together with a blast-furnace tone recalling John Lee Hooker's most blown-out extremes. And yet, despite decades of concerts and releases on FMP and Emanem, often with marquee-grabbing collaborators like John Zorn, Peter Brötzmann, Butch Morris, Paul Lovens and Lol Coxhill, Rupp's music is largely unknown outside of European free improvisa…

*100 copies limited edition* Belgian musician and filmmaker Jef Mertens has been an active force in the experimental music and film scene for nearly two decades. Known for his documentaries on artists like Sonic Youth and Borbetomagus, as well as his work with the now-defunct Dadaist Tapes label, Mertens continues to push the boundaries of sound exploration. His previous solo works include NO MATHEMATICS, released on KRAAK/Feeding Tube Records.With Orchid Alto, Mertens dedicates himself to the t…

On Solos II, Anton Toorell turns two simultaneously played guitars into a shimmering architecture of tone, tension and air. Recorded in an Italian wine cellar, its three extended pieces use altered tunings, open strings and resonant decay to create lucid, microtonal currents - rigorous in design, but touched with the ease of unhurried improvisation.

Bill Orcutt built The Four Louies by dropping Steve Reich's Four Organs onto "Louie Louie" - two of the most stubborn riffs in American music, high minimalism and dumb garage, forced into the same frame. This is what happened when he took it off the record and into a room. At Roulette last March the four organs became six, the rock trio swelled into a small army, and the plunderphonic stiffness of the studio version simply burned off. Six organists, twin drummers, William Winant on maracas, Chri…

Eight years since his last solo electric guitar record. Bill Orcutt returns to what made his playing essential: slashing chords, frenzied double-picking, angular runs that climb and ricochet. Recorded live at Cafe OTO. No computer loops. No gentle melodic glow. Just Orcutt and his four-string Fender through a tattered Twin Reverb.

Normal Street is another salvo in ESP-Disk's drive to revive weird rock! Writer/musician/film maker Chris Shields says: "Near the DIY venue, cooperative, and punk/freak haven, The Firehouse, in Worcester, Mass, there's a street ironically named 'Normal St.' I was lucky enough to be playing a gig with Painted Faces there a few years back. Driving up the steep, labyrinthine roads we spotted the green sign, had a laugh owing to some solid riffing by all present, and then, moved on. The gig was good…

*Dubbed on new ferro tapes* Wonderful collaboration between guitar-duo Yngel and author Rasmus Daugbjerg. A chest filled with stories, sounds and songs. About trolls, kings, moons and wolves. About care and disgust, loss and friendship.

* Edition of 250 *"These two sides were recorded at home in Stockholm in April last year, and are part of a series of recordings that I was making around that time that I called dream sequences for a number of reasons, but partly because they mixed attempts at unconscious playing of music with intentional recordings of external sounds e.g. drilling through walls, street noise, that were affecting my consciousness at the time of recording. Also I like dreams but not so much talking about them." -…

*100 copies limited edition* Sculptural, dreamlike and intimately detailed, Precious Moments is the fourth album by singer and composer Oliver Mann - this time in collaboration with acclaimed Bologna electro-acoustic composer and guitarist Stefano Pilia. A tender remembrance across nine short tracks exploring the affinity and thrills of friendship in a time when we all have internalised distance, the album features guests Mick Turner (Dirty Three / Mess Esque / Cat Power) and a scene stealing ca…

That Wolf At The Door is a collaborative 2 CD between Henry Kaiser (Califonia, USA; guitar) and P.ST (Prague, Czechia; electronics). The first CD That Wolf At The Door is a solo baritone guitar disc that pays a heartfelt tribute to the late science fiction author Gene Wolfe (May 7, 1931 - April 14, 2019). The album is a testament to the decades-long friendship and mutual appreciation between Wolfe and Kaiser, two creative minds who shared a passion for pushing the boundaries of their respective …

This is the 3rd record of Ambienti Coassiali on ADN, this time officially shared with Riccardo Sinigaglia. Riccardo was already active on all tracks of "Spare Rooms" but here he is mentioned in the main titles. Side A consists of two long tracks and starts with "Guitambient 1" where a subtle treated guitar slowly crawls accompanied by small percussions, flutes and noises. Ten minutes wrapped in a calm climate evocating an ethnic eastern feeling. "Guitambient 2" proposes an intense interchange be…

*100 copies limited edition* Maurizio Abate is an Italian guitarist who has been active since the early 2000s, known for his experimental and instinctive approach to music. His sonic exploration spans electroacoustic improvisation, ambient music, and psychedelic experimentation, with a particular fondness for stringed instruments. Since 2006, he has released numerous albums both as a solo artist and in collaborative projects, working with artists such as Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mother Temple), Joh…

Guitarist Ava Mendoza returns with a powerful and emotionally stirring live album — half solo electric guitar, and half duos with legendary drummer Hamid Drake. Featuring radically transformed versions of songs from her acclaimed albums The Circular Train and New Spells, as well as brand-new pieces, this is a thrilling document of Mendoza at her best — onstage in front of an audience.

From out of the dark, the crackle of feed back birdsong signals a return to the land of sound environments exclusive to the music of Rafael Toral. A year and a half after his epochal electric guitar album, Spectral Evolution, Traveling Light finds him sharpening his focus, moving boldly from abstract forms to concrete compositions in the form of a set of jazz standards. Based on Toral’s discography, this may seem an unlikely endeavor, but happily, Traveling Light transpires to be one of the majo…

Mamer first became known as a dombra virtuoso and a modern master of Kazakh folk music. Over the years, he has evolved into a prolific and versatile artist, working across the boundaries of both tranditional and contemporary music. Mamer leads seven band projects: IZ, Bande, Mekrop, TAT, Mask, 51-Rayon, and Kunakar. He has released over 30 records, presenting a diversity of distinct styles including folk, ambient, industrial, noise, improvisation, and drone music.  “Every Mamer is brand new”. On…

Bill Orcutt is back with what might be the most beautiful record in his 21st-century guitar quartet series. Music in Continuous Motion (Palilalia, LP/CD) pointedly steps away from the cut-and-paste constructivism of Music for Four Guitars into a sonic stratum that's - as Tom Carter writes - "yearningly melodic, resolutely human, and built for performance." Four guitars, twelve tracks, most hovering around two-and-a-half minutes each. No waste. No fat. Pure music. Where Music for Four Guitars ope…

*40 copies limited edition* Poems without Words brings together fourteen improvised guitar solos by Xu Cheng, recorded over twelve years. Xu Cheng first emerged in the Shanghai underground in the early 2000s, as an early member of the harsh noise project Torturing Nurse. He went on to become a versatile sound artist working across a wide-ranging array of influences, from Fluxus event scores to Buddhist sutras. The project originated in Xu Cheng’s attempt to restore a broken instrument he had pic…

Renowned composer and guitarist Oren Ambarchi releases Long Story Short, a captivating solo guitar album that distills his signature sonic explorations into intimate, hypnotic compositions. Recorded on December 9, 2024, by Daniel Bengston at Studio Rymden in Stockholm, and mixed in February 2025 by Joe Talia and Ambarchi at Good Mixture in Melbourne, the album features two evocative tracks: "Apricot/Paper Cut" (4:02) and "And So Say All Of Us" (4:12).  Ambarchi's mastery shines through in these …

*100 copies limited edition* ‘Einde Were’ is the debut solo album by guitarist Nicolas Van Belle, recorded in late 2024 at Zinnema in Brussels. It will be released as KR007 on Klankhaven Records on vinyl, accompanied by a booklet of texts. At its core a mourning record, the central theme of this album is as old as time itself: the existential crisis that follows a breakup, loss, and/or farewell. Nicolas Van Belle transforms this universal aspect of life into a ten-part musical epitome, in which …

Formed in 1992, Boris boldly explores their own vision of heavy music, where words like “explosive” and “thunderous” barely do justice. Using overpowering soundscapes embellished with copious amounts of lighting and billow smoke, Boris has shared with audiences across the planet an experience for all five senses in their concerts, earning legions of zealous fans along the way.  Originally released in 1996, Boris’s 60-minute 13-second debut “single” Absolutego will see an officially remastered re…

Formed in 1992, Boris boldly explores their own vision of heavy music, where words like “explosive” and “thunderous” barely do justice. Using overpowering soundscapes embellished with copious amounts of lighting and billow smoke, Boris has shared with audiences across the planet an experience for all five senses in their concerts, earning legions of zealous fans along the way.   First released in 1998, catalog staple Amplifier Worship will see its first-ever reissue with minimalistic album art f…