Placebo Music
*75 copies limited edition* "Outwardly active in France's experimental music scene since a few years, Arnica Montana elegantly opens her discography with her first physical release, Placebo Music. Recorded in Nice, on the Côte d'Azur, this tape reflects - in the artist own's words - the boredom and suspended time of the region, the strange dystopian atmosphere of those cities, the mountains, the rhythm of the waves, and of the peculiar slowness that seems to permeate the landscape.
With her lit…
Sonic Waves
The music on this album can be described as drone / ambient / improv. The legendary guitarist Nils Wohlrabe is the initiator of this unique meeting of three musicians from different genres. Nils has a background in punk, noise and industrial music. Karin Johansson is a pianist and composer in improvised music, free jazz and contemporary music. She works with alternative techniques and prepared piano. Hasse Westling is a jazz bassist with a wide range of genres; he plays free improv, 50s/60s jazz…
Retiro Espiritual
Following the release of Ganzfeld, the Tenerife-based octet returns with Retiro Espiritual, their fourth full-length album and the second chapter in an ongoing improvisational document recorded inside one of Santa Cruz de Tenerife’s abandoned oil tanks.
Gaf & The Love Supreme Arkestra work outside conventional studio frameworks. Their music emerges from extended improvisation sessions that unfold sporadically, sometimes over several days. Built around drums, guitar, bass, modular synthesis and s…
A/B
*2026 stock* Kontuur is a duo exploring improvisation in the space between acoustic and electronic music. It consists of Juri Jansen (drums) and Adriaan Severins (electronics), but is often expanded with fellow artists/musicians. Starting point of every Kontuur project is finding new ways to sample and re-sample existing audio/sounds in an (as-live-as-possible) electronic environment, mostly beginning from the acoustics of a drum kit. During a two year period (2019 - 2021) Kontuur recorded sever…
Shade Zero
Flutist and composer Taiga Ultan announces the release of Shade Zero, her debut full-length album out June 26 on Kou Records and recorded, mixed, and produced by Randall Dunn (Anna von Hausswolff, Annea Lockwood, Danny Elfman). Structured as a three-part work, the album traces a gradual transformation from virtuosic flute performance rooted in classical discipline to extended techniques, spoken language, and poetic reflection. At the center of Shade Zero is an investigation into the relationship…
Bloood 2
*250 copies limited edition* 00 Action Group is Joseph Frivaldi‘s NYC underground collective & elastic association. Out of it comes an assemblage of blasted system songs , upper body textures , non - electronics and in & out voices ….decrepit blocks of cracked reservoirs have come apart in nice slices ….
Bloood 2 is the first release on the New Dracula Theater label & the second by 00AG after a limited double cassette on Reality Delay. Performed by J.Frivaldi ,Tran , RDMayson , Lary7, Akio Mokun…
Bonjour L'Ambiance
Two live recordings : one in an old castle in the countryide, the other in the cave of a bar in Paris. Normally only available at gigs.
Acid Heath
*50 copies limited edition* Concrete Gazebo are a mostly Cambridge (UK)-based collective of musicians who improvise together. They have also been organising the free, open-to-all improvisation nights, Under The Concrete Gazebo, since 2018. The line-up of Concrete Gazebo on recordings is constantly in flux, with players dropping in and out depending on the sessions and others preferring to focus entirely on live performance. All the music released to date, either directly to their Bandcamp or via…
Wall of Lanterns
*20 copies limited edition* Chiming gamelan like flutterings, a clean ascendant nothingness, recorded live on two iphones.
Copper Maze
*20 copies limited edition* Shrill zen noise guitars and ornate percussion.
Matusalém
The sound of this composition comes from 2 live shows that were superimposed and than mixed with field recordings. The voice sings circular texts. One side is called Além and the other Aquém which means beyond and short of.If you are curious about the lyrics we can share la première strophe of Além The head, banging against the screen, searching for a decapitated cure, promises a Prometheus to the atheist,who didn't even touch the fire.
Party Down the Hall
*50 copies limited edition* Aster are poets and experimental sound makers Alex Keramidas and Catherine Norris. Their practice is informed by perpetual choirs, sacrificial stones and top of the pops, as well as being guided by divination. Party Down the Hall is their first album - a collaboration built on ethereal narratives, samples and melodies, creating invocations for the modern era.“In an apartment in a big old building. It used to be a hotel where people would stay in order to be healed. No…
Polycrisis Apparitions
*50 copies limited edition* Seven musings on death, the afterlife, communication and the musicality of the non-musical, 'Polycrisis Apparitions' is the latest release from Misery Bacon. Misery Bacon is a solo audio project by Luke Drozd, an artist, illustrator and musician based in Bergen, Norway. Following on from 2025's 'Turning in the widening gyre', a release that unspooled over two longform tracks filled with serrated drones, distorted noise and harsh blown-out samples, 'Polycrisis Appariti…
Guruuswa
*10 copies limited edition* Taking its name from a mythical region in modern-day Zimbabwe, loosely translated as “land of tall grass”, Guruuswa is a roughly hewn piece of freely improvised psychedelia and a significant renewal of a decades-long musical partnership.Recorded live at Dash The Henge in London, the performance features Fr33zehead label collaborator Andi Jackson on taishōgoto and effects, alongside Beanie Bhebhe on drums and percussion. The piece opens with gently cascading, luminous …
Smokes and mirrors
Tip! "City Dragon is Max Kaario, who is part of different bands such as Altersgruppe, Teenage God, ski attic etc. Canadian, he has lived in Paris for more than ten years where he organizes concerts such as cmptrmthmthcs in bars that are always changing and kebab shops sometimes. The first time I saw Max play as City Dragon was at Pauline Perplexe, an artist place in Arcueil where his friends have their studios. He was singing and improvising with a drum toy, and dancing spinning right round a bi…
Arttu Partinen / Nikki Moran & Off Brand
*75 copies limited edition* This release celebrates a wonderful night in Edinburgh in April 2024. However (as per usual) the Arttu Partinen set was not recorded so it has been replaced with another recent live recording. This one is from the Skanu Mezs festival in Riga. The whole thing is tied together with the graphic vision of young Oran Paton, from the original poster.
On side A, Artsy Records head honcho Arttu Partinen attempts to confound both your expectations & his own as he argues his ca…
Bardo Thödol
In their third collaboration, the shared project between Merzbow and Pedro Vian shifts towards less confrontational and more introspective terrain. Bardo Thödol, released as an LP, draws on The Tibetan Book of the Dead not so much as an explicit narrative framework but as a conceptual resonance: a passage, a suspension between states.
Where Inside Richard Serra Sculptures and The Wheel of Mani foregrounded a relatively defined dialectic between Vian’s environmental restraint and Masami Akita’s i…
I Still Feel the Future Is Far Away
Stifled wailing distortion, suspended chords, glistening bundles of gentle mallet strikes, streams of notes produced by handheld fans. A nearly hour long session of free improvisation - played and recorded without pretense in a basement - by two of St. Louis's most dedicated improvisers and organizers of the city's warped and faded experimental music scene.
Atlantean Glyph
Second release from guitar duo of Adam King and Aostin Zink
The Evening Group
Painting and sound results of group improvisation fall 2024.