Experimental / Minimal

Very rare first edition of the wonderful 1978 album self-released by the Belgian composer on his own Editions Walrus label with his very personal piano music here incorporating tape loops, field recordings, synthesizers, organ, percussion, and early electronic drones. Except for a 1979 second edition, never re-issued on either CD or LP.

Faitiche presents the release of a new album by Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek (faitiche13). Since their debut (Bird, Lake, Objects, faitiche03, 2010) they have played improvised concerts around the world. Japanese vibraphonist Masayoshi Fujita prepares his instrument with various percussion elements as well as metal objects and toys, while Jan Jelinek layers loops made using small-scale electronic devices. Schaum (German for froth, foam) is the duo's second album. "The river, forcing its way th…

Third album by the Swiss musician Elischa Heller: two side-long drone pieces meant to resonate with the room, mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.

David Granström brings the electric guitar into his long-form, digitally precise music, recorded partly at EMS Stockholm, with Maria W Horn on hurdy-gurdy.

Oren Ambarchi alone with the guitar: two sides, two single takes with almost no effects, recorded to tape at Studio Dede in Tokyo and produced by Randall Dunn.

Second duo LP by Sarah Hennies and Tristan Kasten-Krause: two sidelong pieces grown from a live work played in darkness, singing bowls, gongs and double bass drifting into waltz-like pulses and field recordings. Numbered edition of 200.

Four decades after Prati Bagnati del Monte Analogo, Francesco Messina returns to his hundred-year-old Schimmel piano for seven pieces of hazy drone and ambient minimalism, written with no deadlines after playing that 1979 album live in Milan.

*50 copies limited edition* 1. The Habu (2020). The Habu is a pit viper endemic to the Ryukyu Islands. The violence done to these islands reverberates through. The Habu is venomous, mostly nocturnal. Spectral. From the dense vegetation it morphs into the island’s mind. The Habu is less a subject than a presence. In fragmented recordings, the work moves like the snake itself. 2. The Frog (2026). Like a frog, this work jumps and jumps. Until it just sits there and evaporates. Ribbit! 3. A Transcri…

Mary Jane Leach's Pipe Dreams II and III, recorded on the organs of Miry Concertzaal, Gent (2023) and Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne (2024): beating tones and antiphonal clouds of sound, following the 1989 original issued by Blume.

Ritual music for the accumulation of male sexual energy Throughout history man has made and used music for two distinct and separate purposes. In recent years, particularly since the advent of sound recording, the most popular use of music has been for entertainment - the temporary amusement and distraction of as large a number as possible. As a consequence, many people tend to overlook its more fundamental and ancient use as a tool for affecting man's body and spirit. The many varieties of reli…

Kali Malone's first solo album since All Life Long, recorded over two nights on the Bach Organ of Leipzig's Thomaskirche with Lucy Railton and Stephen O'Malley. Seven pieces that abandon canon form for a slower, more intuitive unfolding of chords, steps and bridging tones.

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.

Black Vinyl edition. XKatedral is proud to present a new full-length album by label co-founder Maria W Horn. Melting Pillars of Snow is a collection of new compositions from the renowned Swedish composer written for Contrabass Recorder, Shō, Percussion, Electric Guitar, Voice and Electronics performed by Horn together with a chamber ensemble consisting of Anna Petrini, Mattias Hållsten, Magdalena Meitzner and Mats Erlandsson. The album also features narration by Horn as well as a guest appearanc…

Black Vinyl. American experimental composer Stephen O'Malley releases Avaeken, two sides of immense, immersive, self-annihilating music via Dais Records. The record preserves site-specific work: O'Malley installed Avaeken as part of Wish You Were Here, the exhibition by renowned American artist Banks Violette, underscoring the tension between presence and absence, life and loss. O'Malley and Violette have developed a distinct language of sound, space, and sculpture over the past two decades, rev…

On Variation for Light Waves, Linnea Talp deepens her dialogue with the pipe organ, stretching it toward breathy extremes where foggy harmonies, brittle overtones and glints of electronics hover like weather systems suspended between memory and illumination.

Very rare and obscure 1982 privately-released album of experimental minimal synthesizer music by Swiss keyboard player and producer.

Very rare and obscure Astrian compilation produced and released in 1984 by the Hochschule Für Angewandte Kunst in Wien with diverse experimental/electronic/NDW/minimal/free "acoustic materializations of 15 imaginary films/videos in the form of an LP" by artists appearing only here and including Hans Weigand, Gudrun Bielz, Lisi + Rose Breuss, Karl Kowanz, Tommy Schneider, Rupert Putz, Inge Graf + Zyx, Ebba Sinzinger + Anna Petschinka, Christina Brandauer + Ralph Ralph, Helmut Rainer, Gary Texas, …

On Country / The Country, J.WLSN and Liam Keenan pare things back to the bone, using repetition, space and grain to sketch a faint, flickering idea of “country” where landscape, memory and rusted‑out song forms quietly bleed into one another.

On State Music, Laurent Güdel turns his fascination with classic electronic studios into a political instrument, folding EMS, KSYME, Radio Belgrade and Columbia CMC into a critical sound‑essay on funding, soft power and the uneasy bond between DIY dreams and state apparatus.

On Uchuu, Oowets drifts into their most abstract work yet, blending tapped cloth boxes, reed organ warmth and bedside field recordings into a gentle, cosmic meditation where minimal rhythms and environmental sounds merge science and nature into a single, weightless drift.

Great and beautifully packaged first uncompromising album of solo violin improvisation and electronically-processed violin tracks by Hideaki Shimada, self-released on Pico in a limited edition of 300 copies in 1986.

Great and beautifully packaged second uncompromising album of electronically-processed solo violin improvisations by Hideaki Shimada, self-released on Pico in a limited edition of 300 copies in 1989 and never re-issued on either LP or CD.

First edition of the CD-only third album of uncompromising electronically-processed violin tracks by Hideaki Shimada, self-released on Pico in 1991.

On Repetitive Music vol. 1, Misha Panfilov strips things back to synth and piano, threading slow‑turning patterns and hushed harmonies through Tallinn and its outskirts like illuminated loops traced in winter air.

On Inner Storm, Seth Price channels a deeply personal rupture into four raw, single‑take synthesizer improvisations, turning real‑time manual control, LFO pulses and live pedal work into a stark study of emotion, process and duration.

Rare single released buy Dome Records in 1981 with two experimental minimal pop songs courtesy of Angel Conway and B.C. Gilbert (Wire, Dome, etc.).

On Last, Leda distils Sofie Herner’s loop‑based guitar minimalism into six slow‑burning pieces: proto‑industrial basement buzz, worn tape atmosphere and stubbornly simple figures that erode into something hypnotic, eerie and oddly tender over 33 minutes.

*100 copies limited edition* This is a special work by acclaimed composer and musician Adriaan de Roover, who has released records on Dauw, Viernulvier, Pias, and Consouling Sounds. Chansons de trottoir / Stoepliedjes documents his relationship to sampling in the form of a radio play. Originally created as a radio piece for Resonance FM in Manchester, the album is a sonic portrait of a walk through Brussels. It is constructed from two field recordings: one made during a walk from Metro Midi towa…

On John Zorn’s Olympiad Vol. 4 – Curling, John Zorn exhumes one of his rarest 1970s game pieces, a slow‑burn study in sustained tones, handing it to ROVA Saxophone Quartet and the William Winant Percussion Group, who turn its minimalist rules into 45 minutes of hovering, hypnotic sound.

"Oi! Oi! Oi! (Nazi Skins Are NOT Electric)" is a provocative 7-inch single by experimental performers Chris Lunch and Frieder Butzmann, released around 2005 on Mauerstadtmusik in Berlin. This anti-fascist punk track satirizes Nazi skinheads with its raw, electrified Oi! energy, flipping the genre's working-class roots into a sharp rebuke of far-right appropriation. Butzmann, known for his dadaist noise and performance art, teams up with Lunch's chaotic vocal style to deliver a jubilant, rebellio…

On Music for Pulse Meridian Foliation, Joshua Abrams translates Lisa Alvarado’s immersive installation into gently spiralling sound: two violas, harmonium and electronics tracing slow, minimal arcs that feel like geology moving through the body, memory folding and unfolding in real time.

On Music for Intersecting Planes, Kali Malone and Leila Bordreuil braid organ, cello, sine waves and feedback into a candlelit nocturne of air and overtones, an austere yet tender ritual where space itself becomes a third instrument.

Rare 1982 original copy on Trinciato Forte Records of the first A.T.R.O.X. album of excellent experimental electronic new wave predating the Doubling Riders.

Rare 1984 original copy with gatefold insert of the second A.T.R.O.X. album (and the first LP released by Contempo) of excellent experimental electronic new wave predating the Doubling Riders.

Black Vinyl. XKatedral, in collaboration with La Becque Editions, announces a new album from Stephen O'Malley, co-founder of SUNN O))). Les Sphères (effondrez-les) presents two long-form compositions for pipe organ, performed by O'Malley alongside Kali Malone and Frederikke Hoffmeier. Recorded on Christmas 2021 at Église Saint-François in Lausanne, Switzerland, the album captures Les Grandes Orgues, an instrument of extraordinary lineage: Scherrer (1777), Walker (1867), Kuhn (1995). Three centur…

Son of Buzzi - In schwarze Stücke zerbrochen (2026 stock): Zürich owns son Sebastian Bischoff (existing under Son of Buzzi moniker) is one of the most devoted european players and aficionados inspired by ever changing and ever inspiring stream of beloved american guitar primitivism. His instagram posts and reels of his lonely sun roof jams often brings calmness to the realm of social media. Fans of the genre could hardly miss his (now freshly repressed Cardinal Fuzz label) 2022 album Die Hand De…

Very rare first LP by Radigue released by Lovely Music in 1983, a minimal masterpiece featuring Robert Ashley. Please note the condition.

In the 1980s, this controversial collective shook up the Belgian art world with noise concerts, performances, unusual exhibitions and the "cultural battlezine" Force Mental - proposing a quite different view on art as known by the cultural establishment. Club Moral was founded by visual artist Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (AMVK) and performance artist Danny Devos (DDV) in Antwerp on January 1st, 1981. For over a decade it functioned simultaneously as venue, noise band, publishing house, and lightning…

*100 copies limited edition* Two pillars of New York's underground converge. Human Hair brings together Pat Murano and Richard Hoffman - both long-running fixtures of the city's most uncompromising experimental scenes - for an album that slithers, coils, and eventually leaves you floating in open space before you realize the lifeline has slipped from your hands. The pedigree here is formidable. Hoffman's work with Sightings (one of the best bands to ever emerge from NYC, full stop), Insayngel, a…

*100 copies limited edition*  A restless voyage on an electronic ocean of infinite sound. With TED, Brooklyn's Daksina label delivers one of its most ambitious and unclassifiable releases yet - a sprawling two-part journey through LIN11C's dense universe of fractured electronics, spectral voices, and orchestral wreckage. Across two extended pieces totaling over thirty minutes, TED unfolds like a transmission from some waterlogged future. Clarion calls ring out across cavernous spaces while ghost…