Rootless
*200 copies limited edition* Rootless is Andy Guthrie’s fourth album for Students of Decay, following 2022’s Gyropedie. Created in part during a 2024 residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts, it finds the San Francisco-based multi-instrumentalist expanding the hermetic electroacoustic language of their earlier work into something even more open-ended and oneiric. Field recordings mingle with French horn, piano, electronics and, increasingly, the human voice, forming environments whose fami…
Passing The Cup Of Sorrows
William Basinski's first new album in six years: a single 40-minute piece for solo piano and subtle electronics, inspired by a past-life regression practice and by Morton Feldman.
Book of Carols
Sarah Davachi's commissions and longform pieces from 2023 to 2026, for The Broad, MoMA, Sonic Acts, Ghost Ensemble and NO HAY BANDA: six works across six CDs in a rigid slipcase, companion to The Will of Tongues.
Schattenstimme
The starting point is E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Sandman: a world where perception and reality drift apart, and the question of identity remains unresolved. Recognition, in Hoffmann, is never quite secure. The doppelgänger is less a figure than a condition, the point at which the self can no longer vouch for itself.The first record, Lichtstimme begins in an open, almost weightless sonic world. Something still appears untouched. The music carries a sense of proximity, clarity and trust. But this sen…
Mayday Royale
Remarkably, Tim Depraetere is releasing his debut solo LP only now. It feels like he’s been one of the strongholders of the Belgian underground for years. Which he is, really. We were introduced to his work when he was a member of Maan – the duo that only did one LP (on Kraak) and had a very strong live reputation. After that, he’s been around with, among others, Camargue, Tina, and as a collaborator with Annelies Monseré. And since a few years, also as Goldscammer. Thus far, Tim has released a …
Spartiti Spariti
Tip! Spartiti Spariti is a composition in which diverse practices and experiences converge and overlap: the processing of ‘concrete’ sounds, magnetic-tape collage, field recording and the manipulation of acoustic instruments. At its core lies a profound investigation into the ecology of sound, understood not as mere phenomenological documentation but as a radical experience through which identity is rediscovered. The work’s genesis is deeply rooted in the composer’s biographical memory and in th…
Boundary
4 tracks recorded in 2025 and 2026 by young mancunian duo Hewn, whose music Jack Davidson (Noise not music) once described as "frail but nonetheless flesh-and-blood ambient". Still about there...
I Follow the Birds
*2026 stock. 200 copies limited edition* No Regrets For Our Youth return with I Follow the Birds, an evocative new album shaped by movement, memory, and the instinct to keep searching for somewhere beyond the horizon. Balancing introspection with a sense of open possibility, I Follow the Birds unfolds as a journey through departure and return, uncertainty and desire. Its title suggests a simple but powerful gesture: trusting what moves freely, following a direction that cannot always be explaine…
Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory Anthology Vol. 2 - Raidió na hEorpa
Second volume of Miúin's Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory anthology, turning to the music cultures around the lab, including commissions by its engineer Tony Quinn. Cassette with book and A3 poster, curated by Neil P. Quigley.
hotel room
*300 copies limited edition* In 2023, Kraków-based composer Martyna Basta and Los Angeles-based sound artist claire rousay were invited to Poland by Unsound for a short residency, where they spent a few days trading ideas and concepts, and brainstorming their first collaboration. Initially motivated to create lengthy, expansive pieces together, they also ended up experimenting with shorter vignettes, and 'hotel room' expresses these two extremes, featuring three long-form tracks and three brief,…
Astral Meditations From a Living Statue (1990–2013)
Big tip! Forty years of cassette releases, pressed for the first time on vinyl. First of two instalments exploring the previously unreleased sonic archives of one of Poland’s most enigmatic living artists - with its first volume focused on his deep listening practice and spiritual reverie (recorded 1990–2013). The last time Andrzej Dudek-Dürer took a banknote bearing the face of the Polish anarchist Jarosław Dąbrowski from his pocket to trade it for a pair of shoes was in 1969. He bought them fo…
Nantes Files
Tip! *200 copies limited edition* Here at last is another entry in FMOA’s ‘Cozy Mysteries’ series: collaborations between artist duos focusing on acousmatic processes, and sound freed from “conceptual” moorings and imposed meanings. Alan Courtis, who appeared as part of our label’s “Audio Postcards” series, returns here for a set recorded in Nantes with Julien Ottavi. Both are storied veterans of music based in experimentation, “extended” technique and the creative re-use of previously un-creati…
Battle of Clontarf
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.
Welcome to All the Pleasures
Chris Shields on organ, Ed Atkins on voice and Magnus Kaslov recording, live at KoncertKirken in Copenhagen in 2024: the organ reduced to air leaks, mechanical hesitation and shifting overtones. Liner notes by Sarah Davachi, edition of 200.
Music For Air
On its latest album „Music For Air“, the Berlin-based interdisciplinary duo GAMUT INC explores new possibilities of the computer-controlled pipe organ — from hypervirtuoso excess to nuanced automation and rhythms beyond the fixed grid. Composed and recorded during a two-week residency in Toulouse, the pieces move between harmony and noise, conjuring a euphorically intoxicating maelstrom of overlapping, accelerating sound.
Unit of Heart
*300 copies limited edition* A quiet intensity permeates Chantal Michelle’s music, like a veiled flame. Even at its most spare and delicate, an undulating tension unsettles the ear through wavering microtonal interference and uncanny spatial juxtaposition. She takes seriously the mandate of the composer to foster new relationships between various types of sounds, bringing together disparate field recordings, instrumental stems, and the sounds of circuitry in unheard configurations. Resolution is…
Indifferent Rocks Are Rearranged Into A Dam
Originally presented as a quadraphonic fixed media piece. Designed by Philip Marshall. Covert artwork by Owen Schuh. Indifferent Rocks Are Rearranged into a Dam takes various - and sometimes competing - understandings of “Interval”, “isolation” and “distance” as its point of conceptual and compositional departure. Taking its title from a line in Elaine Scarry’s book The Body in Pain, Indifferent Rocks… explores different forms of detachment and abstraction present both in the piece’s making, as…
Dusty Colors
*300 copies limited edition* Roberto Musci, born in Milan in 1956, studied guitar, music and electronic instruments. From 1974 to 1985 he traveled the world studying African, Indian, Arab and Oriental music recording ethnic music “in the field,” studying and collecting ethnic musical instruments from all parts of the world. His self-produced debut album, “The Loa of Music,” is a seminal work of staggering originality and extraordinary beauty in which field recordings, musique concrète, electroni…
Live in Italy
Jonah Parzen-Johnson & Lau Nau return with a double CD edition on We Jazz Records bringing together their 2025 debut duo release A Few We Remember first time on CD, plus a live recording from the album release tour recorded in Bolzano, Italy, in April 2026. In April of 2026, Lau Nau (Laura Naukkarinen) and Jonah Parzen-Johnson crossed into Italy separately and made their way by train to meet in Bolzano for their first tour together. There was a bit of the energy of the first day of school. Nervo…
A Grey City With Its Beast
*50 copies limited edition* »A Grey City With Its Beast« is a solo recording for choor khuur, composed and performed by Anqi Liu and recorded in San Diego in 2026. The choor khuur is an older Mongolian bowed instrument related to the morin khuur, yet it has its own construction and behaviour: a skin-covered body, horsehair strings and bow, a sound peg, and a Mongolian knife inserted between the bridge and body permit minute adjustments of tuning and timbre. Temperature, humidity, pressure, and t…