Allegato Sonoro - Amen This Is Religgion N° 2
This 1984 release marks the beginning of the intense split-tape activity that characterized and distinguished the Amen fanzine. From Alessandria, Viridanse debut here with 4 tracks that already prefigure the sound of a band destined to leave their mark on the Italian New Wave scene. On the B side, the debut of The Art of Waiting from Bari, 6 tracks of pure Gothic Rock from one of the cult bands of this music scene.
July, 2024, Montemor-o-Novo
Last year, Aires, Sã Bernardo, Sal Grosso & Vile Karimi inhabited the Blackbox at O Espaço do Tempo from July 3–6, part of CCA's curatorial project Jejum. Over four days, these artists and collaborators converge, creating shifting constellations of sound through solo, duo, trio, and quartet encounters. Each evening invites the public into the intimacy of open rehearsals, where structure dissolves into possibility, a daily ritual of improvisation where boundaries blur, and music becomes a living …
Death Notes
Together, Samuel Kerridge and Maxim 'Panda' Barron conspire against the living with their electrifying new project, Death Disco. Drawing deeply from the rebellious roots of punk and the DIY ethos, the duo has crafted with their debut album ‘Death Notes’, a sense of urgency and authenticity. Samuel’s fierce vocal work and electronics gives the album an emotional depth that goes beyond its aggressive nature, while Maxim’s pulsating rhythms keeps cutting through the atmosphere with skin-stripping p…
The Schmetterling Variations
Since 1983 Dan Burke and his conspirators have dug through almost every facet of the avant sound plane, from early industrial pop deconstruction to blindingly minimal sound art to densely surreal found-sound collage, each unique approach bending and reconstituting the expectations and possibilities of each realm.
Plowing through layered field recordings, deeply rumbling tones, and eerie electroacoustic sounds with seamless transitions between cut-and-paste collages and manufactured drones, it’…
Repercussions
On Repercussions, Kakuhan and Adam Golebiewski tangle sampler, cello and hyper-physical percussion into a 10-part suite of splintered rhythm and scraped resonance, a hallucinatory electroacoustic organism that keeps mutating between dance impulse, free improv and liquefied drone.
Play Me
Kim Gordon's third album, 'Play Me,' is distilled and immediate, expanding Gordon’s sonic palette to include more melodic beats and the motorik drive of krautrock. “We wanted the songs to be short,” Gordon says. “We wanted to do it really fast. It’s more focused, and maybe more confident."
The follow-up to 2024’s Justin Raisen-produced, two-time Grammy-nominated 'The Collective' processes, in her inimitable way, the collateral damage of the billionaire class: the demolition of democracy, technoc…
Smilets By
Re-issue of Danish cult classic from 2006 with new artwork by Martha Hviid and AK. 12" vinyl feat. oliver hoiness - andreas führer - anders lauge meldgaard yoyooyoy / lolita industri 2008 og 2006
lo-fi wizard oliver hoiness. the ever-cheerful kalle del what the hey. the evergreen supermelle aka. fresh fruit
It was so real
Josefine, The person behind Upshifter and I come from the same town, Odense, she’s a few years older than me. I remember being very young and going to a vegan community kitchen and hearing rumors about her amazing synthpop group Time Masters around 10 years ago. This spring she started to play concerts with her new project Upshifter, described as “New Age /manifestation” on the first poster which of course made me very curious about the music. It’s an honor to present this demo cassette of glimm…
Ascend at Sharp Angles
*100 copies limited edition* Experimental electronic artist Heat and White (Olof Persson) announces the release of his new full-length album Ascend at Sharp Angles, now available via Bandcamp and all major digital platforms.
A follow‑up to earlier works like Violence Patterns and Slo‑Mo / Signal Echoes, Ascend at Sharp Angles is a pop record at heart, albeit an immersive, introspective record that blends ambient textures, subtle rhythmic pulses, and delicate melodic fragments into a cohesive son…
Grapes Of Nothingness
*200 copies limited edition* Waiting is the essence of travel. Patience is its own reward. Two people. A Telecaster guitar with a few effect pedals. A drum machine. An audio interface is connected to a laptop. The ingredients are simple yet effective. But any suggestion of four-track cassette machines and vintage bedsit productions is quickly dispelled by digital dubbiness and refined arrangements. A tail of reversed echos. The crystalline flourish of octave-pitched delays. Riddled hi-hats tickl…
Eternal Music Society
*300 copies limited edition* Eternal Music Society is a Swedish supergroup emerging from the fertile experimental scene of Göteborg and Malmö, centered around the visionary Discreet label. The band unites members from some of the most distinctive underground projects of the past decade, Enhet För Fri Musik (Discreet), Skeppet, Frihet, Neutral, Leda (Knotwilg), and Kröppskanedom (Morc) to name a few. Each known for pushing the boundaries of free music, drone, and avant-rock.
Together, they form a…
Mother Tongue
A Senegalese Griot singer, an Amsterdam improviser and a Puerto Rican jazz drummer find eachother on an open playground, a stage build for improvisation, an old cinema now used for minute made story telling. Equiped with an m'bira, a xalam, a drumkit, a voice, percussion, house hold tools and an electric chlavichord on 220 volt, they sit down and take off: Wrrrrrraaang! Singer and percussionist Mola Sylla is in many ways a musical explorer. Born and raised in Dakar, Senegal, he grew up in the tr…
Massimo Pupillo / Rouilleux
*30 copies limited edition* Acclaimed guitarist Massimo Pupillo (Zu) and visionary French multi-instrumentalist Rouilleux join forces on Echoes of Rust, a blistering new album that redefines the boundaries of experimental rock.
Pupillo, renowned for his seismic riffs and genre-defying work with Italian noise titans Zu and projects like Microfiche, teams up with Rouilleux – the enigmatic force behind blistering acts like Le Son Du Froid and his solo noise odysseys. Together, they forge a soundsc…
Things We Lost In The Fire
On Things We Lost in the Fire, Low stretch slowcore until it glows, binding hushed harmonies, sudden noise and fragile lullabies into one prolonged reckoning with love, faith and mortality. What began as an “anti-rock” trio here becomes a devastatingly direct pop group, without sacrificing an inch of quiet intensity.
Live at San Bias
*20 copies limited release* Live performance recorded in July 2023 at Trattoria San Biagio in Orsenigo (CO). Electronic rhythms blend with long guitar improvisations over deep bass lines. The Telamons lead, a forest becomes a mountain, and the faithful move forward through lysergic journeys filled with presences.
D'Est en Ouest
*250 copies limited edition* Tamagawa is the solo project of Bertrand Gaude, member of Temple Solaire and Le Club des Gens Speciaux, two noise groups released by the label Standard hi fi...but it is with Tamagawa that this almost fifty-year-old, originally from Saint Etienne in France, is the most active, and this, for almost twenty years... Building the mystery around his apartment cell from which he practically never goes out, except to tour a bit everywhere on the planet (more than 300 concer…
Christmas
Kranky announces the reissue of Low Christmas, the beloved 1999 holiday EP from slowcore pioneers Low, available now on vinyl, CD, and digital formats. This timeless collection of subversive seasonal songs—originally released as a limited-edition cassette—captures the Duluth trio's signature minimalist beauty, blending haunting harmonies, sparse instrumentation, and wry takes on Christmas traditions.
Low—comprising Alan Sparhawk, Mimi Parker, and John Nichols—crafted Low Christmas as an antidote…
Songs For A Dead Pilot
'Songs for a Dead Pilot' was Duluth slowcore act Low's first release for the Kranky label and on its release in 1997 showed a quite dramatic move towards more minimal compositions after their extremely well-received 'The Curtain Hits the Cast'.
Malign Seeds
There was no premeditated methodology in place when Swedish electronics manipulator Joachim Nordwall and American guitar mangler Aaron Turner decided to collaborate on an album together. Initial experiments involved Turner submitting improvised guitar compositions to Nordwall for dissection and reassembly. While these exercises yielded interesting returns, the project truly began to bloom when Nordwall pitched several beat-oriented tracks for Turner's perusal. Beginning from a place of structure…
The Child And The Abyss
*2025 stock. 190 copies limited edition* Veteran electroacoustic composer Gianluca Becuzzi delivers his most haunting work to date with The Child And The Abyss, a double offering that combines audio and visual elements in a disturbing exploration of innocence and darkness. Active since the mid-1980s, Becuzzi brings decades of experience in sound art and vocal experimentation to craft ten tracks that navigate between industrial atmospheres and dark ambient territories.
Featuring contributions fro…