Il lago è il cielo del bosco..., Il Bestiario, Ninulla (3LP Bundle)
Special discounted bundle celebrating the visionary output of Holidays Records with three remarkable releases that showcase Italy's most compelling underground voices across generations.La Festa delle Rane - "Il lago è il cielo del bosco e tutte le rane cantano in coro" (LP) - The remastered vinyl edition of their breakthrough 2022 release, fourteen tracks of sun-tinged psychedelia where medieval folklore blooms into celestial children's folk hymns. Lucia Sole's off-kilter melodies wander throu…
Frijoles Canyon
1992 release ** "A long work in the style of hörspiel (radio art) by this important Fluxus artist, mixing spoken text gleaned from a variety of sources with field recordings collected in New Mexico and Canada, tracing the range of the Ponderosa pine."
A Year In Minutes
A Year In Minutes is an artistic diary / audio calendar that contains a sound recording, a geographical location, and a photograph, artwork, or essay for each day of the year. Meant as a psychogeography—the study of the influence of geographical environment on the mind or behaviour, Aidan Baker invites you to reflect with him on the year 2024. Berlin-based Canadian multidisciplinary artist Aidan Baker (a.k.a. Nadja, Hypnodrone Ensemble, Tavare, etc.) presents a new monumental work in the form of…
Satyricon '79
** LP + Poster. Edition of 300 copies ** In the world of theatrical archives, there are the known, the unknown, the forgotten, and the lost. Demetrio Stratos' stage compositions for Teatro dell'Elfo's groundbreaking 1979 production Satyricon - directed by future Oscar winner Gabriele Salvatores - represents one such lost artifact now wondrously returned to life. This radical sonic work, integrating extended vocal techniques, Balinese instruments, and pioneering whale song recordings, stands as t…
Transference
In the ever-expanding constellation of transnational electroacoustic collaboration, Marja Ahti and Manja Ristić present Transference, a profound investigation into the movement and transformation of energy between distant practices and places, arriving August 8, 2025 via Erstwhile Records. Transference emerges as what the artists describe as "a dialogue of sonic gestures and traces of visits to places and the spirit that occupies them." This collaboration transcends geographical boundaries to cr…
Off Tracks
Within the expanding territories of electroacoustic investigation and field recording archaeology, Éric La Casa and Jérôme Noetinger present Off Tracks, a profound meditation on absence, decay, and the spectral traces left behind in emptied architectural spaces via Erstwhile Records. This collaboration between two masters of contemporary sound art unfolds as "an exploration of buildings emptied of their activities, a crossing of spaces abandoned by their occupants, a drift through the ghostly tr…
ryūhyō
To mark the UN’s International Year of Glaciers' Preservation, sound artist Yoichi Kamimura presents “ryūhyō,” a rich sonic portrait of Japan’s drifting sea ice. Blending underwater and aerial recordings, the album reveals the melting voices and fragile ecology of Ryūhyō’s vanishing world.
Sen’nyū (Book)
**Photo Book: 210×150 mm, 108 pages, hardcover with exposed spine binding, gold-foil letterpress, full colour on premium matt paper** In the final month of 2024, Meitei arrived in Beppu, a city long steeped in vapor, myth, and mineral memory. Invited to create onsen (hot spring) ambient music commemorating Beppu’s 100th anniversary, he immersed himself in the city’s geothermal psychogeography, where sound rises from the ground and time clings to mist. Known for his Lost Japan (Shitsu-nihon) work…
Bruits De L'Ombre
200 numbered copies, with handmade and buffered cover. Contains a A4 insert. Experimental trio Los Pélieu Lovers announce the release of Bruits de l'Ombre, a groundbreaking album that pays tribute to French beat poet Claude Pélieu through innovative sound collage and cut-up techniques. The project emerged from Tom Val, Maximilien Douche, and Magali Genuite reading Pélieu's poetry aloud while music played in the room, inspiring them to create something beyond traditional music and poetry readings…
The Pines
Sound artist and filmmaker Joshua Bonnetta wants to know what happens when a human listener exits a landscape. How might the soundscape differ? How is our presence affecting the recording? His ambitious long-form work The Pines I-IV, released [in 2025] via Shelter Press and The Dim Coast, looks to interrogate some of these questions, capturing the sonic life of a single pine tree in upstate New York over the course of a year via remote recordings, edited into four hours of audio which will be re…
Contrefaçons
In September 2023, at the Hiventy laboratories in Joinville-le-pont - formerly Pathé - we recorded the film restoration (image and sound) and development processes. Following the mechanical and digital processes, we listened to and interviewed the technicians to understand what goes into restoring a film. How do you restore a film to its original state? To do this, we need to get close to what viewers of the film could perceive in the cinema. The way we look at and listen to a film has evolved s…
How Buildings Learn
"Last year, a consultant from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors took stock of my home in Bristol. He told me the survey would be sent as a pdf via email; I asked him for the audio recording of his spoken notes. The visiting field recordist graciously gifted it to me.Around the same time, we had a security camera fitted. My daughters commented that the audio sounded like “Daddy’s music.” I can now travel anywhere in the world while producing field recordings of my home. ‘How Buildings Le…
Paris: Public Spaces
*2025 stock* Seijiro Murayama is a drummer/percussionist/voice performer currently working in Japan again after living for a number of years in France. Éric La Casa is a French sound artist well known for site-specific field recordings with a strong improvisational element. The two have been working together on numerous projects for nearly a decade. For six months starting in January 2012, La Casa and Murayama took portable tape recorders out to parks, subway stations, streets and other public s…
Zones Portuaires 2
Between 2017 and 2023, while assisting Tarek Atoui with his Waters’ Witness project, I accumulated a series of recordings in maritime ports, which I have used to create this thematic suite. Rooted in documentary reflection, it presents the unembellished sounds of commercial ports and their coastlines.
Recordings 2017 - 2023Editings + Mixings June – December 2024
These ports were constructed across diverse biotopes and climates: in the Gulf of Oman in Abu Dhabi, the harbour of Singapore, the Medi…
Crying Glacier
Tip! *200 copies limited edition* 2025 was declared the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation by the United Nations, accompanied by the proclamation of March 21st of each year as the World Day for Glaciers starting this year. As they put it, “this is an opportunity to raise global awareness about the critical role of glaciers, snow and ice in the climate system and the hydrological cycle, and the economic, social and environmental impacts of the impending changes in the Earth’s cryosphere…
Switch Off That Machine
A warning for the present and the future, from the past… The time is apartheid South Africa. The resonance is now.
You will hear, in order of appearance:
Soweto's Imilonji KaNtu Choral Society singing at the enthronement of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, St George's Cathedral, Cape Town;
Archbishop Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner;
An announcer on state-controlled radio;
Beyers Naudé, once a leading pro-apartheid Afrikaner cleric whose radical epiphany after the Sharpeville massacre of March 1960, when …
Contre-montagne
*170 copies limited edition* "The city where I live was created by digging holes : removing stones from the ground, then making buildings with them. The only hill on the island was quarried. Elsewhere, they just dug giant square pits. Over time, many of these holes became dumps of some kind; the Francon quarry became a snow dump. Half the snow plowed from the streets of Montreal after each storm is loaded onto trucks and dumped in the 70 metres deep hole. Every winter, snow piles up there. Some …
Fish Point
*180 copies limited edition* "Fish Point is part of a 68 acre city park called the Eastern Promenade, located in my neighbourhood in Portland, Maine. Fish Point has sweeping views of Casco Bay and is busy with shipping traffic, barges, commercial fishing, tugboats, ferries coming and going from the islands, sailboats and increasingly yachts, tourists paddling, and cruise ships. Fish Point is off a multi-use trail that runs along the Portland waterfront. The area near Fish Point used to be semi-…
Still Lives
300 copies * “Still Lives” is the third solo full length by the Finnish composer Marja Ahti, following a pair of releases on the Hallow Ground imprint. As a collection, it may be seen as a series of studies on the liminality of the listening act and an investigation into the physicality of sound. Ahti forges vivid electroacoustic environments from field recordings, analog synthesizers, acoustic feedback, magnetic tape and digital processing, resulting in a set of articulate, prickly, and surpris…
Settlers
*2025 stock* Settlers, the latest release from sound artist & researcher Sergey Kostyrko, explores the social landscape of Murmansk – the largest settlement above the Arctic circle. Side A, Murmansk Soundscape, provides an uninterrupted window onto the city at work, a field recording cherry-picked from extensive research trips around the area. Meanwhile, Sounds of Migration on Side B presents a curiously dynamic noise composition – curious because it’s an automated sonification: one unedited tak…