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Belgian improvisers Linus and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy reimagine the songs of Dutch songwriter Jules de Corte: slowed, expanded folk miniatures on religion, love and loss, with guitars, banjo, clarinet and lap steel.

Masayuki Takayanagi alone with his electric guitar in August 1982: his first solo improvisation album, made after his recovery from near death, from Ornette Coleman's Lonely Woman to Lennie's Pennies. Official Three Blind Mice reissue on 180g vinyl.

In the final decade of his life, Morton Feldman turned his attention to the trio format with an intensity that would yield some of the most profound and uncompromising music of the twentieth century. Between 1978 and 1984, he composed three monumenta…

From the 1950s, Masaaki Takano (1927-2007) worked as a freelance "sound planner," mainly creating sound effects for stage productions. In the mid-1980s he began performances called "Sound Play" where he would perform on his own self-created sound ins…

The Trilogy Tapes’ first CD presents a studio recording of Jack Sheen’s Solo for Cello, a 35’ work written for Anton Lukoszevieze, the cellist, artist, and Director of the group Apartment House, renowned for their recent recordings of John Cage, Mort…

*In process of stocking. Limited edition of 100 copies.* Headlights Recordings presents Manuel Mota's new work Via. Manuel Mota is known for the personal vocabulary he has developed for the guitar. His music draws inspiration from a multitude of refe…

* Edition of 200 * A composition for two bass Renaissance flutes. Performed by Mara Winter and Johanna Bartz. Rise, follow is a dialogue of long tones played by two bass Renaissance flutes, featuring subtle but persistent changes over the duration of…

2014 release ** "Beethoven’s fifth symphony begins with that now-iconic but aphoristic “short-short-short-long” musical motive about which so much has beenwritten and said, a radical statement for string melody without harmonic accompaniment.  On his…

Huge Tip! Industrial music legend Chris Connelly returns to his first love with White Phosphorus (Chris Connelly plays Throbbing Gristle), a suitably uncompromising homage to the "random, tense, scary & compulsively fascinating" phase of industrial m…

Anna Meredith's debut EP, four tracks released in October 2012 by The Vinyl Factory and Moshi Moshi, including the first version of Nautilus. Original 12" pressing limited to 300 copies.

Gonçalo F. Cardoso as Tropic Brut: contact mics, geophones and piezos on the resort complexes of Tenerife, concrete, metal and machinery amplified into a brutalist, tongue-in-cheek record about mass tourism. Mastered by Rashad Becker.

Restocked, reduced price * 13-CD limited edition box set with 300 page booklet * The Recordings, a box set edition compiling all Meredith Monk ECM New Series discs to date, is issued on the occasion of the composer and singer’s 80th birthday. With Do…

*100 copies limited edition* Tokyo-based artist Ryu Yoshizawa has spent the past decade developing a singular language as Koeosaeme. His works sit somewhere between electronic composition, musique concrète, sound collage and sound art. Following a se…

Black Leather Jesus, the Houston harsh noise project Richard Ramirez started in 1989, on a white 8" lathe cut: two sides of almost seven minutes, Washed and Waiting, recorded in Pennsylvania in March 2026. Thirty numbered copies.

Solo performance by David Toop for strings, objects, water, paper, glass and electronics, recorded on 31 January 2015 and pressed on site during Christian Marclay's exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey, London.

Donaueschingen, 17 October 1970, and Berlin, 7 November: Sun Ra's first German concerts, commissioned by Joachim-Ernst Berendt, with the Black Forest Myth written for the astrological moment and never played again. Berendt cut five hours of tape into…

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.

Lmited to 150 units Annie Bloch’s luvt is a quiet reorientation of the organ: away from its monumental image and ritualised spaces, towards the delicate mechanics of touch, air and friction. Across seven compositions marking her debut on OOH-sounds, …

"Given the amount of collaborations he undertakes, Past Inside The Present boss Zakè is not so much musically sociable as utterly gregarious. He's also one to choose a good theme with which to imbue his musical productions with definable atmospherics…

2005 release. Following the ground-breaking work, Dust (LCD 1006CD), godfather of experimental opera Robert Ashley returns with Celestial Excursions. Ashley's endeavor explores remarkably uncharted territory -- the kind of language that is common amo…

AMM (Eddie Prévost, Keith Rowe, John Tilbury) with cellist Rohan de Saram, recorded live at the Union Chapel, Islington, London, on 10 January 1987. CD reissue of the 1987 LP with additional music from the same concert.

AMM's first studio album with John Tilbury, recorded by the trio of Tilbury, Keith Rowe and Eddie Prévost at Crescent Studios, Bath, on 11 and 12 December 1982, plus a 31-minute section of a concert at the Zagreb Biennale, 24 April 1983.

AMM (John Tilbury, Keith Rowe, Eddie Prévost) in a continuous performance created with the dancer Fine Kwiatkowski, recorded live at the Musique Action festival, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France, on 24 May 2001.

AMM (Eddie Prévost, Keith Rowe, John Tilbury) in a continuous improvisation of about 57 minutes, recorded live at the free radiCCAls festival, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, on 4 May 2000.

A single improvisation by Evan Parker, Keith Rowe, Barry Guy and Eddie Prévost, recorded at a concert in London on 3 September 1984; first released in 1988, reissued remastered in 2015.

*2026 stock* For this album I have assembled a collection of contrasting works from the archives. Some have previously been released, others not. Three pieces: Sculptor, Touche pas, and Bubble chamber are based on the microsound techniques of granula…

Sweden's late '60s creative explosion saw Roland Keijser's quartet forge unprecedented music, bridging American free jazz, minimal composition, and Swedish folk heritage. These lost Öppet Tre recordings capture a pivotal moment when Swedish musicians…

Tip! Mekong Shellac is an extremely rare collection of classical and popular styles of Khmer music from the 1930s to the 1950s. Restored from the few original remaining copies, this compilation reveals a remarkable world of early 20th-century Cambodi…

Big tip! Romanian composer, conductor, and musicologist Iancu Dumitrescu is often described as one of the leading figures of spectral music, yet he has produced a body of powerful works resonating with explosive sound and friction that places him ver…

Compositions by Finola Merivale for field recordings and electronics, with Catherine Sikora's tenor saxophone moving through shifting sonic environments between stark minimalism and dense, evocative layers.

Collaboration of Michael Mantra and Charlz De La Casa: two long tracks of drones and field recordings, from ship engines and sirens to sea and wildlife; Silentes, 2006.

The winds of change were blowing through Wayne Shorter’s life and career in 1970. The saxophonist had just left Miles Davis’ group and was soon to form his collective fusion band Weather Report. His music was evolving too as he began to delve into hi…

Unna is a piano and ambient collaboration between Michael A. Muller (Balmorhea) and Otto A. Totland (Deaf Center), the first release on Devon Turnbull's Ojas Music label, cut fully analogue and pressed by The Vinyl Factory.

Ambient album by Michael Mantra with minimal melodies over field recordings, concrete sounds and warm synthetic tones; Silentes, 2008.

2005 release ** Released in 1979 in a limited edition on his own d'Avantage label, Catalogue, with its overt theatricality is every bit as wild as the previous Paralleles. Not really jazz, not rock, having nothing to do with contemporary music either…