Poke It With a Stick
“You knew you were in the presence of something powerful whenever they played. Their sound was open and catatonic. Cathartic. You recognized it right away." — Britt Walford (Slint drummer), remembering Louisville art-punks Your Food back when played …
Hexadic III
New Hexadic music from outside our native understanding of ti me and space! Features underground masters of sound Moon Duo, Richard Youngs, Meg Baird & Charlie Saufley, Tashi Dorji, Jenks Miller, Phil Legard, and Stephen O'Malley, Tim Wyskida & Marc …
Lacrau
The first duo performance between David Grubbs and Manuel Mota, the mysterious Portguese guitar legend; a real-time, documentary feel in which athematic, non-repeating musical gestures are rendered with an extreme sensitivity to microscopic soundworl…
Towers of Silence
“Towers of Silence”, released on Malaysian experimental music label LaoBan, features Malaysian saxophonist Yong Yandsen and Tokyo-based Australian drummer Darren Moore. Recorded at GOK Sound studio in October 2017, “Towers of Silence” points to a dis…
Clinamina
His Hubris is saxophonist Yong Yandsen and Sudarshan Chandra Kumar on electronics. The duo is a result of their prior involvement in various other performative configurations and an effort to develop the techniques employed in their craft. Drawing fr…
Arrow
**edition of 300* Recorded especially for Preserved Sound in Hebden Bridge, Arrow is sound of Richard Youngs alone at the piano, embellished with sparse drums and an old organ. This collection of solo improvisations is all about capturing the momen…
Ichida
Black Truffle present the release of Ichida, the first release from the duo of two important, yet often underappreciated musicians, Eiko Ishibashi and Darin Gray. Ishibashi is a singer-songwriter, keyboardist, drummer, and multi-instrumentalist, know…
35 S. Raymond Avenue
**Edition of 200** One afternoon in 1975, friend and fellow music traveler, Harold Schroeder, showed up at Poo-Bah Record Shop where Tom Recchion worked selling records and experimental music to people, forcing them to buy albums that he swore would …
Abacus Incognito
**Edition of 200 (numbered)** New primitive-suburban-folk music from Temple City and Pasadena, CA, circa 1973-4. This new edition is culled from the original unissued Smegma tape vaults of Ju Suk Reet Meate and represents the most pure expression of …
Programmed
** Edition of 200 copies in full-colour sleeve ** Matt Middleton (Crude, The Aesthetics, Dirtlove): "The Futurians are a band that have soul. Their music, a pulsating, minimalist, primitivist, machinistic monster of a thing is at once fiction and fan…
Sido Not Dead
** Edition of 200 copies in silk-screened sleeve. ** As reported by Campbell Kneale (Birchville Cat Motel, Our Love Will Destroy The World, C-Psi-P): "I narrowly avoided an English-second-language tete-a-tete in Belgium once when I refused to believe…
Two Words
Two Words is the debut release from the duo of Canadian sound artist Crys Cole and Australian songwriter Francis Plagne. Building on a series of experimental live performances in which the pair toyed with possible common languages for their seemingly…
Time Actor
Time Actor was the result of a collaboration between legendary Crazy World & Kingdom Come visionary Arthur Brown and German synthesizer and ambient genius Klaus Schulze, recording under the pseudonym of his alter-ego Richard Wahnfried. "Richard" is t…
It’s Just Us Starving in the Land of Plenty
Interlocking stories unfolding in a nonlinear way, about several characters connected by disorientation, desolation, isolation, mystification, starvation, alienation, hallucination, transformation and love. Or, a reflection on the human condition in …
When Apples Battle Gravity
When Apples Battle Gravity is a radio opera; a concept album about different characters discussing the failure of communication and being outsiders. It’s about consecutiveness of reactions and the attempt at creating empathy. The complex narrative th…
Blue Blew It
Keijo Virtanen: guitar, vocal, mouth-harp, maraca. Alex Reed: ukulele, bass, drums, volcas, c5, omnichord, organ, samples, backing vocals. All music recorded at Keljo, Jyväskylä, Finland
Weld
Faith Coloccia and Alex Barnett return to Blackest Ever Black with their second duo album, Weld; working with synthesizers, effected vocals, raw electrical noise, field recordings, EVP techniques, tape manipulation, and drum machines to create a musi…
Naldjorlak I, II, III
2018 much-needed repress, reduced price! The Naldjorlak trilogy composed between 2004 and 2009. 'Naldjorlak I' for cello. Charles Curtis. 'Naldjorlak II' for two basset horn. Carol Robinson and Bruno Martinez. 'Naldjorlak III' for two basset horn and…
The World of Arthur Russell
Re-press of this all-time classic... Soul Jazz Records are re-releasing their seminal retrospective on Arthur Russell. Since the initial groundbreaking release of ‘The World of Arthur Russell’ Russell has become the subject of intense media interest.…
Selected occasions of handsome deceit
"Rel012 is the recorded debut of the trio Nmperign with Jake Meginsky. Pressed on 160 gram copper plate mastered vinyl, Rel012 features Nmperign in an energized, turn-on-a-dime form. Prodded by Meginsky into unnamable, angular textures, the trio is …