Act of Tenderness
Cindy Lee is the diva alter-ego of singer / guitarist / drag queen Patrick Flegel, the one-time captain of heralded Canadian experimental guitar pop act, Women. In Flegel's working on / as Cindy Lee exclusively over recent years, their songwriting makes a move toward high atmospherics, often achieving a mysterious sweetness rooted equally in beauty and ache.
As Cindy Lee's first long-form statement, Act Of Tenderness makes use of antipodal themes to create a living sound: static with grace, dist…
Malenkost
Cindy Lee is the brainchild of singer / guitarist Patrick Flegel. While some may know Flegel from their time spent in Canadian experimental indie band Women, Cindy Lee has spent the past four years crafting songs that push and pull in opposing directions – from tales of tragedy laced with haywire distortion to moments of breathtaking beauty.
On Malenkost, Flegel combines everything that makes Cindy Lee so essential: heart-wrenching romantic pleas, rough shards of noise and twilit ballads. Featur…
Decoder
Released on standalone CD for the first time in 33 years, this now-complete edition of the ground-breaking cult soundtrack is finally here.
The Oracle
Big tip! *300 copies limited edition, includes download card* Acclaimed New York-based composer Lea Bertucci offers The Oracle, a striking, vocal-focused collection of music that spans six tracks of adventurous sounds steeped in mysticism and imagination, over three years in the making. Her first purely solo endeavor since 2021’s much lauded A Visible Length of Light (Cibachrome Editions), The Oracle breaks new ground within the scope of Bertucci’s singular voice as an artist.
The Oracle is an al…
Translations
Artist and multi-instrumentalist Flaer embraces the search for quiet miracles on first full-length LP Translations.
Helegy
2005 release ** "Here we are, grappling with the twin-needle turntable, the forced-groove vinyl, the ambient feedback, and everything else. The tracks reproduced and mistreated in the eleven excruciating episodes of the mini are this time by AMK. It's only right to recommend the album to fans of the most stripped-down and minimal dark ambient music."
Il Gesto Del Suono
2009 release ** Featuring: Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Steve Jansen, Demetrio Stratos, Emanuele Casale, Robert Ashley, Stefano Scodanibbio, Edoardo Sanguineti, Nine Horses, Walter Prati, Robert Wyatt, Fred Frith, Massimiliano Viel, Picchio Dal Pozzo.
Il lago è il cielo del bosco e tutte le rane cantano in coro
* Limited edition of 200 copies, comes with insert * La Festa delle Rane (literally the frog's party) are one of the most singular outputs from the vibrant Italian underground community of the last couple of years. Innocent, at times flawed, full of candour and tenderness and just enough spice to make things take a grandiose detour into the eerie and unsettling. Il lago è il cielo del bosco e tutte le rane cantano in coro originally released on tape for Ruego in 2022 and now remastered for viny…
Cat O’ Nine Tails
W.25TH is proud to announce the reissue of Cindy Lee's Cat O' Nine Tails, originally released in 2020 as an extremely limited edition of 50 lathe-cut LPs housed in silk-screened jackets. This essential collection, released in the wake of What's Tonight To Eternity, has long captivated die-hard fans with its perfect synthesis of classic songwriting and classical composition.
The album opens with the gothic drama of "Our Lady Of Sorrows," flowing into the manic exploration of the title track befor…
Iron Winter - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
De la Catessen Records proudly presents the original soundtrack for Iron
Winter by Port Adelaide based composer Luke Altmann in a hand-numbered vinyl edition of 250 copies.
Turntable Solos
After the conceptual depth of "Parallel Traces of the Jewel Voice" (2021), dj sniff returns to Discrepant with a more direct and visceral document: Turntable Solos.
Vaccine
Recorded live at Arts Isozaki, Mito, Japan, on 21st September 2021, the final day of Kikuchi's solo exhibition Vaccine. Kikuchi Yoshihiro played the following instruments that partially compose his installation work 153 Years shown at the exhibition:Electronic device that converts analog video signal into audio analog signal and vice versa, VHS video tape, video cassette recorder, cathode-ray tube television, effects pedals, and mixer.
Instruments
Water Damage is ten people from one town and one sound from twelve people. For Instruments, the plus two are guitarist David Grubbs and saxophonist Patrick Shiroishi, neither of whom blunt the angle or confound the aim. The tempo? Slow and low. Four tracks, averaging twenty minutes each, the pace never above a comfortable walk. The damage creeps, a forest becomes a mountain, and the faithful move forward. The album is named after Fugazi, in a manner, and "Reel 25" takes after the Shocklee Brothe…
The Destroyed Room B-Sides And Rarities
2025 stock The Destroyed Room: B-sides And Rarities, a band-chosen collection of near-hidden Sonic Youth gems. The album brings together songs from throughout the band's career with Geffen, focusing on tracks previously available only on vinyl, limited-release compilations, or as b-sides to international singles. The tracks were hand picked by the band and also include material that has never before been released.
U TA
In November 2017, something extraordinary happened in Shibuya. As Shuta Hasunuma began conjuring otherworldly sounds from a single Buchla Music Easel modular synthesizer, Keiji Haino—one of Japan's most uncompromising experimental voices—responded by singing "Kimigayo," the Japanese national anthem. What started as an unplanned encounter between two visionary musicians has now crystallized into U TA, an album that brilliantly captures the haunting and complex interplay of Haino's resonant …
Desert: Guitar Solo For Reel-to-reel Tape Recording
Mamer first became known as a dombra virtuoso and a modern master of Kazakh folk music. Over the years, he has evolved into a prolific and versatile artist, working across the boundaries of both tranditional and contemporary music. Mamer leads seven band projects: IZ, Bande, Mekrop, TAT, Mask, 51-Rayon, and Kunakar. He has released over 30 records, presenting a diversity of distinct styles including folk, ambient, industrial, noise, improvisation, and drone music.
“Every Mamer is brand new”. On…
The Wringing Cloth
The final album of Henry Birdsey’s (Tongue Depressor) textured and immersive country laments project, Old Saw. This final document highlights the range of the project’s vision, evading easy categorization.. Some of the most direct and emotive music yet from Birdsey.
Answers
Tip! Benjamin Bennett has worked as an improvising percussionist for 10 years, touring North America and Europe as a soloist, in various ensembles, and ad-hoc collaborations. He developed a unique approach to percussion which took the lineage of free-jazz, free-improvisation, Berlin reductionism, and extended technique playing as its foundation. In searching for an expanded sonic palette, and more fluid movement between various techniques, he distilled the drumset into a small collection of drum…
Sprut
1995 release ** Limited edition of 499 hand-numbered copies in oversized cardboard sleeve. "Sprut "Progetto Numero 1" creates a new soundscape and texture by overlaying a saxophone solo on top of a rock band,he is "superimposing... "plagarism" an schizophrenia/"schizophonia". Tzadik Records made a re-press of this CD as part of its composer series, adding "Progetto Numero 2", and "Progetto Numero 3". under the title guise, Sprut by Italian composer Giustino Di Gregorio."