New Arrivals
Rain (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
*2024 stock* Original motion picture soundtrack album. A film by Janno Jürgens. Recorded in Tallinn, December 2019.
Nasim-e Sahar
Nasim-e Sahar (The Breath of the Dawn) by Asareh Shekarchi (on tombak and āvāz), and Bahareh Fayazi (on tar) is a reinterpretation of works by master Iranian singer Reza-Qoli Mirza Zelli (1906 - 1946). This recording features a variety of modal divisions of Iranian music with poetry that speaks of both earthly and mystical love stories. Sparse and powerful, Nasim-e Sahar showcases the technical virtuosity and improvisational mastery of these two artists. By reinterpreting the masterpieces of a m…
Iskra
*300 copies limited edition* Iskra is the debut album by Polish multi-instrumentalist and composer Olga Anna Markowska. Starting at “Dawn” and ending at “Dusk”, it is a journey of melancholic depth and true beauty filled with warm memories from what was & what could be.
Using zither, cello, electronics and occasional wordless voice, Olga weaves together something so affecting and under the skin beautiful that it is hard to shake, bringing to mind classics from artists like Jacaszek and William B…
Lava Love
Recorded during a residency in Tenerife powered by Keroxen Festival and Discrepant back in 2020 - amidst the pandemic, no less -, the duo of Carlos Godinho and Mestre André return after their 'Mãe D'Água' debut on Sucata Tapes and an entry on Keroxen's Aquapelago Series through a split with tropical druids Lagoss. Mostly captured in performance through a quadraphonic system placed inside a huge disused fuel tank, with a few tracks recorded out in the open throughout the island, 'Lava Love' evoke…
List of Demands
List of Demands, Damon Locks’s first foray into creating an entire album from spoken and text-based work, finds the Chicago-based musician and educator collecting cultural abstractions and reorganizing them into a firm truth. The album lays out a vision of Black liberation and transmits it outward as a song cycle of bite-sized Nikki Giovanni-meets-MF DOOM-style rhythm experiments. The sample-based constructions are steeped in a lifetime of not only keen cultural observation, but direct communal …
A Gun To The People's Temple
180 Gram Vinyl - Limited Edition Lenticular Cover. Edition of 250. The Infamous “Death Tape” from Saturday, November 18th 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana. Reverend Jim Jones commands The Peoples Temple to commit an act of revolutionary suicide. In this recording you will hear the final moments Rev. Jones and his followers make the case for poison as one brave soul defiantly opposes.
Dedicated to the defiance of Christine Miller
Drying Up The Streets
Tip! Black Vinyl. MIA/Mass Marriage collab LP, between aggressiveness and melancholy, raw industrial and eerie melodies. Vancouver-based artist Melissa Paget offers the pinnacle of Mass Marriage's unique vision: suffocating heavy electronics, abrasive noise, and harrowing vocals that conjure up a dense, intimate atmosphere
Mass Death
Edition of 300 copies on blood and cum vinyl. Original raw power electronics recorded, from the cult band from New York City, active in the early 1990s - release split across 3 sleeve variants...chosen at random mastered by Grant Richardson. Final Solution developed some of the most raw and powerful power electronics ever. They may be likened to "Great White Death" period Whitehouse, yet they exude a raw New York brutality that only an American-born band can provide. The symbol on the cover is f…
Illuminated by the Moon (4LP + Cd+ Book) box
Long sold-out second edition of 500 numbered copies of this stunning set of 4LP, CD and book in heavy box celebrating Alvin Lucier's 85th birthday.
Når Man Ser Inn I En Annens Hjerte
Tip! Nærværet is a Scandinavian collaboration by Mattias Gustafsson (Altar of Flies) and Andreas Barsleth (Jordmenneske). If you are familiar with their individual works, you’ll know they operate on the same wavelength. On ’Når Man Ser Inn I En Annens Hjerte’, they’ve created something truly beautiful: serene landscapes of tangible presence. Comforting sounds, gathered from rural surroundings blend seamlessly with restrained, still instrumentation. These elements are manipulated with tapes and l…
Love Potion Number 999 (aka The Long Playlist - The Big Bubble Party)
Once is not custom, Fractal Records is celebrating an anniversary for the first time in its history, but not just any anniversary, its 30th. For this commemoration, Fractal Records presents: « Love Potion Number 999 aka the Long Playlist - The Big Bubble Party » a compilation:
- Conceptual, centered on an album cover and a song by The Clovers for the theme with the number 9 as a highlight.- Eclectic, to remain in perfect harmony with the label’s editorial line since its creation.- International,…
Listen and Die!
Tip! The reissue of the legendary six-cassette box set "Listen and Die!" by Slaughter Productions, first released in 1997, is now available once again. In 2015, this iconic collection was first released on vinyl, with an initial pressing of 300 vinyl records for each title produced in Germany without covers, featuring lacquer cut by SST. However, only 199 covers for each title and matching boxes were crafted in Italy, each hand numbered and subsequently made available for sale, while the remaini…
Mercurated
*Limited Edition of 99 copies. Gold vinyl, Soundohm exclusive * We are excited to announce the eagerly awaited reissue of Merzbow's seminal album 'Mercurated' on double vinyl, originally released on CD in 1996 by Alchemy Records. This milestone in the noise genre captures the essence of Masami Akita's innovative approach to sound, an exploration of the boundaries of auditory experience that continues to resonate with artists and listeners alike. The new vinyl edition features a remaster by James…
The Albums: 1968-1972
14LP box set, black vinyl, slipmat, and a 64-page book. 1968 to 1972, saw the release of 6 studio albums from Folk’s first supergroup Pentangle. Featuring the songwriting talents of guitarists Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, alongside bassist Danny Thompson, drummer Terry Cox and singer Jacqui McShee, their innovative folk-fusion encompassed elements of jazz as well as pop, which left a lasting influence and legacy. The first 5 albums were released on legendary Folk label Transatlantic, while Sol…
Music For Diego Marcon's Works
Art edition, LP + booklet, English / Italian, 31.5 x 31.5 cm, 36 pages. Starting with the film Monelle (2017), music has been a fundamental part of almost every work by the artist Diego Marcon. Federico Chiari’s compositions emerge from his ongoing dialogue with the artist. The music and the imagery take shape together, riffing off one another as they are interwoven to define both the structure and the emotional temperature of the pieces. The collaboration between Marcon and Chiari revolves arou…
Circles Of Song
For two hours, the public and passersby are invited to freely join the singing improvisations directed by three choir leaders: Liévine Hubert, Tom Mannaerts and Baptiste Vaes.In this moment of collective singing, people who do not know each other will share the same tune, creating spontaneous complicity through rehearsals. Circles of Songs is a performance by Raffaella Crispino, commissioned by BOZAR Center for Fine Arts Brussels, performed on the 21st of December 2022, as part of Rebirth/Third …
RING!
*Limited Edition 150 copies* Ring! is an artist album by Francesco Cavaliere and Dick El Demasiado created during A Week From Monday 2023, an artistic residency organized in Umbria by Viaindustriae Publishing and Holydays Festival. The residency involves a week-long research and production phase, in which the artists divide their time between Foligno's industrial zone and the mountain village of Scopoli with the intent of exploring possible points of contact between visual and sonic artistic lan…
Swing Low
Modern Obscure Music is proud to present Pierre Bastien & DJ Low's “Swing Low”, a work that fuses the poetic inventiveness of Pierre Bastien with the visionary legacy of the late DJ Low (Tom Deweerdt), a central figure in Belgian independent music and founder of the influential Lowlands label. This album, which interweaves memory and experimentation, represents Bastien's debut on the Barcelona label's catalog and a testament to the creative bond between the two artists. The album, composed of se…
John Cage memorial
Big tip! The Kiyosato Museum of Contemporary Art was located in Kiyosato, Yamanashi prefecture from 1990 to 2014. It was a private art museum with a permanent exhibit based on a collection of unrivalled scale. The museum also collected and mounted exhibitions on the work of radical contemporary composers, including John Cage. The museum’s primary informant on music was sound designer Yutaka Hirose, one of the pioneers of Japan’s environmental music (kankyō ongaku) movement in the 1980s. In 1992,…
Magia Dalla Mente Astratta
*2024 stock* Dedicated Alla Visione Eterna "quando la tua visione della musica appare in un sogno...puoi solo portarla nella realtà"
Supported by : Lino Capra Vaccina, Nuel, Donato Dozzy, Lena Willikens, Jane Fitz, Massimo Amato, Joey Anderson, Herva, Roberto Bosco, Volcov, XDB, Paquita Gordon