Upcoming releases
Sonidos Y Modulaciones De La Selva
Italian sound artist Marco Shuttle debuts on Astral Industries with AI-39. Alluring and evocative, ‘Sonidos y Modulaciones de la Selva’ is a journey deep into the Amazon rainforest, seeking to capture its power and vastness, but also a rumination on the problem of its impending destruction.
In this album Shuttle sees the continuation and further ripening of an ongoing creative process, utilising both audio and visual documentations as source material. On this occasion most of the field recording…
The Flip Side
Sometimes records reflect life with an unsettling precision, your own breath sticking to a mirror, confounding or transforming reality. J.H. Guraj, real name Dominique Vaccaro, is back with ‘The Flip Side’, an accomplished work of grace and sprawling elegance documenting struggle and a near-death experience that summons ghosts of Western primitive masters, rollicking free folk, minimalist orchestrations, weeping guitars and smooth psychedelics.
Time stopped for J.H. Guraj in 2021 following a br…
Quantum Web EXP
Discovery Zone’s Quantum Web EXP is an expanded journey through the shimmering circuitry of 2024’s Quantum Web, the second album by the New York-born and based musician and multi-media artist JJ Weihl. This extended version, marking the year anniversary of Quantum Web, invites listeners deeper into Discovery Zone’s maze, where melodies fracture and reform, music becomes mirror and mirage, and circuitous patterns lead to electric dreams.
Cosa Rara
A prolific and limitless musician, performer, composer, and sound artist, Lucrecia Dalt challenges both genre and form, pulling apart familiar elements of pop and experimental music and reassembling them in unexpected ways. Breaking through to a wider audience with her acclaimed 2022 album ¡Ay!, Dalt has also made a name as a composer for film and TV, including her original, acclaimed scores for HBO’s series The Baby, Cannes 2024 feature film winner On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, and the forthcoming…
Fire
In the space of a couple of years, Stephen Grew has recorded three absolutely sparkling solo piano releases for Discus Music. All three are spontaneous improvisations arising from years of practice and refinement. Grew is a massively undervalued artist - follow the story he tells across this release and its two predecessors and I'm sure you'll agree.
Stephen Grew writes: "Recorded in the Great Hall, Lancaster University, on the 22nd November 2024. This music was recorded on a Steinway D and what…
Toxic Colour
This collection of pieces originates from environmental sounds recorded using 3D ambisonic microphones. The recordings have been deconstructed, processed, and composed into abstract musical journeys that no longer transport the listener to the original recording locations. Instead, they tell stories— partly of human-made dystopias and partly in search of a melancholic beauty in what the future may hold.“Natasha Barrett’s insightful attention to the spatial and durational character of real-world …
Sideworlds
*200 copies limited edition* From the depths of solitude and the fringes of civilization emerges the latest release from Ansiktsløs, the project of R. Ikstelzok, also known for his work in Apocryphos and Psychomanteum. Forged in the shadows of the Pennsylvania wilderness, this album is a meditation on the final cycle of humanity, capturing the weight of solitude, erosion, and detachment from the modern world. We are proud to bring forth Ansiktsløs, an enigmatic new entity from one of the dark am…
Un Monolito en llamas quiebra el Horizonte
*300 copies limited edition* In the twilit caverns of Serra de Collserola, a crooked journey begins. The vague contour of the Hierophant emerges in an ash-pale fog. He stretches his arms towards the sky. He opens his mouth, and from it radiates the blinding light of swallowed suns. He howls — he shouts — he roars: words that crackle like fire. Words that unravel worlds. Words that hew, from ancient rock and staves oaken wood, hymns of hypnotic grandeur, liminal laments, and solemn songs of comfo…
Minotaur - Ananke
Darja Kazimira Unveils “Minotaur - Ananke”: A Sonic Journey Into Myth and Fate
inedit' 79
We no longer need to introduce the Cortex group and its leader Alain Mion! So here's the double single in 45rpm format from the “Inedit' 79” project, which came out of the drawers in 2006 and features recordings from 1979 and 1981 that were unpublished before 2006.
The track “I Heard A Sigh” has been sampled by a number of hip-hop artists, while “Where Do You Come From” will not appear on the LP due out at the end of April 2025.
River The Timbre Of Guitar #2 Rei Harakami
A collection of ten hypnotic guitar renditions that dive deeply into the traditional compositional musicality that underpins Harakami’s hallucinatory beatscapes before reconsidering them under a fresh, innovative and engaging new light. River: The Timbre of Guitar #2 Rei Harakami signals a new level of awareness and understanding of both Rei Harakami’s significance and Ayane Shino’s undeniable talent.In 1996 Tokyo-based label Sublime Records received a cassette demo from Rei Harakami, a 26-year-…
The Wind That Had Not Touched Land
Annie A, the one-off collaborative project between Félicia Atkinson, Time is Away, Christina Petrie and Maxine Funke, arrives on A Colourful Storm with an inquisitive, exploratory composition evoking questions of inconstancy and reconciliation, vastness and finitude and the sometimes cruel deception of human perception. Who will conduct our dreams if we never wake?
It is a geographically diverse yet like-minded ensemble whose seeds were sown during an A Colourful Storm show in London, where tim…
Aunes
Aunes is a rare solo album from peripatetic Australian cellist-composer-performer Judith Hamann, presenting six pieces recorded across several years and countries. Developing the collage techniques and expanded sound palettes heard on their previous releases, Aunes makes use of synthesizers, organ, voice and location recordings alongside the dazzlingly pure, enveloping tones of Hamann’s cello. The record takes its name from an old French unit of measurement for fabric, varying around the country…
Issue 81 (Magazine)
Cover article: Choice French Label Classics: Arcane & Cryptoplus: Twilight Of The Alchemists - book review, Arbete och Fritid & Archimedes Badkar - Scandinavian fusion legends 8, David Borden and Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. - interview, Irish progressive rock, 25 questions with Benoit Widemann interview, Supersister archive, labels: Empreintes Digitales, Modulisme, Buh Records, Cardinal Fuzz, Syngate, Whitelabrecs, Blue Matter, die Schachtel, reviews: Dr space, Elephant9, Supersist…
Disappearing
*100 copies limited edition* In his latest musical endeavor, "Disappearing", Danish electronic musician Mathias Hammerstrøm, under the alias Amphior, embarks on an introspective journey where the tangible dissolves into the ethereal. Following his 2022 release, "Another Presence", Mathias delves into mesmeric spaces characterized by melodious pianoworks warmly infused with the nostalgic tones of tape machines, guitar pedals, and retro amplifiers. As the luminous glow of analog synths intermitten…
Kirkeskibet
*Dubbed on reused ferro tapes* Music for fictive radio stations. Made as a sound installation that was part of a performance talk about fictive world scenarios. Mostly made with circuit bend radios and found music in a stack of unsorted cassettes.
Vibratory noise in anthropogenic habitats
*Dubbed on reused ferro tapes* Guitar music measured mostly by quietude not amplitude. Bold recording techniques - new amp. Everything recorded during a period of two nights.
Blue braki place along
New alias from Alexander Holm. A strangely private sounding document of humming voice, midi harp, feedback and ghostly field recordings. Truly unclassifiable music.
Spilledåse serenader
Strange and beautiful debut cassette from another great friend of the label. One hour of slowly dissolving Music box / tape Music. Ghostly melodies weaving in an out of each other until the tape runs out.