Upcoming releases
Dalga: A Selection of 80’s Pop Oddities from Turkey
Dalga – A Selection of ’80s Pop Oddities from Turkey is the first compilation to bring together rare Turkish pop oddities from the 1980s, and the first compilation to explore how new studio technologies shaped the sound of 1980s Turkish pop and dance music. Features six tracks that were released only on rare cassette tapes.
In the aftermath of Turkey’s 1980 military coup, collective music-making gradually gave way to studio-based production, as drum machines, samplers, and synthesisers took cent…
everyone
'Everyone' was Recorded in Tokyo, Japan over two days in late September 2025. The album musically chronicles Greg Foat's first tour of Japan. The album was commisioned by Tokyo based clothing Label 'Everyone' and is a fantastic mix of Ambient, Jazz and Electronic music genres
Each track celebrates a special memory of the tour, from the opener 'Shirahama Beach' home to the wonderful FFKT festival to the playful 'Lake Haruna Boat Ride'. The album also features Tokyo based jazz musicians Kensuke Mi…
Spiritual Jazz 19 - West Coast USA Part 2: 70s & 80s
Two x 2LP sets that examine the influence and expression of the underground jazz that evolved in California and surrounding states during the latter part of the 20th century.
Spiritual Jazz 19 - West Coast USA Part 1 & 2: 50s - 80s
Two x CD sets that examine the influence and expression of the underground jazz that evolved in California and surrounding states during the latter part of the 20th century.
Dossier
Another four Umiliani favourites remastered and reissued on seven inch for the first time. Dirty disco business on the A and super psych sounds on the B.
Dossier is taken from Moggi - News! News! News! (Sound Work Shop) 1979
Discomania is from The Soundwork-Shoppers - Discomusic (Sound Work Shop) 1978
Mondo Dove Vai? (Complesso Beat Con Effetti Elettronici Version) from Piero Umiliani – Questo Sporco Mondo Meraviglioso (Omicron) 1971
Hippies (Part 2) from Piero Umiliani – Psichedelica (Omicron) …
Gamelan Music of Bali: Field Recordings by Deben Bhattacharya, 1973-74
A first-time vinyl & cassette release for pioneering Bengali ethnomusicologist, filmmaker and radio producer Deben Bhattacharya's Bali field recordings, captured in the historic villages of Puri Karangasem, Tegaltamu, and Kayumas Kaja between December 1973 and January 1974. Searingly beautiful and hypnotic, these are some of the finest candid, open-air sonic documents made of gong keybar orchestras accompanying authentic dance-dramas, ceremonial funeral rites and shadow puppetry plays. The 2LP i…
I'll Never, Never Die: Southern Gospel Boogie, 1948-55
DINTE presents a collection of southern gospel sides from late 1940s to mid 1950s capturing the post-WWII departure from rural folk & shape-note singing traditions that had previously defined the music, to quartets and vocal harmony groups embracing of driving, uptempo boogie-woogie rhythms and spirituals borrowed from the black church. Meticulously transferred and restored from the original 78 RPM and transcription discs by collector James Zurek.
split
*40 copies limited edition* We’re living through a difficult period to be publishing creative music (which is really the least of our problems!) And the 7” format seems to have taken an exceptionally hard blow, with apparently little interest from pressing plants in making the format affordable again. But at Physical we’re thoroughly convinced that the little record is a perfect platform for big ideas, and we plan to stay a believer despite financial hardship and almost zero commercial viability…
Unit of Heart
*300 copies limited edition* A quiet intensity permeates Chantal Michelle’s music, like a veiled flame. Even at its most spare and delicate, an undulating tension unsettles the ear through wavering microtonal interference and uncanny spatial juxtaposition. She takes seriously the mandate of the composer to foster new relationships between various types of sounds, bringing together disparate field recordings, instrumental stems, and the sounds of circuitry in unheard configurations. Resolution is…
Our Souls Sing From Within
A new LP by JJ Whitefield (Poets of Rhythm, Whitefield Brothers etc) and Gonçalo Mortágua on Ultraääni Records.
Captain of the Birds
*100 copies limited edition* Jukka Rintamäki composes music for video games, films, and theater. He has a background in indie music with the band Silverbullit and has composed music for the video games Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4. In recent years, he has also produced and performed live with the band Kite. The music is mostly acoustic, featuring the piano, cello, and alto horn. However it also incorporates some electronic music.
“The album is inspired by the book Terre des hommes by Antoine …
Angels and Demons at Play
The Brussels-based collective re#encounter will release its debut album, Angels and Demons at Play, on September 18, 2026, via W.E.R.F. records. With gnawa grooves, cumbia, griot storytelling, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, and ecstatic jazz improvisations, the nine-piece ensemble crafts a distinctive, spiritual, and above all, danceable jazz idiom.
At the heart of the album lies trance. Hicham Bilali's gnawa, Kaito Winse's relentless energy, Paula León's cumbia roots, and the spellbinding jazz improvi…
Apologizing To Ghosts
*150 copies limited edition* Apologizing To Ghosts is a hauntological meditation on the haunted house: its lingering detritus of memories, its cobwebs of remorse, its loops replaying in darkened corners, ghosts quietly apologizing to the ghosts of ghosts. For Varian, ghosts aren't made of ectoplasm so much as of injustice, longing and regret, the unfinished business that keeps them, and us, tethered to some moment we wish we could undo.
As on many previous 400 Lonely Things albums, every sound h…
Yerevan Nights (Soviet Armenian City Pop 1986-1992)
Available October 30th, 2026, this compilation pulls back the Iron Curtain to bring a bevy of physically unreleased music of Soviet-era Armenia. Songs that were exclusively broadcast on radio and television, stored on reel-to-reel tapes, and shelved in a government-owned vault alongside tens of thousands of various recordings by Armenian artists - all inaccessible to the public. Fully licensed from Public Radio of Armenia, with additional clearance from all composers or their living descendants …
Quiet Forest
"My encounter with the Hoh Rain Forest, located inside Olympic National Park across the water from Seattle, felt like seeing a whole new world for the first time in my life. Long green fronds draped along the branches, like a scene in which fairies could be heard whispering to one another. But when you try to listen, no sound can be heard. Amidst the mysterious silence, in which no birds or insects make a sound, every living thing seemed to have stopped in its place, only to start dancing when s…
Forest of Tranquility
When Japanese artist Masayoshi Fujita was invited to create the soundtrack for Expo 2025’s vast living nature installation, Forest of Tranquility, he immediately envisioned a relaxing public space in which visitors could tune out the noise and restore their energies. Inside this green open-air sanctuary – visited by millions of people during the landmark Osaka event, which ran for six months – stood a central pond and 1,500 real trees, all rescued and repurposed from Expo’s former ‘70 site and o…
Iron
Originally released in 2000, Iron grew out of Pavlov's teenage fascination with heavy metal and the underground record-exchanging community of the late Soviet era. At fourteen, inspired by Iron Maiden's “Running Free,” he picked up a six-string guitar brought to him by his grandmother and decided that he and his friends could also play that kind of music. Before long, they were rehearsing in a Soviet youth club with whatever equipment was available, looking for the sound they heard in early heav…
Winterglare
Suspended somewhere between stillness and movement, Winterglare explores the fragile moments that exist beneath the surface: frozen landscapes, distant memories, quiet isolation, and the sudden brilliance of light reflected through the cold. The album unfolds as an immersive listening experience, inviting the audience into a world that feels both intimate and vast.
Rather than offering easy answers, Winterglare creates space for reflection. Its songs move through shadow and radiance, embracing c…
Machines: A History of Electronic Music (Book)
Jean-Michel Jarre's illustrated history of electronic music, built on his own collection of instruments: 150 machines from modular synths to one-off prototypes trace a century of electronic sound, with contributions from Vince Clarke, Gary Numan, Gillian Gilbert, Richie Hawtin and Hans Zimmer.
Home
The rat is back in the building due to circumstances beyond our control! “rat” is an electronic project born from the gutters of Brussels in 2024 by long-standing collaborators “neither” and “Milius.” After 15 years of hidden experiments they have been assembling a sonic language where glitch, ritualised circuitry and spectral noise merge. Originally released as a cassette on Futura, "home" now returns repressed on vinyl. Their debut unfolds as a labyrinth of disjointed rhythms, haunted textures…