The Great Wall / Chanta Khat
* Original 1991 edition on Ranta's own Asian Sound Records imprint * Michael Ranta has collaborated with Takehisa Kosugi, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Jean-Claude Eloy, Conny Plank, Mike Lewis, and Hartmut Geerken, just to name a few. He was also assistant to H…
Azabu
Edition of 500. CD and 8 page booklet in gatefold cardboard sleeve * Even though only being fully terminated 50 years after its conception, 'Azabu' can be regarded as the starting point of Michael Ranta’s creative self-discovery. The recordings that …
Not One, Not Two
Y Bülbül is back on the controls accompanied by Yumurta, a percussionist from Istanbul. Pingipung introduced the London based artist in 2020 with his psychedelic, synth-laden debut “Fever”. “Not One, Not Two” is based on a one-way transmission of …
Fire Point
Tip! *Edition of 100.* Fire Point is multicolored and elusive. The sounds contained therein are agitated, fluid and amorphous, as if listening to the sonic realizations of various characteristics of multiple landscapes. Branches intersect, tree folia…
Environmental Meditation Music
*Limited edition of 305 copies, each copy is unique.* Environmental Meditation Music (EMM) is a collaborative project with the natural world. Developed by the artists Sam McLoughlin (N.Racker, Sam and the plants) and David Chatton Barker (Folklore Ta…
Caught In The Dilemma Of Being Made To Choose
Full title: "Caught in the dilemma of being made to choose" This makes the modesty which should never been closed off itself Continue to ask itself: "Ready or not?" The renowned trio of Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke, and Oren Ambarchi return to Black Tru…
Jaikiera
Ana Arsuaga sings in Basque and recovers the Basque oral tradition in her songs, taking the past to the future. Traditional folk songs and stories as modern day post-pop, with reverb soaked drum-machines and casiotone synths replacing traditional ins…
Immanent in Nervous Activity
** Edition of 400 copies. Printed in deep black and metallic silver on extra matt white heavy cardboard, includes black/silver limited "Zepelin" poster cm 30x90 ** Riding the razor’s edge between bristling electroacoustic wizardry and the constrained…
Underground Altena
Alga Marghen returns with an absolute stunner, the LP “Underground Altena”, comprising a never before heard or released series of recordings capturing Anima - the duo of Limpe Fuchs and Paul Fuchs - in 1973. Largely rendered on a striking array of in…
Musiques Vertes
A document of pure sonic magic and stunningly organic creativity, Holidays Records drops the first ever vinyl reissue of Jean-Yves Bosseur's visionary 1982 LP “Musiques Vertes”, recorded by the legendary French ornithologist and wildlife field record…
World Speaks
** Edition of 300 ** World Speaks by Piotr Kurek. It consists of seven vivid paintings. We are greeted by processed voices. A bit later we listen to a fine reed solo, while an organist performs a meditative melody. Hints of a human presence, but Worl…
The Ear Cannot Be Filled With Hearing
Abschattungen is the band Giovanni Di Domenico formed to pay hommage to everything that goes under the name ‘funk’. Strong grooves are laid under a forest of psychedelic textures and intense melodies, filling the auditory space with dense metaphysic …
Hiking The Trails Of Mount Muzak
No time to waste: nine months after Tim Vanhamel released 'Dubs Pour Oh La La', his debut album under the moniker Comité Hypnotisé, the Millionaire frontman presents already the second album 'Hiking The Trails Of Mount Muzak'. Hardly leaving any trac…
Sift
Debut LP from this new Philadelphia four-piece whose members include Siltbreeze, Blackest Ever Black, Vitrine, Cor Ardens, & Kashual Plastik alumni. With one sought-after tape behind them the band attempt a surreal approximation of nice music.
Their …
Sonic Gnostic
A truly stunning piece of work, Aspen Edities’ latest - Eyvind Kang’s “Sonic Gnostic” - radically bridges the worlds of minimal composition, rigorous experimentation, and improvised forms, in ways that locks Kang in the mind as one of America’s most …
…et après (2Lp)
After an already productive year, Alga Marghen, in the guise of their sub-imprint, Planam, delivers, “…et après”, an astounding double LP of archival material documenting the collaboration between Luc Ferrari and Ensemble Laborintus. Issued in a limi…
Recherche Dans Le Rêve (LP)
Tip! ' Edition of 300' After a couple of limited art releases on Des Astres D’Or (now Astres d’Or) this is the first more widely available release of Wendingen 1918. Aural analogue surreal investigations by the trio of Raymond Dijkstra (Asra, bhaavit…
Memories of Perversion
Waswaas wanders further down the path of analogue and modular darkness, casting out his first album, Memories of Perversion. The 11 tracks traverse a range of electronic moods, tinged with moments of liturgical voicing, dissonant canonistic sequence…
Mind Maintenance (LP)
Meditative moods from the Chicago duo of bassist Josh Abrams and percussionist Chad Taylor. With Taylor on mbira and Abrams on guimbri, instruments from diverse African states, finding a new pairing that moves past world music and jazz into something…