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KANCHELI, GIYA	Music for Stage and Screen	2LP	TBILISI RECORDS	TBIL 002LP
$72.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/12/2026 Tbilisi Records presents the first volume in the series: Giya Kancheli: Music for Stage and Screen. Giya Kancheli (1935-2019) was one of the most acclaimed and beloved Georgian composers of the 20th century. He created celebrated symphonic and chamber works, but also brought depth and beauty to theater and cinema through his original scores. Working in tandem with directors, screenwriters, playwrights, and conductors, Kancheli helped to define multiple eras of Georgia's diverse, multidisciplinary artistic identity. In collaboration with the composer's family, Tbilisi Records has compiled a series of recordings of Kancheli's music composed for film and theater. This first double LP presents some of his earliest creations: music for two theater productions, Khanuma (1968) and The Straw Hat (1966), and one of the composer's earliest soundtracks, music for the film Extraordinary Exhibition (1968). This album includes archival recordings, unreleased tracks, and alternate takes from sessions made available here for the very first time. These collected examples from the composer's early career illustrate his already established style, while serving as a foundation from which to compare his later works and artistic evolution. Giya Kancheli: Music for Stage and Screen also highlights Kancheli's incredible propensity for collaboration, emphasizing his role as a critical figure in the constellation of artists that defined Georgia's creative milieu. The label extends its deepest gratitude to the family of Giya Kancheli, whose trust and kindness made this release possible. Cover painting by Revaz Gabriadze. Design by Sandro Tavartkiladze. Liner notes by Ben Wheeler, with materials adapted from Natalia Zeifas' book Pesnopenie (1991). Photographs from the private family archives.

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ELOY, JEAN-CLAUDE	Electro-Anahata	2CD	HORS TERRITOIRES	HT 019-20CD
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/5/2026 Electro-Anâhata (1986-1994). Fully electro-acoustic version of "Anâhata" realized on Jean-Claude Eloy's personal computer from the original electro-acoustic recordings of this work. Electro-acoustic works of a contemplative nature. Electro-acoustic parts alone of Âhata-Anâhata (struck sound -- unstruck sound) including a new unreleased part. Electronic music studios where the original "Anâhata" was produced (1984-86): Studio of the Sweelinck Conservatory of Music, Amsterdam (1984 and 1986), the entire production (pre-recorded material processing, new material generation, premixing) and all final mixing processes; Tokyo-Gakuso studio, Tokyo (1983): for the Shô and Ô-Shô (traditional mouth organs from Japan) sampling with Mayumi Miyata. Conny's Studio, Neuenkirchen, near Cologne (1984) with Asian Sound and Michael W. Ranta: metal percussion instrument sampling, including Bonshôs (Buddhist temple bells from Japan) sampling.

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ELOY, JEAN-CLAUDE	Le minuit de la foi	2CD	HORS TERRITOIRES	HT 024-25CD
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/5/2026 Le minuit de la foi ("The midnight of the faith") (2014) for electronic and concrete sounds, around selected sentences by Edith Stein recorded by German actress Gisela Claudius. New work from Jean-Claude Eloy, a long piece under the power of expanded sounds and sacred words. Le minuit de la foi is a double album, each CD of which forms a stand-alone entity. Each CD can therefore be listened to separately. However, you do need to listen to the full album for it to become meaningful through its complementary balances, and to grasp its very essence.

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ELOY, JEAN-CLAUDE	L'anneau des sept lumieres	CD	HORS TERRITOIRES	HT 022CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/5/2026 The Ring of the Seven Lights (Metametal, long version, 1994-95). Revision and new master (2013). Seven continuous variations from a single Bonshô sample (Buddhist temple traditional bell from Japan), a tribute to Inayat and Vilayat Khan. Jean-Claude Eloy: "I created and partially realized it in 1994-95 during this conversion of 'Anâhata' into an electro-acoustic version alone. I first made a short version out of it which integrated into 'Electro-Anâhata' and became the fourth station within the first part (around 'Âhata-Anâhata'). It was an entirely new part that had never been realized during the final mixing of the original Anâhata cycle."

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ELOY, JEAN-CLAUDE	Galaxies Full-Electro	CD	HORS TERRITOIRES	HT 021CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/5/2026 Galaxies (Warsaw version), electro-acoustic alone. Fully electro-acoustic version of "Anâhata/Galaxies" realized on the composer's personal computer from the original electro-acoustic recordings of this work. Jean-Claude Eloy: "In 1994 I had (for purely practical reasons) to remove these big electro-acoustic parts making up the two 'Galaxies' works from the piece they were connected with until then: Part III of my Anâhata cycle, entitled Nimîlana-Unmîlana ('that which awakens -- that which slumbers'). An electro-acoustic work integrating instrumental acoustic parts that required the performance of a Shô player from Japan. Those electro-acoustic parts were substantial enough to warrant a new configuration ensuring their stand-alone nature, independent of whether a performer was available or not. Therefore I used (apart from the two 'Galaxies') a set of particular sounds that I had generated during that production (all of them resulting from Shô sampled sound processing and modulations) entitled 'sons d'infinitude' ('sounds of indefiniteness'). These sustained sounds were very fixed, quite contemplative, almost motionless or maintained through short fluctuations that were more or less regular. They were five of them altogether. Four of them were grouped together into a consistent set and occurred after the first Galaxy, before the Shô solo. I had used them to compose a sequence called 'Awakening,' which formed the first Shô appearance in the version realized for the Donaueschingen Festival in 1990. The fifth one took place at the end of the second 'Galaxy' and was used to support the conclusion played on the Ô-Shô. In this purely electro-acoustic version the first four 'sons d'infinitude' came quite naturally as a 'bridge' between both Galaxies. The fifth sound kept its conclusive place, making it bigger and using it as a genuine 'extension sound' that could be infinite, with no limit!"

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ELOY, JEAN-CLAUDE	Etats-Limites ou les cris de Petra	CD	HORS TERRITOIRES	HT 023CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/5/2026 Borderlines or Petra's Shouts. Songs for the other half of the sky N°VII" (2013). After some reissue or first editions of old compositions, here's a brand-new composition from Jean-Claude Eloy. Made mostly with voice, bells and synthetic sounds this piece works like an electroacoustic lightning.

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LIGETI, LUKAS	Notebook	CD	NEW WORLD RECORDS	NW 80849CD
$15.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/29/2026 "Lukas Ligeti's (b. 1965) Notebook is several things: an album and an ensemble, but also a creative practice and an ongoing series of pieces, all situated in the liminal space 'somewhere between composition and improvisation.' As a creative practice, Notebook is Ligeti's evolving methodology for creating conditions in which structure and spontaneity blur and overlap, manifesting his musical voice while also giving players a great deal of expressive agency, as musicians who are willing and able to 'think aloud.' The members of Notebook -- the band -- are all musicians who thrive in the spaces in between, that is, who are fluent enough to move seamlessly between notated complexity and focused improvisation, and, as the occasions call for, to draw on and morph between several idioms, often within the span of a single piece. All four pieces on Notebook (the album) emerged from a multi-faceted process that, as the case may be, might begin with a handwritten score, which might include a combination of precisely notated pitches and rhythms, melodies without rhythms, rhythms without melodies, descriptions of processes, delineations of parameters, cues, things to do, and things not to do. But it might instead begin with verbal instructions, and/or a sonic object to be responded to. Over time Ligeti might mix-and-match these methods of transmission, or reshape the material altogether, the aim always being to best situate players to make conscious musical decisions while still realizing an extremely clear artistic vision. The result is music that feels both rigorously shaped and disarmingly spontaneous. The music of Notebook fully inhabits the composition/improvisation continuum: While some moments are clearly composed and others clearly improvised, there are many gradations -- 'an infinite amount of right' -- in between."

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GLASS, PHILIP	Music With Changing Parts	2LP	SUPERIOR VIADUCT	SV 211LP
$42.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/29/2026 "Philip Glass, the great American composer, was already in his mid-30s before his first album appeared, and then only because he produced the double LP himself. Music With Changing Parts was the inaugural release on his own Chatham Square imprint in 1971. At this point, Einstein on the Beach, Glass' first opera, was still five years away. Yet in Changing Parts, one can already hear much of his vocabulary in full bloom: the buoyant arpeggios, the melding of electronic and acoustic instruments, the elongated drones of human voice, the primary emphasis on pulse (an interest he shared with fellow composer Steve Reich) and the ecstatic potential inherent in repetition. The album features the original Philip Glass Ensemble -- the composer himself, along with Jon Gibson, Dickie Landry, Art Murphy, Steve Chambers, and Robert Prado -- playing Farfisa organs and woodwinds as well as Barbara Benary on electric violin. As Glass describes in his memoir Words Without Music, he secured a $500 interest-free loan for the recordings' initial release from the Hebrew Free Loan Society -- an organization intended to help immigrants from the Old World upon arrival in the US. Though Glass was merely the grandson of immigrants, the venture wasn't far off the society's charter as Changing Parts helped usher in a new world of sound that would become known as minimalism. Chatham Square went on to release albums by other composers in Glass' circle, including Gibson and Landry. The label was named after the Manhattan intersection where Landry had a studio and the ensemble rehearsed. Born in Baltimore in 1937, Glass first moved to New York to attend Juilliard at just nineteen, having already graduated from the University of Chicago. A staple of the Downtown scene, he can perhaps be appreciated as akin to the likes of sculptor Richard Serra or filmmaker Jim Jarmusch: mavericks who became major cultural figures entirely on their own terms. This first-time vinyl reissue reproduces the original side-breaks and gatefold sleeve."

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MORRIS, ROBERT	Carnatic String Quartet: Momenta Quartet	CD	NEW WORLD RECORDS	NW 80851CD
$15.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/29/2026 "The interesting thing about Robert Morris's (b. 1943) remarkable career as a composer (and a theorist) is how free he is to move from composing works of great rigor with intricate integrity in his use of pitch-class design, to works of sonic beauty to be performed in a natural outdoor environment, to imaginative electronic/computer music, to the music of acculturation. Among the latter, his monumental Carnatic String Quartet is an outstanding example. In his own words, 'Carnatic String Quartet (2020) is my fifth string quartet. As the title might imply, there is a connection between this work and Carnatic classical music of south India. While I do not try to imitate the styles and performance practices of Indian music in the quartet, the piece is based on the 72 fundamental 7-note 'melakarta' musical scales as set forth by Venkatamakhin in his treatise Chaturdandi Prakaasikaa as amended by Govindhacharya in the mid-17th-century. These scales include all western scales and modes and are well known to every musician in south India. My quartet presents these Indian scales over its three movements in an order that preserves the greatest number of common tones from scale to scale in the sequence. Therefore, the quartet is a series of 72 sections divided into three movements of 23, 25, and 24 sections each. The rhythmic language in the quartet has some connection to various rhythmic patterns in Indian music such as systematic permutation and repetition, especially in groups of five or seven units. Other rhythmic devices involve composed-out sensa misura passages and parlando styles.'"

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ELOY, JEAN-CLAUDE	A l'approche du feu meditant	2CD	HORS TERRITOIRES	HT 028-29CD
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/22/2026 A l'approche du feu meditant ("Approaching the meditative flame"), originally composed in 1983. Theater Music for a sound and visual ceremonial. A tribute to the goddess of the light, the sun, and the stars. For 27 instrumentalists from the Gagaku Orchestra (divided in three separate ensembles), two choruses of Buddhist monk singers (Shômyo singing traditionnal school -- Tendai and Shingon sects -- divided in four separated ensembles, with four monk singer soloist voices), six percussionists, five Bugaku dancers. Extracts of this piece were published by Harmonia Mundi on a double vinyl in 1985.

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ROVI (PIERO UMILIAMI)	Drammi E Speranze	LP	HOLY BASIL RECORDS	HBR 031LP
$37.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/22/2026 "Originally released in 1976 on Piero Umiliani's own Sound Work Shop imprint, Drammi e Speranze -- issued under the pseudonym Rovi -- stands as a refined example of his late-period library work. Performed by a compact string ensemble and subtly augmented by piano, Hammond organ, Eminent organ, and Rhodes, the album unfolds through a series of classically-informed compositions where melody takes center stage. Each piece is concise, evocative, and purpose-built -- reflecting the functional yet highly expressive nature of Italian library music at its peak. Conceptually, the record is structured in two contrasting halves: the first side explores themes of optimism and resolution, while the second delves into darker, more introspective territories, mirroring the emotional duality suggested by its title (Tragedies and Hopes). Long overlooked outside specialist circles, Drammi e Speranze is here presented for the first time ever on vinyl reissue, newly remastered to highlight the depth and tonal richness of Umiliani's arrangements. This release celebrates 100 years since the birth of Piero Umiliani, honoring the enduring legacy of a composer whose work continues to resonate across cinematic, library, and contemporary sample-driven music."

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ELOY, JEAN-CLAUDE	Faisceaux-Diffractions - Macles - Boucle et Sequence	CD	HORS TERRITOIRES	HT 030CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/22/2026 A series of instrumental pieces documenting the years before the switch to the long electroacoustic compositions more characteristic of the composer. Faisceaux-Diffractions (1970) for 28 instrumentalists including a Hammond organ, and two electric guitars. Recording of the world premiere, on October 30, 1970, in Washington D.C. (USA) by the New York Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. "The instrumental ensemble is subdivided into three strongly isomorphic orchestras, allowing the treatment in the space of similar musical structures. This tone-color isomorphism allows sometimes to leave 'floating' the synchronization between the three orchestras, the conductor being able to combine the 'tiling' of the orchestras, following a large number of possibilities, but within strictly defined temporal proportions.". Macles (1966) extracts of the music of the film La Religieuse (The Nun) by Jacques Rivette. For various groups of instruments including a solo Zarb and a Cymbalum. Ensemble Musique Vivante under the conducting of Boris de Vinogradov. Zarb solo played by Jean-Pierre Drouet. "At the time of the realization of this work, in 1966, I was a teacher at the University of Berkeley, and I was trying to find a theory to unify the modal music (repetitive, with uses of fixed harmonic fields and use of notes poles, etc.) to atonal chromatic music, serial or not (variational, fluctuating, ornamented, etc.): this by directly organizing the structural blocks, and not by deducing them from a serie." Boucle et Sequence (1968) for 19 instrumentalists. Very short musical sequences for the film l'Amour fou (Mad love) by Jacques Rivette. "These two very short musics were written in 1968 at the request of Jacques Rivette for his film l'Amour Fou (Mad love), which he was shooting (Sequence is the music of the very last scene of the film -- in its original version -- when Jean-Pierre Kalfon leaves walking alone in the streets of Paris). In hindsight, they constitute a sort of 'premonition' of the writing and aesthetics, which will then be affirmed, in 1970 and 1971, with Faisceaux-Diffractions and Kâmakalâ (use of repetitive loops; mass heterophony; intervals filled in active aggregates; etc.)"

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HAMANN/JAMES RUSHFORD, JUDITH	Midmeste	LP	BLACK TRUFFLE	BT 142LP
$33.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/22/2026 Australian composer-performers Judith Hamann and James Rushford have worked together in countless projects for two decades, perhaps most notably in Golden Fur, their trio with Sam Dunscombe. Black Truffle presents Midmeste, their first work as a duo. Its title is Middle English for "the middlemost point," alluding to how the piece builds on the points of overlap between the highly personalized musical languages Hamann and Rushford have developed in recent years. Performed on cello and a variety of pipe organs, Midmeste is a spacious, sometimes unsettling exploration of their shared interest in alternative tunings, psychoacoustic phenomena, the physical properties of their instruments, and the usually peripheral sounds generated by the performing body. Beginning with a sequence of austerely vibrato-less harmonics from Hamann's cello, trailed by Rushford's whistling portative organ tones, the music soon expands into a slow-moving melodic wander, pausing at times to linger over an uncomfortable harmony or particularly resonant cello tone. Hamann and Rushford have long histories of engagement with pre-Classical European musical traditions, having in past projects performed and radically extended the work of Solage, Louis Couperin, Johann Conrad Beissell and other composers. Here they use a 15th century song by John Dunstaple, "O rosa bella," which returns throughout the piece, distorted, aerated and splayed into new forms. Developed while the two shared residencies at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart in 2020 and La Becque on Lake Geneva in 2023, Midmeste integrates recordings made (at the invitation of the Biennale Son) on the organ of the Basilica St Valere in Sion, Switzerland. Played by both Rushford and Hamann, the instrument's idiosyncratic features, including bellows pumped manually using massive wooden beams, are integrated into the music through amplification. Moving through a series of distinct episodes across its forty-minute span, Midmeste makes space for near-silent duets of high harmonics and hissing air, moments where twittering high tones and rumbling sub-bass could be electronic, and static fields that unexpectedly blossom into almost Romantic harmonies. Listeners familiar with Hamann and Rushford's work will find many familiar features here: the stunningly rich cello tones, their patient sustain allowing heightened awareness of the inner life of sound and its interactions with the environment; the care with which acoustic space is activated, becoming at times a third instrumental voice; the attention to fragile, unstable sonorities that sometimes have a comic edge. A major work from two key figures in contemporary experimental music, Midmeste synthesizes rigorous exploration of fundamental questions of sound and performance with an unapologetic embrace of beauty.

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ELOY, JEAN-CLAUDE	Gaia-Songs	2CD	HORS TERRITOIRES	HT 026-27CD
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/22/2026 Gaia-Songs (1992, revision 2015). For a soprano (or mezzo-soprano) solo and an actress voice (Sprechgesang technique) with electro-acoustic (fixed sounds). Anne-Lisa Nathan, mezzo-soprano. Helena Rüegg, actress voice. "First there's this relation between sung voices and spoken voices with regard to the electro-acoustic parts. The sung voice is quite often separated from the electro-acoustical parts accompanying it. They may sometimes overlap each other but rather briefly. Those parts often highlight octave ratios, fifth ratios, third-ratios, etc. Hence more harmonious and consonant acoustic ratios. By contrast the spoken voice fully covers the electro-acoustic parts dedicated to it and made out of more complex material. Hence more dissonant acoustic ratios turned towards noises spectrums." JC-Eloy from the liner notes.

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ELOY, JEAN-CLAUDE	Reminiscences	4CD	HORS TERRITOIRES	HT 031-34CD
$32.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/22/2026 The four pieces that compose Réminiscences, a masterpiece if ever there was one, create the equivalent of a human day, from dawn to night, from call to cry, from meditation to revolt, through the clash of the sounds of human and natural activities. Simply unique and grandiose. Jean-Claude Eloy (1938) is a French composer with a classical background who moved away from the structures and models that had carried him until then (models imposed on contemporary music through various institutional and official hegemonies) to create, from the early 1970s onwards, long electroacoustic frescoes, vast poems of sounds and noises between Western and Eastern traditions, the main aim of which is to liberate the sound imagination. 5-panel digipak. Includes 24-page booklet.

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RICHTER, BEN	Mymerian	CD	SEDIMENTAL	SED 074CD
$15.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/15/2026 Deep and powerful drone compositions recorded live at Epsilon Spires Church performed on organ, accordion, contrabass and cello by Ben Richter, Mike Bullock, and Laura Cetilia. Rich and meditative, arcing past, present and future. This Sedimental release is a monumental document from avant-garde composer Ben Richter. "This music was made possible through the kind invitation of Executive Director Jamie Mohr to a winter residency at Epsilon Spires, a non-profit performance center housed in a historic former church in Brattleboro, Vermont, with the opportunity to compose a set of works for their 1906 three-manual Estey pipe organ. Due to the frigid temperatures, the organ was sounding almost 60 cents flat from A=440Hz. In combination with Laura Cetilia and Mike Bullock's intonationally flexible A=440 low string instruments and my A=444 quarter-tone accordion, this created a unique pitch landscape and dark atmosphere from which emerged three meditations on the ripples, pulsations, and slow transformations of memory." --Ben Richter

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SUZUKI, AKIO	Soundspheres	CD	ROOM40	RM 4243CD
$17.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/15/2026 A note from Lawrence English: "Akio Suzuki has always been an artist in search of unexpected sound, and curiosity has been his guiding principle. Whether that be curiosity for objects, spaces or places, his work has been guided by a porousness and pliability which has allowed him to explore an enormous sonic terrain. This freedom has also allowed him to develop a language in sound that remains utterly his own. Nowhere is this more evident than in his approach to instrument creation. During the 1970s Akio Suzuki devised a series of instruments that would become his sonic signatures. The Analapos and De Koolmees are perhaps his most readily identifiable instruments and it is these two that make up the core of material from which Soundsphere is created. Soundsphere, recorded in 1990 at Hut Apollphuis in Eindhoven, captures Suzuki at the height of his powers. It is a document of his music shaped by patience and dynamism, in equal measure. Few other recordings capture both the tenderness and the presence of Suzuki's ways of discovering sound in his instruments. On pieces such as 'Analapos A: Voice,' he creates a wavering oceanic vocal drone that echoes up and down, tracing the coils of the Analapos' springs. The results are simultaneously minimal and expansive, reminding us that sound exists in the vertical and well as horizontal planes. Similarly his performance on 'De Koolmees: Suzuki Type -- Glass Harmonica' shares this intensity of focus. Suzuki's strikes and strokes on the glass tubes, creating an endlessly evolving array of tonal inflections and pulses. Soundsphere, which is celebrating its 45th anniversary, is an essential capture of the ways in sound Akio Suzuki has developed over his now six decades of practice."

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BALL, ASHLEIGH	Center Of The Universe	LP	SPIRITUAL WORLD	SW 014X-LP
$27.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/15/2026 Spiritual World presents Ashleigh Ball's Center of the Universe, a transcendental flute journey from the singer and flutist of T3al. Center of the Universe is a 32-minute improvisational odyssey recorded inside the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory (DAO), a National Historic Site on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia Canada. Inspired by the pioneering work of Paul Horn and his Inside series, the recording channels a similar spirit of reverent exploration within a space rich in history and resonance. Completed in 1918, the observatory is home to the Plaskett Telescope -- once among the largest and most powerful in the world -- playing a key role in mapping the Milky Way. Following months of coordination, three hours of private access were granted on the morning of August 25, 2025. Beneath the observatory's towering telescope, Ball performed a wordless meditation, moving between alto flute and soprano concert flute, allowing each note to merge with the chamber's vast natural reverb. Tones bloom, linger, and return, carried along the massive curved steel walls. Captured using a minimalist recording approach, Center of the Universe preserves the purity of the moment -- its warmth, stillness, and the architecture's subtle mechanical resonance. Here, the observatory itself becomes an instrument, shaping the sound into something elemental, timeless, and deeply human. RIYL: Paul Horn, Pauline Oliveros, James Newton, Kali Malone.

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LEIMER, K.	Atrophies For Piano	LP	PALACE OF LIGHTS	POL 015-2026LP
$28.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/15/2026 "Part of the early independent music movement that started in the late 1970s, K. Leimer and his label Palace Of Lights occupies a special and respected niche among electronic, experimental and ambient genres. His work is included in the Cherry Red Noise Floor compilation series and his early cassette work is featured in the critically acclaimed VOD box set American Cassette Culture. 'I've always wanted to produce an album centered on the muted depth of sadness the piano offers, and this is almost that.' In nearly all his music, Leimer has relied on the density and layering of multiple timbres and voices to shape his compositions. With very few exceptions all the voicing on Atrophies for Piano originates from piano. Composed and recorded over a two-year period, the atrophies occupy sparse, gap-filled stillness, disassembled melody and patterns, and fluctuating, uncertain drones. Aided occasionally by treated strings, each piece seeks out edges of imminent collapse and harmonic decay. Six dark New Classical settings populate an atrophied sonic landscape possessed by an energetic melancholy. Issued on 180gram white vinyl and various digital formats, Atrophies for Piano was mastered by Taylor Deupree with cover photography by Tyler Boley."

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GO HIRANO	The Habit	LP	BLACK EDITIONS	BE 1011LP
$29.50 IN STOCK For more than three decades, Go Hirano has developed a quietly enthralling sound world on the peripheries of the Japanese underground. Emerging in the 1990s, Hirano released three albums with the revered PSF Records label and established himself as an artist with a unique sense of melody and atmosphere that was both entrancing and intimate. His work, largely recorded at home and in the field, de-emphasized technical perfection in favor of an unvarnished immediacy that imbued the quiet moments of daily life with a dreamlike splendor. On The Habit, Hirano brings together recordings that span decades of his playing the piano and other instruments on a daily basis. The core of the album was recorded in 2020 at Pianola Records in Tokyo, while other pieces draw from recordings dating as far back as the late 1980s. Through this span of years, a coherent vision emerges, marked by patient, subtle engagement with repetition, space, and resonance. Hirano works with a restrained palette -- piano, pianica, wind chime, percussion, and synthesizer -- to develop simple melodic figures that gradually shift in harmony and texture. Spacious piano chords expand through soft synthesizer tones. Near-imperceptible rhythmic frameworks intertwine with tranquil phrases that drift and merge with the sounds of the world around them. This synthesis of music and the environment in which it is created is critical to Hirano's approach. Rather than isolating the music from its surroundings, he embraces the atmosphere of the moment, the room in which each piece is played, capturing the subtle sounds and artifacts of the artist's daily experience and the surrounding natural world. For Hirano, these "imperfections" are pathways to vibrant, living expression. While he may share affinities with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Hiroshi Yoshimura, and even Brian Eno, Hirano's dedication to "initial, unadorned expression" and processing the environment through his own particular filter sets him apart. The Habit reveals a meditative, melodic language unfolding over the decades and within the many spaces of a life in music marked by a unique warmth and beauty. Co-released with Conatala label, Japan. Mastered by Makoto Oshiro. Lacquers cut by Rashad Becker, Clunk Studio, Berlin. Pressed at Optimal Media, Germany. Artwork by Yukiko Ikeda. Design by Rob Carmichael, SEEN. Produced by Peter Kolovos, Conatala, and Rie Hirano.

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PHILLIPS, ANTHONY	Gemini: Pieces For Piano	2CD	ESOTERIC ANTENNA	EANT 21117CD
$24.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/1/2026 "A master of melody, texture, and atmosphere, Anthony Phillips -- composer, guitarist, and pianist -- presents Gemini: Pieces for Piano, a 2-CD collection of exquisite new compositions written and recorded between 2022 and 2025. Described by Phillips as his finest keyboard work since Soirée (1999), the album takes its title from his celebrated piece 'Gemini,' written for world-renowned pianist Martha Argerich, who premiered it in 2018. The collection is both intimate and expansive, a deeply expressive journey through Phillips's most evocative and personal piano writing to date. As a founding member of Genesis alongside Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford, and Tony Banks, Anthony Phillips helped define the earliest sound of British progressive rock, contributing to the albums From Genesis to Revelation and Trespass. After leaving the band in 1970, he studied orchestration and harmony at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, before embarking on a distinguished solo career marked by innovation and craft. His debut, The Geese & The Ghost (1977), featured contributions from Rutherford and Phil Collins and established his reputation as a composer of rare lyrical sensitivity. Over the decades, Phillips has built an extraordinary catalog that includes landmark albums such as Wise After the Event, Sides, 1984, Slow Dance, and Field Day, along with the long-running Private Parts & Pieces and Missing Links series. His versatility extends far beyond the studio -- he has composed acclaimed music for film, television, and documentaries, often in collaboration with percussionist Joji Hirota, for projects including Lifeboat and Midway: Island of Life. More recently, Phillips has worked closely with Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings label to reissue his extensive back catalogue in definitive editions, earning the Storm Thorgerson Grand Design Award at the Progressive Music Awards in recognition of the series' exceptional quality. Gemini: Pieces for Piano represents a new creative peak in this storied career -- a luminous, contemplative, and beautifully recorded work that reflects both Phillips's lifelong passion for the piano and his enduring ability to craft music of emotional depth and timeless grace."

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
KIM, DOYEON	Wellspring	LP	TAO FORMS	TAO 020LP
$25.00 IN STOCK LP version. "Wellspring presents the arrival of a powerful new voice in creative music, unrelenting in passion and invention, while always transmitting a deeply empathic grace. Masterful composer-improviser DoYeon Kim is an unparalleled practitioner of the Korean gayageum (a silk-string zither), and is also in possession of a purposeful vocal intensity. This is her debut album as a bandleader, featuring fellow master musicians Tyshawn Sorey (drums), Mat Maneri (viola), Henry Fraser (bass). Armed with an unlikely traditional instrument, flanked by three extraordinary improvisers, radiating a brash, acoustic strategy that simultaneously invokes folk universalism and a no wave battle-stance, the Brooklyn-based virtuoso drops a volcanic sonic statement with grand humanist goals. Kim mingles Korean lullabies, fervent interactions between drums and strings, and pure instrumental expressions of musical self. At times, she sounds like she can halt armies. Wellspring is a call for society to come together. How the Seoul, South Korea-born 34-year-old came to be the centuries-old zither's leading -- and perhaps only -- practitioner of contemporary improvised music, reflects an expansive embrace of her own culture, her place in modern society, and her ascending recognition of music's liberatory power."

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
KIM, DOYEON	Wellspring	CD	TAO FORMS	TAO 020CD
$13.00 IN STOCK "Wellspring presents the arrival of a powerful new voice in creative music, unrelenting in passion and invention, while always transmitting a deeply empathic grace. Masterful composer-improviser DoYeon Kim is an unparalleled practitioner of the Korean gayageum (a silk-string zither), and is also in possession of a purposeful vocal intensity. This is her debut album as a bandleader, featuring fellow master musicians Tyshawn Sorey (drums), Mat Maneri (viola), Henry Fraser (bass). Armed with an unlikely traditional instrument, flanked by three extraordinary improvisers, radiating a brash, acoustic strategy that simultaneously invokes folk universalism and a no wave battle-stance, the Brooklyn-based virtuoso drops a volcanic sonic statement with grand humanist goals. Kim mingles Korean lullabies, fervent interactions between drums and strings, and pure instrumental expressions of musical self. At times, she sounds like she can halt armies. Wellspring is a call for society to come together. How the Seoul, South Korea-born 34-year-old came to be the centuries-old zither's leading -- and perhaps only -- practitioner of contemporary improvised music, reflects an expansive embrace of her own culture, her place in modern society, and her ascending recognition of music's liberatory power."

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CONNORS & ALESSANDRA NOVAGA, LOREN	Live at Issue Project Room	CD	ALARA MUSIC	ALA 005CD
$28.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/24/2026 "Recorded in January 2022 in Brooklyn, NY, this album traces the map of an extraordinary musical dialogue. Two guitars, two territories, a moment suspended in time. Loren Connors, an iconic figure in avant-garde blues for 50 years, and Alessandra Novaga, a unique voice in experimentation, come together here for an improvised performance that is both fragile and intense. A moment of deep listening to be shared beyond the boundaries of sound: in the communication between two artists of great sensitivity. A live event captured on record: mystery, emotion and improvisation combine to create the magic of this improvisational piece The concert was part of a season-opening evening at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, New York, which also featured Kim Gordon alongside Loren Connors seven years after their first duo, already immortalized on record in 2022 by the same label, Alara. This duet between Connors and Novaga is like an almost whispered conversation between two guitars, opening up spaces for listening, suspension and revelation. What this record captures is not simply a concert -- it is an immersion in the solemnity of silence, the tension of almost nothingness, the delicacy of sound gestures that are sometimes as if sprinkled. On stage, Connors and Novaga's interventions are overlapped and calibrated, with each silence itself becoming material. The guitars sometimes align in a beam of micro-details: quivering harmonics, subtle glides, dissolving attacks, minimal melodic droplets almost like piano notes. Their timbres blend -- Novaga's high-pitched grains, Connors' spectral depth -- to create a soundscape of subtle density. These emotions, bordering on the infinitesimal, do not impose themselves through intensity or crescendo, but through contained tension, attentive listening, and suspended moments."

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MAC ERLAINE & CAOIMHIN O RAGHALLAIGH, SEAN	Old Segotia	LP	ERGODOS	ERGODOS 043LP
$35.50 LOW STOCK LEVEL From the opening notes -- arriving as if in mid-air -- to its final, cheerful burblings, Sean Mac Erlaine and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh's Old Segotia is an album about friendship: both musical and human, the product of two distinctive musicians visiting each other's worlds with a sense of veneration, and a sense of joyful wonder. Here, Mac Erlaine and Ó Raghallaigh meet on common ground developed over 20 years of playing together, with Mac Erlaine's musical language rooted in jazz and sonic experimentation, and Ó Raghallaigh emerging from an Irish traditional music that he has shaped and reshaped in a deeply personal way. In this place, Mac Erlaine and Ó Raghallaigh's music is profoundly integrated and emotionally textured: at times bursting with explosive energy, at times almost sighing into life, but always searching. Here are the touching unison duets of "Cantandor," the lyrical wanderings of "Swallow Dive," or the flirtations with finding a groove in "Reverse Burst." The palette of instruments speaks to the album's feeling of abundance, with Mac Erlaine performing on clarinets, chalumeau d'amore, three different flutes, car hooter, percussion, live electronics, Wurlitzer, synthesizer, vocals and alto saxophone; and with Ó Raghallaigh bringing his signature hardanger d'amore sound plus a turn on the flute and live electronics, too. With the title echoing a well-worn Dublinese expression for "friend," Old Segotia plays out with "Oiche Crua Sna Sleibhte" (A Hard Night in the Mountains), with ornithologist Seán Ronayne's field recordings of birdsong rising out of the musicians' playful explorations, offering a taste of life echoing music, echoing life.

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