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ROJAS, SEBASTIAN	En la orilla	LP	BUH RECORDS	BR 198LP
$33.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/22/2026 En la orilla is the debut album by Sebastián Rojas, a composer and musician born in Mexico City. After years of playing in various bands and collaborative projects, Rojas embarks on a solo journey where the song format expands with unexpected turns, immersive atmospheres, and unconventional arrangements. In the early 2020s, luck seemed to turn against him: the pandemic cut short a tour with his former band just as they were about to take off; he returned from Berlin with no money, and his mother fell gravely ill. In the midst of that chaos, he fell in love. That love helped him rebuild, and together with producer Hugo Quezada, he shaped En la orilla. The album narrates the passage from emotional shipwreck to a new sense of stability, through songs that explore introspection, longing, and vulnerability. The album finds its path somewhere between experimental song, synth pop and balladry. Each piece is woven with synthesizers, melodic bass lines, and saxophones that emerge like emotional flashes. There's a strong melodic sensibility and an intimate tone that allows the sounds to unfold with freedom. Echoes of artists like Arthur Russell and Robert Wyatt can be felt, as well as the nocturnal spirit of Neil Young's On the Beach. Mexican bolero forms -- Pedro Infante, Álvaro Carrillo, Los Panchos -- drift in more subtly, alongside traces of 1980s sentimental pop, with figures like Luis Miguel or Miguel Bosé appearing more as emotional references than stylistic ones. From Cuba, his father's homeland, the music of Benny Moré lingers as an early imprint on his musical memory. Highlights include "Demasiado pronto" and "Pulmón del trópico," the latter inspired by a verse from Roberto Bolaño. The album's emotional range is amplified by the production of Quezada, a key figure in Mexico's independent music scene. Also contributing are Américo Hollander (The Americojones Experience) on bass and Emiliano Tinajero (Demencia Infantil) on saxophone.

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ALGOL	ALGOL	LP	BUH RECORDS	BR 201LP
$37.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/22/2026 ALGOL is a new electroacoustic trio formed by Christian Lillinger (Germany), Elias Stemeseder (Austria), and Camilo Ángeles (Peru). The project was born during a collaborative tour and recording sessions in early 2024, between Mexico City and Guadalajara, and has since expanded with performances across various cities in Europe and Latin America. Conceived as an open system of real-time sonic construction, ALGOL operates at the intersection of composition, improvisation, and electroacoustic experimentation. Its music articulates a language that integrates percussion, piano, flute, and synthesizers. Each member contributes a distinct universe: Lillinger, German drummer and producer, is renowned for his highly structured rhythmic approach and his ability to reformulate the tradition of contemporary European jazz. Stemeseder, Austrian composer and performer, explores the intersections between the acoustic and the digital, moving between piano, spinet, and synthesizers. Ángeles, Peruvian flutist and composer, redefines his instrument through extended techniques, self-built aerophones, and a microtonal sensibility that expands the boundaries of performance. Recorded at Estudios Noviembre (Mexico City) and finalized between Switzerland and Berlin, ALGOL's debut album employs electronic processes that extend the timbre of acoustic instruments. Structures emerge and dissolve within a continuum that challenges stylistic categories. Like the stellar system that inspires its name, ALGOL is a constellation in motion. Its music balances density and transparency, writing and indeterminacy, tradition and rupture. In that point of equilibrium, its true nature is revealed. ALGOL's debut album is released by Buh Records, in digital format and as a limited vinyl edition. Mixed by Michael Brändli at Hard Studios (Winterthur, Switzerland) and mastered by Christian Lillinger at Plaist (Berlin, Germany). Artwork and design by Muriel Holguín. Gatefold sleeve.

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L'HUILLIER, NICOLE	Respuestas	LP	BUH RECORDS	BR 199LP
$33.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/22/2026 Buh Records presents the release of Respuestas, the new album by Chilean sound and transdisciplinary artist Nicole L'Huillier, based in Berlin. Her work centers on the exploration of sound and vibrations as materials for reflecting on agency, collectivity, and vibrational imagination. This approach has taken shape through sound sculptures, immersive installations, experimental devices, performances, compositions, and more. Respuestas originates from Resonaciones, an exhibition by L'Huillier conceived in collaboration with Francisca Gili and guided by Karen Urcia, a Mochica healer and cultural activist. Presented at ifa Gallery Stuttgart, with curatorship by Bettina Korintenberg and Carolina Arévalo, the exhibition revolved around the activation of whistling vessels from the Moche culture, safeguarded at the Linden Museum, to bring forth an immersive soundscape in constant transformation. The album Respuestas gathers this process, compiling recordings made with contact microphones, electromagnetic sensors, and listening devices designed by the artist herself. The vibrations of the vessels expand in dialogue with recordings of planetary tremors, environmental oscillations, visitor contributions, and AI-mediated reinterpretations created in collaboration with musician and engineer Manaswi Mishra, forming a dynamic sound field that resonates across past, present, and future. The result unfolds as a laboratory where fragments, noises, and textures are organized into dense, reverberant layers. In the spirit of musique concrète and sound collage experiments, L'Huillier weaves together heterogeneous materials that, through interlacing and transformation, generate an immersive listening experience highlighting the materiality of sound and its ability to open new perceptual spaces. Sounds emerge and submerge, as if circulating between visible surfaces and hidden depths. Based on a principle of reciprocity, Respuestas proposes listening as an act of mutual transformation. Each piece becomes an exchange -- a call and response -- connecting ancestral imaginaries with contemporary technologies, opening possibilities for new forms of sonic inquiry and continuity. Respuestas is released by Buh Records in digital and vinyl formats. All compositions by Nicole L'Huillier. Produced and mastered by Juan Necochea. Experiments and AI system by Manaswi Mishra. Art and design by Stoodio Santiago Silva.

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VARGAS, MORITA	III	LP	HIDDEN HARMONY RECORDINGS	HH 014LP
$28.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/15/2026 III is an intimate, cinematic and dream-like body of work -- written, produced and mixed by Morita Vargas, and recorded in Buenos Aires between 2014 and 2025. The album was mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio (NY), adding depth and clarity to its carefully built sonic landscape. The visual world of the record is an essential part of the release. The cover artwork was crafted by Juliana Guglielmi, Ariadna Aylen Barrios, and Noelia Garreffa, whose combined vision creates a unified visual narrative that reflects the album's emotional depth and atmospheric essence. The LP layout and full manufacturing realization were carefully executed by Ilja Tulit, translating the complex design ideas into their final tangible form of a vinyl release. III marks a very special release for Hidden Harmony Recordings. Morita Vargas was among the first artists the label released when it began in 2020-2021, and her work played an important role in shaping the spirit and direction of Hidden Harmony. Five years later, Hidden Harmony are proud to continue this long-standing collaboration and to present her new album.

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HURTADO/MARK CUNNINGHAM, MARC	Infini	CD	ROTORELIEF	ROTOR 088CD
$22.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/8/2026 Infini is an encounter between Marc Hurtado, known for his duo project Étant Donnés created in 1977 from the French experimental and industrial music scene, and Mark Cunningham from the New York No Wave scene since the late '70s, under the entity Mars. Infini was born in 2020 and completed in 2023, and this particular project is a kind of 360° astral voyage at the speed of light, swept up in the grace, madness, fire and kaleidoscopic whirlwind of the telescoping of the two artists' burning souls. Against a backdrop of Mark Cunningham's trumpet, bass and guitar, Marc Hurtado lays down his noisy drones and bewitching voice, a moment of sealing and construction of an edifice whose stones seem to be cut and refined like real diamonds. The atmosphere is psychedelic, cosmic, vaporous and blindingly dark. Infini is the sound of blood, the blood of sound, a shattering mirror of fire, a wave of light in the sky, a path, a voice, a silence, a cry. Marc Hurtado: vocals, sounds; Mark Cunningham: trumpet, guitar, bass.

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STENKA BAZIN	Guanajuato	LP	ROTORELIEF	ROTOR 087LP
$45.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/8/2026 Stenka Bazin's Guanajuato. LP handmade sleeve with fanzine booklet, limited 120 copies. Reissue of the 1985 cassette, adapted to vinyl format from the original.

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MKB FRACTION PROVISOIRE FEAT. JAC BERROCAL	Feu!	CD	ROTORELIEF	ROTOR 082CD
$23.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/8/2026 Feu! by MKB Fraction Provisoire, recorded in 1993, reissued 30 years later. Featuring Jac Berrocal, MKB Fraction Provisoire (Messageros Killers Boys) is the variable-geometry musical project of filmmaker and writer F.J. Ossang, founded in 1980 in response to a need for creativity fueled by the punk movement and industrial music, which the band called Noise'n'Roll. "This record was invented in ten days. When Nagi Baz offered us the use of his studio for a week, we had just finished recording Doctor Chance in 1993. The project was immediately to pay a sort of tribute to my writer friend Jean-François Charpin (1957-1987), a Sex Pistols accomplice who had initiated the Chalet du Lac concert in September 1976, before creating the excellent and short-lived avant-garde magazine Grabuge in 1978 (two issues published). We spent an entire weekend with Jack Belsen laying the foundations for six tracks using machine matrices and looped rhythms, while I wrote at full speed on the typewriter. On Monday, I finished editing the raw texts while Belsen recorded the rhythms. The next day, it was my turn to record the vocals in a single block -- then Jac Berrocal and Little Drake played their instrumental parts. The following Monday, Nagi Baz left his record company. After thirty years, the reissue of the album Feu! set for the first time on vinyl by Rotorelief Records (augmented by the Messageros Killer Boy genotype, recorded just before I left for Chile in 1994) turns out to be a double eulogy for J.F. Charpin, but also for Jack Belsen, brutally snatched from life for a terrible season, between late spring 2018 and his death on December 7 the following year."

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CROMAGNON	Orgasm	CD	ROTORELIEF	ROTOR 039CD
$23.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/8/2026 Certainly one of the greatest UFOs in the history of music, Cromagnon and their 1969 concept album Orgasm were the precursors of what was to come thirty years later: industrial, metal, and experimental music bathed in improvised experiments on LSD. "The project couldn't be smooth, otherwise humanity would be lost. There's room for computers, but the soul is gone." Cromagnon is: Brian Elliot , Austin Grasmere, Salvador Salgado, and The Connecticut Tribe. Brian, Bob and Sal were responsible for lyrics, and Brian was the biggest contributor. Bob, Vincent, Peter, Gary, and Louie all helped create the music (writing chord changes etc.)

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MKB FRACTION PROVISOIRE FEAT. JAC BERROCAL	Feu!	LP	ROTORELIEF	ROTOR 082LP
$42.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/8/2026 LP version. Gatefold sleeve. First time vinyl reissue. Feu! by MKB Fraction Provisoire, recorded in 1993, reissued 30 years later. Featuring Jac Berrocal, MKB Fraction Provisoire (Messageros Killers Boys) is the variable-geometry musical project of filmmaker and writer F.J. Ossang, founded in 1980 in response to a need for creativity fueled by the punk movement and industrial music, which the band called Noise'n'Roll. "This record was invented in ten days. When Nagi Baz offered us the use of his studio for a week, we had just finished recording Doctor Chance in 1993. The project was immediately to pay a sort of tribute to my writer friend Jean-François Charpin (1957-1987), a Sex Pistols accomplice who had initiated the Chalet du Lac concert in September 1976, before creating the excellent and short-lived avant-garde magazine Grabuge in 1978 (two issues published). We spent an entire weekend with Jack Belsen laying the foundations for six tracks using machine matrices and looped rhythms, while I wrote at full speed on the typewriter. On Monday, I finished editing the raw texts while Belsen recorded the rhythms. The next day, it was my turn to record the vocals in a single block -- then Jac Berrocal and Little Drake played their instrumental parts. The following Monday, Nagi Baz left his record company. After thirty years, the reissue of the album Feu! set for the first time on vinyl by Rotorelief Records (augmented by the Messageros Killer Boy genotype, recorded just before I left for Chile in 1994) turns out to be a double eulogy for J.F. Charpin, but also for Jack Belsen, brutally snatched from life for a terrible season, between late spring 2018 and his death on December 7 the following year."

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WIRED	Kyoto 1970	LP	METAPHON	METAPHON 028LP
$35.50 LOW STOCK LEVEL Wired was an ephemeral improvisational music project formed by Michael Ranta, Karl-Heinz Böttner, and Mike Lewis. On April 28, 1970, the trio recorded an extended studio session of approximately 140 minutes, in collaboration with Conny Plank, who engineered and mixed the recording in real time, incorporating elements of live electronics. This session was subsequently edited to album length and released in 1974 as part of the Free Improvisation 3LP box set issued by Deutsche Grammophon, alongside recordings by Iskra and New Phonic Art. Owing to its exploratory electric sound world and Plank's distinctive spatial production techniques, the Wired recording acquired a degree of underground cult status, particularly among listeners associated with krautrock and psychedelic improvisation. Shortly after the studio session, Ranta and Böttner travelled to Japan, where they spent approximately six months performing with Karlheinz Stockhausen at Expo '70 in Osaka. In addition to these activities, they engaged in various independent musical projects and performances. The present release, sourced from the personal archive of Michael Ranta, documents a live duo performance by Ranta and Böttner, recorded on 27 July 1970 in an outdoor setting in Kyoto (the exact location remains unknown), before an audience of approximately 200 music teachers. The recording exhibits sonic and aesthetic characteristics closely aligned with the previously released studio material, retaining the distinctive "Wired" sound while situating it within a live, site-specific context. Production: Timo van Luijk. Painting: Wayne Jacob. Mastering: EARLabs. Design: Meeuw.

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DONSKOY, LILIANE	Integrale Acousmatique	3LP	METAPHON	METAPHON 026LP
$89.00 IN STOCK Slipcase edition with 8-page booklet. 250 copies. Metaphon presents this première edition, which brings together a near-complete collection of the acousmatic works of Liliane Donskoy. Liliane Donskoy (1933) is a French, classically trained pianist, music teacher, and composer of both instrumental and acousmatic music. She began her musical training at an early age, undertaking private piano studies with Yves Nat at the age of thirteen, shortly after the Second World War. During the 1960s and 1970s, she pursued advanced studies with prominent figures of twentieth-century music, including Darius Milhaud, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Schaeffer, and Guy Reibel, and participated in courses led by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio, György Ligeti, and Iannis Xenakis. Despite this extensive and diverse training, Donskoy encountered limited institutional and professional opportunities to fully realize her artistic vision. A decisive turning point occurred in 1977, when she gained access to the facilities of the Institute of Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music (IPEM) in Ghent. There, she realized and completed the majority of her acousmatic compositions. Donskoy's oeuvre is characterized by a high degree of structural complexity, precision, and expressive intensity. Her work reflects a pronounced and distinctive artistic temperament, manifested through a rigorous exploration of sound material and form. Notwithstanding its artistic significance, her music has remained largely unknown, as her compositions were neither widely circulated nor formally released, leading to their relative obscurity until the present publication. Anthology produced by Timo van Luijk. Mastering by EARLabs. Booklet edited by Vincent de Roguin. Design by Meeuw. Also available as hardboard linen box set edition with 8-page booklet and download code (METAPHON 026BOX).

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DONSKOY, LILIANE	Integrale Acousmatique (Box Set)	3LP BOX	METAPHON	METAPHON 026BOX
$151.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL Hardboard linen box set edition with 8-page booklet and download code. 250 copies. Metaphon presents this première edition, which brings together a near-complete collection of the acousmatic works of Liliane Donskoy. Liliane Donskoy (1933) is a French, classically trained pianist, music teacher, and composer of both instrumental and acousmatic music. She began her musical training at an early age, undertaking private piano studies with Yves Nat at the age of thirteen, shortly after the Second World War. During the 1960s and 1970s, she pursued advanced studies with prominent figures of twentieth-century music, including Darius Milhaud, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Schaeffer, and Guy Reibel, and participated in courses led by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio, György Ligeti, and Iannis Xenakis. Despite this extensive and diverse training, Donskoy encountered limited institutional and professional opportunities to fully realize her artistic vision. A decisive turning point occurred in 1977, when she gained access to the facilities of the Institute of Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music (IPEM) in Ghent. There, she realized and completed the majority of her acousmatic compositions. Donskoy's oeuvre is characterized by a high degree of structural complexity, precision, and expressive intensity. Her work reflects a pronounced and distinctive artistic temperament, manifested through a rigorous exploration of sound material and form. Notwithstanding its artistic significance, her music has remained largely unknown, as her compositions were neither widely circulated nor formally released, leading to their relative obscurity until the present publication. Anthology produced by Timo van Luijk. Mastering by EARLabs. Booklet edited by Vincent de Roguin. Design by Meeuw.

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LOCKWOOD, ANNEA	World Rhythms	CD/BOOK	ROOM40	RM 4270CD
$22.50 IN STOCK A note from Lawrence English: "In late 1975, Annea Lockwood realized her composition World Rhythms. It represents one of the first creative works exploring the potentials of field recordings in a multichannel setting. It is a landmark work and a composition that, on its 50th anniversary, has gently carried forward over the decades, but arguably now is only starting to come into true focus, and be understood for exactly how revolutionary it was. World Rhythms was a work concerned with a practice of sustained listening into the world, and beyond. It expanded outward from many of the compositions and themes Annea Lockwood had been exploring since the 1960s. It sought to take those learnings and apply them to a new set of terrains and circumstances. Moreover, it suggested a sensing of sound that was drawn from profound curiosity, matched only by patience. In 2019, I reached out to Annea and started a conversation about a revisitation of World Rhythms. My initial proposition was a simple one: a re-issue that was remastered and touched up, reflecting Annea's thoughts on the piece in this moment. The conversation quickly spun outward though, and before long Annea had asked if I might be interested to revisit the master tapes with the thought that the work could be revived and prepared for performance presentations going forward into this century. On listening to the materials, during the period of restoring the audio from the original master tapes, I was struck by the profound dynamism of the recordings. Each of the sound-fields held an attentive flux, a rhythmic pulse that was breathing. Each one a story of the pulses of the world, and our universe, that spoke to a possible reading of reality that sits in excess of our everyday capacities. A poetics of pulse if you like. Here then is the result of those conversations and also the presentations of the piece that followed -- several of which Annea has overseen herself. On this newly rendered imagining of World Rhythms, new relations, listening paths and ways of exploring her sound-fields are brought into focus. The core of the piece remains, a prioritized zone of listening, but emerging from deep within it new sonic formations emerge, a reminder of the dynamism of our energetic world and its surroundings." Composition by Annea Lockwood; gong performed by Vanessa Tomlinson and Annea Lockwood; mix realized by Lawrence English. Design by Traianos Pakioufakis; essay by Lawrence English.

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BERROCAL/VINCENT EPPLAY/TIMO VAN LUIJK, JAC	Ste Cy	LP	LA SCIE DOREE	SCIE 3925LP
$35.50 IN STOCK Ste Cy, the latest studio offering from the trio of Jac Berrocal, Vincent Epplay, and Timo van Luijk, ripens like a forbidden fruit -- born of an improvised instrumental session captured in the secluded hush of Kulta Saha by Timo van Luijk. These raw recordings were later reshaped into 12 songs by Vincent Epplay at Studio Villejuif in Paris. And over it all drifts the poetry of Jac Berrocal -- sensual and incendiary, seeping into the music like spice into flesh. Jac Berrocal: voice, words, trumpet, double bass; Timo van Luijk: guitar, piano, vibraphone, percussion; Vincent Epplay: field recording, drums, percussion, EMS Synth A, Noizoid OCS 2, double bass.

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JARMAN, DEREK	Through The Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping	LP	COLD SPRING RECORDS	CSR 358LP
$31.50 IN STOCK Written in 1971 and read here by the author himself, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping is Derek Jarman's only known work of narrative fiction. Providing a prelude to some of the imagery Derek Jarman would use later in his career, particularly the alchemical dreamscapes in the film Blue, it is a surreal, hallucinatory fairytale, signposted with elements of modernity, that has much of the mythic and archetypal about it. With tantalizing autobiographical details and a panoply of chromatic landscapes and psychosexual symbols, this richly poetic story details a journey with no destination or purpose across a mythical America, undertaken by the young blind King Amethyst and his valet John. Previously only ever released on cassette (2022, Prototype Publishing, Ltd 80), this vinyl edition features facsimile images of the story's handwritten drafts from Jarman's archive and photos by the artist Michael Ginsborg, a close friend of Jarman's throughout the period of the story's writing. Licensed from House Sparrow Press/Prototype Publishing, and The Estate of Derek Jarman. Limited 500 copies on heavyweight 180gm black vinyl in gloss sleeve.

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MCCARTHY, PAUL	A&E, Adolf & Eva, Adam & Eve, in the Garden of Eden, Picnic, Mix	2LP	TOCHNIT ALEPH	TA 175LP
$56.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/3/2026 Double Vinyl LP in full-color gatefold sleeve with full-color inner sleeves. A&E In The Garden Of Eden, Picnic is the first chapter in Paul McCarthy's A&E video project. Paul McCarthy and Lilith Stangenberg performed Picnic three times on August 2, 3, and 4, 2021, in the lower Sierra Mountains of California. This 2LP set, A&E, Adolf & Eva, Adam & Eve, In The Garden Of Eden, Picnic, Mix is roughly 80 minutes each of day 1, day 2, and day 3, merged. Produced and distributed by Daniel Löwenbrück/Tochnit Aleph. Photography by Alex Stevens. Sound design by Paul McCarthy and Alex Stevens. Graphic design by Paul McCarthy and Sid M. Duenas.

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DE VEGA, MARIO	El Llamado (Der Aufruf)	LP	TOCHNIT ALEPH	TA 176LP
$28.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/3/2026 "El Llamado" is a performative work for solo or multiple voices, produced using whistles of varying sizes, materials, shapes, and cultural origins. It was commissioned by Maison des Arts Georges & Claude Pompidou, 2020. Its duration, format, and number of performers are adapted to the specific context of presentation. El Llamado (Der Aufruf) is a fixed arrangement of this work, composed and realized for this publication. It includes a studio recording employing whistles sourced from Austria, Germany, Italy, China, Spain, Greece, Hong Kong, Portugal, France, India, Mexico, the United States, Poland, the Czech Republic, Russia, Japan, and Nepal, alongside a public-space activation performed by Yann Leguay at Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, France, in 2020. Mario de Vega (1979) is a Mexican conceptual artist working in Berlin and Mexico City. His work overlaps relations between stability, failure, simulation and ambiguity with site-specific interventions, sound events, electronic devices, process-oriented projects and sculpture. Since 2020 he is professor for Sound-Art at the Kunsthochschule Kassel.

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GAUTE GRANLI	Rosacea	LP	NASHAZPHONE	NP 061LP
$29.50 IN STOCK Rosacea sounds as strange and demented as all the previous albums by this Norwegian one-man project. But it sounds right. Just like he claimed in a recent interview about his untraditional approach to writing songs: "I just make stuff until it sounds right." It sounds absolutely right in fact. As puzzling and lunatic as he may seem, yet a sense of order emanates from the idiosyncrasies featured on this album. Ghédalia Tazartès is a cursory reference. Especially on "Carmelade." However, the spectrum of sound and compositions on Rosacea manage to actually transcend the late French eccentric composer and singer. This is truly unique. Recorded and mixed by Gaute Granli. Master and lacquer cut by Frederic Alstadt. Artwork by Andreas Soma.

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KNIGHT, PETER	For A Moment The Sky Knew My Name	CD	ROOM40	RM 4263CD
$17.50 IN STOCK "This is music inspired by the water and the wind. By the tattoo of the insects' beating wings and the soughing of the wattle in the sea breeze. By the dull roll of the surf and the rhythm of my breath against the pad of my feet as I walk along the sandy, leaf-littered path through the scrub to the beach. The fingers of the fire-blackened dead banksias clawing the vicious blue. Somewhere, a peal of laughter is torn from its source and flies for a moment on the thermals rising from the baking sand. It is the summer of 2024/25 in Australia as the ideas for this album coalesce from a dozen different threads. I'm camping with my family on Krowathunkooloong land in the south-east corner of the country. The place where I grew up. The same beach where I spent every summer through my childhood. We swim every day in the ocean and in the late afternoons in the calm of the Yeerung River. The water, stained red brown by Melaleuca, turns my hand into a bloody ghost as I watch it sink. This place asks questions of me about belonging, about the relationship of the body to the wind. Of memory, of history, and of forgetting. Sound braces us in the now but simultaneously connects us to the past - a porous membrane between inner and outer worlds. I am walking up the hill behind the Yeerung with my trumpet in my backpack. Stopping to play momentarily. Trying to find a space in which I can resonate the sounds I make with those around me. The river is full from earlier rain and is threatening to break through the thin sandbank that separates its deep red pool from the gunmetal blue ocean. The heat gathers and the pulsing of the crickets intensifies." --Peter Knight Peter Knight is a composer, trumpeter, and curator whose practice thrives in the spaces between genres, categories, and cultures. His recent solo work extends the possibilities of his instrument with innovative approaches that interweave acoustic preparations, extended techniques with electroacoustic processing via laptop, vintage delays, and tape machines. Peter is interested in the use of repetition, rhythmic overlapping, slow harmonic evolution, and subtle timbral evolutions to shift our perceptions of linear time.

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MARCLAY, CHRISTIAN	Conduite Forcee	LP	BIENNALE SON	BS 001LP
$29.50 NOT IN STOCK In 1934, Swiss engineers completed the Chandoline Hydroelectric Plant, channeling Alpine water through 16 kilometers of concrete pipe. By 2023, the turbines had stopped. The plant was empty, silent -- a cathedral to obsolete energy with perfect acoustics and nothing left to say. Christian Marclay saw an instrument. For the inaugural Biennale Son in 2023, the artist who made his name destroying vinyl in 1980s New York turned the entire hydroelectric system into a playable object. The concept: open a manhole 4.5 kilometers uphill, drop something in, wait for sound to travel through the mountain. Steel bearings didn't work -- too heavy, wrong frequency. So Marclay used golf and tennis balls donated by local clubs. The Valais School of Art rigged the turbine hall with microphones. Then the balls dropped. Seconds of silence. Then: tumbling, bouncing, accelerating through kilometers of concrete. Not one ball but many, building into something between avalanche and applause as they hit the hall below. Marclay directed remotely, releasing volleys like a percussionist striking a drum the size of a small town. The pipe amplified everything -- pure mountain reverb, no processing, just 1934 engineering singing its swan song. The recording, mixed with Alain Renaud, is the Biennale Son's first vinyl release. Side A features fifteen minutes of cascading spheres, industrial archaeology as living sound. Side B features an engraved portrait of Marclay. Unplayable. The performance happened once. The pipe spoke. That's enough. This is quintessential Marclay -- the artist who built the Phonoguitar (1983), scattered records to be crushed underfoot (Footsteps, 1989), won Venice's Golden Lion with The Clock (2011), collaborated with Sonic Youth and John Zorn, and has spent his career proving that everything is already an instrument. Mountains. Vinyl. Film. Time itself. You just need to know where to listen -- or where to drop the ball. Always the same question: what music do objects make when you know how to listen? Here, the answer is gravity plus concrete plus expired sporting goods equals something you've never heard before. Conduite forcée means "penstock" but translates as "forced conduct" -- water compelled through pipe, sound through space, music from infrastructure. Limited edition. One pressing. No digital. Just the grooves and the ghost of Switzerland's hydroelectric past, pressed into vinyl like water in a sealed pipe. Mountains as instruments. Golf balls as notes. A decommissioned power plant's final performance, conducted by one of contemporary art's most inventive listeners.

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LYSAGHT, PATRICK	For the Birds	LP	HOLIDAYS RECORDS	HOL 146LP
$28.50 IN STOCK Edition of 250 copies, embossed cover. 1984. Inside the Rainforest Birdhouse at the Rio Grande Zoo, Patrick Lysaght played flute, strings, and percussion among 150 birds of 42 species. Not recording them. Playing with them. For 18 months the scientist (and artist) has been playing music (flute, strings and percussion) in the Rainforest Birdhouse at the Rio Grande Zoo in Albuquerque. This interactive environment, populated by 150 birds representing 42 species, has provided more than an interesting background for music; rather, the birds have contributed to the resulting compositions on an equal level with the musician. Complex clouds of point notes build to a rich density, as mutual interspecies stimulation assumes a path based on the excitement of chance and the probability of experience. The material on this record has been selected with emphasis on bird responsiveness and instrument variety within the aesthetic parameters of blending with and enhancing this unique sonic atmosphere. Mastered from the original tapes by Giuseppe Ielasi.

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RATTI/ALESSANDRA NOVAGA/ENRICO MALATESTA, NICOLA	What We Do When in Silence	LP	HOLIDAYS RECORDS	HOL 143LP
$27.00 IN STOCK Edition of 300 copies, embossed cover. Imagine a series of small movements in an empty space. Imagine their shadows on the floor, there's a natural light sliding in from the three windows on your right side. There's no silence here. There are people outside waiting for others, waiting for the people since what we do is not visible, since we do it when in silence and there is no silence here. Nicola Ratti: synthesizer, piano, whistling; Alessandra Novaga: electric guitar; Enrico Malatesta: percussions. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, Monza, 26-27 February 2022. Special thanks to Centro d'Arte di Padova.

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ARMAROLI & DAVID TOOP, SERGIO	Decay Music n.10: And I Entered Into Sleep	LP	DIE SCHACHTEL	DSDM 010LP
$31.50 IN STOCK LP, one-time edition of 200 copies, pressed to 180g black vinyl and housed in a pro-printed jacket, contained in a silk-screened PVC sleeve. Returning with its final instalments, Die Schachtel's Decay Music series extends its explorations of inspired contemporary experimental efforts of the ambient, ethereal, and emotively abstract with Sergio Armaroli and David Toop's And I Entered Into Sleep, an astounding electroacoustic gesture of blurred space and time, plumbing complexity of meaning bound to sonority. Creatively groundbreaking and inspired, radically rethinking the terms of what ambient music can be perceived to be, it stands among the most striking efforts to appear within the series to date. Reconfiguring the notion of bridge building on a multitude of terms, it feels fitting that the tenth and final installment of Die Schachtel's Decay Music series, Sergio Armaroli and David Toop's And I Entered Into Sleep, was co-created by an artist whose work featured in the first suite of LPs issued by Brian Eno's Obscure Records in 1975, the groundwork toward which Decay Music's own efforts nod. David Toop has been regarded as a pioneer in British experimental and improvised music: a sonic voyager who has continuously challenged the sources and materiality of sound through rigorously thoughtful performances, a vast catalog of recordings, and a steady flow of highly influential texts. Be it as a member of Alterations, his group breaking group with Peter Cusack, Terry Day, and Steve Beresford that ran between 1977 to 1986, or through is noteworthy work with artists like Rie Nakajima, Thurston Moore, Paul Burwell, and numerous others, collaboration has always played a central role within Toop's singular practice. A composer, percussionist, vibraphonist, and multidisciplinary artist, Armaroli has been issuing radical and forward-thinking musical gestures for decades, working as one of Italy's most noteworthy interpreters of composer's like Giacinto Scelsi, John Cage, Franco Evangelisti, Giancarlo Schiaffini, and Walter Branchi, as both a solo performer and member of the highly regarded Rib Trio, as well as forging a singular practice as a composer. Featuring Armaroli on vibraphone and prepared vibraphone and Toop on electronics, And I Entered Into Sleep is "a sonic journey, a Proustian suggestion à la Recherche, into the unconscious between electronic and acoustic sounds." Feeling almost subaquatic at times, each artist's markedly different sound-sources dance in abstract grace, incorporating subtle nods to minimalism, free jazz, and musique concrète. And I Entered Into Sleep traverses uncharted realms at the borders of literary reference, sound art, ambience and abstraction through delicately musical sounds, revealing new depths at every turn.

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TURRA & ELIO MARTUSCIELLO, LUIGI	Decay Music n.9: Liminale	LP	DIE SCHACHTEL	DSDM 009LP
$31.50 LOW STOCK LEVEL LP, one-time edition of 200 copies, pressed to 180g black vinyl and housed in a pro-printed jacket, contained in a silk-screened PVC sleeve. Returning with one of its final instalments, Die Schachtel's Decay Music series extends its explorations of inspired contemporary experimental efforts of the ambient, ethereal, and emotively abstract with Luigi Turra and Elio Martusciello's Liminale, an astounding electroacoustic gesture of blurred space and time, plumbing complexity of meaning bound to sonority. Creatively groundbreaking and inspired, radically rethinking the terms of what ambient music can be perceived to be, it stands among the most striking efforts to appear within the series to date. An aural bridge between two distinct generations of Italian experimental musicians, Liminale is the debut collaborative outing from the creative partnership of Luigi Turra and Elio Martusciello. Active within the context for roughly two decades, Turra (b. 1975) is a reductionist/electroacoustic composer, noted from his tense deployment of concrete and acoustic sources -- particularly small sounds and noises -- whose work threads the balance between silence, tactile auditory perception, and aleatoric music. Martusciello (b. 1959), on the other hand, is a musician and composer working across the fields of acousmatic and electroacoustic composition, sound installation, multi-media and audiovisual art, and computer music improvisation, who is widely celebrated for both his solo efforts and his collaborations with Eugene Chadbourne, Mike Cooper, Alvin Curran, Chris Cutler, Rhodri Davies, Iancu Dumitrescu, Michel Godard, Tim Hodgkinson, Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, Jérôme Noetinger, Tony Oxley, Evan Parker, Z'EV, and others. A single, nearly 40-minute work, extending across the two sides of the LP, Liminale is an exploration of the liminal through sonic means. Unfurling like a labyrinth navigated in darkness, the piece's first half is marked by sparseness and restraint, as slow-paced guitar tones and harmonics thread silences and resonant ambience within a sprawling sense of space, delicately populated by tiny sounds, fleeting punctuations drawn from undeterminable sources, vocal utterances, and the unexpected appearance of intoxicating piano tones. As Liminale progresses into its second half, Turra and Martusciello enter a more densely populated notion of the in between. No less defined by the presence of space and mystery, discreet textures rustle and writhe within passages of pure concrete abstraction and a fragmented, stretched sense of musicality. Intimate, fragile, and achingly beautiful, Liminale, Luigi Turra and Elio Martusciello's debut collaboration, is a masterstroke in sound-craft and composition. Mastered for vinyl by Giuseppe Ielasi, Liminale is issued as the ninth entry in Die Schachtel's Decay Music series.

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DE PAEPE, BART	Zurahumnah	LP	LA SCIE DOREE	SCIE 3725LP
$35.50 IN STOCK For 20 years Bart De Paepe has carved a distinctive trace in the realm of psychedelic underground and counterculture. With several outstanding solo albums on a.o. Astres d'Or, Ultra Eczema, No Basement Is Deep Enough and with many studio and concert ventures with Sylvester Anfang's funeral folks, Louise Landes Levi, Timo van Luijk, and Raymond Dijkstra, to name a few, Bart De Paepe developed a wide and sharp spirit within the orbit of psychedelic improvisation. Since 2007 Bart also curates the Sloow Tapes and Sloowax labels with an impressive catalog of music and poetry by a wide range of resonating artists. Bart's visual work (drawing and painting), parallel to his musical universe, has been used on many of these releases. He is a genuinely curious traveler, always discovering new dimensions, which is clearly to be heard on the four tracks of this album. Zürahümnah is an immediate and immersive dive into solitary inner and outer worlds of light and darkness. Zürahümnah is a floating vibration of flickering twilight. Zürahümnah is a mysterious journey through detached time and space. Equipped with Hawaiian guitar, piano, organ and cymbal, Bart De Paepe sets the controls for the heart of the sun.

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