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In a Word, the sixteenth installment of the intergenerational collaboration series FRKWYS, brings together postminimalist composer Daniel Lentz with vocalist and sound artist Ian William Craig [...]
2021 repress. “American composer and multi-instrumentalist Alvin Curran has remained one of the great emblems of experimental music for the last half-century. In 1966, along with Frederic [...]
Hungarian “minimalist” instrumentalist/composer Tibor Szemző is considered a genius by many, although his accomplishments as an artist are sometimes overshadowed by the likes of [...]
1990 release. Originally released in 1989 as Violin Solo. Sept. 3-4, ’89. Takehisa Kosugi‘s improvisations, both with violin and miscellaneous sounding objects, have a sense of [...]
Originally released on Lovely Music in 1987. Jetsun Mila is inspired by the life of Milarepa, a great yogi and poet of Tibet who lived in the 11th century. The story of his life as told to his [...]
1996 release. Originally released on Lovely Music as Pulsers / Untitled in 1984. This re-release includes an additional piece from David Tudor, Phonemes. Pulsers explores the world of rhythms [...]
Originally release on Lovely Music in 1987. A series of three pieces/suites; “Leapday Night”, “A Traveler’s Dream Journal”, and “Interspecies Smalltalk” [...]
2019 repress of the original CD version; recently awarded: 9.0 Best New Reissue on Pitchfork, Originally released on Lovely Music in 1978. David Behrman‘s On The Other Ocean is an [...]
Originally released by Lovely Music in 1981. In this fascinating exploration of acoustical phenomena, Alvin Lucier slips from the domain of language to that of music in the course of 40 minutes [...]
1992 release. First released on Lovely Music in 1980. A 50-foot length of taut wire passes through the poles of a large magnet and is driven by an oscillator; the vibrations of the wire are miked [...]
Brett W. Naucke Cumulative Index: Synthesis written & recorded 2010-2020 Label: Dassi Brett Naucke’s Cumulative Index sits somewhere between a full length and compilation, culled from [...]
Adios, Cienfuegos’ fourth full length album, is a collection of genre-bending sketches and songs dealing with loss, paranoia and the uncompromising passage of time into nothingness. Recorded in [...]
Terry Riley‘s Descending Moonshine Dervishes is a long-form piece from a concert in Paris (on November 19) 10 days later the legendary performance held at the Metamusik Festival in Berlin. [...]
Harry Bertoia‘s Glowing Sounds LP contains three versions of the same composition, each transferred at different tape speeds in accordance with the artist’s instructions. This is the [...]
Incredible follow-up to the sold-out Tapes 1 (JBH 065LP, 2017), this vinyl continuation takes you deeper into the sublime world of the cult Dutch director Frans Zwartjes‘ soundtrack tape [...]
A new album of piano driven ambient music from British composer Robert Haigh. Following in the path of his albums for the Japanese Siren label, Creatures of the Deep is an underground vantage of [...]
Laurie Spiegel’s second full-length album, Unseen Worlds, arrived just over ten years after her debut album. Having realized the pieces found on The Expanding Universe (1980) on an instrument no [...]
Burn the Night / Bruciare la Notte: Original Recordings, 1983–1989 is the first archival collection of music by the Italian minimalist composer Tiziano Popoli. In his music, Popoli framed the [...]
Label Description: Bela introduces themself as “a musician and DJ, who finds various hidden passages to emotional balance. Gender non-binary and Asian. Name preferred written with no uppercase [...]
Label Description: Debut LP of ambient and synth music. LP color vinyl edition of 100 with risograph inserts and home made cover.
Label Description: Sophomore tape of new age music, LP out in April. CS edition of 50
Label Description: Pedestrian Deposit (Jonathan Borges and Shannon A. Kennedy) possesses a certain, restrained relationship to texture. Sources both electric and acoustic operate on a logic of [...]
Hali Palombo – all composition Thanks to the UCSB Cylinder Archive for use of their recordings.
The structure of a life, existing through various clusters of repeating patterns, reliant on consistency but made tangible by the phasing of human error. Denying the emotionally energized [...]
Artist / Label Description: ‘Portuguese witchcraft. Sonic sorcery. Joyful confusion and boundless nude motions through the celebration of dark arts.’ Hand assembled linen paper pocket [...]
‘Gorgeous, deep electronics. Perfect pick for fans of Radigue, Oliveros, Alio Die, the drone side of Kevin Drumm etc.’ -BH Domestic release of this small run Japanese CD. Hand [...]
‘Beyond crucial, minimalist micro-tape drip. The sounds behind the sounds.’ -BH Limited physical copy of the Street Calcium masterpiece by TVE. Hand assembled linen paper jackets, [...]
‘Deepest of the deep drone from the mind behind the Night Foundation / Noir Age brilliance.’ -BH full color linen paper pocket sleeve and pro printed cdr. edition of 100
‘Really rad and impossibly beautiful post-glitch ambient ethereal brilliance. Yet another totally mandatory Hologram disc.’ -BH limited to 100 numbered copies
‘Monumental music concrete. Really tasteful, and masterfully paced and constructed ‘non-music’ from the Careful Catalog boss.’ -BH hand cut & assembled linen paper [...]
‘Heartbroken post-industrial tape ridden chamber music gone wrong. Hauntingly gorgeous sounds.’ -BH Hand assembled & scored linen paper pocket sleeve. Dated & Numbered, [...]
“Ellen Fullman began developing The Long String Instrument in her St. Paul, Minnesota studio in 1980 and moved to Brooklyn the following year. Inspired by composer and instrument builder [...]
“Since the mid-1960s, Jon Gibson has played a key role in the development of American avant-garde music. As a versatile reed player, he has performed with everyone from Steve Reich and [...]
“Composer, filmmaker and photographer Phill Niblock is a true pillar of the New York avant-garde. In the past 50 years, he has curated over 1,000 performances at his Centre Street loft and [...]
2018 repress, originally released in 2013. “Phill Niblock has pushed the boundaries of sound and visual art for over 40 years. While dutifully producing experimental films and producing [...]
Repressed. Lovely Music present a reissue of Robert Ashley‘s Automatic Writing, originally released as an LP by Lovely Music in 1979. Over the course of Robert Ashley’s career his [...]
2021 repress; #8 on Pitchfork’s “50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time” list. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Deep Listening, Important Records offer a definitive double-LP [...]
LP version. An unearthed treasure from the ’70s Italian avant garde archives! A previously unreleased recording from the legendary Beat72 club in Rome in 1973, featuring a one-off [...]
My New Music is a collection of personal stories and private desires, exposed, articulated, performed and dedicated to the hope that one person’s fantasies can contribute to another [...]
Breadwoman is a being who exists outside of time, yet surfaced on tape during the perfect storm of performance art, renegade DIY avant-garde, gallery culture, and esoteric mysticism of early 80s [...]
World-renowned as one of experimental music’s most vital and impressionistic composers of the past few decades, William Basinski’s tape loop works have been especially influential, [...]
Kelly Moran is a quintessential contemporary Warp artist. She’s carved out a lane that is all her own, one that touches on electronic experimentation with attention to detail and dedication [...]
William Basinski’s reputation as the foremost producer of profound meditations on death and decay has long been established, but on his new album, Lamentations, he transforms operatic tragedy [...]
Suzanne Ciani is a true electronic music pioneer. The five Grammy nominated Italian-American neoclassical composer is unquestionably one of the greatest minds that contemporary music has ever [...]
Unbegrenzt is the third in an ongoing series of archival records of the unheard music of Swedish composer Catherine Christer Hennix, co-released by Blank Forms Editions and Empty Editions. It [...]
FRÜHE JAHRE is the first time reissue of C-Schulz’s early work from late 1980s and early ‘90s. Schulz’s first LP, 10. HOSE HORN, was introduced alongside other debut LPs from Jim O’Rourke [...]
Following a limited vinyl edition in 2018, Oliver Coates’ arrangement of Pulitzer Prize-winning US composer John Luther Adams’ 2007 piece Canticles of the Sky appears for the first time across [...]
Inspired by the infinitely numbered harmonies transmitted by Vista, a benevolent being from a distant dimension, Iasos broke ground for a new age of electronic sound manipulation. His was [...]