April 18th Newsletter

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  • Akio Jeimus / Risa Takeda / T. Mikawa – Third Night Sparks
    Akio Jeimus / Risa Takeda / T. Mikawa – Third Night Sparks
    $13.00 | ,

    In July 2025, Akio Jeimus did a short residency at the intimate Tokyo venue, Bar Isshee. He, with the help of owner Shunichi Ishida (Isshee), was able to organize four […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sissy Spacek – Declension
    Sissy Spacek – Declension
    $12.00 | ,

    A wall of chaotic and cascading electronics and vocal hell. Abgrund and Spiraled Galaxy. Recorded in Chicago and Cleveland, mid-2024 by core duo Ch. Mumma and John Wiese.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Strain of Laws – Live Non-Plus Ultra
    Strain of Laws – Live Non-Plus Ultra
    $12.00 | ,

    Live document of Strain of Law’s show at Non-Plus Ultra in Los Angeles, CA, November 2025. The voice and electronics duo of Aaron Hemphill (Nonpareils, Liars, Sissy Spacek) and John […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Infant – Face First In The Entangled
    Infant – Face First In The Entangled
    $8.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • P Wits – Kill Lies All
    P Wits – Kill Lies All
    $6.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Chair-O-Planes – Play “Internal Organs”
    Chair-O-Planes – Play “Internal Organs”
    $3.00 | ,

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    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Presence Not Absense – Trans Bipoc Housing Benefit Tape
    Presence Not Absense – Trans Bipoc Housing Benefit Tape
    $1.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Jacoti Sommes – Travel Time
    Jacoti Sommes – Travel Time
    $6.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Andrew Oda – Sotto
    Andrew Oda – Sotto
    $8.00 | ,

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    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Don’t DJ ‎– Nulla Crux Nulla Corona
    Don’t DJ ‎– Nulla Crux Nulla Corona
    $25.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Hive of Wires – Emotional Labor
    Hive of Wires – Emotional Labor
    $3.00 | ,

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    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Machine Woman – Residency Tape 2: Machine Woman
    Machine Woman – Residency Tape 2: Machine Woman
    $20.00 | ,

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    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Fleeting Breath – Unfiction
    Fleeting Breath – Unfiction
    $5.00 | ,

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    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Genetics And Windsurfing – Nonlinear Record
    Genetics And Windsurfing – Nonlinear Record
    $5.00 | ,

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    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Jim Haynes – Vane Dodson
    Jim Haynes – Vane Dodson
    $5.00 | ,

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    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Lapse – Nothing Feels Right
    Lapse – Nothing Feels Right
    $5.00 | ,

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    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sunk Heaven – Apex Plummet
    Sunk Heaven – Apex Plummet
    $3.00 | ,

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    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Limbs Bin – A Glass Of Sour Quince
    Limbs Bin – A Glass Of Sour Quince
    $5.00 | ,

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    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Wilted Woman – Keychain
    Wilted Woman – Keychain
    $3.00 | ,

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    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Shameful – Impossible Navigation
    Shameful – Impossible Navigation
    $6.00 | ,

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    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Deuce Avenue – Perennial Fire And Life
    Deuce Avenue – Perennial Fire And Life
    $4.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Fleshlicker – Decomp
    Fleshlicker – Decomp
    $8.00 | ,

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    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Smegma ‎– Folklore & Concepts
    Smegma ‎– Folklore & Concepts
    $25.00 | ,

    Folklore & Concepts, the latest release by Smegma—now five decades into their outsider avant-garde career—extends the band’s legacy of ritualistic collage, spontaneous improvisation, and [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Loren Connors and Suzanne Langille – Crucible
    Loren Connors and Suzanne Langille – Crucible
    $20.00 | ,

    Continuing much of the instrumental, musically dense partnership of Loren Connors and Suzanne Langille in the 80s and 90s, Crucible stands out as a clear highlight in the pair’s musical [...]

    GENRE: Blues, Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • TASTE – I dipped my comb… (Loud experimental rock)
    TASTE – I dipped my comb… (Loud experimental rock)
    $24.00 |

    I dipped my comb in shochu and ran it through the hair of the night is the brand new release from the intriguing trio 番長 Taste, consisting of Mark Anderson […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Alex Ross – The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
    Alex Ross – The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Centur…
    $10.00 | , ,

    In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Kelly Moran – Don’t Trust Mirrors
    Kelly Moran – Don’t Trust Mirrors
    $16.00 | ,

    Don’t Trust Mirrors marks one of the most transformative chapters in New York-based composer and producer, Kelly Moran’s career. In 2019, fresh from touring her Warp debut Ultraviolet, she began [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Kelly Moran – Don’t Trust Mirrors
    Kelly Moran – Don’t Trust Mirrors
    $30.00 | ,

    Don’t Trust Mirrors marks one of the most transformative chapters in New York-based composer and producer, Kelly Moran’s career. In 2019, fresh from touring her Warp debut Ultraviolet, she began [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Steven Birchall / Scott Huston ‎– Phenomena / Reciprocals II / Pento-Tholoi
    Steven Birchall / Scott Huston ‎– Phenomena / Reciprocals II / Pento-T…
    $25.00 | , ,

    Highly interesting split between composers, featuring the debut piece by Steven Birchall of Reality Gates fame. Label: Opus One – number 4 Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo Country: US Released: 1970 [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Limbs Bin – New Berkshire Blues
    Limbs Bin – New Berkshire Blues
    $10.00 | ,

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    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Scald Hymn – You’re Not Supposed To Be Alive
    Scald Hymn – You’re Not Supposed To Be Alive
    $8.00 | ,

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    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Hairbrushing – Two Broken Mirrors & Thirty​-​One Open Windows
    Hairbrushing – Two Broken Mirrors & Thirty​-​One Open Windows
    $3.00 | ,

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    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Nystrand / Klein – Bayou Stickee
    Nystrand / Klein – Bayou Stickee
    $6.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Ligature – 245 Days In Hell
    Ligature – 245 Days In Hell
    $6.00 | ,

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    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Vestigial Limb – Now, Voyager
    Vestigial Limb – Now, Voyager
    $4.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Circuit Wound – Succumbing To The Inevitable Automation
    Circuit Wound – Succumbing To The Inevitable Automation
    $3.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Grant Evans – Concrete Narcissus
    Grant Evans – Concrete Narcissus
    $4.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Werewolf Jerusalem – Hand Of The Gallows
    Werewolf Jerusalem – Hand Of The Gallows
    $5.00 | ,

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    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Michel Chion – Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen
    Michel Chion – Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen
    $32.00 | ,

    Michel Chion’s landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. Chion argues that sound film [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
    Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
    $35.00 | ,

    In Experimental Otherwise, Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by “experimental” in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time―New York City, 1964―Piekut [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Michel Chion – Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise
    Michel Chion – Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise
    $35.00 | ,

    First published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion’s Sound addresses the philosophical, interpretive, and practical questions [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • A Revolution in Music: The History of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales
    A Revolution in Music: The History of the Groupe de Recherches Musical…
    $45.00 | ,

    Established in the 1950s by musician and engineer Pierre Schaeffer, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales would become the nerve center for avant-garde artists experimenting with sound and [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Vatican Shadow ‎– 20th Hijacker
    Vatican Shadow ‎– 20th Hijacker
    $12.00 | , ,

    “20TH HlJACKER – the redacted ‘what if’ Doom Electronics loop which dissects the gulf between death as sacrifice vs. reward, anxiety digitalization and universal human commonality [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Tim Daisy – Relucent: Music For Marimba, Radios, And Turntables
    Tim Daisy – Relucent: Music For Marimba, Radios, And Turntables
    $18.00 | , ,

    “‘Relucent’ is Chicago composer and percussionist Tim Daisy’s latest solo effort. A collection of compositions and improvisations combining recent explorations with turntable manipulation [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Pjusk ‎– Salt Og Vind
    Pjusk ‎– Salt Og Vind
    $18.00 | , ,

    “With Salt og Vind Pjusk retums from an eight year album hiatus. This release is also the first seeing Pjusk as a solo project consisting of Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik. Salt […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Jan Martin Smørdal, Øystein Wyller Odden ‎– Kraftbalanse
    Jan Martin Smørdal, Øystein Wyller Odden ‎– Kraftbalanse
    $10.00 | , ,

    “SOFA MUSIC continues to release the work of the extraordinary Norwegian composer Jan Martin Smørdal. Recently he was awarded the prestigious Arne Nordheim Composers Prize for his creative [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Conrad Schnitzler ‎– Blau
    Conrad Schnitzler ‎– Blau
    $14.00 | , ,

    “On the Red Album Rot, Conrad Schnitzler laid down the direction his musical artistry would take. His second solo , The Blue Album Blau, originally released in 1974, offered confirmation [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Christina Carter ‎– Texas Blues Working
    Christina Carter ‎– Texas Blues Working
    $8.00 | , ,

    “Featuring the 6 tracks from the original release, along with an additional brand new amazing track. The original edition on tape received some fantastic reviews, so its great to finally [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Liz Durette ‎– Primordial Soup
    Liz Durette ‎– Primordial Soup
    $14.00 | , ,

    “Another splendid album of avant hi-jinx and shreddery from keyboard whiz, Liz Durette. Primordial Soup is her fourth album (first was a cassette), and the second for Feeding Tube. It […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • David Gilden ‎– Texas Pillbox 18 CD Boxset
    David Gilden ‎– Texas Pillbox 18 CD Boxset
    $140.00 | ,

    All the Gilden you could ever want. 6/1/1973 – 4/6/2008 18 CDs housed in six six-panel 3CD A5 Digipaks, housed in a slipcase with fold-out insert. 300 copies were produced. […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise