28/07/2026
Hi, it has been a while since our last newsletter. Summer is slow - but here is a new one with a bunch of records that arrived in the last two weeks. If you want to full your summer with some music - there are some great records to brighter your day like the new ARTEFAKT & KMRU - Collaborations III LP, PARASITE JAZZ - II LP, PHAROAH SANDERS & BILL LASWELL - With A Heartbeat LP, SABA ALIZADEH - Rituals Of The Last Dawn LP, SABA ALIZADEH - Scattered Memories LP, FORGED RELICS - Portal + Lutke LP + Flexi 7“, GUYER'S CONNECTION - Portrait LP, CATE KENNAN - Shadows LP, BILL ORCUTT restock, THE SPRIGS - For Red Riverbank LP, TIMOTEO CARBONE HANSSON - Gwethilu: Songs For The Dark Lake LP, FALSE BERRIES - Find the Gyres LP, THE HOBKNOBS - Helmets Off LP (EX LEWSBERG), LEWSBERG - Out And About LP restock …
We also started pre orders for the upcoming new RITUAL ERROR from the UK … should ship in late September. Following on from 2024’s debut album, Dial in the Ghost (TNS Records), London-based noise-punk stalwarts Ritual Error come ripping out of the gate once more with their sophomore record, Terminal with Benefits (Totality). Recorded with noise rock connoisseur, Wayne Adams at BearBitesHorse, Ritual Error take their sound in a more angular, meaner direction this time around. Alessandro Incorvaia’s abrasive bass tone intersects with David Thair’s frantic and precise drumming, creating an off-kilter rhythm section and allowing a platform for Okala Elesia’s guitar – buzzsaw tone, phasers set to stun - to slash in and out of the gaps they leave.
We are currently trying to find a new plant for the LIIEK LP and try to compensate for the lost money on this productions. Every order helps a bit. THANK YOU
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ANNA HÖGBERG ATTACK - Ensamseglaren LP (In 2020 Anna Högberg put her widely celebrated band Anna Högberg Attack on hold, retraining as a nurse whilst continuing a solo practice and playing in other groups. With Ensamseglaren she makes a spectacular return with her own ensemble — this time a double sextet — performing an album length suite of new music written in dedication to her late father — the titular ‘ensamseglaren’ pictured on the LP cover as a young boy. (ensam in Swedish can mean both alone and lonely, seglaren = the sailor). Shot through with renewed energy and a brutally affective emotional punch, Högberg’s formal experimentation opens up vibrant possibilities for the assembled musicians to let loose with some of their wildest and most ecstatic playing on record.) 30.00
ARTEFAKT & KMRU - Collaborations III LP (de stijl - The third installment of the Collaborations series by Artefakt on their own De Stijl imprint welcomes KMRU. The Nairobi-born, Berlin-based sound artist is known for his immersive use of field recordings, ambient textures and experimental compositions. Together they recorded an extended dialogue rooted in improvisation, shaped by environment and close listening. Artefakt and KMRU blur the lines between ambient, acoustic and electronic forms, creating a spacious and contemplative collection of improvisations.) 18.00
ARTICLES OF FAITH - Give Thanks LP (futurism - A remastered pink-and-white vinyl reissue of the first "proper" album by this Chicago legend—a record that had been out of print for decades. Angry, aggressive, and less immediately catchy than before, the band infused their sound with surprising breaks and complex song structures—yet the result is pure energy. Produced by Bob Mould (Hüsker Dü, Sugar) and remastered from the original tapes, this musical powerhouse is finally back in print. Released in 1984, the debut album from these Chicago hardcore legends proves that a hardcore record can be both political and poetic. Fueled by rage, introspection, and a musical evolution that arguably served as a blueprint for the later post-hardcore genre, this album delivers everything one could expect from a record of that era: it is intense, emotional, biting, and unpredictable—all topped off by Bob Mould’s masterful production, which was miles ahead of its time. A quintessential American hardcore album—and a must-have for fans of Minor Threat, Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, and Fugazi.) 46.00
BILL ORCUTT - Music in Continuous Motion LP (Music in Continuous Motion, Bill Orcutt’s latest entry in his 21st-century repertoire of quartet guitar music, pointedly steps away from the cut-and-paste constructivism of Music for Four Guitars into a sonic stratum that's yearningly melodic, resolutely human, and built for performance. Conceived for a 2026 NYC concert, Music in Continuous Motion shares the concision of its predecessor -- but rather than the discrete, mechanistic precision of Music for Four Guitars, the tracks on Music in Continuous Motion unify — each song weaving four gleaming threads into the warp and weft of an evolving, complex texture that employs simple, repeating motifs to build new melodies from counterpoint itself. It accomplishes this in the most efficient manner possible: most of these 12 tracks hover around two-and-a-half minutes, each iterating first the substrate, then the melody and its variations, then slamming shut like a clockwork music box.) 32.00
BILL ORCUTT - Another Perfect Day LP (Another Perfect Day is Bill Orcutt's first solo electric guitar record since 2017’s eponymous Bill Orcutt. While that eight-year gap might not seem like a ton of time on the cosmic scale, it nonetheless represents a busy half-decade plus for Orcutt projects: a raft of improv collaborations, an acclaimed run of chopped and looped albums on Fake Estates, and the collision of Orcutt's computer and guitar music on Music For Four Guitars and last year's How to Rescue Things, both on Palilalia. The undeniable alchemy of those latter mashups inspired not only a wider appreciation of Orcutt-as-composer, but also the resurrection of Orcutt-as-bandleader, as the Bill Orcutt Quartet hit the road in support of Four Guitars, Orcutt's first work with a proper score (courtesy of Shane Parish).) 30.00
CATE KENNAN - Shadows LP (kranky - Los Angeles musician Cate Kennan’s self-produced second full-length unfolds with the poetry and immateriality of its title: Shadows. 10 vignettes of keys, strings, reverb, and voice, the songs sway and lope between dream and lullaby, rose-colored but remote. The album was inspired by the dislocation Kennan felt upon returning, after several years away, to the rustic neighborhood northwest of L.A. where she’d grown up: “Wandering through a place where my life once existed but where everything had quietly shifted with time.” The music conjures a mood of distance, dust, and dazed emotion, alternately lulling and unraveling. From shuffling tumbleweed vignettes (“The Lone West,” “Romantic Strings”) to sepia-tone torch songs (“Shadows,” “Reverie”) to oblique keyboard meditations (“Moonlight,” “Rain”), Kennan’s soundworld moves with a muted, murky beauty, like alluring shapes seen through smudged glass. In her hands, haze is a transformative property, liberating melody and memory into landscapes still untraveled: “What began as a period of nostalgia for me turned into a longing, not for the past, for a place that might exist somewhere beyond the horizon.”) 33.00
CERBERE & MALEMORT - Aimless / Glace Mère LP (rope ir - Heartbreak, gravity, and dull vibrations—it's this quest that brings together the approaches of Cerbère and Malemort. Since the meeting between the musicians of La Harelle collective (which also includes Sordide, Mòr, Void Paradigm and Iffernet) and those of Cerbère (also involved in Frank Sabbath, Ragequit and Hallebardier), the two trios have chosen to share their first vinyl, ‘Aimless / Glace Mère’. The collaboration marks the return of Malemort's dissonant impassivity and a new incarnation of Cerbère's grimy, bitter power. It has two facets: "Aimless" stretches like an 18-minute vision of a chaotic future, to which Cerbère responds with "Glace Mère," transporting us for 16 minutes into the coldest and most acidic of landscapes. Two complementary ways of arranging low frequencies and dissonances, which unite in a bitter but dignified response to the violence of the present.) 20.00
CONOR KILEY - OK Hotel LP (Monks Hood - A long time ago, during the messy death rattle of guitar music in the early 21st c., the NME once declared a young Conor Kiley “the future of rock and roll”. The hyperbole of this statement has proven unsurprisingly ironic; not because Kiley remains an obscure artist, but that now, nearly two decades on, it's obvious that rock never had the future the journalists and industry bigwigs of the late aughts had deluded themselves into thinking it did. So, what happened to all those promising young talents raised on rock dreams? With ample time and perspective, it seems that removing the aspirational carrot from those who came of age thinking they could have careers like Oasis or GNR has meant those same talents have ultimately matured into far stranger, more complex and subtle artists. ) 32.00
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING - In Light Of Recent Events LP (SR records - Eddy Current Suppression Ring make a surprise return with their sixth album In Light of Recent Events. True to form, it finds the disinterested careerists sidestepping expectation and working on their own terms, in their own time. Dialled in through closed-door weekly jams across 2025, that pent-up energy has only leaked via pseudonym-billed small-room shows as Jimmy and the Ringtones and Top Hats, record shop in-stores and country detours, plus a pair of phantom straight-to-YouTube singles (‘Swimming Hole’ and ‘Hard To Be Moved’), each with accompanying films by Chris Middlebrook and Amiel Courtin-Wilson respectively. Modern-day anxiety and human disillusionment press through the album’s darker, more politically aware subject matter, as suburban melodramas and tender, hard-hitting reflections articulate everything you’ve never been able to. Taped within the band’s signature close-quarters claustrophobia, Brendan Suppression purges his dome with a newly awakened vocal range, while riff savant Eddy Current bleeds through quicksilver, blood-raw scratches, cut against the tension-wound, locked-in low end of Danny Current and Rob Solid.) 28.00
FALSE BERRIES - Find the Gyres LP (Monk’s Hood - Over the years Sterling MacKinnon has quietly carved out an essential role for himself. As half of Cuneiform Tabs (W.25/Superior Viaduct, World of Echo), an original member of Violent Change (Slothmate), and the sole driver behind False Berries (Slothmate), he has functioned as a facilitator of momentum - a kind of midfield presence. You know, the number 8; vision, restraint, distribution. The one who sees the play before it fully forms and moves it along accordingly. There’s a certain amount of humility to that position, but also a limitation. Because every so often the same sensibility that organises begins to demand its own centre, and the game shifts.) 32.00
FLOCKS (W. Durand / U. Hohmann) - lagoon LP (karl - New album by FLOCKS, the duo of drone specialist WERNER DURAND and percussionist ULI HOHMANN. Musical landscapes that move between traditional as well as experimental sounds with influences from Krautrock and JON HASSELL's "fourth world" aesthetics. WERNER DURAND has made himself a name with various projects with Dhrupad singer AMELIA CUNI, playing with URBAN SAX, ARNOLD DREYBLATT, HENNING CHRISTIANSEN, DAVID BEHRMAN, ELLEN FULLMAN, CATHERINE CHRISTER HENNIX, as the co-founder of THE 13th TRIBE, ARMCHAIR TRAVELLER and TONALIENS (with ROBIN HAYWARD and HILARY JEFFERY) plus numerous solo albums, released on labels like Black Truffle, Unseen Worlds or Edition Telemark. Having studied saxophone as well as Indian / Persian flutes, the Berlin based DURAND is a highly reputated protagonist in the drone scene, famous for his self-built wind instruments like buzz-clarinets or his PVC neys & horns.) 24.00
FORGED RELICS - Portal + Lutke LP + Flexi 7“ (rope or - From the ashes of Slovenia’s finest sludge-punk miscreants Leechfeast emerges a new, eerie project. Forged Relics summon music that gestures towards both the Divine and Heretical, stripping doom down to an austere and minimalist arrangement of drums, vocals and organ, that is rich in understated majesty and devout apostasy. Mired in censer smoke-laden atmosphere, slow, cascading drums peal out alongside plaintive, regal organ notes as guttural vocals slither and expel into the ether. A sense of looming presence permeates, the ineffable paired with crushing unorthodox heaviness. Across its 37 minutes, Portal utilises the repetition and ritualism of Doom Metal, Chamber music and Drone. Hinting at the baleful works of Profetus, Abandon and Mournful Congregation and also the stark, ceremonial beauty of Kali Malone and Sarah Davachi. Mesmerizing and sonorous - beckoning towards something truly ancient. To listen is to be transported, emerging from the throng and wooden pews, into the light, keenly watching across the haze of Adriatic horizon that is unending. Infinite. Eternal. - Michael Douglas (The Ansible)) 24.00
GAS - November 89 LP (kompakt - The album ‘November 89’ comprises a selection of very early GAS tracks, some of which date back to the late 1980s. They were first released in 2008 as a CD insert in the art book ‘Wolfgang Voigt GAS’, published on Raster-Noton. Just like the photographs in the book, these pieces are early precursors that would evolve in the ensuing years with the albums ‘Zauberberg’ and ‘Königsforst’ into a style-defining, audiovisual “Gesamtkunstwerk” (total work of art) comprising hypnotically focused forest imagery and an abstract, psychedelic wash of sound created by alphorn and bass drum. The album is now available on vinyl for the first time. This effectively completes the existing GAS vinyl series by adding the "first" album, which had previously been missing. The cover art makes direct reference to the album ‘Oktember’, released in 1999. The highly hypnotic, dense forest motif served as the basis for one of the first ‘Oktember’ Waldloops (forest-loops) works that have increasingly found their way into international galleries and art venues over the years.) 30.00
GUSTAV DICKSSON / POST TRAGIC / SONJA LABIANCA / FRIDA JOHANNE - Stilla Dagar, Stilla Nätter / Stille Dage, Stille Nætter LP (DISCREET - Regular edition of 110 copies with paste-on cover. Swedish-Danish collab album of lush, low key new age/ambient DIY gold, based mainly on synth, piano, saxophone, spoken word and field recordings. Marvelous peak summer music. A private press style/no label release distributed by Discreet Music in a total edition of 200 copies. Mastered by Peter Kyed.) 27.00
GUYER'S CONNECTION - Portrait LP (minimal wave - Finally a reissue of the seminal first album from Swiss Wavers, Guyer’s Connection. Tibor Csébits and Philippe Alioth formed Guyer’‘s Connection in Basel, Switzerland when they were only 14 and 15 years old. At the time they were in a new wave rock band called “Kurtzschluss” which they decided to break from in order to make purely electronic music. They began with two synthesizers, a drum machine, a 4-track tape recorder and a multitude of ideas. They channeled their unique and humorous vision into their first album, entitled Portrait which they produced themselves and self-released in 1983. Over the years, the album became a highly sought after minimal synth cult classic. It stands alone as one of the strongest examples of Swiss Minimal Wave, and probably the only one that is in Baseldytsch. The Portrait reissue is presented in a high quality gloss sleeve, with artwork to match their original sleeve design from 1983. The record features newly remastered audio pressed on 180 gram black vinyl, as a hand-numbered edition of 999.) 33.00
THE HOBKNOBS - Helmets Off LP (self released - LEWSBERG & THE KLITTENS spin off THE HOBKNOBS will release their first full-length record on own THK Records imprint in July 2026! "Helmets Off" can be described as an honest attempt at honesty. Although all options are open at the moment of conception, the end result often remains bare. Instruments come in when they are needed, but the songs apparently don't need that much at all. Every word and every strum sounds like it's placed in exactly the right moment. Perhaps it is this bareness of the songs, that makes it feel as if The Hobknobs are speaking to the listener directly. It is clear that they don't want anything to cloud this human interaction. An interaction that appears to come with a certain playfulness. Yaël Dekker, whom you may also know as the singer of The Klittens, and Arie van Vliet, who used to spread his word through the band Lewsberg, were once described as loving misanthropes. Listening to the album, this description seems rather accurate. A consoling song like "The Mind" sounds haunting. Even words seem to have lost their meaning in "Dictionary". Songs that seem cheerful and naive at first appear to be pleadings on second listen. And is "Enarmoured" a pro-war protest song? What war do they want to fight? Dekker and Van Vliet's voices seem to know each other well, in a way that magnifies the songs on "Helmets Off" beyond their deceptive simplicity. Together with the minimal production by Jaap van der Velde, it makes that the album hits the sweet spot somewhere in the middle of 'instantly familiar' and 'no one else sounds quite like this’. As Karina Gill from San Francisco-based group Cindy wrote about The Hobknobs: "To describe the music of The Hobknobs, use the word ‚natural'. And what you will mean is: fitted to itself; essentially, albeit politely, uninterested in whether or not you're looking.) 27.00
LEWSBERG - Out And About LP (Dutch four-piece Lewsberg are set to release their fourth studio album, 'Out And About' in September 2023. Since forming in 2016, Lewsberg have gone from strength to strength. Despite never really considering themselves as a ‘productive band’, together they have released three LPs, one EP and a series of cassettes and 7”s including 2022’s "Six Hills" which was released via Speedy Wunderground's singles series. Lewsberg are named after writer and fellow Rotterdammer Robert Loesberg, famous for his dangerous novel 'Enige Defecten' from 1974. This is one of the band’s main sources of inspiration: the counterculture and big-city cynicism of the 1960s and 1970s. Yet there is also a softer side to Lewsberg’s music and lyrics. On their upcoming album 'Out And About', this side is more present than ever. Rudimentary pop and rock songs are deliberately kept bare, only occasionally embellished with a violin or organ part. In the lyrics, the tendency towards existentialism and black humour is nuanced with an almost naive openness and engagement.) 27.00
MARIO RUI SILVA - Stories From Another Time 1982-1988 DLP (Time Capsule - Double LP + 4-page insert - Originally released by Time Capsule in 2021 and long out of print, Stories From Another Time 1982-1988 returns in an upgraded edition following years of demand and rising collector prices on the secondhand market. Widely regarded as a modern cult classic, Mário Rui Silva’s visionary recordings blend acoustic folk, cinematic soul, spiritual jazz and saudade-filled Lusophone rhythm into a deeply timeless and universal work that transcends genre and geography. This new edition features half-speed mastering cut at Metropolis alongside an expanded 4-page insert with a tribute essay and unseen photographs following Silva’s passing in 2024. The roots of Angolan popular music explored in the meticulous guitar studies of Mário Rui Silva 1980s albums. Whether on mesmerising acoustic ballads or hypnotic groove-led tracks, the music of Angolan guitarist, researcher and intellectual Mário Rui Silva has a beguiling, melancholy quality, woven into the dynamics of his deft guitar playing. Rhythmically complex yet supremely effortless, the music collected here stems from three albums Mário released in Luanda in the 1980s that reflect his diverse range of influences, from traditional Angolan and West African rhythms to European jazz and classical instrumentation.) 35.00
OIRO – zweite kasse bitte LP (The Düsseldorf-based DaDa-dance-band—formerly known as Mofa-Punks—is back with 11 tracks in tow, consistently twisting further into the realms of NDW, punk, and "gaga-wave." "Dynamic stasis," my ass! Backed by a drum machine setup that’s seen better days but fueled by a palpable, newfound zest for playing, they combine gloriously entertaining lo-fi punk with danceable disco-synth interludes, squawking guitar solos, acoustic guitar (!), and remarkably smart trash-punk lyrics—leaving you wondering whether this is the sound of eternal youth or actual intellectualism. Oiro is undoubtedly opening up a whole new lane here! They’ve found themselves again and reinvented their sound—all without losing their identity. Thirty thoroughly entertaining minutes, packed with heaps of fun and topped off with a few anthems—"Pfeffi auf Pump"? How awesome is that, man?!) 26.00
PANDA BEAR & SONIC BOOM - A ? Of When LP (domino - Panda Bear and Sonic Boom’s second album together, A ? of WHEN, maintains the sense of musical play brought forth in their triumphant 2022 debut, Reset. It is built on loops of harp (Mary Lattimore) and sequences of steel drum, webs of pedal steel and even bits of a mariachi band. These are, of course, deliberate choices, sounds and textures they’ve never used and that offered a clear sonic break from the success of Reset. But maybe more than ever, Sonic Boom and Panda Bear emerge through these 10 songs as two people with frank opinions about these times, with a real stake in the sway of the world. These tunes grapple with online exhaustion and pervasive depression, with political chicanery and ecological sustainability, all while advocating for respecting the power of luck and giving one another grace in a moment when very few of us actually know what the hell is happening. Has it ever been easier to complain publicly about something without trying to change it? Sonic Boom and Panda Bear are not content to gripe about circumstances or speculate about the fall on A ? of WHEN. The goal is for the music to create physical connections between people, to encourage them to enjoy a real experience in the world with it and each other.) 29.00
PARASITE JAZZ - II LP (Second album of french incendiary fake big band Parasite Jazz. A krautrock, jazz-non-jazz, experimental album recorded along four seasons by three musicians (Alex Larsen, Tamara Goukassova & Théo Delaunay) from the french fringes ; members of Succhiamo, Diagonale des Yeux, Simple Music Experience, Violent Quand on Aime ... featuring Radio Hito, Kyle Knapp (Deliluh) & Hochiwah. After its first release in 2023, the tiny big band Parasite Jazz brings its public iterations to fruition with “?”, a testament to an alternate reality, matured voyaging across France over the span of four seasons. It sees the music flee through exuberant forests and steep troglodytes ; a parallel genre movie with a soundtrack of diluvian rhythms, mocking chants, jazz noir and voodoo accidents. In this shifting, autonomous world, the elastic orchestra—whose members [Radio Hito, Valentin Noiret, Kyle Knapp, and Hochiwah] keep on appearing and disappearing—plays for nocturnal secrets and feverish cavalcades. ) 30.00
PHAROAH SANDERS & BILL LASWELL - With A Heartbeat LP (glossy - Originally released in 2003, With A Heartbeat brings together Pharoah Sanders, Bill Laswell and Graham Haynes in a collaboration that remains as elusive as it is forward-thinking. Now reissued by Glossy Mistakes, the album receives its first official vinyl edition, remastered and available both in standard black and a limited burgundy pressing. At the core of the record lies an unusual but striking element: the steady pulse of a human heartbeat. Rather than a conceptual gesture, it becomes the foundation of the music itself-treated as a deep, bass-like rhythm that anchors the entire album. Around it, Laswell builds his unmistakable sonic world, drawing from dub techniques where basslines expand, dissolve, and re-emerge, and where space becomes as important as sound.) 30.00
RATVADER - Kite LP (discreet - Mysterious lycanthrope and sound-explorer from Gothenburg, Sweden and surrounding forests - behind the name Ratvader is the composer Oscar Sidoff Rydelius. Discreet Music crossed paths with Oscar for the first time during 2025, a chance meeting that resulted in the enchanting 14-track album Kite now released on Gustaf Dickssons in-house imprint Frihetens Förlag. Evocative and strangely moving soundtrack-style compositions that at times feels like the medieval bastard child of Penguin Café Orchestra and Condo Pets-era James Ferraro. Uplifting, timeless stuff and very much unlike anything else on the related labels. Pressed in an edition of 200 copies, paste-on artwork, 4-page insert and expertly mastered by Lasse Marhaug) 28.00
RUTH MASCELLI & MARY HANSON SCOTT - Esoteric Lounge Music Now LP (disciples - Get zoned into multi-dimensional noir on this vaporous, intimate and beautiful collaborative LP. On their third album for Disciples, Special Interest member Ruth Mascelli teams up with Mary Hanson Scott, pushing the paranoid torch songs of previous record Non-Stop Healing Frequency into even more liminal and spaced out territory. The song side of proceedings is stronger than ever, with the epic, yearning melted power ballad of “Haunted Hearts”; a gorgeous slo-mo cover of hi-nrg pop(pers) banger “Self Control”; and the chopped up rhythms of “A Lover’s Theory Of Value”, musically located somewhere between blunted trip-hop and Julee Cruise. The FX-blasted reeds of Mary Hanson Scott not only perfectly underpin Ruth’s seductive croon, but provide a cloud-like ambient sound bed for the instrumental pieces that tie the sequencing together, and help make this a truly emotionally engaging journey from beginning to end. It’s also very much the culmination of a trilogy, with a track such as “Vaseline Lens” calling back to the elegiac comedown laments found on the second side of debut album A Night At The Baths.) 34.00
SABA ALIZADEH - Rituals Of The Last Dawn LP (Karl - New album by SABA ALIZADEH, a groundbreaking voice in contemporary Iranian music who blends classical Persian traditions with avantgarde experimentation. Born in Tehran in 1983 as son of the world renowned tar and setar virtuoso HOSSEIN ALIZADEH, SABA ALIZADEH established himself not only as a true master on the Iranian spike fiddle kamancheh but one of the groundbreaking voices in contemporary Iranian music, blending classical Persian traditions with avantgarde experimentation. His music, praised by THE WIRE as “a bridge between the ancient and the contemporary”, turns sound and image into powerful narratives of memory and resistance. Over the past years, ALIZADEH (who relocated to the Netherlands a few years ago) has appeared at key festivals and venues such as Reeperbahn Festival, CTM, Flow Festival, Philharmonie Berlin, Kölner Philharmonie, solidifying his reputation as a singular live performer. After the critically acclaimed releases “Scattered Memories” (his international debut, released on Karlrecords in 2019), “I May Never See You Again” (2021) and last year’s “Temple of Hope”, his new album fascinates again with a unique artistic voice, weaving together centuries-old sonic heritage and the urgency of the present through deeply immersive, meditative landscapes in two epic pieces. “Rituals Of The Last Dawn” may feel like a sad or resigned title (compared to the positively fierce “Temple Of Hope”), but at the same time the highly meditative music provides a good lot of contemplative strength. Appealing to an open-minded “world music” audience as well as fans of current streams of ambient or drone in its most subtle forms, ALIZADEH’s latest work is a strongly needed soul food in bitter times. Created on the spot with his musical partners PIETRO CARAMELLI (guitar and electronics on “First Ritual”) and LIEW NIYOMKARN (lap steel and electronics on “Last Ritual”), “Rituals Of The Last Dawn” is a pure, unfiltered emotional expression from one of contemporary Iranian music’s leading artists. ) 24.00
SABA ALIZADEH - Scattered Memories LP (Karl - On his debut album “Scattered Memories”, the composer, musician and true master on the Iranian spike fiddle kamancheh SABA ALIZADEH blends his instrumental virtuosity with spherical electronics, samples of Persian music instruments and field recordings from his hometown Tehran.) 24.00
SIMON BERZ - tectonic LP (Karl - “Tectonic” is a concise portrait of SIMON BERZ’s geological sound explorations across continents over the last 15 years: drums, electronics, and a set of electronically manipulated basalt stones from Iceland. SIMON BERZ is a transdisciplinary drummer, sound artist, and music educator based in Switzerland and Berlin. Working at the intersection of improvised music, sound art, and performance, and deliberately crossing boundaries between disciplines, his aesthetics are shaped by a sustained engagement with natural materials, particularly stone, and their sonic transformation through electronic manipulation. Beyond his performance work, BERZ founded BADABUM as an art label and a music school. For the last 30 years, BERZ has been performing in Japan, China, Russia, the USA, Cuba, Iceland, Turkey, and across Europe. He has collaborated with artists including BILL LASWELL, BABY SOMMER, DAMO SUZUKI (CAN), JAMES TURRELL, JIMI TENOR, JOHN SINGLAIR, JOJO MAYER (NERVE), KONDO TOSHINORI, KIDD JORDAN, LAUREN NEWTON, LEE “SCRATCH“ PERRY, MAURO PAWLOWSKI (dEUS), NILS PETTER MOLVÆR, NIKI GLASPIE, NORBERT MÖSLANG, PAUL LOWENS, PFADFINDEREI, ROB MAZUREK, SKÚLISVERRISSON, and he was the live drummer for APPARAT. At the Pacitan Tabuhan Cave (Indonesia) he performed with MISBACH BILOK and WUKIR SURYADI (SENYAWA) who work with corals as instruments. BERZ brought these encounters and “field recordings” to the Stöðvarfjörður studio in Iceland, where he recorded with his “Tectonic” set-up, drums, and electronics. The music was later mixed in Berlin by DIRK DRESSELHAUS (SCHNEIDER TM). The resulting album moves from club-driven tracks to ambient passages, from gamelan-inspired textures to HipHop-like beat patterns. It resists easy categorization while staying direct and physical in its impact. ) 24.00
THE SPRIGS - For Red Riverbank LP (bison - Brand new album and first LP from The Sprigs - the exploratory folk project of Rory Salter, aka Malvern Brume, Lone Capture Library and co-founder of Infant Tree, now a fully fledged 3 piece band. Inspired by Kenneth Grahame's 'Wind in the Willows', the sonic endeavours of Mole have so far given us two cassettes (Before I Glare Up At The Sun Through The Top Soil and Mole's Uninvited Guests) and a top class library CD of covers. With ‘For Red Riverbank’, The Sprigs return to bison for their first full length LP, this time joined by Ratty and Badger to form a full three piece band, and to help Mole take on the developers working above ground… Armed with guitars, pipes, samples and bric-a-brac, it’d be easy for the Sprigs to succumb to a totally romanticised nostalgia for an imagined British folkloric tradition. There’s enough of it going around. Instead, the gang create a ramshackle, ruddy faced blend of introspective hibernation, real-world anxiety and some absolutely knee slapping, joy inducing tunes. It’s a masterwork of folk collage - where beautiful straight-to-tape guitar sketches are cut up amongst British labour history with the help of Leon Rosselson and Ash Reid, giving way to waves of depression and relief in equal measure. Such is life! The Sprigs is: Rory S, Ben M and V.W. Initially the solo project of Rory Salter, aka Malvern Brume, Lone Capture Library and co-founder of Infant Tree, The Sprigs soon grew to include friends Ben Victor Waggett (who co-founded Infant Tree) and Ben Murphy, and are now a fully fledged 3 piece band) 30.00
SUN RA - Somewhere Over The Rainbow 3xLP (strut - Strut Records proudly presents the first definitive expanded reissue of Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Sun Ra’s 1977 session recorded at the Bluebird in Bloomington, Indiana, presented across three Vinyl LPs or as a two-CD set. Please note the differing tracklist between the CD & LP.) 42.00
TIMOTEO CARBONE HANSSON - Gwethilu: Songs For The Dark Lake LP (Gwethilu: Songs for the Dark Lake, the debut album by Gothenburg-based musician and composer Timoteo Carbone Hansson, invites listeners into an alternative sound world where experimental music, early medieval polyphony, and traditional Nordic roots collide. Pushing the boundaries of musical form and harmony, the album offers a meditative yet imaginative experience punctuated by lavish rhythmic modulations. To bring this haunting landscape to life, Carbone Hansson utilizes a diverse array of modern and traditional instruments, each specially crafted and custom-tuned by the artist for this project. Recorded in 2024-2025. Mastered for vinyl by Lasse Marhaug. Cover artwork by Gemma Hansson Carbone. Edition of 300 copies, comes with a 8-page Gwethilu: Songs For The Dark Lake compendium.) 27.00
TUPAMAROS - Our Modern Paest LP (scene police - When “Our Modern Paest” was released by Scene Police Records in 1999, it unfortunately came out only on CD, as emo kids back then preferred that format. We always felt it was a flaw that our first record was never issued on vinyl (and the lyrics in the CD booklet were printed in font size 5, making them nearly impossible to read, haha). We’re therefore proud that Scene Police Records is finally releasing this record on vinyl for the very first time. ) 20.00
XIU XIU – eraserhead xiu xiu LP (polyvinyl - In 2016, Xiu Xiu released—with the blessing of David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti—the album and concert project *Plays The Music Of Twin Peaks*, which they also toured. Following David Lynch's untimely death, they received numerous requests to revive their interpretation of this iconic music. Instead, however, Xiu Xiu are delving even deeper. *Eraserhead Xiu Xiu* is a new live concert experience comprising film and album. Through the use of field recordings, custom-built instruments, organ, modular synths, vocals, flashlights, electrical noise, and *musique concrète*, Xiu Xiu give expression to the bizarre emotionality, conflicting sexuality, relentless gloom, and desolate lunar landscape of what is arguably the most incredible of all midnight movie masterpieces. The album itself is a masterpiece of sound collage and experimentation, where minimalist auditory sensations transform into a massive, grotesque cacophony, ultimately concluding with a beautiful rendition of Peter Ivers' original *Eraserhead* score. Guided by the original sound design of Alan Splet and David Lynch, the project reflects the duo's influence on the band—both as fans and as musicians. The original film serves as the starting point for Xiu Xiu’s visual perspective, prompting the question: Is it an art installation? A deconstructed homage to a cult classic? An epitaph for an idol? Is it intense, peculiar, curious, and shrouded in the blackest of nights? Naturally. After all, it is *Eraserhead*.) 35.00
V/A - In Reggae Time LP (1st repress of the rare UK compilation “In Reggae Time”. Originally released in 1970, it brings together a series of very rare tracks issued only on 7" singles around 1967 by Ember Records and its sub-labels. The sound is not just Reggae—it’s only marginally so—offering a vibrant mix of 1960s UK mod, R&B, Ska, and Northern soul. Limited-edition Picture-disc LP) 28.00
V/A – united states of melancholia pt.1 - post punk GDR DLP (Iron Curtain - Iron Curtain Radio, Tapetopia, and Aufnahme+Wiedergabe present the first installment of the three-part "United States Of Melancholia" compilation series, focusing on post-punk in the GDR (1982–1990). Curated and compiled by Alexander Pehlemann, Henryk Gericke, and Maik Reichenbach, and featuring illustrations by Igor Tatschke (AG Mauerstein), this release comes as a double LP in a gatefold sleeve with color-printed inner sleeves. The 2020 release *Too Much Future*—a history of the GDR underground—was a genuine success. Its 45 tracks, featuring very few well-known names, vividly demonstrated the diversity, originality, and coolness of the music produced by the—almost invariably illegal—bands and projects that emerged and dissolved between the 1980s and the end of the GDR. Editors, commentators, and curators Henryk Gericke and Maik Reichenbach are once again joined by Alexander Pehlemann; with the "United States Of Melancholia" series—planned as three double LPs—they delve deeper into the scene, focusing on specific subgenres. Under the "post-punk" umbrella, this release presents 22 obscure, never-before-officially-released tape recordings from acts such as Rosa Extra, Sendeschluss, Rosengarten, Zerstörte Umwelt, Kein Plan, Mahlsdorfer Wohnstubenorchester, and many more. The series' artwork (1987–1989) features illustrations by Igor Tatschke (AG Mauerstein). The project was supported by Frank Ebert, the Berlin Commissioner for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship. Featuring Kulturwille, Rosa Extra, Kein Plan, Sendeschluss, Rosengarten, Grabnoct, Death Joy, FO32 Extra Hart Arbeitendes Rastermaterial Für Kontakt, POp Project, Das Problem, and others. 22 songs.) 39.00
