"This clarity of creative intention runs across the whole album and the track titles confirm that Lucaciu's experiments with torsion are pursued with an almost scientific rigour. If this process and this material can behave in this way ...

"GULF of Berlin views its music as a laboratory: precise, disciplined, and yet open to the unpredictable. From this tension emerges an energy that conceives of composition not as a rigid structure, but as a living process. Here, music b...

This album is part of two ESP-Disk' initiatives. The one that came first is the idea of teaming up artists who haven't worked together before. In this case, longtime collaborators Ullmann and Swell play with a rhythm section new to Ullmann:...

"Some performing groups seem to spring suddenly into life; from the beginning of their formation it is as if they had always been there. Other groups feel their way gradually into existence, and that history is part of the composite sou...

"Because It Happens captures a remarkable live encounter between three masters of free improvisation, recorded at London's renowned Cafe OTO. Mikolaj Trzaska (saxophone, bass clarinet), John Edwards (double bass) and Mark Sanders (drums...

"The music is rich and beguiling - an original and distinctive soundworld. All compositions are by Santiago Lamisovski. He is a fine, distinctive composer, whose style shows influences from Herbie Nichols and Andrew Hill. If you still b...

"Across Breath, Voice, Silence" is music concerned with elemental process. Specifically it is an improvised solo saxophone performance recorded live at the Zen Center of New York City. I had been drawn to zen practice having felt parall...

"I don't write a lot of harmonies," Hertenstein says. "Following the logic of counterpoint, I write a riff that I like, find a melody, and leave it there. I trust the musicians to come up with spontaneous changes during their improvisat...

"Listening to this music means encountering a quartet that, over the course of four years, has developed a shared language aimed not at recognizability but at presence. It emerges from being there: from four people in a room, from air, ...

"We wander here in an unknown landscape, but with each episode, a new orchestra, a new world, comes into being, discoveries of centuries mysteriously shifted, echoing the magic realism and creative subversion. This music embodies myth, ...

"Microtonal fragments that coalesce into rhythms and melodies. In this process, the divine becomes the idea of the absolute. As a conception of the still unfinished, as well as fragments that form a whole. This duality between the perfe...

"After the pandemic, everything seemed frozen, stuck, exhausted. The Viennese saxophoniste Sophie Hassfurther felt an urge to break this condition apart and reassemble it, like a kaleidoscope: shapes and colors shift into one another, f...

"New collection of Adam's signature cut-up found text pieces and intricate close-mic'd improvisations with homemade stringed instruments and small objects. Guaranteed to get your mouth watering and head spinning. While the ordinary well...

"Alan Bloor has been recording as Knurl for thirty years now and remains one of the most consistent harsh noise artists in the field. He has released music on pretty much every vital noise label since the 90's, incuding Deadline Recordi...

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"The processes employed for this project involved a continuation of Weston's investigations into site-specific occurrences, merged with duration-determinate constructions and spontaneity-informed physical movements. Gestures informed mu...

""Axe" presents seven improvisations for acoustic violin that push the instrument to its furthest sonic extremes. Overdriven bowing and alternate tunings unlock visceral harmonic palettes and textural passages that present the violin as...

"Quantum Nursery Rhymes Of The Divine Horseman is a 55 minute collaboration between poet K. Curtis Lyle and violinist Alex Cunningham, featuring two extended pieces for violin and voice. The CD comes with a 10-panel double sided accordi...

"Nandor Nevai-an American cult figure, philosopher, comedian, rebel, occult practitioner, and multidisciplinary artist spanning music, film, writing, and visual art (also known as the composer of "Brutal Classical Symphony")-collaborate...

"Zalhietzli is the experimental noise project of French artist, Jean-Baptiste Leveque. This release is the first CD by the project and follows a recent string of excellent tapes on Satatuhatta, Narcolepsia, and Bent Window Records. Empl...

"Here's the last will and testament of Usurper. The final curtain on two decades of heroic toil in the experimental/noise/improv/no-audience underground. Over the course of their twenty year existence, Usurper developed into one of the ...

"On Korekara (October 2, Libra Records) Satoko Fujii's Orchestra Nagoya celebrates the musicians and arts community that make the central Japanese city's culture scene so special. Fujii composed the four-part suite to honor the 20th ann...

"Since its formation in 1984, there have been several distinct phases of Kapotte Muziek in which the group changed. The group commenced as a duo of Frans de Waard and Christian Nijs, and operated as such until 1987 when Nijs left and st...

"Debut solo CD by Wuhan-born, London-based artist, Zheng Hao, who also performs in the duos Oishi (with Ren Shang) and ecm (with Joseph Khan). Four lean and sinewy improvisations; the sound of tightly controlled buzzing and rippling ele...

"A follow up to 'A Year In Any Other Place' (Falt) from 2022, 'The Root, The Interim' is a tape composition in four parts, drawing on the influences of musique concrete, cinema and dub. Constructed over 14 months in 2022-3, it is a tour...

"A new collaboration between Ross Scott-Buccleuch (Diurnal Burdens) and Andy Jarvis, Precedes has its origins in the series of blank tape compilations released by Ross on his tape label Steep Gloss. After being invited to contribute to ...

"Creep Of Paris is the solo project of Thomas LaRoche (aka Eudocimus Ruber). Complementing his audio and visual output, he moonlights as an insect breeder and secondhand book seller. He has recorded on labels such as Drowned by Locals, ...

"Two longer live works of the now-patented blend of sound collage, crude tape mangling and music concrete sound events executed in a somewhat slapstick manner, where everything is balanced so thin that it can fall apart at any point. Fi...

"French musician Bruno Duplant, who uses both analog and digital instruments in his performances, has produced a succession of excellent solo and collaborative works and released many recordings on numerous labels including Ftarri. Pier...

"Philadelphia-based artist Morgan Evans-Weiler performs on violin and is known as a member of the contemporary classical music ensemble Ordinary Affects. Percussionist Carlo Costa, who was born in Rome, has lived in New York since 2005....

Four major electroacoustic improvisers — Bryan Eubanks on soprano saxophone, electronics and modular synthesizer, Gert-Jan Prins on electronics and percussion, Tetuzi Akiyama on guitar, and Toshimaru Nakamura on no-input mixing board — each recorded separate solo performances, assembled by Prins, Eubanks and Nakamura into four distinct collective works of shifting textures and sonic interplay.

Using microphone, tractor, shovel and tape, Henry and Ken's Dead Mallard project turns rural machinery and found objects into raw electroacoustic noise on a winter 2026 recording from Pennsylvania, extending the absurdist farm-equipment experimentation of their self-titled debut through mechanical drone, object percussion, environmental resonance and tape manipulation.

Indonesian sound artist Theo Nugraha shares a split with Steve Davis' long-running +DOG+ project, pairing Nugraha's 15-minute "Dokset" with +DOG+'s equally expansive "April" in a meeting of Samarinda's experimental noise culture and an American project active since 1991, joining two independent approaches to electronics, improvisation, texture and underground sound.

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