Label Description: Recorded here 2026 at The Horror Of Space Studios, Chicaggo(sic) illinois.
Electronics,Wind and synthetic wind.
Kevin Drumm – Terror Of Time (Self-Released)
Tag Archives: experimental
LR Friberg / {AN} EeL – Higher Standards (Pan Pan Pan Avian Distress Call)
Label Description: Having been recently reminded by it’s appearing on the excellent Planck Tone #159 ( www.mixcloud.com/mahork-mahorkian/planck-tone-159-playlist-4-nocturnal-synth-bucolica-w-trevlad/ ) the original label that hosted it has been archived – It will be back in the future on it’s home @ Aurora in the 3D rooms, but in the meanwhile here it is in it’s original form –
The first full collaboration with L.R. Friberg – Very pleased to present here-
emerge.bandcamp.com
Dan DiPiero – Cry Babies (Self-Released)
cry baby pod (dandipiero.substack.com/podcast) is a show about popular music and the people who study it.
After making some bump music for the first season, I decided to try making something more coherent for future episodes.
I’m still not great at ableton but I learned a lot doing this one. The two tribute tracks involved attempts to reproduce music that inspired me as a means of learning the software better.
Proceeds from this album will go to support the emergency relief fund for Hampshire College, and then later something else. More details about the music and the work it supports can be found here: dandipiero.substack.com/p/cry-babies and here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/hampshire-college-workers-emergency-relief-fund
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Quintelium + Lalén Ríos Luna – Even if Given to a Life of Contemplation (Porous Collective)
Label Description:
The titles are taken from a text by Meister Eckhart.
All instruments played and recorded by Quintelium and LRL.
Recorded, edited, and mixed by Quintelium and LRL.
All instruments played and recorded by Quintelium and LRL.
Recorded, edited, and mixed by Quintelium and LRL.
Cover Art by Casey Pegram
Fire Toolz – Lavender Networks (Warp)
Lai/Lencastre/Reviriegov – Instante (Phonogram Unit)
Label Description:
“Instante” is the debut recording by the trio formed by José Lencastre (saxophones), based in Lisbon, and Clara Lai (piano) and Àlex Reviriego (electronics), both based in Barcelona.
Their music transports us to new and unexpected sonic spaces. The more organic sounds of the piano and saxophone both contrast with and symbiotically merge with the artificiality of electronics. The electronics place the improvisational style of the piano and saxophone in new perspectives. As with the sound of these instruments, the breath, the spaces, the timbral landscapes, the harmonies, and the natural harmonics, among other elements, move the electronics away from more typical noise or electronic territories, inviting us to stylistically recontextualize each of them, individually and collectively.
Rooted in free improvisation and embedded in a continuously evolving contemporary language, the three instruments meet, diverge and explore, through attentive listening, how far this interaction can expand their respective instrumental possibilities, in the pursuit of a single and unique sound.
This album is dedicated to the ever-renewed experience of being present, in connection with each instant.
Their music transports us to new and unexpected sonic spaces. The more organic sounds of the piano and saxophone both contrast with and symbiotically merge with the artificiality of electronics. The electronics place the improvisational style of the piano and saxophone in new perspectives. As with the sound of these instruments, the breath, the spaces, the timbral landscapes, the harmonies, and the natural harmonics, among other elements, move the electronics away from more typical noise or electronic territories, inviting us to stylistically recontextualize each of them, individually and collectively.
Rooted in free improvisation and embedded in a continuously evolving contemporary language, the three instruments meet, diverge and explore, through attentive listening, how far this interaction can expand their respective instrumental possibilities, in the pursuit of a single and unique sound.
This album is dedicated to the ever-renewed experience of being present, in connection with each instant.
Àlex Reviriego – electronics
Clara Lai – piano
José Lencastre – alto and tenor saxophones
Clara Lai and José Lencastre recorded at Louva-a-Deus, Lisboa, by Afonso Cabral on May 31st 2024.
Àlex Reviriego recorded at Premià de Mar on June 26th 2024
Mixed by Jan Valls Miralles
Mastered by Ary at Toolate Studio
Graphic Design by Tània Gumbau
Cover photo by José Lencastre
All music by Àlex Reviriego, Clara Lai and José Lencastre
HLLW – Møllehjulet (Janushoved)
Label Description: Janushoved no. 205
Picking / Gnarled Fingers – Picking / Gnarled Fingers (Cruel Nature Records)
Label Description:
“This is some heavy-duty drone shit, and it sure hits the spot.”
– Aural Aggravation
auralaggravation.com/2026/04/25/picking-gnarled-fingers-picking-gnarled-fingers/
Gnarled Fingers and Picking are two artists drawn together by a shared love of bleak, crushing, low-end oblivion.
Picking is a new raw doom / noise / drone project from Charlie Butler inspired by lifelong incessant excessive picking of nails.
Gnarled Fingers is an experimental, ambient drone project, relentless wall of fuzz and atmosphere, no escape, created after growing up in Somerset Levels with stories of witchcraft and pagan superstition.
– Aural Aggravation
auralaggravation.com/2026/04/25/picking-gnarled-fingers-picking-gnarled-fingers/
Gnarled Fingers and Picking are two artists drawn together by a shared love of bleak, crushing, low-end oblivion.
Picking is a new raw doom / noise / drone project from Charlie Butler inspired by lifelong incessant excessive picking of nails.
Gnarled Fingers is an experimental, ambient drone project, relentless wall of fuzz and atmosphere, no escape, created after growing up in Somerset Levels with stories of witchcraft and pagan superstition.
Picking – Toenail
Written, recorded live with no overdubs, and mixed by Charlie Butler, December 2025
charliebutler1.bandcamp.com
Gnarled Fingers – Echoes From Futures Past
Written, recorded at 13 sound studio, and mixed by Carlos, November 2025
linktr.ee/GNARLEDFINGERS
Cover & layout by Carlos
Mastered by Jack Chuter
Bang Of Hearts – Through The Water (Self-Released)
Label Description:
All Winter we’ve been hiding in the Barn, experimenting, improvising and nourishing our souls from a dying world.
These recordings are a testimony of the dark times we are living in, to uplift, to manifest and to divert our ways.
Recorded between December 2025 and February 2026 at the Barn, Betekom, Belgium.
These recordings are a testimony of the dark times we are living in, to uplift, to manifest and to divert our ways.
Recorded between December 2025 and February 2026 at the Barn, Betekom, Belgium.
Bang of Hearts is a musical entity consisting of Dominique Van Cappellen-Waldock (Baby Fire, Veda, Fleur de Feu,…) on vocals and spoken word, Timo Jacobs / Forestaal (Schim, the Moondig, Myaelin, Pilod,…); vocals, electronics, drums and percussion and Peter Verwimp / Ashtoreth ( Maya, Emptiness, Building Transmissions,…) on vocals, bass and guitar.
Together they conjure up an eclectic form of vast, improvised drone pieces with a ritualistic character.
Every now and then they gather at the Barn in Betekom, Belgium and pour their hearts out. They play what they feel and this may result in a patchwork of styles and influences: dark ambient, sludge, kraut rock, ritual drones, gothic doom, electronic soundscapes…one never knows what to expect as it is always delivered in a free form; a hypnotic sonic adventure for both the players as well as the audience.
Spoken Word and voices: Dominique Van Cappellen-Waldock
Drums, Electronics & voices: Forestaal / Timo Jacobs
Guitars, Bass & Voices: Ashtoreth / Peter Verwimp
Live mix: Timo jacobs
studio mix: Peter Verwimp
Mastering: Ronald Mariën
Artwork: Peter Verwimp
Haptic – Ambivalence (Ash International)
Label Description:
Performed by Steven Hess, Joseph Clayton Mills, Adam Sonderberg
with
Mark Wastell (1)
and
Linda Jankowska, Sarah Hughes, Seth Cooke (2)
with
Mark Wastell (1)
and
Linda Jankowska, Sarah Hughes, Seth Cooke (2)
Late Work I
Recorded by Billy Steiger (London)
Mixed by Olivia Block and Adam Sonderberg
Late Work II
Recorded by Thomas Carroll (Leeds), Will Montgomery (Brighton), Kathy Hinde (Bristol), and Haptic
Mixed by Joseph Clayton Mills
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Across two decades of restless exploration, the Chicago trio Haptic has earned a reputation for meticulously assembled recordings complemented by unpredictable, often riveting live performances that veer from rigorous minimalism to densely textured, immersive sonic environments. Consistently blurring the lines between different genres and disciplines, their experimental practice has expanded to include installations, soundtracks, and unique site-specific performances at venues such as Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Lincoln Park Conservatory, and Hyde Park Art Center, as well as collaborations with dancers, filmmakers, and institutions such as the Chicago Film Archive and the Art Institute of Chicago. Their recorded output has been marked by a similar breadth and eclecticism, ranging from the intricacies of Scilens (2011) to the almost monochromatic hush of Abeyance (2014) and slow-motion dissolution of Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions (2024).
Research and development: Thanks to Mike Reed and Josh Berman (Chicago), Thomas Carroll (Leeds), Will Montgomery and Paul Khimasia Morgan (Brighton), Dan Linn-Pearl (Hay-on-Wye), Seth Cooke (Bristol), and Fielding Hope (London) for hosting; Sarah Hughes and Mark Wastell for logistical support; Linda Jankowska, Sarah Hughes, Seth Cooke, and Mark Wastell + Tim Daisy (Chicago) and Rose Linn-Pearl (Hay-on-Wye) for performing; Arts Council England and Arts Council Wales for financial support.
Ambivalence 2025: 28 September, Hungry Brain, Chicago; 2 October, Wharf Chambers, Leeds; 3 October, Coach House, Brighton; 4 October, The Old Electric Shop, Hay-on-Wye; 6 October, The Cube, Bristol; 7 October, Cafe OTO, London.
This is Haptic recording number seventeen.
You can read a review here: salt-peanuts.eu/record/haptic/ and also in Chain D.L.K.: www.chaindlk.com/reviews/13493
Dusted also – dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/814796017101914112/dust-volume-12-number-4-part-2
