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Review: A cross-hemispheric exchange gave rise to Nocturna, the first collaboration between New Zealand composer Andrew Thomas and German sound artist Joachim Spieth - the former's first for Affin after long-held stints Kompakt. Beginning with Thomas's piano sketches, composed during a Southern Hemisphere summer, the material was passed to Spieth just as light returned to the North. A subtle transformation ensued; Spieth preserved the piano's fragile warmth as its edges came sculpted across ambient textures and restrained sound design. A peek-a-boo of presence and absence is scripted, where each decision to withhold a note feels as resonant as those included. Clipped reverb gargantuans contrast to crystal clear piano scales on our favourites, 'Lumina' and 'Amethyst'.
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Sleep Of Reason (2xLP + booklet)
Cat: SRV 563. Rel: 01 May 25
Review: An ambitious, thought-provoking collaboration that merges radical improvisation with meticulous songcraft. Inspired by Francisco Goya's Los Caprichos painting, the album interrogates modern anxieties through a fusion of classical composition and lyrical introspection. Mark Springer, known for his spontaneous, real-time piano compositions, crafts haunting pieces performed by the Sacconi Quartet, while Pet Shop Boys singer Neil Tennant 's unmistakable vocals lend a poetic depth to the work. Recorded across multiple locations in 2023istrings in Surrey and Tetbury, piano in Brussels and vocals in Londonithe album benefits from its layered, almost collage-like construction. This fragmentation mirrors the project's thematic preoccupations: the disjointed state of contemporary society, the corruption of truth and the divisiveness of social media. Tennant's lyrics, shaped by Goya's grotesque and satirical visions, meditate on deception, power and the erosion of collective trust. The interplay between Springer's expressive piano and the Sacconi Quartet's controlled precision is key to the album's success. Tracks move fluidly between moments of stark beauty and eerie unease. Tennant's vocal performances are restrained yet evocative, delivering lines that echo both personal reflection and broader cultural critique. The arrangements are elegant yet unsettling, reinforcing the album's central tension between order and chaos. Sleep of Reason is not an easy listen, nor does it aim to be. It is an intellectual and emotional work, one that rewards deep engagement. In blending classical refinement with pop craftsmanship, Springer and Tennant have created an album that is an eloquent response to a world teetering between enlightenment and darkness.
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Sleep Of Reason (2xCD)
Cat: SR 563. Rel: 25 Apr 25
Phantoms & Monsters
A Witch & A Devil
Truth Is For Losers
Schmutzig
My Friend The Monster
The Madness Of The Summer
Morn
Noon
Night
Break
Flight
Dark
Moon
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Live In Paris 1983 (180 gram audiophile vinyl LP with obi-strip)
Cat: ANALPI 2309. Rel: 19 Mar 25
Ludwig Van Beethoven - "Cello Sonata No 3 In A Major, Op 69: Allegro Ma Non Tanto/Scherzo Allego Molto/Adagio Cantabile-Allegro Vivace" (23:49)
Johann Sebastian Bach - "Suite No 2 In D Minor For Cello Solo, BWV 1008: Prelude/Allemande/Courante/Sarabande/Minuet/Gigue" (11:08)
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Bartok Mendelssohn Martinu Debussy Chopin Weiner (180 gram audiophile vinyl LP with obi-strip)
Cat: ANALPI 43187. Rel: 28 Mar 25
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Hereditary (Soundtrack) (limited numbered 180 gram audiophile transparent green vinyl 2xLP)
Cat: MOVATM 378C. Rel: 25 Feb 25
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Hereditary (Soundtrack) (limited numbered 180 gram audiophile yellow vinyl 2xLP)
Cat: MOVATM 378Y. Rel: 26 Feb 25
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Review: International Anthem continues to serve up inspired debuts from some of the more intriguing members of Chicago's jazz and experimental music communities. The latest comes from multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser Macie Stewart, who has delivered what's being dubbed "a companion piece for moving through life". At the heart of the album is Stewart's use of both piano and 'prepared piano' (a technique where various items such as coins and pieces of felt are attached to the instrument's strings). These picturesque and occasionally melancholic musical motifs come wrapped in atmospheric field recordings and sensitive string quartet arrangements. The results are rarely less than memorable, mesmerising and magnificent.
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When The Distance Is Blue (LP + insert with obi-strip)
Cat: IARC 93LP. Rel: 20 Mar 25
Review: Macie Stewart's debut on International Anthem finds the multi-instrumentalist and composer, in her own words, writing a "love letter to the moments we spend in-between," all while returning to her first instrument, the piano. Through prepared piano, field recordings and string quartets, she creates a cinematic, transient world that reflects her musical journey. Featuring collaborations with artists like Lia Kohl and Whitney Johnson, the album weaves a sound collage of memory and movement that is inspired by her travels. When the Distance is Blue muses on themes of change, longing and the beauty found in the unknown.
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Studnitzky Memento Odesa (Live In Berlin) (gatefold LP)
Cat: 198846 284170. Rel: 13 Dec 24
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Review: You don't need to know that Craobh Haven was made during a one week residency at a tiny cabin in a remote Scottish village of the same name. One play through of the latest stunner to land on the ever-excellent ambient institution SWIMS and it'll feel like you were there in person. A witness to the creation of this strangely natural-feeling, highly technically-crafted, six tracker. Everything about the work by London-based musician and visual artist Loz Keystone and Glaswegian synth explore and jazz trumpeter Christos Stylianides feels in the right place. Its warm and fuzzy but vast and windswept. It's avant garde and abstract, but rounded and complete. It's incredibly inviting and slowly hypnotic. Distant samples of inaudible chatter and looped melodic refrains. Distorted walls of noise masking the patient power of aching brass. You get the point.
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The Pocket Of Fever (reissue) (LP with obi-strip)
Cat: AMS 001. Rel: 28 Apr 25
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The Long Living Things (LP + insert with obi-strip)
Cat: PLP 7475. Rel: 18 Nov 24
Review: Japanese ambient owes a great debt to Masahiro Sugaya, whose work has been re-assessed and taken on all the more importance in recent years. The now cult musician and composer released his The Long Living Things album in 1988 for the performing arts company he belonged to, Pappa Tarahumara. Though it was overlooked for many years, it is now in sharp focus and gets a deserving reissue on vinyl for the first time ever by P-Vine which he also belonged to, and has long been overlooked by all but a few enthusiastic music lovers. One track from it was Grammy-nominated and rich of the record is minimalistic, with soft interwoven sequences that keep you afloat amongst the warming pads.
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I Recognize You From My Sketches (LP + MP3 download code)
Cat: RPTD 056. Rel: 30 Jan 25
Played by: Juno Recommends Ambient/Drone
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Iso Erotic Calibration (remastered) (brown vinyl LP limited to 300 copies)
Cat: CSR 343LPLTD. Rel: 30 Jan 25
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Review: This reissued gem offers meticulously crafted aural rituals that delve into sensual electronic music and human sexuality. Founded by Adi Newton in 1978 to merge art, science and sonology while embracing innovative, multidisciplinary approaches, The Anti Group served as a platform for exploring psycho-acoustic research and this 1994 album was recorded over three years. It is among their more accessible works - never more so than now when it debuts on vinyl after 30 years. As well as the original pieces, it comes with four bonus tracks including a film soundtrack and a remix.
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Marginalia VI (Soundtrack) (limited LP with obi-strip)
Cat: SIJP 1150. Rel: 31 Jan 25
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Utopia 2 (Soundtrack) (limited gatefold translucent violet vinyl 2xLP)
Cat: SILLP 1463V. Rel: 15 Apr 25
Review: British conspiracy thriller Utopia follows a group of young adults who, after discovering a mysterious comic book - The Utopia Experiments - embark on a manic quest for corporate restitution and prophetic fulfilment. As a shadowy government organisation detects their plans and resolves to track their every move, we watch an empathic but deadly game of cat-and-mouse; and Cristobal Tapia de Veer's acclaimed score only heightens the tension. This new 2xLP edition includes such instantly recognisable motifs as 'Brainwave Playground', 'Satan's Waltz' and 'The Monarch's Pyramid', capturing the series' eerie and intense atmosphere. The score continues to resonate to this day, following Tapia de Veer's success with The White Lotus and Babygirl.
… Read morePlayed by: Juno Recommends Leftfield
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Tchaikovsky: Winter Dreams Symphony No 1 (limited hand-numbered gatefold 180 gram vinyl LP + insert)
Cat: 486671 8. Rel: 06 Feb 25
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Pyotr Ilych TCHAIKOVSKY / ANTONIN DVORAK / SIR MALCOLM SARGENT / RUGGIERO RICCI / LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Violin Concerto (gatefold 180 gram audiophile vinyl 2xLP with obi-strip)
Cat: ANALPI 43194. Rel: 23 Apr 25
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Piano Concerto No 1 (LP + insert with obi-strip)
Cat: ESLD 10007. Rel: 20 Dec 24
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Postal Pieces (green vinyl LP + insert with obi-strip limited to 300 copies)
Cat: BLUME 022. Rel: 14 Nov 24
Review: Blume Records return to the forefront of the contemporary experimental canon with the first ever vinyl edition of (a study of) James Tenney's infamous Fluxus suite, Postal Pieces. The storied composer and music theorist was an alpine fixture of the modern music compositional world, with his various writings - both notated on the stave and prosaically penned in the journal - amounting to exquisitely impenetrable tracts on every isolable facet of music theory from harmonic perception to process music to sound synthesis to spectral music. Originally a set of 11 pieces but truncated to five here, drawing on a set of live recordings laid down in 2003, Postal Pieces is one of many of Tenney's works emphasising process over end result. Perhaps the emphasis on process was an attempt to treat the sufferances of "schizophonia", which had plagued musicologists since the 1930s as one of many fussed-over consequences of recorded music obscuring the original source of the sounds heard through an extended medium. The album's sonic pentagram - of long sequences resembling air-raid sirens, its basal textural swells and backroomed feedback loops - might sound doomy to the glib ear. Ultimately, though, this album could also be read as a simple formal exercise, one intended to divert Tenney's own aversion to writing letters (despite his wont to write music theory). Ironically enough, we're sure that, in the wake of this reissue and its hot demand, the postal system itself will thank Tenney for the boost in revenue.
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Anti Atlas (hand-numbered clear vinyl LP in spot-varnished sleeve limited to 200 copies)
Cat: LAAPS 041LP. Rel: 26 Feb 25
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Europa (Soundtrack) (limited LP with obi-strip)
Cat: CTN 50. Rel: 03 Mar 25
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Rathlin From A Distance/The Liquid Hour (2xCD with obi-strip)
Cat: CDSTUMM 514. Rel: 27 Mar 25
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Review: The second album from Stefano Ghittoni and Bruno Dorella following 2019's Estatico. The duo again explores a rich soundscape blending experimental techniques with elements from both popular and underground music. Beginning with ethereal electroacoustic tones, the album evolves with delicate rhythms, arpeggiations and broken beats that cook up a moody, introspective atmosphere. Textural depth comes from the well worked samples, tape manipulations, field recordings and other unconventional sounds that are all seamlessly interwoven with traditional instruments. Drawing from electronic experimentation, psychedelic minimalism and shoegaze, this is a complex, immersive beauty.
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Cat: RZCM 67198. Rel: 25 Apr 25
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Monogatari No Youni Furusatohatoi (reissue) (LP + booklet with obi-strip)
Cat: PLP 7495. Rel: 11 Dec 24
Review: For the first time on vinyl, P-Vine reissue one of the earliest works by Yellow Magic Orchestra founder and later film composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. Before the fame and notoriety, Sakamoto lent a hand to the avant-garde singer Taeko Tomioka, whose 1976 album he produced, both in the box and out. Tomioka only recorded the one album, and later went on to develop a career as a poet, novelist and literary critic. Few self-proclaimed Sakamoto heads know this, which is what makes this P-Vine reissue so special. Were it not for Sakamoto's touch, Tomioka's animalistic performances would likely not have taken on their extensible quality; Sakamoto's virtuosity was more than enough to rigorously challenge Tomioka, producing less of a debutant's declamation than a mixolydian nightwalk, bringing out the potent harmonic range of whatever the musical equivalent of a tightrope walker is.
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Due Scritti Imperfetti (CD limited to 300 copies)
Cat: SPS 2486. Rel: 13 Dec 24
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