VA - 'Tarkovsky'
5CD Boxset £32 Adv (£35 after) - OUT 4th SEP

    

This boxset contains the original soundtracks to the five core works of Andrei Tarkovsky, the master of Soviet cinema: "Ivan's Childhood", "Andrei Roublev", "Solaris", "Mirror", and "Stalker", composed by Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov and Eduard Artemyev.

Vol 1: IVAN'S CHILDHOOD (Иваново детство, 1962). Composer: Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov. Deeply romantic yet sorrowful and sweeping.

Vol 2: ANDREI ROUBLEV (Андрей Рувлёв, 1966). Composer: Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov. An evocative with a profound, choral-heavy resonance.

Vol 3: SOLARIS (Солярис, 1972). Composer: Eduard Artemyev. A ground-breaking work of early electronic music, crafted on the ANS synthesizer.

Vol 4: MIRROR (Зеркало, 1975). Composer: Eduard Artemyev. Dense, slow-moving, disorienting mood pieces with Baroque sensibilities.

Vol 5: STALKER (Сталкер, 1979). Composer: Eduard Artemyev. Indian classical music with eerie layers of synth tones and choirs.

• Deluxe matt-laminate boxset containing 5 x CDs in individually-printed card sleeves. Each album is accompanied by an artcard featuring the original Soviet / Japanese cinema posters on its release.

VA - 'Shoot And Crucify'
CD £9 Adv - OUT 24th JULY

        

The third tape on the fledgling Cold Spring label, 'Shoot And Crucify' was released back in 1988 in an edition of just 50 copies (CS003). It features some of the very earliest works of many now-influential and essential Industrial / Noise / Experimental artists.

Features: ETHNIC ACID (Anthony Di Franco of Ramleh, AX), SATORI (Dave Kirby + Rob Maycock), THU20 (Guido Doesborg, Jac Van Bussel, Jos Smolders, Peter Duimelinks, Roel Meelkop), DEATH PACT (Korm Plastics boss Frans De Waard + Midas Tapes boss DMDN), REDEMPTION INC. (Neil Campbell of Astral Social Club), BASQUADECK SHELF (Neil Campbell + Mark Turner of ESP Kinetic), L.S.D. (Final Muzik boss Gianfranco Santoro), RADICAL CHANGE (Roberto Vicentini), WELL CRUCIAL (Matthew Kinnison of Cindytalk, Richard Youngs + others who went on to form A Band, Stewart Walden of Smell & Quim, Neil Campbell, members of The Strolling Ones), DAVE KIRBY (Satori, Psychopath), KAPOTTE MUZIEK (Frans de Waard), PSYCHOPATH (Dave Kirby + Rob Maycock, pre-Satori), MERZDOW SHEK (Mario Marzidovsek), NOSTALGIE ETERNELLE (Dieter Mauson of Occupied Head, D.S.I.P. + Stefan Heinze of Inox Kapell, Ferien Vom Ich), and THE STATE (Steven Tanza of Bourbonese Qualk).

The 'scene' at the time was built on the mail-art network, exchanging an explosion of ideas, sounds and art around the world via the (then very cheap) postal system. Just a handful of these 19 tracks have since been reissued, but the vast majority have remained locked in this analogue time capsule for nearly 40 years. Compiled by Rob Maycock. Remastered by Martin Bowes (The Cage).

• CD in matt digipak with new artwork by Abby Helasdottir (and a nod to the original tape art).

KEIJI HAINO & STEVE NOBLE - 'Cafe OTO'
CD £9.50 Adv - OUT 17th JULY

       

Legendary Japanese experimentalist Keiji Haino (Fushitsusha) and London's fearless drummer Steve Noble (Æthenor) took to the stage at Cafe OTO in 2012 for a monumental concert - with Haino's extreme treatments of electric guitar, and feedback, with Noble on a lot of percussion...

While Keiji Haino theatrically sweeps between bleak and uninhibited paranoia, deep-level zoning and bluesy contemplation, Steve Noble's huge set up and graceful approach brings space, light and shade - so much so that at one point Haino unplugs his guitar and picks up a small wooden flute. Dynamic, dramatic and surprisingly uplifting.

"The sounds came across as random explosions, with passages of near-silence abruptly giving way to percussive clatters and sustained guitar roars. Then suddenly, they leaped into full chaotic freak-out mode, with Noble sending his small gongs and bowls flying as he pummelled the skins, unleashing a veritable thunderstorm of raucous sound...

Meanwhile, Haino switched on the fuzz and feedback, his guitar screaming like a beast possessed, with molten solo after molten solo cascading out of the amps. Just as quickly, they'd revert back to contemplative mode, Haino twisting and twitching his strings with the delicate touch of a brain surgeon. The interplay between the two was bewitching..." (Londonears)

• CD in matt digipak

SUN RA | MERZBOW - 'Strange City'
2CD £14.50 - OUT NOW!

         

Officially licensed from Irwin Chusid of the SUN RA estate, Cold Spring negotiated rare and unreleased tracks from the SUN RA archive to be remixed and treated by Masami Akita (MERZBOW). The tracks incorporate the jazz power of SUN RA, carried into brutal excess by the legendary Japanese noise artist, MERZBOW.

Originally released by Cold Spring a decade ago and long sold out, the music was spread across vinyl and CD, with completely different music on each format. The tracks are now collected together here for the first time, from the original masters and presented in the order originally intended (the vinyl format dictated the order due to optimal sound quality restraints).

"The constant and destructive waves of noise make this decisively a Merzbow record, but its cosmic mood and rhythms prove that Sun Ra lives in its DNA" (Pitchfork)

Also included (for the first time on any release) is the bonus two minute track 'Granular Jazz Part 5', a special composition created for the Stuart Maconie's "Freak Zone" (BBC Radio 6), which was only broadcast once, ahead of Merzbow's show at Manchester's legendary FAC251, September 2016.

• 2CD with expanded artwork in a 8-panel double digipak - comes with an 8-page booklet featuring a new essay by Gydja. Orders from Cold Spring come with 2 free stickers (one Merzbow, one Sun Ra).

VA - 'Salò or The 120 Days Of Sodom' -
CD £11 | T-Shirt £18 | LP BROWN | £25 - OUT NOW!

The first time on any format for Pier Paolo Pasolini's controversial 1975 vision of the Marquis De Sade's 120 Days Of Sodom, featuring beautiful and discordant classical compositions, in stark contrast to the shocking and cruel events unfolding onscreen.

Three weeks before the scandalous release of "Salò, or The 120 Days Of Sodom", Pasolini was brutally murdered in Ostia, Italy. In the wake of the tragedy, legendary composer Ennio Morricone wrote 'Addio a Pier Paolo Pasolini' (Goodbye to Pier Paolo Pasolini) for the late filmmaker, included in the final edit.

Following the narrative of one of Pasolini's defining cinematic moments, the soundtrack opens with Ennio Morricone's "Son Tanto Triste", descends into the melancholic minor chords of Bach, Chopin, Orff, Puccini, and Graziosi, incorporates sinister renditions by the cast, and includes Morricone's own sombre tribute to the director.

Disgusted by the flood of crass sexploitation movies which filled the space opened up by his "Trilogy Of Life", Pasolini turned to the most nihilistic thinker in European history for what became his final film. His version of De Sade's 120 Days Of Sodom, amplified with motifs from Dante's Inferno, confronts the ultimate implications of fascism in a series of sexual and moral atrocities. "The only true anarchy is power".

The CD was released on Friday 13th February 2026, exactly 249 years since the Marquis de Sade was arrested and imprisoned in the dungeon of the Vincennes fortress for charges of "debauchery and immoderate libertinage" that scandalised his contemporaries.

• CD in matt-laminate gatefold ecopak
• White Gildan Softstyle t-shirt with red / greyscale print
• Black Gildan Softstyle t-shirt with red / greyscale print
• Ltd 500 copies on brown vinyl in gatefold matt-laminate sleeve (second + final pressing!)

Warning - graphic artwork (as to be expected).

Ltd Brown LP	CD - £11	Ltd White Shirt - £18	Black Shirt - £18

ANDREW CHALK - 'The End Times' CD (ICR) - £10

Fragile, melodic tracks from Andrew Chalk (Mirror, Ora, Ferial Confine) that weave in and out of focus in an almost hallucinatory manner, evoking many different moods and emotions. "Andrew Chalk is still making incredibly beautiful and distinctive music, as The End Times is a characteristically sublime and immersive dreamscape of tender melodies, elegantly shifting moods, and vividly detailed textures... the most prominent features throughout are the quivering, liquid-like character of the notes and the ephemeral brevity of the pieces. Rather than evolving and expanding, these 13 pieces instead feel like a series of enigmatic mirages that offer a fleeting and flickering glimpse of heaven before dissolving back into nothingness. Given all the gentle, blurred sounds and the tone of meditative reverie, it is deceptively easy to mistake The End Times for ambient music, yet it reveals itself to be considerably more than that for those willing to fully immerse themselves in Chalk's slow-motion fantasia of beautiful details and small yet significant events... he is without peer at sculpting compositions until nothing remains but a fleeting and fragile moment of simple poignant beauty" (Brainwashed). Mastered by Dennis Blackham. Matt digipak.

COLIN POTTER & JONATHAN COLECLOUGH - 'Carboniferous' CD (ICR) - £11

An album unearthed in the IC studio of Colin Potter (Ora, Monos, Nurse With Wound), "Carboniferous" is a deeply atmospheric, four-track ambient release. The hour-long album showcases slow-shifting electronic drones, minimalist piano patterns and treatments, and heavy effects processing. Loosely described by Potter as "rhythmic drone music", the tracks are remixes of Jonathan Coleclogh's album "Period' (2001), which Potter also worked on.  These pieces were made before the use of computers became commonplace in studios. They were all mixed live, without editing, using a physical mixing desk and external analogue and digital effects units. "Potter's speciality is working with effects placed upon the original material, so it becomes something else, and his mastery is to make it sound like it's static and minimal. In contrast, it shifts and moves around, very rarely staying in one place. The pure piano sometimes starts the piece or appears halfway through... This serves as a fine reminder of the sources. These are four strong pieces, in which the 'live' element is a strong presence, adding to the lively atmosphere of the music. (Vital Weekly). 6-panel ecopak.

DISSECTING TABLE - 'Purification Of The Soul' CD (E-Klageto / Psych.KG) - £11.50

Dissecting Table is the exclusive brainchild of Tokyo's Ichiro Tsuji - UPD Organization label boss, the first vocalist of Gudon and a maverick of the Japanese noise world. This work consisting of 6 longform tracks (50 mins) was recorded using a studio-made synthesizer system via line recording, with additional devices, corrugated iron sheet performance, and violin. "Framed by Buddhist traditions, the three-eyed, snarling guardian of the teachings armed with sword and noose, Tsuji himself seems unprotected from despair, a state of suspended animation, mental damage, distractions, and blackout etc. Hence, perhaps, his self-deprecating insults like 'Bullsh*tter' and 'Moron'. His medicine here is a loop of imbecilic, murmuring mantras over bubbling noise and electronic fluting. To impulsive chugging and ticking, he can't stop his inner demons... Noise crashes, clunky and stereophonic, trilling alarmingly. Is this the élan vital of robots, automatons, and other tin-metal idiots, the industrial age in its demented final state?... 'Last Words' bubble up, mouthless, as impulsive foolishness, chirping, twittering, as an electronic wah-wah. Finally, Tsuji intones another monastic-shamanic mantra, to the undiminished, impulsively buzzing and twittering mess". Ltd x 199 hand-numbered copies in an A5 gatefold card sleeve.

ERIC LUNDE - 'Everything That Hasn't Happened' CD (E-Klageto / Psych.KG) - £11.50

Eric Lunde is a Minneapolis musician and artist. He founded Boy Dirt Car in 1983 with Darren Brown, releasing several LPs and cassettes. Lunde left BDC in 1989, signing it over to Mr Brown. He then released his own music under his own name / Trait, published a book of poetry and wood-block prints, and is one half of noise / experimental duo Dead Edits (with Blake Edwards of Vertonen). This brand new studio album (credited as Eric Lunde and The Kanshiketsu! Orchestra) comes in the form of 11 tracks of noise, cryptic creations and paradoxes. Ranging from a lengthy 15-minute track to a 7-second finale, the album deals with Somnium-overlaid, Covid-induced hallucinations, tales of postpostpostmodern existence in the age of algocracy; distorted dreams, and general absurdity. Distorted roars of pop music collide with monotonous chugging, humming noise, pulsating waves, buzzes and chirps, whirring rhythms, delicate shimmers, and diffused voices. Ltd x 199 hand-numbered copies in an A5 8-panel card artwork booklet, with two inserts.

NURSE WITH WOUND - 'Alice The Goon (Expanded Edition)' 2 x CD (United Dairies) - £20

"Alice The Goon" was a single-sided LP originally released on White Noise label for the Festival Ultimes Musiques, May 1995. On its original three tracks, Nurse With Wound stretched a single bad dream into half an hour of delirium: queasy not quite easy listening that mutated from lounge lilt to industrial throb, like a Popeye cartoon left to rot in a dripping underground cinema. "Alice The Goon" sits in NWW's catalogue like a particularly vivid hallucination; a miniature suite that twists the very idea of background music into something sly, menacing and oddly seductive. Personnel and production add to the record's peculiar charge. Stapleton is joined by long-time conspirators (including Diana Rogerson, Peat Bog, Michael Dawson and Elephant in various incarnations across editions), with everything produced and mixed in classic NWW fashion: hands-on, collage-driven, unconcerned with genre boundaries. Too structured to be pure noise, too disfigured to be ambient, too slyly humorous to sit comfortably as "industrial". Instead, it occupies that characteristically NWW zone where reference points - easy listening, cartoon scores, avantgarde tape music, occult ritual - are all present but never settle into a single frame. This expanded edition contains several unique mixes by Colin Potter, Andrew Liles, Matt Waldron, Diarmuid MacDiarmada, Señor Coconut and various unreleased material from the original sessions. Presented in a deluxe 8-panel double digipak, featuring the original release art, alongside older renditions by Babs Santini.

NURSE WITH WOUND - 'Healsgebedda Budgerigar' CD (United Dairies) - £15

"Healsgebedda Budgerigar" (meaning "beloved budgie" in mangled old English) represents yet another visionary achievement from Steven Stapleton's Nurse With Wound project. The album's three original LP tracks journey through landscapes of memory and dreams. Fragments of recollection (the vocalisations of a once-dear pet, jazz from an old Bakelite radio, a passing police car, the intrusion of a wasp, someone retuning for opera)... the journey from sublime reverie to the theme of a favourite childhood cowboy show that may or may not have existed in reality. The final of the three original tracks delivers what critics describe as "the music that would be playing in the Black Lodge episodes of Twin Peaks... if the soundtrack had been allowed to mirror the sublime derangement of these scenes". This new CD edition includes an additional 35 mins of unpublished tracks: 'A Pig In A Poke' and 'A Resounding Tinkle', plus an alternative mix of the title track. The album showcases Nurse With Wound's continued ability to transpose surrealism's visual art movement into pure sound "to reveal the unconscious... and to undo prevalent conceptions of order and reality" (Briony Fer). NWW here were Steven Stapleton, Colin Potter (Ora, Monos), Andrew Liles, Matt Waldron (irr. app. (ext.)), Diarmuid MacDiarmada, and Petr Vastl (Aranos). 6-panel digipak of heavy gauge card with gloss laminate, designed by Babs Santini.

NURSE WITH WOUND - 'Stoned In Stockholm' CD (United Dairies) - £15

This live set by cult avant-garde electronic project Nurse With Wound was recorded January 2016 at Södra Teatern in Sweden, and features Steven Stapleton, Andrew Liles, Colin Potter (Ora, Monos), and Matt Waldron (irr. app. (ext.)). The chilly ambience, subtle krautrock and ambient dirges directly mimic the wintry setting in which the band performed. "Stoned" leans heavily into dark, creeping drones that coil around krautrock-inspired rhythms and space-music elements. Remastered by Colin Potter. Comes with a bonus CD-only track. Digipak with a sleeve designed by Babs Santini.

NURSE WITH WOUND - 'Stoned In Stockholm' LP MARBLED (United Dairies) - £26

Coloured vinyl edition of the above release. Pressed using 'eco mix' vinyl - resulting in varying colour combinations of pink / purple / mauve marbled vinyl... each unique (though one pressing). Ltd x 500 numbered copies.

NURSE WITH WOUND - 'The Grave And Beautiful Name Of Sadness' LP MARBLED (United Dairies) - £26

This LP features two archive mixes of "The Grave And Beautiful Name Of Sadness", recorded in 1984. The original was a monolithic dark ambient/drone track featuring haunting choral voices, sepulchral bass, and Ligeti-esque tension. The first track here is a grand, epic variation recorded in 2007 for possible inclusion in Peter Strickland's film 'Katalin Varga'. The second is a unique, 'psychedelic' version from 2012 which until now has never been heard. A profoundly deep and sustained sound work. NWW were Steven Stapleton and Colin Potter, with additional guitar by Andrew Liles. Pressed using 'eco mix' vinyl - resulting in varying colour combinations of green / grey / blue marbled vinyl... each unique (though one pressing). Ltd x 600 copies.

NURSE WITH WOUND / DIARMUID MACDIARMADA - 'Lung Oysters' CD (United Dairies) - £15

"Lung Oysters" is a studio album from Nurse With Wound featuring the multi-instrumentalist Diarmuid MacDiarmada. A heady free range mix of krautrock, experimental and toe tapping psychedelia, leaning towards a slightly more rock orientated sound. "A pungent brew of rock, dark psychedelia, new age, exotica, nose-flute and a scream of existential horror" (Arcana Hibernia). On board with head honcho Steven Stapleton are regular NWW members Colin Potter (Ora, Monos), Andrew Liles, and Matt Waldron (irr. app. (ext.)), with the added voice and talents of Irish artist and poet, Tara Baoth Mooney. Digipak with a sleeve designed by Babs Santini.

ORA - 'Time Out Of Mind' CD (ICR / Shining Day) - £11

Deeply transportive early sound collage / concrete works from the long running Ora project. A hypnogogic dream-sequence that drifts between deeply immersive electro-acoustic / drone passages, occasionally coming up for air with the soft tinkering of piano keys or lightly plucked acoustic strings. "Time Out of Mind" represents a most important chapter in the recordings of Ora, during the years 1986-1994 and here almost all entirely unheard before. They represent unreleased studio pieces, field recordings and sketches, significantly made to portable recorder. This working method would become the basis of future and more elaborate studio pieces and in itself clarifies an important formative stage of the work of Ora, of often using outdoor performances and location sound in an entirely spontaneous way. The album collects and reworks, after the passage of some 20 years, what might have been and has now been mixed, sequenced and arranged by Andrew Chalk into a full-length album. It inevitably captures, with the gift of hindsight, the spirit of the past. Line-up changes followed which perhaps makes "Time Out Of Mind" a missing stage in the evolution of a group that should have, though never actually did, exist in that period. Ora here was: Andrew Chalk, Darren Tate, Colin Potter and Daisuke Suzuki.

SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS - 'Ecclesiastic Audition Stories' CD (E-Klageto / Psych.KG) - £11.50

Sshe Retina Stimulants is the solo project of Paolo Bandera (Sigillum S). "The musician saint's gift of internal audition is followed by his text, imagining the parts where voices of women lament the ecclesiastical structures that deny them... the challenge for congregations to tell themselves their full story, while accepting the deepest social symbolic meanings. The implied experience of music in the celebration of liturgy translates into brutal torture and murder, with old and new popular games becoming the playground for the experience of spiritual song from autobiographical accounts... reading the news that they had died, so many memories came flooding back... a stage name became a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers to reach out to their vision of transcendence...". Post-Industrial / Drone / Noise, created with electronics and field recordings. Ltd x 300 hand-numbered copies in an A5 8-page full-colour art booklet.

NOVEMTHREE - 'Storms Of Memory' CD (Glass Throat Recordings) - £13

On "Storms Of Memory", Novemthree have sought a deeper exploration of their characteristic blend of acoustic folk songwriting and layered ambient textures, weaving a sonic tapestry of stringed instruments, varied percussion, flutes, woodwinds, and vocal harmonies to create an incredibly profound and beautifully poignant full length collection. After a long and quiet time of reflection, Novemthree emerges from the thicket with "Storms Of Memory", their first musical release since their split-album "Braided Paths" with Sangre De Muerdago (2014), and their first full length album since "Renewing" (2012). The songs on "Storms Of Memory" document a four-year journey of recording, split between the locales of the Salish Sea of the Pacific Northwest and the driftless area of the Northern Midwest, with the conceptual roots of the songs originating in a series of live performances that occurred between 2013 and 2018. Presented in an incredibly beautiful 6" x 6", 6-panel outsized card sleeve, with exclusive interior landscape artwork courtesy of Bluttantz of the Dolomite Mountains.

RHAD - 'Ghost Music Library' CD (Unexplained Sounds) - £12

With "Ghost Music Library" RhaD (Research of Historical Audio Documents) further explores the margins between archival research, improvisation, and sonic abstraction. Created by Italian sound artist Raffaele Pezzella (SONOLOGYST), RhaD represents a more instinctive and unrestrained counterpart to his usual conceptual rigor. Here, the music unfolds as a collage of forgotten tapes, malfunctioning devices, magnetic dust, and digital errors transformed into expressive language. The album's title evokes the spirit of the electronic library music of the 1970's, yet this is no pastiche. Instead, "Ghost Music Library" functions as an imaginary archive, a parallel memory of sounds that might have existed, an archaeology of lost futures. Between the hum of analogue circuits and the glitches of obsolete media, RhaD constructs a nostalgic yet radical sound world, where experimental freedom meets the melancholy of vanished existences. It is a tribute to imperfection and to the beauty of the unrepeatable moment, a library of the unresolved and the ephemeral. Ltd x 100 copies in a matt-laminate 6-panel digipak.