SUN RA | MERZBOW - 'Strange City'
2CD £12.50 Adv - OUT 26th JUNE

       

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 - OUT NOW! | T-Shirt £18 - OUT NOW! | LP BROWN - OUT TOMORROW!

  

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

Z'EV - 'Schönste Muziek'
CD £11 - OUT NOW!

        

Early hallucinatory ritual percussion works from the much-missed rhythmajik master Z'EV, with his 1983 Berlin Atonal performance as a bonus track (first time on any format since the original split LP with Psychic TV).

This legendary album by Industrial pioneer Z'EV was originally released in 1986 (LP, Dossier), now finally available with the state-of-the-art remastering it deserves. Also included is the bonus 20 minute track 'Titan Night', recorded at Berlin Atonal in December 1983, now available here for the first time on any format since the original 1984 split LP with Psychic TV (who performed their iconic set at the same event). Z'EV performed on all-steel, custom-made percussion instruments, designed to activate the acoustics of the space.

"Each track finds Z'EV creating moody and atmospheric percussion based compositions. If you're familiar with Z'EV's work you'd say these tracks are a bit more primal, stripped back, and unmanipulated. Each track takes in a set pattern of percussive elements, which he investigates over the tracks length, and these move from forceful battering onto more moody drifts, and in between the two... a worthy work from this most respected and unequalled artist" (Musique Machine).

• CD in matt digipak, with all artwork remaining true to Z'EV's original concepts.

TREPANERINGSRITUALEN - 'Perfection & Permanence'
'MOSS GREEN' LP £23 | T-SHIRT £18 - OUT NOW!



2026 edition of the lauded 2014 T × R × P album.

Trepaneringsritualen explores themes of religion, magick and the hidden realms of consciousness, taking its musical cues from the old school of ritual ambient & death industrial. Rhythmic and seething at times, and oozing forward with a creeping sense of desolation at others, Trepaneringsritualen conjures forth bleak but mesmerizing visions of the end-times.

"Perfection & Permanence": a hymn to Isis; a further exploration of the duality of the holy harlot, the black skinned Magdalen, mother and concert of the Christ; Yeshua Ben Yosef, son of MAN; the shameful dead, those who sold their brothers, condemned to forever roam the earth; to transgress the abyss, to mortify flesh, towards cosmic renovation. It is lonely, it is awful; on the verge of physical death, but still unable to understand; absolute perfection may be attained through WILL.

A conversation with angels, in archaic tongues; EirÍkr inn Sigrsæli sold his blood and kin to desert rats for corporeal power. EirÍkr, we spit on you; from across the abyss, it rises. Ceaseless, blood-churning, terrible; an incoherent accusation by the mirror image, he who's blood was shed to atone another man’s sins. Without bloodshed there can be no salvation.

• LP on 180gm Moss Green vinyl in matt-laminate sleeve with printed inner sleeve (Ltd 500)
• Gildan Softstyle Midweight, black t-shirt with 'cool grey' print, featuring new design by nullvoid. Sizes S-XXXL

Also available: CD in 6-panel matt-laminate digipak

MOSS GREEN LP - £23	T-SHIRT - £18	COMBO - £39

DEREK JARMAN - 'Through The Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping'
LP £23 OUT NOW!


    

Written in 1971 and read here by the author himself "Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping" is Derek Jarman's only known work of narrative fiction.

Providing a prelude to some of the imagery Derek Jarman would use later in his career, particularly the alchemical dreamscapes in the film "Blue", it is a surreal, hallucinatory fairytale, signposted with elements of modernity, that has much of the mythic and archetypal about it.

With tantalising autobiographical details and a panoply of chromatic landscapes and psychosexual symbols, this richly poetic story details a journey with no destination or purpose across a mythical America, undertaken by the young blind King Amethyst and his valet John.

Previously only ever released on cassette (2022, Prototype Publishing, Ltd 80), this vinyl edition features facsimile images of the story's handwritten drafts from Jarman's archive and photos by the artist Michael Ginsborg, a close friend of Jarman's throughout the period of the story's writing.

• Ltd x 500 copies on heavyweight 180gm black vinyl in gloss sleeve.

ONE LEG ONE EYE - '...And Take The Black Worm With Me'
CD £11.50 - OUT NOW!

           

As a founding member of Dublin experimental folk group LANKUM, Ian Lynch explores submerged leylines of music and song. His solo project ONE LEG ONE EYE sees him taking a fresh approach to musical arrangement culminating in a sound that is more rooted in the raw aesthetics of second wave black metal than contemporary folk.

Over the course of a year, Ian Lynch enjoyed the freedom of experimenting and exploring different paths of sound design without expectation or pressure. Seeking out interesting settings to record music and gather field recordings, the essence of which have seeped into the spirit of the music, Lynch explores rediscovered spaces in Dublin and familiar interior spaces. He frequently visited the abandoned warehouse where his father worked and sang with his shruti box, contented in his solitude.

The result is a distinct and sometimes harrowing drone-folk atmosphere conjured throughout the album's lengthy and enveloping compositions, with an eerily beautiful, immersive sadness resonating throughout.

"An immersive world of created sounds and raw, resonant singing... dazzling sounds... gorgeousness and menace... lyrics carrying oceans of sadness" (5/5, The Guardian)

Features Ian Lynch on hurdy gurdy, uilleann pipes, synth, vocals, shruti box, concertina, guitar, found sounds, and tape, with guests: Laurie Sue Shanaman (Ails, Ludicra) on vocals, and Ruth Clinton (Landless, Poor Creature) on church organ.

Only available on a one-time, long sold out CD pressing in Ireland (Nyahh Records, 2022), we now present this incredible album with an exclusive bonus track 'Sympathetic Invertebrate Ritual', recorded especially for this edition.

• CD in matt-laminate digipak with updated artwork. • EUROPEAN TOUR with Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

CAPRICORNI PNEUMATICI - 'Vala, Or The Four Zoas' CD (Eighth Tower / Unexplained Sounds) - £12

Originally released on cassette in 1989, "Vala, Or The Four Zoas" emerged during a period of intense creative activity for Capricorni Pneumatici, only a few weeks after the recording sessions of "IX-TAB" and in parallel with the development of "Nibbas". The genesis of the album revolves around the exploration of timbres capable of autonomous evolution, such as the DX7's bi-harmonic sound, whose layered harmonics unfold over time, creating suspended zones and dreamlike, meditative dimensions. Alongside FM synthesis, the album incorporates field recordings, concrete sounds, acoustic fragments, tape overdubs, environmental interferences, and metallic percussion. Other moments, built entirely from environmental recordings processed through a Revox A77 used as a delay device, move toward a sparse, almost ascetic form of musique concréte. The reference to William Blake, evoked by the title, does not directly influence the sonic construction of the album, but emerges as an ideal lens through which to interpret the ritualistic, shamanic, and hallucinatory character of the work, offering an additional key to understanding one of Capricorni Pneumatici's most enigmatic and layered albums. Ltd x 150 copies in a matt-laminate 6-panel digipak.

O[RLAWREN] - 'The Intimate Overlap' CD (Dronarivm) - £11.50

The second of two simultaneous releases, with "Poesis" above. Working with field recordings, acousmatic and modular synthesis techniques, "The Intimate Overlap" is presented in a suite of two parts - "a structure in naming" and "a nearness to the world" - over four longform pieces covering the album's 73 minute running time. Created over a nine year period as a delicate micro-drama of shifting proximities, each holding onto their roots, folding, seeking nutrients, learning and unlearning. An ecological relationship with micro sounds that are at once ecstatic, animated, tentative and visceral. A neurodivergent yearning for new ways to connect, articulate and circulate. An ecology of the senses in a music used as language. o[rlawren] with guests: Aaron Martin (cello), Cyril Secq (charango), Katie English (flute), and Claire Whyte (vocals). Ltd x 150 copies in a 6-panel 'soft touch' digisleeve.

RAPOON - 'Grain Of Light' CD (Unexplained Sounds) - £12

Robin Storey's journey through sound is inseparable from the evolution of post-industrial and experimental ambient music itself. As a founding member of the seminal collective Zoviet France, formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1979, Storey helped shape a new sonic vocabulary that blended ritual abstraction, primitive sampling, and immersive atmospheres. When Storey launched his solo project Rapoon in 1992, he distilled that experimental spirit into a more introspective and hypnotic form, drawing upon non-Western rhythmic patterns and the cyclical pulse of memory. Rapoon has become synonymous with a particular kind of ethno-ambient classicism, exploring the borderlands between archaeology and imagination. With "Grain of Light", Storey continues this long meditation on time and transcendence. Deeply influenced by Eastern music, the album reaches sandy and swampy depths that could have emerged from Jon Hassell's own scorebook, yet it remains unmistakably Rapoon - a music that evokes both ritual and dream, memory and mirage. Ltd x 150 copies in a matt-laminate 6-panel digipak.

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.

VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Anthology Of Electroacoustic Music From Portugal' CD (Unexplained Sounds) - £12

This new chapter of the Sound Mapping series focuses on Portugal, tracing a cartography of contemporary electroacoustic practices, with a constellation of approaches that oscillate between abstract electronics, music directly influenced by Iberian tradition, ritualistic impulses, and slow-moving electroacoustic drone. What emerges is a porous sonic territory shaped by memory, landscape, and experimentation. Portugal's electroacoustic underground has developed along singular lines, absorbing influences from traditional rhythms, coastal geographies, and a long-standing dialogue between isolation and openness. In these works, electronic sound often remains connected to corporeal and material references. Pulses evoke archaic dances and percussive ceremonies rooted in Iberian heritage, while drones stretch time into meditative or suspended states, recalling sacred spaces and raw natural environments. An immersive journey through 13 compositions that explore the tension between the ancestral and the synthetic; a shifting terrain where electronics, Iberian tradition, ritual memory, and abstraction converge. Features: Vitor Joaquim, Margarida Garcia, HHY & The Macumbas, Haarvöl, Manuel Mota, David Maranha, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, @c, Ana Durana, Reixelo, João Alegria, BVHZ, and NIN-FAE. Ltd x 100 copies in a matt-laminate 6-panel digipak.

FABIO ORSI - 'In The Quiet Of A Short Winter, Every Hidden Thing Finds A Voice Sharper Than Memory' LP WHITE (13 / Silentes) - £28

Six touching tracks that, starting from quiet ambient atmospheres, initially soft, tenuous, and crepuscular, gradually seem to soar... ascending towards celestial spaces, revealing ever-wider and brighter landscapes below, ever-more distant horizons, ever-more infinite spaces. Highly evocative progressions, guided by sober and delicate melodies and driving, pulsating bass lines, wonderfully deep (best enjoyed with a good stereo system to truly appreciate them) - the kind that make your stomach churn before you even perceive the exact frequency and harmonic progression, often "set" in sober rhythmic patterns that mark the time, making a sonic journey even more dynamic and compelling. If it doesn't surprise you, it's probably only because you've already had the opportunity to explore and plumb Fabio Orsi's most recent discography, and are already accustomed to the best of what this new wave of distinctly electronic but ambient-inspired music has to offer. Ltd x 100 copies on white vinyl with two artcards (one hand-numbered), and a full-size insert including download code and featuring liner notes by Giulia Dal Vecchio (Hiseka).

MURDEROUS VISION - 'Ghosts Of The Soul Long Lost Volume Four: Live 2002-2025' 2 x CD (Live Bait Recording Foundation) - £14.50

For the 4th volume of the "Ghosts Of The Soul Long Lost " series of archival recordings, Stephen Petrus compiled the best moments of Murderous Vision's live recordings. Clocking in at 2.5 hours, these Death Industrial / Dark Ambient performances are, for the most part, post-pandemic, but a few old moments are represented. None of these recordings have been physically released, and all (but a few available digitally) have been heard outside of the room they were captured in. The DCD contains performances that took place in Akron / Columbus / Cleveland (Ohio), Brooklyn (New York), Manchester (New Hampshire), Minneapolis (Minnesota), Los Angeles (California), Pittsburgh (Pennsyvania), Vantaa (Finland), and Limburg (Netherlands). Stephen Petrus with guests TTR (percussion), Lot1113 (synth, electronics, handmade acoustic instruments), and Jeff Curtis (bass guitar). Mastering by Grant Richardson (Gnawed). Ltd x 200 copies in a 6-panel matt ecopak with graphic design by Dan Serbanescu (Alone In The Hollow Garden, Temple Of Clear Light).

PLAMEN VECNOSTI - 'The Utilization' CD (Zazen Sounds) - £12

Serbia's Plamen Vecnosti came into being in year 2013 through Sifr Shraddha (Svepna / Utvar). Forged in the Fires of the Underworld, Plamen Vecnosti (The Flame of Eternity) represents a dark transmitter, black medium and the entity of the Otherness. In order to capture the vibrations of its abyssal birthplace, handmade instruments where designed, crafted and utilized. Rattles, skin drums, flutes, pipes, percussions, strings and other tools in various shapes and sizes successfully serve the purpose of the transmission. Drones and noises gathered during field recordings conducted on various liminal places are combined with proper ritualistic chants, vocals, whispers and hypnotic rhythms forming the sonic manifestations of PV. "The Utilization is the Fifth Pillar, characterized by a hiddenness that reveals itself only through the superposition linking and holding together the essence of all the Four Pillars that rose before it. To utilize is to set the course of this nature towards the Otherness - vaguely comprehended as a place that is not, in a time that is not... a dance of an apparition devoid of a dancer; an actor-less theatre play in an empty auditorium; a film in a cinema for the sake of an absent audience. The question of the beginning of the dance, the play, the film, demands the Utilization of the Weapon. Thus, the action-less action gives birth to the very rise of the Fifth Pillar, uncovering the true horror that lies within the inherent inability to comprehend the No Subject. It is the undoable apprehension of the Otherness - the absolution devoid of the sum and the totality of the Total Subject - that is the Utilization". Gatefold digisleeve. Already sold out from the label!

VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'A Collection Of Songs In The Traditional & Sean-Nós Style' CD (Nyahh Records) - £12

Inspired by the song collecting of Alan Lomax, this compilation brings together two generations of singers from all across the island of Ireland. Some of the songs previously appear on albums, but the rest were recorded by the singer themselves on their phones to give the song a real and raw effect that brings an authentic feel and immediacy to the songs. A long standing tradition in Irish culture, singing - both traditional and Sean-Nós ("old style") - has taken place in pubs and private homes all over the country since the 13th Century and has been away to share and keep the music alive, passing it down to younger generations. It is considered to be an aural tradition, as a lot of these songs would of not been written down. Features: Conor O'Kane, Aoife Hammond, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, Michael Frank Ó Confhaola, Méabh Meir, Rosie Stewart, Ruth Clinton, Fionnuala Maxwell, Nell Ní Chroinin, Thomas McCarthy, and Sarah Ghriallais. Comes in 6-panel gatefold sleeve with liner notes on each song by the singers, and cover illustration by Denise Conroy.