Ambient

"Nascent" features 13 original pieces of electro-instrumental music. The pieces seek to interrogate the increasingly polyphonic nature of the solo performing electronic guitarist. The disc features a series of refined live improvisations through production techniques

"The brainchild of avantguitarist Ricky Graham, "Mecca," merges beautifully processed and looped guitar with expansive electronics, imaginative beats, and understated vocals by David Whitaker on one track and Minna Twice and Michl Britsch on another. A crafty electronica outing that is ominous, contemplative, impressionistic, and portentous in turns." (Guitar Player Magazine - 2010)

Clodagh Simonds's sublime Fovea Hex return with new 2012 mixes of Carol and Lullaby.

If you like your dark a little sweet, your lightness a little sinister, and your promises lustrous, these haunted Winter songs may well fit the bill.

Available as a download and cd single.

Clodagh Simonds's sublime Fovea Hex return with new 2012 mixes of Carol and Lullaby.

If you like your dark a little sweet, your lightness a little sinister, and your promises lustrous, these haunted Winter songs may well fit the bill.

Available as a download and cd single.

Dating from 1990, Luminous has been unavailable for over 20 years and is part of an ongoing Bill Nelson reissue series.

Nelson has described the album as, "A fragment from my home studio sketchbook. A collection of previously unreleased songs, which have been preserved in their original raw state. The rule was to use only first takes and to move from the initial idea to final mix in as short a time as possible. Although the recordings were made with the use of limited technology, I hope that the result captures something of the charm and innocence of spontaneous improvised songwriting..."

This edition fully restores the original artwork and features sleeve notes by Bill Nelson.

Preorder now for 27th February 2012 release date

Seamlessly combining Country and Ambient influences in a uniquely ethereal way, Letka is the latest collaboration between Irish vocalist Sandra O'Neill and English multi-instrumentalist Peter Chilvers.

The evocative digipack, designed by Carl Glover, features images from his archive of photographs of American ghost towns.

Brian Eno appears on and produces Beyond The Fold.

Initially formed to play three dates at the 2010 Estonian Jazz Festival, Slow Electric is a new project from Tim Bowness and Peter Chilvers, and the Estonian duo UMA (guitarist Robert Jurjendal and trumpeter Aleksei Saks).

Using recordings from the concerts as a basis, Bowness recorded new vocals and Chilvers contributed additional keyboards and atmospherics. King Crimson’s Tony Levin added bass/chapman stick to two of the album's six songs, and the multi-tracks were mixed by ace Zurich-based percussionist/producer Andi Pupato (Nik Bartsch’s Ronin).

From the elegiac opener Towards The Shore to the 5/4 groove of Criminal Caught In The Crime, the quartet combines its collective influences - singer-songwriter, electronica/ambient and European jazz - with gracefully empathetic performances.

The Carl Glover designed digipack comes with a booklet featuring sleeve notes by Tim Bowness.

The evocative and exploratory Dance Of The Shadow Planets is US 'cloud guitarist' Jon Durant's seventh album.

Operating in the creative grey areas between Ambient, ECM Jazz, ethnic and atmospheric Rock, the album was recorded live in the studio with a quartet including Colin Edwin on fretless bass, Caryn Lin on violin and Jerry Leake on percussion.

"If you like David Torn, Michael Brook, Robert Fripp, Tony Levin, Eno, Steve Tibbetts each at their infinite guitar, textural guitar, guitar soundscaping, echo delay, loops, sustainesque best . . . then Jon Durant is for you." - EER Reviews

A compilation of music by Markus Reuter compiled for the 2011 "Two of a Perfect Trio" US tour featuring the Adrian Belew Power Trio and Tony Levin's Stick Men (including Markus Reuter).

'Kopfmensch' features 16 tracks from more than a dozen different projects/bands/albums and includes unreleased tracks as well as alternative versions and many new mixes.

Limited edition.

The Resonance Association returns with Heliopause, its most ambitious and diverse album yet.

The Resonance Association returns with Heliopause, its most ambitious and diverse album yet.

This digital bundle is exclusive to Burning Shed.

"Music by Mirrors" is the first release on the DiN label by the duo Mazmoneth.

A two disc (cd/dvd) release of two live sets by this typically eclectic Bill Laswell led combo, featuring Bernie Worrell, Toshinori Kondo, Guy Licata, and Dr Israel.

A digi-pack presentation.

'Somewhere between dub and ambient drum'n'bass, although both rock and dancehall stick an occasional oar in.' - The Quietus

Twice Grammy-nominated Animation (Bob Belden, Tim Hagans, Scott Kinsey, Matt Garrison, DJ Logic and Guy Licata) re-invent the 'electric Miles' breakthrough release Bitches Brew in surprising ways.

A wonderful compilation spanning the entire history of this much loved cult collective, this is an updated standardised version of the deluxe long box edition of A History.

An accompanying booklet contains sleeve notes from Arthur Jeffes (the son of late band leader Simon Jeffes), reminiscing about his personal experiences of growing up surrounded by the creative maelstrom of PCO activity.

All of the tracks were remastered under the watchful eye of Arthur, who has recently continued the group's eclectic musical legacy with his own Penguin Cafe project.
eye of Arthur Jeffes.

Quodia, featuring Trey Gunn (King Crimson) and Joe Mendelson (Rise Robots Rise) is, 'A synthesis of music, theatre, video art, and animation; a psychedelic contemporary parable.' (BBC Moscow).

Using video projection and live instruments (including 10 string touch guitar, keyboards, and electronic percussion) Quodia creates an experience that is part movie, part theatre, and part concert.

The music for The Arrow (2007) is divided into seven chapters, containing the entire piece in audio form.

'Channeling both Brian Eno and Jack Kerouac, Quodia unfolds an elegant spectacle, telling histories with surprise, mystery, fear, and salvation. A loaded weapon of the future.' - Toma Review

'Sounding like a mix of Tangerine Dream and King Crimson, with compelling and captivating moods and atmospheres.' - Windhawk

Here Is Where We Used To Sing is the debut album by Clodagh Simonds's enigmatic collective, Fovea Hex.

Comprising 8 songs and 3 short instrumentals, the music represents a captivating continuation of the unique components - ambient sound art, re-imagined Folk traditions, Simonds's rich voice - that made the Neither Speak Nor Remain Silent EP trilogy so haunting and compelling.

Available in cd and download (mp3/flac 16bit 44.1Khz) formats.

"A voice that one could happily drown in for hours." - Pitchfork

"No clutter, no cliches - both ravishing and rare." - Drew Daniels (Matmos)

Bang On A Can's large-scale studio re-interpretation of Brian Eno's influential Ambient masterpiece Music For Airports was highly acclaimed on its release in 1998.

Gloriously evoking both Modern Classical and Post-Rock sensibilities, this live version (also from 1998) maintains the hypnotic beauty of the original, while adding textural and improvisational flesh to the Minimal bones of Eno's composition.

Previously an exclusive online download only, this is packaged in a slimline card wallet.

"Beautiful." - Village Voice

"There's an improvisational component and a gradual, dramatic build-up that's in understated contrast to Eno's less invasive original." - John Kelman, All About Jazz

Back in print, and now in its fourth pressing "Ghosts on Magnetic Tape" remains the best selling Bass Communion release, and is rated by some people (including SW himself) to be one of his best albums, becoming quietly influential in the experimental music scene. Ghosts is a 5 part suite of dark organic textural music, using intricately manipulated recordings of acoustic instruments and the now familiar Bass Communion trademark ghostly crackle of old vinyl records. Inspired by Electronic Voice Phenomena recordings, the album has a spectral and eerie quality. As with the previous edition the main album is augmented with a second CD containing a full length reinterpretation by Andrew Liles that takes the original into even more creepy realms. Comes in a beautiful thick card Japanese mini LP gatefold sleeve.

Markus Reuter's orchestral experiment.

"Employing violins, viola, cello, guitars, organ, glockenspiel, synthesisers and electronics, these instruments mesh together, in ensembles of varying size, creating a kind of gauzy web through which development takes place. Texturally its often like those wispy moments in the orchestral music of Debussy or Messiaen, combined with the tolling crawl of Feldman's Coptic Light, but proceeding to its own rules. This is a truly stunning piece of music." - Joshua Meggitt

This live recording is a documentation of Syntony's second meeting.

Although improvised freely, the pieces sound more compositional in nature, combining aspects of contemporary jazz and prog-electronica and everything inbetween.

Beautiful and furious.

The follow-up and companion album to the critically acclaimed Butterflies, Zebras, and Moonbeams brings nine stellar and imaginative remixes from veteran producers from around the world: The Society (Denmark), Jeff Sharel (France), Enrico Marani's MovingBox (Italy). Man From NoWhere,
Tilomo, Tleilaxu, and Soy Sos (USA).

The first standard-issue CD on Tim Motzer's label 1k. Recorded in 1998 and re-released in 2008 to celebrate the band's 10th anniversary.

This 10-track effort (made up of super jazz drummer Ari Hoenig, guitarist/composer Tim Motzer, saxophonist Chris Cuzme, and bassist Ben Bocardo) is an all-instrumental excursion into the disparate corners of all that simmers and swings, from acid jazz to improv, from drum'n'bass to funk.

The playing in dizzyingly intricate throughout.

A visceral, experimental delta-jazz-noise-improv-and featuring Doug Hirlinger on drums,
flute, mbira, and percussion. Barry Meehan on bass, and Tim Motzer on baritone and electric guitars, pedals, and loops. fans

An unplanned spontaneous session recorded in a day in November 2007, Base3 evokes the spirits of Marc Ribot and Derek Bailey in an explosive trio format.

Consisting of electronic studio experiments from 1999, Fractured Reverb Underground sounds as relevant and of it's time now as it ever did.

Long out of print, this edition is the ten year anniversary re-issue on 1k recordings.

A new studio project featuring drummer Eric Slick (Adrian Belew Power Trio), bassist Barry Meehan, Theo Travis, and guitarist Tim Motzer (Nine Horses, Burnt Friedman+ Jaki Leibeziet, Ursula Rucker etc).

An immersive journey in groove exploration, textures, and orchestration.

Astonishing sounds cut up, mis-aligned, and re-imagined for the curious ear.


'In a word, this disc is stunning. My album of the year pick.' - Progressive Ears

Descending, Tim Motzer and Markus Reuter's duo project of dark ambient improvisations, features flautist Theo Travis, the legendary pedal steel work of BJ Cole, drummer Pat Mastelotto and glitch electronics, and cymbal work by Doug Hirlinger.

'A sublime ambience.' - Chris Twomey (Tandom)

Sounding like Darkroom's acid-soaked older brother, Factory Days is a 25 minute improvised piece.

Recorded live during a support to The Durutti Column in June 2006, this marked the first time Tim Bowness (vocals, vocal loops), Alistair Murphy (organ, analogue synth) and Andy Butler (guitar, guitar loops) had played together.

Organ drones, cosmic synths and treated guitar solos abound. Echoes of early Pink Floyd and Ashra creep into a digital-age loop experience, and an England football megaphone is put to use outside of shouting, "Come on, Crouchy!"

The title comes from an after show comment when a drunken member of the audience approached Tim and said, "Vini, you were great man. I haven't seen you since your Factory days."

Mistaken identity has rarely been so mistaken.

Comprising two exquisitely crafted long-form pieces, Dreams Of Tall Buildings debut on their own Museum label is an intimate and sonically adventurous collaboration with ECM label trumpeter and David Sylvian collaborator Arve Henriksen.

Released as a limited edition of 1000 copies and presented in a beautifully designed digi-pack, Pearl is a career-spanning two cd compilation of the music of revered electronic musician Ian Boddy.

Since the release of his first album on the cassette label Mirage in 1980, Ian Boddy has gone on to issue 23 solo and 24 collaborative albums.

Mixed into a continuous stream of music, Pearl provides a fascinating way to experience the career of an original and pioneering musician.

Baltimore-based guitarist/composer Jonathan Badger's second album is an inventive amalgam of ambient, progressive, avant-rock, chamber and electronica styles.

Flitting between extremes of darkness and light, Jonathan uses his guitar to trigger real string and voice sounds and mellotron tape banks to often breathtaking effect.

"Badger's work is too pleasing to be ignored." - e/i Magazine

"Wonderful and unique." -The Speed of Silence

A double lp edition of the story of Wau! Mr Modo which features 15 rare cuts, plus a download code insert that enables access the full album.

Coinciding with the release of The Orb's exquisite collaboration with Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, started by Dr Alex Paterson and Killing Joke bassist, Martin 'Youth' Glover in the late 1980s, the label gave birth to The Orb and its influential releases encompassed acid house, ambient and dub styles.

Coinciding with the release of The Orb's exquisite collaboration with Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, this is a timely deluxe 3cd package telling the comprehensive story of the Wau! Mr Modo label.

Started by Dr Alex Paterson and Killing Joke bassist, Martin 'Youth' Glover in the late 1980s, the label gave birth to The Orb and its influential releases encompassed acid house, ambient and dub styles.

The package includes the original version of the classic Little Fluffy Clouds, a disc of Orb mixes, a fold out scrapbook poster of press cuttings from the time unearthed from Paterson's personal archive, and striking cover art from Jimmy Cauty.

Dating from 1991, the long out of print Spur Of The Moment comprises a set of improvised pieces from Van Der Graaf alumni Hammill and Evans.

Born out of an interest in exploring the possibilities of MIDI (in the early days of the system), the album provides a fascinating snapshot of music technology history, as well as an opportunity to hear two remarkable musicians at their exploratory best.

Recorded between 1980 and 1983, primarily for film and dance works, Loops & Reels was the first of Peter Hammill's Sonix series and contained music recorded in a spirit of experimentation, outside the normal world of the song.

The album includes A Ritual Mask, Peter's astonishing contribution to the first, fund-raising, WOMAD record and the 16 minute atmospheric epic, My Pulse.

The Sonix series provides an indispensable guide to the more experimental side of Peter Hammill's work.

Newly re-mastered edition.

Available on cd, and mp3/flac download.

The pieces on this final album in the (unintended) Sonix series of releases began life as experiments intended to lead to potential PH songs.

In the end, determined by their own rules, the pieces went in their own, often strange, directions.

The Sonix series provides an indispensable guide to the more experimental side of Peter Hammill's work.

Available on cd, and mp3/flac download.

Sonix continued Peter Hammill's 'outside-the-box' Sonix series of releases with music which was, for the most part, originally composed for film and dance.

The album's sonic experiments encompass near-string quartet pieces, raw feedback guitar explorations, and a modern-day version of player-piano work.

Music from beneath the surface and behind the light, the Sonix series provides an indispensable guide to the more experimental side of Peter Hammill's work.

Newly re-mastered.

Estonian duo UMA's second album, Hymn To Undiscovered Land, is a mesmerising and inventive merging of atmospheric European Jazz and electronic influences, that highlights the evolving abilities of guitarist Robert Jürjendal and trumpet player Aleksei Saks.

Recorded and mixed by celebrated percussion player Andi Pupato (from ECM band, Nik Bärtsch's Ronin), who performs throughout, the album also features an evocative vocal contribution from No-Man's Tim Bowness.

Fripp & Eno's classic second album in re-mastered form.

A map of future possibilities

A re-mastered and expanded edition of an Ambient music touchstone.

“Beyond Even” is a series of musical snapshots, ideas, tunes and pieces, selected by Brian Eno from 14 years of unfettered Fripp & Eno studio adventures.

Most pieces are issued for the first time on CD.

Allowing Fripp & Eno the opportunity to redefine the Ambient/Electronica genre they helped launch, 'The Equatorial Stars' consists of seven glistening and meticulously crafted soundscapes.

Based on the theme of alien abduction, the debut album from Suzanne Barbieri's Beloved Aunt offers an intriguing and enigmatic mix of atmospheres, beats and found voices.

Limited edition double album on 180 grams black vinyl in gatefold picture sleeve.

Please note that this version does NOT contain the bonus 10inch Haze Shrapnel.

Boldly defying easy categorisation, The Concrete Twin is a dense and dramatic instrumental outing from the former Japan legend, Mick Karn.

Laced with symphonic ambition and unexpected Jazz, Swing and Drum & Bass textures and rhythms, TCT marks yet another series of creative stylistic departures for the ever-inventive Karn.

Materia Prima is the debut recording by ‘blld’, a collaboration between multi-instrumentalist Ric Byer/ 05ric on drums, extended range bass and vocals, and Touch Guitarist / producer Markus Reuter. Porcupine Tree drummer Gavin Harrison also contributes to one track.

A dynamic fusion of ethereal atmospherics and frantic drumscapes.

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Norwegian ambient artist Erik Wollo in collaboration with DiN / Centrozoon stalwart Bernhard Wostheinrich. A beautiful, atmospheric album inspired by the early arctic explorers.

Algorithmic Music, composed and performed by a computer program, based on variations on the Gumowski-Mira attractor, a kind of fractal. This piano and percussion music is very abstract, but often surprisingly beautiful, solemn, or funny ... if you like early Stockhausen or Conlon Nancarrow, you might even want to dance to it.

Projector Gunship Held {Ø} is the first release in an expansive trilogy that combines earth shattering drums with guitars, bass and effects to produce a sprawling series of instrumental atmospheres. The album arcs through different interpretations of drone-rock from the heavily blissed out haze of 'The Sun Was Gone But Our Faces Shone' through the shimering loops and sonics of 'Super Futures Axis Neo Tokyo' to the destructive dirge of 'Kill Command (Arc Light Operations)' taking in kraut-rock, drone, electronica and avant-garde influences on the way to produce a jaw dropping cinematic explosion of sound. Simply awesome.

Buy Cut Iowa Network's Projector Gunship Held {Ø} double LP and Minus Pilots' Superior Proof of Cinema together at a greatly discounted price.

Superior Proof of Cinema blends degraded electronics, electric bass and
ageing cassette tape recorders into a sensitive yet menacing whole. The
album has a full span of emotion, perfectly paced with subtle and deep
textures offering an engaging journey across the borders into
minimalist, drone, static and circuit breaking electronics.

Slide is the studio album follow-up to Elemental (DiN25) and is the sixteenth full solo CD release by DiN label boss Ian Boddy.

The Resonance Association return with the follow-up to their critically acclaimed debut "Failure Of The Grand Design" (BSHED0703).

This dynamic selection of songs sees the band build on their strengths with a mixture of electronic beats, soaring guitar solos and motorik riffing.

'We Still Have The Stars, is a genre hopping exploration of sounds.....a colourful musical journey.' - Terrorizer

Luminous organic drone music improvised around a score by New York ambient composer Duane Pitre, utilising violin, cello, viola, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, tone generator, pump organ and bowed guitar. Thick vinyl and beautiful artwork limited to 500 copies.

Influenced by a wide range of artists including Bass Communion, Boards of Canada, Tortoise, and composers such as Reich, Glass and Arvo Pärt, Nunbient is an ambient/electro-acoustic collaboration between Joff Winks and Matt Baber.

Utilising both real instruments (including vibes, guitars and harmonium) and processed synthetic and ambient textures, Just Another Dark Age is an exploration in which field recording and sound design are the primary catalyst for a unique experience that can be described as a visually evocative and cinematic journey that swings between moments of luminous sound and intense aural collages.

The brand new 2008 CD by Bass Communion features 4 layered guitar drone pieces, 2 noisy and 2 transcendently beautiful. Aquarius Records say "..expansive and delicate crystalline soundscapes, minimal and hushed, deep and resonant, deep tones, layered low end, all deftly assembled into a mysterious otherworldly droneworld. Instead of hushed and whispery, the opener here is caustic and crumbling, a field of ragged, distorted, blown out tones, a layered expanse of grinding buzz, but beneath it, angelic melodies shimmer and hum, transforming the track into something subtly beautiful, a sprawling prickly sonic squall wrapped around a dreamlike core."

Recorded at DGM Soundworld by David Singleton, with subsequent editing, mixing and mastering by Steven Wilson, Thread comprises nine improvised pieces by Theo Travis and Robert Fripp .

This unique and almost inevitable collaboration has yielded a beautiful sequence of recordings that artfully avoids the clichés routinely associated with “ambient” and “improv”, while wholly encompassing the core elements of both forms of music.

Unfashionably, perhaps, in an era where music is often portrayed as ephemeral or disposable, it is an album that rewards repeated listening, revealing new depths with each play.

Recorded at DGM Soundworld by David Singleton, with subsequent editing, mixing and mastering by Steven Wilson, Thread comprises nine improvised pieces by Theo Travis and Robert Fripp .

This unique and almost inevitable collaboration has yielded a beautiful sequence of recordings that artfully avoids the clichés routinely associated with “ambient” and “improv”, while wholly encompassing the core elements of both musical forms.

Unfashionably, perhaps, in an era where music is often portrayed as ephemeral or disposable, this is an album that rewards repeated listening, revealing new depths with each play.

Two of the founding fathers of the UK Electronic Music (Ian Boddy & Mark Shreeve) scene recording together as ARC create a heady mix of retro style sequencing, quirky melodics and deep space ambience.

Combining elements of contemporary Ambient and Electronica with the influence of Holy Minimalist composers such as Part and Gorecki, over the last decade experimental cellist/violinist Marvin Ayres has created a unique and consistently strong body of work.

Ethereal strings, electronic treatments and meditative piano figures drift across Eccentric Deliquescence's haunted Soundscapes, producing another striking addition to Ayres's impressive catalogue.

"...like some of (Brian) Eno's best work, the atmospheres Ayres creates can comfortably blend into the sonic backdrop, they are also compelling pieces of music that can dominate and transport." All About Jazz

As well as compositional, vocal, and ghost-music input from Clodagh Simonds, you will also find, on this occasion, Laura Sheeran (tortured and semi-hysterical vocals) and Michael Begg (inscrutable audibles), as well as the ineffable and much-loved Fabrizio Palumbo Modonese, whose unsung intonations provide equal portions of chill and warmth. Strangely satisfying all round.

Many view Nemeton's "Remix 2", the last track on The DAC Mixes, as amongst the highlights of the album. "Remix 2" was picked as being the best of the four remixes submitted by Nemeton, but it was a close call as the band considered all of them excellent.

Rather than have these tracks languishing, unheard, on the Darkroom hard drive, the band decided to put these out as a free download and a subtle advertisement for the original 'The DAC Mixes' album itself (which featured mixes and contributions from Bass Communion, Tim Bowness, Theo Travis, Peter Chilvers and Centrozoon, amongst others).

A collection of unreleased Darkroom explorations recorded at the
Digital/Analogue Cambridge Festival, 2001, and subsequently put through the mixing mangle by the talented likes of Bass Communion, Rhinoceros, Theo Travis and Centrozoon.

Also contains Butterfly 2, featuring a vocal contribution from Tim Bowness.

Originally released in 1999, 'No Ordinary Man' is an ideal introduction to Theo Travis and Dave Sturt's Cipher project. Inventively fusing live flute, sax and bass with dark and hypnotic layers of looped instrumental textures, Cipher create a seductive and unique Ambient soundworld.

Mixed and co-produced by Porcupine Tree/No-Man multi-instrumentalist Steven Wilson, the album also features guest appearances by synth innovator Richard Barbieri and vocalist Rabbi Gaddy Zerbib.
"This is trance-out music of the highest order." Progression (USA)

Allure is the concluding part of Fovea Hex's remarkable trilogy of EP releases, Neither Speak Nor Remain Silent.

A unique, atmospheric, fusion of folk-derived melodies and electronica featuring contributions from Robert Fripp, Steven Wilson, Donal Lunny and Percy Jones, amongst others.

Cipher's third album Elemental Forces finds the core duo of Theo Travis and Dave Sturt working alongside versatile percussionist Steve Hubback.

Augmenting the band's trademark fusion of ingeniously looped compositional structures and highly melodic improvisations with a more pronounced Eastern meditative influence, Elemental Forces is an exquisite and accessible blend of accident and intention, intensity and beauty.

Echoing the powerful and ambitious 1970s solo piano suites by the likes of Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea, Peter Chilvers' 'Piano' represents a return to the influences and improvisations that marked Peter's introduction to music.

The album's highlights include 'Ghost Town Suite', a linked sequence of seven atmospherically downbeat pieces recorded in a single half hour session.

Elemental is Ian Boddy's new studio album. He has run the DiN label since 1999 and having worked with a diverse stable of musicians he has distilled their influences to startling effect in what is his most rhythmic, melodic and structured set of compostions for quite some time.

White House, Black Ash marks the 21st Century return of Pete Morgan's UXB project.

Pitched somewhere between the more evocative aspects of Moby and the brooding textures of Eno, this high quality CD-R comes with deluxe Carl Glover full-colour artwork.