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  • Jackie McLean – Vertigo
    Jackie McLean – Vertigo
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    *Japanese Import CD* “This 1980 recording released for the first time — “Formidable” from a 1959 session and five numbers from a 1963 McLean set. While [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Curzio Malaparte – Diary Of A Foreigner In Paris
    Curzio Malaparte – Diary Of A Foreigner In Paris
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    In 1947 Curzio Malaparte returned to Paris for the first time in fourteen years. In between, he had been condemned by Mussolini to five years in exile and, on release, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Plague Mother – Carrying Your Halo
    Plague Mother – Carrying Your Halo
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    For more than a decade Plague Mother has occupied a highly influential position in the noise underground. The artist boasts a unique sound that blends haunting ambiance with crushing walls […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Breaking The Will – Mortal Terrain Incendiary
    Breaking The Will – Mortal Terrain Incendiary
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    Human terrain systems. Operational art. Combat maneuver. Unrelenting harsh electronics exploding at a breakneck pace. The first Breaking The Will full-length since 2015’s “Choosing [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Richard Ramirez – Volume 2
    Richard Ramirez – Volume 2
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    New Forces is proud to present Richard Ramirez Volume 2, a 6-CD boxset compiling some of the best work by noise legend Richard Ramirez: Supply and Shutdown, Nature’s Afterbirth, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Form Hunter – Dread Harvest
    Form Hunter – Dread Harvest
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    Form Hunter returns with their first full-length album since 2021’s “Violent Adaptation” (Troniks / Helicopter). Dread Harvest refines their signature blend of in-the-red tape [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Commuter – No Longer Penitent
    Commuter – No Longer Penitent
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    “No Longer Penitent” is the new full-length from Commuter, a project from Portland’s Jackson Abdul-Salaam (Herukrat, Junta Cadre) that blends harsh noise and urban field [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Koufar – The Death Of Myself
    Koufar – The Death Of Myself
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    To celebrate the tenth anniversary of New Forces we are excited to reissue an album from the label’s first batch of releases. At the time, Koufar’s “The Death of Myself” [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Cryocene – Exclave
    Cryocene – Exclave
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    “Exclave” is the debut of NYC-based duo Cryocene, comprised of Stefan Aune (Kjostad) and Matt Boettke (Scant). Over the course of 5 tracks Cryocene weave together an ominous landscape [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Jerman* / Nordwall* – Topology
    Jerman* / Nordwall* – Topology
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    Jeph Jerman (Hands To) and Joachim Nordwall (Organ of Corti) present “Topology,” a stunning collaboration that brings out the best from both artists. Jerman’s trademark field [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Hunting Lodge – Harrington Ballroom – Exhumed & Reanimated
    Hunting Lodge – Harrington Ballroom – Exhumed & Reanimated
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    Industrial legends Hunting Lodge was founded in May of 1982 by Lon C. Diehl, Carla J. Nordstrom & Richard Skott Rusch. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the band’s inception […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Samuel Beckett – Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable
    Samuel Beckett – Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable
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    Few works of contemporary literature are so universally acclaimed as central to our understanding of the human experience as Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy. Molloy, the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • N.H Pritchard – The Mundus
    N.H Pritchard – The Mundus
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    N.H. Pritchard’s magnum opus, The Mundus is a work that is both visual and poetic, literary and mystical. It was composed between 1965 until at least July 1971: a six-year […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Alfred Kubin – The Other Side
    Alfred Kubin – The Other Side
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    called it, ‘a sort of Baedeker for those lands which are half known to us’. Written in 1908, and more or less half way between Meyrink and Kafka, it was […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Amy Ireland – Cute Accelerationism
    Amy Ireland – Cute Accelerationism
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    Involuntarily sucked into the forcefield of Cute, Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic decided to let go, give in, let the demon ride them, and make an accelerationism out of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Bloodiest Thing That Ever Happened in Front of a Camera: Conservative Politics, ‘Porno Chic’ and Snuff
    The Bloodiest Thing That Ever Happened in Front of a Camera: Conservative Politics, ‘Porno Chic’ and Snuff
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    In the early 1970s, outrageous claims were made of a new blood-spattered cinematic extreme. This was the legend of the ‘snuff movie’, which promoted the inhuman notion that a woman [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Louis Armand – The Garden (Director’s Cut)
    Louis Armand – The Garden (Director’s Cut)
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    In 1994, in the company of Italian anarchist & photographer “Dekaro,” the author travelled across Morocco & the disputed Western Sahara. The notebooks from that journey [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Kenji Siratori – Blood Electric
    Kenji Siratori – Blood Electric
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    2024 redux edition of the long out-of-print 2002 cyberpunk cult classic «A Finnegans Wake for the postdigital millennium, Kenji Siratori’s Blood Electric is probably the foundational text of the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Personal Best Issue 8
    Personal Best Issue 8
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    Finally here from Lasse Marhaug: Personal Best 8. My favorite zine around. Always a worldwide affair, a zine that felt familiar to me the first time I picked up a […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Ira Cohen – A Certain Kind of Wizard
    Ira Cohen – A Certain Kind of Wizard
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    Poet, photographer, filmmaker, publisher, and dauntless world traveler, Ira Cohen was a mythic figure of boundless energy who was a catalyst for creative scenes in New York, Tangier, Kathmandu, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Gabriel de Foigny – The Known Southern Land
    Gabriel de Foigny – The Known Southern Land
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    In 1676, a century before the British colonized Australia, a defrocked French monk named Gabriel de Foigny published a novel imagining what the land was like. The work is told […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Michael Salu – Red Earth
    Michael Salu – Red Earth
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    Conversing with Dante, Yoruba metaphysics and probabilistic computation, Red Earth is an expansive text and the source material for Michael Salu’s broader interdisciplinary artistic study, where [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rédoine Faïd – Outlaw
    Rédoine Faïd – Outlaw
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    Memoirs of celebrated criminals purvey vivid personal stories while spawning sharp questions about the cultures that produced them. In Outlaw: Author Armed & Dangerous, Rédoine Faïd, of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Cookie Mueller – Fan Mail, Frank Letters and Crank Calls
    Cookie Mueller – Fan Mail, Frank Letters and Crank Calls
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    Following the publication of Cookie Mueller’s Garden of Ashes in our first series, we are thrilled to reissue her first contribution to the Hanuman canon: Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Raymond Pettibon – The Frontier Index
    Raymond Pettibon – The Frontier Index
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    Guiding readers across the desiccated landscape of twenty-first century America in The Frontier Index is the cult duo of Raymond Pettibon and Mike Topp, two of contemporary art and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sarah Falkner – Animal Sanctuary
    Sarah Falkner – Animal Sanctuary
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    Booklist review: In a stealthily affecting reportorial voice, debut novelist Falkner tells the story of tepidly successful 1960s movie actress Kitty Dawson via interviews, critiques, press [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jake Reber – ZER000 Excess
    Jake Reber – ZER000 Excess
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    ZER000 EXCESS is a work of ambient body horror. Depicting the birth and growth of strange organisms–creatures spawned from the maw of the text. Watch as they fester in the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Joanna Walsh – Autobiology
    Joanna Walsh – Autobiology
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    “The Labour of Reading is at the heart of AUTOBIOLOGY. Readership as authorship, authorship as readership – and all of it consequently as thinkership. Questions on ‘work’ and ‘value’ abound. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Grant Maierhofer – Works
    Grant Maierhofer – Works
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    Works is a collection, but also something new: it is a conversation between Maierhofer’s early and contemporary writings that shares its title with Édouard Levé’s masterful experimental Works. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Louse – Passions Like Tar
    Louse – Passions Like Tar
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    “Like some mutated phantom lurking in the shadows, Cincinnati based new-wave punks Louse emerge into light with their debut LP Passions Like Tar- a heady and sullen collection of post-punk [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Disintegration – Shiver In A Weak Light
    Disintegration – Shiver In A Weak Light
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    The first full-length release from Cleveland’s Disintegration brings their intricate circuitry of nocturnal synthwave and noise-saturated post-punk to a new plateau. Sharper, leaner, and more [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Corker – Hallways Of Grey (Clear / Smoke Vinyl)
    Corker – Hallways Of Grey (Clear / Smoke Vinyl)
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    CLEAR VINYL “Fragments of the past intersect with a dynamic sonic vision on Hallways of Grey, the second full length from Corker. Expanding upon the dense, rhythmic post-punk of their […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Drin – Elude The Torch
    The Drin – Elude The Torch
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    The Drin forge further into their own captivating world of sound on their fourth album, ‘Elude the Torch’. Since 2021, the Cincinnati group has released one strikingly original album [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Drin – Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom
    The Drin – Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom
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    Way out there. From up in the attic, in the village of Cincinnati – the third album from the Drin has arrived to commence 2023. Cold rhythms reverberate through the […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Dave Vettraino – A Bird Shaped Shadow
    Dave Vettraino – A Bird Shaped Shadow
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    Regardless of whether Dave Vettraino’s name rings a bell, there’s a solid chance he’s pulled strings behind a record you love. The Chicago-based audio engineer and multi-instrumentalist has spent [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra – Live At The Adler Planetarium
    Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra – Live At The Adler Planetarium
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    CD The Exploding Star Orchestra is Rob Mazurek’s vehicle for blowing minds and reshaping worlds. For more than a decade and a half, the multi-instrumentalist has guided the variably configured [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Tomin – A Willed And Conscious Balance
    Tomin – A Willed And Conscious Balance
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    CD Tomin’s debut full-length work, A Willed and Conscious Balance, answers a set of questions left unasked in recent years, as a new generation of artists re-energizes the tradition often […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Tomin – Flores Para Verene / Cantos Para Caramina
    Tomin – Flores Para Verene / Cantos Para Caramina
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    Black Vinyl 27-year-old Tomin Perea-Chamblee is a brass- and reed-centered multi-instrumentalist, the composer and arranger of pieces with excellently thorny harmonies, an at-times reluctant [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ben Hall – Windbag
    Ben Hall – Windbag
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    A half hour channeling session invoked by human breath. Lungs push forth force and conjure temporary and overlapping tones to trance out to. Let these sounds set your ears afloat […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Thom Nguyen – Imago Ossuary
    Thom Nguyen – Imago Ossuary
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    Known to many as the percussive presence in groups like Nest Egg, MANAS, Wasting and We Bow to No Masters, Asheville’s Thom Nguyen moves in to dronier, driftier worlds with […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Eternal Husk – Commune III
    Eternal Husk – Commune III
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    Further tonal ruminations and aural questions asked from deep within. An outsider music grab bag jam selection, nay, transmission from deep within the Circle City. Another sonic commune (the [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Solid Squares – KS I & II
    Solid Squares – KS I & II
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    Local composer / saxophonist / drummer / improvisor Tom Lageveen drops in two heavenly compositions for piano, under his Solid Squares moniker. With a little help from his friends, KS […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Mark & Landon – Vol. 1
    Mark & Landon – Vol. 1
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    Sounds from the basement underneath the dance floor. Dusty programmed beats bussed out and live mixed amongst a hazy tapestry of keys and electric strings. Midwestern crunch through a [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Soft Places – Memory Does Not Pass
    Soft Places – Memory Does Not Pass
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    Memory Does Not Pass is a collection of studies in dissolving rhythm & voice set against environment, time, & connection to those who have come before and the echoes of […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Recurrence
    Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Recurrence
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    The Iceland Symphony Orchestra is widely praised for its performances and recordings and concerts devoted to modern music. Since 2011, the orchestra’s home has been Harpa Concert Hall in [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Atmospheriques, Vol.1
    Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Atmospheriques, Vol.1
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    At the risk of getting doxxed by my musician colleagues, I’m going to divulge a dark truth about classical music: it’s never as captivating or molecule-altering for anyone as it […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Bára Gísladóttir – SILVA
    Bára Gísladóttir – SILVA
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    SILVA is a work for processed double bass built on the idea of a downward growing forest, living its own secret life of underground raves and meditative cohesiveness. I like […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Kristín Anna* – I Must Be The Devil
    Kristín Anna* – I Must Be The Devil
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    Kristin Anna (Múm) and Kjartan Sveinsson (Sigur Ros) have created one of the most painfully beautiful albums I’ve heard in years. Kristin’s voice is as gorgeous as it is unique […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gyða Valtýsdóttir – Epicycle II
    Gyða Valtýsdóttir – Epicycle II
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    Icelandic cellist, singer, and composer Gyda Valtysdottir, a founder of the band múm and 2019 winner of the prestigious Nordic Council Music Prize, releases Epicycle II on her label DiaMond in [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Kjartan Sveinsson – Der Klang Der Offenbarung Des Göttlichen
    Kjartan Sveinsson – Der Klang Der Offenbarung Des Göttlichen
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    Der Klang der Offenbarung des Göttlichen is an opera in four acts conceived by Kjartan Sveinsson and artist Ragnar Kjartansson, which was commissioned by and originally performed in Volksbühne am [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic