This is an album by Sister Eileen O'Connor, produced by a Catholic broadcaster and released by Philips in Australia in 1973 and by a Roman Catholic label in Ohio, USA in 1976. It was a two-person production with Sister Marimir Lobregat. The charm of Eileen O'Connor's singing, LO-FI drum machine, electric organ, guitar and the acoustics of the rever ...Read more (Original Japanese text by Saito)b feeling, and mix work. Exquisite, with musical surprises throughout, spiritual, and the more sincere, the more charming and funny. Several bootlegs have existed, but this is an authorized reissue, restored and remastered from the best surviving sources by GRAMMY-nominated engineer Jessica Thompson, who is known for her restoration work. This lovingly reissued work comes with detailed liner notes and an 18-page lyrics booklet. This is the kind of music that soothes people's hearts and brings world peace. It's a crazy world, but also imagine the madness of a world filled with "Love Lights" turned into weapons. I love the artwork too. (Original Japanese text by Saito)

The music on Horse Lords’ Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! is incredibly intricate, yet at the same time possesses a deeply human warmth. The 12 tracks are intricately interwoven in multiple layers, unfolding with complexity in both timbre and rhythm. Moiré-like interactions and repetitive patterns engage both the mind and the body, creating a l ...Read moreabyrinth of countless sounds while maintaining an irresistible groove.
A groundbreaking work that further expands the band’s unique musical language cultivated over many years, Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! aims to transport listeners into a spiritual, ecstatic, and utopian sonic space. (From the press release)

Discovery Zone, the project by JJ Weihl—a singer and member of Fenster, which released music on labels such as Morr Music, and one of the founders of Videokills, a video art and multimedia artist collective—makes its debut on RVNG INTL. with the release of their second album. The first-press limited edition includes an inner sleeve printed with the album’s lyrics. (Original Japanese text by Saito)

JJ Weihl is a member of the experimental pop band Fenster, which releases music on 〈Morr Music〉; she is also a singer and the director of the video art collective VIDEOKILLS. Originally from New York and now based in Berlin, this is her second release under the name Discovery Zone on 〈RVNG Intl.〉. Originally conceived for an ambisonic environment f ...Read moreeaturing 49 speakers, the tracks have been remixed in collaboration with longtime collaborator E/T, taking on a new form as a stereo release while retaining their three-dimensional depth. Inspired by the ideas of science writer James Gleick, astronomer Kepler, and author Borges, this is a form of romantic electronic science that weaves nature, consciousness, information, and mythology together into a single grand cycle. It crosses the boundaries between humans and technology, reality and simulation, through sounds that transform the Big Bang into a digital creation myth, an infinitely proliferating library, an ocean of looping data, and landscapes where natural and electronic sounds blend together. Starting with the lead track “Dusk,” where smooth synths and vocals interplay, this is cyber music that—while rooted in a grand concept—is never obscure; it is pop, nostalgic, and evokes a New Age sensibility.

Tristan Allen is a Brooklyn-based, one-of-a-kind artist who is both a composer trained at Berklee College of Music and a professional puppeteer. In this work, Osni the Flare, he depicts a creation myth in four acts in which the protagonist, Osni—who lives in a garden—discovers a smoldering ember and eventually transforms into the god of fire. By tr ...Read moreanslating the puppet theater’s philosophy of “telling the truth through lies” into music, he constructs a unique world where narrative and sound become one. Recorded primarily at his home in Brooklyn, the album features a wide array of instruments, including piano, harmonium, pump organ, toy piano, ocarina, music box, and bells. Layers of sound—drawn from wordless vocals, field recordings, and improvisation—are delicately stacked to create a soundscape that feels both fantastical and real. The innocent charm of a fairy tale and the meticulous structure characteristic of experimental music coexist seamlessly, and the contours of this world become increasingly clear the more you listen. This album is the astonishingly polished realization of Allen’s vision: music that sounds as though the fantasy world itself is playing, rather than being performed by a human.

The 14 songs on the album shimmer, swell, and sparkle against the backdrop of a faintly glowing night, a cavernous space shaped by sounds that are a rare and surrealistic representation of the natural world. The arrangements are at once grandiose and ephemeral, a reversal and a culmination of their previous work, an adventurous experiment unrivaled ...Read more by any of their previous works."

Visible Cloaks is the project of Spencer Doran, one of the first to introduce Japanese environmental music to the world, and Ryan Carlile, a synthesizer player who worked with Eternal Tapestry and others. Visible Cloaks has been bringing a unique new flow to ambient, new age and IDM since the 2017 release of their album masterpiece "Reassemblage", and since 2019's "Serenitatem" with Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano The long-awaited new album, which will be released in 2019 with Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano. The album is a combination of digital and field recordings, with a transparent sound and a deepened sound. Please check it out! (from the comments on the LP)

Emily Sprague is a female musician who has earned a reputation as one of the most outstanding talents among recent ambient artists, with RVNG INTL. licensing her self-produced works for worldwide release.
RVNG INTL. has released a new album based on recordings made during her stay in Japan, where she performed throughout the country with Cool Maritime as part of the “Each Story 2024” tour. (Original Japanese text by Saito)

Born in Pereira, Colombia, Lucrecia Dalt grew up in a household of music lovers and was encouraged to pick up the guitar at age nine. Following that creative impulse, she became fascinated with computer-based production and abandoned a fast-rising career as a civil engineer, moving from Medellín to Barcelona and ultimately to Berlin, where she deve ...Read moreloped her singular, adventurous sound. Since joining RVNG she has released three works—Anticlines (2018), No era sólida (2020), and the remarkable, groundbreaking sci-fi bolero album ¡Ay! (2022)—while along the way expanding into film scoring with On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024), the HBO series The Baby (2022), and the forthcoming psychological horror Rabbit Trap, as well as sound installations and performances that showcase her luminous modulations and distinctive, evolving vocal approach.

A Danger to Ourselves grew out of fragmentary declarations Dalt jotted down while living on the road touring ¡Ay! and during the formative period of a new relationship. In January 2024 she began crystallizing these intimate fragments into musical structures, gradually shaping a body of purposeful songs. The album's sonic architecture is built on dynamic drum loops supplied by collaborator Alex Lázaro, whose percussive backbone became—as on ¡Ay!—the canvas for Dalt's layered vocals. Rather than following conventional melodic structures, the album generates its musicality through the interplay of bass lines, rhythm, and compositional design. Bold production choices and meticulous recording techniques reveal Dalt's uncompromising pursuit of sonic clarity, where voice and instruments align with new depth and radiance.

Distinctly anti-conceptual, A Danger to Ourselves is a poetic instinct guiding Dalt toward unobstructed focus on the music itself, exploring vocals that transcend the frame of the songs and the shimmering resonance of primal, romantic thrills. Dalt's lucid attention to detail is felt in every bar, her devotion tracing concentric circles that form a space where the personal and the spiritual merge. Born of intuitive experimentation, the album weaves wandering lines using simple gestures and intricate structures—like

Horse Lords, who have released numerous works on labels such as NNA TAPES and Northern Spy, are releasing a new album on RVNG INTL. Incorporating just intonation—a tuning system favored by American experimental musicians La Monte Young and James Tenney—along with African polyrhythms, modular synths, and traditional Appalachian music. While incorpor ...Read more (Original Japanese text by Saito)ating minimalism and experimental elements, their music also features the punk-like energy and physical dynamism of NO NEW YORK and Krautrock, along with a playful spirit—resulting in music that truly gets your blood pumping. A must-listen for GOAT fans as well. (Original Japanese text by Saito)

Having debuted with music written for contemporary ballet before signing to RVNG INTL., Sign Libra returns with her first new album since 2020's "Sea To Sea." (Original Japanese text by Saito)

70年代後半から80年代半ばにかけて、アンダーグランドミュージックのハブになっていたワシントン州、オリンピアから産まれた音源。81年から84年にかけてリリースされた音源をFREEDOM TO SPENDがコンパイル。民族音楽、サティのミニマリズム、ライヒ、ローリー・アンダーソンの先鋭音楽、YOUNG MARBLE GIANTSなどのポストパンク的な感触も伺えるような魅惑のサウンド。推薦盤。 (サイトウ)

2021年の「Under~Between」、2015年「Advanced Myth」の再リリースを行ってきた〈Rvng Intl.〉からニューアルバム「Atlas of Green」。「失われた信号と永続する衝動がテクノロジーと時間の堆積物から発掘される、未来の夜明けの時代に活動するグリーンという名の若いミュージシャン」にまつわる物語で、アーシュラ・K・ル・グウィンやジーン・ウルフのようなファンタジー小説にインスピレーションを得ているとのこと。電子音と、アコースティックな要素も感じさせ、ミニマリズムやダンスなエッセンス、熱量のあるエレクトロニック・ミュージックドリーム・ポップを産み出しています。Stephan Mathieuマスタリング。 (サイトウ)

「アパラチアやアフリカの伝統音楽、ポリリズム、ラ・モンテ・ヤングらが使用した純正律の音階を取り入れた」という謳い文句で登場し、変拍子、マスロック、ポストパンク、サイケデリック、アメリカの実験的な音楽シーンを凝縮したようなバルチモアのバンドHorse Lords。躍動感も感じ取れる。 (サイトウ)

幼少期に聴いて育ったコロンビアの音楽、フォルクローレ、地盤工学の技師で積年、積み重ね封じ込まれた地質学の位相幾何学的な研究も音楽に反映しているというルクレシア・ダルトのニューアルバム。これまでどちらかというと、楽器と同等に使用してきた声楽から、より歌へのアプローチがされていて、伝統的な楽器を含む、生楽器のミュージシャンも参加。サルサで使用されるトゥンバオや、ボレロのリズムパターンをスローダウンさせて取り入れ、新たなフォームを模索しています。あからさまなクレイジーさは薄れ、ゆったりりと驚きの世界、歌、フォルクローレ、神話性、音の物語の世界観。演劇性高く、これまで同様深み、サイケデリックな感覚、素晴らしい世界を展開しています。是非。 (サイトウ)

ドリームポップ、淡いがじっくりとイマジナリーな世界が広がっている。素晴らしい音楽。
「イシク・クラルの『in february』は、過ぎ去る時間と戻ってくる時間の中にある日常の詩を、まるで人生の時間性を表すスナップショットのように記録しています。このアルバムの12曲は、それぞれ偶然のループから構成され、イシクの印象的な声とメロディープレーの柔らかいいれものに収めらる、時間が、願うなら、ありえないほど、永遠に保たれる場所。日時計の蝶がシーンを分けていく様子を追ってみてください。」 (サイトウ)

KA BAIRD — founder of Madison's experimental psychedelic ensemble SPIRES THAT IN THE SUNSET RISE and a leading talent of the NY avant-garde scene who has also released solo work on labels like 〈DRAG CITY〉 — launches a long-awaited new record! Rhythmic electronics are meticulously arranged alongside seemingly improvised vocal performances, noise and ...Read more (Original Japanese text by Akie) woodwinds, with musique concrète techniques thrown into the mix. Avant-electronic music that absorbs everything from concrete sound to operatic elements. (Original Japanese text by Akie)

A composer/performer who works with sound, live electronic processing, sampled sounds, and video; also a media artist. Pamela Z. Remastered by Freedom To Spend—run by Pete Swanson under the RVNG ONTL. label—and released for the first time on vinyl. (Original Japanese text by Saito)

日本の環境音楽の世界的な再評価にも影響を与えたるなど、近年のニュートーンでもキーワードになってきた音楽家Visible Cloaksのスペンサー・ドーランが手掛けたサウンドトラックです。彼の拠点ポートランドは、自転車のカルチャーの根づく街として知られますが、このゲームも自転車に乗っていろんな場所を訪れ、文章、写真、音などを日記に記録していくと言うスタイルで展開していくそうです。終焉を迎える世界「ゲームプレイの中心となるのは、探検、記録、出会い、そして奇妙な世界に広がる謎の解明。サウンドや音楽、芸術や建築物、大事な一瞬を生きる人々の物語... 記録用ツールは様々なレイヤーを捉える。ツールでレイヤーを剥ぎ取っていくにつれ、隠された文化、歴史、生態系が明らかになっていく。」ゲーム中でも音楽は重要な役割を果たしているそうです。音聴いているだけで、その世界観に触れてみたくなりますね。 (サイトウ)

Steve GunnのギターDavid MooreのPiano、共にメインを取り、それぞれが旋回しながら、調和をみせる。素晴らしい音楽。RVNG INTL.良いリリースが続きます。是非じっくりどうぞ。 (サイトウ)