Listening to this epic, moving, mystifying, beautiful, magic thing #CDFriday

I'm thrilled to announce this exciting new project added to the upcoming Erst queue, which will be recorded by Taku Unami: Shoko Numao/Wakana Ikeda (Erstwhile 112)

Erstwhile 2025.

If you were looking for a 23,000 word deep dive on Keith Rowe's Erstwhile discography, it's here. Absolutely terrific

exceedingly happy to announce this new addition to the forthcoming queue, two longtime powerhouses who will be working together for the first time. Kevin Drumm/Taku Unami (Erstwhile 113)

thrilled to announce possibly the final Erstwhile release for 2025, a spectacular year for the label IMO. this one is an epic achievement, 3 1/2 hours of two brilliant sound creators alone in a room, very happy to share this with the world. Yan Jun/Taku Unami - Old Tales Retold (Erstwhile 105-3)

working with Keith Rowe so extensively and deeply on Erstwhile is the professional achievement I’m most proud of in my life, we put out 24 releases containing 39 CDs from 2000-2021. the great Marc Medwin has written about all 24 in a newly posted epic piece on ‘surround’, please check it out.

excited to announce this beauty is newly arrived and shipping!! Arek Gulbenkoglu/Matthew Revert - Independent Television (Erstwhile 104) erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/indepe...

Taku Unami on Erstwhile, 2018-2025, interlocking trilogies.

it's taku tuesday everyone listen to your favorite taku unami classic

two full listens and one ⅔ listen later: AOTY

1. wovenland 2 (2020) 2. wovenland 3 (2024) 3. ae_2022 – (2024) 4. the intellect given birth to here (eternity) is too young (2022) 5. east pakistan sky (2021) 6. sovt (2025) 7. gwneud a gwneud eto (2021) 8. 無常 (2022) 9. the reinvention of romance (2020) 10. earthing (2020)

very excited to reveal the front cover of the imminent triple CD from Yan Jun/Taku Unami, recorded this week and out soon.

Yan Jun and Taku Unami are recording this week in Beijing, we hope to have the results up for preorder very quickly.

Marja Ahti & Manja Ristić balance a rich soundworld atop a highwire, delicately distributing the motion so that it never tips, operating in a crystal clear air that hides nothing while also conveying the full weight of emptiness, honoring the majesty of the moves that carve into it with substance.

thrilled to announce that this exciting new project is now available for preorder, CDs shipping next month. the era of Independent Television has arrived! Arek Gulbenkoglu/Matthew Revert - Independent Television (Erstwhile 104) erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/indepe...

into year 27 of Erstwhile, I still love the feeling of releasing newly arrived titles into the wild. these two just arrived, looking and sounding gorgeous, both shipping now. Éric La Casa/Jérôme Noetinger - Off Tracks (Erstwhile 101) Marja Ahti/Manja Ristić- Transference (Erstwhile 103)

Marking the one year anniversary of Dean Roberts’ passing, here’s his last recorded album on @erstwhile.bsky.social - an excellent album that was lost in the shuffle of COVID beginning to disrupt our lives erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/not-fire

major new release from this brilliant composer/interpreter/producer team, check it out!!!

coming to your living room soon, for now here is the front cover: Arek Gulbenkoglu/Matthew Revert - Independent Television (Erstwhile 104)

Marja Ahti / Manja Ristić new album on @erstwhile.bsky.social 💙

Duo album with @manjaristic.bsky.social coming up on @erstwhile.bsky.social August 8th. Hope you enjoy! erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/transf...

excited to announce that this thrilling new collaboration is now available for preorder, CDs shipping next month: Marja Ahti/Manja Ristić - Transference (Erstwhile 103) erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/transf...

happy to announce that this exciting new project is now available for preorder, CDs shipping next month: Éric La Casa / Jérôme Noetinger - Off Tracks (Erstwhile 101) erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/off-tr...

Wovenland thread…

SHM II in the midyear Quietus list, nice to see.

coming in 2026, as announced in the superb Wire profile linked below. let us all rejoice: Vanessa Rossetto - The Professional (ErstSolo 011-2)

buy stuff from Kevin, everyone wins!!!

very happy to announce that we have a title and a final front cover for this project, coming soon: Marja Ahti/Manja Ristić - Transference (Erstwhile 103)

very happy to announce that we have a final front cover for this project, coming soon: Eric La Casa/Jérôme Noetinger - Off Tracks (Erstwhile 101)

Now playing: Vanessa Rossetto - Pictures of the Warm South CD (2025, Erstwhile). Collage/found sound at a disorienting peak. Superb stuff from @erstwhile.bsky.social and @vanessarossetto.bsky.social

Manja Ristić and Marja Ahti working on their upcoming Erst together today in Croatia. photo by Mark Vernon

RIP Yasunao Tone.

Friday. Nmperign. Lauren Pakradooni / Bill Nace. The Rotunda. Philadelphia. 8pm.

Now Playing: Kevin Drumm, "Sheer Hellish Miasma II" (Erstwhile, 2025) 2CD kevindrumm.bandcamp.com www.discogs.com/release/3356...

2. Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma II LOUD. On the surface, this album feels very monochrome, an incessant blast of earsplitting noise. But listen closer and it reveals all sorts of variations and subtle happenings, so many dapplings of the field. So much to attend to...

it's Bandcamp Friday again, as every music fan presumably already knows. also we just started a sale on all of our labels, 20 percent off, coupon code "2025". full details at the link below, happy to send Bandcamp DL codes for direct orders! www.erstwhilerecords.com/news/april-3...

London people! go see the London debut of both Vanessa and Matt tonight and thank me later!

I don't see anything that I want. I DON'T SEE ANYTHING THAT I WANT. RIP to the great David Thomas.

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A huge thanks to @erstwhile.bsky.social for his help in making this interview happen, and of course, for releasing Sheer Hellish Miasma II (there’s also a bunch of other great Kevin Drumm releases available through the label) erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/sheer-...

my longest "yeah girl" yet

Keith Rowe— The Room Extended: The first thing I've heard from Rowe that is an equal of Φ, his collaboration with Radu Malfatti, and the kind of EAI that takes your breath away. There are sounds here you've never heard before, and they will break your heart. Four Impeccable hours.

great Kevin Drumm piece in today's Quietus: "By Sheer Hellish Miasma II’s end, you find yourself listening differently to whatever surroundings take up the hole left by Drumm’s music." thequietus.com/interviews/s...

There will be a nmperign show in Philadelphia next month

For Japan: recent new Erstwhile and Elsewhere CDs are now in stock at Art Into Life! www.art-into-life.com/phone/produc... www.art-into-life.com/phone/produc...

I'm really happy to announce this brand new project added to the upcoming Erst queue, very excited to hear what these two come up with!! Vanessa Rossetto / Lucy Liyou (Erstwhile 114)

thanks to Marc Masters for his kind words about SHM II on Bandcamp's best of March experimental list! daily.bandcamp.com/best-experim...

what exactly has to happen before you people will stop using spotify?