From Detroit's techno resistance to Berlin's elastic minimalism, Lusaka's ancestral futurism to Chicago's house communion, When There Is No Sun is a recording project, uniting visionary electronic music producers to reimagine the universe of Sun Ra. One of the most radical musical pioneers of the 20th century, Sun Ra used jazz, electronics, poetry, and performance to expand the possibilities of sound, identity, and imagination. Commissioned by Omni Sound and curated by Ricardo Villalobos, the series brings together Underground Resistance, Chez Damier & Ben Vedren, Calibre, A Guy Called Gerald, She Spells Doom, Baris K, and Ricardo Villalobos himself. Drawing from Omni Sound's recordings of Living Sky by the Sun Ra Arkestra and My Words Are Music of Sun Ra's poetry, the producers pull fragments of sound and text into their own creative orbits, passing through the portal that Sun Ra opened into a realm where the impossible is possible. Saul Williams, Tunde Adebimpe, Mahogany L. Browne, Abiodun Oyewole, Anthony Joseph and Tara Middleton are the featured voices that turn rhyme into rhythm and revelation into resistance. Rooted in deep reverence for Sun Ra's legacy, yet reaching forward as a living, generative force, When There Is No Sun is not a tribute but a continuum, balancing the pulse of electronic music with the spirit of experimentation, embodying Sun Ra's promise that 'there are other worlds' if you are willing to see them.
Tracklist:
Underground Resistance - When Angels Speak Featuring Saul Williams
She Spells Doom - Portrait of the Living Sky Featuring Sun Ra Arkestra (She Spells Doom Remix)
Chez Damier ; Ben Vedren- the Three Dimensions of Air Featuring Anthony Joseph (H2H Kora Mix)
A Guy Called Gerald - Message to Black Youth Featuring Mahogany L. Browne (Gerald Rework)
Ricardo Villalobos - I Have Forgotten Featuring Tara Middleton (Ricardo Villalobos Earlier Than Late Remix 1)
Calibre - Chopin Featuring Sun Ra Arkestra (Calibre Ambient Remix)
UPC: 634457244320Label: Omni SoundRelease Date: 3.27.26Format: Vinyl
From Detroit's techno resistance to Berlin's elastic minimalism, Lusaka's ancestral futurism to Chicago's house communion, When There Is No Sun is a recording project, uniting visionary electronic music producers to reimagine the universe of Sun Ra. One of the most radical musical pioneers of the 20th century, Sun Ra used jazz, electronics, poetry, and performance to expand the possibilities of sound, identity, and imagination. Commissioned by Omni Sound and curated by Ricardo Villalobos, the series brings together Underground Resistance, Chez Damier & Ben Vedren, Calibre, A Guy Called Gerald, She Spells Doom, Baris K, and Ricardo Villalobos himself. Drawing from Omni Sound's recordings of Living Sky by the Sun Ra Arkestra and My Words Are Music of Sun Ra's poetry, the producers pull fragments of sound and text into their own creative orbits, passing through the portal that Sun Ra opened into a realm where the impossible is possible. Saul Williams, Tunde Adebimpe, Mahogany L. Browne, Abiodun Oyewole, Anthony Joseph and Tara Middleton are the featured voices that turn rhyme into rhythm and revelation into resistance. Rooted in deep reverence for Sun Ra's legacy, yet reaching forward as a living, generative force, When There Is No Sun is not a tribute but a continuum, balancing the pulse of electronic music with the spirit of experimentation, embodying Sun Ra's promise that 'there are other worlds' if you are willing to see them.
Tracklist:
Calibre - Chopin Featuring Sun Ra Arkestra (Calibre Remix)
Chez Damier ; Ben Vedren - the Endless Realm Featuring Tunde Adebimpe (H2H Mix)
She Spells Doom - Somebody Else's Idea Featuring Sun Ra Arkestra (She Spells Doom Remix)
UPC: 634457244306Label: Omni SoundRelease Date: 3.27.26Format: Vinyl
XKatedral Anthology Series III is the third installment in a series of archival releases dedicated to presenting music by composers working within the realm of slowly evolving harmonic and timbral music. This double-vinyl set is issued in celebration of the label's decennalia and contains works from 2014 - 2025 by Kali Malone, Maria W Horn, David Granström, Jessica Ekomane, Stephen O'Malley, Mats Erlandsson, Theodor Kentros and Daniel M Karlsson. The pieces presented here focus on the use of synthetic and acoustic sound as well as algorithmic composition as tools for precise work within the realm of spectral exploration. XKatedral Anthology Series III is released in conjunction with reissues of XKatedral Anthology Series I-II.XKatedral is a record label focused on presenting music by composers primarily working with slowly evolving harmonic and timbral music achieved by electronic and acoustic means.Founded in 2015 by artists Kali Malone and Maria W Horn, XKatedral began as a small tape label and concert series focused on contemporary minimalism and drone music by themselves and their peers. The early releases of works by Horn, Malone and Ellen Arkbro, Caterina Barbieri, Mats Erlandsson and David Granström among others, quickly gained an international cult following, leading the label to grow into a broader production platform.Today XKatedral is co-managed by Mats Erlandsson, Daniel M Karlsson, Theodor Kentros, Sara Fors, and Stephen O'Malley, who collaborate on recording sessions, mixing and mastering, and bespoke artwork for the label's releases and events.Now entering it's second decade in existence, XKatedral stays committed to it's mission of presenting spectral monoliths and subtle figurations slowly moving through the realm of tuning, timbre and time.
Tracklist:
My Falling Sinks
Empyrean Flare
Tesselation
To Whoever Shall Inherit the Earth
Smoking Mother
Att Böja Själarna
This Will Be My Last Piece for Organ
Fault Lines
UPC: 647581409114Label: Ideologic OrganRelease Date: 4.24.26Format: Vinyl
Alex Zhang Hungtai stands in stillness on 'Dras', but it's the kind of stillness that contains entire ranges of possibility. Recorded in 2019 inside Montreal's Saint Joseph Oratory (right before a piano demolition, no less), these nine pieces sat dormant on his hard drive through pandemic years until something finally clicked. What emerges now feels like watching someone trace the contours of their own interior landscape, each melodic line a careful negotiation with the unconscious. This is only a saxophone record in the barest sense.The terrain here is tactile and unforgiving. On the title track, difficult melodies get torn apart and molded into emotive drones, dissonance interlocking where tones cut paths through the senses with metallic sheen. "El Khela" refracts into spectral layers that pull with eternal gravity, while "Estado" finds solace inside it's own haze, rhythms barely audible but guiding forward with their cadence smeared against grey walls. These are small moments that become cathartic sonic breaths, each one revealing new passages through psychic geography.There's beauty encased in the subtle repetitions of opener "Erg," and in the glowing progressions of "White Dwarf." Zhang's saxophone becomes a dowsing rod for the uncharted, with electricity running through the album's veins while his breath anchors everything to something wordlessly human. The digital manipulation applied to those church recordings doesn't obscure that human element of 'Dras'. It transforms the raw material into something that navigates between external space and internal landscape.By the time closer "Mazil" arrives, Alex Zhang Hungtai let's his saxophone speak it's full resonance. Low, guttural expressions open up like chasms beneath melodic constellations floating in thick gravity. There's a finality here even though something in these passages feels weightless. This is music permeated with inner dialogue, a wordless spell dancing above the psychic abyss. Tonal sequences disintegrate into narcotized sonics, a sharp elegant edge that cuts without drawing blood. This lonely work of exploration becomes something communal. 'Dras' is a map for traversing the space between where we are and where we might go.
Tracklist:
Erg
Dras
El Khela
Xilitla
Estado
Rub' Al Khali
Pulque
White Dwarf
Mazil
UPC: 788362411879Label: Shelter PressRelease Date: 4.24.26Format: Vinyl
