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Erstwhile 2025.
October 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Erstwhile 2025.
Reposted by Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records
If you were looking for a 23,000 word deep dive on Keith Rowe's Erstwhile discography, it's here. Absolutely terrific
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.
the great Marc Medwin has written about all 24 in a newly posted epic piece on ‘surround’, please check it out.
An ErstRowe Fantasia by Marc Medwin
October 2025
www.surround-journal.net
October 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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)
Kevin Drumm/Taku Unami (Erstwhile 113)
October 20, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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)
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)
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)
October 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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)
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.
the great Marc Medwin has written about all 24 in a newly posted epic piece on ‘surround’, please check it out.
An ErstRowe Fantasia by Marc Medwin
October 2025
www.surround-journal.net
October 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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.
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...
Arek Gulbenkoglu/Matthew Revert - Independent Television (Erstwhile 104)
erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/indepe...
September 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
excited to announce this beauty is newly arrived and shipping!!
Arek Gulbenkoglu/Matthew Revert - Independent Television (Erstwhile 104)
erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/indepe...
Arek Gulbenkoglu/Matthew Revert - Independent Television (Erstwhile 104)
erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/indepe...
Taku Unami on Erstwhile, 2018-2025, interlocking trilogies.
September 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Taku Unami on Erstwhile, 2018-2025, interlocking trilogies.
Reposted by Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records
it's taku tuesday everyone listen to your favorite taku unami classic
September 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
it's taku tuesday everyone listen to your favorite taku unami classic
Reposted by Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records
two full listens and one ⅔ listen later: AOTY
September 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
two full listens and one ⅔ listen later: AOTY
Reposted by Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records
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)
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)
What are everyone's favorite favorite albums from the last few years?
Like on par with renaissance, brat, in waves…esp ones that are maybe more under the radar but really fun and relistenable and all around great!
*same tone as "I'm putting together a team"* I'm putting together a playlist
Like on par with renaissance, brat, in waves…esp ones that are maybe more under the radar but really fun and relistenable and all around great!
*same tone as "I'm putting together a team"* I'm putting together a playlist
August 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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)
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.
August 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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.
August 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Yan Jun and Taku Unami are recording this week in Beijing, we hope to have the results up for preorder very quickly.
Reposted by Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records
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.
Transference, by Marja Ahti/Manja Ristić
5 track album
erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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...
the era of Independent Television has arrived!
Arek Gulbenkoglu/Matthew Revert - Independent Television (Erstwhile 104)
erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/indepe...
August 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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...
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)
Éric La Casa/Jérôme Noetinger - Off Tracks (Erstwhile 101)
Marja Ahti/Manja Ristić- Transference (Erstwhile 103)
August 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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)
Éric La Casa/Jérôme Noetinger - Off Tracks (Erstwhile 101)
Marja Ahti/Manja Ristić- Transference (Erstwhile 103)
Reposted by Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records
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
Not Fire, by Dean Roberts
9 track album
erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com
August 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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!!!
Jürg Frey - Composer, alone (Reinier van Houdt) (elsewhere 030-3) is now available on Bandcamp. We accept CD preorders (CD release: September 20, 2025)
elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com/album/compos...
elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com/album/compos...
Composer, alone, by Jürg Frey (Reinier van Houdt)
15 track album
elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com
August 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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)
Arek Gulbenkoglu/Matthew Revert - Independent Television (Erstwhile 104)
August 5, 2025 at 4:46 AM
coming to your living room soon, for now here is the front cover:
Arek Gulbenkoglu/Matthew Revert - Independent Television (Erstwhile 104)
Arek Gulbenkoglu/Matthew Revert - Independent Television (Erstwhile 104)
Reposted by Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records
Marja Ahti / Manja Ristić new album on @erstwhile.bsky.social 💙
Transference, by Marja Ahti/Manja Ristić
5 track album
erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Marja Ahti / Manja Ristić new album on @erstwhile.bsky.social 💙
Reposted by Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records
Duo album with @manjaristic.bsky.social coming up on @erstwhile.bsky.social August 8th. Hope you enjoy!
erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/transf...
erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/transf...
Transference, by Marja Ahti/Manja Ristić
5 track album
erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com
July 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Duo album with @manjaristic.bsky.social coming up on @erstwhile.bsky.social August 8th. Hope you enjoy!
erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/transf...
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...
Marja Ahti/Manja Ristić - Transference (Erstwhile 103)
erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/transf...
July 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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...
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...
Éric La Casa / Jérôme Noetinger - Off Tracks (Erstwhile 101)
erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/off-tr...
July 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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...
Éric La Casa / Jérôme Noetinger - Off Tracks (Erstwhile 101)
erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/off-tr...
Wovenland thread…
I've finally managed to take the time to dive into Toshiya Tsunoda & Taku Unami's field recording project known as 'Wovenland'. There are currently 3 Wovenland releases from 2018, 2020, and 2024. Anyone into #fieldrecordings should dedicate some attention to this outstanding collaboration. [1/9]
July 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Wovenland thread…
SHM II in the midyear Quietus list, nice to see.
@erstwhile.bsky.social have you seen this? Coming in at 96, the album we never thought was going to be made: thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...
The Quietus Albums of the Year So Far 2025 (In Association with Norman Records) | The Quietus
We recently conducted a survey of Quietus subscribers to discover some of their motivations in supporting us. It can be hard to remain upbeat in the current parlous state of the music business, but we...
thequietus.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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)
Vanessa Rossetto - The Professional (ErstSolo 011-2)
July 3, 2025 at 6:13 AM
coming in 2026, as announced in the superb Wire profile linked below. let us all rejoice:
Vanessa Rossetto - The Professional (ErstSolo 011-2)
Vanessa Rossetto - The Professional (ErstSolo 011-2)