Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records

An ErstRowe Fantasia by Marc Medwin October 2025

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.

wovenland 2, with toshiya tsunoda

old tales retold, with yan jun

motubachii, with annette krebs

bot box boxes, solo

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)

yeah, very sorry you're dealing with that. FWIW I sent them copies (to the US address as requested) in March, then July, then a few weeks ago.

if they somehow still don't have one for you, I don't think I'm sending more copies to distros for a while, so you might need to order directly from me.

I don't think that's it either, they have certainly ordered multiple times from me since March. only Soundohm knows the answer though.

hahaha, Erstwhile is absokutely not 'at fault' here, I have sent them copies of SHM II three separate times this year including again recently.

I hope you get it soon though, and we now have an offer for free shipping worldwide on orders of $140 or above (Erst, elsewhere, Gravity Wave, ErstDist).

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.

Nurse With Waffles

Transference, by Marja Ahti/Manja Ristić 5 track album

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...

Transference, by Marja Ahti/Manja Ristić 5 track album

erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/transf...

Off Tracks, by Éric La Casa/Jérôme Noetinger 4 track album

erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/off-tr...

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)

Not Fire, by Dean Roberts 9 track album

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!!!

pretty sure Vivas is out of options after this year unfortunately, I don't think he will make it past the spring, maybe not November.

image by Matthew Revert

coming to your living room soon, for now here is the front cover:

Arek Gulbenkoglu/Matthew Revert - Independent Television (Erstwhile 104)

his wife’s post was confusing (Cici Edmunds if you want to look) but he seems to be alive but on the brink.

it has huge gravitational pull, I think, hard to constantly resist over the long haul. I am of course with you on this though…

maybe even mandatory THC? certainly highly encouraged.

stoned autism

track I think, would make for many fascinating juxtapositions.

nice! I would vote for shuffle though.

Autwhile

Transference, by Marja Ahti/Manja Ristić 5 track album

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