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Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records @erstwhile.bsky.social · Aug 17

I will try to stop by here more, but where I am the most is the Erstwhile chat room on Discord, come join us if you like.

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Check out the Erstwhile community on Discord - hang out with 518 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records @erstwhile.bsky.social · 3d

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.

An ErstRowe Fantasia by Marc Medwin

October 2025

www.surround-journal.net

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Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records @erstwhile.bsky.social · 16d

excited to announce this beauty is newly arrived and shipping!!

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

erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/indepe...

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Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records @erstwhile.bsky.social · 28d

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

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corpse @consume.red · Sep 9

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

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corpse @consume.red · Sep 7

two full listens and one ⅔ listen later: AOTY

corpse @consume.red · Sep 4

Old Tales Retold, by Yan Jun/Taku Unami

7 track album

erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com

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corpse @consume.red · Aug 30

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)

brendan @schlage.town · Aug 30

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

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Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records @erstwhile.bsky.social · Sep 4

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.

Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records @erstwhile.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records @erstwhile.bsky.social · Sep 4

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).

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Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records @erstwhile.bsky.social · Aug 26

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

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Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records @erstwhile.bsky.social · Aug 25

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

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Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records @erstwhile.bsky.social · Aug 17

Nurse With Waffles

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Alex Tripp @endaural.com · Aug 8

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

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Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records @erstwhile.bsky.social · Aug 14

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...

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Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records @erstwhile.bsky.social · Aug 11

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

Transference, by Marja Ahti/Manja Ristić

5 track album

erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com

Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records @erstwhile.bsky.social · Aug 11

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

Off Tracks, by Éric La Casa/Jérôme Noetinger

4 track album

erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com

Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records @erstwhile.bsky.social · Aug 11

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)

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norhal.bsky.social @norhal.bsky.social · Aug 10

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

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Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records @erstwhile.bsky.social · Aug 10

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

yuko zama/elsewhere music @yukozama.bsky.social · Aug 9

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...

Composer, alone, by Jürg Frey (Reinier van Houdt)

15 track album

elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com

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Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records @erstwhile.bsky.social · Aug 8

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.

Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records @erstwhile.bsky.social · Aug 5

image by Matthew Revert

Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records @erstwhile.bsky.social · Aug 5

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

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

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Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records @erstwhile.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records @erstwhile.bsky.social · Jul 27

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

Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records @erstwhile.bsky.social · Jul 27

maybe even mandatory THC? certainly highly encouraged.