Out Today . BLWBCK093 . Airaudo "Lost Tapes Vol.1"
My uncle is the most devoted music collector I know. His house in Montreal is filled with vinyl records, literally in every room. Shelves bend under their weight, stacks spill into corridors, and you almost expect to find records buried in the foundations. Beyond vinyl, he amasses bootlegs (some recorded by himself) and collects MP3s with near-compulsive intensity. When he travels, he moves through cities with a paper map of record stores he draws himself. So when he handed me a handful of cassette tapes from the early 1980s to digitize, I didn’t question the gesture. It felt entirely in character. There were no artist names, only numbers and strange, sometimes cryptic titles. As expected, the tapes were filled with unfamiliar music, often difficult to classify. I first assumed they were compilations of unknown artists, fragments of scenes long disappeared — musicians who might have played in the underground basements of Paris at the time. That assumption collapsed when I finally asked him who was actually on those tapes. For the first time, I was not exploring his collection, but encountering something he had created himself. These tapes capture his years shortly after leaving the rural Tarn countryside of Salvagnac. Lost Tapes Vol.1 presents a first selection from these archives: six tracks drawn from more than six hours of material, left dormant for over forty years. Despite the hiss, dropouts, and instability of magnetic tape, the music retains a striking immediacy. Improvisation lies at its core, weaving between drifting, exploratory passages and more grounded, rhythmic structures. Skeletal drum machines, raw sequences, and restrained vocal lines anchor the sound in the underground, nocturnal spaces of that era. Listening today feels less like excavation than recognition. These recordings do not feel like relics. They sit uncomfortably close to the music we release now on BLWBCK, as if a line had been drawn long before we even realized we were tracing it. These sounds were never meant to be heard. Forty years later, they speak anyway.
« Glass Garden » from BOUND (Original Movie Soundtrack), now available on streaming platforms and Bandcamp
CASSETTE Release by @blwbck
Shots from the movie directed by Jean-Armand Bougrelle
Featuring rope artist Daria Kira 🪢
DP @alex_bartholo__dop
#almeeva #kinbaku #shibari
BLWBCK093 — Airaudo — Lost Tapes Vol.1
This album uncovers 6 tracks drawn from over 6 hours of forgotten cassettes recorded in the early 1980s. Improvisation, skeletal drum machines, raw sequences and restrained vocals evoke the underground, noctural spaces of that era. Despite hiss and tape artifacts, the music retains striking immediacy, bringing decades of sound. Thse recordings were never meant to be heard. Forty years later, they speak anyway, finding their natural place in the BLWBCK catalog.
Pre-order limited cassette + digital, more info and first preview ☝🏻 #linkinbio
Artwork by @iamsailor__ 📷 by Christian Rolland
Mastering by Gregory Hoepffner
« Hug & Open » from BOUND (Original Movie Soundtrack), now available on streaming platforms and Bandcamp
CASSETTE Release by @blwbck
Shots from the movie directed by Jean-Armand Bougrelle
Featuring performer Koyuki 🪢
DP @alex_bartholo__dop
#almeeva #kinbaku #shibari #moviesoundtrack
We’re very happy to celebrate our 92nd release, and the first one of 2026, with @a_l_m_e_e_v_a , who has been part of the label’s journey since its early days.
"Bound" unfolds across 18 tracks of rare depth and restraint. A surprising record when one considers the evolution of the project over the past years, revealing a more ambient, lyrical and melancholic side of his work.
A huge thank you to everyone who pre-ordered. Your support makes it possible for us to keep releasing music at this pace. Your copies are shipping this week
For the others, this is the moment to reserve your copy #linkinbio
(as a reminder, it’s always cheaper on our website than on Bandcamp) 🌈
or to dive into this beautiful album, now available to stream everywhere.
« Exhibit », from BOUND (Original Soundtrack), is now available on streaming platforms and Bandcamp.
PRE-ORDER the limited CASSETTE + DIGITAL now @blwbck / Link in bio
Full Album coming January 23.
Shots from the movie directed by Jean-Armand Bougrelle
Featuring model Aika Yoshioka and rope artist Yoi Yoshida 🪢
DP @alex_bartholo__dop
Happy New Year to all of you.
As always, thank you for being there, for listening, supporting, and following BLWBCK through the shadows and the years.
We’re starting 2026 with a release close to the label’s history.
On January 23, we will release @a_l_m_e_e_v_a new album : the original soundtrack to the motion picture Bound (2021) by Jean-Armand Bougrelle.
PRE-ORDER the limited CASSETTE + DIGITAL now / Discover the opening track "Liminal" on our website or via #bandcamp / more info >>>>
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Bound is a more introspective and ambient work than his previous records, Bound unfolds as a slow, melancholic drift. Synth pads, restrained melodies and muted textures trace an inner landscape shaped by displacement, constraint and quiet tension. A soundtrack born from in-between spaces, where emotion speaks without words.
Our final release of the year is finally here! The magnificent and labyrinthine new album by Canadian artist Damian Valles. There’s no better soundtrack to accompany the shortest days of the year in our hemisphere. A huge thank you for the many pre-orders —less than 10 copies left !!!! You can dive into the digital version on our Bandcamp & elsewhere.
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To wrap up this year, a massive thank you to everyone who follows us and to the ever-growing number of people ordering our cassettes, which have now been shipped to 23 countries across 4 continents. Without you, all of this would feel pretty pointless! We promise you a 2026 full of surprises. We’ll be back very, very soon to announce what’s next.
Wishing you all a wonderful end of the year.
BLWBCK091
Damian Valles
Sundowning
Our final release of the year and the closing chapter of our 2025 Autumn trilogy arrives as the days grow shorter in our hemisphere, a perfect companion while waiting for the solstice. Damian Valles shapes soundscapes that breathe under layers of ash, drifting between memory, shadow and dissolution. Each piece traces a fragile line through matter, trying to hold what is already falling away. Nothing seeks comfort. Textures crumble, overtones fade, and the light withdraws until it becomes a thin crease of dusk. In the end there is only a trace dissolving in the dark, the last glimmer turning to dust, the fading outline of a memory ground into cinders by the night.
Out 19th December, Pre-order the limited cassette edition (+ digital) / more info on our website #linkinbio
Cover analog 📷 by @iamsailor__
The 90th BLWBCK release is OUT !
Sopoorific "Echoes Of The Lost Souls"
Limited cassette edition + digital is available on our website (linkinbio) and you can listen to the full album everywhere.
@sopoorificsounds is the vessel of Alison Flora, a painter and sound artist who bends sound into vision and turns catharsis into ritual. Her work unfolds as a process of transmutation, where pain becomes symbol and symbol becomes song. Echoes of the Lost Souls is her most narrative work to date, a passage through shadow and light, haunted by childhood archetypes, medieval towers, spectral guides, and the forgotten echoes of William Blake’s poetry. This album feels less composed than summoned. Each track rises like an apparition: a windswept door trembling on the threshold of melancholy, a subterranean descent where gongs measure the rhythm of time, a trance-state where voices murmur from the unconscious in cryptic repetition. Psychedelic textures bleed into vast ambient spaces, rhythms pulse like distant drums of initiation, and melodies unfold as if etched into the stone walls of a dream. The journey is both intimate and mythological. In the ruins of the self, doubts coil into labyrinths while ghostly choirs guide the listener deeper into a realm where despair and revelation coexist. Towers loom in the distance, dungeons reverberate with unseen presences, and every sound gestures toward transformation, a hidden passage, a rebirth. Echoes of the Lost Souls is an initiatory quest where the listener confronts their own shadows, wanders through crumbling architectures of the mind, and emerges into the blinding radiance of a new dawn.
1. Twilight Sleep
2. The Call Of Eon
3. Zos Kia
4. Isolated Tower
5. Peregrination
6. Ruins Of Self
7. Rising
8. Children Of The Future Age
Music and Recordings by Alison Flora / Mix & Mastering by Pierre Lienhard / Artwork painted by Alison Flora @sopoorific / Layout by Romain Barbot @iamsailor__
OUT TODAY !
BLWBCK089
UNDER/STANDING
"Outland, Forever, I Am"
Limited cassette edition + digital is available on our website (linkinbio) and you can discover the full album everywhere.
@under_standing.wav is no stranger to those who have crossed paths with the edges of Toulouse’s underground and we're really proud to present his first full-length Outland, Forever, I Am. A collection of nine pieces that refuse easy classification, navigating between psychedelic rock reverberations and immersive ambient textures, where raw immediacy collides with slow-burning introspection. Each song resembles a mantra, haunted and luminous at once, whispering the reminder of impermanence through refrains that seem carved out of time itself. The voices, sometimes spectral and sometimes intimate, navigate a terrain where memory and death coexist, where the possibility of transcendence is always shadowed by an aching sense of loss. The music feels surreal yet anchored in a contemporary disillusion, as if dreamlike fragments of another dimension were being projected onto the walls of everyday life. Outland, Forever, I Am is not simply a record to listen to but a space to inhabit. It is a place where ghosts rise in the mirror, where fleeting images appear on a secret screen, where every sound carries both a wound and its healing. Somewhere between the intimacy of confession and the expansiveness of a psychedelic vision.
1. Less For The Body
2. The Secret Screen
3. Dystopica
4. Outland, Forever, I Am
5. Interlude
6. The Tired Hands' Claps
7. I Saw His Face
8. Toulouse 90 (feat. Slimane Touhami)
9. In Front Of Everyone
music written, played, recorded, mixed and mastered by Axel Lefebvre / except Toulouse 90 : vocals & lyrics by Slimane Touhami / layout by Romain Barbot
