Ideologic Organ

03/11/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BULLwEmZXvQ

Forever, I’ve Been Being BornMy note, it is somber A tone that stands alone Beneath an overarching Melody, I’ve come to know And I have heard the rumble Et...

31/10/2025

JESSE SYKES & THE SWEET HEREAFTER
SHARE THE TITLE TRACK OF THEIR NEW ALBUM
“FOREVER, I’VE BEEN BEING BORN”

TO BE RELEASED ON 28TH NOVEMBER
AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW VIA IDEOLOGIC ORGAN

Today, Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter share the final pre-release taste of the new album, the title track, “Forever, I’ve Been Being Born.” Jesse has a special note to share on the release of this song.
It was she, my mother, that once said to me, “record me your heart”... so I did. This song is a celebration of life and of existence as seen from above, from a great distance —perhaps the moment when one pulls the lens so far back that they look both into and out from the cosmos.
It is a celebration of the moment of death, and the journey and mystery that unfolds for both the living and dying at that precise moment that death comes. I can feel the song unfolding into a dance of sorts, or a call and response that symbolizes a revelatory cosmic reunion after the hard work of the dying is done.
Phil’s guitar ebbs and flows much the way the breath does at the end. I wrote (many songs on this album) after our beloved old dog Ruby had died in my arms at home, and I said in that moment she died that it was like she and I were riding a toboggan together across the universe, but I stopped and she kept going.
I want to feel that with my mother as I sit by her bedside writing this song’s release announcement, awaiting her departure towards her next journey. That swooping moment of transcendence.
These were her last clear and concise words to me spoken in a lucid moment before we left the hospital to go into hospice. She said, “I want you all to myself, forever.” She has me forever and had me before, forever. This song, like all my songs, is for her. Because she “got it“ in all its somber glory.
I hope you, the listener who finds this song, will hear within it, that sense of a journey, as it might be for you or a loved one when the final rip chord is pulled and you both fall into the gentle calm that follows. I hope you feel love and the lapse of time, if you are able to truly get inside of it. I just hope you feel something.
As I always say, “listen in the dark.”

07/10/2025

20 years of Slomo.
Thank you & Joe Stannard for the evidence.
We are sold out at source, ask your local good record store to order a copy from our excellent distributor
Or listen on and all DSPs
Thank you all.

10/09/2025

Kali Malone & Drew McDowall present “Magnetism”, their first collaborative album, released November 7th, 2025, which I’m pleased to release on Ideologic Organ.

https://ideologicorgan.lnk.to/soma064

Today, we share their track "The Sound In My Mind”. You can preorder the LP/CD/Digital directly on bandcamp, or ask your local record store/mail order to get it for you from Secretly Distribution.

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Magnetism marks the meeting of two singular artists in experimental music. It brings together Drew McDowall’s roots in the industrial vanguard of Coil and Psychic TV with Kali Malone’s foundation in contemporary organ composition, just intonation, and electroacoustic music, uniting two generations in a deeply complementary partnership.

On “Magnetism”, Malone’s poignant melodies manifest within McDowall’s signature timbral synthesis, forming a unified voice that resonates with clarity and vitality. Charged by the gravitational pull of repetition and saturation, “Magnetism” pulses as a living music that captivates the senses and lingers long in the mind after the final notes fade.

Music by Kali Malone +
Mixed by
Mastering by
Artwork by
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05/09/2025

It’s our honor to present the brand new album by Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter “Forever, I’ve Been Being Born”, the bands first since 2011's "Marble Son", and the band's 5th since 2002. A suite of masterful folk-rock songs, emotive songs from an open heart, dwelling in a brightness yet deep in the ethereal and melancholic. In the making for ten years, the album centres around the power of Jesse's incredible voice, which has never been more beautiful, evocative, and hauntingly intimate. Electric guitarist Phil Wandscher's playing masterfully frames these songs with classic and fractured tones, a duet of vulnerability and strength frequently on the edge.

Listen to (and see the video) the first single “Gentle Chaperone” featuring Marissa Nadler.

Released by Ideologic Organ in Europe/UK/Asia/South America.
Released by Southern Lord in North America and Australasia.

https://jessesykesandthesweethereafter.bandcamp.com/album/forever-ive-been-being-born

(Southern Lord vinyl version of Forever I’ve Been Being Born will be available in the USA & Australasia on Record Store Day Black Friday on Nov. 28, 2025)

Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter
Secretly Distribution
Shelter Press
Fargo Mafia
Cargo Records Germany
Cargo Independent Distribution
Playground Music Sweden
Southern Lord Recordings

01/08/2025

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03/07/2025

I'm happy to announce a new album by BJ Nilsen, "True than Nature", to be released on Ideologic Organ the 29 August. You can preview one track now, and preorder. BJ has worked with legendary labels like Touch, Editions Mego and Cold Meat Industries since the early 90s, and we've known each other and been friends for twenty years. His approach to creating music from his extensive work in field recording points directly towards his research in active listening, and that attention always brings a fascination to the ears. "True than Nature" is a suite of great sounds, fascinating music! Happy to work together with Benny and get this out to the world. Have a listen. –Stephen O'Malley, Stockholm July 2025

https://bennynilsen.bandcamp.com/album/true-than-nature?label=215379737

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BJ Nilsen
True than Nature
CD/digital

Release date 29 August 2025
Distribution :

Cover photo Annette W
Photo in the church Kali Malone
Editions Mego

Text by Arie Altena

Ideologic Organ, in association with

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True than Nature encourages active listening. There is sound that exists seemingly for its own sake – a continuing drone that slowly evolves, sound of nature – and there are sounds that refer to a momentary action, and sudden intrusions of sound. BJ Nilsen triggers shifts in the perception for the listener that alter how you perceive and experience the world through sound, and how you think about sound.

Listening to True than Nature is full of moments of instability. The shifts between sound spaces refocus your listening, or throw you out of a world you were imagining. You recognize sounds, wind, rain, metal bending, a hammer on stone, the background noise of a city, but often there is an unfamiliarity about these sounds. You think you recognize them, but often you are not sure, because you are not there, and different worlds clash or coexist at the same time.

True than Nature makes you wonder about how sounds exist, how they are brought forward, how they are made by objects, how they are perceived and how they are changed by the attention given to it. And all the time, you might ask yourself: What is that world that I am listening to? How does it exist?

03/07/2025

SLOMO “The Creep” (20th anniversary edition) LP/digital announced on Ideologic Organ ! Hear an excerpt today and preorder the 61-minute LP (edition of 500 copies)…

https://soundsofslomo.bandcamp.com/album/the-creep-20th-anniversary-edition?label=215379737

“The 20th Anniversary Edition of “The Creep” by Slomo, this ambient doom masterwork, is now available on vinyl for the first time via Ideologic Organ. This is a storied album of verbal history, and emerged from a figurative long barrow deep within a virtual space of great depth and contemplation, an inverted framing of acoustic space with heavy floors ranging from the wake of COIL to the heaviest Japanese fire of psychedelia to the monuments of drone coagulating in the early ‘aughts. A first tiny CDR edition (100 copies) of “The Creep” in 2005 garnered the focus of heavyweights like SUNN O))), Julian Cope, GNOD, the esoteric legendary record store Aquarius, and the Wire. Ideologic Organ is honoured to have been tasked with bringing this to a limited LP for the very first time, and has collaborated with mastering genius Rashad Becker to create a 61-minute single LP in perfect cut. The album will also be distributed widely on all digital channels.”
–Stephen O’Malley, Stockholm May 2025

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Slomo
The Creep
LP/digital

Announce date : 3 July 2025
Release date : 5 September 2025
Distro : label direct on Bandcamp / worldwide via Secretly Distribution

The Creep
(McGrail / Marsden)
Side A — 31.42
Side B — 29.41

Recorded 20/11/04 at Totley Loft.

Howard Marsden – Synthesizer
Holy McGrail – Guitar

Mastered & cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin 0324.
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20/06/2025

Hampus Lindwall’s “Brace for Impact” album on LP/CD/digital is out today. CHECK IT OUT!

Hampus has been the Église du Saint-Esprit, Paris titular organist since 2005, but thats just the tip of the iceberg with this guy. The album are all new compositions by Hampus and it’s titled “Brace For Impact”. Hampus has worked with Phill Niblock, Ellen Arkbro, and many others. He and I have had a great run with the Les Inspirations Visibles series of concerts at the Saint-Esprit, now running to eleven episodes, and I’m also proud to have been a featured player on the title track of this album. Another piece of Hampus trivia: he was the organist at Pierre Henry’s funeral service, where he performed Messiaen as the wishes of Henry’s testament.

Boomkat said this about the title track of the album “‘Brace For Impact’, which was recorded in Düsseldorf on the huge pipe organ at St. Antonius church, opens with a grinding metal-inspired experiment that directly references Iannis Xenakis’s Metastaseis. Unlike many contemporary organ enthusiasts, Lindwall has spent so much time perfecting his approach to the instrument that he’s willing to move past its expected characteristics. Using his expertise to bend the tones on-the-fly and recreate the glissando from Xenakis’s original piece, Lindwall prompts O’Malley to follow his lead with chugging guitar distortions that subvert the purity of the sound and the logic of Xenakis’s vision. It’s revelatory, basically.

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Hampus Lindwall
Brace for Impact
LP/CD/digital

25/04/2025

Kali Malone’s “The Sacrificial Code” 2025 edition is released today via Ideologic Organ. We are honored to have the chance to bring this music further into the world.

This version of Kali Malone’s 2019 landmark album, features rejuvinated artwork and a new arrangement of the titular composition recorded in 2023 on the 16th-century meantone organ at Malmö Konstmuseum.

Presented as a 2LP on Black vinyl and available from IO online or in your favorite record store / Mailorder worldwide (just ask). Also available on CD and of course digitally everywhere.

We are also offering a special Ltd edition “Pavimenti Mamorei” marbled vinyl version (Ltd to 500) available only online now.

Link in bio.

Thanks to everyone for your interest and support, and the trust and hard work of everyone involved in making this moment happen.

Photos courtesy of

18/04/2025

Lucy Railton’s “Blue Veil” LP/CD/digital (SOMA063) is released today on Ideologic! A solo cello piece composed and performed by Lucy, a powerful and intricate piece of new minimalism performed with grace and precision. This record is rewarding listen in so many ways, such a deeply complex and rich piece of music.

I feel like this work strikes a lot of points along the history of the path. Very proud of the opportunity to not only release this but to also be able to be part of the production and recording.

Personal reflection : In September 2021 Lucy, Kali Malone and I had the chance to perform two nights at Imir in Stavanger Norway, the three of us performing Kali’s piece “Does Spring Hide Its Joy”, and Lucy performed solo, and Kali and I duo on the second night. We were stunned by her beautiful performance, and immediately encouraged an idea of a record.

When we say “fast-forward” we obviously omit a path of history, hence the magic of montage. But early in 2024 we three were in Église du Saint-Esprit recording Lucy solo, the root of her piece had become defined and precise, hewn. Lucy performed in the choir organ loft, Kali was recording up there. I remember listening to Lucy play through the headphones to my omni mics on the other side of the church, in the pews. Probably 100 meters away.

In the night … it was bliss.

Lucy worked with to mix and to master and cut. She returned to the church to performs the piece in its entirety , last week, albeit from the altar.

What we have here is a treasure of listening. Please take some time to experience this. Thank you for your support. And thank you to for your trust and dedication to this project.

*shout out to for the visual support via their perfect product shots on this one … take a look on their feed. IO product shots via my phone on apartment floor in front of the hifi altar.

21/03/2025

RELEASED TODAY : Golem Mecanique “Siamo tutti in pericolo“ LP/digital (SOMA058)

Today, Golem Mecanique releases Siamo tutti in pericolo, her album named for the director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last words before his murder. The album is out today via Ideologic Organ.

Golem Mecanique describes the feeling she has when watching a Pasolini film as “silent violence” - a cold and radical response which calls into question her beliefs about the behaviour of people, and lies and truth. She hopes to evoke this feeling with her music - a melding of beauty and dread.

“Golem Mecanique touch[es] upon the ashes and fibres of back metal and the DNA of gothic music, literature, sorcery, and most of all—poetry. “ - Stephen O’Malley

Today, she also shares the video for “Teorema”, which you can watch on Bandcamp.

“I tried to be the eyes that saw in the dark, the voice that told what his last day and night were, the ghost that summons the memory... I just wanted his body not to lay alone on that cold beach.” - Golem Mecanique

PRAISE FOR SIAMO TUTTI IN PERICOLO:

“Jebane’s densely textured sound - which here comprises a mechanised hurdy-gurdy she calls a “drone box”, a zither and Jebane’s own mournful vocals - most definitely casts its own kind of spell…these six incantation-like pieces boast a solemn majesty akin to the most harrowing passages of Nico’s Desertshore.” - 8/10, UNCUT

“Jebane’s dolorous keening over the undulating drone of her custom built hurdy-gurdy has often sounded mournful. This is the first time, to my ears, that it has sounded fearful.” - THE WIRE

Congratulations Karen!

Listen and get the LP at link in bio.

Thank you for your interest and support