Hausu Mountain proudly presents Melvin Gibbs’s Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2. The avant-jazz odyssey finds him operating in the many-tendriled roles of composer, arranger, collagist, performer, and bandleader — all while merging together recordings that span two decades, featuring an interdisciplinary array of collaborators, into a composite whose overflowing amalgam of ideas transcend genre and categorization. The album draws primary inspiration from the production of Miles Davis and Teo Macero on Davis’s 70s fusion output, with Gibbs timing his LP’s release to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Davis’s landmark Agharta.

Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 lands on October 14 on LP (clear and black), CD, digitally, and a few merch options with download code. First single “Felonious Monk” kicks off the album with a burst of percussive energy that threads in Pete Cosey’s guitar, John Medeski’s organ, Chris Williams’s trumpet, & more. Streaming on Bandcamp & beyond:

Grammy-nominated composer / producer / bassist Melvin Gibbs has a beyond-diverse background in jazz, rock, punk, and freeform experimentalism — anchored by mentors including Ornette Coleman and Gil Evans, encompassing work with Arto Lindsay, dead prez, and Sonny Sharrock, stints in Defunkt and the Rollins Band, and collaborations in ensembles including Power Tools alongside Bill Frisell and Ronald Shannon Jackson and the cooperative Harriet Tubman. Within the last few years, Gibbs released solo works on Editions Mego and Northern Spy. Gibbs plays bass in the band Body Meπa, whose two albums to date – 2021’s The Work Is Slow (HAUSMO120) and 2024’s Prayer in Dub (HAUSMO145) – were released by Hausu Mountain.

ANNOUNCING: Pulse Emitter – Tide Pools

to be released on LP, CD, and digitally on September 26th, 2025. Clear aqua blue vinyl limited to 300 copies worldwide. First single “Energy Flying” blowing minds on our Bandcamp page along with the album pre-order:

We’re overjoyed to be working with Daryl on a spellbinding new LP that finds him dipping his toes into progressive synth composition, jazz-inspired harmonies, & intricate rhythmic swirls.

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Portland based producer / synthesist Daryl Groetsch composes music under the moniker Pulse Emitter. Channeling his love and mastery of styles ranging from new age to Berlin school kosmische to drone to progressive electronic music to noise akin to junk floating through deep space, Groetsch crafts emotionally resonant synth pieces teeming with diverse melodic architectures and textural details.

A mainstay of the American experimental underground for over two decades, he has released dozens of albums of his exploratory and ever-evolving output as Pulse Emitter, while self-releasing music under his given name and as his dungeon synth side project Endless Fog. , Groetsch’s new LP on Hausu Mountain, follows the relatively more languid ambient strains of his work found on Swirlings (HAUSMO92 – 2020) and Dusk (HAUSMO128 – 2022) with a dizzying excursion into kinetic rhythms and fast-morphing song structures.

Groetsch himself describes the album as an attempt “to explore the deep emotions possible from jazz harmony, manifest the rhythmic complexity always chattering around in my head, and push my music somewhere I haven’t.”

Ladles and jellybeans — we’re so happy to announce a new artist joining the HausMo Family!

Everyone wish a warm welcome to Jetski, who will be releasing his HausMo debut The Radiant Radish on September 2nd, 2025. Let’s take a closer look:

Peoria, IL-based producer Ian Ostaszewski makes music under the name Jetski. His gonzo sample-based output manifests as overwhelming plunderphonic collages of juxtaposed sounds charged by complex webs of overlapping rhythms and head-spinning shifts in mood and timbre, all meticulously laid out to the point that it feels like you’re hearing a live band burn through a set of hyper-progressive music. The Radiant Radish, his first album on Hausu Mountain, follows his debut Reflex Engine (released on HausMo satellite label Blorpus Editions in 2022) with an awe-inspiring song cycle of freewheeling sample assemblage. He injects numerous fragments drawn from royalty-free sound libraries and public domain films – by his estimation somewhere between 4000 and 4500 samples – into composite takes that jitter with constant activity, performed live on his network of samplers running on iPads and iPhones. For all of his album’s ballistic sample-churning pandemonium, Jetski surprises us more with the sophistication and dream-logic organization of his arrangements rather than their disarray. With his relatively anonymous sources providing the constituent parts of The Radiant Radish, the album draws its manic power not from the potential of listeners pinpointing the origins of sounds or contextualizing them along a cultural timeline, but from the mind-bending narrative and morphing rhythmic reality of Jetski’s collages themselves on a moment-to-moment basis. We recognize the tones of individual instruments but can’t determine exactly what they’re playing as they crash into the mix in a disfigured fashion for a few seconds, just as we come to trace brief passages of rhythm made from staccato samples that speed by too fast to even attempt to identify. Before long, we give up trying to pick out anything at all and let Jetski’s tidal wave of sounds wash over us.

Greetings HausMoNauts Worldwide! We’re blasting the bugle horn and blasting sweet melodies that symbolize the happy news we’re about to share. We’re beyond thrilled to announce that Mondo Lava is returning to the label for the first time since 2018 with Utero Dei – to be released on August 12th on tape, CD, and digitally.

You can check out / pre-order the album on Bandcamp and learn more about it on the catalog page.

James Ketchum and Leon Hu record under the name Mondo Lava. Their music channels the prismatic psych-pop of 1970s tropicália and compositional frameworks from dub, free jazz, and new age music into the hazy atmospheres and the homespun production quality of lo-fi straight-to-cassette recording in the spirit of the US experimental underground. With band spearhead Ketchum living in Pamplona, Spain and Hu residing in Davis, California where the band was formed, their project which has existed in various forms since 2006 blesses the world with new material whenever Ketchum and his collaborators flesh out a new program of beautifully fried excursions into their humid rainforests of sound. Following 2014’s Parrot Head Cartridge (HAUSMO26) and 2018’s Ogre Heights (HAUSMO77), Mondo Lava returns to Hausu Mountain with the sprawling 75-minute album Utero Dei. While the band has always stretched their releases to mind-altering durations to give their spiraling keyboard lines and hand-performed percussion room to blossom through cycles of ecstatic repetition, Utero Dei sets a new high watermark for their output with its diverse menu of transportive sonic biomes. While the tenets that have defined the project since its inception — the exploitation of tape-deck production quality to otherworldly ends, the freewheeling jouissance of lead-instrument improvisation coupled with the zoned-out potential of loop-based rhythmic foundations — remain firmly intact, Mondo Lava presents Utero Dei as a camp nestled deeper out into the vegetation than ever before. They offer us the aural equivalent of pushing aside giant palm fronds to discover an amusement park waiting for us in the clearing ahead — wooden roller coasters, derelict sideshow game booths, flickering neon signs, all still functioning with no other signs of life around. Who built this here, of all places, and how long ago?

We’re so thrilled to announce a new addition to the Hausu Mountain roster – please welcome Cocojoey with open arms and a tunnel of high fives.

ANNOUNCING: Cocojoey – STARS – coming out on June 20th on CD, cassette, and digitally… as well as various merch options with download codes.

Chicago-based composer/producer Joey Meland makes music under the moniker Cocojoey. Treating genre conventions and ostensible barriers between disparate musical vocabularies like playthings to gleefully smash and reshape at will, Meland channels decades of experience as a polymathic professional musician adept in styles like metal, jazz, synthpop, and experimental sound design into their infinitely combinatory compositions. STARS, their first album on Hausu Mountain, follows the self-released COCOJOEY’S WORLD (2022) with a spellbinding burst of heart-on-sleeve self-expression. The album finds Cocojoey indulging their most adventurous impulses in production and technical instrumental performance, launching into a constantly morphing program that contrasts day-glo earworm hooks against cathartic moments of screaming intensity. Describing their work as an outlet to navigate difficult emotions and negative experiences through overwhelming bursts of absurdity, Meland’s music exudes warmth and finger-wagging mischief as it exhumes the depths of their psyche with the pure-hearted goal of making their audience smile — when those listening find a chance to breathe within the ecstatic overstimulation.

You can read even more about the album HERE and head over to the Bandcamp page in the embed above or HERE. 

ANNOUNCING:
Erica Eso
Songs In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand

coming out on May 27 on CD, tape, and digitally! First track “Look Around You” streaming on our Bandcamp and all the other zones.

Kingston, NY-based composer / vocalist / producer Weston Minissali makes music under the moniker Erica Eso. Minissali’s work as Erica Eso injects strategies associated with the electronic avant-garde, including microtonal note voicings and advanced synthesis, into ornate compositions shaped in the idiom of art pop and focused on the keyboard as a primary instrument. Since forming in 2015, Erica Eso has shifted through diverse personnel configurations for live performances and their studio recordings released with NNA Tapes and Ramp Local, before settling into a quintet for their Hausu Mountain debut 192 (HAUSMO124, 2022).

For his new album Songs In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand, Minissali approached composition as a solo process, honing in on the granular details of his own songwriting and electronic production. Bolstered by the experience gained over the years he spent experimenting in his elaborate self-constructed home studio, Minissali sought to tie his artistic practice holistically into his daily life, cutting away inessentials and focusing inward both in sound and in lived experience. Songs In My Pocket offers us Minissali’s most adventurous songwriting and his most ornate production to date, pushing the Erica Eso project into new realms of complexity characterized by complete freedom in electronic arrangement. What once could have been called “DIY bedroom pop” now showcases Minissali’s time-earned studio expertise, brought to life by what he describes as “a much better (but still limited) understanding of just how expansive a studio-based process can be.”

ANNOUNCING: Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet – HausLive 4 – out April 29 on cassette and digitally.

Hausu Mountain continues the HausLive series of live show recordings that capture some of the headiest moments in Chicago underground music. On HausLive 4, we rewind the clock approximately one year to May 3rd, 2024 at Constellation, where the all-star Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet (featuring Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and Shane Parish) made their barn-burning Chicago debut. The series channels the spirit of the informal bootlegging and tape trading of audience recordings as pioneered by the community surrounding the Grateful Dead, honing in on the raw live energy and in-the-moment emotions that can make any show stand out in the stream of time. Selected as part of the label’s ongoing collaboration with the prolific Chicago taper and HausMo mega-friend Joel Berk, HausLive 4 catches the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet in a sublime state of tour-hardened synergy with one another as they tear through the four-string guitar compositions that Orcutt wrote for his album Music for Four Guitars (Palilalia Records, 2022) with dialed-in fingers-on-fretboard precision, while also letting those songs evolve into flights of improvisation and extend into solo and duo passages led by each of the four guitarists. As Orcutt says on tape during one of the show’s interludes, “that record is thirty minutes; this show is an hour, so we’re improvising.” The resulting free-wheeling moments combine with the rigidity of Orcutt’s meticulous four-guitar compositions to form a program of music that draws power in equal measure from the forces of chance and discipline.

Greetings HausMoNauts and sending big hugs and a never-ending succesion of high fives, fist bumps, and happy hellos. We’re so happy to announce the very first HausMo of 2025!!!

Coming out on April 1, 2025:
Dustin Wong – Gloria

We’re so thrilled to welcome Dustin’s new album Gloria, his third album with the label since 2018. With Gloria, Dustin channels specific memories and pieces of his family history into a deeply personal narrative arc focused on his grandmother Gloria Violet Lee Wong, who passed away in January 2024, just shy of her 96th birthday. Using a road trip they took together down the west coast of America in 2023 as the direct inspiration for the individual scenes and flashes of imagery that form the album’s continuously unfolding structure, Wong presents Gloria as a memorial to her storied life and a celebration of the warmth and kindness that characterized their close relationship. A moment-to-moment travelogue that zooms out in its full scope to evoke a multi-generational memoir that spans decades and continents, Gloria gives Wong space to open his heart and uncover his roots — all while experimenting with new techniques in live performance and sound design that lead his music into territories that he has never before explored.

You can check the album out on Bandcamp, and read more about it on the catalog page.

We’re beyond excited to share our first vinyl release in a long while with the whole HausMo universe. Body Meπa is back in action with their 2nd HausMo album! Prayer in Dub is available on LP (clear vinyl and black vinyl), CD, and digitally via Bandcamp and all the usual culprits.

Body Meπa is the New York-based quartet of Greg Fox (drums), Sasha Frere-Jones (guitar), Melvin Gibbs (bass), and Grey McMurray (guitar). As luminaries in the intersecting traditions of improvised music, rock, jazz, fusion, and contemporary classical music, the four artists have each spent decades building diverse practices that extend beyond sound into multiple disciplines. Prayer in Dub, their second release on Hausu Mountain, follows the band’s 2020 album The Work Is Slow. While Body Meπa recorded much of Prayer in Dub within the same period that followed their formation and first LP’s creation in 2020-2021, the album presents a band whose collective intuition as instrumentalists and live-in-the-room songwriters has deepened with each take that they put to tape. Focused on textural and rhythmic detail, repetition and variation of central motifs, and slowly evolving sessions that find room for improvisation, the quartet hesitate to pin down their amorphous output any further than the broad scope of what they describe as “New York City body music.” Their work engages with the physicality of “rock band” performance while stretching that idiom to its breaking point, all while evoking the environment that brought it to life: the city of New York in all its multitudes, where all four band members grew up.

HausMoNauts! Excited to tell you that one of the most HausMo artists on the planet has cooked up an exciting new pasta for you to eat. That’s right, RXM Reality is back with his 5th (!!!) HausMo album – No. 1 in the World. Not only is this album the longest RXM album in existence, but it’s also his most ambitious, far-flung, exploratory work to date. Continuing his experimentation with vocals, RXM Reality pushes the project in a thousand different directions, all the while maintaining his signature production style. Out now on tape, CD, t-shirt w/ DL code, and digitally via all the usual culprits.