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La Materia Verbal (The Verbal Matter: An Anthology of Peruvian Sound Poetry)
** Edition of 300 ** This compilation brings together 22 sound poems, including both pioneering and current pieces, and constitutes itself as the first great overview of sound poetry from Peru. It continues a cycle that began in 2009 with the appearance of a CD called Inventar La Voz: Nuevas Tradiciones Orales [To Invent the Voice: New Oral Traditions] and was followed up in 2011 with another one called Irse De Lengua [To Let It Slip], both of which contributed to articulate diverse manifestatio…
Padang Moonrise (The Birth Of The Modern Indonesian Recording Industry ⋆ 1955-69)
Tip! Padang Moonrise is the story of modern Indonesian music that emerged underneath the volcanoes of Java and Sumatra. Java, the most populous island in the archipelago of over 17,000 islands and 1300 distinct ethnic groups, and its capital city Jakarta, was where most of the post-colonial national identity, politics, administration and music production was centred.
Traditional songs from Java, Sumatra, Bali and beyond were re-imagined by a small group of state-sponsored musicians that also com…
Synesthetic Alchemy Boxset
*69 copies limited edition* 7LP wooden boxset on Synesthetic Alchemy. Music by: A CASA, Ensync, GOUFFRE, Klaus Legal, Ihan, Hess, Mona Servo.
Perú Selvático - Sonic Expedition Into The Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986
Tip! *In process of stocking* Less than a hundred miles inland from the capital city of Lima lies the great Peruvian jungle, an untamed land of impenetrable forests and endless winding rivers. In its isolated cities, cut off from the fashions of the capital, a unique style of music began to develop, inspired equally by the sounds of the surrounding forests, the roll of the mighty Amazon and Ucayali Rivers, and the rhythms of cumbia picked up from distant stations on transistor radios. With the a…
Fictions - Made To Measure Vol. 47
*In process of stocking* Eight distinguished artists wrote and recorded original pieces for this album which joins some dots between vintage, experimental & new ambient, and pays tribute to the relaunched Made To Measure composers’ series Featuring, by order of appearance: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, the American modular synth wizard (US) Christina Vantzou, the Greek-American orchestral composer (US/GR) Stubbleman aka maverick ambient composer Pascal Gabriel (UK/BE), with Norwegian trumpet player Nil…
Thorn Valley
*In process of stocking* “Let me fly you home. We can talk on the way”
Thorn Valley is a 20 song assemblage of various transmissions from the ever diffuse and widening DIY underground, released to mark the four year anniversary of World of Echo.
Moonbuilding Autumn Collection
The first issue of Moonbuilding, which touched down back in May, was one of those finger in the wind, run it up the flagpole and see who salutes sort of projects. The A5, 48-page full-colour title, put together by former Electronic Sound commissioning editor Neil Mason and published by Colin Morrison’s Castles In Space label, went down rather well. There seemed to be a fair bit of saluting and lots of kind words. In fact, the debut issue came within a whisker of selling out. So Neil and Colin th…
Longing For The Shadow: Ryūkōka Recordings, 1921-1939
*In process of stocking* Emerging during the early stages of the recording industry in Japan, the ryūkōka style adopted western classical, blues & jazz elements into traditional and classical Japanese music.This collection of 1920s & 30s ryūkōka recordings follows on from the Kouta Katsutaro tape we put out a couple of years back, and further captures the hauntingly unique sound of a cultural merging that was starting to reflect itself via popular song, ahead of the widespread influence of weste…
The Hillbillies In Hell Omnibus: An Encyclopaedic Compendium Of Hades' Greatest Hayseed Hits (1954-1974)
The Vaults of Hell open once again… This Diabolic collection assembles dusty favourites from the acclaimed and out-of-print Hillbillies In Hell series with previously unsighted subterranean jewels in an all-new Necrotic Experience. Witness this daemonic carousel of broken Nashville delights – Brazen Voodoo Rituals, Satanic Trysts, Apocalyptic Cataclysms, Premature Burials and Beastly Jousts. Sometimes grim, sometimes beautiful – this extraordinary anthology of knowns and unknowns, battered Opry …
The Now Sound Of Nashville: Psychedelic Gestures In The Country Music Experience (1966-1973)
From the people who brought you Hillbillies In Hell… Sitars, Fuzz Guitars and LSD sugar cubes…a Lysergic collection of Forgotten Nashville. Hayseed Moog Hoedowns, Psyche Teen Meltdowns and Wild Weed Compounds. All cut on Music Row by serious Nashville players in comfortable suits. Eight Miles Higher than a Haystack – you’ll witness melting, Dali-esque cakes, Apocalyptic Flower Power driven by banjos and fiddles, Floating Bongo Lullabies and Crazed Nashville Knock-Off Ersatz Exploitations.
Someth…
ZZAJ: Jazz From the 23rd Century
*In process of stocking* ZZAJ: Jazz from the 23rd Century, is a thrilling new collection of music featuring 34 new songs – all previously unreleased – from artists from all over the world. The brainchild of producers/multi-instrumentalists Jerry King (Cloud Over Jupiter, Moon X, John Shirley & Jerry King) and Dave Newhouse (The Muffins, Manna Mirage, Moon X), ZZAJ asked musicians to interpret jazz from various conceptual viewpoints, particularly avoiding traditional jazz sounds. Says King, “It’s…
...It Wasn't Really Me
*In process of stocking* Following up 2021’s compilation 'and felt like...', ' ...it wasn't really me' can be seen as the missing part of a diptych, only separated by the passage of time, yet whole in spirit. Again, a familiar company of singular artists showcase remarkable unity in diversity. Similar to its predecessor, a rustic gloom glues everything together into a seamless whole, enabling the collective to transcend each unique contributors' musical voice elegantly.
Melting Mind
Limited edition of 112 copies. Finally N.1 Melting Mind zine is out. A frappè of contents collected between 2019 and 2022. Reviews, interviews, essays, stories, drawings, oppressive collages, and more. On this first issue, contributions by Bill Nace, Virginia Genta, Michele Mazzani, Dj Fammi Vedere, Cristiano Carosi, Iridio Ventura, Andrea Simoniello, Taneli Vitahuta, Laura Nomisake, Annalisa Trapani, Ernesto Gonzalez, Enrico Banzola, Raila Mar, Jeremie Sauvage, Gabriele Gotini, Luca Leonetti. 4…
Socialist Disco. Dancing Behind Yugoslavia's Velvet Curtain 1977-1987
A collection of 18 disco tracks from various artists from Yugoslavia. Compiled by Leri Ahel & Zeljko Luketic from original master tapes. 2 x Vinyl only. No repress. Limited Gatefold Edition. Contains rare disco tunes from KIM Band, Gabi Novak, Arian, Ljupka Dimitrovska, Ana Sasso, Moni Kovačić, Milka Lenac, Rok Hotel, Ivica Šurjak, Grupa ST, Nano Prša and many more. Disco, a vital Trojan horse (in local notion: a pop music you can dance to), stayed quite a long time In Yugoslavia, refusing to be…
River of Revenge: Brazilian Country Music 1929-1961, Vol. 1
Tip! Death Is Not The End present the first volume in a survey of a form of Brazilian country music known as música caipira ("hillbilly music") - a stripped-back forerunner to música sertaneja, the Brazilian equivalent to US country & western which in it's contemporary form has come to dominate the domestic music industry in recent decades. This collection covers some of the earliest recordings made by the pioneering folklorist Cornélio Pires at the end of the 1920s, through to records from the…
Compositori Sardi Contemporanei
Temporary Super Offer! Compositori sardi contemporanei produced by the Swiss label Hat Hut Records Basel and directed by Werner X. Uehlingeris a snapshot of the Sardinian contemporary music world with an initial focus on eight composers Luciano Chessa, Andrea Granitzio, Paolo Pastorino, Riccardo Collu, Giuseppe D'Amico, Giovanna Dongu, Claudio Sanna, and Luca Sirigu. The project is conceived as a work in progress, therefore with constant updating of the repertoire and attention to what is happen…
Ignota Diary 2023
The Ignota Diary is a tool for discovery in the practice of everyday life. Among all rituals includes, it features a series of Sonic Meditations by legendary composer Pauline Oliveros.
Esp-Disk
*In process of stocking. 2022 stock* In October 2018, Steve Holtje, the mastermind of the pioneering American music label ESP, was invited by the 8th OCT-LOFT International Jazz Festival to give a lecture in Shenzhen entitled "55 Years of Pioneering and Non-Mainstream Music: The Continuing Revolution of ESP-DISK", unveiling the label for the first time to Chinese The talk was entitled "55 Years of Pioneering and Non-Mainstream Music: The Continuing Revolution of ESP-DISK", and unveiled the myste…
Sound American no. 29 - The Roscoe Mitchell Issue (Book)
The Roscoe Mitchell Issue, celebrating Art Ensemble of Chicago founder and American iconoclast, Roscoe Mitchell. This very special issue is an appreciation of Mitchell’s career as an improvisor, instrumentalist, composer, painter, and educator as told by the musicians whom he has affected and through his own words. The issue starts with a rigorously researched and beautifully written overview of the saxophonist’s career by Brooklyn-based saxophonist Sam Weinberg. As the reader continues, they wi…
Debauched: Witchery and Devilry Vol. 1 (1st Spell) (Book)
During the height of the turned-on 1960s and '70s Occult explosion, even the under-the-counter men's magazines got in on the act and began a surreal exploration of the haunting netherworld of Witchcraft and Satanism. This monumental art book reveals a world of diabolical smut that was so compelling and obscure that many people today would actually question whether or not the magazines were real or just an elaborate and detailed modern photo editing invention. A few salacious titles and images on…