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Fragment
In 1975, the lead album "Fragment" by the acclaimed UK jazz pianist John Taylor, which was previously only released on cassette tape and hailed as a gem of UK jazz, is now being remastered and released for the first time on 2LP
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Chapter Two: Nia
Strut presents a brand new reissue of Juju’s powerful Afrocentric album ‘Chapter Two: Nia’ from 1974, originally released on Strata East. This is probably the rarest of the Juju/Oneness of Juju albums – and it's also one of the best! Unlike their first album on Strata East, the group's a little bit more inside, and doesn't get lost in overindulgent avant garde solos. Instead, they groove hard with a deep warm sound, in strident tracks with a mix of percussion, vibes, piano, and the excellent ree…
You Always Will Be
Dylan Henner returns to AD93 with a follow-up to 2020's 'The Invention of the Human', plugging the teachings of Terry Riley and Steve Reich into a vivid digital dimension that touches Geinoh Yamashirogumi's "Akira" OST and Spencer Clark's tape-fucked neo-psychedelia.
John Cage memorial
Big tip! The Kiyosato Museum of Contemporary Art was located in Kiyosato, Yamanashi prefecture from 1990 to 2014. It was a private art museum with a permanent exhibit based on a collection of unrivalled scale. The museum also collected and mounted exhibitions on the work of radical contemporary composers, including John Cage. The museum’s primary informant on music was sound designer Yutaka Hirose, one of the pioneers of Japan’s environmental music (kankyō ongaku) movement in the 1980s. In 1992,…
Buio Omega
Limited edition on 180gr. clear purple vinyl. “Buio Omega”, two short and simple words that, in the mind of Goblin’s fans as well as in the horror/splatter movies fanatics’ one, recall sounds and images of a legendary film. Directed in 1979 by Joe D’Amato, it still impresses with the rawness and morbidity of its scenes, the trademark of a director who, much more than others, befits the term ‘extreme’. The soundtrack of the film, whose main ingredients are keyboards and synthesizers, swings among…
Contamination
2025 repress. “Contamination” was released in 1980 as a soundtrack for the eponymous horror/science fiction film, during what probably was the most prolific period in Goblin’s career, even if the band had already been abandoned by guitarist Massimo Morante and keyboardist Claudio Simonetti. Unkonwn by most listeners, it’s a release that deserves more attention, since it shows a wide range of music styles (Jazz, funk, rock, electronic) and once again Goblin’s ability in writing film scores.
L'Altro Inferno / The Other Hell
LP trifold w/insert. Velvet Vinyl. Unreleased Goblin soundtrack for a 80s cult horror b-movie
clear fuchsia coloured vinyl with insert and new liner notes!  “The Other Hell” (L’Altro Inferno) is a 1981 horror movie directed by  Bruno Mattei (as Stefan Oblowsky) that was explicitly filmed to exploit the success of Dario Argento’s “Inferno”, even if it has little to nothing in common with it. Set in a convent, the film unabashedly mixes demonic possessions, paranormal phenomena, black magic ritual…
Rivelazioni Di Un Maniaco Sessuale Al Capo Della Squadra Mobile
** First ever vinyl reissue, Yellow vinyl. expanded Edition ** Revelations of a Sex Maniac to the Chief of the Mobile Team" is a 1972 crime film directed by RobertoBianchi Montero, director of many films belonging especially to the western and erotic genre. The soundtrack is here entrusted to the well-known pianist, arranger and composer Giorgio Gaslini (1929-2014) the Italian musician who's known to most for his avant jazz piano work, but who also gave the world some pretty great soundtracks to…
Area Di Servizio
* Clear red vinyl edition * "Area di Servizio" is a truly unique release in the history of ‘70s Italian music: a record consisting of twelve Italian-sung compositions, mainly the result of the collaboration between Riccardo “Rolli” Pirolli and Franco Battiato: the first came from the Cristalli Fragili group, which Battiato wanted as his musicians in the early seventies. The album recording sessions lasted a few days, and several songs were written and arranged directly in the studio. The result …
New Games / Rhythm & Sound
*2024 Repress. A new edition with changed details such as the back of the jacket and the label. Shrink packaging + sticker pasting.* "A miraculous object with a line-up of recording and mixing by Fumi Nishikawa, mastering and cutting by Rashad Becker, and binding by Tomoo Gokita. An instrumental group led by Koshiro Hino = YPY, Goat's memorable first LP is a reorganization of the best performances of the 1st "New Games" and 2nd "Rhythm & Sound". They create music with noises, muted sounds, and p…
Nuda per Satana
Finally, fifty years after the release of the film in Italian cinemas, Alberto Baldan Bembo's music score for "Nuda per Satana" is released for the very first time on vinyl and taken from the mono master tapes of the original session kept in the archives of Edizioni Musicali S.A.A.R. Fifteen tracks were selected with a total duration of approximately 37:35. Maestro Baldan Bembo created an electronic soundtrack introduced by the opening credits theme (A1) with the intervention of diabolical femal…
Favole Per Ogni Eta
Oronzo De Filippi (aka Rino De Filippi, Awake, Rigesti), component of Braen’s Machine, is one of the most enigmatic figures of the library music scene. Although it is reductive and simplistic to frame him in an exclusive genre within an already varied landscape. The master’s versatility, moves through the mesh of psychedelia, avant-garde, jingle, lullabies and more orthodox library music. Making use of disparate instruments in a symbiosis between popular culture that leaves you enchanted.Listen …
Gym Douce
* 200 copies limited edition. Comes with a Risograph pamphlet insert. * Permanent Draft founders Valentina Magaletti and Fanny Chiarello return with Gym Douce, a playful and surreal suite of percussion and spoken word that reimagines the gym as a space for sonic exploration. Across seven inventive tracks, the duo transforms everyday movement into a series of charming, oddball vignettes: “Reverse Fly” is an earworm of processed voice and unruly drum machine claps, while “Curtsy Lounges” veers fro…
Cross Fire
Johnny Cabildo's trio in Miami, 1974: keyboards, bass and a drummer on congas and timbales cover Latin jazz, funk fusion and Afro-Cuban grooves. The second of only three Cabildos LPs, made for library use.
Metti Una Sera Cerri
First LP reissue ever for this great classic by Franco Cerri, one of the most important Italian jazz guitarists ever! Limited edition on 180gr. white vinyl!  "Metti una sera Cerri" was recorded in April 1973 by Guido Lamorgese at the SAAR Studios in Milan, Italy; in that case, Franco Cerri (acoustic and electric guitar) was joined by an all-star band consisting of Nando De Luca (piano, arrangements, music director), Pino Presti (electric bass) and Tullio De Piscopo (drums), with the addition of …
Silent Pieces - Live At Dacapo II
1995 release ** Special members-only edition for the sponsors' circle of dacapo. Music by: Anton Webern, Morton Feldman, John Cage, Hans Otte, Malcolm Goldstein, Dietrich Eichmann, Yoshikazu Iwamoto.
Shushupe
2016 release ** Oversize card sleeve. Shushupe presents field recordings by Ralph Koper primarily pertaining to an ayahuasca ceremony which took place on February 8th, 2006 in Iquitos, Peru conducted by Norma Aguila Panduro Navarro (1944 - 2007) who was one of the very few female ayahuasca shamans in the world. This release mostly focuses on Norma Panduro's ceremonial music and the sounds of the surrounding jungle. Norma's apprentice at the time, Paula Liebe joined with the singing of one or two…
Color Colour
** Edition of 300 copies, totally sold out at source ** Another incredible archival work from Cabiria Records here, a genuine holy grail of Italian post-punk music, Andy Warhol Banana Technicolor’ legendary 'Color Color' tape is remastered and issued on vinyl for the first time, this is an indispensable slice of ‘80s Italy’s underground experimental rhizome. Like their international tape-scene allies, Andy Warhol Banana Technicolor reacted to this world thru a matrix of mono-synths, drum machine…
La Terra
2025 Stock. Limited to 500 copies, hand-numbered. Gatefold cover, textured sleeve + printed inner. Red Vinyl. Following the same path as  Third Ear Band in England, Embryo or Gruppe Between (and even Limbus 4, Kalacakra and Popol Vuh), Aktuala tried to mix together the western musical tradition with african and asian instruments, rhythms, cultures and avant-garde forms, creating a pioneering new form of music that went beyond anything heard before.La Terra encounters Aktuala at their best, spinn…
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Lesbo
** Edition of 300. Recently reissued with the addition of numerous bonus tracks, it is here in its full version - 24 tracks! - on vinyl for the first time ever. 180gr. black vinyl with gatefold cover edition. ** Lesbo is a 1969 erotic film directed by Edoardo Mulargia, his only experiment in this genre within a filmography mostly focused on Western films and sentimental/romantic comedies. Calling "Lesbo" an underground film is practically an understatement, as no official home video releases of …
Capturer le [dés]ordre
2012 release (RARE) ** Capturer le [dés]ordre is a work created during a production residency at Avatar by Montreal artist Sabin Hudon, initially as part of the Excavation sonore program. Through the manipulation of disparate objects and mechanisms generating various sound movements, Capturing the [dis]order focuses on highlighting the fine and delicate sounds that escape from this jumble. This accumulation of singularities put together, added and subtracted, all at once, gives us an almost musi…
Background Music N. 4
Tip! First official reissue ever on clear vinyl. In the field of library music Benito Simoncini a.k.a. Arawak was undoubtedly one of the most important composers. “Background Music N. 4” is a multi-faceted release that includes at least two jazz-tinged symphonic pop gems, together with other more abstract and improvised tracks, in most cases played with a single instrument; it goes from the dramatic sounds of “Secolo XX°”, through the liquid atmospheres of “Aquarium”, to the percussive experimen…
Jeringas Compilation: Play To BN Chora. Jugement
2008 release **  Featuring: Gianluca Becuzzi & Luigi Turra, Sil Muir, Anna Maria Giordano. "Play to BN Chora. Jugement is the soundtrack written by several italian artists to support the video installation / exhibition released by Massimo Indellicati and Progetto Sperimentale Chora for the Alexander Gallery Cafe (August 2008). The concept of this inter-media performance was based on several ideas delivered by the french writer and global artist Antonin Artaud in the ultimate "Pour en finir avec …
Seed Solar
2010 release ** Oversize card sleeve. Limited edition of 484 hand-numbered copies. "Joint release of Aquarellist and Vetvei labels – new Vresnit album recorded in winter-autumn 2010 in cooperation with Kshatriy, Hladna and Neznamo. Qualitatively new in project creativity a five-part ambient space dedicated to the Culture Solar beginnings and transfiguring seeds disseminating. Vresnit art is turned to research primary being experience, – human consciousness conditions being resonant to the genera…
Tra(x)cce Su Eicool Sat.
2007 release ** Oversize card sleeve. Featuring: Teho Te.ardo, 3eem, Frammenti Trax, Nenia, N., Atrax Morgue, Cupio Dissolvi, Devis G..
Reassembled
2008 release ** Limited to 100 copies in oversize card sleeve. Reissue of a cassette originally released in 1995 by b/b tapes.
The Laughing Torso
2008 release ** "Splendid debut of Testing Vault, project of dANi/Alvo, already active as a collaborator in other releases of the Italian industrial undergrowth, and produced by our own Final Muzik. The Laughing Torso makes no secret of its influences, above all the primordial industrial of the 80s in its less aggressive and more meditative expressions, those closest to certain ritual music accompanied by the use of the voice in the form of recitations / spoken word, but also the more shady Coil…
Sinus
2007 release ** Emiter works with electronics, and improvised music. He creates sound installations, radio podcasts, soundtracks for films, theatre performances, exhibitions and public spaces. He composes music to silent films. He leads audio workshops and other activities that present the idea of field recording.
Color Systems
Rob Mazurek’s creations, dedicated to these six artists offered to Tomeka Reid, Angelica Sanchez, and Chad Taylor, to interpret freely. A foundation laid for these improvisations in the foursome’s forays into Mazurek’s music with the larger ensemble. Here something becomes distilled. Interaction is direct. The unit is unitary, the dynamics are gently modulated, the sounds are tendered with deliberation love and inter-ensemble generosity.
La Jolla Good Friday I-II
2006 release ** Reproduction of the 1981 LP featuring two wasted / buzzing / side-long / go-nowhere early Computer-controlled Analogue Synthesizer pieces - rendered via Ed Kobrin's "Hybrid IV" setup - captured on March 28th, 1975 & sounding not unlike an airplane anding / taking off as realized by the programmers of an Atari 2600 console video game. Sigubjörnsson is an interesting character; his "Kisum / Intrada" LP of trio clarinet, viola, & piano pieces was issued by the same pre-Caprice Expo …
Jun Yin 1 - Yu Wang - pilgrimage of sound 1 - desire -
2005 release ** ""Pilgrimage of Sound" is the new series of the Japanese electroacustic / experimental / noise artist Kazuya Ishigami here dealing with the concept of 'desire' seen from the plant, human and machine points of view. Kazuya sticks to the concept of "desire" with a quite radical approach, his irregular patterns of sonic abstractions could be described as intense droning assaults and the sound sources are so many and so heavily treated that they are almost impossible to be traced. St…
Pilgrimage Of Sound 2 - Abhorrence -
2006 release ** ""Pilgrimage of Sound" is the new series of the Japanese electroacustic / experimental / noise artist Kazuya Ishigami here dealing with the concept of 'desire' seen from the plant, human and machine points of view. Kazuya sticks to the concept of "desire" with a quite radical approach, his irregular patterns of sonic abstractions could be described as intense droning assaults and the sound sources are so many and so heavily treated that they are almost impossible to be traced. St…
That Mysterious Forest Below London Bridge
2007 release (light storage wear) ** Card sleeve. Interlace/Ongaku presented this live show at the Shunt Lounge in the labyrinth under the London Bridge station in November of 2006. Three groups performed: the e-a improv quartet of Tom Chant, Ross Lambert, Sebastian Lexer and Matt Milton; the trumpet/Indian harmonium duo of Jamie Coleman and Mark Wastell; and the AMM duo of Eddie Prevost and John Tilbury.
Language Of Flames And Sound
2003 release ** Released in a brain-shaped gatefold cardboard sleeve in a hand-numbered limited edition of 544 copies. "Finally we are going for the re-edition of this great Maëror Tri album. Power for the right side of the brain! Our world is dominated by the left brain hemisphere. M.T. is here supporting the theory that it is necessary to stimulate and challenge the right hemisphere in order to get back to an equal activity of the two brain sides. Best Shamanic Meditation music of the industri…
Multiple Personality Disorder
2009 release ** "A concept CD divided in four long parts recorded back in 1991 that fully showcase their mastery in distorting and layering guitar sounds."
Siona
2006 release ** Limited to 150 handnumbered copies. "This is released on the experimental (noise / power electronics) sub-label of The Eastern Front, which otherwise specialises in more subdued music. This is a collaboration between Flutwacht and Vincenzo Bossi, two projects from Germany, and Siona is already their eighth release. Siona was "performed and recorded live without audience", which suggests a number of options, of which a live, one-take performance is probably the most likely. This C…
Dos Manos
2012 release ** "Woody Jackson has collaborated on soundtracks ("The Devil Wears Prada," "Youth in Revolt," "American History X") and on the works of artists like Badly Drawn Boy and Daniel Johnston. Devoted to Morricone-inspired influences, he threw himself into this new soundtrack, perfectly adhering to its canons. "Dos Manos" is an almost entirely instrumental album, slow, warm, and enveloping, and, inevitably, a bit lacking when deprived of its visual counterpart. This is common when soundtr…
Judas II
2010 release ** Pete Wright and Martin Wilson from Crass.
Like A Packed Cupboard But Quite...
2003 release ** "The curiously titled „Like a packed cupboard but quite...“ is the 2nd release for the Dekorder label by Un Caddie Renversé dans l’Herbe a.k.a. Dídac P. Lagarriga from Barcelona, Spain after his beautiful 3“CD „Now there’s a weird taste in my mouth“. Not unlike his previous works which have been compared to the likes of Pascal Comelade, Asa Chang & Junray, Penguin Café Orchestra and Steve Beresford, the album’s using repetition and simplicity, melody and warmth, charm and a posit…
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The Reversed Supermarket Trolley Flies Towards The Rainbow
2006 release ** Limited edition of 388 handnumbered copies with gimmick cover. "A good description of this work is that it's a live recording of a birthday party, with scattered improvisational music and voices of children. It's rather gentle for the most part, save for the occasional scream of a child which you get a taste of in the beginning."