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Trees Speak
Repress of Trees Speak 1st album The music was live in one room with no overdubs or repairs, only using edits to create arrangements. All tracks were written over a 5 day period at Sacred Machine Studio and Dust & Stone Studio
Witness Marks - The Works Of John B. McLemore
New York painter and musician Tor Lundvall initially envisioned his 14th album, Beautiful Illusions, as an entirely instrumental affair, “inspired by memories of sitting in a church or cathedral watching the shifting sunlight through stained glass.” Although he ultimately chose to wreath the majority of the tracks with hushed, poetic vocals, his original muse still resonates. These are certainly songs of shadowplay and vaulted skies, the quiet grandeur of dusk deepening on the horizon. Lundvall …
The Bob Lens Archives vol. 1
* Edition of 60 * The early 1980's, Dutch Fluxus artist Bob Lens was working in NY at the time. He recorded his tours in the city, soundscapes intended for use in later works.Bob catalogues the bridges he passes, the neighborhoods. He talks to passers-by and ends up in the loft of La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela where a concert is going on
Spontaneous combustion
A 2 CD issue of the 2013 LP with 78 additional minutes, from the two day residency at UK's Cafe Oto of Decoy with special guest Joe McPhee on pocket trumpet and alto sax.
The Art Ensemble of Chicago and Associated Ensembles
The Art Ensemble of Chicago and Associated Ensembles is a 21-CD limited and numbered edition issued as the standard-bearers of Great Black Music prepare to celebrate their 50th anniversary. Both the Art Ensemble of Chicago and ECM Records were founded in 1969, and there have been many shared experiences. As Roscoe Mitchell says, “It has been amazing to have taken this journey together.”With their first ECM album, the widely-acclaimed Nice Guys, the Art Ensemble’s revolutionary and polystylistic …
Home Boy, Sister Out
CD Edition. Don Cherry's downtown Paris funk masterwork Home Boy, Sister Out, produced in 1985 by Ramuntcho Matta and originally released by Barclay in France only, finally gets a worldwide release on Wewantsounds. Featuring French post-punk muse Elli Medeiros, avant-garde poet Brion Gysin, and cult Senegalese drummer Abdoulaye Prosper Niang (Xalam), this is a unique soundbite of Paris in the early '80s at its coolest when funk, jazz, and new wave were mingling with sounds from Africa, Jamaica, …
Approdi 2, Avanguardie Musicali a Napoli - Volume II
**300 copies** Avant-garde and experimental musics are intrinsically connected to community, collectivism, support, and collaboration. Audiences and artists, stretching to every corner of the globe, continuously rely on each other to push into ever more ambitious realms. This spirit of discourse has always been central to the multigenerational contexts of avant-garde and experimental music from Italy. For decades, neglected and over looked by their international peers, the country’s musicians an…
Sea Breeze
George Otsuka, sadly passed away in March 2020, was one of Japan’s most renowned jazz drummers. After three records with the George Otsuka Trio in the late part of the 60’s, “Sea Breeze” was released in 1971 on the Union label, his first record in quintet formation and a superb album which showcases the thrilling talent of this band. Included the brilliant jazz-funk track “Sea Breeze” and the astonishing cover of “Fool on the Hill”.
Live At The Sunset
*2022 stock* Futura Marge presents Live At The Sunset by Other Dimensions In Music (Roy Campbell trumpet, pocket trumpet, flugelhorn, flute, recorder & double flageolet, Daniel Carter alto saxophone, flute, trumpet & voice, William Parker double bass & musette & Hamid Drake drums & skin drum).Recorded in Paris at the Sunset on October 17th & 18th, 2006
Wha's Nine (Live At The Sunset)
*2022 stock* Futura Marge presents Wha's Nine by Trio 3 (Oliver Lake alto saxophone, Reggie Workman doublebass & Andrew Cyrille drums).
Recorded in Paris on October 28th 2007, live at the Sunset.
Shape
*2022 stock* Futura Marge presents Shape by Alexandra Grimal (tenor & soprano saxophones ), Antonin Rayon (Hammond & Clavinet) & Emmanuel Scarpa (drums) .
Recorded on June 30th 2008 at the Sunset, Paris. Digipak.
A Night In Paris (Live At The Sunset)
*2022 stock* Futura Marge presents A Night In Paris / Live at the Sunset by FAB Trio (Joe Fonda doublebass, Barry Altschul drums & Billy Bang violin).
Recorded on April 19th 2008 at The Sunset, Paris.
Recorded live in Paris at the Sunside on July 22nd, 2006. ℗ & © 2006 Terronès
Existences
*2022 stock* Futura Marge presents Existences by Trio Passeurs (Véronique Magdelenat alto and soprano sax, Bernard Santacruz doublebass & Christian Rollet drums).
Recorded live 15th november 2008 at l'AJMI - La Manutention in Avignon (France)
Je joue pour faire de la fumée L'image éconduite
Much needed release by one of most underrated French electro-acoustic genius, Philippe Mion assembles here a delicious collection of electronic and acoustic sounds, and interleaves them in ways that might be described as fugal. The texture is rich and complex, and yet spare enough to enable each sound combination to be enjoyed to the fullest. This double set features the legendary L'Image Éconduite composition, that was originally a 70-minute composition on 4-track tape (that was trimmed to 57 m…
The Vanity Box Vol. 1
The Vanity Box Vol. 1 presents an anthology of releases by legendary Japanese DIY label Vanity, active in the late '70s and early '80s. The box includes 5 LPs which offer the following contents:LP-1 R.N.A. Organism - R.N.A. Organism Meets P.O.P.O.(Vanity 0006, originally released in 1980)This is the only album by the anonymous unit, R.N.A. Organism. The album is based on a cassette tape which was airmailed from London. It also happens to be the first group produced by Kaoru Sato of EP-4. R.N.A. …
Vanity Records 'Demos'
This 2xLP set collects a series of recordings recently discovered in Agi Yuzuru's archives and never released before on vinyl. It offers further insights about legendary Japanese cult DIY label Vanity Records and some of their groups. The 2xLP set includes the following contents:LP-1 Den Sei Kwan - P' (unpublished)An unpublished album from the cassette tapes owned by Aki Joe. The Den Sei Kwan's crashing style of Pocket Planetaria recurs in a more intense form with increased compositional power. …
The Fifth Column Years
VOD presents The Fifth Column Years by Ice 9. This double LP release contains 1981 and P.F.L.P. Ice 9 was a collective centered around Onnyk (Yoshiaki Kinno) a well-known on the field of Japan's underground and free improvisation, acted as 'The Fifth Column", also called 'Daigoretsu', in mid 70's to 80's.
in.version
*300 copies* The 90's run of :zoviet*france: is, what I consider to be, a divisive time for long time fans of the group. Gone are the days of wild and experimental sound collages and grating industrial, ritualistic ambient banger's and in its place is a more subdued and droning affair. During this period especially the groups hallmark sound would be twisted and shifted into what amounted to a swill of limp krautrock inspired dark ambient. Their live albums especially, are long and desolate treks…
The Decriminalisation of Country Music
* 300 copies * As Glasgow's Tramway building evolved from train station into arts space, Zoviet France were present recording the ambient sounds for use in their commissioned themes for the Scottish Arts Council. Though you'd hardly believe it from the mostly non industrial nature of these very comfortable soundscapes. Five tracks range between five and twelve minutes apiece and the remaining four serve as in-between filler. In "Something Spooked the Horses" a constant warm drone and panning …
A Long Walk
VOD presents the first physical release of this 2011 recording by Zoviet France.