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Tre Notti D'Amore
A superb album expressing the grooviest and jazziest side of Piero Piccioni. From Pop-Jazz to Exotica, with a truly percussive rhythm section spiced by charming flute phrases (played by Gino Marinacci) and baritone sax passages (played by Gato Barbieri). A must-have for any serious soundtrack jazz lover. Four Flies launches its new jazz series dedicated to top Italian soundtracks from the 1960’s with this extraordinary work by Piero Piccioni: 3 Notti D'Amore (3 Nights of Love). Originally releas…
Italia: Ultimo Atto?
In 1977, in the midst of a period of political turmoil and social unrest that went down in Italian history as “years of lead”, screenwriter and director Massimo Pirri made a film no one else had the courage to make: Italia: ultimo atto? (Could It Happen Here?). Here, Pirri explores the controversial (and, in the 70s, very current) topic of left-wing armed struggle. He does so through a storyline that is almost prophetic: in the film, a mysterious ultra-leftwing armed group plans and executes the…
Eternal Anguish / Come Back! Rhythm
At last available on 7” two of the more danceable tracks of the whole Black Emanuelle musical canon, written by the celebrated dream team Nico Fidenco (composer) and Giacomo Dell’Orso (arranger and conductor) for legendary cult director Joe D’Amato. Sensually haunting synths, hypnotic drums, and mellow and persuasive bass lines. A unique disco sound that will have DJs around the world rejoice! Funky Emanuelle for your pleasure!
Nord 1st Album
First ever official reissue after 36 years! Remastered and expanded edition, it remains one of the holy grails of DIY electronics from Japan. Hazy and drugged, this entrancing 1981 recording by the infamous Nord is a must-have for anyone who is into claustrophobic and destroyed ambient of the most disturbing, affecting kind. "Nord, consisting of Satoshi Katayama and Hiroshi Oikawa, were one of the leading groups in the Japanese underground music scene of the 1980s. The group's two members now pe…
Concert 1975
Yasumi No Kuni, long-running Japanese folk group, originally formed in 1969 by the members of Jacks & Teruyuki Takahashi, recorded live just after Fy Fan second album.
New Songs Of The Humpback Whale
Packaged in a deluxe, heavy duty 6 panel digipak and insert containing an essay from David Rothenberg and Michael Deal designed whale song visualizations. What record album was so important that ten million copies of it needed to be pressed at once? You guessed it. Songs of the Humpback Whale. In 1979 National Geographic Magazine inserted a flexible "sound page" inside the back cover of all of its editions in twenty-five languages, and that is supposedly how many they printed. No human pop star …
Avant-Dernieres Pensees: Selected Piano Works
Avant-Dernières Pensées collects together several of Erik Satie's best known compositions, including the famously poised Trois Gymnopédies, all six haunting Gnossiennes, and Je te Veux. Also included are more experimental pieces such as Descriptions Automatiques and Sports et Divertissements, an extraordinary collection of 21 miniatures from 1914 with illustrations by Charles Martin.
The album also finds space for Satie's single-act, neo-Dada lyric comedy Le Piège de Médusa, comprising 'seven ti…
Quei Disperati Che Puzzano Di Sudore E Di Morte (Original Soundtrack)
Los Desperados was released in 1967, and all that was issued from the soundtrack was two tracks on a 45 rpm single, one track being a vocal by john Balfour and also a short orchestral track on the B side of the record. Balfour has a distinct sounding voice, nearly as unique as that of fellow vocalist Raoul. Versions of the song are repeated throughout the soundtrack and make an appearance on 5 occasions during its duration. The score by Gianni Ferrio, is not a typical example of Italian western …
The Pre-Tenses
** 50 copies. The cassette comes with two laserprinted and xeroxed inserts** Recorded 1995 & 1996 at home in Portland Oregon USA. Surrealistic sounds by Smegma veterans Ju Suk Reet Meate and Oblivia. Recorded in 1995 and edited by Ju Suk in 2021. A collage of otherworldly music.
'I'm not sure how we got some of the sounds going'
Zombi (Colonna Sonora Originale Del Film)
*2022 stock* This is the soundtrack of George Romero's classic nasty gore movie. Consequently some songs are directly in the vein of Goblin's proggy eccentricities, including bizarre arrangements and some others are totally reserved for the film and off course difficult to listen to outside of the context. The introduction theme figures among Goblin's ultimate classics, it delivers a massive, lugubrious atmosphere for doom bass lines, scary synth melodies and heavy drums. The title track takes b…
Words
** Limited edition of 70. The cassette comes with a laser printed insert** Clark Coolidge (1939) grew up in Providence, Rhode Island and attended Brown University before moving to New York in the early 1960s. In New York he befriended Ted Berrigan and saw his first book Flag Flutter & U.S. Electric published in 1966. Coolidge moved to San Francisco the next year, where he joined the psych-folk band The Serpent Power as a jazz drummer. His poetry has been published extensively since. Among his ma…
Ultra Sounds - The Sonic Art of Polish Radio Experimental Studio
* 2020 Stock * Ultra Sounds is the first study of the Polish Radio Experimental Studio (PRES), an early »laboratory« for the production of electronic and electro-acoustic music, and the first of its kind in the Eastern Bloc. It was established in fall 1957. Composers and engineers working there produced some of the most original and often challenging electronic music, »musique concrète« and radio plays of the era. The Studio formed an island of international connection, hosting many leading comp…
Politics and Aesthetics in Electronic Music
* 2020 Stock * Sanne Krogh Groth's Politics and Aesthetics in Electronic Music A Study of EMS – Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm, 1964-1979, is the first book that explore the history of the Swedish electronic music studio EMS. EMS was established in 1964 with the intent to create an international center for research in sound and sound perception, and to build one of the world's most advanced hybrid studios. The principal creators of the studio were rooted in Swedish modernism, and had the EMS-pro…
Telmegiddo
White vinyl with white labels and white polylined inner sleeves. Edition of 100 numbered copies with paste-on cover. Telmegiddo was the last tape-decomposition by Maurizio Bianchi and was recorded in February 1983 after the Armaghedon LP. Apocalyptic echo-sounds, originally decomposed at Mectpyo Studio in February 1983. Unofficially issued as cassette tape in 1990 with the given title of "Extreme Man 2". Bakterihabitat by M.B. contains sound sketches that were later used in Telmegiddo. Mixture o…
Interferencias Vol. 1: Spanish Synth Wave 1980-1989
Double LP version.Double LP version. At the dawn of synth pop, an army of machines was
ready to inflict a strange defeat on rock. Traditional music from that
era could be set ablaze thanks to the new artistic channels that the
democratic transition in Spain had forged. Synth pop settled in the
urban centers of major cities across the Iberian Peninsula; a feverish
start to one of the few labels that can be claimed as genuinely Spanish:
tecno pop. An Iberian version of the minimal synth soun…
Composiciones Nativas
Subtitled "Music for Native Peruvian Instruments and Magnetophonic Tape (1978)" this is a wonderful collection of pieces composed between 1976 & 1978 at the Royal College's EMS by Peruvian composer Arturo Ruiz del Pozo. Ranging from extended tape-loop meditations to application of mystical folk instrumentation & enharmonic percussion sonorities, this is an incredibly eye-opening survey of the work of a composer of whose work I was completely unfamiliar prior to this issue.Like many countries in …
Voces a 45
**250 copies white vinyl** Orfeon Gagarin is the Miguel A. Ruiz's main project, a veteran electronic musician from Madrid (Spain). Ruiz's music has been the best-kept secret of Spanish underground electronics since the early '80s until now, although he's not as well known internationally as other contemporary musicians (Esplendor Geométrico, Francisco López, or Diseño Corbusier, to name but a few). In 1986 he released his first cassette on his own (now legendary) Toracic Tapes label. Since then …
Ciclos
Tajak is a Mexican trio of psychedelia, drone and shoegaze, a powerful sound that has made them one of the revelations of psychedelia emerged in Latin America, which has led them to play in various international festivals. Ciclos represents the maturity of a sound and is an effort from the band to represent a path, going through the different facets of being, in a plane that transcends time. The trio chose to experiment with new ways of composing experiences. This album is a trip through the nev…
Wire Recorded Pieces
**Audiophile transparent clear vinyl; Includes CD** Subtitled 'Precocious Noise and Early Electronica Pt. 2' it's an astonishing compilation with fully remastered soud, for those who are not familiar with the fascinating world of primal electronica, noise, sound design, industrial, avant-garde, tape-music, etc. Features Johanna M. Beyer, Bengt Hambraeus, Franco Evangelisti, Remi Gassmanny, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Halim El-Dabh, Pierre Henry, Else Marie Pade, Herbert Eimert, The Blue Men, György Li…
Take A Knife And Open My Heart
Sound Miracle Recordings presents a collection of thirteen ancient
pieces of primitive flamenco music from the 1930s onwards. Flamenco
music has been admired throughout the world for centuries. Fascinating
unique, esoteric and mysterious, alloy of fire and witchcraft. Flamenco
is much more than that. It has something of folk, something of sacred
music, something of "blues": it is a unique music in the world, born of
many factors and opposite and antagonistic elements, like its country of
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