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J Jazz: Free and Modern Jazz From Japan 1954-1988 (Book + CD)
BBE Music is thrilled to present J Jazz: Free and Modern Jazz From Japan 1954-1988, a remarkable large-format book covering some of the deepest, rarest, and most innovative jazz music released anywhere in the post-war era. Compiled by Tony Higgins an…
Dah Nah
"Okinawa-born tenor sax star Ryusei Tomoyose famously studied under Sadao Watanabe in Tokyo words the final part of the 190s. Once his studies were complete, he went home and decided to focus on teaching and nurturing young musicians, which he did fo…
Sphēra
Fusing decades of underground New York jazz with contemporary electronics, Daniel Carter and N/UM’s Sphēra takes listeners on a spontaneous and daring journey through generations of improvised music. A telepathic meeting between the mellowed out, oct…
Live At The Hungry Brain
A cross-generational summit between the legendary pianist Marilyn Crispell (member of the Anthony Braxton Quartet and Reggie Workman Ensemble) and Midwest improvising trio of bass clarinetist Jason Stein, bassist Damon Smith, and drummer Adam Shead…
Biologia
300 copies. Rural psych-jazz improvisations by Finnish bastard sons of Arbete & Fritid! This sextet - featuring Toni Laakso, Janne Martinkauppi, Sami Pekkola, Daniel Stolle, Erno Taipale and Ilkka Vekka - delivers some serious countryside free music …
The Ritual Year - Soundtrack To The English Calendar Customs Artwork Of Dave Pearson. 1973–1983
This limited edition seven-inch vinyl record comes housed within a hand-made manilla sleeve, expertly screen printed at Small Press Studio in Stockport by Yasmin Lever. Along with the 12min vinyl comes an A4 insert and download code. Between 2014-16,…
Then Again
November 1978. Henry Cow disbands after a decade of music that redefined the boundaries of experimental rock. November 2022. Four founding members return to the stage. Not to look back - but to improvise the present.
Fred Frith (guitar, violin, elect…
Peel
*2026 much needed repres!!* KMRU is the moniker of Joseph Kamaru, a sound artist and producer based in Nairobi. One of the leading exponents of the burgeoning experimental music scene in Nairobi and beyond, he was listed by Resident Advisor as one of…
Episodes
Sun Electric - the legendary Berlin duo of Tom Thiel and Max Loderbauer - returns with Episodes, an enticing new album. While the pair has been active and creating over the years (remember their track 'Every Now And Then' on the 10 Years De:tuned com…
The Wild Joy
Uncompromised drone music to elevate your soul and flesh.
At Source
Caterina Barbieri & Bendik Giske's At Source resounds music as wellspring, that which is essential and unknowable, and yet utterly primary. It finds two acclaimed composer-musicians building a world together in self-contained collaboration between an…
Freedom, Rhythm & Sound - Chapter Two (Book)
Hardcover, 297x297mm, 224pp. Over 15 years after the groundbreaking first volume, Soul Jazz Records returns with Freedom, Rhythm & Sound: Chapter Two - a stunning visual documentation of revolutionary jazz artwork from the 1960s-1980s. Originally com…
Radials
For AI-38 Italian duo LF58 (Giuseppe Tillieci and Filippo Scorcucchi) present ‘Radials’. A site-specific concept piece that was recorded live on location in Venice, Radials showcases the powerful and transportive sound world which LF58 have become kn…
Sleep/Spiracle
The soundtrack to Pipilotti Rist‘s ‘4th Floor to Mildness‘, the mesmerising and meditative installation showing at Strange Days. Edition of 500. Pipilotti Rist’s (b.1962) mesmerising works envelop viewers in vibrantly coloured kaleidoscopic projectio…
U TA
In November 2017, something extraordinary happened in Shibuya. As Shuta Hasunuma began conjuring otherworldly sounds from a single Buchla Music Easel modular synthesizer, Keiji Haino—one of Japan's most uncompromising experimental voices—responded by…
Destino Scifosi
Power trio brought together by Yann Gourdon on hurdy gurdy, Jérémie Sauvage on bass and Mathieu Tilly on drums, France take drone and minimalism at their most ecstatic and massive
Waterfall Horizon
Neo Gibson records, performs, and produces as 7038634357, a project that has been pushing the boundaries of digital composition since 2016. Based in New York City, Gibson's work exists at the intersection of minimalist composition, electronic music, …
Appearance/Music for Solo Performer
Big tip! Beyond Rare! These historical recordings of a 1967 concert at Hope College in Michigan involving John Cage, Toshi Ichiyanagi and David Tudor, performing compositions by Ichiyanagi and Alvin Lucier, were recently discovered in an archive in J…
Fragmenter 2020/23
Ghostly industrial from One of my favorite local projects. 60 minutes of warm and dreamlike tape music. This recording is for me a perfect example of how music for magnetic tape can feel as organic as the vibrations of a string or the humming of a vo…
Tectonic
On Tectonic, Simon Berz turns drums, electronics and electronically manipulated Icelandic basalt into a roaming, 15‑year travelogue: club‑pressured rhythms, gamelan echoes and cavernous ambience formed with stones as both instrument and co‑author.