Emil Beaulieau, the persona of RRRecords founder Ron Lessard and America's Greatest Living Noise Artist, on a 7" lathe cut: two untitled sides of turntable abuse and recycled sound, thirty numbered copies on black, clear and white vinyl.
Two sunken treasures from the same Copenhagen underground, gathered here as a pair. On one LP, Predetermination: The Contemporary Jazz Quartet caught in 1964 alongside Sunny Murray and Gary Peacock - the rhythm section of Albert Ayler's Spiritual Uni…
One of the most influential dub albums ever made. The remixing techniques used – radically new for 1973 – helped transform the role of the producer and the engineer to that of creative artists in their own right.
When you’re a three-piece, every move must mean. There’s no place to escape, and no one to hide behind. This might be why Unmarry Me’s slim body of recordings so far – one seven inch, one shared single with Lung Leg and Lora Logic, and now this, a fi…
Cien Fuegos present a reissue of Schlippenbach Quartet's Three Nails Left, a classic mid-1970s originally released on FMP in 1975 and showing Schlippenbach is in sublime form. It features a stellar line-up, with Evan Parker - soprano and tenor saxop…
Barre Phillips on double bass, Catherine Jauniaux on voice and Malcolm Goldstein on violin, live at Victoriaville on 22 May 2010: three veteran improvisers in a delicate, conversational trio.
Jean Derome and Louis Sclavis share a quartet with Bruno Chevillon on double bass and Pierre Tanguay on drums, live at Victoriaville on 19 May 2001: flutes, clarinets and saxophone on compositions by both leaders.
Nat Birchall goes back to the source. Not Coltrane this time, but the record that led him to Coltrane in the first place.
In 1973 a schoolboy in Lancashire ordered a triple LP from his local record shop after reading about it in Black Music magazine.…
Passiflora, the tenth edition of the Music To Watch Seeds Grow By series: KiF Productions follow the passion flower from seed to bloom and back to earth in nine collaged ambient pieces. Cassette.
NoBusiness Records is proud to announce the release of New Light, a previously issued live recording featuring three singular figures in the history of free jazz and improvised music: legendary drummer Sunny Murray, multi-instrumentalist Arthur Doyle…
NoBusiness Records is proud to present Incantations, an extraordinary live recording featuring three uncompromising voices of free jazz and spontaneous composition: pioneering drummer Sunny Murray, visionary multi-instrumentalist Arthur Doyle, and th…
Francis Dhomont’s 51-minute acousmatic descent into schizophrenia, built on the writings of RD Laing and on the single note B natural, winner at Bourges in 1981 and first issued by the Ina-GRM in 1982.
Shingetsu's later studio record: songs the Japanese symphonic rock band wrote before splitting in 1981, recorded long after the fact and released by Belle Antique in 2016, with the 1979 demo of a key piece.
A Bi Kyo Ran concert recorded at the Bourbon House in Osaka on 22 March 1983 by the trio of Kunio Suma, Masahide Shiratori and Masaaki Nagasawa: four long pieces including the suite Ran and the sixteen-minute Double.
The 1974 second solo album by Finnish bassist Pekka Pohjola of Wigwam: an instrumental suite of jazz-rock and progressive writing for bass, keyboards and a horn section, issued in the UK by Virgin as B The Magpie.
The 1978 debut album by the Belgian band Isopoda from Aalst: melodic symphonic progressive rock with twelve-string guitar, flute, piano and organ, recorded at Just Born Studio in Hekelgem and first issued on Twinkle.
Gryphon's 2018 comeback, their first studio album in 41 years: Brian Gulland, Graeme Taylor and Dave Oberlé joined by Graham Preskett, Andy Findon and Rory McFarlane, with the crumhorns and the humour intact.
Gryphon's fourth album from 1975, more song-based and electric, with Malcolm Bennett on bass and flute, a Beatles cover, Mellotron and Minimoog, and the 16-minute (Ein Klein) Heldenleben by Richard Harvey closing the record.
Gryphon's third album, from 1974: four long instrumental movements named after the moves of a chess game, joining crumhorn, bassoon and recorders to electric keyboards and rock drums. Toured in support of Yes.