The Encyclopedia of Civilizations Vol. 5: Babylon
Fifth volume of "The Encyclopedia of Civilizations", Abstrakce's collection of split LPs where selected artists offer their own insight into fascinating ancient cultures. This time the focus is on the enigmatic Babylon, visited by two of the label's …
Tales From The Skinny Apartment
*2023 stock* Tales from the Skinny Apartment is somewhere around the 20th or so Painted Faces release...Drucker has long lost count. He runs/curates gigs (and records at) the Skinny Apartment, his dwelling place in Ridgewood Queens, which some folks …
Delphi
*50 copies limited edition* The Delphi was one of the greatest silent movie cinemas of Berlin. It was in operation since the late 20s, it shone in its own golden era, was bombed during the Second World War, was closed and then reused as a warehouse; …
Don't Eat Food!
A high-octane tour-de-force widely considered in Japan to be one of the all-time greatest punk records, 1981's Don’t Eat Food! remains shockingly unknown to the rest of the world. Led by literate but unhinged Machida Machizo, a magnetic stage presenc…
Vätterns Pärla
Tip! As an important agent of Gothenburg’s underground scene, Dan Johansson has been a member of several experimental harsh noise projects such as Sewer Election, and lo-fi indie folk bands like Enhet För Fri Musik and Amateur Hour. Ordeal is his lat…
Love / Hate
Originally intended as the intro to a special edition of the radio broadcast “Abenteuer Forschung” (Adventures in Research) on “sexuality and romance in digital postmodernism”, the composition collages countless “love” samples from the R&B genre. The…
New Bodies
*2023 stock* First two tracks and Side A of New Bodies. From Los Angeles, also of Open City – first full length-- single takes, live--Intensely physical and abstract music that constantly, unpredictably shifts and evolves. Impulse, memory and intent,…
Synthetic Bird Music
When you listen to birds, they usually talk about food, sex/family, or anxiety. If they knew about the true nature of humanity's cruel and exploitative relationship with birds, they would be discussing rebellion. Humanity's current trajectory about b…
tellKujira
tellKujira was born in autumn 2020. Since then it has self-produced a series of artistic residencies, focusing on improvisation and collective writing, instant composition, timber, prepared instruments, alternative tunings. It is in this process that…
Long Gradus
** Double LP, black vinyl, with 12 page booklet, with 4 tracks and feature the Bozzini Quartet's string quartet version of Long Gradus ** A new longform commissioned work for any ensemble of four similar instruments. The definitive string quartet ver…
血と雫 Je Prie pour que la Goutte ne Tombe pas
* ltd to 400, black vinyl, color silkscreened jacket with obi (white, dark blue), inserts and a postcard * Je prie pour que la goutte ne tombe pas (I pray that the drop does not fall) is the first international release by Japanese trio Chi To Shizuku…
Sun & Fireworks
* LP ltd to 400, black vinyl, silkscreened jacket with obi (orange, dark blue), inserts and a postcard * Sun & Fireworks is the first studio recording, after several live albums, for Los Doroncos, the Japanese psych rock quartet led by Kiyohiro Takad…
Lo Becat
Opening a glimmering window into the brilliant scene currently percolating in Strasbourg, France, Morc Records returns with “Lo Becat”, their first offering from the stunning creative duo of Lise Barkas and Lisa Käuffert. Rendered on two bagpipes, in…
Kleenex / Liliput (Book)
Liliput (formerly Kleenex) was a female band that came out of Switzerland at the peak of the punk artistic fervor. The diary of guitar player Marlene Marder recounts the life of Zurich’s first all-female band, lavishly illustrated and documented with…
Military Arms
Irma Krook, a sound artist based in Gothenburg, made her debut with "Military Arms." Primarily recognized as the bassist and original member of the death pop avant-garde group Makthaverskan, Krook has created four tracks of sublime beauty within the …
Like Swimming
* Housed in gatefold sleeve with OBI style spine cover, includes 20 page booklet (lyrics, photos, ephemera, artwork by Mark Sandman, liner notes, and credits). Inner sleeves printed Light In The Attic advertising. Red Vinyl * Modern Classic Recording…
The Night
* Housed in gatefold sleeve with OBI style spine cover, includes 20 page booklet (lyrics, photos, ephemera, artwork by Mark Sandman, liner notes, and credits). Inner sleeves printed Light In The Attic advertising. Purple Vinyl * Modern Classic Record…
Utopie
Giusto Pio is mainly remembered for his collaboration with Battiato, with whom he co-arranged and wrote many of his unquestionable pop masterpieces, in which Giusto's fairy violin soared from classical virtuosities overflowing with melody and flashes…
Maavak - Music & Noise 1980-2023
Mega tip! *300 copies limited edition. Sold out at source* Celebrating 50 years of musical, artistic, and political efforts in Sweden and around the world, Maavak is a two 10-CD box set that presents the intense, present, sometimes fragile, and often…
Minna Tanoshiku Shonen Knife
After K Records founder Calvin Johnson found a copy of their official debut from Zero Records ‘Burning Farm’, in a record crate, he would release it in the United States, where it found its way to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. The resulting tour (and…