Tsugaru Jongara Bushi - Drum & Tsugaru Jamisen
A unique Japanese funk masterpiece from 1973, in which Rinsyoe Kida, Tsugaru's shamisen Maestro, and Akira Ishikawa, one of Japan's most loved and celebrated leading drummers, as well as experimenter and brilliant composer, performed together. The ancient sound of the shamisen ride on the finest funk and the intense groove of Ishikawa. An extraordinary audiophile-quality recordings.
Library Music - Volume 1 (13CD Box)
* Edition of 100 copies. White wooden box set, numbered. From the original master tapes. Includes a booklet. * Piero Umiliani is unquestionably one of the most consistent figures in terms of soundtrack music and library music worldwide. This precious 13CD Box is dedicated to the period of greatest maturity and artistic freedom which coincides with the creation of his personal studio: the Sound Work Shop. The 82 square meter room is elaborated with a particular acoustic treatment suitable for mul…
Paesaggi
**Limited edition vinyl 1971 album cover. 700 copies** Finally putting an end to a long wait for library music lovers, Four Flies Records is proud to present the first reissue of Piero Umiliani's Paesaggi – a record that, despite remaining for many years pretty obscure compared to other titles in the maestro's discography, is now regarded by collectors and experts as the gold standard in Italian library music. Originally released in two versions with different sleeves, the first on Liuto Record…
1754
**100 copies limited edition** The book is an ongoing list of records which have just fonts on the cover, so with no images or illustrations. It’s both a physical and virtual collection carried out for years by the author. It neither follows any musical genre nor personal preference. The title stands for the number of titles listed.
A Trip Around the World
* Yellow Vinyl * Finally available, the maestro Alessandro Alessandroni's holy grail "A Trip Around the World" reissued on fresh wax! The result of the collaboration between Sonor, the original producer and distributor Btf and Saar Records, original publisher - Limited edition of 300 copies only released on green vinyl This insane masterpiece, largerly considered among the very best Alessandroni's albums, is also one of the most elusive Italian Library recordings out there. The dreamy orchestr…
The Quest For The Chalice Of Life
Elytheria lies in ruins! Cities are being deserted as people flee in panic from the undead force that rose in the southern kingdom. For generations, the prophecy has been thought nothing more than a tale to fright children. Yet still, a fortnight ago, it proved to be true.It was said that if a king's firstborn son were to die on a full moon, the Lichs would return and lay siege over the rule of the kingdom. And indeed, under their mighty spells the dead have been rising from their graves to wrea…
Kowloon Neon-City (Episode Two)
HDK is proud to introduce you the second episode of "Kowloon Neon City", the immaginary distopic and retro-futuristic anime released in 199X. In this second part, the story moves from the rejected city of Kowloon to its double Olympus. We will discover a world permeated by technology that brings many aspects of our reality forward, to the extreme consequences. Mei and Cheng, once again the protagonists of this story, have to fight for their lives against the global sistem of surveillance. And we…
Новая Земля
October 30, 1961 at 11:30 a.m. (Moscow time) is unleashed in Mitjusicha Bay, island of Novaya Zemlya, the most powerful hydrogen bomb ever built. The Tzar-Bomb had a detonation power of more than 3000 times the power of the bomb thrown on Hiroshima. Its radius of destruction was 35 km. and the fire reached a height of 64 km. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_BombaAfter that test, the world wondered whether to continue the research in nuclear devices. It would have been a dead end lane leading to self d…
Vanexa
Vanexa fights in the 99th year of the Holistic Era in the League of Chrononauts, who protect the good future from the bad one. Vanexa has the power to steal people's shadows, and tonight she wants to steal the shadow of Xiao Xiao, the illegitimate son of the Supreme Manager of the Asian Totalitarian Exchange visiting Moscow-5: she wants to ask for a millionaire ransom and thus finance the hacker-guerilla of the Digital Liberation Front.However, a sniper kills Xiao Xiao before she can carry out h…
A Dungeon In The Tundra
Why have you gone so far, into this desolate and inhospitable land? What can be buried under this frozen earth? The legends of the nomadic peoples, some rumors of the miners, a strange dream, so vivid... the last outpost was a ruined tower dating back to a war no one remembers anymore. Useful for sheltering from the thin wolves, with the eyes full of blood, that mysteriously live in this cursed land. In the dream's vision the access into the earth was like you are seeing it now. The map scrawled…
De Fabriek
*200 copies limited edition* "Sometimes a beautiful score is handed to you on a silver platter, as was the case with De Fabriek (English: The Factory), a tv show that ran from 1981 to 1982 in the Netherlands. Back then I was just a small child and did not know much about the series, but, if I remember correctly, I was told at the time that the music was pretty good. The music was composed by Ruud Bos, who has written a lot of music for Dutch media in the ‘70s and ‘80s. If you are Dutch and have …
Emanuelle And The White Slave Trade
* Exclusive translucent red with black splatter * The Emanuelle soundtracks are well known among collectors with originals fetching three figures and re-releases being in high demand. Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade has never been released on vinyl before now, giving collectors an opportunity to own this album of Italian disco and library sounds for the first time. We can always trust Nico Fidenco to give us a sexy soundtrack – and this time around, he definitely does that, but also adds in …
Teorema
* 180gr clear transparent vinyl * Teorema is a film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, – and about half of the soundtrack was written by Ennio Morricone, in a mixture of dark, edgey themes, and some more groovy tunes with a great late 60s Italy feel – an early moment of genius for the maestro, augmented by some Mozart numbers that further complicate the soundtrack! Publicly presented for the first time in September 1968 at the International Film Festival in Venice; it immediately shocked its viewe…
La Stagione dei Sensi
* 180gr clear transparent vinyl * "La stagione dei sensi" (also known as "Season of the senses") is a 1969 film directed by Massimo Franciosa, perfect son its time: a pop-coloured cauldron, - whose screenplay had also been written by Dario Argento - which mixes mystery, sensuality, eroticism and morbid atmospheres in an exotic and fascinating context, inside of a castle on an island in the middle of the sea. Ennio Morricone's soundtrack is very varied and, in some ways, atypical; in fact, there…
Vergogna Schifosi
* Ltd. Ed. Clear transparent vinyl * A great little soundtrack from Ennio Morricone with an overall dreamy feel to the best numbers on the set! "Vergogna schifosi" is a 1969 movie directed by Mauro Severino, a "Generation '68" film whose aim is to depict a social protest against the middle-class youth of the time, with the deserted - as empty as the protagonists - city of Milan in the background; everything is tied together by a mysterious murder that occurred years before, resurfaced by a myste…
Dreams For Sax (LP)
Another gem from the extensive Flipper Music catalog, more precisely from their Flower sublabel, "Dreams For Sax" is possibly one of the most stand-out productions from their studio ensemble Gruppo Sound, this time around featuring saxophonist Paolo Russo with keyboardists Stefano Galante and Vittorio Quattrini. First released in 1987, the songs recorded for "Dreams For Sax" are a beautiful melange of easy-listening electronic and jazzy vibes, from mellow tunes such as "Dawning" and "First Class…
HITS (12")
A possible draft of a new public service, the HITS recording studio welcomed, with or without an appointment, five days a week and eight hours a day, anyone who wished to participate in the elaboration and recording of songs, without distinction of style or musical level. The artist Simon Ripoll-Hurier thus gathered a group of people coming from rap, experimental music, poetry, to produce "hits". HITS has become a radio creation that retraces this experience, draws a portrait of contemporary sub…
Busz/Dyskusja
Over the last two years, Astigmatic Records have been digging through the Radio Łódź archives, listening to hundreds of recordings of the local Orchestra conducted by Henryk Debich. As a result, 13 gems were selected from the period between 1974 and 1977, which was also the time when the Holy Grail of Polish jazz-funk was created: the highly sought after by record collectors in all corners of the globe "String Beat" album. At the beginning of the year, the first vinyl from the series of releases…
Fantasy In Orbit
Discounted copies, sealed with slightly damaged on corners We Are Busy Bodies announces the official reissue of the seminal 1959 album, The Fascinating World of Electronic Music by the Dutch electronic music pioneers Tom Dissevelt and Kid Baltan. In combining jazz with experimental electronics, the album significantly predates other early renowned popular electronic music productions such as the ‘Dr Who’ theme, realised by Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (1963) or Wendy Carlos’ …
The Fascinating World Of Electronic Music
We Are Busy Bodies announces the official reissue of the seminal 1959 album, The Fascinating World of Electronic Music by the Dutch electronic music pioneers Tom Dissevelt and Kid Baltan. In combining jazz with experimental electronics, the album significantly predates other early renowned popular electronic music productions such as the ‘Dr Who’ theme, realised by Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (1963) or Wendy Carlos’ Switched-On Bach (1968). Adored by David Bowie and sampled …