New Arrivals
A Method To Its Messiness
During my one month travel in Europe and UK in June 2017, I recorded snapshots of radio programs as a daily practice. Starting from Brussels to Kassel, Toulouse, Amsterdam, Brussels again, then London, Berlin, and Bordeaux... In any city I was in, I …
Lepidópteros
Angélica Castelló (Mexico City 1972) is a recorder player, composer, improviser, sound artist, curator, teacher living in Vienna. She plays mainly the “Paetzold” which is a sub great bass recorder, along tapes and electronics. As a composer, she writ…
Songs Of Experience
Audiophile reissue, lacquered directly from Axelrod's original EQ'ed master tapes at Capitol Records by Ron McMaster, housed in a deluxe gatefold jacket. "Audiophile reissue, transferred directly from David Axelrod's original EQ'ed master tapes at Ca…
Live At The BBC 1972
This 1972 BBC Live recording is the perfect proof of what a band like Matching Mole could do in concert during their too short existence. The quartet playing was way more free and adventurous than in studio and the tunes were often stretched out and …
Making Sense of Sound
In 2016, elnicho and Buró-Buró curated a panel as part of the "SOMA Wednesday" program in the context of the elnicho#5 festival. The theme revolved around the relevance of sound in art and the relationship between them. From a socio-cultural point of…
Sound Before Meaning
This booklet is an attempt to employ incidental movements that are often overlooked or ignored, those winding conversations that inevitably occur between friends who share a passion for a common theme. Over the course of nearly a year, this conversat…
Making Room for Sound
Sound and music seem to have been underwhelmingly part of contemporary museums. However, they are shyly making their way in the area of contemporary art, often via visual artists keen on using sound in their work or inviting musicians or sound-focuse…
Limitless Listening
Keith Rowe explores the nagging questions that the field of visual arts began to interrogate in the 20th century, bringing them to the musical universe under the counter. These inquiries are about the ways we experience modifications to the notion of…
Cloud Atlas/Vertical Study
Cloud Atlas is a collection of ten short pieces composed by Toshi Ichiyanagi between 1985 to 1999. Vertical Study gathers rare pieces composed by Claude Ledoux. Both are performed by Japanese pianist Kaoru Tashiro. "Kaoru
produces serene, yet rich s…
Nouvelle Ambiance: Wolf Muller Meets The Nile Project
In January 2016 arts and music organisation Santuri East Africa invited guest producer Jan Schulte to join the Nile Project gathering in Aswan, Egypt -- an intensive two-week musical experiment featuring musicians drawn from all around the Nile Basin…
New Japanese Noise
Akira Sakata: alto saxophone, Bb clarinet, voice. Kiko Dinucci:electric guitar. Kohei Gomi: electronics. Paal Nilssen-Love: drums. Toshiji Mikawa: electronics. Produced by Paal Nilssen-Love and Lasse Marhaug Recorded live in concert at Roskilde festi…
Your Queen Is A Reptile
A fantastic set from the London scene – really powerful sounds from a group who are heavy on percussion, but also do plenty with their horns! On Your Queen Is A Reptile, Shabaka Hutchings lays out a very fiery, progressive musical vision, and it is s…
My Favorite Things: October 14th, 1977
My Favorite Things October 14, 1977 presents a superb collection of tracks recorded by the great Sun Ra and his Arkestra at the Variety Recording Studio, NYC. One of the rarely heard documents of the El Saturn label of the ‘70s, these recordings catc…
Hesterian Musicism
Musicism is the core concept of transcultural artistic research that rose to prominence at the beginning of the 80s thanks to the ingenious mind of Karlton Hester. Composer, flautist and saxophonist Hester set himself as the promoter of a multidiscip…
A Lifetime In Oriental Jazz
2019 Repress. Jazzman presents the definitive anthology of pioneering ethno-musicologist, mystical adventurer and real life jazz guru Dr Lloyd Miller. This album tells the fascinating life story of one man and his journey through Europe and the Middl…
It's Nation Time: African Visionary Music
Pan-African manifesto It's Nation Time — African Visionary Music, out of print since 1972, is available once again via Motown. A poet, writer, theater director, activist and more whose career spanned five decades, Imamu Amiri Baraka (born LeRoi Jones…
Alice Coltrane bundle
**In process of stocking** of Alice's four extraordinary albums Eternity, Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana, Transcendence and Transfiguration in bundle. With liner notes by Mark Richardson and rare photos by Gary Heery and Ginny Winn. Alice Coltrane was a…
Parallel Persia
This Sote album is incredible - a highly complex but beautifully fluid traversal of Iranian folk music and modular synthesis that reminds us of Dariush Dolat-Shahi’s unparalleled ‘Electronic Music, Tar and Sehtar’ with its fantastically creative sens…
Massimo Farjon Pupillo
Oltrarno Recording is honored to present the first solo album from Massimo Pupillo.
Massimo´s artistic life shaped through worldwide tours with his band ZU
as well as multitude of collaborations with artists such as
Thighpaulsandra, Peter Brotzma…
Cod War Kids
A deep and delicate dive into the psyche of an unusual duo, British-born ex-pat North Carolinian guitarist Dan Melchior & Icelandic-born Hanover-based experimentalist Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson. Each quite unique on their own accord, but in combinat…