New Arrivals
The World As It Is Today
*2024 reissue* Third and final album released in 1980. This album was released as a 45rpm 30 cm LP in analogue format. The entire album is filled with dark, high-tension performances, with a strong message that can be interpreted as an antithesis to …
Winter Songs
*2024 reissue* Brilliant second album by Art Bears, a band/project featuring Fred Frith, Chris Cutler and Dagmar Krause, formed in 1978 after disputes over the musical direction within Henry Cow. 'Winter Songs', originally released in 1979, placed Ar…
Embryonic Fusion
2024 stock. Legendary progressive rock band Caterpillar, who left two albums to Vertigo. Rehearsal recordings from around 1970, before their album debut, have been unearthed and released on CD for the first time! Anna Meek sang vocals on the studio a…
Camden '70
2024 stock. The Coliseum and the New Jazz Orchestra led by Neil Ardlay originally had John Heisman and Dick Hextall Smith in the NJO, and the NJO participated in the ‘Valentine Suite’, but this album was released the year after the ‘Valentine Suite’,…
Kaleidoscope Of Rainbows
2024 stock. Third solo album released in 1976 by Neil Ardley, a British jazz pianist and arranger who led the ‘New Jazz Orchestra’, featuring top British jazz musicians such as Ian Kerr and Brian Smith of Necleus, as well as Third Ear Band's Paul Buc…
Constitution
“Members of the dispossessed, won’t you lend me your ears!”
The Complete Sound Work Shop Heritage
For the first time ever, the whole Piero Umiliani’s production on his Sound Work Shop record label is collected in a unique 17-CD sensational box set
The Complete Liuto Heritage
For the first time ever, the whole Piero Umiliani’s production on his Liuto record label is collected in a unique 19-CD sensational box set
Italia a Mano Armata
*100 copies limited edition* A driving Italian soundtrack from the height of the cop/crime years – done with really full arrangements by Franco Micalizzi, in a way that easily rivals some of the best American work of the genre in the 70s! This score …
Delitto Al Ristorante Cinese
*100 copies limited edition* Tava Tava Rare presenting the 7'' vinyl release of Detto Mariano's "Delitto Al Ristorante Cinese". This crime-comedy film is part of the successful collaboration between director Bruno Corbucci and actor Tomas Milian, fea…
Genova a Mano Armata
*100 copies limited edition* Franco Micalizzi wrote one of his best OSTs for the Poliziesco genre with this one (the main theme is one of Micalizzi's favorites and he often performs it live in concert with his orchestra Big Bubbling Band). The OST op…
Calados
Prepare to enter an aural labyrinth when you press play on an upcoming second album from Chile’s improvisational trio, Nichunimu – brought to you by independent label 577 Records. Led by adventurous trumpeter Benjamin Vergara, the group’s new hit, C…
Amanti D'Oltretomba
Beat Records is relaunching on CD the classic OST by Ennio Morricone for the Gothic horror film Amanti d'oltretomba (Nightmare castle), directed in 1965 by Mario Caiano, starring Barbara Steele, Rick Battaglia, Paul Müller, Helga Liné, Marino Masè, G…
A Fistful of Dollars / Per un Pugno di Dollari
To celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the film and the soundtrack Beat Records is pleased to reissue on CD de-luxe edition a classic OST by Ennio Morricone for the Western film “A Fistful of Dollars” directed in 1964 by Sergio Leone and starring C…
Fanfares and Freedom
A live recording from a piece premiered at the 2023 Cheltenham Jazz Festival, and later recorded at The Vortex. Laura Jurd was commissioned to write this piece for scored ensemble plus improvising quartet, and the resulting piece balances the compose…
Leave Around
*25 copies limited edition tape in jute bag* Drones, hisses, electric hums, noise, sine waves, ambient recordings, creaks, concrete noises, and a grave and solemn finale in which percussive sounds and notes of piano and cello unexpectedly appear. A n…
Requiem Per Veronica Moser
*40 copies limited edition* The package, completely handmade, is made up of a shaped and folded cardboard with the closed dimensions of 13.5x10.20 cm. approximately, and open with dimensions of 13.50x26.20 cm. about. The folded and closed package for…
Memento, Tributo A Gottfried Benn
*36 copies limited edition* Tenth chapter in the serie Memento.This one is dedicated to Gottfried Benn, 1886-1956
Completely handmade packaging. The card is contained in a black envelope measuring 12x9 cm. about. The black envelope is in embossed car…
Funny Games
*40 copies limited edition* The CDR is contained in a black cardboard envelope measuring 13x13 cm. about (250 grams thick) with a 10x10 cm sticker on the front. The cdr has a small sticker, and inside the envelope there is a photocopied insert in the…
Oedipus Orca
*20 copies limited edition* The CDR is contained in a black cardboard envelope measuring 13x13 cm. about (250 grams thick) with a 10x10 cm sticker on the front. The cdr has a small sticker, and inside the envelope there is a photocopied insert in fro…