New Arrivals
Lava Trouble
Tom Lönnqvist & Samuli Tanner have collaborated under the moniker Market since 2013. "Lava Trouble" is the document of a leisurely meeting of two friends in the countryside, combining experimental electronics, self-built instruments and free improvisation.
Font de la Vera Pau
Pedro Vian and Raül Refree unveil their highly anticipated collaborative debut album: "Font de la Vera Pau." Two creative minds from the Barcelona avant-garde music scene, Raül Refree and Pedro Vian, have merged to give birth to their first joint album.This eagerly awaited project promises to challenge boundaries and bring forth the genius and artistic vision that characterize both artists. While their first collaboration already stirred passions at the 2021 Sonar Festival, it is now that Vian a…
Transfusion: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
*300 copies limited release* De la Catessen Records proudly presents a limited vinyl release of theoriginal score of the Stan Original film Transfusion by AACTA nominated composer Luke Altmann (Franklin, The Leunig Fragments,Fell).
Transfusion is the first film to be directed by Matt Nable, and stars Sam Worthington as a former special forces operative who is thrust into the criminal underworld to stop his son being taken from him. Transfusion had its World Premiere at the CinefestOz Film Festiv…
What We Did On Our Holidays
Sandy Denny's haunting, ethereal vocals gave Fairport a big boost on her debut with the group. A more folk-based album than their initial effort, What We Did on Our Holidays is divided between original material and a few well-chosen covers. This contains several of their greatest moments: Denny's "Fotheringay," Richard Thompson's "Meet on the Ledge," the obscure Joni Mitchell composition "Eastern Rain," the traditional "She Moves Through the Fair," and their version of Bob Dylan's "I'll Keep It …
Liege & Lief
Liege & Lief is the fourth album by the British folk rock band Fairport Convention. It is the third album the group released in the UK during 1969, all of which prominently feature Sandy Denny as lead female vocalist (Denny did not appear on the group's 1968 debut album), as well as the first to feature future long-serving personnel Dave Swarbrick and Dave Mattacks on violin/mandolin and drums, respectively, as full band members (Swarbrick had previously guested on Unhalfbricking). It is also th…
Seven pieces / about an hour / saxophone, piano, drums
There are some jazz musicians long known by cognoscenti for a mere handful of recordings: Dupree Bolton, Earl Anderza, Hasaan Ibn-Ali, Alan Shorter, Dewey Johnson. Add saxophonist Mark Reboul to that list. Before the release of this album, his discography consisted of four tracks on three albums on which he was a sideman. On Higher Primates’ Environmental Impressions (GM, 1987), he plays sax on two of the percussion-heavy album’s five tracks: a fragmentary track, and a sixteen-and-a-half-minute …
Koldd
Pretty Sneaky, the anonymous project that has been quietly hiding behind a banana peel logo and self released white label 12” EPs, present their dilated and slomo sub laden atmospheres, this time for Marionette - following elusive outings for label favorites Mana and Meakusma. After being introduced to PS through a common connection back in 2016, a year before their very first self published white label release, it was only in 2021 that we reconnected to discuss an album for the label. Maintaini…
2015.5.29 Live At Shibuya O-nest
Yoshiko Sai has performed one live concert each in 2014 and 2015 since her hiatus in 1979, and this is the only recording of Yoshiko Sai's one-man live concert in 2015. The concert was in two parts and featured the best selections from her five albums from her first to her return, as well as new unreleased songs, making it a truly culminating live performance. Backed by current alternative musicians such as Jojo Hiroshige, Hajimetarl, Okano Futoshi and Kono Ryoko. The album also includes valuabl…
2014.9.26 Live At Shibuya Mt. Rainier Hall
After a hiatus in 1979, Yoshiko Sai returned to the music world in 2008 with the album Taklamakan, but did not resume live performances. She has since performed one live show each in Tokyo in 2014 and 2015, and this 2014 live sound recording was made during her appearance at the event 'The 2nd Midnight Heavy Rock Party' held at Shibuya Mount Rainier Hall. Backed on the day by active alternative musicians such as Jojo Hiroshige, Hjimetarl and Okano Futoshi, it was truly a miraculous revival and a…
Indent
*2023 stock* Indent, a live solo album by Cecil Taylor, was recorded in Ohio in March 1973. The album was originally released on Taylor’s own Unit Core label and subsequently more widely released on the Freedom label. The album has received critical praise, including a 4/5 star review from the Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. Previously out of print for decades, the phenomenal work is finally coming back to vinyl with an audiophile-grade pressing from Pallas Group. The album was remastered for v…
Vibrations
2023 stock. "Vibrations is the second album released by American free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler's quartet featuring Don Cherry, Gary Peacock, and Sonny Murray. The album was recorded in Copenhagen in September of 1964. Originally issued by the Freedom label, it also been released under an alternate title, Ghosts. Previously out of print for decades, the recordings were remastered for an audiophile-grade pressing on 180gram vinyl at Pallas in Germany."
Smelt
Bent Window presents Tim Olive's new release "Smelt", a buzzing conveyance of sound manipulation made from the leftovers of our mechanical world. Hum, crash and crackle combine for a unique journey into electronic disaster. Magnetic pickups, analog electronics, radio signals and consumer detritus (springs, styrofoam, metal sheets, motors, magnetic tape, wood, dental floss) to generate sound-textures which evolve, shift and mutate. Born in Canada, currently residing in Kobe, his discography inclu…
Excogitation
*300 copies limited release* "After being featured on BBC 6 Radio and the Ambient Focus show, Artificial Owl Recordings is excited to announce the 4th release and the return of One Of Them ( Niko Dalagelis ) and his new work Excogitation. Two extended ethereal and atmospheric ambient works created in the winter of 2023 aiming to provoke thought and spark imagination by exploring various sonic textures and tonalities. The use of a randomized sequence triggering a SH-01A and a Digitone are the mai…
Live At The Petersham Bowling Club
Live at the Petersham Bowling Club was recorded in January 2023 when Warm Currency supported the great Maxine Funke. This offering includes tracks from Returns, our 2022 album on Horn of Plenty, and some unreleased material. We jettisoned our regular keyboard to grapple with the bowling club's cracked piano.
Roots of Empathy
Loose Trax presents Roots of Empathy, the debut album from London-based artist Henry Cyer. Roots of Empathy is a collection of songs written between 2019 and 2022 about fear. Conceived as an act of purging, the album explores empathy and fear through the perspective of different people. Roots of Empathy manifests itself as an album of songs, a collection of photographs and a series of videos.
Commercial Album
Tip! Commercial Album is an album released by art rock group the Residents in 1980. It is commonly considered a follow-up to their 1978 album Duck Stab/Buster & Glen, in that it retains the former album's pop-oriented song structures. The album contains 40 songs, each lasting exactly one minute - a deliberate allusion to Top 40 mainstream radio. The album's liner notes state that, to form a complete pop song, tracks from the album should be played three times in a row.
The album features a numbe…
Eskimo
Tip! In 1979 "punk" music was all the rage. The Residents had gone though the punk stage three years earlier with the release of "Satisfaction" and were ready for anything that was not punk. They decided it was a good time to make the jump into world music, since by their own calculations it would not become popular for several more years. They scanned the map for a proper culture to exploit and, not finding one, became discouraged until seeing a large Coke sign featuring Santa Claus. Immediatel…
Not Available
Tip! This is one of the strangest and most interesting recordings in rock history, which speaks volumes coming from one of the strangest and more interesting bands in rock history. Not Available used what was referred to as "the theory of obscurity" (which called for the album to not be released until its makers literally forgot about its existence). It is said to be, questionably, the Residents' second recorded album (in 1974, only to be released in 1978 after utilizing "the theory of obscurity…
Traslasierra (expanded Landscape)
*200 copies limited edition* Sergio Merce is a saxophonist and sound artist based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is known for his use of a microtonal sax that he built by radically modifying the mechanisms of an alto saxophone and synthesizers to create rich harmonics and slowly moving tonal works, layering aberrant and alluring tones in restrained configurations that allow each stratum of sound to be distinguished and appreciated, creating mesmerizing compositions of elusive and illusionistic s…
Abstand
*200 copies limited edition* "Abstand" was conceived to enhance the particularities of the combination of accordion and melodica, both wind instruments, one played with movement and the other by blowing. This dichotomy of difference and similarity resulted in intricate textures, not only thanks to the instruments’ particular timbres, but also through the natural microtonal distances in their fixed tunings, especially when it comes to old and worn out instruments like the ones used here.
These mi…