Celebrating her 65th birthday with her first compositions for strings, pianist-composer Satoko Fujii writes for the specific musicians of GEN, a sextet of violin, viola, bass, piano, electronics, and drums, in a suite inspired by Nagano's mountain views, leveraging microtonal string techniques for an expressive and texturally rich sonic landscape.
Right out of the gate one feels the energy and excitement between Japanese trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and NY drummer Jim Black, each pushing the other through strong instrumental character and outrageous technique over nine Tamura compositions recorded in the studio in Switzerland, their first recording in 25 years since their 1999 Buzz Records album White and Blue.
Propelled by the confidence and intimacy that a familial relationship brings to two improvisers, imbued by each player's masterful technical skills and creative drive, the husband and wife duo of pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura expand their catalog with this set of magnificent dialogs, sometimes quirky, always powerful and implicitly lyrical.
*Limited edition of 91 copies, a landmark collection of Avant-Garde harp innovation, includes download code.* Celebrated Irish harpist and improviser Rhodri Davies redefines the boundaries of his instrument across eight seminal albums in "WYTH", a meticulously curated box set showcasing his radical explorations in sound. This limited edition box-set compiles Davies’ groundbreaking work on his Amgen label, offering a panoramic view of his fearless experimentation with the harp—from abrasive textu…
Geniuses at work. Composers and multi-instrumentalists Valentina Magaletti Susumu Zongamin Mukai shielding the rain with giant sonic umbrella made of radio waves. Impromptu recordings, proto postpunk from the mist of East London basements for a trip to Maryland that is yet to happen. "It's Cold in Baltimore" is an invitation from V/Z to dream of flying without taking off, elevating the spirit until the clouds start screaming of joy. The future never sounded better.
SUDA Seishu (1947–) is a master of the Satsuma-biwa and Heike-biwa, traditional Japanese instruments. He was born in Tokyo and studied Satsuma-biwa with Tsuji Seigo and Heike-biwa with Kindaichi Haruhiko. In 1970, he won the Biwa Music Competition and has been a leading performer in the biwa world for over 50 years.
The biwa is a Japanese string instrument with a long history. It came to Japan during the Nara period (710–784 AD) and is thought to have originated in Iran. It is related to instrum…
Monooto represents a genuine encounter with objects. The whispers of countless items draw us into an unfamiliar realm, directing our ears toward the shadows where they reside. This is the emerging music genre known as “monooto”. Interestingly, the Japanese term “mono” (もの), meaning “thing” or “object,” carries a subtle eeriness. According to the Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “mono” can also denote deities, spirits, or objects of fear and reverence, including ghosts and vengeful spirits. Terms like "mon…
Yengo is an artist recognized for creating experimental sound pieces, including live performances that arrange sound in an installation-like fashion and compositions that heavily feature the repetition of a single motif. Yengo's debut release on ato.archives, titled Unaesthetic Harmony, is accompanied by the artist's own commentary included with the tape for those seeking a deeper understanding. This work, influenced by Vaporwave, internet culture, and similar methodologies and aesthetics, explo…
a0n0 is an electronic musician and a member of the fluid collective "時の崖_tokinogake". His music blends sharp, provocative noise that pushes the limits of audio equipment and hearing, with sequences of sound that are both mellow and lyrical, creating a fresh and stimulating auditory experience. This latest piece is rooted in an improvised performance on a modular synthesizer. It stands out as a unique work, featuring a simple yet multi-layered soundscape where different moments of improvisation i…
Masahiro Sugaya began his career in the 1980s, working alongside the environmental music scene of that era while also making a significant impact in stage music through his involvement with Pappa TARAHUMARA.
Over the past 20 years, Sugaya has shifted from traditional composition using instrumental music to creating works for 8-channel multi-speaker systems, incorporating environmental sounds and field recordings. His latest album continues this evolution, featuring collages of environmental soun…
2025 stock 1977 and second album by this outstanding French by Carpe Diem, progressive rock band. This is the Japanese mini LP sleeve SHM-CD edition that is remastered and comes with 2 bonus tracks.
2025 stock Second album by Rainbow Theatre, a progressive rock band from Melbourne, Australia, released in 1976. The album features a heavy symphonic sound with not only brass instruments but also oboe, clarinet, violin and cello.
2025 stock First album (released in 1974) by a visionary band led by drummer Georges Zinda, who later became successful in the US fusion world. It is swirling jazz-rock, with saxophonist Yoshiko Sefer and keyboardist Jean-Louis Buqui playing a major role.
Bill Orcutt’s "The Anxiety of Symmetry" is the final chapter in his “counting” trilogy, blending six samples of female voices singing scale degrees into hypnotic, melodic computer music. The result is a mesmerizing, trance-like journey between noise and harmony
Bill Orcutt’s "A Mechanical Joey" is a radical, hypnotic experiment in repetition and punk minimalism. Across two long tracks, Joey Ramone’s iconic “1,2,3,4” chant loops endlessly, creating a trance-like, provocative listening experience that challenges and fascinates
Comes in mini LP replica with OBI & Japanese insert. With his first solo album, which was originally released in 1974, Manuel Gottsching (Ash Ra Tempel) laid the foundation for many other upcoming works. In fact, the guitar was invented here, for his play on the three epic tracks are years ahead of its time: Circular, flat, layered loops and improvisations create a compelling, hypnotic atmosphere and make this album in retrospect a landmark of new guitar culture. The album was completely remaste…
2025 Repress. Transa is the fourth album by Brazilian musician Caetano Veloso, released on 1972 by PolyGram. Like its predecessor, it was recorded while the artist was exiled in London, though he returned to Brazil shortly after completing it. Evocative, eclectic, intimate, and rhythmically complex, Transa contains everything that has made Caetano Veloso the most distinctive and, arguably, most important voice in modern Brazilian music. The record was cut in 1972, shortly after Veloso's return f…
merging from tragedy, Kaleidon's sole 1973 album "Free Love" has evolved from obscure Italian jazz-rock artifact to revered cult masterpiece. The project began as keyboardist Stefano Sabatini's poignant response to the 1972 car accident that claimed two members of his previous band Free Love - a catastrophe that could have ended his musical journey. Instead, Sabatini assembled a new quartet to create what would become one of progressive jazz-rock's most emotionally charged instrumental statement…
Devo marks half a century of de-evolution as the trailblazing band resumes their global tour this fall. Rhino pays tribute to the influential group today, unveiling a new career-spanning set that encompasses all of Devo’s hits and a selection of rarities. Formed back in 1973 US new wave band Devo celebrate their 50th anniversary this year and release a new collection spanning the bands entire career, 50 Years of De-Evolution 1973 – 2023.
Today, Devo’s innovative music and thought-provoking perfo…
The soundtracks to the original series of David Lynch’s groundbreaking television series Twin Peaks is re-released to celebrate the anticipated revival of the show. Most fans of the show would agree that the music played one of the most fundamental roles in the series and helped establish the haunting, dreamlike nature of it. American composer Angelo Badalamenti was enlisted by Lynch to create the soundtrack together. The first track on this LP, Twin Peaks Theme won the Grammy for Best Pop Instr…
Ultra-rare promotional test pressing for the 1985 re-pressing of the fifth NWW album from 1982. With xeroxed A4 press release stapled on generic innersleeve and hand-written and stamped labels. In mint condition!
Ultra rare first edition of 500 hand-numbered copies (this is 257/500) on United Dairies from 1980 of the second NWW LP, including the original LP-size insert with the essential "NWW list". Superb copy.
Ultra rare second very limited edition (25/50 copies?) with collage sleeve of the already very limited (100) 1987 LP, including an original photographic artwork by Steven Stapleton! With insert.
Mr Bongo proudly presents an official reissue of an iconic, exploratory album by Indian maestro of the sitar, Ananda Shankar, aptly titled 'Ananda Shankar And His Music'. Released on His Master's Voice in 1976, the album is a sublime collage of sitar-funk, traditional Indian classical music and psychedelic grooves, from the Indian sitarist, composer and musician. Nephew to India’s legendary sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, Ananda’s musical family and upbringing led to a deep respect and love of the …
New Environments & Rhythm Studies finds Andrew Pekler returning to the humid zones he explored on previous albums such as Sounds From Phantom Islands and Tristes Tropiques. Split between longer immersive compositions and shorter glimpse-like sketches, these 12 tracks feature new juxtapositions of Pekler's familiar palette of synthetic field recordings, warm, undulating electronic textures, shifting percussion patterns and serene melodies. As with much of his recent work, Pekler's compositions h…
David Jackman / Organum unveils a new chapter in his exploration of monumental, shifting sound structures with this latest release on Die Stadt. Picking up where works like Flames of Fire left off, the artist continues his singular journey into the alchemy of resonance and time, crafting immersive experiences that hover between density and dissolution, weight and weightlessness. The first disc draws the listener in with the familiar Organum signature—a thick, metallic drone humming with harmonic…
This is the seventh and last release in the Die Stadt CD series. Even though David Jackman gets the credit in the title, the music itself is pure Organum electronics—dense, noisy, and exactly what fans would expect. Emerging as a meditative gesture within the long and enigmatic arc of David Jackman’s output, Steadfast stands as both a summation and a deepening of concerns that have occupied him for decades. Issued as a double CD by Die Stadt, the release captures Jackman—best known for his work …
David Jackman (Organum) presents "Flames of Fire", a mesmerizing 47-minute composition titled 'Flames of Fire & Stars of Lighte the Sun Ariseth'. The piece unfolds with a metallic hum, evoking the resonant vibrations of a sitar, before dissolving into vast, shimmering drones that stretch into infinity. Departing from his work as Organum Electronics, this recording embraces a more organic sound while retaining subtle electronic textures. A sinuous, undulating tone weaves through the composition, …
*100 copies limited edition. 2025 stock* Stéréogramme returns with the second opus of his “Interactive Pictures” series. Walking the same road as last year, paved with new age, freak folk and leftfield synths, the Paris-based label also ventures to new paths like minimalism, no wave and vocal experimentations. Once again divided in two musical panoramas, this 11-track tape will definitely bring back your happy childhood memories to the surface. First, take a nap with the soothing lullabies of Hé…
Tip! *50 copies limited edition* After introducing Babau for the inaugural cassette, the second installment of the sunitty focus showcases another contributor of the “Vapordub” V/A, with Egyptian Seif Gaber aka Polonius, dear friend of Artetetra, where he released the “Anaxia” and “Shades of Paradise” timeless yet time-bending cassettes (January and March 2019).
For the occasion the Milano-based musician exhumed the fourth opus of his Antique Fantasia series, a saga of six demo-tapes recorded be…
*50 copies limited edition.* “All The Gurls Were At The Women’s Archo Ashinto” is the new work by post-exoticist duo Babau, a project of Matteo Pennesi and Luigi Monteanni, both founders of Artetetra, a label and platform pursuing practice-based sound research on digital folklore and internet world music, which they term Quinto Mondo; a spin on Jon Hassel’s Fourth World. After releasing their own output on labels such as Discrepant, Communion and Artetetra and being selected as SHAPE+ alumni 202…
*100 copies limited edition* Long time no see dear Louis! Part of our 2019 inaugural BST001 V/A tape, Eiger Drums Propaganda returns today to Bamboo Shows with his “Live Excerpts” LP. Formerly a so-called collective, now happily unmasked as a schizophrenic one-man band, the French multi-instrumentist gathers here a collection of twelve acts recorded live. Not a proper album, nor a simple compilation, yet a real insight on Louis De La Gorce’s playful explorations over the past three years. Beyond…
*100 copies limited edition. 2025 stock.* Two years after the acclaimed ‘Darkos LP’, Jonquera is back to Charlieu’s surrounding vales for his second album on Bamboo Shows. Through ‘La Croix des Cros’, the French Musician delivers a loner-folk eclogue about the fantasized inner demons of a country dweller. Just like clay, audio recordings here are a malleable substance, slowly reworked over a year, following a sinuous production process where all mishaps are welcomed as breaches to step into.Far …
*75 copies limited edition. 2025 stock.* Have you ever wondered about liquid crystals’ consciousness? We bet you haven’t. Then, are you familiar with the concept of panpsychism, the view that all things have a mind or a mind-like quality? Well, you should be pretty curious about it now, and Bamboo Shows may have some of the answers!
Introducing Metra.Vestlud on the label via his ‘Coalyqsta’ LP, Bamboo Shows is happy to provide you with a vivid sensory experience of other forms of sensibility whi…
100 copies limited edition "Two years after our last V/A, we're back with the first opus of our ‘Vapordub’ imprint series. Another artifact rising from the depths of the leftfield music scene, this time focused on contemporary psychedelics. Highly inspired by the textures of the vaporwave sonic aesthetic, our 16-track compilation displays in turns intriguing sound design, graceful synths from a new age, weird exotics and psychoactive slow-dubs.Designed to please either curious or skilled ears, o…
*50 copies limited edition* An industrial incident, a long live act, a four hands portrait. There comes the third opus of Meth.O.Tapes label catalogue, in a dense, deep fog. Following a first album out on Big Science Records, the duo Warzabart sets up a throbbing nightmare, a mental image of what a « BLEVE » is, namely a boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion. Between noise monolithism and the exciting richness of live takes where the machine itself tends to create the adequate language to tel…