New Arrivals
Saturday 13 October · 2 records
Le Raccourci
Le Raccourci is a welcome introduction to the world of Sebastian Gandera.
The impressionist landscapes of a sensitive soul self-reflecting, these
miniature compositions alternate across a rudimentary set up of piano,
field recorder, sampler and four-track recorder, melancholic utterings
hastily captured some 100km east of Paris. Classically trained by the
same teacher as his parents, Gandera first began recording in the
confines of his university dorm room, inspired by a C60 from friend an…
Mysticae
"Mysticae" contains the Original TV Soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone for the RAI series, "L'uomo e la magia". "Mysticae" was also the first LP published by Cometa. Movie director Sergio Giordana started to work for RAI (Italian State TV) in 1963, and since then he showed his talents for investigation documentaries. In 1972 he proposed and carried out for RAI a mini series titled "L'uomo e la magia". Having the opportunity to develop the series in eight episodes, and that joint to the …
Friday 12 October · 1 record
(F)lute Songs
**Limited Edition clear vinyl, edition of 300 copies, few copies in stock** Four pieces for flute and voice composed between 1985-2018 by Mary Jane Leach, a pivotal part of NYC’s pioneering avant-garde community since the 1970s and an active member of the legendary DownTown Ensemble, working alongside peers including Arthur Russell, Ellen Fullman, Peter Zummo, Philip Corner and Arnold Dreyblatt, as well as devoting years to the preservation of Julius Eastman’s legacy since his death in 1990. Mar…
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Thursday 11 October · 2 records
Combinations (3) Cd
6 electronic pieces recorded between May 2016 and February 2018 in Auckland, New Zealand. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Richard Francis (aka Eso Steel) has been active as an experimental music composer and improviser since 1996. His work over the years has explored different techniques of sound generation and processing, with a focus on the collection and digital processing of various natural and artificially produced sounds from the surrounding environment. He has released solo and collaborative…
9 Enclosures
9 short pieces, based on cassette recorders and small electronics. Recorded and edited between August 2017 and February 2018. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Luciano Maggiore (Palermo 1980) lives and works in London. Active musician in the field of electroacoustic music, in recent years he has developed a strong interest in the mechanisms of sound diffusion, using speakers and several analogue and digital devices (walkmans, CD players, tape recorders) as principal instruments. His interest is focus…
Wednesday 10 October · 2 records
Pomegranates
Mana is pleased to finally present Pomegranates by Nicolas Jaar as a double LP, with new mastering by D&M. The sleeve is designed by David Rudnick, with labels by Stéphane Jourdan and a new insert created by Jaar collaborator and friend Maziyar Pahlevan. Longer and slower-releasing than his other albums, Pomegranates often parallels the cinematic epic on which it's based (Նռան գույնը), with ideas pursued over long timelines and across dark landscapes, assembling elements and moods from the aest…
De Leon
**small repress available** Gamelan and Capoeira in dub. The collective behind this doesn't like to talk much but their music is beautifully conversational. De Leon is the most organic and percussive of their shifting identities, developed on their Aught project in small-run, clear-shell cassette tape releases over the last few years. They've appreciated a cult interest for their takes on outernational rhythm, field recording, and the tension and relief on the knife-edge of dance music; all deli…
Tuesday 9 October · 2 records
Schafttijdsamba
Edition of 300 copies. Reissue of the first De Fabriek album originally self-released in 1982. A masterpiece of minimal experimental music. It has been remastered and includes a new artwork done by the band. The digital download includes 2 songs that have been removed from the vinyl edition due to the actual lenght limits.De Fabriek (The Factory) hails from the Dutch City of Zwolle and started in december 1977 as a collective project. Their goal was to do minimal experimental music and you could…
The Lucifer Rising Suite
4xCD Box. Includes a 24-page booklet, 2 posters and color printed inner sleeves.
“Robert Kenneth Beausoleil was born under the sign of the scorpion on November 6th, 1947 in Santa Barbara, California. Roughly translated, Beausoleil means “Beautiful Sun”and Bobby has seized this meaning in more recent years by capitalizing the ‘s’ for emphasis. The name itself betrays certain artistic and spiritual coordinates. At the age of 16, he packed his guitar and headed south for Los Angeles wh…
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Sunday 7 October · 1 record
We're Only In It For The Money
2017 release. We're Only in It for the Money is the third studio album by the Mothers of Invention. Released on March 4, 1968 on Verve Records. As with the band's previous two albums, We're Only in It for the Money is a concept album, and satirizes left and right-wing politics, particularly the hippie subculture, as well as the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was conceived as part of a project called No Commercial Potential, which produced three other albums: Lumpy Gravy…
Saturday 6 October · 2 records
Retrograde
Matt Lavelle (trumpet, flugelhorn, alto clarinet) and Reggie Sylvester (drums), New York avant-jazz veterans and longtime cohorts in the Bern Nix Quartet, perform in duo here on Retrograde, their debut on ESP-Disk'. Visiting destinations overlooked on John Coltrane's tour of the solar system, they craft their own space suite of earthier delights. This album was recorded live at Andrea Wolper's WhyNot Experiment?
series. Matt and Reggie played two sets; the second set, with Bern Nix
in the audi…
Sweet Child
**Limited 50th Anniversary Sky Blue Vinyl Edition** Sweet Child, released in 1968, at the peak of Pentangle's career, is probably the most representative of their work. A sprawling two-record set, half recorded in the studio and half live at the Royal Festival Hall, showcases just how versatile Pentangle was in their unique brand of English folk, jazz, Celtic, blues, and pop styles. Some of the live covers are easily their finest performances. Furry Lewis' "Turn Your Money Green," sung by the de…
Friday 5 October · 3 records
Cruel Sister
2018 Stock. 180 gram audiophile vinyl, Gatefold sleeve. Cruel Sister was an album recorded in 1970 by Folk Rock band Pentangle. All the tracks are versions of traditional songs. Whereas their previous album had been produced by Shel Talmy, and featured quite a heavily produced, commercial sound, Cruel Sister was produced by Bill Leader, noted for his recordings of Folk musicians. The whole of side two of the album is taken up with an extended version of the ballad "Jack Orion", previously record…
An Angel Fell
Strut presents the brand new album from cosmic jazz travellers The Pyramids, led by saxophonist Idris Ackamoor, ’An Angel Fell’. “I wanted
to use folklore, fantasy and drama as a warning bell,” explains
Idris Ackamoor.
“The songs explore global themes that are important to me and to us all:
the rise of catastrophic climate change and our lack of concern for our
planet, loss of innocence and separation... but positive themes too,
the healing power of music, collective action and the simple…
Play It Again
"Play me your music – said Ravi Coltrane years ago, to the Polish participants of the SIM workshop. What does "your music” mean? Is it the music you love, the music desire to play, the one you study thoroughly or the one you've been listening to as a child and it awakened your imagination for the first time? Or perhaps, the one considered our roots music for historical and traditional reasons? How can we meet the criterion of "ourness” and how can we determine which music is more „our” than othe…
Wednesday 3 October · 1 record
Gag Flag
After scrawling his name on releases with close affiliates the Mannequin (Laugh Tool, MNQ 080LP, 2016) and Unknown Precept (A-Tranquility, PRECEPT 003EP, 2014), new Brussels transplant Maoupa Mazzocchetti finds good company among the oddballs on Editions Gravats for Gag Flag's blend of avant-dance music and absurdist experimental pop. For Gag Flag, Mazzocchetti adopts the persona of Snippet Boy, a fictional avatar who first came to life in his live shows, and now on the album sleeve. Lurking beh…
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Tuesday 2 October · 1 record
Music From The Soundtrack Respectable Families
Dark Tango, mysterious twist, and psychedelic cha-cha-cha! Nothing you
would expect from a '60s Egyptian soundtrack. Romanticist and artistic
all-rounder Abd Al-Rahman Al-Khamissi stands out with this absolute timeless musical production for his 1969 movie Respectable Families. Four abstract instrumental dances to express poetry through music.
Monday 1 October · 1 record
Kadodi
Limited Edition Colour Vinyl, 300 Copies. Uganda’s immense Nyege Nyege Tapes return with an incredible collection of percussive ritual music from Mbale; a unique document of ancient tradition meets modern electronics from the pearl of Africa and another precious eye-opener from this important label. After almost 15 years of peddling his own cd’s and tapes on the streets of Mbale, Robert Mugamba’s Kadodi finally get a proper introduction to the outside world thanks to the increasingly vital Nyege…
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Sunday 30 September · 4 records
Live at Càblasé
edition of 80, numbered and screenprinted. Recorded live at CàBlasé (Varedo – IT) on July 8th 2017 with a Tascam 288 analog reel to reel 8 track recorder, by the duo comprised of Maurice Louca (Keyboards, electronics) and Maurizio Abate (Electric guitar)
Archivio Acustico vol. 1
Edition of 100. Recorded, mixed and mastered at the Outside Inside Studio on a Sunday afternoon in October 2013 by Matt Bordin, who also plays guitar an mandolin. Squadra Omega is a psych/avant/kraut rock collective devoted to free improvisation, psychedelic jams and mind blow ups
72-Hour Post Fight
Off-beat musical explosion, friendship-fueled bootleg tape. These are drafts and demos for 72-Hour Post Fight's 1st album we played together in Milan in 2017.
Stefano Pilia / Xabier Iriondo
Recorded live by Maurizio Abate on September 11th 2016.
Saturday 29 September · 5 records
Linea +
Asmus Tietchens is a sound artist and composer from Hamburg, Germany. He
got interested in musique concrete by listening to a German radio
programme when he was 10 years old. In 1965, at the age of 18, Asmus
started experimenting with tape loops and turned them into musical
collages. Soon, the use of synthesizers was added. In 1980 his debut
album Nachtstücke was released, produced by Peter Baumann of
Tangerine Dream. This was soon followed by a series of albums of
electronic pop music fo…
Present The Delta Nudes
Before The Residents became the Residents, they were a group of friends
from the San Francisco bay area. On this collection, a lot of different
people are involved. No one remembers how many or who they were. The
recordings were made in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Some of the
people bonded into The Residents. Some of them did not. Four albums were
recorded by these Pre-sidents: The Warner Bros Album, The Ballad of
Stuffed Trigger, Rusty Coathangers for the Doctor and Baby Sex. None of …
The Lepore Extrusion
Born in Pontypridd, South Wales to a musical family, Thighpaulsandra
developed an interest in modern classical and electronic music at an
early age. Whilst still in school he formed an avant-garde rock group
incorporating influences from his admiration for experimental music
pioneers John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Through experiments with
his group The Rachel Dennis Sisters he was offered a job in a local
recording studio which eventually led to him becoming the manager and
house en…
Revival II - The Electronic Tapes 1979-1982
Some artists like Cluster, Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze have become quite popular and synonymous with the Kosmische Electronic music that rode the wave alongside the Krautrock explosion, but also nestled within the explosion of creative electronic music emerging from Germany in the early 70s, others have been left in the vaults of obscurity and discovered only by those jumping into their time capsules and searching high and low for some of the less heard acts. And obscure does not mean for …
Bichon Frisé
The cassette release Bichon Frisé features 4 tracks of atmospheric and eerie New Age music, made by Børre Mølstad, Danielle Dahl, Niklas Adam and Anders Vestergaard at the beautiful peninsula "Nesodden" outside of Oslo back in 2013. The sound is both soothing and easy listening but with an underlying feeling of hallucinatory horror; perhaps not unlike the popular dog breed after whom it is named.
Friday 28 September · 1 record
Ground
Brussels’ based media saboteur Yann Leguay operates with conscious ambiguity at the intersection of music, sound art and installation. Depending on the context you could as well describe him as a performance artist, a musician or a visual artist. He has little interest for such definitions and feels all the more unobstructed in his work, ready to hop from one domain to the other freely. On this release for Tanuki records he presents two contrasted pieces. The A-side, entitled “Here I am / A port…
Thursday 27 September · 2 records
The Dark Side Of The Moog Vol. 4
In 1994, Klaus Schulze was able to look back on a long, successful and highly influential career, but he was also able to embrace the new.He was in the midst of his 'digital phase', fascinated by sampling technology, and had a clear idea of where he could go with the technology, which resulted in albums like Beyond Recall; the Royal Festival Hall recordings; The Dome Event and even to an extent his opera Totentag.By contrast Peter Kuhlman a.k.a Pete Namlook had just started. In 1992 he had found…
Changes
Changes was the first solo-album of Peter Sjardin, made in the mid/late 70s "He played all instruments by himself: percussion, guitar and keyboard. The recording came from the late seventies, 1978 according to some sources. The title song is based on a Group 1850 song Verandering (change in Dutch) that had been composed in the late sixties, But doesn’t appear until 1975 on the Group 1850 album Live. Changes was never officially released and the reason for it has gone in the mist of time. Could i…
Wednesday 26 September · 6 records
The Dark Side Of The Moog Vol. 1
In 1994, Klaus Schulze was able to look back on a long, successful and highly influential career, but he was also able to embrace the new. He was in the midst of his 'digital phase', fascinated by sampling technology, and had a clear idea of where he could go with the technology, which resulted in albums like Beyond Recall; the Royal Festival Hall recordings; The Dome Event and even to an extent his opera Totentag.By contrast Peter Kuhlman a.k.a Pete Namlook had just started. In 1992 he had foun…
The Dark Side of the Moog Vol. 3
In 1994, Klaus Schulze was able to look back on a long, successful and highly influential career, but he was also able to embrace the new.He was in the midst of his 'digital phase', fascinated by sampling technology, and had a clear idea of where he could go with the technology, which resulted in albums like Beyond Recall; the Royal Festival Hall recordings; The Dome Event and even to an extent his opera Totentag.By contrast Peter Kuhlman a.k.a Pete Namlook had just started. In 1992 he had found…
Bluejeans & Moonbeams
"About the best one can say about 1974's Bluejeans & Moonbeams is that it's not as bad as his other release of the year, Unconditionally Guaranteed. In fact, there are two tracks, the pretty reverie Observatory Crest and the stomping blues-rocker Party of Special Things to Do, that are actually quite good. The rest of the album, however, is fairly dire. Recorded with anonymous studio musicians who are clearly out of their league and glossed to a soul-less polish by producer Andy DiMartino, Bluej…
Collection in Formaldeide
**Limited to 50 hand numbered copies** In 1994 the activity of the Slaughter Productions becomes more and more frantic, releasing countless tapes. In the same year, leaving four important works of Atrax Morgue on cassette, the first of which is “Collection In Formaldeide’’. The tape, limited to only thirty copies, is accompanied by a syringe needle attached with scotch, signifying that this music would be “an injection of death’’. All this is packaged in a transparent box for VHS, containing a p…
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Red Box
** numbered edition of 300 copies, deluxe wooden box** Marco Corbelli’s artistic journey began in the early 90’s. Under the pseudonym of Marco Rotula, he started to release a series of fanzines in A5 format. The first was “The pleasure agony”, followed by “Sick” and “Murders”. The aesthetics of these first fanzines were very sophisticated and the content deals with topics that will follow Marco Corbelli throughout his artistic career: sadism, schizophrenia, insanity, murder, psychosis, necrophil…
Voice and Sky
"Voice and Sky provides both a look at a previous work, On the Breeze – a series of public space interventions and text / sound installation – and an extension of that work in the form of a book and CD publication. My view is that an installation or any kind of work dealing with the idea of space – be it a public space or a designated art space – can only be fully experienced by being in that space first hand. In the case of On the Breeze, using material gathered hiking extensively through the S…
Tuesday 25 September · 2 records
Uivo Zebra
When improvisers turn to electricity and imposing volume levels, the results are sometimes as intense as they are tedious, because they forget that it can quickly become a stodgy, lumbering mess that bleeds out way too soon. Not so here, as the musicians of Uivo Zebra have the experience, but also (and more importantly) the awareness that the most enduring results are found when guts, self-knowledge, shared vision and discipline are kept in rigorous balance. Which needn’t imply it becomes safe o…
Stenogramme, zweite Folge
28 ideas in 28 tracks. Pure electronic music. Limited edition of 150 copies.
Saturday 22 September · 2 records
I Feel Blood/Exorcise (ACE 236 Series)
Gazelle Twin were originally invited as part of the Supersonic Festival 2015 curation of the Moog Sound Lab satellite sessions at Birmingham City University. The Twin returned to the lab during its residency later that year at London's Ace Hotel for a consecutive six-day session in August, invited artists Moog'd, wined, dined, slept, and dreamt in room 236. On tap 24/7 -- the entire Moog Sound Lab, along with a Brion Gysin's Dream Machine and a small library of associated books and user manuals.…
Serpent Music
**2018 Re-Press. One of the standout albums of the year, available again on vinyl** The enigmatic Tennessee-raised, Turin-based Yves Tumor presents Serpent Music, a poignant album recorded between Miami, Leipzig, Los Angeles and Berlin over three years. Evolved from a diverse and prolific creative history under an expansive plethora of covert aliases via various forward-thinking labels, Yves Tumor emerges as his most personal and matured incarnation to date. With involvement across various artis…
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