New Arrivals

Selected works from a +30 year-old career as a Mexican pioneer and creator in electroacustic and experimental electronic music.

Tip! * 25 copies, exclusive Soundohm blue shell cassette / white shell cassette * "Paradoxa Paradoxa": first ever live performance of Merzbow, recorded live at Kid Ailack Art Hall, Tokyo, 22 March 1981. First time ever re-issue on cassette since 1988. An incredible visceral performance, remastered by Masami Akita himself. An incredible chance of owning this very sought-after material. + "Material Action for 2 Microphones", originally released as a cassette on Lowest Music & Arts, Japan in 1981, …

Opt for the path less trodden — allow yourself to stray from it, even — and you might find, buried in the bracken, deep in the trees, a shining modernist monolith. Liquid as a mirror, glinting in the leaf-broken sun, it lies in wait off the beaten tracks of North Yorkshire, South Wales, or the A508 out of Milton Keynes. Or perhaps it is all of these places simultaneously and none of them: an amalgam of the wayside walks of the British Isles, accessed only by the maps of the mind. Heeding the cal…

Big Tip! ** 100 copies, signed and numbered. With a signed drawing by Hermoine Zittlau*  Hermoine Zittlau was to appear again as a band in December 1987 for the last performance of Die Tödliche Doris. This time together with Etsuko Okazaki and Tabea Blumenschein. It was the opera "Autofahrt in Deutschland", which I developed with Nikolaus Utermöhlen as the last joint Die Tödliche Doris band project. Two years later, in 1989, Hermoine Zittlau reappeared at the presentation of "Die Tödliche Doris …

Reissue the standard version of Alice Clark's highly sought-after soul jazz classic produced by Mainstream Records' Bob Shad in 1972. Featuring original artwork, remastered sound making this reissue is the first official reissue of Alice Clark's original album for decades, a long overdue release of one of the best Soul albums ever recorded. When it comes to legendary albums, very few can match the cult status achieved on the international jazz and funk scene, by Alice Clark's eponymous album. Th…

Since their launch back in 2015, Florence based been issuing quiet waves into the reissue market. Working slowly, with eye for quality over quantity, they’ve brought forth a wild mix of albums which unquestionably fall into the category of overlooked and neglected holy grails from the Italian underground. Their expanded, double LP editions of Paolo Modugno’s ‎Brise D'Automne and Roberto Aglieri’s Ragapadani, haven’t strayed far from our turntable since they hit the shelves. Now Archeo is back wi…

Altoist John Tchicai, who has made his name on numerous free jazz sessions, including Archie Shepp's New York Contemporary Five and John Coltrane's Ascension, in a duo with Polish stunning bass player Witold Lek. Spiritual session!

Takashi Kako, who immersed himself in "the world of improvised music, where composition and performance progress instantaneously" while studying in Paris, recorded this album live on his temporary return to Japan in 1976. It is the culmination of this period, a dense and intense performance.

Anyone interested in hearing Stanley Turrentine go beyond the Blue Note should definitely pick up Sugar; a soulful, deep and chugging record that includes a refined "Sugar" and a transcendent rendition of Coltrane's "Impressions". Working with fellow CTI artists Freddie Hubbard and George Benson, as well as the great Lonnie Liston Smith jr, Ron Carter and Billy Kaye, this album was engineered by Rudy Van Gelder to create the warmth and depth we love. Some say never judge a book by its cover, but…

At the time of his death in 2016 at the age of 68, drummer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Alphonse Mouzon had for decades been a major force within the jazz, fusion, R&B and pop arenas. The early eighties was a time when Mouzon toyed with disco and channelled funk. His musical amalgam was a far cry from the Saturday Night Fever brand – he brought more funk, more soul, more spontaneous creativity into the mix. For By All Means, Mouzon brought together musicians who were masters in virtually …

Although MPS was known for his studio and brilliant recording technique, Rolf Kühn decided not to record his albums in the studio in the Black Forest. At MPS, Rolf Kühn was allowed free rein to choose the team for the recordings and so he decided to get Wolfgang Hirschmann on board, one of the most interesting sound engineers in jazz at that time. Together with him and seven other musicians, “Total Space” was recorded in January 1975 in the Cornet Studios in the south of Cologne, Germany. Having…

Chaos and impulse! The impact of the moment when Japanese rock and jazz was born. Finally, the treasured sound sources from the Late 60's - a period that the whole world craves for - have been released. Recorded with the latest remastering from film music tapes left over from Koji Wakamatsu's films!

"Red Elegy" and "Happi End" jackets, the only live-action film by Shizukazu Hayashi, a hugely popular illustrator in the subculture scene! Recorded with the latest remastering from film music tapes.Included tracks: 'Yoru ni Hohoyo' theme song and 10 other tracks (tentative). (April 1973) Digitally remastered. Hayashi SeiichiIn 1970, the Garo serial 'Aka-iro Elegy' became a hit with a song by Morio Agata; in 1973, it appeared on the cover of Happi Nippon's first album (aka Yudemen); in 1977, Mori…

Chaos and impulse! The impact of the moment when Japanese rock and jazz was born. The treasured sound sources from the Late 60's~ that the whole world craves for have finally been released. Recorded with the latest remastering from the film music tapes left over from Koji Wakamatsu's films!

Chaos and impulse! A shocking record of the moment when Japanese rock and jazz were born! The treasured sound sources from the Late 60's~ that the whole world craves for. Recorded with the latest remastering from the film music tapes left over from Koji Wakamatsu's films!

Chaos and impulse! A shocking record of the moment when Japanese rock and jazz were born! Finally, the treasured sound sources from the Late 60's~ that the whole world craves for are finally released. Recorded with the latest remastering from the film music tapes left over from Koji Wakamatsu's films!

The epic free jazz of the first Yosuke Yamashita Trio and the bleak singing of Rie Yokoyama. Includes a total of five tracks, including the film's opening 'Here's a Quiet Frontline', 'Umitsubame ver II', which features rare singing accompaniment by the Yosuke Yamashita Trio, and the Yosuke Yamashita Trio's performance during and at the end of the film, plus Koji Wakamatsu's story 'I am Koji Wakamatsu! is included.

Limited stock, limited time price, all new items! The first edition is a carefully selected jazz special. Mitsuaki Katayama "First Flight", Eiji Nakayama "My Present Song", Howard Roberts "The Magic Band Live at Donte" and many more... Why not take advantage of this great deal and get your jazz CDs? Items not listed in the online shop are also on sale in the shop! Be sure to stop by our shop in Shibuya to look for bargains! Jazz sounds by punk & new wave artists and new wave & punk sounds by jaz…

“Ti Ho Sposato Per Allegria” (1967) is a comedy directed by Luciano Salce, taken from the theatrical play of the same name (1965) by Natalia Ginzburg. The main characters are Pietro and Giuliana, respectively interpreted by Giorgio Albertazzi and Monica Vitti. A lawyer from a good family, serious, accustomed to a calm and regular life who got married to a indolent and dazed girl with a difficult past a month after meeting her at a party. Despite Giuliana's inability to transform herself into a g…

The "Talk About It" / "Origin Story" EP features remixes from Concretism and Paul Cousins. It's a beautiful pressing which utilises Nick Taylor's CiS discobag design, last seen on CiS038/CiS039.  Lone Bison's music is influenced by Krautrock, electronica, post-punk, soundtracks and post-rock. The remixes on this EP add a new dimension to these wonderful tracks. The vinyl is super-limited and super-collectible, pressed on a beautiful 180g pressing from our pressing plant in Belgium. Nick is also …

A set of kinetic and sometimes meditative sound collages built from recordings shared between both artists, their first recording together. The element of chance was adapted into the editing process, resulting in vibrantly textured layers that interact with each other in unpredictable ways.

"In 2020, I bought a used Sanyo M-5799 dictaphone, from the internet. The dictaphone arrived with a mini cassette. When I played the tape, there was a recording from the previous owner. He was testing the recorder, to see if it was functional, but at some point he recorded the words "... Less to be, not to be". These "messege" from this old man standed to me like he wanted me to listen his advice or his existential fears" This album is dedicated to this man, to the concept of "the end of humanit…

LP version. The 1960s weren't just about The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and hippies; they also ushered in new forms of art: happenings, Fluxus, Neo-Dada, video art, to name just a few. As borders blurred, pop influenced art and art influenced pop. Many protagonists of the time chose to ignore borders altogether. This chaotic, euphoric atmosphere of extreme innovation lasted well into the 1970s and continues to resonate today. All manner of trailblazers shaped the soundscape of the era. Conrad S…

»Radial« is the result of a vivid creative merge between Esplendor Geométrico and AtomTM. A transparent diamond formed by a heavy implosion. Its underlying massive mechanics are covered by a crystal surface made to cut reality in half. Just one letter short of “radical”, this album is no less than exactly that - an orgy of powerful, blunt repetition and hyperbolic simplicity, a profound evocation of nothingness and its surroundings. The tracks of »Radial« are the exact expansion of sonic ideas t…

2024 Restock. Before New Age hit terra firma at the dawn of the 1980s, the classically-trained Bay Area composer Jordan De La Sierra's consciousness soared with cosmic concepts. With cues and lessons from the great minimalists La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Pandit Pran Nath, and help from the venerable public radio program Hearts of Space, De La Sierra embarked on journey in alternate tunings and resounding reverberations, transporting entranced listeners from the Golden Gates to the intergalactic…

Deluxe CD edition with Obi. The title of Horace Tapscott's debut release is apt, if not self-referential, for indeed a giant of West Coast jazz had awakened with this, the pianist / composer / bandleader's 1969 album for the Flying Dutchman label. Tapscott went on to form two groups crucial to the flowering of modern jazz in the Los Angeles area, the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra (or P.A.P.A.; the name is an homage to Tapscott's predecessor and peer, Sun Ra), which eventually became part of a lar…

** Original copies of this rarity. Factory sealed. Few copies available **  A Dial-A-Poem Poets life-centering collection of different ensembles of speakers with and without instrumental music. Works by Amiri Baraka, William S. Burroughs, Jim Carroll, Jayne Cortez, The Four Horsemen (B.P. Nichol, Steve McCaffery, Paul Dutton, Rafael Barreto Rivera), John Giorno, Brion Gysin, Rose Lesniak, Ned Sublette.  "Mutant Disco was the big thing downtown, and Giorno wanted a piece of it. The irritating ran…

"Moldy Cushions was recorded from the summer of 2022 until spring 2023 at my new Clamorworks studio in San Pablo, California. Additional parts were recorded in Brasília, Brazil while working on the SESILab science museum and in Hyderabad, India while on tour with Seeded Plain. This is my first solo album since 2016's Bizarre Flight on Gertrude Tapes, with most of the time in-between focused on other collaborative projects.The pieces on Moldy Cushions started as improvised sketches, with many of …

*300 copies limited edition* Channelling is a kinetic sound performance that utilizes various components salvaged from discarded and obsolete consumer technology, reanimating them by piping amplified sound through them. The motors and mechanisms respond to these sound impulses in erratic and unpredictable ways. The actions of, and emanations from, the devices are subsequently amplified. "An array or swarm of vitalities, intertwined, of non human powers which transit channels. Trajectories that f…

*300 copies limited edition* This CD collaboration was made after we were invited by Joachim Nordwall to play together for the very first time at the Parasoll Festival in Gothenburg.

*300 copies limited edition* Cecilia Lopez: Synthesizer and electronics. Brandon Lopez: Double Bass. Recorded at GSI in New York, August 2020.Recorded by Jason Rostowski. Mixed by Cecilia Lopez and Jon Lipscomb. Mastered by Jon Lipscomb. Art and design by Ian Kornfeld

*300 copies limited edition* All titles composed and arranged by Eryck Abecassis on modular synthesizers, guitar, sampledinstruments software, Roger Linn linnstrument keyboard, field recordings.Studio : Mobile courgette (Paris), LH 151 (Le Havre)Train station, streets and beach recordings location : New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Madrid, Héraclée Beach La Croix-Valmer.

Throbbing Gristle revisit TGCD1, long out of print, now available on CD for the first time in 38 years!

*200 copies limited edition* Leo Okagawa is a Tokyo-based musician. Just months after the December 2023 release of his field recording CD "just another day" on the Hitorri label, Okagawa has released his new work, "Sweet and Poisonous," consisting of improvised music on electronics. The CD consists of two works of 28 minutes each, performed by Okagawa at Ftarri, Tokyo, in September 2023.In 2019 Okagawa released the solo electronics improvisation CD "in the quiet room" on Hitorri. This new album,…

*200 copies limited edition* Frédéric Tentelier is an artist and composer residing in the Opal Coast region of northern France. He creates music using a variety of instruments including organ, Fender Rhodes, banjo, percussion, voice and objects, as well as field recordings. He also composes music for and directs many musical theater productions.The CD "L’égarement" is comprised of three works produced by Frédéric Tentelier between May and October 2023, taking inspiration from the labyrinth legen…

*200 copies limited edition* Tokyo-born recorder player/improviser Eiko Yamada has lived in Germany since 1984 and currently resides in Heidelberg. Yamada performs in formations ranging from solo to large ensemble, as well as with a variety of artists including dancers and poets. She returns to Japan once or twice a year and appears in a small number of concerts in Tokyo.During her stay in Japan in summer 2023, Yamada performed with pianist Fumi Endo at Ftarri on August 13. In addition to their …

*200 copies limited edition* Born in 1973, Sergio Merce is a saxophone player/sound artist based in Buenos Aires. Known for his use of microtone sax, Merce has released CDs on the experimental/improvised/contemporary music labels Potlatch (France), Edition Wandelweiser (Germany) and Marginal Frequency (U.S.). In August 2023, he released the solo album "Traslasierra (expanded landscape)" on the Hitorri label. His second solo album, "Amplified Resonances," is set for release on Hitorri just four m…

*200 copies limited edition* Leo Okagawa has recently been known for performing improvised music on electronics at venues in the Tokyo area. On the other hand, he has long been creating “composed” works using environmental sounds, analog noises and electronics. This CD consists of pieces in the latter category. Okagawa made 43 tracks from his direct recordings (each a few minutes long) of sounds he encountered in various locations between June and August 2023, then put them together without edit…

*200 copies limited edition* Miki Yui is a musician and artist who was born in Tokyo and now lives in Dusseldorf, Germany. Since her 1999 debut album "Small Sounds," she has been creating a delicate, unique world of sound through the skillful manipulation of field recordings, faint noises and electronic sound and, more recently, the use of a modular synthesizer. In parallel with her solo performance activities, Yui has released collaborative works with Rolf Julius and Asumus Tietchens, and she i…

Modern Silence present the first ever reissue of Archie Shepp/Lars Gullin Quintet's The House I Live In, originally released in 1980. An incredible live album featuring saxophonists Archie Shepp and Lars Gullin, recorded at the Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen, Denmark on November 21, 1963. 180 gram, virgin vinyl; Edition of 500."This is a fascinating release. Tenor-saxophonist Archie Shepp would not burst upon the U.S. avant-garde scene until 1964-65 but here he is featured at a Danish concert …