New Arrivals
Die Like a Dog
German reedman-composer Peter Brotzmann is, despite an immense catalog spanning over forty years of activity in free music, criminally underrepresented in the format of a "standard" piano-less quartet. From reed-heavy octets and orchestras to the winds-bass-drums power trio, not to mention a long-running trio with percussion and piano, most of the possible formations have been covered. His Die Like A Dog Quartet was the one entry in this instrumental canon in the late 1990s, and produced five re…
New York Box vol.1
"From New York" is a musical jouney into the street of New York divided into three splendid albums:
DAVID MURRAY - Live at the Lower Manhattan Ocean ClubNew Year's Eve 1977 gig with Lester Bowie, Fred Hopkins and Phillip Wilson, originally released on India Navigation.
JOHN LINDBERG'S TRIPOLAR - (A)Live at Roulette, NYCString Trio of New York bassist Lindberg, with Don Davis (sax) and Kevin Norton (drums), recorded in sparkling form in New York, 2010
LESTER BOWIE - The Great PretenderGospel-dre…
Split
Split album of the Berlin based artists Shapes a.ka. Niklas Dommaschk (member of Phantom Horse) and Oliver Koch as Melfi. There’s some peculiar mutuality in the works of Melfi and Shapes that add an unexpected kind of conceptuality to that split tape on hand. Both artists work with machines that are older than themselves, and it is obvious that their approach alleges some kind of antiqueness that sets the listener on the wrong track. There’s an inheritable sadness to all of these tracks, friendl…
Two Variations
Two Variations marks the return to Umor Rex of the Los Angeles based musician & producer M. Geddes Gengras, following his two volumes of “Collected Works” from 2013 and 2014. The two pieces here are the result of Gengras’ continuous exercises and obsession with his modular synthesizer, —technique apart—, “Two Variations” is a new statement, the reinforcement of MGG’s prowess in this area, and how through these machines, he is able to build harmonic music pieces, contours between the electronic c…
Re:collecting
Re:collecting is the first collaborative album of Steven Hess (member of Locrian, Cleared, Pan•American, Haptic, and Innode) and Rutger Zuydervelt (also known as Machinefabriek).
Over that past years, Steven Hess has recorded piles of cassettes on an old four-track and classroom desktop tape players, going through a chain of pedals and loopers and then back into the cassette recorders again. Besides his usual drum kit and cymbals, the sound sources include guitar, bass, AM/FM radio chatter and w…
Pharaoh Overlord
Circle’s Pharaoh Overlord is bound to contest all speculations you ever heard of these savant ritualists. What’s clear is that Pharaoh Overlord means the intrusion of the namesake of this album into Circle.It is a forest of fire. Their self-possessed purge from self-referentiality, oddly enough, intensifies the paradox-ridden spree with which Circle have ignited the very building blocks of the band itself into fiction that is ever leaking out into reality-infested horizons surrounding the volupt…
Surfacing
The debut release by Mára, the solo project of Faith Coloccia (Mamiffer, Everlovely Lightningheart).Time. Death. Transcendence. These are the allusions and allegories that Faith Coloccia extends through her piano-bloom plainsongs under her moniker Mára. Her elegant and deceptively simple compositions situate at the crossroads of these grand narratives with all of the existential portent of a spiritualist hymnal; yet there is an intimacy to her visions traced in the delicacy of her touch on the p…
s/t
Cassette reissue of the 2010 split LP release. Edition of 50 copies. Custom letterpress packaging, hand stamped & numbered, artwork/design by F. Coloccia. “Music like this cannot merely be described; music like this must be felt. Mamiffer’s debut is a beautiful piece of unremitting dream music, an arc of soft diaphanous emotion wrapped in pieces of classical music and brilliant noise.” -Blog Critics The split LP is a time honored tradition in the realm of underground musics, one which ha…
Tapes Amateurs
Rome. This century. Lola Hudson and Gloria Farr, two artist/performers moving in the darkest circles of the most pagan city in ancient history, decide to burst onto the scene and break the cultural hymen that human history has been creating over the last millennia. The vagina has returned to free souls of the dictatorship of the dance of the Father: patriarchs have been attempting to annihilate women’s sexuality since the dawn of time. Destroy the image and you shall control the story. Go …
A Fragile Geography
Rafael Anton Irisarri's A Fragile Geography is a record cast in a climate of unsteadiness and transition, reflecting upon the current state of everyday living. Recorded over 2014 and '15, the record bears the marks of difficult terrain -- personal, political, social, and cultural. It tips its hat to the complex and unpredictable dynamics of the contemporary world, correlating concerns both macro and micro. Compositionally, the music mirrors the tensions of contemporary America, contrastin…
Triode, Travelling, Horde Catalytique pour la Fin in bundle
all the three groundbreaking LP in bundle at special price
On n'a pas fini d'avoir tout vu
Orange LP version. Limited edition of 200. Souffle Continu presents the sixth release in its series of reissues from the catalog of the cult French underground Futura label. Triode was a French psych prog band from the early '70s. Their sole album, 1971's On n'a pas fini d'avoir tout vu, combines the fascinating flute playing of Michel Edelin, the psychedelic guitar sound of Pierre Chérèze (also of YS and a collaborator of Bernard Szajner), and the groovy rhythm section of Didier Hauck and Pier…
Ftarri 3rd Anniversary Vol.1
With Yoko Ikeda (viola), Léo Dupleix (electronics), Hikaru Yamada (alto saxophone, microphone) & Hayato Kurosawa (guitar), ffrond (Yoshinori Shiraishi, drums, percussion, Shiro Ochiai, electric piano, Tyler Eaton, double bass). The label made 80 copies each volume and gave some copies to audience members. These are the last copies. The Ftarri store/live performance space in Suidobashi, Tokyo, celebrated its 3rd anniversary in August 2015. To mark this occasion, we held six 3rd anniversary …
Ftarri 3rd Anniversary Vol.2
With Daysuke Takaoka, tuba, Takuro Okada, synthesizer, Hiroyuki Ura, drums, Shinjiro Yamaguchi, guitar, electric metronome, sine wave. The label made 80 copies each volume and gave some copies to audience members. These are the last copies. The Ftarri store/live performance space in Suidobashi, Tokyo, celebrated its 3rd anniversary in August 2015. To mark this occasion, we held six 3rd anniversary concerts in July and August. For each concert we produced a CD-R (each with different music)…
Ftarri 3rd Anniversary Vol.3
With Masashi Takashima, piano, drums, G.I.T.M. Yumiko Yoshimoto, electric guitar. Tomoko Kageyama, marimba, vibraphone, bowl, bells, vocal, voice, field recordings, lyrics & Kei Tainaka, guitar, effects. Takashi Masubuchi, full hollow-body guitar. The label made 80 copies each volume and gave some copies to audience members. These are the last copies. The Ftarri store/live performance space in Suidobashi, Tokyo, celebrated its 3rd anniversary in August 2015. To mark this occasion, we held s…
Ftarri 3rd Anniversary Vol.4
With Yuji Ishihara, drums, percussion. Kayu Nakada, bug synthesizer. Tetsuro Fujimaki, drums, percussion. Riuichi Daijo, acoustic guitar. The label made 80 copies each volume and gave some copies to audience members. These are the last copies. The Ftarri store/live performance space in Suidobashi, Tokyo, celebrated its 3rd anniversary in August 2015. To mark this occasion, we held six 3rd anniversary concerts in July and August. For each concert we produced a CD-R (each with different music…
Ftarri 3rd Anniversary Vol.6
With Yuhei Saito, tape recorders. Tomoe Takizawa, guitar. Yui Nakamura, throat, room. Keitetsu Murai, 4 parallel-connected oscillators with photosensors, stabilized DC power supply, Japanese candle cut in length to burn in about 15 minutes. The label made 80 copies each volume and gave some copies to audience members. These are the last copies. The Ftarri store/live performance space in Suidobashi, Tokyo, celebrated its 3rd anniversary in August 2015. To mark this occasion, we held six 3r…
Ftarri 3rd Anniversary Vol.5
With sawako, laptop. Yuma Takeshita, electro-bass. Tomoyoshi Date, piano. Straytone, modular synthesizer. The label made 80 copies each volume and gave some copies to audience members. These are the last copies. The Ftarri store/live performance space in Suidobashi, Tokyo, celebrated its 3rd anniversary in August 2015. To mark this occasion, we held six 3rd anniversary concerts in July and August. For each concert we produced a CD-R (each with different music) which was presented as a gift …
Black Rhythm Happening
Black Rhythm Happening (the second Blue Note album by Eddie Gale) was released in 1969 and includes jazz heavy weight Elvin Jones on drums and sax man Jimmy Lyons. Again the mix is a blend of soul jazz, free form freak outs, and a gospel influenced street choir. Suggested listening for fans of Sun Ra & Brother Ah, John Coltrane's late 60's LPs, and Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler's more groove oriented recordings. The original vinyl LPs go for big bucks on Ebay, this is the first time this Blue…
On Patrol
On Patrol, originally released in 2010, is a double album in two parts, and the fourth full length album from Sun Araw. An album for heavy-steamin' late nights in the city, inter-dimensional back alleys, ghost cabs; it creeps and tunes in on a much darker, sparser, and more classically minded channel than its predecessors: dark and deep steam-vent ruminations on Phil Cohran, lenticular objects, and fried Hot 92.3 R&B slow-jams. A cold bug makes a real 'live wire.