New Arrivals
Secos & Molhados
*2024 stock * Vinyl LP-only repressing of this album from the Brazilian band. Formed in 1971 by Ney Matogrosso (vocalist), Gerson Conrad (vocalist/composer/violao) and Joao Ricardo (singer/composer/violao/harmonica), Secos & Molhados is inscribed in a privileged category of few bands and musicians who led Brazil from bossa nova through Tropicalia then to Brazilian rock, a style which only blossomed in the '80s. Much of the group's importance, apart from the huge success of it's first album, whic…
Pushed Streets
Big tip! Deluxe LP housed in tip-on jacket with gloss film laminated cover and printed inner sleeve featuring photograph and painting by Michael Morley. Over the last ten years, Michael Morley has embraced the acoustic guitar as the means of channeling the darkest threads that have run through his work since the early 1980’s. While he largely made a name for himself as a maverick of primitive electric guitar and electronics in The Dead C and Gate, Morley’s love of song form has never been far fr…
Sterne Über Der Stadt
Günter Schlienz is a Stuttgart-based ambient artist whose work uses modular synthesizers, tape machines and field recordings to create emotive and captivating ambient textures. Günter has released albums on diverse labels around the world - Sacred Phrases, SicSic, Goldtimers, Constellation Tatsu, Preservation - amongst others. "Sterne über der Stadt" was first released in 2017 in a handmade four-panel cardboard envelope CDr limited edition of 50 copies on Pantheophania. Inspired by a picture cap…
New Wilderness Audiographics - Recordings 1977-1984
"Wilderness Audiographics - Recordings 1977-1984" is an astounding 11LP wooden boxset and a hardcover book, issued in a numbered edition of 333 copies, that takes a deep, exploratory dive into Charlie Morrow’s historically significant and much coveted imprint, gathering mind-blowing, little heard works by Morrow, Philip Corner, Jackson Mac Low, Pauline Oliveros, Jerome Rothenberg, R.I.P. Hayman, Ocarina Orchestra, Alison Knowles, Dick Higgins, Bernard Heidsieck, and a great many more. While rema…
The Art, Music & Writings of Geoffrey Rushton Alias John Balance - The Years 1979-1986
John Balance – The Art, Music & Writings Of Geoffrey Rushton Alias John Balance - The Years 1979-1986.” 9LP with 282-page book in wooden box with Shirt / Slipmat / certificate
Since his untimely passing in 2004, it has remained impossible to calculate the importance and lasting legacy of John Balance. Most well know as the founding member of Coil, which began as a solo project before becoming a collaboration with his partner Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson, even before that lasting and remarka…
Underwater Sounds To Lure The Fishes
Tip! Edition of 250, hand-glued covers on cardboard sleeves. Underwater Sounds To Lure The Fishes is the second release from Free Tala, a project by Finnish sound artist Juho Toivonen. This LP features deep-sea droning sounds designed to attract fish. It’s perfect for all fishermen and women out there, as well as anyone who wants to dive into the deep blue, feel the weighty oceanic ambiance, and catch a glimpse into the mental landscape of these aquatic creatures. It also works very well in fres…
Havens
"Alan Licht returns to VDSQ with Havens, a sprawling double-disc set of exploratory guitar-based compositions forged from the myriad possibilities arising when strings collide with electricity & space. Licht is masterful and relentless in his negotiation of the often-unknowable intersections that exist between juxtaposing strands of sound. His work is marked by contrast & contradiction: maximalism versus minimalism; rockist inclinations versus avant, expanded-field expression; loose improvisatio…
Live In Munich
This concert recording from Munich’s Schwere Reiter performance space features improvisation with an expanded palette of possibilities. “To work with these colours is a great challenge and joy!” says bassist Barry Guy of the glowing and ever-changing tints, timbres and tones radiating from Jordina Millà’s freely associative piano. Like Guy, Millà is both a player of prodigious technical capacity and a fearless improvisational explorer, and her highly creative use of the piano interior opens up …
My Prophet
On My Prophet, Oded Tzur together with his quartet of pianist Nitai Hershkovits, bassist Petros Klampanis and the new group member Cyrano Almeida on drums, continues on the idiosyncratic musical path he has carved out for himself – a flowing jazz idiom that seamlessly combines multiple forms of expression –, while delving deeper into the meditative and highly concentrated realm of improvisation. In the process, the saxophonist presents some of his fiercest playing yet.
The quartet’s synergy is…
Duo in Concert
Frozen Reeds is proud to present the only recorded duo playing of two legendary musical figures.
“This is one of those moments that we’re always hoping for, and it's so rare. And it's so hard to talk about, because it's so beautiful. It's like you're seeing some new species of plant that you never knew existed or something.” – Bill Frisell
Nothing Is True; Everything Is Permitted
40th anniversary edition of this seminal work by the multi-talented musician and producer Carlos Perón. After the release of “Impersonator” and the score of the film “Die Schwarze Spinne”, “Nothing Is True; Everything Is Permitted” is his third album released in the beginning of 1984. While still being an active member of Yello, it was around the start of the recording of “You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess” that Carlos met the American musician Chris Lunch in Hamburg. He invited Chris to Zuric…
Veta
*200 coipes limited edition* “Yet another vital album of enthralling ambient from the prolific Past Inside The Present label head zakè aka Zach Frizzell. Veta is a world veiled in smoky half-tones. As he often does, he fuses modern ambient classical with analogue production and conjures up thoughts of ceremonial divinity, healing and protection and offers a place to go and find solace from the pains of the world.
There are both deft synths and purposefully layered pads that blend the organic and…
Arrhythmian
For their fifth collaboration Marc Barreca and Kerry Leimer set aside their more abstract creative approaches to composition in favor of basing the music of Arrhythmian on beats. Using rhythm as texture, the tracks gravitate to concussive and bass voices, high bpm rates, and constantly evolving timbres shaped by granular synthesis, sampling, heavy processing, audio manipulation, rich distortion, with the maximum dynamic range vinyl can offer. “We’re always thinking about sound quality, about wha…
Ghana Special Volume 2 (Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora 1980-93)
In the early 1980s, a particular alchemy between new musical technologies and significant social, cultural, and political transformations in Ghana gave rise to a new style of highlife. Drum machines and synthesisers appeared alongside lilting guitar lines and punchy horns, and the emerging Ghanaian diaspora began incorporating US disco and boogie, R&B, European new wave, and Caribbean zouk and soca into their music. This style soundtracked the birth of a new, proud Ghanaian identity and captured…
Orphée Aux Enfers
*2024 stock* Orphée Aux Enfers is a comic operetta and satirical treatment of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus by French composer Jacques Offenbach. The classic story of Orpheus concerns a renowned musician who is so distraught over the death of his wife, Eurydice, that he attempts to rescue her from the Underworld, the place of the dead. It’s a myth of enduring love between Orpheus and Eurydice that has inspired artists, writers and composers such as Günter Schlienz.
Feeling Good (Funk, Soul & Deep Jazz Gems: The Supreme Sound Of Producer Bob Shad)
*2024 stock* Feeling Good, a compilation of rare Spiritual Jazz and Funk grooves is culled from legendary producer Bob Shad’s Mainstream Records. Made in partnership with Mia and Judd Apatow, Shad’s grandchildren, the set features insightful sleevenotes by Judd Apatow himself. Many know Alice Clark’s cult classic “Never Did I Stop Loving You” produced by Bob Shad in 1972, but this is the tip of the iceberg. Many treasures are uncovered here for the first time on compilation, all remastered from…
The Raga Guide (A Survey Of 74 Hindustani Ragas)
*2024 stock* The Raga Guide is a 1999 Nimbus Records compilation of 74 Hindustani ragas on four CDs. It includes a textbook edited by Joep Bor (of the Rotterdam Conservatory of Music) with information and western-style transcriptions of the ragas and a catalogue of two sets of ragamala plates, dated to ca. 1610 and 1650. The 1610 plates are painted in the Mughal style. The featured artists are Vidyadhar Vyas (vocal), Shruti Sadolikar-Katkar (vocal), Buddhadev Das Gupta (sarod), and Hariprasad Ch…
Neurotransmitters-Sphere-Music
*200 copies limited edition* "Neurotransmitters-Sphere-Music" is Jarl’s sixth album on Reverse Alignment, following on from 2021’s CD release "Spectrum Confusion". And once again Karolina Urbaniak has masterfully created the cover artwork, as she’s done for the five earlier Jarl releases for Reverse Alignment. Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that help nerve cells communicate with each other. Referring to this concept, "Neurotransmitters Sphere Music" consists of four pieces showcasing …
Alchemical Allures
Tip! »Alchemical Allures« is the first album by the duo Claussen/Klement, founded in 2019. With a unique instrumentation of voice, objects, zither and electronics, the artists have created a soundscape composed of field recordings, vocal and instrumental elements as well as electronically generated sounds and noises. All the tracks on this album were recorded during a residency at the Center National de Création Musicale GMEA in Albi-Tarn in July 2022.
Kill A Phantom
Rent ist the pseudonym of artist and ecologist Katrin Euller. Rent’s sounds refer to industrial ecosystems, interconnections, dark landscapes and their stories and the stories of those who inhabit these places. At the same time, it is the processes of sound creation itself that emerge in Rent's compositions: sounds influence each other, reinforce each other, cancel each other out, dissolve and become noise, sound like the city, a car alarm for example. Then everything gets lost in the fog again.…