Best of 2020
Three
Three, the 21st album from legendary Australian instrumental trio The Necks, is a winding, textural, and visceral musical exploration through three individual, contrasting tracks that each delve into separate tenets of their sound.
Cinevox Tidbeats
Long coveted by diggers, samplers, and beat makers, library music and film soundtracks have, over the decades, revealed themselves to be one of the great treasure troves of 20th century music. A wonderful, often overlooked world of sound - vast in its breath and endlessly adventurous and unpredictable in the realizations of its creative ambition - there are few veins more remarkable and thrilling than those efforts produced within Italy during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. We are thrilled to highli…
Yeo-Neun
** Small repress, absolutely astounding! ** Anyone encountering the efforts of the cellist, Okkyung Lee, faces an unavoidable truth. She’s an unreckonable force. Few players in the contemporary landscape relinquish themselves so completely to the practice of free improvisation, adapt with such ease without sacrificing the distinctions of self, or exist in the moment so completely, not to mention her awe inspiring technical skill. Her latest LP, Yeo-Neun, issued by Shelter Press, stands as tower…
No Paris / No Harm
Tip! *180 gram vinyl, reverse board jackets. True to original pressing layout with a clean loud remaster.* Recorded 1987 & 1988 in Tokyo and Paris. Junko, Jojo & T. Mikawa blaze through 3 tracks of their signature disjointed noise terrorism.
Archaïa
** Limited to 250 numbered copies.** Mutant Embryo Records proudly presents an official release of this mid/late 70’s French underground legend Archaïa! Dark atmosphere from a different era…an electric litany followed by bass volcanic eruptions, acid guitars, haunted vocals & vintage synth sounds composing a ritual trip into the prehistoric infinity…Propelled by a pulsating bass, their self-titled album is fast moving, featuring varied tempos and extremely dark themes. The music is characterized…
Complete Recordings
Deluxe, spot gloss-printed, massive three-hour box set collecting the full work of Herbert Joos (one of the most celebrated musicians in Lithuania’s avant-garde scene) 1968-1973 units, the Modern Jazz Quintet Karlsruhe and Four Men Only
Mi specchio e rifletto
Tip - this is stunning! **CD version** Since their launch in mid-2000s, the New York based imprint, Unseen Worlds, has continued to set an incredibly high bar through the earth-shaking quality of their releases. As dedicated to historical artists and works as they are to those emerging in the present, they’ve always taken their time, slipping things into the world with remarkable care, that leave humble tectonic shifts in their wake. After an absolutely incredible couple of years with brilliant …
Pitturamusica
The amazing Luis E. Bacalov / Ennio Morricone 1971 experimental album repressed for the first time, remastered from the original master tapes.The two Maestros created these compositions approaching the most advanced set of problems existing in the contemporary European musical experience. The basic modules are those proper to certain procedures of Musique Concrète: the non-traditional use of instruments for timbre research (e.g. the piano played on the tailpiece), the processing of human voices …
Hijohkaidan Tapes
**500 copies only, remastered & the first vinyl reissue EVER of this legendary Japanoise LP. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl. ** Hijokaidan’s “Hijohkaidan Tapes” came out in 1986 on Jojo Hiroshige’s Alchemy Records and is not only a historical collection of material, but also pays homage to their predecessors. The cover art and title are pulled from Krautrock legends Faust’s 1973 collage classic “The Faust Tapes” and the b-side includes a cover of Hawkwind’s “Silver Machine”, which of course aligns w…
Stand By
LP version. Bureau B present a reissue of Heldon's seventh and final album of the 1970s Stand By, originally released in 1979. After the release of Stand By, Richard Pinhas focused on solo LPs before quitting music for around a decade. "It was the end of the tale," he explains. "We decided to split for many reasons. The main one was that one or two of the other musicians wanted to stop. They were session musicians, mainly. At one point they said they didn't have so much time to give. And it was …
Albergo Intergalattico Spaziale
** 500 copies only reissue, housed in its original artwork with the addition of a bonus 7" EP, a reproduction of a giant original poster and 3 inserts** Giacomo “Mino” di Martino started his musical career in several early 1960s Italian beat bands. By 1968 he had found enormous success with pop superstars I Giganti. After a brief split in 1970 –during which Mino formed Il Supergruppo with Ricky Gianco and other greats of the Italian scene– he came back to I Giganti in 1971. With them and with ne…
Ipnopedion
Numbered second edition of 45 copies on 'smoke vinyl' with silkscreened sleeve, insert and download code. Already more than ten years Frederik Croene & Timo van Luijk collaborate on live shows and LP publications in which they search for common grounds. They try to link the intuitive music van Luijk has been developing over the years with Croene’s deeply classical education. "On the frigid moonless night of December 6th, 1978, a 26 year-old night watchman named Pier Zanfretta was on a routine pa…
Live 1975 (Expanded Version) - CD
**Digipack CD edition** Reissue with unreleased tracks from the only one tour of this super group assembled in 1975 by Franco Battiato, Lino Capra Vaccina, Juri Camisasca, Mino Di Martino, Roberto Mazza, Terra Di Benedetto. Presenting a remarkable range of his country’s visionary musical minds. The album encounters Battiato at the height of his powers and in the midst of crucial juncture in his career - the transition between his early experimental rock efforts from the first half of the 70’s, …
Le Massacre Du Printemps
* First ever vinyl reissue of highly sought after French experimental jazz from the legendary Jef Gilson Remastered from the master tapes. * In 1971, the day after the death of Igor Stravinsky, Jef Gilson and his Unit (Pierre Moret and Jean-Claude Pourtier) made this curious homage to classical music. It is jazz, contemporary and electroacoustic music that the trio interrogate through a wild ‘noise’ session evoking as much John Cage as Pierre Henry, John Coltrane as the Percussions de Strasbourg…
The Vanity Box Vol.1
The Vanity Box Vol. 1 present an anthology of releases by legendary Japanese DIY label Vanity, active in the late '70s and early '80s. The box includes 5 CDs which offer the following contents:CD-1 R.N.A. Organism - R.N.A. Organism Meets P.O.P.O.(Vanity 0006, originally released in 1980)This is the only album by the anonymous unit, R.N.A. Organism. The album is based on a cassette tape which was airmailed from London. It also happens to be the first group produced by Kaoru Sato of EP-4. R.N.A. O…
Vanity
This box-set collects all the available recordings by seminal Japanese group Tolerance. It includes both their albums released released between 1979 and 1981 on Japanese cult DIY label Vanity Records, along with never before released tracks recently discovered in Agi Yuzuru's archives.CD-1 Anonym(Vanity 0004, originally released in 1979)Tolerance is a solo alias of Junko Tange from Tokyo. Its sound is made of Tange’s electric piano, synthesizer, and simple electronics playing alongside the whisp…
Vanity Records 'Music, Tapes & Demos'
As per title, The Vanity Records 'Music, Tapes & Demos' box-set features a selection of releases culled from the catalogue of legendary Japanese cult DIY label Vanity Records, along with never before released demos recently discovered in Agi Yuzuru's archives. The box includes 11 CDs which offer the following contents:CD-1 & CD-2 Various - Music 1 & 2Music (or Musik) was a compilation originally released in 1981 as a double vinyl box. It is a selection of thirteen artists’ tracks that were chose…
Vanity Records CD Box bundle (31 CD) - Complete Discography
This super discounted bundle gathers together the five recently issued Vanity Records Box Sets, offering a comprehensive anthology of all the releases by this legendary Japanese DYI label, active in the late 70s and early 80s.and includes 31 CDs in total:Various - Vanity Records 'Music, Tapes & Demos' (11CD Box)Various - Vanity Records 'Demos' (6CD Box)Various - The Vanity Box Vol. 1 (5CD Box)Various - The Vanity Box Vol. 2 (5CD Box)Tolerance - Vanity (5CD Box)Here's details about the contents o…
Vanity Records CD Box-sets bundle
This bundle gathers together the four recently issued Vanity Records Box Sets, and includes 27 CDs in total:Various - Vanity Records 'Music, Tapes & Demos' (11CD Box)Various - Vanity Records 'Demos' (6CD Box)Various - The Vanity Box Vol. 1 (5CD Box)Tolerance - Vanity (5CD Box)Here's details about the contents of each box-set:Various - Vanity Records 'Music, Tapes & Demos' (11CD Box)CD-1 & CD-2 Various - Music 1 & 2Music (or Musik) was a compilation originally released in 1981 as a double vinyl b…
Impressioni Organizzate di Ansie Liquide CD
"Impressioni Organizzate di Ansie Liquide" is an immersive, languid realm, filled with elegant, poetic beauty, that bristle with unknown elements and the lingering potential of danger. Andrea Marutti and Carlo Giordani have created an album that simultaneously drowns the ear and fortifies it with breaths of fresh air. A remarkably sensitive reminder of the creative potentialities that rest at the heart of electroacoustic, concrete, and field recording based musics, doubling as a vision of their …