Reissues
Fiction of the Physical
Crystalline examples of Zweig’s aesthetic and brilliance...A labyrinth of sound worth getting lost in
Boots
Special Limited Color Edition (So Long, Babe Blue Swirl). The record that forever put Nancy Sinatra over the top – thanks to the massive title hit "Boots Are Made For Walking" – and some impeccable Lee Hazlewood production that really found a way to …
Nippon Guitars (Instrumental Surf, Eleki & Tsugaru Rock 1966-1974)
Legendary is a word too often used when writing about musicians. Takeshi Terauchi is no myth, more an elemental force and surely a nominee for the status of Living National Treasure – a first for a rock musician in Japan. While not exactly well known…
Lovin' Mighty Fire (Nippon Funk • Soul • Disco 1973-1983)
The first official collection of Japanese soul, funk and disco in the West. Available in CD and deluxe vinyl formats.
Come Svaligiammo La Banca D’italia/Il Lungo, Il Corto, Il Gatto
CFSoundtracks and Beat Record Company release for the first time on CD the two OSTs by Lallo Gori for the spy comedy films "Come svaligiammo la banca d'Italia" and "Il lungo, il corto, il gatto" starring Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia. "Come sva…
Nessuno è perfetto
Beat Record releases for the very first time on CD the complete edition of the brilliant soundtrack by Riz Ortolani for the comedy "Nessuno è perfetto" directed in 1981 by Pasquale Festa Campanile and starring Renato Pozzetto and Ornella Muti. For a …
Someone Somewhere
Someone Somewhere was assembled from original tapes during the band's active period (73-77). Acanthe was a French Classic Rock/Prog band in activity in the mid 70’s (from 73 to 77), but that has never seen its music reflected on a official release. F…
Maghreb Cantata, Live 1969
Temporary super offer! ** Much-needed repress ** A marvellous double album as document of the historical collaboration between Don Cherry and Swiss pianist, composer George Gruntz, a central figure in European Jazz who always showed a special interes…
Musikforum Schloss, Viktring, Austria – July 20, 1972
* Much-needed repress * Recorded live in Austria in 1972 this outstanding document marks an important event such as the meeting between Don Cherry and Dollar Brand. Here the modern jazz trumpet master and the great South-African pianist along with pe…
Live at IUCC 2/25/79
Volume 2 out of 11. Edition of 333 copies, one-time pressing. This is the last recording with Jesse Sharps as the Bandleader before he left for the Army. An incredible afternoon of music and a fitting “Departure” for a Jesse, a true pillar of the 70’…
Live at IUCC 6/24/79
**333 copies, one-time pressing** Volume 6 out of 11. This is the last recording with Jesse Sharps as the Bandleader before he left for the Army.. An incredible afternoon of music and a fitting “Departure” for a Jesse, a true pillar of the 70’s Arke…
Mona The Carnivorous Circus
The adventurous singer, guitarist and music journalist Mick Farren launched his solo career after being sacked by his fellow Deviants, the protopunk band he fronted from 1967-69. Suffering from depression and other mental health issues, Farren teamed…
Prayer For Peace
Big Tip! While stationed in Germany in the RAF during the late 1950s and early 1960s, York-born alto and soprano saxophonist Trevor Watts met the drummer John Stevens, with whom he would form the Spontaneous Music Ensemble upon returning to the UK in…
Gipsy Blood
Japanese country rock act Gypsy Blood must be heard to be believed. Released on Vertigo in 1971, their sole LP showed the group simply bursting with talent, Kiyoshi Hayami’s mandolin exceptional and the masterful soft-rock production courtesy of Miki…
Die Wiederholung der Geschichte der amerikanischen Heimatlosigkeit
raster is pleased to reissue this early work of Grischa Lichtenberger, remastered and for the first time in physical format.
Luxury Problems
** 2023 Pressing, deluxe gatefold violet vinyl 2LP ** Following on from a pair of Extended Players released in 2011 ("Passed Me By" / "We Stay Together") Andy Stott returns to Modern Love with 'Luxury Problems', an 8 track album of new material recor…
Faith In Strangers
2023 pressing on gold vinyl, edition of 500 copies. Double LP version. Faith in Strangers was written and recorded between January 2013 and June 2014, and was edited and sequenced in late July of 2014. Making use of on an array of instruments, field …
80s Underground Cassette Culture: Volume 2
Glasgow’s Contort Yourself trawl the scuzzier echelons of ‘80s tape culture for the tangiest traces of coldwave, post-punk, post-industrial with an uncanny appreciation of the way the 1980s and 2022 share so much in common.
Delivered to a backdrop of…
Etudes De Rien
* Edition of 200 copies, black vinyl * The New Blockaders are unique in the history of music and art. What, in our opinion, stands supreme in TNB’s 40-year existence is a passionate execution of their anarchistic and unconventional stance. In a biogr…