Reissues
The Ultimate Collection
**CD collection in gatefold sleeve LP-cover size** "This set contains all previously released Improved Sound Limited 5 CDs (eponymous double album, Catch a Singing Bird On the Road, Rathbone Hotel, Road Trax, The Final Foreword) and one bonus CD entitled Bell Cantos, Ezra Pound Revisited with music the band recorded in 1969 for Bavarian Radio with heavy fuzz guitar, moog synthesizer, music of that time, a little bit experimental but constantly melodic (no white noise). This is the ultimate colle…
Voices Of Haiti
**2020 repress** Fantome Phonographique present a reissue of Maya Deren's Voices Of Haiti, originally released as a 10" record in 1954. Maya Deren (1917-1961) was a Russian-American filmmaker and one of the most important voices in avant-garde cinema of the mid-20th century. She was a muse and inspiration to such up-and-coming avant-garde filmmakers as Curtis Harrington, Stan Brakhage, and Kenneth Anger, who emulated her independent, entrepreneurial spirit. Throughout the 1940s and '50s, Deren a…
Approdi 2, Avanguardie Musicali a Napoli - Volume II
**300 copies** Avant-garde and experimental musics are intrinsically connected to community, collectivism, support, and collaboration. Audiences and artists, stretching to every corner of the globe, continuously rely on each other to push into ever more ambitious realms. This spirit of discourse has always been central to the multigenerational contexts of avant-garde and experimental music from Italy. For decades, neglected and over looked by their international peers, the country’s musicians an…
African High Life
Pioneering percussionist Solomon Ilori was one of the first Nigerian artists to record with American jazz musicians, travelling to New York in 1958 to introduce African music to American audiences. After appearing on Art Blakey’s 1962 LP The African Beat for Blue Note; he recorded African High Life with members of Blakey’s ensemble, including guitarist Jay Berliner, bassist Ahmed Abdul Malik, Hosea Taylor on alto sax and flute, and percussionists Montego Joe, Robert Crowder and Garvin Masseaux. …
Fantasias For Guitar And Banjo
Folk musician Sandy Bull took an unorthodox approach to stringed instruments, influenced in part by sharing an apartment with Nubian oud master, Hamza El Din. His 1963 debut LP for Vanguard, Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo, saw him backed by Los Angeles-based jazz drummer Billy Higgins: side-long epic Blend is influenced by eastern and middle-eastern music forms; Little Maggie displays a lightning-fast picking style, Gospel Tune hearkens to the American South, medieval classic Non Nobis Domine is…
First Encounter
After playing with Mingus, Coltrane, Lady Day and Abbey Lincoln, inventive jazz pianist Mal Waldron moved to Europe and first reached Japan in 1970, where he met Idaho-born double-bassist Gary Peacock, who had played with Art Pepper, Bud Shank, Bill Evans and free-jazz giant, Albert Ayler before moving to Japan to study zen Buddhism.First Encounter, recorded in Tokyo in 1971 for French producer Herve Bergerat, shows that the intense pairing was quite natural, the harmonic dissonance of Waldron’s…
Crystals: New Music for Relaxation 2
**New vinyl reissue remastered from the original 1982 master tapes, packaged in classic Folkways-style tip-on jackets with liner notes.** The sonorous drift of four trombones, like gentle waves lapping at the edge of a celestial shoreline, opens Craig Kupka’s second album for Folkways, Crystals: New Music for Relaxation 2. Featuring two side-long compositions for trombone and synthesizer, the album is intended as an aid for meditation, a guided journey inward towards self-discovery.Before its or…
Gateway Summer Sound: Abstracted Animal and Other Sounds
**New vinyl reissue remastered from the original 1979 master tapes, packaged in classic Folkways-style tip-on jackets with liner notes.** Ann McMillan did not record prolifically, but she was at the vanguard of electronic composition in New York in the 1970s. A student of groundbreaking composer Edgard Varèse, McMillan’s primary medium was magnetic tape, which she manipulated to create surreal soundscapes. On Gateway Summer Sounds, her debut album released on Folkways in 1979 and recorded at the…
The Neptune Collection
**New vinyl reissue remastered from the original 1976 master tapes, packaged in classic Folkways-style tip-on jackets with liner notes.** An epigraph to the liner notes of The Neptune Collection, the second album by The Entourage Music and Theater Ensemble, reads, “We are a group flexible in size and temperament. Our purpose is to create original works in a collective manner. We utilize music, dance, poetry, and theatre skills.” Plainly stated, this dictum represents the core of the dynamic, mul…
Alien Blood
Alien Blood is the result of the band’s meticulous process of revisiting the original 2” tapes of The Pop Group studio sessions and recordings, unearthing never-before-heard material, including the studio recording of Kiss the Book, gloves off version of We Are Time (Ricochet), and Words Disobey Me (Dennis The Menace Mix) whilst exposing the raw skeletons of iconic tracks such as the original velocity of Thief of Fire (Bass Addict). Alien Blood reveals the life of Y before everything was finali…
Y Live!
The "Y Live!" album is an essential addendum to the original release, one that captures all the fierce urgency of The Pop Group's live performances at the time.
For The Sake Of The Song
**2020 stock** Originally released in 1968, For the Sake of the Song is a re-issue of Townes Van Zandt well known debut album. Produced by Jack Clement (Charley Pride, Chet Atkins, U2 etc.) and featuring original liner notes by Mickey Newbury, with this album Townes Van Zandt went on to cement his status as a cult icon among gifted song writers."Townes Van Zandt wrote songs with an uncommon grace and poetic clarity, and he sang them with a voice that was at once straightforward, eloquent, and mi…
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 …
Giallo Criminale
**Limited Edition of strictly 499 copies on yellow vinyl** Ennio Morricone’s work has always been distinguished by his original and well-defined footprint, influencing important cinema directors like Sergio Leone, Quentin Tarantino, Brian De Palma, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Umberto Lenzi and many more.This compilation wants to highlight the more dramatic, frenetic, criminal, tense and oneiric musical aspect that in many films and musical influences, has accompanied the characteristic cinematog…
Demon
**35th Anniversary, Record Store Day ‘Silver Mask’ edition on silver vinyl** To celebrate the 35 years, since the release of the cult movie Demons by Lamberto Bava, Rustblade presents a limited edition of 499 copies, 45 rpm 7” from the original soundtrack, composed by Maestro Claudio Simonetti. The single features Demon, the main theme from the movie, on Side A and Killing on Side B.
Il Medico Della Mutua / Il Prof. Dott. Guido Tersilli ...
"Il medico della Mutua" and "Il Prof. Dott. Guido Tersilli..." are two Italian cult films, released in theaters in 1968 and 1969 respectively; both see Alberto Sordi as main character, an initially unknown doctor that makes its way in a rigid and almost impenetrable system as that of the Italian health, and eventualy manages to open his own private clinic in which to speculate at the expense of his patients.The two films, while dealing with the problems and contradictions of a system still 'sick…
Cobbled
**Limited edition of 50 copies. Double cassette housed in a handmade silk-screened wooden box. Comes with a booklet with information and photographs, a bag with 4 small stones and a hand numbered print.** Jeph Jerman started recording and performing in 1986 under the moniker Hands To. Most of his early soundwork was sampler and tape loop based, though slowly evolved from electro-acoustic pieces to environmental recordings with very little to no manipulation or electronic processing using only na…
Stone Memorial
**Limited edition of 50 copies. Comes in a silkscreened box with a booklet and a plastic bag containing 3 pieces of broken glass, a piece of wire and a signed card.** Born in Montréal, Marie Goyette studied the piano in Montréal and London. After residing in Europe, she moved to Berlin in 1989. Inspired by the city's lively and unorthodox art scene, she started a second career and expanded her activities from traditional concerts to the fields of performance and radio art. In the early '90s Jan …
Products Unconscious
**Limited, numbered edition of 50 copies. Comes in a han made velvet bag holding the cassette, an envelope with 4 prints and a pair of white, black or pink lace panties.** "I'm Hiroshi and I like beer" were the first words Hiroshi Hashimoto spoke to me when I picked him up from an airport in 2006. For the next two weeks we travelled together in an old car I borrowed from my parents. Just like his records it became an interesting and rewarding journey with unpredictable twists and turns. Hiroshi …
Unbegrenzt
"Unbegrenzt" is the third in an ongoing series of archival records of the unheard music of Swedish composer Catherine Christer Hennix, co-released by Blank Forms Editions and Empty Editions. It follows "Selected Early Keyboard Works" and "Selections from 100 Models of Hegikan Roku" (named the #1 archival release of 2019 by The Wire), in addition to a two-volume collection of Hennix’s writing titled "Poësy Matters" and "Other Matters".