Reissues
Are You Rallizesed?
New limited-edition double CD set from long-time archival Rallizes label Ignuitas. This one features a complete Rallizes show from Shizuoka Stupa in 1974 with Mizutani feeding his guitar to the fire with outrageous Star Spangled Banner-style leads while the rest of the group lay-down some of the most brain-freezing nod-out grooves of their entire career. There’s a great slack, elegaically-stoned feel to the playing and by the end of the show the whole group are obliviously destroyed. Recommended…
Live@ Kinjou Gakuen University October 30 1976
Five tracks from Japan's underground psych legends. ACTUAL CD - not a CDR. Semi-official release limited to 200 copies. Long out of print, only 1 copy available.
Studio Rehearsal 1979
A series of Rallizes CDs on the shadowy Ignuitas label, from somewhere on planet Earth. These are all regular pressed CD releases. Were not sure why, how or whatever. This one is limited to 200 copies. ACTUAL CDs - not CDrs. Long out of print, only 1 copy available.
Archives of Dizastar Sources - Vol 6, # 11 & #12
A series of Rallizes CDs on the shadowy Ignuitas label, from somewhere on planet Earth (we think). These are all regular pressed CD releases (not CD-Rs). Were not sure why, how or whatever. This CD contain Live 1973 and live at New Rock Festival 1974. Long out of print, only 1 copy available.
Live May 25 1975 Yaneura
A series of Rallizes CDs on the shadowy Ignuitas label, from somewhere on planet Earth. These are all regular pressed CD releases (not CD-Rs). Were not sure why, how or whatever. What was the question again? This first one was apparently originally released in 2006. Live @ Yaneura May 25, 1975. Long out of print, 1 copy only available.
Ray Warleigh\'s First Album
Firmly-established as one of Britain's leading saxophonists and flautists, Ray Warleigh is perhaps best-known for his contributions to albums by Nick Drake, Elton John, Paul McCartney, U2 and many others. This 1969 bachelor pad classic was produced by Scott Walker (for whom he acted as musical director), and features a plethora of renowned musicians, including Gordon Beck, Harry South, Terry Cox and James Galway. Never previously available on CD, it comes complete with rare photographs and compr…
The Legendary Me
Long prayed-for reissue of this classic 1970 UK folk stunner that's a missing link both in the Wizz Jones oeuvre and in the guitar-freedom music of the prime era. The Legendary Me was Wizz Jones' second studio album, originally released by the obscure but vital Village Thing label (following his self-titled debut on United Artists). Cosmically figuring somewhere between the non-trad radical expressions of the Mike Cooper/Roy Harper axis and Clive Palmer's post-ISB journey, Jones' terrestrial pos…
Faust IV
Faust IV’ is widely acknowledged as being the finest album in the bands expansive catalogue, so it seems highly relevant that EMI have chosen this gem to re-issue. The full album is included here in it’s original form and is generously packaged up with 2 previously unreleased tracks and 3 tracks from a 1973 Peel session. Kicking off with the title that had journalists weeping – the tongue-in-cheek ‘Krautrock’ we’re firmly in the land of Faust. Billowing noise and seas of bleeps and burps envelop…
Sound Characters 2 (Making Sonic Spaces)
One of contemporary music's greatest and most elusive mavericks returns to Tzadik with yet another CD of ear-bending electronic sounds. A student of Stockhausen and close collaborator of John Cage and David Behrman, Maryanne Amacher has been creating acoustic art, electronic soundscapes and site-specific installation work since 1967. A new CD of Amacher compositions is a true cause for celebration and Teo! is one of her greatest works. The winner of Prix Ars Electronica in the Digital Musics cat…
Letters From The Serth
This re-release of 1998's Letters From The Serth is a sequential follow-up to the monolithic double CD Letters From The Earth, as it was recorded exactly one year to the day later (Orthodox Easter, 1997), at the same location - on the roof of their building in Chinatown in the afternoon. It's only a single CD this time because as you'll hear at the end, it's starts raining. It features the regular No Neck Blues Band line-up, plus their newest member, the enigmatic Japanese dancer/icon, Michiko. …
Cacophony: 1979-1981
Double CD archival overview of this obscure Australian band from the late 70s. They released 2 7" in 1979, including the legendary debut Instant Classic, which was a strange combo of primitive punk and dub. Those singles, plus the later LP from 1981 Transformational Salts make up the first disc. A small piece of near forgotten history, comprehensively recalled for consumption. The two discs contain both the scarce 7"s, the album, and two live sets. All digitally mastered by The Slugfuckers. It's…
Primitive Calculators And Friends 1979-82
Originally released by Chapter Music in 2007. After reissuing the landmark 1979 live album by Melbourne's ferocious synth-punk snarlers Primitive Calculators in late 2004, Chapter Music follows up with a crucial compilation of tracks by Primitive Calculators and their friends from the legendary Melbourne Little Band scene. Including the Calculators' only studio recording, the single "I Can't Stop It" b/w "Do That Dance," plus the Little Bands compilation EP (both originally released in 197…
Letters From The Earth
The No Neck Blues Band have been enjoying a surge in popularity of late, what with their incredible Qvaris album last year and now a collaboration with Embryo on the Staubgold label turning heads good and proper. This album was the band’s first foray into the digital realm and was released way back in 1998 on the influential Ser label. Unavailable for far too long, Very Friendly have seen sense in re-issuing it, and for many of us (me included) it is the first time we can get to hear it in un-ab…
Troubled
The sole output from Vancouver, British Columbia's all-but-forgotten Jesus rock trio, the New Creation. Originally pressed in 1970 in the vinyl LP format in a very limited run, this album never quite made it out of its hometown borders. We think this album is an extraordinary example of "outsider" rock and roll and produced this CD so that it can be shared by more than just a few isolated music fans. The CD was transferred from one of the surviving copies of the original album (master tapes are …
Drinking My Own Sperm
Alvaro, born in Chile, went to live to europe in the 70's, there he continued to make music, he even had a band with joe strummer (the clash), he later focused in his solo carrer. This release was his first solo record, mixing some chilean folk with experimental music. the result is a very fresh, original, authentic and energetic album,hard to describe. a must for atipic music lovers.
The Complete Machine Gun Sessions
Arguably the single-most important landmark in European free music: the original BRO Records LP restored to its '68 format, with two alternate takes, new liner notes by Brötzmann and John Corbett -- PLUS the only live version of 'Machine Gun' ever recorded. In 1968, there was a palpable sense of optimism in the air. This in spite of the fact that the shitheads seemed to have the upper hand, with the quagmire of Vietnam, the intractability of the American struggle for Civil Rights, Martin Luther …
Symphony No. 6 (Devil Choirs At The Gates Of Heaven)
1993 CD release and one of Mr. Branca's absolute masterworks: 10 guitars and bass & drums, beautifully studio-recorded. Originally released by Blast First in 1989.
KO/USK
84 page Hardcover book with embossed cloth cover & spine, also includes 12 page cd-booklet. Recorded & mixed between 1988 and 1995. Sound sources are stones collected all over the world. Beautiful artist book by Giancarlo Toniutti in collaboration with Siegmar Fricke, that comes with a nice CD (with an extra booklet) "speaking of "KO/USK," there has been a double trajectory in composing/recording it. On one side, following a decision implying the use of such sound sources (stones), a decision li…
Untitled 1980
rare tape, issued in 40 copies only "and about MB tape, its originally right channel only recorded stuff (+ low level white noise on left channel). here is a MBs note: "Concerning the description of why only the right channel, Ive only this in memory: I was trying some experiments at my first approach on my new MS20 Korg synthesizer, without any experience on it (because Im not a musician) and I pushed some button by mistake and the sound came out only in a right channel." "The "UNTITLED 1980" t…
number one
awesome reissue of the rare 1967 psycho-electronic wonder, with psychedelic comic book, in deluxe gatefold sleeve. drug induced wild electronics by john mills-cockell and trippy outsider narrative by blake parker. the package offers a glimpse into the installations and psychedelic environments that intersystems created (for example, the mind excursion center) during the 1960's, with the time-capsule effect as reported by the media including the toronto telegraph and time magazine. (the mind excu…