Various
Cosmic Machine The Sequel: A Voyage Across French Cosmic & Elect
This sequel to the acclaimed Cosmic Machine compilation released in 2013 is another fantastic journey through time and space. At the time musicians were trying to capture the sounds of meteorites entering the terrestrial atmosphere thanks to machines developed by NASA engineers, a new generation of analog synthesizers enabled electronic music composers to take over the charts. It seemed the machines were definitely made to serve a radical avant-garde, and many years later, we're glad to be able …
Fascination/Requiem for a Vampire (Vierges et Vampires)
Jean Rollin’s twins of evil Fascination (1979) and Requiem Pour Un Vampire (1972) Previously unreleased full soundtracks. New twin soundtrack of vintage French synth experiments and free-rock from art house femme vamp film director” Comprising key scores by two of his regular collaborators, and bookending his most creative and lauded decade, the release of two original soundtracks to French director Jean Rollin’s Fascination (1979) and Requiem Pour Un Vampire (1972) mark Finders Keepers’ latest …
An Anthology of Turkish Experimental Music 1961-2014
Double LP version. This anthology features works by Turkish artists ranging from the electronic music of the 1960s to all forms of experimental music of the 2010s. This is Sub Rosa's second release exploring experimental music by zone or sphere of influence. The constellation built between 2000 and 2012 with Sub Rosa's seven-part Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music continues to expand through the Early Electronic collection (consisting mostly of tracks composed between the '50s and the '8…
Magnetophonics-Australian Underground Music 1978-1984
Outstanding!!! Massive and comprehensive overview of Australian underground music originally released as tapes/cassettes or vinyl between the late '70s and early to mid '80s. The first two LPs, called Edge City Broadcasts are Andrew Lonsdale's (Browning Mummery) selection of rare and essential tracks representing the great variety and diversity of sounds inside the Australian underground music scene of the period. LP3 is dedicated to one side each of label recordings from the Lymph Product…
Andrei Tarkovsky - Another Kind Of Language
With Michael Northam, Jon Tulchin, Yannick Dauby, Dale Lloyd, John Hudak, Kiyoshi Mizutani, Ronnie Sundin, Ven Voisey, Magali Babin, duul_drv, Josh Russell, Phillip Pietruschka, Sawako, Logoplasm, Andrew Chalk, Loren Chasse, John Grzinich, Radio Cegeste, Asher, BJ Nilsen, Kassel Jaeger. At last, a triple CD re-issue of one of the most requested out-of-print releases in the label back catalog. Twenty one sound artists created work inspired by one of Tarkovsky’s seven feature length films. The fir…
Lost Train Blues: John & Alan Lomax and the Early Folk Music
"Lost Train Blues features 22 selections from the vast holdings of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, 13 of them have never been issued before. The record includes work songs, ballads, blues, political and union songs, guitar, banjo and fiddle music and Native American vocal music. These recordings were made between 1933 and 1950 and represent the birth of the folk music collections at the Library of Congress, now the largest repository of folk and enthographic holdings in …
Punk Singles Bundle
** Record Store Day 2016 Exclusive, few copies soon available, pressed on color vinyl and sold in bundle** Suicide is the classic proto-punk duo composed of Alan Vega and Martin Rev. Their first single, 1978's Cheree, was originally released in England just months after their landmark self-titled LP. The A-side, a sparkling remix of the group's first proper song, features the brilliant juxtaposition of Vega's yearning voice and Rev's swirling synth textures. Non-album track "I Remember" is an…
Parallelogram
"Those lucky ducks at Three Lobed Recordings are living the dream. Everyone knows that being a record company is the single coolest thing anyone can do, and now they’ve taken that to a new level by assembling a box set of collaborative albums that seems to be more of a hypothetical wishlist come true.
The Parallelogram 5LP collection takes five musical pairings and lets each one put together a full-length slab of vinyl. And the pairings that Three Lobed has managed to pull off are the cream of t…
Rare Music From The Cometa Library Vaults
As most library music geeks know, some of the finest, oddest and most sought-after library music comes from Italy. But collecting it is an expensive business, and one full of risks – many library LPs are one trackers but will still set you back hundreds. The second Pheon Records LP release is a trip through the Cometa library music vaults. To buy the originals featured here would cost you thousands of pounds today. How mental is that! So, here we present a twelve tracker – twelve killer …
BRIAN ENO. Sound strategies
BOOK: 1. Biografia - 2. Sound ambience: Erik Satie, John Cage, Brian Eno di Claudio Chianura - 3. Brian Eno: altri paradossi di Fabio Martini - 4. Sound strategies: intuizioni, pensieri, riflessioni di Brian Eno - 5. Enoworks. DISC : 01. Asian River - 02. Zawinul/Lava - 03. Radiothesia III - 04. St. Elmo's Fire - 05. By This River - 06. Strawinsky - 07. Driving Me Backwards - 08. Music for Airports 1/2 - 09. Swanky - 10. Sparrowfall #1 - 11. Sparrowfall #2 - 12. Sparrowfall #3 - 13. Spi…
Appalachian Visionary
Hardcover 84-page book with CD and streaming/download code. Born blind on June 15, 1880, in Floyd County, Virginia, Alfred Reed grew up on a West Virginia farm. In the 1920s, when radio became available in his area, Alfred listened to and enjoyed performances by several of the era's popular singers. Alfred would purchase songbooks and hymnbooks, and his wife Nettie would read the lyrics to him. Because the songs he learned from others did not always express aspects of what he was thinking, …
Live at the Jolt Festival Basel
- 2014 release - JOLT-Festival Basel is an interdisciplinary art and music festival that took place November 7.-13. 2011 at Galerie Stampa und Gare Du Nord in Basel, Switzerland. The festival was curated by Daniel Buess and James Hullick in the spirit of JOLT Sonic Arts Inc. The non profit organisation JOLT Sonic Arts was founded by James Hullik with the aim to develop and implement soundart-projects in the form of concerts, performances, installations, etc. After its establishment in its home …
Ittiologia
*few copies back in stock* Ichthyology [ich·thy·ol·o·gy] noun The branch of zoology that studies fishes: their physiology, history, economic importance, etc.First reissue of Ittiologia, the second of Intervallo's seven reissues of the amazing nature-themed series of library LPs released in the first half of the '70s by Cardium, Chic, Nereide, Musical, Rhombus, Spring, and Weekend labels. These are seven albums that have never been reissued until now -- real collectors' items that have acqu…
Biologia Marina
Marine[muh-reen] adjective Relating to or living in the sea. First reissue of Biologia Marina, the first of Intervallo's seven reissues of the amazing nature-themed series of library LPs released in the first half of the '70s by Cardium, Chic, Nereide, Musical, Rhombus, Spring, and Weekend labels. These are seven albums that have never been reissued until now -- real collectors' items that have acquired a minor cult status in the decades since they first appeared. Biologia Marina (originally rel…
Esterno Notte
A trip into unchartered Italian RCA film music vaults, including lots of unreleased gems from great Italian soundtrack Maestros such as Alessandro Alessandroni, Giuliano Sorgini, Piero Umiliani, Alberto Baldan Bembo, Giovanni Tommaso, and so on. ! As an uninterrupted flow of lost soundtracks from the most subversive and psychedelic age of Italian cinema, Esterno Notte evokes, above all, the night time cityscape settings of Italian movies of the 70's (thriller, horror, erotic, comedy, noir, and a…
Esterno Giorno
In stock. Chapter two of a compilation project centered around and inside the secret archives of RCA’s glorious soundtrack catalogue - full of unreleased tracks from great Italian soundtrack Maestros such as Gianfranco Reverberi, Armando Trovajoli, Piero Piccioni, Paolo Ormi, Nico Fidenco, and so on. Light and joyful music made for plein air sequences of 60's and 70's Italian cinema. Presented here is an explosive mixture of jazz, blues, funk, psychedelia, and spicy exotica, composed for …
Records By Artists: 1958-1990
Records by artists is a catalogue raisonné, a book of about 500 records. The artist uses the record/vinyl medium, as a total project (cover, packaging, sound project) liberated from the music.Since the 1960's, artists have increasingly experimented with recording sound as a means to investigate the possibilities of expression. Vigorously researched and documented, Records by Artists 1958-1990 is the catalogue to an exhibition curated by Giorgio Maffei at the Biblioteca Universitaria, Bologna in …
Music of Xinjiang: Kazakh and Uyghur Music of Central Asia
Limited-edition LP with full-size insert of text and photographs by compiler Laurent Jeanneau. Xinjiang (Eastern Turkestan) is China's biggest province. The musical landscape here is one of the world's richest. The Uyghur and the Kazakh are the two main ethnicities represented on these recordings made by Laurent Jeanneau and Shi Tanding in June of 2009. The Kazakh (nomadic) and Uyghur (agricultural) have multiple linguistic ties. Much of this music shares many influences from the Arab world, Tur…
Outlier: Recordings from Madagascar
Limited-edition LP with full-size insert of text and photographs by compiler Charles Brooks. This collection is an impeccable and crystalline assortment of beautiful music from the deep southwestern provinces of Menabe and Tulear in Madagascar, recorded and assembled by Charles Brooks. Brooks has made many friends in these lesser-travelled regions since the 1990s. Outlier: Recordings from Madagascar represents a compilation of his encounters from 2011-2012. "Madagascar is an island that wo…
Speedball Experience
In stock now!! Okay, as the title already suggests, this compilation is made entirely of early 70s library music which was recorded for so called music libraries from whose stores, movie makers and TV producers could license certain titles for their productions. In most cases the compositions were a conglomerate of popular music genres such as funk, psychedelic, rock and soul. I have experienced a few French productions of that kind before, but now it is time for some Italian stuff. I am quite p…