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Miao Mouthorgans & other rare instruments in Guizhou, Sichuan, China
Rare field recordings by Laurent Jeanneau among minority communities in southern China: mouth organs of every size, the Gelao gupiaoqin and elders' canon singing. Recorded with honesty about ethnic tourism, seeking music that is lived rather than sta…
Kajang
Four previously unreleased pieces (2015-2020) by Otto Sidharta, pioneer of Indonesian electronic music. Built from environmental sound and a deep love of sealed-off traditional musics, the album takes its name from a closed community in Sulawesi and …
Innocent Canon
** Black Vinyl edition ** Original masters licensed by King Records Japan. Includes OBI and insert. 'Innocent Canon' is one of the hopelessly obscure Japanese underground albums that few people know about. It is a kind of unreleased delirious groova…
Noise Of Voice
5x CD + DVD Box collecting Junko Hiroshige (founder member of Hijokaidan) her unique and extreme vocal style. Life's a scream with Junko, whose extreme vocals exemplify the principle of less talk and more action: with vocal chords of rarely equaled s…
Le Città Invisibili (Le Città e i Morti) LP
**First time on LP. 300 Copies in colored vinyl** A Marco Dalpane's unreleased recording (mainly known for the cult album “Scorie” released with Tiziano Popoli) produced in 1991 for Radio Rai as an accompaniment to the reading of Italo Calvino “Le ci…
Studio & Live Recordings 1979-1983 (5CD Box)
Top! This is a collection of the treasured recordings of Annon, a band formed in Osaka in 1979 by Toshiji Mikawa (Hijokaidan, Incapacitants, etc.) and Naoto Hayashi (Auschwitz). Toshiji Mikawa is simply described as a pioneer, inventor, and visionary…
Keep Together - Fluxus & Neofluxus Part II
The second volume of Sub Rosa's Fluxus edition, built around a broken piano now left to decay in the open air in Prague. New and old works, scores and improvisations from a Fluxus who's who (Knizak, La Monte Young, Cage, Paik, Ono, Brecht and more), …
Crawling Wind
First vinyl reissue of Univers Zero's 1981 EP, originally on Japan's Chaos International. Three pieces move from Bulgarian-tinged folk to an Andy Kirk ambient composition to a live improvisation haunted by a stray radio signal. Once voted one of the …
A Night In Gloucester Avenue
*200 copies limited edition* "Once upon a time, Lol Coxhill and Veryan Weston shared a home in a grand neoclassical mansion from the Regency era, located in the garden city of Welwyn Garden City, about 40 km north of London. That mansion was Digswell…
Continuum
Following three studio albums (Stoa, 2006; Holon, 2008; and Lyria, 2010) plus a double live album (2012) with his electric band Ronin, Swiss pianist and composer Nik Bärtsch now unveils a new release with his original ensemble, Mobile – whose lineup …
Gateway
Joining their newly launched Luminessence audiophile vinyl-reissue series, the legendary imprint, ECM, digs deep into their own vaults and comes up with an absolute gem: the guitarist John Abercrombie, the bassist Dave Holland, and the drummer Jack D…
The World of Sound: A New Summer 1996 (Book)
68 pages, large size. Revised 2023 Edition, Japanese/English edition. It can be considered a guidebook to Takehisa Kosugi's activities. Centered on the 2023 Memorial Exhibition of Takehisa Kosugi held from November 10 to commemorate the publication o…
Krautrock (Book)
Krautrock is not a music genre. Krautrock is a way of life. Its sonic diversity and global reach belie the common culture from where it emerged. This is a band-by-band history.
In May 1945, the Allies defeated Nazi Germany, putting an end to the Euro…
In Search of a Concrete Music (Book)
Pierre Schaeffer’s In Search of a Concrete Music (À la recherche d’une musique concrète) has long been considered a classic text in electroacoustic music and sound recording. Now Schaeffer’s pioneering work—at once a journal of his experiments in sou…
Brand New Feeling
In the cosmic year of 1972, when consciousness was expanding and barriers dissolving, The Awakening emerged from Chicago's fertile musical soil as messengers of a new frequency. Now, through 400 sacred black vinyl pressings, their essential vibration…
Aeolyca
Edition of 100 copies in Clear vinyl. Standing beyond the realms of category and classification, Pier Luigi Andreoni and Francesco Paladino’s Aeolyca, initially released as a limited cassette in 1989, is an artifact which perfectly illustrates the op…
Japanoise Music at the Edge of Circulation (Book)
*2023 stock* Noise, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback, distortion, and electronic effects, first emerged as a genre in the 1980s, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan, Europe, and North America. With its c…
Experimental music since 1970
What is experimental music today? This book offers an up to date survey of this field for anyone with an interest, from seasoned practitioners to curious readers. This book takes the stance that experimental music is not a limited historical event, b…
A Revolution in Music The History of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (Book)
Established in the 1950s by musician and engineer Pierre Schaeffer, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales would become the nerve center for avant-garde artists experimenting with sound and acoustics, as well as the birthplace of a genre of music-making …
From Scratch
**2015 edition. 504 pages big book, edited by Larry Polansky**Essential music-theoretical writings from a giant of avant-garde composing One of the twentieth century's most important musical thinkers, James Tenney did pioneering work in multiple fie…