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Sound Like ... Vienna
* Edition of 300 * Sound performances in public space – an urban soundtrack for Vienna. Julia Bünnagel creates concrete records from molds of sidewalks and street surfaces in Vienna’s urban space. The Cologne artist brings Viennese architecture to li…
Of Wolves and People
In 2019 Melissa & Nils started working on this project, collaborating and exchanging ideas online. While Melissa followed the howl of the Iberian Wolf in Portugal, Nils focused on one particular Grey Wolf in Germany.
Perifaerye
*300 copies limited edition* Perifaerye is a multi-part work of art comprising of 18 soundscapes, 36 digital drawings and 24 writings. Perifaerye is at once a record release, a book, a website; in the autumn of 2023 a series of playlists were publish…
Matthew, Mark, Luke And John
Obscure psychedelic gospel act Methuselah had its roots in Scunthorpe ‘Beat’ group the Dimples, which became Gospel Garden, whose only 45 infused Northern Soul with psycheleanings. Regrouping as Methuselah, the group signed to Elektra for this sole r…
Manoel
Manoel, the fourth LP by the Sensible Soccers, recorded at Arda Recorders and co-produced by the band and João Brandão, is the result of the creation of two new soundtracks for two films by Manoel de Oliveira: “Douro, Faina Fluvial” (1931) and “O Pin…
Vrachnas
Released in an elegant matt varnished three panels ecopack with an amazing artwork of our lovely illustrator Mastereaster. Edition of 400 copies. Backwards is really proud to present the first Massimo Magrini solo work. Massimo Magrini is well known …
Le Cas Très Inquiétant de Ton Cri
AC Hello has been practicing sound poetry for more than ten years, alone or accompanied by musicians. What plays out in their performed reading is a struggle between what is literally (the written text, worked to provide the reader with a textual and…
Music in the Air
1st duo release, unedited live recordings from Pauline Oliveros on accordion, conch, percussion and Expanded Instrument System & Chris Brown on piano and live computer signal processing. "Long time friends and colleagues, this is the first ever duo r…
La La La
Great seventies club sounds coming from Belgium by El Chicles. Rich in danceable grooves, erotic moods an other funky rhythms, this cd is success guaranteed in any go-go party! Nice new artwork from the Wah Wah Design dept.
Live at the LU
Recorded in May of 2002, almost a year after Fennesz' surprisingly successful (commercially) release, Endless Summer, one might have expected that this pairing would produce an intriguing collision of opposing forces. On the one hand you have all the…
Pulsating Dreams - The Epic Recordings
*CD Version* Reissue of this three CD anthology from the American '60s Psychedelic rockers Kaleidoscope containing their complete recordings for the Epic Records label spanning the years 1967 to 1970. Features all four of the bands' original albums:…
Blue Moon - Original Motion-Picture Sound-Track
Original score to the 1986 Roxy Film Production Blue Moon by Dieter Moebius (of C/Kluster/Harmonia/_ & Roedelius fame...). Nice, if somewhat short selection of synth-themes & pain-relieving sonics. Surprisingly low usage of era sound-producing techno…
Diagenesis
*CD Version* Russell Burden (Being) is a sound and visual artist living on the south coast of the UK. His practice develops work that explores qualities of ambient perception, most often through the lens of hydrological, geological or biological proc…
Tribal Ghost
** 2024 restock, long out of print - few copies available ** Here’s an astonishing fact: This album was recorded during John Tchicai’s first and only weeklong residency at a New York jazz club. Tchicai — co-founder of the New York Art Quartet, one o…
The Final Concert
The Nu Band featuring: Roy Campbell Jr., Mark Whitecage, Joe Fonda and Lou Grassi "When Roy and I decided to start a project together in 2000 his only stipulation was that it not be another reshuffling of people he was already associated with in othe…
Prayer for peace
** 2024 restock, long out of print - few copies avaialble ** Reissue of the legendary Amalgam recording with Trevor Watts, Jeff Clyne, John Stevens and Barry Guy. This recording received the highest rating by The Penguin Guide to Jazz. It was re-mas…
Drone Dream
**300 copies** Whit Dickey - drums, Kirk Knuffke - trumpet. All compositions by Whit Dickey (BMI) and Kirk Knuffke (BMI), recorded on January 12th, 2018 at the Studio 2, Brooklyn, New York. Sound engineer - Max Ross, mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAs…
Noise, Violence And Destroy
Sabotage Organized Barbarian, best known by their acronym S.O.B were part of a hardcore punk movement in the 80s that envigorated Japanese youth along with other acts like GISM and Gauze. The ravaging tempos and punishing aural densities grappled wit…
Wind Wound
Full Spectrum Records hails the coming end of winter with a mighty new work from Darcy Spidle’s long-running chik white moniker: ‘Wind Wound.’
Sarava / Canto De Ossanha
Saba developed ‘world music’ beyond its jazz label remit, the eclectic ‘Jazz Meets The World’ series brought together artists from Japan, India, Tunisia, Indonesia and Brazil. Producer Joachim-Ernst Berendt travelled to Rio in 1966 to create SABA’s f…