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Latecomers
*2023 stock* "This is quite an attention-catching band, with its two very clever trombones styles, a piano fully explored both inside and outside, and a truly stunning multi-effects percussions set. As a quartet, the musicians had never played together until that particular evening of the Ictus’ 35th anniversary Festival. Yet what we hear from the very first bars is a band in the communion of the moment, painting together greatly textured music with many surprising turns. Their creative energies…
Bang!
*2023 stock* "In a morning of 2 years ago, I got a surprising email from somebody from my past: guitarist Roberto Zorzi. I think to remember that we met briefly in 1975 only and then our paths diverged until that email out of the blue. Roberto was in Los Angeles visiting, so we had the opportunity to reconnect and meet. I had the chance to listen to his past works and I was very impressed. Very versatile and innovative guitarist who deserves much greater recognition, Roberto Zorzi is one of the …
September Impressions
*2023 stock* "On September 23, 2010, the day following Andrea's Kennedy Center appearance, two of my colleagues in the Twenty-first Century Chamber Ensemble, Janel Leppin (cello) and Mike Sebastian (reeds), came over to my home to jam. It was the anniversary of Coltrane's birth -- thus, "impressions" in this work's title to honor the master's legacy. I set up my recording rig to capture what I could. It was, in Andrea's words, "battlefield conditions": his expansive percussion rig in the living …
Vinegar & Rum
This LP and CD recorded in New Zealand in 2004, is the duo recording of New Zealand guitarist Donald McPherson and Japanese guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama. A beautiful meeting of 2 virtuoso acoustic guitarists, both thoroughly schooled in the vast world of improvising. This record finds Tetuzi and Donald playing melodic folk improvisations that grow and morph into compositions that on each listening uncover some new layer of beauty. Both playing on acoustic guitar, they have a level of communication a…
Meditations
2023 small repress. The year 1965 was a turning point in the life of John Coltrane. It was at this point that he crossed the line into the free jazz arena that he had been approaching since the early '60s. Besides his landmark Ascension, no album better illustrates this than the awe-inspiring Meditations. Coltrane's regular quartet -- McCoy Tyner (piano), Jimmy Garrison (bass), and Elvin Jones (drums) -- is expanded here with second drummer Rashied Ali (who assumed Jones' spot after this album) …
Strumento di Etimo Incerto
The singular Norwegian percussionist Ingar Zach, a long-time member of paradigm-shifting experimental ensembles like Huntsville and Dans les arbes, delivers his eighth solo recording, and his first on the superb Belgian imprint Aspen Edities. The percussionist digs even deeper into his sonic research, transforming a massive bass drum used in orchestral music, as a resonant surface for otherworldly, texture-rich excursions that mix-and-match rhythm and color in ever-shifting combinations.
Ka:mos
Kɑːmos is the duo of Aino Peltomaa and Nathan Wouters. Aino Peltomaa (FIN) is a vocalist with a radiating sound. She performs widely with medieval, renaissance and contemporary music. In 2018, she directed and performed Ordo Virtutum by Hildegard von Bingen with the Finnish Kaari Ensemble. This medieval, mystic nun keeps on intriguing: her songs are also part of Aino’s project Harmony of the Spheres and her words are sometimes used in the lyrics of Kɑːmos.Nathan Wouters (BE) plays the bass as if…
Crematorius
*299 copies lmited edition* Step into a time capsule of industrial experimentation with "Crematorius," an elusive music project created by the visionary Henrik Nordvargr Björkk. Recorded on a portable four-track in 1987, "Crematorius" captures a raw and unfiltered glimpse into the early creative explorations of one of the genre's most influential figures. This project predates even the formation of the iconic black industrial group MZ 412, offering a unique perspective on Björkk's artistic evolu…
Wagamama Na Ofukuro
Tip! ** Limited edition to 299 copies ** In 1987, Nakahara Masaya founded the project Violent Onsen Geisha, which quickly became one of the most well-known and influential names in the Japanese noise music scene, distinctive among others for frequently displaying a bizarre, sarcastic, and mischievous sense of humor. The band's name, which translates to "violent hot springs geisha," is a reference to the traditional Japanese practice of hot spring bathing, as well as a nod to Nakahara's confront…
Ritualistic Mutilation in the Bloody Darkness
**299 copies** Controlled Death is the dark side project by the Japanese noise legend Maso Yamazaki a.k.a. Masonna. In April 2018 he decided to make a shudder debut with the first album Symphony For the Black Murder then followed at the beginning of 2019 by the second work in an astonishing black wooden box that included Journey Through a Dead Body on vinyl and Deathwish Tapes 1-3 on CD and double tape. Now we’re thrilled to see yet another mind-boggling work on a double LP recorded during this …
Latinoamérica
Sole release by this Colombian band that surfaces briefly after the Speakers, Young Beats, Ampex and Time Machine era comes to an end. The band boasts an Italian jazz-rock drummer Roberto Fiorilli and legendary Genesis Bassist Humberto Monroy. The record consists of one theme divided into two long experimental progressive ventures (Viaje I and Viaje II) of fierce, fluid and free collective improvisation with spacey feels and a rich texture of Hammond organ, guitar, bass, tenor sax, percussion an…
Where The Sun Don't Shine
*2022 stock. 12" single sided.* Finally and after long years of silence Folkstorm is back! This is the second vinyl by the Swedsh monster on OEC after the long time sold out "Noisient" 10" and this is nothing else than an apetizer for the full length album to come on OEC later this year...4 tracks of best Nordik power-electronics! Simply Folkstormish, pulsing and heavy.
Alpha And Omega
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 150 copies. Includes an extra-large 12"-sized booklet.* Moral Order is the side-project of Galakthorrö-recording artist 'Da-Sein'. Immanuel Kant developed this term during the 18th century in his 'Critique of Pure Reason' to support the argument for the existence of God, being this one responsible for constituting a Moral Order with which humanity can be governed.
Orgasmurder
*2022 stock. CD in a slim DVD box.* Satanismo Calibro 9 CD “Orgasmurder” has been produced conjuring Vau-Ael in order to give you visions of violent pleasures and extreme knowledge. Satanismo Calibro 9 gives birth to its most morbid, solemn and visionary recording, a maelstrom in front of which your staring eyes will find wisdom and hell. Infernal Industial for lovers of MZ.412.
Anima Caelum
**2020 stock** "Anima Caelum contains both complete live sets and selection of tracks from live recordings by Raison d'être, from performances stretching from the world tours of 2014-2015 to the very unique moment at the once-in-a-lifetime event Cold Meat Industry 30 years Anniversary Live in 2017 performing one track from each of his Cold Meat Industry studio albums. This is apocalyptic music that can bring life to heaven! Originally released on Old Europa Cafe as a double MC in 2018, now revis…
New Lapland
*199 copies limited edition* Very obscure release involving our long time comrade "Lord Nordvrgr" (the mastermind bhind: MZ.412 / Folkstorm / Bøltorn / ᚾᛟᚢ ᛁᛁ // ᚦᛟᚦ ᚷᛁᚷ / & many other projects) devoted to Sami Population / Sapmi Nation... Ihkuve intention is to prove that music can be a tool for both liberation and revenge. For hundreds of years the Sami people of northern Scandinavia has been oppressed, killed, castrated and decimated in the name of the church, and still to this day there is d…
Blood & Sand
*300 copies limited edition* Shockcity / Grey Wolves collaboration originally released as a limited tape edition in 1990 on both Strength Through Awarness (Grey Wolves own label) and Old Europa Cafe labels. Here comes for the first time a completely re-mixed Stereo version of the original tape release curated by "Mel H / Head in a Haunted Hat". Two long tracks bringing back memories to what the Gulf War was like: burning oil wells, helicopters, long lines of burning vehicles, masks to protect fr…
Sten MK II / Breda - SAFAT
*199 copies limited edition* Guns & Harsh Noise Walls! The Rita & Uuincodified meet up for an album devoted to 2 legendary guns used during Warl War II: Sten MK II (British machine gun used by British and Commonwealth forces); Breda-SAFAT (Italian machine gun used by Italian forces). If you need to know more you don't need that CD!
Sketches Of The Red Districts
** Deluxe digipack edition with additional 16pp booklet** This new Laibach album, through a new/fresh interpretation, examines the conflict-ridden genesis of the band's formation in the industrial town of Trbovlje in 1980 and questions the band's aesthetic, sonic and ideological roots from the distance of time. The group Laibach was established, in fact, in the year 1980 in Trbovlje, an industrial coal mining town in the centre of Slovenia (YU). Upon its founding in 1980 Laibach prepared in Trb…
Shock
"Schock" was released in 1977 and directed by horror maestro Mario Bava, released while Italian horror cinema was at its peak, following the international success of Dario Argento with Deep Red and Suspiria. While Goblin soundtracked the work of Argento, the choice for the music of Schock fell on Libra, (distant relatives of Goblin , thanks to drummer Walter Martino and guitarist Carlo Pennisi). In ‘77 Libra, after a brief dalliance with legendary soul/funk label Motown, had practically split up…