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Big Tip! Basil Kirchin, a forgotten genius of post-war British music, was an influential jazz drummer, creative free-spirit and pioneer of Musique Concrète. He spent most of his life living and working in Hull, the 2017 UK City of Culture, which is honouring him as part of their celebrations. Kirchin wrote a number of albums for the de Wolfe Music library, working with fellow composers John Coleman & Jack Nathan to create some of the most sought-after and cult recordings.
*In process of stocking* As a member of the all-star Jazz Epistles in the late 1950s, saxophonist Kippie Moeketsi (also spelled Moketsi during his tenure with the As-Shams record label in the 1970s) was one of the pioneering forces of modern South African jazz. While Jazz Epistles bandmates Hugh Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim would go on to build their careers in the United States in the 1970s, it was at home in South Africa that Moeketsi would leave his mark on the domestic jazz discography. Fro…
The album represents an opportunity for the globetrotting family trio to explore their origins. Tengger means ultimate expanded sky in Mongolian. The album finds Tengger accepting the mood of the world, using the motion of wind and waves as sonic inspiration. Tengger’s interest in cosmology reflects in their outlook and lyrical approach. In their words “the sound starts from the breaking dawn and circulates around until the night sky and the milky way.”Opening single "Panaptu" offers a reverent …
We Are Busy Bodies announces the officially licensed reissue of the 1966 cosmic, free jazz album Zodiac by French saxophonist and composer Barney Wilen. The album’s astrological theme and Robert Crumb-esque comic-book style cover art, illustrated by the renowned cartoonist Siné, marks it as a European parallel to the burgeoning counter-cultural happenings of the same period in the USA.
The reissue also offers tantalising glimpses of a projected animated tie-in film that never was. Wilen's friend…
Universal Synthesizer Interface Vol III by Kristen Roos explores analog synthesizer landscapes with intricate sequencer programming and expansive rhythmic patterns. Released by We Are Busy Bodies, the album’s six tracks build lush, propulsive electronic architectures—melding modular arpeggios, pulsing bass, and shimmering effects into a hypnotic and meticulously detailed journey.
In 2019, Vancouver artist Kristen Roos came across a floppy disk for sale on eBay containing the Commodore Amiga version of Laurie Spiegel's 'Music Mouse'. This was one of the first intelligent instruments for personal computers, created by Spiegel in 1985 as an interactive and playable MIDI sequencer for the 68k era of Macintosh computers. Curious, he bid on the item and ended up winning it for a few dollars. Upon investigation, the simple and intuitive nature of its interface appealed to him, …
At the makeshift Man-Ray Studios in Akron, Ohio, where barrels of soap were rolled away to make room for recording, guitarist Wilbur Niles and his then-girlfriend, Machelle McNeal, recorded "Ja Ja." Niles, a history major, titled it after King Jaja, who rose from slavery to become a wildly successful broker of palm oil in the 19th century. The humid tranquil track would lead off the pair's first and only album together, 1979's Thrust. It begins with an elliptical little electric-piano hook by Mc…
We Are Busy Body presents the remastered reissue of Mario Molino's 1971 album, Beat Gregoriano. Remastered by Noah Mintz from Lacquer Channel Mastering.
*2023 stock. 250 copies limited edition* For the first time both long active artists from the experimental / post industrial / field recording scene have collaborated, creating a mesmerizing one-tracker (56+ min.) with many breathtaking moments and passages from the very beginning... an incredible intense new sonic reality arises, full of surrealistic (almost psychoactive) drones capturing your whole body, taking you on a journey to the microworlds of the "more than human" lifeforms... a "Phloem…
A 3CD collection of unreleased Vidna Obmana tracks (1995–2002), showcasing deep ambient textures, tribal rhythms, processed acoustic sounds, and rare vocal elements. These 16 pieces, mostly unheard until now, reveal the depth of Dirk Serries’ archive and his fully formed sonic vision.
Michael Vorfeld marks 20 years of Glühlampenmusik—his electro-acoustic, audio-visual work using light bulbs to generate sound. Blending experimental music, sound art, and media installation, this Berlin-based artist creates a vivid microcosm where flickering light becomes a rich sonic experience.
*2026 repress* On his debut album “Scattered Memories”, the composer, musician and true master on the Iranian spike fiddle kamancheh Saba Alizadeh blends his instrumental virtuosity with spherical electronics, samples of Persian music instruments and field recordings from his hometown Tehran.
Born in Tehran in 1983 as son of the world renowned Tar and Setar virtuoso Hossein Alizadeh, Saba Alizadeh studied the Iranian spike fiddle with Saeed Farajpoury and Keyhan Kalhor plus photography and later…
2001 release ** TCOB continue to create some great, minimal and intriguing music. Stripped bare, with very little going on, this is nevertheless a mighty work. ERIC KESNER, the guy behind TCOB, goes to great lengths to let people know that this is purely a guitar album with just one sample appearing on the last track. You may not think this worth mentioning, but when you hear this music you'll realise why. Mutated beyond nearly anything else you'll ever hear on this instrument, it's impossible…
2009 release ** ÜL was formed in 2006 by Argentinians Alan Courtis (Reynols), Fernando Perales and Charly Zaragoza. They have performed live many times in Argentina and released two albums: "Astropecuario" on the Scottish label Pjorn Records and "II" on the Argentinian Facon Records. This is their third disk containing material recorded in 2007. The goal of ÜL is the exploration of timbric possibilities of electric guitars in their own way, combining elements of noise, drone music and free ato…
Sublime solo piano from Masaru Imada – a Japanese player with talents in a range of different styles, but who sounds especially nice up-close here in an intimate setting! Imada's got a way of letting a tune really find its way organically – almost as if the songs here are little flowers opening up in his fingers on the keyboard of the piano – although never in a style that's "flowery" at all, because Imada's a master of finding just the right notes at the right moment – never embellishing things…
2011 release ** David Brown returns with the new Candlesnuffer album 'Nature Stands Aside', a collaboration with the Dutch guitarist Lukas Simonis recorded in Rotterdam two years ago. In co-operation with Lukas' record label z6, this album showcases Dave's extended guitar techniques head to head against the noise blasted manipulations from Mr Simonis. Inspired by Rosamund Purcell’s study 'Special Cases', the various improvisations that take shape throughout the course of the album express the …
2015 release ** Card sleeve. Die Goldenen Zitronen (The Golden Lemons), born a punk band in 1980s Hamburg and having developed into a seminal art punk collective, present their new album. After 11 long-players and countless collaborations with artists such as Peaches, Wesley Willis (with whom the band toured the US), Chicks On Speed, Françoise Cactus (Stereo Total), Mark Stewart (The Pop Group), DJ Koze or Michaela Melián, »Flogging A Dead Frog« is their first release on Altin Village & Mine. …
2006 release ** Airportman is a musical project founded in the summer of 2003 by Giovanni Risso and Marco Lamberti. "One could call the band's style instrumental post-rock, which certainly navigates—or rather flies...—between Radiohead, Tortoise, and certain cutting-edge electro-jazz, but with whispers, subtle deviations, that sense of perpetual psychedelic instability. Airportman follow a personal direction, creating a maze of allusions, a play of mirrors, and dialogues between barely plucked…