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The Planets
Joel Horwitz was one of those synthed-out figures in and around Oregon's iconic hippie stronghold during the 1980s. Recorded at Studio E Redlands, Ca. USA, 1978, using a large array of electronic devices, such as ML 101, Carlos Robelli String Machine, Voice, Kalimba, Drumset Percussion w/Gong, Dual Phase Shifters along with a heavy battery of phasing and time-based effects-lands somewhere between a ‘library music’-styled mood excursion and a genuinely transformative mind melter
Modern Tracks
4 tracks carefully selected from Ernst Thoma 80's private catalogue,
including "Winterspiel" (Projectos & Progestos Coimbra), a 1981
Portugal performance in collaboration with Peter Trachsel.Mr. Thoma
having fun with Commodore SX 64, C-LAB Sequenzer, Oberheim Xpander, TMS
Synthesizer & Polyphon and Serge Modular Music System
Flames / Salisbury Plain
**750 copies - 2019 stock, reduced price** Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, at various times also known as Velvet Opera, was a British Rock band active in the late 1960s. The group emerged from a soul / blues band called The Five Proud Walkers, and after supporting Pink Floyd on tour, they were inspired to change their approach and become a more psychedelic outfit. Their first recording was the single Flames b/w Salisbury Plain - published in November 1967 - which was later covered on stage by Led Z…
Zëss (Le Jour du Néant)
Magma's newest album Zëss is a 38-minute musical work by Christian Vander. Composed in 1970, Zëss had long been plagued by its incompleteness and its recording was deferred for years. Four decades after its first draft, the work has finally been recorded in an orchestral version that gives it both its true dreamlike dimension and its transcending power.The first public performance took place in Bourges in 1979. It is the last piece in a series of unfinished compositions from the 1970s. During th…
John Renbourn
English guitarist and songwriter John Renbourn (8 August 1944 – 26 March 2015) was possibly best known for his collaboration with guitarist Bert Jansch as well as his work with the Folk group Pentangle, although he maintained a solo career before, during and after that band's existence (1967–1973). On his 1965 self-titled album you can detect some of the influence on traditional Blues like "John Henry" and "Candy Man".
The Return of The Sophisticated Beggar
180 gram audiophile vinyl. Re-issue of his debut folk rock album. Roy Harper's first solo album was originally released in 1966, The Sophisticated Beggar, and by 1970 he had met up with Pink Floyd manager Peter Jenner and re-released his debut as Return Of The Sophisticated Beggar. Roy Harper's music can be best defined as progressive folk, but as his work is so varied there are many instances where his music transgressed these genre confinements. He worked alongside greats like Jimmy Page of …
Barbara e altri Carella
***1.000 copies on transparent blue vinyl*** 40th anniversary edition of the classic and hard to find Funk / AOR masterpiece by Enzo Carella whose original edition usually sells for crazy prices on the second-hand market.Carella was an Italian singer-songwriter who is best remembered for his 1979 major hit Barbara, which is the opening track on Barbara e altri Carella, his second album. All songs on this release are written by Enzo Carella with lyrics by Italian poet Pasquale Panella, which late…
First Meeting
**2019 stock, reduced price** First Meeting is the only album from the short-lived British Jazz-Rock septet Trifle, founded by singer George Bean, which also included trumpeter Dick Cuthell, saxophonist Barrie Martin, keyboardist Alan Fealdman, guitarist John Hitchen, bassist Patrick King and drummer Chico Greenwood. The group folded shortly after this album was recorded as a result of the tragic death of its leader. The brass arrangements are excellent and the mostly original material is defini…
Sitar Beat
**2019 stock, reduced price** Big Jim Sullivan was a well-known session musician in his time and was asked by many bands including The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Animals, Lulu, The Kinks to name just a few. Going to a music school must have been a novel idea as Big Jim had been playing guitar on sessions since 1957, resulting in his presence on more UK hits than anyone else. He studied with a famous Indian sitar player who gave Jim the necessary insight to be a creditable player. The result wa…
Self Titled
Last Copies ** Edition of 150, handmade ‘action painting’ artwork, each copy is unique** 8mm Records is proud to announce the debut album by the mind bender trio of Tashi Dorji (Guitar), C.Spencer Yeh (Violin) and Michael Zerang (Drums). Exploring a vast array of music influences (from almost ‘oriental’ vibes to radical free improvisation, from free jazz to musique concrète) the trio produces an incredible sound, wild and communicative in equal measures. An amazing listening experience, with ple…
OOCD
Orchestra of Constant Distress is the new Swedish supergroup featuring Joachim Nordwall (Skull Defekts, Alvars Orkester), Anders ‘Drajan’ Bryngelsson (Brainbombs, No Balls), Henrik Rylander and Henrik Andersson. Their self-titled debut LP on 8mm is a nice slab of Hard Rock from the year 3000. 5 tracks of pure mechanical alienation, built upon very minimal guitar/drums patterns and waves of harsh electronics, sounding pretty much like anything else in the actual noise rock scenario.
s/t
The pairing of the influential Berlin based electronic musicians Daniel Löwenbrück and sound artists Stefan Roigk + Daniela Fromberg on this Beautiful split album - in a lavishly packaged edition limited to 280 numbered copies - is a match that makes perfect sense.Side A: Raionbashi “Der Strick”Composed, recorded and mixed by Daniel Löwenbrück between 2009 and 2011. With thanks to Dave Phillips for his strings, Doreen Kutzke for her voice and to the people and animals recorded without their kno…
Funeral Parties
When Bhob Rainey had moved to New Orleans late in the first decennium of the 2000´s we were talking about an eventual new collaboration. The idea to work with the confrontation of New Orleans based jazz funeral music versus the european tradition of composed funeral music came up and sank down no later than bhob´s next move - to Philadelphia. Nevertheless i felt fascinated by plunging into the funeral theme and laid down…
Mu Ro Bi Ko
Full concert recording from Suzuki’s first performance in Milano. Three different sections played on Analapos (one of these is the spiral echo instrument consisting of a coil spring and two iron cylinders that function as resonating chambers, and is played with the voice or by hand), a selection of small stones, and the De Koolmess Glass Harmonica. Recorded in April 2003 at A+MBookstore (a small storefront gallery and art bookstore in central Milano) by Pierre-Olivier Boulant. With three ne…
Dissection Of Chronus
Embudagonn 108 is Wataru Kasahara, hermetic artist from Tokyo. The recording covers over 30 years. Started in 1984, continued in 1988, finished in mid 2014. Field recordings, /smashed with disturbingly electronic sounds, echoes of old instruments lost in our memories. Kasahara describes his work in these words: “My simbolism is a decorative trap. you and I are in the absurd game. This music is killed, dissected and discarded music'.
White vinyls, printed labels and inner sleeve, one time limite…
The Difference of Similarity / The Similarity of Difference (LP
**300 copies** Astral Colonels are Anthony Pateras and Valerio Tricoli and this is their second album. On Side A ("The Difference of Similarity") the formidable use of a sound arsenal based primarly on prepared piano and tapes and a bright use of echo and repetition create winding tensions grafted into harmonics, irregular spiral-shaped non-progressions intertwining costantly on the ridge between the familiar and the unknown, a recurring alternation of stasis and fibrillation that delivers liste…
The Cycle Is Complete
restocked, 180 grams edition, long out of print, few copies available...A really great trance psychedelic album from 1972, with only 4 mainly instrumental tracks spread across it's 2 sides. The Palmer group is largely made up of unknowns but I do recognize Paul Lagos (drums ) and Templeton Parcely ( violin ) as members of "Incredible" era Kaliedoscope but then again I should mention the ever popular Big Black on congas.The music presented here is a loose trippy sound that reminds me a great deal…
Cross Country
David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) was a writer and artist active in New York's Downtown scene in the 1970's and 80's. In the 1980's Wojnarowicz become one of the central figures in the AIDS struggle, as well as the target of homophobic censorship efforts by the American Family Association. Wojnarowicz kept written and cassette tape journals throughout his adult life. This three-disc vinyl release publishes for the first time three of Wojnarowicz's tape journals, documenting his thoughts, dreams, fea…
The Book Of Sounds
Last Copies. Edition of 500 copies. "This work, a masterpiece of restraint, reflects the musical imagination of someone who has spent long periods in the quiet recesses of the mind." (Terry Riley) Beacon Sound present a reissue of Hans Otte's The Book Of Sounds (Das Buch Der Klänge) originally released in 1984. Hans Otte (1926-2007) was a multifaceted artist, poet, pianist, composer, and promoter who synthesized the strands of minimalism, Eastern spirituality, and radical art into his own unique…
Opus III
Guitarist and singer-songwriter Ryley Walker discovered the 1972 private press LP in a Chicago record store, loved what he heard, and teamed with Tompkins Square to produce the reissue. John Hulburt (1947-2012) was a member of legendary mid-60's Chicago garage rock band The Knaves, whose records were recently reissued by Sundazed. Opus III showcases his exceptional talent on the acoustic guitar, proving somewhat of an anomaly in a city not known for its solo guitar recordings during this era. W…