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Tip! Before Mahjun (of which Souffle Continu reissued, in 2016, the two albums released on Saravah), there was… Maajun. Five musicians (Jean-Pierre Arnoux, Cyril and Jean-Louis Lefebvre, Alain Roux and Roger Scaglia) and three times as many instruments at the service of an electric-poetic guerrilla group moulded from folk and blues. The group’s unique album, “Vivre la Mort du Vieux Monde” evokes an (imaginary) association of Frank Zappa and Jacques Higelin, of Sonny Sharrock and the Art Ensemble…

Tip! Before coming to Europe, in 1970, pianist Manuel Villarroel was a vet in his native Chili. A few years later, as leader of the Machi Oul Big Band, he returned to the animal kingdom. A very specific kind of animal, for sure, the Quetzalcoatl, also known as the Feathered Serpent. What is behind this title (also the name of one of the three original compositions on this album released on the Palm label in 1976), is first and foremost a sort of homecoming… After discovering the jazz of Herbie H…

** First ever LP reissue. Carefully remastered from the master tapes. 4-page booklet with rare and unpublished photos ** Heavyweight 180 gr.In October 1974, the first number of “L'Indépendant du Jazz”, a small self-produced magazine DIY -before punk supposedly invented the concept- was launched by Jef Gilson, Gérard Terronès, Jean-Jacques Pussiauand a few other specialists of a different kind of jazz in France, it looked at the already long career of Jef Gilson and in detail at the album with sa…

First vinyl reissue. Two years after having recorded Aurora, which Gérard Terronès released on his Futura Records label in 1971, the Théâtre du Chêne Noir put on another show, Miss Madona, first at Avignon, and then at Ariane Mnouchkine's Théâtre du Soleil. From this play, Gérard Gelas's group took three sound extracts which they made, with no further ado, into a single. Miss Madona is thus the second recording by Théâtre du Chêne Noir. The two sides (and three tracks) offer up an unbelievable i…

Deluxe edition. Comes with obi strip with 12 pages booklet. Limited edition of 700 copies. Souffle Continu Records present the first ever reissue of Dharma Quintet's End Starting, originally released in 1971. For Gérard Marais, guitarist with Dharma (the quintet), from this third album -- in fact he replaced Gérard Coppéré, one of the two saxophonists present on the first album (FFL 038LP, 1970) -- Albert Ayler's instruction to play your own music was the detonator. This did not fall on deaf ear…

Deluxe edition. Comes with obi strip with 12 pages booklet. 700 copies. Souffle Continu Records present the first ever reissue of Dharma's Archipel, originally released in 1973. "Do your own music!" was Albert Ayler's advice, received loud and clear in France. Cohelmec Ensemble, Workshop de Lyon, and the Dharma Quintet, three groups close in spirit, which would each illustrate, in their own way, a local principle: to get some distance from American free jazz. As far as Dharma is concerned, the c…

Comes with obi strip with 12 pages booklet. Limited edition of 700 copies. Souffle Continu Records present the first ever reissue of Dharma Trio's Snoopy's Time, originally released in 1970. Dharma as they were simply known, at the time when they were still playing, englobed all the incarnations of the group, trio, quartet (essentially as a live band), and quintet built around the stable core of pianist and bassist Patricio Villarroel and Michel Gladieux. Snoopy's Time is their second album, con…

The Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra was created in 1971 by an “old hand” of French free jazz, François Tusques. Free Jazz, was also the name of the recording made by the pianist and other like-minded Frenchmen (Michel Portal, François Jeanneau, Bernard Vitet, Beb Guérin and Charles Saudrais) in 1965. But, six years later Tusques had had his fill of free jazz. After having wondered, together with Barney Wilen (Le Nouveau Jazz) or even solo (Piano Dazibao and Dazibao N°2), if free jazz wa…

Philadelphia vibraphonist Khan Jamal's 1974 Palm masterpiece receives its first proper reissue. Recorded during Parisian exile, this exploratory album showcases revolutionary vibraphone techniques across four essential tracks - a crucial document of jazz's global underground network.

*Heavy brown board outer sleeve, obi strip, 180g vinyl. reissue of the rare Futura LP* Originally from Philadelphia, invited to New York by Miles Davis, playing at Antibes in 1960 with Charles Mingus and Eric Dolphy, here is trumpeter Ted Curson in 1971... in Paris. With him, a legendary trio: Georges Arvanitas (piano), Jacky Samson (double bass) and Charles Saudrais (drums). A new transatlantic alliance in the service of jazz of all kinds: classic, modal, fusion and even free... Pop Wine is – b…

** Deluxe 180 gram vinyl + extensive booklet ** The axolotl is a species of salamander native to Mexico, living in a state of larva and having the capacity to regenerate damaged organs. This brief introduction doesn't tell us if the axolotl sings. But, for the one that concerns us here: yes, indeed. In Paris, at the end of the 1970s, Etienne Brunet and Marc Dufourd would improvise regularly, inspired by some other saxophone-guitar duos: Claude Bernard-Raymond Boni firstly, then Evan Parker-Derek…

Along with the due reissue of the Baroque Jazz Trio homonymous album, Souffle Continu Records present a reissue of the group's one and only single which has reached a cult status among the Jazz connoisseurs and collectors. Alongside Alfred Panou & the Art Ensemble of Chicago's Je Suis Un Sauvage (FFL 055EP), Baroque Jazz Trio's Orientasie / Largo is probably one of the hardest-to-find EPs on Saravah. Hitting #2 on Jazzman Records European Jazz 45s top 10 list, this is the finest fusion between f…

A collective exploration of the murky area where practices from sound art, visual arts, performance, digital technologies, science, but also poetry and philosophy intersect in a constantly evolving digital environment, drawing on the cross-disciplinary dynamics and experiments initiated by the international festival ]interstice[ in Caen.   Since 2006, in the city of Caen in Normandy, the ]interstice[, rencontre des inclassables festival has explored a creative nexus of intersecting practices fro…

Bilingual Edition English and French An intimate journey through the Lettrist movement via the collection and library of Hans Naumann (born in 1933 in Germany), one of Maurice Lemaître's most trusted collectors and one of the most important Lettrist bibliophiles, who has assembled a vast collection of rare or unique works and books related to this avant-garde movement founded in 1946 by Isidore Isou and still largely overlooked.   This volume includes an introductory essay by Frédéric Acquaviva,…

Trilingual edition (English / German / French) The first catalogue raisonné of a Lettrist artist: a comprehensive collection of the 464 works (paintings, objects, multiples, works on paper) produced by Maggy Mauritz (born in 1941)—a pioneering artist in graffiti art and Lettrism—over more than six decades, featuring approximately 600 color illustrations. Echoing the famous quote by the Guerrilla Girls, Maggy Mauritz held her first exhibition at the age of 80, in 2021 at the Loeve&Co. gallery.   …

A retrospective of the visual work of Aleksander Lebedev-Frontov, a key figure in Russia’s post-Soviet underground culture. This book presents his visual work through a chronological trajectory, from his early collages and works produced for Limonka to the visuals and album covers of his musical projects. It reveals a distinctive graphic language, combining détourned propaganda, dark humor, and a deep obsession with the avant-gardes of the 20th century. Through this journey, Lebedev-Frontov emer…

Texts in French/English/Chinese A collection of quotations from Thelonious Monk, organized as an alphabet book. More than a hundred entries based on the testimonies of musicians (Steve Lacy, Sahib Shihab, Henri Renaud) and journalists (Leonard Feather, Ira Gitler, Val Wilmer…).   “I never have dreamed. I would like to, but how?”   Jacques Ponzio is a French writer and musician, and a leading specialist on the works of Thelonious Monk.

The 2022 Fourth Edition of Fripp's 1979 debut, mixed from the original multitracks by Steven Wilson, with the alternate vocal tracks on CD and hi-res and 5.1 versions on DVD.

Three releases by the early 2000s King Crimson of Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto, collected on three discs.Level Five, issued in 2001 as a tour EP, presented live recordings of new pieces such as the title track, Virtuous Circle and Dangerous Curves, which the band was testing on stage before taking them into the studio. Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With, the 2002 EP, was the direct preview of The Power to Believe: short fragments, the haiku-like Mie Gakure and …

King Crimson's final US concert, Washington DC September 2021, with four tracks from Albany: a tour that crossed the pandemic and a band in ferocious form.