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Bateau Feu
Born in 1956, Dunkerque France, Frédéric Le Junter began in 1984 to construct instruments (strings, winds, percussions), with found objects, and then mechanical machines. He did also played with Pierre Berthet, Dominique Répécaud (Les Massifs de Fleurs), Silent Block, Marc Pichelin, Jean-Léon Pallandre. He also write songs. In Bateau Feu through the use of microphones we are completly inside the world of his sound machines. Powerfull, beautifull and unique !Highly recommended.
Complete Electro-Acoustic Works
**2016 restock, long deleted and few copies available** Major historical artifact of electronic music, issued on CD for the first time.This boxset features 3 CDs of audio, plus a bonus DVD disc; packaged with 2 bookets of notes & photos. Impressively done. Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001) is considered 'the father of New Zealand music'. After considerable success, he rejected composing for acoustic musical instruments and turned wholly to the creation of electronic works because he felt they would mo…
Obsolete
Few copies back in stock, totally sold out at source. Here's another Gong album no one seems to know about, as this is basically Gong plus poet/musician Dashiell Hedayat (otherwise known as Melmoth). Evidently the lyrical content (especially on the suite "Eh, Mushroom will you mush my room?") is hallucinogen-related, and if you are an early David Allen-period Gong fan, you are sure to love this one as it is classic 1971 Gong, replete with Malherbe sax solos and killer gliss guitar. Hedayat prove…
Ignobles Limaces
Ptôse possess an early electro-wave-experimental sound with lots of primitive electronics, drum machines, and funny voices. It is all obviously influenced by The Residents as well as groups like Tuxedomoon, Der Plan, Pyrolater, etc, yet remains unmistakably French. This album probably resonates even stronger today in these post-post times than it did upon its original release in 1984. Reissued on 180 gram vinyl.
Tension
** 2012 Audiophile Remastered Edition of 500 copies with Original 3page-Multi Fold Out Cover, long out of print, few copies available ** Incredible early work from one of Germany's greatest modernists – one of the key records that showed the world that German jazz was way more than just a rehashing of American modes in the postwar years! This rare 1963 recording features the quintet of trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff – a groundbreaking unit that includes tenorist Heinz Sauer, altoist Gunter…
Enclosures 2011–2016
Since his first self-released cassettes in the early 1990s, New Zealand’s Clinton Williams aka Omit has been on a singular and personal musical journey. Described as one of the greatest outsider artists currently working in the field, OMIT employs homebuilt instruments constructed from modified electric motors and salvaged sound sources to create a startlingly original soundworld. It is a world he inhabits alone, isolated in the small town of Blenheim in southern New Zealand, but it invo…
La Niña Junco
Argentinian musician Federico Durand returns with his 2nd full length album on 12k following 2016’s A Través Del Espejo (12k1085). Taking his already minimalist composition style Federico challenged himself by using only one synthesizer for this beautiful album of sparse, hypnotic dustiness. His talent for creating works of so much emotion out of so little attest to his concentration when working and his passion for the craft. La Niña Junco is a handwoven gem. Music with a humble origin an…
Ufo
2016 repress of this 2014 reissue, the first authorized release of Hintensince its original 1971 release. German krautrock band Guru Guru was formed in 1968 as The Guru Guru Groove by Mani Neumeier (drums),Uli Trepte (bass), and Eddy Naegeli (guitar) (later replaced by AmericanJim Kennedy (guitar)). By the time of Guru Guru's debut in 1970, Ax Genrich had replaced Kennedy to solidify the classic Guru Guru line up. Guru Guru were related to the free jazz scene both through their work with Swiss p…
Le Foto Proibite Di Una Signora Per Bene
The vibrant soundtrack composed by the great Ennio Morricone for the 1970 fetishistic and dark Italian thriller Le Foto Proibite Di Una Signora Perbene influenced by the works of bossa-nova artist Antonio Carlos Jobim and featuring the unequaled and unsurpassed voice of soprano Edda Dell'Orso. Presented here on picture disc.Ennio Morricone's soundtrack to the obscure 1970 Italian thriller Le foto proibite di una signora per bene is a nerve-racking listening experience. In film, the atmosphere c…
Der Jesuspilz / Musik Vom Evangelium
"After their ultimate acid folk classic "Trips & traum", the duo is back with an other surprising effort whose concept is to convince (within a satirical dimension) that the bible is all about drugs. However it doesn't matter for those who don't speak German, let's be focuse on the music with its one more time brilliant and gorgeously pastoral, delicate and trippy. The introduction part (Liturgie) is a humorous little composition written in a very folkish vibe. "Schöpfung" is among my favour…
Music For Living Process
Two pieces by Japanese avant garde composers, performed in 1973. ("Music For Living Process" for Shakuhachi, flute, harp, percussion) & ("Cho-Etsu" for Shakuhachi, shell horns, percussion, harp). "On Music for Living, both composers present pieces that reflect a prominent influence of John Cage, which can be accredited to the fact that Ichiagi was a premier interpreter of Cage's music. The experimental work for violin incorporates elements of chance and improvisation; traditional Japanese modes …
Europa
A moody and tunnelling epic fuelled by exotic drums, Middle Eastern horns and cosmic synths that build to a thrilling climax, by by Asaf Samuel and Katzele, two of the founders of Tel-Aviv's 84% Creativity collective. This 2XLP album, Europa, is dedicated to and inspired by events in 2015 & 2016, which saw the spectre of global crisis come knocking at Europe's doorstep.During this time, more than a million migrants and refugees fled their homes in the Middle East, Northern Africa, sub-Sahara…
Olympic Signals
Giovanni Venosta’s Olympic Signals, is one of the great lost documents of the Italian avant-garde - the first solo outing from one of the movement’s seminal voices, most recognised for his collaborative work with Roberto Musci. In a sea of unjustly neglected works, Venosta’s debut rises from the tide time as a towering gesture of sonic creativity. A shimmering, complex wonder of overwhelming Minimalistic beauty. One of the great records of the 1980’s, that almost no one heard. Recorded 1…
Kill!
Fuzz guitars, go-go beats, weird exotic soundscapes and Doris Troy (of ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ fame) screaming about gizzards. Only in Rome, only in 1971. Brilliant but overlooked composer Berto Pisano and (we suspect) his no less talented brother Franco (working under a pseudonym) to craft the perfect score for this drug-fuelled piece of cinematic mayhem. Recorded at the Orthophonic Recording Studio, Roma 1971 and remastered in 2014 from the original stereo album master tapes this LP includes 2…
In Alpha Mood
**restocked** Near-mythical 1970's private press of early Israeli outsider electronic music by retiring Tel Aviv based multimedia artist Ami Shavit, new on Finders Keepers. Shavit was one of the first Israelis to flirt with the idea of electronic musicianship. In Alpha Mood is a collection of those embryonic stages. Following a private press-run and a very limited release, Finders Keepers Records have remastered the scraps from the cutting room floor and remastered them for reissue. With …
Tranceformer
A foundational piece of underground electronic music from Australia, which, remarkably, has not been available on vinyl since its original release almost 35 years ago: this double gatefold LP was in fact released on the independent Fission Chips label in 1980,combining the talents of Australia's first true electronic outfit (Rainbow Generator, founded in 1976) and Aussie and International artist Geoff Krozier (aka Jeff Crozier). "Finders Keepers really hit the crackpot, erm I mean jackpot this t…
I Am Black Beauty
"I am black beauty... love me!" A forthright enough request, one would think, from an artist whose music was indeed loved, revered and which played a hugely influential and omnipresent role in Lahore's vibrant cinematic patchwork that covered the late 1970s and early 1980s. However, until now, it seems that this lost love letter to a potential global audience of millions of sonic suitors has been caught up in the pesky Pakistani postal system. Nahid Akhtar needs a connection. Don't blame the Khy…
Family Evil
Crystal Syphon, one of the greatest “lost” groups of the West Coast psych scene, came together in Merced, California in 1965. Originally a Beatles / Byrds-influenced unit called the Morlochs, they soon shed their original moniker and moved in a more psychedelic direction, becoming a fixture on the ballroom circuit from 1966-1970. Although their music may nod in the direction of the New Tweedy Brothers and Quicksilver Messenger Service at times, it’s imbued throughout with a distinctive …
Amber 7 / Silver Eagle
Remastered reissue of Georges Boutz' two recordings originally released on tape cassette. "Amber 7" was originally released in 1983 (Private Press Cassette Not On Label). All titles composed, arranged, recorded live, engineered and produced at home studio, from July 1981 to April 1983, on Moog, Oberheim, Roland and Sequential Circuits Synthesizers. Remixed by Phil Singher at Telstar Sound, No. Hollywood, California. "Silver Eagle" Originally released in 1984 (Synthesizer Music Records Cassette …
Fantastic World
Italian reissue label enters the fray as Orbeatize makes a powerful first move by looking back to the 80s and the wild experimentation of jazz drummer Armando Bertozzi. Having already made a distinctive entrance with two previous albums, Bertozzi's final masterstroke was Fantastic World, a daring body of work originally released in 1985. Rich with African percussion and wayward synthesis, this is far from a traditional record, and its hefty second hand price tag makes it more than worthy …