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A Wolf Should Only Be Lone
Los Angeles guitarist Peter Kolovos’ last release was the epic 3xLP Black Colors. While not quite as immense, A Wolf Should Only Be Lone, Kolovos' first cassette release since his days with Open City, hits the beautiful red space in fits and starts. …
Open And Closed Circles
Mappa invited me to make a work for cassette release. At the time I was putting finishing touches to a work for CD that was the result of 3 years of collection, distillation, presentation and consideration. I had made a conscious decision to stop com…
Interpersonal Subjectivities
The trio of guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama, saxophonist Gregor Vidic, and drummer Nicolas Field introduces Akiyama to Vidic and Field’s standing duo. The result is a magnificent set of exploratory improvisation. Vidic and Field’s playing has a rich, textur…
The Stormy Man
A rare soundtrack session from Japanese jazz legend Hideo Shiraki; Also with pianist Takeshi Inomata and saxophonist Hidehiko "Sleepy" Matsumoto "Inomata and saxophonist Hidehiko "Sleepy" Matsumoto as well! The cover's somewhat unassuming, but the mu…
Bad Girl, Yoko
A marvelous jazz session from 1966 : Sadao Watanabe (alto sax) Terumasa Hino, Masahiko Togashi (drums) Masanaga Harada (bass), Masao Yagi (piano), Hozan Yamamoto (bamboo flute). "A totally cool Japanese soundtrack from the 60s – one that's as much of…
La Cloche
A totally cool little Japanese soundtrack from the 60s – done for a film
that features a bunch of younger teens who head out the beach – and
which is scored with music that perfectly fits the mood! There's a
really great range of 60s film modes g…
The Beast Must Die
A tense crime soundtrack from Japan by the legendary Toshiro Mayuzumi a Japanese composer known for his implementation of avant-garde instrumentation alongside traditional Japanese musical techniques. His works drew inspiration from a variety of sour…
Rumors of Noizu: Hijokaidan and the Road to 2nd Damascus
This is the real Japanese Noise bible.
Per una scultura di Ceschia
This rare 1978 album is a rather original example of experimental electro-acoustic progressive style, mainly based on synth effects and acoustic guitars and often reminding some of Battiato's early works. Despite the presence of five singers in the l…
Melbourne Poetry Festival 17/10/1981
** Limited edition of 70. The cassette comes with a laser printed insert** Gary Snyder reading poems in Melbourne
From the Archives Vol. 6
** Limited edition of 55. The cassette comes with a laser printed insert**
Jumping and Standing 1984
Limited edition pressing of 300 copies * Includes text insert by Akio Suzuki. Originally recorded in 1984, “Jumping and Standing” consists of a live performance at Musashino Art University by pioneering Japanese sound artist Akio Suzuki, accompanied …
Memoria
Edition size 200 copies. Handmade album jacket swathed in dyed gauze. Each jacket features a one-of-a-kind collage by Akaishi. Takumi Akaishi’s music is like a delicate shadow box garden, a miniature sonic world unto itself. Following the release of…
Ex Oriente
Atmospheric music by the spiritual leader and composer One of the great mystics of the early 20th century, George lvanovich Gurdjieff was born in Alexandropol on the border of Russian Armenia and Turkey. As a young man, he began to travel east as far…
Les Premières Machines 1968 - 1988
Manipulating and experimenting in all directions, Pierre Bastien gets help from a lot of human-being (Percussions, piano, cello & accordion) but also from machines: toy robots play percussion, xylophone or even the guitar. The result is surprising, v…
Youthful Dementia
**Edition 200** Reissue of a cassette that Colby released on his own Laughable Recordings label in 2014. Mr. Nathan is based up in Maine, where he recorded Sophie Dickinson's Cucucanady LP (FTR 177LP). Greg is from Maine as well, and the pair got tog…
Barbara Rubin & The Exploding NY Underground
"Made when she was just 18 years old, Barbara Rubin's art-porn masterpiece Christmas On Earth (1963-65) shocked NYC's experimental film scene and inspired NYC's thriving underground. For the next four years her filmmaking and irrepressible energy hel…
Bali 1928, Vol. III: Lotring and the Sources of Gamelan Traditio
Vol. III of the complete 1928 Balinese recordings, the first republication since 1928 of lost shellac recordings, opens with the only known recordings of a lost gamelan. Heard in three tracks, Gamelan Semar Pagulingan, an ensemble known as "Gamela…
Bali 1928, Vol. IV: Music for Temple Festivals and Death Rituals
Vol. IV of the Bali 1928 recordings includes kebyar with sung poetry, gambuh dance-drama, ancient ritual angklung, and solo flute. All lyrics receive English translations in the liner notes, with an extensive text by Edward Herbst included as a PD…
Bali 1928, Vol. II Tembang Kuna: Songs from an Earlier Time
Vol. II in a five-disc series of 1928 Balinese recordings features Balinese vocal music, the first release of these recordings since they were first pressed to 78 rpm discs in 1929, the only commercially released recordings of music made in Bali b…