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The definitive vinyl edition of Henning Christiansen's 1985 sound installation at the Rome Zoo, made with Lorenzo Mammi from recordings of the animals, remastered by Rashad Becker, with a 20-page booklet.

Elizabeth Vogler sings in Occitan and other South-West dialects to harmonium alone in the church of Lescun, in the Pyrénées: six songs between ancient folk and experimental music, first time on vinyl, 100 copies.

All seven Paragraphs of Cardew's The Great Learning by the Scratch Orchestra Strasbourg under Didier Aschour, an orchestra born from an open call and two years of shared practice: 4CD box with a 116-page booklet.

*Limited edition yellow vinyl* At the end of the ‘60s in Italy – but also abroad, especially in France and England – a very particular trend began to spread, that one known as ’Library music’ or ‘sonorization’: as suggested by its name, those were real music libraries intended for the accompaniment of audiovisual productions such as television programs, advertisements, documentaries and films. Since they were created in total artistic freedom condition, they are often difficult if not impossible…

Library music by Giuliano Sorgini from the Italian production music scene of the late 1960s and 1970s: processed sounds, electronics, musique concrète and minimal passages written to accompany film, television and documentaries.

Oronzo De Filippi's album about industry for Leo Records: ten harpsichord-led instrumentals moving between jazz-lounge and bossa nova and darker, hypnotic pieces that repeat like machines at work.

The endlessly engaging Italian imprints, Soave and Orbeatize, deliver what is unquestionably one of the most important and ambitious archival releases of 2024: “Reels 1977-1986”, an astounding 14 CD box set dedicated to the neglected, visionary Swiss electroacousitic composer Ernst Thoma. Presenting a radically singular approach to experimental electronic music - highly rhythmical, ranging from poetically elegant and minimal to frenetic and mind-bending - across its astoundingly expansive durati…

Markus Müller's 288-page history of the Globe Unity Orchestra at sixty: Schlippenbach's liner notes, photographs by Gérard Rouy and Cristina Marx, interviews with Schlippenbach and George Lewis, new texts by Corbett, Lake and Gustafsson.

Two new archival LPs from Formalibera, Alga Marghen's free jazz imprint, both drawn from the same circle of Copenhagen musicians around 1970, gathered here as a pair. On one LP, More Peace: Tordenskjolds Soldater (Jesper Nehammer on tenor saxophone, Ole Matthiessen on piano, Henrik Hove on bass, Jon Finsen on drums) live at Jazzhus Montmartre in late April 1970, shortly before they recorded Peace for Spectator Records. The four Matthiessen compositions of that album stretch out here at far great…

Two unreleased late works by Pierre Henry for his centenary: Variance (2005), a fugal homage to Luc Ferrari, and Duo (2003), a gestural rhapsody for feedback and piano dedicated to Maurice Béjart. Licensed from Studio Son/Ré.

Giuliano Sorgini (Raskovich) and Alessandro Alessandroni (Braen) together on a 1975 cult library LP: eleven easy-listening jazz and lounge cues, exotic and carefree, with a touch of melancholy.

The two new Blume LPs together in a printed tote bag: David Tudor's Anima Pepsi, composed for the Pepsi Pavilion at Expo '70, and Lea Bertucci's The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity, written for Norbert Rodenkirchen's flutes.

First official reissue ever, certified holy-grail. Edition of 300 copies, black vinyl 180gr. Comes with Obi, and original liner notes by Jonny Trunk** At the end of the '60s in Italy - but also abroad, especially in France and England - a very particular trend began to spread, that one known as 'Library music' or 'sonorization': as suggested by its name, those were real music libraries intended for the accompaniment of audiovisual productions such as television programs, advertisements, document…

Two pieces David Tudor composed in 1970 for the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka, built by E.A.T.: Pepsibird, from tapes of human and animal brain waves, and Anima Pepsi, from insect and animal field recordings.

Johnny Cabildo's trio in Miami, 1974: keyboards, bass and a drummer on congas and timbales cover Latin jazz, funk fusion and Afro-Cuban grooves. The second of only three Cabildos LPs, made for library use.

* First official reissue ever on black vinyl.* “Tempo di Naja” is part of a reissues series, made in collaboration with Edizioni Leonardi (Milan, Italy), of extremely rare library music LP’s published between late ’60s and early ’70s, most of which have never been released again until today, and that are finally made available again for collectors and sonorization music lovers.  Remigio Ducros, is a pianist and composer, husband of Daniela Casa; they wrote the two first volumes of “America Giova…

Corviria's second and last LP (1980) pushes the dark electronics of Psyco Analysis into kraut and prog territory with the Evil's Suite, abstract suspense cues and Tangerine Dream-like synth pieces.

Tip! First official reissue ever on clear vinyl. In the field of library music Benito Simoncini a.k.a. Arawak was undoubtedly one of the most important composers. “Background Music N. 4” is a multi-faceted release that includes at least two jazz-tinged symphonic pop gems, together with other more abstract and improvised tracks, in most cases played with a single instrument; it goes from the dramatic sounds of “Secolo XX°”, through the liquid atmospheres of “Aquarium”, to the percussive experimen…

Nurse With Wound's 1979 debut, newly mastered from the original 1978 source. Metallic purple gatefold sleeve, purple particle effect vinyl limited to 300 numbered copies. Three long pieces of collage, drones and studio improvisation.

The record that opened the Redi reissue series: Giorgio Zinzi, Carmelo Carucci and Stelvio Cipriani as the Blue Sharks in 1972, a Moog-coloured mix of rock, funk and soul with a soundtrack flavour.