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“Hurtling Between” is an apt description of the way Barry Altschul plays drums: effortlessly moving between swing and free playing. It’s also a fitting analogy for the current historical moment, in which there’s often a feeling of catapulting between awareness and denial. During the pandemic, Joe Fonda asked me if I would join him in a trio session at Barry’s house. We began to play semi-regularly, developing a rapport. Barry’s living room is filled with the accumulated trappings of a jazz life.…

This 2013 meeting of baritone saxophonist Daunik Lazro, bassist Joëlle Léandre, and drummer Paul Lovens is a deep dive into spontaneous creation at the highest level of free improvisation, uniting three of Europe’s most adventurous and seasoned improvisers. Drawing on decades of individual and collaborative experience within the global improvised music scene, the album explores extended dialogues across timbre, texture, and breath, where Lazro’s rich, expressive saxophone language meets Léandre’…

Anthony Braxton's 12+1tet live at Victoriaville on 20 May 2007: Composition No. 361, seventy minutes of layered Ghost Trance writing with Taylor Ho Bynum, Mary Halvorson, Steve Lehman, Nicole Mitchell and others.

Raul Lovisoni and Francesco Messina's 1979 album for Cramps, produced by Franco Battiato: Italian minimalism with synthesizer, Michele Fedrigotti's piano and a title piece inspired by René Daumal's novel Mount Analogue.

Keiji Haino and Masami Akita as Kikuri, live at Victoriaville on 21 May 2007: guitar, voice, strings and drums against electronics and computer, in their first concert together outside Japan.

Roger Doyle's third solo album on Allchival: new fixed electronic works, software piano improvisations and voice, a response to Finnegans Wake and music from Operating Theatre's 1986 The Pentagonal Dream, read by Olwen Fouéré.

Temporary special price. The 1991 Mute/Grey Area CD of the second Throbbing Gristle album (1978), one of the fundaments of Industrial music, with two bonus tracks.

Last copies...Joseph Jarman (1937 - 2019) was a saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of trailblazing avant-garde jazz group Art Ensemble of Chicago. Jarman was responsible for the Art Ensemble’s signature face paint and elaborate costumes as well as the pioneering theatrical and multimedia elements of their shamanistic performances, which could include dance, comedy, performance art, surreal pranks, and—notably—the recitation of Jarman’s poetry. In 1977, Art Ense…

Four works by Monique Jean from 2015 to 2024, three built on MissTake, her no-input four-track tape recorder with effects pedals, including Volt_#1 and Volt_#3, plus Tumultes, inspired by novels by Adania Shibli and Antoine Wauters. CD-R.

Tip! Misha Panfilov, the Estonian contemporary jazz mover whose many Janus faces amount to more than just two, resulting in many album avatars - here shares a live recorded rendition of a recent pair of shows, played back to back in Stockholm, then Tallinn. The first recorded at Fasching, Stockholm, on August 16, 2023, and the second recorded at Paavli Kultuurivabrik, Tallinn, August 19, 2023, this live record is composed of pieces otherwise heard on Panfilov's earlier albums, and they're choppe…

The seventh edition of the Poznań Spontaneous Music Festival unfolded under the motto “Noise/ Silence”, and it was precisely between these two extremes that the story of a certain October afternoon in 2023 stretched out. On the festival’s second day, in the empty hall of Dragon Social Club, before the evening concerts began, four musicians who had never shared a stage before came together. The goal: collective improvisation, without a plan, without a map, with intuition as the only compass. The …

2026 Reissue. LP version. Originally issued in 1983, Midori Takada's debut LP Through The Looking Glass has long remained one of the most coveted artifacts to emerge from the fertile soil of 1980s Japanese experimental avant-garde. A near-perfect work - a window into the unquestionable singularity of its era and geography. For many record collectors, this is the great holy grail, the unobtainable gem. Its reemergence has been long awaited. For Japanese experimental avant-garde musicians, the 198…

Dub alliance of Mystica Tribe (Taka Noda) and Scopeotaku (Scott Prentice) between dub, techno and psychedelic electronics; CD in digisleeve, 13, October 2026.

CD Edition. The mythology surrounding Les Rallizes Dénudés has always been built on whispers, fragments, and the tantalizing promise of lost recordings waiting to be discovered. Now, Temporal Drift presents one of the most significant archaeological finds in Japanese underground music: Jittoku '76, a previously unknown tape capturing the legendary psychedelic noise pioneers at their most vital during a July 30, 1976 performance at Kyoto's iconic Jittoku venue. Those close to the band have long m…

Spencer Clark returns as Monopoly Child with five electronic sound paintings inspired by Rome's Villa Borghese gardens: distorted voices, transformed bells and luminous synthesizers as a manual of levitation magic.

A new LP by JJ Whitefield (Poets of Rhythm, Whitefield Brothers etc) and Gonçalo Mortágua on Ultraääni Records.

Settima Tacca's eleven songs of voice, drones and throat singing on Stroom, with Natalia Grishanina on one track.

Eight years after the masterpiece Africa Oscura, Four Flies revisits Giuliano Sorgini’s afro-dark universe, unearthing and compiling another suite of previously unreleased music recorded by the Roman composer for television documentaries in the mid-1970s. Savana Selvaggia is a tribute to the continent that left the deepest mark on Sorgini’s creative trajectory. Traversing ancestral percussion, synthesizers, enigmatic themes, and mystical expanses almost like a spiritual journey, Savana Selvaggia…

After more than 25 years of confusing the heck out of anyone who dares turn up to a concert expecting to hear a run-of-the-mill jazz trio, Sydney mavericks The Necks are set to continue to push the trajectory of jazz out of the stratosphere of convention with their new, incredible album. The Necks 18th album Vertigo is an eventful, kaleidoscopic tone poem set against a darkly shimmering background. Slowly but inexorably moving forward, it crosses many frontiers yet remains true to the mission an…

The legendary first 12" EP by UK underground heroes Family Fodder, originally released in 1979, is now reissued for the first time. Sunday Girls (Director's Cut) is a lovingly assembled full-length album compilation featuring the complete Sunday GirlsEP, the debut Family Fodder 7" Playing Golf (With My Flesh Crawling)/My Baby Takes Valium (1979), the Debbie Harrry/A 'Version' 7" from 1980, the 7" A-side "Warm" (1980), and two tracks from the rare Te Deum 12" (1979) by Alig Fodder's pre-Fodder pr…

Live performance of The Pyramid Trio, Roy Campbell on trumpet and flute, William Parker on bass and Zen Matsuura on drums. Recorded 21 February 1985 at The Joint, Usdan Student Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Special thanks to Roy’s sister Valerie Morris, who told us, “Roy spoke to me in a dream years ago and said, “It's all about the music.”

Caravan's 1982 album, which brought the four original members back together: Pye Hastings, Richard Sinclair, Dave Sinclair and Richard Coughlan, recorded at home in Herne Bay, Kent, with Mel Collins on saxophone.

*100 copies limited edition* A surprise archival LP collecting scattered recordings from across Juho Toivonen’s recent work. Following Kuun Sininen Rinki, Sekalaisia Äänityksiä brings together pieces previously released on small-run compilations, rare physical editions and limited formats to another limited release presented by New Zealand imprint What Lies Beneath.  Side A includes much loved “Peura”, originally released on the Kashual Plastik’s A Mistake By Mistakes compilation, “Kanava 5” fro…

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.

*300 copies limited edition* The musical material on „Lichthöfe“ is based on modular recordings by Thorsten Soltau. Conceptually these recordings deal with the spaciality of sound and the stereo field, while still maintaining an improvisational character. Asmus Tietchens has treated the material to intensive deformations, ranging from reductionist clusters to brittle textures. In each treatment a fragment of the original material remains audible.

300 copies, deluxe box set. Australian experimental industrial and ambient music band from the early 1980s Laughing Hands complete discography with several bonus.  Laughing Hands worked in the experimental music scene in Melbourne in the very early 1980s. They were an improvisation group using tapes, synthesizers, guitar and hand percussion much of which was then treated through machines, producing their soft, insistent and rhythmic sound. The members of seminal Melbourne-based improvising exper…

Tip! New collaborative work by two veterans of the European experimental scene, Dirk Serries + Asmus Tietchens. Dirk Serries and I have long been colleagues and friends. Since the 1990ies we have exchanged sound materials to be reworked and published on an on and off basis. "Die Höfner Akten" are something new and special to in so far as the source material with its basic structure has been improvised exclusively on an acoustic guitar (of the 'Höfner' brand). Dirk and I had agreed upon the follo…

**Released in a limited edition of 500 numbered copies** A compilation of live recordings specially released for a Die Stadt label night feat. Released in conjunction with a live performance on the 29. April 2012 on the MS Stubnitz in Bremen. Initial copies were given away for free to ticket holders on the night of the concert. Track listing: 1. Ditterich Von Euler-Donnersperg - Die Schnarrmaus Des Kleinen Fritz 5:372. Asmus Tietchens - L10RA 11:033. Thomas Köner - Le Bateau Ivre 3:48

Bruno Nicolai's score for Emilio Marsili's 1975 documentary on Italian railways: orchestral writing laced with electronics and jazz, with violin and harmonica tracing the rhythm and movement of the trains. Reissued by Sounds From The Screen.

Berlin 2007 was a monumental performance for Cluster, marking their first live performance in Berlin since their 12-hour concert in the Galerie Hammer in the Europacenter in 1969. The performance was a massive success as a sold out crowd cheered loudly for Cluster to return to the stage. Fortunately, the concert was preserved for posterity and is proudly presented here on Important Records. Packaged in a deluxe digipack. Cluster was formed around 1971 when Roedelius and Moebius left Conrad Schni…

Ennio Morricone's score for Bernardo Bertolucci's 1976 epic, from the piano theme Tema di Ada to the opening Romanzo. Quartet's 50th anniversary CD, restored and remastered by Chris Malone, with a 20-page booklet.

America Amore Amaro unites Remigio Ducros and Luciano Simoncini in a vibrant 1977 odyssey where Italian library-funk meets cinematic daydream. Through swirling flutes, scorching horns, and groove-heavy rhythms, their album refracts American culture with bold, experimental flair rooted in the golden age of Italian soundtrack artistry.​​

*300 copies limited edition* The first Af Ursin album in a decade, this release features extraordinary Belgian vocalist and performer Bénédicte Davin. Ad Fontes is a personal response to the fractured reality of our time. Created in the wake of visible social decay, manipulation, and institutional control, the album serves as a sonic mirror to an era defined by corruption and systemic failure. Instead of preaching political manifestos or claiming to have answers, this work is an intimate persona…

Saxophone, double bass and drums trio of Michael Foster, John Moran and Joey Sullivan, in two long parts recorded in Philadelphia on May 8th 2025.

Sixth annual volume of Graphème, the publication of experimental and graphic scores edited in Berlin by smallest functional unit, with works by twelve composers.

Seven pieces by Morgan Evans-Weiler (violin, electronics) and Carlo Costa (vibraphone, percussion), composed and recorded by Evans-Weiler in September 2025.

A single 51-minute piece for four Wuhan cymbals played with bows, without electronics or amplification, timed on a recording of the composer's breathing while asleep. Recorded in Bristol in 2026.

Dani Gal fed recordings of his own brain waves during sleep into the EMS Synthi 100 at Radio Belgrade, under voices reading the dreams of people living under political oppression. Record #08 of Ediciones Inauditas with n.b.k.

Klara Lewis’ distinctive talent for disfiguring sound into forms that remain recognisably song-like reaches a new peak here. Her new album Opening is a deceptive recording with veiled melodies and clandestine bangers. Lewis, creator of worlds, treats music as a mirror that reflects a perspective misaligned with the real image. Her music moves in unusual and often startling ways. Acoustic instruments such as ukulele and piano are subjected to processes of deconstruction and reconstruction, their …

Regrouping for a third album under their 'On' moniker, Steven Hess and Sylvain Chaveau have created another body of chilling improvised recordings at their Chicago studio. As with previous records the results were passed to a guest musician for rearrangement of perspective and mixing techniques. Following Deathprod's work on 'Your Naked Ghost...', the material for this album was handed to experimental virtuoso Christian Fennesz, who transforms the source sounds into a display of stripped,…