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Posterior Vitreous Detachment (Video Soundtracks Vol 1)
Tip! Longstanding pioneer of the Bay Area, Pacific Coastline underground scene. Seymour Glass has been recording, performing, disrupting and spreading his Musique Concrete trickery for many's the decade. With projects such as Glands of External Secretion with Barbara Manning, BUFMS, Brent Lewis Ensemble , his time as publisher and editor of the now legendary magazine Bananafish, his online mail-order empire – Tedium House, his many other solo and collaborative projects, it is safe to say that Se…
Sound as a Bell
Tip! *100 copies limited edition* Flung is proud to present Sound as a Bell: collages of piano, percussion, electronics, and found sound stemming from the correspondence between sound artist Fergus Kelly and pianist John Tilbury. Through Kelly’s studio transformations of Tilbury’s recordings – where sounds are stretched, reversed, layered and refracted – the listener is left to drift in a tumbling kaleidoscope that inspires listening at once ambient, improvisatory, surreal, electroacoustic, and …
Hidden Hour
On Hidden Hour, marine eyes preserves eighteen moments of dawn, dusk and chosen solitude in a full hour of luminous ambient drift. Cynthia Bernard’s guitars, lap steel, soft synths and field recordings turn nearby forests, coastlines and mountains into slow-moving emotional maps - music for stepping outside routine and hearing time soften.
Cafe OTO
Legendary Japanese experimentalist Keiji Haino (Fushitsusha) and London's fearless drummer Steve Noble took to the stage at Cafe OTO in 2012 for a monumental concert - with Haino's extreme treatments of electric guitar, and feedback, with Noble on a lot of percussion...
While Haino theatrically sweeps between bleak and uninhibited paranoia, deep-level zoning and bluesy contemplation, Noble's huge set up and graceful approach brings space, light and shade - so much so that at one point Haino unpl…
October & After the Fall
*100 copies limited edition, black vinyl* In continuation of our deep-dive into the diamond vaults of US Prog, it is with great pleasure that we bring you the first reissue of the 2 ultra rare albums by the Detroit-based October. This is a deliciously eclectic combo of sonic explorers whose recorded testament consists of a string of pebbles that crystalized in a collectively interminable quest for that eccentrically elusive eureka moment.
Fueled by King Crimson and Yes, but also by the improvis…
Magnetism
Recorded in a single day in 2022 at McDowall's Brooklyn studio, then mixed and remixed across three years and three cities. There is no organ anywhere on it: the sound is Karplus-Strong synthesis, a filtered delay line modelling a plucked string, tuned in just intonation and pushed through distortion.
Djanger Bali
1967, SABA. Tony Scott, the clarinettist of Music for Zen Meditation, with Bubi Chen's Indonesian All Stars: Jack Lesmana on guitar, Marjono on saxophone, gamelan gongs under the rhythm section. Jazz standards and Indonesian songs, with Summertime and Djanger Bali. One of the first Jazz Meets records.
Bitter Sea 2008-2011
*200 copies limited edition* Bitter Sea collects 25 pieces from the most prolific period of composer Sean McCann’s early catalog. Recorded across California between 2008 and 2011, this two-disc set draws from tapes, CDrs, live recordings, and previously unreleased material. McCann made roughly 40 developmental albums during these years, mostly while living in San Francisco’s Sunset District and studying audio for film. Working from a small studio apartment, he recorded this wave of albums with v…
Flute
'Flute' is an album of six pieces written by Slovak composer Adrián Demoč and performed by Italian flutist and multi-instrumentalist Manuel Zurria. Of the six pieces, "Zamat" is performed in two different versions. This is Demoč's second release on elsewhere music, following the 2024 release 'Piano', as well as Zurria's second appearance as the flutist, following the 2024 release Giuliano d’Angiolini - ')))((('. Demoč's compositions are often intended for open instrumentation or a "monochromatic…
here i am no i
Saxophonist Patrick Shiroishi and drummer Jason Nazary present their new album, here i am no i, on September 18th. The release marks their duo debut for We Jazz Records, adding to an expanding release catalog also including Nazary’s solo album Spring Collection (2021). here i am no i is a free-flowing body of work with continuous forward-motion, building on the acoustic duo setting and expands with electronics and voice landing somewhere beyond genre. Dedicated to jaimie branch, the album is a s…
Soileth
*250 copies limited edition* Soileth collects the complete recorded output of Holeist, a short-lived project featuring Dan Burke, Jeph Jerman and Eric Lunde. It stands as the final document of a brief encounter between these major figures of the American experimental underground, recorded in 1989 - a time when cassette culture, primitive sampling technology and extreme sound experimentation were colliding into something entirely new.
The material for side one was recorded during a single-day ses…
I Gres 1
A really must-have for any Library Breaks DJ vinyl collector. This is Silvano Chimenti and Romano Rizzati (alias Walter Rizzati) I Gres Vol.1, a sought-after funky breaks Library monster featuring the noted track "Restless" made famous by DJ Leacy, and containing other dope breaks and beats. I Gres were a studio group only founded by Silvano Chimenti that recorded 3 studio albums, recording Funky Library music. Band name brings the members signs: the "G" of organist Giorgio Carnini , "R" s…
Four Organs/Phase Patterns
** 2024 Repress ** Steve Reich remains one of the most important figures in 20th century music. Though he studied at the prestigious arts institutions Julliard and Mills College, by the mid-1960s Reich set about dismantling the very orthodoxy that he had been trained in. Forming a new musical language based on repetitive processes, Reich became established as part of the so-called "Big Four" of New York minimalists (along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley and Philip Glass). Reich's influence can …
Hip Seagull
This is both a blueprint and a definitive masterpiece. Effortlessly transcending eras and genres, Terumasa Hino continues to captivate audiences around the world. His sound and presence are truly top of the tops. Long before Japanese jazz was labeled as “Wa-Jazz”, and even before the rare groove movement emerged, Hip Seagull has been shaking dance floors, stimulating listeners, and fascinating collectors alike. Since his debut album Alone, Alone and Alone, Terumasa Hino has remained at the foref…
KWALK
Wah Wah Wino's Davy Kehoe, Morgan Buckley and Olmo are joined by avant legend Roger Doyle, among others, on a delectably brilliant, 54 minute collage teased together over the past 3 years. Dont miss this!!!!
Gamelan Music of Bali: Field Recordings by Deben Bhattacharya, 1973-74
A first-time vinyl & cassette release for pioneering Bengali ethnomusicologist, filmmaker and radio producer Deben Bhattacharya's Bali field recordings, captured in the historic villages of Puri Karangasem, Tegaltamu, and Kayumas Kaja between December 1973 and January 1974. Searingly beautiful and hypnotic, these are some of the finest candid, open-air sonic documents made of gong keybar orchestras accompanying authentic dance-dramas, ceremonial funeral rites and shadow puppetry plays. The 2LP i…
The Feed-Back
Still sealed copies of the long sold out 2014 on Schema LP+CD re-issue of the ultra-rare 1970 psychedelic experimental album by no less that the Gruppo d'Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza in disguise.
The Ancients
Bomb! The debut recording by The Ancients, the intergenerational coalition of Isaiah Collier, William Hooker and William Parker formed by Parker to play concerts in conjunction with the Milford Graves' “A Mind-Body Deal” exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and now a working group. Across 2LPs of side-length long-form improvised sets recorded at 2220 Arts & Archives in LA and The Chapel in San Francisco, The Ancients bring the free jazz trio languages first explored by t…
The Second Coming
Rudolph Johnson's second album for Black Jazz, from 1973, with Kirk Lightsey, Kent Brinkley and Doug Sides: free, expressive playing in the wake of Coltrane, with little of the fusion of its time. Real Gone reissue on black vinyl.
Spring Rain
Rudolph Johnson's 1971 debut for Black Jazz, a quartet date with John Barnes, Reggie Johnson and Raymond Pounds moving between bebop, soul jazz and Coltrane-like tenor. Real Gone reissue on black vinyl, remastered.