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Rainbow
Boris and Michio Kurihara of Ghost and White Heaven first joined forces on Rainbow in 2006. Drag City now issues it on vinyl for its 20th anniversary: heavy psych, droning jams and short pop songs, in a tip-on sleeve with a vellum lyric insert.
Melting Pillars of Snow
Black Vinyl edition. XKatedral is proud to present a new full-length album by label co-founder Maria W Horn. Melting Pillars of Snow is a collection of new compositions from the renowned Swedish composer written for Contrabass Recorder, Shō, Percussion, Electric Guitar, Voice and Electronics performed by Horn together with a chamber ensemble consisting of Anna Petrini, Mattias Hållsten, Magdalena Meitzner and Mats Erlandsson. The album also features narration by Horn as well as a guest appearanc…
Ananta: Spirit of Coltrane
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson marks John Coltrane's centennial on Impulse! with a 21-piece collective (Brandee Younger, Shabaka Hutchings, Flying Lotus, Jeff Parker, Azar Lawrence), recasting Naima, Giant Steps and A Love Supreme as cosmic, spiritual music.
Echoes of Rights / Echoes of Nights
Two pieces with music by Ryoji Ikeda and voice and words by Michèle Lamy: Echoes of Rights, recorded in Los Angeles in 2022, and Echoes of Nights, recorded in London in 2026. Red vinyl, 500 copies.
Eviyan Live
Iva Bittová, Gyan Riley and Evan Ziporyn as Eviyan, live at Victoriaville on 16 May 2013: violin, voice and kalimba, acoustic guitar and clarinets in songs between Moravian folk, minimalism and chamber music.
I 70 Anni dello Studio di Fonologia Musicale di Milano della Rai 1955-2025 (Book)
Gli atti del convegno NoMus 2025 per i settant'anni dello Studio di Fonologia Musicale della Rai di Milano: saggi e testimonianze su Berio, Maderna, Nono, Zuccheri, radiodramma, televisione e pioniere dell'elettronica, con 165 immagini d'archivio.
Eternal Rhythm
CD eissue of Don Cherry's classic Eternal Rhythm Group, recorded at the Berlin Jazz Festival, 1968. An amazing line up of: Cherry (cornet, gender and saron [gamelan], flutes), Albert Mangelsdorff (trombone), Eje Thelin (trombone), Bernt Rosengren (tenor sax, oboe, clarinet, flute), Sonny Sharrock (guitar), Karl Berger (vibes, piano, gender), Joachim Kühn (piano, prepared piano), Arild Andersen (bass), & Jacques Thollot (drums, saron, gong, bells, voice). Two "side-long" pieces with gamelan under…
Caperea
Two familiar faces within the Kohlhaas fold—Stefano Calderano as part of the trio McCorman (2023), and Giovanni Di Domenico through his solo works "Polvere di rabbia" (2021) and "Stella Maris" (2025)—join now forces on "Caperea". Bridging Rome and Brussels, where Calderano and Di Domenico are respectively based, the record marks the first collaborative LP by the two musicians. Born from a shared sensibility and a mutual curiosity for non-linear structures, what began as a brief two-day session o…
Chiasma
Heidelberg Jazztage, 6 June 1975. The Yosuke Yamashita Trio with Akira Sakata and Takeo Moriyama in its second European season, recorded by Carlos Albrecht for MPS. Piano and drums duets, a Moriyama drum solo, and the fourteen-minute Hachi. Forty minutes of the loudest trio of the decade.
L'Oasis
Eugene Chadbourne and René Lussier, live in Paris and at Victoriaville in May 2002: acoustic and electric guitars, banjo and voice in a twisted hoedown of free improvisation, bluegrass and country blues.
Tellus: The Audio Cassette Magazine, Vol. 1
Long before streaming services, podcasts, or even the compact disc, there was Tellus - a radically ambitious publication that imagined recorded sound as an exhibition space. Founded in 1983 in downtown New York, Tellus transformed the humble audio cassette into a magazine, commissioning and publishing new works by musicians, composers, visual artists, poets, writers, choreographers, and performers who were reshaping the boundaries of contemporary art. Each issue invited listeners into a world wh…
Afrodisiaca
* Edition of 300 copies. High thickness cardboard with opaque laminated cover. Comes with a printed insert * So… Steinmetz. Hugh Steinmetz. A Danish trumpet player my mentor Peter Brötzmann always talked highly about. 'Aaaaah jaaaaa - those crazy Danes!' Steinmetz was one of very few Scandinavian musicians who actually travelled south and collaborated with European musicians in the late 60s. He is a legend. And a key to understand the early developments of free jazz. The possibilities given to S…
Hot Concrete On Soft Skin
*200 copies limited edition* Recorded at Cool Anatomy and Slithis Studios by HH and AQ
Plot
*300 copies limited edition* Crossing borders between traditions, sonic territories, and instruments, musicians Tomáš Niesner and Aldana Duoraan created their first collaborative album Plot. The sound of khomus meets guitar melodies simplified into pentatonic scales, intertwining in a dialogue that remains playful while moving between meditative passages and bewitching, hypnotic moments. Solid yet ever-changing, these melodies explore a delicate relationship between the present interactions, the…
Untitled - Solo for the Building of a Museum
Tony Conrad alone with amplified violin and self-built Long String Instrument, playing behind a sheet inside the unfinished Mudam in Luxembourg, October 2002. Nearly an hour of unbroken drone, first published here with an extended interview by Philippe Franck. CD digipack, 8 page booklet.
Altarpiece H. af K.
A canon for three bassoons inspired by Hilma af Klint's 1915 Altarpieces: multiphonics, beating dissonances and whistle tones, between Scelsi, Radigue and Sunn O))). Produced by Randall Dunn.
Music For Film
The first album of new studio recordings of Philip Glass's film scores: Brussels Philharmonic and Dirk Brossé play 29 pieces, from Koyaanisqatsi to Kundun, with over half an hour of unreleased music from the composer's archive.
Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly!
MPS studio, Villingen, 14 September 1980. Cecil Taylor alone at the Bösendorfer Imperial the studio had bought for Gulda, after two days of practising. Eight pieces, one of them fifty-three seconds long, the first side running as a suite. Berendt heard Tatum, Bud Powell and boogie in it. Taylor wrote the title in the guest book.
L.E. Cherz Pas
Sacher-Pelz, the 1979 solo project that preceded M.B., in a CDr reissue of L.E. Cherz Pas, first out on TIBProd. in 2010: four long pieces, about an hour of music. 30 copies in a black envelope.