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Hold On to Your Dreams Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992(Book)
*2023 stock* Hold On to Your Dreams is the first biography of the musician and composer Arthur Russell, one of the most important but least known contributors to New York's downtown music scene during the 1970s and 1980s. With the exception of a few dance recordings, including "Is It All Over My Face?" and "Go Bang! #5", Russell's pioneering music was largely forgotten until 2004, when the posthumous release of two albums brought new attention to the artist. This revival of interest gained momen…
Labyrinth: British Jazz On Record 1960-75 (Book)
Limited edition hardback, quarter-bound in cloth, 372pp. Labyrinth is a massive hardback book, 375pp in length, printed on high-quality art paper, with an embossed cover and cloth quarter-binding, written by Richard Morton Jack. This beautiful, limited edition hardback is the most comprehensive overview of the subject ever published. It celebrates over three hundred albums, offering detailed background info about each, alongside excerpts from original reviews and masses of high-quality images th…
Scottish Circus
Two first recordings of John Cage's Scottish Circus (1990) with the Scottish traditional group The Whistlebinkies, plus indoor and outdoor versions of 4'33" for ensemble, recorded at Inverleith House in Edinburgh on DVD with bonus interviews.
The Complete Works Of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
Every Fela Kuti album in one box: 51 records on 29 CDs, from Koola Lobitos highlife to Underground System, with rarities, two unreleased tracks, the A Slice Of Fela DVD and a 52-page booklet by Chris May.
Live in Berlin
Manuela+, the quartet of Rüdiger Carl, Jin Hi Kim on komungo, Hans Reichel on guitar and daxophone and Carlos Zingaro on violin, live at the Total Music Meeting in Berlin in 1999: an hour-long improvisation in seven parts.
Writing (Book)
With Writing, Ahmed - the quartet of Pat Thomas, Joel Grip, Antonin Gerbal and Seymour Wright - turn a decade of notes, essays and sleeve texts into a woven chorus, mapping how their deep dive into Ahmed Abdul‑Malik becomes a living method for making future music.
Tiga Trombone
Habibi Funk’s new sister label Audible Beauty Records debut release: A landmark collection retelling the untold story of Malaysian jazz featuring 11 songs from the legendary composer, arranger and pianist Alfonso Soliano, originally recorded for Radio Television Malaysia (RTM) and only released in a run of a few dozen copies for radio broadcast. Widely regarded as one of the foundational figures of Malaysian music, Soliano blended jazz, Latin influences and traditional Malay musical forms into a…
Trilogie de la mort
One of the landmarks of minimalism, Radigue's sonic investigation into life, death, and life elsewhere after death, considered to be Eliane Radigue's masterpiece. "Trilogie de la Mort is a work in three parts. The first, Kyema, was originally released by XI in 1992. The 2nd and 3rd parts, Kailasha and Koumé are being released for the first time and the trilogy now makes its debut as a whole [this 3CD set is being sold for the cost of 2 CDs to make up for the prior availability Kyema]. 'Kyema' is…
12 Conversations
Noton is pleased to announce12 Conversations, a collaborative album by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto to be released on 18 September 2026.
Manifold Of Partially Actualized Realities
The producer of Sunn O))) and co-composer of the Mandy score makes his own 'science fiction music' from a Philip K. Dick lecture, with Jim Jarmusch, Cyro Baptista and Charmaine Lee.
Ligeliahorn
*300 copies limited edition* Ligeliahorn was the second release from Metgumbnerbone, the first being the cassette Dreun (recently re released as a handsome double album on the Infinite Fog label). Ligeliahorn was originally released on the A Mission record label in 1984. The whole album was the product of but one night.. Improvised in a derelict factory down on the fog enshrouded banks of The River Tyne in north east England. The instrumentation comprised mainly of what was already there augment…
The Will of Tongues
Hardback book style packaging, 24 page booklet + 140 minutes of music - The most ambitious work of Sarah Davachi's career to date. Spanning more than two hours of music across three LPs, The Will of Tongues arrives on the composer's own Late Music imprint as a vast, deeply considered statement - a meditation on the act of listening itself, and on the mental spaces that sound, given duration and reduction, continually opens.
Over the last decade, Davachi has emerged as one of the most singular vo…
Standing Circle
Debut self-titled album from Melbourne ensemble Standing Circle, led by Larry Crestani (guitar, kraartar, vocals). Eight tracks recorded live at The Grove, Melbourne, mixed and mastered by Nick Herrera. The record moves through spiritual jazz, jazz-funk and groove, with heavy Afro influence running through the rhythm section: congas, percussion and bass locking into rich African undertones throughout. Built around a shifting cast of Melbourne musicians and compositions that never repeat themselv…
Confitures de Gagaku
Jean Derome's written music for a Montreal ensemble of flutes, clarinets and saxophones with bass, drums and percussion, recorded at Studio Victor in 1988. Composed jazz with a nod, in the title, to Japanese court music.
One
*300 copies limited edition* One is a self-titled psychedelic and progressive rock album released in 1969 by the British group One, originally issued on the Fontana label. Built around singer and multi-instrumentalist Alan Marshall and keyboard player Bobby Sass, the group brought together musicians with strong studio and live backgrounds, creating a sound that is loose, soulful and unusually expansive. The album mixes blues-rock, soul, jazz touches and psychedelic improvisation into five long p…
LoFi Brutalist Action Jazz
*100 copies limited edition* I went looking for a dictionary definition of brutalism, trying to understand it a bit better. It had been our starting point since the first rehearsal. But did we actually understand it? Does any of it have something to do with our music? Does it even make sense — instrumental pieces inspired by buildings?We didn't set out to make a genre out of it. We set out to strip things down. Take a melody, take a rhythm, cut away everything that isn't essential — no polish, n…
Music Is Invisible (Pentimento Volume Three)
The third part in Jon Hassell’s Pentimento trilogy captures the much-missed artist performing as part of a trio with Rick Cox and John von Seggern in London in 2015, in what would turn out to be his final ever concert. Carefully edited and mixed by Jeff Rona into something much more than a traditional ‘live album’; themes, motifs and riffs from his critically adored albums Listening To Pictures and Seeing Through Sound occur throughout these unique, semi-improvised mutations, making this a fitti…
Word Countdown (Book)
World Countdown was an enigmatic music newspaper that appeared fortnightly in California between August 1966 and July 1969. It offers the most vivid window possible onto the rapid evolution of the Californian music scene in those fabled days – but original copies are very rare and expensive.
For the first time ever, Lansdowne Books is delighted to be able to preserve and share its wondrous contents in this huge volume, created with the blessing of founding editor Charles Royal’s family and inclu…
Reference: Miles Davis’ 2nd Quintet Live 1967 in Europe
The Second Quintet with Shorter, Hancock, Carter and Williams on its autumn 1967 European tour: Antwerp, Copenhagen, Paris and Karlsruhe on three CDs, restored by Michael Brändli, with an essay by Art Lange.
Small Talk At 125th And Lenox
A New Black Poet: Gil Scott-Heron's first record, 1970, a book of poems read in front of an audience with three percussionists, Eddie Knowles, Charlie Saunders and David Barnes, produced by Bob Thiele. The first version of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Whitey on the Moon, and the title piece.