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Warm Waves
‘Warm Waves’ first appeared in 2020, ten years after Turn On The Sunlight’s debut self-titled album was first released in Japan. During that decade, Turn On The Sunlight’s Jesse Peterson and Mia Doi Todd welcomed their first child and co-founded a music venue in Los Angeles. When performance spaces were required to close at the start of the pandemic, Jesse’s focus shifted back towards home recording. Since ‘Warm Waves,’ five more Turn On The Sunlight albums have followed (including ‘Drives To Th…
Requiem For George Maciunas
A vital tape work returning to circulation thirty-six years after its private cassette debut. Originally self-released by Mieko Shiomi in 1990 as a memorial offering for George Maciunas, this haunting requiem now receives its first ever vinyl edition, mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, with the two sides of the original cassette restored to their intended A/B form and accompanied by a download code.
By 1990 Shiomi had already lived several musical lives. A founding member of Group Ongaku alongside Tak…
Acustica
Composed between 1968 and 1970 and originally issued by Deutsche Grammophon in 1972, there are arguably few works within the canon of 20th Century experimental music as beloved and sought after as the Argentine composer Mauricio Kagel’s Acustica. Created for “experimental sound-producers and loudspeakers”, comprising electroacoustic material assembled on 4-track tape in 1969 at Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in Cologne, and acoustic material for 2 to 5 musicians, scored over roughly 200 filing-ca…
Caged
After 25 years, Ian Boddy and Chris Carter’s rare underground classic Caged returns, remastered and expanded.
City Lights
Sowing Records present a reissue of Lee Morgan's City Lights, originally released on Blue Note in 1957. City Lights is the result of a fine session recorded at the legendary Rudi Van Gelder studio by an all-star sextet featuring the 19 years old trumpet genius Lee Morgan plus an impressive coalition of jazz stylists such as Curtis Fuller on trombone, George Coleman on tenor sax, Ray Bryant on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Art Taylor on drums. All great players caught here in top form while d…
Leisure & The Elderly
A cult favorite, Leisure & The Elderly by Armpit is a noisy, disorienting collage of tape loops, feedback, and surreal humor—a true artifact of outsider art.
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** Edition of 200 copies in very elaborate packaging, including prints on acetate, xerox inserts and several hand-drawn original artworks. ** Thee Ideal Gus began in Hamilton, New Zealand in the early 90's and sprung from the same gene pool and time as Armpit, Gfrenzy and Pumice. Its participants include Sugar Jon Arcus, Clayton Noone, Indira Neville, Kaatarama “Motty” Morehu, Stefan Neville, Witcyst, Dan “Eemonk” Powell and Rachel Garbott but membership has never been settled or defined. The ba…
Screuma / Chilli Song
Witcyst returns with Screuma / Chilli Song, a surreal blend of tape manipulation, noise, and outsider pop sensibilities, further cementing his status as a true original.
Alpes
Alpes is a visionary collaboration between French ensemble GOL and the legendary Ghedalia Tazartes, merging ritualistic chants, electronics, and improvisation in the spirit of Nurse With Wound and Brigitte Fontaine.
Improvisations January 1997
A double LP of acid-drenched improvisation, Improvisations January 1997 finds the GOL Orchestra and the now-defunct Telinga Ensemble navigating the outer limits of psychedelic sound and collective creation.
Wild Protest
Wild Protest pairs J-noise legend Junko (Hijokaidan) with French field recordist Thomas Tilly for a radical collision of human scream and natural sound, recalling the spirit of Merzbow and Francisco López.
Sozum Meclisten Disari
Originally released in 1981, this is another killer album by the Turkish legend, recorded with the same line-up as the previous “Yeni Bir Gün” album.Psych / Funk / Progressive sounds full of heavy drums & basslines, Moog / analog keyboards and psychedelic guitar. Featuring the killer duet with Deniz Tüney (“Alla Beni Pulla Beni”), the superb boogie-funk styled “Adem Oglu Kizgin Firin Havva Kizi Mercimek, cosmic-progressive sounds on “2025 (Üçüncü Ve Son Yolculuk) and more!
El Hombre Invisible
Long awaited debut album from Copenhagen maverick composer; musician, poet and former No Knox member: Vagn E. Olsson. This dauntless flaneur has since the late seventies worked in his own idiosyncratic and highly personal style, combining elements of crudeness and primitive beauty with swirling riffs and complex rhythm tapestries. For Vagn E. Olsson presents El Hombre Invisible, the composer has hand picked a versatile group of musicians from seminal Danish bands such as Sods, Cockpit Mus…
Laputa
Laputa, a title taken from the fantastical floating island of Gulliver's Travels is aptly named as 'The album that never landed' for, apart from a limited touchdown in Japan, Laputa was never released. This mystical world is a summation of Yokota's journey so far, a complex and at times challenging work but immeasurably rewarding. Beguiling and bewitching in equal measure.
Over fifteen undulating sonic fugue states, he guides listeners round a liminal world, made up of familiar materials but for…
Yokohama Concert
Stunning duo comprised of two of the most important musicians of the Japanese underground/avant-garde, Otomo Yoshihide in a duo with the great Japanese drummer, Hiroshi Yamazaki – who has Kaoru Abe among his extensive list of past collaborators, and was also a member of Masayuki Takayanagi’s pioneering New Directions group. This album is dedicated to Masayuki Takayanagi.Otomo Yoshihide moves between free jazz, noise, improvisation, composition and the unclassifiable with a generosity that opens …
Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems
With Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems, the ever elusive and shape-shifting Thomas Bush offers up a new album of category scrambling song craft. Since earlier solo efforts like Old And Red (2018), Preludes (2022) and The Next 60 Years (2024), Bush—currently based in Malmö—has traced a digressive path that has proven him capable of everything from murky wobbling dirges to uptight head-bopping laments to crystalline synth chords that hang precariously in the air over your new favourite bass …
Monoposto
"17th and final part in the re-release series of all early Tietchens albums between 1980—1991. Originally released on Dom Elchklang in 1991. This new version incl. 3 Bonus tracks and is another joint release by German labels Die Stadt and aufabwegen. Jewel case with full color artwork and poster booklet also feat. the original front and back cover. First edition of 600 copies. “It was just before the end of the heroic times when CV Liquidsky and I decided to record a studio album together. Almos…
The Sound of Lalo Schifrin
Composer and pianist Lalo Schifrin owes his singularity to his triple culture, that of an Argentinean drawn like a magnet to the promised land of Hollywood after an essential sojourn in France. This Fall, Universal Music France is proud to present the largest, the most ambitious anthology ever produced on a living legend, bringing together his jazz and pop albums, his iconic film and television scores. Including rare and previously unreleased recordings, this 16 CD box set, in art-book format, w…
Sonnet
"Tee" in Tee and Company is the nickname of Three Blind Mice's founder and producer Takeshi Fujii, who formed the all-star group of eight top Japanese jazz musicians in 1977 for a series of concerts and seven days of studio recording that produced three separate albums. This supergroup included who's who of the Japanese jazz scene: Kenji Mori and Takao Uematsu on saxophones, Masaru Imada on piano, Masayuki Takayanagi on guitar, Hideto Kanai on bass, Nobuyoshi Ino on electric bass, Hiroshi Muraka…