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Lapsikuninkaan Fanfaari
Juho Toivonen's third album navigates memory's fluid terrain through off-key piano, tape loops, and spectral melodies. Featuring Ramo Sinnemäki's trumpet, this Nordic ambient masterwork recalls Basinski while exploring childhood fragments and imagined futures. Pure Scandinavian melancholy—essential contemporary ambient.
Inedit
In the verdant countryside of Seine-et-Marne, within the exposed beams of an 18th-century farmhouse, a collection of unreleased treasures lay dormant for over two decades. Now, Trad Vibe Records presents Inedit, a remarkable testament to the creative freedom and spontaneous brilliance of Cortex, one of France's most influential jazz-funk collectives. This essential reissue illuminates a forgotten chapter in the group's history, revealing the raw genius that would later inspire hip-hop producers …
L'Oeuvre Musicale En 12 CD
**Finally repressed, absolutely recommended!** An incredible box-set with 33 compositions from 1964 to 2007 that includes a 92-page booklet in French and English. The best way to enter the world of Bernard Parmegiani, French composer of musique concrète, member of the GRM group.
Sasquatch Landslide
Pick a small spot (a point) in front of you (a small knot of wood, a dog down the way). And tightly focus on this spot. And now slowly unfocus your gaze. Widen your gaze. Pan out without moving your eyes. Take it all in.
In den Garten Pharaos
Mystic Synthesis at the Dawn of Electronic Consciousness! Florian Fricke's visionary second album remains a towering achievement in transcendental electronics
Line Drawings
*75 copies limited edition* Layered improvisations converge to form a duo of longform drone harmonies, composed entirely with the bow chime. This esoteric instrument, comprising a large stainless steel resonating sheet paired with an array of tuned rods, produces a rich spectrum of tones and pitches when bowed. The recording emphasizes its deeply resonant qualities, unfolding in a continuous sonic line — fluid, unbroken, and immersive.
Better Do It Now Before You Die Later (Book)
Though his years in the New York free-jazz scene of the sixties cemented his reputation as “one of the most forceful and convincing composers and soloists in his field,” saxophonist Sonny Simmons (1933–2021) was nearly forgotten by the eighties, which found him broke, heavily dependent on drugs and alcohol, and newly separated from his wife and kids. “I played on the streets from 1980 to 1994, 365 days a year,” Simmons tells jazz historian and biographer Marc Chaloin in Better Do It Now Before Y…
Materia Vibrante
*100 copies limited release* Small sounds and huge drones populate the surrealistic landscape of “Materia Vibrante”, Susana López’s gorgeous new album, her third for Elevator Bath and first on vinyl. Extraordinarily evocative, this LP is filled with detail and emotive tranquility, while occasionally swelling with the intensity of a raging sea. Surely López’s most elegant and finely hewn work to date, “Materia Vibrante” offers a fully enveloping sonic meditation. The album was built from field re…
A Modicum Of Blues
Polish label Fundacja Słuchaj is thrilled to announce the release of "A Modicum Of Blues," an electrifying new album by five powerhouse improvisers: Ivo Perelman (tenor sax), Nate Wooley (trumpet), Matt Moran (vibraphone), Mark Helias (bass), and Tom Rainey (drums).
This recording captures the quintet in their purest element—live in the studio, free of plans or constraints, driven only by their joy of spontaneous creation. Renowned for his visionary approach, saxophonist Ivo Perelman assembles a…
Piano Studies 337
First-time reissue of Willem Nyland's rare private-press piano improvisations. The Dutch chemist-turned-Gurdjieff disciple recorded these spiritual teachings on specially tuned piano in 1960s upstate New York
Bits And Pieces: EMS 30 Years
Electroacoustic Music in Sweden (Swedish centre for sonic artists and electroacoustic music composers) thirty years celebration triple CD set. Including unreleased elsewhere tracks by legendary composers such as Ákos Rózmann, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Åke Parmerud, Ricardo Mandolini, Ragnar Grippe and many more. As the history goes, in 1964 the board of the Swedish Radio decided to build Sweden’s first professional electronic music studio. This triple CD was released to celebrate the 30th anniversary o…
Inland See
Hurtling through the perpetual into this moment is the now and future Bitchin Bajas. An effulgent mass located somewhere beyond land or water, Bitchin Bajas' Inland See is flowing toward you, through the hi-fi, arriving with precision extractions of electroacoustic synthesis, revolving in a post-ambient craft that lifts the listener up powerfully, like you’re floating – in saltwater, or helium – effervescent, effortless, elemental.
Gedichte
Edition of 40. Counter Culture Chronicles is honored to announce the release of Gedichte, a rare collection of surrealistic poetry by legendary artist Meret Oppenheim. These German-language poems reveal an intimate dimension of the visionary who revolutionized modern art with her provocative sculptures and conceptual works. Best known for her iconic Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure) - the fur-covered teacup that became synonymous with Surrealist art - Oppenheim's literary voice demonstrates the s…
Harmos – Kraków
Maya Recordings presents "Harmos – Kraków" a breathtaking new release by Barry Guy with the London Jazz Composers Orchestra. Capturing the creative spirit and electrifying artistry that has defined Guy’s decades-long career as a composer, director, and double bassist, this album is an essential document for contemporary jazz and improvisational music fans.
Recorded live, "Harmos – Kraków" showcases Guy’s celebrated composition Harmos in one of its most compelling interpretations, performed in K…
Bersarin Quartett
2025 reissue of Thomas Bückers debut album as Bersarin Quartett, originally released in 2008 on Lidar.
Infinity Quartet
*300 copies limited edition* The debut album from a new Gothenburg group featuring Erik Nystrand (Capers), Dan Johansson (Sewer Election), Per Palmqvist (Slow Exit) and David Valleryd (Schakalens Bror). A blistering free noise tornado recorded at Longest Night in Kortedala during October 2024. Electronics, guitars, drums. Blown-out and at times almost psychedelic grittiness in the spirit of Hijokaidan, Borbetomagus, Ascension and the likes, though channeled through the neverending well of unmana…
Ramblin'
Big Tip! An essential jazz masterpiece from celebrated Canadian pianist Paul Bley, presented in a deluxe edition. Originally released in 1969 as part of the iconic Actuel series, this definitive remastered edition of Ramblin' invites listeners to experience the artistry of Paul Bley’s 1966 Rome session in unprecedented clarity.
Recorded at Studio RCA in the Eternal City on July 1, 1966, Ramblin’ captures Paul Bley alongside the formidable rhythm section of double bassist Mark Levinson and drumme…
Tunedless 2 + Fluxmar (2LP Bundle)
Very Last Few Copies!!! ** Individually hand-painted, hand-numbered gatefold sleeve. Original copies, unplayed ** Roberto Donnini is an architect, visual artist, and musician who has realized several remarkable avantgarde LPs from the 1980s and 1990s, pure droning soundscapes with a sophisticated blending of a rich instrumentation performed by an incredible cast of guest players. Long coveted and hunted by collectors, Fluxmar falls among the strange and definition resistant artifacts of Italy’s …
魅せられて = Bewitched
Jinya Disc presents an essential collection celebrating the multifaceted genius of Masayuki Takayanagi, featuring three pivotal recordings that span different periods and approaches in his revolutionary career.
Holy Holly Holly captures Takayanagi's final "Angry Wave's" project in a vital 1985 live recording, featuring twin double basses creating oceanic depths beneath his razor-sharp guitar work. Stardust reunites three Japanese jazz pioneers in an intimate 1979 session, showcasing rare warmth …
Off the Record
The source material is drawn from moments of pure improvisation, recorded live in performance, shaped as much by the room and audience as by the musicians themselves.