Music from Germany

Original first edition on FMP of the 1975 album by a quartet of improvisation giants, including FMP catalogue.

Original first edition on FMP of the 1975 album by a trio of improvisation giants, including FMP catalogue.

Original double album with gatefold sleeve on FMP from 1980, with original innersleeves.

Drummer, visual artist and one of the original European free jazz players, Sven-Åke Johansson was never willing to settle for a single route of exploration. As a musician and composer he appeared on key recordings for the legendary FMP, delivered marine weather reports for Edition Telemark, crooned love songs for Ultra Eczema and was at the heart of the recent free music revival in Berlin via Umlaut alongside Joel Grip and Axel Dörner. “My work is not actually jazz, but rather the exploration of…

One of contemporary ambient’s preeminent figures lands on its leading label, enacting a transition into a new phase of rhythmic noise and tonal shadowplay laced with peculiar sensitivities, wrangling Dilloway-influenced tape noise thru ASMR ambience, fritzed dub techno, layered vocal drone and ritualistic mantras. Perila steps up solo with a heavily satisfying debut for West Mineral, investigating negative space and states of subconsciousness. The shift in tone feeds forward into arcane realms o…

Original edition on FMP of the first album from 1973 by 'the' free jazz big band, featuring Peter Brotzmann, Peter Kowald, Paul Lovens, Evan Parker, Alex Schlippenbach, Paul Rutherford, Kenny Wheeler and a host of others.

Original 1977 album on Po Torch with gatefold sleeve by 'the' free jazz big band, featuring Peter Brotzmann, Albert Mangelsdorff, Anthony Braxton, Peter Kowald, Paul Lovens, Evan Parker, Enrico Rava, Alex Schlippenbach and a host of others.

Original German edition on Japo of the 1978 album by 'the' free jazz big band, featuring Peter Brotzmann, Derek Bailey, Albert Mangelsdorff, Peter Kowald, Paul Lovens, Evan Parker, Tristan Honsinger, Alexander von Schlippenbach and a host of others.

Original German edition on Japo of the 1980 album by 'the' free jazz big band, featuring Steve Lacy, Albert Mangelsdorff, Paul Lovens, Evan Parker, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Kenny Wheeler, Manfred Schoof, Enrico Rava and a host of others.

Original 1981 LP on Hampel's own Birth records with his composition played by the Band featuring Jeanne Lee and Thomas Keyserling. Never re-issued on either CD or LP.

Original 1982 LP on Hampel's own Birth records with his composition played by himself Jeanne Lee and Thomas Keyserling. Never re-issued on either CD or LP.

Very rare first album on FMP's SAJ series from 1972, with silk-screened folded cover and innersleeve, and Johansson's uncompromising first solo album.

Rare 1995 CD-only release on FMP of solo contrabass improvisations at their best.

Cluster can be counted among the most important international protagonists of the electronic avant-garde. Some credit them with having invented ambient music, others as pioneers of synthesizer pop, whilst to some they are firmly embedded in the krautrock universe. There is some truth in all of these notions. Cluster (or Kluster as they were in the beginning) were founded in 1970 in Berlin by Conrad Schnitzler, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius. A change in direction and musical differenc…

2025 stock "Live at The Library Theatre '83" captures the legendary Nico, former member of The Velvet Underground, in a raw and intimate live performance at Manchester’s Library Theatre in 1983. This release, issued by Culture Factory and Cherry Red Records, marks the first time this concert has been available on vinyl, presented as a limited edition for Record Store Day.

2025 stock Limited to 2000 copies. Having appeared in La Dolca Vita before joining The Velvet Underground in New York in the mid-‘60s, Nico seemed to be at the epicentre of all that was cool in the ‘60s. And she continued that trend by relocating to Manchester in the ‘80s for a career renaissance before her death in 1988. This record immortalises her performance at The Hacienda, Manchester, in 1983. This deluxe package includes an OBI strip, single album jacket, printed inner sleeve, record labe…

2025 Stock. There’s a certain feral, mischievous wit that has long defined the output of Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien, and "Der Fluss In Der Truhe," the collaborative release from Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg and Column One, is no exception. Far removed from the polite boundaries of genre, the record unfolds as a cryptic exchange between two of Germany’s most enigmatic sound art congregations. On Side A, Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg (aka Uli Rehberg) weaves together fractured field re…

Herz Aus Glas is a landmark album by Popol Vuh, originally released in 1977 as the soundtrack to Werner Herzog’s enigmatic film Heart of Glass. This Belle Antique edition from Japan presents the album in a beautifully crafted SHM-CD format, housed in a paper sleeve that replicates the original LP, complete with an obi-strip and an insert featuring notes (primarily in Japanese).

Released in 1973. This is their 5th album, following their 4th album "Rage", and features Jimmy Jackson on keyboards, who also played in Amon Dur II, and Mal Waldron, who at that time was active in many German rock bands. This album is a masterpiece that deserves to be called their best work in the context of progressive jazz rock, and can be said to be the perfection of the "ethnic jazz rock" that they aimed for in their early days. This is a masterpiece in paper jacket, SHM-CD, and the latest …

2025 stock In the ever-evolving landscape of European improvisation, Apa Ini stands as a testament to the restless creativity of saxophonist Tobias Delius and his ensemble. Released on the Dutch label Data Records in 2003, the album brings together a formidable quartet: Delius on tenor saxophone, Hilary Jeffery on trombone, Wilbert de Joode on double bass, and Serigne C.M. Gueye on percussion Apa Ini is not an album that seeks easy answers or comfortable resolutions. Instead, it thrives on the t…