Music from United States

1986 LP on New Albion with the beautiful and pioneering 1984 cosmic composition for computer-generated sounds. With insert.

1971 LP on Turnabout's great "The Contemporary Composer In The USA" series presenting two compositions for orchestra and electronics/synthesizer (the mighty Synket) and a violin concerto.

Excellent electro-acoustic album blending modular synthesis and sound processing, released by Spectrum in 1980.

Unusual mix of pop, new-age, percussion music and electronic music by memeber of Steve Reich And Musicians and the Love Of Life Orchestra, featuring "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Richard Landry and Ned Sublette among the performers, released…

Third album of twisted easy listening by memeber of Steve Reich And Musicians and the Love Of Life Orchestra, mixing funk, jazz, Asian music and progressive electronic styles, released in Germany by Private Music in 1989.

Rare original edition on Lovely Music of the fantastic debut solo album by the keyboard player for Robert Ashley and Iggy and the Stooges among others, one of the peaks of avant-garde pop, featuring Peter Gordon among the performers. Beautiful and es…

Excellent experimental LP split bwtween short electronic/instrumental pieces and a long evocative musique concrète composition, released by ReR Megacorp in 1989.

1972 album on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series with two avant-garde solo piano pieces from the 1950's plus the classic partly indeterminated instrumental composition from 1971 performed by an all-star group including…

1967 re-press (Allentown) of the second album on Turnabout's landmark "Electronic Music" series presenting three classic and essential early experimental electronic compositions originally released in 1966.

Beautiful catalogue for an event of Minimalist piano performances by the four masters, held in Rome in 1999.

Get ready to ignite your turntable: Cal Tjader's seminal 1965 Latin jazz masterpiece Soul Sauce is back on vinyl for the first time since 1993. This vibrant reissue celebrates the album's enduring groove, fusing the vibraphonist's shimmering melodies…

Originally released in 2003, With A Heartbeat brings together Pharoah Sanders, Bill Laswell and Graham Haynes in a collaboration that remains as elusive as it is forward-thinking. Now reissued by Glossy Mistakes, the album receives its first official…

Multi-instrumentalist Sarah Lipstate brings her innovative music to life under the name Noveller. Forming unexpected sonic routes, her songs are vivid and cinematic. Following several years spent collaborating with Iggy Pop, and touring the world as …

On Live in Europe 1968 & 1972, Marion Brown leads a borderless quartet through two rare European concerts, pairing his singing alto with Gunter Hampel's vibes, Barre Phillips' bass and Steve McCall's drums in a sound that hovers between lyrical free …

On Sun’s Blessings, Sunny Murray and Sabu Toyozumi meet as a double‑drum frontline, turning a 1999 Sapporo concert into a two‑part ritual where clattering polyrhythms, rolling thunder and sudden hollows of space make free improvisation feel both volc…

On Keeping It In Context, Daniel Carter, Sabir Mateen, William Parker and Lou Grassi turn a 1996 Context Studios session into a blazing, deep‑listening workshop, with twin reeds, singing bass and restless drums stretching free jazz language without l…

Birdman Records is proud to be reissuing Invisible Men, the early space explorations of electronic music pioneer F/i. In the mid-80s F/i was on the cutting edge of electronic bombast, producing cassette tapes of late-night interstellar sessions to be…

One of the leading lights of contemporary creative saxophone music, Jon Irabagon (b. 1978) hails from Chicago, made his name in New York, and has returned to the Windy City with decisive ferocity, joining the city's bustling scene as an active partic…

On Coffy, Roy Ayers turns Pam Grier’s 1973 vigilante flick into a vibraphone‑driven fever dream, fusing slinky funk, string‑soaked soul and jazz finesse into a soundtrack that’s as deadly on its own as any of the film’s set‑pieces.

On The Bagatelles Vol. 8, John Zorn hands nine knotty miniatures from his 300‑tune book to the John Medeski Trio, who turn organ, guitar and drums into a shape‑shifting engine of groove, skronk and sly lyricism that makes each Bagatelle feel like a t…