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ECM exclusive special sale on a broad selection of vinyl releases, with more than 70 LPs available at incredibly low prices.

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Lunula
Octante: Ruth Barberán (trumpet, speaker & microphones). Alfredo Costa Monteiro (accordion & objects). Ferran Fages (electronics). Margarida Garcia (bass). Recorded at ca l'escuder on february 8th and 9th, 2008 by Ferran Conangla. Mixed and mastered …
Musics In The Margin Vol.4
Fourth opus of musical art brut, faithful to our precepts, we search out self-taught musicians. That means people who make contemporary music outside the customary production and distribution channels and with the determination and creative gifts tha…
Soba To Bara
Free improvisation has rarely seen significant new movements as influential as the small group of Tokyo musicians once labeled as "onkyo", who have now been a primary driving force in contemporary improvisation for a full decade. Over that decade, th…
Who Will Feed Them
Black vinyl with insert. Performed by: Mark Bajuk, Tony Fasce, Silvia Feriozzi, Eric Mauer, Brent Peich, Russ Waterhouse. The next evolutionary step from Double Leopards and Family Underground, very subtle and psychedelic music.
High Noon
**Third edition of 70 copies, white water based ink silkscreened by Gerard Herman on thick brown board with die-cut center hole. Original white vinyl with silkscreened gold labels.** LP from Timo van Luijk and improvising jazz drummer Kris Vanderstra…
Erotic Yorkshire
Mutant Ape is the insane noise project by Yorkshire, UK resident George Proctor. George runs the Turgid Animal label, which since 2005 has been the go-to place for harsh noise, power electronics and other demented spuzz releasing over 500 CDs, CDRS, …
New York Nuts & Boston Baked Beans
Violinist/vocalist C Spencer Yeh & unrivaled saxophone elder-titan Paul Flaherty team up without the assistance of acclaimed drummer Chris Corsano for the first time.Along for the jamz is bonkers Boston trumpeteer Greg Kelley. After performing numero…
(un)sentimental
Though each member of the 13th Assembly is acclaimed in their own right this group is very much a singular musical experience. A planned NPR piece should help raise exposure for this sublime recording. The Thirteenth Assembly began as a touring colle…
(Another) Stunt
The second in a series of 3 EPs by Giuseppe Ielasi focuses on the use of one turntable and vinyl records as the source for raw material, with pulses as the main organizational principle. Short segments and loops or longer and more complex improvisati…
The First Basket
Charming and imaginative music for a controversial film that follows the Jewish basketball experience from ash cans placed on the stoops of brownstones to the bright lights of Madison Square Garden. Composed by Roberto Juan Rodriguez, whose CDs of mo…
Charmed Birds Against Sorcery
2009 release ** The third full-length CD by AREA C, released this time by Students of Decay: "Glacial harmonics drift in and out of each channel, skittering, modulated notes pulse and surge, sputtering suddenly to luminescent manifestation before dis…
Memory
Animal Hospital is Kevin Micka's one-man musical recording and performance entity. Burying himself in a pile of electronics -- shelves of effects, mixing consoles, amps and delay units -- Memory is Kevin's latest venture into layered, processed guita…
Birchville Cat Motel & Yellow Swans
Yellow Swans & Birchville Cat Motel is the first collaboration between these two underground phenomenons. Both groups have amassed sturdy back catalogs and a great deal of critical acclaim. This collaboration was recorded entirely in New Zealand both…
Glistening Inn
Very very excited to announce the first LP in 10 years by Massachusetts based Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase!! Pretty much nine years it took to make this album, I cannot say I know a lot of people that have the patience to work on one thing that long, mayb…
Strings Of Consciousness & Angel
This is a collaboration between Angel (containing members of Mum and Pan Sonic) and Strings Of Consciousness. This dense and droney construction echoes platinum reflections with warm fluidity and delicate detail. The more attention you'll bestow on t…
Maja af Svea
Sound is an essential aspect of Maja Spasova's work, but not the only one, because she uses so many different matters. But she does not create aesthetic objects. Her art is more a way of producing relations and processes. Thomas Millroth. Maja af Sve…
Pause For The Jet
Since 1995 Daniel Padden has been a member of Volcano The Bear, with several highly regarded album releases on Nurse With Wound's United Diaries label, Textile and Beta-Lactam Ring Records. After his move to Glasgow he started The One Ensemble Of Dan…
Matricaria
Tara Burke (FURSAXA) & cellist Helena Espvall (ESPERS). A beautiful, laboriously created, floating affair of skeletal organ drones, ceremonial singing, & subtly frantic instrumental accompaniment that conjures up a natural woodland romp & stomp.
Underground
Amazing live + interview DVD with a total duration of almost 4 (four!) hours!!! Underground is a film by Delphine Sanchez on the French Darklight label, that offers an in-depth overview on todays cold musicand alternative-scene. The DVD (in PAL) is d…
I See Beyond The Blak Sun
Interchanging bass clarinet & throat-singing w/homemade instruments used as vocal modifiers, this is less the apocalyptic doom of his ramshackle post-punk group OLD TIME RELIJUN, but instead a raga influenced anthropological meditation.