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Reportaż (LP)
First LP released by Tonpress in 1988 by excellent Polish RIO experimental art-rock band, never re-issued on either LP or CD.
The Girl In The Chair (LP)
2005 re-issue on De Stijl / Child Of Microtones of an obscure privately released American LP from 1971 with a wild and messy experimental mix of shortwave radio sounds, free jazz, spaced-out freak folk tunes, odd beat poems, etc.
Zeer Oude Klanken En Heel Nieuwe Geluiden (LP)
2002 re-issue on Grey Past Records of an obscure privately released Dutch LP from 1973 with a psychelic odd mix of experimental guitar work-outs and blues-rock. With insert.
Gone To Earth (2LP)
Original Italian edition on Virgin of Japan's singer's second solo double-album of refined art-pop and ambient music from 1986, featuring Robert Fripp, Bill Nelson and fellow Japan Steve Jansen and Richard Barbieri among others.
Alchemy (LP)
1974 re-press on Harvest of one of the most original and beautiful debut albums ever, with its alchemic mix of avant-garde folk, psych-raga, and chamber rock, originally released in 1969. Essential and on the NWW list
Slow Crimes (LP)
Orignal edition on Woof of the 1980 debut LP by experimental post-punk group with RIO connections featuring Henry Cow's Tim Hodgkinson and Catherine Jauniaux. With insert.
The End Of An Ear (LP)
Rare 1979 unofficial re-issue with different cover of the 1970 very experimental and singular debut solo LP by Soft Machine drummer and vocalist. NWW list.
Rock Bottom / Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard (2LP)
1983 re-issue as a double LP set on Virgin of Soft Machine's drummer and vocalist's two mid-1970's masterpieces of unclassifiable beautiful music only a drummer could do. Essential albums on the NWW list.
Robert Wyatt (LP)
Original edition of the 1981 Italian compilation on Base Record collecting the beautiful early 1980's singles on Rough Trade, later re-issued worldwide as Nothing Can Stop Us with different cover.
1982-1984 (LP)
Italian edition of the 1984 album compiling the beautiful Shipbuilding and Work In Progress EP's on Rough Trade.
Stalin Wasn't Stalling / Stalingrad (7")
Original UK edition of the 1981 political single on Rough Trade.
Chairman Mao (7")
One-sided single on red vinyl with a previously unrreleased song composed by Charlie Haden included in the 1987 book on Wyatt published by Stampa Alternativa. No book.
Géographies (LP)
Original edition on Crammed of the first solo album by ZNR member of beautiful electronic chamber-rock, released in 1984 in the superb Made To Measure series.
Flogging A Dead Frog
2015 release ** Card sleeve. Die Goldenen Zitronen (The Golden Lemons), born a punk band in 1980s Hamburg and having developed into a seminal art punk collective, present their new album. After 11 long-players and countless collaborations with artists such as Peaches, Wesley Willis (with whom the band toured the US), Chicks On Speed, Françoise Cactus (Stereo Total), Mark Stewart (The Pop Group), DJ Koze or Michaela Melián, »Flogging A Dead Frog« is their first release on Altin Village & Mine. …
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2006 release ** Airportman is a musical project founded in the summer of 2003 by Giovanni Risso and Marco Lamberti. "One could call the band's style instrumental post-rock, which certainly navigates—or rather flies...—between Radiohead, Tortoise, and certain cutting-edge electro-jazz, but with whispers, subtle deviations, that sense of perpetual psychedelic instability. Airportman follow a personal direction, creating a maze of allusions, a play of mirrors, and dialogues between barely plucked…
Sonic Portation
2008 release ** Picking up where they left off 33 years ago with the accidental death of leader Father Yod, three remaining members of Yahowa 13 create a reunion album in the spirit of the original ensemble in Sonic Portation. True, Father Yod's unique vocal stylings are missing, which may be taken as a crucial omission or with a sense of considerable relief. What's left is a rhythm section consisting of Djin Aquarian, Octavius Aquarian, and Sunflower Aquarian, playing guitar, bass, and drums in…
Lærvarium
1997 release ** This is an all-instrumental affair with classic thrash serving as the binding link throughout, but there are other elements that have been thrown in like doom, the second major ingredient, death and even power metal. Although thrash seems like the prevalent genre, there are times when its presence is disputable like on the contrasting doom/proto-death carnival "Snuff Movie", or on "El Canto Del Chivo" which develops as vintage doom until a brutal deathy break arrives splitting th…
Washing Machine
Washing Machine is the ninth studio album by the American experimental rock band Sonic Youth, released on September 26, 1995 by DGC Records. It was recorded at Easley Studios in Memphis, Tennessee and produced by the band and John Siket, who also engineered the band's previous two albums. The album features more open-ended pieces than it's predecessors and contains some of the band's longest songs, including the 20-minute ballad "The Diamond Sea", which is the lengthiest track to feature on any …
A Thousand Leaves
A Thousand Leaves was Sonic Youth's 10th studio album and the group's first major effort to be recorded at their own Echo Canyon studio in NYC. Free from the constraints of paying for costly studio time, the band was able to work at their desired pace and experiment at will. The result was an album born out of improvisation, chiefly characterized by the guitar interplay between guitarists Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo. The album title was inspired by Walt Whitman as Moore explained, "The same w…
Goo
Sonic Youth's eighth album, Goo, was their first for DGC / Geffen. The album marked their major label debut, featuring arena rock staples like "Kool Thing" and "Dirty Boots" deep in its grooves.
This allowed Sonic Youth to enter the mainstream world, destroy everything in their path, and emerge victorious. They rode the Top 10 charts to sonic stardom and glory, or at least secured the opening spot on the 1991 Crazy Horse tour.