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Group Show
**Edition of 300 copies, numbered** Group Show is a project and installation that shows an extensive collection of ‘vernacular’ vinyl records with large groups of people on the cover. The awkward impossibility of photographing these choirs, regional ensembles and folklore bands and the typology of photographs that has comes out of it, is a longtime fascination for Erik Kessels. It even made him create a multi-media project out of this. The enormous volume and collection of records resulted in an…
Snoring
**Edition of 300 copies, numbered** This experiment in minimal music serves as a soothing lullaby for people who find themselves separated from their favorite snorer, people pining for a snoring ex, or as the perfect soundtrack for people burning the midnight oil.It’s the sound that keeps the earplug industry afloat. The sound that drives sleepless, bleary-eyed partners to beat their sleeping other-half with a pillow and into separate beds. Like a lot of popular music snoring is one of those noi…
The Clothes Themselves
PVC dubplate, edition of 50 copies. The brainchild of elusive graphic designer Sk8thing, who founded it in 2012 together with streetwear visionaries Toby Feltwell and Hishi Yutaka, Japanese brand Cav Empt has garnered a cult-like following with its strong emphasis on iconic and eclectic references. For Men’s Fashion Week, Slam Jam is delighted to present the brand’s newest project —The Clothes Themselves, a documentary short film written and directed by British artist Oliver Payne.Inspired by th…
Four Pieces For Mirai
The first instalment of a stunning self-released opus by a pivotal thinker of our age; James Ferraro, the start of a four-part dystopian saga about digital feudalism and the Internet of Things. Riyl Elysia Crampton, Haruomi Hosono, Wendy Carlos, Oneohtrix Point Never… Four Pieces for Mirai is a stunning prelude to James Ferraro’s epic new work about civilisational decline, planned to span four releases this year. The initial transmission finds the preeminent bard and prescient se’er of the 21st …
Pierdrie
Pierdrie is a project by Marco Douma, Roel Meelkop and Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek) about the visual and sonic phenomena of pier drie in the Rotterdam Waalhaven. A colourful and atmospheric hommage to Rotterdam harbour industries, the images of the 3 monitors are merged and edited for use with one screen - the DVD format offers the opportunity to play this in full surround sound as well in stereo.This is a one screen version of the Pierdrie installation that was originally presented as a 3…
Alien Encrypted Message
Proper lysergic melters from Bear Bones, Lay Low on No ‘Label’ - a sometime home to Jamal Moss, Torn Hawk, Morgan Buckley, among many othersPushing the label’s boundaries for psychotomimetic behaviour, Atlantean Encrypted Message bubbles up from a place usually only visited in the throes of a full blown acid trip. On the A-side, the Belgian artist Ernesto González Rondón tilts in steeply with the warped wormhole of the EP’s title track perhaps meant as gateway as much as a test of the listener’s…
Early Works For Tape And Electronics
Unofficial release. Few copies available. Terry Riley's incredible early tape manipulation works from the 1960s, “Bird of Paradise” and “You’re No Good. Incredible audio quality
More Selections From The Devotional Tapes 1982-1995
Unofficial release. Few copies available. A collection of the best Alice Coltrane ashram tape recordings not included on the ‘Ecstatic Music’ comp, culled from all four original releases 1982-95 leaning heavily (as the Luaka record itself does) on 1987’s ‘Divine Songs. Incredible audio quality
Acrobati Liquidi
In Italian language only. “Acrobati liquidi”, a totally D-I-Y book from Giorgio Salomon, is an interesting mix between a personal and cosmic trip and an educational pamphlet, in which find place a lot of alternative and experimental tales. Using his record collection as an anchor, Salomon recalls hidden magical places and unknown bands, perfectly in balance between journalism and passion. The book is a 200-pages voyage in which you will discover musical scenes from all over the world – from Hung…
Plays Panama
Limited numbered 1/70 only with hand-made foder cover, printed labels and black inner sleeves! dj qbico mix a selection of very rare/obscure 45 from Panama, none of these tracks had been reissued or appears on any compilations
Plays Burundi
**very last copie** Limited numbered 1/99 only with hand-made foder cover, printed labels and black inner sleeves! dj qbico mix a selection of very rare afro funk jazz soul and ethnic music from Burundi. Ethio-Jazz flourishes all over, reminding to me that amazing LP from Sudan by Saif Abu-Bakr al Iqarib
Tiresia
Tiresia is a new music project by Bruno Dorella and Stefano Ghittoni. Inspired by the mythological character, both male and female, fortune-teller and fugitive, that has lived multiple lives. Tiresia is also the name of one of the main character in the movie “I Cannibali” (1970) by director Liliana Cavani. Played by Pierre Clementi, he is a sort of mystic that speaks an obscure language trying to rise up against a killer and reactionary government. The movie was declared “out of time and inappro…
Live at Bennington College, 1969
**ltd/numbered 1/30, one-sided picture disk** extract ! historical doc/ensemble with Arthur Doyle at the fiercest !
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“Music to me [is] the universal language, the universal way of communicating.” For Arthur Doyle, saxophonist, flautist and vocalist, music was the life force, and Doyle’s dedication to the music had him playing fast and free jazz for most of his life. “That was my first love,” he once said to Patrick Marley, in an interview from Muckraker: “playing free and spontaneous.” Born on …
Arthur Doyle Trio
**ltd/numbered 1/50, with paste-on cover** unique formation/one of a kind Doyle LP with one long track each side, deep spiritual dimension
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“Music to me [is] the universal language, the universal way of communicating.” For Arthur Doyle, saxophonist, flautist and vocalist, music was the life force, and Doyle’s dedication to the music had him playing fast and free jazz for most of his life. “That was my first love,” he once said to Patrick Marley, in an interview from Muckraker: “playing free and…
Live 1980
**ltd/numbered 1/50, with paste-on cover** Three long tracks, amazing/perfect duo (they'd have played a lot together, real tight/know each other real well); both musicians are still very very underrated ?! fantastic solos by Mr. Reid. Recorded at the New England Repertory Theatre; Feb. 25 1980
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One of the unsung baritonists in jazz, Charles Tyler had a huge tone on his instrument and played with a great deal of fire, usually in fairly free settings. After studying piano growing up in Indianapol…
Endless Sky
Music makes my mind drift uncontrollably. When I saw John Chantler and Johs Lunds perform at Copenhagen’s Mayhem venue I had a vision: I awake suddenly to discover that I have been sleeping on a beach. It’s a rainy early morning and I’m laying on my back in the open on the sand, the hood of my jacket blinding my peripheral vision. I have no idea how I got there and only see grey clouds above and hear the waves and wind. I stare into the sky blinking from light speckles of falling rain, my m…
The Decline Of Western Civilization
Reissue. Music taken from the soundtrack of the 1981 documentary The Decline Of Western Civilization by Penelope Spheeris about the LA punk scene at the end of the '70s and in the very early '80s. Features: Black Flag, Germs, Catholic Discipline, X, Circle Jerks, Alice Bag Band, and Fear. Replica edition; Edition of 500.
OP. 03 Music for Balance and Motion (The Loss of)
Art edition, limited to 24 exemplars, wooden boxes containing a cricket and a cicada, an insert illustrating the project and a CD. Music for Balance and Motion (The Loss of) is based on three elements: a cricket sample, a cicada sample (both taken from field recordings sessions during 2001) and sine waves, a 22 minutes track inspired by and focused on the obsessive nature of the sounds of these insects, conceived for contemporary music festival Rai Nuova Musica.Luca Garino (Italy, 1978) aka Ps…
Is This Right?
Is This Right? is Seymour Wright's third full solo record and comes as a 2 discs set in a beautiful oblong sleeve. 5 tracks recorded between 2014 and 2017 in Bologna, London and Paris. Is This Right? continues where his last solo - Seymour Writes Back - finished, further developing a set of relationships between ideas, places, people and time, as Wright puts it, documenting 'learning about the saxophone - actual and potential - as rhthym, shadow and text'.
Marcus Belgrave Quintet
this is Big D jazz live material gets released here for the first time. The players are Marcus Belgrave (trumpet), Vincent York (alto sax), Rick Roe (percussion), Marion Hyden (bass) and Lawrence Williams (drums).. Limited to only 70 copies, so order fast! "A rare live session from Tribe Records legend Marcus Belgrave – a record that has the Detroit trumpeter working strongly here on his home turf with a very well-matched quintet of musicians! The work is maybe a bit more straightforward …