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Green Is Beautiful by Grant Green is a lively jazz-funk album recorded in 1970 at Van Gelder Studio and released on the Blue Note label. Marking a shift from his hard bop and soul jazz roots, Green embraces energetic funk grooves, supported by a stellar lineup including Blue Mitchell, Claude Bartee, Jimmy Lewis, Idris Muhammad, and organists Neal Creque and Emmanuel Riggins. The album’s five tracks, including covers of James Brown and The Beatles, showcase Green’s distinctive, melodic approach a…
A new release from Fox & His Friends Records, Chapters (Screen & Stage Dancefloor Jazz from Yugoslavia 1971-1984) by Ozren Depolo brings to light a trove of previously unreleased music spanning more than a decade of his work in film, theater and television. This gatefold audiophile 180g LP, including a 12-page booklet with archival photos and detailed liner notes, offers for the first time a full album composed exclusively of Depolo's own authorship, drawn from master tapes held in private and i…
Limited edition CD & download retrospective of the pianist Gordon Beck’s musical journey from the 1960s to 1985 from a trio and quintet of Beck, Dave Green and Spike Wells plus Ray Warleigh and Iain Ballamy. The single CD comes in a 6-panel digisleeve, with a 20 page booklet written by Simon Spillett, incorporating memories provided by Iain Ballamy, Dave Green, Liam Noble. The cover art for both sleeve and booklet are original drawings from the brilliant Alban Low.
Drifts by Arp is an abstract ambient album drawing on collaborations with artists like Patrick Belaga, Marilu Donovan, and Takuma Watanabe, it blends piano, harp, strings, and modular synth into cinematic and elliptical compositions that explore the terrain between aftermath and renewal, inviting listeners into mapless, dreamlike space where intimacy and electricity converge.
Feeding Tube Records is excited to present the first North American release by this amazing Japanese sound artist. Yosuke Fujita goes by the name FUJI|||||||||||TA, perhaps so he won't be mistaken for the guitarist of the same name who plays with Better Days, or perhaps because he just likes to hear people try to figure out how to say, 'FUJI|||||||||||TA,' properly. Either way, FUJI|||||||||||TA is a wonderful avant-garde project that has been active for almost two decades. In its current iterat…
On a Sunday in the early 70s in South LA, you could easily find yourself standing in a high school auditorium, watching Horace Tapscott conduct the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra as they poured out music like a benediction. No tickets, no VIP list—just the community, gathered. This was music as civic duty, as spiritual practice, as revolution by other means. Live at Widney High December 26th, 1971 captures one such afternoon, previously unreleased and now arriving like a dispatch from a parallel u…
The album delivers masterful arrangements, inventive rhythms, rich harmonies, and a perfect balance of flute and saxophone interplay. Funk, Jazz, Gospel, Afro, and traditional elements all merge seamlessly into something unique and timeless.Joshua Sithole (1947–1999) was a self-taught multi-instrumentalist and vocalist from South Africa who first started busking with the Kwela kids in 1959 and then went solo in 1978. He became popular in the 80’s, performing widely in Durban and Cape Town.
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MB Jones and Rey Sapienz first encountered one another in 2018. Jones was living in South Korea and visited Kampala, Uganda with his partner. Before their trip he was surprised to find that the Nyege Nyege label knew of him through his ROK SPY record, which had even led certain label associates to wonder if, because of that project's presentation, he was an actual secret agent. Jones stayed for a few days at Villa Nyege, where label co-founder Arlen Dilsizian introduced him to Rey Sapienz. Promp…
Floris Maniscalco’s double LP Eternal Brink is a genre-fluid, exploratory release grounded in Basel, Switzerland. Spanning meditative textures, fragmented rhythms, and voice contributions from local collaborators, the album unfolds as a sonic diary documenting shifts in mood and meaning over an extended creative period. Presented on Plattfon Records, it invites attentive listening through its tactile soundscapes and subtle narrative arc.
Christian Kobi’s new album Aare is a deeply immersive solo sound art work built around sine waves and field recordings, inspired by the experience of underwater listening in the river Aare. Released by Cubus Records in a limited vinyl edition, it offers 40 minutes of hypnotic, flowing sonic textures that subtly shift as they evoke both the meditative constancy and dynamic richness of aquatic environments.
** 2025 stock ** Thomas Schulz (1950-2021), predominantly perceived as a visual artist, has continuously been as much a sound researcher and sound designer and a musical improvisor as well. He performs with Marino Zappelini (Sax) and opera singer Jane Smith at J.J.Donguy (Paris 1982) and meets Shelley Hirsch, with whom he shares a longtime friendship, at Büro Berlin. Listening to John Cage and attending an early concert of the Seesselberg brothers awakes his interest in sound and composition, bu…
**2025 stock** From the production Hildegard von Bingen, which was premiered in 2023 at the Kulturhaus Helferei, a vinyl has been created. The edition is published by the Zurich label Czarnagora and was realized in co-production by Nils Amadeus Lange and Elise Lammer. Live concert in the original cast by Catherine Schroeder and Mario Espinoza.
The vinyl release related to the 2023 production of Hildegard von Bingen at Kulturhaus Helferei is a unique edition realized through a partnership between…
Samt ar-ra's by Benjamin Dobó and Dion Monti is an evocative ambient collaboration that serves as a sonic companion to Dobó's film. Crafted between 2020 and 2022, the album moves through delicate textures, atmospheric field recordings, and subtle melodic fragments, inviting listeners to explore intricate emotional landscapes in a work that bridges visual and auditory art.
Zungsang by Joke Lanz takes listeners on a disorienting and surreal sonic journey marked by sharp observations and idiosyncratic soundscapes. Anchored in the spaces between performance art, improvisation, and experimental noise, the album weaves together unsettling textures and fleeting melodic fragments, revealing a world that is at once darkly humorous and intellectually provocative.
Favorite Recordings is proud to announce the release of Endless – Universal Cosmic Sounds, a visionary compilation celebrating a decade of musical archaeology and a special milestone: the thirteenth release curated by Charles Maurice since his debut in 2015. Endless is an immersive journey through cosmic soundscapes, where jazz-funk, pioneering electronics, and ambient experimentation merge into a unique listening experience. The collection features 10 rare recordings, meticulously selected from…
Other Minds is pleased to inaugurate Other Minds Books with Peter Garland’s work of memoir and criticism, Ingram Marshall: A Personal and Musical Appreciation. The composer Peter Garland met the composer Ingram Marshall in 1970; both were students during the early, golden years of The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) learning electronic music and composition from Morton Subotnick, James Tenney, and Harold Budd, as well as Javanese gamelan from Robert Brown. Out of this Marshall was abl…
Vigilant New Forces is a compilation celebrating fifteen years of label activity. Featuring all new tracks from New Forces artists - past, present, and future. The finest noise and experimental sound, offered with gratitude to all those who have supported this endeavor. Stay vigilant. Featuring Jackson-Pratt, Mayuko Hino, Kjostad, Mass Marriage, MO*TE, Organ Of Corti, Kyle Flanagan, Rodger Stella & Scant, Wince, Joe Colley, Jeph Jerman, Form Hunter, and Matriarch.
The ultimate statement from Japanese noise legend Kimihide Kusafuka. A "fake compilation" of tracks recorded under various aliases, originally issued by his Kinky Musik Institute label in 1993. Noise, power-electronics, techno, post-punk, psychedelia... Kusafuka does it all on this compilation. A work of unbounded creativity and a key document of the Japanese cassette underground.
"This is a fake compilation. All pieces in this product were composed and recorded during 1983 to 1988, under the na…
Patrick Cowley’s Hard Ware is a ten-track time capsule from the late disco era, weaving together raw synth grooves, industrial textures, and playful electronic vamps. The album is expansive, sensual, and just a touch sardonic, showcasing Cowley’s boundary-pushing imagination and pioneering electronic production sensibility.
First time ever official vinyl reissue, gatefold 140g vinyl, remastered from the original Vertigo master tapes. Be With Records proudly announces the highly anticipated reissue of The Keith Tippett Group's Dedicated to You, But You Weren't Listening, a landmark achievement in cutting-edge fusion and avant-jazz that stands as one of the most vital and profoundly adventurous jazz-rock records ever recorded. Originally released on Vertigo in 1971, this essential album has aged ridiculously well, wi…