New Arrivals / Last 4 weeks
Sixties Japanese Garage Psych Sampler
Here's for the real thing! A late 60s Japanese compilation investigating the so-called "group sound" movement. Includes early recordings by a series of musicians later to perform with legendary bands such as the Flower Travellin' Band, Speed Glue & Shinki, Les Rallizes Denudes and Foodbrain. Must have !
Big Lizard Stomp! (Teen Trash From Ps ychedelic Tokyo '66-'69)
Under the influence of The Beatles, the Group Sound Movement swept Japan in the mid Sixties. This compilation collects some of the finest cuts made by several of the leading band of the time like The Mops, The Golden Cups, The Spiders ... and more!
Dreaming Glass
An’archives are thrilled to present the debut album by Tokyo avant-pop duo Jyuriaano, Dreaming Glass.
Native Dancer
"One of Shorter's best-selling albums from the '70s was Native Dancer, a Brazilian-oriented jazz-fusion masterpiece that boasts Herbie Hancock on acoustic piano and electric keyboards, and employs such Brazilian talent as singer Milton Nascimento (a superstar in Brazil) and percussionist Airto Moreira. Everything on this melodic, consistently lyrical effort is a jewel, and that includes Hancock's "Joanna's Theme," as well as pieces by Nascimento ("From the Lonely Afternoons" and "Ponta de Areia"…
Staying (Leaving Records Aid to Artists Impacted by the Los Angeles Wildfires)
"Everything has changed, and it is changing still. The early days of 2025 (an already baleful year, vis-a-vis America’s darkening political horizon) have wrought heretofore unimaginable destruction in the land we now call Los Angeles. The wildfires that began on the morning of Tuesday, January 7th—and which are still raging—are, in scope and intensity, unlike any other disaster, natural or manmade, in the city’s living memory. Thousands of homes destroyed. Twenty four lives lost at the time of w…
Tainted Creampuffs
Originally released on Beta-lactam Ring as just 25 CDR copies, this mutated voice recording nightmare has been reassembled and remastered by Colin Potter. Possibly the strangest Nurse release of all time.
Terms And Conditions Apply
Moving from chaotic big band absurdity to African-inspired polyrhythms, cold techno and smoky ambient passages, Nurse With Wound's essential compilation returns with new Babs Santini artwork. A disorienting patchwork that serves as both historical document and standalone masterwork.
On The Beach
Cosmic Jazz present a long-awaited reissue of their legendary 1967 masterpiece Philip Cohran and The Artistic Heritage Ensemble, often referred to as "On The Beach." This soul-jazz phenomenon captures one of the most crucial missing links in American music history, bridging the cosmic explorations of Sun Ra's Arkestra and the earthbound funk revolution that would define the Chicago sound. Phil Cohran, one of the founding members of the AACM and former trumpet player in Sun Ra's Arkestra from 195…
Bruits De L'Ombre
200 numbered copies, with handmade and buffered cover. Contains a A4 insert. Experimental trio Los Pélieu Lovers announce the release of Bruits de l'Ombre, a groundbreaking album that pays tribute to French beat poet Claude Pélieu through innovative sound collage and cut-up techniques. The project emerged from Tom Val, Maximilien Douche, and Magali Genuite reading Pélieu's poetry aloud while music played in the room, inspiring them to create something beyond traditional music and poetry readings…
Cyclical Tombeau
Zach Rowden presents Cyclical Tombeau on Second Sleep, a haunting exploration of repetitive structures and drone that transforms the double bass into an otherworldly sound-making device. Through prepared techniques and extended bowing, Rowden creates circular funeral dirges that blur the boundaries between acoustic instrument and spectral presence. Connecticut-based Rowden has established himself as one of the most innovative voices in experimental bass music, known for his work with Tongue Depr…
Ocarina Solo
Stefano Portello is an artist who works with music and ceramics. For years, Stefano has been shaping ceramics to give shape to small ocarinas that he builds and plays himself. Each ocarina is born as a unique piece, becoming a perfectly functioning musical instrument. Its shapes are essential and inspired by nature. The melodies he plays are simple, repetitive, almost hypnotic. They do not seek virtuosity, but evoke a sense of calm and a return to the essential. Stefano Portello's work is an inv…
Contropiano
Experimental musicians Elisha Morningstar and Mercury Hall announce the release of "Contropiano," an immersive 30-minute cassette that explores the opaque intersection between memory, machinery, and the sonic residue of everyday life. This unique collaboration emerged from two deeply personal origin stories that inform each artist's approach to sound. For Elisha Morningstar, the inspiration to play guitar came unexpectedly during an experimental film screening, where massive film reels spun and …
The Secret Of The Space Bubble / > Eternal Beyond > IV
** Double Single-Sided Art LP. Edition of 100. ** My Cat Is An Alien releases The Secret of the Space Bubble / Eternal Beyond IV, a double album documenting two distinct collaborative approaches within the Italian duo's ongoing experimental practice. Brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio present new work with French musicians Talweg and Joëlle Vinciarelli, expanding their exploration of extended compositional techniques and spatial audio processing.
Issued on May 2, 2025 by Elliptical Noise Recor…
Aborted Towns, The Deadly Silence Before Utopia
Sigillum S have been exploring unknown territories among extreme electronics, fringe acoustics and occultist noise since 1985. With an original line-up of Italian experimental electronic composers Eraldo Bernocchi, Paolo L. Bandera and Luca Di Giorgio, throughout their 40-year gestation, the noise merchants have worked with musicians including Ain Soph, The Sodality, Gerstein,Iugula-Thor, Out Of Body Experience, Bill Laswell, Zu, Crisis, Thomas Felhmann, Gudrun Gut, Toshinori Kondo, SH Fernando …
Analog Africa Limited Dance Edition No 18
The faultless Analog Africa presents another superb reissue project here, this time looking to two rare 1980s gems by Ousmane Kouyate, a master guitarist and heir to the Griot tradition. He was a key figure in Les Ambassadeurs alongside Mory Kante and Salif Keita and helped shape modern Mandingue music with his electrifying take on the genre. The tracks presented here, 'Kefimba' and 'N'Ny' were originally released on cassette and later vinyl but are hard to find. They showcase his funk-infused s…
Almost An Island
*100 copies limited edition* Almost An Island marks the first collaboration between musician and producer Kenneth James Gibson and the husband-and-wife duo James and Cynthia Bernard. Gibson's career is a mosaic of sounds and ideas—so varied it might seem like the work of several artists, yet unmistakably his. From the widescreen psych-folk of Bell Gardens (with the late Brian McBride of Stars of the Lid), to the fractured electronics of Eight Frozen Modules, to intimate solo ambient albums and e…
Serenade
*100 copies limited release* The twelve jagged audio collages found on Colin Andrew Sheffield's "Serenade" shift from blurry abstractions to choppy sound art to mournful plundered passages, always with the singular stylistic approach the composer has developed over the last 25+ years of activity. As the follow-up to his previous full-length release, the critically acclaimed "Images" (2023), "Serenade" picks up where that album left off, although with an expanded sonic palette of funk, soul, jazz…
Taproots
Robin Richards, principal composer in beloved Manchester art-pop band Dutch Uncles, announces details of Taproots; his long-awaited debut solo album, set to be released 19th September on PRAH Recordings. Inspired by artists such as Flying Lotus, Arvo Pärt, Phillip Glass, Kate Bush, Boards of Canada and Tim Hecker, the album’s arc includes pieces about self-doubt, positive life changes, fatherhood and a suite of concept pieces about the life cycle of trees.
Taproots features contributions throug…
Rosa di Luce
When you’re immersed into something you never actually realize if the essence will project as bright as the efforts, as deep as the process and as loud as the intentions. WOW, the Roma Est duo of China and Leo Non, have never had to create magic or delve into mystique along their meandering path, it’s just been a long solemn wait for what life throws at them and actually sticks. Cause and reaction, because the essence is quietly there when the clamour fades away. Their new album ‘Rosa di Luce’ i…
Mer Changeante
"To whom does a record belong, once it’s been released, once it's released and lives its own life, outside the thoughts of those who composed it? Does it not also belong to those who listen to it and find in it realities, unsuspected joys and desires at the time of its creation? For as long as I've known him, Michel Wisniewski has been exploring, under the pseudonym Supermalprodelica, the effects that the music of others, which he listens to with a sensitive ear, produces on him. And he has the …