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The Disintegration Loops
Since the turn of this century, perhaps no other modern composition has had a more resonant healing effect than The Disintegration Loops. Composer William Basinski’s deteriorating analog tape loops evolved from melodic symphonies to melancholic silence over a span of time that uncannily turned passing minutes into pensive lifetimes. In her foreword for the new box set reissue of The Disintegration Loops, the pioneering multimedia storyteller, Laurie Anderson, describes the impact of this transfo…
Il lago è il cielo del bosco..., Il Bestiario, Ninulla (3LP Bundle)
Special discounted bundle celebrating the visionary output of Holidays Records with three remarkable releases that showcase Italy's most compelling underground voices across generations.La Festa delle Rane - "Il lago è il cielo del bosco e tutte le rane cantano in coro" (LP) - The remastered vinyl edition of their breakthrough 2022 release, fourteen tracks of sun-tinged psychedelia where medieval folklore blooms into celestial children's folk hymns. Lucia Sole's off-kilter melodies wander throu…
Il lago è il cielo del bosco e tutte le rane cantano in coro
Huuuuge Tip! * Limited edition of 200 copies, comes with insert * La Festa delle Rane (literally the frog's party) are one of the most singular outputs from the vibrant Italian underground community of the last couple of years. Innocent, at times flawed, full of candour and tenderness and just enough spice to make things take a grandiose detour into the eerie and unsettling. Il lago è il cielo del bosco e tutte le rane cantano in coro originally released on tape for Ruego in 2022 and now remast…
Cat O’ Nine Tails
W.25TH is proud to announce the reissue of Cindy Lee's Cat O' Nine Tails, originally released in 2020 as an extremely limited edition of 50 lathe-cut LPs housed in silk-screened jackets. This essential collection, released in the wake of What's Tonight To Eternity, has long captivated die-hard fans with its perfect synthesis of classic songwriting and classical composition.
The album opens with the gothic drama of "Our Lady Of Sorrows," flowing into the manic exploration of the title track befor…
Sound Proof.
Edition of 40. Counter Culture Chronicles is honored to announce the release of Gedichte, a rare collection of surrealistic poetry by legendary artist Meret Oppenheim. These German-language poems reveal an intimate dimension of the visionary who revolutionized modern art with her provocative sculptures and conceptual works. Best known for her iconic Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure) - the fur-covered teacup that became synonymous with Surrealist art - Oppenheim's literary voice demonstrates the s…
Gedichte
Edition of 40. Counter Culture Chronicles is honored to announce the release of Gedichte, a rare collection of surrealistic poetry by legendary artist Meret Oppenheim. These German-language poems reveal an intimate dimension of the visionary who revolutionized modern art with her provocative sculptures and conceptual works. Best known for her iconic Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure) - the fur-covered teacup that became synonymous with Surrealist art - Oppenheim's literary voice demonstrates the s…
Provo!
Edition of 40. Counter Culture Chronicles presents a groundbreaking archival release featuring the complete singles collection of Nicolaas Kroese, the enigmatic mystic and visionary of Amsterdam's legendary Provo movement. This extraordinary tape captures the raw essence of 1960s Dutch counterculture through Kroese's unique blend of poetry, philosophy, and sonic experimentation. The A-side showcases Kroese's complete singles output—a bilingual journey through Dutch and English that reveals the i…
Beeld en Geluid/Sound and Vision
Edition of 40. Counter Culture Chronicles is pleased to announce the release of Beeld en Geluid/Sound and Vision, a unique cassette documenting the groundbreaking multimedia event that took place in 1986 at the Municipal Museum in The Hague. This exceptional recording features experimental composer Relly Tarlo alongside collaborators Jacoba Bedaux and GJ de Rook. The tape presents a mesmerizing half-hour soundpiece by Tarlo that exemplifies the adventurous spirit of 1980s avant-garde composition…
Iron Winter - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
De la Catessen Records proudly presents the original soundtrack for Iron
Winter by Port Adelaide based composer Luke Altmann in a hand-numbered vinyl edition of 250 copies.
Here Comes Everything
De la Catessen Records presents "Here Comes Everything," an 18CD debut by Pascoe & Martin. Inspired by Joyce’s Ulysses, each disc is a long improvisation, blending piano and saxophone in a virtuosic, playful exploration of experience and dialogue.
Drive-Five vol. 1 en 2.
Edition of 40 copies. Counter Culture Chronicles is proud to announce the release of a previously unreleased recording featuring Beat Generation poet Jack Micheline performing a complete reading in Erie, Pennsylvania, 1983. This intimate documentation captures the raw energy and spontaneous spirit that defined Micheline's legendary performances. Recorded during the height of Micheline's creative period, this rare tape presents the poet in his element—delivering his trademark blend of street-wise…
Erie, PA 1983 (Tape)
Edition of 40. Counter Culture Chronicles is proud to announce the release of a previously unreleased recording featuring Beat Generation poet Jack Micheline performing a complete reading in Erie, Pennsylvania, 1983. This intimate documentation captures the raw energy and spontaneous spirit that defined Micheline's legendary performances.
Recorded during the height of Micheline's creative period, this rare tape presents the poet in his element—delivering his trademark blend of street-wise verse …
Live Spirit I
“Kalaczakra” marks the powerful return of Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet, one of Europe’s leading jazz ensembles. The new single offers the first glimpse of their upcoming album Live Spirit I. Built around a catchy horn motif, a distinctive bass line, and a free-flowing, pulsing drum rhythm, the track brilliantly blends Polish and spiritual jazz traditions with a raw, modern edge—bold, uplifting, and unmistakably fresh. The forthcoming album Live Spirit I, recorded live at Warsaw’s iconic Witold Luto…
Sleepwalkers
Grönland Records announces the highly anticipated revised and remastered reissue of Sleepwalkers, the acclaimed compilation album from renowned English songwriter and sonic architect David Sylvian. This collection, available as a gatefold double LP with exclusive art print and a digipak CD, features a meticulously curated selection of Sylvian’s most essential collaborations from the 2000s, reimagined for new and longtime fans alike. The new edition also includes the previously unreleased track “…
Baobab
Long hidden from the world, the extraordinary sound of Baobab finally emerges. Recordings made in the late 1970s by the Stuttgart-based group—once described as "one of the most interesting rock-jazz groups on the Stuttgart scene"—are being unveiled to listeners for the very first time after more than 45 years in the vaults.
The album, simply titled Baobab, showcases the fearless creativity and genre-blurring spirit of a band who were decades ahead of their time. Fusing the improvisational energy…
Praise Poems Volume 11 (A Journey Into Raw, Energetic Power Pop From The 1980s)
Every compilation series has an end. After 10 outstanding issues, we are saying goodbye to the Praise Poems series, which is highly appreciated by collectors and music lovers, with this 11th installment. With this final installment, we are deliberately venturing into a genre that we have only included in exceptional cases to date: Power Pop of the late 1970s and early 80s. We start with "Real Proof", an unreleased song by the band The Nails, originally from Boulder, Colorado, who were even signe…
Vermilion Hours
"Scattered notes seem to stretch time, their repetition and countless combinations evoking (or invoking?) the infinite iridescence of light that accompanies dawn—a ritual as inevitable as it is unpredictable. With his Musique pour le lever du jour, composed over two years and completed in 2017, Melaine Dalibert once described his aim as creating "an infinite piece," without beginning or end. Subtle, intangible, both complex and minimal, the variations forming this hour-long composition—dedicated…
Two Felt-Tip Pens: Live At Moers
Balance Point Acoustics proudly announces the release of "Two Felt-Tip Pens: Live At Moers," a strikingly original album recorded live at the renowned Moers Festival in Germany and dedicated to the late Hans Schneider (1951–2024). The release features the adventurous trio of German saxophonist Stefan Keune, American guitarist Sandy Ewen, and acclaimed bassist and label curator Damon Smith, three master improvisers converging in an equilateral triangle of spontaneous sonic exploration.
"Two Felt-…
Bio-Mechanik. Aural tribute to the art of H.R. Giger
Few artists have captured the unsettling beauty of the fusion between flesh and machine as hauntingly as Hans Ruedi Giger. His biomechanical visions, cathedrals of bone and chrome, embryonic nightmares suspended in steel wombs, eroticism bound in cold circuitry, have etched themselves into the collective unconscious. Giger unveiled a world that feels eerily familiar, as if drawn from the depths of a shared ancestral dream or a post-human future already unfolding.
Born in Chur, Switzerland, in 1…
Psychic Resynthesis
Tip! Frozen Reeds is proud to present Mark Fell’s ‘Psychic Resynthesis’, an instrumental work performed by Explore Ensemble. This double LP, with included digital download, is the label’s 8th release, arriving 13 years after its foundation. Fell is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, and theorist based in Rotherham, UK. Renowned for his rigorous and conceptual approach to electronic music and sound art, his work explores the limits of structure, rhythm, and perception through a blend of compu…