New Arrivals
Routine
Copenhagen-based multi-instrumentalists Jason Dungan and Johan Carøe didn’t set out to make an album. Instead, as the title ‘Routine’ suggests, they found their way there through a process of habitual making and listening, developing an intuitive mus…
The Classic Sound of Miles Davis & Friends
Nicely assembled compilation with some early Miles plus specific collaboration with Sonny Rollins, Michel Legrand, Gil Evans & Cannonball Adderley
Our Broken Time Machine
Stern Records is proud to present Our Broken Time Machine, welcoming back Bug Bus Piano with their second full-length release on the label. As a freshly assembled puzzle swells, countless connections begin to bubble within the slowly buckling square.…
Live Critique of Judgement
Mitsuru Tabata began his musical career in 1982. Since then, he has played a key role in many of Japan’s most influential underground and experimental groups, including Noizunzuri, Boredoms, Leningrad Blues Machine, YBO2, Zeni Geva, Acid Mothers Temp…
Danish Tape Amateurs 1959 - 1976
2026 stock. Very last copies around. Long understood as the realm of advanced composition, plumbed only by a small handful of adventurous listeners, the spirit which began the history of tape music and musique concrète, is too often overshadowed and …
Les Éphémères
2026 stock. Sold out at source, very last copies around. The record is accompanied by a 24-page booklet illustrated with Knud Viktor’s photos, as well as an extensive essay. Only a few weeks ago, with their incredible 10", rescueing long lost works b…
Ambiances / Images
Double LP reissue, remastered. Two original albums - Ambiances and Images (early 1970s) - collected on one set. Includes inlay with the original liner notes and a selection of Viktor's paintings, photographs and film stills. Institut for Dansk Lydark…
3/3
3/3 is best known as the precursor to Friction, one of the most influential bands in the history of Japanese rock. Despite the fact that their only album was originally selfproduced in 1975 in an extremely limited run of just ten copies, it has since…
Figuren
Radically exploratory, Raphael Loher’s Figuren is an album shaped by process and experimentation. Guided by intuition, listening, and a deliberate distancing from his primary instrument—the piano—, the LP marks a decisive step in the Swiss pianist an…
Frühjahr '76 - Erinnerungen An Klaus
Lindwurm were formed in 1972 in Uelzen and played a somewhat rough-edged progressive rock. The reference to Hanover, which you sometimes come across, is not accurate. Nor should they be confused with the jazz-rock group of the same name from Jork-Moo…
Lummernikt
Lummer is the Swedish name for the now protected family of vascular plants (Clubmoss/Lycopodiaceae). Lummer grows slowly and the spores with which it reproduces can take 12—20 years to develop. These spores, known as Nikt in Swedish, were once ground…
Post Purgatory
Formed in Taipei in 2013, Scattered Purgatory (破地獄) has occupied a liminal space between drone, ambient, psychedelic folk and ritualistic kosmiche experimentation. Their early work, including ‘Lost Ethnography of the Miscanthus Ocean’ (2014) and ‘God…
Sumerian Star Creatures
Created for the Centre for Fine Arts Brussels, "Sumerian Star Creatures" premiered in 2017 as a part of Spencer Clark (The Skaters / Monopoly Child Star Searchers / Pacific City Sound Visions) and Xavier Garcia Bardon's "Imagineers in the Underworld"…
The Transit Rider
Arriving right on time for its 20th anniversary, Faun Fables’ musical theatre work The Transit Rider returns in a lovely 2xLP vinyl edition that dimensionally burnishes the bristling performances and elevated chamber/cabaret folk sounds of the origin…
New Colombian Music for Saxophone Quartet
Three first recordings of works for saxophone quartet by Colombian composers Juan Antonio Cuéllar, Carolina Noguera and Rodolfo Acosta, performed by the Madrid-based Sigma Project in composer-supervised sessions.
Hommage To Africa
** Deluxe matte laminate gatefold sleeve and polylined paper inner sleeve ** Paris, August 1969. Sunny Murray books a studio for a single afternoon and walks in with thirteen musicians - among them three members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the wo…
The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard
Caught at the exact moment the young trumpeter steps fully into his own. Recorded July 2, 1962, at Rudy Van Gelder's studio, released in 1963 on Impulse!, this is Hubbard with technique to burn but warmth to match - every line sculpted, every phrase …
2-3-4
One of the great small-group dates in the Impulse! book, and a quietly perfect one. Cut February 5 and 8, 1962, produced by Bob Thiele, with an across-the-generations cast: drummer Manne steering with the lightest touch, the mighty Coleman Hawkins in…
He's Coming
Released on Polydor in 1972, this is Roy Ayers hitting his stride. The Ubiquity sound has clicked into place: jazz improvisation, funk underneath, soul harmony, spiritual weight, all of it pulling in the same direction. The vibraphonist leans hard in…