New Arrivals
Passing
“Francesco Sotgiu has forged a unique and very swinging project of songs. With a quintet consisting of Luigi Bonafede on piano, Emanuele Cisi and Riccardo Luppi on woodwinds, Salvatore Maiore on bass, Francesco on drums, and with special guest Paolo …
Wildflower
*2023 repress* "The trio takes you on an intense, meditative and spiritual musical journey that embodies the spirit of freedom. Based around hypnotic grooves laid down by Brichard’s unswervingly solid bass lines, drummer Skinner plays around artfully…
Photons (2005) (Sympathy For The Laser)
Together with Photons (2005), released as KOO002, Lightwaves completes the investigation of the electro archetype, documenting the Neosurrationalist* bridge between art and science, that began with a dialogue in a Kreuzberg bar involving Giovanni De …
Fever Dreams
“Composed during one of London's endless dark and locked down winters, Fever Dreams is a fantastical, speculative take on high density living. From dark, mouldy rooms, subterranean depths, symbiosis and multi-species entanglements, it cloaks itself i…
ecoegoe
ecoegoe is an ensemble led by bassist, composer, and producer Mark Ibsgaard Gregersen. During early developments, he had experiences where acoustically made sounds would resemble digital samples, echoes, and compression. Or was it just an idea? Their…
Geist II
*300 copies limited edition* Having made his mark on these pages over the last few years with appearances as part of Japan’s cult entities Goat and YPY, Koshiro Hino’s turn last year as Kakuhan took things to a whole other level with an album that fe…
Souvenir
*300 copies limited edition* Olof Dreijer and Mount. Sims present a collaborative release, entitled Souvenir, on Rabid Records. The five-track record centres around the rich harmonics of the steel drum.
The start of the Souvenir project dates back to…
Les Français sont les ennemis du Pacifique
In February 2020, during one of his trips to New Zealand, Thierry Monnier (1972 - 2022) recorded a session with Bruce Russell, the Dead C's guitarist of whom he was a big fan. We decided with his agreement to do everything we could to release this re…
Áhkká
Pauline Hogstrand's music – and Áhkká, in particular – is deeply inspired by both inner and outer influences, by the mystical as well as the rock-solid, by fictitious conversations and the queen mountain of Lappland (Áhkká).
Ecstatic Computation
Silver Vinyl edition. Three years after the original release date of Caterina Barbieri’s career defining album Ecstatic Computation, the Italian artist reissues the record on her newly found own label light-years. The re-issue features previously unr…
Oblique Strategies
Black Truffle is pleased to welcome free jazz legend Joe McPhee back to the fold with Oblique Strategies, a wild trio recorded in Antwerp in 2018 in the company of Mette Rasmussen’s fire-breathing alto saxophone and Dennis Tyfus’s post-Fluxus antics …
Conflagration
Reissue, originally released in 1971. The core membership of free jazz act The Trio ensured its output was captivating, comprised as it was of double-bassist Barre Phillips, who had played with Archie Shepp, Chris McGregor, and Gong; saxophonist John…
Silberland Vol 2 - The Driving Side Of Kosmische Musik 1974-1984
Welcome to Silberland – where the streets are paved with strobes. Home to neon lights, straight lines and open roads, this futurist fantasy was ï¬rst founded in the mid-seventies, when Germany's creative class chose musical therapy in order to indul…
Musique Brut 1 & 2
This special bundle collects the recent reissues on Alga Marghen of two seminal albums on the newly founded Musique Brut series
Damião Experiença - Planeta Lamma
Alga Marghen returns with an amazing hard turn into the left-field, delivering the first…
Gegenwelt
Gegenwelt (Parallel World) is the second LP by CEL, a duo Kubin and Zemler formed. More melodically-evolved than their eponymous 2020 debut, it is an even more explicit example of the syncretic impulse that impelled these guys to form the band. Their…
With A Little Help From My Friends
Super Tip! 200 copies, coloured vinyl. 1968 was a crucial year for Volker Kriegel's career, as he released "With A Little Help From My Friends," his first solo album, and signed with American vibraphonist Dave Pike, joining what would quickly emerge …
Outside of the World
Tip! *400 copies limited edition* Outside of the world, the second album by Japanese trio Usurabi, is a rare pleasure – a guitar pop album that’s deep with spirit, bristling with energy, melodically rich and precious: full of life. It’s even more thr…
Alkisah
*2023 stock. 150 copies limited edition* Indonesian art-doom duo Senyawa — vocalist Rully Shabara and instrumentalist Wukir Suryadi — will release their new studio album Alkisah in February 2021, through a cooperative arrangement with a number of lab…
Empyrean Traces
"Exquisitely performed by the Benaud Trio … a meditative stillness and a quality of confiding sincerity … heightened by the unpredictability with which notes appear and disappear … there are special joys here.” - Graham Strahle, The Weekend Australia…
Musique Improvisée
Cockroach sound. Tender hammering. Whistling, chirping. Much silence in between. Small modulated electric guitar sound. Aha: a rock band?