New Arrivals
The Call
**Original, still sealed copies of this rare album! Few available** A masterpiece from the Los Angeles jazz underground – Horace Tapscott’s burning, spiritualised 1978 set, The Call. One of the unsung giants of jazz music, the composer, bandleader, arranger, pianist and community activist Horace Tapscott was the undisputed keystone in the grassroots Los Angeles jazz scene. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, his radical community arts and music formations the UGMA (Underground Musicians Association,…
Thomas Tedesco And Ocean
**1982 Album. Original copies** Guitarist Thomas Tedesco tearing it up in June of 1981… the personnel on this one is an all-star group featuring: Bobby Bradford , Roberto Miranda, Onaje Ferguson, and Sartuse
Phantasmagoria
**1984 Album. Original copies** Curtis Clark, Roberto Miranda, and Sonship Theus take you on an epic journey… an overlooked artist, Curtis Clark appearing here in his Nimbus debut.
Deep Sea River
**1985 Album. Original copies** Curtis Clark often overlooked beautiful solo piano LP, his 2nd release on Nimbus, featuring vocals by Marlene Holsey on the haunting title track.
Amsterdam Sunshine
**1984 Album Original copies** Curtis Clark’s 3rd Nimbus album was in retrospect a foreshadowing of things to come for Nimbus… Not only would Nimbus records relocate to Amsterdam within a few years of the release of this LP, but also this album features musicians that would form the heart of the Nimbus roster over the years to follow, with Ernst Reyseger on cello and Ernst Glerum on bass violin (see Amsterdam String Trio and TA releases). This is Tom Albach’s favorite Curtis Clark album.
Tone River
Caught somewhere between environmental sound studies and surrealist sonic architecture, Sugai Ken helps mark the 30th release of Field Records with an ambitious new album. Commissioned by the Dutch Embassy in Tokyo, Tone River is the product of a year's intensive work between artist and label, created in part to examine the relationship between Japan and the Netherlands with regard to water management. While its doors to the Western world were closed during the 17th and 18th centuries, Japan kep…
Oriental Music
Wewantsounds present the first vinyl reissue of Ammar El Sherei's superb instrumental album Oriental Music from 1976. Here, the iconic Egyptian musician and composer revisits six classic compositions by another Egyptian legend, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, in his own hypnotic way. Curated by Lebanese-born Arabic music expert Mario Choueiry from Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. The late musician and composer Ammar El Sherei was one of Egypt's musical giants. Born in Upper Egypt in 1948 into an upper mid…
Tokyo Dreaming
Double LP version. Tokyo Dreaming is a superb selection picked from the highly collectible Nippon Columbia label and its Better Days sub-label. Wewantsounds have teamed up with journalist and Japanese music expert Nick Luscombe. The selection mixes electro, synth-pop, funk, and ambient and includes many sought-after rarities and hidden gems which have never been released outside of Japan and the set has been newly remastered by Nippon Columbia. Nippon Columbia, one of Japan's oldest music labels…
Golden Dog
**500 copies** Golden Dog (Original Soundtrack) by Yuji Ohno was originally released in 1979. Ohno is best known for his soundtracks to Anime such as Lupin III and Captain Future. So if you’re fans of those particular soundtracks and a dog lover, you may well want to get on board with this jazz funk classic.
Yuji Ohno (大野 雄二, Ōno Yūji, born 30 May 1941 in Atami, Shizuoka, Japan) is a Japanese jazz musician. Ohno is known for his musical scoring of Japanese anime television series, particularly …
Non si sevizia un paperino
* Edition of 300 * Deluxe vinyl reissue of Riz Ortolani classic score for one of the most iconic giallo ever made, directed by Lucio Fulci in 1972, starring Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian, Florinda Bolkan, Irene Papas, Marc Porel and George Wilson. What makes this movie so special? Without a doubt the film’s most original feature is its location. The story takes place in Southern rural Italy, trading the sophisticated environment of modern, urban Italy for the misery of a village anchored in the …
Marta … Dopo di Che, Uccide il Maschio e lo Divora
* Edition of 300. White Vinyl * Premiere vinyl release of Piero Piccioni score for classic erotic giallo, directed by José Antonio Nieves Conde in 1971, starring Marisa Mell, Stephen Boyd, Jesús Puente, Isa Miranda and George Rigaud. Marta (aka Dopo di Che, Uccide il Maschio e lo Divora), a play by the Spanish playwright Juan Jose Alonso Millan, was the starting point for the script of Marta, a film directed by Spaniard José Antonio Nieves Conde in 1971. Produced by José Frade with the Atlántida…
Difference and Repetition / A Musical Evocation Of Gilles Deleuze
This new album (the tenth in their discography) was born from two ambitions: to pay tribute to Soft Machine's Third on form (4 sides / 4 titles) and to philosopher Gilles Deleuze (Difference and Repetition is the title of his thesis) on the contents. The 4 long pieces of this double concept album were developed over 2 years and each has a different style and climate. Bold and kaleidoscopic, Difference and Repetition perfectly synthesizes the musical and literary obsessions of Palo Alto.
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Botija de mi Pais
**300 copies. 140 gram vinyl with OBI & Insert** Recorded between 1985 and 1987, this album brings together the two founders and leading performers of candombe-beat, Ruben Rada and Eduardo Mateo. They hadn´t collaborated in a project since 1969. Both artists had reached their creative prime, with Mateo having released “Cuerpo y Alma” and Rada, “La yapla mata” (which included the classic song ‘Tengo un candombe para Gardel’). 140 gram vinyl with OBI & Insert This initiative sprang from the art…
Music For Insomniacs
“In today’s world, it’s harder than ever to let go & find sleep. So kick back and let this pastel soundscape from the NYC synth rocker, TM™ ♪ drift you off to dreamland like it was 1984...” -Tommy Mandel
"New York synth magician Tommy Mandel has an astonishing career as a composer, sideman, and electronic pop artist. Since the late 1970s, he has toured or recorded with a laundry list of talents including Todd Rundgren, The Clash, The B-52s, Tina Turner, Cyndi Lauper, and countless others. Yet it…
Postcards From Nowhere
In 2017, musicians and regular collaborators Gigi Masin and Jonny Nash were invited to a residency at artist Xavier Veilhan's "Studio Venezia" project at the Venice Biennale. For this immersive installation, Veilhan transformed the French Pavilion into a fully functioning recording studio, inviting artists to record original works during a series of residencies. Masin and Nash recorded a series of improvised compositions primarily for Piano and Guitar which were eventually edited down to 6 piece…
Unidentified Musical Subject
**Limited edition of 100 copies. Grey vinyl** With his new album "Unidentified Musical Subject" Bernhard Loibner fuses the world of experimental electronic music with the human directness of acoustic instruments. Strongly connected to the event-like aesthetics of contemporary experimental electronic music, Loibner manages to enrich the acoustic spectrum through the use of carefully treated instrumental elements. No sequencers or drum machines were used during the production process in order to r…
The Falconer's Arm 2
Limited edition pressing of 500 copies. Originally released by John Fahey's Takoma label in 1967. The Falconer's Arm pair of LPs is widely considered Basho's best work; monumental pieces of folk guitar invention from the pioneer, with guitar lines in unusual tunings influenced by both blues and Indian music. Fully remastered with excellent sound.
Drawing his name from a Japanese poet, his musical style from eastern raga sounds and his sartorial style from American Indians, Robbie Basho was eclec…
Like The Stars Forever And Ever
Shackleton's Tunes Of Negation ensemble return for a ceremonious 2nd album trip into expansive psychedelic terrain following their acclaimed first chapter with a pineal payload where Gurdjieff meets Conrad Schnitzler in deep dub space. Regrouping Sam Shacketon, Takumi Motokawa and Raphael Meinhart, with Heather Leigh guesting on album highlight 'Naked Shall I Return', Shackleton's open-ended project continues to soar across musical borders with growing confidence in their astral clinamen that su…
Anomi
‘Anomi’ is Sonja Tofik’s first full-length LP, and a continuation of her debut ‘Neuros’. Anomi is the Swedish word for the sociological term anomie, first coined by french sociologist Émile Durkheim in 1893. Described as ‘the condition in which society provides little moral guidance to individuals’, he suggested that for societies to function and their individuals to prosper, they need to be driven by strong and distinct norms, both social and moral. If absent, individuals are exposed to anomie,…
The Secret Hotel
Together with George Bures Miller, this renowned Canadian duo's audio and video works and installations examine the complexity and vertiginous nature of subjectivity in a technological world, where man is caught between present and the loss of self, between memory and experience, perception and imagination. Janet Cardiff and Miller create interactive pieces in which the visitor is invited to touch, listen, smell and move about freely.