New Arrivals
Caravan
Caravan's groundbreaking debut album from 1968 captures the freakish and exploratory moods of the times
Variation
Essential jazz album among the influences of the future-jazz quartet Sleep Walker by trombonist Hiroshi Suzuki. "Variation" is a joint project including the legendary jazz drummer Masahiko Togashi featurig pianist Yuji Ohno, saxophonist Jun Suzuki and trumpeter Tetsuo Fushimi. Masahiko Togashi was a major figure alongside Masahiko Sato, Masayuki Takayanagi and Yosuke Yamashita in the blooming of free jazz in Japan in the late sixties whose "Variation" is one of the iconic masterpiece.
Catalina Matorral
Tip! * Edition of 300 * Catalina Matorral is a comet. Catalina Matorral is a duo; Marion Cousin and Borja Flames make up its double head and four hands. At the beginning of the 2010s, they were called June et Jim — we remember some disturbing EPs they released before joining the label Le Saule (a small, chivalrous table whose holy grail is everything unheard, where folk-singing is avant-garde and avant-garde is synonymous with enchantment). Their first LP, Les Forts, evoked the songwriting of in…
Emak Bakia
* 2nd Edition in Black Vinyl with different artwork and a posterLimited edition of 500* Emak Bakia – a long out of print masterpieces from 1994. Even in the huge Bryn Jones' discography Emak Bakia really stands out of albums from the period due to its rather unique (house-music related) sound and short, by the standards of Bryn Jones, tracks. Like a crossmix between Psychic TV (circa Towards Thee Infinite Beat) and Muslimgauze's trademark percussion and eastern vibes. Re-mastered and with new s…
Live At Nancy Jazz Pulsations
* 2021 stock * It was in 1973, on the 14th of October, late in the afternoon; on a pretty Sunday under the Big Top in the heart of the “Parc de la Pépinière”, in Nancy; it was the “premiere”, the world first hearing, and it has so far remained the only one commissioned by composer and trumpet player lvan Jullien, for the first international Nancy Jazz Pulsations festival.In order to complete this work of composition and orchestration, Ivan asked the great Eddie Louiss on organ, and chose to do w…
Music From Africa Vol. 2
* 2021 Stock * The Music From Africa series comprises two volumes of never-heard South African library music from the early '80s.
They were recorded and produced by Johannesburg musician/producer Tom Mkhize and released then on vinyl only to be sent to TV and radio stations, as well as cinema productions (never commercially available). Traditional South African rhythms re-imagined, dubbed-out and disco-fied by this legendary producer!
Each side of each volume is an A-Side of the original LP's,…
Vol. I - Katakata
* 2021 Stock * Amazing Afro-beat album from a Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s disciple. A sublime spiritual & political session recorded at Phonogram studio (Lagos, Nigeria) in 1979, on a 16 tracks. After the critically acclaimed second album we're very proud to present the first and really hard to find vinyl reissue of Kingsley Bucknor. Also know as "King Bucknor" the famous Nigerian producer, arranger and singer delivered two brilliant, hypnotic and long traditional afro-beat tracks .All the ingredient…
The Cave of the Lost Talisman
* Deluxe LP edition with Obi + 20 pages RPG module w/map! * Kobold is a new catacombal composer specialized in dungeon-wave at 8-16 bit. "The Cave of the Lost Talisman" is a D&D adventure module for basic set with players level 1-3. Get down to the dungeon's darkness and be ready to an experience full of moisture and danger. There's a lot of umanoids armed with spiked clubs who hide in the tunnels of an abandoned mine... Retrogamers RPG lovers and old-school dungeons-synth fans should not miss …
Nilsiänkadun Rauhansopimus
"Individually numbered to 250 copies. A3 artwork glued on reused sleeves, with dl code in sealed bag with hype sticker.“ First album from this Finnish jazz sextet collective, no limits is their slogan but categorize it as energetic free that branch out in modal/spiritual territory.Featuring two members from Oiro Pena.
All music by Uusijazziklubi collective: Drums: Aleksi Tannhuala, vibes: Ilkka Uksila, bass: Markus Kankkonen, keys: Joona Hulmi, alto Sax/flutes: Johannes Sarjasto, soprano Sax/flu…
V.I.P. (Vagabonds In Power) Vol. 1 Live In Berlin
* 2021 Repress * Knitting Factory Records reissue Fela Kuti’s ‘Army Arrangement’ on vinyl, previously only available as part of the Box Set series. ‘Army Arrangement’ is about Nigeria’s attempt at ‘democracy’ in 1979 after more than a decade of military rule.Bill Laswell’s mix of Army Arrangement for the Celluloid label was an act of gross cultural-arrogance. With Fela in jail on trumped up currency-smuggling charges when the time came to make the final mix, the label approached Dennis Bovell. B…
Four Pieces / Seeking a Vision (2LP in bundle)
This bundle collects the first two releases by Fragments Editions, namely the following:Mike Majkowski "Four Pieces" (LP)Renaud Bajeux "Seeking a Vision" (LP)Mike Majkowski "Four Pieces" (LP)** Edition of 100 hand-numbered copies ** "I could count my visits to nightclubs on the fingers of one hand. I therefore have few memories of them, if any. Though I can’t account for the idea, I imagine that Mike’s music could be emanating from one of these clubs where I’ve not been; one that would have been…
Four Pieces
** Edition of 100 hand-numbered copies ** "I could count my visits to nightclubs on the fingers of one hand. I therefore have few memories of them, if any. Though I can’t account for the idea, I imagine that Mike’s music could be emanating from one of these clubs where I’ve not been; one that would have been deserted hours before. There, the music would have lingered on in slow-motion, repetitively. And there I would have woken up, crazed and unable to remember any recent events." - Morgan Cuine…
I've Had It up to Hear with Fish & Chips
* Edition of 300, hand-humbered + Obi * I've Had It up to Hear with Fish & Chips by Ben Ellul-Knight and Tom White is a hörspiel about 'care work' of all kinds. In part it is auto-ethnographic, as it draws on Ben's experience working as a play worker, social worker and as a volunteer with refugee and asylum-seeker support services. More personal reflections are mixed with conversations Ben had with support workers, social workers, play workers and mental health nurses to form a script. Different…
Fore Main Mizzen
* Edition of 300, hand-humbered + Obi * Fore Main Mizzen is made entirely from sound recordings taken on visits to Southend-on-Sea and Sheerness that are specifically focused on The SS Richard Montgomery, a ship that sank in the Thames estuary during World War Two. It is lying on a sandbank packed full of the high explosives it was transporting. At low tide its masts are visible from Southend and Sheerness either side of the water. The ship is corroding in the salt water and it is unknown when i…
Tenera è la Notte
Finally available the 2nd – unreleased – album by iconic Italian post-punk outfit. Born in 1979 as Sextons, in 1980 they became Rats and in 1981 they published their classic debut ’C'est Disco’. Set to release in 1982 on cult label Italian Records, the record didn’t make it due to several diatribes with the company itself. Here’s your chance to taste this precious moment in Italian wave revolution.
Deck Brush
It’s all in a haze… Time and life has happened and memories fade. These recordings were made in 1991 and 1992 when we were proudly surfing our mid teens and spending enormous amounts of time in the studio. Every weekend was spent upstairs at Zwarre’s house with analogue synths, VHS sessions watching splatter movies and Psychic TV’s ”8Transmissions8”, going through the Paul Kelday and Sound of Pig cassettes, reading zines to find out more about bands and labels operating the experimental music wo…
Issue 53: Berlin After Bowie - From Lodger to the Fall of The Wall (Magazine + 7")
When is a Berlin album not a Berlin album? When it’s ‘Lodger’ by David Bowie. When we talk about Bowie’s Berlin trilogy, what we really mean is ‘Low’ and ‘Heroes’ and, erm, the other one… ‘Lodger’ was the afterthought, the wobbly third wheel, a series of “planned accidents” stitched together into an album.
Issue 62: The Out of This World Story of Joe Meek ( Magazine + 7")
This eidtion of Electronic Sound main feature tells the astonishing story of Joe Meek, the king of space age pop and one of the most extraordinary characters in British music history.
The Crystal Jaw
* Limited Edition of 100 vinyl copies 140gsm stamped and numbered white label Signed by the artist * The Crystal Jaw is a unique, immersive and crystalline sound creation made by Procession Towards the Unknown (Sammy Sayed, Alan Bishop, Sherif Elias, Amir El-Saidi and Ahmad Kubbara) recorded in Cairo in May 2021. The Crystal Jaw is a 30 minutes soundtrack made for Sandrine Pelletier’s eponymous solo exhibition at MCBA (Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne) in collaboration with Olivier Duc…
Shade
Liz Harris's 12th album is a heart-melting anthology of songs written over the last 15 years. A mixture of 'Dragging A Dead Deer...' emotional rawness and 'AIA' -style tape-dubbed sonic fog, it's a timely reminder of why she's one of the crucial underground voices of the era. When Harris's early Grouper material began to emerge thru the cracks in the wall of wyrd folk CDRs and hand-made cassette tapes, we could already sense it was something different. There was a bare quality to it that set it…