New Arrivals
Live Improvisations
Slowscan's latest, a stunning, remastered vinyl edition of Takehisa Kosugi's New York, August 14, 1991 - expanded to include an entire second LP of recordings made by the composer with Ted Szànto in Amsterdam during 1979 - Bristles with energy, physi…
Richard Maxfield
Last copies! Awesome double LP compiling Richard Maxfield early electronic pieces, ultra limited edition of just 185 copies. Writing in his book Ocean of Sound some years ago, David Toop observed: "If Richard Maxfield had not committed suicide in 196…
Church of Kidane Mehret
**Clear vinyl editions. Old-school tip-on jacket with metallic silver foil stamping along with a 12-page booklet featuring extensive liner notes from scholar and pianist Thomas Feng.** From beloved composer Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, a revelatory new…
The Kenny Wheeler Big Band & Friends, Vol. 2
Previously unreleased. Stereophonic sound.
1-4 recorded 11th November 1973.5-8 recorded 22nd December 1974.
Lineup:Kenny Wheeler - flugelhornGreg Bowen, Ian Hamer, Dave Hancock (1-4), Alan Downey (5-8), Henry Lowther - trumpetsBobby Lamb (1-4), Keith…
Stars from Another Sky Pt. 1: Film Songs from the Subcontinent Before the World Was Torn Asunder, 1932-1939
"It may surprise some that, after two decades of silent films, when Alam Ara broke the silence in 1931, it and every South Asian talkie that followed was what we in the West think of as a "musical." Music had been integral to the culture's staged dra…
Album #1
Originally released in 1980 in very limited quantities, Salty Miller's sole album is a hidden gem of the Beach Music scene. Issued under the unwieldy Beach Music Records of the Carolinas, the album blends soul, disco, and mid-tempo steppers, all perf…
sɯrdɯk/qaraŋa
*85 copies limited edition* Rooted deeply in traditional Sakha music Aldana Duoraan creates a meditational state of mind using an instrument called “khomus” and her voice. The second album of Prague based musician born in Sakha republic is a two-side…
Night, falling
Gerald Eckert’s third release on Mode, night, falling, is a 2-CD set of mostly works for orchestra, often with electronics. Eckert says: “I am fascinated by orchestral works containing the structures of chamber music. For me, the definition of orches…
The Black Record
Necessary reissue of a truly seminal, minimalist totem
Outside The Dream Syndicate
Temporary Super Offer! Violinist, composer and filmmaker Tony Conrad started his career in New York in the early 1960s. As a member of the Theatre of Eternal Music (a.k.a. the Dream Syndicate) alongside John Cale, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and A…
Blueprints For A Blackout
Emerging out of Amsterdam's vibrant squat scene in 1979, The Ex – a name chosen for the ease and speed with which it could be spray-painted onto a wall – have for four decades been an entirely self-sustaining musical entity, charting a course through…
In Greenwich Village
Originally released in 1967, Ayler's first LP on Impulse! and arguably his best for the label. "During 1967-69 avant-garde innovator Albert Ayler recorded a series of albums for Impulse that started on a high level and gradually declined in quality. …
Linkage
First-time vinyl reissue is limited to 750 numbered copies. Comes with booklet. Terry Fox was a first generation Bay Area conceptual artist. Beginning in the 1970s, he worked extensively with sound, especially the use of piano wires detached from the…
Brigitte Fontaine est folle
Temporary Super Offer! 4-panel digipak with an 8-page booklet. French poet and chameleonic vocalist Brigitte Fontaine's career spans over four decades. Only a few years before her 1968 debut, Brigitte Fontaine Est…Folle, she moved to Paris to become …
Ike Yard
Ike Yard remain a legendary band of early '80s New York City – at once immensely influential, yet obscured by a far-too-brief initial phase. Their debut EP, the dark and absorbing Night After Night, sounds almost like a different group, so rapidly wo…
Goldberg Variations
Art edition of 20 copies consists of vinyl treated with the wire wool to create a subtile physical distortions (hissing whistles) on the surface of the record. Comes with a numbered and signed certificate of authenticity”. Arturas Bumšteinas & Gitis…
Baras (Contemporary Lithuanian Composers Scores To Artūras Barysas Short Films 1972-1982)
The scores were commissioned for the screening of Artūras Barysas' films as the original soundtracks are currently unavailable due to copyright restrictions. Images from the film 'Tas saldus žodis' and original reels were used with kind permission of…
Organ Safari Lituanica
We are happy to introduce you Arturas Bumšteinas, a composer from Lithuania! This is our second collaboration with him since he participated in the making of our first release Wozzeck "Act III: Comics". A new Arturas’ solo release continues his serie…
My Own Private Bayreuth
All 8 tracks were composed by Arturas Bumšteinas from audio material recorded during open rehearsal sessions at Kunstvlaai contemporary art fair in Amsterdam, May 2010. All instrumental and vocal recordings that appear on this CD originate from fragm…
Stories From Organ Safari
Organ Safari is an ongoing project which was started in year 2008 by Lithuanian composer and artist Arturas Bumšteinas (b. 1982). Since then he is traveling around Europe and recording sounds of various organs in churches, concert halls, record store…