New Arrivals
Permian Period
Tip! *2024 stock* I first met Takashi in a duo performance by Seijiro Murayama & Tetuzi Akiyama at Permian. I recall that the small underground venue was packed and that the interplay between these two great musicians was vivid, tense and loud. After…
Synthetic Weather Reporter
*40 copies limited edition* Wang Changcun (ayrtbh) is an experimental musician, artist, and software writer living in Shanghai. He is one of the earliest explorers of experimental electronic music and computer programmed composition in China. In rece…
"Collaborations" Readings
*300 copies limited edition* Recital is proud to present an artists’ record from the two giants Richard Hamilton and Dieter Roth. Hamilton (1922-2011) is revered as the father of British Pop Art as both theorist and practitioner, in addition to famou…
Portals
Felipe Lara’s music is a whirlwind of energy and motion, characterized by large, expressive brushstrokes that leave palpable traces. His works are in constant flux, pulsating with spectral harmonies and iridescent surfaces. This album includes the th…
Warrior On the Edge of Time
Comes in a CD-sized papersleeve album replica (gatefold), with obi-strip and insert of notes mostly in Japanese..2024 stock "Hawkwind's fifth studio album found the band enjoying a rare oasis of stability after the multitudinous personnel shifts of t…
Lovechild
*Comes in a CD-sized papersleeve album replica (gatefold), with obi-strip and insert of notes mostly in Japanese..2024 stock* Lovechild is a studio album credited to progressive rock band Curved Air, though only half the tracks are actually performed…
Outlines of the Night
Elusive and illusory, Age Veeroos’ music captures a unique tension between focus and ambiguity. The album "Outlines of the Night" presents compositions in which, for example, violin and electronics, as in Schattenseele, evoke corresponding sensations…
Jack Kerouac Centennial reading
Louise Landes Levi - reissue of her Jack Kerouac Centennial reading that was part of her long out of print CCC boxset. The originally one-sided tape has new artwork and on the B side new material by LLL and Bombay Lunatic Asylum.
Constitution
“Members of the dispossessed, won’t you lend me your ears!”
Genova a Mano Armata
*100 copies limited edition* Franco Micalizzi wrote one of his best OSTs for the Poliziesco genre with this one (the main theme is one of Micalizzi's favorites and he often performs it live in concert with his orchestra Big Bubbling Band). The OST op…
Calados
Prepare to enter an aural labyrinth when you press play on an upcoming second album from Chile’s improvisational trio, Nichunimu – brought to you by independent label 577 Records. Led by adventurous trumpeter Benjamin Vergara, the group’s new hit, C…
Amanti D'Oltretomba
Beat Records is relaunching on CD the classic OST by Ennio Morricone for the Gothic horror film Amanti d'oltretomba (Nightmare castle), directed in 1965 by Mario Caiano, starring Barbara Steele, Rick Battaglia, Paul Müller, Helga Liné, Marino Masè, G…
A Fistful of Dollars / Per un Pugno di Dollari
To celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the film and the soundtrack Beat Records is pleased to reissue on CD de-luxe edition a classic OST by Ennio Morricone for the Western film “A Fistful of Dollars” directed in 1964 by Sergio Leone and starring C…
Fanfares and Freedom
A live recording from a piece premiered at the 2023 Cheltenham Jazz Festival, and later recorded at The Vortex. Laura Jurd was commissioned to write this piece for scored ensemble plus improvising quartet, and the resulting piece balances the compose…
Leave Around
*25 copies limited edition tape in jute bag* Drones, hisses, electric hums, noise, sine waves, ambient recordings, creaks, concrete noises, and a grave and solemn finale in which percussive sounds and notes of piano and cello unexpectedly appear. A n…
New Book (Book)
New Book is the title of a new publication by the legendary dancer, artist and choreographer Simone Forti. New Book is a new poem composed of three existing poems re-edited by Forti. As reading this poem, one moves forward with wonder amid everyday m…
Heimito Künst
Synthesizers, field recordings, magnetic tapes together with percussion, various microphones and stringed instruments fill the listening of this musical elegy. In his debut album Heimito Künst takes us inside kaleidoscopic sound visions in which, bet…
Magister Perotinus Meets the Jedi Masters
Huuuge Tip! Roberto Laneri (Prima Materia) further radicalizes his formal research path in the field of harmonic singing, with a highly rigorous compositional practice of scores and rhythmic placement of overtones. At the dawn of Western counterpoint…
Ao Vivo
*2024 stock* Os Mutantes' Ao Vivo is the seventh album originally released in 1976 by the Brazilian band Os Mutantes and their first live album, with only new material on it. Like it's predecessor, Tudo Foi Feito Pelo Sol, the only original member o…
Music For Peace and Harmony
Hiro Ama turned to an obscure 1980s Japanese synthesiser called the Waraku – literally translated to “peace and harmony” – to craft an album that blends electro-acoustic textures and warm melodies, while drawing on classical romanticism, spiritual ja…