New Arrivals
Jambon D'Ardenne
Pieter Verlinden (1934-2002) was an exceptional composer responsible for hundreds of scores and soundtracks for television, ballet, theatre and film. Only some of his soundtracks were released at the time, like De 5 van de 4-daagse (The Five Are Marc…
Terronès - Suite Andalouse Pour Odile, Gérard Et Éric Terronès
*2022 stock* Futura Marge presents Terronès - Suite andalouse pour Odile, Gérard & Eric Terronès by Raymond Boni Fortuna 21 octet. Raymond Boni (guitar & musical direction), Laure Donnat (voice), Joe McPhee (soprano saxophone & pocket trumpet), Anna …
Crosscurrent Live At Jazz Unité
*2022 stock* Futura Marge presents Crosscurrent / Live at Jazz Unité by Sam Rivers quartet. Sam Rivers (tenor & soprano saxophones, flute, piano & voice), Jerry Byrd (guitar), Rael Wesley Grant (electric bass) & Steve Ellington (drums). Recorded live…
Out
*In process of stocking* Despite its eventual obscurity, Out was clearly intended to be a big, mainstream album. Moore recorded it with a large ensemble of seasoned session musicians, including Andy Summers, later of the Police and Kevin Ayers from t…
Bain D'Etoiles
*300 copies limited edition* ' t Geruis is a discreet musician from Belgium, working in the field of ambient, with a grainy texture from some lo-fi recordings. This is his third solo release on a label but coming from his first works (recorded betwee…
Hoof Stand
Tip! * 300 copies. In process of stocking * Hoof Stand is the third vinyl output by Primorje, the collaborative project between Giovanni Donadini (Ottaven, Canedicoda) and Matteo Castro (Mercury Hall, Lettera 22, also founder of Second Sleep label). …
Les Plus Belles Valses
Reissue of a 1994 French cassette. Bittersweet toy pop, minimal synth, and avant-folk interpretations of classical waltzes. Professionally-replicated CD in 4-panel digipak featuring the original art, extensive liner notes from Christophe Petchanatz o…
Citycraze//Dweebcity
*50 copies limited edition* Following releases on Warm Gospel Tapes and Ingrown Records, J Hamilton Isaacs continues on his synthesizing quest to encapsulate the universe around him in his modular rig. This release is comprised of two side-long compo…
Unauthorized Sunset
*100 copies limited edition* Get your seasonal dose of environmental futurism from expert synth-operators Asako Fujimoto and Niki Neecke via Knackless. Two tracks from the duo in the spirit of the season of rebirth: »Chlorophylic Memories« makes room…
Abstract Musette
"This seemingly improbable duo finds both artists defending a common cause, with Lanz as stunning turntablist to serve as a perfect companion to Kocher's iconoclastic approach to his instrument. Detailed moves, fast gestures and throbbing pulses are …
Spring Collection
Brooklyn based drummer/producer Jason Nazary (of Anteloper) makes his We Jazz Records debut with "Spring Collection", released on 25 June. The album sees Nazary crafting some deliciously sparkly solo cuts plus working long distance with choice collab…
Dual
*In process of stocking* VAxBY is Albert van Abbe & Byetone. Dutch sound artist Albert van Abbe now joins the Raster family, with an unexpected collaboration with founder Olaf Bender aka Byetone title »Dual«. The result of their collaboration is both…
Shirley Mastic
**100 copies** "I wrote and recorded these songs over a decade ago. Listening back, I chuckle at the fact that I may actually say the word ‘die’ or ‘death’ in every single song. Considering how metaphorically I attempted to write these lyrics, those …
almenrauschen
These five albums by Klaus Janek appear to have been originally released in 2018, but were bundled together under the title almenrauschen in 2019 in nice colour-coded sleeves designed by Stephanie Roderer – I’ll refer to this aspect at the head of ea…
Caspar
This habit some experimental musicians have of applying forced context or stories to what is essentially pure improvised music does sometimes perplex me. Here Janek references Kaspar Hauser with the title and in the sleeve notes. He also states the i…
Three Seasons
'This disc commences with “Prolog / Autumn / Winter Part 1” which are relatively unadorned solo contrabass improvisations from 2003, inspired by the poem Lettera Amorosa by René Char. Although the work apparently “…follows an emotional path a man liv…
Prospecting
'The first track on side A is “Violeros Revisitados”, which is a fight between the sounds made by Brazilian traditional musicians and the UHER Report 400 tape machine the sounds were recorded on. This source material was recorded by Gunther Kipfmülle…
Reciprocum
Magenta. Road at night. Its probably worth quoting from the sleeve-notes so you get an idea of what the intention is on this disc: “The album consists of music chosen from a pool of recordings made over a time span of 10 years and according to its ex…
Musique cabalistique (Book)
A gallery of portraits of people listening to a work in progress by Frédéric Acquaviva, laid out like a flip book."Hello, I have been called Frédéric Acquaviva and I have called this music cabalistic music. The purpose of this music is to let the lis…