New Arrivals
New Japanese Noise
Akira Sakata: alto saxophone, Bb clarinet, voice. Kiko Dinucci:electric guitar. Kohei Gomi: electronics. Paal Nilssen-Love: drums. Toshiji Mikawa: electronics. Produced by Paal Nilssen-Love and Lasse Marhaug Recorded live in concert at Roskilde festi…
Your Queen Is A Reptile
A fantastic set from the London scene – really powerful sounds from a group who are heavy on percussion, but also do plenty with their horns! On Your Queen Is A Reptile, Shabaka Hutchings lays out a very fiery, progressive musical vision, and it is s…
My Favorite Things: October 14th, 1977
My Favorite Things October 14, 1977 presents a superb collection of tracks recorded by the great Sun Ra and his Arkestra at the Variety Recording Studio, NYC. One of the rarely heard documents of the El Saturn label of the ‘70s, these recordings catc…
Hesterian Musicism
Musicism is the core concept of transcultural artistic research that rose to prominence at the beginning of the 80s thanks to the ingenious mind of Karlton Hester. Composer, flautist and saxophonist Hester set himself as the promoter of a multidiscip…
A Lifetime In Oriental Jazz
2019 Repress. Jazzman presents the definitive anthology of pioneering ethno-musicologist, mystical adventurer and real life jazz guru Dr Lloyd Miller. This album tells the fascinating life story of one man and his journey through Europe and the Middl…
It's Nation Time: African Visionary Music
Pan-African manifesto It's Nation Time — African Visionary Music, out of print since 1972, is available once again via Motown. A poet, writer, theater director, activist and more whose career spanned five decades, Imamu Amiri Baraka (born LeRoi Jones…
Alice Coltrane bundle
**In process of stocking** of Alice's four extraordinary albums Eternity, Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana, Transcendence and Transfiguration in bundle. With liner notes by Mark Richardson and rare photos by Gary Heery and Ginny Winn. Alice Coltrane was a…
Parallel Persia
This Sote album is incredible - a highly complex but beautifully fluid traversal of Iranian folk music and modular synthesis that reminds us of Dariush Dolat-Shahi’s unparalleled ‘Electronic Music, Tar and Sehtar’ with its fantastically creative sens…
Massimo Farjon Pupillo
Oltrarno Recording is honored to present the first solo album from Massimo Pupillo.
Massimo´s artistic life shaped through worldwide tours with his band ZU
as well as multitude of collaborations with artists such as
Thighpaulsandra, Peter Brotzma…
Cod War Kids
A deep and delicate dive into the psyche of an unusual duo, British-born ex-pat North Carolinian guitarist Dan Melchior & Icelandic-born Hanover-based experimentalist Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson. Each quite unique on their own accord, but in combinat…
Moondog
Manhattan in the Sixties. Every day, at the corner of 54th and Sixth, stood an imposing blind man with a druidic beard, dressed and helmeted like a Viking. Every day, he played music with home-made percussion instruments and declaimed poems. A simple…
Shawnee, Ohio
Shawnee, Ohio, the first album by sonic ethnographer Brian Harnetty
on Karlrecords, is an intriguing blend of archive recordings of
interviews with residents of that small town and melancholic
chamber-folk, performed by his ensemble which features…
Diom Futa
Killer! Seminal and much sought after Afro Jazz session recorded in Paris in 1979 featuring Senegalese percussionist Cheikh Tidian, produced by Jean-Paul Rodrigue for his cult Freelance label. The session features saxophone player Jo Maka - leader of…
Nakara Percussions
Killer! Within the history of efforts dedicated to percussion, Nakara Percussions’s 1984 lost marvel LP stands apart. A singular work, made remarkable by the
diversity and range of its sonorities and structures. From
the delicate pulse of nature, dee…
La Colonna Infinita
"La Colonna Infinita" (The Endless Column) it is inspired by the short essay " Brancusi et les mythologies" written by Mircea Eliade. The "Column of Heaven" is an axis mundi, a mythological theme already attested in prehistoric times and which, moreo…
Crossings
Crossings was the second release by the Herbie Hancock Sextet lineup known as the Mwandishi Band, following 1971's Mwandishi which stretched Hancock's already-adventurous writing and expanded the music through post-production. This approach would pla…
Fat Albert Rotunda
If Fat Albert Rotunda sounds like the most fun Herbie Hancock had in
his early years as a band leader, it should. He composed the music for
the pilot of the children's television show Fat Albert, redirecting the
post-bop jazz he honed in a five-ye…
Afrotheme / Percussion Blues
**Edition of 350** Two crazy rhythmic cuts by Paolo Ferrara, sourced from the super-rare library LP, “Ritmico”, on Flower Records. Afrotheme is a deep afro-jazz funky track with powerful bass lines, hot percussion, and psychedelic wah-wah guitars. Pe…
Kaunis Maa
his release is LP and it's individually 300 hand-numbered limited edition. It's dedicated to the 1988 Experimental / Electronic masterpiece by the Italian contemporary guitarist Riccardo Giagni, originally released on Stile Libero (Italy) featuring A…
Presents: Music for Pussycats
These songs
literally constitute the soundtrack of my life, going back to age 16 or
perhaps earlier. It never ceases to amaze me that when I encounter
aficionados of girl pop, none of them have ever heard of singers like
Robbie Winston, Susan Raf…