New Arrivals

Memphis funk band Ebonee Webb turn Japanese folk songs into disco in 1979, arranged by Chikara Ueda: Soran Bushi, Hanagasa Ondo and Tanko Bushi with heavy grooves and vocals in Japanese. First vinyl reissue, newly cut from the master tapes.

Bassist Isao Suzuki and tenor saxophonist Akira Miyazawa together in 1981, with Motohiko Hino on drums: Suzuki's first digitally recorded album, long a hidden gem of Japanese jazz. First vinyl reissue, newly cut from the original master tapes.

Saxophonist Takeru Muraoka's 1978 session for Seven Seas: crossover and fusion with sharp ensemble playing, with Shin Kazuhara on trumpet and Masanori Sasaji on keyboards. First colour vinyl edition, newly cut from the original master tapes.

Drummer Akira Ishikawa and Count Buffalo's 1976 concept album on Okinawa: funk, Afro and disco over standards, Western pop covers and Okinawan folk songs, some arranged by Koichi Sugiyama. First colour vinyl, newly cut from the master tapes.

The only album by guitarist Fujimaru Yoshino's Fujimaru Band, from 1977: a Japanese rare groove record known to few for decades, rediscovered abroad, here on uncoloured virgin vinyl, newly cut from the original master tapes.

The Italian band's 2005 debut mini-album, issued on CDr and never reprinted, now on vinyl for the first time with two tracks recorded in 2021. Neofolk, neoclassical and ritual music. Numbered, Steinklang.

Neofolk from Todd Paulson of the Minnesota black metal duo Canis Dirus: acoustic guitars, wyrd folk and dark ambient shading. Grey vinyl with insert, 100 hand-numbered copies, Steinklang Industries.

Debut full-length by the Manila duo, folding noise, power electronics, dark ambient and chant into one industrial album. Black vinyl, 100 hand-numbered copies, Steinklang Industries, 2022.

Unreleased studio recordings for Acid Mothers Temple's 30th anniversary: two pieces by The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. from 2018-19, one by The Cosmic Inferno from 2008. Produced by Kawabata Makoto. Max Hazard Records, 2025.

Ryan Weinstein's follow-up to Laughing as Coffin Prick, recorded at home in Northeast Los Angeles: skewed new wave, warped pop and electronics, with Steven Brown of Tuxedomoon among the guests. Temporal Drift, 2025.

Four players from Chapel Hill and Carrboro, North Carolina, improvising live: one long piece recorded at Mangum Street Grocery on the date in the title, five shorter ones at King's and Haw River Ballroom. Silkscreened jacket, Three Lobed.

Flower Travellin' Band's 1973 double album, the last of their first run: studio songs next to live pieces, Hiroshima and Satori Pt. 2 among them. Warner Music Japan 2024 reissue on black vinyl with obi.

Recorded in New York in 1978 with Steve Gadd, Anthony Jackson, Richard Tee, Michael Brecker and David Sanborn, the session that helped start Japan's crossover boom. Great Tracks reissue with obi and insert.

Himiko Kikuchi's 1982 album, cut with John Robinson on drums and Masatsugu Matsumoto on guitar: keyboard-led fusion with a West Coast polish. Continental reissue for City Pop on Vinyl 2026, with obi.

Himiko Kikuchi's 1983 album follows a woman's day in fusion, from Make Up In The Morning to Fat Ma Cooking, built on a spoken hamburger recipe. Self-produced. Reissued by Continental for City Pop on Vinyl 2026, with obi.

Himiko Kikuchi's 1980 debut, a bright fusion record built on her Rhodes, Minimoog and clavinet, with Ernie Watts on saxophone. Reissued by Continental for City Pop on Vinyl 2026, Japanese pressing with obi.

Chicago sound artist Kikù Hibino built the frameworks, Masami Akita poured noise into them, and Hibino cut the result apart with abrupt edits. Voices by Alexandra Cupsa, saxophone by Patrick Shiroishi. Superpang, 2026.

Tanz Mein Herz's new double LP, recorded in Cherbourg in August 2025: guitars, bagpipes, bass, drums and electronics, from the nineteen-minute climb of Depuis Longtemps to long tones and dense drone.

Solo double LP by Guilhem Lacroux of Tanz Mein Herz for Gretsch Duo Jet and Korg Volca: fifteen pieces on four named sides, from plucked figures and fast repeated strumming to bell-like tones and organ-like chords. 300 copies, black vinyl.

A sound piece in two parts, composed in 2021 by the late Peruvian musician José Javier Castro as a tribute to the Italian artist Gianni Toti. 7-inch, limited to 250 copies on Buh Records.

Chicago guitarist Eli Winter's 2022 album, made with a loose group that includes Cameron Knowler, Yasmin Williams, David Grubbs, Ryley Walker and jaimie branch, and often steps back to let them lead.

On Echo - Variations, Arp opens the atmospheric world of Drifts to an international circle of sonic explorers. Glitch, electro-acoustic detail and club pressure reshape its suspended textures, while new tracks and alternate mixes reveal further possibilities within the originals. Less a remix appendix than a study in productive transformation.

*Edition of 100* K/S/R (Ben Kujawski, Abigail Smith & Justin Rhody) have been performing and recording together since 2022. Recorded by the band themselves during a full week of day-long sessions - violin, percussion, lap steel, accordion, flute, guitar, harmonica, and rhodes piano were each stretched, damaged & made to sing through various extended techniques. The trio's non-concentric approach to collective improvisation mirrors the dark harmonic density and symbiotic formal structures of the …

On Eleven Poems, Chris Philpot, Justin Rhody and Abigail Smith bring fractured language into contact with bowed taishōgoto and vibrating percussion. Recorded in Santa Fe, these eleven miniature encounters trade conventional accompaniment for a shared attention to timbre, spacing and resonance, letting poetry and sound unsettle one another.

Chicago guitarist Eli Winter leads a band with Tyler Damon and Sam Wagster, plus guests David Grubbs and Mike Watt, through six pieces that include covers of Don Cherry and Carla Bley.

Thirteen live recordings made in Leeds in 1998 and 2001, restored from the only surviving source: Terry Callier with guitar, keyboards and percussion, on a gatefold double LP from BBE.

Soundtracks for Gérard Collin-Thiébaut's Audio-Visual Devices of 1981-1985: slide projectors on stools, tiny copied drawings and endless cassettes of radio, film and sermon fragments. Tochnit Aleph, 250 copies.

First vinyl edition of Showtime, Sei Miguel's 1996 album and his first proper studio record, recorded live in Lisbon in 1994 with Rafael Toral on guitar, now presented as one piece with the cover photo originally planned.

Laura Betti sings Kurt Weill in Bruno Maderna's arrangements: the two 1963 Ricordi LPs conceived by Roberto Leydi, restored and complete on one CD for the first time, with a 108-page book edited by Veniero Rizzardi.

Four LPs, a CD and a 120-page book from the Zurich festival for Alvin Lucier's 85th birthday in 2016: Lucier performing I Am Sitting in a Room and Music for Solo Performer, plus premieres and late works with Curtis, La Barbara, Ambarchi and O'Malley.

Michael Garrick's first long session, cut in a single day in 1964 with Dave Green and Colin Barnes and privately pressed in 99 copies. Lansdowne reissues it as a 10-inch in a flipback sleeve, 300 copies, transferred from Garrick's own copy.

Gregorio Paniagua's early, baroque and self-built instruments meet Lucia Bosé's spoken and sung verses in Italian and Spanish: playful, psychedelic medieval music from 1981. First reissue, licensed from Sony.

The expanded edition of the scores of Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru's piano music: the 16 pieces of Éthiopiques 21, with photographs, drawings and handwritten letters from the Emahoy Music Foundation archive. 128 pages, 29 x 29 cm.

A zine on the ten years of Kaoru Abe in Tokyo's free jazz scene, 1968-1978, with excerpts from an unpublished 1973 conversation between Abe and Shinto recorded in a small Shinjuku coffee shop. English and Japanese.

Fourth issue of the Sound Series by Ningen Paper Press, on the musical world of Pierre Bastien and the mechanical instruments of his early years. A 24-page zine in English and Korean, edited and designed by Ganghyeon Paeg.

Third issue of the Sound Series by Ningen Paper Press: Ikue Mori from the drums of DNA in the New York No Wave scene to computer music, her move from Tokyo and the meeting with John Zorn. A 20-page zine, 2024.

Sister Irene O'Connor remembers her first years as a young nun at a kindergarten in Singapore and how she began making music. Made with Freedom to Spend after the Fire of God's Love micro museum in Seoul. English and Korean.

An 88-page A4 book on the DIY bootleg cassettes of the 1980s: Portastudio, Walkman and home Xerox, tapes copied in small numbers and shared like letters, and the lo-fi experimental, noise and improvised music they carried.

Transcript of a conversation between Mississippi Records and music scholar Thomas Feng for the 102nd anniversary of Emahoy's birth: the release of Church of Kidane Mehret, Portland and New York, her legacy. 20 pages, English and Korean.

Second issue of the Sound Series by Ningen Paper Press, on Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, the Ethiopian nun and composer whose piano music offers solace and reflection. A 20-page zine edited and designed by Ganghyeon Paeg, 2023.