New Arrivals
Free At Last (LP)
Promotional copy of the 1970 album on ECM (the label's first release!). With insert.
Straight Ahead (LP)
Original Japanese edition with different cover on Concord Jazz of the 1981 album. With insert and obi.
Live In Seattle (2LP)
1974 US re-issue on Impulse!/ABC of the 1971 double-album with a 1965 live recording featuring Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With original innersleeve.
Ancient Of Days Light Of Glory (LP)
Original and sole edition of 300 copies on Humming Bird Records of the 1980 album. Never re-issued on either vinyl or CD.
Decoy (LP)
Original Japanese edition on CBS/Sony of the 1984 album featuring Branford Marsalis and John Scofield. With insert and obi.
Monk's Dream (LP)
1987 German re-issue on CBS' "Jazz Masterpieces" series of the 1963 album. With original innersleeve.
Mingus In Europe Volume II (LP)
Original US edition of Enja of the 1981 album with live recordings from 1964 featuring Eric Dolphy and Jaki Byard.
In Greenwich Village (LP)
Rare 1968 re-press on Impulse!/ABC of the 1967 album featuring Alan Silva, Henry Grimes and Donald Ayler.
Atlantis (LP)
Sealed Japanese original edition on CBS/Sony of the 1985 album. With obi.
Dual Unity (LP)
Original French edition on Freedom of the 1972 album featuring Han Bennink.
Punk Flyers (1975-2020
234 pages, paperback, 14 x 17cm. Over 200 flyers, compiled by Masala Noir, Paris. Nobody was supposed to keep these. A flyer is made to be handed out on a Tuesday, read once, and dropped in the street on the way to the show. It has a job, the job lasts about four days, and then it is rubbish. That is the whole reason this book exists and the whole reason it is worth having: what you are looking at is the accidental survival of a form designed to be thrown away.
And what a form. No budget, no cli…
Record Sleeves 1930 - 2000 (Book)
A selection of 300+ record sleeves from 1930 to 2000 by Masala Noir.
Switched On Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution (Book)
490 pages, hardback, with 60 black and white photographs. Foreword by Francis Ford Coppola. Published by Oxford University Press. Voltage control. Two words, and everything downstream of them: the oscillator that tracks a keyboard, the envelope that shapes a note's attack and decay, the ladder filter that gives a sawtooth its wet, vocal edge. These are the grammar of the instrument, and they are almost all his. Anyone who has turned a cutoff knob has touched Bob Moog's thinking. He died in 2005 …
Yugoslav Avant-Garde Music, 1945–1991 (Book)
292 pages, 244 x 170mm, with figures and music examples. Published by Cambridge University Press in the Music since 1900 series, paperback. Zagreb, June 1961. On the programme: Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Schaeffer, Mauricio Kagel, Witold Lutosławski, the Darmstadt serialists, the tape pieces coming out of Paris, Milan and Cologne, and the experiments of John Cage. In a communist country that had spent the previous fifteen years under socialist realism, with closed borders and almost no contac…
Holy Ghost: The Life & Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler (Book)
312 pages, paperback, with 8-page photo insert. 150 x 215mm. The first extended biography of Albert Ayler ever published in English, and it took twenty years to build. Part life story, part case file, and long overdue. Richard Koloda is a musicologist and a practising lawyer, and both trades show on every page. He was a long-time friend of Donald Ayler, Albert's trumpet-playing younger brother; a consultant on Revenant Records' ten-CD retrospective Holy Ghost: Rare And Unissued Recordings (1962…
Poem 1
On Poem 1, Ana Roxanne strips away the ambient haze of her earlier work to place her voice, naked and close‑mic’d, at the center of a heartbreak record. Slow, piano‑led ballads, a Schumann lied recast in synth‑chamber light, and one Lynchian jazz centerpiece turn her quiet intensity into a lucid, emotionally exposed song cycle.
Nordic Sound Art
Edition of 30 (!) Eight pieces by the graduating artists of the Nordic Sound Art programme, issued in 2015 by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in an edition of 300, compiled by Jonas Olesen, who coordinated the programme throughout its life, and supported by the KUNO Publication Fund.
Nordic Sound Art ran from 2007 to 2015 as a joint study programme within the KUNO network, shared between the art academies of Copenhagen, Helsinki, Bergen, Tromsø and Umeå. Students spent a year moving betwee…
From the Ruins of the Literal: Critical Organology, Timbre, and the Poetics of Affect (Book)
Sarah Davachi's first book, From the Ruins of the Literal: Critical Organology, Timbre, and the Poetics of Affect, published by her own Late Music imprint. The title is borrowed from Paul Ricoeur, whose account of metaphor locates meaning at the point where literal sense gives way. Davachi turns that idea on the study of instruments and timbre, disciplines she sees as long governed by empirical, neuro-cognitive and modernist assumptions. Her objection is not that measurement is wrong but that it…
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
On Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66, the pianist and his group turn bossa nova and Brazilian songcraft into sleek, cross‑border pop. Their version of Jorge Ben’s “Mais Que Nada” became the first Portuguese‑language hit in the US, opening doors for Brazilian music worldwide and helping earn the album a place in the Grammy Hall of Fame.
A Body of Water
On A Body of Water, Kaloja - the duo of Jan Anderzén and Paul Wilson - summon a strangely pastoral, hyper‑alive electronic ecosystem. Psychedelic synthesis, physical modelling and impressionistic sound‑painting converge into abstract figures that ripple through an unstable yet welcoming landscape, like sentient currents moving beneath a calm surface.
