New Arrivals
Stillness & Sirens
*in process of stocking* debut album from swedish piano trio yokada.
released May 25, 2018 alex zethson: grand piano, compositions johan holmegard: drums johan berthling: bass
All My Clothes
*In process of stocking* "This is the first release in a series of albums on Smalltown Supersound with Norwegian freeform pianist Anja Lauvdal. On All My Clothes, Lauvdal teams up with her friend, the reclusive and now retired(?) Norwegian drummer Joakim Heibø for a session in the great tradition of piano and drums at Flerbruket Studios, Hemnes outside of Oslo.
Anja (born 1987) is from the small town of Flekkefjord in the south of Norway (where Smalltown Supersound was founded) and from the age …
Alone... Forever
*In process of stocking* Imagine waking up and discovering everyone you thought you knew was someone else all along, and they have all deceived you and stabbed you in the back. The world now begins to melt around you and you start to convince yourself that it's still a dream, but in reality your life has become a living nightmare.
You are now standing by yourself, alone, looking out over the nothing that was once your home town. The only place to run and hide is inside your own mind. So you make…
Live!
* 50th-anniversary reissue, 2LP on red vinyl * Originally recorded in 1971 at Abbey Road studios in just a few hours, 'Live!' is a collaboration between good friends former Cream drummer Ginger Baker and Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and Afrobeat pioneer Fela Ransome-Kuti and his band The Africa 70. Featuring a live audience of 150 people who crammed into the studio with them, this is not only a piece of history with some of the most accomplished musicianship you'll ever hear, it's also a real…
The Elizabeth, The Mary
For those who have followed this project over the years, at this point you are either fully on board or perhaps you've abandoned ship. This is not the type of project you occasionally dabble with, it's a multi-verse of escapism for the fanatically obsessed. It's not just about the sound either...all of the myriad themes and imagery as well as the sound source origins are equally important to the entirety of the whole experience. This is elevated art with concealed benefits earned by means of cul…
Una Pistola Per Ringo / Il Ritorno Di Ringo (LP)
* Limited Edition clear red vinyl. Audio remastered from original tapes. * “Una pistola per Ringo” and “Il ritorno di Ringo” are two movies from 1965 that belong to the ‘spaghetti western’ genre, directed by Duccio Tessari and starring Giuliano Gemma as the main character. The two movies, not actually having much more in common besides their title and protagonist, were filmed in a very short time, thanks to the huge success of the first ‘chapter’. The soundtracks of both movies, by Ennio Morric…
D.N.A. (LP)
"D.N.A." is a contemporary jazz album recorded at Mondial Studios in Milan in December 1996 by two 'heavyweights' of Italian and international jazz music, trumpeter Enrico Rava and pianist Mario Rusca, the latter here feature with his trio accompanied by double bass player Lucio Terzano and drummer Tony Arco. The album alternates original compositions written by Mario Rusca with evergreen classics of the genre
Traumatic Amputations
Sixty minutes of crunching HNW by Fleshlicker, originally available as a self-released cassette back in Spring of 2021 with only 10 copies made...now available again as an extended reissue including updated art/layout as well as a remix by The Rita.
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*In process of stocking* Touch Starved is the solo moniker of Finnish musician Juuso Suomela (I use the word musician literally, as he is a very skilled drummer in several killer bands)...but with this project he has the freedom to explore and express his individual shadow on a much deeper internal level. It is a masterfully crafted combination of blown out tape noise, feedback loops, junk metal, ambient field recordings and distraught vocals that as a whole sort of brings to mind early 2000s Pr…
Body Transit
*In process of stocking* Similar to AAD, Norwegian duo Maranata started out with an active run in the mid-2000s (with releases on Lasse Marhaug's Pica Disc & TWR imprints for example) and then they sort of disappeared for awhile...only to emerge again just this year, arriving in style with the great "Dry Lungs" tape on New Forces and an upcoming full length CD on White Centipede Noise...and while being associated with all of the aforementioned labels should be enough to spark your interest, Mara…
Another Contact Mic Recording
*In process of stocking* Rien is a project by J.S.H. operating since 2016. Static minimalism dialed in to highly concentrated texture studies with no regard for a theme or message of any sort...just an intent focus on reducing abrasive sound to the absolute bare bones.
Pop Art
*In process of stocking* Two hours of delicately tuned crackle and hiss from this anonymous Andy Warhol admirer. Source sounds are taken from said artist interviews discussing the portraits referred to in the track titles. The dialogue is then processed beyond recognition and recorded straight to tape. Old and new. Familiar but different. A copy of a copy of a copy... I like to imagine Andy would totally approve of this project, seeing as he was super into taking other peoples work and transform…
D.D.D.D.
An important historical document and essential nineties Japanese Harsh Noise relic originally released on cassette by Old Europa Cafe in 1995. This long out of print and sought after material is finally available to the public once again, newly remastered from the original DAT recording (which Mr. Mikawa had to graciously dig for) complete with a layout design true to the simplicity and color scheme of the original. One of the most overlooked Incapacitants releases, which is puzzling to me becau…
Black Phoenix: Third World Perspective on Contemporary Art and Culture (Book)
*In process of stocking* Primary Information is pleased to announce the release of Black Phoenix: Third World Perspective on Contemporary Art and Culture. Edited and published by Rasheed Araeen and Mahmood Jamal between 1978 and 1979 in the United Kingdom, Black Phoenix remains a key and radical document of transnational solidarity and cultural production in the visual arts, literature, activism, and beyond. This publication collects all three issues of the journal into a single volume.More than…
Lunatic Asylum
*In process of stocking* Joke Lanz and Sudden Infant once again return in their razor-sharp trio setting whereby the absurdist nature that Joke’s work is already cut with is reconfigured in a gnarled and beefy punk-fucked contorted rock setting. Short bursts of angular flex are heavily propelled by depth-charge rhythms, wry lyrical musings on modern living, and sensibilities hatched from years of experience in the worlds of sound art, abstract music, industrialised junk-noise and related areas h…
Arkaoda
As a traveler-without-age, Damo Suzuki has been touring all over space-time. Presenting the light of “instant composing” to new generations, he refers to his makeshift collaborators as sound-carriers. Exactly fifty years after the release of the profoundly iconic Ege Bamyası, we can hear his voice on yet another fantastic album, as in “derived from fantasy.” Manifested from the meeting with Spiritczualic Enhancement Center -- an eight-piece group of self-proclaimed disciples from the CAN Univers…
Background Music N. 4
Tip! First official reissue ever on clear vinyl. In the field of library music Benito Simoncini a.k.a. Arawak was undoubtedly one of the most important composers. “Background Music N. 4” is a multi-faceted release that includes at least two jazz-tinged symphonic pop gems, together with other more abstract and improvised tracks, in most cases played with a single instrument; it goes from the dramatic sounds of “Secolo XX°”, through the liquid atmospheres of “Aquarium”, to the percussive experimen…
Wampyr (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
* Red Vinyl. Housed in gatefold sleeve. Deluxe Edition * Wampyr is the title of the Italian version of George A. Romero’s movie directed in 1976, "Martin", curated by Dario Argento and edited by Piero Bozza. A very different adaptation from the original film, which was then 'overshadowed' by the success of "Dawn of the Dead / Zombi" and that only in recent years has been appropriately re-evaluated.For the Italian version of “Martin”, as well as for “Dawn of the Dead / Zombi”, the music of Gobli…
Gamma
* 180gr. solid white vinyl edition * “Gamma” is a dramatic Italian TV show from 1975, one of the most important of those made in the same decade: a mini-series that combines mystery and science fiction, in a story that raises interesting ethical questions of a scientific and medical nature.The “Gamma” soundtrack, composed and directed by Enrico Simonetti, is a perfect combination of classical, jazz and pop music, with forays into prog and funk-rock territories. The main theme 7-inch released at …
Area Di Servizio
* Clear red vinyl edition * "Area di Servizio" is a truly unique release in the history of ‘70s Italian music: a record consisting of twelve Italian-sung compositions, mainly the result of the collaboration between Riccardo “Rolli” Pirolli and Franco Battiato: the first came from the Cristalli Fragili group, which Battiato wanted as his musicians in the early seventies. The album recording sessions lasted a few days, and several songs were written and arranged directly in the studio. The result …