New Arrivals
Summer 2025 "Forfolks" (Magazine)
We Jazz Magazine announces the release of Issue 15, "Forfolks," a stunning 128-page exploration of contemporary jazz's most innovative and boundary-pushing artists. This meticulously crafted summer 2025 edition positions itself as an essential document for serious collectors and adventurous listeners navigating the complex terrain of modern improvised music.
At the heart of this issue lies an in-depth examination of Jeff Parker, the visionary guitarist whose work bridges experimental electronics…
Earthrise
*200 copies limited edition* In continuation of PQR’s incessant quest for those one-off gems of U.S. Prog, we bring you the first ever reissue of a classic among prog collectors and enthusiasts at large, the sole album by Eearthrise. In fact, this edition is 2 albums in 1, as, over and above the 4 main tracks, it features 5 previously unreleased ones, spanning key member Bill Drobile’s different compositional phases, from fuzzed out psychedelia to prog. Emerging from New Jersey’s fertile musical…
horizonte
*300 copies limited edition* Funcionário delights in the freedom of creating freeform music for the first time in his career. On “horizonte”, he loosens the reins, his sound follows a wavy, organic structure rather than a rigid, formal one. If it feels freer and more colourful, that’s because it truly is. Eight years ago, when we first encountered his work, he was composing soundtracks for imaginary video games and crafting sonic landscapes that felt like destinations for sci-fi anime characters…
Shishiodoshi
Kaze and Koichi Makigami Unleash Musical Mayhem on New Album Shishiodoshi.
Funky Best
Repressed for the first time in Limited edition. Licensed by Nippon Columbia. Issued with an obi strip.
Counterclockwise
Faun Fables’ most encompassing collection of “songtelling” to date: a true family album, etched exquisitely and studded with fine-hewed jewels of song. The richly lived-in atmosphere is a sonic world unto itself. Timeless folk music, warmly redolent of traditions passed down in an eternal recurrence that promises renewal – the a joyous counterclockwise movement spread over generation upon generation.
Wave Field
Digital album is the 2025 Edition, available on CD. Wave Field, released in 1995, was a departure from the first album into new composition methods involving the dirty textures of rock guitar, sounding in the open ears of many listeners (like Jim O'Rourke, who issued the disc in the US on dexter's cigar) as a synthesis of disparate elements — a nexus where Alvin Lucier, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine and Eno blend together. Here, the clangorous potential of the guitar was emphasized, giving a …
LÄRM #4 (Book)
New stories from the fringes of pop culture!Guided by a shared curiosity for layers that lie a little deeper, the authors in this 4th issue take an empathetic look at the footnotes of cultural history, at the supposedly insignificant or odd – somewhere between obsession and outsiderdom, myth and everyday life, personal reflection and historical context. By covering underground music, cinema and literature, by tracing lives of radical devotion, careers and dreams marked by ruptures and tipping po…
Songs For The Gentle Man
Female singer-songwriter released in 1971 on the Dandelion label, run by progressive DJ John Peel, Second album by Bridget St John. Backed by John Martin (g), Rick Sanders (g,vln) and other artists active in the folk world, and with chamber music arrangements by Ron Gysin, known for his orchestral arrangement of Pink Floyd's “Atom Heart Mother”, this album is a masterpiece of shaded, magical singing and English fantasy beauty. Paper-jacketed, SHM-CD with commentary and bilingual lyrics. Includes…
Groet
2025 stock In the ever-evolving landscape of European improvised music, Groet stands as a testament to the restless creativity and sly wit of pianist Guus Janssen and drummer Han Bennink. Released on the Dutch label Data in 2005, this album captures two of the Netherlands’ most idiosyncratic voices in a dialogue that is as unpredictable as it is deeply musical.
Janssen and Bennink, both veterans of the Dutch avant-garde, approach the piano-drum duo format with a sense of play that borders on the…
Elastic Jargon
2025 stock Elastic Jargon is an album by Dutch composer and violist Maurice Horsthuis, released in 2007 on the Data label. The project brings together a unique ensemble of string players, with Horsthuis as the sole composer, exploring the boundaries of what can be achieved with string instruments alone.
Astronotes
2025 stock In the ever-mutable landscape of Dutch jazz, Joost Buis’s Astronotes stands as a testament to the playful collision of composition and improvisation. Released on the Data label in 2004, the album finds Buis—trombonist, composer, and bandleader—at the helm of a vibrant ensemble drawn from the heart of Amsterdam’s creative music scene.
From the opening bars of “The Eggs,” it’s clear that Buis is less interested in adhering to tradition than in subverting it with wit and invention. The b…
Slang
2025 stock In the shadowy interstices of contemporary jazz and free improvisation, Slang by Elastic Jargon emerges as a document of restless inquiry and coded communication. Released on the Dutch label Data in 2010, the album is a cryptic dispatch from the margins, where genre boundaries are not so much blurred as actively subverted
Elastic Jargon—true to their name—stretch the language of jazz until it snaps, then reassemble the fragments into something at once familiar and alien. The group’s a…
Mega Mercy
*300 copies limited edition* Manchester’s sferic label return with a debut from ungoogleable Greco-Canadian anomaly Anastasia Patellis, aka Any, featuring additional instrumentation and co-production from Klein/Lolina cohort LA Timpa. It's a set of "squat pop" experiments that thread nocturnal soundscaping and pop hooks through hallucinated outlines written on harp and broken synth.
Greco-Canadian artist Any was bedding down in a Cretan squat when the album's title, μέγα ελεός in Greek, boomed …
Something To Take Up Time
Survival Research is thrilled to announce the reissue of a true underground gem: Something To Take Up Time by Doctor Feelgood. Not to be confused with the British pub rockers, this Doctor Feelgood is an American band whose only album, originally released in 1971, has become a cult classic among collectors and aficionados of experimental rock
Something To Take Up Time is a wild, genre-blending journey through progressive rock, free jazz, blues, and psychedelia. The album is packed with adventurou…
Looking For The Answer
Survival Research is proud to announce the reissue of Looking For The Answer, the cult classic album by The Elders. Originally recorded in 1971, this vibrant record is a hidden gem of soul-infused rock and funk, now available once again for a new generation of listeners.
Looking For The Answer is a playful and energetic blend of influences, drawing inspiration from the likes of Rare Earth, Iron Butterfly, Rhinoceros, and especially Sly & the Family Stone. The album is seasoned with touches of Bo…
Hold Onto I.D.
Recorded from late 1996 through early 1997, Hold Onto I.D., The Shadow Ring’s fourth album, marks the apogee of the trio’s experimental rock epoch—their last record clinging to their factitious bandness before they let all song and structure go awash in sonic malaise for their final run of releases on Swill Radio. The surrealist dreams of City Lights and Put the Music in Its Coffin give way to pseudo-expressionistic lyrics mired in the banality and bleakness of the everyday, set against the back…
No Wind
Tokyo-based Rhucle, aka Yuta Kudo, has been crafting sublime ambient for more than a decade and in all, there have been over 70 works that blur the line between synthetic sound and the natural world. Using soft synths, delicate piano lines and field recordings from everyday life, he crafts gentle, immersive compositions that invite introspection. Each track unfolds slowly in its own time and is shaped by the textures of the moment, whether that's passing rain, distant voices or subtle room tone.…
Destruction
Destruction marks something of a new direction for Reuben Sawyer as he fuses clear, direct vocals with ambient textures. This latest album from the musician and visual artist meditates on destruction and rebirth while reflecting on the tension between enduring natural forces and fleeting human constructs. It opens with themes of nature's resilience and humanity's relentless desire for novelty, then gradually explores the collapse of civilisation and is inspired by Bill Fay's Who Is the Sender. I…
BorderlessSoutheastofTheNorth
"What we have here is a result of an idea ignited almost 15 years ago with its roots deep in the era of subculture 1990s, when its teenage protagonists started listening to records. But the comradeship between the three of us started in the early 2000 when I was pursuing my first Utopian idea of an art commune in the form of a counter-festival in the Southeastern Slovenian countryside on the border with Croatia. An idea from which, years later, another Utopian project was born - an international…