New Arrivals
Auf Der Suche Nach Dem Glück
* Edition of 300 * In 1994, Jens Kraft and Godeke Ilse reunited the band. The increased number of their band name like "SAAL 3", "SAAL 4" and "SAAL 5" was returned to "SAAL 2" as the original. "Auf der Suche nach dem Glück" was released after the reunion, but their first first album. This reissue CD includes unpublished tracks additionally as bonus. Producer: Detlef Diederichsen (Die Zimmermänner).
* 2021 digitally remaster used. * Including full-color booklet. * Limited edition, Japan release O…
Saal 3 + Saal 4
* Edition of 100 * Including all the official tracks from the Saal 3 and Saal 4 era. Plus an unpublished track as bonus. Limited to 100 copies
Weil Das System Nicht Funktioniert!
* Edition of 300 * Saal 2 was formed in Hamburg in 1980 and had an influential position in the German music scene then. Including all the tracks from "Angust Vorm Tanzen" (their debut release from ZickZack, 1980), compilation track and unpublished tracks from the same time. This compilation album was previously released on LP from VOD label in 2005. This CD, in addition, includes 5 more unpublished tracks as bonus.* 2021 digitally remaster used.* Including full-color booklet.* Limited edition, J…
Aktual University
Milan Knízak canonical text Aktual University, dating from 1967, contains ten short lectures outlining the university's character -- On Conflict, On Dreams, On Revolutions, On Love, On Belief, On Art, etc. These lectures were to serve as inspirational schemes for lectures, seminars and discussions held at an ideal university. In the first piece, Aktual University, Milan Knízak reads his own text, with Opening Performance Orchestra providing the musical accompaniment. It was performed live in Oct…
Catalina Matorral
Tip! * Edition of 300 * Catalina Matorral is a comet. Catalina Matorral is a duo; Marion Cousin and Borja Flames make up its double head and four hands. At the beginning of the 2010s, they were called June et Jim — we remember some disturbing EPs they released before joining the label Le Saule (a small, chivalrous table whose holy grail is everything unheard, where folk-singing is avant-garde and avant-garde is synonymous with enchantment). Their first LP, Les Forts, evoked the songwriting of in…
V.I.P. (Vagabonds In Power) Vol. 1 Live In Berlin
* 2021 Repress * Knitting Factory Records reissue Fela Kuti’s ‘Army Arrangement’ on vinyl, previously only available as part of the Box Set series. ‘Army Arrangement’ is about Nigeria’s attempt at ‘democracy’ in 1979 after more than a decade of military rule.Bill Laswell’s mix of Army Arrangement for the Celluloid label was an act of gross cultural-arrogance. With Fela in jail on trumped up currency-smuggling charges when the time came to make the final mix, the label approached Dennis Bovell. B…
Sync or Swim
* Edition of 200 * A limited cassette replication of Felixstowe Rocks, a “compilation” primarily consisting of Robert Cox’s own music under several pseudonyms, will be offered as a mail order exclusive with the release of Sync or Swim. Pete Swanson & Jed Bindeman’s Freedom To Spend reissue a reel 1984 gem from Robert Cox’s (aka Rimarimba) Unlikely Records, refracting a spectrum of his musical alter egos over 10 tracks of lilting ambient, folk and synth wooze from the top shelf. Newly transferre…
I've Had It up to Hear with Fish & Chips
* Edition of 300, hand-humbered + Obi * I've Had It up to Hear with Fish & Chips by Ben Ellul-Knight and Tom White is a hörspiel about 'care work' of all kinds. In part it is auto-ethnographic, as it draws on Ben's experience working as a play worker, social worker and as a volunteer with refugee and asylum-seeker support services. More personal reflections are mixed with conversations Ben had with support workers, social workers, play workers and mental health nurses to form a script. Different…
Leaving Hardly a Mark
Tip! ** Edition of 200 ** Leaving Hardly a Mark is the debut album of the LHAM project, behind which lie the Italians Giuseppe Verticchio (Nimh, Hall of Mirrors, Twist of Fate...) and Bruno De Angelis (Mana Erg). Cinematic and strongly evocative atmospheres are painted with the use of electronic instrumentation, guitars, bass and effects, following stylistic paths on the borderline between ambient music, moderate experimentation and subliminal "World" veins. Delicate sound watercolours, moments …
Cheap Opera #1 "Répétitions" DW30 "Loops for Klaus Schulze"
In 2015 Bernhard Lang was approached by Sebastian Berweck, to compose a piece for his Berlin-based Synthesizer-trio Lange // Berweck // Lorenz.Considering his musical background and his roots, Lang saw this offer as double opportunity, one of them being a chance to compose an ultimate tribute to one of his musical heroes, electronic pioneer, Klaus Schulze. On the other side, Cheap Opera #1 „répétitions“ turned out as Lang's most political piece to day: his mercilles comment on fake patriotism...…
Island Gardens (BOX : 2 Dvd + Book + Inserts)
* Limited Edition of 75 numbered copies. * This release is dedicated to the video works of Mike Cooper, a cosmopolitan figure of which musically it seems superfluous to say. From bluesman of the first hour, to improviser/ experimenter of the European (and not) more interesting scene, to proponent of a sort of experimental exotica that has become, over time, his trademark. But, instead of the well-known and represented musician and sound artist, this publication offers, in two DVDs for almost 3 …
Interialcell
Aleksandra Gryka is undoubtedly one of the most enigmatic and fascinating figures of the young generation of Polish composers. She does not comment on her works, does not give interviews, and does not provide critics with an insight into her scores (which even causes the occasional international scandal). She is also mysterious in her music: her works are like planets with their own atmosphere and laws. The narrative is usually torn, fragmentary and always incom plete, it leaves the listener uns…
Between The Surface And Tomorrow
Three brand new spaced-out transatlantic duo explorations, available in November on 7" vinyl from Astral Editions. A stunning art object of sound and vision. credits released November 12, 2021 Ashley Paul - guitar, voice, bells, clarinet, keyboard - in London Jeffrey Alexander - guitar, wooden saxophone, moog, electric piano - in Philadelphia
City Of Mirrors
* Limited edition 160-gram *Adobe Dust* color vinyl LP (pressed by Smashed Plastic in Chicago) in a heavyweight matte jacket with IARC obi strip and dome-patterned inner-sleeve * Songs of resistance and gratitude in a Latin pop mode from Chicago’s Dos Santos, one of the longest running groups on International Anthem Recording Company. Vintage-sounding, but polished to modern tastes, ‘City Of Mirrors’ feature the septet playing to their latin heritage in a style that will appeal to all members o…
The Sound of Laughter Isn’t Necessarily Funny (Tape)
The Sound of Laughter Isn’t Necessarily Funny is a catalogue in the form of a cassette tape by Jonathan Monk published after the show The Sound of Laughter Isn’t Necessarily Funny held in Monk’s home town of Leicester. The catalogue comprises a five panel concertina booklet printed in gold and black with jewel case and prison cassette.
British artist Jonathan Monk regularly replays, recasts and re-examines seminal works of Conceptual and Minimal art by variously witty, ingenious and irreverent m…
Sirocco: A Compendium Of Experimental Music Made In Portugal Vol.2
As famous as the Northern Wind or Mistral, Sirocco is a Mediterranean wind that blows from the Sahara Desert, and is widely responsible for huge and cinematic sand storms, and also for a strange phenomenon called “blood rain”, due to the red sand that eventually mixes with the falling rain. I’ve also heard that “Life is in the blood“, so let the wind blow! Without any further delay, Wasser Bassin proudly presents: Rafael Toral, Han, Tózé Ferreira, The Beautiful Schizophonic, Discmen, Gala Drop…
Geometric Shapes (A Special Radio ~ TV Record – N°19)
Sdban Records will reissue several installments of the legendary library series ‘A Special Radio ~ TV Record’ on vinyl. These were originally released on Belgian imprint ‘Selection Records’ between 1976 and 1981. However, Selection N°20 is a new addition to the series although it originally came out in 1978. Selection N°20 is the soundtrack to the 1978 Belgian cult movie ‘In Kluis’, directed by Jan Gruyaert.
On his quest for the perfect soundtrack to translate the emotions and images shown in h…
Acosta
Leo Acosta was born as Leobardo Acosta Quintanar in Huetamo, Michoacán, Mexico in 1925. He was a notable drummer, composer, arranger, and orchestrator. In 1970, he recorded a last LP for Capitol with a small combo formed with some of his closest peers. The sound engineer for these sessions, Rogiero Silva, recalls that it happened in the night time. Leo was always very demanding in his studio hours with all of his musicians and that he did not tolerate mistakes or setbacks, but he was fully relax…
Tombstones
Tombstones is a collection of twenty songs composed by American composer Michael Pisaro-Liu between 2006 and 2010, journeying into experimental pop with pieces that are "experimental or indeterminate but still a song". This disc features eleven songs under the artistic direction of the Lille-based pianist Barbara Dang. Dang and six members of the Muzzix collective (Yoann Bellefont, Ivann Cruz, Raphaël Godeau, Peter Orins, Christian Pruvost, Maryline Pruvost) recorded the pieces in June 2020, wit…
In Better Shape Than You Found Me
* In pocess of stocking * In Better Shape Than You Found Me is a one-hour piece jointly composed and realized by American composer/violist Jordan Dykstra and Dutch composer/musician Koen Nutters in the year 2020. Dykstra plays viola, pitch pipe, crotales, piano EBow, electronic programming, field recordings, and Nutters delivers the piano programming and field recordings. The two bring together their sounds and structures in very organic ways, merging into a single, intriguing sound world. Maste…