New Arrivals

The pianist and composer Javad Maroufi (Tehran, 1925-1993) is the great interpreter of Iranian classical music. His repertoire defines a precise encounter between Western classical music and the traditional folklore of his homeland. Through his academic training, he absorbed the lessons of the works of Chopin, Mozart, Bach and Beethoven, but his refined pianism echoes and reinterprets the popular melodies of ancient Iran. A profound and delicate song of the drama of life, between joys and sorrow…

Tulei is a project born in Milan out of the friendship and collaboration between saxophonist Andrea “Jimmy” Catagnoli and Davide Domenichini of Al Doum & The Faryds. The album features a distinct spiritual jazz sound in which the saxophone takes center stage, but without sinking into the roots of the more canonical free jazz approach of legends like Archie Schepp, Alice Coltrane, or Pharoah Sanders. Rather, the sound draws on more personal, elegiac and minimalist atmospheres, often with a visual…

Piero Piccioni's music for Folco Quilici's aerial documentaries L'Italia Vista Dal Cielo, from the Lazio, Lombardia and Toscana episodes: jazz-inflected orchestral writing and lyrical themes. First time on vinyl, 300 copies.

Scottish singer and guitarist Alasdair Roberts and Norwegian just intonation explorer Fredrik Rasten stretch seven traditional Scottish ballads into slow, drone-rich spells: an hour of overtones, hurdy-gurdy, psaltery and two voices.

Gerald Cleaver's second electronic album, jointly released by 577 Records sub label Positive Elevation and Meakusma. It sees Cleaver further exploring the depths of electronic music offered by his hometown Detroit, combining those influences with his personal musical background as a jazz drummer.

Coloured Vinyl version. In this album, legendary New York electronic music producer Hprizm (Antipop Consortium), also known as High Priest, reworks Gerald Cleaver’s acclaimed ’Signs’ (577 Records, 2020). Throughout, Hprizm expands the sonic boundaries of the original work through dream-like, transcendent electronic manipulations. Hprizm’s album is an innovative rework of Gerald Cleaver’s debut electronic project, building off of Cleaver’s long career as an accomplished Jazz percussionist.Born an…

Silver Vinyl version. New York-based Zoh Amba first cultivated her musical passion in the lush forests of the Appalachian mountains, playing to the woods around her home, before she studied at classical conservatories. Her music honors her roots, full of folk melodies, mesmerizing refrains, repeated incantations and powerfully-executed Free Jazz. Her sound is courageous and bold, soaring from muted hums to squeaky trebles, producing a confident sound imbued with an innate spirituality. On this p…

Clear Vinyl version. Originally from Kingsport, Tennessee, New York-based Zoh Amba is a notable rising star in the avant-garde music scene. Growing up in the Appalachian mountains, Amba practiced saxophone to the forest that surrounded her home before she later traveled to study with David Murray in New York, and also at the San Francisco Conservatory Of Music & New England Conservatory in Boston. Today, her music is full of folk melodies, mesmerizing refrains, repeated incantations and powerful…

Translucent Blue Vinyl version. 'The Uproar in Bursts of Sound and Silence is a sort of emergent collage that came together over four years of composition, improvisation, and production. The foundations for this album were initially recorded in 2018 by producer/engineer Jack Endino (Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Skinyard) at Soundhouse in Seattle, WA with myself (Evan Strauss, electric bass and upright bass), 5-Track (Guitar) and Sheridan Riley (Drums). The initial foundations of this music co…

Coloured Vinyl version. 'Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) spoke the truth (and the truth under his tongue was sometimes a hammer, sometimes an anvil, sometimes a sickle, sometimes just a breath or a blast). Baraka had no tongue in cheek. Sometimes he drew his language (his thought) and in the barrel of his language (his thought), there was the cartridge of criticism, the cartridge of ranting, the cartridge of analysis, the cartridge of sedition, the cartridge of poetry, the cartridge of music. Heroes …

Coloured Vinyl version. SSWAN presents their first outing "Invisibility is an unnatural disaster" a raucous jaunt of free jazz on the premiere fire music label 577 Records. The music is rooted in the Black American art form of jazz, stemming into the branches of free improvisation, noise and experimentalism while pushing to the edges of each idiom. The idiosyncratic playing of guitarist Jessica Ackerley starts off the album's title track and jumps headfirst into a Hendrix-tinged duo with drummer…

Translucent Sea Blue Vinyl version. Super groups are always risky—the potential for disappointing fans or warring musical styles is high—but when longtime friends and masterful improvisers come together, they usually work. Evident in their first collaboration, simply titled Volume 1, John Dikeman (Saxophone; When The Time Is Right, 577 Records, 2021) joined musicians Pat Thomas (Piano; Shifa Live at Cafe Oto 2019, BleySchool 2019, Shifa Live in Oslo 2020, Educated Guess 2021), John Edwards (Bass…

Coloured Vinyl version. Can music liberate us? Francisco Mela, who worked and partnered with the legendary jazz musician McCoy Tyner, believes so. On this album, the second volume of Music Frees Our Souls, Mela collaborates with pianist Cooper-Moore and bassist William Parker to build a 2-part extended track project of advanced dialogue between 3 of the genre's most important instruments. Tyner was well-known for his boundless musical talent, and perhaps best-known for playing in John Coltrane’s…

Blue Vinyl version. Before any instrumentation, Francisco Mela addresses his fellow musicians, pianist Matthew Shipp and bassist William Parker, with a sense of anticipation and affirmation, “Okay guys, ready? Rolling!” The sense of camaraderie and his artist-focused approach is heard throughout the album’s majestic improvisation—as well as in its inspiration, dedicated to Mela’s longtime musical partner, the legendary jazz musician McCoy Tyner. Tyner was well-known for his boundless musical tal…

Coloured Vinyl version. In the first lockdown, Matthew Putman (on keyboard) and Michael Sarian (on trumpet and flugelhorn) began to meet up (with precautions) for semi-regular sessions in Sarian’s makeshift home studio. The conditions were less-than-ideal—a borrowed 20-year-old keyboard, an inadequate microphone, and cramped NYC apartment acoustics—but they continued their “weekly pilgrimages, searching for [their] cadences, rhythms and melodies through the Fall.” The sessions gave them much-nee…

Coloured Vinyl version. New York United is an experimental group at the musical intersection of a classic New York avant-garde scene and forward-looking electronic production. Comprised of multi-instrumentalist and 577-cofounder Daniel Carter (Saxophone, Flute, Trumpet, Clarinet), electronic producer Tobias Wilner from Blue Foundation (Synthesizers, Percussion, Vocals, Piano, Guitar), Wu-Tang Clan bass player Djibril Toure and 577’s Federico Ughi (Drums), their sound reflects their decades of co…

Coloured Vinyl version. How do you welcome adventure? Longtime comrades, legendary Daniel Carter, Matthew Shipp, William Parker and Gerald Cleaver investigated this in their first album, Welcome Adventure, Vol. 1, resulting in 577 Records’ best-selling release in the 20 years we’ve been operating. Now, the group is trying the question again with their second astonishing volume, taken from the same historical recording session. Daniel Carter (Saxophone, Clarinet) has been collaborating with Willi…

Cloudy Clear Vinyl version. Are you ready for magic? The master musicians Daniel Carter, Matthew Shipp, William Parker and Gerald Cleaver will provide access with this album, the first they have released after playing together for decades. Daniel Carter has been collaborating with William Parker since the early 70s and with Matthew Shipp starting in the mid 80s. This trio has played together on many recordings but by adding legendary drummer Gerald Cleaver to the mix they have created a masterpi…

Yellow Vinyl version. Dave Tucker says that he brought this disparate group of musicians together for a live performance at London’s Cafe Oto last March on “an educated guess,” predicting that the artists - Mark Sanders (Drums & Percussion), Pat Thomas (Piano & Keys), Dave Tucker (Guitar) and Thurston Moore (Guitar) - would be able to create something extraordinary through improvisation. The condition of their encounter would later become the collective’s name, an “Educated Guess” and the eponym…

Power electronics from M. Page's Fire in the Head, released by Nihilist in 2005: nine tracks of hostile, extreme electronics and vocals.

Brett Naucke's vinyl debut, from 2013: six electronic pieces of subtle melodies and eerie organic abstractions by the head of Catholic Tapes. 300 copies with risograph covers.

Andy Ortmann and Ben Vida on one record again, sixteen years after the first Nihilist release: seven electronic pieces for analog synthesizers, modular systems and computer. Edition of 250.

Hali Palombo's audio-visual work built on slow-scan television, the narrowband system radio amateurs use to send pictures: a 45-minute video on USB and its soundtrack on chrome cassette. Edition of 50.

Andy Bolus (Evil Moisture) and Andy Ortmann (Panicsville) after fifteen years of working together: a live side recorded in Paris in 2006 and a studio collage built between 2001 and 2016.

Dick Flick's tape-collage project The Broken Penis Orchestra, back on Nihilist after the Testicle Difficulties LP: six pieces from 2005-2011, each C-44 chrome copy dubbed in real time. Edition of 99.

Double split cassette from 2024: W. Ravenveer in Antwerp on eurorack modular and electroacoustic instruments, Andy Ortmann in Chicago on Buchla and processing units. Two chrome tapes encoded in Dolby C, edition of 56.

Split LP from 2018: two parts of Grussverweigerung by Kommissar Hjuler und Frau and three Panicsville pieces, made at Nihilist Studios in Chicago with vocals generated by speech synthesis software. 100 copies on black vinyl.

Andy Ortmann's two-hour triple LP of electroacoustic pieces, musique concrète and speech synthesis, the work that his 2023 set Psychoacoustic Electronics picks up from. Edition of 300.

Andy Ortmann and John Wiese, long-time collaborators from St. Louis, recorded together in January 2006: four tracks of harsh electronics, collage and ambient soundscapes.

Ichiro Tsuji's 1992 Dissecting Table album, first issued on CD by Dark Vinyl: synthesizer soundtracks, harsh vocals and metallic percussion, remastered by Tsuji and pressed on vinyl for its 25th anniversary.

I first met La Monte Young at a 1981 performance of his piece The Well-Tuned Piano at the Dia Art Foundation’s beautiful Harrison Street space. When I got a chance after the show to speak with La Monte and his wife, Light artist Marian Zazeela, I was surprised at their friendly demeanor and sense of humor. We began working together shortly after that. Since then, I have been playing music in Harmonic Series tuning. When Brian [Chase of Chaikin Records] first spoke to me about the possibility of …

The Heads’ 2026 tour deforce, their swan song album for all… sold out on all vinyl formats. Rooster has decided to repress one last time, the end of the year push is here with the end of times supernova colour in colour destroyed galaxy “Supernova” edition. It will be released almost 30 years on from their seminal debut “Relaxing With”, this will be their fifth studio album proper. The band are a well established though reclusive part of the UKs underground /cult psychedelic rock scene. A consta…

Dreamlord Recordings has become a trusted doorway into records that take you on a journey. Arboria return with Arboria III, and Messers Parkes and Wood are ready to open that door one more time. Its eleven pieces form a woodland tale that begins at sunrise, passes through hidden gardens and moonlit rites, then settles into sleep with the promise of another morning close by. Across Arboria III, Arboria use a modest group of instruments to tell a story with remarkable clarity. Acoustic guitar keep…

*2026 stock. 60 copies limited edition* Sometimes it takes a moment of stillness and silence to discover a new direction. Midday marks a subtle shift from my earlier ambient work, leaning toward more structured compositions, minimal melodic fragments, soft pulses, and loops. I wrote midday between December 2024 and March 2025, taking inspiration from Sunday outings that carried a sense of calm that lingered. I took the album artwork during one of these outings, while I was picking oranges in the…

*100 copies limited edition* Tsss Tapes presents Slani pejza​ž​i by the trio formed by Manja Ristic (Serbia), Joana Guerra (Portugal) and Verónica Cerrotta (Argentina).

*60 copies limited edition* Gonçalo F. Cardoso (of Discrepant), together with Mestre André and Daniel García, create an extended sound collage of field recordings, percussion, and jungle-like atmospheres, very much in keeping with the Discrepant sound.

*60 copies limited edition* A percussion-and-synthesizer duo by Paper Cuts, a Polish duo made up of Wojtek Kurek and Łukasz of Bouchons d’Oreilles—something like chopped-up techno.

*200 copies limited edition* The Hands of Cain were Dimitris Chorianopoulos (vocals, bass), Spyros ‘S. Adam’ Floros (drums), Costas Papakitsos (synthesisers) and Dimitris Stamatiou (guitar) from Athens, Greece. In 1983 the The Hands of Cain evolved from one of the first groups of the Greek punk scene of the early 80’s called Ausschwitss when their music was gaining a darker shade and their lyrics were changing to English. Unlike their former group, the The Hands of Cain had very little public ex…

Otto Benson presents Peanut, his second LP with Palto Flats this year, following Songs Before Bed. Known for his prolific output and enthusiastic following, with music released under the aliases OTTO and Memo Boy, Otto released Peanut as a digital-only album earlier this year to wide acclaim, including a Best New Music mention from Pitchfork. On Peanut, Otto Benson stretches out as a songwriter, fully exploring the use of voice for the first time. Accompanied mostly by the strumming of his guita…

*300 copies limited edition* Since 2009 Connecticut psych band Mountain Movers (previously having released albums through the now defunct Trouble In Mind label) have delivered a lengthy discography floating through rich textures and experimental sounds. On this instrumental album the band build from the sounds of 2024’s double album Walking After Dark, while trading in vocals for synths, keys, percussion, and drum machines. Self-recorded and mastered by John Miller, Knifethrowers sprawls five tr…