New Arrivals
Imagination!
Another legendary Lateef session cut in 1960 for the New Jazz imprint. The co-leader - bassist Doug Watkins - died tragically in a car accident in 1962 at the age of 27. However, prior to his early demise, he recorded dozens of wonderful sessions with some of the greatest jazzmen of his time, among them Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and the Horace Silver Quintet. Imagination ! marked his second and final album as a leader, and features Watkins on cello instead of bass. The use of c…
Enfin La Mer
1978 live recording of French quintet consisting of Jouk Minor on beritone sax and contrabass clarinet, Josef Traindl on trombone, Jean Querlier on alto sax, Christian Lété on drums and Dominique Regef on hurdy-gurdy
Stop Time
Live performance of Barry Altschul trio, featuring David Izenson on bass and Perry Robinson on clarinet. Recorded October 14, 1978 at 131 Prince St., New York, NY
Visitation Of Spirits
Live performance of The Pyramid Trio, Roy Campbell on trumpet and flute, William Parker on bass and Zen Matsuura on drums. Recorded 21 February 1985 at The Joint, Usdan Student Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
Special thanks to Roy’s sister Valerie Morris, who told us, “Roy spoke to me in a dream years ago and said, “It's all about the music.”
Korean Fantasy
Live performance of two of the most important South Korean free music players Kim Dae Hwan on drums and Choi Sun Bae on trumpet. Recorded live on 26th November, 1999 at Aspirante, Hofu City, Yamaguchi, Japan by Takeo Suetomi.
Schemata
*100 copies limited edition.* Tsss Tapes presents Schemata by Eventless Plot.
Composed, recorded and edited by Eventless Plot
Mastered by Spyros Emmanouilidis
Material Unity 2
*2023 stock. 200 copies limited edition* Active Recovering Music (ARM) is the solo project of Tokyo-based reed player Masahiko Okura. When he launched it in 2008, ARM was not a solo project, but a slide whistle ensemble with multiple players. In 2013, ARM performed as an eight-member group at Ftarri in Suidobashi, Tokyo. In the same year a CD documenting three performances from that concert was released on the Meenna label with the title "Active Recovering Music."
ARM later transformed into its …
Yagateyamu
*2023 stock. 200 copies limited edition* Misaki Motofuji plays baritone sax in all types of free jazz settings. She also carries out performances focusing on acoustic phenomena, based on sound-art-like concepts and incorporating field recordings. But she says her background is in neither jazz nor art—that she actually studied classical music as a music university student. In the bands she leads, Motofuji creates a wide variety of original compositions, from chamber-music-style pop, jazz and mini…
Masahide Tokunaga
*2023 stock. 200 copies limited edition* Masahide Tokunaga is a Tokyo-based alto sax player/improviser who carries out extremely distinctive performances comprised mainly of long tones. On the Hitorri label he has released the improvised performance CDs "Alto Saxophone 2" (2015) and "Bwoouunn: Fleeting Excitement" (2017), as well as "while your master is sleeping" (2020), on which he performs a composition by Taku Sugimoto. With the exception of that composition recording, "Masahide Tokunaga" is…
Cold Light In Warm Blue
*200 copies limited edition* Tokyo-based pianist Fumi Endo has been performing since 2017, playing mainly jazz and improvised music. Her distinctive, minimalistic performances have garnered a great deal of attention. Endo has performed frequently at Ftarri since September 2020.
While she participated in two 2022 Ftarri CD releases—Takumi Ikeda’s "Musical Procedure" (Ftarri Classical, ftarricl-663), and the eponymous "Masahide Tokunaga" (Hitorri, hitorri-970)—Endo had no previous releases on Ftar…
Remains
"Remains" is the debut album from composer and sound artist Will Gardner. Will has worked extensively behind the scenes as an arranger, orchestrator and pianist in both Berlin and London, arranging strings for alt-J, Daughter, Låpsley and Madness. This debut solo work explores the experience of caring for his father through the final stages of Parkinson’s dementia. The album is both an aural imagining of the dementia experience (it’s memory slippages, disturbances, delusions and paranoias) and a…
Font de la Vera Pau
Pedro Vian and Raül Refree unveil their highly anticipated collaborative debut album: "Font de la Vera Pau." Two creative minds from the Barcelona avant-garde music scene, Raül Refree and Pedro Vian, have merged to give birth to their first joint album.This eagerly awaited project promises to challenge boundaries and bring forth the genius and artistic vision that characterize both artists. While their first collaboration already stirred passions at the 2021 Sonar Festival, it is now that Vian a…
Desert Wind
Yaşar Akpençe was born in 1966 in Istanbul and can be consider as one of the best world darbouka player. He began his career in music at the age of 9 by playing Congo and carried on with the darbuka at 13 and made his musical dream come true by working with famous musicians. Akpençe has performed as a guest musician on numerous albums as well as being the founder of the percussion collective known as « Harem Group ». Yasar has performed with almost every major artist in Turkey, spanning many gen…
Bongo Rock
*50th anniversary deluxe edition, on heavyweight 180g vinyl* For the first time since its release in 1973: a genuine, bona fide reissue of the classic record which became a foundation of rap and popular music, packaged as it would have been seen on the shelves in 1973. Incredible Bongo Band's Bongo Rock is significant, for being one of the musical cornerstones of rap ... it is certainly one of the most sampled LP’s in history, if not the most sampled. Most every history-minded hip-hop DJ has a c…
Organic Volatilisation Near Imperceivable
*20 copies limited release* Over two weeks in September 2022 Simon Whetham was invited to join Milena Farioli at OVNI, a creative space in Fribourg, Switzerland, to explore the sounds of various fermentations including red and white cabbage, green beans, ginger, courgette (a huge one donated to the project by the neighbouring florist), (non-lactose) kefir and mead. He recorded the whole process with various techniques and mics, also capturing some of the sounds from bustling Rue de Lausanne that…
Terra Morfi
The peace-loving Morfi folk live in a huge forest and build large clay giants out of magical clay. When a giant is ready, it wakes up and takes off to help smaller creatures around the endless forest. The Morfi like to celebrate and parties are thrown often. The Morfi have two mouths and two noses. One mouth is for communication and the other for singing. Why two noses, nobody knows...
Terra Morfi is a soundtrack of the strange lives of these creatures. It is an album of psychedelic fairytale mu…
Lava Trouble
Tom Lönnqvist & Samuli Tanner have collaborated under the moniker Market since 2013. "Lava Trouble" is the document of a leisurely meeting of two friends in the countryside, combining experimental electronics, self-built instruments and free improvisation.
Transfusion: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
*300 copies limited release* De la Catessen Records proudly presents a limited vinyl release of theoriginal score of the Stan Original film Transfusion by AACTA nominated composer Luke Altmann (Franklin, The Leunig Fragments,Fell).
Transfusion is the first film to be directed by Matt Nable, and stars Sam Worthington as a former special forces operative who is thrust into the criminal underworld to stop his son being taken from him. Transfusion had its World Premiere at the CinefestOz Film Festiv…
Unhalfbricking
Unhalfbricking is the third album by the British folk rock band Fairport Convention and their second album released in 1969. It is seen as a transitional album in their history and marked a further musical move away from American influences towards more traditional English folk songs that had begun on their previous album, What We Did on Our Holidays and reached its peak on the follow-up, Liege & Lief, released later the same year.
The album features several Bob Dylan songs, which he had not yet…
What We Did On Our Holidays
Sandy Denny's haunting, ethereal vocals gave Fairport a big boost on her debut with the group. A more folk-based album than their initial effort, What We Did on Our Holidays is divided between original material and a few well-chosen covers. This contains several of their greatest moments: Denny's "Fotheringay," Richard Thompson's "Meet on the Ledge," the obscure Joni Mitchell composition "Eastern Rain," the traditional "She Moves Through the Fair," and their version of Bob Dylan's "I'll Keep It …