New Arrivals
Il Ponte Dell'Asia
Holy Basil Records reissues Piero Umiliani’s “Il Ponte Dell’Asia”—a rare, remastered vinyl with original artwork. Celebrated for blending jazz, funk, and world music, this deluxe edition honors Umiliani’s visionary legacy.
Hijack
Endless Happiness reissues Amon Düül II's 1974 'Hijack'—Krautrock pioneers’ most eclectic work, blending psychedelia, funk, samba, and pop. Featuring reuniting core members, it’s a bold, experimental journey for fans old and new.
Watt
Watt’s clarinet-driven soundscapes hypnotize, thicken, and circle endlessly. 2021 collaborations—edited on infinite tapes—blur time and unity in a vinyl collective composition.
Canyon
Jerome Deupree, Sylvie Courvoisier, Joe Morris, Lester St. Louis unite for an album of explosive solos, profound improvisation—a canyon where all musical worlds collide in boundless synergy.
Ethereal Chant
The Lava Quartet—Berlin to Portugal—unites for free improvisation, blending creativity and extended techniques. Their debut album, "Ethereal Chant," showcases boundary-breaking, unpredictable soundscapes.
This Is Not Speculation
Long-time collaborators and legends of the British improvised music scene, the great saxophone virtuoso John Butcher and the master of the double bass John Edwards, join forces in a duet journey through a fascinating land of sounds, sometimes undiscovered, sometimes impossible, and always breathtaking.
Chronotopia
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**Belgian artist Elisabeth Klinck’s “Chronotopia” marks a new artistic phase, blending violin and voice in song-based, intimate soundscapes. Recorded in the Pyrenees, it playfully explores time, duality, and transformation, balancing improvisation with melody-led structure.**
Domino - Live At Radio Bremen Tv-studios 1963
On September 30, 1963, American saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk and his quartet gave a small concert in the TV studios of Radio Bremen. The concert was broadcast on ARD in the spring of 1964 as part of the popular "Domino" series.
Now the original tapes have resurfaced in the station's archives. Sensational! The former sideman of Charles Mingus, Gil Evans and Quincy Jones had come to Germany not only with his successful Mercury albums "Domino" and "We Free Kings" in his…
Other Worlds And Habitats
The Sorcerers' latest long player lands in perfect time for the summer, offering a further progression into their unique take on Ethio-inspired jazz.
Gesprächsfetzen & In Sommerhausen
Alto saxophonist Marion Brown was an initially underrated hero of the jazz avant-garde. It was only after he moved from Atlanta to New York and joined John Coltrane that the public and the critics took notice of him.Dedicated to discovering the far-reaching possibilities of improvisational expression, Brown possessed a truly lyrical voice. In the early seventies, she played with Anthony Braxton, Andrew Cyrille, Bennie Maupin, Jeanne Lee, and Chick Corea, among others. On this recording he was ac…
KBh 2023 til 2025
In the summer of 2024 I was browsing through some unmarked tapes in my studio, Where I found a cassette with a mysterious recording which I couldn’t figure out who had made. In the following month I played it for a dozen different people to see if they had any knowledge about this magical treasure but no one knew anything about it. However after a lot of searching I figured out that the tape included recordings of my great friend Johannes’s new rock group Bending Backwards, we shared studio spac…
Femøren
A Friday evening last year I were hanging out as usual in the Afvikling headquarter probably reading about some stupid 80s action film. However that evening took an unexpected turn when this release suddenly landed in my inbox. Naja is a great friend of mine and she has already done a lot of amazing music but this tape made together with longtime collaborator Jonas Sommer is especially impressive I think. 25 minutes of very sweet and heartwarming Lofi pop songs from the top shelf of great songwr…
My room is an oyster
First cassette from my friend Jeff, hopefully many more to come.Side a is quite tense, side b is really sweetlovely tapeMy Room Is An Oyster
Side A
A series of dissociative solo guitar compositions inspired by overstimulation and political desperation.
Side B
A lil less of lonely conceptuality - the guitar as a blank canvas to be discovered with the people in the room.Feat. Casper Hejlesen and Malina Midera
Highdelberg
Guitarist Ax Genrich began his career in 1970 with a brief stint with German prog-kraut rockers Agitation Free. There he was able to develop his improvisational style, but was soon poached by Mani Neumeier to join Guru Guru. Together with bassist Uli Trepte, Genrich and Neumeier enjoyed their first major successes and were soon regarded as the new figureheads of Krautrock, releasing Känguru in 1972, a milestone in the genre. After four years and four albums, Ax Genrich left Guru Guru because the…
I’m going to have to ask you to
*Dubbed on new ferro tapes* One long composition for each side. Reminding me of an ultra-stretched version of the beautiful interplays on talktalk’s spirit of eden. Brittle percussive repetitions and muted trumpets slowly maneuvering into lovely tensions.
Compiled loops & experiments
*Dubbed on new ferro tapes* Tape loops, wind-up gramophone manipulations, and other audio fascinations. All of these sounds share the fact that they didn’t fit into any other release. Collected throughout 2024 and 2025, they were set aside on my harddrive. This is a documentation of scrap material, assembled in rough form.
Whatevershebringswesing
2025 stock Melancholic with a tendency towards ballads, this 1973 third album from Kevin Ayers is nonetheless the most accessible of his early work. Featuring the core musicians of guitarist Mike Oldfield, keyboardist David Bedford and drummer Robert Wyatt, the LP is a solid, consistent, and focused outing, which continues to be at the top of Ayer's solo work. Original artwork. New detailed liner notes.
Environments 12: new concepts in acoustic enrichment
Environments 12 reimagines field recordings for the digital age, blending real and synthetic voices in speculative soundscapes. Machine Listening’s debut LP challenges reality, blurring nature, tech, and human creativity into a mesmerizing, genre-defying sonic experience.
Silence And Wisdom + Double Happiness
Deux Filles, the elusive French duo, captivated audiences with ambient, melancholic music and a tragic myth—until revealed as a fictional project by Simon Fisher Turner and Colin Lloyd Tucker. Their two albums, “Silence & Wisdom” and “Double Happiness,” remain haunting, genre-defying gems.
Unfall
In an 'ecological' process of recovery and reuse of musical materials and obsolete electronics, 'Unfall' (German for “accident”) lays its research focus on the encounter between improvised music, electroacoustics, free jazz, dixieland, and minimalism, filtered and recomposed through techniques typical of musique concrète. Referencing Burroughs' cut-ups and methods derived from tape music, 'Unfall' experiments with intertextuality, establishing a dialogue between seemingly distant musical languag…