New Arrivals
State Of The Union
*200 copies limited edition* All tracks previously unreleased from projects currently active in the United States. Featuring Pain Appendix, Dead Door Unit, Confounder, Ineffable Slime, Gates Of Janus, Max Julian Eastman, Lidless Eye, Infibulation, Mallard Theory, Hand & Knee, Spykes, and Cost.
Mastered by Grant Richardson at Hex Audio Labs
Tonspuren
This is the first solo album by Dieter Moebius, recorded at Conny Plank's studio and originally released in 1983 on Sky Records. By 1969 at the latest, Dieter Moebius was synonymous with the avant-garde electronic music scene in Germany. He and Hans-Joachim Roedelius formed Cluster, a seminal electronic/ambient duo, while Moebius was also a member of the so-called Krautrock supergroup Harmonia (with Michael Rother and Roedelius), as well as collaborating on various other projects with the likes …
Hereafter
Sofa is proud to mark its 100th release with the stunningly beautiful double album Hereafter, a new major work from guitarist/composer Kim Myhr, written for the 15-piece Stavanger-based ensemble Kitchen Orchestra. “Hereafter can be seen as a meditation on mortality and transience”, Myhr explains. “It was written at a time where the prime minister of Norway told the country’s population that ‘you have to be prepared to lose someone dear to you’. It was like taken out of Tarkovsky’s “Sacrifice”. T…
Theatre Of Blood (Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1973 cult classic Theatre Of Blood, Quartet Records, in collaboration with MGM, presents the first-ever LP edition of the iconic Michael J. Lewis’ score! Directed by Douglas Hickox and starring Vincent Price and Diana Rigg, with guest victims Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Robert Morley, Michael Hordern and Jack Hawkins, among others, the film is a macabre British black comedy about a Shakespearean actor who is systematically humiliated by critics who consider…
Häxan (Cinema Paradiso Vol. I)
*2024 stock. 300 copies limited edition* The first volume in a series of live, improvisational & spontaneous scores to silent and obscure movies by the ever morphing RAIC (aka the Richmond Avant Improv Collective), who settled on an 8 piece ensemble for this recording...
Samuel Goff - Drums, Percussion, Vocals, Keyboards, ElectronicsAbdul Hakim-Bilal - GuitarErik Schroeder - Alto Saxophone, Percussion, Keyboards, Sampler, Theremin, Electronics, Flute, WoodwindsZoe Olivia Kinney - Cello, VocalsLa…
Nations Of I
*2024 stock. 250 copies limited edition* The music on this album sprang out of my work for the Magam project and consists of 3 suites –2 of which have, in earlier stages, been used for a butoh and a dance performance respectively– that cover the distance from aleatoric to improvised to composed music... What I like most about it is its playfulness.
The album title was initially inspired by Kurt Vonnegut's concept of "a nation of two" (in "Mother Night", 1962):“[...] 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴…
Olive
*2024 stock. 100 copies limited edition* "My name is Francesco Covarino (Perugia, 1979). I live in Granada, Spain and teach Italian. I play the drums in a duo called Covarino/Incorvaia, with which I've released two albums: "Perugia" (Preserved Sound, 2016) and "Granada" (whitelabrecs, 2017). Olive is my first solo release, and it features 16 short drum improvisations, recorded in a big room in an industrial area in Granada, with trucks maneuvering and machinery noises happening right outside the…
Ten Rooms Under the Sea
*200 copies limited edition* Open to the Sea, an eclectic music project led by Enrico Coniglio, Matteo Uggeri, and Saverio Rosi, returns with a new album, guiding the listener into a world of delicate intimacy, where sound is but a glimmer of light that seeps beneath the surface of the sea. With "Ten Rooms Under the Sea," we travel through the rooms of time, guided by melancholy but with no risk of falling into genre stereotypes. This album definitively celebrates the collaboration between Enric…
The Living Planet (A Portrait Of The Earth)
*2024 stock* "Silva Screen repress the soundtrack to 'The Living Planet', the sequel to David Attenborough’s groundbreaking 'Life On Earth'. Scored by Elizabeth Parker who joined the BBC in 1978 her synthesizer-led score for The Living Planet received an Emmy nomination at the time, and it was released the same year by the BBC on vinyl. Now, the Silva Screen label has unearthed this rare album, and have re-issued it on limited arctic pearl coloured vinyl. (Recorded at BBC Radiophonic Workshop)."…
Spirit Of Elijah
"This isn't just the best Christian album I've heard. It may possibly be the best album in the laid back, West Coast late 1960's-early 70's style that I've heard, period." — Acid Archives
The Whisperer In Darkness
Music by Rupert Lally & Benjamin Schabrun - Rupert Lally: Bottleneck Guitar, Felt Piano, Korg Wavestate, Novation Bass Station II, Percussion. Benjamin Schabrun: Violin, Felt Piano, Samples. "After replying sceptically to newspaper reports that strange looking corpses found in the aftermath of floods in Vermont were those of alien beings, Albert N. Wilmarth, a professor at Miskatonic University, is contacted by Henry Wentworth Akeley, a Vermont native, who not only tells him that the corpses are…
Plays A Word For Wind
Christina Carter, David Menestres and Andrew Weathers
Recorded at Tablelands Center for Bio-Regional Art, Shallowater, TX, March 30, 2022.Mixed & Mastered by Andrew Weathers at Wind Tide, Littlefield, TX
Dreams Of 75
Lothar Jahn’s "February '75” single was released by the German label Sound Records in 1977 — a very unusual record, somewhere between psychedelic, folk, and Krautrock. That single was reviewed thus on Discogs: “A mysterious journey through Cosmic Psych Folk Kraut, whatever you may call it. Fantastic, from beginning to end. Another Kraut on 45 milestone.” This newly recorded album, “Dreams of ’75,” is an extended riff on the original single, taking that smaller vision as a starting point and th…
Collected Singles
Not many albums can get you in the mood to blow out your speakers quite like Kath “1”, the hideously rare and expensive 1974 low-fi, semi-ramshackle DIY psychedelic LP made by members of Maryland band Badge, recorded in the home of band leader Val Rogolino (and, yes, dedicated to his girlfriend and their pet monkey!). What Patrick the Lama said in Acid Archives about Kath, is equally applicable to Badge: “Obscure and impressive melodic basement garage/psych with a lo-fi atmosphere that would hav…
L'Infonie
Beat poetry influence free form jazz collective, formed in Montreal in 1967, L'Infonie existed officially until 1974. Lead by composer Walter Boudreau (aka retlaW uaerduoB) and poet, singer, trumpeter Raôul Duguay (aka luôaR yauguD) this very loose collective featured up to 33 artists from various backgrounds ranging from free jazz, classical, contemporary, rock, visual arts and poetry
Winter Resort Music
"The inspiration for Winter Resort Music is derived from a childhood passion for winter sports. It's all about the spooky synths, mainlining radiophonic electronics, subconscious TV memories and an awe about what these athletes could do on the slopes when you were living in the suburbs. Can anyone forget the glowing figure-skaters, dancing into the public consciousness? The perfect beauty that melted girl's and boy's hearts around the world. Sunday afternoons spent watching guys flying on long j…
Metal
*65 copies limited edition.* There is not many other duo's on czech free improv / noise scene such as these two. Klamm & Pelikan. They are something like Durman / Posejpal for generation X. Working together since 2011, but probably much longer. This is Discogs knowledge speaking. They are navigating themselves through the wastelands of tones that nobody wants to hear. Ever. Manipulated guitar, tape loops combined with alt sax and clarinet and hallucinating voices. Sometimes the offering consists…
BO
*120 copies limited edition.* "I'm on a jet ski. The river I'm on is dirty. Not like it was clean before, but there was some rain up north and now the mud got in the stream. Bunch of birds are hanging out on the piece of driftwood. The splash of dirty water from jet ski disturbs them from their limbo. They fly away, they squeal with displeasure. This river is all mine. Rain starts pouring. Jet ski is on full speed now, spitting the brown mud water out. Sound of a collapsing engine brings the jet…
We Couldn't Agree On A Total
in Colin Potter own words: This is the 100th release by ICR. The first was the compilation LP ‘We Couldn’t Agree on a Title’ in 1981. Back in those days, I never imagined – no, wait – that’s so long ago, I really can’t remember what I imagined. I know that I did think Integrated Circuit Records was a good name for a label that was ‘integrated’ (?!) and vaguely electronic. Which is why it’s now called ICR, much less of a mouthful. But it is slightly surprising to have made it to 100 releases, alt…
Boîte Boîte
"Boîte Boîte" is the latest collection from French trumpeter Jac Berrocal. Composed of rare and previously unreleased tracks, it plunges the listener into the fascinating world of this unclassifiable and timeless avant-garde artist. Recorded between Paris, New York, Berlin and Riga, the works are received like postcards from an unknown sender and enjoyed without moderation. The selection, devised by Jac Berrocal himself, oscillates between experimental tracks such as the eponymous 'Boîte Boîte' …