New Arrivals
Polska
“Make Polish Jazz great again”: Piotr Damasiewicz & Power of the Horns return with “Polska” LP. A musical visionary, some outstanding instrumentalists, the 10th anniversary of the collective’s founding, a reflection on Polishness, and finally – a 4,000 km-long walking pilgrimage of 100 solo concerts in 100 temples. These events, symbols, experiences and facts have somehow been combined into one coherent whole – the Polska LP, the first release by Piotr Damasiewicz & Power of the Horns Ensemble s…
Satanic Nafs
In Islamic psychology, each person has an aspect of the Self called the “Nafs” which is divided into multiple layers. Every day, a person enters into a spiritual battlefield with their dark side, their lowly desires, and Satan. Satanic Nafs is thus the lowest level of the self, due the love of oneself and evil desires. Achieving spiritual transformation involves a constant struggle against the lower nature of the self (Satanic Nafs). This struggle led Jaubi to discover the concept of “Nafs”. T…
Monika / Zabawa W Ciemności
After a very busy year in which Astigmatic Records made its debut as a label looking for lost, never before released musical treasures (Renata Lewandowska, "Dotyk"), the time has come for more attempts to deal with the history of Polish popular music. The seven-inch single "Monika / Fun in Darkness" begins a series of releases with undiscovered recordings by Henryk Debich, whose activities made the Polish Radio and Television Orchestra in Łódź famous all over the world. For the last two years, …
Hidden Island Music (LP)
In process of stocking * 300 copies only * Francisco López offers a brand new field recording composition based on the recordings he did in the island of Tenerife whilst visiting for a performance at the Keroxen Festival, 2020. Internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the sound art and experimental music scene, Francisco has an ear-like gift to point his microphones (and our ears) to the most special and unlikely of sound sources. For almost forty years he has developed an asto…
A Story Ended
This is the first official re-release on vinyl under licensed courtesy of BMG Rights Management,UK, remastered from an original master copy out of the vaults of BMG, originally released in 1972 on Bronze Records. Co-founder of Colosseum in 1968 with Jon Hiseman, Dick Heckstall-Smith knew from his Jazz Club years as drummer for Georgie Fame, Dick ran through this group`s hectic recording and touring schedule for over 3 years until November 1971, when it disbanded. In his late ‘30`s’ at that time,…
Live (LP)
* Ltd. to 285 copies, silkscreened jacket with obi (tan or light blue), inserts and postcard * An’archives are proud to present a reissue of the self-titled first album by the trio of Akiko Hotaka, Takuya Nishimura and Ikuro Takahashi. Originally released in 2020 as a limited CD-R on the Uramado label, those who had the chance to hear this collection of live recordings, documenting a brief window of exploratory activity for Hotaka during the mid-2010s, were knocked out by its elemental force, Ho…
Pyramid Pieces 2: Modern Jazz Australia 1969-1980 (LP)
Following the critical acclaim of the 2020 compilation Pyramid Pieces, The Roundtable return with a second offering of modernist jazz from Australia. Another vital document further examining the nation's jazz scene during the late 1960s and 70s. A fertile period that witnessed the birth of an independent movement and the development of a distinct Australian jazz sound. While continuing to focus on the modal forms explored in Volume 1, this second edition shifts direction slightly, this time also…
Mani Mani
Edition of 200 copies. Screen-printed sleeve. Borrowing its title from a verse contained in the Man'yōshū poems, Mani Mani is the recording of the performance held by Pierre Berthet and Rie Nakajima under their collaborative project Dead Plants and Living Objects at Seanaps Festival 2020 in Leipzig. Water dripping in resonant buckets, riverberating rocks, small bowls, self-crafted engines and mobiles: the acoustic gestures of Berthet and Nakajima set into motion an heterogeneous ensemble of soun…
Mantra's
* Mantra's Special Edition of 26 numbered copies * Beautiful edition housed in a handcarved Indian wooden box. With : a long article from Green Groceries magazine, a spiritual travelogue, a portrait by Dutch painter Paul Citroen, a prayer flag, an ad from Sotheby's, several reprints of Ginsberg mantra flyers and all the visuals of the original box the master came in.
From a one copy master; Allen Ginsberg, Maretta Greer and Peter Orlovsky sing mantras with bells and harmonium. Recorded at home i…
An unfinished memoir (Book)
** Limited edition of 80 * Legendary side-man Lee Crabtree with a 10 page memoir mainly about his days as a member of The Fugs and working at Allen Ginsberg's farm on Allen's Blake album. A straight reissue with a new afterword. A4 size.
The Wind of Things
In process of stocking, totally sold-out at source * Limited Edition Sea-Haze Blue Vinyl * Matthew Sage is about seeing the big picture, but focused through the most intimate and personal lens possible. Best exemplified on the gauzy, cartographical opus 'A Singular Continent', as well as his impulsively meditative Geographic North debut 'Catch a Blessing', Sage’s imagination yields fully realized sonic suites to worlds both imaginary and referential to his own. Now, the Chicago-based composer, p…
Grå Våg Gamlestaden
* 150 copies * Gothenburgers’ Dan Johansson (Sewer Election) and Sofie Herner’s Neutral is the product of Sofie’s instruments and voice, and Dan’s manipulation and reel-to-reel technique. After previously making music together, in 2013 they had the idea to start compiling the recordings to make an LP. Originally released as a cassette edition of 25 on Ingen Våg.
Grå Våg Gamlestaden was released in the fall of 2014, with strong themes of a certain kind of bleakness, but with a wry smile, closely …
Fluxus, Events, Music (1964-2021) (Book)
* bilingual edition (English / French) 10,5 x 15 cm 40 bound cards * Marcel Alocco's Events, some poem-scores to be performed in a real or imaginary space. This bilingual edition in a new format is completed with previously unpublished works: "Forgotten Pieces" (1966-1976) and "Rhapsody, Baie des Anges" (2021). These events are meant to be performed again by anyone who wishes to. Some of the pieces in this book were performed on stage by the author during Fluxus concerts organized by Ben with Se…
Polyphone (Book)
* Hardcover 16,5 x 23 cm 288 pages 67 color and b/w illustrations. German & French * The publication accompanying the eponymous exhibition brings together works by more than 20 international artists that focus on the encounter of multiple voices and sounds. Polyphone deals with perceptual aspects, as well as with the socio-cultural and political dimensions of polyphony. Here, polyphony refers to both the musical term and the linguistic definition according to Mikhail Bakhtin, who points to the a…
The Solar System
* Ten 10″ white vinyl records unique to this edition Each contains a sine wave relating to a different planet Housed in a custom-made box, hand lined in Suedel Luxe Charbon Includes 10 screen printed PVC prints Limited edition of 100 copies worldwide * Japan’s leading electronic composer and visual artist, Ryoji Ikeda collaborates with The Vinyl Factory on a new 12” vinyl-only release housing 10 locked grooves each consisting of a unique sine wave with a different frequency correlating to a diff…
Sky Wells
Edition of 200 copies. After seven years New Zealand’s Claypipe return with a new full-length album, Sky Wells. Claypipe was formed in the early 2000s when, after years of record trading, North Islander Antony Milton and South Islander Clayton Noone came together. Their musical chemistry was immediate and a slew of excellent cassettes, CDs and lathe cuts followed. They carved out a niche with a sort of pastoral psychedelia that brought to mind the forest as much the sea, the acoustic guitar as m…
Ad Infinitum
* Limited edition of 379 copies on black vinyl. Deluxe 16-page casebound hardcover photo book with numbered certificate and sticker. * Die Form is the seminal post-industrial electronic act started in the late 70’s by French musician and multimedia artist Philippe Fichot. He began recording a number of experimental cassettes under different names but Die Form became the main project and with which he has developed a prolific career during more than four decades. Whilst the project was still in i…
Barbara e altri Carella
* Limited edition 180 gram transparent yellow vinyl, gatefold * Beatiful reissue for this masterpiece by Enzo Carella whose original edition usually sells for crazy prices on the second-hand market. This undervalued piece of work was perhaps too avantgarde during the time of release to get the full attention it deserves.Carella was an Italian singer-songwriter who is best remembered for his 1979 major hit Barbara, which is the opening track on Barbara e altri Carella, his second album. All songs…
If There Were No Opposites
A couple of the pieces on Nick Fraser's If There Were No Opposites, the quartet’s fourth album, were adapted from Fraser's compositions for dance productions by Decidedly Jazz Danceworks." But while the original versions of “Shoe Dance” and “The Fashion Show” had to adhere to rigid timing requirements in order to coordinate with the rest of the stage production, the quartet lets the music flow in more free-wheeling fashion. The quartet first recorded in 2012, and its personnel has never changed.…
Recherche Dans Le Rêve (LP)
Tip! ' Edition of 300' After a couple of limited art releases on Des Astres D’Or (now Astres d’Or) this is the first more widely available release of Wendingen 1918. Aural analogue surreal investigations by the trio of Raymond Dijkstra (Asra, bhaavitaaH bhuutasthaH, Santasede), Bart De Paepe (Ilta Hämärä, Innercity, Bombay Lunatic Asylum) and Frédérique Bruyas (Emmanuel Dilhac, La Poupée Vivante, Nivritti Marga). A hybrid mix of dynamic electronics, spatial sounds and poetry expressing a dazzlin…