New Arrivals
Featureless Thermal Equilibrium
Helicopter presents Featureless Thermal Equilibrium by Sissy Spacek. New and revelatory full length album with a trio line-up of Charlie Mumma, Jay Randall, and John Wiese. A world of mesmerizing evocations and alternating realms. An unceasing kingdom of ash and scorch. Barbarous events augmented with glamour and suffering. A cruel attack on the unexpected success of the Rubik’s Cube. Recorded 13 June 2016 at Sonelab, Western Mass. Engineered by Mark Alan Miller.
Hole in my Head
The only true non-places are those of the mind: but being able to give them a tangible form doesn't always equate to the delineation of a balanced, pictorially satisfying landscape, nor does it solve the inner mystery from which it originated. In the creation of an audio document, even the simplest sonic occurrence derives from an idea and a gesture, even if only pressing the record button: and it's precisely the gesture - be it overt, dissimulated, concealed, or mediated - the absolute protagon…
Schwingende Luftsäulen 3
Here the third and final chapter of “Schwingende Luftsäulen” the series dedicated by Werner Durand to the Pan-Ney, the wind instrument of his own invention. In confront with the first two volumes this one represent a sort of flashback. In fact the five pieces on the CD present “early” works, mainly created in the first half of the 90s. “Still Another Ocean” was composed in June /July1991 in Ile de la Réunion, in the wonderful house of Frédéric Borne.
“M-Ocean” was composed in the summer of 1994 …
Barren
**In process of stocking** ICR is happy to announce our latest release - a double CD with 2 recordings of concerts by Nurse With Wound that are judged to be amongst their most unusual performances. The first is from Florence in 2012 with the lineup of Steven Stapleton, Paul Beauchamp & Colin Potter. The second is from Karlsruhe in 2013 when the performers were Stapleton, Potter & Andrew Liles. Disc 1 'Confluence' incorporating 'Letter from Topor' & 'Eyes's of a Scanning Girl' 55'57'' Disc 2 '…
Sick Soundtrack
* Limited edition 150 numbered copies. 7" included. Printed inner sleeve + 6 Polaroid photos * The end of the 1970s was an historical period of great social and cultural tensions and changes, the Gaznevada band was formed within this context. Their first recordings are collected in a K7 simply titled Gaznevada. Recognized by critics as the first publication of Italian punk rock, this production is a "time window" open to this historical period, it records intact the ingenuity and contradictions,…
Perfect Time
Archimedes Badkar was started by Per Tjernberg in 1972 and between 1975 and 1979 released four LPs. Recently, three of the original members plus four newcomers gathered in Silence's legendary studio in Koppom. There were two CDs and LPs, 102 minutes of music, mostly from lively first shots. They looked around the world early, absorbed music from different parts of Africa, Central Asia, India, America, Europe, but they also listened to contemporary composers such as Terry Riley. Now the focus is …
Música Callada / See the Welter
The imagery of musical forms emptied of earthly meaning, of solitude, and of a connection to the divine were irresistible to Federico Mompou. A desire to be alone had shaped Mompou’s early musical direction: as natural shyness ended his ambitions to be piano virtuoso, after studies at the Paris Conservatoire he turned to composition instead. His approach remained introspective – far removed from the overt and public expressions of the avant-garde, both before and after the Second World War – and…
Secret Passage
* Blue Version * Growing up in deindustrialized Providence, Rhode Island of the 1970s and 1980s provided NYC-based composer and interdisciplinary artist Gavilán Rayna Russom access to derelict subterranean spaces including the mile-long East Side Rail Tunnel. The tunnel's reverberant darkness would produce distinctive sensory effects and host Russom's formative experiences of interpersonal connectedness, liminality, transgender identity, anti-capitalist desire and state repression.Secret Passage…
Improvised Harp Solo
**2020 stock, few copies available** Rare live remastered recording. Alice Coltrane’s Harp performance in Warsaw, Poland. On the 23rd of October 1987 in Warsaw, Poland at the Jazz Jamboree festival, Alice Coltrane played a improvised harp solo that lasted over 9 minutes. The harp belonged to harpist Anna Faber. It was made in Russia she had acquired it in a most unusual barter;bags of white potatoes in exchange for a Russian pedal harp. Anna, said the harp had a great tone but was mechanically v…
Crazy Night
* Limited and remastered from original tapes. Available for the first time on vinyl, fully licenced. Insert with band history and unpublished pictures * After the repress of their single “Eyes / Morning Rain", Camisole Records is proud to announce the reissue of Coldreams tape ”Crazy Night“. Recorded in 1984-1985 by a gang of young students passionate about Post-Punk this record represents the culmination of the band first period. Haunted lyrics and melancholia were already the basics of their s…
Stopp, Seisku Aeg
* 2020 repress * Velly Joonas is a mysterious singer, who once wanted to become a soul singer, but later choose folk music instead. Frotee has released two recordings of cover versions from Estonian Radio archives, both tracks have Estonian lyrics written by herself. In 1983, she recorded an incredible version of "I See Red" (Stopp, Seisku Aeg). Few years earlier she recorded lovely version of classic "Feel Like Makin' Love" (Käes On Aeg). Both previously unreleased, now available on 7" single!
Funny Bells / Sloopy
* Limited 7" for Christmas 2020 * Stroom presents Funny Bells by Betty Arden and Sloopy by Saskia. Two 7" released together on December 2020 for Xmas celebration.
"Goodmorning. I wish you, a merry merry christmas. As you sit by the fire. I see your sadness on your face. You hear the funny bells inside your head. And I do look into your pretty eyes. So gray. The Funny Bells. You are my friend. Today." - AU
Ki-date
Few copies back in stock, longtime sold-out at the source. This is Akio Suzuki's brand new fantastic item consisted of an exhibition catalog and DVD boxed! He carried out an exhibition at a small museum in Aichi pref. in last summer. This DVD includes his installations, talking with poet Syuntaro Tanikawa, live performances and some past events in 3 hours and a half !! Also small catalog is included many photographs of this exhibition and very rare performances in earlier period. 189 pp, text is…
Ako's Dream
One of the wonderfully creative 70s sets from Japanese stringman Isao Suzuki – an artist who also plays bass, but who works here on jazz cello – for a very unusual approach! The set has Suzuki's work on the light strings matched in a combo with lead guitar from Kazumi Watanabe – who's nicely restrained here, and falls in with Isao's strings at a level that's quite different than his own material of the time. Watanabe's lead is augmented by further rhythm guitar work by Kazumasa Akiyama, and the …
Bruton Brutoff: The Ambient, Electronic and Pastoral Sounds of The Bruton Library Catalogue
Rare musical magic from the Bruton library catalog -- ambient, spacey, pastoral, and electronic. Music by John Cameron, Alan Hawkshaw, Francis Monkman, Brian Bennett, and more -- all total masters of the scene. Over the last three decades Jonny Trunk has collected and written about library music. But he's never had a great deal of luck with the Bruton catalog. By this he means that he's never stumbled across a massive stash, or lucked-out buying a huge run for practically nothing. But he did man…
I Want Some Water
**Edition of 500** Born in Mississippi in 1937 and beginning to play the saxophone at 14, Billie Harris relocated to Los Angeles in 1965 after a 4 year stint in the Air Force, becoming one of the great, unsung forces of underground jazz in the city for many years (he later relocated to the Mojave Desert, where, at last record, he still plays in a church band). A Venice Beach street musician and longtime member of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra - you can hear him playing on Live at I.U.C.C. and…
The Call
**Original, still sealed copies of this rare album! Few available** A masterpiece from the Los Angeles jazz underground – Horace Tapscott’s burning, spiritualised 1978 set, The Call. One of the unsung giants of jazz music, the composer, bandleader, arranger, pianist and community activist Horace Tapscott was the undisputed keystone in the grassroots Los Angeles jazz scene. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, his radical community arts and music formations the UGMA (Underground Musicians Association,…
The Creator's Musician
**1980 Album. Original copies** Beautiful, deep, meditative solo bass album . Roberto’s first LP on Nimbus. A beautiful record of upright bass solo work, ranging from emotive arco playing to nice throbbing pizzicato. Roberto Miguel Miranda has played with John Carter & Bobby Bradford and cut another great, more soulful side for Nimbus with a larger group of his own. The playing throughout is spacious, even it's most full moments never gets too busy, with a deep spiritual quality, clear through t…
Thomas Tedesco And Ocean
**1982 Album. Original copies** Guitarist Thomas Tedesco tearing it up in June of 1981… the personnel on this one is an all-star group featuring: Bobby Bradford , Roberto Miranda, Onaje Ferguson, and Sartuse
Phantasmagoria
**1984 Album. Original copies** Curtis Clark, Roberto Miranda, and Sonship Theus take you on an epic journey… an overlooked artist, Curtis Clark appearing here in his Nimbus debut.