New Arrivals
Rivers And Streams
Lubomyr Melnyk is a Ukrainian composer and pianist who has pioneered 'Continuous Piano Music'. Classically trained and greatly affected by the minimalist movement in the early 1970s, he has developed his own unique language for the piano, named af…
Sound Advice
"Of all the saxophones, it is our opinion that the one with the most distinctive sound, warmth and range that can reach into that of other saxophones, is the baritone sax." As composer, bandleader, and full-time member of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Pat …
Sunshine
48st volume in the BYG Actuel series; gatefold sleeve, 180 gram vinyl. "This album was recorded in Paris on August 15, 1969 with Lester Bowie, Dave Burrell, Roscoe Mitchell, Archie Shepp, Alan Silva, Malachi Favors, Arthur Jones and Kenneth Terroade.…
Live At The Donaueschingen Music Festival
2015 restock / Recorded live at the "Donaueschingen Musiktage 1967", October 21st, 1967. "This is an exciting album. The important tenor Archie Shepp and his 1967 group -- with both Roswell Rudd and Grachan Moncur on trombones, bassist Jimmy Garrison…
Raised Coils Of The Giant Serpent Of Eternity / I Heard Only The
Opening the album with a harmonious set of gently spiraling tones, Daniel Menche’s piece “Raised Coils of the Giant Serpent of Eternity” offers only this brief moment of serenity before a headlong dive into a cacophonous abyss of darker dimensions…
Heterodyne
"I'm going to do something I never do -- I'm going to write this press release in the first person. This is a very special release for Type and it's been a long time coming. I met Arash Moori when we both attended the same Art School in Birmingham…
To You
Fiercely beautiful Danish jazz from 1968, sworn body-and-soul to the legacy of John Coltrane, and the raw sense of music as a healing force, tearing through the cosmos — but with its own intensely compelling voice, on the line from Copenhagen, to …
Hexadic II
Several years ago, after tiring of the predictable patterns he sensed himself settling into as a guitar player, Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance decided to design a theoretical framework that would force his hands into different positions. Chas…
Meta
In installation form, Meta consists of four transducers that are attached to the wall on each corner of a perfectly drawn six foot square. Meta is also a quadraphonic piece, composed to be spatially moving along the four assigned channels. When the …
Ornamente (Zwischen Null und Eins)
"The latest release from Asmus Tietchens continues the ambiguity that has been prevalent through his recent works. Far from the early experiments with sampling and erratic, mechanical rhythms that characterized much of his early work; Ornamente (…
Isolation
Line is proud to present the latest work by Berlin based artist Frank Bretschneider. Renowned for his mastery of rhythmic elements throughout his discography, Bretschneider has set this palette aside for an unexpected and unsettling exploration in…
The Chosen Themes - Program I
ecorded between 2012-2014, Jared Blum's (of GiganteSound, The Talking Book, Blanketship, Vulcanus 68, et al.) Vision Heat project is a laser guided, hyper vintage conflation of early to mid 80's centric production, montage and style. Recalling suc…
Live in Paris, 1964 LP
"already released on vinyls in the late 80's (Naima/Serene were on a Jazzway LP and Serene/Springtime on a West Wind album) but NOT with this track sequence and i may sounds exaggerated but in this way to me it's simply Eric Dolphy's best album to…
The Medium Is the Massage
When Marshall McLuhan proposed his idea to create an audio companion piece to his landmark 1967 book The Medium is the Massage, no one quite knew what to expect. The book itself brilliantly captured McLuhan's theories on media and technology, argui…
Unstopable
A new self-released casette from this unpredictable belgian artist. Both sides of this tape were made by doubling live studio recordings in stereo. You can also unplug one speaker to hear the original recordings.
Floris Vanhoof, filmmaker and musici…
Brittle
With a detached curiosity, Grant Evans drops us into his petri dish of mud, bacteria, and fetid slop. At first, we have no roadmap to the drowning noise that slowly trickles down the throat and presses against the ear drums; but Evans is no sadist. Y…
A possibility (one of many)
40 Copies. Each Cover Is Unique. Francisco Meirino about the recordings: " Source recordings were conducted in the basement at Radio Picnic headquarters in Brussels, among all the gear available, I chose to use, as I often do in my body of work, only…
Pan on fire
Toshimaru Nakamura is a pioneer on his instrument no-input mixing board. Releasing nearly hundred albums since the mid 90's, including 9 solo albums. However, in this project with Martin Taxt he appears with a new approach to his instrument. Taxt has…
Soundtracks
Three compositions made for films.
1 – 4 . A grammar for listening 2
From Luke Fowler's 16mm film “A grammar for listening part 2”, 2009.
All sounds recorded in Paris, and Glasgow.
5 . A Hemero Phaestos 2 From Christian Jaccard's video “A Hemero Pha…