Upcoming releases
Noon
On either side of the globe, two seminal experimental artists collaborate for the first time: UK composer Richard Skelton and Australian artist Lawrence English meet for Noon, a devastating study of greyscale landscapes, deep sonics, and long-distanc…
The Evil of Banality
Tip! Last autumn, Ni Vu Ni Connu released Fagaschinski's debut album as a sole composer, entitled Aerodynamics. The double LP features two large-scale clarinet ensemble pieces: an octet composition performed by The Paranormal Clarinet Society and a n…
The Snake, the Frog and the Argument
*50 copies limited edition* 1. The Habu (2020). The Habu is a pit viper endemic to the Ryukyu Islands. The violence done to these islands reverberates through. The Habu is venomous, mostly nocturnal. Spectral. From the dense vegetation it morphs into…
Makuhari
*100 copies limited edition* Tokyo-based artist Ryu Yoshizawa has spent the past decade developing a singular language as Koeosaeme. His works sit somewhere between electronic composition, musique concrète, sound collage and sound art. Following a se…
No-input Mixing Board, Early Years
Big tip! A pioneering figure in Japanese improvisational music, Toshimaru Nakamura has collaborated and performed with artists including Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, Keith Rowe, David Sylvian, and Christian Fennesz. Personally curated by Nakamura hims…
In C - 60th Birthday Full Moon Celebration At Kiyomizu-dera Temple
Big tip! Sixty years after the groundbreaking premiere of In C forever changed the course of contemporary music, Terry Riley celebrates the work's enduring legacy with a historic live recording captured at Kyoto's Unesco World Heritage site, Kiyomizu…
Warm Ground
*300 copies limited edition* Tara Cunningham’s guitar glitch miniatures draw patterns in negative space on new mini-album Warm Ground. Operating predominantly within improvisational and experimental music, guitarist Tara Cunningham has developed a di…
Spring Back, Ball Forward
*300 copies limited edition* Spring Back, Ball Forward is the Soda Gong debut from Jung dj, nom de plume of shapeshifting multi-instrumentalist Randy Riback. Following a series of uniformly great self-releases and cassettes on the dearly missed Lille…
Sirimiri
*150 copies limitede edition* Originally released by Umor Rex on cassette in 2018, Rafael Anton Irisarri’s Sirimiri is now available on vinyl for the first time, newly remastered for this edition. This LP marks the fourth and final installment in a s…
Astrocyrk
*100 copies limited edition* Astrocyrk (Astrocircus) is the next chapter in a story that began in 2123, when Captain Harrison Focus, after an emergency landing, finds himself on the mysterious planet Carmin. Following the events described in the prev…
Vanity Fair
De Kloe: their name is as hard to explain as the music they channel from a total oddball universe. Rumour has it a wormhole sits hidden between the beer crates and a broken dartboard in the basement of the DPG Media building in Antwerp. Leon Jespers,…
The Best Of Miles Davis & John Coltrane (1955-1961)
A double LP drawn from the Columbia recordings of Miles Davis with John Coltrane between 1955 and 1961, from So What to Someday My Prince Will Come, with Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly and Jimmy Cobb. First time on vinyl.
The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961
The 2000 Grammy-winning box of the complete Columbia recordings by Miles Davis with John Coltrane, 58 tracks from 1955 to 1961, reissued as six CDs in individually designed minijackets with a 116-page book.
The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961
The 2000 Grammy-winning box of the complete Columbia recordings by Miles Davis with John Coltrane, 58 tracks from 1955 to 1961, on vinyl for the first time outside Mosaic: nine LPs cut from the analog tapes, in a slipcase with a 60-page book.
At The Lighthouse: If You're Not Part Of The Solution, You're Part Of The Problem
Joe Henderson's quintet live at the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach in 1970, with Woody Shaw, George Cables, Ron McClure, Tony Waters and Lenny White. Deluxe 3LP edition with five unreleased tracks and new liner notes.
I've Known Rivers And Other Bodies
Montreux, 7 July 1973: Gary Bartz brings the NTU Troop on stage as a quartet and plays the first half of the concert as one unbroken suite. Langston Hughes turned into song, alto and soprano over electric piano and bass. First vinyl edition since 197…
Rites
Jan Garbarek's 1998 double album with Rainer Bruninghaus, Eberhard Weber, Marilyn Mazur and Bugge Wesseltoft, on vinyl for the first time in ECM's Luminessence series: tip-on gatefold jacket with booklet.
Illusion Suite
Stanley Cowell's only ECM album, recorded in 1972 with Stanley Clarke on bass and Jimmy Hopps on drums. Reissued in the Luminessence series, tip-on gatefold jacket with new liner notes by Ethan Iverson.
Ahmad Jamal '73
Ahmad Jamal's 1973 album for 20th Century, his first on electric piano, with an orchestra arranged by Richard Evans and versions of Superstition and The World Is A Ghetto. Verve Vault reissue, all-analog, 180 gram.
The Second Coming
Rudolph Johnson's second album for Black Jazz, from 1973, with Kirk Lightsey, Kent Brinkley and Doug Sides: free, expressive playing in the wake of Coltrane, with little of the fusion of its time. Real Gone reissue on black vinyl.