Upcoming releases
Mwandishi
This album is one of Hancock's first departures from the traditional idioms of jazz, as well as the beginning of an original and creative style which eventually appealed to a wider audience. In addition, Mwandishi was Hancock's attempt at continuing …
The John Coltrane Quartet Plays
Impulse! Records is proud to announce the release of “The John Coltrane Quartet Plays,” an evocative and boundary-pushing album from one of jazz’s most celebrated ensembles. Recorded in 1965, just months after the landmark “A Love Supreme,” this albu…
Miles '55: The Prestige Recordings
Concord is proud to unveil Miles ’55: The Prestige Recordings, a definitive retrospective shining a spotlight on a transformative year in jazz legend Miles Davis’ career. This collection celebrates the birth of Davis’ First Great Quintet and the crea…
The Soothsayer
Blue Note Records proudly presents the reissue of Wayne Shorter’s legendary album, The Soothsayer—a vital chapter in the evolution of modern jazz and a showcase of Shorter’s compositional brilliance. Though recorded on March 4, 1965, at the iconic Va…
The Procrastinator
Blue Note Records is proud to spotlight one of jazz trumpet legend Lee Morgan’s most exhilarating works, "The Procrastinator." Originally recorded in 1967 but first released posthumously in 1978, "The Procrastinator" captures Morgan at the height of …
Better Do It Now Before You Die Later (Book)
Though his years in the New York free-jazz scene of the sixties cemented his reputation as “one of the most forceful and convincing composers and soloists in his field,” saxophonist Sonny Simmons (1933–2021) was nearly forgotten by the eighties, whic…
Cat O’ Nine Tails
W.25TH is proud to announce the reissue of Cindy Lee's Cat O' Nine Tails, originally released in 2020 as an extremely limited edition of 50 lathe-cut LPs housed in silk-screened jackets. This essential collection, released in the wake of What's Tonig…
Iron Winter - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
De la Catessen Records proudly presents the original soundtrack for Iron
Winter by Port Adelaide based composer Luke Altmann in a hand-numbered vinyl edition of 250 copies.
Psychic Resynthesis
Tip! Frozen Reeds is proud to present Mark Fell’s ‘Psychic Resynthesis’, an instrumental work performed by Explore Ensemble. This double LP, with included digital download, is the label’s 8th release, arriving 13 years after its foundation. Fell is …
Turntable Solos
After the conceptual depth of "Parallel Traces of the Jewel Voice" (2021), dj sniff returns to Discrepant with a more direct and visceral document: Turntable Solos.
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 …
2nd Album
Following the wave of critical acclaim for his debut, the prodigious Japanese saxophonist Kosuke Mine cemented his place in the modern jazz world with the release of his 2nd Album, recorded in Tokyo in late 1970 and originally issued on the revered T…
Now!!
Now! by Masaru Imada was the second album released by the fledgling Three Blind Mice label and the pianist's first leader album for the label. All four tunes are Imada's original compositions. The two slow numbers – "Nostalgia" and "The Shadow of the…
Ginparis Session
For the better part of the 50s and 60s, Masayuki Takayanagi was among Japan's best-respected jazz guitarists. But it wasn't until his experiments with tabletop guitar led him down the seductive path of sonic experimentation that he became the stuff o…
U TA
In November 2017, something extraordinary happened in Shibuya. As Shuta Hasunuma began conjuring otherworldly sounds from a single Buchla Music Easel modular synthesizer, Keiji Haino—one of Japan's most uncompromising experimental voices—responded by…
Mesmerine 111
Illustrious Company presents... Mesmerine 111. This is a 3D soundscape based on / inspired by the frequency 111Hz, which has been historically and scientifically proven to induce a trance-like state. Findings of MRI scans suggest that at exactly 111h…
B side
Shadows fold into colour. Memory dissolves into noise. You brush up against the walls of the mind. Touch is soft as breath. On ‘B-Side’, Areliz Ramos follows her work’s current into its more “fantastic and elusive… and even romantic” side; a place wh…
EX! Zine Edition 3 (Magazine + DL)
EX! Zine proudly announces the launch of its highly anticipated Edition 3, a beacon for avant-garde creativity that continues to spotlight trailblazing voices in experimental audio, visual, and written art. This new edition cements EX! Zine's positio…
Stillleben (Book+DL)
This season marks the captivating release of "Stillleben": a groundbreaking project that masterfully unites a lavishly illustrated art book with a brand-new digital album, forging an immersive experience that celebrates the timeless allure of still l…
A Year In Minutes
A Year In Minutes is an artistic diary / audio calendar that contains a sound recording, a geographical location, and a photograph, artwork, or essay for each day of the year. Meant as a psychogeography—the study of the influence of geographical envi…