Upcoming releases

AMM in its classic trio of Eddie Prévost, Keith Rowe and John Tilbury, live at Goodspeed Hall, University of Chicago, on 20 April 1996. An audience recording approved by all three, 100 copies on green vinyl.

Spencer Clark's second and last album as Black Joker, from 2010, remastered and pressed to vinyl for the first time: wooden-block percussion, flute-like keyboards and interlocking synth melodies under a night sky.

Gonçalo F. Cardoso as Tropic Brut: contact mics, geophones and piezos on the resort complexes of Tenerife, concrete, metal and machinery amplified into a brutalist, tongue-in-cheek record about mass tourism. Mastered by Rashad Becker.

Black Truffle's 150th release: Graham Lambkin and Emmett Kelly fold finger-picked British folk, psych jams and loops of natural sound into a tape-collaged record, with Jim White on drums for one track.

Keyboardist Himiko Kikuchi's 1987 fusion album with guitarist Masatsugu Matsumoto, a full horn section and members of Spectrum, AB's and Yuji Ohno's band. Limited 180g reissue on Great Tracks, pressed in Japan.

Masabumi Kikuchi's quintet recorded live in the studio in March 1973, just before his move to New York: two saxophones over a piano trio, five original compositions. Japanese reissue by Universal Music on vinyl.

Pianist Masabumi Kikuchi's 1970 album named after his nickname: twin keyboards and twin drums, Kohsuke Mine on saxophones, and the long groove of Dancing Mist. Japanese reissue by Universal Music on vinyl.

Taeko Onuki's third album, from 1978, arranged by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Ichizo Seo with Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi and Shigeru Suzuki: Yokogao, Umi to Shonen and 4:00 A.M. 180g reissue cut by Bernie Grundman.

Bassist Takashi Mizuhashi in New York on February 22, 1977, with Herbie Hancock on piano and electric piano, Teruo Nakamura on second bass and Bruno Carr on drums. Nippon Columbia reissue on black vinyl, repressed for February 2027.

Tenor saxophonist Akira Miyazawa's first album, recorded in May 1962 with Masahiko Sato on piano and Sadao Watanabe on alto: a founding record of Japanese modern jazz. King Records reissue on black vinyl, repressed for February 2027.

The debut of drummer Toshio Osumi's regular trio, recorded for Three Blind Mice in March 1983 with Hiromu Aoki's funky piano: Watermelon Man, Willow Weep for Me, Beatles and Stevie Wonder songs. Official reissue on 180g vinyl.

Singer Koji Moriyama's debut as a leader, recorded for Three Blind Mice in December 1975 with the Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio: standards from Night and Day to Bye Bye Blackbird, sung and scatted with a light swing. Official reissue on 180g vinyl.

Drummer George Otsuka's third album for Three Blind Mice, recorded in February 1976 with Fumio Karashima on electric piano and synthesizer and Shozo Sasaki on saxophones, closing on Coltrane's Naima. Official reissue on 180g vinyl.

Masayuki Takayanagi alone with his electric guitar in August 1982: his first solo improvisation album, made after his recovery from near death, from Ornette Coleman's Lonely Woman to Lennie's Pennies. Official Three Blind Mice reissue on 180g vinyl.

Hermann Nitsch alone at grand piano and harmonium: a sonata performed in Düsseldorf and a night piece performed in Vienna in 1984, first issued on Yedermann that year. New pressing with his drawing on the cover, Tochnit Aleph, 250 copies.

Memphis funk band Ebonee Webb turn Japanese folk songs into disco in 1979, arranged by Chikara Ueda: Soran Bushi, Hanagasa Ondo and Tanko Bushi with heavy grooves and vocals in Japanese. First vinyl reissue, newly cut from the master tapes.

Bassist Isao Suzuki and tenor saxophonist Akira Miyazawa together in 1981, with Motohiko Hino on drums: Suzuki's first digitally recorded album, long a hidden gem of Japanese jazz. First vinyl reissue, newly cut from the original master tapes.

Drummer Akira Ishikawa and Count Buffalo's 1976 concept album on Okinawa: funk, Afro and disco over standards, Western pop covers and Okinawan folk songs, some arranged by Koichi Sugiyama. First colour vinyl, newly cut from the master tapes.

Saxophonist Takeru Muraoka's 1978 session for Seven Seas: crossover and fusion with sharp ensemble playing, with Shin Kazuhara on trumpet and Masanori Sasaji on keyboards. First colour vinyl edition, newly cut from the original master tapes.

The only album by guitarist Fujimaru Yoshino's Fujimaru Band, from 1977: a Japanese rare groove record known to few for decades, rediscovered abroad, here on uncoloured virgin vinyl, newly cut from the original master tapes.

This bundle gathers the whole cycle: the deluxe 3CD box Anxiety Sucks, the deluxe 4CD box a sad song for A. by Anacleto Vitolo, Hiseka, Gigi Masin and Fabio Orsi, and the two live albums that followed it, Live Panic by Anacleto Vitolo and Live Dream by Fabio Orsi. Nine CDs across two boxes, each limited to 300 copies.

Solo double LP by Guilhem Lacroux of Tanz Mein Herz for Gretsch Duo Jet and Korg Volca: fifteen pieces on four named sides, from plucked figures and fast repeated strumming to bell-like tones and organ-like chords. 300 copies, black vinyl.

Tanz Mein Herz's new double LP, recorded in Cherbourg in August 2025: guitars, bagpipes, bass, drums and electronics, from the nineteen-minute climb of Depuis Longtemps to long tones and dense drone.

Laura Betti sings Kurt Weill in Bruno Maderna's arrangements: the two 1963 Ricordi LPs conceived by Roberto Leydi, restored and complete on one CD for the first time, with a 108-page book edited by Veniero Rizzardi.

Michael Garrick's first long session, cut in a single day in 1964 with Dave Green and Colin Barnes and privately pressed in 99 copies. Lansdowne reissues it as a 10-inch in a flipback sleeve, 300 copies, transferred from Garrick's own copy.

Esplendor Geométrico's second album from 1985, from their noisiest and harshest period: subsonic drones, minimal machine rhythms and distorted melodies. Expanded with a second LP of the Bruitiste tracks and rarities, remastered in 2026.

Piero Piccioni's music for Folco Quilici's aerial documentaries L'Italia Vista Dal Cielo, from the Lazio, Lombardia and Toscana episodes: jazz-inflected orchestral writing and lyrical themes. First time on vinyl, 300 copies.

Scottish singer and guitarist Alasdair Roberts and Norwegian just intonation explorer Fredrik Rasten stretch seven traditional Scottish ballads into slow, drone-rich spells: an hour of overtones, hurdy-gurdy, psaltery and two voices.

The Heads’ 2026 tour deforce, their swan song album for all… sold out on all vinyl formats. Rooster has decided to repress one last time, the end of the year push is here with the end of times supernova colour in colour destroyed galaxy “Supernova” edition. It will be released almost 30 years on from their seminal debut “Relaxing With”, this will be their fifth studio album proper. The band are a well established though reclusive part of the UKs underground /cult psychedelic rock scene. A consta…

Dreamlord Recordings has become a trusted doorway into records that take you on a journey. Arboria return with Arboria III, and Messers Parkes and Wood are ready to open that door one more time. Its eleven pieces form a woodland tale that begins at sunrise, passes through hidden gardens and moonlit rites, then settles into sleep with the promise of another morning close by. Across Arboria III, Arboria use a modest group of instruments to tell a story with remarkable clarity. Acoustic guitar keep…

Otto Benson presents Peanut, his second LP with Palto Flats this year, following Songs Before Bed. Known for his prolific output and enthusiastic following, with music released under the aliases OTTO and Memo Boy, Otto released Peanut as a digital-only album earlier this year to wide acclaim, including a Best New Music mention from Pitchfork. On Peanut, Otto Benson stretches out as a songwriter, fully exploring the use of voice for the first time. Accompanied mostly by the strumming of his guita…

*200 copies limited edition* 'The late 70s, early 80s, that fierce period of time was all about wearing one mask after another, as we experimented, evolved. After the riot of Punk Rock back in '76 /'77, which certainly taught us all a lesson, so many of us lurched back to Bowie, Roxy Music, Kraftwerk, at London's one-nighters for the new breed of arbiters of taste, where the soundscape of early synth was such a contrast to what was on offer on the gay scene back then. Clubland was becoming a hiv…

On Le Carnaval Perdu, Elizabeth Vogler turns voice, shruti-box drones and electroacoustic transformations into a personal folklore. Invented languages meet Béarnais lyrics; echoes of celebration flicker through dense sonic layers. Drawing on pop, bal folk and Bulgarian polyphony, the album makes carnival a threshold between communal ecstasy and loss.

Eighteen movements gathered over nearly a decade, zakè's third Orchestral Tape Studies, closing with rearticulations by bvdub, Wayne Robert Thomas and Abul Mogard with Rafael Anton Irisarri.

*50 copies limited edition* Named after the "Black Tide" (Kuroshio), the North Pacific ocean current that carries warm tropical waters along Japan’s eastern coast, the album translates large-scale oceanic circulation into an uninterrupted, slowly evolving sonic journey. Rather than relying on abrupt transitions, Kuroshio unfolds with glacial momentum through layered micro-textures, deep tonal resonance, and fluid harmonic drift. The Kuroshio current is an immense kinetic mass moving without disr…

Erik Enocksson's 2006 score for the Swedish film Farväl Falkenberg: pump organ, piano, chiming bells, whistling and acoustic guitar waltzes, with songs recorded on set. New edition for the film's 20th anniversary, 500 copies.

Argentinian pianist Angel Pocho Gatti's 1977 library album for Edipan: soulful jazz and brass grooves under titles like Unreality Landscape and The Space And Me, long a rare groove holy grail. Reissued on black and clear vinyl.

Bruno Nicolai's score for Emilio Marsili's 1975 documentary on Italian railways: orchestral writing laced with electronics and jazz, with violin and harmonica tracing the rhythm and movement of the trains. Reissued by Sounds From The Screen.

Alessandro Alessandroni's 1976 poliziottesco score, cut in one day with Enrico Pieranunzi, Silvano Chimenti and Dino Piana: jazz-funk, deep soul and disco in the wake of Shaft. 50th anniversary edition, expanded with 14 unreleased tracks.

First CD edition of the 1977 Sensations' Fix album first issued on the small US label All Ears: Franco Falsini's guitar and analogue synths over repetitive rhythms, newly remastered in Japan with five unreleased recordings.