Upcoming releases
Autostop Rosso Sangue
Ennio Morricone's 1977 score for Pasquale Festa Campanile's road thriller with Franco Nero, Corinne Cléry and David Hess, with Edda Dell'Orso and I Gladrags: first reissue since the 500-copy original, restored from the master tapes, in a digipack.
For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music's 1973 second album, the last with Brian Eno, remastered on 140g black vinyl with a second disc of unreleased AIR Studios outtakes and the Eno tapes of the title track, in a gatefold sleeve curated by Bryan Ferry.
Variance / Duo
Two unreleased late works by Pierre Henry for his centenary: Variance (2005), a fugal homage to Luc Ferrari, and Duo (2003), a gestural rhapsody for feedback and piano dedicated to Maurice Béjart. Licensed from Studio Son/Ré.
Le Casse
First vinyl reissue of Morricone's score for Henri Verneuil's 1971 heist film with Belmondo and Omar Sharif: crime grooves, lounge jazz and Edda Dell'Orso's voice under Bruno Nicolai's baton, plus two rare Astrud Gilberto sides.
Vinyl Digest #1: Spiritual & Cosmic Jazz
A collector's field guide to 400 spiritual and cosmic jazz records, from the mid-1960s to today, chosen and annotated by Amir Abdullah and Manu Boubli, with rarity scores and lists by Gilles Peterson, King Britt and Matthew Halsall.
Motorcycles and Cherry Wind
Isik Kural’s Motorcycles and Cherry Wind is a sonic travelogue of stories waiting and wanting to be told, of seekers passing through a loop of time as they become witnesses to the glories of the ancient ruins. The album holds sounds of timeless quality—like inherited folklore, draped with secondhand nostalgia—taking the shape of whoever is eager enough to claim it as their own. Rich and full of character like the dusty mystery of an archeological site, Kural whispers to the living and the long g…
Strewn with Crimson
Wil Bolton’s forthcoming album, Strewn with Crimson, is an evocative sonic portrait of East London’s Lea Valley. Shaped by the region's wetlands, marshes, and industrial edgelands, the project weaves together site-specific field recordings, found objects, modular synthesis, and processed acoustic instruments. The album’s title draws inspiration from the wild poppy and herb-robert flowers growing across derelict Victorian filter beds, symbolising a complex landscape where rich biodiversity and ec…
Genius Loci
On his debut album, Genius Loci, London-based producer Pavel Doronin combines modular electronics with theremin, saxophone and a rich array of field recordings, mapping out a psychogeography that criss-crosses from the Bavarian banks of the Danube to the Irish Sea and back again.
Doronin's breadcrumb trail suggests an urban drift from tennis court to medieval gate, eroded signs and municipal heraldry caught in relief like hallucinatory wax rubbings. Soaring melodies (courtesy of guests Grégoire …
My dreams are only nightmares
While nightmares are deeply personal, they simultaneously reflect broader societal conditions. — m preis
LoFi Brutalist Action Jazz
*100 copies limited edition* I went looking for a dictionary definition of brutalism, trying to understand it a bit better. It had been our starting point since the first rehearsal. But did we actually understand it? Does any of it have something to do with our music? Does it even make sense — instrumental pieces inspired by buildings?We didn't set out to make a genre out of it. We set out to strip things down. Take a melody, take a rhythm, cut away everything that isn't essential — no polish, n…
Vertical Vignettes
Celebrating the 100th release on Kit, The Hague artist — and overseer of esteemed Plafond and Rubber imprints — Ruben Verkuylen squints through the telescope to reveal a high-rise debut of constructivist electronics and domestic bricolage, as The Social Lover. 'Vertical Vignettes' looms like a cutaway apartment block of overlapping lives and skintled brickwork. These are less songs than scenes; inspired in equal measure by Jacques Tati's 'Playtime' and Georges Perec's 'Life: A User's Manual', Ve…
Outside the Lines, Vol. 8
“…pretty wild… with aspects of surrealism… a strange sort of pathos… a kind of absurdity… a kind of muted spectacularism…” — Neil Luck
Nonclassical presents the latest instalment of the Outside the Lines-compilation series, co-curated with artist and composer Neil Luck, out on limited edition cassette and digital on 23rd October. Outside the Lines Vol. 8 brings together a seemingly disparate group of UK-based artists working in the gaps between composition, spoken word, performance art and elect…
Globe Unity 60
Markus Müller's 288-page history of the Globe Unity Orchestra at sixty: Schlippenbach's liner notes, photographs by Gérard Rouy and Cristina Marx, interviews with Schlippenbach and George Lewis, new texts by Corbett, Lake and Gustafsson.
Songs for Josephine
Since his 2013 debut album, Body Issues, Max Ravitz—better known to you and me as Patricia—has been zeroing in on the kernel of an idea. Across seven albums for labels like Opal Tapes, Spectral Sound/Ghostly International, and Acid Test, he’s applied his hand to a lean, focused vision of electronic music, paring away excess to lavish attention on carefully sculpted acid lines, stealthy drum programming, and warmly emotive melodies. For all their restraint, though, his tracks could never be calle…
Hidden Among the Runes (Book)
Aldo Chimenti's history of Death In June, written with Douglas P.: from the punk years of Crisis to Operation Control (2023), with photographs largely from Douglas P.'s own archive, some never seen before. Softcover with French flaps, 516 pages.
Dragonaut Dub
Bassist, vocalist, & songwriter Al Cisneros lifts to higher heights his lifelong study of roots & dub musics on Dragonaut Dub. Lacquer cut at 45rpm by Kevin Gray at Cohearent & audiophile vinyl pressed by Fidelity Record Press to ensure dreadfully powerful sound system jubilations. 1st 200 direct order copies include eremite’s signature retro-audiophile inner-sleeves, hand screen-printed by Siwa Studios, Northern New Mexico.Al Cisneros is a founding member of the bands Sleep & OM. Dragonaut Dub …
The Heart Centre
A powerful "electric Miles" sounding band reinterprets a couple of classics - In A Silent Way and Freedom Jazz Dance - and adds some wholly contemporary improvisation to the mix."2026 Is Miles and Coltrane's Centenary year and if Jazz music needs any Gods then surely they fit the bill without question. When I heard In a Silent Way for the first time back in 1970 when I was 17 (incidentally that was the first year I heard Coltrane as well) it truly was music like nothing I had ever heard before.…
Intervallo
Intervals of waiting, in the in-between mind, strumming a keyboard as if for the first time. From sample to simple, child to child, womblike cocoon when awake, the world crumbling at night. They "dream the dream forward”, these lullabies. "Intervallo" is the second release by Teresa Cos on Futura Resistenza. It is no coincidence that it bears the same name as the last song in her previous one (Karnofsky's Score, RESCD005). What was then a reflection on the interval between diagnosis and death, i…
Love Songs
*250 copies limited edition* First & Last Records is proud to present the first-ever reissue of Daisuke Honda’s Love Songs, a deeply personal, holy-grail private press album originally released in 1977. At just 20 years old, Daisuke Honda was an enigmatic vagabond from Osaka who had left home after high school to wander and write songs. Possessing no grand ambitions of becoming a professional musician, Honda simply felt compelled to record the music he was creating. To bring the project to life,…
