Reissues

Antonio Carlos Jobim's 1976 album, produced and arranged by Claus Ogerman: dissonant strings, earthy percussion and wind sounds, far from bossa nova. Gatefold 180g LP with the complete lyrics and the original artwork.

Jerry Goldsmith's 1979 score for Ridley Scott's Alien, conducted by Lionel Newman with the National Philharmonic Orchestra. Deluxe 180g vinyl reissue with the original artwork, ten tracks across two sides.

Huge Tip! “Sacred Aeolian music capturing and harnessing the divine power of the wind”. Aeolian Harp is somewhere between a string instrument and a receiver. Its strings are agitated by the wind without any human interference, producing tones entirel…

“Hosono-esque vocals, dub beats and reggae vibes infused into ethereal dreamy mellow rock.”The album just sucks you out of the current place and state you are in. And drops you 40 minutes later back. Whenever you put it on turntable, it opens a 5th d…

In 1985, a young and ambitious Britt Cobble, fresh out of school, ventured to Florida to have his debut solo album Maiden Voyage mastered by none other than reggae legend Touter Harvey, known for his work with Bob Marley. The result is Spinnaker - Ma…

Carrying on their longstanding dedication to the seminal output of Merzbow, Urashima returns with what is unquestionably their most ambitious release to date: “Collection 001-010”, a deluxe, 10 CD box set limited to 199 copies, gathering together the…

Dan Courtman's Kommando, the dark twin of Thorofon: the surviving 1993-94 recordings of two cassette albums, compiled and remastered in 2026. Death industrial and power electronics on CD in a digipak, on Ant-Zen.

Morton Feldman's For Philip Guston (1984), over four hours for flute, percussion and piano, played by Sasha Ishov, Steven Schick and Liam Wooding. Four CDs in a box with a bilingual booklet, on Kairos.

Limited 12-inch EP of 1976 Les Rallizes Denudes material from the sessions behind Disque 4: The Last One live at Yaneura, Enter the Mirror and an alternate White Awakening. New color vinyl pressing on Temporal Drift.

Elizabeth Vogler sings in Occitan and other South-West dialects to harmonium alone in the church of Lescun, in the Pyrénées: six songs between ancient folk and experimental music, third and final pressing, red cover.

Rip, Rig & Panic (1965) and The Jaki Byard Experience (1968), the two albums Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Jaki Byard made together, on one CD: restored and mastered by Michael Brändli, with an essay by Art Lange.

*100 copies limited edition* Originally released in 2003, Requiem for Abandoned Souls returns as a double-LP reissue, marking the album’s first appearance on vinyl. Across 9 interlinked tracks, Peter Andersson’s raison d’être shapes an existential pa…

Originally released in 1977, Renaissance was Dailey’s only album for Catalyst and remains one of the real standouts from the label’s short but brilliant run. A pianist with serious depth, Dailey had already built a heavy CV by this point, working wit…

One of the Holy Grails of the first psychedelic era, the first edition of the Tripsichord album on the San Francisco Sound label was released in 1970 in minuscule quantities and has eluded collectors for decades. Here’s the first ever reissue with fa…

The 2014 collaboration between Sissy Spacek (Charlie Mumma and John Wiese) and K2's Kimihide Kusafuka, made by mail between Los Angeles and Japan. Reissued with new artwork and liner notes, for the first time on vinyl.

Acid Mothers Temple's forty-minute reading of a traditional Occitan song, first issued on LP in 2000, newly remastered by Lasse Marhaug. The CD adds two older tracks and a version of La Nòvia recorded in 2026.

First vinyl edition of the 1993 debut by Oleg Salkhov and Konstantin Smirnov, made at Moscow's SNC Studio from their own library of samples and loops. Downtempo, trance and techno from the early years of Russian electronic music. Remastered double LP…

First CD issue of Michael Ranta's self-released 1984 LP, recorded at Conny Plank's studio: two long suites for dozens of ritual and self-made percussion instruments, plus an unreleased piece played on a sound sculpture by Günther Oellers.

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.

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.

The Italian band's 2005 debut mini-album, issued on CDr and never reprinted, now on vinyl for the first time with two tracks recorded in 2021. Neofolk, neoclassical and ritual music. Numbered, Steinklang.

Flower Travellin' Band's 1973 double album, the last of their first run: studio songs next to live pieces, Hiroshima and Satori Pt. 2 among them. Warner Music Japan 2024 reissue on black vinyl with obi.

Recorded in New York in 1978 with Steve Gadd, Anthony Jackson, Richard Tee, Michael Brecker and David Sanborn, the session that helped start Japan's crossover boom. Great Tracks reissue with obi and insert.

Himiko Kikuchi's 1982 album, cut with John Robinson on drums and Masatsugu Matsumoto on guitar: keyboard-led fusion with a West Coast polish. Continental reissue for City Pop on Vinyl 2026, with obi.