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Reissues

50th Anniversary Edition Boxset
50th anniversary boxset containing all three Niagara albums. Limited edition of 500 copies, housed in a wooden box. Coloured vinyl. Hold on to your hats! This is the ultimate percussion trip you never knew you needed. German jazz drum legend Klaus We…
Bacchanal
*New edition 2022, new repress from new master! In process of stocking* The long-awaited reissue of rare Eastern and psychedelic Jazz LP by the famous Hungarian guitarist, originally released in 1968. The first time, extended Edition with four bonus …
Tempo Di Naja
* First official reissue ever on black vinyl.* “Tempo di Naja” is part of a reissues series, made in collaboration with Edizioni Leonardi (Milan, Italy), of extremely rare library music LP’s published between late ’60s and early ’70s, most of which h…
Electronic Jugoton Vol 1 - Synthetic Music From Yugoslavia 1980​-​1989
Electronic Jugoton part 1 is officially opened by the band Laboratorija with the song Devica 69, which opens a window to a completely new and experimental world in former Yugoslavia. Laboš and Luketić have boldly chosen the material without reservati…
The Uplifting Abyss
*In process of stocking* What would you do if a never before released jazz funk album from 70s Yugoslavia had dropped suddenly into your arms? An album which sounds like a crate diggers holy grail!? Album full of heavy drum breaks, repetitive bass gr…
Afire
Niagara's third LP Afire is the rarest one from kraut drummer, formerly of Sunbirds, Klaus Weiss' band. An astonishing album which returns to the minimal sounds based on percussion and rhythm of their first album, yet retaining a feel of harmony all …
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Rhythm master Klaus Weiss knew he had a good thing going with Niagara. The first album was a gathering of every outstanding drummer and percussionist he could get hold of and despite the fact that there were only rhythm instruments featured , it beca…
Niagara
*In process of stocking* Niagara was more a project than an actual band formed by German jazz drum legend Klaus Weiss. He formerly worked with another jazz legend from his mother country, Klaus Doldinger and gained fame in the German jazz circuit of …
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Live New Departures 1960-1967
*A numbered edition of 26 copies*  Live New Departures featured some of the UK’s finest modern jazz musicians together with poets Pete Brown (co-writer/Cream) and Michael Horovitz (Britain’s Beat Laureate). Live New Departures 1960-1967 ephemera map.…
Antechamber
Michael McClure’s mysticism is vigorously scientific. Even the familiar patterned shapes of his poems remind us of the stars in the night sky and those we see when we shut our eyes. In the dancing lines of his newest work—the title poem “Antechamber”…
Songs
Foamola is an underground musical group from New York City, consisting of Sparrow and his wife, who went by the cyber alias Violet Snow. Also in the group is artist Lawrence Fishberg and Sparrow's daughter, poet Sylvia Gorelick. Their music has been …
Soliloquy For Lilith
New edition with iridescent foil blocked cover. 3CD box set facsimile of the original vinyl set, contains the entire album plus 40 minutes of previously unreleased music from the original sessions
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Slapp Happy's Anthony Moore, fresh off a year of collaboration with Henry Cow and the simultaneous dissolution of his own group, bounded up from the art-rock/20th century composition underground with this chart-challenging pop set for Virgin. Dropped…
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Voices And Rhythms Of The Creative Profile
The influential Detroit pianist's sole 1970s album. Remastered and lacquered by Bernie Grundman. Now-Again presents the definitive Tribe Records reissues. Deep, spiritual jazz of the highest order. The Tribe label, one of the brightest lights of Amer…
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Concrete Island
Concrete Island, music by The Heartwood Institute & Hawksmoor. 'Our collaboration was initiated in February 2020, on the cusp of what would become a historically fateful year. We began with no rules and by sharing files, which could range from a modu…
Gila
*Edition with 20 pages booklet and poster* 'Often referred by the title Free Electric Sound, Gila's debut is an amazing work, full of acid guitar freakouts, spacy organ and mellotron, exotic rhythm structures, and loads of electronic effects to fully…
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Quincicasm (LP)
Saved from the dust of time, here is a truly rare and obscure piece of vinyl by one of the most enigmatic bands in the whole history of British Progressive Jazz. Originally released in 200 copies in 1973 and reissued here for the first time, Quincica…
Franco Battiato, Nucleus (Book)
Absolutely recommended. Photographs by Roberto Masotti, texts by Carlo Maria Cella, Silvia Lelli, Luca Scarlini. This is the third volume dedicated to musicians-composers that Masotti has collected for and with the publisher Seipersei after those ded…
Father, Son And Holy Ghosts
*Edition with 44 pages booklet. In process of stocking* This album is a bit difficult to pigeonhole, as most of the early Embryo work is. The opening number sounds if anything, like an outtake from Miles Davis' Jack Johnson soundtrack, but with lead …
Garden of Eden
*20 pages booklet edition. In proces of stocking* 'The band began in 1974 in Hagen but unfortunately this excelent album was emerged only in 1978, when progressive rock was not more in "fashion". Then this first work is sadly also the last. A similar…
Electrip
* Edition with 68-page (!) booklet * Electrip was released in 1969, the same year as the Amon Düül II's Phallus Dei and CAN's Monster Movie, which makes Electrip one of the very first albums to fall within the genre of Krautrock. The band successfull…
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Sessomatto
The long-overdue first reissue of two super rare grooves from Armando Trovajoli’s score to Sessomatto, one is a super-sexy afro-funk track featuring legendary vocals by Edda Dell’Orso, the other a wild and fun electronic samba.
Live!
* 50th-anniversary reissue, 2LP on red vinyl * Originally recorded in 1971 at Abbey Road studios in just a few hours, 'Live!' is a collaboration between good friends former Cream drummer Ginger Baker and Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and Afrobeat pi…
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Confusion
* 2022 Small Repress * Over a decade a half after his death, vindication has come to Fela Kuti, Africa’s musical genius. AfroBeat, his gift to the world, is now an international staple on his own uncompromising terms, social content intact. Throughou…
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Miscellany
*4 CD box, includes a 24-page booklet and four gatefold cardboard sleeves * Chris Carter from Throbbing Gristle releases a new box set of his early work, collating remastered (and mastered for the first time) solo albums alongside a disc of unrelease…
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The Elizabeth, The Mary
For those who have followed this project over the years, at this point you are either fully on board or perhaps you've abandoned ship. This is not the type of project you occasionally dabble with, it's a multi-verse of escapism for the fanatically ob…
Una Pistola Per Ringo / Il Ritorno Di Ringo (LP)
* Limited Edition clear red vinyl. Audio remastered from original tapes. * “Una pistola per Ringo” and “Il ritorno di Ringo” are two movies from 1965 that belong to the ‘spaghetti western’ genre, directed by Duccio Tessari and starring Giuliano Gemma…
D.N.A. (LP)
"D.N.A." is a contemporary jazz album recorded at Mondial Studios in Milan in December 1996 by two 'heavyweights' of Italian and international jazz music, trumpeter Enrico Rava and pianist Mario Rusca, the latter here feature with his trio accompanie…
Traumatic Amputations
Sixty minutes of crunching HNW by Fleshlicker, originally available as a self-released cassette back in Spring of 2021 with only 10 copies made...now available again as an extended reissue including updated art/layout as well as a remix by The Rita.
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An important historical document and essential nineties Japanese Harsh Noise relic originally released on cassette by Old Europa Cafe in 1995. This long out of print and sought after material is finally available to the public once again, newly remas…
Black Phoenix: Third World Perspective on Contemporary Art and Culture (Book)
*In process of stocking* Primary Information is pleased to announce the release of Black Phoenix: Third World Perspective on Contemporary Art and Culture. Edited and published by Rasheed Araeen and Mahmood Jamal between 1978 and 1979 in the United Ki…
Penguins Eat Fish / Little Dark Wing
Split single of compositions by Organum and David Jackman. "Penguins Eat Fish" features a metamorphosis of the Organum sound, integrating more punctuated, real-time acoustic elements with a diverse cacophony of "chordal" loops of fog horn and bugle b…
Gudrun
* 180 Gr. Vinyl Transparent Red Vinyl. Numbered Edition* Along with the likes of Franco Battiato, Opus Avantra and Piccho dal Pozzo, Pierrot Lunaire were one of the artists that contributed to the small, but artistically significant, avant progressiv…
La dama rossa uccide sette volte
CAM Sugar is proud to celebrate the 50th anniversary of this masterpiece of Italian Giallo cinema, La Dama Rossa Uccide Sette Volte (The Red Queen Kills Seven Times), with a special vinyl reissue of the soundtrack by Bruno Nicolai. This 2 LP set has …
Background Music N. 4
Tip! First official reissue ever on clear vinyl. In the field of library music Benito Simoncini a.k.a. Arawak was undoubtedly one of the most important composers. “Background Music N. 4” is a multi-faceted release that includes at least two jazz-ting…
L'Uomo dagli Occhiali a Specchio
Sandro Brugnolini's soundtrack to “L'Uomo dagli Occhiali a Specchio” is an unbeatable mix of dark psychedelic themes with heavy jazz drums, exotic percussions, obsessive piano bits, creepy harpsichord, free jazz to wah-drenched psychedelia, stiff fun…
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Wampyr (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
* Red Vinyl. Housed in gatefold sleeve. Deluxe Edition * Wampyr  is the title of the Italian version of George A. Romero’s movie directed in 1976, "Martin", curated by Dario Argento and edited by Piero Bozza. A very different adaptation from the orig…
Gamma
* 180gr. solid white vinyl edition * “Gamma” is a dramatic Italian TV show from 1975, one of the most important of those made in the same decade: a mini-series that combines mystery and science fiction, in a story that raises interesting ethical ques…
Area Di Servizio
* Clear red vinyl edition * "Area di Servizio" is a truly unique release in the history of ‘70s Italian music: a record consisting of twelve Italian-sung compositions, mainly the result of the collaboration between Riccardo “Rolli” Pirolli and Franco…
Gioia e Rivoluzione
Temporary nicer price * 500 numbered copies, 180 gr. Red vinyl, numbered edition * Gioia e Rivoluzione is the third compilation of the Jazz fusion band Area. This album concentrates exclusively on the albums released on the Cramps label. Just like th…