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Agaeb El Rakasat El Sabaa - The Miracles Of The 7 Dances
Reissue of the belly dance holy-grail from the organ king of Cairo, combining traditional rhythms with spaced out modern sounds. Hany Mehanna, beloved musician and composer of the greatest artists from the Arab world such as Om Kalthoum and Abdel Hal…
Laylat Hob
The rich and lengthy instrumental intro is just a precursor of the emotion present in this song. The talent of the composer is underlined by how he utilises the traditional style of singing poetry in a more open and creative way. Abdel Wahab’s infusi…
Enta Omri
“Enta Omri” is Om Kalsoum’s most famous song, composed by Mohamed Abdel Wahab, who is still rightly regarded as a prominent musician and composer in Egypt. The creation of this song was the first long expected collaboration of two musical giants, whi…
El Hob Kollo
Om Kalsoum! They call her ’The Rose of the Nile’, ‘The Queen of the Nile’, ‘The Daughter of the Nile’ or even ‘The 4th Pyramid of Egypt’ since she’s known as the greatest Egyptian singer of all times. Om Kalsoum’s mythical life story of a poor peasan…
Alf Leila Wa Leila
Om Kalsoum! They call her ’The Rose of the Nile’, ‘The Queen of the Nile’, ‘The Daughter of the Nile’ or even ‘The 4th Pyramid of Egypt’ since she’s known as the greatest Egyptian singer of all times. Om Kalsoum’s mythical life story of a poor peasan…
Through The Looking Glass
2026 Reissue. LP version. Originally issued in 1983, Midori Takada's debut LP Through The Looking Glass has long remained one of the most coveted artifacts to emerge from the fertile soil of 1980s Japanese experimental avant-garde. A near-perfect wor…
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Intégrale Acousmatique + Kyoto 1970 + Ste Cy Bundle
Three of the most essential new releases from Metaphon and La Scie Dorée, gathered in a single bundle. Liliane Donskoy's Intégrale Acousmatique - issued here in its deluxe hardboard linen screen printed box edition, including an 8 page booklet - brin…
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Intégrale Acousmatique
50 copies. Comes with a A5 photo SIGNED by Liliane Donskoy. 3LP special edition in screen printed linen box + 8 page booklet + download code. Metaphon is pleased to present this première edition, which brings together a near-complete collection of th…
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The Unreleased Themes For Hellraiser
Nearly four decades after the fact, the full story of Coil's aborted commission for Clive Barker's Hellraiser can finally be heard - and it is every bit as extraordinary as the legend suggested. The Unreleased Themes for Hellraiser [expanded ritual],…
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Jazz In Libertà
Antonio Riccardo Luciani's 1976 Lupus LP for an anonymous quartet of bass, drums and two keyboards in constant dialogue: lean jazz-funk built for 70s crime films, with one guitar cameo on the title track.
Flowers
Zuni (Benito Simoncini) in 1983: blues-soaked funk-rock guitar cues on side A, then bass, keyboards and percussion drift towards spacey, cosmic sketches. Eleven pieces named after flowers and shrubs.
American Bus
Jason Black and his Group play Arawak's 1977 Wild Cat LP, an Italian dream of the American West Coast: blues-edged funk-rock, honking sax and one reggae detour named after San Francisco's Lombard Street.
Discorsi
Giuliano Sorgini as Raskovich in 1978: eleven tight jazz-funk cues where flute, Fender Rhodes, wah guitar and analog synth meet blaxploitation strings and brass, up to the full-blown chase of Limoni Verdi!
Telemusica N. 6
The 1973 jazz and experimentation volume of the Telemusica series: lounge cues, tense jazz-funk, a waltz warped by electronics and three closing pieces close to the free improvisation of Nuova Consonanza.
Ptah, The El Daoud
2026 repress * Grey-area LP reissue, perfect replica of the original * Ptah, the El Daoud, recorded and released in 1970, is the third solo album by Alice Coltrane. The album was recorded in the basement of her house in Dix Hills on Long Island, New …
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Afro-Harping
The jazz-funk metamorphosis of harpist Dorothy Ashby completed on her 1968 album released on Chess records subsidiary Cadet. The cycle was literally completed when the album – recorded on February of the same year in Chicago – hit the stores. With ar…
Tauhid
Recorded November 15, 1966 at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs - New Jersey, Tauhid is one of the most iconic album recorded by the tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. On his debut for Impulse ! the leader assembled an extraordinary line-up, defin…
Karma
Karma is Pharoah Sanders' third recording as a leader, and is among a number of spiritually themed albums the Impulse! Record label released in the late 1960s/early 1970s. Although it is followed by the brief "Colors", the album's main piece is the 3…
All That I Am
A strange and beautiful artifact of late‑70s outsider music returns: Kit Ream’s lone 1978 album, All That I Am, has been reissued on vinyl and digital formats. Once a private-press secret treasured by psych‑folk collectors, this ultra‑rare record is …
Ritual Fever
There are moments of silent depth in which the winter of the scalpel of meaning and the spring of the sound-born, unleashed body look upon the world fully present. When the notes at last are heard, the ordered world is their indistinguishable score. …
Relapsi
*2026 stock. 50 copies limited edition* RMSS is a Finnish noise project that draws inspiration from the heavier side of mental heath issues. The Relapsi compositions navigate a raw and visceral soundworld - through the dimly lit, bleak & icy corridor…
Panorama Vol. 2
On Panorama Vol. 2, Various Artists from the golden age of French cinema and library studios resurface in 11 lush, long‑buried cues, all moody strings, flanged funk drums and prowling basslines wrapped in a deluxe archival edition.
Is It Really Goodbye? More Ryūkōka Recordings, 1929-1938
Exquisitely melancholy, pre-war Japanese Ryūkōka Recordings, 1929-1938, delving deeper into the style’s fusion of traditional and classical Japanese and western blues x jazz on Death Is Not The End.
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Double Beat Sequencer Vol.2
Double Beat Sequencer Vol.2 continues Merzbow’s deep dive into a particularly vicious corner of his archive: mid‑2010s sessions built around a relentless “double beat” framework, then buried under signature torrents of noise. Where Vol.1 sketched the…
Double Beat Sequencer Vol.1
Double Beat Sequencer Vol.1 finds Merzbow threading a hard, skeletal pulse through the heart of his noise, treating rhythm less as a scaffold for genre than as another engine of excess. Across these tracks, fixed and cycling beats - the “double” sequ…
Geometry of Murder: Extra Capsular Extraction Inversions
On Geometry of Murder: Extra Capsular Extraction Inversions, Earth x Black Noi$e stretch the 1991 debut into an even slower, more vaporised continuum, where Carlson’s primordial drones are rerouted through modern electronics into a smeared, time‑dila…
Béke
“Peace is not the word to play” rapped Large Professor on Main Source’s 1991 debut album. His plea to stop abusing the word “peace” simply for rhetoric flair sounds just as valid in today’s genocidal world as it did in the streets of New York over 30…
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Batiscafo
**2026 Repress, includes facsimile artwork and extensive liner notes. Remastered from the original tapes and pressed on 180g vinyl. **Munster Records presents a reissue of Batiscafo by Gregorio Paniagua. Immersed in an age of re-releases and the purs…
This Heat
"There's an irony inherent in the term 'postpunk.' Many of the groups that define the genre (think Pere Ubu or Cabaret Voltaire) existed for several years before punk. But these outfits had little hope of finding an audience until punk stirred up an …
Ste Cy
Ste Cy, the latest studio offering from the trio of Jac Berrocal, Vincent Epplay, and Timo van Luijk, ripens like a forbidden fruit—born of an improvised instrumental session captured in the secluded hush of Kulta Saha by Timo van Luijk.These raw rec…
Opus
In the autumn of 2022, knowing his time was running out, Ryuichi Sakamoto summoned every ounce of his remaining strength to give us one last, definitive performance. Opus is that performance - a solo piano concert capturing one of the world's greates…
Experiments in Musique Concrete by Nippon Cultural Broadcasting
Nippon Cultural Broadcasting (= Bunka Hōsō) is known for airing Toshiro Mayuzumi’s composition for “Works for musique concrète X.Y.Z.” the very first Japanese work of musique concrète. Now, for the first time, the long-lost broadcast recordings produ…
Circle The Heart
Julius Hemphill was a visionary saxophonist and composer whose music fused avant-garde exploration with deep blues and gospel roots. Marty Ehrlich, one of Hemphill’s close collaborators and protégés, is a multi-reedist and composer known for his lyri…
Mnemonist Orchestra
Mnemonists, on the first album called Mnemonist Orchestra, is U.S collective of avant-garde musicians from Colorado, led by Mark Derbyshire and William Sharp. Their music is a mixture of modern classical, experimental sounds, noise, industrial, avant…
Fly Paper
Soundtrack to Kahlil Joseph's 2017 film installation Fly Paper, a portrait of Harlem inspired by Roy DeCarava, with music by Kelsey Lu, Alice Smith, Thundercat, Flying Lotus, Kelan Phil Cohran and Legacy and soundscapes by James William Blades.
Raga-Jazz Style
*2026 repress!!* Amazing re-issue on Outernational Sounds of the Indio Jazz Fusion rarity from 1968! Never before reissued, this legendary 1968 EMI recording is a revered Indian jazz rarity; a collectors’ holy grail. Raga Jazz Style is an original In…
Manhattan Baby
During an expedition in Egypt, young Susie receives a mysterious amulet that carries an ancient curse. Back in New York, the girl becomes the conduit for dark forces that begin to invade the city, dragging her family into a nightmare of disappearance…
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My Government Is My Soul
Bourbonese Qualk were an experimental music group from England who where active from 1979 until 2003. The group were always obsessively and uncompromisingly focused on controlling their work – they ran their own record label, recording studio, tour o…
Seti Non Tael Tene
The encounter between Ramona Ponzini and Maurizio Bianchi yields a work poised on the threshold between evocation and vertigo: a sonic device unfolding through stratifications, resonances, and semantic as well as acoustic collisions.Maurizio Bianchi,…
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Kyoto 1970
Edition of 400. Wired was an ephemeral improvisational music project formed by Michael Ranta, Karl-Heinz Böttner, and Mike Lewis. On 28 April 1970, the trio recorded an extended studio session of approximately 140 minutes, in collaboration with Conny…