The Polite Force is the second album by Egg, the trio of Dave Stewart on organ and piano, Mont Campbell on bass and vocals and Clive Brooks on drums. It came out on Decca's Deram label in 1971, a year after the group's first record, and it is where their writing grows longer and more intricate: four pieces, the last of them split into four parts, with Campbell's songs and Stewart's keyboards at the centre.The album was recorded at Morgan Studios in Willesden and produced by Neil Slaven. Stewart …
Super limited reissue of the seven early G.R.O.S.S. cassettes (1992-1994) by Kyoto noise artist Aube, one CD per tape, each built from a single sound source, in a white box with the original artwork.
The second chapter of Gong's Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy, first released in 1973, remastered from the original BYG tapes and cut at half-speed by Lewis Hopkin, in a gatefold sleeve with a 16-page booklet replicating Daevid Allen's guide to the saga.
Daevid Allen's first solo album, 1971: Robert Wyatt on drums, guests from Spooky Tooth, Stone the Crows and Gong, and a long suite closing the record. Psychedelic songs with a Canterbury connection.
Daevid Allen's second solo album, 1977: glissando and acoustic guitars, harp, violin and percussion in nine songs, from a two-minute flamenco opener to the eleven-minute I Am.
Gilgamesh's last album, recorded in June 1978 by Alan Gowen with Phil Lee, Trevor Tomkins and Hugh Hopper: seven pieces of Canterbury jazz-rock for electric piano, synthesizer and guitar.
Classic, highly regarded and sought after acid folk / progressive rock album. Featuring girl singers Clodagh Simonds and Alison Williams, Mellow Candle never achieved commercial success they deserved spawning a legendary psychedelic folk-rock album akin to Fairport Convention or Fotheringay. Touring to support Thin Lizzy (Simonds played on Lizzy's album Shades of a Blue Orphanage) and Horslips, the band had a short lived existence. Clodagh Simonds later went on to play again with Mike Oldfield a…
Hawkwind's complete headlining set at the Bristol Custom Bike Show in June 1986, newly mixed from the multitrack tapes with nine previously unreleased tracks.
Fifteen ambient pieces by Pedro Vian recorded between 2014 and 2026, opened and closed by new Moog One productions. Double LP limited to 250 hand-numbered copies.
Alec Finlay and Chris Watson's sound work on the Cairngorms: a record of extinct and native animal calls played at eleven sites and re-recorded with today's landscape. With a 20-page booklet.
Nearly five hours of Locrian's early work, 2005 to 2009: CD-Rs, cassettes, splits and compilation tracks, with the full-length Chladni, on five discs. Limited to 200 copies by Arsenic Solaris.
Esoteric's box of Popol Vuh's first three albums, Affenstunde, In den Gärten Pharaos and Hosianna Mantra, with new 5.1 and stereo mixes of Hosianna Mantra, early 1970s German TV clips on Blu-ray and an illustrated book.
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 entirely of its own volition. Archer toured the British Isles setting up his harp in various sacred and loosely mystical locations. Where he let the Devaharp transmit an otherwise unknown sacred music that has always existed around us.
Listening to the natu…
“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 dimension for you. Which is unfortunately limited with only a 40 minute stay.Originally released in 100 copies by a mysterious Japanese underground band in 1985. Sold at their local festival on Mount Kyogamaru. No one ever heard about them ever since.
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 - Maiden Voyage, an Electronic / Funk Yacht Rock album infused with the carefree teen spirit of the 80s.Anchored by its central motto, “Love the coast, it’s there for you,” the album captures the essence of youthful exploration and the allure of the open…
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 entirety of the project’s first ten releases, originally released in 1981. Encountering the band in its early incarnation of the duo of Masami Akita and Kiyoshi Mizutani, raw, exposed and bristling with energy, foreshadowing numerous trajectories th…
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 passage through desolation, faith and the possibility of inner renewal. Church bells, reverberating drones, metallic textures, discordant chimes, haunting chorals and sub-orchestral movements gather into a dark, immersive sound world.
Sacral and arcane…
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 with names including Art Blakey, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Sarah Vaughan, Charles Mingus and Woody Herman. On Renaissance, that experience comes through in full: strong compositions, fluid playing, and a band that knows exactly where to take the music. …
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 faithful reproduction of the original homemade sleeve with pasted on stickers, fabulous remastered sound, insert with detailed liner notes & photos / memorabilia plus download card. Tripsichord Music Box emerged from the San Francisco’s ’60s psychedeli…
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.