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The ConstruKction of Light
The ConstruKction of Light, released in 2000, was the first studio album by the four-piece King Crimson of Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto, the so-called Double Duo that emerged after the ProjeKcts had broken the Double Trio into smaller research units.Without Bill Bruford and Tony Levin, the band turned towards a harder, denser sound: Mastelotto's electronic percussion, Gunn's Warr guitar covering the bass register, and Fripp and Belew locking into the interlocking guit…
The Elements Tour Box 2021
The Elements tour boxes were King Crimson's companion to each tour from 2014 onwards: two discs sold at the shows and later through DGM, gathering studio fragments, rehearsals, alternate takes, demos and live recordings from across the band's whole history, sequenced as a journey rather than a chronology.The 2021 edition accompanied what turned out to be the final tours of the seven-piece line-up with Robert Fripp, Jakko Jakszyk, Mel Collins, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, Gavin Harrison and Jeremy…
2014 NYC
The four September 2014 nights in New York on two CDs, original live mixes enhanced from the multitracks: the seven-piece Crimson with three drummers across the front.
God Save The Queen / Under Heavy Manners (LP)
The 2021 remaster of Fripp's 1980 album, one side of Frippertronics and one of Discotronics with David Byrne, Busta Jones and Paul Duskin, with almost half an hour of extra material.
Let the Power Fall
The 2021 David Singleton remaster of Fripp's 1981 Frippertronics album, on CD for the first time in decades, with three extra tracks found during the work on the Exposures box.
Washington Square Church
The Frippertronics residency of July and August 1981 in New York, on CD with a DVD carrying the same material in 24/48 hi-res stereo and DTS-HD surround, in digipak with slipcase.
The Early Quintet
Corbett vs. Dempsey is pleased to present The Early Quintet, featuring trumpeter Manfred Schoof's highly influential mid-sixties sextet (and occasional septet), featuring pianist Alexander Schlippenbach, tenor saxophonist Gerd Dudek, bassist Buschi Niebergall, and drummer Jaki Liebezeit. (One track adds drummer Sven-Åke Johansson.) In addition to the first CD release of the 1978 FMP record, this version includes a bonus piece, never before heard. Deep cuts from the formative moment of European f…
Disque 4 (’76 Studio et Live)
Les Rallizes Dénudés returns with Disque 4 -’76 Studio et Live-, the latest in the ongoing series of official archival releases from the celebrated Japanese underground band.
The Sound Of Lights When Dim
*100 copies limited edition* Twenty years after its original release, The Sound Of Lights When Dim remains a remarkable opening statement from Drew Sullivan’s Slow Dancing Society. First released on September 6, 2006, the eight-track album established a musical language that Sullivan would continue to explore and refine for the next two decades: slowly unfolding electronics, treated guitar, soft rhythmic movement and melody shaped less by conventional structure than by memory, atmosphere and emo…
Endless summer
Endless Summer, originally released in 2001 by Mego, was a breakthrough album for Christian Fennesz. The album which brought his name and music towards the first steps of mainstream recognition. Following on from the more experimental Hotel Paral.lell and the Beach Boys homaged Plays single Endless Summer brought the guitars more to the front, the electronics shimmered more, and the melodies shined more brightly. It went on to be a classic of its time, topping many end of year polls. This new de…
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The Matrix Poems: 1960-1970
224 pages5.4 x 8.2 inchesPaperbackOctober 2026Second Printing
Nouvelles Ethnologiques de l’Obscur Museum
On Nouvelles Ethnologiques de l’Obscur Museum, NEO Museum forge a fierce, finely cut collision of free jazz, radical rock and European avant-garde composition. Born in mid-80s Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, the trio turns saxophone, guitar and drums into a compact laboratory of fractured forms, bristling improvisation and volatile collective invention.
Labyrinths
Marilyn Crispell alone at the piano, live at the Victoriaville festival on 2 October 1987: dense, Taylor-inspired clusters and open lyrical passages, with a Coltrane piece. The CD reissue of the 1988 LP adds Threads in the Ozone.
Confitures de Gagaku
Jean Derome's written music for a Montreal ensemble of flutes, clarinets and saxophones with bass, drums and percussion, recorded at Studio Victor in 1988. Composed jazz with a nod, in the title, to Japanese court music.
Nous Autres
Fred Frith and René Lussier's duo, recorded at the 1986 Victoriaville festival and finished at Studio Victor: guitars, bass, violin, voices and tape in short, playful pieces. The CD adds four tracks recorded in New York in 1992.
Trinity
Lustmord's Trinity, built from location recordings at Los Alamos and White Sands and archive audio including Oppenheimer's voice, now on CD with a 48-page hardcover art book of photographs from the Los Alamos National Laboratory archive.
Türküz Türkü Çağırırız !
Turkey’s first stereo LP. A foundational recording of Anatolian psychedelia. Audio transferred from the original analog master tapes, mastered and lacquer cut by Frank Merritt at The Carvery, London, and pressed on 180g heavyweight black vinyl at Record Industry in the Netherlands. Released by the legendary Yonca Müzik label in 1973 as Turkey’s first stereo LP, Türküz Türkü Çağırırız! now returns as the first official reissue. The album captures Mazhar Alanson and Fuat Güner at a pivotal moment …
Furia
Following her foundational role in the early years of The Fall, and then the searing post punk of The Blue Orchids, as well as several tours serving as a backing group for Velvet Underground chanteuse Nico, Una Baines found herself starting 1985 without a band. Drafting together members of the all-female Beyond The Glass, and compatriots associated with her past projects, she entered the studio with a clutch of songs and a willingness to experiment. Separating the sides into “waxing”, for the mo…
Jazz Raga: Spiritual Explorations Of The Two Greatest Melodic Creators On The Planet
Three CDs pairing John Coltrane's early modal recordings, from My Favorite Things and Naima to India and Impressions, with Ravi Shankar ragas from his 1956 and 1961 Abbey Road sessions.
The Missing Link
Fred Anderson's 1979 session with Larry Hayrod, Hamid Drake and Adam Rudolph, first issued by Nessa in 1984; the CD adds Drake's previously unreleased Tabla Peace.
Reference: Miles Davis’ 2nd Quintet Live 1967 in Europe
The Second Quintet with Shorter, Hancock, Carter and Williams on its autumn 1967 European tour: Antwerp, Copenhagen, Paris and Karlsruhe on three CDs, restored by Michael Brändli, with an essay by Art Lange.
Once Upon a Time
Alan Skidmore's 1970 Deram Nova album with Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, Harry Miller and Tony Oxley, fresh from their Montreux triumph: a jazz waltz, long suites and free passages, back on vinyl from the stereo masters.
High Spirits
Joe Harriott's 1964 quintet with Shake Keane, Pat Smythe, Coleridge Goode and Bobby Orr turns songs from the Broadway musical High Spirits into lyrical, swinging jazz, now on vinyl in stereo for the first time.
Racco
Few musicians, and few albums, embody such a joyful sense of freedom and vitality. Racco is where the artistry of Ryojiro Furusawa reaches its peak.
In Fiesta
More than sixty years after its original recording, a masterpiece that has captivated audiences around the world is reborn on an analog mono pressing with truly powerful sound.
Soileth
*250 copies limited edition* Soileth collects the complete recorded output of Holeist, a short-lived project featuring Dan Burke, Jeph Jerman and Eric Lunde. It stands as the final document of a brief encounter between these major figures of the American experimental underground, recorded in 1989 - a time when cassette culture, primitive sampling technology and extreme sound experimentation were colliding into something entirely new. The material for side one was recorded during a single-day ses…
Ljud
Andreas Tilliander released »Ljud« in 2001 as the first full-length album under his real name. The year before, the Swedish producer’s »Cliphop« album under his Mokira moniker had established him in the world of adventurous electronic music and the clicks’n’cuts scene. »Ljud« was just as minimalistic, warm, and playful as its predecessor while also notably inspired by house music. It is a timeless record based on happy accidents, playful loops, and lively spontaneity. For its 25th anniversary, K…
Introspection
*2026 repress* Recorded between 1979 - 1981 on a Mechlabor STM-610 reel-to-reel analog recorder at Gusztáv’s home in Budapest. Occult synthwave dressed with ritual, avant-garde/psych elements, merged in an absolute mystical masterpiece! For the first time after 36 years Mutant Embryo Records is proud to announce the official release of Gusztáv Fekete cryptic material. Recorded on reel tapes between 1979-1981 with true analogue sound, this album constitutes the Holy Grail of late 70's Hungarian u…
1976 La Bande Perdue
*2026 repress* For the first time after 45 years Mutant Embryo Records is proud to announce the release of Archaïa's 1976 lost tape!! Band's first ever recordings which meant to be the precursor of their legendary 'Archaïa' 1977 debut LP. Played & recorded by the initial members Michel Munier & Pierrick Le Bras, on Revox R-t-R recorder, long before Philippe Bersan's arrival, this tape provides a sacramental & ritual aspect Archaïa's duet expressed at the time! The absolute environment of primiti…
Harmonie Solaire
*2026 repress* Mutant Embryo Records proudly presents for the first time the release of Archaïa's eerie 2nd album!! Following their homonymous 1977 debut LP, 'Harmonie Solaire' is the last ever recordings the band made in 2013 with the authentic line-up of Michel Munier & Pierrick Le Bras. Obscure myths & legends with enigmatic symbols from the past versus an unpredictable future, a trip to occult sessions, weird creatures, robots from a parallel universe through the 'sui generis' sound of this …
Antiphoneys: The Single Collection
34 tracks from Felix Kubin's singles, EPs and collaborations, 1998 to 2019, chosen by Kubin himself for this Japan-only 2CD, most never on an album and many new to CD. Limited to 300 copies, issued for his June 2026 Japan tour.
Bryter Layter
Nick Drake's second album, 1970, with members of Fairport Convention, John Cale and arrangements by Robert Kirby. CD edition.
Five Leaves Left
Nick Drake's 1969 debut on Island, the quiet autumnal songs that became a lasting reference for English folk.
Works 1989-1991
Six pieces by Kiyoshi Mizutani from 1989 to 1991, made with environmental sound, synthesizer, wire, guitars and backward tape. Povertech Industries, 1999.
At Takutaku
Akira Sakata x Triple Edge live at Takutaku, Kyoto, February 2024: 65 minutes with Tsuboguchi, Hayakawa and Fujikake, plus Takayuki Kato on guitar and Hiroshi Funato on contrabass, built around the two-part Takutaku Suite.
Joyful Noise (Live In Hamburg 1984)
Carla Bley's ten-piece band live at NDR's Studio 10 in Hamburg on March 14, 1984, with Michael Mantler and Steve Swallow: a joyful, humorous concert rescued from the NDR archives. Double CD on Moosicus.
Lifting The Sanctions
Solo acoustic bass by William Parker, recorded at Studio Spirale on November 29, 1997 with no overdubs; cover by Jeff Schlanger, painted live during the session. No More Records, 1998.
Jumping Off The Page
Rob Brown on alto saxophone and flute with Roy Campbell, Chris Lightcap and Jackson Krall, playing Brown's own compositions. No More Records, 2000.
Ancestral Homeland
The Roy Campbell Pyramid Trio with William Parker and Zen Matsuura, recorded in New York on February 12, 1998, liner notes by Campbell and Steve Dalachinsky. No More Records, 1998.
One For Jazz
Frank Lowe on tenor saxophone and Billy Bang on violin, with Ed Schuller and Abbey Rader, recorded in Brooklyn and dedicated to the memory of Denis Charles. No More Records, 2001.