Reissues

Part of Rashied Ali’s artistic strength involved turning improbable sound combinations into unchallenged masterpieces. After the pattern established by John Coltrane’s Interstellar Space, and Duo Exchange with Frank Lowe, the drummer stepped into a rather unlikely duet with violinist Leroy Jenkins for Swift are the Winds of Life. Five years with the Revolutionary Ensemble had established Jenkins as a composer; he designed all the pieces played on these 1975 duets with Ali. That record is issued …

Rashied Ali stood as a magnetic force for the musical environment around him. In his last decades he sponsored rehearsal opportunities for young musicians, tightened up neighborhood street-corner drum circles he happened to pass, and for years would pull promising young talents into his orbit. One unique group that Ali led at the 2002 Vision Festival in NYC, along with with Frank Lowe, he also took into the studio—and the moment you hear on Sidewalks in Motion features Ali and Lowe along with yo…

Dancefloor seductions from Italian sexploitation cinema (1969-1981)" is an unprecedented and one-of-a-kind foray into the erotic side of Italian soundtracks curated by American director and actor Eli Roth. The double black LP includes an exclusive booklet with unseen archive ephemera from the CAM Sugar archive and interviews with softcore cinema icon Edwige Fenech and composer Franco Campanino. About: Setting the mood for his very own red light discothéque, Tarantino’s right-hand man and Italian…

“La Signora Gioca Bene a Scopa?” is a 1974 erotic comedy directed by Giuliano Carnimeo, with Edwige Fenech and Carlo Giuffré as main characters. Nothing from this soundtrack had been released at the time, not even a 45rpm; only in 2010 it has been fully revealed on CD. For the first time ever, therefore, the soundtrack of “La signora gioca bene a scopa?” is now released on vinyl, sourced from the original sessions stereo masters. Alessandro Alessandroni has composed a cheerful fox-trot main them…

It's a miracle that some records ever get made. Right in the middle of Ceausescu's ultra-repressive dictatorship, composer Iancu Dumitrescu managed to arrange for his first LP, a compilation of radical new music by Dumitrescu and three of his Romanian colleagues, all older than him: Ocavian Nemescu, Stefan Niculescu, and Corneliu Cezar. Dumitrescu was -- and remains -- one of the most iconoclastic figures in contemporary music. Often referred to as a spectralist (though he distances himself from…

Corbett vs. Dempsey presents And Yeah So (1981-1985), the first ever compilation by Splat! Emerging amid the primo froth of the British post-punk era, Splat!'s lineup included vocalist Dave Parsons, the mastermind behind Ron Johnson Records. The band released its only 7-inch single as the label's maiden record, going on to follow up with a 12-inch EP. These (plus one track on a compilation) were the sum total official output, but the band was active and made loads of fantastic, high-octane, ofte…

Clear Purple Vinyl. Although Ike Reiko was a mere 17 years of age when she recorded 1971's Kokotsu No Sekai, she was already a star in the world of Japanese erotic movies. Despite the tough-gal image, the music is pretty darn life-affirming, so don't think for a second you're getting an easy listening album here -- this is about as sexual as music can get. Throw "French Kiss" out of the window and give a kiss goodbye to your Serge Gainsbourg records, Ike Reiko is more sizzling than a branding ir…

This limited edition double marbled yellow vinyl record presents a selection of Bruno Nicolai's he best themes of four OSTs ('La Coda Della Scorpione,' 'Perché Quelle Strane Gocce Di Sangue Sul Corpo Di Jennifer?,' 'Tutti Colori Del Buio' and 'Il Tuo Vizio E Una Stanza Chiusa E Solo Io Ne Ho La Chiave,' one for each side of the records.

Previously unreleased music from the archives of Can cofounder Holger Czukay will be released as an album in the new year. Out on March 28th through Grönland Records, Gvoon - Brennung 1 contains 65 minutes of material that's believed to date back to the '90s. The genesis for the release started last year at Berlin dance performance Take Off Sound, when artist Arthur Schmidt, AKA Gvoon, brandished a flash drive and handed it to Dirk Dresselhaus. It is a case of pop cultural archaeology. A search …

Holidays Records is on fire! Hot on the heels of their recent incredible vinyl releases of the Italian sound artist and musician Ezio Piermattei’s “Gran trotto” and the duo Acchiappashpirt’s “Ninulla”, they return with one of their most important and captivating releases to date: Hartmut Geerken’s “Requiem for the Snake of Maidan”, a mind-blowing body of archival recordings from the 1970s, made on a stony ridge in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan, encountering the artist locked in a sprawl…

Tip! Limited edition of 225 hand-numbered copies on Milky Clear with Neon Pink Splatter. Issued in a gatefold sleeve. The Residents deliver a live performance that's as eccentric as their decades-long career. Recorded in Fribourg, this show blends their surreal storytelling with experimental soundscapes, creating an atmosphere that's both haunting and playful. The arrangements, reworked for the live setting, highlight their ability to transform unconventional ideas into captivating experiences. …

2024 Repress.Originally the B-side to Rückverzauberung 2, "Du Musst Nichts Sagen" marched towards a dark fortress, following a point-blank trail and inspired by the mute grit of the many. The remixes present three distinct alternatives, starting with the "Fanfaren Mix" that cranks up the amount of fanfare, the "Informel Mix," created as the soundtrack for an experimental video (http://youtu.be/49_-S5nWdMI) and the "Doppelvoigt Mix" which takes an interview given by Wolfgang Voigt and translates …

2024 Repress. If experimental minimalistic dance music as we know it today had existed during the lifetime of Arnold Schönberg and Paul Hindemith, it might have sounded much like this present album. Something fascinating and possibly well known, is that Kompakt label founder Wolfgang Voigt has a fondness for historical music like this. Freiland-Klaviermusik stays true to this idea, maintaining its focus on music composed for the piano, but composed with a very different approach. It's once again…

Latest release from Canadian noise act Knurl. Special thanks to David Murphy for releasing this.

Rounding out the first twenty releases on the label, right back where we started, Krim Kram HQ all-time favs, the inimitable Bren't Lewiis Ensemble. Dumb Tangerine Dream collects four 3" CDRs originally released during those apocalyptic years of 2019 to 2021 in micro editions of 25 copies each. No longer only available to the die-hard freaks and doomsday cultists, now ripe for the masses. Dumb Tangerine Dream presents a somewhat different side to the group from that of Hand Signals, consisting o…

*100 copies limited edition* The late Hironari Iwata, best known for his experimental work with "Toukaseibunshi", explored even more uncharted territory under the alias "Haiginsha". This long-lost cassette from 1986 has been resurrected with a meticulous remaster, sourced from one of the few remaining original tapes, courtesy of noise pioneer Toshiji Mikawa. The album weaves a striking tapestry of guitar, melodica, recorder, voice and industrial percussion, each element bending and colliding in …

Over the last decade, Superior Viaduct has become synonymous with making the improbable and impossible real. One after another, spanning nearly every idiom of ambitious music, they’ve reissued some of the greatest holy grails in the history of sound. Now they’re back with two more, this time returning to their deep dedication to Italian Minimalism, with beautifully produced vinyl reissues of two of movement’s most important artefacts: the seminal composer Roberto Cacciapaglia’s 1975 debut, “Sona…

2024 stock Outstanding performance by the Austrian saxophonist Hans Koller; this is a very uncommon and memorable session from the 1960s. Koller plays tenor in a quartet that also features Fritz Pauer on piano; the track was initially recorded for a sound library session, but it is exemplary 60s contemporary jazz. In a style that appears to really challenge Koller during his solos, maximizing his remarkable tone and phrasing without descending into any kind of overdone experimentalism, most of t…

*2023 stock* "From his earliest days as a composer, George Russell has worked from the assumption that if jazz was to grow as an art form it would have to look within itself for the materials of growth. Developing the theoretical ability to abet that process has occupied Russell from his works for the Dizzy Gillespie big band of the late 1940s to his most recent electronic music. The Outer View is one of his most brilliant small-band recordings, applying Russell’s system of tonal organization no…

Big-band no-wave from a stack of local instrumentalists as LA performance artist Went sings her lyrics over the top. Noisy, raucous and free!

Gnonnas Pedro’s “Mo Ngbadun Re” - a song written to pay tribute to Nigerian and Beninese musicians - would change the trajectory of Analog Africa, forever. And while the Nigerian artists were more or less familiar to Samy (the label founder), when Gnonnas began singing about ‘Picoby’, ‘Renova’, ‘Annasoua Jazz’, ‘Super Borgou’, ‘Super Star’, ‘El Rego’, ‘Black Santiago’ and other bands from Benin that he’d never heard of, he was driven to find out more. The conclusion of this musical experience wa…

Wewantsounds is delighted to reissue Roy Haynes' 1971 LP 'Hip Ensemble,' recorded in New York for Bob Shad's Mainstream Records and featuring Hannibal Marvin Peterson, George Adams, Teruo Nakamura and Lawrence Killian. Together the musicians create a superb mix of jazz funk and spiritual Jazz showcasing Haynes powerful drumming and creativity. "Hip Ensemble" is reissued here for the first time on vinyl since 1971, in its original gatefold artwork with first generation photos and includes the bon…

Performed by virtuosic madman William Winant, who has worked with John Cage, Anthony Braxton, Mr. Bungle, Pierre Boulez, Steve Reich, Thurston Moore, Terry Riley, Cecil Taylor and countless others, Theme Park is a major new work by Alvin Curran and one of the most dynamic solo percussion compositions of the decade. Coupled with a kaleidoscopic tribute to jazz giant Charlie Parker, this newest CD by one of today's most important musical pioneers incorporates minimalism, structuralism and post-mod…

Alvin Curran, a persistant innovator in today's new music world, brings the whole environment into unpredictable focus through his sonic fireworks, sharp wit and timeless lyricism. Curran studied with Elliott Carter at Yale in the early 1960's and in 1966 co-founded the legendary Musica Elettronica Viva with Richard Teitelbaum and Frederic Rzewski. He has composed for the Ursula Oppens, and is a close collaborator with the Trisha Brown Dance Company. He is a guest faculty member at the prestigio…

2024 repress. "Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy, x2 LPs of long-form, lyrical, groove-based free improv by acclaimed guitarist & composer Jeff Parker's ETA IVtet, is at last here. Recorded live at ETA (referencing David Foster Wallace), a bar in LA's Highland Park neighborhood with just enough space in the back for Parker, drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Anna Butterss, & alto saxophonist Josh Johnson to convene in extraordinarily depthful & exploratory music making. Gleaned for the stoniest …

Translucent Light Blue Vinyl Comes in a tip-on jacket and is accompanied by a 32-page booklet. The Numero Group guide to private issue new age. Featuring Laraaji, Iasos, Joanna Brouk, Don Slepian, Peter Davison, Master Wilburn Burchette, Jordan De La Sierra, David Casper, Robert Slap and 9 other pioneers of the Perrier underground. Adorned with Marcus Uzilevsky's Linear Landscapes, this 2xLP compilation is housed in a sturdy tip-on jacket and is accompanied by a 32-page booklet. The fourth world…

Mika Vainio's first album that many regard as one of the most essential foundations of electronic music.

Big tip! *30 copies limited edition. Remastered reissue of the original*  "Autofonia (Il Clangore Della Propria Voce Nell'Orecchio)" cassette, self-released by Massimo Toniutti in 1986. Sound material, collected and composed from February to September 1986 by Massimo Toniutti. Digitalized in 2018 from the original master tape cassette, and remastered by Giuseppe Ielasi in 2022. After 39 year this masterpiece is again available in a proper form! "My archive of sound recordings began to assume an …

Big Tip! “Oto no Hajimari wo Motomete” is the NHK Electronic Music Archives. The NHK Electronic Music  Studio was established in the mid-1950s as the world's most advanced electronic music studio. The sound origins started in 1993 as a memorial to the studio's creator, Hiroshi Shiotani. Currently  blasting ahead towards the 70th anniv. of electronic music in Japan in 2025! This limited LP version was planned to commemorate the 70th anniversary and forward next generations. A second series is pla…

Brand new release of NHK Electronic Music Studio. This issue is early electronic works of Somei Satou made in this studio. Most of them have reissued on CDs and LPs, but Rarangenjo (tr.3) is unreleased work.

Unreleased archival recordings from 1980-84. A small chunk of early 80's Swedish DIY underground history from the legendary but rarely heard Fysisk Fostran. Based in the small town of Stenungsund north of Gothenburg and roughly active between 1980 and 1984, the group released a few cassettes as well as a fabled 7" that due to mysterious complications only exist as a testpressing in 4 copies. Fysisk Fostran were inspired by the early UK industrial sound as well as post-punk and synth music, this …

Edition of 200 copies.  Slithering out the fertile depths of Olympia, Washington circa 1985, Industrial Sponge “released” a lone 90 minute cassette onto the unsuspecting public. And by “released” we mean they would gift wrap the tape and leave it around Olympia and nearby Aberdeen at bus stops, on the sidewalk or in coffee shops, waiting for their bizarre manifestations to be discovered by whoever was in the mood for a mysterious free present. Industrial Sponge was spearheaded by “Fearless” Fran…

Apodiktische Gewissheit ("apodeictic certainty") is the title of a cooperative audio-visual project from Berlin-based artist Gerhard Mantz and Wolfgang Voigt. The project is premised on a digital video piece from Gerhard Mantz. Steadily flowing geometric forms and themes move evenly around a fixed center towards the viewer. A hypnotic undertow-like effect of seductive beauty emerges - impossible to elude. Wolfgang Voigt seizes on the digital aesthetic and the mechanical flow of the images, givin…

Available again on vinyl!! A deluxe vinyl re-release of Ciccone Youth’s The Whitey Album, the full-length recorded by Sonic Youth’s Top-40 obsessed alter-ego is now available on the band’s own Goofin’ imprint.  In 1988, after hinting that a tribute to the Beatles’ White Album was in the works, the band about-faced and delivered this brain-sick celebration of pop-culture and The Material Girl in particular. The album has been spectacularly remastered and manufactured to provide hi-fi reproduction…

Huge Tip! Double LP, Gatefold edition. Born on November 23rd, 1944 in Paris, France, Frédéric Rabold already played with his father in American Army Clubs at age 16. In 1965, Rabold joined the Axel Lauser Quartet, three years later he finally founded his own band, the Frédéric Rabold Crew. In the following years he collaborated with guitarist Martin Ederer, singer Lauren Newton, as well as avant-garde jazz musicians such as Gunter Hampel, Leszek Zadlo, Lester Bowie, Manfred Schoof, Albert Mangel…

Bomb! * Edition of 200. Hand-made covers (each one is unique), comes with a postcard. *  At the end of October 1973 Ricky Reets Hubba-Hubba Band was disbanded. It had been decided that what was needed was “a band without Musicians” and many wild experimental jam sessions took place. Finally on November 23 a particularly inspired jam was named “Cat Cheese” and the band SMEGMA was born. Although we had only been playing music together (or at all) for a few months, we decided to record a full lengt…

Signed copy (Edition signed by most of the Artistst) Bringing together over seven hours of  absurd, elusive and often disturbing music, The Box label finally unveil this epic, years-in-the-making 13x LP Box Set from Lafms, a must for those of you familiar with their work or, indeed, the colourful dreamscapes so often associated with.LAFMS BOX BOX documents every performance from the exhibition Beneath the Valley of the Lowest Form of Music - The Los Angeles Free Music Society 1972-2012 at The Bo…

Art Edition, includes a 5x5 inch pigment print, a self portrait from the book, printed by and signed on the back by Fredrik Nilsen. This is a 32 page perfect bound book of photographs by Fredrik Nilsen documenting 3 months in 1976 when we members of the Los Angeles Free Music Society, aka the LAFMS, occupied studios in the 35 South Raymond building in what was then the derelict district of Old Town Pasadena. Some images were taken as promotional photos for our upcoming infamous performances at t…

300 copies. This is a 32 page perfect bound book of photographs by Fredrik Nilsen documenting 3 months in 1976 when we members of the Los Angeles Free Music Society, aka the LAFMS, occupied studios in the 35 South Raymond building in what was then the derelict district of Old Town Pasadena. Some images were taken as promotional photos for our upcoming infamous performances at the Brand Library & Art Center in Glendale, California in July of that year. Others show the general mayhem that transpir…

CD edition. Waxwork Records is proud to release The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Original Motion Picture Score (1974) by Tobe Hooper and Wayne Bell. In celebration of the iconic film's 50th Anniversary, the long awaited score album is now available for the very first time in any format. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American Independent horror film produced, co-composed, and directed by Tobe Hooper, who co-wrote it with Kim Henkel. The plot follows a group of friends who fall victim to a f…