Reissues

Himiko Kikuchi's 1983 album follows a woman's day in fusion, from Make Up In The Morning to Fat Ma Cooking, built on a spoken hamburger recipe. Self-produced. Reissued by Continental for City Pop on Vinyl 2026, with obi.

Himiko Kikuchi's 1980 debut, a bright fusion record built on her Rhodes, Minimoog and clavinet, with Ernie Watts on saxophone. Reissued by Continental for City Pop on Vinyl 2026, Japanese pressing with obi.

Soundtracks for Gérard Collin-Thiébaut's Audio-Visual Devices of 1981-1985: slide projectors on stools, tiny copied drawings and endless cassettes of radio, film and sermon fragments. Tochnit Aleph, 250 copies.

First vinyl edition of Showtime, Sei Miguel's 1996 album and his first proper studio record, recorded live in Lisbon in 1994 with Rafael Toral on guitar, now presented as one piece with the cover photo originally planned.

A sound piece in two parts, composed in 2021 by the late Peruvian musician José Javier Castro as a tribute to the Italian artist Gianni Toti. 7-inch, limited to 250 copies on Buh Records.

Thirteen live recordings made in Leeds in 1998 and 2001, restored from the only surviving source: Terry Callier with guitar, keyboards and percussion, on a gatefold double LP from BBE.

Laura Betti sings Kurt Weill in Bruno Maderna's arrangements: the two 1963 Ricordi LPs conceived by Roberto Leydi, restored and complete on one CD for the first time, with a 108-page book edited by Veniero Rizzardi.

Michael Garrick's first long session, cut in a single day in 1964 with Dave Green and Colin Barnes and privately pressed in 99 copies. Lansdowne reissues it as a 10-inch in a flipback sleeve, 300 copies, transferred from Garrick's own copy.

Enrico Rava (trumpet, flugelhorn) with a string quartet, Augusto Mancinelli (electric guitar), Giovanni Tommaso (bass), Tony Oxley (drums) and Nana Vasconcelos (berimbau, percussion, voice). Recorded at Barigozzi Studio, Milan, April 11 and 12, 1984.

Tom Varner (French horn) with Ed Jackson (alto sax), Ed Schuller (bass) and Billy Hart (drums), recorded in March 1982 for Soul Note, first issued 1983. This CD adds three bonus tracks, with Adam Nussbaum also credited on drums.

Paul Bley (piano), Charlie Haden (bass) and Paul Motian (drums) recorded at Mondial Sound, Milan, on 20 July 1990: pieces by all three plus Monk and Ornette Coleman. Soul Note, 1992; remastered Golden Gems CD, 2016.

Chet Baker with the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana in five standards arranged and conducted by pianist Mike Melillo, with Massimo Moriconi and Giampaolo Ascolese, recorded at Arena Gigli, Porto Recanati, on 8 July 1985. Remastered Golden Gems CD, 2016.

Roswell Rudd, Steve Lacy, Misha Mengelberg, Kent Carter and Han Bennink play three Herbie Nichols and three Thelonious Monk tunes, recorded at Barigozzi Studio, Milan, on 25-26 June 1982. Soul Note, 1983; remastered Golden Gems CD, 2016.

George Russell Sextet with Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal, Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen and Stanton Davis, recorded live at Estrad, Södertälje, Sweden, in March 1970 and first issued by Soul Note in 1982. Remastered Golden Gems CD, 2016.

Enrico Pieranunzi's 1987 Soul Note trio album with Marc Johnson (bass) and Joey Baron (drums), recorded at Barigozzi Studio, Milan, on 26-27 February 1986. Remastered Golden Gems CD reissue, 2016.

Steve Lacy Quintet album with Steve Potts (alto and soprano sax), Irene Aebi (voice, violin, cello), Kent Carter (bass, cello) and Oliver Johnson (drums), recorded at Barigozzi Studios, Milan, May 24 and 25, 1979. Black Saint, 1979.

Quartet album by pianist Don Pullen and saxophonist and flautist Sam Rivers with Alex Blake (bass) and Bobby Battle (drums), recorded at Generation Sound Studios, New York, October 16 and 17, 1975. Black Saint, 1976.

Six-CD box, the second of Max Roach's Soul Note albums: Pictures In A Frame (1979), In The Light (1982), Live At Vielharmonie Munich (1983), Scott Free and It's Christmas Again (1984), Easy Winners (1985), with Cecil Bridgewater and Odean Pope.

Eleven-CD box, the second of Mal Waldron's Black Saint and Soul Note recordings (1985 to 2000): duos with Steve Lacy and David Friesen, solo Update, records with singers Kim Parker, Tiziana Ghiglioni and Judi Silvano, Anthony Braxton's Six Monk's Compositions.

Six-CD box, the third of David Murray's Black Saint recordings: Interboogieology (1978), both Live At Sweet Basil big band volumes (1984), Children (1984), Southern Bells with Clarinet Summit (1987) and The Healers with Randy Weston (1987).

Four-CD box of the Mingus repertory bands on Soul Note: Mingus Dynasty's Reincarnation (Milan, 1982) and Mingus' Sounds Of Love (New York, 1987), and both volumes of the big band's concert in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, June 8, 1988.

Four-CD box of Andrew Hill's Soul Note albums recorded in Milan: the solo Faces Of Hope and the trio Strange Serenade (June 1980), Shades with Clifford Jordan, Rufus Reid and Ben Riley and the solo Verona Rag (July 1986).

Six-CD box of Max Roach's albums for Black Saint and Soul Note recorded 1978 to 1986: Birth And Rebirth with Anthony Braxton, Historic Concerts with Cecil Taylor, M'Boom's Collage, Survivors and Bright Moments by the Double Quartet.

Five-CD box of Kenny Wheeler's Soul Note albums, recorded in Italy 1986 to 1994: Flutter By, Butterfly and All The More under his name, Welcome with Claudio Fasoli, Tales with Paolino Dalla Porta, Guest with the European Music Orchestra.

Four-CD box of Archie Shepp's Black Saint and Soul Note albums: A Sea Of Faces (Milan, 1975), Down Home New York (1984), Little Red Moon with Enrico Rava (1985) and the live California Meeting (Sacramento, 1985). Remastered 2015.

Seven-CD box of Ran Blake's Soul Note albums, recorded 1981 to 1999: duets with Jaki Byard, solo Ellington and Monk, Suffield Gothic with Houston Person, a quartet with Ricky Ford, the Sarah Vaughan tribute Unmarked Van and Indian Winter. Remastered 2015.

Nine-CD box of Gianluigi Trovesi recordings, 1978 to 2004: the trio albums Baghèt and Cinque Piccole Storie, the octet's From G. To G. and Les Hommes Armés, and work with Enrico Rava, Guido Manusardi, Alfredo Impullitti and Asymmetrique. Remastered 2014.

Eight-CD box of Ed Blackwell's Black Saint recordings, 1976 to 1992: Old And New Dreams, duos and trios with Dewey Redman, Transit with Karl Berger and Dave Holland, David Murray's Morning Song and The American Jazz Quintet. Remastered 2014.

Five-CD box of Chico Hamilton's Soul Note albums, recorded 1989 to 1993: Reunion with the Original Chico Hamilton Quintet, three records with Euphoria and Eric Person, and the solo drum album Dancing To A Different Drummer. Remastered 2014.

Seven-CD box of Oliver Lake's Black Saint and Soul Note albums, recorded 1976 to 1997, with Michael Gregory Jackson, Baikida Carroll, Pheeroan akLaff, Geri Allen, Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille and Borah Bergman. Remastered 2013.

Six-CD box of Dave Douglas's Soul Note and Black Saint recordings, 1993 to 1998: his string-group albums Parallel Worlds, Five and Convergence, Mark Dresser's Force Green, Rova's John Coltrane's Ascension and John Lindberg's Bounce. Remastered 2012.

Six-CD box of Paul Motian's complete Soul Note albums, recorded 1983 to 1992: three quintet records with Joe Lovano, Jim Pepper, Bill Frisell and Ed Schuller, the trio One Time Out, and duos with Paul Bley and Enrico Pieranunzi. Remastered 2010.

Nancarrow's works for live performers, 1935 to 1986: Pieces Nos. 1 and 2 for Small Orchestra, String Quartet No. 1, Sonatina, Trio Movement, ¿Tango? and others, played by Continuum under Cheryl Seltzer and Joel Sachs, recorded in New York in 1989.

Gregorio Paniagua's early, baroque and self-built instruments meet Lucia Bosé's spoken and sung verses in Italian and Spanish: playful, psychedelic medieval music from 1981. First reissue, licensed from Sony.

Esplendor Geométrico's second album from 1985, from their noisiest and harshest period: subsonic drones, minimal machine rhythms and distorted melodies. Expanded with a second LP of the Bruitiste tracks and rarities, remastered in 2026.

Piero Piccioni's music for Folco Quilici's aerial documentaries L'Italia Vista Dal Cielo, from the Lazio, Lombardia and Toscana episodes: jazz-inflected orchestral writing and lyrical themes. First time on vinyl, 300 copies.

Ichiro Tsuji's 1992 Dissecting Table album, first issued on CD by Dark Vinyl: synthesizer soundtracks, harsh vocals and metallic percussion, remastered by Tsuji and pressed on vinyl for its 25th anniversary.

A founding member of Vancouver Island's MMR Collective, and head of the Canadian experimental electronic label Hotham Sound, artist and musician Jamie Tolagson (Mount Maxwell) currently lives and works in Vancouver, BC. His music is a unique blend of analog synths and acoustic instrumentation, calling to mind such artists as Boards of Canada, Bruce Langhorne, and Tangerine Dream. A preoccupation with childhood perception, utopian thinking, and the landscape of the Pacific Northwest runs througho…

A founding member of Vancouver Island's MMR Collective, and head of the Canadian experimental electronic label Hotham Sound, artist and musician Jamie Tolagson (Mount Maxwell) currently lives and works in Vancouver, BC. His music is a unique blend of analog synths and acoustic instrumentation, calling to mind such artists as Boards of Canada, Bruce Langhorne, and Tangerine Dream. A preoccupation with childhood perception, utopian thinking, and the landscape of the Pacific Northwest runs througho…

Cardinal Fuzz and Feeding Tube Records make available the debut release by Ambassador Hazy, Glacial Erratics, previously releases as a private press edition in 2020. Ambassador Hazy is a solo recording project by Sterling DeWeese who was previously in a slew of obscure bands including Heavy Hands, Dirty Rainbow, Terrapin Gun, Madison Electric, and Black Fantastic. Glacial Erratics is really a comeback record as Sterling had totally stopped playing for seven or eight years after he got married an…