Reissues

This album was inspired by some of my short trips, incursions to the lake Teletskoye (Altyn Kӧl - Golden Lake) in the Altai Mountains. Of all the indescribable beauty, what impressed me most was a fog flowing with streams down the wooded hills and cloaking the water glaze like a shroud.Foggy sunrises over the lake were not less (and perhaps more) magical than the twilight. The oriflamme of the day already made themselves felt, but the mind was still on the whirlwind sidelines and out of the vani…

Ena (one = unity in Greek) is our musical contribution to overcome duality, conflicts and separation trying to go towards a resonant, open-hearted attitude. What we seed in our life, in others’ lives, on the earth is what we receive. We are One, separation causes blindness and destruction. WE ARE ONE, WE ALL ARE CONNECTED. Vibration is the very first act of creation, Music has the duty and the right to work on connection being such a suitable and direct channel to express harmony.  If our life i…

The very first tape Prophetia (1990) released on CD by Infinite Fog Productions. To celebrate this album, in 2017 Ataraxia have recorded three exclusive tracks (written in 1989/1992) never released before. These old but new tracks keep the spirit of the 90ies with a nowadays feeling. Nicolas Ramain took care of the layout and design. Thanks Nick for the album cover as well! The picture is by Mick Mercer.   - DELUXE LIMITED EDITION - 2CD A5 Digibook including a huge number of pages with exclusive…

*300 copies limited edition* "The Glitch hype was a rather short one. But it brought together different scenes; minimal techno, sound art and electronic minimalism. Then it hit a dead end and dissolved. In the centre of Glitch we found labels like Mille Plateaux (who released the formative ”Clicks + Cuts”) and raster-noton who especially with their static series formed a sound. The first release (2000) was by a young Andreas Tilliander who under his new moniker Mokira released the ”Cliphop” alb…

Wewantsounds is delighted to continue its Yoshiko Sai reissue program with the release of "Mikkou", the Japanese singer-songwriter's 2nd album released in 1976 on Black Records. The album, produced by ace arranger Isamu Haruna, keeps the same formula as "Mangekyou" with Yoshiko Sai's beautiful songs and dreamy vocals over cool funky arrangements, this time featuring legendary guitarist Masayoshi Takanaka. This is the first time "Mikkou" is widely available outside of Japan, with remastered audio…

Sought-after eponymous Indonesian album by the Yanti Bersaudara (which means the Yanti sisters: Yani, Tina & Lin Hardjakusumah), released in 1971 and reissued for the first time. It is a very spiritual and magical Sunda album with haunting vibes based on a unique, creative and strong Sundanese cultural heritage. Active only for less than a decade (from the 1960s until the early 1970s), the three sisters originally from Bandung (West Java) sang traditional sundanese songs with beautiful voices & …

Kit Grill announces Spirit (Expanded Edition), an expanded reissue of his 2022 album Spirit, released via his imprint Primary Colours. The new edition includes four previously unheard tracks, written during the same period as the original album. While recently archiving material from his hard drives, Grill rediscovered these pieces and felt they belonged with Spirit, completing the sonic landscape he began to shape in 2020. Spirit (Expanded Edition) captures Grill's precise, reflective approach …

Giuliano Sorgini - Un Urlo Dalle Tenebre Giuliano Sorgini (among his most famous soundtracks are "The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue," "Zoo folle," "Gli animali … che simpatia") has composed a very macabre, avant-garde, and perfect score to describe the struggle between good and evil. The composer has created sonic dimensions with infernal tones, abstract bands, scary effects (Tr. 1, Tr. 5, Tr. 6), which also feature the recognizable voice of Edda Dell'Orso, organ music to describe the fig…

Nicolae Brînduş's Match / Soliloque 1&4 / Antifonia reissues the composer’s most eccentric works from the PHTORA cycle (1968-1972), blending collective improvisation, spectral tradition, Romanian folklore, and free jazz into a mesmerizing tapestry. Tape manipulations and reverberation add depth, while Ana Golici’s sleeve art captures the album’s vivid sensibility.

Peter Beyls stands as a pioneer at the crossroads of computer science and the arts, shaping generative systems in music, visual, and hybrid formats. In early works, inspired by figures such as Michel Waisvisz, Karel Goeyvaerts, and Lucien Goethals, Beyls fused electronic experimentation with precise tape artistry, notably advancing the crackle box synthesizer at STEIM.

Experience the raw energy and cosmic spirit of Amon Düül in their landmark live performance captured on Live In München, 17 November 1969. This release showcases the classic early lineup of a pioneering band at the peak of the Psychedelic Underground movement. Featuring Renate Knaup-Kroaetenschwanz’s haunting vocals, the intricate guitar work of Chris Karrer, Johannes Weinzierl’s pulsating bass rhythms, the dynamic drumming of Peter Leopold, and Falk U. Rogner’s atmospheric organ, this concert t…

Originally released in 1971 on Chess subsidiary Cadet Concept, Oh! What A Lovely War is the only full-length album from Liverpool’s underrated psych rock quintet Colonel Bagshot. What an evocative title, resonating powerfully in today’s world. Though the band’s name might not be instantly familiar, their musical legacy persists through an intense series of 7-inches issued between 1969 and 1973. Over time, these releases helped them build a devoted cult following. The album itself remained a hidd…

Nova Local's Nova 1 remains the sole album from this cult psychedelic pop band hailing from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Formed in 1964, the group released this distinctive debut in 1968 on the prestigious Decca label before disbanding shortly thereafter. The album blends original tracks with timeless covers, capturing a vibrant mix of jangle-rock and psychedelia that channels the spirit of the Nuggets era. Standout cover songs include the iconic blues standard “Tobacco Road,” famously interpret…

Enter a world unknown! Birdfriend is a cassette label run by Japanese musician/composer Koshiro Hino, aka YPY, who is also a founding member of the Osaka band goat. This compilation, available on CD and double vinyl, features 18 tracks by Japanese artists, from 2013-2017, previously available only on hard-to-find cassettes on the Birdfriend label, now available to you, the curious and courageous listener, worldwide on EM Records. Rejoice and enjoy the fractured rhythms and future-now timbres, qu…

Quartet Records, in collaboration with EMI General Music Publishing, presents a meticulously remastered reissue of Ennio Morricone's iconic poliziesco score for Sergio Sollima's Revolver (1973), a violent Italian-French thriller starring Oliver Reed and Fabio Testi. This definitive release brings one of Morricone's most dynamic crime scores back to pristine sonic quality, showcasing the composer's mastery of the genre that would later influence his acclaimed American gangster film work. The film…

Quartet Records, in collaboration with Universal Music Publishing Italia and EMI Music Publishing, presents a meticulously remastered reissue of Ennio Morricone's fascinating score for Folco Quilici's Oceano (1971), a pseudo-documentary film that stands as one of the most unique and spiritually profound projects in both filmmakers' careers. This definitive release showcases Morricone at his most experimental and meditative, creating what may be his most transcendent work for cinema. The film fol…

Ennio Morricone with “Secret of the Sahara” achieved great sales success, especially thanks to the song “Saharan Dream” performed by Amii Stewart. At the time, Italian RCA released a CD and a 33 rpm with sixteen tracks selected by the author. This material was released in France on CD and on vinyl. In 2018, the same material was reissued on vinyl by Monte Stella Records. In 2007 Maestro Morricone approved six previously unreleased tracks for an expanded edition, which GDM released on CD, now tha…

Quartet Records presents a remastered reissue of one of the most celebrated collaborations between Ennio Morricone and Giuseppe Tornatore, the composer’s most important partner during the last twenty years of his career. Together they achieved great success in Italian and international cinema with films such as Cinema Paradiso, Stanno Tutti Bene, The Legend Of 1900, Malena and The Best Offer, among others. A Pure Formality  (1994) is an intense Kafkaesque noir drama (starring Gérard Depardieu an…

Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and EMI General Music Publishing, presents a remastered reissue of the 1968 classic, propulsive and exciting Ennio Morricone cult score for the gangster movie Gli Intoccabili (aka Machine Gun McCain), a successful Italian-US coproduction, directed by Giuliano Montaldo and starring John Cassavetes, Britt Ekland, Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands and Gabrielle Ferzetti. The film is about a paroled gangster and his son who plan to rob a Las Vegas gambling house, u…

Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing, presents a remastered reissue of one of Ennio Morricone’s most celebrated collaborations with Giuliano Montaldo (Sacco e Vanzetti, Gli Intoccabili, Ad Ogni Costo, Il Giocattolo, Tempo di Uccidere). The 1973 historical drama Giordano Bruno is about the free-thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno (Gian Maria Volontè), who, fleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, has found some protection in Venice.…

Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing, presents a remastered reissue of one of Ennio Morricone’s most celebrated collaborations with Luciano Salce, with whom Morricone maintained a loyal collaboration at the beginning of his career, from Il Federale, his very first film score, through La Cuccagna, Slalom and Come Imparai ad Amare le Donne. El Greco (1966) is a romantic drama set in 16th-century Spain, where the famed Greek painter El Greco journeys to Toledo t…

*100 copies limited edition* « In 2025, can we still be interested in and write about the music of a band of French musicians, very “underground” who were very young at the time in the early 1970s? » writes Xavier Béal at the opening of his review of Ian Thompson's brand new book "Synths, Sax & Situationists (The French Musical Underground 1968-1978)" in the webzine Rythmes Croisés (published on October 24, 2025). The answer is certainly yes! And although the name of Pascal Chassin is still almo…

This anthology is the second compilation from EM Records of the works of the late Henry Kawahara, a media artist and electronic music producer who was particularly active in the Japanese cyber-occult underground of the 1990s, a scene linked with technologies such as 3D (binaural) recordings, brain machines, sound chairs, computer graphics and compact discs. These tracks, produced 1990-95, include a series of recordings described as "Parallel Data Sounds" and "Sound LSD", a "new language system t…

Originally released in 1972 on the Odeon label, Quarteto Em Cy stands as a high-water mark in the group’s prolific discography—and a hidden gem for collectors of Brazilian vinyl. Known for their intricate vocal harmonies and deep roots in the bossa nova movement, the quartet ventures into post-bossa territory here, where sophistication meets groove in all the right ways.Arrangements by Edu Lobo and Luiz Eça (of Tamba Trio) lend the album a richly layered sound—elegant, jazzy, and emotionally res…

Once again, Peru manages to surprise us. From the heights of the Andes come two incredible recordings that show how local folklore has embraced international hits—resulting in fun, unexpected fusions with adistinct Andean twist. ‘Do You Think I’m Sexy?’, Rod Stewart’s 1978 classic, is transformed into a powerfulhuayno anthem—complete with driving percussion and bold brass that almost echo the sound of a New Orleans street parade. Raw, energetic, and unmistakably Andean. On the flip side, we find…

Tip! Tip! Tip! We are incredibly excited to announce a landmark discovery and upcoming release that will be a must-have for collectors and fans of Italian film scores. After decades of being considered a lost artifact, the original soundtrack for the iconic 1975 giallo film, Nude per l'assassino (Strip Nude for Your Killer), has been found. This marks its first-ever official release, presented in a lavish vinyl edition that includes a 30x60cm poster and has been meticulously remastered from the …

The long-awaited and reissue of Wada's 1985 LP "Off The Wall", recorded in Berlin and originally released on the esteemed FMP label. A minimalist yet majestic monsterpiece ("massive", as Tom Johnson declares in his perceptive liner notes), "Off The Wall" features Wada and Wayne Hankin on bagpipes, Marilyn Bogerd on adapted organ, and percussionist Andreas Schmidt-Neri. The original album consisted of two side-long pieces recorded on successive days by Jost Geber, who captured the power and dynam…

"Singing in Unison" is the final in a series of recordings from acclaimed sound artist, composer and performer Yoshi Wada. Recorded live over two nights, March 14 and 15, in 1978, at New York City's legendary performance space The Kitchen, "Singing in Unison" is a dramatic yet meditative work: modal improvisations for three male voices, singing, with great gravitas, in purposeful unison. These previously unreleased recordings, featuring vocalists Richard Hayman (aka R.I.P Hayman), Imani Smith an…

Super Mazembe's "Greatest Hits," serves as a definitive collection celebrating the band's remarkable contributions to East African music. Released in 1986, this compilation features a carefully curated selection of the band's most iconic tracks, encapsulating their vibrant sound and the infectious energy that made them a household name. Highlights include fan favorites like "Shauri Yako"  and "Kasongo" each track showcasing the band's skillful musicianship and unique ability to blend traditional…

Planet Ilunga presents, in collaboration with the children of Nico Kasanda alias Docteur Nico, an anthology dedicated to African Fiesta Sukisa, available as a 3LP and a digital release (with bonus songs). This release is the fruit of many years of preparations and was realized in close partnership with Liliane Kasanda, Nico’s eldest daughter. Marking forty years since his passing, we felt that the year 2025 was the right time to honor Docteur Nico’s legacy with this original collection. Almost a…

A revered figure in his native Isan region, and indeed throughout Thailand, Doi Inthanon is a legendary composer, producer, visionary and talent-spotter, a man who combines business acumen with an unerring ability to both predict and engender new directions in Thai popular music. Fittingly naming himself after the tallest mountain in the nation, he has towered over Thai music since the early 70s, and is still active today. This compilation, the first "various artists" collection in the EM Record…

For reasons unknowable, certain places in certain eras become hotbeds of music, fertile in their growth and flowering of musical talent. Thailand in the 1970s was such a place, and Dao Bandon is one of the enduring greats of that era. Born in the farm country of the Isan region, Bandon came from a poor family and was a monk during his teens, two great influences which shaped him, with his farm roots grounding the earthy heart of his lyrics, and his years of monastic chanting lending a unique res…

*2025 stock* 36 and Zake follow up the epic work of Stasis Sounds For Long Distance Space Travel Part 1 with another eighteen chapters "of aural anesthetics" which "continue their journey through the outer reaches of space in hypersleep." The album comes in different coloured versions and this yellow copy boasts the sort of grainy and immersive ambient that immediately takes you out into the farthest reaches of space. It's widescreen and cinematic and makes for the sort of journeying album that …

The term “private” is used quite liberally in the promotion of rare groove compilations these days. The team at Tramp Records tends to be rather defensive when it comes to such terms. Although, and this should not be misunderstood as arrogance, label boss Tobias Kirmayer & his crew have been doing nothing else for 22 years, strictly speaking. Every compilation series from the Upper Bavarian label, be it the “Movements,” “Feeling Nice,” “Praise Poems,” or “Can You Feel It” series, specializes in …

"When I came to New York City in 1975, after my second period in Paris, I felt as if I was starting again. I didn’t have a band at that time. The Black Artists Group had broken up, or separated—well, it wasn’t much of a “break-up,” but we had come to our musical end, even though one of the last groups I had before returning to New York was with BAG member Baikida Carroll playing trumpet, Peter Warren on bass, and Oliver Johnson on drums. I was basically by myself. I felt eager and anxious to see…

In the early 90s there were a few like minded friends making a unique style of lo-fi pop music. At the core of this non-scene were Sukpatch, Land of the Loops and The Ah Club, who all tended to play on each other's recordings. As the decade went on each of them learned how to use their instruments better, smoothing over the edges, but in typical fashion, the early home recordings had a special feeling that couldn’t be replicated with cleaner fidelity and nicer equipment. Sukpatch especially were…

*2025 stock* Green Grass, the Danish psychedelic folk pioneers, unveil Vandreudstilling Hara Ghash, a hypnotic exploration of traditionals and originals that captures a quintessential era of 1970s European underground music. This release reintroduces a record long cherished by collectors for its adventurous spirit, intricate textures, and unguarded emotional resonance. Vandreudstilling Hara Ghash draws listeners into a landscape where folk melodies braid with early psych experimentation, creatin…

*2025 stock* Feo, the blind-polkied ensemble born in the Danish scene of the early 1970s, re-emerges with Eg Meini Teð, their pioneering progressive folk LP originally released in 1971. This reissue, presented by Orpheus Records, revisits a landmark work that captures the group’s stark, acoustic sensibilities and intricate interweavings of traditional motifs with forward-thinking arrangements. A historically significant release, Eg Meini Teð stands as Feo’s emblematic exploration of mood-driven …

From the halls of Kashmere High School to the discographies of funk aficionados worldwide, the Kashmere Stage Band’s debut album Our Thing, self-released in 1969, stands as a defining artifact of American funk. Born from a Texas student ensemble under the exacting direction of musical director Conrad O. Johnson, the band forged a sound steeped in raw, unfiltered groove and high-velocity horn work that would resonate for decades. Our Thing captures the Kashmere Stage Band at a pivotal moment: a r…

*41 copies limited edition* Emerging from the dense web of the 1980s mail-art underground, 'Kwashiorkor Presents…' gathers two rare cassettes from the elusive American collective known as Kwashiorkor (or K+), whose radical DIY ethos blurred the borders between music, collage, and correspondence. 'Kwashiorkor Presents…' collects 'We Are Numberless' (1988) and 'Reliving The Past' (1986) in a deluxe double-cassette edition that maps the outer edges of the 1980s home-taping underground. Kwashiorkor …