Reissues
Dino & Montevideo Blues
Among the greatest artefacts of 1970s Latin American music, Lion Production’s first ever vinyl reissue of Montevideo Blues lone, self-titled LP, stands as a rare document of revolutionary music being made in Uruguay, and a crucial counterpoint to the sounds of Tropicália from Brazil. Fusing the rawness of rock with indigos Uruguayan rhythms, not to mention plenty of heavy grooves, it’s easily one of the most captivating records of its day.
Ptarmigan
* 2021 Stock. Rated by many as the best “folk/progressive” and/or “folk/psych” album ever made. Sourced from the master tapes. Huge insert comes with lyrics, liner notes from the band, and more * Hypnotic, mystical, largely instrumental tracks, all based on a complex interplay of recorder, hand drums and acoustic guitar—one of those hidden gems that make life better when you discover them all these years later. Ptarmigan recorded the basic tracks for what would eventually become their only album…
Aura a.k.a Sativa
* 2021 Stock * Aura was a San Francisco Psych-Funk band that formed in 1974 and played extensively throughout Northern California. By 1976, the band recorded their first and only album at Pacific Recording Studio in San Mateo. The original title of the album was meant to be “Sativa”, but out of fear that promoting the joys of marijuana would be too controversial, the band omitted the title and just left it as “Aura”. Over the ensuing decades, the Aura album has grown in stature to become a major…
Kenneth Gaburo Conducts New Music Choral Ensemble 1
It was 1967, the summer of love, and the young radicals were huddled together experimenting, sweating in a tiny airless room. Gibberish, scat, sighs, whispers, as well as more refined musical tones, were coming from their vocal cords. For this was not Haight-Ashbury but Urbana, Illinois, and the New Music Choral Ensemble (NMCE) was merely exploring the boundaries of music.
Instigated by Kenneth Gaburo, pioneer of electronic tape music and compositional linguistics at the University of Illinois, …
Behind the facts. Interfunktionen 1968-1975
** 2021 Stock. In process of stocking** Hard-cover. Cloth boards issued without dust jacket offset-printed sewn bound. Critical anthology of the art journal Interfunktionen, an art journal which published 12 issues between 1968 and 1975 in Cologne, was founded in 1968 as a form of protest by artists who had no affinity with the critical lines that were redrawn at Documenta that year. The review was of considerable importance as a vehicle for propagating pro-European ideas and as a union between …
Tenno
For over four decades, Reiko Omura and Tori Kudo have endlessly woven themselves throughout the avant-garde and underground scene of Japan. While internationally appreciated in countless incarnations and contexts (Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Guys & Dolls), if one were to seek out an early moment in which the two artists created something truly awe inspiring, 1980’s Tenno (天皇) would be it. As Noise, the duo experimented with the juxtaposition of Kudo’s extended organ based dirges (be they eerie and/o…
Lost Aaraaf
Deluxe edition in an LP-sized hardcover gatefold sleeve with booklet containing credits and lyrics in Japanese and English. Booklet does not contain the liner notes, interview or chronology that appear in the booklet that comes with the regular edition. Released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the group. The band was formed by Keiji Haino, and consisted of Hiroyuki Takahashi on drums and percussions, Saitoh on bòàèass, Shigeru Suda & Akira Asami on piano and keyboards. Keij…
49th Parallel
* 2021 Stock. One of the top Canadian rock albums of the psychedelic era. Comes with color insert with band history and photos * In the spring of 1969, 49th Parallel had a hit in with ‘Twilight Woman’, a lovely song that sounds like a poppier version of what bands like Tomorrow were doing in England. That success led to the release of 49th Parallel’s only album. All hyperbole aside, it is easily one of the top Canadian rock albums of the psychedelic era. The album is strong throughout—from the p…
Nobody Knows The Heaven
* 2021 Stock * It's 1975 in Paris. Two young guys in their bed-sit (one of whom is French music maven/famous producer Jay Alansky) are dreaming of counter-culture, and their internal versions of California and New York. The result is this album, a child begotten of Marc Bolan, Baudelaire, and Lautreamont. It's a fascinating record, engaging as it is scare- a look into a parallel pop universe. Somehow, the duo got their record released on Monde Melody's one-off "Silk" imprint. And what twisted so…
Oculus
Over an hour of new material from American noise artist Worth. Spread over 8 widely varied pieces, "Oculus" is a symphony for incarceration and mental illness. Some of his strongest work to date. Packaged in A5 6 panel digipak sleeve.
Static Fuzz Drill
Lingula was a Texas based harsh noise collaboration between David Gilden and Richard Ramirez that existed from 1994-1996. The aptly titled 'Static Fuzz Drill' is a non-stop 72 minute long sonic assault from these two legends of American noise. Originally released in an extremely limited quantity in white painted cassette cases, given out at a show at Harvey's Club Deluxe in Houston. Static Fuzz Drill is now presented in an unbroken format on CD. Uncompromising monolithic noise from a now classic…
Gamzatti
* Reissue on CD with 8 panel digipak, booklet, includes new material * CD reissue of the long sold-out The Rita LP 'Gamzatti'. Includes an extra 27 minute long reworking of original source material entitled "Gamzatti Stripped". 'Gamzatti' marked the first The Rita recordings utilizing sound sources from pointe shoe work. Pointe shoe preparation and technique by Hannah Sarah Myrberg. This CD reissue is dedicated to her memory. Gamzatti is arguably Sam McKinlay's favourite classical ballet female …
Galoba
* High Bias Cassette. 3 Panel Linen J Card. White Shell with Black Ink Imprint Extra Download Code * Galoba ('ɡaːlobaː means ‘chant’ in Georgian). As a sound artist far from his homeland in search of tranquility, I have constantly been looking for some healing sounds for the wounded souls like mine; Some sounds you get lost in to forget your agonies, a remedy for your exhausted soul, Sometime around Christmas 2019, I was in charge of the recording of Georgian Christmas songs and chants concert a…
The Garden of Earthly Delights
* 4 Panel Wallet Style Case. Glass Master CD. Folded Insert with Expanded Artwork * On this new work Philippe Petit intended to create a contemporary soundtrack for Hieronymus Bosch’s "The Garden of Earthly Delights" triptych : Bosch’s most complex and enigmatic creation whose overall theme is the fate of humanity.
Following his interest in library music and soundtracks our « Musical Travel-Agent » has been conjuring up a thought-provoking and intriguing universe relying on the use of real instr…
De/Still
* 8 panel book insert. Jewel Case. * De/Still is a musical score for photography. Composer/musician Nathan Moody was asked by photographer TJ Norris to aurally interpret his “Urban Juxtapositions” series. The result is an eleven-movement audio work that boldly bridges the worlds of bricolage, musique concréte, electronic music, and acoustic drone into a unified sound-world. Rather than literally interpret each photograph as a visual score, Moody categorized the textures at play and created timbr…
Quelques Usines Fantômes N°3
* Glass Master CD. Panel Wallet Case. Full Color Artwork by Flesh & Bone Design * Modern life is full of sudden unexpected turns. Quelques Usines Fantômes n°3 both observes and ignores the norms of traditional time signatures by letting in an uncertain between-ness, a quasi-balancing of our immediate surroundings with the inner self. An internal battle or an eternal limbo? On this recording Bruno Duplant seems to further be exploring a slowing of time, almost as if to boundlessly analyze the uns…
En el Comienzo del Topos Uranos
* 2021 Stock. Edition of 150. All analog recording to enhance the 1970’s flavor * Lion production present En El Comienzo del Topos Uranos by Nexus. Thirty five years on the road. Eight albums acclaimed by the international press. Exalted shows at Near Fest, Baja Prog, Panama Prog, Mexico Df Prog. Cinematographic sounds made by the four original members. Heavy and dynamic keyboards/Hammond; elaborate guitar work; powerful bass & drums.
“If you like ELP influenced prog served up to you hot and hea…
Narcotic
Narcotic is perhaps one example of an album in both camps of the Muslimgauze spectrum, it denotes the expertise acquired in oriental percussion by Bryn Jones after a crescent development and practice through action, part Tribal, part Ambient with shades of texturized noise, glitch details and field recordings, as result the listener is inside this intoxicant atmosphere of exotic madness, where the basic musical premise constituted by the consistent tribal beats from darbukas and tambourines cont…
Sidewalk Talking
* 2021 Stock* I love this record. For me, it has a trace or two of Arthur Lee and Love at their best (‘Krishna Dov’ would not sound out of place on “Forever Changes,” for example), with dashes of maybe Terry Callier in some of the jazzier tunes. I also like that Hollins & Starr wrote a gentle tribute to one of my favorite old-time bluesmen, Mississippi John Hurt. At times this album is a gorgeous, ethereal blend of psychedelic folk and offbeat pop; but there are some funk and avant-garde moves t…
En Regardent Passer le Temps
* 2021 Stock. Edition of 300 * Based in Nice, Carpe Diem was a French '70s progressive outfit that also incorporated influences from jazz and classical music into its songwriting. Here's a fine vinyl-reissue of the band's debut-LP, originally dating back to 1976. The success of this album brought the group dates with other major French bands like Magma and Ange.