Reissues
Musik LP
** Edition of 200. Comes with a 2-sided insert, and has hand-stamped label (color varies) by the artist. ** In honour of the recent 80th birthday of Finnish conceptual art pioneer and counterculture icon J.O. Mallander, private recordings from the artist’s personal archive have now been made available for the first time. Known primarily as a visual artist, art critic and gallerist, Mallander has also made forays into poetry and sound art, and his recorded output enjoys cult-classic status among …
Luna Surface
A landmark in avant-garde jazz returns: the definitive, remastered edition of Alan Silva’s 1969 Paris session for BYG’s Actuel series. Leading his 11-piece Celestial Communication Orchestra — with titans like Anthony Braxton, Archie Shepp, and Grachan Moncur III — Silva channels the raw, boundary-pushing energy of the New York free jazz explosion. Deluxe packaging, restored artwork, and new liner notes by Kevin Le Gendre complete this long-sought treasure. Originally released in 1969, this explo…
Sou Filho Dêsse Chão
Brazil is a treasure trove of inspirational music from the past, present, and future. Here we head back to 1976 for a one-of-a-kind kaleidoscopic journey, melding Brazilian regional rhythms with funk, rock, soul, and psychedelia by the married couple Eduardo Araújo and Silvinha. A cult classic and beloved record for some of the scene’s biggest DJs including Floating Points, it was further immortalised when Madlib sampled ‘Opanigê’ for his track ‘São Paulo’. Singers Eduardo Araújo and Silvinha Ar…
Afim
Tip! Mr Bongo proudly presents, ‘Afim’, the second solo album by one of Brazil’s most exciting new talents, Zé Ibarra. You may be familiar with the hypnotic, entrancing tones of Ibarra’s vocals through his work with the Latin Grammy award-winning, four-piece, Bala Desejo and the band Dônica. He has also toured with the musical titan, Milton Nascimento, performing guitar and vocals, which is quite the honour and a testament to Ibarra's craft. As a solo artist, he has performed headline solo shows…
Nem Sim, Nem Não
Like our previous protagonist, Eduardo Araujo was part of the movement surrounding the television program "Jovem Guarda," which eventually gave its name to a national movement of artists influenced by the British Invasion and broadcast to Brazilian youth.
Hailing from Minas Gerais, he made his way onto the music scene in 1958, becoming known as "O rei do rock de Minas" (The King of Rock from Minas) until he released his cult album "O Bom" (The Good) in 1966, launching his career to this day. How…
Steelwound (20th Anniversary Edition)
"If I’m not mistaken, Ben Frost and I first talked about the ideas of what would become Steelwound sometime in mid 2002. In the early 00s, Ben had been working on cut-up electronics, spilling over with floating rhythms, humming string samples and piano splices. It was a sound realised in part through the subversion of fruity loops and also owes a debt to Ableton Live which arrived in late 2001. His works to that point, gently saturated and bristling with a fizzy distortion at times, hinted at an…
Counterbalance
Heikki Sarmanto Quintet’s Counterbalance reissued on vinyl for the first time ever! The pioneer of Finnish Modern Jazz, Heikki Sarmanto together with his brother Pekka Sarmanto, Juhani Aaltonen, Lance Gunderson, and Craig Herndon released the album Counterbalance in 1971 under the name Heikki Sarmanto Quintet. Originally released on vinyl and later reissued on CD, Svart Records finally brings Counterbalance back on the market as it was originally intended, on wax.
Heikki Sarmanto studied music a…
Kristian
A limited-to-300 reissue of this rare west coast psych inspired album from 1972. With all lyrics and liner notes by Jaakko Riihimaa.
Bengt Huhta, known by his nom de plume Kristian, made this unusual album in 1972, after enjoying a pop star career in the late sixties.
As a singer he suffered the same fate as most sixties pop singers - no matter how ambitious the artist, his choice of songs to record was always made by the label, the songs more often than not being Finnish translations of popular…
At Belmont Jazz Club
Eero Koivistoinen Quartet's rare live album from 1978 reissued for the first time in nearly half a century via Svart Records.
The Albums: 1968-1972
2025 stock When they formed in 1968, Pentangle were hailed as Folk’s first supergroup, fusing elements of jazz and underground music and comprising the twin guitar/songwriting talents of Bert Jansch and John Renbourn with bassist Danny Thompson, drummer Terry Cox and singer Jacqui McShee.
Between 1968 and 1972, Pentangle issued six albums – five on legendary Folk label Transatlantic and a swansong release on Reprise. Their debut, The Pentangle (1968), was hailed as a Folk Rock classic and charte…
Demons
Claudio Simonetti, the iconic composer and founding member of Goblin, proudly announces the release of a special edition of Demoni, the original soundtrack to Lamberto Bava’s cult horror classic Demons (1985). Known for his groundbreaking work in the world of horror and progressive rock, Simonetti brings back one of his most thrilling and unforgettable scores in a definitive version that fans and collectors have long awaited.
Originally conceived during the golden era of Italian horror cinema,…
Music For Desert Reboot
Knockout! Thrillingly arid, exploratory rhythm trips on a way more austere, isolationist tip than anything we’ve heard from Trjj/Trii/Trj/Tri previously. Sounds like Liima re-scoring Dead Man or some shit! The music was made for a student film that was in development for four years before being aborted when the directors realised they lacked either the chops or the budget or both to realise their vision. There were three substantially different scripts, but the basic setting stayed the same: “a …
Kukin Kaappiaan Selässään Kantaa
*2025 stock* At the turn of the millennium, Pori Finland based group of adventurers Moon Fog Prophet, born in 1994, arrived at a crossroads. The band had just wrapped up their fourth album Taunting Tin Bells Through The Mammal Void that was in its narrative character, exaggerative scope and dynamic richness a work of art taken to extreme proportions. What next? The answer was found from the more minimalistic end of the spectrum. The singer-keyboardist Mika Rättö began to take more responsibility…
When I sing, I slip into the microphone. Into that void, I bring comrade "prayers", then, turning to face the outside, together we explode
Like on the early solo Haino album that shares the group’s name (released on P.S.F. in 1993), the instrumentation swims in reverb (the use of which Akiyama recalls as ‘a kind of point of the band’), often obscuring the instrumental sources. On the short opening piece, a distant reed instrument arcs long buzzing melodies over a bed of cymbals and gongs, like a psychedelic take on Tibetan music. The epic second part, occupying almost 50 minutes, begins as a splayed, near-formless cloud of electric…
Into The Heart Of Love
*Warehouse find. 2025 stock* Emotional Rescue and Woo came together across 3 reissue albums and 1 bonus 7”, introducting the Clive and Mark Ives music to a myriad of new fans. The crowning release was undoubtedly the pressing on to vinyl first time of Into The Heart Of Love, as well as a full CD release following the exact track list of the original previously cassette only album. A joyous, uplifting ode to love in all it’s forms, the trials and tribulations and ultimately the triumphs are all …
Steel Wound
Twenty years after its original release, Ben Frost's "Steel Wound" returns as a testament to isolation transformed into transcendence. Born from solitude at a derelict cabin on Australia's windswept coast, this masterpiece of textural guitar manipulation still sounds like a transmission from another world—one where beauty emerges from the marriage of abandonment and obsession.
Profondo Rosso Soundtrack 50th Anniversary
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Profondo Rosso, Rustblade proudly releases a deluxe double CD edition of this iconic soundtrack in a brand-new version.
The existential and atmospheric impact of Dario Argento’s films stems from the perfect fusion of masterfully crafted visuals and an unforgettable auditory experience. Among the most striking elements of this universe are the scores by Goblin—once heard, they are impossible to forget. Profondo Rosso is a shining example: with its synth-heavy …
Tunggak Semi
“Tunggak Semi” is the third album from Indonesian musician and producer Bambang Pranoto. Originally released in 2000, it’s an exemplary slice of what has become his signature style, a dream-like meditation on aspects of nature, combining elements of accordion, acoustic guitar, flute and percussion. The compositions cross eastern and western notation to inhabit a world of their own, a world between worlds, where harmonies reflect the beauty and joy of nature.
Bambang had a rather atypical entry i…
Untilted
Autechre, the pioneering British electronic duo of Sean Booth and Rob Brown, continues their illustrious catalogue of reissues with the long-awaited return of “Untilted” (originally released 2005) as a deluxe 2LP set via Warp Records. Out of print for more than 15 years, “Untilted” re-emerges as a crucial touchstone in the ever-unfolding journey of experimental electronica.
Marked by eight monumental tracks, “Untilted” found Autechre pushing their sound to its most uncompromising and abstract: t…
Quaristice
Autechre albums come accompanied by their own set of instructions, demanding your undivided attention, a good sound system and a sufficiently high volume to illuminate proceedings as they were initially intended. They also require a considerable ingestion period, allowing enough time for your brain and senses to catch up with the seemingly impenetrable configurations and sonic algorithm's that seem to unfold before you. Those listeners who aren't willing to invest their time and participation in…