Reissues

Special discounted Bundle. Two of the greatest free jazz records ever laid to tape, back where they belong. Superior Viaduct reissues Noah Howard's The Black Ark and Julius Hemphill's Dogon A.D. — both from 1972, both inexplicably scarce for decades, both essential. The Black Ark finds Howard backed by a towering ensemble — Norris Jones (Sirone), Arthur Doyle, Leslie Waldron, Earl Cross, Juma Sultan, Mohammed Ali — in four tracks that move from hard-blown spiritual fire to lyrical catharsis. Des…

On Super Compact Disc, Masonna rams his entire harsh‑noise vocabulary into a brutally compressed format: hyper‑short eruptions of feedback, distortion and mangled voice that hit like jump‑cuts between micro‑meltdowns, leaving no room to breathe or acclimate.

On Noisextra, Masonna condenses his infamous live violence into ultra‑compressed shock cells: all‑frequency spray, cut‑up screams and convulsive drop‑outs that feel less like tracks than controlled electrical injuries to the stereo field.

On Ardeur, Eskaton condense Zeuhl’s celestial fury into a tighter, more direct form: spiralling dual vocals, ferocious rhythm section and glowing keyboards driving short, explosive pieces that feel like 4 Visions rewritten as concentrated plasma.

On Utopic Sporadic Orchestra - Nancy 1975, Jannick Top finally steps to the front of a large ensemble, unleashing a monumental, eighteen‑piece orchestral incarnation of his Zeuhl opus De Futura - a once‑in‑a‑lifetime blast of mythic low‑end and collective propulsion.

Masabumi Kikuchi's groundbreaking album Air, originally released in the 80s, is set to be reissued, offering both new listeners and longtime fans an opportunity to delve into the avant-garde soundscapes that transformed the jazz genre. This remastered edition not only preserves Kikuchi's original sonic vision but also features additional tracks that further highlight his innovative approach to composition and collaboration. The world's music scene has been abuzz with the re-release of Air, a pro…

Celebrated jazz pianist and composer Masabumi Kikuchi returns with his latest album, "Wind," an evocative journey that intertwines technical mastery with deep emotional resonance. Released under the prestigious East Wind label, this album is set to redefine the landscape of contemporary jazz. With "Wind," Kikuchi showcases his unparalleled ability to blend traditional jazz elements with innovative modern sounds, offering listeners a unique auditory experience. The album comprises intricate compo…

Celebrated jazz pianist Masabumi Kikuchi returns to the forefront of the music scene with the re-release of his iconic work, "Fire," set to captivate audiences starting March 25, 2026. Originally crafted during an era of profound experimentation, this masterpiece represents a crucial intersection of jazz and electronic soundscapes. "Fire" showcases Kikuchi's unparalleled ability in merging traditional jazz influences with avant-garde electronic elements, captivating listeners through its intrica…

Water is a stunning showcase of Kikuchi’s pioneering spirit and profound artistry. The album features tracks such as "Moon Splash," "Spectrum," "Aurola," "Blue Spring," and "Water Song," which embody a seamless fusion of ambient soundscapes and intricate jazz arrangements. Each track immerses the listener in a world of sonic fluidity, reflecting the essence of water itself: ever-changing, adaptable, and deeply resonant. Recorded between 1984 and 1986 at Cracker-Jap Studio in New York City, Water…

For over six decades, Masabumi Kikuchi has been a pivotal figure in the jazz world, merging traditional elements with innovative electronic sounds. “Mind” is a resurrection of his earlier work initially branded under "Six Elements = Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, and Mind," which has been meticulously remastered by the acclaimed Taylor Deupree. Kikuchi's music has always been a light of will amid the chaos of life, capturing reflections of the emotional landscapes and the lightly sketched contours of…

Renowned jazz pianist and composer Masabumi Kikuchi is set to captivate audiences with his latest album, “Japanesque: Six Elements .” This innovative work, the first in a six-part series, intricately weaves traditional Japanese musical themes with contemporary jazz elements, inviting listeners on a transformative auditory journey. Drawing inspiration from the elemental forces of nature, Earth embodies the serene yet powerful essence of the natural world. Kikuchi, celebrated for his unique approa…

Xerrox Vol. 3 is the eighth solo studio album by German electronic artist Alva Noto, released in 2015 as part of the ongoing Xerrox penthalogy, which began with Xerrox Vol. 1 (2007) and Xerrox Vol. 2 (2009).Inspired by formative influences such as Andrei Tarkovsky's 1971 film Solaris, La Isla Misteriosa y el Capitán Nemo by Juan Antonio Bardem, and Henri Colpi, Carsten Nicolai exchanges austerity for cinematographic lushness in the remarkably widescreen third volume of his Xerrox series. In line…

Xerrox Vol. 2 is the sixth studio album, released in 2009 by German electronic artist Alva Noto. It is the second installment of the Xerrox penthalogy, based on the concept of digital replication of source material. As with the first Xerrox album, the starting point is a set of samples culled from external sources. This time, snippets and recordings from Sunn O))) collaborator Stephen O'Malley and composer Michael Nyman are featured, as is an excerpt from the 2004 Insen tour with Ryuichi Sakamot…

Xerrox Vol. 1 is the third studio album by German electronic artist Alva Noto. It was released in 2007 as part of the ongoing Xerrox pentalogy, based on the concept of digital replication of source material. Using the process of copying as a basis, the Xerrox series deals with the manipulation of data through endless reproduction. Due to the inherent fallacy of making copies from other copies, everyday sounds become so altered that they are hardly associated with their source material. As a resu…

Nearly four decades after the fact, the full story of Coil's aborted commission for Clive Barker's Hellraiser can finally be heard - and it is every bit as extraordinary as the legend suggested. The Unreleased Themes for Hellraiser [expanded ritual], released by Mental Groove Records / Musique Pour La Danse, is the definitive edition of one of experimental music's most mythologised what-ifs: a lost soundtrack now restored, expanded, and assembled into a coherent and deeply unsettling whole. The …

On Through The Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping, Derek Jarman reads his only known work of narrative fiction: a chromatic, psychosexual road‑fable in which a blind young king and his valet traverse a mythical America that feels like the seedbed of Jarman’s later alchemical cinema.

Released to celebrate the 70th anniversary of these sessions and the 75th anniversary of Prestige Records, "Miles '54" brings together 20 tracks recorded by the trumpet legend in 1954. Including cuts from albums released that year, it features Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus, Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk and more. Included are new liner notes by GRAMMY Award-winning music historian Ashley Kahn and session notes by Dan Morgenstern, with mastering by Paul Blakemore. 4 LP set on 180g bl…

The first-ever reissue on Studio Mule of the debut album by Japanese jazz legend and bassist Yoshio Ikeda. Having performed with such illustrious figures as Sadao Watanabe, Masabumi Kikuchi, and Terumasa Hino, Ikeda’s first album as a leader features pianist and vocalist Ichiko Hashimoto—also known for her involvement with YMO—Berlin-based jazz pianist Aki Takase, and leading Japanese drummer Motohiko Hino. Avant-garde yet imbued with a distinctly Japanese sense of melancholy, this is a work tha…

Legendary producer David Axelrod’s solo album Heavy Axe is one of the finest outputs of the jazz-rock wave, which was the preeminent sound of the mid ’70s. With a little help from legendary players like Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Cannonball Adderley, and George Duke, Heavy Axe crisscrosses between lush funk sounds and full, round low end and majestic orchestral flourishes that made Axelrod’s sonic realm a goldmine for sample-hungry hip-hop beatmakers from the ’90s until today.

In between being one of the most recorded studio drummers of all time, the beat-maestro extraordinaire Bernard Purdie squeezed in a few sessions of his own. Purdie Good! was recorded early in 1971 by legendary engineer and audio obsessive Rudy Van Gelder, at his bespoke studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and has all the quality hallmarks of that esteemed locale. Three Purdie-penned originals are balanced by three covers of hits-du-jour, utmost among them a blazing romp through James Brown’s…

On Rituals of The Last Dawn, Saba Alizadeh draws Persian classical memory into long‑form electro‑acoustic rites, two side‑long pieces that breathe like prayers for a wounded world - hushed, spacious, and quietly defiant.

*300 copies limited edition* Re-edition of the Cult Industrial-Noise / Power-Electronic split album out in 1997 on OEC. The original LP, limited to 470 copies, is long time sold-out: time for reprint it into CD format. It’s amazing, it has been 28 years since the original split LP was released. These tracks all sound better than ever thanks to a meticulous mastering job by Grant Richardson. “120 Days of Sodom” is accompanied by the only previously unreleased Deathpile track, which was recorded i…

*300 copies limited edition* "I Keep My Stuff Inside" was first released by Tesco on vinyl in 1997 and is long time sold-out. Finally, here comes the CD re-edition of one of the best US Industrial-Noise albums ever. Moreover, this new CD edition also includes an unreleased live bonus track recorded in same period. Organ-like drones with a whimpering guitar distortion. Guitar buzzes twanging in like a jaw harp. Metallically distorted voice which seems like a radio preacher saying “Give me your he…

*300 copies limited edition* Auto-Da-Fé is a collection of SPK’s singles from between 1978 and 1979. The first five tracks, from '78 and '79, are basically a scratchy thrashy punk sound, augmented by synthesizers and samples. Guitars grind, electronics screech, and metal is most thoroughly bashed. Highlight of these early works, and indeed the album, is the deranged Slogun. The intro to the song, a demented echoing clucking and quacking, leads into a pulverising mechanical grind. Surely a candid…

Hopes and Dreams is the title of our brand new compilation series, which will celebrate its debut on March 20, 2026. This new series draws on the music selection of Praise Poems, not only in terms of obscurity, but also in terms of genius. Similar, but anything but a poor copy, the focus is on rare grooves from the 1970s.

*Back in print!* By the time this album was released, Antonio Carlos Jobim was already an international superstar. Having recently won a Grammy (1965) for "The Girl From Ipanema", by 1967 all the big name stars from up north were breaking down his door to work with the new "Gershwin of Brazil." In fact, Jobim had just finished working on an album with Frank Sinatra when he went into the studio to record this album. Recorded in 1967, Wave is actually one of the lesser known masterpieces of Brazil…

The Osunfisan Brothers & Sisters were a Nigerian musical group active during the late 1970s and early 1980s, known for their unique blend of Afrobeat, funk, and psychedelic soul. Their discography includes notable releases such as the 1979 album "Yoga - Be An Enlightened Soul - Stay Young And Pure With Yoga", which features tracks like "Dancing Mood." Their music has garnered attention among Afro-funk enthusiasts, with tracks like "Iyawo", "Animal Doctor, “Dino”, " “Dancing Mood” being highlight…

*2026 much needed repress!* Akusmi is the new project moniker of French-born, London based composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Pascal Bideau, who signs to the new Tonal Union imprint for the release of his album ‘Fleeting Future.’ With its hallucinatory, genre-defying blend of minimalism, cosmic jazz and Fourth World influences, and in its quest for optimism in the face of unknown and limitless possibility. ‘Fleeting Future’ stands apart as an inventive and inspirational debut. The crea…

Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Ricordi, presents a completely revised, remastered edition of the dynamic, classic score by Ennio Morricone for the 1970 Charles Bronson action vehicle Città Violenta (aka Violkent City), directed by Sergio Sollima and co-starring Telly Savalas and Jill Ireland. The film is about a hit man who, after being double-crossed by his mistress and barely escaping a murder attempt, sets out to take revenge on the woman and the mob…

Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM, Universal Music Publishing Ricordi and EMI General Music Publishing, presents a CD focused on two WWII soundtracks by Ennio Morricone, pairing his dramatic scores for Massacre in Rome (1973) and Gott Mitt Uns (1970) Massacre in Rome was directed by George Pan Cosmatos and starred Marcello Mastroianni, Richard Burton and Leo McKern. The story takes place in Nazi-occupied Rome, where an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governo…

Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Ricordi, presents a remastered reissue—for the first time in full stereo—of the 1966 classic, propulsive and exciting Ennio Morricone cult score for the thriller movie Svegliati e Uccidi, a successful Italian production directed by Carlo Lizzani and starring Robert Hoffmann, Lisa Gastoni and Gian Maria Volontè. The film is about a dangerous fugitive who meets a nightclub singer with whom he falls in love. They both get cau…

Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Ricordi, presents a completely revised, remastered edition of the catchy Ennio Morricone score for Ad Ogni Costo (aka Grand Slam), a 1967 comedy-caper movie directed by Giuliano Montaldo, starring Janet Leight, Edward G. Robinson, Klaus Kinski, Robert Hoffmann and Adolfo Celi. The story is about Professor James Anders, who, upon retiring, presents a famous criminal with an elaborate plan to rob a diamond company in Brazil …

*2026 Repress* Los Angeles based pianist, producer, and songwriter John Carroll Kirby traveled to Pietrasanta, Italy in the summer of 2018 on a self-imposed writing trip. During his stay he composed Tuscany, a two side-long solo piano exploration of this particular geographical envelope, a place where nature is shaped into form. Kirby would cycle 12 kilometers each day to Cascata di Malbacco, a waterfall with jade pools and silver stone, and the inspiration for Side A of Tuscany. His own Cascata…

Twenty seven years ago, Jan Jelinek’s debut album Personal Rock was released by Source Records. Under the pseudonym Gramm, it brings together eight tracks that have not been available on vinyl since their original release. Faitiche is very glad to announce the re-release of the album: Personal Rock will appear as a double LP featuring the original cover artwork.What people wrote about Personal Rock two decades ago:“Situated somewhere between Jelinek’s much loved Loop-Finding Jazz Records, Farben…

*2026 much needed repress!* The only full-length from the West Germany trio known as Liaisons Dangereuses, this self-titled record (originally released via TIS records in 1981) is somewhat of a Holy Grail for fans of EBM and minimal synth.  Thankfully, Soulsherrif Records has reissued this rarity! Comprised of members Beate Bartel, Chrislo Haas, and Krishna Goineau, Liaisons Dangereuses was only active for a couple of years. Beate and Chrislo played in numerous famous German electronic and goth …

Ich bin meine maschine is a spiritual track / ich bin meine maschine is a musical track / ich bin meine maschine is a scientific track To underline this tryptic statement and to demonstrate the diversity  of one of atom™'s compositions that appeared on his 2013 »HD« album,  raster now re-releases the long sold-out vinyl ep featuring remixes by  boys noize, function and atom™ himself.

 »ich bin meine maschine«, in an elaborate manner, illustrates uwe  schmidt's main musical concern - the explora…

The Boy and the Tree was composed after a visit to Yakushima Island, an outstandingly beautiful world heritage site off the southern tip of Japan, scored by a deep, lush and ancient ravine, home of the ancient 7000-year old ‘Jōmon Sugi’. Tree. Also the inspiration for Miyazaki's epic anime Princess Mononoke, a conflict between the rampant greed and destructive force of humanity, and the stoic, mysterious fragility of nature. This fleeting immersion in nature lent the album a profound introspecti…

Italian Language Edition Una monografia esauriente e completa di uno dei maggiori artisti e poeti visivi del secondo novecento italiano, Arrigo Lora Totino. Un catalogo ragionato di poesie, performances, libri d’artista, video.

For Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, Joe Hisaishi pours big‑hearted symphonic colour, children’s choirs and unmistakable earworms into Miyazaki’s flood‑myth fairytale, crafting a score that’s equal parts tempest, lullaby and sugar‑rush theme song.

For Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Joe Hisaishi builds a full mythos in sound: from early synth‑heavy image pieces to orchestral suites, his themes move between apocalyptic dread, ecological mystery and childlike hope with uncanny inevitability.