Reissues
The Early Films of William Ferris 1968-75
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the roots of the blues. This DVD features seven films made by Ferris between 1968 and 1975. In addition to being a groundbreaking documentarian of the American South, Ferris is Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History and senior associate director of the Center for the Study of…
Venus in Cancer
Though frequently overshadowed by his contemporary and Takoma Records labelmate John Fahey, the compositions and performances of Daniel R. Robinson Jr., best known by the stage name Robbie Basho, were integral in the development of the American primitive guitar style. Along with Fahey, and songwriter/composers such as Max Ochs, Leo Kottke, and others, Basho helped bring to the masses the distinct form of guitar finger-picking, which blended folk and country-blues with neo-classical composition t…
Rare & Unreleased 1971-1998
Restockd, reduced price. WRWTFWW Records announce the release of Rare & Unreleased 1971-1998, a collection of never-heard and hard-to-find works by Swiss music pioneer and synth super wizard Bruno Spoerri. Rare & Unreleased 1971-1998 gives a fascinating glimpse into Bruno Spoerri's incredibly inventive repertoire, collecting tracks from projects as diverse as commissioned music for trade fairs, the Swiss railroads, or the union of Swiss cheese makers(!), soundtracks for TV shows about ecology, l…
Let's Start/Bongo Rock
Japanese RSD 2018 release of Akira Ishikawa's awesome cover versions of Fela Kuti's 'Let's Start' and Incredible Bongo Band's 'Bongo Rock'. On 7" vinyl for the first time. Two fantastic funky numbers from this hip Japanese drummer! "Let's
Start" is a tight take on an early tune by Fela – with this cool chanted
vocal in the mix – and "Bongo Rock" is a fantastic update of the
Preston Epps classic, taken into the same funky territory as the version
by Incredible Bongo Band
The Return Of The Incredible Bongo Band
Re-released for the first time since 1974, this is the sequel to the classic 1973 ‘Bongo Rock’, which became a foundation of rap and popular music, up to the present day. Reproduced on heavyweight 180g vinyl and in top-quality Japanese sleeves. The Incredible Bongo Band is a blend of many multi-talented people. Jim Gordon is one of the featured musicians. Ringo Starr has said "Jim is one of the finest drummers in the world". Gordon composed 'Layla' in association with Eric Clapton. King Errisso…
Bongo Rock
40th anniversary deluxe edition, on heavyweight 180g vinyl. For the first time since its release in 1973: a genuine, bona fide reissue of the classic record which became a foundation of rap and popular music, packaged as it would have been seen on the shelves in 1973. Incredible Bongo Band's Bongo Rock is significant, for being one of the musical cornerstones of rap ... it is certainly one of the most sampled LP’s in history, if not the most sampled. Most every history-minded hip-hop DJ has a co…
Legal
New Elemental Music re-issue of Gal Costa's Tropicália classic, 'Legal', from 1970 – pure class as always from Gal Costa! The record is her first after
the immediate Tropicalia years, and it's a stunning blend of styles that
seems to draw heavily from changes going on in the American rock scene
at the time. The core of the music is still steeped in Brazilian
elements – but there's a lot of influences coming into play on the
album, like bluesy rock phrasing, showy nostalgia-heavy arrangeme…
Sleep/Spiracle
The soundtrack to Pipilotti Rist‘s ‘4th Floor to Mildness‘, the mesmerising and meditative installation showing at Strange Days. Edition of 500. Pipilotti Rist’s (b.1962) mesmerising works envelop viewers in vibrantly coloured kaleidoscopic projections that fuse the natural world with the technological sublime. Referring to her art as a ‘glorification of the wonder of evolution,” Rist maintains a deep sense of curiosity that pervades her explorations of physical and psychological experiences. He…
A=Mh2
As virtuoso musicians and members of Sam Gopal’s Dream, Andy Clark and Mick Hutchinson were well-known to regulars at legendary London clubs such as UFO and Middle Earth when they decided to branch out as a duo. Recorded in two intense overnight sessions in May 1969, A=MH2 is a scorching blend of jazz, raga, blues and psychedelia that has long been established as one of the key recordings to have emerged from the UK psychedelic underground. It’s presented here as a two-disc set, together with th…
Musica Manifesto n. 1
**First ever repress of this seminal work.** LP version, edition of 300 copies on black vinyl. Long considered, with Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen, to be one point in the trinity of the post-war avant-garde, Luigi Nono was, without question, one of the most important and singular composers to emerge in the years following the Second World War – defining the zeitgeist, taking the his idiom into startling new territories, while standing decidedly apart. Nono’s music infused the avant-gar…
Tsunami
Sommor Records presents a reissue of Benoit Widemann's second album, Tsunami, originally released in 1979. French keyboard wizard Widemann's (ex-Magma) Tsunami
is an incredible mix of electronics and jazz-fusion with
prog/avant-garde/minimal elements, along with treated Minimoog, Oberheim
synths, Rhodes, early computer sequencing plus bass, drums, guitar,
sax. Featuring Jean-Pierre Fouquey (ex-Magma), Jean-Pierre Grasset (Verto), and Jean-Paul Ceccarelli
among others. Widemann on the music:…
Moondog and His Friends
Originally released in 1953, this collection of very early Moondog pieces features the same tribal rhythmic impulse as his famed Prestige recordings, but there's an impressive line in chamber music running through these compositions: the B-side is dedicated to two suites for strings, which could easily pass for more traditional works were it not for the heavy bongo presence. Essentially though you can hear a sense of discipline, and a thorough working knowledge of conventional classical composit…
Ambient and Experimental Music from Australia And New Zealand 2L
Midday Moon is a survey of ambient and experimental music that emerged from Australia and New Zealand between 1980 and 1995. These recordings are sourced from a rich variety of micro-labels, private pressings, theatre soundtracks and artists’ personal archives. Curated by Melbourne based DJ and archivalist, Sanpo Disco (a.k.a Rowan Mason), the collection delves deep into the world of outsider music that emerged in Australia and New Zealand in the latter half of the twentieth century, as synthesi…
Pop Espontáneo
“Pop Espontáneo” includes a selection of previously unreleased recordings by Joern and Dirk Wenger’s duo Jodi, registered at their state-of the-art 8-track home studio in Asunción, Paraguay. Living in their own isolated world and free from any commercial pressure, Joern Wenger, a kind of Paraguayan Brian Wilson or R. Stevie Moore, created a particular, ahead of its time sound, using electric guitars, fuzz boxes, Moog, Mellotron, Clavinet, Farfisa… *Superb sound taken from the original master tap…
Spontaneous Music
Takako Saito (born 1929) is a Japanese artist closely related with Fluxus. In the 1950s, she participated in the "Creative Art Education" movement where she met later Fluxus fellow Ay-O. In 1963, she moved to New York where she was introduced to George Maciunas and became an important member of the Fluxus movement. She remained part of it throughout the 1960s and 1970s and collaborated with numerous Fluxus artists. Since 1968, Saito has been living mostly in Europe. In 1979, she moved to Germany…
Hi-Fi Is Sweeping the Country
Populäre Mechanik is an improvisational group from Berlin playing a unique amalgam of Fluxus-inspired garage rock, free jazz, and live electronics. It was originally founded in the early 1980s by Wolfgang Seidel who had previously been the original drummer for West-Berlin leftist rock band Ton Steine Scherben and after that became a long-time collaborator of Conrad Schnitzler with whom he played in Kluster and Eruption, as well as in duo recordings. Recently, Seidel emerged as an author and has …
Il Marchio Di Kriminal
This super cult spy thriller made in 1968 and directed by Fernando Cerchio was the third in a successful film series. Previous installments had featured excellent scores by Roberto Pregadio and Romano Mussolini. The master tapes of this Piero Umiliani
incredible soundtrack were recently discovered in the composer's
archives: combining jazz with 1960s beats, a hint of bossa, Spanish
style guitar, trumpet, and sexy vocals, performed by the elite of the
jazz and session scenes at the time, this…
Holocaust 2000
Ennio Morricone's incredible score for the 1977 cult thriller starring Kirk Douglas. Holocaust 2000 was one of those gems from the maestro best era late '70s to early '80s. Complete edition for this first vinyl reissue ever. Splatter vinyl; Edition of 500.
Night Kaledoscope
Alec Cheer's Night Kaleidescope is an incredible modern techno-based score to an underground psychedelic detective vampire indie drama. So there. There is little history here as this is a new release, but this is simply an amazing modern score to a 2017 film one may never have heard about (directed by Grant McPhee). What sets this score apart is its clinical post-modern feel, with influences including Mica, John Carpenter, Brian Eno, Goblin, Fabio Frizzi, even whispers of the 1980s, as well as a…
Crickets. Lots Of Crickets. And Jim Wilson
God's Chorus, by Crickets. Lots Of Crickets. And Jim Wilson is an extraordinary ambient/minimal masterpiece made just using the sounds of crickets. Sounds like heaven. Or beautiful death. Or angels singing. Or a choir in the world's most amazing cathedral. Johnny Trunk on the record: "A few years ago, I was alerted to a strange recording online. I think it was on Mixcloud, but it might have been Soundcloud. I can't remember exactly which cloud, but I do remember other more important things: the …