Reissues
Rites
Jan Garbarek's 1998 double album with Rainer Bruninghaus, Eberhard Weber, Marilyn Mazur and Bugge Wesseltoft, on vinyl for the first time in ECM's Luminessence series: tip-on gatefold jacket with booklet.
Illusion Suite
Stanley Cowell's only ECM album, recorded in 1972 with Stanley Clarke on bass and Jimmy Hopps on drums. Reissued in the Luminessence series, tip-on gatefold jacket with new liner notes by Ethan Iverson.
Ahmad Jamal '73
Ahmad Jamal's 1973 album for 20th Century, his first on electric piano, with an orchestra arranged by Richard Evans and versions of Superstition and The World Is A Ghetto. Verve Vault reissue, all-analog, 180 gram.
The Second Coming
Rudolph Johnson's second album for Black Jazz, from 1973, with Kirk Lightsey, Kent Brinkley and Doug Sides: free, expressive playing in the wake of Coltrane, with little of the fusion of its time. Real Gone reissue on black vinyl.
Spring Rain
Rudolph Johnson's 1971 debut for Black Jazz, a quartet date with John Barnes, Reggie Johnson and Raymond Pounds moving between bebop, soul jazz and Coltrane-like tenor. Real Gone reissue on black vinyl, remastered.
Return Of The Black Emperor
The 2018 debut by Chicago saxophonist Isaiah Collier with The Chosen Few, recorded when he was 20: 66 minutes of spiritual jazz after Coltrane, between gospel, free improvisation and heavy rhythm. Japanese edition.
Pathless Path
By the end of the 1960s, Charles Lloyd was one of the biggest names in jazz. His quartet with Keith Jarrett, Cecil McBee and Jack DeJohnette reached far beyond the usual jazz audience, while Forest Flower became one of the first jazz recordings to sell a million copies. In 1970, at the height of his career, Lloyd disbanded the quartet and withdrew to Big Sur. He continued to make records from time to time, but largely disappeared from the jazz scene while following a more inward and spiritual pa…
Erotica 70
Plush shag carpeting, jazz flutes, analogue synths, funk grooves, exotica, and sultry, Italian-style vocalising: Erotica 70 is the new album from Larry Manteca, known for their inventive, tongue-in-cheek reimaginings of classic Italian soundtrack aesthetics. This time around, the Milanese collective sets its sights on the distinct sonic landscape of 1970s commedia sexy—a film genre that, for better or worse, defined an era and fed richly into the cinematic education of Larry Manteca’s members.
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Dur-Dur Band - Volume 3 (1988) & Volume 4 (1989)
Analog Africa proudly presents Dur-Dur Band – Volume 3 (1988) & Volume 4 (1989), a stunning double-vinyl collection celebrating one of the most distinctive and influential sounds to emerge from the Horn of Africa. Originally recorded during the late 1980s, these two volumes capture the Dur-Dur Band at the height of their powers: vibrant, rhythmic and irresistibly danceable. Driven by hypnotic basslines, propulsive percussion, swirling keyboards, expressive guitar work and unforgettable vocals, t…
Brao Gongs of Ratanakiri (Cambodia)
Tip! This is raw, unfiltered ceremonial gong ensemble music recorded on location by Laurent Jeanneau in Ratanakiri, Cambodia’s northeastern province, bordering Laos and Vietnam. Along with Mondolkiri to the south, it was once home to many of the country’s ethnic minority communities. During the colonial period, the French failed to establish full control over the region. After independence, the Khmer state also struggled to govern it, while Khmer Rouge rebels hid in its forests in the 1960s amid…
Lovelyville
**First ever reissue! Audio remaster from original master tapes.** The Thinking Fellers’ third LP, the second released on vinyl, the first released on Matador Records, the first to include former Glorious Din guitarist and World of Pooh drummer Jay Paget (if only on the opening track), the first to showcase Mark Davies’ baritone horn and Brian Hageman’s viola, and the first where the band’s live and recorded sound sharply diverged, Lovelyville is transitional in just about every sense and yet so…
Taxi
The debut album of the French master improviser from the early 80s finally available again! her impressive release-list over the years - solo, duos, trios, big projects – shows a range of works with most of the current improvisers, to new music (Cage, Scelsi) and dance and theatre with two main constants - playing live plus the celebration of improvisation. This album here shows in a wonderful way how it all started – a strong player with her voice and her instrument. Recorded at Studio Achille,…
A Room
Cage was in his late twenties, a Californian, who had served an unlikely apprenticeship under two of the century’s great opposites: Arnold Schoenberg, who thought him gifted but harmonically hopeless, is said to have called him “not a composer, but an inventor of genius”, and Henry Cowell whom he had watched reach inside a grand piano to pluck and sweep its strings by hand. The music on this recording follows Cage through this early decade of his life, his twenties. But this is not the music bef…
Possessed Nun Sleaze
*300 copies limited edition* One of the first The Rita releases, out in 1998 on Labyrinth Recordings in an edition of only 50 copies and highly sought after. Finally this special album is going to be reprinted into CD. One of the early albums where Sam started his adeventure into Noise, or better said: the very Harsh Noise subgenre known as "Harsh Noise Wall", a the term coined specifically for its sounds. This reissue is dedicated to Isabella and Sister Angela.
The recent related OEC cassette…
Alive And Dead
*300 copies limited edition* Re-edition into CD of the tape out on OEC in 2018 and immediately sold-out. Re-mastered for CD by Devi(L)s Granziera (aka Teatro Satanico). Live actions in their entirety by Atrax Morgue: Live @ SOTTOMONDO - Treviso / Italy - on October 23 1999; Live @ URGA - Tokyo / Japan - on December 03 2006. Music, words, vocals by Marco "M. Nothing" Corbelli, "Alive and Dead" no need to say more...
Paranoia (Expanded)
*300 copies limited edition* "Paranoia standard edition has sold-out and here comes the expanded edition / re-print of one the best, if not the best, Atrax Morgue CD release. To this new edition we have added two alternative versions of the track Il Forcipe di Thanatos which were first released on the 7" vinyl Malaplacenta out on OEC in 2017. The original project dates back in 2007 just before Marco's death. On those two alternative tracks you can hear Marco's voice ranting the text written by M…
Pathophysiology
*300 copies limited edition* "First releaset as a tape in 1995, reprinted as a CDr in 2002. Finally, after 24 years, in 2019 omes CD-Digipak re-edition of this legendary album. For the CDr re-release the tape was completely remastered at Sweet Slaughter by none else than Marco Corbelli and the following were added: 2 unreleased tracks recorded in 1995 + 2 unreleased tracks recorded in 2002. This was and still is best Italian Morgue P/E Industrial. Brutal Synth-Noise by the cadaverous mind of thi…
Sekunder, Eoner
*100 copies limited edition* Explorations into dreamy, texturally rich environments and dub flavoured landscapes through the use of rhythm and subtle melody.
Complete Feedback Works
Numbered edition of 200 copies. Six LPs in a box, with restored original artwork reprinted in monochrome blue. Each record comes with its own extra materials: inserts, booklets, postcards and posters. Between 2011 and 2022 Alga Marghen devoted an archival series to the early, unreleased magnetic tape and feedback works of Éliane Radigue: five LPs, issued in small runs and repressed only in tiny quantities, that quietly rewrote the story of where her music came from. A few months after the compos…
Battle of Clontarf
Late-90s guitar pieces by Loren Connors, most on vinyl for the first time: the unrealized 1996 double 7" Battle of Clontarf, The Five Points EP, the Star of Bethlehem suite and Gershwin's I Love You, Porgy. 180g LP, edition of 300.