Reissues
The Music Improvisation Company / Company bundle
Since 2017, Honest Jon’s, the London based record shop and imprint renowned for its forward thinking, democratic approach to music, has embarked on one of its most remarkable and ambitious projects to date - a close collaboration with Derek Bailey’s seminal record label, Incus, returning some of the most remarkable efforts in free improvisation and avant-gardism to the world. So far we’ve seen a stunning series of Bailey’s many solo and collaborative efforts reemerge, bringing his towering histo…
Maria Maria
Far Out Recordings presents the first ever vinyl release of Milton Nascimento's Maria Maria, originally released in 2003 as a double-CD package. Recorded in 1974 and unreleased until almost thirty years later, the album was written as the soundtrack to a ballet which dealt with the legacy of slavery in Brazil. Milton Nascimento possesses one of the most immediately recognizable voices in Brazilian music: high and sweet and as breathtakingly sublime as that of any soul singer. Along with journali…
Michael O'Shea
**clear vinyl, white cover edition** Michael O’Shea’s sole, breathtaking album ranks among our favourite of all time - yet hardly anyone seems to have heard of it. Produced by Wire’s Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis at the Dome studio in 1982, it’s an utterly singular work of magick meshing myriad, worldly modes into music that rarely fails to reduce us to tears. It’s one of those albums that basically sounds like nothing else - the only record we can draw some parallels is Dariush Dolat-Shahi’s l…
Baila, Claridad!
**300 copies** Discómanos Records release Alberto Garralón's Baila, Claridad!, a cassette the Spanish guitar player and producer made 30 years ago. Large doses of imagination, passion, and heart, with influences of contemporary classical music on the strings, pianos, and winds and also a folk touch on the guitars with a mix of ethnic music in his percussions. All of these elements made Baila, Claridad! the first work in Garralón's career a unique collector's piece of the famous Spanish movement,…
Shadows From Nowhere
Finally back again! This Reissue is dedicated to the 1983 so rare mix of the Balearic / Italo-Disco pure bliss Shadows From Nowhere by Blue Gas / Celso Valli, recorded at the famous Stone Castle Studios (Carimate, Italy). Includes the original 12" 1983 versions (Shadows From Nowhere and Marie) for collectors and aficionados, and an extended edit by Danilo Braca for the Balearic Heads.
Kneel Before Religious Icons
Remastered and slightly edited from the original 4 x tape boxset, Kneel Before Religious Icons reasserts its place in the pantheon of Vatican Shadow’s prized early releases. Originally recorded in 2010, the album’s eight tracks revolve around some of the first material recorded by Dominick Fernow in this mode, aside from his then better known work as Prurient. At the time, Fernow was still working under cover of anonymity and this release in particular only aided in heightening the intrigue and …
Psychic Stress Soundtracks
First time vinyl pressing of Joe Colley’s Prix Ars Electronica award winning album. Mastered for vinyl by Giuseppe Ielasi and pressed across 2 LPs, packaged in gatefold jacket with expanded artwork. For those that gave up too soon. Failure, self-loathing and abject monstrosity continue unabated as the primary themes for Joe Colley's electro-shock minimalism. as with his previous, equally impressive Desperate Attempts At Beauty, he shifts through a seemingly endless supply of antiquated electric …
Electronic Music
Bent Lorentzen is widely considered one of the key figures and pioneers of early Danish electronic music and he was one of a few classically trained composers seeking out the possibilities of the new technology in the 1960’s. Lorentzen composed a fairly large number of electronic works, – mainly in the 60's and 70'es. Furthermore, he developed a significant educational practice in and around electronic music, conducted workshops, taught at courses, and published articles in both national and int…
SWF Session 1973
Long Hair is not only proud to present Tortilla Flat`s legendary sole album „Für ein ¾ Stündchen“, on vinyl, but also the groups a lot more legendary broadcast sessions for Germany`s leading underground and Krautrock program on radio SWF (look for the further recordings in this series on LongHair). The mainly instrumental album is very flute and in opposite to the latter album electric violin driven, with very exciting guitar playing accompanied by a rocking drumming and nimble bass lines, very …
Lorca: Lost Tapes (1989-1990) LP
Buh Records present a new album by Peruvian composer and musician Miguel Flores. Lorca: Lost Tapes (1989-1991) recovers unpublished recordings made for stage works inspired by the life and work of the great Spanish playwright, Federico García Lorca. It is an atmospheric and minimalist album, where you'll find flamenco airs, Andean and Afro- Peruvian sounds, vocal experimentation, and various sound effects, all stitched together in a simple but creative studio montage, which turns these pieces in…
Registros De Una Saga Post Punk En El Peru (1986-1990) LP
Salón Dadá was a Peruvian post-punk band made up of Támira Bassallo, Jaime de Lama, and Juan Huamán Hoover, active in the Lima underground movement of the '80s, known as rock subterráneo. They left no official recordings, but at the end of 1986, they did record a four-track rehearsal which began to circulate as an unofficial demo, becoming a classic of the period. Ensayo 1986 (Rehearsal 1986) is now published for the first time on vinyl. Presented as a 7" EP, this new addition to the Essential S…
Ensayo 1986
Salón Dadá was a Peruvian post-punk band made up of Támira Bassallo, Jaime de Lama, and Juan Huamán Hoover, active in the Lima underground movement of the '80s, known as rock subterráneo. They left no official recordings, but at the end of 1986, they did record a four-track rehearsal which began to circulate as an unofficial demo, becoming a classic of the period. Ensayo 1986 (Rehearsal 1986) is now published for the first time on vinyl. Presented as a 7" EP, this new addition to the Essential S…
Thrilling Mortale
Welcome to the third instalment in Vampisoul's series dedicated to the original Italian library music from the vaults of Nelson Records. In this album, the label digs deeper into the most experimental recordings in the archives of Nelson Records. The label was founded in 1970 by the musicians Maurizio Majorana, Antonello Vannucchi, and Roberto Podio (who along with Carlo Pes would be known as I Marc 4), after establishing the Telecinesound studio, right where the New Italian Library Sound was cr…
Interactions A Guide to Swiss Underground Experimental Music
Interactions: A Guide to Swiss Underground Experimental Music, a double-LP compilation curated by Luis Alvarado and published by Buh Records, brings together 27 works by more than 30 artists from the current experimental music scene in Switzerland, in a variety of sounds, ranging from free improvisation, ambient, and industrial music, to synthesizer music, sound collage and more. It gives an account of the intense creative activity in the Swiss underground that runs through cities such as Zürich…
Mechanical Fantasy Box
Patrick Cowley was one of the most revolutionary and influential figures in the canon of electronic dance music. Born in Buffalo, NY on October 19, 1950, Patrick moved to San Francisco in 1971 to study electronic music at the City College of San Francisco. By the late '70s, Patrick’s synthesizer techniques landed him a job composing and producing songs for disco diva Sylvester, including the #1 hit You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real).Cowley created his own brand of peak-time party music known as Hi-N…
Live in Lesotho
* Brand new extended and remastered version of the original LP from 1981. Gatefold with new photography and liner notes * Slickest Afro-jazz-funk swerve from legendary South African cornet player and anti-apartheid figure Hugh Masakela, recorded at the Maseru Holiday Inn before a small audience during days surrounding his defiant 1981 performance in Lesotho while banned from performing just over the border in SA proper. Newly remastered and recut from the original single LP over a 2LP pressing."…
Homenagem
"Lugar Alto presents their very first release: the incredibly rare and absolutely stunning Homenagem, by Leonardo V. Boccia. This is a forgotten gem from the '80s that examines traditional Brazilian themes such as choro, northeastern folk, and capoeira with touches of eighties electronics and new age.Leonardo Boccia is a musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer, researcher and university professor of Culture and Society at the Federal University of Bahia, whose interests include sound studies, …
The Early Days
Early Days maps out Nine Circles interpretation of Cold Wave and Minimal Synth. Unbelievably the tracks are mostly from a brief time period, ’80—’82. Alienation and uncertainty course through the 2LP with heavy Yamaha chords, metallic machine beats and brittle vocals.Nine circles was formed in the early '80s by Peter Van Garderen and Lidia Fiala. In 1980 there was a band called Genetic Factor. This band split up when their three members got girlfriends and they started to make music together wit…
Pulse Demon
Black Ice and Milky Clear Quad Effect with Rainbow Splatter Standard Gram Relapse presents a remastered reissue from the undisputed king of Japanese noise-Merzbow. "Pulse Demon" is one of the most celebrated releases of Masami Akita's storied 4 decade long career. Composed entirely by live noise concrete and the use of a fuzz box, "Pulse Demon" eschews all overdubs and studio trickery, laying Merzbow bare. What follows in these recordings is the pure essence of unfettered noise. The rawness in …
Venereology
Custom Color Twist Edition. The undisputed king of Japanese noise Merzbow returns, as the landmark album 'Venereology' celebrates 25 tinnitus-inducing years with its inaugural vinyl pressing! Remastered by James Plotkin (Isis, Electric Wizard, Full Of Hell, and more) and featuring reworked art, this is the most extreme recording of harsh electronic sickness you will ever own! 'Venereology' features a second LP with more than 20 minutes of unreleased bonus material. By 1994, Merzbow had a signifi…