Reissues
Breadwoman & Other Tales
Sensational!!!! Breadwoman & Other Tales are the collected recordings of a language arising. It is the sound and document of Anna Homler divining speech, lyrical fragments, and melody for music composed, mixed, and engineered by Steve Moshier. It’s 1982 and Anna is driving an ocean blue classic Cadillac to meet renowned poet and playwright Deena Metzger in Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles. Passing a non-descript desert patch where tall wheat and mustard flowers grow, Anna opens her mouth and sings in…
Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh
180-gram vinyl. The only survivors of the former line-up, Christian Vander and Klaus Blasquiz, with a new team of supporting musicians, recorded Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh at the Manor Studios in Oxford in 1973. Many people consider this album to be Magma's masterpiece. From then on, Vander was definitively confirmed as the group's artistic director. If the instrumental performance gains more power, notably with the arrival of Jannick Top on bass, the most striking feature of MëkanÄÂk …
1001 Centigrades
Back to Black series. Recorded at Michel Magne studios in Herouville, 5-10 of April, 1971. After losing guitarist Claude Engel and reinforcing the brass section with Jeff Seffer on saxophones and Louis Toesca on trumpet, Magma went back into the studio in 1971 to record a second album. All the originality and greatness of Kobaia are there, in even greater measure because everything is magnified. The two tracks composed respectively by Teddy Lasry and François Cahen occasionally introduce a jazzi…
Kobaia
180-gram vinyl. "In the late sixties, Christian Vander founded Magma and stated his commitment to produce a different kind of music. Released in 1970, Magma's début album Kobaïa succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations. The group's sound blended diverse influences from Bach to Coltrane to produce a brand new musical style. While the instruments were familiar, they were used in unconventional ways, and the vocals, which called on an invented language, only heightened the otherworldly…
Live - Hhai
180-gram vinyl. "In 1975, following the departure of Jannick Top and almost all original members of the group, Magma was reborn from the ashes with a rejuvenated ambition. This live recording, which took place in June of '75 at the Olympia Tavern, captures Christian Vander at the top of his artistic game and features a mind-blowing performance from Didier Lockwood, whose violin adds an extra dimension to the profound originality of this superb double album
Telefon
First ever reissue of rare, sought-after, and stoned-to-the-max Swedish underground psych/progressive/experimental treasure from 1971, originally released on the legendary Gump label and featuring the mythic underground personalities and musicians Einar Heckscher and Johnny Mowinckel. Side A is sung in English and side B in Swedish. The band name has been mixed up many times by collectors, mistaken as either Telefon Paisa (an earlier incarnation of the band) or Telefon (the album title), but thi…
Kattvals
2016 Reissue. Subliminal Sounds presents the band Kvartetten Som Sprangde (trans. "The Quartet That Blasted") and their album Kattvals (trans. "Cat Waltz"). First-ever vinyl reissue of one of the most sought-after and beautiful psych pre-jazz rock instrumental albums ever recorded in Sweden. Originally released during the summer 1973 on the obscure Gump label. Powered by a C-3 organ, Ludwig kit and 50-watt Marshall head with a home-built cabinet, the skilled three-piece band (not a quartet,…
At the Funkhaus LP
rec. 1973 live at the Funkhaus, Hamburg, Germany - ltd/numbered 1/69, with paste-on cover (front & back with notes) "two sides long pieces, available here for the 1st time, top sound quality/pressing" punzmann
Friendly Love
A vibrant Sun Ra recording session held in NYC at Variety Studio in 1973, ltd/numbered 1/79, with paste-on cover (front & back with notes) "meager, raw and totally oblique Arkestra rec. available here for the 1st time. very difficult record to do, came out amazing" punzmann
Jola Rota
2016 Reissue, edition of 400 copies. The first official vinyl reissue of one of Sweden's greatest unknown psychedelic treasures from the 1970s. One time only limited pressing of 500 copies. From the original master tapes and with the original artwork, including previously unpublished archival pictures and liner notes. The album contains a mysterious, shamanistic and highly psychedelic “folk music” infused with incredible soundscapes of derailed fuzzed out violins, soaring guitars, rattling han…
Framtiden ar ett svavande skepp, forankrat i forntiden
2016 repress. Subliminal Sounds presents a vinyl reissue of Agarnas Tradgard's 1972 debut album Framtiden ar ett Svavande Skepp, Forankrat I Forntiden, a rare and totally flipped-out psychedelic underground space rock masterpiece from Sweden. This incredible album was a radical exploration of the new possibilities opened up by creative use of the recording studio as an instrument, in a similar vein to Faust and other German experimenters, while also pulling in folk and medieval influences.The ba…
Friends of Mine
Jill Cislaghi cut her one and only album in 1977, during her senior year at Regis College in Massachusetts. She recorded solely for friends, family, and as a memento for the members of her graduating class. Friends of Mine describes the loves and tribulations of Cislaghi's life with a mixture of naivetè and wisdom. With nothing more than her voice and (mostly unplugged) guitar, Cislaghi's folk sound is singular and resonant, bold yet humble. Friends of Mine's hopeful yet wintry vision should a…
Daydream
One of the coolest albums ever from the legendary Cometa sound library – a set that's every bit as weird and wonderful as you'd guess from its cover image of a hand holding a flower with eyeballs on each petal! The music's maybe not as trippy as that picture, but it does have lots of cool and groovy touches – sweet Fender Rhodes at some points, jazzy reeds at others, and even some more evocative passages that almost have a deeper soundtrack vibe – but which soon return to the kind of tigh…
Musique Pour le Reve et l'Amour
Outstanding!!! Before appearing in his works as a musician, Ariel Kalma seems to reveal himself as a philosopher; a solitary explorer of higher and deeper consciousness. Influenced by his relationship with Indian classical music, he transfigures the acoustic-ecstatic dimension typical of the tanpura raga by modulating synths and horns. The work reissued here originally appeared on two different cassettes in 1981 and 1982, but is ideally one unique project. With Musique Pour le Rêve et l'Am…
Le Mal Des Ardents
** Recorded in 1987 on cassette tape (private release). Limited numbered Edition Clear Vinyl 108 copies (with an insert) ** Le Bal Des Ardents is a mini-LP reissue of a strange cassette based on the terrifying historical event about the French King Charles VI the day of January 28th 1393, where he escaped from a fire caused by a torch during a masked ball, a tragedy who will let him sink into madness soon after. The main theme of this record try obviously to recall Charles VI hallucinations, tor…
Wrist
Paolo Bandera founded in the mid-eighties with Eraldo Bernocchi the colossal collective post-industrial Sigillum S. In 1993 he created his solo project Sshe Retina Stimulants, devoting himself to sharpen the edges of concepts and noise extremes. Andrea Chiaravalli started with Iugula-Thor in 1992 and from his first release on Minus Abens Records titled The Wheel Of The Process he collaborates with Paolo and Eraldo. Their prolific cooperation culminates with Writs CD, released by the trem…
Closed Exit
Closed Exit is published by Nail Releases in 1997 on double cassette limited to 80 numbered copies. The four tracks on the tape are based on sick mono-tone synth drones with aberration voice. The smell of death is soaked in every sound produced by the brilliant and twisted mind of Marco Corbelli. Anxiety, alienation and hypochondria turn into a deep paranoia in pain. Without hesitation, the bodies are emptied, leaving the field to an electronics purulence of rare power disconcerting. This…
Disturbance
Moreno Daldosso breaks into 1993 with his project Murder Corporation and released his first tape on his new label Murder Release. Tape after tape, Murder Corporation has gained a prominent position as electronic serial slaughterer, claiming frontal attacks and sonic walls relentlessly, sampling overload and brutal distortion. Disturbance was recorded at Murderhouse , January 1995 and it was released from legendary Slaughter Productions the same year on double cassette inside vhs box in st…
For Samuel Beckett
1999 release - For fifty-five minutes the great American composer Morton Feldman weaves his tapestry of sounds, a pattern always the same and yet never the same, an iridescent, thick fabric, full of details, although these never distract the listener's attention. Feldman met Beckett only once in his life (though Beckett later sent him a postcard on which the composer discovered the text for his opera Neither). He created music of a beguiling tonality and beauty, inspired more by painting and lit…
The Boston Creative Jazz Scene 1970-1983
Cultures Of Soul compile a selection of music culled from rare private press Jazz LPs, pressed in small quantities of a few hundred for band members and the local jazz community. This group existed in the creatively fertile, Boston jazz scene at the time. Presented as a double LP set, packaged in deluxe box with each piece of vinyl housed in its own euro-style glossy jacket. In the 1970s Boston was a fertile ground for a very creative jazz scene. Small, independent venues ranging from lofts…