Psychedelia & Kraut / Art Rock

The Faust vaults through Jean-Herve Peron's eyes. Songs, sabotage and tender strangeness sit side by side, a personal cut of the krautrock legends' boundless, unruly tape archive.

Kevin Ayers 1974-1980: The Confessions of Doctor Dream, Sweet Deceiver, Yes We Have No Mañanas, Rainbow Takeaway and That's What You Get Babe, with BBC sessions and 13 unreleased live tracks. Esoteric 6CD, 2026.

Roxy Music's 1973 second album, the last with Brian Eno, remastered on 140g black vinyl with a second disc of unreleased AIR Studios outtakes and the Eno tapes of the title track, in a gatefold sleeve curated by Bryan Ferry.

Outsider Records proudly announces the release of Live and In Session 1982 by the legendary Nico, accompanied by the acclaimed post-punk band The Blue Orchids. This remarkable collection captures the raw energy and haunting beauty of Nico’s 1982 European tour, offering listeners a rare glimpse into a pivotal moment in underground music history. In early 1982, Nico—iconic singer, songwriter, and former Velvet Underground muse—joined forces with The Blue Orchids, one of Manchester’s most innovativ…

Between 1970 and 1973 Soft Machine recorded five albums for CBS, and across those five records the band changed almost beyond recognition. Third still had Robert Wyatt singing on one side of it; by Seven there were no vocals, no Wyatt, no Elton Dean and no Hugh Hopper, and the group was playing a dense, written, riff-driven music that had more to do with Miles Davis's electric bands than with anything else coming out of England. This box follows that arc in detail. All five albums are here, rema…

This well recorded and carefully mastered set captures the most famous version of the band (the ‘classic quartet') on their final European tour on two consecutive nights on February 27 and 28, 1971. While the two sets from the second night (February 28, 1971) have been released before, this is the first time that the entire two-night stand has been released. So half of this is previously completely unreleased. This is a excellent, stereo recording of the band performing in a relatively small hal…

Prison’s third big one, Big Rigs on the BQE, finds our jammers of legend far away—miles from Downstate (2025) and Upstate (2023): driving further down the road, Prison’s guitar, bass and drums compel them to dream loud. An improvised rock and roll tapestry, multiple impulses, intersections and lifelines rended with gas ‘n guitar pedal on down to the metal. Reflecting real lives lived today, sprawled and recalled in undulating electroacoustic performance. On March 7th 2024, Prison vets Sarim Al-R…

Time stands stunningly still on The Final Painting, the dreamy, elegiac final album from legendary underground singer-songwriter/poet/painter Ed Askew.

The Apryl Fool’s self-titled album Apryl Fool (1969) is a singular psychedelic rock record born from the collaboration between Japanese musicians Hiro Yanagida and Takashi Matsumoto and American producer Gary Walker. The album fuses West Coast psychedelia with baroque pop, orchestral arrangements, and subtle Eastern melodic sensibilities, creating a richly textured and cosmopolitan sound that stood apart from both mainstream American psych and contemporary Japanese rock. Though commercially over…

*300 copies limited edition* Once mainly something that existed in a live setting, the group drifts further into its own orbit with a second collection of songs. What began as a collaboration between two voices now expands with the presence of a third, adding new layers that sometimes verge on something almost familiar. The work continues to explore a method that feels less like collecting from the outside and more like rearranging from within. Fragments are taken apart and reassembled: rhythms,…

The Boston Tea Party Live Set from July 1969 Released in Two Brand New Volumes

The Boston Tea Party Live Set from July 1969 Released in Two Brand New Volumes

After the release of last years album Out Of Season (feat Mike Watt) we are delighted to release the follow up The Long Year on November 29th. With sounds reminiscent of Can and Neu with spoken word provided by Karen Schoemer (who provided the lyrics to Out Of Season as well). Elements of Krautrock, free form jazz and even afro beat bring this immersive album all together. The Long Year is an album, a journey, which is best listened to as a whole. “…when the eye can’t see, the mind steps in…” Ol…

In March 1969, the Velvet Underground, featuring Doug Yule now on bass, launched a nationwide tour that captured a pivotal moment in rock history. Among those dates was a memorable engagement at Dallas’ "End Of Cole Avenue" club—one of the rare live shows professionally recorded with a sound engineer on site. Previously, selections from these performances appeared in 1974 on the 1969: Velvet Underground Live album, but the sound was hampered by the use of third- or fourth-generation tapes, limit…

2008 release ** CD re-issue of the fourth volume in the ongoing "Cosmic Debris" series of split ART-LP releases set up by the Opalio brothers, aka My Cat Is An Alien (MCIAA), on their own Opax Records. This time the space improv duo from Torino, Italy, shares one side of the vinyl with Swedish radical saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, whose twenty-year career boasts collaborations that range widely over the contemporary improvised music world, from masters of the free jazz such as Peter Brotzmann, De…

2025 stock The Third Ear Band first arrived on the scene in the mid 60s as part of the whole underground movement.  They were a favourite at clubs such as UFO and The Middle Earth and they also opened The Rolling Stones’ free concert in Hyde Park on 5th July 1969. As an experimental band using violins, oboe, cello, viola, and hand percussion instruments they didn’t play songs as such but improvised music drawing on Eastern raga forms, and European folk, with experimental and medieval influences …

*In process of stocking* After Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Alex Spyropoulos dissolved their partnership, they both went separate ways in the music scene. Campbell-Lyons began work on the Local Anaesthetic songs while going through a series of personal matters which ended up being reflected in the tone of the album. He did release it under the Nirvana name in 1971, but what we have here is a totally different thing. He decided to break with what had been doing up to that moment, and came up with a…

One of the most important 'lost' music recordings out there, this is the original version of the classicl album - recorded in April 1966 - that Andy Warhol eventually presented to Columbia Records, who chose to reject the demos. The track order is different from the release, and the band didn't record "Sunday Morning" and "There She Goes" until later, so those songs aren't included here. Some tracks sound the same as the released tracks, and others are markedly different, and even a little rawer…

2025 stock On February 27, 2018, Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band (comprised, in this iteration, of long-time SMB bassist Peter Kerlin and Kerlin’s Sunwatchers battery mate Jason Robira on drums) were close to wrapping up an 18-date tour of the EU and UK with a two-set, one hour and 45 minute show at Cafe OTO, London’s premier venue for adventurous music. Highlights of that show are included in this live release, RARE DREAMS: SOLAR LIVE 2.27.18, recorded before a packed house seated mere fee…

2025 stock ** "Recorded on 2nd and 3rd July 1970 in Munich for German Television, the music on this CD is the complete soundtrack of the short movie of Abelard and Heloise's story. The album contains six tracks - all untitled."

"In 1980 the Italian musicians Piero Chianura (bass guitar, samples, synthesizers) and Luciano Margorani (electric guitar, devices) founded LA 1919 in Milan, Italy. False Memory Syndrome is their sixth album on which guest drummer Federico Zenoni can be heard on all tracks. Una Giornata Particolare - Ore 18 contains the screams of Enrico Salvi. It's not easy to describe the musical style of LA 1919; it's undoubtedly progressive, but without the rock references, nor is it freestyle jazz, backgrou…

Despite it’s title, This is not the end, is, indeed, the final release by the legendary Rock In Opposition band Present, as founder and composer Roger Trigaux died during its recording. The final result is blindingly precise works of syncopated instruments, all seemingly coming from different angles but ultimately working together as a cohesive, if powerfully overwhelming whole. Trigaux admits that “I use lengthy repetition and polyrhythmics to push not only the listener but myself to a paroxysm…

*300 copies limited release* We brought you Rialzu, Skryvania, Cheval Fou, and now it’s time for the first vinyl reissue of Alpha Centauri’s diamond: Alpha Centaury. Originally privately released in a limited pressing of 300 copies in 1976, and equally hard-to-find as the aforementioned titles this gem is shrouded in mystery, for the simple reason that Alpha Centauri didn’t even pursue publicity during their short-lived existence. Yet, being equipped with extremely scarce resources, including ha…

"Quatermass' only album is a must-have for prog rock enthusiasts, especially lovers of the keyboard-dominated style which flourished in the early '70s. Although there are only three members of the band, their histories are just as colorful as the music they produced. Keyboard player Pete Robinson and bass man Johnny Gustafson met drummer Mick Underwood and founded Episode Six, a band which included Ian Gillan who later fronted Deep Purple. Underwood was also involved with the Outlaws as well as …

On “First Flight Redux” Dave Harrington takes a scalpel to the multi-tracks of "First Flight" (LP/DL, Algorithm Free) remixing the raw material into something else entirely.

Desperate Straights was the first result of the historical meeting between Slapp Happy, the German/English Avant-Pop band and the apparently incompatible Henry Cow. Recorded at Virgin Record's Manor Studios in 1974 and properly re-mastered by Bob Drake, Desperate Straights stands as a real piece of Art from another time. A full set of great songs, including gems like "Bad Alchemy" and "Apes in Capes", arranged and performed by an amazing collective featuring Dagmar Krause's unique voice, Peter B…

The Danish group The Savage Rose's score for Flemming Flindt's ballet Dødens Triumf, released in 1972: Thomas Koppel's music for organ, piano and band, sung by Annisette, one of the best known records of Danish rock.

The second and last album by the English band Catapilla, released by Vertigo in 1972 in a die-cut sleeve: four long tracks of jazz-rock with Anna Meek's vocals and Robert Calvert's saxophones over organ and guitar.

A 1972 solo album by Belgian violinist Raymond Vincent of the Wallace Collection, made as a promotional record for the Izarra liqueur: orchestral rock and chamber pieces that point toward his next band Esperanto.

The 1998 reunion album by Slapp Happy, the trio of Peter Blegvad, Anthony Moore and Dagmar Krause, their first in 23 years: concise art-pop songs layered in the studio by the three of them, with two live bonus tracks.

1974 re-press on Harvest of one of the most original and beautiful debut albums ever, with its alchemic mix of avant-garde folk, psych-raga, and chamber rock, originally released in 1969. Essential and on the NWW list

1978 split LP on Deptford Fun City with live recordings by one of the most seminal and experimental punk bands shared with the Gong-related raw space-rock prychedelic group.

Rare promo copy of the Italian 1983 edition on Expanded Music of the astonishing second album of acid futuristic garage/punk art rock by the mighty Chrome, a timeless masterpiece. Comes in Base Records promotional sleeve.

2007 re-issue on Cleopatra with full-color cover of the astonishing second album of acid futuristic garage/punk art rock by the mighty Chrome, a timeless masterpiece. Black vinyl.

Italian 1981 edition on Expanded Music of the astonishing third album by the mighty Chrome, another masterpiece of acid futuristic garage/punk art rock.

Original UK edition on Beggars Banmquet of the antastic fourth album by Damon Edge and Helios Creed's band, housed in one of the most beautiful record covers ever made. With original innersleeve. Thank God for giving us Chrome.

Original 1981 UK EP on Don't Fall Off The Mountain presenting two of Chrome's best and most evocative songs. Masterpiece.

Italian promo copy of original 1981 UK LP on Don't Fall Off The Mountain and Chrome's umpteenth masterpiece.

Promo copy of the original 1982 edition on Siren Records of the last Chrome album featuring Helios Creed.

Italian 1983 exclusive compilation produced by Expanded Music re-issuing the full experimental Read Only Memory EP from 1979, two songs from 1980 (including a previously unreleased one) and the Inwords 1981 EP.