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1970s Jazz Fusion (Book)
In 1970s Jazz Fusion, critic Matthew Reed Baker reassesses a once‑derided hybrid, showing how the electric experiments of Davis, Hancock, Corea, Mahavishnu and others reshaped jazz, rock, soul and hip‑hop from the 1970s to today.
Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Travelling Evangelist's Guide to Late 20th-Century Underground Music (Book)
In Volcanic Tongue, David Keenan gathers decades of visionary criticism, charting late‑20th‑century underground sound through ecstatic essays, interviews and close‑listening dispatches that treat marginal scenes as the true engines of musical modernity.
Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock (Book)
In Neu Klang, journalist Christoph Dallach assembles an oral history of krautrock, letting Can, Neu!, Kraftwerk and their peers explain how post‑war Germany’s experiments in noise, rhythm and repetition became a blueprint for modern rock and beyond.
Ja As Long As I Can
A minimalist exploration of voice, breath, and human connection across continents: this rare 2013 LP release documents an extraordinary sound art collaboration between Norwegian artist A.K. Dolven and American poet John Giorno, produced by Edition Block in Berlin. The 22-minute work represents a unique transatlantic dialogue that explores the fundamental properties of human communication through the sustained repetition of a single word: "ja," the Norwegian equivalent of "yes." A.K. Dolven (born…
Quarter Tone Music - Musique Ultrachromatique
The opus magnum of microtonal composition - a rare testament to ultrachromatic exploration
Pictures of Pictures From Pictures of Pictures (1975-1979)
This extremely rare and long out of print LP from 1983 documents a remarkable multidisciplinary artistic collaboration between Philip Corner, one of America's most important experimental composers and Fluxus pioneers, and Klaus Peter Brehmer, a leading figure of German conceptual art. Selected by Ursula Block for her legendary gelbe MUSIK label in Berlin, this work represents a unique translation between visual art, music, and scientific analysis. Philip Corner (born 1933, The Bronx) is internat…
Klavierduett: In memoriam George Maciunas
Comes with its original record bag/shopper! When George Maciunas died in New York in 1978, aged 47, Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik did what artists do when words fail: they played. The piano duet they performed at Düsseldorf's Kunstakademie lasted precisely 74 minutes, the numbers inverted as if time itself could be bent backward in grief. An alarm clock ended the performance at 9:14 pm, another numerical echo of Maciunas's brief, incendiary life. This wasn't theater. It was something rawer, mor…
Spiritual Jazz 18: Behind the Iron Curtain (Part 2)
"Whether it's by improvisation in the African-American jazz tradition, or by a village kobza player standing on top of a damn hill - he feels connected to the stars."
Requiem for the Snake of Maidan
Holidays Records is on fire! Hot on the heels of their recent incredible vinyl releases of the Italian sound artist and musician Ezio Piermattei’s “Gran trotto” and the duo Acchiappashpirt’s “Ninulla”, they return with one of their most important and captivating releases to date: Hartmut Geerken’s “Requiem for the Snake of Maidan”, a mind-blowing body of archival recordings from the 1970s, made on a stony ridge in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan, encountering the artist locked in a sprawl…
The Days of the Week / Chinese Wisdom
** Edition of 150 copies ** Pak Yan Lau: dismantled toy pianos, wind up toys, popping candy, bow, toy spring reverb, Buddha Machine, Tamayura bell, Japanese iron wind chimes, electronics, voice. Recorded and mixed at Outlau’d Studio, Brussels, in August 2020. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Cover illustration by Eleusi.
Rubycon (50th Anniversary Edition)
50th Anniversary edition of the legendary album ‘Rubycon’ by Tangerine Dream. Widely regarded as one of their finest albums, ‘Rubycon’ was the band’s second album for Virgin Records and comprised two long pieces which pioneered the use of sequencers and synthesiser technology and produced some of the finest ambient music ever recorded. The record was also their highest UK charting release, reaching number 10 on the UK charts.
This new edition features the remastered original stereo mix, along wi…
Piano Piano
Stunning collection of quiet and soft piano pieces by the legendary German keyboardist Hans-Joachim Roedelius co-founder of seminal krautrock bands as Cluster and Harmonia. Inspired by the monumental work of Eric Satie, the album was originally released in 1991. Roedelius exhibits an unexpected subtlety on the keys which lighten these pieces lovingly and pointedly. It’s hardly surprising that the name of the album is a reference to the term ‘pianissimo’, which means to play softly. These are aft…
Zack Gluck
Effortlessly fusing krautrock with jazz and ethnic music, Embryo were unparalleled in the world of progressive fusion and 1984's Zack Glück is one of their most ambitious and rewarding LPs. Flutes and saxophones mix with oud, marimba and violin to make an intoxication concoction.
Africa
Africa, originally released in 1992 on Materiali Sonori, may be a late entry in the Embryo catalog but it is one of their most ambitious and truly progressive albums to date. As the name implies, the Munich group not only draws influence from the continent to their south, but also employs an African percussion ensemble on many tracks.
Fog On My Brain/Figure It Out
Match made in heaven collaborative hit single from New Zealand-based artists Claire Mahoney (Thistle Group) and Benedict Quilter (P Wits). Recorded and mixed by Stefan Neville, mastered for vinyl by Lasse Marhaug. 45rpm, edition of 200 copies.
America's Greatest Noise (Book + Anti flexi)
The next book on Korm Plastics contains no photographs of the artists, no list of released records, no pictures of record sleeves, and no footnotes. It is not a hardcover, not on glossy paper and is not expensive. It’s… ‘America’s Greatest Noise’ tells the story of Ron Lessard, owner of RRRecords, a record store in Lowell, Massachusetts and, from 1986 to 2009, a record label, releasing the albums of Blackhouse, F/i, PGR, the first Merzbow LP outside Japan and many more, regional compilations, th…
Nul Nul - The Complete Edition
In October 1984, Frans de Waard started his Korm Plastics label and his music project Kapotte Muziek. Shortly after, a fellow student, Christian Nijs, joined him as a musical partner. They quickly released a few cassettes and contributed to international compilations, and Nijs started a short-lived label, Disabuse Transmissions. In the summer of 1985, they published the first issue of Nul Nul, a fanzine, to promote their projects and to support the industrial music scene in The Netherlands and B…
Neumusik - The Complete Edition by David Elliott (Book)
425 pages, softcover, 17x24 cm All six editions of this UK fanzine, 1979-1982 Book containing all six issues of the Neumusik fanzine which David Elliott edited between 1979-82 while at university. The 'zine focussed on European, electronic and experimental music which had come out of krautrock, French progressive rock and the more esoteric side of British post-punk. David travelled extensively meeting musicians in Germany and France, and for a year was based in Strasbourg. Interviews and articl…
Close Your Eyes, You Can Be A Space Captain (Book+CD)
The book details the history of The Legendary Pink Dots, the band well-known for combining melody and mood in beautiful, haunting songs and soundscapes. This book documents the band’s first decade in all its despair and glory. Based on their extensive discography, it combines facts and confabulation from various members of the Legendary Pink Dots and close associates. With unique images and an exclusive compact disc featuring Dots-songs from the 1980s (including two previously unreleased ones!) …
Exposure
A 2022 Fourth Edition of Robert Fripp's innovative debut from 1979 mixed (from the original multi-track tapes) by Steven Wilson. 200g vinyl edition mastered by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering. Featuring contributions from: Barry Andrews, Phil Collins, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel Daryl Hall, Peter Hammill, Tony Levin, Jerry Marotta,. Sid McGinnis, Terre Roche and Narada Michael Walden. The definitive LP version of a truly classic album.
After King Crimson's dissolution in 1974, Robert Fripp embar…