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Two radio studio sessions by Sudanese singer Kamal Keila, recorded in Khartoum on 12 August 1992 and kept on reels at his home: Sudanese jazz with Ethiopian, Afrobeat and funk influences, political songs in English and Arabic. Never released before.

A selection of works by Algerian-born Amazigh singer Majid Soula: Kabyle music mixed with disco, highlife and funk over synths, driving drums and repetitive guitar lines, with lyrics tied to his defence of Berber culture and Tamazight.

Recordings by Casablanca singer Fadoul, released on Moroccan 7-inch singles in the 1970s: raw Arabic funk with a three-piece band and a punk edge, including an Arabic take on James Brown's Papa's Got a Brand New Bag. Licensed from his family.

Collection of songs by Tripoli singer Ibrahim Hesnawi, credited with making reggae popular in Libya from the late 1970s: Jamaican reggae merged with traditional Libyan rhythms, with funk, jazz and disco touches, sung mostly in Libyan Arabic.

Marking its first decade of activity, Blume returns with the first ever vinyl reissue of the seminal “New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media”, from 1977, the third and final instalment in a suite of releases that includes James Tenney’s “Postal Pieces” and Ben Vida’s “Vocal Trio”. Unquestionably among the most important collections of experimental music to emerge during the 20th Century, “New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media” is the original feminist presentation in its context, rele…

Danish songwriter and storyteller Kjartan Bue returns with his latest album Musse, a work that merges intimate songwriting with atmospheric sonic landscapes. Known for his ability to weave deeply personal reflections into universal narratives, Bue once again delivers an album that feels both inward-looking and expansive.   Musse takes listeners on a journey through themes of memory, longing, and quiet resilience. With an attention to language that reflects his Nordic roots, Bue balances fragile …

From Denmark comes a bold new sound that blurs the lines between folk tradition and kaleidoscopic experimentation. With Riding Silver Mind, Aske Skat and his Psychedelic Country Band deliver a record that rides the edges of storytelling, groove, and cosmic exploration.   Guided by Aske Skat’s evocative songwriting, the album moves effortlessly between dusty Americana textures, soaring melodies, and psychedelic improvisation. Each track feels like a journey across unfamiliar landscapes—where coun…

Danish sensation Aske Skat & His Psychedelic Country Band are proud to announce the release of their acclaimed album, "The Highland", available now on digital platforms and streaming services worldwide. This 8-track record showcases the band's mastery in fusing psychedelic textures with the heart of country and Americana traditions, taking listeners on a captivating voyage through evocative landscapes and timeless storytelling. Known for their electrifying performances and inventive sound, Aske …

Kassel Jaeger (aka François J. Bonnet) returns to Shelter Press after Swamps / Things, Shifted in Dreams, and the recent reissue of the classic Zauberberg, co-composed with Akira Rabelais and Stephan Mathieu. With this major new album, entitled Sub Re, Bonnet continues his long exploration of the musical possibilities of sound, extending the concrete approach developed at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales, the historic and essential Parisian studio that Bonnet has been directing since 2018. Sub…

**Never-before released document of Don Cherry blowing cool fire in Rome, 1976. First official release. Mastered from the original master tapes.** An amazing document of the life experiment that was the Organic Music Society. This super quality audio, recorded by RAI (the italian public broadcasting company) in 1976 for television, documents a quartet concert focused on vocals compositions and improvisations. Here, Don Cherry and his family-community’s musical belief emerges in its simplicity, w…

Le Très Groove Club present a reissue of Jacky Giordano's Pop-In Devil's Train, originally released on Mantparnasse 2000 in 1976. After launching Le Très Jazz Club, Fuzati (Klub des Loosers) and Modulor are now starting Le Très Groove Club, their new label dedicated to vinyl reissues of groove masterpieces. The first record under this label is a true "holy grail" of French library music: Pop-In Devil's Train. This record is a pure example of the Jacky Giordano style, European jazz-funk with a ki…

Reissue of Modern Music, the fifth and last album by the Egyptian group Al Massrieen, led by composer Hany Shenouda and first released in 1984: Arabic-language funk, disco and pop with electronic instruments, originally pressed in Lebanon.

Full reissue of the rare album by Khartoum band The Scorpions with singer Saif Abu Bakr, recorded in the 1970s: Sudanese jazz with strong horn arrangements and funky drums, crime-film style instrumentals, traditional rhythms and a soukous excursion.

New album of 17 tracks by Beirut multi-instrumentalist and producer Charif Megarbane, in a style he calls Lebrary: Lebanese and Mediterranean scenes rendered through library music, drawing on Ziad Rahbani, Ahmed Malek and Issam Hajali.

Second Habibi Funk compilation of lesser-known music from North Africa and the Middle East: Egyptian organ funk, Moroccan disco, Libyan reggae, political songs from Lebanon and Algerian soundtrack music, with Fadoul, Ahmed Malek and Ibrahim Hesnawi.

Two tracks from the only album by Tunis band Carthago, recorded in Paris at the end of the 1970s: Tunisian disco and funk, including a disco version of the Dalton song Alech, plus the previously unreleased instrumental versions from the master tape.

Songs Libyan-born singer and producer Hamid El Shaeri recorded for the Egyptian cassette label SLAM! between 1983 and 1988, after moving to Cairo via London: synth-heavy Arabic pop and funk, including his track Ayonha.

Electronic experiments recorded by the Algerian composer Ahmed Malek in the early 1980s, never released in his lifetime and compiled from two hours of master tapes by the Berlin producer Flako, with the approval of Malek's family.

Film and television music by Algerian composer Ahmed Malek (1932-2008), longtime conductor of the Algerian Television Orchestra: melancholic orchestral themes from his original soundtrack LP, plus unreleased tracks from his family archive.

The only album by Egyptian singer Maha, vocalist with Salah Ragab's Cairo Jazz Band, recorded in Cairo in 1979 and issued on cassette by Sout El Hob: jazz and Egyptian vocal tradition over funk, Latin and soul, produced with Hany Shenoda.

Recordings by Sharhabil Ahmed, born in 1935 and crowned king of Sudanese jazz: from the 1960s he blended Sudanese and East African harmonies with electric guitar, horns, surf, rock n roll, funk and Congolese music.

* Edition of 300. Spectacular four-panel gatefold cover * Since the early 1980s, the Nexus creature has represented one of the most interesting realities of the Italian jazz scene. Daniele Cavallanti (Aktuala) and Tiziano Tononi (Moon On The Water and D.O.M Alia Orchestra) realize a sensational mix of orchestral praxis and impro-free jazz. The strength lies in the ensemble's variety of timbres, in that precise hybrid of styles reminiscent of the cross-sectional experiences of the 1970s of Zappa,…

"... anatomical and cellular symphonies, catharsis of invisible biochemical processes, painting the micro-dimensional flows of the subtle body or imaginary geographies of hidden micro-bodies. Here, Edrens organic electronic music is enriched with new lymphs that also vaguely recall the influences of non-European music, especially Chinese and Japanese music (stick and chimes percussions) in an intimate and twilight dimension, poised between exotic ambient and cinematic suggestions. A miniaturisti…

Al Doum & The Faryds have always been an enchanting organism, a timeless land of wisdom, humility, brotherhood and love. Their blend of spiritual jazz, psychedelia and Afro-Latin rock holds a magical balance, turning their music into a tropical celebration filled with harmony and deep vibrations. A volcano of emotion, where the poetry of rising and falling voices becomes a gospel and soul illumination, echoing from faraway places. The expanded horn section — alto and tenor sax, soprano sax and b…

Cucoma Combo are back with their impetuous and political sound, an urgent need to communicate in order to awaken consciences and react to the sick immobility of our times. Captain Marco Zanotti (Classica Orchestra Afrobeat/Lolo) once again gathers his pirate crew and sets sail for new Atlantic and Caribbean adventures. From Cape Verde to Salvador de Bahia, from Haiti to Colombia, then back to Tanzania and Zimbabwe. An inspired and furious attitude incorporates disparate rhythms, languages, and s…

**LP edition of 300, fully remastered from the original tapes** A mysterious sound aurora on the magical paths of the infinite universe of percussion, originally released in 1985 and then almost completley lost. Moon On The Water were a trio of percussionists based in Italy - David Searcy and Jonathan Scully, both American tympani players in the Scala Philarmonic Orchestra, with the legendary Italian jazz drummer Tiziano Tononi, who worked with everyone from Roberto Musci, to Muhal Richard Abram…

The Italian guitarist Maurizio Abate is a rare breed - an experimental musician from Europe working within, and expanding the American tradition of Guitar Soli, an idiom first pioneered by John Fahey.  Abate initially emerged within a diverse series of collaborative released over a decade ago, but, as the years passed, a love for his instrument, with inspiration provided by Fahey’s indication of its potential for application as a one man orchestra, prompted to him to embark on a pursuit of solo …

Debut album by Issam Hajali, singer of the Lebanese band Ferkat Al Ard, recorded in a single day in Paris in 1977 during his exile: jazz and folk with Arabic and Iranian influences, first issued on just 75 cassettes.

**Edition of 200** Electronic composer Marco Papiro confirms his eccentric and multifaceted personality. The sound articulation of his analog synthesizers flows into in an artificial hyperrealism of great thematic and expressive variation. The tracks unfold between ascending cosmic moments, more ecstatic meditative tones, symphonic planetary floods, exotic Afrodelic and psycho-Andean drifts. Papiro synthesises and converts echoes of acoustic wind instruments (oboe, recorders, bamboo flute), whil…

Visionary Walter Maioli and electronic innovator John Zandijik’s 1980s late-night sessions fuse ancient flutes and cutting-edge technology, creating a cosmic soundscape that bridges ethnomusicology, psychedelia, and electronic experimentation.

** Edition of 300 copies **  In the late 1980s, Klaus Wiese (Popol Vuh) deepened his connection with Tibetan culture. The result is a series of works solely dedicated to the universal purity of the Singing Bowls. Uranus, perhaps the most rigorous of these, is an intense meditation on the trans-personal sphere of the VI chackra. The music becomes like a single harmonic chant, the reflection of a constant flow of divine light, which transforms the psyche and dilates the secret passages of the hear…

Tip! Gagaku is the oldest of the Japanese performing arts, with a history more than a thousand years old. The term refers to Japanese classical music and dance, traditionally performed by families of musicians linked to the ancient Imperial court, and later passed down in Buddhist temple ceremonies and Shinto shrines. Shiba Sukeyasu, founder and director of the Reigakusha ensemble, descends from the Koma clan, whose origins date back to the end of the 10th century. The recordings partly reflect …

Big Tip! These three previously unreleased tracks reflect the cultural influences of a very young Riccardo Sinigaglia. In particular, the Anti-psychiatry movement founded by Ronald David Laing, author of the influential books The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise. As well as Jung's theory of archetypes, a subject explored in depth in the writings of Elémire Zolla. The compositional processes of concrete music are fundamental, while the extensive use of fragments from other cultures…

Hardcover, 364 pages. Photographic/Artist book, with little text contribution (mostly written in Italian). Fra zero e infinito is a comprehensive monograph published by Fondazione Mudima in 2018, dedicated to Giuseppe Chiari, one of Italy’s most influential conceptual artists, avant-garde composers, and a central figure in the Fluxus movement. Edited by Gino Di Maggio, Achille Bonito Oliva, and Daniele Lombardi, the volume gathers critical essays, archival documents, and photographs that trace C…

Hardcover, 206 pages. Luigi Russolo e la musica futurista is a key volume dedicated to Luigi Russolo, the visionary Italian artist, composer, and theorist who revolutionized 20th-century music with his concept of “the art of noises.” Curated by Giovanni Lista, the book is part of the Fluid XV series, overseen by Gino Di Maggio, Achille Bonito Oliva, and Daniele Lombardi. This 189-page Italian-language publication brings together critical essays and original writings by Giovanni Lista and Luigi R…

Double-LP version, black vinyl in gatefold sleeve -- on vinyl for the first time, in a revelatory new remaster by Jim O'Rourke. In 2016, Finnish label frozen reeds published the première release of Julius Eastman's Femenine, for chamber ensemble. Laying unheard for decades prior, the release documented a 1974 performance by the S.E.M. Ensemble with the composer himself on piano. Lauded in Pitchfork (awarded "Best New Music"), The New Yorker, and The New York Times, the first release of Femenine …

People Skills - the long running project of Philadelphia's Jesse Dewlow - has spent close to two decades tuned to that lower, stranger frequency, and Several Years Later may be the fullest transmission he has yet let out of the room. Since the mid 2000s, Dewlow has worked at the seam where a song comes apart into weather. Repetitive guitar figures, idle tape phenomena, sound residue, voices sunk far beneath the surface - materials gathered under the sign of his Heresy Museum and set loose in sha…

OBS!!! Italian Language Edition Finalmente in italiano uno dei testi classici della musica elettroacustica. Questa è l’avventura pionieristica di Pierre Schaeffer, al tempo stesso un avvincente e leggibilissimo diario dei suoi esperimenti di composizione sonora e un trattato sulla ragion d’essere della “musica concreta”, un libro che ha avuto una profonda influenza sui compositori che hanno lavorato e lavorano con la tecnologia. Infatti, i suoi effetti si estendono oltre i confini della musica c…

This is Texas-born tenor sax giant Billy Harper captured on tour in Europe in 1979. Mr Harper's gorgeous tone drives a highly energetic quintet featuring a young Fred Hersch on piano, Everett Hollins on trumpet, Louie "Mbiki" Spears on bass and Horace Arnold on drums. Billy Harper's seminal masterpiece, which gained more widespread recognition in the 70s, is a scorching and powerful record that exudes righteousness from start to finish. At this stage of his career, Billy has developed a strong c…

Eastern-infused outstanding album by German trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff – recording here in 1964, but sounding years ahead of his time, with an amazing a blend of jazz and Asian styles! The album's one of Mangelsdorff's best ever – a set of rhythmic tunes that seem clearly informed by the work of Ornette and Joe Harriott, but also based along eastern themes picked up by the group on a tour of the Orient – and performed by a sharp-edged quintet that includes Heinz Sauer on tenor and soprano sa…