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In A Not C
More than 25 years after the start of collaboration with Acid Mothers Temple mastermind Makoto Kawabata (including the INUI series and the classic Kawabata/Youngs release) comes the first proper VHF LP by the prolific quintet. One of an occasional se…
Grisaille
Grisaille is shaped by reduction, intuition, and time. Woven from a deliberately restricted palette, the pieces emerge from musical systems set in motion and allowed to unfold according to their own internal logic. Rather than following a fixed compo…
Parallels & Diagonals
Which is the more productive situation for improvisation: the shock of the first time encounter, unhindered by history or habit, or the long-term association and the evolution of more complex interactions? It's an unresolved, perhaps even undecidable…
Drumming, Recordings on ECM
* Discounted Bundle * Two three-LP boxes, released together on 2 October for Steve Reich's ninetieth birthday, covering the years 1974 to 1982 in full.
Drumming; Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ; Six Pianos is the Deutsche Grammophon se…
Single# Four (7")
*300 copies limited edition* At this point the vast swathes of unreleased Muslimgauze material Bryn Jones left behind when he passed away over 25 years ago is as legendary as any of his work. And sure enough, there's still some being unearthed today.…
Haulitorni
Two side-long improvisations recorded in a spring evening beneath a 1908 shot tower. That is the whole record, and it is enough. Fysiikka ja Kemia - Physics and Chemistry - surfaced in late 2025 with Biologia, a debut LP on Tampere's Ultraääni Record…
Today's Special
On Today’s Special, Hanne Lippard and Renato Grieco turn speech into score and accompaniment into acoustic typography. Reduced, exacting compositions for voice, viola da gamba, piano and Wurlitzer shadow the rhythm and contour of language, transformi…
The String Quartets
Reich's three string quartets on one record for the first time: Different Trains (1988), Triple Quartet (1998) and WTC 9/11 (2010), each setting the live quartet against tape. New readings by New York's Mivos Quartet, made with the composer's involve…
Style
**CD edition** Awesome library, remastered from the original master tapes with superior sound quality, replica of the original RCA LP (with bonus CD) in a limited edition of 500 copies. Sweet keyboards galore‚ a wonderful sound library set from the I…
Afrodisiaca
* Edition of 300 copies. High thickness cardboard with opaque laminated cover. Comes with a printed insert * So… Steinmetz. Hugh Steinmetz. A Danish trumpet player my mentor Peter Brötzmann always talked highly about. 'Aaaaah jaaaaa - those crazy Dan…
Oyun Havalari
A landmark of 1970s Turkish psychedelic funk, Zafer Dilek’s Oyun Havaları returns to vinyl 50 years after its original 1976 release on the legendary Yonca Müzik label.
Main Lines / 1967
In September, 1967, three of the primary ensembles of free music in Northern Europe gathered for a mini-festival on Radio Bremen: the Manfred Schoof Quintet, the Peter Brötzmann Quartet, and the Irène Schweizer Trio. Pianist Alexander von Schlippenba…
Fall 2026 "Brilliant Corners" (Magazine)
Thelonious Monk by Francis Gooding, Mats Gustafsson, Fielding Hope, Patrick Preziosi, Andy Thomas, Arttu Tolonen, Bret Sjerven, Daniel Spicer & Wif Stenger, Miles Okazaki by Andrew Scott, Kiri Ra! by Wif Stenger, Jazz Is Dead By Tina Edwards, Dirar K…
Gravest Gravy
Recorded at Ardent Studios in October 1977 as part of the sessions that birthed Gravest Hits, the tracks on Gravest Gravy were contained on seven 1/4 inch reels. The tapes were transferred by Brian Kehew, the tracks were selected for inclusion by Hen…
Spiritual Jazz 19 - West Coast USA Part 1: 50s & 60s
Two x 2LP sets that examine the influence and expression of the underground jazz that evolved in California and surrounding states during the latter part of the 20th century.
Séance of Sleep II: La lévitation de Shéhérazade
On Séance of Sleep II: La lévitation de Shéhérazade, David Wunder Brägger turns folk memory, analogue circuitry and microtonal drift into a slow‑burning dream ritual. Droning fiddles, handmade electronics, metallophones and vintage organs rise togeth…
Another Day On Earth
Another Day on Earth (2005) was Brian Eno’s first song-based album since Nerve Net in1992, and remains one of his most acclaimed solo records. It featured a young Jon Hopkins alongside long-standing collaborators Nell Catchpole, J. Peter Schwalm and …
The Rest Is My Ghost
Nostalgia is not an ideology, though in this moment, we could be mistaken for thinking it might be just that. Over the past years, the idea of nostalgia has been filtered through various political and technological lenses and has become a tool used f…
Sweet Love, Bitter
On Sweet Love, Bitter, Mal Waldron turns a fictional portrait of Charlie Parker’s final years into a darkly luminous suite of cinematic jazz. His lyricism, tension and blues‑stained restraint guide a formidable 1967 ensemble through music that moves …
Collected Tape Works 08' - 17'
After many requests to reissue the seldom heard cassette EPs and VHS releases, Akuphone compiled this archival release which illuminates the group’s early development from 2008 as enigmatic practitioners of post-apocalyptic folk and ritual psychedeli…