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Topographie Parisienne
2025 repress. Originally released in 2019, this essential 4CD box set documenting one of the rarest trio meetings in the history of European free improvisation is finally available again.
Eleven years after the legendary The Topography of the Lungs (Incus, 1970) - one of the landmark early albums of English free improvisation, co-founded the Incus label itself - the trio reunites at 28 rue Dunois in Paris. Almost three and a half hours of non-idiomatic free improvisation captured by Jean-Marc Fo…
Now Jazz Now 100 Essential Free Jazz & Improvisation Recordings 1960-80 (Book)
277 pages. 196 x 268 mm. Open NOW JAZZ NOW and you're not just looking at a book - you're entering the minds of three lifelong obsessives. Byron Coley (music writer and critic), Mats Gustafsson (saxophonist, The Thing, Fire!), and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth founder, solo artist) have spent decades accumulating, discussing, debating, and above all listening to free jazz and free improvisation. This book is the result of that shared mania. What they've created isn't a conventional history or a ra…
Uranus - Tibetan Singing Bowls
** 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…
Antico Adagio - Complete 1978 Sessions
* Limited edition of 250 numbered copies. Deluxe 3LP box, bound in linen and embossed, Featuring a large 12-page booklet with previously unseen photographs from the 1978 recording sessions, and a large 4-page booklet with the original liner notes. The box graphics reproduce the original cover drawing by Dana Matus, while the three individual LP sleeves feature 19th-century Japanese naturalist paintings chosen by Vaccina himself. * For the first time, all the 1978 recording sessions of Lino Capra…
Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello
Tip! "Feldman's last composition, Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, was completed in 1987; although its instrumentation largely corresponds to that of Piano and String Quartet, with one instead of two violins, it differs in almost every other respect from the composition written only two years earlier, for here, in contrast to Piano and String Quartet, Feldman makes every effort to integrate the piano into the string section, and the basic formal components of the composition are no longer staves, as…
Rhymes With Water
Much-needed repress. In the vast landscape of American minimalism, Phill Niblock stood apart. Where La Monte Young pursued infinite sustain and Steve Reich explored phase relationships, Niblock carved his own path: monolithic slabs of microtonal sound, built from multitracked recordings of acoustic instruments, dense enough to alter the architecture of any room they filled.
Rhymes With Water – originally released in 2017 and now back in print – captures Niblock at his most elemental. Two extende…
Then Again
November 1978. Henry Cow disbands after a decade of music that redefined the boundaries of experimental rock. November 2022. Four founding members return to the stage. Not to look back - but to improvise the present. Fred Frith (guitar, violin, electronics), Tim Hodgkinson (keyboards, saxophone, lap steel, electronics), Chris Cutler (drums, percussion), John Greaves (bass, vocals): the original core reunited under the name Henry Now. The key is in the name - as Clive Bell noted in The Wire, this…
Cassette Culture - Homemade Music and the Creative Spirit in the Pre-Internet-Age (Book, Expanded Edition)
The definitive chronicle of the global hometaper movement. Jerry Kranitz traces the underground network of cassette traders, bedroom labels, and mail-art collaborators that flourished from the late 1970s through the early 1990s. Expanded second edition with new interviews and comprehensive index.
Music / Sangam
Paris, 1978. Don Cherry walks into a French studio with a suitcase full of instruments nobody expected and meets Ustad Ahmed Latif Khan for the first time. No rehearsal, no plan, just two musicians who recognize each other immediately as kindred spirits. What happens next is one of Cherry's best efforts - an album only hardcore fans know about, recorded in Paris, released only in France in 1981, disappeared, and now back again in a special edition that demands attention. This is what "world musi…
The Berchem Tapes (May 1976)
*150 copies limited edition* The Belgian free jazz scene of the early 1970s remains criminally under-documented. While Fred Van Hove's participation in the legendary Machine Gun sessions (1968) with Peter Brötzmann, Han Bennink, and Evan Parker placed Antwerp on the international map, a wild ecosystem of temporary combos and performative madness flourished in the shadows. The WIM (Werkgroep Improviserende Musici) collective - founded in 1972 after Van Hove and saxophonist Cel Overberghe refused…
Complete Electronic Works 1955–2012
Complete Electronic Works 1955-2012 Dacapo Records (Book + CD + Complete Digital Discography). In a Gestapo prison cell in 1944, a young Danish resistance fighter saw a star flash through the window and heard music coming from inside herself. The next morning she scratched the melody into the wall with a buckle from her girdle. That woman was Else Marie Pade, and this moment marked the beginning of one of the most remarkable careers in 20th-century electronic music. This special edition book fro…
Mectpyo Box
**Edition of 200, very last copies available** Maurizio Bianchi - aka M.B. - began composing in 1979, working in the lineage of Pierre Schaeffer's musique concrète: a practice rooted in the concrete manipulation of recorded sound rather than traditional notation. His stated aim was "to produce technological sounds and in such a way to work on complete realising of the modern decadence". From his early tape works as Sacher-Pelz to the LPs issued between 1981 and 1984, M.B. developed a singular co…
Continuation
A cascading piano improvisation by Xiu Xiu's Hyunhye Seo, recorded live during a Nam June Paik exhibition in Turin. On Side B, Japanese avant-garde pioneer Phew reinterprets Seo's performance into a new electronic landscape. Music as surrender, dialogue between performer, space and the present moment.
Free Jazz and Improvisation on LP and CD, 1965-2024 (Book)
More copies due in early December. 428 pages. This is exactly what we need. Big time. Johannes Rød returns with the massively expanded edition of his essential guide - a monument of discographic research spanning six decades of creative music documentation. 381 pages plus 47 unnumbered pages of label artwork. 185 labels mapped with obsessive detail and passionate advocacy. From the explosive emergence of free jazz in the mid-1960s through ESP-Disk, BYG Actuel, and Actuel, through the European im…
La Conquista di Luna
In July 20, 1969, as Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface, an Italian pianist and composer named Luciano Michelini was completing work on one of the most extraordinary documents of that moment's cultural impact: La Conquista Di Luna, an imaginary soundtrack to humanity's greatest adventure. There was no film. There would never be a film. What Michelini created instead was something rarer and more enduring: a sonic fantasy of space exploration that captured the wonder, mystery, and optim…
Space Tuning Box (3LP Box)
* Triple LP, edition of 82 numbered copies. * Yamazaki Maso began home recording in 1987, adopting the name Masonna for his solo noise experiments and founding the independent label Coquette, through which he issued several cassette releases. His debut LP and CD appeared on Kyoto's Vanilla Records in 1989-90, soon followed by ultra-limited 7-inch acetates, a split LP with Violent Onsen Geisha, and numerous compilation appearances. Drawing on hard rock, death metal, hardcore punk, grindcore, and …
Dramatest 1974
Absolute music composed for keyboards whose sounds have been processed to obtain particular effects, timbres, and soundscapes. That phrase, clinical and precise, barely hints at the strange beauty of Dramatest, a 1974 collaboration between two of Italian library music's most inventive figures: the Florentine jazz pianist Oscar Rocchi (working here under his pseudonym Chiarosi) and the Milanese polymath Fabio Fabor. Originally released on Fonovideo, one of several sublabels operated by Fabor's ow…
Stroboscopica
Lucky Restock - Limited Quantities Please note: these are original copies that may show minor sleeve wear due to long-term storage. The vinyl is in excellent condition. Call it psychedelic. Call it lounge. Call it beat, or jazz-funk, or something that doesn't have a name yet. The truth is, no single word captures what happens when four Italian studio musicians lock into a groove at 10 AM, knowing their work will soundtrack a car commercial, a crime drama, or a soft-core feature they'll never se…
Nell'Anno della Luna
A deep mystery surrounds both the film Nell'anno della Luna and its beguiling 1970 soundtrack, a work that hovers somewhere between the elegant swing orchestrations of an earlier era and the more adventurous sonic territories being charted by Italian composers at the close of the 1960s. Even in our current age of instant information and exhaustive online databases, almost nothing is known about the movie itself. What remains is the music: ten tracks of remarkable sophistication and inventiveness…
Mr. Diabolicus - Mr. Mysterious
Among the countless composers who populated the Italian library music scene of the 1970s, Fabio Fabor remains a figure shrouded in genuine mystery. Born Fabio Borgazzi in Milan in 1920, he pursued classical training at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory before building a parallel career that encompassed opera, symphonic works, chamber music, and popular song. His compositions were interpreted by some of the most beloved voices in Italian music, including Fred Buscaglione, Nilla Pizzi, and Nicola Ar…