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Richard Raux's band after Magma, recorded at the Château d'Hérouville in 1974: spiritual jazz, progressive rock and Malagasy rhythms, with his brother Patrice on guitar. Restored and remastered for Souffle Continu's 100th release.

Companion to the expanded Comme à la Radio: unreleased ORTF radio sessions from 1969-71 with Areski Belkacem, plus four unissued studio takes, among them two instrumental versions of the title track and a full 10-minute "Leo" with the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

Awash in color and texture, Arian Shafiee's debut album, A Scarlet Fail, brings to light a guitarist whose sound and mastery are in full bloom. Best known for his work in the East Coast dance/punk group Guerilla Toss, Shafiee has spent years warping the idea of what a guitar can sound like. In a group setting, Shafiee does what's best for the composition, often blending seamlessly into the electronics and rhythmic grooves of his peers. A Scarlet Fail gives him a revelatory solo spotlight in a se…

The fifth chapter of John Zorn's series of piano trio compositions based on classical forms: eight Fantasias, lyrical, harmonically complex and unpredictable, played by Brian Marsella, Jorge Roeder and Ches Smith. Tzadik.

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.

Further Shadows: Essays on British Modern Jazz 1950-1975 presents an eclectic overview of perhaps the most vibrant era in the music’s development in the UK, a time when modern jazz consolidated its base, got buffeted by the fads of early rock and roll of R&B, found itself battered by Beatlemania and even faced an onslaught from pernicious forces within its own ranks. Covering fifteen years in which the schools of cool, hard bop and the avant-garde each fought for primacy, these pages record the …

A collection of previously unreleased material (between '75 & '90) by Enno Velthuys.Compiled by Hessel Veldman.

Wyschnegradsky's visionary poem for narrator and orchestra, conceived in 1916 and first heard only in 1978: the live premiere with Mario Haniotis and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, plus interviews with the composer.

Tip! At the time, Yuji Takahashi was known internationally primarily as a pianist. Yet the decade from Phonogène (1962) to Tadori (1972) reveals another essential side of his work: an exploration of electronic sound, mathematics, and computers in composition, and of their changing relationship with human performance. One of the starting points was his encounter with Iannis Xenakis. Takahashi studied probability theory and set theory, and in Phonogène developed his own probabilistic approach to o…

John Clyde-Evans played in that formidable band called Hood in the early 90s. In the years that followed, he was one of the most adventurous figures in the incredibly diverse British underground scene. His productions from that era ranged from blissful tape loops of string instruments to bizarre, mind-numbing noise experiments—created using, among other things, traditional Indian instruments from the time he spent living there... Then, for nearly twenty years, he completely fell off the radar...…

Before Jimmy Smith became one of jazz’s most influential organists, there was A New Sound… A New Star (Volume 1)—the 1956 Blue Note debut that announced a bold new presence on the scene. Recorded at Van Gelder Studio with guitarist Thornel Schwartz and drummer Bay Perry, the album puts Smith’s Hammond organ front and center: nimble, muscular and full of blues-inflected swing. He reshapes familiar standards such as “The Way You Look Tonight,” “Oh, Lady Be Good!” and “But Not for Me,” while “You G…

Debut album by Abenaki bassist, singer and composer Mali Obomsawin, built on songs and stories of her family, with Savannah Harris, Miriam Elhajli, Allison Burik, Noah Campbell and Taylor Ho Bynum. First pressing on black vinyl.

For over ten years, Brussels-originals ladr ache have dipped their toes and vocal chords in all matter of musical mischief as only they know how. With éclats z, their latest recorded offering, new canons arise that belong to no place or genre. Between the layers of chant, other voices turn up in old tongues and secret languages, gliding alongside pipes and electronic warps, pulsing in time with the granularity of choice. Recorded over two years in different times and spaces, the living textures …

Four soundtracks Henryk Kuźniak wrote for the Educational Film Studio in Łódź, from sonoristic avant-garde to folk echoes and themes for strings and flute, processed with Eugeniusz Rudnik at the Polish Radio Experimental Studio.

It feels as if it were yesterday. In 2002, after returning to Frankfurt from a record-hunting trip to Johannesburg, I put one of my new South African discoveries on the turntable and jumped into the shower. Suddenly, the record player erupted into a terrible noise, as if someone were hammering the needle. I ran out, dripping wet, and discovered that the stylus had hit a deep cut carved into the vinyl. A Kenyan friend, Dan Ojwang, had sent me to a record shop opposite the Market Theatre in Newtow…

"Before his prolific activity in the field of music therapy, Agostino Nirodh Fortini also embarked on his own path in electronic music. In the early eighties he was a close collaborator of Walter Maioli and Fred Gales, at the time of the pioneering label Sound Reporters.Suoni Immaginari, released only privately on cassette in 1988, contains a wide range of keyboards and lots of ethnic field recordings assembled with an absolutely modern praxis ahead of its time. Nirodh imagines his planetary ody…

Huge Tip! Originally released in 2013 for the 40th anniversary of the cult 70’s horror film, only 500 copies of The Wicker Man 40th Anniversary Edition were pressed on black vinyl which have become highly sought after.  One of the maddest soundtracks you'll ever buy – a strange mix of folksy tunes, sound effects, and odd noisy bits – recorded for the equally odd film of the same name! The record is impossible to describe accurately, but it's a really dark one – strangely fragile at some moments,…

The Dead C's trio of albums in the middle of their harsh 90s reality served for many as entry points to the band. Operation Of The Sonne, The White House, and Tusk received wider distribution than the band had ever seen before, and this was the first rays of them being considered amongst the most important rock bands of the 20th century. This trio of vinyl reissues capture their intensity and presence in a way that may even blow out the candle of the original pressings. Newly remastered by Lasse…

8mm Records’ latest - Gate’s "Winter Songs" - gathers three long form works of hazy fuzzed out guitar drones from the The Dead C’s Michael Morley, that amount to engrossing meditative expanses at the borders of ambient music, minimalism, and stoner rock. Inward looking and delicate, while bubbling with fury and life, it stands among our absolute favorite releases from one of the most interesting artists working today, and rides high among the best albums of the year so far.

Tip! *Triple gatefold sleeve* »Inferno« retains its characteristic melodies and atmospheres, drawing on the esoteric influences of »Societas X Tape« (the BoC 2019 NTS mix for Warp Records’ 30th anniversary) as well as the dark atmosphere of »Tomorrow’s Harvest«, which is further intensified by the increased use of spoken-word recordings. The first BoC album in thirteen years has a running time of seventy minutes.

Big tip! Fifty years on, and it still sounds like a secret. Carlos Walker's A Frauta de Pã remains one of those rare Brazilian albums that collectors circle obsessively, its original RCA Victor pressings commanding reverence - and prices - entirely disproportionate to the world's awareness of it. That wait is now over. Recorded in 1975, when Walker was just 19 years old, A Frauta de Pã arrived at a precise confluence in Brazilian music - that charged mid-decade moment when MPB (Música Popular Br…

*250 copies limited edition* First & Last Records is proud to present the first-ever reissue of Daisuke Honda’s Love Songs, a deeply personal, holy-grail private press album originally released in 1977. At just 20 years old, Daisuke Honda was an enigmatic vagabond from Osaka who had left home after high school to wander and write songs. Possessing no grand ambitions of becoming a professional musician, Honda simply felt compelled to record the music he was creating. To bring the project to life,…

For some fans, Health And Efficiency is This Heat's peak achievement - their most concentrated blast of visceral intensity and wayward experimentalism. Featuring two long pieces, the EP came out in September 1980. It was released on Piano, the imprint founded by David Cunningham of Flying Lizards, and distributed by Rough Trade, home of the burgeoning post-punk movement and fellow travelers like The Raincoats, Scritti Politti, Cabaret Voltaire and The Red Crayola. Lead track Health And Efficienc…

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 Records that the label summed up in a single line: rural psych-jazz improvisations by the Finnish bastard sons of Arbete & Fritid. Three hundred copies, each sleeve screen-printed by hand by the band, gone quickly. We Jazz picked a track for their Friends …

Jimi Tenor's new solo album for Bureau B, built on 1960s and 70s drum machines treated by Gunther Buskies: synths, flute, sax and voice, between Suicide-like minimalism and cosmic drift.

Brett Naucke's vinyl debut, from 2013: six electronic pieces of subtle melodies and eerie organic abstractions by the head of Catholic Tapes. 300 copies with risograph covers.

East Two + 5 comprises previously unreleased tracks from one of Sun Ra's most productive periods: 1972–73. Those two hectic years saw Sun Ra recording numerous albums, staging concerts, teaching at Berkeley, acting in and composing the score for a full-length movie, embarking on a multi-album (though ill-fated) major label deal, and touring the U.S. and Europe. The title track, "East Two," is one of two pieces on this album originating at a two-day October 1972 session at Chicago's Streeterville…

Ichiro Tsuji's 1992 Dissecting Table album, first issued on CD by Dark Vinyl: synthesizer soundtracks, harsh vocals and metallic percussion, remastered by Tsuji and pressed on vinyl for its 25th anniversary.

Raul Lovisoni and Francesco Messina's 1979 album for Cramps, produced by Franco Battiato: Italian minimalism with synthesizer, Michele Fedrigotti's piano and a title piece inspired by René Daumal's novel Mount Analogue.

Edition of 400 copies with hand-assembled letterpress sleeves and insert. Musique Domestique marks the debut full-length from French duo Adiciatz, a project that emerges from the shared musical curiosity of Manon Nogier and Guillaume Lespinasse. Living near Lyon and making music together since before the pandemic, the pair developed their sound during lockdown improvisations at home -- a creative process that quickly revealed a unique musical chemistry rooted as much in folk tradition as in expe…

A soundtrack of the animation film ''A serious thought'' by Jonas Taul at Nukufilm. All music composed and played by Volodja Brodsky

Music From Memory presents ‘Sleep Machines’, a new collaborative album from UK ambient pioneers O Yuki Conjugate and German producer and DJ Philipp Otterbach.

Tip! Spartiti Spariti is a composition in which diverse practices and experiences converge and overlap: the processing of ‘concrete’ sounds, magnetic-tape collage, field recording and the manipulation of acoustic instruments. At its core lies a profound investigation into the ecology of sound, understood not as mere phenomenological documentation but as a radical experience through which identity is rediscovered. The work’s genesis is deeply rooted in the composer’s biographical memory and in th…

"If Surround can be listened to as music that’s as close to air itself, allowing us to enter each listener’s sound scenery, or as something that exists within a new perspective, expanding the middle ground between sound and music, and transforming it into a comfortable space, it would be much appreciated."- Hiroshi Yoshimura Originally released as an album in January 1986, Surround was recorded by Yoshimura as a commission from home builder Misawa Homes, intended to function as an “amenity” desi…

★ Japan exclusive LP ★ First press limited edition. Fennesz, who creates unique electronic sounds with guitars and computers, has released his first album in about five and a half years, "Mosaic." It is an unparalleled masterpiece with incredibly beautiful sound images constructed with incredible precision. This is Fennesz's most introspective album to date. It was written and recorded at the end of 2023 and finished in summer 2024. Fennesz opened his third new studio space in the last four year…

** 2026 restock, long out of print - few copies available **  Here’s an astonishing fact: This album was recorded during John Tchicai’s first and only weeklong residency at a New York jazz club. Tchicai — co-founder of the New York Art Quartet, one of the most innovative bands of the 1960s; member of Albert Ayer's New York Eye and Ear Control; participant in John Coltrane’s Ascension, perhaps the most influential of Coltrane’s late works; practitioner of world music-jazz fusions in bands such as…

*60 copies limited edition* Gonçalo F. Cardoso (of Discrepant), together with Mestre André and Daniel García, create an extended sound collage of field recordings, percussion, and jungle-like atmospheres, very much in keeping with the Discrepant sound.

This boxset contains the original soundtracks to the five core works of Andrei Tarkovsky, the master of Soviet cinema: "Ivan's Childhood", "Andrei Roublev", "Solaris", "Mirror", and "Stalker". The works by Eduard Artemyev and Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov may sound imperfect to the modern ear, but have been sympathetically remastered and presented as close as possible to how striking they would have sounded to audiences at the original film presentations. Deluxe matt-laminate boxset containing 5 x CDs …

A detailed look at the elusive work of a French pioneer of musique concrète and electroacoustic composition Eliane Radigue

2024 repress: The third studio album of the British industrial-band Throbbing Gristle, was originally released in 1979 and is often referred to as the band's masterpiece. Originally released in 1979, 20 Jazz Funk Greats is Throbbing Gristle's pop-influenced masterwork. It's hard to believe the beautiful, conventionally-attractive Cosey Fanni Tutti on this album's front cover previously gave herself milk and blood enemas in front of a live audience. Additionally, the song "Hot On The Heels Of Lov…