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Hollywood
Few records dissolve the boundary between document and composition with the patience and rigour of Akira Rabelais' Hollywood. A single hour-long work, edited from nearly four hours of location recordings made on a Tascam recorder along a stretch of Hollywood Boulevard - specifically, between the Walk of Fame stars belonging to Betty Grable and Rod Serling - and has long since become one of the more elusive entries in the composer's catalogue.
Born in South Texas and based in Los Angeles, Rabelai…
Fukushima
The long-awaited 3rd pressing, with a revamped obi design. The birth of a new classic in contemporary Japanese spiritual jazz and modal jazz. Experience a beautiful soundscape crafted with overflowing emotion and hidden energy.
The Pain of Separation: Turkish Gazels, 1926-1935
A collection of spellbinding, melismatic vocal improvisations taken from 78s cut between the mid 1920s to mid '30s - a period defined by the aftermath of the Ottoman Empire’s partition, the Greco-Turkish War and the compulsory population exchange that followed. This same period also represented a time of intense efforts, following the establishment of the Republic, to westernise the new nation's music - coupled with a ban on traditional music education in schools, and later a complete ban on bro…
The Neon Weeps Tonight
*300 copies limited edition* Following 'The Sympathy Portal' LP, released earlier this year, 'The Neon Weeps Tonight' was similarly recorded during lockdown and released as a very limited CDr in early 2022 before its being mooted for this slightly edited reissue. This time comprising six compositions, it begins proceedings with Edward in a typically reflective mood that sometimes feels barbed as much as steeped in a yearning for times lost as melodic yet sombre keys assume a haunted quality befo…
Moder
Henriette Eilertsen's solo debut from 2021, "Poems for flute", is regarded by many as one of the classics in the Motvind Records catalogue. Since then, many concertgoers have also been thrilled by the flautists fresh trio, with Joel Ring (cello & electronics) and Øystein Aarnes Vik (drums). Finally, we are all approaching the opportunity to dive deep into this warm, mysterious and alluring sonic bath. Henriette Eilertsen Trio's debut album "Moder" is characterized by captivating compositions, an…
Tokyo Flashback
Lucky restock. Black Editions present the first ever vinyl edition of Tokyo Flashback, the legendary 1991 compilation that defined the Tokyo psychedelic movement and first brought it to the outside world. Tokyo Flashback is one of the most iconic compilations in the history of underground music. Originally released by Japan's P.S.F. Records, Tokyo Flashback defined the breathtakingly unique and previously obscured musical movement that had been developing in Japan since the late 1970s. The compi…
Save the Nature - Use Fluxus
In November 17, 2019 a six hour performance was undertaken in the car park of The Box gallery in Los Angeles as a part of the Henning Christiansen / Ursula Reuter Christiansen exhibition They Won’t Survive Without The Bird Songs
. Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen, son of Ursula and Henning, developed a timeline for the performance which was essentially designed to encompass a contemporary community of like minded artists that spans generations and continents harnessing and continuing the work insti…
EyEar
A singular document. EyEar presents, for the first time, the visual dimension of Z'EV's practice - a body of work that had, until this release, remained inseparable from the live event, resistant to any fixed form.
Born Stefan Joel Weisser in Los Angeles in 1951, Z'EV stands as one of the most uncompromising figures in the history of experimental and industrial music. From his first solo percussion performances in San Francisco in the late 1970s - deploying self-constructed instruments assembled…
Il Sesso Degli Angeli
The premiere vinyl release of Giovanni Fusco's 1968 score for Ugo Liberatore's Il Sesso degli Angeli, prepared in full stereo as it was meant to appear in 1968 but never did.
From Fargo Live 1940
"It was, all things considered, just an unexceptional whistle stop on a wearying circuit of dance halls and theaters – the night before they had played in Winnipeg, Manitoba and, conveyed by train the 200 miles to this evening’s North Dakota gig, would immediately afterwards find themselves en route to Duluth, Minnesota for their next show. There was certainly no expectation that the on-site recording, made by two South Dakota fans, Jack H. Towers and Dick Burris, on a single acetate disc recor…
Stockholm & Göteborg
* Remastered repress. Comes with printed inner sleeve. * For thirty years this music existed only on Swedish radio tapes. Then it surfaced, and the missing years came into focus. Stockholm & Göteborg collects previously unreleased Henry Cow concert recordings made by Sveriges Radio, captured in Gothenburg in May 1976 and Stockholm in May 1977, with one piece from Hamburg in March 1976. Originally released in 2008 as the sixth volume of the 40th Anniversary box and offered as a standalone album, …
Anthem for Peace
On Anthem for Peace, Alan Braufman leads a razor‑sharp quartet through compact, hook‑rich tunes that braid spiritual jazz, buoyant post‑bop and modal, Eastern‑tinged themes into a forward‑moving set that feels both steeped in history and fully present tense.
Bird Food
Recorded live at Radio Studio Zurich on February 19, 1968, nearly seven months before Santana, previously considered the trio's debut , Bird Food is the earliest known document of the Pierre Favre Trio. The tape lay dormant in the drummer's personal archive for over half a century, until Pierre Favre and trombonist Samuel Blaser uncovered it while sorting through old recordings.
The trio brings together Pierre Favre on drums, Irène Schweizer on piano, and Jiří Mráz on bass, who would later becom…
Stato Interessante
The premiere vinyl edition of Ennio Morricone's 1977 score for Sergio Nasca's Stato Interessante, pressed on 140-gram black vinyl.
Revolutionary Pekinese Opera
On Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, Ground Zero - under the ferociously precise direction of Otomo Yoshihide - detonates a cut‑and‑splice orchestra where free improv, noise, opera and plunderphonics collide with undimmed urgency.
Midmeste
Australian composer-performers Judith Hamann and James Rushford have worked together in countless projects for two decades, perhaps most notably in Golden Fur, their trio with Sam Dunscombe. Black Truffle is pleased to announce Midmeste, their first work as a duo. Its title is Middle English for ‘the middlemost point’, alluding to how the piece builds on the points of overlap between the highly personalised musical languages Hamann and Rushford have developed in recent years.
Performed on cello …
Silver Music
For close to a decade the sound of Italian cinema and television ran through four musicians from Rome. I Marc 4 were the rhythm section the country's leading composers reached for first, and between sessions they cut a long run of library albums under their own name. The scarcest corner of that catalogue sits on two companion imprints, Silver Music and Silver Men, issued in 1976 and seldom seen since. This new edition draws the strongest material from both onto a single LP, in the original milit…
Sky And Future
*2026 stock* This is the Big Band version by Otomo Yoshihide Special Big Band (OSBB) of the 48-minute suite "Sora to Mirai to," written entirely for this performance. "Sora to Mirai to" was originally composed at the request of conductor Yutaka Sado and premiered by the Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra on January 17, 2025, the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. Although it is an orchestral work, it includes elements of improvisation; soon after its premiere, Otomo imme…
T.M.C.T.B.
*42 copies limited edition*
Handmade packaging.The CDr is contained in a 14x20 cm embossed black cardboard envelope. A sticker is attached to the envelope.A small caution/danger sign printed on PVC is in turn attached to the sticker.Inside the envelope are:- a printed CDr- a full-color tri-fold cover- a bookmark- a sticker- a printed front and back page of Les Chants De Maldoror by Le Comte De Lautréamont. The front features the original title page from the first printing of the work, while the …
Of Mist And Melting
In December 1977, at the tail end of a decade he had helped to electrify, Bill Connors brought a nylon-string guitar into Oslo's Talent Studio. Three years earlier, he had walked away from Chick Corea's Return to Forever at the height of its commercial ascent, trading a 200-watt Marshall stack for the spruce-and-cedar intimacy of the classical guitar - a decision that stunned his fusion-era following and quietly redirected the course of his work. Of Mist And Melting, his second leader date for E…