Music from Germany

Cellist Tristan Honsinger and guitarist Olaf Rupp in their first recorded duo, Berlin, March 2010: one hour-long improvisation, Can You Imagine a Conversation Between a Table and a Chair?, in eight parts.

Peter Kowald solo on double bass and voice, live at Podewil in Berlin in November 2000 and edited by Kowald himself in June 2002: a concert version of his solo album Was da ist, in seven parts.

Manuela+, the quartet of Rüdiger Carl, Jin Hi Kim on komungo, Hans Reichel on guitar and daxophone and Carlos Zingaro on violin, live at the Total Music Meeting in Berlin in 1999: an hour-long improvisation in seven parts.

Peter Brötzmann solo on clarinets and alto, tenor and bass saxophones, recorded at the FMP studio in May 1976: the twelve pieces of the LP Brötzmann/Solo, from 27 seconds to ten minutes.

The Globe Unity Orchestra at ten years old, recorded in Baden-Baden in November 1975 with Braxton, Rava, Wheeler, Brötzmann, Parker, Mangelsdorff and Lovens: five pieces from inside the orchestra, nearly all unreleased until this CD.

Remastered and sounding better than ever, ‘Compiled 2.0 / 1981-84’ wraps up the most indispensible bits by Gudrun Gut and co’s all-female German post-punk unit Malaria! - effectively Berlin’s answer to The Slits or The Raincoats and one of the key Neue Deutsche Welle and post-punk units of the era.

1981 solo album on CMP by the German clarinettist, recorded in Wanne-Eickel, with pieces for clarinet and basset horn including two by Ulrich Lask.

1985 debut solo album on Amiga blending contemporary jazz, free improvisation and Latin rhythms by the German guitar player.

Original German edition on ECM of the 1988 album of lovely music for flowerpots, dulcimer, zither, shakuhachi and ney.

Original German edition on ECM of the 1988 album of lovely multi-tracked music for traditional ethnic instruments from around the world (dilruba, kortholt, suling, ki un ki, sho, etc.). With insert.

Original and sole edition of the 1977 album on Calig of post bop fusion by the German ninetet led by the free jazz and avantgarde trumpet and flugelhorn player. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.

Second solo album (after one on FMP) by the "Jimi Hendrix of jazz guitar", released by Amiga in 1989.

CD-only compilation of recordings from FMP's 2001 Total Music Meeting in Berlin released by a/l/l in 2002, featuring a.o. George Lewis, Sven-Åke Johansson, Hans Reichel, Carlos Zingaro, Paul Lovens, Axel Dörner, Günter Sommer, Mark Wastell, Simon H. Fell and Rhodri Davies.

CD-only compilation of recordings from FMP's 2002 Total Music Meeting in Berlin released by a/l/l in 2003, featuring a.o. Barry Guy, Paul Lovens, Paul Lytton, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Evan Parker and Thomas Lehn.

The starting point is E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Sandman: a world where perception and reality drift apart, and the question of identity remains unresolved. Recognition, in Hoffmann, is never quite secure. The doppelgänger is less a figure than a condition, the point at which the self can no longer vouch for itself.The first record, Lichtstimme begins in an open, almost weightless sonic world. Something still appears untouched. The music carries a sense of proximity, clarity and trust. But this sen…

The starting point is E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Sandman: a world where perception and reality drift apart, and the question of identity remains unresolved. Recognition, in Hoffmann, is never quite secure. The doppelgänger is less a figure than a condition, the point at which the self can no longer vouch for itself.The first record, Lichtstimme begins in an open, almost weightless sonic world. Something still appears untouched. The music carries a sense of proximity, clarity and trust. But this sen…

Pianist Irene Aranda's trio with saxophonist Don Malfon and vocalist Ami Yamasaki, whose echolocation vocal practice meets Malfon's extended saxophone techniques in an absorbing improvised language.

Synapscape, the German duo of Philipp Münch and Tim Kniep, return with eleven tracks of heavy technoid industrial: glitching electronics, dense rhythmic machinery and dark atmospheres rooted in early EBM, with singing saw by Babsi Teichner.

34 tracks from Felix Kubin's singles, EPs and collaborations, 1998 to 2019, chosen by Kubin himself for this Japan-only 2CD, most never on an album and many new to CD. Limited to 300 copies, issued for his June 2026 Japan tour.

Composed for Werner Herzog's documentary The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner, 1974), this previously unreleased score by the German musical collective Popol Vuh accompanies the extraordinary flights of Swiss ski flyer and woodcarver Walter Steiner. Internationally celebrated for his record-breaking ski flying in the 1970s, Steiner (born 1951) became a two-time world champion and earned the nickname "the bird man." Popol Vuh's ethereal score eleva…