Music from United States

Two sessions from the white heat of mid-sixties New York, drawn from the ESP-Disk archive and returned to full clarity in the new Reference series from AlAy, the Basel imprint curated by Werner X. Uehlinger. The Call brings together the only recording ever made under the direction of the painter, engineer and multi-instrumentalist Marzette Watts and the sole date led by the great bassist Henry Grimes, the connecting thread between the two, in a single volume with sonic restoration and mastering …

Los Angeles, 1985. Every Sunday after midnight, on KTTV Channel 11, an independent commercial television station, something appeared that had no business being on commercial television: Alice Coltrane, appearing as Turiya, broadcasting devotional wisdom, meditation and music straight into the Californian night. The programme was called Eternity's Pillar. It ran until 1988, then vanished, thought lost for decades, until seventeen episodes surfaced from broadcast master tapes held by the Coltrane …

** Deluxe matte laminate gatefold sleeve and polylined paper inner sleeve ** Paris, August 1969. Sunny Murray books a studio for a single afternoon and walks in with thirteen musicians - among them three members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the working sextet built around Archie Shepp, and the singer Jeanne Lee. What they cut that day, Hommage To Africa, is one of the high-water marks of the legendary BYG Actuel catalogue, and one of the warmest and least abrasive records the free jazz moveme…

Eternal Rhythm: Conversations and Travelations with Don Cherry and Graeme Ewens is the book on Don Cherry we have been waiting for - not a biography written from the outside, but a portrait built from the inside, from hours of cassette-taped conversations recorded since 1979 by writer Graeme Ewens, a confidant, travel companion, and close friend of Cherry. Published by Ars Nova Workshop, this is an intimate, free-flowing document of one of the most unique and innovative voices to emerge from the…

On L’oreille Voleuse, Brunhild Ferrari opens her archive of “ear memories” to Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O’Rourke, who treat her magnetic-tape recollections as a living landscape, improvising a drifting, prismatic electroacoustic Hörspiel about time, listening, and theft as tender attention.

On Slowly Melting, Janel Leppin turns her fuzz‑saturated cello into a one‑woman orchestra of grief, resolve and slow-motion rapture. Layering guitar, bass, piano and Prophet‑5 around her bowed lines, she sculpts a solo album where an ancient instrument, wired into modern circuitry, becomes a tectonic emotional force.

*150 copies limited edition* Written, recorded, mixed, and produced by zakè. Featuring various instrumentation and improvisations by the following brethren: anthéne, Benoît Pioulard, Marc Ertel, and Purl. Piano accompaniments by hoax.

Fifteen years on, Lee Noble's cult bedroom classic No Becoming returns to vinyl in a 2026 remaster on Primordial Void: eight ghostly lo-fi hymns of analog synth, harmonium and tape, poised between hauntology and New Weird America. Remastered by A.F. Jones, limited to 200 copies.

*2026 stock* Certainly one of the greatest UFOs in music history—Cromagnon and its concept album “Orgasm” dating back to 1969—about what was to happen thirty years later: a blend of industrial, metal, and experimental music, bathed in improvised LSD-fueled experiences. “The project wasn’t supposed to be smooth, otherwise humanity is lost. There’s room for computers, but the soul is gone.”

Very rare original edition on Ali’s own Survival Records of the 1973 album featuring James Blood Ulmer.

Rare original edition on Ali’s own Survival Records of the 1976 album.

1970 French compilation on Byg's "History Of Jazz" series with tracks from several albums released in 1969 on the label's "Actuel" series.

1984 Japanese re-issue on ECM's "ECM Collection 50" of the 1980 album. With insert.

Original US edition on ECM of the 1983 double album.72 Japanese re-issue on Trio/Japo of the 1970 album. With insert.

1970's re-issue on Milestone of the 1969 album featuring Pharoah Sanders.

1970's re-issue on Milestone of the 1969 album featuring Pharoah Sanders.

1972 original Japanese edition on Delmark's "Trio Jazz Mania" series of the 1971 double album. With insert.

Original French edition on Freedom of the 1973 double album featuring Dave Holland, Barry Altschul, Kenny Wheeler and Chick Corea.

Original Japanese edition on Freedom's "Trio Jazz Mania" as two separate LP's - this is the second volume - of the 1973 double album featuring Dave Holland, Barry Altschul, Kenny Wheeler and Chick Corea. With insert.

1980's re-press of the 1981 double-album on Hat Hut Records featuring Marilyn Crispell.