Music from United States

*100 copies limited edition* Aire EP features four improvisational, loop-driven pieces created with minimal instrumentation and hardware-based processing, including electric and bass guitars, tape machines, and pedals. Written, recorded, and produced by zakè and Tyresta. Mixed at KTS by zakè. Mastered at Ambient Mountain House by James Bernard.

1995 release (no OBI) ** "A stellar trio of free improvisers, each respective kings of the avant-garde jazz scene in different capacities. British improvisation legend Derek Bailey has played with practically every musician of note in the European improvised music community from the early '60s through to the end of the century and is arguably one of the single most important practitioners in the genre. John Zorn is similarly an extraordinarily influential figure in the American avant-garde music…

Quartet Records, in collaboration with Jay Productions, presents the premiere CD release of Paul Chihara’s noir score for Sidney Lumet’s masterful Prince Of The City (1981), starring Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach and Carmine Caridi. The film is about a New York City narcotics detective (Williams) who reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption; he soon realizes he’s in over his head and that nobody can be trusted. Lumet chose Maestro Chihara, widely a…

Original 1977 edition on Incus of the second Company album by the trio of illustrious improvisers, never re-issued on either LP or CD.

Original 1977 edition on Incus of the fourth Company album with electric guitar / soprano saxophone duets by the unparalleled musicians, never re-issued on either LP or CD. Includes Incus catalogue.

Original 1987 LP on Les Disques Victo of electric guitar and soprano/alto saxophone duets by these amazing musicians recorded live at the 1986 Victoriaville Festival.

In 2017 Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer traveled together to the Åland Islands (an archipelago that is host to around 6,500 islands) in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland. They headed to the islands with the intention of helping two friends (mother/daughter duo Jannika/Sage Reed) barn raise a small inn named Hotel Svala in Kumlinge (a municipality consisting of a small group of islands and a population of about 320). The idea was that, once completed, Svala would host artist residencies…

Big Tip! ** One-time pressing, strictly limited edition ** After more than three decades of whispered reverence among jazz cognoscenti, the complete story of Keith Jarrett's transformative return to his musical birthplace can finally be told. At The Deer Head Inn: The Complete Recordings, a sumptuous 4LP box set to be released in August 2025, captures every note from what may be the most emotionally resonant performance in the pianist's extraordinary catalog. On September 16, 1992, something ext…

An electrified meeting of minds, Candy Girl is a lost 1975 session by jazz pianist Mal Waldron, recorded in Paris with core members of the mighty Lafayette Afro Rock Band, the American funk unit who had made France their home and whose deep grooves would later be mined by generations of hip-hop producers. By 1975, Waldron was a decade into his self-imposed exile from the United States—a transformed musician who had reassembled his sound in Europe and Japan after a devastating breakdown in the ea…

Rare second pressing from 1978 of stunning album of out-there improvisations with electronics with Michel Waisvisz, Han Bennink and Maarten van Regteren Altena. One of I.C.P.'s very best and never re-issued on either CD individually or LP.

Very rare LP on Roaratorio limited to 399 copies with unique hand-painted sleeves by Judith Lindbloom, presenting Lacy's wildest recordings with electronics, one from from 1968 with Richard Teitelbaum and one from 1974 with Michel Waisvisz and Han Bennink.

*2025 repress* World Galaxy is the sixth solo album by Alice Coltrane recorded in November 1971 in New York City, and released in 1972 by Impulse! Records. On the album, Coltrane appears on piano, organ, harp, tamboura, and percussion, and is joined by saxophonist Frank Lowe, bassist Reggie Workman, drummer Ben Riley, timpanist Elayne Jones, and a string ensemble led by David Sackson. Violinist Leroy Jenkins also appears on soloist on one track, and Swami Satchidananda provides narration. World …

*2025 stock* Irritable Mystic Records and Balance Point Acoustics are thrilled to announce the release of Spi-raling Horn, an audacious, boundary-blurring album from a staggering quartet: bass clarinetist Jason Stein, pianist Marilyn Crispell, double bassist Damon Smith, and drummer Adam Shead.   Born from a chance collaboration rooted in a shared appreciation between Smith and Crispell for the radical visual art of Cy Twombly, Spi-raling Horn invites listeners into a sonic universe where improv…

2025 stock Are you ready for magic? The master musicians Daniel Carter, Matthew Shipp, William Parker and Gerald Cleaver will provide access with this album, the first they have released after playing together for decades. Daniel Carter has been collaborating with William Parker since the early 70s and with Matthew Shipp starting in the mid 80s. This trio has played together on many recordings but by adding legendary drummer Gerald Cleaver to the mix they have created a masterpiece combination; …

"Best of..." (catalog number ART54) is a limited edition compilation LP by the legendary jazz innovator Sun Ra, released on white vinyl in 2024. This collection brings together 14 early tracks that showcase Sun Ra’s multifaceted genius as a bandleader, composer, arranger, and producer. The album is issued by Reel-To-Reel Music Company and stands out for its collectible format and carefully curated selection of tracks.

Guitarist Ava Mendoza, violinist gabby fluke-mogul, anddrummer Carolina Pérez release their debut album, MamaKilla, named for the Inca goddess of the moon. Mama Killaoffers eight tracks of high-volume, riff-based guitar-violinimprovisation bolstered by thunderous drumming. Working together for the first time, these three musicians havecreated a record that blends country, blues, and psychedelicrock with blast beats and the heaviness of black, death anddoom metal, wrapping it all in feedback, dis…

Legendary pianist Cecil Taylor enjoyed a month-long residen-cy in Berlin in June and July 1988, during which he began anartistic partnership with drummer Tony Oxley which lasteduntil Taylor’s final public performances in 2016. Recorded at theOutside In Festival in Crawley, UK in September 1988, FlashingSpirits is a high-intensity, extraordinarily beautiful piano-drumsduo, previously unreleased and a revelation even for listenerswho followed Taylor’s long and unceasingly exploratory career.

2025 Stock. In the shadowy interstices of avant-garde performance and sonic extremity, Faust. Eros. Tod. stands as one of Diamanda Galás’s most elusive and mythic recordings. Circulating as a rare bootleg, this live album—captured in the early 1980s and released unofficially in 1988—offers a raw, unfiltered glimpse into Galás’s early explorations of the voice as a weapon, an invocation, and a lament. Faust. Eros. Tod. is not a conventional album, but a document of ritualistic performance. Galás’…

2025 stock Happy Moods is a celebrated jazz album by pianist Ahmad Jamal, originally recorded in Chicago in January 1960 and reissued on vinyl by Waxtime. The album features Jamal’s renowned trio, with Israel Crosby on bass and Vernell Fournier on drums, and is widely recognized for its sophisticated blend of elegance, subtlety, and rhythmic inventiveness

"The psychedelic find of the decade-their long-lost final magnum opus. Rumored to exist for years-often put down as just rumor though. Here it is, unearthed from tapes thought lost forever but now found after nearly 30 years. The first thing to be released from Ya Ho Wha 13 since 1975. In the spring of 1975 the Family was homeless and was travelling on the West Coast after having been driven out of Hawaii by local laws (they would return later that year for what would be the final time wi…