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Galaxy Heart
Galaxy Heart is the companion album to Phosphenes (Nov 2021) and completes an intensive body of work that Montréal composer-violinist Jessica Moss wrote, performed and self-produced in deep isolation throughout 2020. As A Closer Listen wrote in its T…
Tree
Field recordings, synthesizers and an organ - prepared samples, found objects and a zither - recorded on a rainy winter's day in Berlin. By Chris Abrahams / Burkhard Beins / Andrea Ermke
Bridge Variations
On Bridge Variations, the now Stockholm-based English guitarist Jon Collin changes his guitar for a keyed fiddle. Mostly recorded to tape under different bridges around Stockholm during 2021, partly for the sound but also because of their importance …
Rise Of The Vulcans
*2022 stock.* Out of the abyss but not out of the darkness. Electro-acoustic production interwoven with heavy rhythms, minimal songwriting, ominous vocals and neatly placed in a vacuum, high quality recordings & sounds which have their roots into neo…
An Eternal Reminder of Not Today
At the Moers Festival 2018, OXBOW got together with Peter Brötzmann to deliver a memorable performance, bringing out the best of two legends in their very own genres while playing old and new Oxbow songs together.
Waiters On The Dance
*In process of stocking. Limited edition of 500 copies* Another unsung hero of the long lost british prog history, Julian Jay Savarin is a keyboard player and composer, poet and science fiction author, hence the association with the most epic and rom…
39 / Part I – III
The piece consists, as the title suggests, of three parts. Each of these parts contains a so-called large form. These consist of 39 tracks each and are played on deadwood, a drum, and on 39 pine cones, respectively. The note values, the corresponding…
Fleeting Adventure
*In process of stocking.* Andrew Tuttle's Fleeting Adventure is a musical adventure through a reimagined journey from the Australian ambient producer and banjo player. A crew of fellow travellers - including Steve Gunn, Chuck Johnson, Luke Schneider …
Inno A Satana / Lucifer
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 333 copies.* How to define the Italian devils music known as Teatro Satanico? Throughout their recording career they’ve crossed so many different genres that its almost impossible to label them down since every recordi…
To Sail, To Sail
One of the most profound solo statements to date from a musical master who has been crossing musical borders for over three decades! Concentrating exclusively on the acoustic guitar, Fred Frith stretches himself and the instrument like never before, …
The Academy In Peril
*2022 stock.* Taking a sidestep from his earliest solo efforts into an exploration of his classical training and influences -- thus the title -- Cale on Academy creates a set of songs that probably bemused more than one listener at the time of releas…
Alpha Ænigma
*2022 stock. A5 digipak.* Alpha Ænigma is a one-off session recorded nighttime during the winter of 2018 by ᚾᛟᚢ II // ᚦᛟᚦ ᚷᛁᚷ. ᚾᛟᚢ II // ᚦᛟᚦ ᚷᛁᚷ is Henrik Nordvargr Björkk (MZ.412 / Folkstorm...) and Thomas Ekelund (Trepaneringsritualen), not to be c…
Tenno
*In process of stocking. 2022 stock.* The second in a series of releases by the legendary downtown pioneer Teiji Ito presents his postmodern masterpiece Tenno, blending Japanese, African, Carribean and Western musical instruments with sound effects, …
Watermill
*In process of stocking. 2022 stock.* The fifth CD in Tzadik’s initiative to make available the music of Teiji Ito presents his undisputed masterpiece Watermill. Created in 1971 for the controversial ballet by Jerome Robbins and named for the town on…
Stainless Steel Mirrors
Edition of 200. "The last AIDS Wolf tour with Unicorn Hard On we came through Virginia. I looked in the tour book and it said, support: BUCK GOOTER. Buck what? Valerie said, 'you never heard of Buck Gooter? Man, you're in for a treat.' It was a bleak…
La Vie Tue
Costes practices the scorched earth policy. Everything you can listen to after it is made paltry and lighter than air. This is also what we recognize important records. They are not necessarily fun but replace all the others. The killed life is a maj…
To The Ansaphone
**Edition of 300** To the Ansaphone had been active from 2000 until 2004. With a sound between new wave and late 90's San Diego punk - something absolutely new in Italy at that time - they literally drove everybody crazy.  After releasing a self titl…
Invisible Design II
*2022 stock.* Invisible Design II showcases Bill Laswell playing a series of "compositions" -- that feel more like improvisations -- completely solo, a decade later follow-up to Invisible Design that appeared in the Tzadik Composer Series in 1999. La…
Paradise Of Replica
Reissue, originally released in 1989. After Dinner's Paradise of Replica is a concise nugget of tomfoolery that occupies a whimsical no man's land between art pop, Japanese folk music, and full-assed Art Zoydian avant proggery. Gentle, arcane and cov…
Ghost Caravan
*In process of stocking. 2022 stock.* The venerable composer and keyboardist Ståle Storløkken follows up his previous Hubro release (and solo debut recording), The Haze of Sleeplessness, with a second solo album performed entirely on pipe organ and r…