Experimental / All styles

1976 was a year of flux and change. For the recording of the fifth Area album, the core membership of Stratos, Fariselli, Tofani and Tavolazzi were present, but drummer Capiozzo only appears on about half of the album, replaced on various tracks by e…

The 4th album from the band that I consider to be possibly the finest Italian progressive rock band of the 1970's, & certainly a band in the top tier of all early 1970's progressive bands worldwide! Area combined jazz/rock/stolen ethnic music (mostly…

An album which fuses the melodic sensibilities common of the RPI movement with a wild lust for invention, and variously tempers its rage with gentle beds of flute, piano and strings and focuses it into dissonant nightmare-scapes. The result is an acc…

Ultra limited, 1 copy available left..."With 13 groups, 59 tracks and over 4 hours of music and sounds, the Jewelled Antler Library box-set brings together experimental music from the U.S., Finland and New Zealand that ranges from psychedelic, abstra…

Long deleted, Limited to 400 numbered copies edition. "here we started shifting our early drones and layers into concentrated outbursts of maniac consistency, reaching out for initiatory spasms of disjointed rhythms and super saturated vocals. Origin…

classic Ashtray Navigations, two hallucino-kinetic tracks each side

Live at the Hint House might be considered a field rec. in as much as it is a recording of an ambience or soundscape. Made on my first ever trip to mainland America to play music this is the 2nd set of that evening, the 1st set had been an acousti…

Collaborations can be a hell of a gamble. Fortunately, it seems that in the world of the underground music lover, collaborative ventures always seem to turn out to be synergetic exercises that yield amazing results. Churinga Canaries is such an en…

New ASC effort on qbico, a duo this time. THIS is the social club for astral spirits..."

Religious Knives = Maya Miller and Mike Bernstein of Double Leopards and Nate Nelson of Mouthus. I have a special place in my heart for both groups, and was enamored with the first Religious Knives record, Remains, a compilation of CD-R, seven-inch, …

Long deleted, 1 copy available: "Odd colored carpet of bizarre 3D fields dominate the bright and lurid psychedelic forests youll have to run thru to grab a mug a brew at the end of the trip! Hop on the back of a giant pink elephant and let go, eventu…

"And still they keep coming, these Finnish Improv shamans creating a brand of rough magic that intoxicates with its guileless charm and fearless recourse to instinct over deliberation. These two Qbico releases are naive and a little kooky, but never …

Just arrived: alga marghen proudly presents an LP edition including two experimental sound works by Gherasim Luca, created in close connection to Sten Hanson who invited the Rumenian artist at Fylkingen in the very beginning of the 1970s and made him…

The album consists of live versions of the jazz tunes created by the legendary Steve Lacy. The tapes are from the Wellington Jazz Festival 2006, where Malcolm dresses Lacy's melodies in a free folk influenced suite of noise. Malcolm is known for play…

Recorded 13 november 2007. Radu Malfatti: sine waves and trombone. What happens to music when it breaks the sound-barrier ?

Alípio C Neto (soprano & tenor saxophones), Dennis González (trumpet), Ernesto Rodrigues (viola), Guilherme Rodrigues (cello, radio) and Mark Sanders (drums 2008). Recorded 15-06-08 Lisbon.

Ute Wassermann (voice, whistle), Phil Minton (voice), Thomas Lehn (analog synthesizer) and Martin Blüme (percussion). Recorded in Bochum and Köln 2008. Mixed and mastered by Thomas Lehn.

Wien 17, Schumanngasse (1967, 3 minutes), Hernals (1967, 11 minutes), Safety film (1968, 6 minutes), Sugar daddies (1968, 9 minutes), Eroticon sublim (1968, 2 minutes), Der ort der zeit (1985, 40 minutes), Prince of peace (1993, 8 minutes), (Calcutta…

Recorded by Roberto Mallo at Luis Seoane Foundation, A Coruña. 28th November 2008. Mastered by Taku Unami.

'Baroque statues' (1970-74, 15 min), 'Iris' (1971, 10 min), 'Chairs' (1971, 2 min), 'Selfportrait' (1971, 4:30 min), 'Shapes' (1972, 9 min), 'Couples' (1972, 9 min), 'Palmistry' (1973, 10 min), 'Art education' (1976, 8 min), 'Maria Lassnig Kantate-th…