2014 re-issue on Dark Entries of the brilliant 1980 EP by Contortions' Don Christensen, one of the most truly original records coming out of the no wave scene. With insert.
Original French edition (with red labels) on Cellulloid of the debut album one of the main no wave protagonists with Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and featuring Robert Quine and fellow 8 Eyed Spy Pat Irwin.
Original Italian edition on Expanded Music of one of no wave icons' second solo album, featuring outstanding future soundtrack composer Cliff Martinez on drums.
1997 double compilation on Lunch's own Widowspeak label, a 1977-1983 retrospective including her work with Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, Beirut Slump, 8 Eyed Spy, Rowland Howard, Sort Sol and Die Haut. With original innersleeve and poster.
Rare 1986 US re-issue on Rhino/Beserkley with three additional tracks and different cover of the first proto-punk album by Jonathan Richman's and Talking Heads' Jerry Harrison's band with John Cale in 1973.
Italian 1978 re-issue on Beserkley of the first proto-punk album by Jonathan Richman's and Talking Heads' Jerry Harrison's band with John Cale in 1973.
Original 1980 LP on yellow translucent with green splatter vinyl released by Stiff, the first album by the catastrophic punk metal band led by eye-catching Wendy O.Williams.
Original German edition with gatefold sleeve of the 1986 hommage to the wonderful music of Ennio Morricone from the NY sax player and composer, surrounded by Arto Lindsay, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith, Jody Harris, Christian Marclay, Anton Fier and many others.
Original US edition on Antilles of the essential 1978 No Wave manifesto produced By Brian Eno and presenting Mars, Contortions, DNA and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. With original innersleeve.
Original US edition on Antilles with inverted innersleeve of the essential 1978 No Wave manifesto produced By Brian Eno and presenting Mars, Contortions, DNA and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
1984 repress with alternate rim text on labels of the essential 1978 No Wave manifesto produced By Brian Eno and presenting Mars, Contortions, DNA and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.. No innersleeve.
1990 first LP re-issue on Danceteria of a cassette previously released by ROIR in 1982 with a selection of rare singles by mid 70's founding punk / new wave , including Patti Smith, Television, Richard Hell, Model Citizens, Theoretical Girls, Erasers, Come On, Marbles, Nervus Rex, U.S. Ape, Invaders, Mumps, Speedies and Student Teachers. With insert.
Duo improvisations for shakuhachi and ney recorded in Ealing, west London, July and October 2007. Clive Bell (shakuhachi) and Bechir Saade (ney) - two deeply committed improvisers working at the intersection of traditional practice and contemporary exploration - unite for their first recording as a duo. An entirely acoustic affair. Both instruments are made of plants from the same grass family - the shakuhachi from bamboo, the ney from reeds - and share fundamental similarities in timbre, breath…
Where to From marks the much-anticipated solo return of Hildur Guðnadóttir, a composer-collaborator equally versed in spectral pop, avant-garde, and soundtrack work. Reaching beyond her acclaimed film and TV scores, Guðnadóttir crafts nine intimately reflective pieces for strings and choir—drawn from years of voice memos and melodic fragments—where minimalist restraint meets moments of luminous warmth. The album’s texture hovers between Scandinavian melancholy, sacred choral atmosphere, and a me…
As trans-Atlantic alchemists pulling from a shared dialectic that somehow encompassed both postmodern deconstructionist tendencies and a delightfully subversive sense of poptimism, it’s easy to see how David Cunningham and Peter Gordon immediately hit it off upon initially meeting each other back in the late-1970s at the height of their youthful transgressions. Having initially worked together on the second Flying Lizards’ LP fourth wall, with its ingenious fusion of dismantled rhythms and rearr…
Eye-popping and ear-splitting first monumental 1980 album on Armageddon by the Jad and David Fair under the 1/2 Japanese moniker, a generous 3LP box set with inserts including booklet and poster. One of the bravest releases ever.