Experimental / All styles

Live at Le Festival De Fleur in Gotenba, Japan, April 8, 1975. ACTUAL CD - not a CDR. Semi-official release limited to 200 copies. Long out of print, only 1 copy available.

New limited-edition double CD set from long-time archival Rallizes label Ignuitas. This one features a complete Rallizes show from Shizuoka Stupa in 1974 with Mizutani feeding his guitar to the fire with outrageous Star Spangled Banner-style leads while the rest of the group lay-down some of the most brain-freezing nod-out grooves of their entire career. There’s a great slack, elegaically-stoned feel to the playing and by the end of the show the whole group are obliviously destroyed. Recommended…

A series of Rallizes CDs on the shadowy Ignuitas label, from somewhere on planet Earth. These are all regular pressed CD releases. Were not sure why, how or whatever. This one is limited to 200 copies. ACTUAL CDs - not CDrs. Long out of print, only 1 copy available.

A series of Rallizes CDs on the shadowy Ignuitas label, from somewhere on planet Earth. These are all regular pressed CD releases (not CD-Rs). Were not sure why, how or whatever. What was the question again? This first one was apparently originally released in 2006. Live @ Yaneura May 25, 1975. Long out of print, 1 copy only available.

When Robin Scott's electro anthem "Pop Muzik" hit no.1 in the US in 1979, few could have guessed that his debut had appeared on an obscure English underground label, Head Records a whole decade earlier, with backing from psychedelic legends Mighty Baby. Now, with vinyl copies changing hands for hundreds of pounds, it's finally available on CD for the first time, featuring bonus tracks, rare photographs and comprehensive liner notes and showing itself to be a lost gem of British acid folk.

Long prayed-for reissue of this classic 1970 UK folk stunner that's a missing link both in the Wizz Jones oeuvre and in the guitar-freedom music of the prime era. The Legendary Me was Wizz Jones' second studio album, originally released by the obscure but vital Village Thing label (following his self-titled debut on United Artists). Cosmically figuring somewhere between the non-trad radical expressions of the Mike Cooper/Roy Harper axis and Clive Palmer's post-ISB journey, Jones' terrestrial pos…

A collection of impro recorded in A Spirale basement studio, consisting in Maurizio Argenziano (guitars), Mario Gabola (reeds), SEC_(synth, elettronics), Emilio Barone (plastics, voice).Possible directions, new relations, from spastic and destructured funk to free folk, to avant-noise...A music that is like a desert, yes, but swarming, crossed by fluxes, teeming crowd in it; a swarm of bees, a rumble of soccer players, or a group of Tuareg. Myriad of lines dripping from any side, unpredictable m…

A new album by A Sprirale produced by Italian impro music network Setola di Maiale, consisting in Massimo Spezzaferro (drums) Maurizio Argenziano (guitars) Mario Gabola (reeds). Gariga is low, soft-leaved scrubland and represents a regressive stage derived from the degradation of  Mediterranean Basin after dryness, soil erosion, pasture with excessive loads, fires, deforestation. So intimate, whispered, music freely expressed, from elettroacustic to radical impro music, centered in the Mediterra…

Divided into 2 discs, "Paved" contains his more peaceful & ambient pieces & "Unpaved" which represents his noisier, psychedelic side. The tracks that comprise of this DCD confirm Montgomery's place is the canons of drone rock & avant folk while also serving as an introduction to his diverse palette of musical creation.

Vinyl Format. Fantasma Parastasie sees the pairing of Aidan Baker, of the Ambient Doom band Nadja, and Tim Hecker, two of Canada's brightest musicians in the world of abstract electronic music. This release, divided in seven movements, blends together to form a fluid example of a collaboration that works. Unlike those collaborations where artists throw some sound files back and forth via the internet, this release is the fruit of various real-time recording and mixing sessions the two artists wo…

The second release on Presto!? is a fascinating work from Greg Davis (who seems to have been remarkably quiet in recent times) along with Steven Hess. I have absolutely no idea of the background of the piece at the moment, but I can tell you it's a real voyage through field and environmental recordings. Their talent lies in gently manipulating the already beautifully varied sounds and then conjuring up a compelling narrative with them. From naturaistic moments through to more abrasive textures a…

Restocked, few available - featuring: Bdong, Daniel Menche, Nkondi, Okha, Pulse Emitter, Smegma. This one covers lots of territory, from hippy psych to refined noise. Edition of 300 with handmade covers.

This re-release of 1998's Letters From The Serth is a sequential follow-up to the monolithic double CD Letters From The Earth, as it was recorded exactly one year to the day later (Orthodox Easter, 1997), at the same location - on the roof of their building in Chinatown in the afternoon. It's only a single CD this time because as you'll hear at the end, it's starts raining. It features the regular No Neck Blues Band line-up, plus their newest member, the enigmatic Japanese dancer/icon, Michiko. …

John Wiese is one half of Bastard Noise, Sissy Spacek and frequent collaborator with the likes of Sunn 0))), Wolf Eyes and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth). Two new tracks between his more "pure" harsh noise work and an ambient space drone sound. Limited to 500 copies.

It's been doing the rounds as a CDR for yonks now, but Sunburned Hand of the Man's 'Complexion' has now got itself a full-fat release that'll bring its odd-ball charm to a much wider audience. On the back of 2002's debut LP 'Headdress', 'Complexion' is the latest missive from Sunburned Hand of Man and was recorded in its ENTIRETY from a small public garden outside of Union Square in Somerville, Massachusetts. Where?! Wrapped in John Jagel artwork, 'Complexion' is an almost impenetrable miasma of…

Studio collaboration recorded and mixed by DR. ID. himself at Smegma's Portland studio during Metalux - Giffoni summer tour. Total weirdness full on psychedelic improvisation in the classic smegma style, amplified by giffoni's arsenal of unmatched apocalyptic precission machinery and Metalux's own arsenal of strangeness electronic sound and vocals from the next dimension. Already a total American classic before it even existed. Enjoy the Present. The Eternal Sound is now and forever. Coreleased …

Double CD archival overview of this obscure Australian band from the late 70s. They released 2 7" in 1979, including the legendary debut Instant Classic, which was a strange combo of primitive punk and dub. Those singles, plus the later LP from 1981 Transformational Salts make up the first disc. A small piece of near forgotten history, comprehensively recalled for consumption. The two discs contain both the scarce 7"s, the album, and two live sets. All digitally mastered by The Slugfuckers. It's…

The No Neck Blues Band have been enjoying a surge in popularity of late, what with their incredible Qvaris album last year and now a collaboration with Embryo on the Staubgold label turning heads good and proper. This album was the band’s first foray into the digital realm and was released way back in 1998 on the influential Ser label. Unavailable for far too long, Very Friendly have seen sense in re-issuing it, and for many of us (me included) it is the first time we can get to hear it in un-ab…

Yes, by God, here's another one. Rock root punch left in bloody piles of nutmeg dirt circus. Fuck the bleat. Fuck the beat. Fuck the entire fucking fleet. A return to the magnificence of spell-over-form. An end to spiel-necessity. Destructive formatting vanishes in a pfff of steam. Welcome to one future. For information on NNCK consult your local oracle.

The sole output from Vancouver, British Columbia's all-but-forgotten Jesus rock trio, the New Creation. Originally pressed in 1970 in the vinyl LP format in a very limited run, this album never quite made it out of its hometown borders. We think this album is an extraordinary example of "outsider" rock and roll and produced this CD so that it can be shared by more than just a few isolated music fans. The CD was transferred from one of the surviving copies of the original album (master tapes are …

Live in-person' collaborations between Hototogisu and the BxC. Hototogisu, as you know, are the time-defying duo of Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Ramleh, Sunroof!, Total, etc.) and Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, GHQ, Zaimph, etc.). For these sessions, Burning Star Core was C. Spencer Yeh, Robert Beatty, and Trevor Tremaine (the latter two being of Hair Police, Eyes and Arms of Smoke, Sick Hour, etc.). Note that the music on this disc is different material from the Heavy Blossom companion volume …

This fifth installment in the Music Fellowship’s triptych series brings together two Brooklyn bands, Mouthus and Double Leopards, and the sonically entwined Sunroof! From the UK. While each band contributes a side to this two-LP set, the artists are brought together not just figuratively on wax, but literally, as the fourth side features all seven musicians playing together. Double Leopards are Mike Bernstein, Maya Miller, Chris Gray, and Marcia Bassett. Like Taj Mahal Travellers before them, th…

'Savage Summer Sun' is the highly anticipated new full length from the Double Leopards on Pruient's Hospital Productions label. Two lengthy tracks each recorded live from their recent US tour: Il Coral, Los Angeles and KDVS, Davis. Deep, turning, sinister industrial wrapped in existential undertow.

New Full length from Armpits CJA. Even though a recurring theme throughout is a reflection upon the amount of time spent on his PC (the same analogue sound as ever, but the use of digital layering tech adds extra depths to the hum) this disk still has that wonderful lofi droniness, and CJA is as resolutely himself as ever. Includes an epic that threatens to rival the incredible headache. Degradation can be a beautiful thing.

Gamelan Son of Lion is a new music repertory ensemble and composers' collective based in downtown New York City. The ensemble uses Javanese-style iron gamelan keyboards made by Barbara Benary, who co-founded the group along with composers Daniel Goode and Philip Corner. Gamelan Son of Lion specializes in contemporary pieces written for the instruments of the Javanese and Balinese gamelan percussion orchestra. The ensemble has been performing since 1976, making it one of the oldest and best known…

1993 CD release and one of Mr. Branca's absolute masterworks: 10 guitars and bass & drums, beautifully studio-recorded. Originally released by Blast First in 1989.

The full, original 1981 Return of the Giant Slits album + a bonus CD that features ALL the archived dub versions and an American radio interview conducted at the time that was subsequently used by CBS for an ultra-rare promo disc. Including new cover art and two of the classic photos by Anton Corbijn from the NME magazine cover session. The 1981 second and final Slits studio album features the same line-up as their first album, Cut: Ari Up, Tessa Pollit and Viv Albertine. This record has often b…

Valerio Cosi may be young at only 22, but his talent is undeniable. He may be mostly known for his exquisite saxophone playing, but this Italian wunderkind doesn't stop there. Cosi composes strings of magic using all sorts of instrumentation and production tricks. Heavy Electronic Pacific Rock marks the first CD release in Cosi's ever-expanding discography, and he saved the best for this, his most widely-available release to date. Heavy Electronic Pacific Rock is a monster. Clocking in at nearly…

An outstanding release! "In the four years since Audika began releasing the much-loved but less easy to find music of composer and producer Arthur Russell, his popularity has soared. Particularly striking a chord with a younger generation of musicians, many have enthusiastically championed his progressive and influential sound. In 2007, Jens Lekman arranged the brief but tenderly constructed EP, Four Songs By Arthur Russell, which featured imaginative covers by Joel Gibb, Vera November, and Take…

Four cds of intense, grinding drones. Beautiful, but intense and cacophonous. "Like a musical bloodletting" says Andee. Hermann Nitsch is perhaps the most renowned artist spawned from the Austrian Wiener Aktionismus movement producing some of the most brutal and violent art and performance ever. Nitsch always accompanied his Orgien-Mysterien-Theatre performances with walls off orchestral drones--and here they are. Beautiful packaging with performance photos and liner notes by Günter Brus.

Limited edition of 3000, 6CD set. Audio verité recordings (mastered by the incomparable Denis Blackham) of Suicide playing live from September 1977 to August 1978. These recordings cover most of their early shows at CBGBs and Max's Kansas City, plus their first-ever tour across Europe and the UK, these being their dates outside the USA. As you will hear, a crucial year in Suicide's development as both musicians and performers and their mission to stretch the label of punk rock to the very limit.…

Lucky restock, latest few copies around - "The Ann Steel" album was the pop project of Italian Avant-garde musician Roberto Cacciapaglia in 1979. It's a surprising mix between experimetal synths and cheesy pop melodies. Unfortunately, it didn't turn into a massive success. It should have.

In 1995, the cd “Dove Dormono gli Autobus” is produced by Erosha, presented in the space Audiobox (Rai radio 3) and awarded with a segnalation in the contemporary music competition Iceberg '96.

With this album, Brazils Tropicalia has launched full throttle into the new millennium, where melody metamorphoses into a new medium of expression. The planetary dragons have breathed new life into their free smaba, thus creating a juxtaposition of texture, rhythm and psychedelia. Drums and horns collide at a new crossroads, and this newly created beast decided never to look back. To describe the music the quartet of Rob Mazurek, Mauricio Takara, Guilherme Granado, and Richard 'Hollywood' Ribeir…

Religious Knives is comprised of Maya Miller and Michael Bernstein, formerly of industrial drone group Double Leopards, Nate Nelson of the similarly noisy Mouthus, and Todd Cavallo rounding the group out on bass. After a string of twelve inches, singles, and an LP, they're set to release their proper sophomore effort, The Door. It was co-produced by Thurston Moore, and will see release on his Ecstatic Peace imprint. Don't be intimidated by the band member's pedigree and the noisy reputation of t…

To the few who have heard it, it has earned comparisons to Tim Buckley, Pearls Before Swine, and '60s British prog-folk. O.W.L was founded in 1968 on Chicago's north side by Stephen Titra. A founding member of the beloved Midwestern hippie jam band Mountain Bus, Titra left that band just as their Dead-inspired, bluesy jams gained serious regional traction in order to fully devote himself to the inward-looking, singular vision of O.W.L. Of Wondrous Legends  was recorded at Chicago's Universal Stu…

New split album from Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth/Northampton Wools/Dream Aktion Unit et al and Graham Moore of To Live And Shave In LA/Black Meat/Blossoming Noise et al. Edition of 500 copies on marbled, coloured 140g vinyl with pro-pressed sleeves. Thurston's side is a torrent of guitar noise that scales almost Prurient levels of electronic barbarism cut-up with plateaus of achingly-extended feedback, one of his most flat-out damaged conceptions to date. Graham's side is more based around tap…

The LSD March hare hops its winding way through another Wonderland of its own making with a brand new kraut influenced album "Uretakumo Nakunarutorika". These ever indefinable Japanese psych monsters have coughed up a syrup-soaked album of broken tribal psychedelia. Their distended view of plunderphonic percussion gurgles like a drum'n'base-jump into a vat of psilocybin wine. And then things get weird.

2xCD housed in a full color custom made book bound sleeve and printed inner sleeve. Chemical Playschool Volumes 8 and 9 documents the largely unseen universe of The Legendary Pink Dots between the years 1990 and 1995. History has been amended where necessary. The cast for this voyage: The Silverman, Niels Van Hoornblower, Edward Ka-Spel, Martijn de Kleer, Father Pastorius, Cevin Key, Elke Skelter, Raymond Steeg, Ryan Moore, Maria, a brass band and Calyxx.

Keith Wood, along with constant foil Leon Dufficy, is Hush Arbors, and while his self-titled Ecstatic Peace! debut is not his first album by any means - he's been at this almost ten years - it does provide the perfect introductory point to Hush Arbor's distinctive take on psych folk. Combining the pensive songwriting of John Phillips circa Wolfking, the plaintive honesty of Neil Young, and the fishtank-gazing cacophony of Six Organs of Admittance (Wood is a frequent collaborator), Wood writes cl…