Lost & Found Volume V: The Jazz Library Records
Lucky restock, few copies in. ** Edition of 80. Dead stock of some ultrarare original editions of four jazz/easy listening Piero Umiliani albums. Nearly impossible to find at reasonable prices, with this boxset you can get them all in a special and beautiful hand-screened box made especially for this occasion.** After the four previous sold-out volumes, we are glad to announce the “Piero Umiliani - Lost & Found Volume V: The Jazz Library Records”. Some gorgeous Jazzy tunes from the mighty Piero …
Quiet Village
* Green coloured Vinyl. Limited Edition * First time reissued on Jackpot Records, Martin Denny's Quiet Village was originally released in 1959. The iconic album artwork reflected the fantasy of Denny’s Influential fusion of tropical moods.
Some Funkettes
Dark Entries is humbled to continue digging through the archives of legendary producer Patrick Cowley. While best known for his production on chart-topping cybernetic disco anthems such as Sylvester’s “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” or his own “Menergy”, Cowley, who passed away from AIDS-related illness in 1982, left us with a substantial body of work. Since 2009, Dark Entries has been working with Cowley’s friends and family to shed light on the lesser known facets of this singular artist’s ou…
The Electric Lucifer
* 2020 Repress * Bruce Haack's The Electric Lucifer is rightly considered one of the masterworks of 20th century electronic music. Originally recorded in 1968-69 (released in 1970), it's an eminently listenable work where pop-psychedelia and Moog/musique concrete sounds coalesce. Acclaimed upon its original release (one of Rolling Stone's favorite albums of 1970) yet unavailable for over three decades, The Electric Lucifer is presented here for the first time on LP. Remastered and restored from …
Badge Époque Ensemble
* 2020 Repress * Flute, congas, bass, drums, guitar and clavinet; this unconventional arrangement of instruments intertwine to form the debut album by Badge Époque Ensemble - a group of creative improvisers assembled to perform new, largely instrumental compositions by Maximilian ‘Twig’ Turnbull (formerly Slim Twig). Badge employs an eclectic cast of characters from the Toronto underground music scene, whose combined experience would take pages to spell out. It includes stints accompanying songw…
Self Help
Telephone Explosion presents Self Help by Badge Époque Ensemble. Recorded live at Palace Sound October 2019 - March 2020. Produced & Mixed by Steve Chahley, Tony Price & Twig at That 70's Basement. Engineered by Steve Chahley and mastered by Sarah Register.
Jay Anderson - Drum kitChris Bezant - GuitarKaren Ng - SaxophoneAlia O'Brien - FluteEd Squires - PercussionGiosuè Rosati - BassMaximilian 'Twig' Turnbull - Fender Rhodes, Clavinet, synthesizers, piano
Daisies - Sedmikrasky
* Edition of 500. White vinyl with yellow yolk * Back in the latter half of the 1960s the burgeoning idiosyncratic group of alternative filmmakers coming out of (then) Czechoslovakia known as the Czech new wave were taking art house cinemas in western Europe and America by storm. The hour-long films that came out of the infamous Barrandov Studio production house played a competitive rival to that of the French and Italian new waves with their very own immaculate and spellbinding takes on cinema …
Mala Morska Vila
* Edition of 500 Splatter LP. 2020 repress. Available for the first time since being originally pressed in 2011 as part of the ongoing Finders Keepers' 15th anniversary retrospective. Remastered with updated liner notes including rare photos with full cooperation of Barrandov Studios in Prague. * The original orchestral/electronic score from Karel Kachyna's 1976 Czech film adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, composed by Zdenek Liska (The Cremator/Fruits of Paradise) featu…
Veruschka
**2020 small repress** Dagored present Ennio Morricone's famous soundtrack composed for the 1971 Franco Rubartelli documentary Veruschka, Poesia Di Una Donna. The documentary was about the legendary Veruschka, the world's first supermodel and '60s/'70s icon, who appeared in several cult movies including Blow Up (1966), Salome (1972) and Couleur Chair (1978). In Rubartelli's movie, the viewer follows the beautiful model in a shockingly surreal journey through the rural countryside of Italy on a d…
Nocturne (live at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival) LP
**Limited to 1000 copies worldwide. Double white vinyl. Live album from the legendary founder of Can.** Irmin Schmidt goes back to his Stockhausen roots with a new live album. Nocturne (live at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival) comprises three pieces performed live on a partly prepared piano, along additional pre-recorded soundscapes. The live performance of 'Klavierstück II' is a pensive improvisation using essential elements of the original piece. 'Nocturne' starts with the ambient…
Morricone Segreto
** Deluxe Box Collector’s Edition. Limited color vinyl, with additional 7" and big poster, housed in a deluxe box** This brand new collection, featuring 7 previously unreleased tracks, explores what is possibly Ennio Morricone’s richest creative period, between the end of the 1960s to the early 80s, demonstrating Morricone’s long lasting influence for generations of musicians and film directors to this day. Morricone Segreto is an acid-tinged sonic journey through mysterious voices, fuzz guitars…
Alessandro Alessandroni E Il Suo Complesso
**Holy Grail territory here, ultra limited edition, remastered** Sonor Music Editions is happy to announce the reissue of another holy grail by maestro Alessandro Alessandroni. The first legendary Farfalla release, "Alessandro Alessandroni E Il Suo Complesso" originally released in a few hundred copies on the cult Sermi imprint in February 1968. The seminal debut album realized by the legendary Italian maestro, featuring bewitching scat vocals by his wife Giulia De Mutiis (aka Kema), that truly …
Film Music 1976-2020
'Film Music 1976 - 2020' - This long-awaited album brings together 17 tracks from Brian Eno's most recognisable film and television work spanning 5 decades. Eno's music has been used in hundreds of films and he has composed more than 20 soundtracks for some of the best known directors in the world including David Lynch, Danny Boyle, Peter Jackson, Michelangelo Antonioni, Derek Jarman and Michael Mann.
Compositions such as "Ship in a Bottle" in "The Lovely Bones", "Prophecy Theme" from "Dune", "D…
Skinny Woman
**coloured / splattered LP** Cinedelic Records present the first-ever reissue of Ramasandiran Somusundaram's Skinny Woman, originally released in 1974. Skinny Woman is the only solo album by Indian percussionist Ramasandiran Somusundaram, a former member of Bambibanda E Melodie (post-Garybaldi band of Bambi Fossati), Maya, and New Trolls' Atomic System (1973). Produced and played along with a large portion of New Trolls - the De Scalzi brothers, Gianni Belleno, and Giorgio Usai - Skinny Woman is…
Lucifer Rising Ost
* 2020 Stock * Remastered edition of the legendary/notorious Lucifer Rising soundtrack that was originally composed for Kenneth Anger’s film of the same name. “When I composed and recorded the soundtrack for a reconceptualized Lucifer Rising a decade after the first abandoned attempt I drew on my own life experiences to tell the story in music evocative of the mythical Lucifer awakening in his pit of despair, rekindling his torch, and rising like a phoenix from the ashes of his own unmaking to b…
Music for Commercials
**2020 small repress** Originally issued by Crammed in 1987, this is one of the most sought-after releases in the legendary Made to Measure series. Known for his numerous albums, soundtracks, and collaborations with an impossibly broad array of artists (from Ryuichi Sakamoto and DJ Towa Tei to Van Dyke Parks, Björk, Manu Dibango and Elvin Jones), composer, saxophonist and producer Yasuaki Shimizu also released several electronic music productions during the '80s, which are currently generating a…
Ciao! Manhattan
* 2022 Stock. Vinyl in “Angel Shock” color wax. Never before released in any format. Includes 20-page book with rare archive photos and liner notes Q&A with writer/director David Weisman * Edie Sedgwick was the true “It Girl” of the Pop Art age; a woman who famously said she wanted “to turn the world on just for a moment”. Part of Andy Warhol’s Factory for a year in the mid-‘60s, she is widely believed to have inspired The Velvet Underground’s “Femme Fatale” as well as Bob Dylan’s “Leopard-Skin …
Kokotsu/ Ecstasy
The 1970 erotic lounge record by Japanese maestro of percussion, Masami Kawahara, reissued now! The present record is a standout work amid the myriad records of the x-rated / lounge genre of the 1960s and 1970s that catered to adult audiences in both the east and the west. Masami Kawahara, who was a mainstay in both the jazz and pop scenes in Japan, brought together musicians including Akira Ishikawa, Masaoki Terakawa, and Jake H. Concepcion for this recording.
As would be expected of such a ste…
El Grito
* First ever reissue * Bassist, composer, arranger, and film scorer Jorge López Ruiz was the living embodiment of Argentine jazz history. This recording, which was done in 1967 with a big band led by López Ruiz, represents a monumental work in Argentine jazz. The work is a concept album that takes a critical stance on the chaotic political situation and the military regime in Argentina at the time. It was banned upon release and directly led to constraints being placed on López Ruiz’s subsequent…
Pape Satan
* 180 Gram Vinyl with Black and Red mixed color * The long-awaited exact reissue of the 1980 occult electro / dark ambient masterpiece from the Italian library music label Hard. Fabio Borgazzi, under the alias of Fabio Fabor, was one of the maestros of Italian music, traversing disparate genres including classical music, pop, and electronic music. Released under his own library label, ‘Pape Satan’ is yet another holy grail for collectors of Italian library records. The record’s infernal visions …