Voice
Live At The Donaueschingen Music Festival
Donaueschingen, October 1979. Karl Berger brought the orchestra of his Creative Music Studio from Woodstock to the German contemporary music festival, and Südwestfunk and MPS recorded it. The roster reads like the CMS guest book: Don Cherry on trumpe…
Free Jazz Goes Underground
Hamburg, 1969. A drummer recently arrived from Westphalia, known around the Jazzhouse on Brandstwiete as a capable timekeeper who could swing in 4/4 and play rock beats, which is why Klaus Doldinger had hired him for Passport. His name was Udo Linden…
The Oimels
Two years after Free Action, a different record. The Oimels, MPS 1969, is the Wolfgang Dauner Quintet playing pop: Dauner on piano, organ and voice, Eberhard Weber on bass, cello and voice, Siegfried Schwab on guitar and sitar, Pierre Cavalli on guit…
Djanger Bali
1967, SABA. Tony Scott, the clarinettist of Music for Zen Meditation, with Bubi Chen's Indonesian All Stars: Jack Lesmana on guitar, Marjono on saxophone, gamelan gongs under the rhythm section. Jazz standards and Indonesian songs, with Summertime an…
Jazz Meets India
Villingen, 23 October 1967. Irène Schweizer's trio with Mani Neumeier and Uli Trepte, a year before Guru Guru, meets Dewan Motihar's sitar, tabla and tambura, with Manfred Schoof and Barney Wilen. Three pieces, two of them long, and the seventeen-min…
It's After The End Of The World
Donaueschingen, 17 October 1970, and Berlin, 7 November: Sun Ra's first German concerts, commissioned by Joachim-Ernst Berendt, with the Black Forest Myth written for the astrological moment and never played again. Berendt cut five hours of tape into…
Eternal Rhythm
CD eissue of Don Cherry's classic Eternal Rhythm Group, recorded at the Berlin Jazz Festival, 1968. An amazing line up of: Cherry (cornet, gender and saron [gamelan], flutes), Albert Mangelsdorff (trombone), Eje Thelin (trombone), Bernt Rosengren (te…
Go to Sleep and Look Around
Dani Gal fed recordings of his own brain waves during sleep into the EMS Synthi 100 at Radio Belgrade, under voices reading the dreams of people living under political oppression. Record #08 of Ediciones Inauditas with n.b.k.
Battle of Clontarf
Late-90s guitar pieces by Loren Connors, most on vinyl for the first time: the unrealized 1996 double 7" Battle of Clontarf, The Five Points EP, the Star of Bethlehem suite and Gershwin's I Love You, Porgy. 180g LP, edition of 300.
Welcome to All the Pleasures
Chris Shields on organ, Ed Atkins on voice and Magnus Kaslov recording, live at KoncertKirken in Copenhagen in 2024: the organ reduced to air leaks, mechanical hesitation and shifting overtones. Liner notes by Sarah Davachi, edition of 200.
Volfurten
CD reissue of Volcano The Bear's 2006 LP, the first release on their own Volucan label: theatrical improvisation, musique concrète and ethno-folk. Four-panel gatefold sleeve, limited to 444 copies.
Yak Folks Y'Are
CD reissue of Volcano The Bear's first mini-album, issued by Pickled Egg in 1999, with two bonus tracks from a 2006 lathe-cut 8" on Alt.Vinyl. Oversized gatefold cover, limited to 444 copies.
WasserturMusic
Four improvisers in a historic water tower in Braunschweig: overtone singing, Tibetan bells, trumpet, pipe organ, alto sax and double bass stretched into seven long, reverberant, meditative pieces. Limited to 350 copies.
The Ice Moons
Five minimalist pieces by Al Margolis' If, Bwana, built from baritone saxophone, alto clarinet, hammered dulcimer, cello, violin and voice, modulated and looped into cosmic soundscapes and drones. Limited to 400 copies.
Hazy World
A later album by the French avant-garde trio DDAA, active since 1977: six restrained, elaborate '(a)tonal songs & noises', 51 minutes, with Christine Coënon on voices. Oversized A5 gatefold cover, limited to 444 copies.
Anastomose & Other Stories
Brume's picture 10" Anastomose (Ant-Zen, 1996), the 7" Charlemagne (1997) and the 2012 cassette Seven Trumpets, remastered or remixed by Christian Renou in 2013. A5 gatefold cover, limited to 444 copies.
Proud To Be There
A 7" on Rectangle by Charlie O. (Alain Boiziau): the Gay Pride anthem Proud To Be There, produced by Luigee Trademarq with Hammond organ and vocals, backed by two intimate songs for piano, voice and trumpet.
Psychos In Love (Original Soundtrack)
The lo-fi soundtrack of the 1987 horror romcom Psychos In Love by Carmine Capobianco, first issued in 2017 on a grape-scented purple 7" mastered from VHS, with poster, postcard, lyrics and the I Love My VCR bumper sticker.
Ein Abend in Pöseldorf
Alexander von Schlippenbach on piano and Sven-Åke Johansson on voice, accordion and drums, live at Onkel Pö in Hamburg in March 1978: a free improvised take on the German Lied, recorded by NDR.