★Cramps Records
Improvisation (LP)
Original 1975 LP on Cramps' highly collectable DIVerso series with original innersleeve, with confident and superb guitar improvisations.
Musica su Schemi
A testament to one of Italy's most radical musical experiments, now available in this carefully crafted limited edition for a new generation of adventurous listeners.
W.W.3
2004 release ** Italian punk / new wave: Kaos Rock's first album from 1980, "a valid example of punk turned pop, fast and direct without frills yet stuffed with fast-catching melodies"."
Rock And Roll Exibition
2005 release ** ""Rock N’ Roll Exhibition" is a completely new and unique album in the career of Demetrio Stratos, Mauro Pagani and Paolo Tofani and also for the Cramps label: it is a live tribute to the origins of rock’n’roll.""
Rock' 80
2002 release ** "An oddity in Cramps production was the release in 1980 of a series of singles by seven Italian new-wave bands (Dirty Actions, Kandeggina Gang, Kaos Rock, Skiantos, Take Four Doses, Windopen, X-Rated) called "Rock 80". Most singles came on coloured vinyl and were subsequently collected on the "Rock 80" compilation." Seminal release for Italian punk / post-punk."
Bluesman
2002 release ** "Second solo album by the Roman blues guitarist, released in 1979, a year after his debut. Songs of his own composition, alternating with some covers, such as "Baby please don't go", by Muddy Waters, and "Bottle up and go", by John Lee Hooker. Recorded live, alone on stage, with the only accompaniment of a harmonica player.""
Arbeit Macht Frei
2014 release ** "Appearing as it did in 1973, Area's debut album must have sounded to the average Italian pop critics like the end of the world. Issued on the Cramps label, the album highlighted Area's early sound, which featured overt folk melodies, Canterbury Scene prog rock, acid psychedelia, and vanguard jazz all filtered through a particularly Italian sensibility. Those who came to love PFM later will not be able to handle the beautiful -- yet very disciplined -- weirdness of Area, at least…
Natura Morta
1989 release (RARE) ** Original first edition on Cramps. "Composed for a grand piano covered in fruit, Natura Morta is simple and slow with no punctures, peaks, or destinies. A very simple sequence of piano accidents, according to Robert Ashley one of the most beautiful piano pieces ever recorded."
Musica Futurista 1
1992 release ** "A selection of futurist music which combines some very rare audio documents that have survived (for example, the Chorale by Antonio Russolo) with piano reinterpretations by the composer Daniele Lombardi."
KUM - Percorsi intrecciati con Franco Battiato
300 copies. Double LP, gatefold cover + inserts. After Juke Box (1977), between September 1978 and March 1979, the inseparable Giusto Pio and Franco Battiato committed to three pieces that should be interpreted as a single work since they both pursue and envision a sound that is independent of any form of language: Motore immobile, L’Egitto prima delle sabbie, and Rappel. Motore Immobile by Pio (completed in October 1978) was published only in 1979 to avoid interfering with the release/publicati…
In Sara, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Men And Women
Glorious 1978 first edition with gatefold cover and original innersleeve on Cramps Records' Nova Musicha series of the first ground-breaking LP by fundamental composer Robert Ashley.
Microphone
Original copy in excellent condition with innersleeve of one of the most beloved and sought-after albums released by Cramps on their landmark Nova Musicha series, Tudor's 1978 stunning and extreme electronic piece just as thrilling and ahead of its time today as it was then.
Cheap imitation
The second of the two glorious John Cage albums released by Cramps Records on the unparalleled Nova Musicha series. Superb copy with original innersleeve.
Tic & Tac
Yellow vinyl / 180 grams, limited and numbered edition 300 copies. Following the tragic passing of the legendary Demetrio Stratos in 1979, the band Area wisely chose to forgo vocals (save for a few backing harmonies) on this album, as no one could ever replace the "maestro della voce". While this instrumental album may not push boundaries like its predecessors, it showcases a commendable blend of talent, with each musician shining brightly, particularly the remarkable bass work by Ares Tavolazzi…
Gelato Metropolitano
“I was born in the sun of a big country that free maybe never was, a big country of happy people, of big forests and big cities.” This is how Alberto Camerini's second album opens, and it is clear from the outset that one is dealing with something not easy to categorize, wild, but equally enveloping and fascinating. The overall sound, while diverse, retains its own continuity and comes across as a blend of Brazilian sounds, singer-songwriter songwriting, and DIY bedroom electronics, with Camerin…
Rock' 80 (LP)
2024 Restock * First ever vinyl repress. Limited to 500 copies, 180 gr. Transparent Vinyl. Replica of the original, with printed inner * In November 1979, at the Palalido in Milan, the metropolitan response to the famous Bologna Rock, a festival that, a few months earlier, had effectively sanctioned the birth of the new Italian Rock, was staged. A dozen Punk/New Wave bands and the like - almost all of them perfectly unknown, except for the star Skiantos, fresh from a contract with Cramps, Gianni…
Opus Avantra Box
The long-standing Italian imprint, ARTIS Records, returns with one of its most ambitious releases to date, the towering “Opus Avantra Box Collection” by Opus Avantra , a stunning Deluxe Box set which includes no less than five LPs, six CDs, two 7" records, a DVD, a book and various ephemera, offering a thrilling retrospective of one of the most singular bands to emerge from Italy's movement of Prog and “Rock in Opposition”. Ambitious, experimental, and wholly uncategorizable in the ways that few…
Cantare la voce
* 500 copies, numbered edition. Clear Splatter Vinyl * Reissue of a 1978 LP out on Cramps Records. Demetrio Stratos's research into the field of phonetic and experimental poetry led to his freeing his voice every naturalistic restraint, restoring its depth and dimension. The result of this can be heard in the two recordings of his compositions "Metrodora" and "Cantare la Voce" where what sounds like an instrument is in fact his voice.
Giro Di Valzer Per Domani
Temporary nicer price * 500 copies, numbered edition. Clear Splatter Vinyl * Originally released in 1975 on Cramps. This is Arti E Mestieri's second album. More dynamic and inspired than their debut title, The sound has not changed much in comparison to the previous album, but it is slightly less raw and vocals prevent from getting much focus on instrumental prowess. Arguably, there is less space for brass instrument and more vocalized sections. Drums are usually more aggressive and fast than …
Caution Radiation Area
Temporary nicer price * 500 copies, numbered edition. Clear Splatter Vinyl * Area's second album takes its cues from the most serious side of early-'70s British progressive rock, particularly Soft Machine and King Crimson. There's a high-voltage, at times furious energy to the quasi-jazz-rock fusion, with keyboards showing some influence from Miles Davis fusion records, and the guitars wheeling off lines with a busy anxiety. Despite some sinister progressions and overlays of electronic squiggles…