★Universal Island Records
Fear (LP)
Original UK edition on Island of Cale's 1974 album with support from various Roxy Music veterans like Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay.
Big Heart (LP)
Original UK edition on Island of the third album by Evan and John Lurie's project, featuring Marc Ribot.
An Electric Storm
When White Noise’s debut album, An Electric Storm, landed on Island Records in 1969, it must have sounded like nothing else. Packaged in a striking black and white sleeve that pictured a spark of lightning streaking across a black sky, this was an album that - quite rightly as it turned out - resembled as much a scientific experiment as any conventional musical document.
White Noise were first conceived when American electronic engineer David Vorhaus-- following a lecture by BBC Radiophonic Work…
London Conversation
London Conversation is the first album by John Martyn, released on Island Records in 1967. Largely self-penned, the album is much more folk oriented than his blues/jazz tinged later releases. Recording was completed by 9 August and the album was released when Martyn was 19 in October 1967. The album reputedly cost £158 to record. The cover photo was taken by Barry Wentzel on the roof of Island Records boss Chris Blackwell's flat in Cromwell Road, London.
Stormbringer!
2025 Repress. John and Beverley Martyn's legendary 1970 masterpiece Stormbringer! stands as one of the most emotionally profound and musically adventurous documents of the folk-rock transition era. Recorded in the shadow of Woodstock with an all-star cast including Levon Helm of The Band, this remarkable album captures a moment when two exceptional artists created something far greater than the sum of its parts. Born from the unlikely but magical union of Glasgow folk guitarist John Martyn and C…
Road To Ruin
**2025 stock. HQ remastering. Presented in the original gatefold sleeve on 180gram vinyl* John and Beverley Martyn’s 2nd album, also released in 1970, was Produced by Joe Boyd and engineered by John Wood at Sound Techniques, the Island Records studio. This album is John and Beverly's follow up to Stormbringer. In much of the same manner as that album, here Martyn recruited Pentangle member Danny Thompson on bass (who would end up playing on most of Martyn's albums over the ensuing years). John w…
Ceremony: An Electronic Mass
Ceremony is a 1969 album by progressive UK rock band Spooky Tooth in collaboration with French electronic and "found-object" composer Pierre Henry. The album takes the form of a church service. A Pierre Henry-free version of the closing track "Hosanna" with different lyrics appears on 2015 Universal release 'The Island Years 1967-1974' under the title "When I Get Home." The release also includes an alternate take of "Have Mercy" (also without Henry) and a session outtake titled "Shine a Light on…