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Shutsumin
Shutsumin, the debut recording from the generation spanning duo of Japanese legend Otomo Yoshihide, toggling between guitar and turntables, and rising saxophonist Kei Matsumaru, a native of Papua New Guinea, who moved to Tokyo after studying jazz at the Berkelee College of Music in Boston, where he's become a close collaborator of Eiko Ishibashi in addition to leading his own genre-defying solo projects. Both musicians casually ignore lines between jazz, experimental music, and noise, fashioning…
Instrumental Romance
*2026 stock* In 2023, k.d.b lived in a crumbling farmhouse on the edge of the River Maas. Each morning, he’d wake at 6:00 and walk along the river’s bank with his dogfriend Miemel, pausing at sunrise for a cup of coffee. It’s 6:34, and a thick rug of mist rolls out across the river. It’s so dense that k.d.b can’t see the water beneath it. Then comes the sun: a single ray cutting through the mist like a tube of light, landing on Miemel’s face. In her mouth is a CD she’s picked up, and on the CD i…
1000 Guest Rooms
*2026 stock* Holiday resort entertainer Tooper Keps takes a break from entertaining the professional leisure class, and reflects their own world back at them with an EP of otherworldly synths and eerie carnivalesque chansons.
Tooper Keps has fired up his trusty Yamaha PSR-11 and PSS-360 to write his first (and probably last) EP, condensing his favourite chord changes from years of distracting the retired and affluent. The result is a collection of floating song structures that revolve like fairg…
Catatonic Daydreamer
After his trilogy, Iron Sight returns with Catatonic Daydreamer. Once again laying his heart bare, across a broadened and evolved emotional and sonic landscape - moving with genuine honesty between stark vulnerability and overwhelming force.
Clear state shifts run throughout the record. Going from stripped-down acoustic moments, reminiscent of a dark Johnny Cash-like intimacy - fragile and exposed, allowing silence and space to carry as much weight as sound and context itself - to moments where …
Baisée
Baisée marks the first release Charlène Dannancier signs in her given name. The French composer, performer and artist gives an incisive exploration of the emotional vertigo of ambiguous relationships: those destabilizing, uncomfortable zones where desire and unease dissolve into one another. Released on Strange Therapy, the album traces the psychological drift that takes hold when intimacy accelerates but never arrives: expectations splinter into dynamic shifts, dissonance, and subtle misalignme…
De Mutanten Processie II
In the second chapter of De Mutanten Processie, W. Ravenveer once again warps, fractures, and mangles free jazz recordings into a modular synth stream of cosmic mutoid racket — this time sourced from the work of the legendary Andy Ortmann. The result is a dense clarinet noise fest dripping with alien texture. Limited edition cassette co-released by Kerm and Ravennest Recordings. Mastered by Jürgen Deblonde
Sunshower
Kosuke Mine’s electric album, with a strong rock and funk flavor, is set for reissue as part of "Spin This Now!" Vol. 9. This classic album shines with the outstanding combination of Mine’s saxophone with a wah-wah pedal and Mikio Masuda’s psychedelic keyboards.
Label Introduction: East Wind was a groundbreaking jazz label established in 1974 through the full cooperation of Ai Music, as it was then known, and Nippon Phonogram, as it was then known. Over a period of about five years, the label pr…
Hip Dancin'
A classic album recorded in 1976, featuring a superb lineup including Sam Jones, Kazumi Watanabe, and Fumio Karashima, with expansive cello solos. Highlights include an exhilarating duo number with the seasoned bassist Sam Jones, as well as Kazumi Watanabe’s hip guitar solos throughout.
Label Introduction: East Wind was a groundbreaking jazz label established in 1974 through the full cooperation of Ai Music, as it was then known, and Nippon Phonogram, as it was then known. Over a period of about…
Life
World-famous pianist Tsuyoshi Yamamoto’s second East Wind release, "Life," appears in the lineup for "Spin This Now!" Vol. 9. Backed by a golden rhythm section with Sam Jones on bass and Billy Higgins on drums, Yamamoto delivers a supremely swinging performance. His delicate ballad playing on "If You Could See Me Now" is also essential listening.
Label Introduction: East Wind was a groundbreaking jazz label established in 1974 through the full cooperation of Ai Music, as it was then known, and N…
Fela Ransome Kuti and his Koola Lobitos
Before Afrobeat, there was Highlife-Jazz and Afro-Soul. Highlife music, originally from Ghana and widely popular across West Africa, dominated the music scene in Lagos when Fela Kuti returned to the newly independent Nigeria in 1963. Fela had been studying trumpet at Trinity College of Music in London where he met drummer Tony Allen, who also joined him in new group Koola Lobitos as they sought to mix things up by introducing the sounds they had heard in the capital's jazz clubs. The music of Fe…
Savana Selvaggia
Savana Selvaggia collects two previously unreleased tracks by Giuliano Sorgini, highlighting one of the most visionary and experimental aspects of his library music: from an imagined African landscape through atmospheric melodies and analogue electronics ("I misteri del mondo"), to a mystical sound world where African and Middle Eastern influences merge with futuristic electronic textures and Krautrock-inspired rhythms (“Arabian Synthesizer”).
Crafted in his own Cat & Fox Studio in Rome, these …
Oasis Of The Wind Ii A Story Of Forest And Water
Takashi Kokubo, one of Japan’s leading ambient and environmental musicians and sound designers. From the works released in the 1990s under the Ion Series label, the highly popular title “Oasis Of The Wind Ii A Story Of Forest And Water” is finally being reissued on a 2-LP!! This soundscape, reminiscent of wandering into a deep forest, quietly soothes the listener’s heart and the surrounding space. We invite you to experience this musical journey－much like a walk in the woods－in this day and age.
Lost Mist
The debut album from a free jazz piano trio founded by up-and-coming drummer Masatsugu Hattori, featuring pianist Nana Omori and bassist Masashi Kato, the album includes seven tracks that span free jazz and ambient/electro.
sequences from the fictive movie: mystery of ...
*25 copies limited edition* 10 sequences recorded, improvised late at night on the elka omb 5 (one man band 5), a rare Italian arranger keyboard/synth/drum thing that is total digital from 1985 consisting of couple of fm voices and pcm drums, except for the string sounds that go through an analog bbd chorus ensemble etc. A weird thing that gets hot and has a loud inbuilt fan to cool it off. The omb 5 gets mixed into the solton commander 4000s, a rare analog power mixer/tape delay/spring reverb c…
Ecliptic
*100 copies limited edition* Across two decades of restless exploration, Haptic—the trio of Steven Hess, Joseph Clayton Mills, and Adam Sonderberg—has earned a reputation for meticulously assembled recordings and compelling live performances that veer from rigorous minimalism to densely textured, immersive sonic environments. Consistently blurring the lines between different genres and disciplines, their experimental practice has expanded to include installations, soundtracks, and unique site-sp…
Suspended Movement
*100 copies limited edition* Granny records is a record label founded in Thessaloniki, Greece publishing works by contemporary musicians. Granny also supports acts of innovative artists by organizing events in the city of Thessaloniki.
Savvas Metaxas - modular synth, electric & acoustic guitar, baglama, double bass, objects & soundsEvi Nakou - flute on part IFilippos Raskovic - piano on part III
Veneration for the sacred action
‘Compilation one: veneration for the sacred action’ is the first compilation release by london-based independent record label ‘life is beautiful records’. Released in celebration of the 3 year anniversary (of the label & the gesamtkunstwerk that it exists within), the compilation brings together members of the life is beautiful septet collective, as well as various collaborators and special guests from previous life is beautiful events of the past 3 years. the compilation highlights a range of t…
White Sands
*150 copies limited edition* "Later, listening back to the recording, he was surprised to find how the sound of the gulls and wind, the slap of waves, evoked not the grim reality of the crossing but the romantic ideal of a sun soaked cruise." - Geoff Dyer Compared to my last couple of albums (Mote Music and Borrowed Out of Time) White Sands is somewhat of a departure in style. This album has a heavier emphasis on conventional instrumentation and harmonic structure which is something that I have …
Songs of Erosion
*200 copies limited edition* “Songs of Erosion” is a project by Clara Levy & Victor Guaita Igual revisiting the 13th-century Spanish songbook “Cantigas de Santa María” through the lens of erosion.
Rejecting a historicist interpretation, Clara Levy and Victor Guaita Igual develop a set of instructions inspired by geological processes. These serve as a basis for approaching pitch and rhythmic material, shaping it into new compositions. Among the cantigas explored by the duo, this record focuses on…
Pneuma
Double bassist and composer Henry Fraser announces the release of Pneuma, a new solo album out June 12 on Kou Records and recorded, mixed, and co-produced by Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Jóhann Jóhannsson) and Ben Greenberg (Uniform, Marc Ribot). Across eight concise movements, Fraser explores breath, resonance, and the evolving relationship between composition and improvisation, shaping an intimate sonic landscape in which the double bass seems to inhale, bloom into overtones, and dissolve back int…
