The pianist and composer Javad Maroufi (Tehran, 1925-1993) is the great interpreter of Iranian classical music. His repertoire defines a precise encounter between Western classical music and the traditional folklore of his homeland. Through his acade…
Tulei is a project born in Milan out of the friendship and collaboration between saxophonist Andrea “Jimmy” Catagnoli and Davide Domenichini of Al Doum & The Faryds. The album features a distinct spiritual jazz sound in which the saxophone takes cent…
Piero Piccioni's music for Folco Quilici's aerial documentaries L'Italia Vista Dal Cielo, from the Lazio, Lombardia and Toscana episodes: jazz-inflected orchestral writing and lyrical themes. First time on vinyl, 300 copies.
Scottish singer and guitarist Alasdair Roberts and Norwegian just intonation explorer Fredrik Rasten stretch seven traditional Scottish ballads into slow, drone-rich spells: an hour of overtones, hurdy-gurdy, psaltery and two voices.
Gerald Cleaver's second electronic album, jointly released by 577 Records sub label Positive Elevation and Meakusma. It sees Cleaver further exploring the depths of electronic music offered by his hometown Detroit, combining those influences with his…
Coloured Vinyl version. In this album, legendary New York electronic music producer Hprizm (Antipop Consortium), also known as High Priest, reworks Gerald Cleaver’s acclaimed ’Signs’ (577 Records, 2020). Throughout, Hprizm expands the sonic boundarie…
Silver Vinyl version. New York-based Zoh Amba first cultivated her musical passion in the lush forests of the Appalachian mountains, playing to the woods around her home, before she studied at classical conservatories. Her music honors her roots, ful…
Clear Vinyl version. Originally from Kingsport, Tennessee, New York-based Zoh Amba is a notable rising star in the avant-garde music scene. Growing up in the Appalachian mountains, Amba practiced saxophone to the forest that surrounded her home befor…
Translucent Blue Vinyl version. 'The Uproar in Bursts of Sound and Silence is a sort of emergent collage that came together over four years of composition, improvisation, and production. The foundations for this album were initially recorded in 2018 …
Coloured Vinyl version. 'Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) spoke the truth (and the truth under his tongue was sometimes a hammer, sometimes an anvil, sometimes a sickle, sometimes just a breath or a blast). Baraka had no tongue in cheek. Sometimes he drew …
Coloured Vinyl version. SSWAN presents their first outing "Invisibility is an unnatural disaster" a raucous jaunt of free jazz on the premiere fire music label 577 Records. The music is rooted in the Black American art form of jazz, stemming into the…
Translucent Sea Blue Vinyl version. Super groups are always risky—the potential for disappointing fans or warring musical styles is high—but when longtime friends and masterful improvisers come together, they usually work. Evident in their first coll…
Coloured Vinyl version. Can music liberate us? Francisco Mela, who worked and partnered with the legendary jazz musician McCoy Tyner, believes so. On this album, the second volume of Music Frees Our Souls, Mela collaborates with pianist Cooper-Moore …
Blue Vinyl version. Before any instrumentation, Francisco Mela addresses his fellow musicians, pianist Matthew Shipp and bassist William Parker, with a sense of anticipation and affirmation, “Okay guys, ready? Rolling!” The sense of camaraderie and h…
Coloured Vinyl version. In the first lockdown, Matthew Putman (on keyboard) and Michael Sarian (on trumpet and flugelhorn) began to meet up (with precautions) for semi-regular sessions in Sarian’s makeshift home studio. The conditions were less-than-…
Coloured Vinyl version. New York United is an experimental group at the musical intersection of a classic New York avant-garde scene and forward-looking electronic production. Comprised of multi-instrumentalist and 577-cofounder Daniel Carter (Saxoph…
Coloured Vinyl version. How do you welcome adventure? Longtime comrades, legendary Daniel Carter, Matthew Shipp, William Parker and Gerald Cleaver investigated this in their first album, Welcome Adventure, Vol. 1, resulting in 577 Records’ best-selli…
Cloudy Clear Vinyl version. Are you ready for magic? The master musicians Daniel Carter, Matthew Shipp, William Parker and Gerald Cleaver will provide access with this album, the first they have released after playing together for decades.
Daniel Car…
Yellow Vinyl version. Dave Tucker says that he brought this disparate group of musicians together for a live performance at London’s Cafe Oto last March on “an educated guess,” predicting that the artists - Mark Sanders (Drums & Percussion), Pat Thom…
Brett Naucke's vinyl debut, from 2013: six electronic pieces of subtle melodies and eerie organic abstractions by the head of Catholic Tapes. 300 copies with risograph covers.
Andy Ortmann and Ben Vida on one record again, sixteen years after the first Nihilist release: seven electronic pieces for analog synthesizers, modular systems and computer. Edition of 250.
Hali Palombo's audio-visual work built on slow-scan television, the narrowband system radio amateurs use to send pictures: a 45-minute video on USB and its soundtrack on chrome cassette. Edition of 50.
Andy Bolus (Evil Moisture) and Andy Ortmann (Panicsville) after fifteen years of working together: a live side recorded in Paris in 2006 and a studio collage built between 2001 and 2016.
Dick Flick's tape-collage project The Broken Penis Orchestra, back on Nihilist after the Testicle Difficulties LP: six pieces from 2005-2011, each C-44 chrome copy dubbed in real time. Edition of 99.
Double split cassette from 2024: W. Ravenveer in Antwerp on eurorack modular and electroacoustic instruments, Andy Ortmann in Chicago on Buchla and processing units. Two chrome tapes encoded in Dolby C, edition of 56.
Split LP from 2018: two parts of Grussverweigerung by Kommissar Hjuler und Frau and three Panicsville pieces, made at Nihilist Studios in Chicago with vocals generated by speech synthesis software. 100 copies on black vinyl.
Andy Ortmann's two-hour triple LP of electroacoustic pieces, musique concrète and speech synthesis, the work that his 2023 set Psychoacoustic Electronics picks up from. Edition of 300.
Andy Ortmann and John Wiese, long-time collaborators from St. Louis, recorded together in January 2006: four tracks of harsh electronics, collage and ambient soundscapes.
Ichiro Tsuji's 1992 Dissecting Table album, first issued on CD by Dark Vinyl: synthesizer soundtracks, harsh vocals and metallic percussion, remastered by Tsuji and pressed on vinyl for its 25th anniversary.
I first met La Monte Young at a 1981 performance of his piece The Well-Tuned Piano at the Dia Art Foundation’s beautiful Harrison Street space. When I got a chance after the show to speak with La Monte and his wife, Light artist Marian Zazeela, I was…
The Heads’ 2026 tour deforce, their swan song album for all… sold out on all vinyl formats. Rooster has decided to repress one last time, the end of the year push is here with the end of times supernova colour in colour destroyed galaxy “Supernova” e…
Dreamlord Recordings has become a trusted doorway into records that take you on a journey. Arboria return with Arboria III, and Messers Parkes and Wood are ready to open that door one more time. Its eleven pieces form a woodland tale that begins at s…
*2026 stock. 60 copies limited edition* Sometimes it takes a moment of stillness and silence to discover a new direction. Midday marks a subtle shift from my earlier ambient work, leaning toward more structured compositions, minimal melodic fragments…
*100 copies limited edition* Tsss Tapes presents Slani pejzaži by the trio formed by Manja Ristic (Serbia), Joana Guerra (Portugal) and Verónica Cerrotta (Argentina).
*60 copies limited edition* Gonçalo F. Cardoso (of Discrepant), together with Mestre André and Daniel García, create an extended sound collage of field recordings, percussion, and jungle-like atmospheres, very much in keeping with the Discrepant soun…
*60 copies limited edition* A percussion-and-synthesizer duo by Paper Cuts, a Polish duo made up of Wojtek Kurek and Łukasz of Bouchons d’Oreilles—something like chopped-up techno.
*200 copies limited edition* The Hands of Cain were Dimitris Chorianopoulos (vocals, bass), Spyros ‘S. Adam’ Floros (drums), Costas Papakitsos (synthesisers) and Dimitris Stamatiou (guitar) from Athens, Greece. In 1983 the The Hands of Cain evolved f…
Otto Benson presents Peanut, his second LP with Palto Flats this year, following Songs Before Bed. Known for his prolific output and enthusiastic following, with music released under the aliases OTTO and Memo Boy, Otto released Peanut as a digital-on…
*300 copies limited edition* Since 2009 Connecticut psych band Mountain Movers (previously having released albums through the now defunct Trouble In Mind label) have delivered a lengthy discography floating through rich textures and experimental soun…