New Arrivals / Last 4 weeks

AMM in its classic trio of Eddie Prévost, Keith Rowe and John Tilbury, live at Goodspeed Hall, University of Chicago, on 20 April 1996. An audience recording approved by all three, 100 copies on green vinyl.

Trio session by Binker Golding (saxophones), Olie Brice (double bass) and Eddie Prévost (drums), recorded at All Saints Church, High Laver, Essex, on 3 February 2026; the fourth volume of Prévost's High Laver series.

Black Truffle's 150th release: Graham Lambkin and Emmett Kelly fold finger-picked British folk, psych jams and loops of natural sound into a tape-collaged record, with Jim White on drums for one track.

Spencer Clark's second and last album as Black Joker, from 2010, remastered and pressed to vinyl for the first time: wooden-block percussion, flute-like keyboards and interlocking synth melodies under a night sky.

Gonçalo F. Cardoso as Tropic Brut: contact mics, geophones and piezos on the resort complexes of Tenerife, concrete, metal and machinery amplified into a brutalist, tongue-in-cheek record about mass tourism. Mastered by Rashad Becker.

Keyboardist Himiko Kikuchi's 1987 fusion album with guitarist Masatsugu Matsumoto, a full horn section and members of Spectrum, AB's and Yuji Ohno's band. Limited 180g reissue on Great Tracks, pressed in Japan.

Masabumi Kikuchi's quintet recorded live in the studio in March 1973, just before his move to New York: two saxophones over a piano trio, five original compositions. Japanese reissue by Universal Music on vinyl.

Bassist Takashi Mizuhashi in New York on February 22, 1977, with Herbie Hancock on piano and electric piano, Teruo Nakamura on second bass and Bruno Carr on drums. Nippon Columbia reissue on black vinyl, repressed for February 2027.

Tenor saxophonist Akira Miyazawa's first album, recorded in May 1962 with Masahiko Sato on piano and Sadao Watanabe on alto: a founding record of Japanese modern jazz. King Records reissue on black vinyl, repressed for February 2027.

The debut of drummer Toshio Osumi's regular trio, recorded for Three Blind Mice in March 1983 with Hiromu Aoki's funky piano: Watermelon Man, Willow Weep for Me, Beatles and Stevie Wonder songs. Official reissue on 180g vinyl.

Singer Koji Moriyama's debut as a leader, recorded for Three Blind Mice in December 1975 with the Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio: standards from Night and Day to Bye Bye Blackbird, sung and scatted with a light swing. Official reissue on 180g vinyl.

Drummer George Otsuka's third album for Three Blind Mice, recorded in February 1976 with Fumio Karashima on electric piano and synthesizer and Shozo Sasaki on saxophones, closing on Coltrane's Naima. Official reissue on 180g vinyl.

Masayuki Takayanagi alone with his electric guitar in August 1982: his first solo improvisation album, made after his recovery from near death, from Ornette Coleman's Lonely Woman to Lennie's Pennies. Official Three Blind Mice reissue on 180g vinyl.

Pianist Masabumi Kikuchi's 1970 album named after his nickname: twin keyboards and twin drums, Kohsuke Mine on saxophones, and the long groove of Dancing Mist. Japanese reissue by Universal Music on vinyl.

Taeko Onuki's third album, from 1978, arranged by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Ichizo Seo with Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi and Shigeru Suzuki: Yokogao, Umi to Shonen and 4:00 A.M. 180g reissue cut by Bernie Grundman.

Werkbund return unannounced with a new album on Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien: seven pieces named after Forsitesland, an old name tied to Helgoland and the god Forseti, on an LP limited to 500 numbered copies.

Hermann Nitsch alone at grand piano and harmonium: a sonata performed in Düsseldorf and a night piece performed in Vienna in 1984, first issued on Yedermann that year. New pressing with his drawing on the cover, Tochnit Aleph, 250 copies.

Memphis funk band Ebonee Webb turn Japanese folk songs into disco in 1979, arranged by Chikara Ueda: Soran Bushi, Hanagasa Ondo and Tanko Bushi with heavy grooves and vocals in Japanese. First vinyl reissue, newly cut from the master tapes.

Bassist Isao Suzuki and tenor saxophonist Akira Miyazawa together in 1981, with Motohiko Hino on drums: Suzuki's first digitally recorded album, long a hidden gem of Japanese jazz. First vinyl reissue, newly cut from the original master tapes.

Saxophonist Takeru Muraoka's 1978 session for Seven Seas: crossover and fusion with sharp ensemble playing, with Shin Kazuhara on trumpet and Masanori Sasaji on keyboards. First colour vinyl edition, newly cut from the original master tapes.

Drummer Akira Ishikawa and Count Buffalo's 1976 concept album on Okinawa: funk, Afro and disco over standards, Western pop covers and Okinawan folk songs, some arranged by Koichi Sugiyama. First colour vinyl, newly cut from the master tapes.

The only album by guitarist Fujimaru Yoshino's Fujimaru Band, from 1977: a Japanese rare groove record known to few for decades, rediscovered abroad, here on uncoloured virgin vinyl, newly cut from the original master tapes.

The Italian band's 2005 debut mini-album, issued on CDr and never reprinted, now on vinyl for the first time with two tracks recorded in 2021. Neofolk, neoclassical and ritual music. Numbered, Steinklang.

Neofolk from Todd Paulson of the Minnesota black metal duo Canis Dirus: acoustic guitars, wyrd folk and dark ambient shading. Grey vinyl with insert, 100 hand-numbered copies, Steinklang Industries.

Debut full-length by the Manila duo, folding noise, power electronics, dark ambient and chant into one industrial album. Black vinyl, 100 hand-numbered copies, Steinklang Industries, 2022.

Unreleased studio recordings for Acid Mothers Temple's 30th anniversary: two pieces by The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. from 2018-19, one by The Cosmic Inferno from 2008. Produced by Kawabata Makoto. Max Hazard Records, 2025.

Ryan Weinstein's follow-up to Laughing as Coffin Prick, recorded at home in Northeast Los Angeles: skewed new wave, warped pop and electronics, with Steven Brown of Tuxedomoon among the guests. Temporal Drift, 2025.

Four players from Chapel Hill and Carrboro, North Carolina, improvising live: one long piece recorded at Mangum Street Grocery on the date in the title, five shorter ones at King's and Haw River Ballroom. Silkscreened jacket, Three Lobed.

Flower Travellin' Band's 1973 double album, the last of their first run: studio songs next to live pieces, Hiroshima and Satori Pt. 2 among them. Warner Music Japan 2024 reissue on black vinyl with obi.

Recorded in New York in 1978 with Steve Gadd, Anthony Jackson, Richard Tee, Michael Brecker and David Sanborn, the session that helped start Japan's crossover boom. Great Tracks reissue with obi and insert.

Himiko Kikuchi's 1982 album, cut with John Robinson on drums and Masatsugu Matsumoto on guitar: keyboard-led fusion with a West Coast polish. Continental reissue for City Pop on Vinyl 2026, with obi.

Himiko Kikuchi's 1983 album follows a woman's day in fusion, from Make Up In The Morning to Fat Ma Cooking, built on a spoken hamburger recipe. Self-produced. Reissued by Continental for City Pop on Vinyl 2026, with obi.

Himiko Kikuchi's 1980 debut, a bright fusion record built on her Rhodes, Minimoog and clavinet, with Ernie Watts on saxophone. Reissued by Continental for City Pop on Vinyl 2026, Japanese pressing with obi.

Chicago sound artist Kikù Hibino built the frameworks, Masami Akita poured noise into them, and Hibino cut the result apart with abrupt edits. Voices by Alexandra Cupsa, saxophone by Patrick Shiroishi. Superpang, 2026.

Tanz Mein Herz's new double LP, recorded in Cherbourg in August 2025: guitars, bagpipes, bass, drums and electronics, from the nineteen-minute climb of Depuis Longtemps to long tones and dense drone.

Solo double LP by Guilhem Lacroux of Tanz Mein Herz for Gretsch Duo Jet and Korg Volca: fifteen pieces on four named sides, from plucked figures and fast repeated strumming to bell-like tones and organ-like chords. 300 copies, black vinyl.

A sound piece in two parts, composed in 2021 by the late Peruvian musician José Javier Castro as a tribute to the Italian artist Gianni Toti. 7-inch, limited to 250 copies on Buh Records.

Chicago guitarist Eli Winter's 2022 album, made with a loose group that includes Cameron Knowler, Yasmin Williams, David Grubbs, Ryley Walker and jaimie branch, and often steps back to let them lead.

On Echo - Variations, Arp opens the atmospheric world of Drifts to an international circle of sonic explorers. Glitch, electro-acoustic detail and club pressure reshape its suspended textures, while new tracks and alternate mixes reveal further possibilities within the originals. Less a remix appendix than a study in productive transformation.

*Edition of 100* K/S/R (Ben Kujawski, Abigail Smith & Justin Rhody) have been performing and recording together since 2022. Recorded by the band themselves during a full week of day-long sessions - violin, percussion, lap steel, accordion, flute, guitar, harmonica, and rhodes piano were each stretched, damaged & made to sing through various extended techniques. The trio's non-concentric approach to collective improvisation mirrors the dark harmonic density and symbiotic formal structures of the …