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3LP Box Set version. Black Editions Archive presents ‘Sweet Basil New York 1985’, a major previously unreleased historical work by the epochal free jazz trio of Peter Brötzmann (1941-2023), Milford Graves (1941-2021), & William Parker (1952-). “These three sets from Sweet Basil on February 6, 1985, during the club’s 'Music Is an Open Sky' series were the trio’s first encounter. The vagaries of the jazz life would bring them together only two more times. There was another set on April 15, 1988, a…

CD version.Boston based The Pandora Consort, a dynamic force in early music, is excited to release a 16-work album of their sought-after concert program, Hildegard Reanimated: Vision in Vision (Hildegard Von Bingen) with a dedicated performance recorded in the stunning acoustic Sanctuary space at Epsilon Spires in Brattleboro, Vermont. The release is a collaborative effort of Sedimental, The Pandora Consort and Epsilon Spires with In-Situ Polyculture Commons who sponsored the performance in Octo…

Antonio Carlos Jobim's 1976 album, produced and arranged by Claus Ogerman: dissonant strings, earthy percussion and wind sounds, far from bossa nova. Gatefold 180g LP with the complete lyrics and the original artwork.

Jerry Goldsmith's 1979 score for Ridley Scott's Alien, conducted by Lionel Newman with the National Philharmonic Orchestra. Deluxe 180g vinyl reissue with the original artwork, ten tracks across two sides.

Ahmad Jamal's trio with Jamil Nasser and Frank Gant live at Maison de la Radio, Paris, 25 June 1971: five long pieces never issued before, transferred from the INA tapes. Deluxe 2CD edition with photographs by Jean-Pierre Leloir.

It was legendary record producer Alan Lorber that came up with the concept of "The Bosstown Sound" -- "The Sound Heard 'Round The World" to market and promote the best and brightest of the Bean Town sixties psychedelic scene. (Boston's key groups at the time included Orpheus, Beacon Street Union, Ultimate Spinach, Chamaeleon Church and others). The Ultimate Spinach, arguably the finest of them all, produced magnificent examples of surreal psychedelic record-making, now prized by crate-diggers an…

“Hosono-esque vocals, dub beats and reggae vibes infused into ethereal dreamy mellow rock.”The album just sucks you out of the current place and state you are in. And drops you 40 minutes later back. Whenever you put it on turntable, it opens a 5th dimension for you. Which is unfortunately limited with only a 40 minute stay.Originally released in 100 copies by a mysterious Japanese underground band in 1985. Sold at their local festival on Mount Kyogamaru. No one ever heard about them ever since.

Huge Tip! “Sacred Aeolian music capturing and harnessing the divine power of the wind”. Aeolian Harp is somewhere between a string instrument and a receiver. Its strings are agitated by the wind without any human interference, producing tones entirely of its own volition. Archer toured the British Isles setting up his harp in various sacred and loosely mystical locations. Where he let the Devaharp transmit an otherwise unknown sacred music that has always existed around us. Listening to the natu…

2026 Repress. Released in January 1968 on MGM Records, Ultimate Spinach's self-titled debut arrived at the centre of one of rock history's most audacious marketing campaigns. Producer Alan Lorber had engineered the so-called "Bosstown Sound", a label-driven push to position Boston as a psychedelic rival to San Francisco, launching the band alongside fellow Massachusetts acts Beacon Street Union and Orpheus. Despite the hype, the album proved singular: a dense, effects-saturated slab of East Coas…

Stockholm ensemble Ishaaq Aarkistra, led by Swedish-Indian musician Ishaaq: Indian raga, jazz, psychedelia and hip-hop rhythm, improvised live at RMV Studio and edited by Jari Haapalainen. Ultraääni, LP.