New Arrivals
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 …
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…
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…
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 st…
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 de…
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…
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 psychedeli…
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 Wa…
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 …
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 st…
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 electro…
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 be…
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 …
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 vee…
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…
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 e…
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…
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 an…
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 …