New Arrivals
Live and Radio Recordings 1957-1962
One more step into the eclectic world of Krzystof Komeda. An outstanding compilation based on Komeda's early production featuring a variety of live and radio recordings between 1957 and 1962. Four different line ups including the Komeda trio, quartet and sextet, plus another quartet shared with tenor sax player Bernt Rosengren. A bunch of true pioneers for Jazz in Eastern Europe searching for the perfect synthesis between the American stylistic influence and a distinctive Slavic lyricism.
Second Set Lausanne 1960
Lee Morgan – trumpet, Wayne Shorter – tenor sax, Bobby Timmons – piano, Jymie Merrit – bass and Art Blakey – drums. Needless to remind that this was one of Blakey’s strongest line ups ever. A powerful and highly dynamic combo featuring young and yet very distinctive personalities driven by Blakey’s unprecedented force of nature. Hard Bop fans will be delighted by the re-release of this famous concert held in Lausanne (Switzerland) in 1960, where the second set featured, among others, an intense …
Oils
In the second half of the eighties, I heard the duo of Charles Gayle and Peter Kowald at the Jazz Days in Novi Sad. A few years later, when Szilárd Mezei and I met, and played music together, I told him a lot about the experience that this concert had given me. I remember that the intensity, the density, the strikingly different quality of Gayle's music-making was beyond my comprehension, or even my measure. And then the world changed, and what seemed unattainable at the time became reality. A j…
Forest
This year, one of the greatest pianists of improvised music, Marilyn Crispell became the winner of the famous NEA Jazz Masters 2025 award, thus joining the ranks of such jazz wizards as, among others. in Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Cecil Taylor, Dizzy Gillespie, Sun Ra, Gil Evans, Sarah Vaughan, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Muhal Richard Abrams and Anthony Braxton, with whom, by the way, Marilyn spent several years in his second great quartet.
As all of us intrigu…
Dream Walks
"The starry floor/The watery shore/Is given thee til the break of day.“ - William Blake
Music records a dream in which your other body goes out for a walk with a friend or two or more and brings back things you can grasp in the real world. If the ground beneath you is water and reflects the stars you may dream you're walking on stars. One morning, the Somnambulist woke up from his dream-walk with a record in his hand and miraculously they were all there: the uncanny encounters, spooling elucubra…
Everything Is True
Everything is True is an album of a personal and sentimental nature, where various musical styles blend, influenced by music from different cultures, contemporary, orchestral, and electronic music. The instrumentarium is equally diverse, combining acoustic, electronic, and even unconventional instruments such as lithophones or prototypes of string instruments like the bassdesmophon. This fusion creates timeless-sounding pieces with exceptional tonality. Most of the tracks on the album were recor…
Nostalgia
Hania Rani’s fourth solo album, her first real live album, Nostalgia, was released on September 27 on Gondwana Records. Nostalgia is the first album to present both Rani’s music and her photos together. Her first ‘real’ live album, recorded in a space with significant meaning for Rani as an artist and person the Polish Radio studios in Warsaw. With Nostalgia Hania presents the studios through her own eyes as somewhere unique and unknown. “Over the years, the spaces of Polish Radio became an impo…
Portal
Artist Andrzej Steinbach's debut album includes two pieces of music, »Wartehalle« and »Behörde«, which he recorded in mono at the Leopold Hoesch Museum in Düren in early 2024.
Steinbach converted an object from his collection into an instrument. A contact microphone was attached to the metal door frame, which reproduces the natural vibrations of the frame via an amplifier and a sound transducer in a feedback loop. Using an intermediate mixer, Steinbach was able to control these charges directly …
From Behind
Cybernetic disco maestro Patrick Cowley returns to Dark Entries with From Behind, a collection of grooving and ecstatic covers of 60s garage and soul cuts. Best known for his chart-topping disco anthems, Cowley left us with an incredible body of work before his tragic death in 1982 due to AIDS-related illness. Since 2009, Dark Entries has been working with Cowley’s friends and family to uncover the singular artist’s lesser-known sides, including his soundtracks for films on compilation albums Sc…
Mosaic
This is Fennesz's most reflective album to date. Composed and recorded at the end of 2023 and completed in the summer of 2024. Fennesz set up a new studio space, the third one in four years. He had no immediate concept, this time starting from scratch, with a strict working routine. He got up early in the morning, worked until midday then had a break and worked again until evening. At first, just collecting ideas, experimenting, improvising. Then composing, mixing and correcting. Yet the title c…
A Radical Horizon
*100 copies limited edition* A Radical Horizon is comprised of a series of duets between cellist Lori Goldston and pianist Stefan Christoff, recorded on a late Fall afternoon in Brooklyn, NY. A conversation between friends, these improvised excursions reflect a willingness to be open to the spirits in the space and between the notes; a spirit of communion that, as Stefan writes, "guides and dances with our dialogue together".
Stefan Christoff is a Canadian musician, community organizer, and jour…
Havuz III-IV
*60 copies limited edition* Istanbul-based audiovisual artist Koray Kantarcıoğlu continues his Havuz tape series with his first release on Dasa Tapes, following 2022’s Loopworks 2 LP (Discrepant Records). Havuz (meaning “pool” in Turkish) parts 3 and 4 consist of two long pieces, with each side composed of seamlessly blended loops. As with his previous work, Koray manipulates samples from Turkish records and tapes to craft otherworldly sound textures. Havuz series sets itself apart from the Loop…
Live Bootleg
A primitive live bootleg from Alba Liv and Franciska recently recorded. Double sided J-card, and recycled tape.
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A very beautiful drone album for 2 simultaneously played church organs by Ato Vari and Camille Helt Haarder aka Emilie Faber. Type 2 tape in double sided J card.
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A double cassette of very beautiful works for acoustic instrumentation and field recordings from Emilie Faber. 2x c10 in a5 cover.
With every heartbeat
A c60 compilation. One hour of new ecordings from the likes of Sewer Election, Jordmenneske, and a lot of promising new local projects. Cassette in a5 sleeve.
Sculpture of Time
Intermission released a Japan-only Laserdisc in 1987, it included an hour of Nils-Udo's work with specially commissioned music by Japanese Kankyo-Ongaku ensemble Interior.
Mundus
Musician A.M. Frison, known mononymously as Coultrain, is well-known for his experimental, psychedelic and world-building music. Coultrain is an esteemed experimental artist and active member of 577 Records’ sub-label, Positive Elevations, which is dedicated to electronic experimentation and avant soul. On MUNDUS, Coultrain overlays spoken word performance and his honeyed voice over smooth soul-inspired instrumentation, gentle snare and electronic melodies. The result is a lyrically-focused albu…
Shine Hear Vol. 2
Building off of their debut album last year, legendary musicians and 577 mainstays reunite for a second volume. As in the first, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter, pianist Leo Genovese, bassist William Parker (also playing Gralla and Shakuhachi on this album), and drummer and vocalist Francisco Mela, unite for another cosmic album. This project again draw from classic jazz arrangements, juxtaposed with a modern experimentalism and a huge range of instrumentation. Shine Hear, Vo…