New Arrivals
Degradation Loops
Clear vinyl, silk-screened sleeve, 100 hand-numbered copies. Jasmine Guffond follows from her memorably exquisite ‘Traced’ LP for Sonic Pieces with the multi-timbral iridescence of ‘Degradation Loops’ for Karl Records - plotting an increasingly obfuscated descent into the grain and ether of processed field recordings and electronics, documenting a 16 day process of sonic destruction created for an art exhibition.““Degradation Loops” started out as a sixteen day long composition for an exhibition…
Different Moments
With this compilation of unreleased material Joe Davidow
honors his long working partnership with Paroni Paakkunainen, the
Finnish saxophone giant. Different Moments is a collection of music from
different sessions together with Paakkunainen, from 1978 to 1994.
Although Davidow’s composing work has largely been in the field of
electroacoustic music, this collection focuses on creative,
improvisational jazz.“When I first played with Paroni in the late 70’s, for me there was a
connection th…
The Quine Tapes
The Velvet Underground's revolutionary mix of boundary-breaking sonic extremism and transgressive lyrical content changed the face of rock'n'roll forever. It was on stage that the band's unprecedented vision truly came to life. But the band never made any official live recordings, leaving fans with the small handful of live Velvets tapes that have emerged over the years. Undeniably, the most comprehensive and compelling embodiment of the Velvet Underground's live brilliance is the bountiful cach…
For Your Pleasure
2018 edition. Heavyweight vinyl. Gatefold cover. On Roxy Music's debut, the tensions between Brian Eno and Bryan Ferry propelled their music to great, unexpected heights, and for most of the group's second album, For Your Pleasure, the band equals, if not surpasses, those expectations. However, there are a handful of moments where those tensions become unbearable, as when Eno wants to move toward texture and Ferry wants to stay in more conventional rock territory; the nine-minute "The Bogus Man"…
Feel So Far Away: Anthology 1974-1998
As one quarter of one of the most influential bands of the twentieth century, Maureen "Moe" Tucker's work in the Velvet Underground created a template for all rock drummers that followed. Even today, Moe's primal, tribal rhythms can be heard in countless songs from artists around the globe. Her no-nonsense style'spare kit, no drum stool, almost no cymbals'conveyed an urgency and an honesty that was the foundation of the band's sound. In a patchouli-soaked world of 20 minute double-bass drum solo…
The Velvet Underground & Nico
2018 repress. Although Warhol, who was listed as producer on the album, allegedly gave the Velvets free reign over their sound, it was on his insistence that Nico
performed on this album. However, this does not detract from the fact
that when this album was made the Red Sea parted, and the Velvet
Underground crossed into the Promised Land. Deluxe gatefold jacket with
peeling banana and "Chelsea Girls" bonus track on B5
White Light/White Heat
2018 repress; 2008 release. While 1967's Velvet Underground & Nico was a part of Andy Warhol's global artistic vision, 1968's White Light/White Heat
was free of all Warholian influence, so in a way it could be thought of
as another debut album. Here the music was left to fester on its own,
with no artistic visionary interfering or trying to create a soundtrack
for his pop art, and the Velvets filled that void with an album that is
an aural subway car full of drunkards, junkies and whores ru…
Take A Picture
Take a Picture blends Margo's infectious and highly intelligent songcraft with her absolutely unique voice - equal parts girl group innocence and seductive torch. One of the most endearing and delicious soft rock records from its era, here's an impeccable Sundazed vinyl reissue of this '68 masterpiece, direct from the original masters."Margo Guryan is the most original songwriter that I've ever produced, and also something of an enigma. Underneath it all, she's a schooled composer, but she write…
Evening Of The Magician
180gm vinyl LP. Three albums by Randy Burns were originally released on the ESP-Disk label during the late sixties. The first of which called Of Love and War came out in 1966 and was somewhat your typical mid-sixties solo folk debut album, straight out of the Greenwich Village scene. It contained a few self-composed tunes but mostly 'borrowed' songs from fellow folksters. Accompanied only by his acoustic guitar and occasional 12-string backing, Randy laid down a set that inspired his own writing…
Virginity For All
The rarity and bizarre content of Jerry Solomon’s releases have music connoisseurs clamoring for them, though he funded, wrote, recorded, and self-distributed his uniquely fascinating music for no reason other than to simply put it out there. Equal parts strange, entertaining, and foreboding, Jerry’s music is always engaging, and one can’t help but feel these recordings offer a glimpse through a murky portal into the unadulterated creative experience. Approximately fifty years after their initia…
Om Kult : Ritual Practice Of Conscious Dying - Vol. I
Om Kult 1 - the first set of 31 tracks of the Om Kult 3CD triptych,
recorded and processed at Om Kult Osaka between 2016 and 2018. Evolving from his extended “Brainnectar” studies on psycho-spiritual
cleansing rituals derived from various shamanic and yogatantric
traditions - and his examinations of aural hallucinations and paranormal
perceptions - Rudolf Eb.er focuses now on the occult knowledge and techniques
for the transition from life to death, on the ejecting mind as well as
on the …
Se (in) de bos
Se (in) de bos is a slow-paced 60 minute piece performed by Vvolk and composed by Stijn Cools. While getting deeper in the sound of Vvolk, the perception of time fades. It is astonishing how improvised music can create such a timeless, and calming experience for the listener. This is the third album in the Book Of Air series, as part of the Granvat platform curated by the brothers Stijn and Bert Cools. As in the first Book Of Air album Fieldtone (SR 412LP, 2015) and the second, Vvolk (SR 413CD/L…
In A Garden of Eden
"Kim Cascone supplies another ‘90s ambient dream sequence to Astral Industries with a first vinyl edition of In A Garden Of Eden [1993] following last year’s Lunar Phase reissue. Originally realised at Cascone’s Silent studios in San Francisco for the Space Age Lounge, “a technomystical chill room in Goa, India”, his Heavenly Music Corporation debut is a typically balmy affair awash with tranquil synths and threaded with tropical field recordings to gently levitating effect.It sounds very much o…
Athanatos
"Dopplereffekt explore themes of mortality/immortality on Athanatos, their follow-up to last year’s excellent Cellular Automata album, also released by Berlin’s Leisure System. Furthering their previous LP’s conceptual fascination with genetics, Athanatos explores the conditions and chromosomal factors defining mortality in the funky, allegorical fashion that we all adore about Rudolf Klozeiger and To-Nhan’s music.With input from Carsten Nicolai (who also did the artwork) and his raster-noton co…
The Body as Archive
For the dance film essay - The Body as Archive Gregor Schwellenbach chose a simple yet radical approach: he created a kind of catalog of sounds, clearly structured, presented with sobriety and boldness. The sounds are not embedded in the familiar frame of rhythm-harmony-melody, rather, they are introduced smoothly, presented one after the other, sometimes going together, then standing alone. It is a sensual approach, at the same time executed strictly systematically. Or vice versa: Schwellenbach…
Remiscence
Studio Mule present a re-recording of Motohiko Hamase's Remiscence, originally issued in 1986. Remiscence scores a decent prize at online vinyl-selling platforms and it is worth every penny! It's a perfect "refuge from nasty reality", as the glorious British 20jazzfunkgreats blog once said. And it comes from a man that knows his trade: bass playing. An artisan on his instrument, Hamase also wrote many theoretical books in his more than four decades-long career. In the 1970's Hamase was no strang…
Electronic Music from York
On the Creel Pone short-list for easily as long as #200's William S. Fischer title, this 1973 compilation of music, all composed at York University's Electronic Music Studio during the late 60s & early 70s has been a real white whale for ages & ages, until composer Martin Wesley-Smith's personal copy landed (literally) in the lap of the core C.P. cognoscenti earlier this year. Consisting of three sides (1, 3, 5, appearing here as disc one) of music by resident composers, staff, and hangers-on at…
The New Folk Sound Of Terry Callier
Deluxe edition of two180g LP's stored within a glossy gatefold sleeve. Terry Callier conveys the promise and power in The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier. This capturing a young man in his element, his voice and soul, jazz and folk-infused songs timeless. This new version includes five previously unreleased alternate takes(“900 Miles,” “Promenade In Green,” “It’s About Time” and “Be My Woman”) along with two tracks making their vinyl debut (“Jack O’Diamonds” and “Golden Apples of the Sun”), as…
Inside Out
Of all the musicians who attempted to marry modern jazz/rock ideas with
traditional British folk in the late '60s/early '70s, John Martyn was
the most challenging and aggressive. He had others giving him a run for
his money, sure -- Richard Thompson attacked the guitar with Sufi focus
and clarity; Bert Jansch often employed a sharp, metallic edge in his
work; and John Renbourn was capable of guitar maelstroms -- but when it
came down to it, no one was as out-there as Martyn, as experiment…
Bless The Weather
Though his earlier albums had merit, John Martyn truly came into his own with 1971’s Bless the Weather. The bittersweet grace of “Go Easy,” “Back Down the River,” and “Head and Heart” showcase Martyn’s agile folk-blues guitar touch as well as his delicate vocal shadings and sparse lyric style. A brooding Celtic atmosphere hangs over these tracks, reflected in the mellow fatalism of the title tune and the regretful yet accepting outlook of “Let the Good Things Come.” Whatever the feelings express…