New Arrivals
Bright Lights and Cats with No Mouths
The re-release of the much-sought-after art book by Coil's John Balance—the first ever extensive overview of his drawings, paintings and sketches—in a reformatted and largely redesigned edition. The artworks featured in the book are both finished elaborate hallucinatory pieces as well as quick sketches with a good sprinkling of Balance's often underestimated humour. Homages to idols and inspirations next to idiosyncratic magical dreamscapes executed in a wide variety of styles and mediums. This …
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls - The Original Soundtrack
*2025 stock* A fantastic re-issue of the classic sountrack to the strangest, campiest, most titilating Russ Meyer film ever, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls!Music composed and arranged by the great Stu Phillips (Battlestar Galactica, Knight Rider) with performances by the influential psychedelic band Strawberry Alarm Clock plus The Sandpipers and more!Lead vocals for BVD s all girl band, Carrie Nations, was provided by the stunningly talented Lynn Carey!Own a piece of campy, cult film history!
Rain & Shine
*2025 stock* If you are looking for ultra-rare Softpop, you’ve come to the right place! Laminated Hardboard Tip-On Cover. With Poster, Insert and Obi Limited 500 Copies. The Canterbury Music Festival’s 1968 album, Rain & Shine, an almost willfully secret psych-pop masterpiece of sorts, on the obscure and collectable BT Puppy label out of New York City, owned by the legendary Tokens, and the source of many rarities from Canterbury Music Festival to the Brute Force classic “The King Of Fuh” (licen…
Albion'S Eco-Eerie
In 'Albion's Eco-eerie: TV and Movies of the Haunted Generations' Phil Smith takes us through a selection of weird films and TV shows and uncovers a wholly unexpected ecological and political message. Unlike most approaches to folk horror or hauntology, we are interested here in an alternative reading; one that attends to the unhuman characters, the materials and the edgeland spaces. A hobgoblinology.
"'Albion's Eco-eerie' is a fantastic exploration into culture’s obsession with ‘the other’. Dis…
Issue Four
The fourth and final issue of Man is the Animal. Dedicated to the memory and enduring influence of Jhonn and Peter.A5, perfect bound. Approx 76pp.
Contents
Wear Sensible Shoes: Cobbling Together the Coil Guided Walk of LondonBy Ben Waddington
There's Honey in the Hollows: Looking Back on Horse RotorvatorBy Madeleine LeDespencer
A Conceptual Portrait of Jhonn BalanceBy Barnaby Darling
The Dreamer is Still Asleep: Coil as Mystical ExperienceBy Patrick Petterson
Sun, Pan, Moon: Three Paintings for …
Burial
Burial's groundbreaking debut album. Burial carves out a sound which sends the dormant slinky syncopations of UK garage, via radio interference, into a padded cell of cushioned, muffled bass, passing through the best of Pole's Berlin crackle dub. Burial explores a tangential, parallel dimension of the growing sound of dubstep. Burial's parallel dimension sounds set in a near future South London underwater. You can never tell if the crackle is the burning static off pirate radio transmissions, or…
Vol. 2 (Breaking Through)
Released in 1967 on Reprise Records as a follow up to Part One, Vol. 2 takes the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band into more ambitious territory. Reaching out to more psychedelic territory than the debut LP, Vol. 2 maintains their unique pop sound mixed with ominous fuzz guitar, jumping from graceful folk-rock to wailing guitar freakouts, to multilayered avant-garde compositions at a moment’s notice. First time reissued in mono, from the original master tapes. Limited Velvet Purple Vinyl.
Kotetsu Jeeg TV BGM Collection = 鋼鉄ジーグ -TVオリジナルBGMコレクション-
*2024 stock. 300 copies limited edition* Music Collection from 80's Japanese Hero Sci-Fi TV anime serie Kotetsu Jeeg . All music composed by Chumei Watanabe.
Barry Guy — Plays
"The bass music you will hear on this album is, it might be said, a child of the seventies. A ferociously radical time in the development of the double bass as a solo instrument found composers eager to formulate soundscapes that would send our Bottesinis and Dragonettis running for the exit !
As an emerging bassist in these heady times, immersed deeply into the art of improvisation where almost on a daily basis colleagues pushed the boundaries of instrumental possibilities, I found myself addit…
Kouartéto
"We recorded this CD in May 2023 on the magical Greek island of Hydra in the Old Carpet Factory Studio. The title Kouartéto emanates from the cover image by the artist William Pownall who in the true spirit of Hydra has for many years been an important focus for visitors seeking original artistic creations. And so, in this spirit. The music on this CD reflects a multifaceted response to a multicultural and open understanding of how artists can work together.
Every project involving these four cr…
Time Passing...
*2025 stock* This live recording of the epic composition “Time Passing…” by Barry Guy based on texts by Samuel Beckett, Edwin Morgan and Kerry Hardie, features the stunning achievement of the singers Savina Yannatou, Anja Pöche, Matthew Brook and bass improvisations by Barry Guy who acted also as conductor of the brilliantly performing Camerata Zurich.
Slip Slide And Collide
*2025 stock* "This latest release on Maya Recordings documents a new duo collaboration of Barry Guy together with the exceptional Norwegian saxophonist Torben Snekkestad. At convergent boundaries, tectonic plates collide with each other, sometimes slowly, other times giving way suddenly with huge energy being expended. The various plates that encompass this planet either get subducted by being bent and pulled under the crust, or they collide and fold the rock at the boundary creating mountains. …
A White Horse Is Not a Horse
There was a school of philosophy in ancient China whose core theory stems from a debate entitled “A White Horse Is Not a Horse.” In a book by Gongsun Long (公孫龍 320-250BC, about 200 years after Confucius) in the Warring States Period, two persons argue if a white horse is a horse: the protagonist argues it is not, because ‘white’ is the color of a (particular) horse while a ‘horse’ is a shape and a generic term. It’s a linguistic/logical paradox, or sophistry. Ridiculed by his contemporary philos…
It's Now: R*Time Plays Doug Hammond
Doug Hammond is a veteran American composer, drummer, percussionist, bandleader, singer-songwriter, essayist, and educator who is not nearly as well known in the U.S. as his music warrants. That may be largely because he’s been based in Linz, Austria since 1989 as a professor at Bruckner University, making only periodic visits back to his native Detroit.
Reut Regev is a boundary-crossing composer-trombonist born in Israel, living and active in New York City and its metroplex since 1998, noted fo…
Buleria
* 180g vinyl housed in tip-on sleeve + download code * Swiss saxophonist Gilles Torrent, perhaps known from our recent Spiritual Jazz collection 'A Tribute to 'Trane', leads the way with his new album 'Buleria'; a mesmerizing set of modal jazz pieces that will speak directly to any listener who has felt the other-worldly depths of John Coltrane. The album comprises of Torrent originals and explorations of John Coltrane standards. It reaches for something beyond the mundane, and blends complex ha…
Before The War
2025 stock 180 gram exact repro reissue, manufactured by Rhino. "Great 1968 Atco US psych/pop/rock album by this Boston four piece, produced and arranged by Felix Pappalardi before he joined Mountain. Pappalardi also shares some writing credits with the band (there is an early version of 'Travelling In the Dark' later recorded with Mountain) and he plays on a couple of cuts, but this is by no means a heavy rock record. At times the album has quite an unusual spaced out folky pop feel to it and o…
Part One
Formed in Los Angeles in 1965, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band were considered by many to be the West Coast’s answer to the Velvet Underground. The group created California psych/rock music that was both fragile and dreamy. Part One was originally released in 1967 on Frank Sinatra’s Reprise Records. Though they didn’t achieve the fame of other bands from the area, they have nonetheless achieved a cult status among collectors and people curious about a rich, albeit short-lived musical g…
The Souls Of Birds And Mice
2025 stock Released in 2015, this is arguably Dan Melchior's stand alone release in a massively impressive catalog. Eschewing the gutbucket trawl & extended electro pedal-whomp,The Souls of Birds and Mice is more fugue like; it isn’t composed of elements so much as it is composed of the composing of elements. Recorded at a pivotal time in the his life, one can detect the influences varying from his wife, Letha Rodman-Melchior to Pale Cocoon, Martin Davorin Jagodić' & Pôle running through this l…
Jack Ruby
2025 stock When Don Fleming was doing the initial transfers of the tapes we’d gotten retrieved from Randy Cohen’s barn, every evening seemed to bring a new surprise. But nothing was a bigger jawdropper than the material which makes up the second LP of our Jack Ruby archival series.
The central core of the album is the sixteen-and-a-half minute track, “Destroy/Lost”, recorded at the band’s rehearsal space in January ’74. Robin Hall vocalizes and Boris plays electric viola, but the bulk of the pie…
Earl's Closet (The Lost Archive of Earl McGrath, 1970 to 1980)
2025 stock “Earl was a wonderful man with a great eye for new and innovative art. And such an amusing companion, too.” – Mick Jagger Earl McGrath was the ultimate ’70s jet setter, an art collector and comic bon vivant who stumbled into the record business between legendary parties in New York and LA and discovered Daryl Hall and John Oates and then Jim Carroll. Atlantic founder ∫ gave Earl his own label, Clean Records, in 1970; Mick Jagger hired him to run Rolling Stones Records in 1977. Friend …