**70 copies** This bundle includes the following tapes:Nicola Di Croce - Hearing Voices (Vertical Music 04)"Craco is a small town in southern Italy, completely abandoned after a landslide in 1963. Since then, plants and animals slowly started to take over the ruins, creating a suspended atmosphere magnified by distant echoes coming from rural production and imaginary voices." Nicola Di Croce is a Venice based, musician, composer, architect and scholar. His main research deals with the relation…
Cult of Riggonia is a psychedelic collective from Macon, Georgia, building from a mixture of Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band’s spastic attitude, Animal Collective-like blunt surreal imagery, a Gong approach at multilayered composition and the rhythmic chorality of central-African music. The project is pure oozing waves of textures and superlunary snappy melodies as just expelled from the primordial stew. Singing full texts in a language of their own invention and known for the energy of th…
Jung Deejay is the solo endeavor of NYC's Randy Riback. Originally focused on his first-ever solo project Jung Hardware in 2017, he changed his approach the following year to focus on more "dated" sounds akin to an obsolete MIDI studio. After two solo releases under the moniker: “Wave Idea” on Lillerne Tapes and “7 Sketches for Akai Sampler” on Beer on the Rug, JD returns with a new cassette to accomplish his ideal three-ouvres on alluring sample patterns and naive, native digital imagery. On Ja…
* Limited edition of 20 copies * edition which comes in a cardboard box and is limited to twenty copies. Coming with an explanation about the recordings - of readings at the festival by Armand, Ira Cohen, Louis Lehmann, Hans Verhagen and Simon Vinkenoogand - Ruigoord with a special thank to Hans Plomp and Yvonne van Doorn organising poetry and spoken word events in Ruigoord for decades and hopefully decades to come. This tape is not only a tribute to the five Ruigoord Trophy holders (all artists…
Limited edition of 70 copies presenting Nina Zivancevic a great writer and according to the recordings a great narrator and interviewer. Comes with insert of a photo taken at the time.
**imited edition of 175 copies** Toronto-area saxophonist Colin Fisher, best known for his group I Have Eaten The City, with his collective quartet of NY players Daniel Carter on tenor, alto & soprano saxophones + clarinet & flute, Brandon Lopez on upright bass, and Marc Edwards on drums & percussion, for three extended and exploratory improvisations of exemplary creative insight. This might be the only we've seen with Fisher as a leader – but the set's got a quality that will certainly have us …
** First pressing of 200 with artwork by Tiny Little Hammers ** Recorded over the course of 2019 by Don Forks at Palliative Studios. Dedicated to Steve Dalachinsky 1946-2019. Michael Foster: saxophones, Ben Bennett: drums, percussion
The acoustic situations presented in Ten-Room Banquet were constructed by hybridized processes. Their constituent matter explores relationships between an idea of synthetic and of « picked up reality ». Field recording, « sound-designed » spaces, performative situations, synthesizers, analog and digital studio manipulations... are used to experiment different approaches to audio perception. Through concrète compositions, a poetic narrative unfolds, from nervous collages to smoother sequences. Ta…
Edited by Lawrence Kumpf and Joe Bucciero with contributions from Angel Bat Dawid, Joe Bucciero, Charles Curtis, René Daumal, Thulani Davis, Anthony Elms, Ciarán Finlayson, Jessica Hagedorn, Judith Hamann, Sarah Hennies, Louise Landes Levi, Alan Licht, and Tashi Wada. The Cowboy’s Dreams of Home, the seventh Blank Forms anthology, takes its name from a psychedelic Wild West reverie of Texan singer-songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen. This volume privileges new texts including a retrospectiv…
In the early '80s, Japan was in a flourishing bubble, becoming the world's second-largest economy, threatening to overtake the West with its cutting-edge innovation. Middle class Japanese citizens indulged in luxury clothes, imported wine, and international travel, enjoying unorthodox freedom. City pop emerged as the soundtrack to this cosmopolitan lifestyle: an ode to bright colors, sunny beaches and naive romances, with a clear West influence. Such influence also brought together the first hea…
* 2021 Stock * LSO Live explore the music of America’s most influential living composer with performances of three of his most iconic works: Sextet, Clapping Music and Music for Pieces of Wood. Employing Steve Reich’s universally recognisable sound-world, Sextet uses hypnotic repetitions of a sequence of harmonies, which gradually overlap and interweave, resulting in a complex yet utterly compelling musical landscape. Introducing more dissonance and aggressive rhythms than previous compositions…
*2021 stock* This album, originally released in 1977, was re-mastered and repackaged in Digifile cardboard format. It includes the original full-color booklet. Old and New Dreams was a jazz group that existed from 1976 to 1987, and was composed of tenor saxophone player Dewey Redman, bassist Charlie Haden, trumpet player Don Cherry and drummer Ed Blackwell. A virtual reincarnation of Ornette Coleman's first ensembles, the cooperative Old and New Dreams brought together trumpeter Don Cherry, te…
Another uncovering arrives from Astral Industries by the name of The Humble Bee. The alias of industrious, multi-talented UK artist Craig Tattersall, The Humble Bee’s ‘A Miscellany For the Quiet Hours’ was the inaugural release on Tattersall’s now discontinued Cotton Goods imprint. This beautifully intimate work resurfaces after more than a decade since its initial release, now available on vinyl for the first time. Constructed entirely of tape loops, fragile tapestries of forgotten artefacts ca…
Casioworks’ by Gust De Meyer, originally released as a cassette on Ding Dong Tapes and Records in 1983. ‘Casioworks’ was made at home with only one instrument: the then very popular and cheap Casio VL Tone 1 synthesizer. Every track was recorded in one take on a porta-sound Fostex 250 4 track cassette recorder/mixer. Anyway, these minimalist pieces were produced under a strict guideline : the exclusive use of the Casio VL 1, a japanese monophonic synthesizer (and calculator). Between 1979 and 19…
* Edition of 100 * While working on a filmmusic job, Bjorn Eriksson started to fool around with a philharmonic orchestra plugin, and created his own crazy jazz combo. Music Iinfluenced by his heroes Django Reinhardt, Eric Dolphy, Duke Ellington, Raymond Scott, Ennio Morricone, Universe Zero and many others. This collection of compositions could be a soundtrack for a East European saga or a French strange detective serie. Although The Easywood KIller is a solo project, there will be a live grou…
** Edition of 60 copies ** Granny Records presents Entroterra by Marco Paltrinieri. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Design & Artwork by Yorgos Vourlidas. Composed, Recorded and Mixed by Marco Paltrinieri. Voice and Words by Marco Paltrinieri.
** Edition of 60 copies ** RETE is Vasilis Liolios and Savvas Metaxas. Analog modular synth, Percussion, Objects, Tapes, Prepared piano, Field recordings, Voice. Track A1-Berlikon (featuring Eleni Ikon). Words and Voice by Eleni Ikon. I am sitting in a room not that different from the one you are in now. In fact it is the same room. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice which is going to be played back into the room at another point in time. It is dark here, empty, silent. It occurs to m…
** Edition of 60 copies ** Granny Records presents Bewilderment by Dominique Vaccaro. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Design & Artwork by Yorgos Vourlidas. Recorded, Edited and Mixed by Dominique Vaccaro.
** Edition of 300 ** Wildly unexpected and crushingly good turn of drone metal from Tape Loop Orchestra’s Andrew Hargreaves and collaborator ‘Metal’ Dave Rothary, with artwork by illustrator of the grim, John Powell-Jones. Narayan commit a pair of monstrous tracks years in the making and left to marinate in the vault until the stars aligned. With lockdown finally bringing the world to its knees and their pace, the time has finally come for ‘Narayan’ to seep out; presenting one side of claw-hande…
** 2021 Stock ** Here the spotlight is on library music legend James Clarke, whose absolutely gorgeous 'Girl on the Beach' album (1969) forms part of this CD. Originally issued on the short-lived Aristocrat label, which was in fact a commercial offshoot of the famed KPM 1000 Series of library music recordings, 'Girl on the Beach' gave James the opportunity of writing nine original compositions. Enchanting, romantic and lyrical, each composition is scored for small orchestra; they are augmented b…
** 2021 Stock ** Wicked funky, jazzy groovacious fender rhodes, string-laden 70s library music from all the library music kings. This release marks Vocalion's fifth foray into the seemingly endless vaults of the KPM 1000 Series, without doubt the world's greatest library music series. Expertly compiled and annotated, and with all the music remastered directly from the original analogue stereo tapes, these 28 tracks demonstrate the talents of some of the UK's finest arranger-composers. Spanning t…
** Wicked new book about KPM and Bruton Music – two of the world’s greatest recorded music libraries! Introduction by the great Keith Mansfield! This book rocks! 100% Essential! 450+ pages!!! Includes wicked exclusive pix too! ** Book about killer library soundtrack and TV music at KPM - featuring legendary library composers - Keith Mansfield, Johnny Pearson, Syd Dale, Alan Hawkshaw, James Clarke, David Lindup, Brian Bennett and more! Features interviews, biogrpahies with many of the composers, …
** 2021 Stock ** Following in the footsteps of the landmark 1966 double-quartet recording by Joe Harriott and John Mayer, Indian born musician Amancio D’Silva produced some of the most adventurous and sophisticated recordings within the canon of ‘indo-jazz’, a term used to define a pioneering east meets west synthesis that reflected the shifting musical and cultural landscape of post-war Britain. An experiment which reached a pinnacle in 1972 with D’Silva’s seminal recording Dream Sequence by Co…
This compilation comprises twenty-eight tracks from the legendary KPM 1000 Series of library music, recorded during the golden era of 1970-76. Whereas Vocalion's previous KPM compilations have focused on the company's funky output, this one concentrates on the beautiful, relaxed easy listening grooves that composers such as Keith Mansfield, Steve Gray, James Clarke, Neil Richardson wrote for KPM. There are the luxurious, '70s sounds of Keith Mansfield's Husky Birdsong, Life of Leisure, Whistle S…
** 2021 Stock ** Two outstanding performers, Carlos Santana and Alice Coltrane, collaborated to record their fantastic trip through time called Illuminations. Santana's interest in the Indian culture and different musical styles led him to the musician Alice Coltrane.
** Edition of 300 ** Union Edition presents Pianosequenza Vol.1 by Panoram. Eleven excursions for reproducing pianos. Recorded in Los Angeles (CA) on Yamaha DC7X pianos. All music written, recorded and produced by Panoram.
** Edition of 300 ** Mark Vernon presents the second volume of his Sonograph Sound Effects Series – the follow up to the unexpectedly popular ‘Sounds of the Modern Hospital’ LP. This time the focus is on sounds of plumbing and sanitation: drainpipes, plugholes, leaks, squeaky taps and cisterns. Vernon has recorded many of the sounds from unusual perspectives, in extreme close-up scenarios, using contact mics or small binaural microphones to get into tiny inaccessible spaces. There is also a part…
** First pressing of 200 with artwork by Tiny Little Hammers ** Astral Spirit presents Sounds Passing Through Circumstances by Jayve Montgomery: Saxophone, Flute, and effects & Nick Turner: Mellotron and effects. Written and recorded by Montgomery and Turner in the spring/summer of 2020. Mixed by Drew Sullivan and Nick Turner. Mastered by by Drew Sullivan at SDS Studio (WA). Artwork & Layout by Tiny Little Hammers.
** First pressing of 200 ** Astral Spirits presents Grounded by Aaron Novik. This album was made with the acoustic sounds of the clarinet, bass clarinet and contrabass clarinet with minimal effects. It was recorded during lockdown in Elmhurst Queens, NY, April-May 2020. Mixed by Eli Crews at Spillway. Mastered by Jon Cohrs at Bear Call. Cover Art by Ariadna Garza.
** First pressing of 200 on Green Foil cassette shells with artwork by Jaime Zuverza ** Astral Spirit presents Viandes by Stefano Leonardi & Antonio Bertoni. ll compositions by Antonio Bertoni and Stefano Leonardi. Recorded by Antonio Bertoni on October 26, 2018, live acoustic sound, no overdubs. Mixed and mastered by Antonio Bertoni. One of the best perspectives with which to savor human existence was provided by Jacques Attali, when he declared that the world should not be looked at or read, b…
** First pressing glass mastered edition of 500 copies. Cinderblocks, safety glass, enfolded glass etched with text ** “Often, when finding titles for improvised music I go through poetry that I feel might have some relation to the way the music turned out. I look for two or three word phrases that capture something related. I think of this as “consulting a professional” when it comes to titles. When it came time for these titles, I found myself reaching for Fred Moten’s fantastic book “The Feel…
** First pressing of 500 copies with artwork by the one and only Tiny Little Hammers ** "Underground music is filled with all kinds of characters, personalities, and peculiarities. Rare are the musical/artistic soul mates who have forged life, as well as creative, partnerships. Foundationally, the work of couples like Alice and John Coltrane or La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela set standards of artists who share a complete aesthetic worldview, in which the pair complement and lift each other to…
Teranga Beat proudly presents the drummer-composer Yannis Angelopoulos, aka Jan Van and his last project "Streams". A well known musician in the Athens jazz scene, accompanied by three fellow musicians, he created an album with a tough background story. Jan Van started as a drummer in clubs playing popular greek music (laïka) even before he was 18, a typical first step for a musician in Greece. In this way he experienced the underground and in fact the surrealistic atmosphere of the laïka greek …
This record represents an official release of Misa Blam i Oni Koji Vole Funky, the group which pioneered jazz-funk in the former Yugoslavia. Track לילה טוב has been previously unpublished. Cut directly from the original master tapes which are now in possession of Markus Blam, the son of Misa Blam. Dedicated to the memory of Mihailo Misa Blam (1947-2014). Recorded in Belgrade, Yugoslavia 1976.
Bass Guitar [Fender Jazz ] – Miša Blam. Design – B. Milaković, Luka Novaković, Vanja Todorović. Drums – …
** 2021 Stock. Comes in a six panel case with 16 page booklet, designed by Sam Songailo ** One-composer records have somehow slipped out of fashion, but the chance to delve more deeply into the psyche of a single composer is a special indulgence for both performer and listener. Luke Altmann's music first graced our music stands in 2007, when we performed the slow and achingly beautiful ‘Prelude to New York’ at Manchester Lane in Melbourne. The piece’s honest conviction, simplicity and deep expre…
Lou Harrison's Suite No. 2 for Strings, Suite for Symphonic Strings and Concerto for Pipa with String Orchestra, three first recordings in their categories, played by Wu Man and The New Professionals Orchestra, London, conducted by Rebecca Miller.
Mostly first recordings of Henry Cowell's music written for dance, many from unpublished manuscripts, including Atlantis, the Ritournelles from Marriage at the Eiffel Tower, Sound Form No. 1 and the Suite for Woodwind Quintet.
** Limited edition, individually numbered copies on transparent blue vinyl ** Hans Dulfer is a Dutch jazz musician famous for playing the tenor saxophone. With his band Ritmo-Natural he released his second album Candy Clouds in 1970. The album consists of six songs, with its title track being split into two parts. One single was released, “Red, Red Libanon”, which hit the Dutch charts in both 1970 as well as 1977. This rare Dutch jazz album is now available on coloured vinyl for the first time.
** Edition of 300 ** Oracle and AudioMER. are honoured to announce the release of a new LP; Reading the City with music by oracle, Laszlo Umbreit & Mira Sanders. In 2019 oracle invited artist Mira Sanders to interact with their practice through her writing. Due to the corona crisis, their shared working time couldn’t happen in the planned way: “The writing project was originally planned as an exchange while travelling together one week on the Buratinas boat, navigating on the canals and rivers s…