New Arrivals
Floating Frequencies / Intuitive Synthesis III
ELEH's Floating Frequencies/Intuitive Synthesis Volume III was originally released in 2008. Pure tone, pure sound, pure analog. Dedicated to Pauline Oliveros. Re-released on cassette by Cassauna in an edition remastered by the author. The trilogy began back in 2006 with the second volume arriving the following year and the third in 2008. The original editions were dedicated to La Monte Young, Charlemagne Palestine and Pauline Oliveros which gives an indication of where ELEH has been inspired. Fo…
Floating Frequencies / Intuitive Synthesis II
ELEH's Floating Frequencies / Intuitive Synthesis Volume II requires dedicated and careful listening. High volume and / or headphone use is highly recomended for maximum experience - especially on the B side, which is focused on ultra low end bass pulses being slowly modulated by bass frequencies well below the level of human hearing. Side A is a detailed account of the emerging frequencies resulting from the carefully crafted meeting of 7 sine waves. re-released on cassette by Cassauna in an ed…
Floating Frequencies / Intuitive Synthesis I
The first ELEH release was recorded between 2004/2005 using analog synthesizers, HP tube oscillators and guitars, and is now re-released on cassette by Cassauna in an edition remastered by the author.The trilogy began back in 2006 with the second volume arriving the following year and the third in 2008. The original editions were dedicated to La Monte Young, Charlemagne Palestine and Pauline Oliveros which gives an indication of where ELEH has been inspired. For those unfamiliar with the ELEH so…
Live at the Betsey Trotwood
**500 copies** "Fifty years after her elegantly enchanting debut LP, Ask Me No Questions, was issued by John Peel's Dandelion label, Bridget St. John releases her first live vinyl. About time! In the intervening decades, Ms. St. John issued four gorgeous LPs during the 1970s, then had a quiet spell after moving to the U.S. In the '90s a sequence of crucial archival recordings on John Tobler's Road Goes on Forever label, as well as Nigel Cross's peerless Shagrat imprint started appearing. She beg…
Water Memory / Mount Vision
**800 copies** From the Catskill Mountains, Emily Sprague channels a timeless mix of new age ambience and poetry in her captivating debut for RVNG Intl. Compiling Emily’s two self-released tapes Water Memory (2017) and Mount Vision (2018), this sublime package brings us right up to date with her effortlessly enchanting solo output. Across 14 parts in 80 minutes, she proves equally adept at sprawling out in longer forms, as with At Lake, as she is at capturing crystalline vignettes like the kale…
Unaccustomed Soil
**300 copies** Strong sixth release on the very solid Signal & Sound label - this time with Sol Sol, a quartet featuring David Stackenäs, Elin Larsson, Anna Lund and Mauritz Agnas. A very consistent set throughout, with some favourites among the progressive Our Mobile Home and the beautiful Aura.David Stackenäs - guitar & composition, Mauritz Agnas - bass, Anna Lund - drums, Elin Forkelid - saxophones & composition.
Live!
**300 copies** Great live set with a sextet featuring the cream of young jazz Sweden playing the music of South African jazz legends like Chris McGregor, Louis Moholo and Dudu Pukwana. Nice spiritual / cape jazz vibes through all four sides, listen to The Bride and Khanya Apho Ukhona. With Sebastian Bergström, Elin Forkelid, Konrad Agnas, Ville Bromander, Niklas Barnö and Anna Högberg. Comes in beatiful gatefold cover, with insert and bonus CD."The group Oya Sextett plays Chris McGregor / Moholo…
The Timeless Nowhere
The Timeless Nowhere features 42 tracks never previously available on vinyl (most previously unavailable on any format at all) and now distributed across 4 individual albums, each with stunning artwork by Kim Hiorthøy and assembled in a sturdy Box.In a world where being loud seems to be the only ticket for attention, Arve Henriksen has somewhat quietly and without much ado established himself as an important, major player on the European jazz scene. In his 20 years with Rune Grammofon counting 1…
Live in the Batcave
Black Truffle invite you to an evening of drunken revelry in the Batcave! After a chance meeting at a local supermarket in Poughkeepsie, New York, Joe McPhee and Graham Lambkin have performed together as a duo extensively in recent years, in addition to their joint work excavating some of the wildest tapes from McPhee's archive for Lambkin's now defunct Kye label. Live in the Batcave documents an evening the two friends spent together in the company of Joe's brother Charlie and Lambkin's son Oli…
Living Space
Following Slow Fade for Hard Sync (2009) and Location Momentum (2010), Living Space is Eleh's third physical release for Touch. Seven years in the making, this new release consolidates the artist's parallel narrative between a series of vinyl and CD releases for Important Records -- where the emphasis is on a minimalist aesthetic -- to a visual counterpoint that hints at the cinematic and painterly qualities of the music. Sound, as a healing force, is an idea as old as the medium itself. Inspire…
The Next Wait
**250 copies CD edition** "In 2013 my wife Gaia was pregnant. We were then waiting for our first born to come, expected for November of that year. A few little obstacles and troubles occurred during the nine months, so my anxious nature at the time generated in me the need to somehow express the feelings in a record, where I conveyed the worries that a father, especially a musician that needs his own moments for playing, may have in terms of an expected potential future lack of time and energies…
Native Instruments
Limited edition of 200 copies. Native Instrument is the collaborative project of field recordist Felicity Mangan and abstract vocalist Stine Janvin Joh. Often referred to as insect techno, Native Instrument’s music is constructed using electronic and vocal adaptations of wildlife audio recordings originating mainly from the Australian and North European fauna; mixing the natural rhythms of animal calls with digital effects and vocal imitations, Native Instrument enlightens a sonic ambiguity betw…
Angel's Egg (Radio Gnome Invisible Part 2) - Deluxe Ed.
Gong’s second album for Virgin Records has been remastered from the original Virgin masters for the very first time by the original producer, Simon Heyworth, and has been expanded with a previously unreleased concert recorded in Roanne, France on 17th August 1973 plus the single version of Other Side of the Sky and 3 rare out-takes.
Su Mimmi non si spara!
The music of Italian cellist Francesco Guerri obliterates the line between contemporary classical music and free improvisation, sculpting spontaneous invention into startling, unpredictable compositions.On his striking third album, Su Mimmi non si spara!, Guerri presents a dozen innovative pieces that span a wide range of stylistic approaches and technical challenges, invigorated by the physicality of his virtuosic playing and the deep emotional bond he maintains with his instrument. Su Mimmi no…
Regular Music
Regular Music were early instigators of the UK post-systems movement whose work straddles the spheres of rock, minimalism and post-punk. The band was formed in 1980 by composer / performers Helen Ottaway, Jeremy Peyton Jones and Andrew Poppy who met at Goldsmiths College in SE London where they studied music in the 1970s. Rather than wait for commissions they looked to models such as Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Gavin Bryars and Michael Nyman who formed their own ensembles to play their music.The …
Restless
Once again, Chapter Music revisits the Kath Bloom and Loren Connors catalogue, presenting deluxe reissues of the duo's 1984 albums Restless Faithful Desperate and Moonlight, the last two albums they made together. Originally released in pressings of 200-300 copies via Connors' St. Joan label, much of this material hasn't really been given a decent airing until now, but they're in fine and elegiac form throughout this double album, notably arriving at all-time standouts within their discography l…
Threads
Aperture is a sister-brother duo combining the multiple disciplines of poet/artist Elisabetta Porcinai and producer Emanuele Porcinai. Together they produce elegantly brooding songs and intoxicating spoken word, written via free associative methods. Their debut album Threads is the culmination of some full decade gradually conjoining Emanuele's musical practice with Elisabetta's spoken word and poetry (previously only deployed in conjunction with her work as a visual artist). It sees the duo dri…
Euganea
Upperground Orchestra is the hybrid Jazz band of Rabih Beaini and his fellow musicians Tommaso Cappellato (drums), Piero Bittolo Bon (woodwinds / electronics) and Alvise Seggi (Bass / Oud). The band returns with a new LP, years after The Eupen Tapes.Euganea is a 5 tracks LP recorded during the Musica Veneta residency, promoted by FAI (Fondo Ambiente Italiano) in the great context of Villa dei Vescovi. Working around Veneto music, the band developed pieces that merge deep roots of original fusion…
Occulting Disk
Deathprod, a.k.a. Helge Sten, has been deeply embedded in the Oslo music community for decades, but his brooding soundscapes and deliberate process make him seem sometimes like a phantom. Sten is a founding member of Supersilent, adding his sounds and treatments to the avant jazz leanings of that powerful collective, and he has collaborated with artists as diverse as Biosphere, and Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones. But Occulting Disk is the first new Deathprod album in 15 years; his attention to d…
Mingus at Antibes
You can be sure that jazz fans in the year 1960 were unfamiliar with Charles Mingus’s LPs Blues and Roots or Mingus Ah-Um when they poured into the Pinède Gould Arena at the Antibes Jazz Festival held in Juan-les-Pins, France on 13 July. At any rate, as can be seen in a short video clip, all the seats were occupied. In addition, a really good trumpeter was there, whose name would later resound throughout Europe: Ted Curson. What is more, the legendary Bud Powell, who lived in France, was invited…