New Arrivals
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…
Abandonminium
**108 copies** LP comes in unique handmade art covers, offset printed back cover, inserts and full color labels, mastered by Sean McCann. Each copy is different. “or so they said. they would do anything for success and popularity. being an ” artist” in America. LOL. the supremacist parlances of the charlatan. OK. R.I.P. Larry Spider. When Spiderman met Micky mouse. When spiderman fucked miniature-mouse. this is the final sad “haha”. the great millennial “haha”. the laughter of a nobody. a cold a…
Clima-X
Edition of 300 B.F.E. Records present a reissue of the fantastic debut LP from France's pioneer avant-electronic unit, Art & Technique. Clima-X was originally released in 1981 by Hi-Tech Records. Haunting obscure minimal electronic sounds, ambient and atmospheric ventures, minimal wave with some ethnic elements. And excellent use of rhythm boxes, sound generators and strange vocals, reminiscent of 23 Skidoo's "7 Songs", early Muslimgauze or O Yuki Conjugate's sound. Remastered by former member B…
Cucoma Combo
**CD version** Cucoma Combo. Above all, the new boiling energy of pan-rhythmic music, the awakening dance of joy, the experimental space for ambitious arrangements and free-improvised parts of colorful horns. From Black Africa to South America, we travel on paths of Congolese soukuss and Amazonian carimbò, between accents of Colombian cumbia, kalimba vibes and tribal voices. We find seeded traces of space-funk and afrobeat, with amazing acid keyboards and an enchanting female voice. The power of…
The Dice Man Speaks
**300 copies, 2019 stock** "Yes, that's Luke Rhinehart. And yes, that's The Dice Man. At the grand old age of 85, and almost a half-century on from the publication of his classic novel The Dice Man, Rhinehart has teamed up with composer / sound artist / former The Men They Couldn't Hang drummer Sputnik Weazel for this eerie LP.Rhinehart's spoken-word passages are rendered unsettlingly alien through various production techniques, and Weazel's impressionistic serialist soundscapes only serve to he…
Clangers
**600 copies, 2019 stock** "Far away from the land of breaks, beats and modern music is the world of the Clangers. Created by the genius team of Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin (Bagpuss, Ivor The Engine, Pogle's Wood), the Clangers are now over 40 years old. Their name comes from the noise the dustbin lids covering their homes makes, and all the music and special effects played for both series are issued on this record.The music was played and composed by Vernon Elliot and a small quartet from …
KPM Jazz Conventions
**500 copies, 2019 stock** "Of all the KPM LPs issued, the most illusive are three Jazz Convention LPs by the Poll winning Clarke-Boland Big Band. They form part of a series of four unusual “International” LPs with the unique "INT" catalogue prefix (starting with John Mayer's Indo-Jazz Interpolations) but all have the standard KPM cube or 1000 series style sleeves.I have no history as to why or how three Clarke-Boland LPs were put together for a music library, but I assume someone at KPM decided…
A Quiet Place / Both Sides Now
**2019 stock** "So, a classic pairing: Side A is KK - Karin Krog and A Quite Place, a mega rare single she made with Don Ellis back in 1970. Don't even bother trying to find a real one. Sublime exotic vocal jazz.Side AA is MM - Mark Murphy and his cover of Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now, originally released on his This Must Be Earth LP (the only LP he made in the UK, with UK jazz dudes) that will eventually come out on Trunk but not yet. It's a really superb version of one of the best songs ever…
Neighborhoods
**Limited edition colored vinyl** Ernest Hood’s Neighborhoods was released some two decades after the Portland, Oregon born and raised musician’s first forays into field recordings. These very recordings, and those captured over intervening years, define the universal sound and aural images of childhood, a theme memorialized by Hood’s privately-pressed opus of 1975.Sprawling through a haze of zither, synthesizer melodies, and foraged pedestrian sound, Neighborhoods is both a score and documentar…
The Hole In the Landscape
**250 copies on white vinyl, 2019 stock** NNA is thrilled to present The Hole In the Landscape, the latest full-length album by Tsembla. Based in Turku, Finland, Tsembla is the solo alias of musician Marja Ahti, a frequent collaborator of the Kemialliset Ystävät musical collective and one half of the electro-acoustic duo Ahti & Ahti. As Tsembla, Ahti creates vivid, imaginative compositions of sound and rhythm using electronics and treated samples of recorded acoustic instruments, objects, voices…
Eko Kuango
**100 copies, 2019 warehouse find** "We are very proud to announce the release of the Eko Kuango LP on Libreville Records. Eko Kuango is a band formed by Belgium based composer, poet and multi-instrumentalist Denis Mpunga in the early 80s.Eko Kuango’s music is a unique fusion of very diverse influences from African rhythms to Jazz, filled with subtle synth arrangements, and sometimes even an eastern flavour. The great singularity of Eko Kuango is how they manage to introduce a strong sense of po…
The Evening Sun Turns Crimson
A live musical performance to Derek Jarman's In the Shadow of the Sun recorded live at Cafe OTO, London, England on May 23, 2017. Derek Jarman's In the Shadow of the Sun forms part of a series of films, shot and edited on S8mm, grouped under the collective title The Art of Mirrors. In the Shadow of the Sun is the longest of these running at 54 minutes.Filming took place between 1972-74 and the film was completed in 1974. When Derek showed the film, he would play Verdi's requiem as an accompanime…
Inspiration Information
**2019 stock** "Information belongs to the mind. It can be gathered, coded, processed and decoded, and used for any number of purposes. Inspiration comes from the soul. It is an elusive spark, one that cannot be bought or sold, nor artificially triggered. It is a gift. That the two can be combined into something quietly exciting is proven by the music on this, Shuggie Otis's third solo album. There is some old (several of the basic tracks were recorded over the last two years), and some new (for…
Steel, Wood, & Air
**300 copies** Portland composer and pianist Derek Hunter Wilson returns with his second album, entitled Steel, Wood, & Air. Ten lush, expressive pieces featuring piano, bass clarinet, and strings, this collection reflects the efforts of a young musician challenging himself and discovering his voice in the process. Inspired equally by the contemporary neoclassical scene and early recordings on the ECM label, Steel, Wood, & Air stands, timeless and buoyant, on its own.After releasing his debut al…
Does the World Need Another Drum Solo?
**50 copies** Riccardo La Foresta is a percussionist, composer and improviser from Modena (Italy) whose interests range from improvisation and composition, sound performance and sound art. His research led him to use the drum as a wind instrument with a special self-made system, drastically moving away from traditional drumming. It's called Drummophone and was officially presented at Tempo Reale in 2017. In recent years it has been constantly touring Europe with Sho Shin Duo and his solo project…