New Arrivals
Plateforme # 3
**In process of stocking** After two albums on Baskaru with Felix Kubin, Lawrence English, Gianluca Becuzzi (2014) and later Francisco López, Tom Recchion, Christian Zanési (2016), Laurent Perrier continues his Plateforme series by inviting French musician David Fenech. Plateforme is a concept, a restrictive framework Perrier imposed on himself: to create an electronic music piece using solely a set of sound recordings provided by a "collaborator". “I simply asked the musicians to send me raw st…
Growl
**In process of stocking** Another fantastic and explosive album by Japanese saxophonist Ryoko Ono who is a regular collaborator of Ruins, Richard Pinhas and Acid Mothers Temple. The four virtuosos Ryoko Ono (alto sax), Kota Ueji (drums) Tsuyoshi Hayashi (guitar) and Yuji Muto (guitar) have recorded this album composed by Ryoko Ono. The perfect symbiosis between the musicians allows them to create an amazing sound full of power and energy which transcends the aforementioned genres.
RG Rough - Makoto Kawabata
**In process of stocking** A collaboration between Makoto Kawabata ( leader of the legendary Japanese psychedelic band Acid Mothers Temple) and the French/British multi-instrumentalist RG Rough. The pair create an unsettling sonic jungle in which Makoto's guitar drones multiply, intertwine and collide with a wide variety of electronic and concrete sounds and percussion. On two occasions a soft, sleepy sounding voice comes out of nowhere and whispers a strange lullaby which soon disappears under …
The Reflection
**In process of stocking** The Japanese female singer Cotton Casino used to be the singer of Acid Mothers Temple, the ultimate Japanese psychedelic band, several members of which provide backing on this album. Cotton's voice is fragile and emotional. The overall mood tends towards sadness and melancholy while the music hovers between acid folk and post rock. Most of the songs are sensuous and ethereal, like soundtracks to imaginary movies. Other songs may come as a surprise...
Mickey Guitar & Haga Kazutaka meets Gamelan & Jegog
**In process of stocking** Mickey Guitar is Ken Matsutani, he was manager of the legendary Captain Trip Records. Japanese guitarist and vocalist, best known as the leader of Marble Sheep. He has also participated in several other Japanese rock underground groups including AOR and Cement Women (1982), Onna (1985), White Heaven (1986).
"We, Matsutani and Haga were playing with Gamelan ( 16 performers) and Jegog ( 29 performers) at Indonesia Bali Island in March 2019. All recordings were done open …
Seven Original Library Albums
This special bundle collects a selection of seven Egisto Macchi library albums- Sei Composizioni (Gemelli)- Contemporanea (Gemelli)- Andes (Globevision)- Parliamo di... N.1 (Cometa)- Parliamo di... N.2 (Cometa)- Preludi e non (Cometa)- Dolce Russia (Cometa)Egisto Macchi (1928-1992) was one of the great figures in 20th Century Italian sound. Arguably most well known for his membership in the seminal avant-garde collective, Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, with Ennio Morricone, Franco E…
Onomatopée Suicida
**In process of stocking. Limited edition of 300 copies with A2 poster.** Active for nearly 40 years, Incapacitants are without a doubt one of the best noise groups of all-time. The duo of T. Mikawa and F. Kosakai are legendary for their chaotic recordings and over the top live performances. Onomatopée Suicida is the first new Incapacitants vinyl LP in more than 10 years, and follows their now classic format of a mix of studio pieces with a live performance on the B-side. This group should need …
Africa Nera Africa Rossa
**Very rare original 1980 LP, numbered edition of 500 copies few copies available.** We managed to obtain very few copies of this original soundtrack album, issued by Cometa exactly 40 years ago in their "Serie speciale numerata per collezionisti", a numbered series aimed at collectors. The 14 tracks on Africa Nera Africa Rossa served as soundtrack to the 1978 Italian RAI TV movie in three episodes of the same name directed by Carlo Lizzani.Unusual sounds on this seldom seen album including many…
Eventi
**Very rare original 1978 LP, few copies available.** The great fame of Antonino Riccardo Luciani, a musician and composer from Palermo, is due above all to his work for television and to one in particular, namely the music for the Almanacco del giorno dopo (Almanac of the Coming Day), a famous program that has been broadcast on the first channel of RAI - Italian Television for over twenty years. Chanson Balladée, this is the title, is for many people an indelible memory of a television now disa…
Ricerca
**Very rare original 1972 LP masterpiece, few copies available.** Ultra rare LP of experimental electronic music on Gemelli. Vittorio Gelmetti was one of the best italian radical composers at the same level of Walter Marchetti, Giuseppe Chiari, and Piero Grossi. Member with Chiari of MEV (Musica Elettronica Viva), Gelmetti found himself amidst many activities in the 1960s, composing for film, completing orchestral work, and then, as we find here, creating electronic works.This collection focuses…
Psycho
**2xLP, 180 gram in translucent red vinyl** Psycho is the second in a series of five double vinyl releases that bring together some of Ennio Morricone's greatest soundtrack music. Each collection centers on a different movie genre, together they allow the listener to rediscover the unmatched genius of the greatest movie composer of all time. The Maestro.
This collection is dedicated to Morricone's work with Italian directors spanning the late 1960s up to the 1980s. These scores accompany some da…
Criss-Cross / Hanover
**2020 small repress** Black Truffle present the premier recordings of two recent works by legendary American experimental composer Alvin Lucier. Lucier has been crafting elegant explorations of the behavior of sound in physical space since the 1960s and is perhaps best known for his 1970 piece I Am Sitting In a Room (LCD 1013CD). He has written a remarkable catalog of instrumental works that focus on phenomena produced by the interference between closely tuned pitches, often using pure electron…
In The Skies
**Marbled transparent green vinyl** In The Skies (1979) is the second solo album by British Blues Rock inventor Peter Green, who was the founder of Fleetwood Mac and a member from 1967-70. In The Skies was released almost a decade after his first solo stint The End Of The Game (1970).
Accompanying Green on this album were several experienced session musicians, including Snowy White, who went on to work with Pink Floyd before joining Thin Lizzy. White contributed some of the lead guitar work on t…
Daughter Of Time
**180 gram vinyl. Gatefold sleeve. Limited edition of 1000 Individually numbered copies on gold coloured vinyl** The pioneering English progressive jazz-rock band Colosseum recorded their fourth album Daughter of Time in the midst of an upheaval in the band's line-up. War plays a central role on the concept album based on a man's fascination for all what war brings to the world. The different instruments combined creating a brilliant and versatile musical world. It's a is a very different album …
Dorothy's Harp
**180 gram audiophile vinyl** Dorothy Ashby was an American jazz harpist, one of the very few who used her instrument to play credible jazz and bebop. First studying as a pianist at Wayne State University and later, in 1952, switching to harp. She recorded eleven albums for different jazz labels, like Savoy and Prestige. Dorothy also guested as a studio player on albums with Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder and many more.
In 1969 the studio album Dorothy's Harp was released on Cadet Records. On the a…
The Animated Egg
**180 gram audiophile vinyl. Limited edition of 750 individually numbered copies on orange marbled coloured vinyl** The Animated Egg was a studio-only group that released a self-titled album of psychedelic instrumentals in 1967. Session guitarist Jerry Cole was the man behind the band, known for his fuzzy guitar play and his well-written songs. All instrumental exploitation psych, featuring some very impressive sound effects. Featuring on his one and only record comes “Sock It My Way”, a dreamy …
Anthology of Post Industrial Music from Balkan Region
**edition of 200** Unexplained Sounds Group exploring the Balkan post industrial scene. Artists coming from Greece, Romania, Turkey, Serbia, Bulgaria, Albania, Slovenia, Macedonia, introduce us to their vision of post industrial music and culture. The perspective of a region where musicians are growing with their own sonic and artistic identity. - Raffaele Pezzella
The release is the brainchild of the Unexplained Sounds Group, an Italian-based label uncovering regional sounds from local music sc…
Familie Hesselbach
**400 copies, release date postponed to November 2020** It was sold out for a long time. Until now. The first LP by Familie Hesselbach from Tübingen. Recorded and produced in the summer of 1982 with 17 tracks and an edition of 1000 copies, with hand-sprayed, hand-glued and stamped covers. The South German punk and new wave band caused a sensation between 1980 and 1985, first regionally and then nationwide. They indulged in a deliberate eclecticism from the musical preferences of the individual f…
Två - Ett Barn Glömmer Ingenting
**240 copies in handmade covers** Två - Ett Barn Glömmer Ingenting is the second album from Oroskällan, a musical project from Gustaf Dicksson (Blod, Enhet För Fri Musik) and Dan Johansson (Sewer Election, Neutral, Enhet För Fri Musik).
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Tip! In process of stocking. With a requisite crackle, hum and drone, you're fixed to slide into the dis-rupture in stereo that is guitarist Bill Nace and - well, THIS is a nice surprise - Bill's got his own record out this time! Sweet - in the past 15 years or so, Bill's been a trusty improv partner to so many: Steve Baczkowski, Chris Corsano, Paul Flaherty, Greg Kelly, James Twig Harper, Samara Lubelski and Thurston Moore, plus Body/Head, to name but a handful. Bill's appeared on probably more…