New Arrivals
Black Metamorphosis
**Edition of 100 copies** From Sierra Leone via Berlin, Lamin Fofana elusive new work. Steeped in afro-futurist aesthetic, this is the first part in the hyper-conceptual trilogy by global drone and noise artist Lamin Fofana. Not getting a digital release and only 100 copies world wide, we're getting a handful direct from Berlin. From Lamin himself: The West is an insane asylum, a conscious and premeditated receptacle of black magic. – Fred Moten Black Metamorphosis is the first installment in a …
The Gloaming
**Edition of 200 on 180 g vinyl with a hand-made silkcreened cover** Relict records steps into the game with The Gloaming, the full length debut LP by composer Chris Berkes. The Gloaming is the consequence of intensive reflection on the expressive potential of sound based structures. The result culminates in potent electro-acoustic compositions that form a complex and visceral narrative of arresting nature. relief draws from the tradition of Musique concrète but translates it into a contemporar…
True False (2LP
Double LP version. "What is True False? True False is Negativland's full length return to all original music that could be mistaken for actual songs, albeit ones sung by dozens of sampled vocalists who have never met. The first of two interconnected double albums, 2019's True False tackles concerns that will be familiar to any surviving fans of the band: our nervous systems, our realities, and the evolving forms of media that inevitably insert themselves between us. Shootings, bees, the right's …
The Third Ascension
The Third Ascension is a return to the 4-guitar, bass and drums format of his legendary 1981 release The Ascension as well as 2010's The Ascension: The Sequel. The recording is a live performance by The Glenn Branca Ensemble at NYC's The Kitchen in 2016. Emerging from the late 70's No Wave scene and moving into composition, Branca’s 45 years of work as a composer included music for experimental rock bands, large ensemble instrumentals for electric guitars, symphonies for both electric instrumen…
Vol 1
**Edition of 300** Reynols is back! More than fifteen years after their separation, the most insane combo of the galaxy and beyond will therefore continue to surprise us. And what a return since they are accompanied by some no less eccentric friends, namely the group Acid Mothers Temple. On one side the Argentinian group guided by the drummer-singer-spirit Miguel Tomasin, known for his embodied chants, his absurd proposals and his chromosome 21 in three triplicate, on the other, the Japanese gr…
Turkish Delight
Arsivplak present a reissue of Matao with Atilla Engin's Turkish Delight, originally released in 1979. It's a Turkish jazz-funk delight! Some hard-hitting rhythm section blending into a prime example of the swingin' sound of the cool influences of jazz, funk, and folk music, with a Turkish flavor. Its fantastic funk jazz groove built on a titanium synth bassline! An instrumental library of traditional Turkish jazz session reaching a great climax in drums and percussion sets, plus electro-bass br…
Suoni Immaginari
**CD version** "Before his prolific activity in the field of music therapy, Agostino Nirodh Fortini also embarked on his own path in electronic music. In the early eighties he was a close collaborator of Walter Maioli and Fred Gales, at the time of the pioneering label Sound Reporters.Suoni Immaginari, released only privately on cassette in 1988, contains a wide range of keyboards and lots of ethnic field recordings assembled with an absolutely modern praxis ahead of its time. Nirodh imagines hi…
Vive
**CD version** "This is Annie Barbazza’s first solo album. She was a young drummer in love with progressive rock when Greg Lake discovered her talent as a singer and wanted her on stage with him for the concert which would later become the posthumous “Live in Piacenza”. Again Lake produced Moonchild, the duo with pianist Max Repetti for Manticore Records where she sang many songs formerly sang by Lake with ELP and King Crimson. If these were the beginnings of Annie’s career, now she is a rising …
Som Folk Är Mest
"An organism of shredded memories, connections and relations. Existing because of mixtures, collages, escapism and rescues. Behind Goose there are two of the currently most forward thinking and exciting young swedish musicians: The piano player Johan Graden (one of Sweden’s most talented and critically praised jazz musician) and DIY studio wizard Daniel Ögren. Sounding like nothing else. This album is a witchy brew of fevery nights and melancholic dreams. Co-production with Sing A Song Fighters.
Live at Cafe OTO
"Sometimes, precarious habitations - those places of freedom stolen from their abandonment and which are less and less commonplace - make you understand more and more the extent to which a growing world can seem more and more unequivocally to be in some of the last inhabited places on earth. Dreams and explorations of worlds, renewed fantasies, air bubbles, washed up beings and the most tenacious music lovers have drawn from the past and demonstrated that the diversity of sound instruments creat…
Ce Qui Est en Bas, Est Comme Ce Qui Est en Haut
"In his philosophical ideas, René Descartes supports the concept of automatism, referring to the mechanical reactions generated by stimuli from our friends in the animal kingdom. To illustrate: “If I press a dog’s paw, he systematically barks.” Yes, systematically, yes.Here we are in the presence of another system from outre-Quiévrain named Raymonde (what a strange name for an electronic group - why not Simone or Josiane?) coming from the gastronomic capital of France, Lyon.Ideologically, he doe…
Deuce Avenue / Power On To Zero Hour / Dujang Prang / Station / New Raceion / 2007
**special bundle, 2020 stock** This offer includes the following Alan Vega albums:- Deuce Avenue (2LP, 1990)- Power On To Zero Hour (2LP, 1991)- New Raceion (2LP, 1993)- Dujang Prang (2LP, 1995)- 2007 (2LP, 1999)- Station (2LP, 2007)"Born in Brooklyn, Alan Vega was reared on the rock'n'roll sound of Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison, but originally struck out on a career as a visual artist and light sculptor, making pieces out of electronic debris. Seeing Iggy Pop fronting the Stooges at the New Yor…
Das Moabiter Duo - Recovered
In February 2020, Sven-Åke Johansson and Thomas Kapielski released the vinyl LP Recovered under their project name Das Moabiter Duo at Fantôme Verlag. It was published on the occasion of a joint exhibition by Johansson and Kapielski at the Laura Mars Gallery, Berlin.Recovered, mixed and mastered by Frieder Butzmann, features a previously unreleased concert recording from 1983. Joint performances by Kapielski and Johansson took place in clubs like the Korrekt (Alt-Moabit, Berlin) or ‒ as part o…
Build a Diorama
ISAN’s Robin Saville speaks to the salubrious qualities of a good mooch in a very sweet album inspired by what he sees and feels during his daily perambulations and incorporating field recordings, drones and acoustic instrumentation.
Annual Flowers In Color
"Annual Flowers In Color is a collection of demos and unreleased works from 2011 to 2015. While activity in the Imaginary Softwoods has been ongoing in the past few years, no real definitive album has surfaced since 2011's The Path of Spectrolite. Annual Flowers In Color serves as a compilation of sorts; a scrapbook documenting some of the fruitful experiments happening in private over the years. Various styles including tape collage, spoken word, concrete structure and classic Imaginary Softwoo…
The Last Song of My Life
"This album documents a recording of Tori Kudo’s Last Song of My Life. Some may know Kudo already as prime mover in pop-naïf collective Maher Shalal Hash Baz; his history stretches back over four decades, and he’s a significant figure in the Japanese underground, thanks to his membership of groups like Noise (with his wife Reiko Kudo), Guys ’N’ Dolls, Snickers, and Sweet Inspirations. Untold numbers of said underground have passed through the ranks of Maher Shalal Hash Baz, among them members of…
Resonance
"Japanese pianist Yumiko Morioka initially released Resonance, her first and only solo recording, on Akira Ito's Green & Water imprint in 1987. Whilst by no means a commercial failure, the album was mostly found in the background of Japanese TV documentaries, maternity clinics and healing shops before drifting into relative obscurity.By 1994, Morioka had relocated to America and her solo music career had given way to the joys of starting a family and her new life in California. It was, and still…
Realms of Light
In process of stocking. **CD version** "After a decade of a break, in 2001 Iasos returned with a new, first in a new millennium, album - Realms of Light. Here you will hear eight masterpieces of heavenly music that takes you to other-worldly realms just filled with Love and Light. This album continues where Elixir left off in 1983! Journey into heavenly celestial realms with a master of inter-dimensional music. Ecstatic planes of existence filled with love, light, color, fragrance, and sacrednes…
Bitches Brew Live
"Bitches Brew Live" contains recordings from two performances: the first three songs were recorded at his Newport Jazz performance in July 1969 - a couple of weeks before the Bitches Brew sessions in August of that year - and have remained unissued till this day.
Teach me to be a Summer's morning: A Portrait of Lal Waterson
Fledg'ling Books in association with Topic Records present Teach Me to Be a Summer's Morning, a portrait of the late Lal Waterson through a collection of her writings, drawings, paintings, stained glass, and a 15-track CD of very rare home demos. Known primarily as a singer and songwriter, Lal Waterson is shown, through this beautiful new book, to be much more: a versatile and vibrant artist. The 15 songs on the CD confirm her stature as a songwriter of rare imagination, depth, and rich beauty; …