New Arrivals
Interpretations Of Superstition
“Interpretations of Superstition” is a revisitation of James Place’s debut album, Living on Superstition, released in Umor Rex in February of this year. Five songs from Living on Superstitionare reworked and performed direct to tape, a taste of James Place’s live set. One can perceive an increased intensity here— James Place took the opportunity to focus on the original record’s rhythmic elements and embolden with new ones, evidence of Phil Tortoroli (James Place)’s experience within the NYC dan…
Electronic Calendar: The EMS Tapes
Peter Zinovieff is one history's most enigmatic and influential electronic music composers. The EMS Tapes is the first complete retrospective of his earliest experiments in 1965 through to the dissolution of his studio and the bankruptcy of his company, EMS Synthesizers, in 1979. This deluxe two-CD set includes extensive liner notes, exclusive photos, and Zinovieff's own diary entries compiled by Sonic Boom aka Pete Kember. In 1964 Zinovieff sold his wife's wedding tiara to purchase the fir…
Creekside: Cello Solo
Lurking around the Northwest music world for years playing with the likes of the Black Cat Orchestre, Earth, David Byrne, Terry Riley, Nirvana and a ton of other musicians, here we have Lori Goldstons' beautiful cello playing in its purest form - unaccompanied and acoustic. The pieces on this LP all carry a certain level of austerity and gravitas, though they never come off as cold. On the contrary, they are warm emotional pieces of music played by someone who really knows their way aroun…
Maha
The famous Japanese ritual industrial noise pioneers Grim are back with a fantastic new double-album! The album contains an insanely brilliant mixture of psychotic rhythms, schizophrenic vocals and powerful industrial songs in typical old school Grim style. This double-LP comes in a mega-heavy coated Japanese-style gatefold-cover, with an 8-page booklet in the middle and original Japanese innersleeves. Limited to 200 copies.
Uzbekistani Bizzare and Souk
Sonically, Bryn Jones's work as Muslimgauze often pulled in two directions at the same time. The one, towards what fans of Can might call an "ethnographic" kind of practice, especially with his use of vocal samples and percussion instruments from the Middle East and other regions of the world Jones was so interested in (obsessed by?). The other is toward, for lack of more polite phrasing, harshly fucked-up digital noise and beats. Many interesting Muslimgauze releases tend more toward that …
Torino Mix - Soundies from different places
The "Torino Mix" is a radioplay made for La délirante's broadcast by the legendary Moniek Darge, bringing "a mix of seven soundscape compositions with soundies I recorded over a period of more than 25 years around the world. "Torino Mix" invites you to sit back quietly, relax and enjoy. May the sounds bring you an hour of happiness and peace."
Born in Bruges, Belgium in 1952, Moniek Darge has worked as a composer, violinist, performer and installation artist. She studied music theory and violi…
Koln, May 1972 / Copenhagen, May 1981 LP
One of a kind and kind of esoteric John Tchicai unreleased kind of funk live sessions!" ~Punzmann. Quartet: John Tchicai - alto, soprano sax and vocals, Ole Thilo - piano, Peter Warren - bass, Pierre Favre - drums. Group: John Tchicai - alto, flute, percussion, Peter Oye - guitar, percussion, Hugo Rasmusen - bass, Aage Trangaard - drums. Limited to only 30 copies with paste-on cover, so order fast!
Ben Seretan
“I take notes from: – The cosmic awe of Alice Coltrane (and similarly Pharoah Sanders) – The unfettered squeal of Neil Young guitar solos – The bird-freedom and ear-whispering-closeness of Arthur Russell – The friendship-punk of the Minutemen – The delicious sadness of Hank Williams, Bill Callahan, and Nick Drake – The wondrous chaos of Charles Mingus’ ensembles (and how tender his ballads are) – The utter ease of James Blood Ulmer (how he just totally shreds at guitar but he’s relaxed about it …
Once around the sun
Composed by jazz eccentric John Sangster, Once around the sun was the score written to feature on the unreleased 1970 film documenting the Australian Ourimbah Festival: Pilgrimage of Pop. Unheard for the last forty years, the music from this film sees Sangster blend themes of Space mythology and 60s counterculture to produce THE most expansive, heaviest and experimental piece of music ever recorded in Australia. Reminiscent in tone Sun Ra’s Space is the Place and Jean Claude Vannier’s L’enfant A…
Le Moire
The music of Bélibaste de Cocagne performed by Le Cercle des Mallisimalistes. Krzysztof Skapiec, bass clarinet, electronics, synthesizer. Nestor Désiré, drums, vocals, trumpet. Bernard Berdot, guitar. Bernardt Pauillac, guitar, vocals, Le Doc Torré-Trueba, harmonium, vocals. 'Mallissimalism (mallissimal art) is a musical tendancy wich appeared in the early 50's in St-Petresburg (Leningrad). The notion of mallissimal art has been created in the early 70's by young european composers strongly…
Candy
Joe McPhee: clarinet, pocket trumpet, flugelhorn, soprano, alto and tenor saxophone. Paal Nilssen-Love: drums and percussion. Produced by Lasse Marhaug and Paal Nilssen-Love. Joe McPhee and Paal Nilssen-Love have played together in bands like The Thing, The Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet and Two Bands And A Legend since 2000 but in 2007 they started playing as a duo as well. PNL Records is proud to present 'Candy' a 7CD box-set that documents the developement of that duo with seven recordings ma…
Live at Funkhaus 1977
"No free music here but probably the most lyrical, warm, melanchonic and sophisticated playing by Mr. Brown, unreleased stuff recorded at the legendary Funkhaus, live!" ~Punzmann. Marion Brown - alto sax, Brandon K. Ross - guitar, Jack Gregg - bass, Steve McCraven - drums. Limited to 30 copies only with paste-on cover, so order fast!
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Golden Retriever 2, the second eponymous release from the Portland, OR duo of Matt Carlson and Jonathan Sielaff, gets its proper due as an LP on Debacle Records on July 10th 2015. This work of Golden Retriever, a pair who Redefine has called, "devout electronic musicians, in love with the lab, with the possibilities of sound, and of machines" is a documentation of players jamming out the blueprint for their project, loose compositions that still demonstrate two masters of their craft. Originally…
Doppeldoppelganger
Doppeldoppelgänger, a compilation of tracks by poets and sound artists selected by David le Simple and Vincent Romagny, was created on the occasion of the three-exhibition Doppelgänger cycle at the Centre Européen d'Actions Artistiques Contemporaines, Strasbourg, France, curated by Romagny. The double LP is a purely subjective compilation of sound works by artists (Félicia Atkinson, bruant&spangaro), sound from films by artists (David Lamelas), sound poetry and performances (John Giorno, Karl …
Sinfonie fur Mexico City
First release of Hermann Nitsch’s Symphony for Mexico City, his most recent & massive work, recorded February 27, 2015 at Museo ExTeresa Arte Actual. Mexico City. Performed by Ensemble [LIMINAR] and Students of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música. Conducted by Andrea Cusumano.
“in fact i only want to cause that great state in which one gets goose pimples, when painfully unfathomable shudders of happiness run through one with pleasure in the pain,(…) the basic movement, the ‘basic power’ …
Syntoma
LP version. These recordings pull back a curtain to reveal the mysterious world of Syntoma and early-'80s underground Mexico. Syntoma was founded by Alex Eisenring in 1980, made use of synths and drum machines, and was driven by a freedom-seeking DIY ethos informed by a "rock-jazz-prog-experimental" background. These '70s-born influences throw crazed funhouse mirror reflections onto later Kraftwerk, UK synth-pop, post-punk, and pure pop forms. The first five tracks are instrumental, evidenci…
The new crimes
Ultra limited CD box originally issued on Murder Release in a 8 cassettes box set hand-made by Moreno Daldosso back in 1994. Hand pasted cardboard box including a numbered insert. All artworks are reproductions of 1994 originals. CDs are remastered from original tapes.
Bernard Vitet, Jean Guerin in bundle
the two LP's on black vinyl at special price. Bernard Vitet was a key figure in the French free jazz and improv scene of the early '70s. This mythical avant-jazz LP, originally released in 1972, is the result of a truly magical session he put together in December '71. Not just free jazz from the '70s, the music has some 20th-century elements that recall some of the most memorable albums on the Italian label Cramps Records. This first-ever officially-licensed vinyl reissue is the fifth in…
To Beat Or Not To Beat
Special double set of COH's To Beat album (released previously as CD) featuring exclusive remixes by Matmos, JG Thirlwell, John Parish, Ryuchi Sakamoto, and Drew McDowall. Vinyl-only. No digital. Original To Beat notes: Picking up right where the last track on the previous COH release RETRO-2038 (EMEGO 172CD/LP) left off, the new album is focused on the use of beats within the similar aesthetics. While most of the previous COH records openly shy away from accentuated beat structures and inste…
1965/1 (Spur Der Zeit)
Edition of 160 copies. Roman Opalka (1931-2011) was probably the most insisting conceptual artist of the last century. In 1965, in his studio in Warsaw, Opalka began painting numbers from one to infinity. Starting in the top left-hand corner of the canvas and finishing in the bottom right-hand corner, the tiny numbers were painted in horizontal rows. Each new canvas, which the artist called a 'detail', took up counting where the last left off. In 1968 Opalka introduced to the process a tape reco…