Best of 2018
Spiritual Jazz 8: Japan Part Two
2018 small repress. Double LP; Part two of two double LP versions. Textured, gatefold sleeve; Obi strip. Jazzman Record's latest examination of esoteric, modal, and progressive jazz of the 20th century has taken them to Japan. The liberating force of…
Elicoide
** edition of 200 copies only, few available** Franco Nanni’s ‘Elicoide’ is a lost gem previously released in 1987 only in few copies. The Italian musician has developed (with the assistance from Paolo Grandi on double bass) a minimalistic and repeti…
Spontaneous 1971
Edition of 300 copies, newly remastered for optimal sound.The meeting of Masahiko Sato with Albert Mangelsdorff in a recording studio was planned in summer ‘71. Sato, Japan’s leading pianist, had recorded with Wolfgang Dauner, Attila Zoller, Jean-Luc…
La Casa delle Chimere
** Limited edition of 200 copies ** Recorded live at Plivka, Kiev, 2017 Mixing and additional production by Hanno Leichtmann at Static Music, Berlin. Thanks to Riba and Maxim Werner. Hanno Leichtmann: Percussion, loops and synthesiser Valerio Tricoli…
FRKWYS Vol. 14: Nue
Composer Tashi Wada has performed for years with his father Yoshi Wada—artist, composer, and early member of the Fluxus movement. However, they have rarely appeared together in studio settings. Nue, the fourteenth entry in RVNG Intl.’s intergeneratio…
La Brûlure De Mille Soleils
Very Last Copies. Collector Edition. Silver Procédé Héliophore sleeve, made with the original Prospective 21e Siècle covers (the legendary series devoted to electroacoustic and avant-garde music curated by François Bayle and Pierre Henry begun in 196…
Colored Music
At the dawn of the 1980’s, a few years before her now legendary LP, Through The Looking Glass, took form, a young percussionist playing with the Berlin Philharmonic, Midori Takada, found her creative ambitions looking further afield. Her ideas brough…
Les Soleils De L'Ile De Pâques
Collector Edition. Silver Procédé Héliophore sleeve, made with the original Prospective 21e Siècle covers (the legendary series devoted to electroacoustic and avant-garde music curated by François Bayle and Pierre Henry begun in 1967). Limited to 100…
Planetarium
Post-Nuclear Mind Music? Lizard Strategies? Void Spirit...? These bizarre titles are just a few of the self-coined terms that Australian electronic musician Ian MacFarlane has conjured to represent his eccentric sonic world. An artist whose unique…
Cutheart
**Incredible pioneering recording of extended synthesiser and percussion technique from the Australian experimental underground. Edition of 500** Welcome to the strange musical world of Tolley & Dara, an experimental duo whose incredible music held a…
Discreet Music
Brian Eno's pioneering Ambient album from 1975 re-pressed for 2018. Standard 1 LP version. While his earlier work with Robert Fripp on ‘No Pussyfooting’ and several selections from his own ‘Another Green World’ feature similar ideas, ‘Discreet Music’…
Ambient 1 (Music For Airports)
Brian Eno's Ambient album from 1982. Standard 1 LP version.. Though not the earliest entry in the genre (which Eno makes no claim to have invented), ‘Ambient 1 (Music For Airports)’ was the first album ever to be explicitly labelled ‘ambient music’. …
Made In Spain
Edition of 300 copies. Official reissue of this experimental industrial electronic classic originally released by Discos Esplendor Geométrico in 1987. "After 41 years you should know De Fabriek means The Factory, a name not chosen because of a love f…
Monster Movie
Exact LP repro edition of The Can iconic hi-energy debut LP, privately self released on their own Music Factory imprint in 1969. A grey-area edition of this stone classic. "Though Monster Movie was the first full-length album in what would become a s…
Captain Tarthopom
Souffle Continu Records present the first ever reissue of Jean Cohen-Solal's Captain Tarthopom, originally released in 1973. "Nothing can stop a flutist. We can do whatever we want, whatever we feel. My flute, is a mirror of myself. I express feeling…
A Noise, A Sound
**100 Copies Colored (Silver/Gold) ** Soave present a reissue of Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta's A Noise, A Sound, originally released in 1992. The third episode of the alchemical association between Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta, reprinted…
Birds Of Venezuela
Sub Rosa present a reissue of Jean C. Roché's Birds Of Venezuela, originally released in 1973. The bird on the cover is a potoo; this metal-looking bird is one of the sonorous curiosities of this mad nature, the sound that he produces essentially is …
Visceral Underskinnings
35 years after the release of their critically acclaimed 1981 album, Vibrant Stapler Obscures Characteristic Growth (SR 428LP), the British dadaist group Hastings Of Malawi release their second album, an epic sound poem entitled Visceral Underskinnin…
Towers of Silence
“Towers of Silence”, released on Malaysian experimental music label LaoBan, features Malaysian saxophonist Yong Yandsen and Tokyo-based Australian drummer Darren Moore. Recorded at GOK Sound studio in October 2017, “Towers of Silence” points to a dis…
Africa Oscura
**Edition of 500 copies, killer afro-dark electronics masterwork** Recorded by composer and multi-instrumentalist Giuliano Sorgini between 1974 and 1976 in his studio in Prati district in Rome, a stone’s throw from Italian television offices, Africa …