Best of 2021
Italia: Ultimo Atto?
In 1977, in the midst of a period of political turmoil and social unrest that went down in Italian history as “years of lead”, screenwriter and director Massimo Pirri made a film no one else had the courage to make: Italia: ultimo atto? (Could It Happen Here?). Here, Pirri explores the controversial (and, in the 70s, very current) topic of left-wing armed struggle. He does so through a storyline that is almost prophetic: in the film, a mysterious ultra-leftwing armed group plans and executes the…
Sylva Sylvarum
Black Truffle is pleased to present Sylva Sylvarum, an epic new work from Ora Clementi, the collaborative project of crys cole and James Rushford. Primarily conceived and recorded over several months together in Melbourne, Sylva Sylvarum is a stunning step forward from the mumbled, creaking sound world of the duo’s debut, Cover You Will Softer Me (Penultimate Press, 2014). From the opening ‘Peach of Immortality’, which takes an unpredictable journey from layers of chiming bells, vocal harmonies …
Musique Électronique Pour La Scène Et L'image 1976 - 1992
* Comes with OBI in a gatefold sleeve with printed innersleeves containing interview and linernotes * Described by Swiss press as an “inventive genius marked by total unpredictability,", Roger Baudet’s music has preserved its freshness and spontaneity. Provoking feelings of surprise, anxiety and subjugation, he ends up bewitching you completely through his bizarre non-conformity. The oddity of the sounds is a choice of heterogeneity: the works gathered, although coming from one person, have litt…
Kollektiv
This legendary eponymous album, originally released on famous label Brain in 1973, is a fine example for the various styles German rock of the early 70´s (Krautrock) represented. On their first album Kollektiv produced an incomparable, unmistakeable sound with echoes of Organisation and early Kraftwerk . Led by the distorted but always rhythmic or melodic flute and sax playing by Klaus Dapper and the extraordinaire terrific guitar by Jürgen Havix and consolidated and held together by the tight r…
Collection 001_010
Joining their long-standing effort to reissue the most important and difficult to obtain artifacts from Merzbow's sprawling back catalog, Urashima returns with “Collection 001_010”, an absolutely stunning 10 CD box set comprising the entirety of the project's “Collection” releases, originally self-released between 1981 and 1982 on Masami Akita's Lowest Music & Arts imprint. Capturing some of the band's earliest explorations, when it was still a duo of Akita and Mizutani, these are some of the mo…
Rhapsodia / Battements Solaires (LP)
A student of both Pierre Schaeffer and Eliane Radigue, since her emergence during the 1970s, the French composer, Michèle Bokanowski, has carved a fascinating trajectory with the fields of electronic and electroacoustic music. Working primarily for film, television, and dance, over a discography of works that span the decades, she has built a singular world of profound sonic densities, colours, and depth. In the words of GRM’s artist director François Bonnet ( Kassel Jaeger), Bokanowski’s immens…
Music for Angela Davis / Heliopolis (2LP in bundle)
This bundle includes both the Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble LPs released by Holidays Records, namely:Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble "Music for Angela Davis" (LP, single-sided, 1971)Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble "Heliopolis" (LP, 1970)Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble "Music for Angela Davis" (LP, single-sided, 1971)**500 copies. Deluxe edition with special printed inner and insert** One of the legendary projects of 20th Century Egyptian jazz, the Cairo FreeJazz Ensemble was formed by Hartmut Geerken - who sadly left thi…
Nuova Sauna Possibile
Gathering their three latest releases into a single specially packaged edition, the Italian imprint, Ivreatronic, delivers “Nuova Sauna Possibile”, a highly limited, four LP release of brand new experimental works by Cosmo, Marco Foresta, and Enrico Ascoli. Spanning the territories of ambient music, musique concrete, and radical field recording, it paints a visionary image of the sonic creativity that is currently flowing from the Italian scene.
Conspiracy
** 700 copies in black vinyl, inside a heavyweight reverse-board sleeve, flooded pocket, in hand stamped inner-sleeve. with insert ** Jeanne Lee (1939-2000) was an African-American vocalist, poet, composer, improvisor, activist and educator. In her 40 year career she performed with Archie Shep, Marion Brown, Gunter Hampel, Frank Lowe, William Parker, Andrew Cyrille, Anthony Braxton, Ran Blake, Billy Bang, Cecil Taylor, John Cage, Rashsaan Roland Kirk, Pauline Oliveros, Reggie Workman, and many o…
The Cave of the Lost Talisman
* Deluxe LP edition with Obi + 20 pages RPG module w/map! * Kobold is a new catacombal composer specialized in dungeon-wave at 8-16 bit. "The Cave of the Lost Talisman" is a D&D adventure module for basic set with players level 1-3. Get down to the dungeon's darkness and be ready to an experience full of moisture and danger. There's a lot of umanoids armed with spiked clubs who hide in the tunnels of an abandoned mine... Retrogamers RPG lovers and old-school dungeons-synth fans should not miss …
Four Pieces / Seeking a Vision (2LP in bundle)
This bundle collects the first two releases by Fragments Editions, namely the following:Mike Majkowski "Four Pieces" (LP)Renaud Bajeux "Seeking a Vision" (LP)Mike Majkowski "Four Pieces" (LP)** Edition of 100 hand-numbered copies ** "I could count my visits to nightclubs on the fingers of one hand. I therefore have few memories of them, if any. Though I can’t account for the idea, I imagine that Mike’s music could be emanating from one of these clubs where I’ve not been; one that would have been…
Four Pieces
** Edition of 100 hand-numbered copies ** "I could count my visits to nightclubs on the fingers of one hand. I therefore have few memories of them, if any. Though I can’t account for the idea, I imagine that Mike’s music could be emanating from one of these clubs where I’ve not been; one that would have been deserted hours before. There, the music would have lingered on in slow-motion, repetitively. And there I would have woken up, crazed and unable to remember any recent events." - Morgan Cuine…
Quattro
Tanz Mein Herz’s latest, Quattro, out via Standard In-Fi, encounters the French collective pushing at the boundaries of folk tinged experimentalism, psych, and drone. Sprawling across two LPs, it’s an absolute burner of throbbing, hypnotic sound and stunning creative interplay, and easily one of the best records we’ve heard in the early months of 2021.
Pranam - A(Round) Giacinto Scelsi (LP)
We are thrilled to announce an exclusive pre-order campaign for two astounding LPs of previously unreleased archival material from the Italian experimental ensemble Alter Ego, paired with electronic legends Matmos and Pan Sonic, issued in strictly limited editions of 350 copies each by Die Schachtel on black vinyl.
Microwaves (LP)
We are thrilled to announce an exclusive pre-order campaign for two astounding LPs of previously unreleased archival material from the Italian experimental ensemble Alter Ego, paired with electronic legends Pan Sonic and Matmos, issued in strictly limited editions of 350 copies each by Die Schachtel on black vinyl.
Microwaves / Pranam - A(Round) Giacinto Scelsi (2 LP in bundle)
Just in, look beautiful! Two astounding LPs of previously unreleased archival material from the Italian experimental ensemble Alter Ego, paired with electronic legends Pan Sonic and Matmos, issued in strictly limited editions of 350 copies each by Die Schachtel on black vinyl.
Matalo! (Original Soundtrack)
* Remastered. Edition of 500 copies, comes with a 12pp booklet * Beat Records is happy to present on CD the original score by Mario Migliardi for the western “Matalo!” directed by Cesare Canevari in 1970 and starring Lou Castel, Corrado Pani, Antonio Salines, Luis Dávila, Claudia Gravi, Miguel Del Castillo, Anna Maria Noé, Ana María Mendoza, Mirella Pamphili, Bruno Boschetti. For the soundtrack of "Matalo!," director Canevari decided to call a composer he had never worked with: Mario Migliardi…
S.P.K. Dokument - Recordings 1979-1983
**Mind-crushing 7CD box set housed in a deluxe book-like folder featuring the earliest recorded material from the legendary S.P.K., dating back to the late '70s and including some properly eye-opening material. Includes t-shirt.** Vinyl-On-Demand has been diving into the archives of Australian underground outfit, S.P.K., for more than 10 years. Stretching across a beautifully produced 7 CD box set, S.P.K. Dokument - Recordings 1979-1983 is easily their most comprehensive survey of the band to da…
Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones 1983-88
**Epic 11 CD box set, coming as a deluxe book-like folder, compiles the earliest material from Bryn Jones aka Muslimgauze dating back to 1983 and up to 1988. It includes a whole raft of mindblowing productions that will surprise and inspire anyone with even just a vague notion of what the sound of Muslimgauze was really all about.** For years, Vinyl-On-Demand has offered a special level of devotion to the legendary solo ventures of the Manchester, UK, based artist Bryn Jones, better known as Mus…
Vinyl On Demand Box Sets bundle
This bundle collects the three recent Box Sets released by Vinyl-On-Demand, contents are the following:
- Muslimgauze "Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones 1983-88" (11 CD Box)- Clock DVA "Clock DVA - Horology - Anthology Vol. 1-3 - " (15 CD Box + T-shirt)- SPK "S.P.K. Dokument - Recordings 1979-1983" (7 CD Box + T-shirt)Muslimgauze "Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones 1983-88" (11 CD Box)
CD01 Opaque (1983)CD02 Kabul (1983)CD03 Hunting Out With An Aerial Eye / Hammer & Sickle (1983 / 1984)CD04 Buddhis…