Best of 2024
Time Capsule
A heretical symbol of Rare Groove, with its alternative and avant-garde ferocity! Irvine Weldon's 1973 masterpiece, which continues to have a wide influence around the world even today! Although it is based on jazz, it is a work released in 1973 that…
Fragmente - Stille, An Diotima
** Edition of 300 copies, gold foil printed sleeve, includes 12-page booklet and 2 leporello inserts printed on translucent paper ** Since their founding during the early years of the new millennium, the Italian imprint, Holidays Records, has stood a…
Gris-Gris
Tip, tip, tip! Book + LP bundle. "Two-Headed Doctor" is David Toop's forensic investigation into a single LP: Dr. John, the night tripper's Gris-gris. Though released in 1968 to poor sales and a minimum of critical attention, Gris-gris has accumulate…
The Artistic Image Is Always a Miracle
**Edition of 300, turquoise vinyl, 180 gr. heavyweight LP + extensive booklet** Furthering the passionate exploration of cinema that has guided her two previous LPs - 2017’s ‘Fassbinder Wunderkammer’ and 2020’s ‘I Should Have Been a Gardener’ - the M…
The Annual 2024 (Book)
Softcover, 228 pages, 21x21 cm Korm Plastics founder Frans de Waard teamed up with designer Alfred Boland for the (second) one and only Korm Plastics magazine cum yearbook. Lots of new authors, including Audrey Golden (about Una Baines), Elodie A. Ro…
Fantastico Interiore
Big tip! *50 copies limited edition* nobile, one half of the former Milanese duo Voronoi, presents a new series of recordings of ephemeral ambient soundscapes, organic throbs and broken rhythmic textures that sublimate the more instinctual and playfu…
Juyungo - Afro-Indigenous Music From The North-Western Andes
Big tip! Since the 16th century, the Ecuadorian province of Esmeraldas has been home to a unique Afro-Indigenous culture originating in the integration of the Indigenous Chachi and Nigua peoples with African Maroon communities. Juyungo documents sign…
... über Ursache und Wirkung der Meinungsverschiedenheiten beim Turmbau zu Babel
Mega tip! Even within the sprawling oeuvres of Sven-Åke Johansson and Alexander von Schlippenbach, both known for their innovative rethinking and broadening of artistic categories, the dramatic work "... über Ursache und Wirkung der Meinungsverschied…
Earth Blossom
2024 edition - 180 Gram, Tip On Sleeve. One of the rarer records of the mythical Strata East. The 1974 recording of Earth Blossom, the John Betsch Society's one and only album, seems something of an enigma nowadays. For even though Nashville is clear…
Split
*200 copies limited edition* John Duncan's "SAXMIX" is one massive piece of contemporary experimental music, which lets noise collide with free jazz and extreme minimalism. Duncan is a master when it comes to these things, and he is an artists consta…
Na Boca do Alvanel
* Limited to 100 hand-numbered copies. Pink colored c40 cassette with white imprint. Comes in regular jewel case and 4pp 170gsm paper covers. Includes download code. * In a forthright response to the always speculative query, "Which musicians would y…
Amazoom
Collector's edition of 30 copies, each accompanied by an artist's multiple: a sculpture inspired by the seeds of Parartocarpus venenosa from the Amazon jungle, used by monkeys as combs and now objects to be mounted on the turntable while listening. T…
Impressioni Organizzate di Ansie Liquide
Huuuge Tip! **100 numbered copies in poster cover with printed inner sleeve, 180g audiophile vinyl** Since its launch roughly five years ago, the Rome based imprint, Anomala Soundscapes, has quietly mined Italy’s rich context of experimental electron…
Vaco
Tip! **100 numbered copies in black 'disco bag' cover with sticker, 180g audiophile vinyl** Active on the scene for more than two decades, Maath is the moniker of Marco Ramassotto, who briefly came to note during the early 2000s as a member of the ri…
Gran Trotto
Edition of 100 copies. A travel diary, in sound. Ezio Piermattei: tapes, field recordings, voice, harmonica, organ, bells, objects, piano, etc. Recorded in Tallinn, Scanno, Helsinki, Santo Stefano di Sessanio, Vilnius, Rosello, Brighton, Campo Impera…
Dream House 78'17"
** CD digipack ** Originally released in 1974 on Shandar, Dream House 78'17" is the second full-length album by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. This first-time US edition reproduces the original gatefold sleeve with beautiful calligraphy by Zazeel…
Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music
From Elemental Music comes the long overdue vinyl reissue of one of greatest and most standalone albums in both the legendary Blue Note catalog and the history of American jazz: the longtime Sun Ra Arkestra trumpeter Eddie Gale’s 1968 debut “Ghetto M…
Talk Shop
Dischi Fantom’s Sussurra Luce series, blurring the boundaries between text, music and voice, returns with their third instalment, Hanne Lippard’s “Talk Shop”. Sculpting a fascinating bridge between radically experimental sound practice, conceptual ar…
What Is Not Strange?
Five years on from “Nue”, his collaboration with his father, Yoshi Wada, and friends, Tashi Wada returns to RVNG with “What Is Not Strange?”, a startling new adventure in sound. Riding a razor's edge between experimental music and left-field song-cra…