Reissues
Solid Jackson
When eminent jazz practitioners with shared histories convene in the studio without rehearsal or preparatory gigs, a perfunctory, by-the-numbers session is often the outcome. That is decidedly not the case on Solid Jackson, whose personnel, four of w…
Spiritual Sound (Mizik Filamonik)
Telluric, intense, terribly alive, the gwoka drums of Guadeloupe carry the identity of a painful and fervent island. Marked forever by the crime of slavery, Guadeloupe's créolité cherishes the ka drums and their natural environment: the low-pitched b…
Music For People, Birds, Butterflies & Mosquitoes
Jimmy Giuffre, a versatile musician known for his innovative jazz compositions and arrangements, took a break from recording after a prolific career spanning from the 1950s. Following a decade focused on live performances, he returned to the studio w…
Music for Zen Meditation and Other Joys
Mostly improvised by clarinettist Tony Scott, backed by Hozan Yamamoto and Shinichi Yuize — on the Japanese instruments shakuhachi and koto — this 1964 album is a precursor to later movements in ambient and new age music, from in and out of the jazz …
The Body & The Soul
In his last release for the Impulse label, Hubbard’s ambitious 1963 recording The Body & The Soul includes both an all-star septet and an orchestra with strings. Including a number of Hubbard originals and such notables as Curtis Fuller (trombone), W…
The Quest
2025 stock Probably due to the fact that Eric Dolphy died untimely in 1964, making every one of his recorded contributions more widely sought after, pianist Mal Waldron’s album, The Quest, was reissued soon after its release under the reedman’s name.…
Early Works 1988 - 1992
A raw sonic document of exile, trauma, and transformation, this CD collects early works by Hungarian artist Sándor Vály, recorded between 1988 and 1992. Created using homemade instruments, rudimentary electronics, and cassette gear, these tracks trac…
I'm Gonna Take You Home
The story of Father Yod, Yahowa 13 and the Source Family could literally fill books, but rest assured, they truly were the "apex of high" in terms of psychedelic music. A tale that transcends conventional music history, this legendary collective repr…
Fernweh
Visionary electroacoustic explorations return as Black Truffle reissues Kassel Jaeger's Fernweh, a major work fusing musique concrète and synthesis into emotionally charged sonic landscapes of rare intensity.
Toinen Kaupunki
Three pioneers of contemporary minimal electronic music converge on this remarkable collaborative EP, bridging the austere aesthetics of Finnish electronic minimalism with the ambient experimentalism of a new generation. Released via the legendary Sä…
A Missing Myth Of The Future
Japanese veteran producer Kaoru Inoue presents a visionary collection that transcends conventional electronic boundaries, weaving together world music traditions, field recordings, and ambient exploration into a singular artistic statement. Originall…
5 Bambole per la Luna d'Agosto
Piero Umiliani's lost 1970 masterpiece finally reissued. His hypnotic score for Mario Bava's cult thriller 5 Bambole per la Luna d'Agosto fuses jazz, lounge, and psychedelic rock into sophisticated cinematic perfection. One of Cinevox's rarest artifa…
Un tranquillo posto di campagna
Limited edition numbered to 500 copies. Transparent green vinyl format / 180 grams + CD. One of cinema's greatest composers ventures into his darkest territory. Ennio Morricone's haunting soundtrack to Elio Petri's 1968 psychological thriller A Quiet…
Kill!
Berto Pisano's lost 1971 masterpiece finally surfaces. His Kill! soundtrack blends gritty funk, sophisticated lounge, and psychedelic experimentation into magnetic perfection. Wah-wah guitars, hypnotic grooves, and exotic instruments create a seducti…
Il Dio Sotto La Pelle
Piero Piccioni's hidden masterpiece finally emerges. His 1974 Il Dio Sotto la Pelle soundtrack fuses jazz, psychedelic orchestration, and world music into transcendent spiritual journey. Ethereal strings, exotic instruments, and contemplative atmosph…
Fellini Satyricon
Nino Rota's most radical work finally gets deluxe treatment. His groundbreaking Fellini Satyricon score abandons melody for archaic soundscapes - tribal percussion, atonal instruments, dissonant choirs creating an alien musical language. This avant-g…
La Cantata Rossa per Tall el Zaatar
A devastating cry for Palestine, nearly five decades later, this radical 1977 masterpiece returns to vinyl via Black Sweat Records. Demetrio Stratos, Gaetano Liguori, and Giulio Stocchi created a powerful sonic testament to the 1976 Tall el Zaatar ma…
Drifting
After Mette Henriette’s critically acclaimed, self-titled first recording comes Drifting – and album pervaded by trio conversations of idiosyncratic and original expression. With Johan Lindvall returning on piano, new addition Judith Hamann on cello …
East Coasting
Recorded in 1957 this is one of Charles Mingus's lesser known sessions. Here the master was at the head of an awesome band including some of his regular sidemen. Jimmy Knepper - trombone, Shafi Hadi - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone and Dannie Richmo…
Tomorrow Is the Question!
This was definitely a perfect title for Ornette Coleman's second and last album for Contemporary before switching on Ertegun's Atlantic label. Originally released in 1959 "Tomorrow is the Question" was an early evident step towards the revolution to …