Reissues
Who Cares if you Listen
"Towards this condition of musical and societal "isolation," a variety of attitudes has been expressed, usually with the purpose of assigning blame, often to the music itself, occasionally to critics or performers, and very occasionally to the public…
Music as Gradual Process
Minimalism´s father Steve Reich explains his composition method in this short essay which was first published in his book " Writings about music 1965-2002" ."I am interested in perceptible processes. I want to be able to hear the process happening th…
The Art of Noises
Luigi Russolo´s 1914 futurist manifesto on the inclusion of ambient sounds in music.
“Let us invite young musicians go genius and audacity to listen attentively to all noises. Our increased perceptivity, which has already acquired futurist eye, will …
Manifesto of Futurist Musicians
“I appeal to the young. Only they should listen, and only they can understand what I have to say. Some people are born old, slobbering spectres of the past, cryptograms swollen with poison. To them no words or ideas, but a single injunction: the end.…
Die Deutschen All Stars
CD digipack incl.20-page booklet.
Unreleased recordings from 1963 sessions! The 22 musicians presented on this album can be referred to as the leading names of jazz in Germany. In the “'German Jazz Poll 1963' Albert Mangelsdorff was elected 'music…
JAZZ antibes 1963
CD digipack incl.12-page booklet. Unreleased live recordings from the 4th Antibes Jazz Festival. Since 1960 a jazz festival is held in Juan-Les-Pins at the Côte d'Azur, which is regarded as one of the best summer festivals worldwide. Apart from the b…
from the German Jazz Festival 1964
CD digipack incl.24-page booklet.
Unreleased live recordings from the 9th German Jazz Festival 1964 in Frankfurt am Main! Apart from well-known bands such as the Jazzensemble des Hessischen Rundfunks and the Klaus Doldinger Quartet, the German Jaz…
Free At The German Jazz Festival 1966
Unreleased live recordings - featuring the pioneers from the Euro-pean New Jazz scene! This is the third in our series of exciting jazz albums with beautiful unreleased live recordings from the German Jazz Festival 1966! Please check the whos's wh…
Jazzmessage From Poland
Tomasz Stanko was considered the first free-jazz trumpeter in Europe. He debuted at the end of the 1950s in Krakow and in the1960s joined Krzysztof Komeda’s quintet, later recording a masterpieceof European jazz, the album “Astigmatic”. In the early …
Ya Gotta Get Really Crazy
Part of the underground collective Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS), the American iconic weirdos SMEGMA were formed in Pasadena, California in 1973 to reinvent improvisation with a DIY etchic, against the boring, conventional commercial-rock of…
Mannerlaatta
Mannerlaatta (Tectonic Plate) is Mika Vainio’s soundtrack for a “74 minute lettrist film made entirely without a camera” by Finnish film maker Mika Taanila; his 3rd following their previous collaborations, A Physical Ring (2002) and Return of the Ato…
Impact - Synthesized Sound And Music
From the very first second, "Impact – Synthesized Sound And Music" is a difficult, icy release, embracing many cornerstones of what would become known as industrial music. These 16 sonic experiments are totally devoted to synthsizers, which are the m…
La Natura E L'Uomo
Third reissue (of seven planned) in the incredible series of nature-themed libraries originally released in the first half of the Seventies by Cardium, Chic, Nereide, Musical, Rhombus, Spring, and Weekend labels. Seven never-reissued-before albums, r…
Thomas
In stock. Italian Soundtrack milestone and pure masterpiece of Italian Giallo Thriller exploitation. Infamous, legendary Score for the film directed by cult italian director Pupi Avati and originally released on Gemelli label in 1970. Mindblowing sca…
Lo Sport
Outstanding double LP production originally released in 1971 on the very small Union label, founded by G.P.Ricci and Remigio Ducros. One of the most rare Library productions ever, a true holy grail for record collectors all over the world. This doubl…
Stati D'Animo Vol.2
In stock. "Stati d'animo vol.2" aka Feeling originally released on CAM CmL series in 1973. Music here is almost for sure by the same session men behind the "The Fine Machine - Habitat" LP and other delights released under the same nickname. The jam f…
UST 7011 - Popfolkmusic
In stock. Originally released on Fonit Cetra Hi-Fi International series in 1973, this mega-rare Italian Library still unknown in the record collectors circle features some of the most insane grooves made in Italy. Outstanding, spaced-out Breakbeats w…
UST 7013
Another legendary jam on Fonit Library series 'Hi-Fi International' composed by maestro Stelvio Cipriani. Probably written for some obscure movie, this infamous session from 1976 recently discovered immediately became a grail for DJs and collectors. …
Cynosure
When 20-something saxophonist Trevor Watts was demobbed from the RAF in the early 60s, he moved to London and co-founded the Spontaneous Music Ensemble. Although clearly aware of Ornette Coleman’s new conception of Jazz in America, he soon developed …
Dialogues In Two Places
Free improvisation. Some may think of it as the art of 'making it up as you go along'. But it is much more than that. English vocalist Maggie Nicols has spoken of the necessity for a sort of 'social virtuosity' amongst improvisers: chops and instinct…