Reissues
Lifeline
Silkheart Records is proud to announce the release of Lifeline, the latest recording from visionary drummer, composer, and bandleader William Hooker, performed with his dynamic quartet. Lifeline captures the fierce urgency and expansive imagination that has defined Hooker’s work for decades, pushing the boundaries of jazz, free improvisation, and contemporary art music.
Throughout Lifeline, Hooker and his quartet dive deeply into music as a living, breathing force. Every piece reflects a profo…
Raining Fire
Silkheart Records proudly presents Raining Fire, a searing new statement from the legendary Charles Gayle Quartet, capturing the uncompromising spirit and transcendent intensity that define Gayle’s artistry. Known worldwide as one of the most powerful voices in free jazz, Gayle channels both ferocity and grace in music that pushes the limits of expression while remaining deeply human at its core.
On Raining Fire, Gayle leads his quartet with raw immediacy, sculpting sound into waves of relentl…
Spirits Before
*2025 stock* Silkheart Records proudly announces the release of Spirits Before, a powerful and deeply moving new recording from the legendary Charles Gayle Trio. Known for his fearless approach to improvisation and uncompromising spiritual intensity, Charles Gayle stands as one of the most vital voices in avant-garde jazz.
On Spirits Before, Gayle continues his lifelong exploration of music as a vehicle for truth, faith, and liberation. Joined by a dynamic rhythm section that both supports and…
One Fell Swoop
*2025 stock* Silkheart Records proudly presents the reissue of One Fell Swoop, a landmark recording by the legendary Steve Lacy Quartet. Originally released in the mid-1980s, this album captures the essence of Lacy’s uncompromising vision: rigorous, adventurous, and relentlessly lyrical.
On One Fell Swoop, Lacy is joined by an extraordinary ensemble of creative partners. Each brings a distinct voice to the music, forging a collective sound that is daring yet deeply connected. The quartet’s int…
The Gleam
*2025 stock* Silkheart Records proudly announces the reissue of The Gleam, a landmark recording by the visionary soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy and his celebrated Sextet. Originally recorded during one of the ensemble’s most inspired periods, this album stands as a radiant example of Lacy’s uncompromising artistry and his lifelong pursuit of a sound both intimate and expansive.
The Steve Lacy Sextet—featuring longtime collaborators Steve Potts (alto & soprano saxophone), Irene Aebi (voice, vio…
Music from the Hearts of Space: Guide to Cosmic, Transcendent and Innerspace Music (Book)
Essential 1981 catalog of transformative music reissued for new generation of cosmic consciousness seekers
Punjabi Disco
Boys, as well as a cover by Say She She’s Piya Malik and Turbotito & Ragz and a previously unreleased track. It is available for pre-order and out on x2LP vinyl and all digital platforms on October 31st, 2025.
Released the same year and into equal obscurity as ‘Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat’, Charanjit Singh’s acid house opus, the reissue of ‘Punjabi Disco’ is set to have similar reverberations in the world of dance music. Produced by Mohinder’s eldest son and legendary bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra…
Didi
From the introspective "Mojo uno", Gelbard's solo piece on Moog, to the wild "Alevacolariea", featuring the prolific Uruguayan Rubén Rada, Gelbard's solo album offers no chance to remain indifferent.
En Ondes
Sonde is a group of Montreal electroacoustic composers and performers. Their compositions were generally conceived for live performance on original sound sculptures. Through meditative improvisation, the group’s aim was to produce new music with sounds revealed by electroacoustic amplification and transformation.
Very active from 1976 to 1986, the members of the group included Andrew Culver, Charles de Mestral, Pierre Dostie, Chris Howard, Robin Minard, Michael O’Neill and Linda Pavelka. Since t…
Blau - Monotonprodukt 02 26y++
*2025 stock* This Monotonprodukt is a CD release of the blau vinyl written and produced by Monoton in 1980. Re-mastered in 2006. It also contains 3 unreleased tracks from that period. Since the late 70's, early 1980's, Monotonprodukt and the "Institut für wissenschaftliche Sensation" (Institute for Scientific Sensations) have been working on the transposition of metamathematical structures, natural constants and resonance patterns in models of "bionic" psycho-active automat music. Publications, …
Barney And Tete (Grenoble '88)
A rare gem from the vibrant European jazz scene finally resurfaces with the release of Grenoble ’88, a captivating live recording that unites two masters of post-bop expression: French saxophonist Barney Wilen and Catalan pianist Tete Montoliu. Captured in 1988 in Grenoble, France, this performance showcases the remarkable interplay between two artists whose lyrical sensibilities and sophisticated phrasing made them cornerstones of modern jazz on the continent.
Known for his poetic tenor sound…
The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim
Elemental Music proudly presents the reissue of The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim, a timeless recording that celebrates the artistry and influence of one of Brazil’s greatest musical icons. Originally released in 1965, this classic album showcases Jobim’s unique ability to merge the sophistication of orchestral arrangements with the delicate sensuality of bossa nova, a genre he helped define and bring to international acclaim.
Produced at the height of the global bossa nova wave, The…
Bruce Lee The Big Boss - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Revised)
A landmark moment in film music history is reborn. The Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra’s legendary soundtrack for Bruce Lee’s breakthrough classic The Big Boss returns in a newly revised and definitive edition. First composed in 1971, the score marked an extraordinary fusion of East and West, where Thomas’s adventurous arrangements met the raw intensity and cinematic power of Bruce Lee. From percussive bursts of tension to sweeping orchestrations and funk-infused grooves, the soundtrack captures no…
Casse-tête
*2025 stock* This reissue brings to listeners of concrete and electroacoustic musics and to all those with deep ears a fleuron of Canadian auto production. It enlightens the exemplary work of composer Bernard Bonnier, born in Montreal in 1952, who died in 1994 in Lévis, Québec, at the early age of 41 years. Bernard Bonnier had a good time, literally, when he accomplished this atypical and cheerful disc. Casse-tête is a bizarre and enjoyable music world conceived with various percussions and elec…
Oppet Tre
Sweden's late '60s creative explosion saw Roland Keijser's quartet forge unprecedented music, bridging American free jazz, minimal composition, and Swedish folk heritage. These lost Öppet Tre recordings capture a pivotal moment when Swedish musicians created sounds never heard before
3 Lesbian Sardines
Nurse With Wound presents 3 Lesbian Sardines, a live recording from their performance at the legendary Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo, 2019, as part of the "Great Monster Dada Show" - the largest exhibit of Dada art and artifacts this century. Available as a limited edition of 500 copies on neon green vinyl, the album captures the band's final appearance at this historic exhibition featuring over 250 artworks by 43 artists including Kurt Schwitters, Jean and Sophie Teuber Arp, Hannah Höch, Tri…
Soil (30th Anniversary Edition) 3LP
Deluxe 3LP set. Terre Thaemlitz's Soil receives a timely reissue, returning one of the most challenging and prescient albums of the 1990s to circulation. Originally released in 1995 as the seventh installment in Instinct Records' "Instinct Ambient" series, the album represented Thaemlitz's deliberate assault on the contradictions he perceived within the contemporary ambient movement. When Thaemlitz signed with Greenwich Village's Instinct imprint, the label assumed he would be "another Moby," pr…
Music For Organic Performance
New Forces presents Kjostad's Music For Organic Performance. These six new recordings emerged from solitary performances conducted on-location in northern Minnesota. An attempt to rethink the collection of "source sounds" and invite the listener into moments that would be otherwise inaccessible. Electronics and other machines were introduced later in the process, a form of synthesis that added additional depth and contradiction to the original recordings. Listeners will feel the edges of glaciat…
Warlord
Warlord is the latest full-length album from Kjostad, the follow up to last year's Extinctionist released on Chondritic Sound. This is the evolution of Kjostad's approach in every aspect, an attempt to distill 7 years of development into the project's finest work yet. The place-based field recordings are more intimate. The environmental explorations are more harrowing. Hissing tape loops collide with pulsing electronics. The noise clatters, clangs, and grinds across six tracks that investigate a…
Transcendence - Raga Darbari
*2025 stock* A towering figure of the Kirana gharana tradition, Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan unveils Transcendence: Raga Darbari, a recording that captures both the majesty of Hindustani classical music and the deeply meditative power of one of its most revered ragas.
Renowned for his profound mastery of raga interpretation, Khan brings an unmatched depth of expression to Raga Darbari, a raga historically associated with dignity, solemnity, and introspection. In Transcendence, the artist’s voice be…