Reissues
Note(s): Work(ing) Process(es) Re: Concerns (That Take On / Deal With)
Originally created in 1977 as a single handmade copy, Dara Birnbaum’s Note(s): Work(ing) Process(es) Re: Concerns (That Take On / Deal With) gathers writings, working drawings, photographic documentation, and ephemera from the artist’s earliest video and installation works. The publication was originally produced by Birnbaum and exhibited in Notebooks, Workbooks, Scripts, and Scores at Franklin Furnace in 1977. The book’s vinyl cover and section dividers, hand-folded pages, and color images have…
Selected Sound Works (1981-2021)
Edition of 100 pro-duplicated tapes with a 6-panel J-card featuring extensive track notes by Nechvatal and liner notes by Laurent Fairon. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. his is an overview of post-conceptual and multimedia artist Joseph Nechvatal’s sound collages and experimental music, from 1980s tape experiments to 21st century polymorphous, digital endeavors.
Born in Chicago in 1951, Nechvatal studied art and philosophy before relocating to New York City in 1975. During the 1980s, he co-founded …
E' Vago Fior del Tempo
Tip! * 150 copies only* The four pieces on this Small Cruel Party record all date from the late 1980s and predate any officially released material : "Cords" was entirely realised in Chicago, and the others realised, or at least finished, upon arriving in Seattle in 1990. The pieces were originally privately released on cassette in micro-editions of 5 to 7 copies and given to friends.
In 2009/2010 Petri Supplies, which had a complete set of those early privately released tapes, rereleased some …
Bleu (2Lp)
Following the first ever vinyl reissues of Aurore and Royaume, Aimant + Aimant - Penultimate Press is finally proud to make available the final part of this extraordinary trilogy. Etant Donnés's Bleu is the final gesture and culmination of this period of creation where poésie and la nature form a magical alliance that resonates as an alchemical wedding. Having the conviction that Bleu was the ultimate arc based on the purity of natural sound and poetry, leaning towards a mystical spiritual searc…
Chaleur Humaine
Uman’s Chaleur Humaine, the debut album from the French duo of musicians and siblings Danielle and Didier Jean, resurfaces for the first time since its original release in 1992. While history, both private and public, is scattered with creative relationships between siblings that simply “did not work,” Uman’s story is uniquely different and defined by this bond, and a shared journey impressing footprints along an adventurous musical terrain. Prior to Chaleur Humaine, Danielle and Didier recorde…
Zbliżenie
Over the last two years, Astigmatic Records have been digging through the Radio Łódź archives, listening to hundreds of recordings of the local Orchestra conducted by Henryk Debich. As a result, 13 gems were selected from the period between 1974 and 1977, which was also the time when the Holy Grail of Polish jazz-funk was created: the highly sought after by record collectors in all corners of the globe "String Beat" album. At the beginning of the year, the first vinyl from the series of releases…
Monika / Zabawa W Ciemności
After a very busy year in which Astigmatic Records made its debut as a label looking for lost, never before released musical treasures (Renata Lewandowska, "Dotyk"), the time has come for more attempts to deal with the history of Polish popular music. The seven-inch single "Monika / Fun in Darkness" begins a series of releases with undiscovered recordings by Henryk Debich, whose activities made the Polish Radio and Television Orchestra in Łódź famous all over the world. For the last two years, …
Moments (2LP)
* 2 x LP on brown vinyl in textured gatefold sleeve. Ltd 500 copies * Isolationist, minimal, alienating Drone / Dark Ambient from Mick Harris (Scorn). Staggeringly beautiful, glacial sub-bass sounds, deep ambient and thunderous tones, with subtle shifts. Originally released as a 99-track continuous CD in 1998 (Relapse), now presented on vinyl for the first time, "Moments" is expanded to 100 cuts, with bonus material from the original recording sessions."Tectonic rumblings and icy sound slivers m…
Frequency L.S.D.
* Ltd x 400 copies on 180g black vinyl * Maso Yamazaki: Voice, Microphone, EXPJ Ringmodulater, Colorsound Pedals, 60's Fuzz Noise Canister, Spectral Audio Analogsynth, Sherman Filterbank, Delay. Originally released on CD in 1998 (Alien8 Recordings), "Frequency L.S.D." is now presented on vinyl for the first time. Features 14 ear-wrenching, extreme Japanese Noise tracks from Maso Yamazaki (Controlled Death)."The cult icon of Japanoise once again makes another proverbial anti-statement with his un…
Larme Secrete
* 2 LPS, gatefold cover, cut at 45rpm. With 3 bonus tracks exclusive for this vinyl edition * “Larme secrète” is the result of an astonishing encounter between a minimal and discreet musician attracted as much by Erik Satie as he is by various pop classics, and a poet/performer who has worked with Lydia Lunch, Genesis P-Orridge , Michael Gira as well as Alan Vega. Pascal Comelade et Marc Hurtado (Étant Donnés) are two important figures of a french underground and alternative music scene which h…
Stanza 218
* Limited edition of 218 handnumbered copies on dark Red Vinyl * Tangiers, september 2002. Three italian musicians, after taking the never ending bus route from Bologna, settle in a cheap hotel close to the seafront. They sleep in one room, and set up their recording equipment in the next one. Until about one month earlier, Emidio Clementi was the singer and bass player of Massimo Volume, one of the best and most original bands in the history of italian music. Their four albums of angular post-…
BBC Jazz Club II 1965-1966
The Rendell/Carr Quintet has long been regarded as among the most iconic ensembles in 1960s British jazz, famed for its unique blend of musical personalities and the equally singular ‘style’ which resulted from its blend of experience, youth and creative ambition. This, the second R&B release of previously unissued material by the band, captures a moment of genuine jazz history with its inclusion of Michael Garrick’s debut broadcast with the quintet. Two further radio appearances find the band h…
At The BBC 1967 - There and Then and Sounding Great
Long before he carved his dual legend as both popular jazz-funkster and the ultimate peripatetic guest soloist, beloved by fusion and straight-ahead fans alike, tenor saxophonist Dick Morrissey had been one of the UK’s brightest and best modern jazzmen. During the 1960s his regular quartet explored very nearly every aspect of the jazz genre, from down home blues to the fringes of the avant-garde, as is displayed in these previously unreleased radio recordings from 1967. Over two fascinating sets…
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…
Music for Angela Davis (LP, single-sided)
**500 copies, one-time pressing. 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 this planet on October 21st - as an avant-garde offshoot of The Cairo Jazz Band - the first jazz big band in the country - formed by Salah Ragab in 1968.Sinfully under-documented, in 1970 the band issued Heliopolis, what has since become one of the rarest, most celebrated and…
Musiche Per Un Telefilm
Tip! *First re-release ever - 500 copies on clear orange vinyl* “Musiche per un Telefilm” by A.R. Luciani and Paolo Renosto is an exclusive release by Redi Edizioni Musicali, an historical company from Milan that, in addition to curating the digital catalogue of Edizioni Leonardi’s library music and sonorizzazioni, is also re-printing faithful vinyl reproductions of the most prestigious titles from Leonardi’s catalogue. These records were originally released in very limited editions, often as no…
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…
Bird and Person Dyning / Microphone / Straws / La Maquina de Cantar / Tempo Furioso / Luna Cinese (6LP in bundle)
Special bundle of all six seminal Cramps albums re-issued by Dialogo. At long last, after decades out of print, the Milan based imprint, Dialogo, dives into the legendary catalog of Cramps, bringing forth vinyl reissues of six of the most singular and important experimental albums of the 1970s: Alvin Lucier's "Bird and Person Dyning", David Tudor's "Microphone", Steve Lacy's "Straws", Horacio Vaggione's "La Maquina de Cantar", Costin Miereanu's "Luna Cinese" and Martin Davorin Jagodić's "Tempo F…
Bird and Person Dyning (LP)
At long last, after decades out of print, joining their growing Cramps Records Reissue Series, Dialogo brings us the long-awaited vinyl reissue of Alvin Lucier's "Bird and Person Dyning", the composer's first solo LP. As legendary as they come, and easily among the most important and groundbreaking efforts in experimental music ever recorded, this is Lucier at his most visionary. Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies of black vinyl, with fully remastered audio, housed in a sleeve that beauti…
Tempo Furioso (LP)
Digging deep into the catalog of Cramps records, Dialogo returns with another stunning entry in their reissue series dedicated to the seminal imprint, the Croatian composer Martin Davorin Jagodić’s 1975 masterstroke, "Tempo Furioso (Tolles Wetter)". A bristling work of monumental scale at the vanguard of electroacoustic composition and musique concrète, its stunning two sides, created by his sinfully under-recognized associate of Groupe de Recherches Musicales, reshapes history at every turn. Is…