Reissues
Ptooff!
*Comes in a CD-sized papersleeve album replica (gatefold), with obi-strip and insert of notes mostly in Japanese..2024 stock* Debut album released in 1967 by The Deviants, led by Mick Farren, a key figure in the Notting Hill Gate area of the British underground. A chaotic mixture of rock ‘n’ roll and acid music. Their unprecedented style has already made them the mother of the Pink Fairies. A masterpiece of British Anglo-psychedelic music alongside Twink, early Pink Floyd and others. Reproduced …
Disposable
*Comes in a CD-sized papersleeve album replica (gatefold), with obi-strip and insert of notes mostly in Japanese..2024 stock* Second album by The Deviants in 1969, led by Mick Farren, who was a key figure in the Notting Hill Gate area of the British underground. The album is a refreshingly clean album, with a rock ‘n’ roll feel and less improvised parts of the debut. This is a piece that set out the direction of Mick's talents, and has already established itself as the mother of the Pink Fairies…
Lovechild
*Comes in a CD-sized papersleeve album replica (gatefold), with obi-strip and insert of notes mostly in Japanese..2024 stock* Lovechild is a studio album credited to progressive rock band Curved Air, though only half the tracks are actually performed by the group. The album consists of previously unreleased demos overseen by Clifford Adams in the early 1970s: one by John O'Hara, two by Eddie Jobson, one by Kirby Gregory, and four by Curved Air. Vocalist Sonja Kristina explained the album's origi…
Czar
*Comes in a CD-sized papersleeve album replica (gatefold), with obi-strip and insert of notes mostly in Japanese..2024 stock* A British rock classic released in 1970. The sound is somewhere between psychedelic and progressive, with Hammond, Mellotron and heavy guitars forming a chaotic world, and the album is full of the charm of the early days of progressive rock. Long-awaited encore pressing in paper jacket, SHM-CD and 8 bonus tracks!
Saat
Comes in a CD sized papersleeve album replica (gatefold), with Obi-strip and insert of notes mostly in Japanese. Recording in a good studio in 1972 with an accomplished engineer/musician such as Dieter Dierks (Ash Ra Tempel, Cosmic Jokers, Tangerine Dream, and yes, the Scorpions), certainly enabled Emtidi to expand their musical style on “Saat.” The end result was a shimmering, lush cosmic folk trip, with multi-tracked and treated acoustic guitars plus electric piano, fragile angelic femme vocal…
Inventions For Electric Guitar
Comes in mini LP replica with OBI & Japanese insert. With his first solo album, which was originally released in 1974, Manuel Gottsching (Ash Ra Tempel) laid the foundation for many other upcoming works. In fact, the guitar was invented here, for his play on the three epic tracks are years ahead of its time: Circular, flat, layered loops and improvisations create a compelling, hypnotic atmosphere and make this album in retrospect a landmark of new guitar culture. The album was completely remaste…
Seven Up
Comes in a CD-sized papersleeve album replica (gatefold), with obi-strip and insert of notes mostly in Japanese.. "Ash Ra Tempel meet LSD guru Timothy Leary for 1973's tripped out Seven Up. Ash Ra Tempel's third release features Harvard professor Timothy Leary on vocals. Originally released in 1973, this edition on MIG has been remastered by Ash Ra Tempel leader Manuel Gottsching. More otherworldly acid rock!"The story of how this album came to be seems worthy of mention, if not a Lifetime movie…
Schwingungen
Packaged in a glossy gatefold mini LP sleeve with obi, Japanese liner notes and cloth CD sleeve in a resealable clear plastic sleeve. Remastered by Manuel Göttsching. Ash Ra Tempel's second album, Schwingungen is a psychedelic classic that has influenced trip rock since its release. Originally recorded and released in 1972, this edition on MIG has been remastered by band leader Manuel Gottsching. Recommended for fans of Saucerful of Secrets era Pink Floyd. Sprawling, tripped out improvisational …
Ash Ra Tempel
Comes in foldout mini LP replica with obi strip & Japanese insert. Ash Ra Tempel is the eponymous debut studio album by the Krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel. It features guitarist Manuel Göttsching with drummer Klaus Schulze and bassist Hartmut Enke. Engineered by Conny Plank, it was recorded in March and June 1971 on Ohr Records. This 50th Anniversary Album will be released in memoriam of all the musical contributors to this release and on Manuel Göttsching´s MG.ART label."On our album, the track '…
Kokkyou Junreika
Packaged in a mini LP sleeve with obi, 4-page & 12-page booklets of lyrics and Japanese liner notes and anti-static CD sleeve in a resealable clear plastic sleeve.. Tokyo playwright, director and artist J.A. Caesar sprang to prominence in the early '70s largely through his work with Shuji Terayama's Tenjo Sajiki Theatre, specializing in vaguely sinister music reminiscent of a Hammer House Of Horrors soundtrack. 1973's Kokkyou Junreika release, often considered Caesar's finest work, was culled fr…
Shintokumaru
Packaged in a mini LP sleeve with 2 obis, 4-page & 12-page booklets of Japanese liner notes and cloth CD sleeve in a resealable clear plastic sleeve. Fourth J.A. Seazer album, originally issued on Victor in 1978. Shuji Terayama and J.A.Seazer’s phantasmagoric folk-psych-symph-prog-rock opera. Historical Tenjo Sajiki performance from 1978. J.A. Caesar (also spelled J.A. Seazer and J.A. Ceaser) is the pseudonym for a Tokyo music composer who has been involved with creating music for various theate…
Jashumon
Comes in a CD-sized papersleeve album replica (gatefold), with obi-strip and three inserts/booklet. This mighty soundtrack for Shuji Terayama's nihilistic movie of the same name contains all the elements necessary to reach J.A. Caesar's intended pleasure-centers. Here, turmoil, mind-numbing repetition, abject misery and grisly partriarchs abound, and all orchestrated by Caesar's damaged proto-metal and choral-led psychedelic sound. Mind-infesting in the truest sense, this soundtrack played in th…
Soliloquy For Lilith
New edition with iridescent foil blocked cover. 3CD box set facsimile of the original vinyl set, contains the entire album plus 40 minutes of previously unreleased music from the original sessions
Strange Strings
CD edition, remastered with Bonus Tracks, liner notes by Irwin Chusid, and an expanded essay by David Toop. Packed in tip-on Stoughton gatefold jacket, and includes a printed insert card of the original cover art. Fans of Sun Ra's Space Bop and genre-bending jazz were in for a shock with Strange Strings. Even in the eclectic and sometimes baffling Sun Ra catalog, Strange Strings, first issued in 1967, is an outlier. Is it music, or just noise? Or noise as music? John Cage could not be reached fo…
Hopes And Fears
*2024 reissue* Debut album released in ‘78 by Art Bears, a unit spawned from the fusion of Henry Cow and Slap Happy. With lyrics by Cutler + songs by Frith and songs by Dagmar, the image of the band is as if the extracts of the above two bands had been extracted and sharpened. A memorable album that could be seen as the starting point for the movement later known as ‘RecoMenkei’. Paper jacket, SHM-CD, remastered in 2015, with four bonus tracks, and even the poster included only on the first pres…
The World As It Is Today
*2024 reissue* Third and final album released in 1980. This album was released as a 45rpm 30 cm LP in analogue format. The entire album is filled with dark, high-tension performances, with a strong message that can be interpreted as an antithesis to the reality of the world, and a foreshadowing of the later activities of ReR and others. Paper jacket, SHM-CD, remastered in 2015, with three bonus tracks, as well as a reproduced 20-page booklet that came with the first pressing. Long-awaited encore…
Winter Songs
*2024 reissue* Brilliant second album by Art Bears, a band/project featuring Fred Frith, Chris Cutler and Dagmar Krause, formed in 1978 after disputes over the musical direction within Henry Cow. 'Winter Songs', originally released in 1979, placed Art Bears in the forefront of the Rock In Opposition Movement. Art Bears' intense and brutal avant-garde approach on the album comes across as primordial expression, which is nailed down by Krause's violently charismatic voice. As a piece of music reve…
Circus
2024 stock. Debut album released in 1976 by Circus, one of the best bands of the Swiss progressive rock scene in the 1970s, when many groups were of a high standard. The band's style was based on the strength of King Crimson from 1972-74, with a jazz-rock approach, and they established their style on their debut album. First official CD reissue in paper jacket, SHM-CD, one bonus track, latest remastering by the band, first release in Japan.
Embryonic Fusion
2024 stock. Legendary progressive rock band Caterpillar, who left two albums to Vertigo. Rehearsal recordings from around 1970, before their album debut, have been unearthed and released on CD for the first time! Anna Meek sang vocals on the studio album, but Joe Meek (Julian Jay Savarin) left the band just before recording, and the arrangements of the album songs are quite different. In addition, the album contains seven songs not included on the album, making this a coveted item for enthusiast…
Catapilla
Caterpillar is an ultra-rare disc on the Vertigo label, with the original recording fetching a hefty price. First release from ‘71, featuring the charming vocals of Anna Meek and the exotic saxophone of Robert Calvert. The style is a chaotic blend of jazz rock, hard rock and progressive rock elements, a masterpiece that rolls with the flavour of early 70s British progressive rock, similar to early Gong and Soft Machine. Produced by Black Sabbath manager Patrick Meehan. Long awaited, first domest…