Reissues
The Ascension
Glenn Branca's first full-length album The Ascension is a colossal achievement. After touring much of 1980 with an all-star band featuring four guitarists (Banca, fellow composers Ned Sublette and David Rosenbloom, and future Sonic Youth member Lee Ranaldo) along with Jeffrey Glenn on bass and Stephan Wischerth on drums, Branca took his war-torn group into a studio in Hell's Kitchen to record five incendiary compositions. Originally released in the summer of 1981, The Ascension effectively tears…
Memory Space
The central concept behind Alvin Lucier's Memory Space is the representation of another time and place through the use of a new set of sounds. In his instructions, Lucier asks the performer/s to go to an environment and record by any means (notes on paper, graphics, audio recording or by memory) the sound situations that are present, then, at any later time, in a different space, attempt to recreate that situation. The purpose of the work is to avoid elaboration or embellishment, but given that …
...On What There Is...
Kallabris and Lepenik have been collaborating on an unnamed project for years. At one point, wasn't even sure that it will see the light of the day at all. But, never provoke with destiny! Different musical personalities but with many common musical points, offered extremely polarized piece of art, some kind of kaleidoscope of musical suprises and always on the edge of disintegration. A record that mixes a wide range of styles, opening with slow ambiesque vignettes, elegiac passages, continuing …
Four Organs / Phase Patterns / Pendulum Music
Three early compositions (1968-1970) by Steve Reich, one of the most prolific exponents of minimal music, in stunning interpretations by the critically-acclaimed Ensemble Avantgarde. Available on vinyl for the first time ever. Steve Reich (born 1936) is undoubtedly one of the key figures in 20th century contemporary music, and along with Terry Riley or Philip Glass, one of the founding fathers of so-called minimal music. With classics like "18 Musicians," "Drumming," or "Different Trains," …
Alessandro Alessandroni
Multifaceted Maestro Alessandro Alessandroni: composer, conductor, and arranger. Among the various activities that he still performs to this day, he is also a mandolinist, guitarist, fisarmonicist, sitarist, whistler, and pianist. Most of all, he is a musician, highly renowned in international TV and cinema. The Maestro has composed and conducted over 50 film scores and documentaries, and has collaborated in the production of many songs, achieving great success. The activity of the M…
The Chain Reaction
Described as 'Mad Max meets the China Syndrome', the 1980 Australian film The Chain Reaction is an often overlooked entry in the highly venerated Ozploitation Genre. A nuclear disaster themed thrill ride into early 80s Australiana and industrial paranoia. Sitting alongside Night Of Fear (1972) and Turkey Shoot (1982) in the outlandish canon of Australian B-cinema from the 1970s and 80s The Chain Reaction includes its fair share of gratuitous nudity, ocker attitude and souped up vehicular ca…
Electronic Works 1958-1995
2xCD box. Pressed on audiophile grade heavy duty vinyl in an edition of 500 copies. Else Marie Pade, born in 1924 in Denmark, is a precious golden gem in the world of contemporary electro-acoustic music. She is a true pioneer of electronic music and musique concrète. Pade is Denmark's first lady of electronic music and her piece "Syv Cirkler (Seven Circles)" became the first electronic piece performed on Danish radio. Pade's fascination with sound began in early childhood. Isolated in her…
Le Nouveau Jazz
With track titles translating to Song For The Devil and The Witches, Francois Tusques’ rarest commercially released LP casts an early stylistic premonition of the vampire themed improvised soundtracks recorded for director Jean Rollin merely months after its release. Assembling the very same group of musical sorcerers this albums personnel (featuring, amongst others, soprano saxophonist Barney Wilen) reads like a who’s who of France’s early improvised music/free jazz scene resulting in a wholly …
Electric Pure Land
Staggering ultra-limited out-of-nowhere double LP set of primo acid-drenched psych from the most legendary Japanese underground group of all time, the late Les Rallizes Denudes: reputedly sourced from the collection of an ‘insider’ Japanese underground musician and coming from the same source as the all-time epic France Demo Tapes LP, Electric Pure Land represents the second phase in this Dick’s Picks style on-going vinyl presentation of the hands-down greatest live moments of Mizutani’s …
Popsound n.1
From the same cult label of "Underground Mood", "Paese Sotto Inchiesta" by Peymont/Braen and "Scienza E Tecnologia" by Raskovich, here's the highly-collectible "Popsound n.1", originally released on Flirt records in 1971. Obscure and desirable Italian Library exploitation by a mysterious studio group composed by Ernesto Nicelli, Stellio Subelli and Pasquale Castiglione. Tons of psychedelic killing grooves as the infamous "Diatomea" or "Gospel 71", nice breakbeats are also featured in the…
Un Uomo Dalla Pelle Dura
Crazy rare in demand soundtrack LP originally released on the highly sought-after promotional label "Pegaso" Edizioni Musicali. Music by Maestro Carlo Pes here, the "C" guitarist from the infamous quartet I Marc 4 which also probably plays on this session. The amazing jazz-funk track "Tough Guy" is the main theme of the record and it's delivered in 3 different versions. Crazy tunes like the tensed dramatic "Morte di un Hippie", the great lounge track "Relaxing in New Mexico" with nice Ham…
L'Uomo Dagli Occhi Di Ghiaccio
Originally released on 'cult' Pegaso promotional label, "The Man With Icy Eyes" soundtrack was pressed on very few copies like all Pegaso editions 'out of commerce', becoming a truly sought-after gem among record collectors of the genre. Trombonist and arranger Giuseppe De Luca, who died shortly after, wrote this magnificent score in 1971, ripping off the main theme from "Lady In Cement" by Hugo Montenegro from the same year. The high music in here is played by the Marc 4 (Maurizio Majorana…
I Marc 4
Probably the toughest and most psychedelic Nelson volume by the Marc 4. Killer blend of downtempo funk, atmospherics, and lounge bossa/cocktail. Contains fantastic tracks as "Distorsion-Mind" and "The Trip", heavy Psych with screaming organ, and "Compression", mellow laid back acoustic guitar with the fat raw Drums Break plus other rare and raw tracks with sounds samples and loops. Great sessions!
Continuum Unbound
Michael Pisaro's Continuum Unbound is a three CD box set, featuring three individual as well as linked CD-length pieces, each 72 minutes long. 'Kingsnake Grey' is a field recording of sundown in the Congaree National Park in South Carolina. The beautiful and erratic sonic transformation that occurred over the 72 minutes was the model for the other two pieces.'Congaree Nomads' takes as its basis 24 three-minute recordings Greg Stuart and I made in the park, along Cedar Creek and the Kingsnake, th…
Antologia
Boxset with the six Perigeo original RCA albums ("Azimut", "Abbiamo tutti un blues da piangere", "Genealogia", "La valle dei templi", "Non è poi così lontano", "Live at Montreux"), the double album "Live in Italy 1976", released on Contempo label and one DVD with three live shows and an interview, Comes with a 52 colour pages book which features a new and detailed history of the band throughout their discography, written by Marco Giorgi with really rare photos.
Live At Club Boltax, NYC, Oct. 13, 1979
Limited to only 35 hand-numbered copies on black vinyl with a paste-on cover. Great previously unissued recordings from Mr. Roy Brooks and his Artistic Truth, live at the Detroit Jazz Fest!. Available here for the first time.
Live At Club Boltax, NYC, Oct. 13, 1979
Limited to only 45 hand-numbered copies on black vinyl with a photo and notes on the cover. Great obscure recordings from an equally obscure quintet led by Coltrane's drummer Rashied Ali. Available here for the first time.
Atomique Tape
Maurizio Bianchi began to produce music in 1979, since 1980 using electronic equipment with the avowed goal "to produce technological sounds and in such a way to work on complete realising of the modern decadence". In the beginning, he published tapes under the alias Sacher-Pelz. Atomique Tape follow Industrial Tape and was recorded in June 1980 under the name MB.Atomique Tape is composed of two long and precious pieces, with dirty and virulent sounds. It seems to walk the sidewalk wrong, to wal…
Industrial tape
Maurizio Bianchi began to produce music in 1979, since 1980 using electronic equipment with the avowed goal "to produce technological sounds and in such a way to work on complete realising of the modern decadence". In the beginning, he published tapes under the alias Sacher-Pelz. Industrial Tape was one of the first release under the name MB, recorded in May 1980. Maurizio Bianchi elaborates his abstract and exhausting art with care and great detail. Industrial Tape is a concrete example of …
Pedwar
‘Pedwar’ is a comprehensive retrospective covering Welsh harpist musician Rhodri Davies’ career from 2002 to the present day. Presented in a beautiful deluxe vinyl box set, the set contains three completely remastered versions of the ‘Trem’, ‘Over Shadows’ and Wound Response’ LPs, alongside the new LP ‘An Air Swept Clean Of All Distance’, all of which are on coloured 180g vinyl and housed in screen printed quality card sleeves, featuring original artwork by Jean Luc Guionnet.
What’s more, …