The Catherine Wheel (LP)
1982 Italian edition on Sire of Talking Heads' singers beautiful solo album with music for Twyla Tharp's ballet, featuring Adrian Belew, Eno and Bernie Worrell among others. With original innersleeve.
Holland Tunnel Dive (12"EP)
2014 re-issue on Dark Entries of the brilliant 1980 EP by Contortions' Don Christensen, one of the most truly original records coming out of the no wave scene. With insert.
De Salla Jaktmarkerna
300 copies only! De Sälla Jaktmarkerna brings together Sewer Election and Ån for a collaborative work recorded during 2024 in Kortedala, on the outskirts of Gothenburg. The album represents a meeting point between two distinct voices in the Gothenburg experimental scene. Dan Johansson (Sewer Election) has spent recent years exploring increasingly nuanced territories in synthesized sound. Here, he collaborates with Matz Engdahl (Ån), a late bloomer in the milieu around Longest Night whose acclai…
Afternoon-Dusk
Ned Collette's last album, the 2LP set Old Chestnut (FTR 362-2LP), was hailed as a masterpiece by 'most everyone who heard it. Part of this was due to the darkly delicate lyrics and vocals of Ned himself (akin to the work of Graeme Jefferies, ca. This Kind of Punishment), but much was also due to the elegant lyricism of the music, which had a fantastic prog/folk heft as impossible to peg as it was to ignore. With this new LP, Collette (an Australian ex-pat, now based in Berlin) goes all-instrume…
Cancer
*250 copies limited edition* Originally released in 1992 via Tesco, »Cancer« was recorded one year earlier by Thymme Jones, Dan Burke, Mark Klein, Mitch Enderle, Chris Block, and Jim O'Rourke.
This one was mostly a group effort focused on a dark ambient atmospheric environment and experimental minimalism that crawls under your skin. Mark & Thymme’s heavy synth is omnipresent, Mitch & Chris scraping every piece of scrap metal they could find, Jim’s extended piano & tabletop guitar is apparent, t…
Whistle and I'll Come To You
Whistle and I’ll Come To You by Death and Vanilla is an evanescent, cinematic dream-pop companion to the cult 1968 BBC ghost story film. Through shimmering synths, vibraphone, and spectral loops, the Malmö trio crafts an atmospheric journey where hauntology, vintage electronics, and melancholy motif intertwine, conjuring equal parts nostalgia and spectral unease.
Instantanés
2025 stock Montreal stalwart Roger Tellier Craig (of Le Révélateur and Fly Pan Am) returns to Root Strata under his given name to offer a stunningly abstract pair of compositions indicating a severe departure from his earlier work. While Instantanés might at first evoke acousmatic and musique concrète traditions, the two side-long snapshots Roger presents feel far more spontaneous and rustic than those trappings might suggest, or as Luc Ferrari would say "a concrète music of the poor." A studied…
Dancing
Polish graphic artist and experimental producer Aleksandra Grünholz, aka We Will Fail, has definitively left behind the disturbing minimal techno visions of the recent past to embrace more hybrid musical forms. While the influence of minimal techno is evident to some extent, references to club culture are often dampened by disturbing post-industrial inserts, evident dub roots, and even a vision that borders on the most imaginative classical-contemporary culture.
Suns of the Heart
Suns of the Heart, the sixth solo album from Colin Fisher, unfurls a suite of intricate, emotionally charged improvisations that blend treated guitar, elemental electronics, and gestural samples. Across six movements, Fisher crafts an enveloping soundworld where each texture pulses with meditative warmth and restless sonic curiosity.
Points (LP)
Original 1981 second album by the San Francisco experimental collective as wacky and privately released on Seeland as the first one.
A Big 10-8 Place (LP)
Original 1983 album with poster cover and inserts and the last privately released on Seeland by the San Francisco experimental collective.
Eskimo
Original 1980 pressing on black vinyl on Raplh Records with gatefold sleeve of possibly one of the strangest records ever made, by one of the strangest and most original bands that ever existed. With original innersleeve.
Eskimo (picture-LP)
1983 picture-disc re-issue of The Residents' classic 1980 album, possibly one of the strangest records ever made, by one of the strangest and most original bands that ever existed.
Diskomo / Goosebump
Original 1980 EP on Ralph records with a wacky disco version of Eskimo backed with one of the band's greatest achievements, the toy-instrument extravaganza Goosebump featuring Snakefinger.
Commercial Album
Original UK edition on Pre of the eye-balled band's fantastic 1980 album of irresitible one-minute strange tunes.
Intermission (12"EP)
Original 1982 US EP on Ralph Records with the excellent "extraneous music from The Residents' Mole Show".
Mole Show (picture-LP)
1983 picture-disc version limited to 1500 copies of the 'official bootleg' on Ralph Records with recordings of the live Mole Show in 1982.
George & James (American Composer Series - Volume 1) (LP)
Original 1984 US edition on Ralph Records of the first volume of The American Composer Series with the Residents paying hommage to the music of George Gershwin and James Brown.
Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats? (LP)
Original 1984 edition on Ralph of the new soundtrack to the footage shot by the Residents in the 70's attempting to make 'the' definitive experimental film.
The King & Eye (LP)
Original Dutch edition on Torso of The Rez's heartfelt and bizarre hommage to Elvis Presley.