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Issue 70 (Magazine)
Audion 70 catches Audion Magazine in full investigative mode, tracing unlikely connections between avant-garde improvisers, 1970s label culture and the latest mutations of progressive rock. At its core is a substantial feature on AMM / AMMMusic, treating the ensemble not as a distant academic reference but as a living fault-line in post‑war sound. The article unpacks how AMM’s radical non-idiomatic improvisation, tape abuse and volume-as-material approach rewired the language of collective playi…
Chromophobia
A record made for the ones we lost. Oli Heffernan returns with his fourth album for Riot Season - an expansive double LP that carries with it a deep personal history and years of unfinished business.
The earliest sessions date back to 2018 at the IDI in Middlesbrough, engineered by longtime collaborator Nigel Crooks over the course of three weekends. Then life happened. The material was shelved, left to gather dust for reasons that accumulated and compounded. When Crooks passed away in 2023, com…
Autodidact II
*Limited edition of 100 copies* Finally! The crucial 2021 album by Middlesbrough's Oli Heffernan gets the double vinyl treatment it always deserved. Originally released as a cassette on Cruel Nature Records and gone way too fast, Autodidact II is one of the great documents of UK experimental music from this decade - a sprawling, fog-drenched journey through psychogeography, North Yorkshire folklore and sonic territories that shift under your feet.
Recorded during three separate sessions in July …
The Gaia II Space Corps
Motorpsycho has always been of the opinion that the most interesting stuff happens in any art form before it is formatted and settled. In rock music, this phenomenon peaked in and around 1970, and it is in this period that the best heavy music was made, simply because the rules weren’t set, there were not ropes yet, and there were no clichés to fall back on.
The Gaia ll Space Corps is an album of tunes that don’t quite sound like heavy metal or hard rock, but clearly is reaching for some of the …
Wave Field
If you’ve been following the wanderings of prolific psychedelic magicians Elkhorn, you might be surprised that Elkhorn guitarist Drew Garder’s solo LP Wave Field is the most out and out “rock” record on VHF in many years. Working here in a small group with excellent players Tom Malach (guitar), Andy Cush (bass), and Ryan Jewel (drums), Gardner cuts loose on a set of propulsive and swinging material that allows him to greatly expand his sound into unexpected areas. “Rhizoid” starts with a sneaky …
M
A collection of intimate songs traced from the spectral darkness by Asahito Nanjo, the notorious leader of some of Japan’s key underground psychedelic units (High Rise, Mainliner, Musica Transonic, Toho Sara, etc) Recorded between 1980 and 1988 and previously only available in a cassette micro-edition released by his La Musica Records label in the mid-1990’s. Remastered and available for the first time on vinyl and digital. “A compilation of secret projects recorded over a period of twenty years…
Before Time Began - Radio Broadcast 1967-1970
Renowned rock pioneers Pink Floyd's Before Time Began - Radio Broadcast 1967-1970 is a captivating collection capturing the band’s formative era through rare radio and television broadcasts across England and continental Europe. This meticulously curated set features performances spanning from 1967—when Syd Barrett still led the band’s creative vision—through to 1970, including iconic appearances on French radio and a memorable concert at London’s Paris Theatre hosted by John Peel. The recording…
Eclipse (recordings for john peel at the BBC Paris Theatre, London)
This remarkable collection of vintage concerts captures Pink Floyd live in 1971, recorded by BBC Radio and originally broadcast as part of their legendary Rocker series. The performances were introduced by none other than iconic DJ John Peel, whose influence helped shape the progressive rock scene of the era.
Recorded at the historic BBC Paris Theatre in London, Eclipse showcases Pink Floyd’s extraordinary lineup during a pivotal moment in their career. The band features David Gilmour on guitars…
Viva
Viva is the seminal second album by the German band La Düsseldorf, originally released in 1978 and widely regarded as their most successful work to date. The album features the hit singles "Rheinita," which stands as their most popular track, and "Cha Cha 2000," an expansive and utopian composition blending hypnotic repetition, delicate piano passages, evocative chants, and rich electronic textures. This track has become the band’s signature anthem and a dreamy manifesto envisioning a more ideal…
Taghelle Nacht
Across an extensive suite of enchanting miniatures, Matthias Kremsreiter and Christian Schoppik present the hypnagogic vision of Taghelle Nacht. Recording under their respective Roudi Vagou and Läuten der Seele aliases, Kremsreiter and Schoppik combine their distinct but equally accomplished instrumental practices into a new collaboration that weaves swooning samples amongst instrumental passages. They lead us through 16 vignettes that revel in the cognitive dissonance and seductive magic of moo…
The Boston Tea Party July 11th 1969 vol.2
The Boston Tea Party Live Set from July 1969 Released in Two Brand New Volumes
The Boston Tea Party July 11th 1969 vol.1
The Boston Tea Party Live Set from July 1969 Released in Two Brand New Volumes
"Chaire" and "Live at Pomigliano D'Arco - 1973"
Chaire is an album built on compositions written between 1974 and 1983, newly arranged, restored, and recorded by Cervello with voice tracks of Gianluigi Di Franco restored from archival tapes. Centered on the multifaceted meaning of its Greek title—blessing, greeting, care—the album moves between memory and present, fusing Mediterranean roots, symphonic structure, and visionary arrangements into a contemporary progressive suite. Paired with Live At Pomigliano D'Arco - 1973, which documents a hi…
Melos
Cervello's Melos stands as a singular gem in the Italian progressive rock canon. Released in 1973, the album draws inspiration from Greek mythology, weaving Mediterranean folk elements into intricate prog rock compositions. Dominated by dense flute harmonies and shifting time signatures, Melos envelops listeners in a dreamlike blend of mythic storytelling, technical virtuosity, and poetic lyricism.
The Velvet Underground & Nico (LP)
*2025 Reprint. Edition featuring the album’s artworks directly printed within the vinyl surface.* Over Half a century later, this record still slays; if any album is deserving of the "classic" tag, it's The Velvet Underground & Nico. Lou Reed's affected vocals, Nico's female Lugosi-style recitations, John Cale's droning strings, Moe Tucker's minimal kit - this landmark work laid down paths that musicians today are still trying to follow. Just pick any track: "I'm Waiting For The Man," "Sunday Mo…
So Far
CD Digipack. Wümme, Lower Saxony. 1972. A converted schoolhouse. Inside: a tangle of cables, reel-to-reel machines, custom electronics soldered together by hands that refused manuals. This was not a professional recording studio. This was Faust's laboratory—and So Far was the experiment that proved you could rewire rock music's circuitry without killing the patient. Six months earlier, Faust had released their self-titled debut—a savage dismantling of what a rock album could be. Tape edits slice…
Hanabi
An’archives are thrilled to present the debut album by Tokyo avant-pop duo Jyuriaano, Dreaming Glass.
Lumpy Gravy
2025 stock Lumpy Gravy is the debut solo album by Frank Zappa, an album of orchestral, electric and concrete sound written by Zappa and performed by a group of session players he dubbed the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra. Zappa conducted the orchestra but did not perform on the album. It is his third album overall: his previous releases had been under the name of his group, The Mothers of Invention. It was commissioned and briefly released, on August 7, 1967, by Capitol Records in…
Uncle Meat
2025 stock Frank Zappa’s “Uncle Meat” is one of the most extraordinary records released in the 1960s, its sonic signature is so distinctive and so ineluctably alien, and it’s really not even a rock album, in the conventional use of the word. Although “Uncle Meat” is easy enough to sit through, it takes multiple plays to even begin to come to terms with it, and to process its irreducible complexity. “Uncle Meat” was never going to trouble even the margins of the mainstream, and its experimentalis…
Dedicated to You ...
First time ever official vinyl reissue, gatefold 140g vinyl, remastered from the original Vertigo master tapes. Be With Records proudly announces the highly anticipated reissue of The Keith Tippett Group's Dedicated to You, But You Weren't Listening, a landmark achievement in cutting-edge fusion and avant-jazz that stands as one of the most vital and profoundly adventurous jazz-rock records ever recorded. Originally released on Vertigo in 1971, this essential album has aged ridiculously well, wi…