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Out of stockIt began with ‘Kwaidan’, a simmering study on the lost art of Japanese ghost story-telling Then there was ‘Komachi’, baptized in the earthly winds and static that define its comforting sonics On ‘Kofū’, Meitei masterfully closes his trilogy of lost Japanese moods with an engaging interrogation of artforms and...
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Gordon Koang is a Nuer musician, hailing from the banks of the River Nile in what is now South Sudan Born blind, he began playing music on the streets of Juba as a young man though has now become a grassroots hero, the voice of the Nuer people, a prominent figure in the fight for cultural independence in South Sudan,...
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"First in a series of three records of library music miniatures from composer and multi-instrumentalist Daniel O'Sullivan (Æthenor, Ulver, This is Not This Heat, etc) For heads, the term 'library music' in 2020 might evoke dodgy Italian gray market LPs and crate diggers hunting for 'funky breaks' -- but London's venerable KPM...
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Born and raised in Argentina, Morita Vargas is an experimental artist and producer based in Buenos Aires She manipulates her voice through reverbs, delays and whispers, singing in a self-invented 'language' The sound of Morita’s voice is a portal into her thriving, dreamlike world brimming, shimmering and beating with unrefined...
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Previously issued by Dead Bison under Luke's Natsukashii moniker as a cassette only release, featured on Bandcamp daily and sold out within a few weeks, this stunning album finally sees the light of day on a proper vinyl release Here's what Bandcamp had to say: "Natsukashii’s Driving East is described as an ambient record with a...
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Linkwood s debut album System from way back in 2010 finally gets a timely reissue on his own imprint Night Theatre Fresh with a new two colour screen printed sleeve and a couple of track changes, the album (in his own words) is how it should have looked and sounded the first time around , occupying an important transitional...
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Out of stockAn hour of deeply inspirational House music for the ages that could have been produced 20 years ago, or earlier this year - we’ll probably never know Heat is a new double album from Shinichi Atobe for DDS It follows on from last year’s “From The Heart, It’s A Start, A Work Of Art” set and continues a run of...
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Out of stockComposer, trumpeter, producer, DJ and founder of Gondwana Records, Matthew Halsall has always worn many hats But at the heart of everything that he does Halsall is first and foremost an artist and a musician A trumpeter whose unflashy, soulful playing radiates a thoughtful beauty and a composer and band-leader who has created his...
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Up until the release of his debut album in 2014, Shinichi Atobe managed to stay off grid since his release on Basic Channel’s Chain Reaction imprint back in 2001 He delivered the second-to-last 12” on the label and then disappeared without a trace, leaving behind a solitary 12” and a trail of speculation that led some people...
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Out of stockSwitch on your receiver and tune in to Far Out Radio Systems for another essential transmission A lengthy one this time, since On Boolean Plains is the debut album of this Belgium production unit Station master of Far Out Radio Systems is the Genk based producer Thomas Neyens, who keeps a cinemascope view on electronic music and...
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Out of stockNever released outside South Africa since its original release in 1974, Outernational Sounds presents one of the most sought-after international jazz exclusives ever to appear on South Africa's famous Gallo imprint: the funky, spiritual and outward bound Habiba Limited, fully licensed vinyl reissue of a lost modal classic by...
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Kaoru Inoue's Chari Chari project returns with a new age-tinted album that fuses a multi-instrumental palette with delicate ambient electronics for a truly immersive sonic experience 'Of Mystic Dreams' plots a course through dreamy distant lands with a steady rhythmic undercurrent, while 'Esfera De Agua' lingers in a playful and...
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Out of stockOn his second Blue Note album Tender Moments, pianist and composer McCoy Tyner explored the colors and textures available in a nonet setting with some of the finest musicians of the time: Lee Morgan on trumpet, Julian Priester on trombone, Bennie Maupin on tenor saxophone, James Spaulding on alto saxophone and flute, Bob Northern...
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A collaborative mini-LP Richard Swift and Lonnie Holley This 5-song collaboration between artist Lonnie Holley and the late visionary producer Richard Swift is a tribute to urgent, raw, American art — from Howlin’ Wolf to Captain Beefheart, from Cecil Taylor to Bo Diddley The songs pulse with anger, hope, energy and a...
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Out of stockFollowing the success of 2019’s The Ghost EP, which garnered praise from the likes of Bradley Zero, Resident Advisor and DJ Python, Pub Talk arrives October 16th, as the debut LP from London bred and Queens based Joey G ii Written over the course of five years, Pub Talk centers on Joe reliving the genuinely enlightening nights...
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Out of stockSONS and Pyramid Of Knowledge deliver no nonsense, acid psychedelia as Giorgio Celeste & The Cobra Tales From Terkaarg is propulsive and irresistible, a masterclass in rhythm and unusual 303 programming It incorporates elements of techno, electro and psytrance into a cocktail of electronic exoticism and synaesthesia...
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Out of stockTara Clerkin Trio present their self titled debut LP on Laura Lies In Similar to that directorial effect of filming at double speed and then slowing down for playback, the record ambles with assurance, expertly paced Opening with a jovial cacophony before the beatific ‘in the room’ confidently relieves, washing away any...
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Out of stockNowadays Arica exists only as the ‘Arica Institute’, a school of spiritual development formed and led by Chilean mystic Oscar Ichazo…however, the collective also produced several musical albums in the US (presumably to increase awareness of the school), this resulted in the release of four totally eclectic masterpieces:...
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Out of stockThe sublime songs comprising Los Angeles-based musician Ana Roxanne’s second record, Because Of A Flower, germinated gradually across five years, inspired by interwoven notions of gender identity, beauty, and cruelty She describes her process as beginning with “a drone element and a mood,” then intuiting melody, syllables,...
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Out of stockBorn amidst the gathering of enslaved Africans in New Orleans’ Congo Square, and nurtured in nightclubs, and festivals around the world, jazz is by nature a public, social music For Harlem-based harp and bass duo Brandee Younger and Dezron Douglas, Covid-19 and the lockdown of public spaces challenged them to find a way to...
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I can’t actually remember why we decided to do this project other than ask ourselves, why had it not been done years ago let’s do it! Linkwood and Other Lands are well known from their various outings on Firecracker, Night Theatre, The Nuclear Family, Rush Hour, Dekmantel, AOTN and many other labels, both talented musicians...
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Floating Points returns with the official release of his somewhat infamous, jazzy, electric, house 110 bpm bumper 'Marilyn' This tune was made for soundsystems! Backed with the sumptous string arrangements and earth shattering bassline of "Farukx" this is a 2 tracker custom built for the approaching sunny...
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Ilian Tapes bosses Dario and Marco Zenker return with more minimal techno experimentalism on their long-awaited second LP But there hasn’t exactly been a dearth of Zenker Brothers releases lately; the road to Cosmic Transmission has been dotted with a string of dubby deep space techno micro-manifestos they refined with 2020’s...
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Out of stockFirst come, first served, only a handful available! Constructed from an array of samples and environmental recordings plus plenty of feedback, Zoviet France's 'Further Collusion' exudes a rare beauty for an album of such varied sounds (each track was originally released on a different compilation Limited to 300 copies...
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First come, first served, only a handful available! Reissue of 1990 album, limited to 300 copies :zovietfrance: is an idiosyncratic group of anonymous music makers, gatherers of sound, and fabricators of unknown music For nearly 40 years, they have explored and reported back from the liminal areas of music and composition, walking...
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The Latin Taste LP is a rare bossa nova which energizes the overall feeling of the music, while taking it to another dimension The grooves and vibes are just enough to keep the listener motivated at the work place, while also adding the feeling that one should be "chillin" in the warmth of the sun, with a refreshing cold...
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Out of stockFeelings is considered an absolute cult inside the library music panorama As the same Torossi recently said, the album was played only by studio musicians…; the best we could find at the time, and the results show The album sees the participation of Sandro Brugnolini, Giancarlo Gazzani, Puccio Roelens and Stefano Torossi,...
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Out of stockLP version 180 gram vinyl; Half speed mastered; Heavy sleeve and obi We Release Jazz announce the official reissue of Ryo Fukui's final album, the very personal contemporary jazz offering, A Letter from Slowboat, sourced from the original masters Known for his miraculous albums 1976's Scenery and 1977's Mellow Dream, legendary...
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Out of stockRestocked Absolutely essential spiritual jazz masterpiece from 1975 This is an exact repro of the original release; it was also re-released with different cover art with Herbie Hancock and Don Cherry as the artists In addition to Hancock and Cherry, performers include Buster Williams, Mtume, Ed Blackwell and Billy Bonner Back...Out of stockLike Psychic TV before them, Crack Cloud have a philosophy, and one that they are not afraid to wear on their sleeves While their anarchic, phantas- magorical visuals, heavy use of symbology, and seemingly never-ending cast of colourful collaborators have often invited cult comparisons, this really does the collective no...Cindy Lee, the performance and songwriting vehicle of Canadian artist Patrick Flegel (who fronted influential indie group Women earlier), previously stunned listeners with Act Of Tenderness, a heart-wrenching statement informed by the noirish core of celebrity, and has continued to enchant with every album, including the startling...Out of stock2020 repress #8 on Pitchfork's "50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time" list To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Deep Listening, Important Records offer a definitive double-LP combining the classic, complete original 1989 release with selected tracks from the Deep Listening Band's 1991 album, The Ready Made Boomerang Recorded in a...Out of stockLos Angeles-based harpist Mary Lattimore returns with Silver Ladders, the full-length follow-up to acclaimed album Hundreds of Days Since 2018, Lattimore has toured internationally, released collaborative albums with artists such as Meg Baird and Mac McCaughan, and shared a friends-based remix album featuring artists such as...Out of stockBeverly Glenn-Copeland’s music radiates with beauty, compassion, and a belief that change is always possible He’s paved a unique path for himself—beginning his career with a series of jazz-inflected solo albums in the early 1970’s, he spent over 20 years as a beloved children’s television writer and performer (on...At a time when soul-jazz was the zeitgeist when it came to jazz keyboards, musician/songwriter Larry Young bucked the reigning trends with his Hammond B-3 organ Young's style, which came about during the mid-to-late 1960s, was sharp, technical, and highly influenced by modal scales, standing in contrast to the breezier style that...Out of stockThe theme of this exceptional album is the beautiful South Pacific sea, with music written by Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki and Tatsuro Yamashita At this time Haruomi Hosono was just in the middle of preparing for YMO, and the three songs he was in charge of were produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yukihiro Takahashi and a few...Out of stockSome friends think that Shihab the man owes the balance of his soul to his beautiful Danish wife They may be right; for Eros is the very essence of what Shihab playsYet Eros is a god with many a face A tale of tender mournings Shihab's flute is telling in MAUVE - a piece that translates its title into delicately changing colors...Out of stockFugitive Light And Themes Of Consolation is the third in a trio of records by Andrew Wasylyk which unearth and reshape the landscape of Eastern Scotland as shimmering and inventive instrumental music Where Themes for Buildings and Spaces (2017) toured the architecture and industry of Dundee, evoking a place caught between decay...In the pantheon of electronic music Terry Riley's 'A Rainbow In Curved Air' adorns a pedestal front and centre Taking inspiration from Hindustani classical music and the jazz techniques of Bill Evans and John Coltrane before him, Riley's minimalist psychedelic masterpiece can claim a direct influence on generations of musicians...Out of stockNow reissued on DOUBLE-LP, 'Vernal Crossing' is Rapoon's fourth album, originally released in 1993 by Staalplaat This edition includes an additional track called 'Total Crossing', edited/constructed by Colin Potter, who has overseen the remastering of the...Ambrose Akinmusire follows his acclaimed, genre-busting best-of-2018 manifesto "Origami Harvest" with another visionary statement on his new album "on the tender spot of every calloused moment," which finds the trumpeter examining blackness on an uncompromising set of modern jazz laced with a heavy feeling of the blues The album...Out of stockThis 4LP Deluxe Edition will feature the classic album remastered for the very first time by Prince’s original mastering engineer Bernie Grundman, along with single mixes and edits released in the period the album was released Overflowing with musical ideas and topical lyrics that sound just as relevant today as they...Out of stockImagine the opposite of a snake shedding its skin: a body slithering among the debris of 21st-century music; a porous, viscid body, its skin an adhesive, lodging onto itself bits and pieces along the way Some are scraps, rusted, discarded parts Some are the jewels of crowns, unglued and fallen from grace, now re-attached on this...Tel-Aviv’s Fortuna Records open a new section in your collection with The Haunting Sounds of Yemenite-Israeli Funk 1973-1984, scanning eight obscurities ranging from the ethereal slow disco of Reuma Abas on Wa’ana Fad Leumi, thru kinetic jazz-funk by David Dor, taking in an organ and bongo-brimming soul bomb by Tsvia...We love food Like really So when our brothers at Haachim restaurant asked us to compile a special Fortuna LP for their restaurant, we said hell yesss! And here it is: "Hafla", a set of 10 killer tunes we licensed especially for this compilation One-off tracks from the golden era of Jaffa, dancefloor certified bangers, and all-time...