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Out of stockOur love for Laila Sakini's enigmatic slowcore is long and deep, here presented at its most unadorned and devastating Using voice, guitar, bells, recorder and assorted household objects, she manages to burn us to a cinder within seconds Spectral guitar and dub-smeared, metallic shakes lead us in, buckling as Sakini's voice echoes...
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Trolling The De-Enlightenment is a solo live recording from Alan Bishop under his well-known Alvarius B alias It was recorded on various occasions throughout western Europe during and after the period he was recording his 2017 trilogy release With A Beaker On The Burner and An Otter In The Oven (ABDT 059CD, 2017) Bishop's presence...
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Eight-page booklet with rare and unpublished photos Heavyweight 180-gram LP In 1972, trumpeter Baikida Carroll and some of his colleagues from the Black Artists Group (more precisely saxophonist/flutist Oliver Lake, trombonist Joseph Bowie, drummer Charles "Bobo" Shaw and trumpeter Floyd LeFlore) took the advice of their friends...
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Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden… is the latest instalment in composer, improviser, saxophonist, and visual artist Matana Roberts’ visionary project exploring African-American history through ancestry, archive and place Weaving together elements of jazz, avant-garde composition, folk and spoken word, Roberts tells the...
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Occasionally, you find music outside the commercial mainstream, outside of everything – the music of visionaries, eccentrics, inventors, loners, the keepers of secrets, the path-finders Moondog, Daphne Oram, Harry Partch are from this mould And so too is Lori Vambe New on Strut, the first ever reissue of Vambe’s privately...
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Out of stockConcocted from a bank of recordings alchemised on one box and a two-track recorder, Young Druid follows 12 ley-lines of investigation with findings equally applicable to occult soirees and the downtime of amateur archaeologists and tyrannical trap lords alike; conjuring a haul of exquisitely ornate, glyphic hooks, gilded dub...
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My favourite memories are the odd ones Sharing Larry Grayson’s old dressing room, author Lawrence Norfolk telling a journalist that the Mount Vernon Arts Lab was one of his go to bands when writing, organising the first concert of electronic music in a nuclear command bunker in 1998, playing shows with Silver Apples, Add N to...
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Colleen thrives on reinvention For over two decades under the name, French artist Cécile Schott has continuously pushed her compositional practice into new directions Her creative approaches have included complex samples and loops, instrumental processing and even dub production techniques applied to the baroque viola da gamba...
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Turman first came onto the industrial scene in the late 70’s as the ominous ‘other half’ of legendary noise outfit NON Shortly after recording the classic 1977 single Mode of Infection, Turman went on to pursue his own unique vision as a solo artist Fusing every possible influence at his disposal while laying his ideas down...
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"Fearlessly Accessing the Divine Spirit From Here on Out" is the vinyl debut from up-and-coming pianist, composer, and producer Diego Gaeta He has previously released projects as Club Diego and with the trio Human Error Club (whose members Mekala Session and Jesse Justice helped produce this record) He has quickly become a fixture...
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Jungle Gym Records presents "Trail Canyon Suite", official debut of the Angeles Field Orchestra Deep listening organics, absolute modern classical, exclusively from Jungle Gym! Classic white cassette + double sided J-Card in a clear hard shell case Red "Side A" marker Hand packaged, limited edition run of 54 [JGT90] "Trail...
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JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents the official self-titled debut of LA's "Wire"! Armed with a single drum machine the mysterious duo forge an incredible range of atmospheres, from panicked prison-break techno to cavernous tunnel-rat noise landing like a ton of bricks, exclusively from JUNGLE GYM [JGT89] "Wire" (s/t) by...
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JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Profiler", a brand new offering from LA's V Kristoff Six silhouettes for body, mind and spirit, VK moves in shadows, observing the human form through micro-dub gestures and sparkling ambient texturals a distant beautiful world, exclusively from JUNGLE GYM [JGT96] "Profiler" by V...
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JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Examinations", official debut of Mitchell Crk Sifting through shattered industrial rubbish and 3rd-degree-burn ambient, MC surveys the bleakest of environments, head tripping into the abyss with no relief in sight exclusively for JUNGLE GYM! [JGT88] "Examinations" by Mitchell...
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JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Mekong", a brand new collaborative offering from Scurge & Slow Heat Jungle-mist drones envelop anxious blood-moon electronics in this fully immersive audio experience, peak improvisation from two of LA's best experimentalists exclusively from JUNGLE GYM [JGT91] "Mekong" by Scurge & Slow...
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JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Słońca Brak", official label debut of Warsaw's Verlake Following a string of high quality offerings for various boutique micro-labels (including their own "Laral Tapes"), Verlake surfaces on JG with their most polished and comprehensive album to date, a smoked out collection of lunar-tidal dub,...
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Out of stockA massive honor to be releasing the first in a four volume retrospective of one of Africa’s most influential musicians of the last 30 years - kuduro and tarraxinha pioneer and originator DJ Znobia A genius of street music and the pivotal visionary of Angola’s digital musical modernism, Znobia is the inventor Nyege Nyege...
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Out of stockHiroshima-based artist Meitei announces the reissue of Kwaidan on the 5th anniversary of his groundbreaking debut album A collaboration between 2 labels – KITCHEN LABEL (Kofū I & II) and Evening Chants (Kwaidan), the reissue sees the highly anticipated special 5th Anniversary Edition of Kwaidan with two previously...
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2023 repress In 1973, Stay On It turned the coordinates of avant-garde music on its head It is minimal, but un-ashamedly groovy; it is open to improvisation, grants performers all the freedom they could need, but it isn't jazz and never slips into the non-committal It is open to theatrical and performative elements, but also to...
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A note from Lawrence English: "I first met David Toop some 20 years ago I think we were in touch shortly before that, but our first meeting took place when I invited him to Australia to perform and to speak as part of REV, a festival held at Brisbane Power-house It was a memorable meeting, I vividly remember his solo performance...
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Out of stockFollowing the 2008 release of a pair of double-LPs, Ba Da Bing and Jagjaguwar continue their Dead C reissue project with two new records Relegated to expensive fodder for eBay bidders until now, Clyma Est Mort can be considered The Dead C's "Ed Sullivan moment," except it wasn't performed live on network TV--it was recorded in a...
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"In early 2000s New Zealand, Little Skull started as a small project Smallness was perhaps the defining characteristic Lathe cut 7-inches in vanishingly small editions, the intricate, fiddly covers hand- crafted with what one would have to assume were very small hands Or just with the aid of tweezers perhaps The labels of these...
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Six Organs of Admittance takes listeners through an extended narcoleptic journey on Sleep Tones, an all-electronic double album of new ambient work Mastered by VDSQ labelmate Chuck Johnson, Sleep Tones was made with a specific effect in mind These new sounds from the Six Organs universe represent an essential creative shift from...
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Out of stock"North Carolina based singer/songwriter Rosali Middleman has spent the last decade using her voice and guitar to construct tunes built upon the spectrum between joy and pain -- deeply personal lyrics, profound vocals, and striking, heady guitar synchronizing as a perfect pair to deliver a very welcome and fresh perspective on folk...
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Black Truffle announce The Leisure Principle, a new solo LP from London-based bassist and sound artist Otto Willberg A key player in the London underground, Willberg is often heard on acoustic and electric bass in free improv settings and bands with Laurie Tompkins (Yes Indeed) and Charles Hayward (Abstract Concrete), as well as...
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For the exhibition "Flowers in 20th and 21st Century Art", Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O'Rourke had created the installation Lifetime of a Flower in which they set parameters but allowed the process itself to grow uncontrollably Literally: in the garden of their Japanese house, they planted seeds and filmed the plant growing and...
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Out of stockThere was a particular type of artist who could only have emerged in the legendary early 1970s Few musicians fit the bill better than Conrad Schnitzler Revolution, pop art and Fluxus created a climate which engendered unbridled artistic and social development Radical utopias, excessive experimentation with drugs, and ruthless (in...
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Out of stockOfficial reissue of the modern cult classic -- this time on triple LP with side-F snake etching Focusing on slow paced bass studies and synthetic dub textures, surrounded by collaged and looped field recording environments, Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement shrouds sound over image to target the sector of brain where fear...
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Black Truffle welcome free jazz legend Joe McPhee back to the fold with Oblique Strategies, a wild trio recorded in Antwerp in 2018 in the company of Mette Rasmussen's fire-breathing alto saxophone and Dennis Tyfus's post-Fluxus antics on tape, voice, and percussion Rasmussen and Tyfus have previously recorded together as...
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Recorded live by Jürgen Lindenau on April 14th and 15th, 1974 during the Workshop Freie Musik at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin This album was originally released on FMP(0180) in 1975 and remastered in 2022 by Martin Siewert Featuring: Peter Brötzmann (alto and baritone saxophone, clarinet); Albert Mangelsdorff (trombone);...
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Recorded live by Jost Gebers on May 4th,1974 at the Ost-West-Festival in Nürnberg This album was originally released on FMP(0200) in 1975, and remastered in 2022 by Martin Siewert Featuring: Peter Brötzmann (alto and tenor saxophone, clarinet); Fred Van Hove (piano); Han Bennink (drums, clarinet, homemade junk, everything,...
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In the spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's Trout Mask Replica, a double-album featuring 28 stream-of-consciousness songs filled with abstract rhythms and guttural bellows, dramatically altered the pop landscape Yet even if the album did cast its radical vision over the future of...
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A split release between Utter and special guest dj’s 3XL, ‘they're with you always’ supplies sanctuary for fried minds and bodies with a highly effective escape pod to serene and OOBE-like dimensions The artist’s thizzing backdrops of sferic resonances and massaged subs are in step with his 2021 debut ‘Let Me Put Myself...
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Roiling in the wake of his Cav Empt tape, PLO Man’s ‘anonymousmaterial’ prizes the whole “faceless techno” era of ‘90s dance music when a cohort of lowkey artists laid the bed for for today’s LARPers On each count PLO Man coaxes pulsating rhythms and chattering synths with restless, hands-on discipline that we...
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"At last, the trade edition of Schiamachy has appeared, following the test-press/tour version by more than a couple of months The album's title is a term used to describe mock battles between warriors It's a fair description of the music on this record, although it's safe to say the battle was a friendly one Michael Zerang is a...
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Resolve acts in dialogue with the minimalist inspirations of the first Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings release, 1982’s Nodal Excitation—in effect, looking beneath the hood of several decades of progression to review and renew the revolutionary intent of their microtonal foundation credo This new...
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Following nearly 20 years of working together as a trio, and numerous cross-collaborations in different configuration between them, Ideologic Organ presents Placelessness, the debut full-length by Chris Abrahams, Oren Ambarchi, and Robbie Avenaim, comprising two long-form works at juncture of ambient music, minimalism, rigorous...
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Out of stockThe fourth release in Blank Forms Editions’s initiative to chart the ever-expanding musical practice of Catherine Christer Hennix, Solo for Tamburium captures the composer’s most recent major work Hennix plays an instrument of her own creation, a keyboard interface controlling a suite of eighty-eight recordings of...
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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 (Branca, 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...
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LP version Over the last ten years a strange mycelium was sprouting from the ground of Germany's sound topography, going widely unnoticed while creeping its way up through the corpse of the ubiquitous "neo-kraut", "diskurs-pop", and the like This is a small underground network of artists and projects with poetic, mysterious names...
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Out of stockFirst ever, remastered vinyl version The core duo plus guest collaborators expands its sonic palette of Rick Brown's elemental percussive patterns and Che Chen's ecstatic modal guitar style to a new musical richness With some tape releases and their first album Wooden Bag, 75 Dollar Bill quickly introduced themselves as one of the...
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Hear the music of Philip Glass as you've never heard it before, as Donald Joyce performs Glass's haunting works on one of America's best tracker pipe organs The intricate nuance and rich texture of Glass's music are given sonic splendor by this handcrafted instrument with 4861 pipes, four keyboards, and 70 stops Glass Organ...
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Debut album from 18-year old Discreet Music hangaround Andre Home recorded brilliance mainly based on guitar and occasional synthesizers with a sparse use of environmental recordings The A-side was recorded in September and October 2022 and is a majestic collage of introspective bummed out music with gloomy drones and almost...
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Mountain Hawk has been part of the Osaka modular synthesizer scene for quite some time, She played a mesmerizing set at last year’s Muzan ambient festival and we’re honored that she chose Muzan for this full length album “Haze” feels like a delicate homage to the symphony of life on this planet As each track unfolds, the...
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Out of stockFollowing it’s surprise digital release, Sigur Rós’ first new studio album in ten years, ÁTTA, is their most intimate and emotionally direct record to date Few bands cut through the noise and distractions of the world to bring you a pure elemental truth or feeling like Sigur Rós As you hear on ÁTTA, there’s a new...
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“This sound / synapse transposition is as haunting as it is beautiful—surely Grouper’s best”—Tiny Mix Tapes “If past Grouper releases have inhabited abyssal trenches and damp backwoods, here Harris takes us journeying across constellations and stars Two of the most beguiling albums of the year, exquisitely realized...