Alessandro Steffana has posted a video of the Guano Padano recording session with the renowned whistler of the Morricone soundtracks. Click here to view.

Brion Gysin's Dreamchine:

A very small number of Dreamachines are available for order within North America. More information can be found here.
In the next year Important will be issuing Music For Dream Machine, a 3 cd set, as well as an accompanying booklet including Dreamachine overview,physiologial effects and notes on binaural beats, plans, Gysin chronology, Interviews & references.

NEW OCTOBER TITLES ON IMPORTANT AVAILABLE NOW:
GUANO PADANO Self Titled CD $11.99
HOLY SONS Criminals Return CD $11.99
WOOLEY/LYTTON/GRUBBS Seven Storey Mountain CD $11.99
MERZBOW Bird Series Vol 10 CD $11.99
MOUNTAINHOOD Arts & Crafts Series Vol 10 7" $10

ELEH/NANA APRIL JUN split LP AVAILABLE NOW
($3 shipping domestic/$7 Canada/Mexico)
North America only. Overseas orders should be directed to Touch who will make this available on Nov 2 for mailorder. Beyond their reserved mailorder copies it is sold out at the source.
Important has 100 copies to offer.

From Touch:

The split vinyl format is a great meeting point for this idea of digital persona and analogue privacy. The effect, we hope, is for the vinyl to represent a digital question... That this LP summons up a universal sound and an intimate sphere of operations... Which is of course a continuing dilemma. Here is a great opportunity to hear Eleh and Nana April Jun at their finest.

NEW ON IMPORTANT & LPs BACK IN STOCK
We've got a brand new full length from Dominique Leone. Abstract Expression is his sophomore release following his heavily acclaimed self titled debut full length. There's a couple new tote bags, a super limited double sided Conifer t-shirt (they broke up so we won't be getting any more) and the following out of print titles are back in stock on LP thanks to a small return from one of our distributors:
SKULL DEFEKTS The Temple imprec235
ELEH/PAULINE OLIVEROS imprec206
CITAY Little Kingdom imprec139
HOTOTOGISU Pale Fatal Sister imprec210
OCEAN/CONIFER split imprec144
XBXRX Sounds imprec166
BEEQUEEN Sandancing Demos imprec186
DAN FRIEL Ghost Town imprec187
GRAILS Take Refuge In Clean Living imprec190
TOM CARTER Shots At Infinity 2 imprec203
CONIFER Crown Fire imprec209
TECUMSEH Avalanche & Inundation imprec211

GIFT CERTIFICATES AVAILABLE
Ask and you shall receive. We'll ship these little guys anywhere in the world just for you. More info here.

OM Conference Live handmade LP $20
Some of the records we received originally were defective and the factory was nice enough to replace them. So, we've got 200 copies on gold vinyl housed in screen printed jackets designed by David D'Andrea. Check out the tour poster he designed over at the Monolith Press website.

Domestic & European Cave tour dates have been posted to the Important site and to Cave's myspace page.

ELEH "Homage To The Sine Wave" NOW AVAILABLE $20
($3 shipping domestic/$7 Canada/Mexico/$12 overseas)

We'll include Sine Wave One for the first 30 mailorder customers for free. This is a signed 3 color print limited to 50 copies.
Exclusive to Important mailorder customers is Sine Wave Two which you can add to your order for $10 extra. Sine Wave Two is a 3 color screen print hand numbered to 50 and signed.
We have a limited amount of copies of Eleh's brand new Homage To The Sine Wave available for Important mailorder customers. Like Homage To The Square Wave these are extremely deluxe. The jackets are letterpressed onto 100% post-consumer heavy duty stock, records are 200 gram virgin vinyl & the screen printed inserts are printed by Neil Burke @ Monoroid.

NEW RELEASES FOR JUNE 2009: RISIL CD/LP, ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE CD/LP, TONGUES OF MOUNT MERU & MERZBOW

There's a bunch of new titles up on the site including Risil (members of Prefuse 73, Savath & Savallas, Tortoise, Hella, Battles, School Of Seven Bells), Acid Mothers Temple, Merzbow & Tongues Of Mount Meru (members of Jazzkammer and Thorns)
We've also got a new record bag design by Jake Blanchard (he did the Risil art) and the last copies of the acclaimed Cave record are still in stock.
The summer is still young @ Important. Look for the long delayed Om & Ocean vinyl in the next month or two plus the first full length LP from Deceh, more Merzbow, Eliane Radigue and a whole lot more.

Twitter has been an amazing way to get micro-news out to followers of Important Records. You can always check this news page for the "big stuff" but the details are being taken care of on Twitter.

MERZBOW BOX NEWS
We've just started shipping the boxes this month. When you receive your box it will not have the painting inside of it. We are shipping the paintings later this summer. It takes Masami a long time to make each painting.

MAY RELEASES & HAND MADE ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE LP
Cave CD/LP/7", Bardo Pond, Alasehir, Alumbrados, Moon Phantoms, Bardo Pond tote bags, IMPREC240 t-shirts.... All these things are available now. Plus, we have 20 screen printed copies of the most recent Acid Mothers Temple Glorify Astrological Martyrdom LP. The regular edition is nearly sold out and we had 20 extra LPs around. Included are some LP label "coasters." Click the image to see a larger version. $20 each while supplies last.

Since we started offering the Rega P1 last year we've sold over a hundred turntables to extremely excited customers. Now we're offering the P2, P3 & a range of Rega cartridges. The P2 and P3 have the option of coming fitted with Rega cartridges and the P2 comes in a host of colors. More info on our Rega page.

APRIL RELEASES & HUGE SPRING SALE
The April rains are pouring down as I type this and now April will pour killer Important back catalog titles out of your speakers. Click here to see the Spring 2009 sale list. Bigger and better than our huge Winter sale. Also, we'll be prepared this time and your sale orders will ship a lot faster.
Don't let the sale blind you from this months new records from Emily Jane White, Merzbow, Acid Mothers Temple, Holy Sons, Steven R Smith/Gareth Davis and Pick Up (Beequeen).

THE THIRTEENTH ASSEMBLY RECEIVES SOME ENORMOUS PRESS:
(Un)Sentimental is our first time working with The Thirteenth Assembly and already the quartet has been receiving some huge press.
Wall Street Journal article
New York Times review

WAREHOUSE FIND: MERZBOW MINAZO VOL 2 LP w/ screen printed jackets $20
As you can imagine the Important warehouse is deep and dense and occasionally things surface that we'd totally forgotten about. Recently, while reorganizing, we found a box of 32 Merzbow Minazo Vol 2 LPs without jackets. image

IMPORTANT ON TWITTER & NEW RELEASES FROM ELEH, SKULL DEFEKTS, ANDREA PARKINS, JOZEF VAN WISSEM, MERZBOW

Subscribe to get up to date news, happenings, ideas, sounds & observations from the Important Records think tank. http://www.twitter.com/imprec

FEB 2009: NEW JAZZ CDS, ELEH SHIRT, HOLY SONS SHIRTS, NEW IMPORTANT HOODIE

Available now:
13th Assembly "(un)sentimental" CD
If early reviews are to be believed the 13th Assembly's critical praise means this record is going to have a lot of impact. Featuring Taylor Ho Bynum, Jessica Pavone, Mary Halvorson (you may have just read about her in a feature in The Wire) and Tomas Fujiwara.

Flaherty/Yeh/Kelley "New York Nuts & Boston Baked Beans" CD
Violinist/vocalist C Spencer Yeh & unrivaled saxophone elder-titan Paul Flaherty
team up without the assistance of acclaimed drummer Chris Corsano for the first time.
Along for the jamz is bonkers Boston trumpeteer Greg Kelley.


Merzbow "13 Japanese Birds Volume Two: Fukuro" CD
Part two in the thirteen volume series for Feb 2009 release.

MERZBOW BIRD BOX & SUBSCRIPTION PRE-ORDERS

The Merzbow "13 Japanese Birds" 13 CD subscription & bamboo box set is now available for pre-order

ABOUT THE CD SERIES:
Merzbow's 13 Japanese Birds is a 13 month/13 CD set that begins January 2009 and ends February 2010. These are pressed in a limited edition of 1000 and once they are sold out they will not be repressed. This series was inspired by Olivier Messaien's Catalogue D'Oiseaux.

ABOUT THE BAMBOO BOX:
These are hand crafted, numbered, screen printed and constructed of organic imported Moso bamboo. The box holds all 13 cds and they are painstakingly crafted, one a day, by a Massachusetts craftsman. When your box is ready we will ship it to you along with your CD for the month. Boxes will ship in the chronological order in which they are purchased. We expect to ship about 30 a month. Click on the image to view the assembly/materials slide show.

ABOUT THE PAINTINGS:
With the purchase of a bamboo box you have the option of including an original acrylic on bamboo painting by Masami Akita (Merzbow). His work can be seen on the cover of the LP released via Important titled Minazo 2. It's a little known fact that Masami Akita studied painting at Tamagawa University in Japan and has continued to produce paintings. These paintings are not available without the purchase of a bamboo box.

** due to the time required to produce each box (& the future collector value of the boxes ) we reserve the right, if neccessary, to limit the number of boxes per order **

SUBSCRIPTION COST:

USA
13 CDs & Monthly shipping total: $170 (cds $10 each/shipping $3 each month)
w/ bamboo box: $240 (shipping cost of the box is included in the price of the box.)
box with painting on bamboo by Masami Akita: $270

CANADA
13 CDs & Monthly shipping total: $182 (cds $10 each/shipping $4 each month)
w/ bamboo box: $252 (shipping cost of the box is included in the price of the box.)
box with painting on bamboo by Masami Akita: $282

OVERSEAS
13 CDs & Monthly shipping total: $195 (cds $10 each/shipping $5 each month)
w/ bamboo box: $265 (shipping cost of the box is included in the price of the box.)
box with painting on bamboo by Masami Akita: $295

This works out to the CDs being $10 each. Boxes are $70 and a box with a painting is $100
Paypal email address is imprec at importantrecords dot com

LOGO GRID HOODIES DESIGNED by IMPORTANT
Check out the apparel page for a new hoodie design printed on black, red & maroon just in time for the cold weather.
And by the way, we're selling tons of these Rega P1's to very excited listeners....

OCEAN "Pantheon Of The Lesser" CD/LP November 11, 2008
Finally after nearly 3 years of work and anticipation Ocean's Pantheon Of The Lesser will be released on November 11, 2008.  Ocean's debut release Here Where Nothing Grows quickly became Important's highest selling record as Ocean crossed the country and the records received tremendous commercial praise. In all possible ways Pantheon is and will be a bigger record.

Click to see images, hear sounds and read words:
http://importantrecords.com/ocean_lesser/

Christina Kubisch
Electrical Drawings

Christina Kubisch is one of the pioneers of sound art, with numerous sound installations, performances and compositions to her credit, along with an extensive body of accompanying material that actually forms the springboard for her work. Included are drawings, visual musical scores and text and image sketches from the last 35 years, most of which have never before been shown.Topics treated include architecture, acoustics, the composition process, electronic sound generation, electro-magnetic induction, observations on the listener’s behavior, studies on light phenomena in connection with acoustics and the »beauty« of the drawing itself as basis for translating an abstract idea into a three-dimensional sound installation. Kubisch received the German Sound Art Award in 2008.
Flexcover with dustjacket
23 x 27 cm
176 pages
148 color and 53 b/w ills.
German/English
ISBN 978-3-86828-013-5

OM LIVE IN JAPAN CD/LP on Important & GRAILS BTP CD repress (finally!)
In an interview with Om at ATP Brooklyn Vegan has broken the news that Important will be releasing Om's Live In Japan CD/LP in mid Feb. Stay tuned for details.
In related news Grails Black Tar Prophecies CD is finally back in stock.

BASS COMMUNION/PIG LP slideshow
This one should finally be available late next week along with the Coil/TNB/Vortex Campaign LP. While you wait please enjoy this slideshow of the beatiful jackets printed by Neil Burke at Monoroid.