The Harmonic Series is a compilation of musical works in Just Intonation created by three generations of contemporary composers who utilize this tuning system. Featuring Ellen Fullman & Theresa Wong, Greg Davis, Michael Harrison, R Keenan Lawler, Pauline Oliveros, Duane Pitre, Zachary James Watkins, Charles Curtis. (more)

.Ltd. 300 copies. Mailorder only. First 100 sets come with photos taken on retreat/return.
Retreat/Return is a collection of exploratory sound assemblages. Like last year's set of mailorder only releases these pieces came together during improvised research sessions during work for the next Eleh full length...(more)

Ltd. 300 copies. Mailorder only. First 100 sets come with photos taken on retreat/return.
Retreat/Return is a collection of exploratory sound assemblages. Like last year's set of mailorder only releases these pieces came together during improvised research sessions during work for the next Eleh full length...(more)

Limited to 500 copies. First 100 mailorder copies are on red vinyl.
Slowly but surely Jozef Van Wissem has been establishing himself as one of the most interesting modern composers in the Important catalog. His slow, cyclical composition for lute are entirely original and deeply moving.(more)

Brand new full length from legendary ex- D.N.A./Dark Day/No-Waver Robin Crutchfield.Trading plastic transistors and wires for wood and strings in 2000, he went green, taking up ancient instruments, harps, drums, lyres and psalteries. He currently pursues and explores acoustic trancelike
daydreamscapes........(more)

“Guano Padano, assembled by Alessandro Stefana, features guests Alessandro Alessandroni (renowned whisteler of the immortal Ennio Morricone western soundtracks), Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart/Jeff Buckley guitarist), Chris Speed (clarinet player with Tim Berne, Uri Caine, John Zorn etc.) and, last but not least, the legendary Italian singer Bobby Solo (more)

“The Seven Storey Mountain is a trans-generation group of highly recognized figures in modern music. Paul Lytton, for instance, has been playing drums with Evan Parker since 1969. David Grubbs is recognized for his work with Jim O'Rourke in Gastr Del Sol, Bastro, Squirrel Bait & extensive solo work. Nate Wooley is one of the most exciting young trumpet players currently working(more)

“Brand new full length from Grails/Om member Emil Amos.(more)

Merzbow 13 Japanese Birds volume 10 (more)

Somewhere in the realm of the Holy Modal Rounders, Tower Recordings, Diane Cluck & Daniel Johnston there is Mountainhood. Following his sold out records on Time Lag and Ecstatic Yod, Michael Hilde has hand made all 300 jackets and we've photographed each one. (more)

REPRESSED. 2 options of color vinyl for mailorder.Welcome to the season of the Psychic Psummer.
Important Records' dream come true - a full length studio album from Chicago's Cave. Major momentum expertly crafted and embracing maximum minimalism, repetion, Can cloud-bounce & full on heavy chant. Like driving a train full speed off a cliff only to discover that the train can fly and you'll live forever if you stay inside. (more)

REPRESSED. YELLOW vinyl for mailorder customers.Vinyl version of the groups break out self titled release. Pitchfork 8.4 "Best New Music." Pressed in an edition of 1000. 300 copies are on clear vinyl with 150 reserved for Important mailorder customers. A Place To Bury Strangers have often been called "the loudest band in New York".(more)

“Dominique Leone is impressively organic, with detailed compositions that neither hide artifice nor flaunt it. Leone seems to have eyes in the back of his head, watching pop history while pushing it forward. -- Pitchfork, 2008(more)

Merzbow Bird series volume 9. (more)

Includes liner notes & archival photographs. Previously unreleased. CDs can be played simultaneously.
1970 was an important year in Eliane Radigue's musical life since it was the year just before she acquired her ARP 2500 synthesizer. Since 1967, she had been using the feedback as a material; feedback from two tape recorders reworked through intensive studio techniques: slowing down, alteration, superimposition, montage. (more)

Includes liner notes & archival photographs. On the suggestion of Robert Ashley, Douglas Dunn commissioned this piece from Eliane Radigue for choreography. Only the first part of Triptych was staged at the premiere at the Dancehall/Theatre of Nancy on February 27 1978. (more)

First 200 copies on clear vinyl. Deluxe double vinyl pressed at RTI, the finest plant in the world.
Risil is a collective of musicians that are all somehow connected to each other in some form or fashion. Risil's membership includes Guillermo Herren (Prefuse 73/Savath & Savallas), Zach Hill (Hella), Tyondai Braxton (Battles), John McEntire (Tortoise), Alejandra Deheza (School Of Seven Bells), Eva Puyuelo Muns (Savath & Savalas).
The project started as a chance for a large number of people to freely collaborate.......(more)

Merzbow Bird series volume 8 (more)

Conference Live was recorded on 24 track remote audio and pressed at RTI in order to achieve the highest possible quality. Die cut super heavy duty tip-on style jackets by Stoughton.
On this night Om performed their seminal album Conference of the Birds live in its entirety. Newly invoked energy resonates in the sound of the band. (more)

Limited edition of 400. Handmade letterpressed covers.
Deceh is a fine drone quartet utilizing traditional ethnic drone instruments as well as vintage analog synthesizers. This record was recorded on a centered room microphone as the group sat in a perfect square around it. This method of recording perfectly captured the focused intimacy of the moment complete with the crackling bellows of an ancient harmonium. Screen printed insert included.. (more)

Merzbow Bird series volume 7 (more)

400 copy clear vinyl repres.

.100 clear & 100 blue copies for Important mailorder. Deluxe double vinyl & gatefold Stoughton tip-on jackets. Heavy, heavy duty.
Brand new full length recording from The Acid Mothers Temple And The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Proggy
psych sounds mixing Pink Floyd with fuzzy wah guitars and cosmic sounds. Focused riffing, super fidelity recording and packaging designed by Seldon Hunt.(more)

Limited edition of 400. First 100 mailorder customers will receive a silver shimmer cover.
Lasse Marhaug (Jazzkammer) & John Wesseltoft (Thorns) are Tongues Of Mount Meru. Together they create epic, reaching dronescapes. (more)

Volume six in the our 13 month series with Merzbow titled Thirteen Japanese Birds.. (more)

Welcome to the season of the Psychic Psummer.
Important Records' dream come true - a full length studio album from Chicago's Cave. Major momentum expertly crafted and embracing maximum minimalism, repetion, Can cloud-bounce & full on heavy chant. Like driving a train full speed off a cliff only to discover that the train can fly and you'll live forever if you stay inside.............. (more)

Limited edition of 500 copies. The first 200 on mixed colors.
Made in Malaysia is the single off of Cave's brand new full length titled Psychic Summer. The B-side, Boneyard, was pulled from the Psychic Summer recording sessions and is exclusive to this 7" release.............. (more)

Get all 4 Bardo related new LPs plus a free Bardo Pond tote bag for $60. More details on the release page.
LP limited to 1000 copies. First 200 mailorder copies are on blue vinyl. .............. (more)

Get all 4 Bardo related new LPs plus a free Bardo Pond tote bag for $60. More details on the release page.
LP limited to 1000 copies. First 100 mailorder copies are on white vinyl. .............. (more)

Get all 4 Bardo related new LPs plus a free Bardo Pond tote bag for $60. More details on the release page.
LP limited to 1000 copies. First 200 mailorder copies are on blue vinyl. .............. (more)

Get all 4 Bardo related new LPs plus a free Bardo Pond tote bag for $60. More details on the release page.
LP limited to 1000 copies. First 200 mailorder copies are on blue vinyl. .............. (more)

Merzbow Bird series volume 5 ............. (more)

IMPREC240 isn't a record it's an homage to the classic car of the same numeration. The Important parking lot is littered with 240 wagons on a regular basis. Volvo manufactured the 240 between 1974 and 1993 and Jan Wilsgaard's design is absolutely stunning. My favorite viewing angle is from the back of a pre-1981 245 as illustrated for our shirt by Rutger Zuyderfelt.
Hand printed on Anvil's version of the American Apparel tee. Super high quality and a nice fit.

Orange on redish.

"Dark Undercoat's sparse tracks unfold at a reflective pace, with White's plaintive croon draped over minimal guitar, piano and percussion arrangements." Rolling Stone............. (more)

Brand new full length from Grails/Om member Emil Amos. Drifter's Sympathy draws from the instrumental moods of 'Grails' and melds perfectly with his usually vocally-based solo-project creating a densely paranoid atmosphere that
evenly balances sonic experimentation with refined folk/blues song-forms.............. (more)

Brand new full length recording from The Acid Mothers Temple And The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Proggy psych sounds mixing Pink Floyd with fuzzy wah guitars and cosmic sounds. Focused riffing, super fidelity recording and packaging designed by Seldon Hunt. Get ready for the mellow side of heavy psych.............. (more)

Merzbow Bird series volume four ............. (more)

Last copies of previously tour only LP. Red, silver, white & black colors available while supplies last.............. (more)

Pick-up is a new duo of Frans de Waard (Beequeen) on laptop and Martin Luiten (Girlfriends, Uw Hypotheek Advies) on guitar. Limited edition of 300. Hand made cover artwork.
This is the 9th release in our Arts & Crafts series which pairs music with handmade artwork by the artists responsible for the recordings. .............. (more)

Limited edition of 500 copies. Packaged in deluxe screen printed ultra heavy board stock.
In May of 2008, Amsterdam-based clarinetist Gareth Davis and American guitarist Steven R. Smith convened at Worstward Studios, in Los Angeles to collaborate and create music together............. (more)

Ltd. pressing of 200 numbered copies. Exclusively available via Important Records mailorder.Brand new improvised meditiations from Eleh. Hand made letterpress covers done at 43rd Parallel Press. Gold print...... (more)

Ltd. pressing of 200 numbered copies. Exclusively available via Important Records mailorder. Brand new improvised meditiations from Eleh. (incase it's not completely clear, this is different music than that found on Vol One) Hand made letterpress covers done at 43rd Parallel Press. Silver print...... (more)

Double LP. Mailorder customers get to chose between yellow or blue vinyl. Vinyl version of the CD includes a full records worth of additonal material spread out over two LPs..... (more)

The Skull Defekts is a band from Sweden in the very North of Europe. Their intense, monotonous, rhythmic and sexual out rock has since their start in early 2005 been spreading energies of various kinds to welcoming audiences and listeners...... (more)

Faulty (Broken Orbit) re-imagines Faulty (Per-Objective), an hour long 10-channel site-specific audio work, premiered in 2007 at Diapason gallery for sound in NYC, with sponsorship from Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center and the New York Electronic Arts Festival...... (more)

Brand new full length comprised of six compositions from acclaimed lutenist and James Blackshaw Brethren Of The Free Spirit bandmate Jozef Van Wissem. This stunning record consists of six trance inducing circular pieces composed for 10 course renaissance - and 13 course baroque lute. ..... (more)

Subscription & deluxe bamboo box available.
Part three of a 13 cd/ 13 month series. Each release is strictly limited to 1000 copies and will not be repressed.
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Subscription & deluxe bamboo box available.
Part two of a 13 cd/ 13 month series. Each release is strictly limited to 1000 copies and will not be repressed.
Vol. 2: Fukuro follows closely the lines drawn on Volume One with Masami Akita playing a full drum set along with his analog electronics ..... (more)

Though each member of the 13th Assembly is acclaimed in their own right this group is very much a singular musical experience.
Featuring Taylor Ho Bynun, Mary Halvorson, Tomas Fujiwara and Jessica Pavone. Each member contributes compositions to the quartet -a group forged in shared experiences, long friendships, and mutual love and trust which is clearly reflected in the music. Thank you for listening.
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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. Imagine Kurt Schwitters jamming Ursonate inside out with Evan Parker in the 21st century. Totally essential jazz/noize improv. Massive energy........ (more)

Subscription & deluxe bamboo box available.
Part one of a 13 cd/ 13 month series. Each release is strictly limited to 1000 copies and will not be repressed.
Vol. 1: Sozume finds Masami Akita weaving a full drum set with electronics for a new turn in the ever-winding Merzbow panorama...... (more)

The new LSD March album Under Milk Wood is their first full length since 2007's Constellation Of Tragedy for Important Records. With grace (in the rock sense), style, humor & the perfect touch of heavy riffage this tremendously unique and original recording is a classic of the new Japanese underground....... (more)

Featuring members of Pan Sonic & Mum working with Strings Of Consciousness. Sophisticated drone work slowly evolving in complexity and occasionally bordering on noise. Highly recomended.
All orders will also receive a bonus CD of SOC member Phillippe Petit collaborating with Aidan Baker, Lydia Lunch, Justin Broadrick, Eugene Robinson & more. ...... (more)

Anahita is Tara Burke (Fursaxa) and cellist Helena Espvall (Espers). Anahita is a beautiful, laboriously created and floating affair of skeletal organ drones, ceremonial singing and subtly frantic instrumental accompaniment conjuring up a natural woodland romp and stomp....... (more)

Free sampler included in all purchases. Contains selections from the IMPREC101-IMPREC199 including Grails, Dan Friel, Christina Kubisch, Larsen, Kurt Weisman, Julia Kent, Piano Magic, Alessandro Stefana & more. The ultimate Important mixtape......(more)

Long awaited full length from Larsen following the acclaimed SeieS. La Fever Lit features the omnipresence of smoked dub-diva/punk cabaret icon Annie Anxiety.Much of the material on La Fever Lit was composed for architecture, having been written to be played in Torino's landmark......(more)

Deluxe 4 color screenprinted jacket on heavy duty board stock. 500 made. First 100 on white vinyl. Hand pulled by Neil Burke at Monoroid. Sterling live performances from Italy and Austria selected by the group for this live LP release. ....... (more)

Brethren of the Free Spirit are guitarist/composer James Blackshaw and lutenist/composer Jozef van Wissem. Named after a cult of 13th-century Northern European religious heretics this duo play with an appropriately zealous
intensity. ...... (more)

Beautifully packaged double LP inside a metallic gold hand printed jacket done by Neil Burke at Monoroid. Brand new jams from MCIAA on one LP and Praxinoscope (an MCIAA project) on the other. Hand numbered to only 300 copies!...... (more)

Hand numbered and limited edition of 300 copies. This is the sister release to the MCIAA/Praxinoscope LP. Hand printed at Monoroid by Neil Burke on heavy duty board stock. Super deluxe and epic adventures from the MCIAA space-brothers. Each brother takes a side...... (more)

Following their acclaimed breakthrough debut album that caught the ears of critics and fans worldwide, and became Important's highest selling album, Ocean has returned with their forward thinking, brutally heavy and purely minimalist sophomore album Pantheon Of The Lesser. Everything in it's own time. Simply profound. Heavy like Schoenberg.(more)

Acid Mother's Temple's Glorify Astrological Martyrdom is sure to appeal to the myriad AMT fans who have made Crystal Rainbow Pyramid a new fan favorite. Professionally recorded mega riffage for a super defined clean sound. Kawabata and company deliver this focused rock explosion full of hyper repetitive heavy hooks and freaked out pitched up vocals. Cover art by Seldon Hunt. ...... (more)

Double LP version. 500 made. First 100 ship on color vinyl. Features bonus D side heavy-kraut jam....... (more)

Though Conifer has received quite a bit of critical praise they've somehow managed to live off the grid for the past six years. With Crown Fire Conifer is finally getting the exposure they deserve. Mixing post-rock, kraut-rock, metal and pschychedlia they have created this relentlessly driving and hypnotic masterpiece. Featuring Eugene Robinson of Oxbow.
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Heavy drone/heavy meditation. Be inside the sounds.
Formed in 2004, Tecumseh creates drone metal of the heaviest variety although with more forward movement than some of their peers and with the addition of cold electronic hiss. Using 2 basses, electronics, percussion and guitar Tecumseh wrap themselves and...... (more)

Zak Riles is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist in the Important band Grails. His creative contributions to the group are immeasurable and can be heard clearly on this self titled debut solo outing. In fact some of the pieces on this solo record have been reinterpreted into Grails favorites...... (more)

Holy McGrail: Moog Taurus II, Sunn Mustang, Clatter
Howard Marsden: Korg MS10 & Korg MS20, Hiss
Julian Cope: Poem
The Bog is the 2nd full-length release from Slomo, honing down the ritual clatter of their first album, The Creep (2005), into a more cumbersome and laden affair, ever heading downwards into the Northern Underworld upon slurries of unsignposted mung.... (more)

Aidan Baker's I Wish Too, To Be Absorbed is a 2 disc compilation of tracks from various out-of-print, limited edition releases spanning the last 10 years of Baker's output, ranging from his very first release to material that was featured on the soundtrack to a book of his poetry..... (more)

100 white/100 blue. One per customer.Trinitarian represents an attempt to break down the essence of Nadja by offering a solo track from each of its two members plus one Nadja composition; two stripped down ambient pieces featuring single instruments (guitar and bass, respectively) to a full Nadja composition...... (more)

Extremely limited edition of 300. Available only from Important mailorder and from the band on tour. Two tracks - one from their 2009 album on Important and the other unreleased.... (more)

Limited edition of 700 copies.
First 200 copies are available on clear vinyl. Double LP pressing housed in a gatefold jacket. Being a Nabokovian and visceral garden of delights, a musical evocation of memory and desire spread over four sides of vinyl..... (more)

Special copper color mailorder jackets. 500 made. 200 gram vinyl.Eleh's Intuitive Synthesis/Floating Frequencies Volume 3 is the third release in their Intuitive Synthesis series (Volume 2 was released over a year ago) and it is being released simultaneously with an Eleh/Pauline Oliveros split release. Both are limited edition and LP only...... (more)

Special copper color mailorder jackets. 760 made. 200 gram vinyl. Important Records quite pleased to be presenting this split release consisting of two new drone works from Pauline Oliveros and Eleh. Oliveros, an early American minimalist who has pioneered the technique of Deep Listening, has created ..... (more)

Limited edition of 500 copies and packaged in a deluxe screen printed jacket with a clear spot gloss print. There are 5 different cover color variations each limited to 100 copies and containing a different color of vinyl. Printed by Neil Burke at Monoroid.... (more)

Limited edition of 500 copies on 180 gram vinyl. Originally released on cassette in 1984 and then on cd in an edition of 500. First 100 are on grey vinyl..... (more)

Basement Echo is the historical meeting point of two generations of the Japanese underground. Kawabata Makoto, leader of The Acid Mothers Temple, and Michishita Shinsuke, leader of LSD March, are together here for the first time in a guitar duo.
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This is the companion release to the Tom Carter LP titled Shots At Infinity 2 being release on Important simultaneously.
Shots At Infinity 1(the CD) is comprised of recordings from various basements in the northeastern USA from late 2007...... (more)

This is the companion release to the Tom Carter CD titled Shots At Infinity 1 being release on Important simultaneously. The first 100 copies sent out via Important mailorder will be on green vinyl..... (more)

Dolphin Sonar is Merzbow's full length protest album against the annual brutal slaughtering of some 2,500 dolphins in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture Japan. This is an angry album full of beats, blasts and broken glass. Clattering smashes are pursued by pulsing analog whirls like the heart of a dolphin being chased through the bloodied waters of Taiji. .. (more)

Limited edition of 500 copies from the Acid Mothers Temple leader. Packaged in a deluxe letterpressed jacket printed at 53rd Parallel Press in Portland Maine.(more)

Live At Muryoku Muzen Temple is limited to 500 copies with the first 100 on color vinyl. This is the companion release to the Astro CD titled The Echo At The Purple Dawn being released at the same time on Important Records. (more)

The Echo From The Purple Dawn is a brand new full length from C.C.C.C. member Hiroshi Hasegawa's solo project Astro. Using a battery of oscillators, ring modulators and field recordings Hasegawa has created an engaging and versitile album that masterfully drifts between spaced out analog dream drone and a more extreme form of harsher droning.. (more)

Molotov And Haze is packaged in a deluxe tip-on style heavy duty gatefold jacket with the cd slipped into a Japanese inner bag. Design by Carl Glover.
Bass Communion is a project dedicated to Steven Wilson’s recordings in an ambient, drone, and/or electronic vein. Most of the pieces are experiments in texture made from processing recordings of real instruments and...... (more)

This merch table gem is a one sided 7" limited to 1000 copies. 500 on blue, 200 on red, 200 yellow and 100 on green. Contained on this thick piece of love is a rockola version of Throbbing Gristle's track United. This will be gone fast and won't be repressed. (more)

.Limited edition of 300 copies in a heavy stock screen printed jacket.
A Zamuro is a dark South American vulture of great size. Zamuro is also a solo composition piece for portable synth and analog filter. .(more)

Ghost Town is the first full-length solo release from Parts & Labor singer/electrician Dan Friel. Characterized by its anthemic melodies, complex electronic arrangements and
huge distorted beats, Ghost Town has massive universal appeal.
"Music-box melody shoved through the speaker cone of a subwoofer salvaged from the trunk of a totaled Jeep" Pitchfork.......(more)

VINYL VERSION.. The first 100 records shipped will be on red vinyl. All copies shipped after that will be on black vinyl. There's been some heavy buzz around this record so color vinyl will not last long. ....(more)

Opening with a nod to Syd Barret's Pink Floyd (Piper at the Gates of Dawn) the record begins with morse code and drops into one of the heaviest slow-burn grooves in the Grails canon. Sounding something like Hawkwind and Ravi Shankar scoring Bladerunner......(more)

VINYL VERSION..VINYL VERSION. We're now on the 2nd pressing (still packaged in the same deluxe jacket w/ insert poster) and this time around we have 100 copies of amber color vinyl to ship while supplies last....(more)

Berlin 2007 was a monumental performance for Cluster as it marked the first time that they had peformed live in Berlin since their 12 hour concert in the Galerie Hammer in the Europacenter in 1969. The performance was a massive success as a sold out crowd cheered loudly for Cluster to return to the stage. Fortunately, the concert was.......(more)

.Admira (1971) is sourced from original master recordings discovered by Kluster member, and Tangerine Dream engineer, Klaus Freudigmann.......(more)

.Vulcano (1971) is sourced from original master recordings discovered by Kluster member, and Tangerine Dream engineer, Klaus Freudigmann.. .......(more)

John Fahey and Ayal Senior layed down the tracks for Three Day Band in Fahey's Woodburn Hotel room at some point in 1999. These tracks show an undocumented improvisational side of Fahey. It's certainly not early period Fahey but not TOTE era either. At night after the recording sessions commenced Ayal would record Fahey reading selected excerpts from his writing. Fifteen tracks of Fahey reading are included here. ......(more)

Heaviest Acid Mothers record ever. . Kawabata went as far as to, half jokingly, compare this album to Sunn O)))). Our last Acid Mothers Temple full length quickly became many people's favorite and this one is sure to give it some serious competition. Just check out the mp3......(more)

.Limited LP has two bonus tracks not included on CD. Available on orange or white vinyl for Important mailorder customers. Please specify what color you'd like (you're welcome to purchase both). Please specify what color you'd like. If it has run out we'll ship you the other color.
Packaged in a deluxe heavy duty tip-on style jacket with artwork by Seldon Hunt. ....(more)

.Deluxe 10 panel digipak includes a 12 page essay by Anthony Braxton on the topic of Ghost Trance Music.
Quartet (GTM) 2006 is Anthony Braxton's first release for Important Records. GTM stands for Ghost Trance Music and this four cd box set contains four Ghost Trance compositions recorded in quartet........(more)

The Mill Pond was originally released in 1997 as a double 7" that went immediately out of print. For it's 10th aniversary we're issuing it on compact disc housed in a deluxe letterpressed jacket and including an extensive booklet collecting John Fahey's paintings for the very first time. Limited edition...(more)

Essential limited edition 180 gram vinyl release pressed in an edition of 500 copies. Letterpressed jackets. The first 100 copies are available in a silver shimmer ink on black letterpress. Beautiful drone compositions from two kindrid musical entities......(more)

After the by now usual gap of some two years, Beequeen is
ready to present their latest album, further maturing their sound from The Bodyshop (also on Important Records). More song based, this album features now vocals by......(more)

Limited edition of 300 copies in heavy duty screen printed jackets by Monoroid. The Sandancing Demos 10", as it's title suggests, contains the original ideas that birthed Beequeen's wonderful new album Sandancing. Original versions, rough mixes & home demos plus an unreleased track. .(more)

Glass Forest is a highly listenable starting point for any
newcomers curious about Daniel Menche's vast discography. It is also, according to Menche, the last cd he will release. (more)

Body Melt is limited to 500 copies only. The first 500 are on white vinyl. This is the companion release to the Glass Forest CD being released on Important simultaneously. Both releases are housed in staggeringly unique artwork by
Emily Hyde.
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Basilica is Rameses III´s eagerly anticipated follow-up to
their acclaimed release Honey Rose (Important), Basilica is a double album of live recordings of new Rameses material accompanied by re-interpretations of those same recordings by contemporaries Robert Horton, Keith Berry, Gregg Kowalsky and Astral Social Club. (more)

REPRESSED in expanded packaging. Thanks to the film Juno Kimya Dawson has been receiving a whole lot of deserved attention lately.
This vinyl repress includes a lyric sheet insert - something we still haven't gotten around to including in the cds. The first 100 copies we ship via mailorder will be on pink vinyl. CD version available also.

REPRESSED in expanded packaging. Thanks to the film Juno Kimya Dawson has been receiving a whole lot of deserved attention lately.
This vinyl repress includes a lyric sheet insert - something we still haven't gotten around to including in the cds. The first 100 copies we ship via mailorder will be on pink vinyl. CD version available also

Available now for pre-order. Limited copies remian. We will begin shipping Feb. 29th.The Ape Of Naples/New Backwards is limited to 1500 copies.
This 4 lp set is pressed on heavy duty 180 gram vinyl and each record is packaged in it's own lp jacket which is then housed in a deluxe tip-on style box. A poster is included. The first three records make up The Ape Of Naples and the b-side of each has a custom etching. The fourth record is The New Backwards and it is double sided. . (more)

This will be shipping with the Coil box set. If you order this to be shipped with your Coil box there is no additional shipping fee.
The Wardrobe is a collaboration between Tony Wakeford and Andrew Liles and combines the very best of Andrew Liles' twisted and incomprehensible vision with Tony Wakeford's dark sensibilities. (more)

Kurt's stunning musicallity and absolute compositional prowess makes this an extremely compelling and wonderfully musical experimental pop-folk recording. The dense & original arrangement makes recalls the majesty of Van Dyke Parks album Song Cycle. (more)

The Garden Of Forking Paths was compiled for Important
Records by guitarist James Blackshaw. Compositions were recorded specially for this collection by Helena Espeval (Espers), James Blackshaw, Jozef van Wissem and
Chieko Mori. Beautifully assembled, The Garden Of Forking Paths serves as a singular and particularly unique musical statement. (more)

Travellers Two is a full length recording from the duo of Tara Burke (Fursaxa) and Sharron Kraus. Togerther Kraus & Burke create an ethereal record of dark-folk magic.
Tara Burke and Sharron Kraus were due to travel to Finland together for a week but missed the flight (more)

This is a limited edition of 500 copies on LP. The first 100 copies are on blue vinyl & are reserved for Important mailorder. Improvisational Bay Area quartet Thuja create aural landscapes that capture the reverberations of wood and wire, the sounds of breaking sticks and scraping stones, and the ambience of their surroundings into a shifting, dynamic musical framework.(more)

Christina Kubisch is a first generation sound artist of the highest order. Kubisch has been working with electrical induction since the late seventies and in 2003 she began her Electrical Walk installations. Listeners wear specially built headphones that reveal electro-magnetic radiation eminating from the technological world around us. 5 Electrical Walks is her first collection of compositions untilizing material recorded during Electrical Walks. (more)

Three major works of sound assemblies. Crucial listening. Night Flights is a groundbreaking work from one of the most influential of the first generation sound artists. For some reason this staggering work has been left out of print for over 20 years. Night Flights has been remastered and includes updated liner notes from Christina Kubisch. (more)

A further step out in Birchville Cat Motel's ruminations on time space distortion featuring the addtional mystikal talents of fellow gravity destroyer, Matthew Bower (Hototogisu/Sunroof!.) (more)

“Inspired by the acoustic sides of ‘70s rock behemoths Led Zeppelin, Heart and Black Sabbath, they've taken a detoour into lush, baroque folk and sun-kissed Laurel Canyon jams; blending those groups with more pastoral shades with the likes of John Fahey, Pentangle and CSN&Y to very fine effect.”---MOJO. (more)

Vinyl version of the groups break out self titled release. Pitchfork 8.4 "Best New Music." Pressed in an edition of 1000. 300 copies are on clear vinyl with 150 reserved for Important mailorder customers. A Place To Bury Strangers have often been called "the loudest band in New York".(more)

Limited to 500 copies with 100 on white and 100 on orange. Sun is the coupling of sound artist Oren Ambarchi and musician-producer Chris Townend. The pair have been kindred spirits for many years, with Townend being a sensitive and crucial ear in engineering Ambarchi's landmark solo recordings.(more)

Mani Neumeier has been at the helm of Germany's legendary Krautrock group Guru Guru for over 35 years and for 20 of those years he's been working on Sketches, his first solo album.l (more)

Sounds documents the improvisational side of XBXRX. The band has built a reputation over the past decade for its singularly high-energy live performances and committment to pushing the limits of rock music forms and Sounds is the next step in this progression. . (more)

limited edition LP version. please specify green or yellow vinyl (more)

Constellation Of Tragedy is the sixth full length album from Japan's LSD March. Apt comparisons are often made of LSD March being a cross between the Velvet Underground and Les Rallizes Denudes. (more)

Heavy lyrical emotion transcends linguistic barriers and Pirako's blown out fuzzy free-dream guitar work is an alternate universe heavy Japanese shoegaze. They are a forest at night drenched in echoing reverb and soaked with deeply spiritual/emotional melodies. . (more)

This all-star trio features William Hooker on drums, Eyvind Kang on violin and guitar and Bill Horist on guitar. Sync'd up like they've been playing together for eternity these recordings represent a dramatic paradigm shift in the art of improvisation. These three thoroughly modern artists scan jazz, new music and noise – stretching it all out and putting it back together within the expansive boundaries of these tremendously compelling high energy recordings....(more)

Julia Kent is a member of the Mercury Prize winning Antony & The Johnsons. Her debut solo effort, Delay, is a cd of multitracked cello and found sounds. It was inspired by airports, by transitoriness, and by the private emotional worlds that we create amid the disorientations and disjunctions of travel..... (more)

Sky City features Tom Carter (Charalambides), Robert Horton, Lisa Cameron & Lee Ann Cameron. Sky City is psychedelic space music with all the atoms of surfaces freed to inter and counter react. Noise in the outer dimension. Horton’s homemade inventions, Carter’s lyrical ebow guitar lines. The walking on the moon vocals of Lee Ann Cameron. The vibration of material planes by Lisa Cameron... (more)

AcidMothersGuruGuru features Mani Neumeier from the legendary and influential German Krautrock group Guru Guru as well as Kawabata Makoto and Atsushi Tsuyama from Japan's holy Acid Mothers Temple. The result is a trans-generational psych blowout!.... (more)

Larsen w/ David Tibet (Current 93), Julia Kent (Antony & the Johnsons), Baby Dee (Current 93) & Johann Johannsson. This CD/DVD set captures Larsen & Friends live at a sold out performance in an ancient Italian theater paying tribute with music, words, dance & text to the brilliant Czech typographer and founder of Devestil Karel Teige.
Packaged in a deluxe custom die cut slip cover with a full color 20 page glued in booklet this entire package, inside and out, is one of the finest pieces Important Records has ever helped bring to life..... (more)

This is the first new material since Ocean's universally acclaimed full length Here Where Nothing Grows & Conifer's first release on Important. Ltd. to 1000. 4 colors.
Pressed on 4 different colors of vinyl and packaged in a screen printed mylar jacket that lines up with an offset printed inner jacket. Mylar jacket was printed by the same people who did Boris' Vein for us last year. ....(more)

Another heavy duty meditative dive into carefully crafted minimalism from Eleh. Dedicated listening and high volume and/or headphone use is highly recomended for maximum experience. 500 made. 200 gram vinyl. Dedicated to Charlemagne Palestine.
Eleh was formed to specifically to pay tribute to early experimental minimalist pioneers especially La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Eliane Radigue, ..... (more)

Organized Pitches Occurring in Time consists of two 25 minute pieces of music, both spawned from the same conceptual composition/score by Duane Pitre, titled Ensemble Drones. With their form reminiscent of works by La Monte Young’s Theater of Eternal Music and their tonality touching on the floating works of Terry Riley....(more)

This is #8 in Important Records' ongoing Arts And Crafts series pairing music with packaging made by the musicians.
Look for the next Barbez album on John Zorn's Tzadik label.
This 7" is limited to 400 copies and was designed, signed and numbered by Barbez's Dan Kaufman. 100 are on red vinyl and 100 are on white vinyl. Please specify what color of vinyl you want...(more)

Brand new full length, 2nd for Important, from Larsen/XXL member Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo's brilliant ( r ) project. Highly recommended.... (more)

Super Grease is a limited edition of 500 vinyl only release from Vibracathedral Orchestra/Sunroof!/A Band member Neil Campbell. This is a companion release to Astral Social Club's Neon Pibroch cd also on Important.
Pressed on deluxe split/splatter blue vinyl..... (more)

Neon Pibroch is a brand new full length cd from the Astral Social Club. Also available at the same time is a limited edition Astral Social Club LP on Important titled Super Grease. ..... (more)

Black Magic Disco is the new all-star band featuring Tom Greenwood (JOMF), Maurizio & Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien) and Ramona Ponzini (Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Praxinoscope)...... (more)

Absolutely essential solo recordings from Acid Mothers Temple leader Kawabata Makoto. Inspired by the legendary Popol Vuh album Hosianna Mantra...... (more)

Brand new full length album from the Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO featuring their recent addition, female vocalist Kitagawa Hao. Recorded over a period of four months at The Acid Mothers Temple this is a very clean sounding and polished AMT. Kawabata Makoto admitted, only half joking, that this has the “cleanest sound in AMT history! “ (more)

Tour vinyl! Limited stock on splatter color vinyl. B side features an exclusive 23 minute track only found on this limited tour only lp. . (more)

7th "proper" album from esoteric Anglo-French, London-based "ghost-rock" group that ranges from brittle folkish introspection to dynamic all-out noise intensity. Produced by Guy Fixsen of Laika (engineer to the likes of My Bloody Valentine, The Pixies, The Breeders, Stereolab). (more)

All Important Records direct mailorder copies will include a free bonus album of improvised XXL material taken from their rehersal sessions for Spicchiology?
Spicchiology? is the sophomore release from the supergroup XXL comprising all members of Xiu Xiu and Larsen. Recorded in late 2006 in Torino Italy Spicchiologi? is the result of a profoundly creative friendship translated into music and spanning the globe.. (more)

Highly recommended solo recordings from Feathers/Witch member Asa Irons accompanied by his childhood friend Swaan Miller. Asa lives in a home he built from stones in the rural woods of New Hampshire and this record was constructed with the same sort of honest, real & quiet sincerity. Again, essential. (more)

Finally rescued from the original reels this is the first time Accordion & Voice has been in print in over 20 years. This album is a major piece of American minimalist composition from one of its most celebrated composers. (more)

When we sent out the original reels for The Wanderer to be transferred to digital we were shocked and excited to have discovered an extended collaboration with David Tudor. It's with a terrific amount of excitement that we present it here for the first time along with the albums two original pieces. This is the sister album to Accordion & Voice. (more)

33 1/3 is Smegma's tribute to their 20th century avant-garde and out-jazz influences. The title is one part reference to the happy revival of passionate vinyl listening in the 21st century and one part celebration of their long hard slog of 33 1/3 years of being one of the most free thinking and original American underground groups. (more)

This vinyl edition of 33 1/3 is limited to 1000 copies. Includes a bonus track only available on the vinyl version. You can chose from black vinyl, red vinyl, 50/50 black red vinyl & black on red splatter. Click the image to the right to see the colors. Vinyl has a bonus track not on cd. (more)

Over 60 minutes of total analog destruction by noise king Merzbow and Brooklyn noise boss Carlos Giffoni, This live collaboration was recorded during Giffoni's Synth Destruction Japan Tour in September of 2006. This is Sound Totalism..... (more)

Featuring an allstar cast including Mark Ribot & Leo Abrahams, Stefana creates a dreamy world of instrumental perfection and beauty. Inspired by the work of Ennio Morricone, Ry Cooder, Simon Jeffes, Steve Reich and Brian Eno, he has created a thoroughly modern Western world.(more)

Jessica Rylan (you may know her better as Can't) is finally releasing her first officially published instrumental work for synthesizer. Titled Interior Designs, these compositions are more “classic” in nature than her work as Can't. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros, Eliane Radigue, Iannis Xenakis and especially Thomas Lehn, Rylan......(more)

Musm has long been out of print on both cd and lp. Originally released as a tour only cd this extremely expanded edition is titled Musm II and it includes all the non-album tracks that Larsen have released since their first full length as well as the original tracks from Musm. ......(more)

Author, activist, painter and sound artist Masami Akita had been at the foreground of experimental music for over 25 years. Inspired by psycedelic rock, free jazz, early electronic composition as well the physical arts, especial Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau, Masami Akita has created a musical language all his own. ......(more)

Follow This House sounds like your entire record collection melting in the trunks of a hundred junk yard cars on a hazy, steamy, sweltering hot summer afternoon ......(more)

While Wooden Wand and Satya Sai jammed with the Sky High Band in beautiful California, the Vanishing Voice dug in deep in the frozen northeast. Snowed in with utopian texts and mounting paranoia, Steven The Harvester, Heidi White Diamond Diehl, and Pete Wolfy Nolan joined Nonhorse ......(more)

Pressed in an edition of 500. 1/4 of the pressing is on double sided color vinyl. This means that side A is blue and side B is red. 3/4 of the pressing is a red/blue swirl. Double sided screen printed jackets..........(more)

.Eleh is the sound of glowing test oscillators and vintage analog modular gear. Formed specifically to pay tribute to the spirit of early minimalism especially Charlemagne Palestine, La Monte Young, Eliane Radigue & Pauline Oliveros.
Limited edition of 400 on audiophile vinyl and packaged in hand numbered letterpressed jackets. (more)

500 copies. First 100 mailorder copies on white vinyl.
Two brand new burners (including a Hendrix cover on the b-side) recorded during the same sessions for The Major Stars next full length album for Important. (more)

Memory Theater is an absolutely essential collection of the best of Axolotl's out of print cdrs and vinyl only releases.
Karl Bauer spent quite a bit of time collaborating with Black Dice, Mouthus, Double Leopards.........(more)

.Limited to 1000. First 100 mailorder copies are on color vinyl. These are completely different recordings than the Bark Haze compact disc also on Important. The Bark Haze is primarily a guitar duo of GOWN (nom de plume of one Andrew Macgregor) and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth etfuckingcetera). . (more)

These are completely different recordings than the Bark Haze LP also on Important. The Bark Haze is primarily a guitar duo of GOWN (nom de plume of one Andrew Macgregor) and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth etfuckingcetera).(more)

Super limited. First 100 mailorder copies are on red vinyl. Screen printed jackets. Different mixes than the cd and an extra track.(more)

Total Can-style audacity from Brooklyn drone stew Edward Goreyian broken house sufic wanderers the
Vanishing Voice......(more)

Baikal is a new burner from Bardo Pond brothers John & Michael Gibbons along with fellow Bardo Pond members Clint Takeda and Jason Kourkonis. (more)

Rameses III are architects of the most beautiful swathes of blissful ambience whose releases have previously found homes on labels like Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, Music Fellowship, Scarcelight, MYMWLY, Barl Fire and Type......(more)

Carlos Giffoni (electronics), Chris Corsano (drums), Trevor Tremaine of Hair Police (drums) & Brian Sullivan of Mouthus (guitar). Art by Dominic Fernow (Prurient). Mastered by James Plotkin. Yes, this is an absolutely essential document of some of the heaviest hitters in underground music.. (more)

Leave Me In The Black No-Thing is MCIAA's response to their last album for Important titled Cosmic Light Of The Third Milennium. Where Cosmic Light celebrated infinite light, Leave Me hovers in a particular sort of cosmic darkness
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Roberto Opalio is 1/2 of My Cat Is An Alien. Chants From Isolated Ghosts is his debut solo recording and it was originally released in a tiny private pressing on cdr which sold out immediately and has since become one of MCIAA's most sought after releases...... (more)

For Rivulets' third album members include Jessica Baliff, Chris Brokaw and musicians from The Rachel's, Boxhead Ensemble & Mission Of Burma.
Together they tastefully smother Rivulet's soft voice and guitar with layers of wintery sounds..... (more)

Yellow Swans & Birchville Cat Motel is the the first collaboration between these two underground phenomenons.This collaboration was recorded entirely in New Zealand both live and in the studio.

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Conrad Schnitzler is a genuine legend in the krautrock and electronic music worlds. Schnitzler studied under Joseph Beuys before joining an early Tangerine Dream. Their first album Electronic Meditation shows a band highly influenced by Schnitzler's unique, singular approach.(more)

The piano is certainly an instrument with which Conrad Schnitzler is not often associated. However, his compositions on Klavierhelm exhibit his highly expressive and free approach to the piano. Calling to mind Erik Satie and Cage, Cecil Taylor and even Carl Stalling. (more)

Some Blood Will Stick is a collection of tracks from their ultra-limited self produced label Heavy Blossom. Songs were taken from Swoon Scream (2004) and Awful Symmetry (2005) with one additional track. What makes this disc more than a simple re-release is ... (more)

SOLD OUT. DO NOT ORDER.
If we had our way we would have pressed enough copies for everyone but we were not allowed to. With high demand and few copies there's no right way to do it without making someone unhappy. We're genuinely sorry for all the angry stores, distributors and customers who were shorted.(more)

Kosmista Noisea is a brand new full length from Japanese legend KK Null (ANP/Zeni Geva). Packaged in a jewel box with a metallic print on a vellum tray card, this was lavishly designed by Stephen O'Malley (Sunn 0)))/Khanate). (more)

Metacompound is the first full length studio album from ANP in 19 years. Lavish metallic ink on vellum packaging by ANP fan and Sunn O))) member Stephen O'Malley. (more)

Northern Stains is the result of a collaboration between experimental phenomenon Carlos Giffoni and Spunk/Fe-Mail members Maja Ratkje & Hild Tafjord. This trio finally met when Giffoni booked Fe-Mail to headline the sunday night of his genere defining Brooklyn based 3 day No Fun Festival in 2005. Early in 2006 Giffoni boarded a flight to Norway and Northern Stains was born in Spunk's Oslo studio.(more)