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

Debut solo album from Larsen's Fabrizio Modonese Polumbo.
"...surprisingly gentle inflections, combining low voices, groung hugging mists of keyboards, genial electronic hucklebuck and even acoustic guitar to create small vistas of delightful otherness..."
The Wire

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)

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)

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)

The sixth installment in Important Records' Arts & Crafts Series is this 7” from Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo, recorded with Alan Licht on guitar, Christian Marclay on turntables and William Hooker on drums. Pressed on clear vinyl and packaged with a screen print designed and signed by Ranaldo, this release is limited to 500 copies.

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Ambient Loop For Vancouver
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This mailorder exclusive book/cd is limited to 500. This is the only way that the cd is available. Each book is signed by Lee Ranaldo & Leah Singer.
This single track full length cd comes packaged inside of Lee Ranaldo & Leah Singer's book Road Movies. Road Movies is a collection of Lee's writing paired with Leah's photographs published by Soft Skull Press. Photos and writing done on the road across the globe.
Titled Ambient Loop For Vancouver the cd contains brand new guitar work from Lee. It's quasi-religious drone, a sacred work that is as sedating as it is chaotic. Totally brilliant modern improvised guitar work.

This vinyl only picture disc release is limited to only 500 copies worldwide.
Ranging from furious to tender, Stalker was recorded in Paris and at various live dates around Europe. This live material was then brought back to a studio in Norway and laboriously editited for release.
“ I play with the material and it talks back to me. It's a game between the boundaries of total control and total
anarchy. I try to include some of both.” Maja Ratkje

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)

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)

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)

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)