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PRICE: $24.00

CAT #: 12XU 171LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Limited-edition, one per customer. "Water Damage don't play songs. They invoke states. It's not rock and roll, it's ritual repetition therapy, like if Glenn Branca got stuck in a feedback loop with La Monte Young and they both forgot what year it was -- Texas 2025 or Berlin 1972 or maybe just eternity's parking lot. This isn't music for driving -- unless you're driving into the sun with your eyes rolled back and the gas pedal held down with a cinderblock of intent. Captured in Utrecht, Netherlands at the almighty Le Guess Who? Festival, where churches tremble and strobes reflect off every holy surface, Live at Le Guess Who? is a document of sustained sonic immolation. Eight members. Two drummers. Multiple stringed instruments. One saxophone. All hammering away at 'Reel 25,' captured live here shortly after the recorded version which would end up becoming the lead track on their most recent double LP Instruments. A single idea drilling into the molten center of your skull with the grace of a jackhammer ballet. It's not a show. It's a slow-motion landslide with amps. And for this particular descent into the drone abyss, Water Damage were joined by two very special fellow travelers and honorary members: Ajay Saggar (Bhajan Bhoy, University Challenged) adding six-string sorcery and smolder, and Patrick Shiroishi, the free-reed exorcist himself who is a guest on Instruments and just happened to be at Le Guess Who? as well, channeling ghosts through saxophones like he's trying to crack the sky. As if Water Damage weren't already enough of a wall, these two brought the ceiling and the floor. Water Damage, the Austin psych-drone monolith with the un-Googleable name and the wall-of-amplifiers ethos, doesn't just flirt with chaos -- they drag it behind the van and mic up the gravel. Their motto? 'Maximal Repetition Minimal Deviation.' Which sounds like the world's most menacing yoga class or a commandment from some amp-fried cult, and maybe it is. This ain't no avant-noise chin-stroke either. It's hot and dense and loud like a steel mill hallucination, and if you find yourself dissociating mid-set, that just means it's working. This is music that doesn't 'build' -- it grinds. It gnaws. And then it blooms. If you're lucky, it leaves you somewhere softer. Le Guess Who? handed them the altar. Water Damage, Saggar, and Shiroishi set it on fire."

 

PRICE: $15.00

CAT #: LPCT 100LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

2025 restock. Originally released in 1979. Edited by Brad Osbourne at Bullwackie Studio. A collection of tunes recorded between 1976-78 and somewhat of a US issue of Delroy Wilson's True Believer In Love LP released on Carib Gems in the UK in 1978 and on Micron in Canada the following year. Brad's collection features just one number from the former and the complete B side from the ladder. On the back sleeve: "Delroy Wilson has a lot of very special things going for him, things that made him the 'big soulful vocal star' that he is and the most consistent vocalists today in Jamaica. Perhaps the foremost of these qualities is an elusive commodity called soul, which is feelings, emotions, expression. Well to me, Delroy doesn't just sing -- he feels the song from within. Some might say he is one of the finest of one of the best reggae singers, but I think a little different, because I know Delroy can sing anything and sing it well. Soul, funk, reggae, shot music anything he's got the power, the know-how, the soul to mash it up..." Personnel: Robert Shakespeare - bass; Carlton "Santa" Davis, Sly Dunbar - drums; Chinna, Tony Chin - guitar (lead); Bobby Ellis, Dirty Harry, Tommy McCook - horns; Burnard "Touter" Harvey, Ossie Hibbert - organ; Ansel Collins - piano. Producer: Bunny Lee.

 

PRICE: $15.00

CAT #: LPCT 106LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

2025 restock. Clocktower presents Golden Rockers, a compilation of roots reggae and rocksteady featuring Delroy Wilson, The Uniques, and more. Also features Val Bennett, Lloyd & Devon, Horace Andy, Dennis Brown, Ken Parker, Alton Ellis, Dave Parker, Pat Kelly, The Wailers, and Cornell Campbell.

 

PRICE: $37.50

CAT #: WHYT 083LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Double LP version. New York-based artist James K returns with Friend. This album is full of electric pop anthems that blends ear-worming melodies with peak-time breaks, buzzing powerpunk guitars and a classic rave pulse, with K's signature enchanting vocals playfully spitting emotion. It's a hallucinatory pleasure, tearing through your body and mind. "Play" rushes with a rebellion of friends -- an electro fever daydream waking up everywhere you go. Hot off extensive tours worldwide, playing the likes of Pitchfork Festival, Dekmantel, iii Points, and Mutek, following in the footsteps of her last two critically acclaimed singles Friend comes on AD 93. RIYL: Cocteau Twins, Yves Tumor, Prodigy, Oklou, Grimes.

 

PRICE: $39.50

CAT #: WHYT 083TR-LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Double LP version. Transparent vinyl. New York-based artist James K returns with Friend. This album is full of electric pop anthems that blends ear-worming melodies with peak-time breaks, buzzing powerpunk guitars and a classic rave pulse, with K's signature enchanting vocals playfully spitting emotion. It's a hallucinatory pleasure, tearing through your body and mind. "Play" rushes with a rebellion of friends -- an electro fever daydream waking up everywhere you go. Hot off extensive tours worldwide, playing the likes of Pitchfork Festival, Dekmantel, iii Points, and Mutek, following in the footsteps of her last two critically acclaimed singles Friend comes on AD 93. RIYL: Cocteau Twins, Yves Tumor, Prodigy, Oklou, Grimes.

 

PRICE: $25.00

CAT #: NMN 182LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Paul and Limpe Fuchs at the peak of their creativity and power, tense and radically pursuing freedom with every texture, tone and beat. This LP issued in an edition of 300 copies finds Anima-Sound at the crossroad between sound art/sculpture, radical free jazz and the German sonic avant-garde. Anima-Sound has been defined as "finding authentic sound combinations together" -- and you can hardly describe it tighter. The music of Paul and Limpe lives on such dialectical tensions in many ways, as these 1987 recordings in the municipal gallery in Rosenheim demonstrate. Tension in the musical dialogue between the two, tension between traditional music and the spontaneous sound formation that arises from the moment, tension between conventional instruments and Paul Fuchs' "sound sculptures," tension between the sound of instruments and voice, between metals and woods, between strings and membranes. In order to create as much freedom as possible, Paul and Limpe developed most of the instruments themselves. Sound sculptures like the "pendulum strings," heavy metal rods that hang from piano wires under resonating drums. When struck, bowed or plucked, bell effects, flooding or rough rubbing surfaces of sound are created. Sometimes the vibrations and beats become more concentrated, as if there was a constant cloud of sound over the room. Or the "fox horns," boldly looped wind instruments that again resemble the shape of prehistoric animal horns, or the "tube drums" and other idiosyncratic percussion instruments, such as the circular saw blade used as a cymbal or a simple, flexible bronze plate with a sliding tone scale when brought to swinging with the drumsticks from Limpe, held by Paul. As Limpe recalls: "In the Anima duo with Paul Fuchs beside the drum set I used iron tools and metal sheets from the workshop. Instead of the hi hat cymbals I had a metal ring with five strings and plucked them by foot with a plectrum. Paul had built the Fuchsharp with two pickups and glided up and down the scale." Paul and Limpe F?chs in Baummusik managed to maintain the creative tension, a deeply resonant space and sound, throughout the whole performance: a rise and fall of dynamics and rhythmic intensity, the change of the respective "leading sonority," the choice of timbres were so obvious, as if this music were the reflex of organic life, like breathing. And both the moments of complete silence as well as the outbursts of uncontrolled chaos fit logically into the flow of the music.

 

PRICE: $25.00

CAT #: VOCSON 180LP

FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL

This third Gil J Wolman record released by Alga Marghen, bringing together m?gapneumes from the '60s, sheds new light into the poetic revolution of the time, or a kind of organic infra-language. It's the physical poetry of a serial killer that is recorded in the two "M?gapneumesm" as well as in the extract from the (last?) "M?gapneumes" (excerpt), the tape that was found still wound on Wolman's tape recorder after his death. "Les Callas," an astonishing piece possibly based on several super-imposed recordings of Wolman's voice at Radio T?l?vision Fran?aise (ca 1961), features a Lettrist choir recycling Rimbaudian vowels, while high-pitched screams emerge, culminating in a polyphony worthy of some tribe resistant to domestication. "Un coup pour rien", "Un coup pour deux" and "Tu vas la taire ta gueule", recorded at Radio Canada in 1965, are presented here for the first time on record, completing the program of this historical and radical anthology. In a conversation with Ilse Garnier, she told Frederic Aquaviva (the curator of this edition for Alga Marghen) that Henri Chopin had precipitated the end of his attempts at sound poetry with this definitive formula: "Le souffle, c'est moi!". On the other hand, in Gil J Wolman's record library appears this eloquent dedication by Chopin on his record Audiopoems, released by the English label Tangent in 1971: "For Gil J Wolman, evident in 1 (because the first), evident in 1971, evident in 2071, evident in 3071, in short to the sup-herbal Gil." But unlike Isidore Isou, Wolman was not the sort of person to send out a leaflet in order to make clear what he had achieved with this new poetry, and besides, he himself had consigned Isou to the old world, with the new beginning represented by his m?gapneumes, which in fact date from 1950, when he first joined the Lettrist movement. He was undoubtedly one of the first poets to use the resources of the tape recorder and its varispeed, for example in L'Anticoncept, in 1951, also used a decade later by Brion Gysin with "I Am that I Am" and Henri Chopin. Also, in 1973, Fran?ois Dufr?ne produced a manuscript on a torn silkscreen poster where one can read "Gil J Wolman is one of the most important phonetic poets." Wolman is an essential innovator and artist: a poet, writer, visual artist, film-maker and video-maker who, like Gherasim Luca, did not need to give numerous public recitals or recordings to make his mark. To be Duchamp or Arman: Wolman chose his side!

 

PRICE: $23.00

CAT #: BCD 17746CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Bear Family Records dedicates a complete CD album to Mr. Blues full of echoes to his issues of the time -- alcohol, women, gambling joints -- in the label's Rocks series. Fantastic original rhythm 'n' blues from the late 1940s and early '50s, recorded at King Studios in Cincinnati. Classics of the genre such as 'Good Rockin' Tonight,' 'Lollipop Mama' or the mischievous 'Good Morning Judge.' Harris created some of the best R&B smashes ever. Accompanied by a line-up of the best musicians of his era, including Red Prysock, Wynonie Harris rocks like mad on this excellent compilation by Nico Feuerbach. The liner notes by Chicago rock expert Bill Dahl shed light on the background of rhythm 'n' blues and the life story of 'Mr. Blues'. Of all the studly blues shouters whose raucous wails in front of jumping, sax-leavened combos provided a vivid blueprint for the rise of rock and roll, none inhabited the role any more enthusiastically than Wynonie Harris. Mr. Blues, as he was known from coast to coast, sang about a world that he knew well, filled with booze, women, gambling, and all manner of sleazy escapades guaranteed to heartily resonate with his massive fan base during the late 1940s and early '50s. Wynonie's rafter-rattling hits for Syd Nathan's Cincinnati-based King Records provide many of the highlights on Bear Family's blistering compilation Wynonie Harris Rocks, led by his '48 R&B chart-topper 'Good Rockin' Tonight' and his similarly rafter-rattling 'Lollipop Mama,' 'All She Wants To Do Is Rock,' 'I Want My Fanny Brown,' 'Sittin' On It All The Time,' 'Good Morning Judge,' and 'Bloodshot Eyes.' Just as potent were Wynonie's mighty houserockers 'Quiet Whiskey,' 'Bite Again,' 'Bite Again,' 'Shake That Thing,' 'Git With The Grits,' and the aptly titled 'Rock Mr. Blues.' Harris' slightly hoarse, frequently leering vocal delivery was as distinctive as it was instantly recognizable; if not for Wynonie and his leather-lunged compatriots, rock and roll might never have happened at all!"

 

PRICE: $27.00

CAT #: BS 089LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

Multi-instrumentalist and composer J.H. Burch gives new intensity to a neglected ethnographic and folklore reality: the rural Amazigh poets of the Ait Bouguemez valley of Morocco. His vision of cultural exchange led him to the vocal repertoire of the all-female Troupe Asnimer, whom for decades have been amongst the most important custodians of the various Amazigh oral art forms in the region. The Asnimer women recite in chorus songs written by numerous anonymous authors, some dating back centuries, making their tradition and a fluid and constantly evolving collective oeuvre. Each of the tribal forms has its own time and place, some like Tamawayt are poems of travel and lamentation, Timnadin of daily labor, others are sung as Sufi rites. From the Asia and the Pacific, J.H. Burch succeeds here through his knowledge of different sound traditions and a varied use of instrumentation (baglama, santur, tanpura, kamanche, organ, deyurey, electronics, percussion), and in becoming a conduit for Asnimer, frames the collaboration without distorting its ancestral and rural physiognomy. On the contrary, the songs of the Amazigh tribes of the Haut-Atlas are colored through Afro-Asiatic spiritual arrangements of meditative sensitivity.

 

PRICE: $42.00

CAT #: BS 096LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

The visionary Walter Maioli (Futuro Antico, Aktuala) and the eccentric electronic musician John Zandijik first met in 1984 when they both gravitated toward the experimental Sound Reporters collective, participating in the release of Ethnoelectronics (1986). Shortly afterward, the two met at Zandijik's studio in Rotterdam, where they completed their journey of exploration to the edge of the Universe in just three nights. The recordings were made only after 3 a.m., when psychic energy is at its peak, and inspiration belongs solely to the realm of dreams. It was a ritual of long galactic fluctuation, where the mystical sound of the flute was filtered and expanded by the Aureal system, a device capable of breaking it down into cascades of aureal harmonies. Through its extemporaneous approach, the music transforms perceptions of ancient pyramids or tropical forests into phosphorescent nebulae, luminous fountain openings, and unprecedented planetary interstices -- interstellar portals leading to new archetypal-ancestral visions. It feels like sailing through colored orbits in the red gases of Jupiter and Mars, lost and dissolved forever in the engines and gears of the most secret cosmos. Between Pink Floyd-esque psychedelic flashes and Tangerine Dream-inspired sidereal architectures, Maioli and Zandijik reveal the most phantasmagoric and unknown side of Sound Reporters.

 

PRICE: $27.00

CAT #: BS 097LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

The roots of African music are always open to new possibilities. This is revealed in the music of this unprecedented quartet. Alongside the Malian singer Rokia Traore', Mamah Diabate, Malian riot and djeli ngoni player, has been playing for several years with Stefano Pilia (Afterhours, Massimo Volume). Now, their path intertwines with the artistic and human partnership between Jabel Kanuteh, Gambian griot and kora virtuoso, and percussionist Marco Zanotti (Classical Afrobeat Orchestra, Cucoma Combo). The union of these two pairs develops unusual geographies and architectures, where dual African and Italian identities merge into one universal sensibility. The predominant Malian and Gambian modes chase each other, but all is fused into a broader rhythm factory or embellished by more abstract and liquid experimental digressions. The curiosity and pliability of the individual musicians search for a language that is both current and contemporary, always poised between ancient and modern, landscape and narrative, with jazz, rock and folk influences.

 

PRICE: $32.00

CAT #: BT 132LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

The Vestige is the first fruit of a new intergenerational collaboration between Giuseppe Ielasi, a quietly prolific key contributor to the European experimental music scene for over twenty years, and Jack Sheen, a young composer-conductor-sound artist from Manchester whose recent projects have seen him moving seamlessly from enigmatic chamber music composition and installations to conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. Their materials and working methods differ significantly, with Ielasi having focused for many years on electro-acoustic techniques alongside his ongoing commitment to the guitar, and Sheen primarily composing for traditional instruments. More important, though, is what they share: a fascination with what Sheen calls "mysterious, liminal musical material," using irregular repetition and cyclical forms to create structures at once alive with activity and almost static, as well as a rigorous exploration of spatial diffusion and the interaction of sound event and environment. Working individually with a library of acoustic instrument sounds from Sheen's recent projects and Ielasi's guitar, the pair eventually met for several days at Ielasi's home studio in Monza, sculpting the fourteen pieces that make up The Vestige. Like Ielasi and Sheen's solo works, the record shows an exquisite attention to details of sequencing and pacing, the sound palette and compositional approach consistent throughout while each piece asserts its own identity. Ielasi and Sheen sketch dimensions of the ambiguous space, where distinctions between pitch and noise, repetition and irregularity, electronic and acoustic remain pointedly unclear. The Vestige shows an unusual degree of attention to frequency range as a compositional tool, something it shares with the hyper-subtle variations of Ielasi's electroacoustic works and the deliberately "unbalanced" midrange-heavy ensemble of Sheen's Sub. Here, movement between episodes is as much about adding or removing a frequency band as it is about changes in density, harmonic content, or instrumental texture. Tracks are marked by the sudden appearance of subbass or exaggeration of high frequencies in otherwise similar material, contributing to the sense that these fourteen pieces are like different views on a scene that listeners can never quite see clearly. While calling up a range of past music, from the early works of Rolf Julius to Simha Arom's recordings of layered polyrhythms embedded in the background sounds of central African villages to the temporal distortions and layered hiss of DJ Screw, the alluring and disconcerting world of The Vestige is entirely its own.

 

PRICE: $15.00

CAT #: BUDA 860404CD

FILE UNDER: WORLD

"Sory Kandia Kouyat? (1933-1977) was 'The Voice' of independent Guinea. It is to this baobab of Guinean song that one of his sons, Kaabi Kouyat? dedicates this tribute. The most fascinating thing about this album is Kaabi's voice, whose timbre, modulations and inflections, and the felicity of his DNA, echo so hauntingly those of Guinea's most famous griot."

 

PRICE: $16.50

CAT #: BB 471CD

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

On their last trip to Silberland, hurtled along the chrome highways and glass skyways of the kosmische landscape, powered ever onwards in perpetual motorik motion. This time, however, the Hamburg imprint opt for an unhurried itinerary, coasting far beyond the familiar rhythmic terrain to immerse listeners in the ambient side of this alternative Allemagne. Building on the tape loops, tone poems, and minimalist compositions of the '60s avant-garde, these musicians utilized the sweeping scope of the synthesizer to create expansive meditations. This compilation offers a survey of this singular era, blending pioneering voices with lesser-known artists for an immersive sonic experience. Taken from Cluster & Eno's self-titled 1977 album, "Ho Renomo" opens the set with a profound minimalism. Roedelius' "Veilchenwurzeln" follows, evoking pastoral scenes in a multi-layered and undulating composition, where synths flow gently, conjuring images of open fields and embodying an organic warmth. Der Plan's "Die W?ste" delves into darker territories, translating the visual world of Rainer Kirberg's cult film into a stark soundscape, while Rolf Trostel's "Hope Is The Answer" sees a steady sequence rise and fall beneath the filter. The koto-like plucks and piercing drones of Vono's "Hitze" create a mysterious and hypnotic experience which draws on both ancient and futuristic tones before giving way to "E-Night", a recording from the sessions of You's 1980 LP Electric Days. As the album progresses, Serge Blenner's "Phrase IV" beguiles with minimalist yet celestial synth lines, while Moebius' "Falsche Ruhe" offers a quiet, haunting meditation on solitude. From there, Harald Grosskopf's "Oceanheart," envelops listeners in aquatic ambient textures that suggest serene, moonlit waters -- a perfect surface to reflect the starry sky portrayed by Lapre's acoustic guitar and wistful synths. The glimmering, crystalline, landscape of Riechmann's "Abendlicht" finds a heartbeat amongst the tranquility, leading seamlessly into the unhurried progression of shimmering chords and chiming synths which make up Adalbert von Deyen's "Per Aspera Ad Astra". Unreleased until Bureau B's recent retrospective set, Faust's "Lampe An, T?r Zu, Leute Rein!" channels a darker, introspective, energy, marked by drones and field recordings while Conrad Schnitzler's "Electric Garden" creates an electronic biosphere buzzing with synthetic life. Moebius & Plank's "Nord?stliches Gef?hl" pairs calm percussion and rhythm guitar with pastoral, swirling electronics, resulting in a lush, stately piece that captures the spirit of a vast, open landscape. Deutsche Wertabeit delivers hypnotic minimalism, before Asmus Tietchens' "R?uschlinge" pulls the listener into an eerie atmosphere of deep disquiet. Pyrolator's "Minimal Tape 1/8" offers an immersive wall of sound. The wintry "Southland" by R?diger Lorenz evokes the isolation of frozen landscapes, a fitting prologue for "Alleewalzer" by Thomas Dinger.

 

PRICE: $35.00

CAT #: BB 471LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Double LP version. On their last trip to Silberland, hurtled along the chrome highways and glass skyways of the kosmische landscape, powered ever onwards in perpetual motorik motion. This time, however, the Hamburg imprint opt for an unhurried itinerary, coasting far beyond the familiar rhythmic terrain to immerse listeners in the ambient side of this alternative Allemagne. Building on the tape loops, tone poems, and minimalist compositions of the '60s avant-garde, these musicians utilized the sweeping scope of the synthesizer to create expansive meditations. This compilation offers a survey of this singular era, blending pioneering voices with lesser-known artists for an immersive sonic experience. Taken from Cluster & Eno's self-titled 1977 album, "Ho Renomo" opens the set with a profound minimalism. Roedelius' "Veilchenwurzeln" follows, evoking pastoral scenes in a multi-layered and undulating composition, where synths flow gently, conjuring images of open fields and embodying an organic warmth. Der Plan's "Die W?ste" delves into darker territories, translating the visual world of Rainer Kirberg's cult film into a stark soundscape, while Rolf Trostel's "Hope Is The Answer" sees a steady sequence rise and fall beneath the filter. The koto-like plucks and piercing drones of Vono's "Hitze" create a mysterious and hypnotic experience which draws on both ancient and futuristic tones before giving way to "E-Night", a recording from the sessions of You's 1980 LP Electric Days. As the album progresses, Serge Blenner's "Phrase IV" beguiles with minimalist yet celestial synth lines, while Moebius' "Falsche Ruhe" offers a quiet, haunting meditation on solitude. From there, Harald Grosskopf's "Oceanheart," envelops listeners in aquatic ambient textures that suggest serene, moonlit waters -- a perfect surface to reflect the starry sky portrayed by Lapre's acoustic guitar and wistful synths. The glimmering, crystalline, landscape of Riechmann's "Abendlicht" finds a heartbeat amongst the tranquility, leading seamlessly into the unhurried progression of shimmering chords and chiming synths which make up Adalbert von Deyen's "Per Aspera Ad Astra". Unreleased until Bureau B's recent retrospective set, Faust's "Lampe An, T?r Zu, Leute Rein!" channels a darker, introspective, energy, marked by drones and field recordings while Conrad Schnitzler's "Electric Garden" creates an electronic biosphere buzzing with synthetic life. Moebius & Plank's "Nord?stliches Gef?hl" pairs calm percussion and rhythm guitar with pastoral, swirling electronics, resulting in a lush, stately piece that captures the spirit of a vast, open landscape. Deutsche Wertabeit delivers hypnotic minimalism, before Asmus Tietchens' "R?uschlinge" pulls the listener into an eerie atmosphere of deep disquiet. Pyrolator's "Minimal Tape 1/8" offers an immersive wall of sound. The wintry "Southland" by R?diger Lorenz evokes the isolation of frozen landscapes, a fitting prologue for "Alleewalzer" by Thomas Dinger.

 

PRICE: $16.50

CAT #: BB 485CD

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

In the shadow of the nuclear accident in Fukushima in 2011, Japanese musician Phew, artist Erika Kobayashi, and German electronic music pioneer Dieter Moebius (Cluster, Harmonia) came together for an extraordinary project. Together, they developed the concept album Radium Girls 2011, which they released in 2012 under the project name Project UNDARK -- 114 years after the discovery of radium by Marie and Pierre Curie. The album is dedicated to the so-called Radium Girls, female factory workers in the United States during the 1920s who painted watch dials with radioactive luminous paint and suffered severe health consequences from radium poisoning. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the label Bureau B is reissuing Radium Girls -- for the first time also on vinyl. The Radium Girls were female factory workers who unknowingly suffered radiation poisoning while painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark paint at the United States Radium Factory in Orange, New Jersey, around 1917. A group of five affected women later took their employer to court, setting a legal precedent that granted workers the right to sue companies for illnesses caused by hazardous working conditions. Between 1917 and 1926, the U.S. Radium Corporation -- previously named the Radium Luminous Material Corporation -- specialized in extracting and refining radium from carnotite ore to manufacture glow-in-the-dark paint, marketed as "Undark." As a supplier for the military, the company produced radioluminescent watches and other instruments. The New Jersey factory employed over a hundred workers, primarily women, to apply the radium-based paint, unaware of the serious health dangers associated with it. In total, around 4,000 workers across the United States and Canada were hired to paint watch dials with radium. Many later suffered from severe health problems due to radiation exposure, though the exact number of fatalities remains uncertain.

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: BB 485LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

LP version. In the shadow of the nuclear accident in Fukushima in 2011, Japanese musician Phew, artist Erika Kobayashi, and German electronic music pioneer Dieter Moebius (Cluster, Harmonia) came together for an extraordinary project. Together, they developed the concept album Radium Girls 2011, which they released in 2012 under the project name Project UNDARK -- 114 years after the discovery of radium by Marie and Pierre Curie. The album is dedicated to the so-called Radium Girls, female factory workers in the United States during the 1920s who painted watch dials with radioactive luminous paint and suffered severe health consequences from radium poisoning. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the label Bureau B is reissuing Radium Girls -- for the first time also on vinyl. The Radium Girls were female factory workers who unknowingly suffered radiation poisoning while painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark paint at the United States Radium Factory in Orange, New Jersey, around 1917. A group of five affected women later took their employer to court, setting a legal precedent that granted workers the right to sue companies for illnesses caused by hazardous working conditions. Between 1917 and 1926, the U.S. Radium Corporation -- previously named the Radium Luminous Material Corporation -- specialized in extracting and refining radium from carnotite ore to manufacture glow-in-the-dark paint, marketed as "Undark." As a supplier for the military, the company produced radioluminescent watches and other instruments. The New Jersey factory employed over a hundred workers, primarily women, to apply the radium-based paint, unaware of the serious health dangers associated with it. In total, around 4,000 workers across the United States and Canada were hired to paint watch dials with radium. Many later suffered from severe health problems due to radiation exposure, though the exact number of fatalities remains uncertain.

 

PRICE: $24.00

CAT #: BSR 932R-LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

"1999 ska heavy album from Toots & The Maytals. Wicked pacing and inspired playing and singing set this one as a high-water mark in the Maytals' discography."

 

PRICE: $18.00

CAT #: RSE 003CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Laibach is a pioneering Slovenian industrial and experimental music group known for their provocative and often controversial approach to art and music. Their innovative sound and theatrical performances have earned them a cult following worldwide. Schlecht Und Ironisch is a testament to the enduring power of Laibach's music and a must-have for fans of industrial, experimental, and avant-garde music. Rune Serpent Europa is a label that bridges the evocative worlds of industrial, neofolk, and medieval-inspired music, establishing itself as a cornerstone for fans of atmospheric and avant-garde soundscapes. Complementing this artistic vision is its sub-label, Assur Anshar, which caters to the more energetic realms of electro and EBM (Electronic Body Music). Together, these entities form a hub for creative exploration, offering not just music but a total artistic experience."

 

PRICE: $45.00

CAT #: RSE 003LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Marble brown vinyl. "This album features a diverse range of artists interpreting Laibach's iconic sound, from industrial and EBM to dark ambient and neofolk, including Prager Handgriff, Kirlian Camera, Staat Und Organisation, DDR, Andrew King, Angels And Agony."

 

PRICE: $22.50

CAT #: CLE 078LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

LP version. Al Bilali Soudan sparked by passion, and experience generate an improvisational tour de force melding tradition, rhythm and scale. From Tombouctou, Mali, these bravura players have performed together for generations. Pairing blazing strings with insistent percussion, Al Bilali Soudan's cultural roots represent the source of trance desert blues. Al Bilali Soudan delivers Takamba in its rawest form -- the original desert sound. These masters command the tehardent, a three-stringed lute buzzing with hypnotic power, propelled by deep calabash rhythms. Their music is tradition unleashed: unrefined, immediate, and pulsing with the spirit of Saharan gatherings. Recorded during informal rehearsals, this session captures Al Bilali Soudan's essence. Two extended tracks stretch beyond 13 minutes, locking into relentless trance inducing grooves. Abellow Yattara leads with tehardent work that's both virtuosic and deeply rooted, proving why he's revered as a keeper of Mali's musical legacy. This is desert music at its most primal. No studio effects, no concessions -- just real, raw resonance of strings, skin and voice. For those who think they know African blues, here's the deeper truth.

 

PRICE: $15.00

CAT #: LPCT 125LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

2025 restock. Some of Barrington Levy's most significant (and enduring) recordings from Channel One Studio, mixed by Scientist. Originally released in 1982. "It's difficult to overstate the transformative effect that Barrington Levy's earliest recordings had on the sound of Jamaican music. In late 1979, Levy's spare, hauntingly arranged early singles such as 'Shine Eye Gal,' 'Collie Weed,' and 'Shaolin Temple' completely overtook Jamaican dancehalls and streetside sound clashes. . . . By the time Levy released Poorman Style in 1982, he was arguably Jamaica's preeminent vocalist. Poorman Style features a set of punishing rhythms from the crack studio outfit The Roots Radics, with production work from singer-turned-label owner Linval Thompson and former King Tubby prot?g? Scientist. The title track -- a crisply observed sufferers' tale full of tragic notes and indelible details from everyday life -- hits particularly hard." --iTunes

 

PRICE: $15.00

CAT #: OTLP 002LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

Originally released by Jah Thomas's Midnight Rock label from Jamaica, in 1982; now repressed by Clocktower. Ranking Toyan was already a seasoned veteran of Kingston's soundclash scene, having apprenticed with a number of smaller outfits before becoming earning a slot with Henry "Junjo" Lawes's Volcano Sound and winning widespread acclaim for his effortless, patois-laden delivery and his gruff putdowns of rival DJs. Though Toyan had already cut a number of outstanding sides for producer Don Mais, his collaborations with Lawes are undoubtedly his definitive recordings. Ghetto Man Skank stands as the very best of these. It boasts a set of simple, punishingly hard rhythms from the ace studio band The Roots Radics, which Toyan dominates with ease. His ability to spill forth unending streams of wordplay, streetcorner boasts, and infectious slogans is truly remarkable, enlivening every song on this set. Though Toyan didn't receive the same acclaim as fellow Volcano Sound DJs like Yellowman and Eek-A-Mouse, his outstanding performances on Ghetto Man Skank prove he was their equal in every respect.

 

PRICE: $17.50

CAT #: CSR 193CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2025 restock. Recoiled is a rambunctious alchemy of magikal Coil sensibilities and hi-tech home circa '90s mixing technique, all fused in the cave-like early studios of Danny Hyde/Peter Christopherson. These were the unrestrained PRE-BIG studio-mix-downs of four songs which long-time Coil admirer/collaborator Trent Reznor requested Coil to remix. Reznor sent over the original multi-tracks and DATs to Hyde/Christopherson, who independently mixed versions and then met to synch both creations, molding them into these master versions. Recoiled includes a fuller, more opulent version of the track "Closer," which eventually made it onto the opening credits of the movie SE7EN. These five lengthy compositions (just under 40 minutes) are pre-Ableton/laptop generation-type priest-song creations, with the use of baby alarms and numerous wires to create bespoke effects. These legendary tracks were always rumored to exist and, only the due diligence of a dedicated NIN forum who hunted them down, are released/unleashed for your listening pleasure. Four of the tracks were released on the download-only Uncoiled. A bonus, previously-unheard track from the same sessions closes the album. Jhonn Balance is also manifest on this gilded constellation. Beautifully remastered.

 

PRICE: $19.50

CAT #: CVSD 009CD

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

2025 restock. An expanded reissue of Sun Ra's Continuation, originally released in 1970. A special two CD reissue of the hyper-rare El Saturn Records album, recorded in 1963, early in the Arkestra's New York period, paired with a full disc of extra material. Loaded with John Gilmore, one of the greatest and rarest slabs of Sun Ra vinyl, on CD for the first time. Recorded on March 10, 1963 at the Choreographer's Workshop in New York City. Remastered from the original tapes by Michael D. Anderson; Reissue produced by John Corbett and Adam Abraham.

 

PRICE: $18.50

CAT #: CVSD 123CD

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

Two decades ago, an all-star assembly of Chicago improvisers started a new band, drawing its name from an 1841 book by Charles Mackay: Extraordinary Popular Delusions. With weekly gigs at a spot in Chicago called Hotti Biscotti, Jim Baker, Mars Williams, Brian Sandstrom, and Steve Hunt honed their sound, which could be ferocious or nerdy or diffuse, as they moment required. After a couple years, the quartet moved to a regular Monday session at Beat Kitchen, where they were resident band for more than fifteen years. Williams was from time to time called away on tour, frequently enough that the band invited another horn player, the venerable Edward Wilkerson Jr., to substitute. This inevitably led to quintet convenings with both Williams and Wilkerson, the likes of which are now legend. Without question, although they have only released two previous records, EPD is one of the signal ensembles of Chicago creative music. Mars Williams (1955-2023) had been diagnosed with late-stage cancer when EPD booked a concert at Elastic Arts Foundation at the end of August, 2023. Williams, who lived less than three months more, was on the bill. Nobody expected him to play the way he did. More than an honorary appearance, this was Mars at the top of his game, playing, as it were, for his life. With Sandstrom switching between bass, trumpet, and electric guitar, Wilkerson doubling on saxophone and clarinet as well as oud and didgeridoo, Baker on ARP synthesizer and piano as well as violin, and Hunt on all sorts of percussion, Williams' table of toys and his blazing soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones were in perfect company -- a band that could freely improvise open structures and instantly compose unforeseen suites, while maintaining a level of intensity and intrigue on par with the saxophonist's mastery. Long term relationships extending outside this group, including those with NRG Ensemble, Mars Williams' Ayler Xmas projects, as well as a variety of ad hoc and shorter-lived amalgamations, made this one of the most fertile environments for these players, and this final quintet bore the marks of a classic concert. Which it was. Fortunately, Dave Zuchowski was there to brilliantly document it in all its two-set glory. Corbett vs. Dempsey is pleased to present the entire concert on two CDs, as the fourth installment of CvsD's Mars Archive series, with a cover painting by Timothy Howe.

 

PRICE: $16.00

CAT #: DAMGOOD 628CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"The Damned keyboardist Monty Oxymoron plays classical-hued piano versions of the band's most lived tracks! Not many people realize that The Damned have produced a fine array of songs with melodic, harmonic and rhythmic sophistication; with a depth of imagination and atmosphere. They spearheaded British punk, and yet diverse musical influences went into the crucible: UK and US psychedelia, Canterbury prog rock, and even classical and filmic musical influences abound. Now, with the return of drummer Rat Scabies the line-up is the same as that which produced many of these songs, with Monty on keys. Monty Oxymoron has played keyboards with The Damned since 1996, has written songs for the band, and played with Captain Sensible and Dr Space Toad before that. He is a retired psychiatric nurse and trained in art psychotherapy. Monty is keen on 'free improvisation' and plays in and around Brighton where he lives. Monty has an almost impossibly eclectic collation of his music on Bandcamp, his YouTube channel, and shares ideas on various subjects on his Substack page (under his 'real' name: Laurence Burrow)."

 

PRICE: $23.00

CAT #: DAMGOOD 628LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"The Damned keyboardist Monty Oxymoron plays classical-hued piano versions of the band's most lived tracks! Not many people realize that The Damned have produced a fine array of songs with melodic, harmonic and rhythmic sophistication; with a depth of imagination and atmosphere. They spearheaded British punk, and yet diverse musical influences went into the crucible: UK and US psychedelia, Canterbury prog rock, and even classical and filmic musical influences abound. Now, with the return of drummer Rat Scabies the line-up is the same as that which produced many of these songs, with Monty on keys. Monty Oxymoron has played keyboards with The Damned since 1996, has written songs for the band, and played with Captain Sensible and Dr Space Toad before that. He is a retired psychiatric nurse and trained in art psychotherapy. Monty is keen on 'free improvisation' and plays in and around Brighton where he lives. Monty has an almost impossibly eclectic collation of his music on Bandcamp, his YouTube channel, and shares ideas on various subjects on his Substack page (under his 'real' name: Laurence Burrow.)"

 

PRICE: $23.00

CAT #: DAMGOOD 632LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Following on from the imaginary international success of their debut album Talking Bout and the 45 It's You c/w Please Don't Tell My Baby, the Milkshakes decided to squander what little money they had left on another long-player. The result was the cleverly-titled, if slightly boastful-sounding, Fourteen Rhythm & Beat Greats. Indeed, if you close your eyes and unplug the record-player, all 14 -- count 'em (next time you open your peepers) -- finely-crafted tunes on this LP could almost qualify as 'great,' depending on where you stand, musically. Featuring such live favorites as 'Black Sails In The Moonlight' and 'Red Monkey,' the general consensus was that this was The Milkshakes' finest work to date (ask them yourselves). That must be partially true, as London's prestigious Big Beat Records figured it was good enough to reissue on their very own prestigious Big Beat record label -- twice."

 

PRICE: $17.00

CAT #: DIS 032LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2025 repress on blue vinyl. "This compilation record, originally released in 1989, includes songs by Scream, Ignition, Shudder To Think, Soulside, Fugazi, Broken Siren, King Face, Rain, 3, Marginal Man, One Last Wish, Thorns, Fidelity Jones, and Red Emma."

 

PRICE: $35.00

CAT #: ELPALMAS 010LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

2025 restock; El Palmas Music and El Drag?n Criollo once again leave their skin immersing themselves in the musical archives of the "Venezuelan Saudi". In addition to the search for that Holy Grail of "one's own identity" in the midst of the international explosion of musical trends, the need arises to express the consequences that the urban explosion and unbridled growth had on society. Color de Tr?pico Vol. 2 confronts you with a new expressive rebellion, that of the new heterogeneity, the diversity of the new social organization and the struggle for survival. New styles raise their voices, in the face of all this urban complexity we already know that traditional genres, far from reacting passively, returned to the charge of cumbia, joropo, merengue coexisting against rock and roll, but this rock and roll opened the doors and it evolved with them in the form of rock (just), pop, soul, jazz, highly sophisticated funk. But, as you can see in Color de Tr?pico Vol. 2, the influence of Caribbean modernity also stomped on with new rhythms such as ska, rocksteady, reggae, originating in Jamaica and represented in Venezuela by the group of brilliant good vibes such as Las Cuatro Monedas and its theme "Buena Suerte". Salsa also arrives, still grown only in New York, San Juan, and Cali but which now extends to Caracas and of which the tasty "Mar?a La Bella" by Nelson y sus Estrellas stands out. The mixture is the reality of the social network of the city, chaotic, dynamic, incessant, recipient of massive migrations from all parts of the country, mainly from rural areas to the capital, but also from Colombia, the Caribbean, Europe, everything to a speed faster than it could have the ability to be assimilated. Groups like the psychedelics of Grupo Almendra add Latin percussion to their rock band flirting with trends such as disco music or even samba in "Tutti Frutti" and the powerful brass section of the reference jazz band in Venezuela, such as La Retreta Mayor, with its funky jazz "L?quido Elemento", a spectacular vision of a Caracas that never sleeps between textures of saxophones and trumpets in its wide avenues. With Color de Tr?pico Vol. 2, El Palmas and El Drag?n Criollo show the versatility that musical groups usually have in Venezuela, in which the sophistication and vision that they already had at this very important moment continues to surprise. Also features Los Kings, Mario Y Sus Diamantes, Orquesta La Playa, and Anselmo Y Su Conjunto Pajueliao.

 

PRICE: $27.50

CAT #: FTR 717LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Feeding Tube Records is excited to present the first North American release by this amazing Japanese sound artist. Yosuke Fujita goes by the name FUJI|||||||||||TA, perhaps so he won't be mistaken for the guitarist of the same name who plays with Better Days, or perhaps because he just likes to hear people try to figure out how to say, 'FUJI|||||||||||TA,' properly. Either way, FUJI|||||||||||TA is a wonderful avant-garde project that has been active for almost two decades. In its current iteration, performances involve spontaneous compositions on a mutant pipe organ which is operated by air pumps rather than keys. Using a variety of gestural means to create the long tones that are the basis of his work, FUJI|||||||||||TA's performances (such as this one at an old church in Brattleboro VT) have a choreographic element to match the sonics. As an element for this live session (the first he has released), the artist was also able to weave in sounds from Epsilon Spire's own 1906 3' manual Estey pipe organ. The sonic mix is both organic and ghostly. The process by which FUJI|||||||||||TA works has a deeply spiritual quality that blends seamlessly with instrumental sounds sometimes recalling Charlemagne Palestine at his most oceanic. When FUJI|||||||||||TA adds vocals, things get even better. Sometimes using a technique where he pushes himself to a place where he utters sounds that are beyond his actual range, at others singing long wordless passages with prayer-like qualities, the music is beyond easy description. There are three tracks on the LP, each with a slightly different instrumental approach, but all of a piece. The first has both FUJI|||||||||||TA's mutant organ as well as the church's. The second features the church organ and voice. The third is church organ and a Japanese free reed instrument called a sh?. Some parts have a single drone line, others commingle multiple sources for extra pleasure. But the entire album is something like waking up in the middle of a very strange and beautiful dream, not exactly certain where you are or even who you are, just drifting on clouds of serendipitous sounds. All we can say is, 'dream on.'" --Byron Coley, 2025

 

PRICE: $28.50

CAT #: FEINES 070EP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Mexican enfant extraordinaire I?igo Vontier is rolling in with his debut EP for Feines Tier and it's a match made in heaven. Just judging on the name alone, as he seems to be from some kind of royal Tier family descent. But enough with the mind-numbingly bad puns and on to some brain-meltingly good music. Rolling. Everything's rolling. "Zongato" is rolling. It's got this special combination of straight and uncompromising beat and bass paired with psychedelic synth sirens floating around your head that somehow only the Mexicans really know how to nail. "Astrolo" is rolling. Like a well-oiled machine. If you ask Google Translate, "Mucha Onda" means "very cool" in English, "molto bello" in Italian or "valde frigidus" in Latin and there is nothing more to add to that. The psychedelics are back (were they ever gone?) and kick in in full swing on "Hedonist Lizard." A dangerous cocktail of high-proof alcoholic drum and bass patterns paired with some sugary spicy herbals of unknown origin, better not down it in one go. You were warned.

 

PRICE: $25.00

CAT #: 3FFTCJQ179

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

It all started in 1958, when Hugh Steinmetz played trumpet in the school band and got in contact with Christian Mouritzen, a 19-year-old blacksmith who played alto saxophone and would soon change his name into Franz Beckerlee. They were soon joined by young bass player Steffen Andersen. By January 1962 they entered the scene at the Vingaarden club in central Copenhagen where, together with John Tchicai, they had the groundbreaking experience of hearing Cecil Taylor, Sunny Murray, and Albert Ayler. The next step was to enter the scene in the more international Montmartre Jazzhouse. Monday night was "avantgarde night" and The Beckerlee Quartet (still in their late teens) accepted the offer to play for an hour and therefore got the chance to further develop their music. It was there that they came into contact with The New York Contemporary Five -- Don Cherry, Archie Shepp, John Tchicai, Don Moore, and J.C. Moses. Before The New York Contemporary Five left Scandinavia in November 1963, they collaborated with The Beckerlee Quartet for a broadcast on Danish Radio. The gifted drummer Sunny Murray, an inspiring force for the Beckerlee group, was hired in 1964 to play on Action, their first LP, issued the following year by the legendary Debut Records. It was at that time that they changed their name to The Contemporary Jazz Quartet. Action has come to be regarded by many as one of the most important early accomplishments in European free improvisation. It was at this time that members of The Contemporary Jazz Quartet were invited to perform with David Tudor and Michael von Biehl in Charlottenborg, a very important place for the avantgarde in music and visual arts. The group would eventually shift again in membership and become The Contemporary Jazz Quintet, featuring Bo Thrige Andersen, Franz Beckerlee, Hugh Steinmetz, Niels Harrit, and Steffen Andersen, and enter the studio in 1967 to record what would have been the follow up to Action, intended to be also issued by Debut. As a fascinating illumination of the moment, particularly because it predates Miles Davis' revolutionary innovation of electric jazz by roughly a year, new innovations in amplification during that moment that the band began to observe in rock music, provoked them to abandon that album and begin again, eventually producing the LP T.C.J.Q. in 1969, which featured two electrified saxophones, as well as amplified trumpet and double-bass, relinquishing their previous recordings, unreleased, to the vaults. It is those incredible, lost 1967 recordings made by The Contemporary Jazz Quintet, unearthed for the first time in nearly 60 years, that comprise Action A B C E, FormalIbera's new LP dedicated to the group. Includes an insert with liner notes by Mats Gustaffson and Anna-Lise Malmros.

 

PRICE: $25.00

CAT #: 4FFTS181

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

North of Copenhagen, in the suburb of Holte, there was a cinema called the Reprise Theatre, which promoted the arts in the area by holding art exhibitions and other events and, in the Autumn of 1967, opened the theatre for a series of jazz concerts with no restrictions on musical content or style. Many young musicians presented their music here, from bebop and blues to more experimental music. The musicians in Tordenskjolds Soldater were among the core of musicians who played there regularly. The group was formed in October 1969 by musicians who could be heard in many different jazz groups playing at Reprisen. The members of Tordenskjolds Soldater were the fine saxophonist Jesper Nehammer, later a member of the Danish Radio Jazz Group and orchestras led by trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg. Henrik Hove and Jon Finsen were regulars on the Reprise scene for a long time and played with Ole Matthiessen in many orchestras. In April 1970 the activities at Reprisen came to an end, but at the same time the Montmartre Jazzhouse changed its programming, relying more on local Danish jazz groups playing for longer periods. Tordenskjolds Soldater played at Montmartre every Monday from May to October 1970, and it was during this period that these recordings were made, the same time of heightened activity when the band recorded its lone commercial release, Peace, for the legendary imprint Spectator Records. Love, Tordenskjolds Soldater's first new LP in more than 50 years, includes previously unreleased recordings filled with deep grooves and driving rhythms like the previous Peace album. The LP starts with "Native Land," a joyous explosion built around the visionary piano playing of Ole Mathiessen and hypnotic cycles by Henrik Hove and Jon Finsen, with soulful lines by Jesper Nehammer on sax. "Memoires of Isadora Duncan" is the only track which was featured on Peace, but the alternate version presented here includes Ole Matthiessen winding through the intoxicating melodies of Nehammer on Fender Rhodes. From here on, every track was previously unpublished. Love, a truly striking statement that reminds you how much fun jazz can be, includes an insert with original photos as well as liner notes by Ole Matthiessen.

 

PRICE: $65.00

CAT #: 4FFTS181-LTD

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

Silkscreened version. "North of Copenhagen, in the suburb of Holte, there was a cinema called the Reprise Theatre, which promoted the arts in the area by holding art exhibitions and other events and, in the Autumn of 1967, opened the theatre for a series of jazz concerts with no restrictions on musical content or style. Many young musicians presented their music here, from bebop and blues to more experimental music. The musicians in Tordenskjolds Soldater were among the core of musicians who played there regularly. The group was formed in October 1969 by musicians who could be heard in many different jazz groups playing at Reprisen. The members of Tordenskjolds Soldater were the fine saxophonist Jesper Nehammer, later a member of the Danish Radio Jazz Group and orchestras led by trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg. Henrik Hove and Jon Finsen were regulars on the Reprise scene for a long time and played with Ole Matthiessen in many orchestras. In April 1970 the activities at Reprisen came to an end, but at the same time the Montmartre Jazzhouse changed its programming, relying more on local Danish jazz groups playing for longer periods. Tordenskjolds Soldater played at Montmartre every Monday from May to October 1970, and it was during this period that these recordings were made, the same time of heightened activity when the band recorded its lone commercial release, Peace, for the legendary imprint Spectator Records. Love, Tordenskjolds Soldater's first new LP in more than 50 years, includes previously unreleased recordings filled with deep grooves and driving rhythms like the previous Peace album. The LP starts with "Native Land," a joyous explosion built around the visionary piano playing of Ole Mathiessen and hypnotic cycles by Henrik Hove and Jon Finsen, with soulful lines by Jesper Nehammer on sax. "Memoires of Isadora Duncan" is the only track which was featured on Peace, but the alternate version presented here includes Ole Matthiessen winding through the intoxicating melodies of Nehammer on Fender Rhodes. From here on, every track was previously unpublished. Love, a truly striking statement that reminds you how much fun jazz can be, includes an insert with original photos as well as liner notes by Ole Matthiessen."

 

PRICE: $37.50

CAT #: GHRLP 001LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

With his new album Cruise Control, Satin Jackets presents a perfect musical soundtrack for relaxed moments that take listeners away from the stresses of everyday life. The title of the album is meaningful: Cruise Control stands for the feeling of switching on the autopilot, leaning back and enjoying the journey to the fullest -- an atmosphere that the album unfolds. The album is a collection of singles that have been released over the last few years and are all interwoven at their core. Because no matter where you listen to the songs, they work, images arise in your head and your feet rarely stay still. Satin Jackets remains true to himself with his album sound, as he repeatedly receives feedback from listeners who appreciate the positive mood in his songs and which always puts them in a good mood. The songs are first created in the producer's head and then develop together with the features, who add their own touch. For Satin Jackets, "the most important thing is this immediate feeling that it fits musically and atmospherically." This can also come out of nowhere, as was the case with David Bay and Small Black, who got in touch with the producer and it was an instant fit. "There are always those magical moments when a song comes out of nowhere. Once I had an idea for a chord sequence that I couldn't get out of my head, but somehow that certain something was still missing. I then spontaneously asked a bassist friend of mine if he would like to play something to it -- ten minutes later we had a hook that carried the whole piece. It's these unexpected, spontaneous inspirations that make the process so exciting." Cruise Control is more than just another album from Satin Jackets. It is an invitation to enjoy the moment and surrender to the music -- a soundtrack that creates a good mood and takes you on a relaxing journey. So just switch on the autopilot again, put on your headphones and let yourself go. Featuring Seint Monet and Nazzereene.

 

PRICE: $33.00

CAT #: GUESS 255LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2025 restock. One of the rarest psychedelic garage albums ever, the Kaleidoscope album was recorded in the Dominican Republic by this Boricuan/Dominican band but released only in Mexico in 1969 as a tiny pressing, housed in a fantastic psychedelic sleeve designed by Bodo Molitor. Acid fuzz guitars, organ, demented vocals. Impossible to find in its original form, here's a welcomed reissue. Remastered sound. Original artwork in hard cardboard sleeve. Includes insert with detailed liner notes by Enrique Rivas and rare photos.

 

PRICE: $31.50

CAT #: GUESS 264LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2025 restock; LP version. In 1968, Weird Herald released a now sought-after promo only 45 with the songs "Saratoga James"/'Just Yesterday." That 45 was part of a full album that was never released. Music ranges from haunting, beautiful folk-rock with spacey acoustic guitar playing and delicate vocal harmonies, cool laid-back country-folk, to energetic hard-rockers ? la early Moby Grape or Jefferson Airplane with stunning electric leads. Not forgetting "Where I'm Bound" which has a cool Notorious Byrd Brothers feel. Hailing from Los Gatos in California, Weird Herald featured two accomplished guitar players who are local legends in the San Jose / Santa Cruz area, Billy Dean Andrus and Paul Ziegler. Their roots can be traced to the early San Jose folk / coffeehouse scene. Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna) was a close friend and used to jam with them. Billy Dean Andrus was Skip Spence's best friend since high school and they both used to perform as a folk duo in the early days. A fantastic rhythm section, Cecil Bollinger on bass and Pat McIntire on drums rounded the band. Sadly, in 1970 Billy Dean Andrus died of a drug overdose in the Santa Cruz Mountains. He was immortalized on the songs "Ode for Billy Dean" written by Jorma Kaukonen for Hot Tuna and "Chicago" by the Doobie Brothers. Paul Ziegler ended up joining up Hot Tuna in the early '70s. He passed away in 2000. Problems with the management/producers led to the planned album being shelved and, according to legend, the master tapes destroyed. Luckily, reel-to-reel copies have remained with the Andrus family for half over a century, unheard until now. Includes eight-page insert with detailed liner notes by Cam Cobb (authors of Weighted Down: The Complicated Life Of Skip Spence) with input from the Andrus family and the surviving Weird Herald members and rare photos. Comes with download card with 11 previously unreleased bonus tracks, including basement demos from 1967 by the first line-up of the band. RIYL: Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane, The Byrds, Milk Carton Kids, Buffalo Springfield, Maitreya Kali, Everly Brothers, Psychedelic Rock, Folk-Rock, Loner Folk.

 

PRICE: $24.00

CAT #: HPS 341LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Restocked; USA tour happening now; LP version. "Violence Dimension is our seventh full length release. We have come quite a distance in time and space since we released Horseback in 2010. One thing that binds us all is violence, be that within a video game, or in a movie or on the daily news. Violence affects our daily life, perhaps more than love or kindness ever will. We are all bound by death, whether we like it or not. This release explores the hinterland between being scared to live and bring scared to die, and punches holes in the idea that we must live our life by one set of rules. We all live in the violence dimension, and there is no escape." --Conan. Also available in CD (HPS 341CD), red vinyl (HPS 341LTD-LP), and orange/green/yellow vinyl (HPS 341ULTRA-LP).

 

PRICE: $31.50

CAT #: HPS 353LTD1-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2025 restock; LP version. Orange color vinyl. More than 20 years after their debut, Witchcraft's seventh album, IDAG, is an awaited full accounting of who they are as a band. Those who have clamored for the return to an earlier sound rooted in '70s classic progressive and heavy rock will delight to the strut of "Irreligious Flamboyant Flame" while the eight-minute opening title-track is the heaviest the band have ever sounded, and a succession of interspersed acoustic-based pieces helps create a vision of a new, soulfully folkish doom taking shape as they continue to move inexorably forward. The storyline of Witchcraft's growth, from Pelander's starting the band in ?rebro in 2000 in the wake of his prior outfit Norrsken's disbanding. A generational landmark of a 2004 self-titled debut helped spark a retroist movement that has become its own subgenre, but Witchcraft never stopped growing. IDAG is the tie that draws all of their more than two decades of exploring and growth together. Whatever they've done in the past and whatever they'll do in the future, IDAG feels like a nexus for defining who and what Witchcraft are. Also available on CD (HPS 353CD), black vinyl (HPS 353LP), purple vinyl (HPS 353LTD2-LP), and red/white/blue vinyl (HPS 353ULTRA-LP).

 

PRICE: $29.00

CAT #: CLASSIC 100LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

"Bura is a brand-new album by guitarist Raphael Rogi?ski and the group Ruzi?niak Tajni (Svetlana Spaji?, Marina Dzukljev and Tijana Golubovi?). It features guest appearances by Piotr Zabrodzki (LXMP, Mitch & Mitch) and Mila Gavrilovi?. Ruzi?niak Tajni is a unique meeting of Polish and Serbian musical traditions, the result of cooperation between artists seeking new forms of expression based on the cultural heritage of Central and Eastern Europe. The initiator of the project is Raphael Rogi?ski -- a Polish guitarist, composer and researcher, known for his experimental approach to traditional music and his love of improvisation. In the project, he is accompanied by three outstanding Serbian artists whose work is a conscious combination of local traditions and modern expression: Svetlana Spaji? -- a renowned ethnomusicologist and singer, specializing in old vocal techniques and archaic song forms. Her interpretations combine authenticity of message with sensitivity to the contemporary context. Marina Dzukljev -- a pianist moving in the area of improvised and experimental music, known for deconstructing harmonic and rhythmic structures. Tijana Golubovi? -- a violinist and vocalist, drawing from folk performance practice, while simultaneously exploring new sonic narratives. Their collaboration resulted in the album Bura, recorded in Serbia in November 2024. The title refers to the characteristic wind from the northern Balkans, symbolizing both the forces of nature and the cultural tensions shaping the identity of the region. The album is a musical encounter of traditional Serbian songs -- reconstructed on the basis of oral traditions and archival materials - with modern means of expression. Another key element is Raphael Rogi?ski's original compositions, inspired by Sufi poetry, which was translated into Serbian in the 19th century."

 

PRICE: $29.00

CAT #: CLASSIC 101LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

"Ita is the third album form Polish trio Hinode Tapes. This time, Piotr Ch?cki, Piotr Kali?ski, and Jacek Pro?ci?ski are joined by Japanese double bassist Hiroki Chiba (who has collaborated with Jim O'Rourke, Eiko Ishibashi, and Otomo Yoshihide, among others). Their joint album is titled Ita and features four new compositions at the intersection of ambient and free jazz. This extraordinary collaboration came about thanks to Piotr Kali?ski. 'We were connected by a mutual colleague who understands the music of Hinode Tapes and Chiba quite well. He recommended that I go to one of his concerts and it just blew me away, because Hiroki explored the territories between jazz and ambient in a masterful fashion,' explains Kali?ski. 'From my perspective, Chiba's presence adds a new color to Hinode Tapes' music. Apart from the fact that objectively he is a great musician, this is our first album to feature a double bass player. This aspect determined the way we made decisions on this album in terms of managing sonic space,' adds Pro?ci?ski. At the beginning of 2025, Hinode Tapes played a short tour in Japan. 'It was a very strong experience. We saw a genuinely great interest from the audience, and we were watched on stage by such legendary and important people to me as Inoyama Land and Chihei Hatakeyama,' recalls Kali?ski. 'During the concerts we tried to compress our approach and musical aesthetics. We also played strongly improvised concerts with Japanese artists -- Hiroki Chiba, Momose Yasunaga (known from our previous album) and Ko Ishikawa, a virtuoso playing the traditional Japanese instrument sh?. Ko collaborated with Ry?ichi Sakamoto on the album Async. It was an honor and a big challenge for us.' Ita brings another change of aesthetics in the context of the Hinode Tapes discography. 'Our previous album was quite dark, you could even say gloomy. On this one there is more sun, colors in a higher register, like bells, triangles, janissaries,' says the drummer."

 

PRICE: $19.00

CAT #: GG 499CD

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

"The Valentin Duit Quartett consists of Robert Unterk?fler on saxophones, Tobias Meissl on vibraphone, Ivar Roban Kri?i? on double bass and Valentin Duit on drums. The quartet interprets pieces by Valentin Duit which offer space for collective and solo improvisation in different ways. It emerged from the Tobias Meissl Trio in 2023 and has existed as a collective exploratory ensemble ever since. Valentin Duit is a Vienna-based drummer who plays with various ensembles mainly in the fields of jazz and improvised music, e.g. Dsilton, Tobias Meissl Trio, Pynzenyk/Rosilio/Duit or Vienna Improvisers Orchestra. Ivar Roban Kri?i? is a researcher, musician, curator, and composer active in the field of improvised music. His artistic practice encompasses a wide variety of international projects, spanning contemporary jazz, experimental music, and free improvisation. His research is focused on musical cognition, AI, and technical and technological extensions of the double bass. Tobias Meissl is a Vibraphonist, Composer and Pianist from Vienna, investigating the relationship of Composition and Improvisation in the context of spontaneous interpretation and de-/reconstruction of given structures through his work. After completing his studies in Jazz Composition and Vibraphone at Berklee College of Music and Music and Arts Private University Vienna, Meissl now lives in Vienna, where he is a sought-after sideman in various musical situations and has received several composing commissions. Robert Unterk?fler is an Austrian saxophonist, composer and educator. Besides the saxophone as his main-instrument, he also plays clarinet, flute & electronic wind instruments. Robert began his jazz studies at the Konservatorium Klagenfurt."

 

PRICE: $19.00

CAT #: GG 504CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Blaine L. Reininger needs no special introduction. He is an American post-punk, new-wave and alternative pop singer, songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist (particularly violin), writer and performer. He is known for being a member of the group Tuxedomoon since 1977 after co-founding it with Steven Brown and, latterly, for a notable music and theatre career, both as a soloist and contributor to other artists' recordings, including The Durutti Column, Snakefinger, Anna Domino, Savage Republic or Paul Haig. After learning the violin and guitar during childhood and studying music theory in San Francisco, Reininger formed with the band Tuxedomoon with composer, singer, musician and college-mate Steven Brown and appeared on early albums such as Half Mute, Desire and Suite En Sous-Sol before departing early in 1983 to pursue a solo career. He permanently rejoined Tuxedomoon in 1988 and has subsequently appeared on more recent recordings such as 'Vapour Trails,' issued in 2007 by independent label Crammed Discs. Nine Times is Blaine's all-new album, following up Ghost Festival on Klanggalerie. Like its predecessor, it is a mix of classic Reininger songs and pieces of a more experimental nature."

 

PRICE: $19.00

CAT #: GG 516CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"The Legendary Pink Dots are an Anglo-Dutch experimental rock band formed in London in August 1980. In 1984 the band moved to Amsterdam, playing with rotating musicians and having, as core members, singer/songwriter/keyboardist Edward Ka-Spel and keyboardist Phil Knight aka The Silverman. The band was originally called One Day but subsequently changed the name to The Legendary Pink Dots, apparently inspired by pink dots on certain keys of the band's main recording studio piano. In the 1980s the band released albums on Mirrodot and In Phaze; in 1985 they signed with Play It Again Sam for the release of The Lovers. Their music touches on elements of neo-psychedelia, ambient music, electronic music, tape music, industrial, psychedelic folk, synthpop, post-punk, progressive, jazz, noise, pop, and goth rock, with a distinctly experimental/avant-garde bent; their sound has evolved over time and remains distinctive, making it difficult to place the group into a concise style or genre. The group's overall sound combined with Ka-Spel's distinct lyrics and singing have earned comparisons to Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett; the group also has links to the sounds of krautrock bands such as Can, Faust, Brainticket, Magma, or Neu! Apparition originally came out in 1982, the same year as their album Brighter Now. The first edition was a cassette only on the band's own Ding Dong label. In 2013 it came out as a limited edtion CDR, this 2025 release now being the first ever proper CD release. It has been carefully remastered by Edward Ka-Spel and includes bonus tracks not on the original album."

 

PRICE: $18.00

CAT #: KOM EX136EP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Michael Mayer became obsessed with Erik Luebs, an American producer based in Osaka, after stumbling upon his independently released music on Bandcamp. Luebs' talent for creating high-energy, minimalist acid techno with impeccable, futuristic sound design swiftly earned him a regular place in Mayer's sets. It was only a matter of time before Luebs made his debut on Kompakt's Speicher series with this highly versatile EP. If you like your techno sexy and forward-thinking, there's no way around the man from Osaka. Play it loud!

 

PRICE: $18.00

CAT #: MET 1416CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Long cited as a hugely influential act, having inspired the likes of (The) Verve, Oasis, Interpol, The Killers, Editors, and White Lies, Chameleons are renowned for their transformative catalogue and intense, emotionally charged live performances, creating a legacy that extends far beyond their four studio albums to date. Their widely acclaimed debut, Script of the Bridge (1983) has been cited by many as a masterpiece way ahead of its time, and was followed by What Does Anything Mean? Basically! (1984), Strange Times (1986) and Why Call It Anything? (2001). Their unique sound quickly won them an audience with its mix of melancholic yet energetic and powerful tunes, hypnotic, ethereal riffs and a potent, timeless lyrical style. They are considered one of the most influential guitar bands of the '80s and '90s, contributing substantially to the post-punk, shoegaze and indie scenes. 2024 saw the release of two EPs that kicked off a new chapter for the band. Where Are You? consisted of three new songs, while Tomorrow Remember Yesterday featured five re-recorded archive tracks. Arctic Moon sees them propelling forward musically while retaining the essence that originally made them iconic. Arctic Moon is the first full-length album by Chameleons since the release of Why Call It Anything? in 2001."

 

PRICE: $30.00

CAT #: MET 1416LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Long cited as a hugely influential act, having inspired the likes of (The) Verve, Oasis, Interpol, The Killers, Editors, and White Lies, Chameleons are renowned for their transformative catalogue and intense, emotionally charged live performances, creating a legacy that extends far beyond their four studio albums to date. Their widely acclaimed debut, Script of the Bridge (1983) has been cited by many as a masterpiece way ahead of its time, and was followed by What Does Anything Mean? Basically! (1984), Strange Times (1986) and Why Call It Anything? (2001). Their unique sound quickly won them an audience with its mix of melancholic yet energetic and powerful tunes, hypnotic, ethereal riffs and a potent, timeless lyrical style. They are considered one of the most influential guitar bands of the '80s and '90s, contributing substantially to the post-punk, shoegaze and indie scenes. 2024 saw the release of two EPs that kicked off a new chapter for the band. Where Are You? consisted of three new songs, while Tomorrow Remember Yesterday featured five re-recorded archive tracks. Arctic Moon sees them propelling forward musically while retaining the essence that originally made them iconic. Arctic Moon is the first full-length album by Chameleons since the release of Why Call It Anything? in 2001."

 

PRICE: $38.50

CAT #: MGART 611LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2025 repress. First-ever official reissue on vinyl since 1975. Ash Ra Tempel is the eponymous debut studio album by the Krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel. It features guitarist Manuel G?ttsching with drummer Klaus Schulze and bassist Hartmut Enke. Engineered by Conny Plank, it was recorded in March and June 1971 on Ohr Records. This 50th Anniversary Album will be released in memoriam of all the musical contributors to this release and on Manuel G?ttsching?s MG.ART label."On our album, the track 'Amboss' represents the first layer. Conventional instruments communicate familiar music which is in part expanded through electronic means. In the second track of the album -- 'Traummaschine' -- the actual basic sound approach is dissolved into an electronic Nirvana which no longer allows the concrete identification of actual instruments. Innocent, virgin listening, free from any and every association, can finally begin -- and the music can be absorbed and processed free from the limitations of categorization. That is the purpose of our music: To convey freedom without any predetermined criteria or traditions. Thank you for your attention." --Manuel G?ttsching (Taken from the original A-R-T Bio 1970)Available on 180gram Black Vinyl (MGART 611LP) and 140gram Limited Transparent Vinyl (MGART 611TV-LP). Sticker, 50th Anniversary RE-Edition, Re-Cut carefully overseen by Manuel G?ttsching. 350 gram Quadro Fold Out Sleeve that exactly replicates complex/original OHR die-cut jacket, A2 Poster, 2x (German and English) A4 Inlay with Original Bio Sheet written by Manuel G?ttsching (1970). Pressed at Optimal, Germany.

 

PRICE: $43.50

CAT #: MUSIQ 300LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Kuniyuki Takahashi -- one of Japan's, if not the world's, most remarkable producers -- originally released his debut album We Are Together on CD in 2006. Nearly two decades later, the album is finally seeing a vinyl release to commemorate the 300th title from Mule Musiq."Kuni is a true artist -- an artist that I love and respect. His music displays true emotion and life and when I listen to his music I can feel his soul, but most importantly it's his own music. Kuni, thank you for giving our planet your music, spirit, and heart. Peace, love and respect." --Joaquin Joe Claussell

 

PRICE: $15.00

CAT #: OGCD 951CD

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

"Recorded in Italy in 1985, this is a valuable record of a unique trio -- saxophonist Larry Stabbins, pianist Keith Tippett, and drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo -- playing at the very top of their game. Larry Stabbins, after years of playing with many of the greatest improvising musicians of the '60s and '70s (John Stevens, Chris McGregor, Keith Tippett, Mike Westbrook, Tony Oxley etc) had recently exploded onto the pop world with the bands Weekend and Working Week and was quite famous in Italy. Not to be outdone, Louis Moholo-Moholo turned up to this gig in full 'warpaint' and all three play like the clappers. Both Louis and Keith are in their prime here, and the level of playing by all three is off the scale."

 

PRICE: $25.50

CAT #: PHS 057LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2025 restock; LP version. Pharaway Sounds presents a reissue of Bar?? Manco's second proper studio album, Nick The Chopper, originally released in 1976. Recorded in Belgium with help from session musicians related to Placebo, Janko Nilovic, and Mad Unity, among others, Nick The Chopper features lyrics in English, huge orchestral sections, and re-arrangements of many of the melodies from his 1975 masterpiece 2023 (GUESS 038CD/106LP). Bar?? spent his whole life trying to communicate to the wider world outside Turkey. This was his last attempt at doing so with an album before turning to a travel television show to visit faraway places and talk to the young and old, one on one. Every production trick of the glorious 1970s was deployed to push Bar?? Manco up the European charts, and now Pharaway Sounds pushes him right into your brain instead. Presented with newly designed artwork, remastered sound and an insert with photos and liner notes.

 

PRICE: $31.00

CAT #: PRO 079LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

"Released in 1998, Roach & King's vivid world of desert reveries continues to engage new listeners with a sound that rides trails no electronic artist has travelled before or since. Dust to Dust's guitars, harmonicas and washboard rhythms find their place next to a wagon full of electronics on nine tracks revealing the slow heat of wide-open spaces and barren environments. The ambient-blues grows in the cactus shadow swathes of haunting atmospheres and Morricone-like nylon twang flourishes. It's a bold narrative of bygone eras with haunting melodies drawn from the desertscape told with the instruments of old and new pioneers. This is the music, and even more the soundtrack, to lingering ghosts and lost but not forgotten dreams of restless souls driven to 'Go West by God!' It's a transcendent musical masterpiece, an alluring, provocative legend inspired by the rolling tumbleweeds, barren landscape, and hardscrabble lifestyle of the Old West. Alternative Press: 'After looking toward these desert vistas for visions deep within and far beyond the earth, Roach pays homage to the brave souls who forged the hard road west. Joined by fellow Arizonian and guitarist Roger King. Roach's deep synths and King's Kottke-esque guitars sing and moan, allowing the sound to tell the story of an era when pioneers risked everything in pursuit of new worlds and promised fortunes. Like a ghost train winding through layers of memory and history, Dust to Dust has the mystery and allure of 150-year-old photographs of strangers whose eyes and stoic faces suggest a thousand untold stories.'"

 

PRICE: $23.50

CAT #: R-M 212CD

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

The world became another since the release of Decadent yet Depraved (R-M 178CD, 2017), and so has Belief Defect's reflection of it: now darker, political, honest -- end times in Cinemascope. When the duo reunited in the studio after the two-year fracture COVID inflicted on reality, the album that had been on pause all this time seemed insufficient against whatever life had morphed into, while humanity hid from itself. Finishing an album coherent to the present moment took prolonged studio shut-ins that proved to be as cathartic as the struggle sessions of the cultural revolution must have been. Desire and Discontent unfolds like a parable, structured by subsonic frequencies that give arrangements a solid gravity, dissonant chord progressions resulting in coherent movements, punctuated by human-like voices over slow, suspenseful melodies that come into being without the listener's awareness. Contributing to the album with machine-like precision drumming is Merlin Ettore, vocals from Anna Gartner, and the artwork of Juan Mendez (Silent Servant).

 

PRICE: $15.00

CAT #: RER SM8

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

"A collection of new pieces that range across media and genres, mostly exploring prime numbers and the overtone series and featuring various guitars, a grand piano (played and remote-controlled), a quiet drum station, tube bells, assorted percussion, an amplified wire with an Echoplex, a modular synthesizer system -- and Moog, Roland, Korg and Smith synths. Also featuring bassoon, five-string bass and drums on various tracks. There are tuneful polyrhythmic compositions, timbre-based works, atmospheric meditations, film-music and some exquisite manipulations of sound. This is Steve's ninth CD on ReR Megacorp and in some ways usefully bridges the wide variety of styles and media that have marked his compositions to date. Meticulously produced and mastered. A retired Professor in the Electronic Production and Design Dept at Berklee College of Music, Steve MacLean is a guitarist, composer, producer, and engineer, he has been evolving with music technology since the early '80s, when he worked in a New York City recording studio and had hands-on with early versions of the Fairlight CMI, DX-7, Linn Drum, mixing consoles and digital audio samplers. Later, he founded his own recording and production studio and produced/engineered hundreds of artists and numerous award- winning projects including scores for over two hundred commercials and soundtracks as well as a constant artistic output of his own works. An active performer and composer for over 35 years, including numerous concerts with Roswell Rudd, Chris Cutler, MeRCy, Steve MacLean Ensemble and a host of Boston-based improvisers, Steve was co-founder of the Portland Experimental Music Collective, has performed original compositions at numerous new music festivals, including several pieces for New Music Across America and similar events. An innovator in the new music circuit, he was curator for a series of concerts '2001 New Music Odyssey,' and continues to release recordings internationally on ReR Megacorp and others."

 

PRICE: $36.00

CAT #: RER SMB1

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

"To encourage you, here are seven CDs for the price of two: Frog, Bug, Guitar, Computer (featuring what it says in the title); Prime; GPS (Steve MacLean Ensemble's final CD), Year of the Dragon, (featuring Chris Cutler); Bridges (double CD) and Ordinary Objects and Other Distractions (musical manipulations of toys and everyday objects) -- PLUS the great-and-long-out-of-print Radial Circuit (polyrhythmic instrumental band compositions) -- in a sturdy box. Steve MacLean is a musician, composer, producer, and engineer known for his work with music technology, particularly in the early 1980s. He is also a professor in the Electronic Production and Design department at Berklee College of Music (retired). Early in his career, MacLean gained experience with early digital audio and music production tools like the Fairlight CMI, DX-7, Linn Drum, and automated mixing consoles in a NYC recording studio. He has been actively performing and composing for over 30 years. Briefly a member of Nick Didkovsky's Dr Nerve, MacLean then co-founded the Portland Experimental Music Collective, formed his own quartet (with Tim Inman on keyboards, Jim McGirr on bass, and Dave Fields on drums) and released the all-instrumental album The Opposite of War (ReR, 1999). The lively chamber jazz-rock music of Windows Pt 2 and Windows Pt 1 is modulated by a frenzy of tempo shifts, with more than a hint of Frank Zappa's influence. The other tracks, notably 'Branches,' walk a fine line between lounge music, minimalist repetition, neoclassical passages, and exotic rhythms. The double-CD Bridges (2007) compiles works spanning two decades and several styles, from the mechanic ballet No Jazz (1989) to the King Crimsonian prog rock of One Little Life (2001). Its second disc, devoted to electronic experiments, runs the gamut from ambient music to musique concrete."

 

PRICE: $17.00

CAT #: ROG 144CD

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

"Two great musicians, here under the tutelary figure of Bill Dixon, which does not prevent them from developing their own expression."

 

PRICE: $17.50

CAT #: RM 4261CD

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

A note from Peter Knight: "?urru W??a traces notions of home, belonging, and displacement. In the two parts of the title track, Sunny Kim intones the words of Korean poet Yoon Dong Ju's poem, Another Home, in counterpoint to Daniel Wilfred's song, sung in the W?glilak language. ?urru W??a (pronounced Wooroo Wanga), translates as 'the scent of home', and as we travel we long for that fragrance, passing the bee, guku, making the bush honey while the crow circles calling overhead. This theme -- this search for a sense of belonging -- is at the heart of what drives Hand to Earth, a group of five people, who come together from different backgrounds, different birthplaces, and different musical approaches to share our songs, and by doing that to create something new. The six tracks on this album map our respective journeys into the now and express the connections that have developed within Hand to Earth over the years we have travelled and played together. We each have our own relationship to this place, its difficult history, its contended present, its clouded future. This music is perhaps a way of thinking through this, written in the scribble of electronics, in the sighs of the clarinet and trumpet, in the broad-brush strokes of the yidaki, and the snap of the bilma. The songs that sit at the heart of ?urru W??a were recorded mid-tour on a day off in Melbourne. Daniel had a spontaneous urge to record songs from the song line of Djuwa?pada who is an important figure in W?gilak dreaming. Djuwa?pada walked through the land starting in Daniel's country, Nyilipidgi, in central Arnhem Land and ending at the coast at Lutenbuy singing the place and everything that lives there into existence. Daniel's song cycle traces the flight of the birds, the M??awk and W?k W?k. It describes the seasons, and the Stringybark tree, Ga?ayka, that supplies the bark for painting, and the wood for the bilma (clapping sticks). With the exception of 'The Crow,' which was recorded in New York, these songs landed in single takes in one session recording just the voice, bilma, and yidaki with some synth drones and other materials. The rest of the sounds came later in separate iterative recording sessions, in which the settings for the songs were developed through spontaneous layering and rubbing back. This process reflected the approach we take to live performance but stretched across time, our voices calling to one another. Creating connections -- resonating, blurring, vibrating."

 

PRICE: $31.00

CAT #: 9780645492804

FILE UNDER: Misc

229 x 152 x 27 mm. 498 pages. At the dawn of the '70s, in a country still reeling from the aftershocks of World War 2, an underground movement of rock musicians resolved to tear it all up and start again. Welcome to France, 1968. Music fans in the English-speaking world are well-versed in the Krautrock scene springing up across the border in Germany, but they are almost totally unaware of the French musical underground. There the radicalism of May '68 collided with the counterculture, post-psychedelic rock, and free jazz to produce some of the most distinctive and vital music made anywhere in the '70s. Synths, Sax & Situationists tells the story of more famous bands like Magma, Etron Fou Leloublan, and Gong alongside almost-forgotten groups like Cheval Fou, Fille Qui Mousse, and Barricade. Forewords from Jean-Jacques Birg? and Steven Stapleton. Also, includes coverage on Lard Free, Red Noise, Maajun, Komintern, Dagon, Bananamoon, Ame Son, Crium Delirium, Clearlight (and Delired Cameleon Family), Moving Gelatine Plates, Contrepoint, Camizole, Jac Berrocal, Birg? Gorg? Shiroc, Philippe Besombes, Heldon, and Ilitch.

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: RBL 095CD

FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK

"Deep Red / Profondo Rossso Soundtrack 50th Anniversary Edition. The incredible existential and atmospheric experience of Dario Argento's films comes from the merging of gorgeously crafted visuals with a soul tingling auditory experience. Once heard, Goblin's scores are never quite forgotten. Profondo Rosso is no exception, characterized by its synth heavy sound and chilling central theme. Along with Suspiria, Profondo Rosso is perhaps Argento's most celebrated film and a classic of the giallo horror subgenre in its own right. A surreal masterpiece from Dario Argento with a pounding score from cult prog rockers Goblin, Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) will leave you battered and breathless! Limited Deluxe Double CD (500 Copies) with a bonus CD with alternative and live versions."

 

PRICE: $28.00

CAT #: SEAL 002LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2025 restock. The second release on Sealed Records is Can't Cheat Karma, a 13-track round-up of the first five singles by Zounds. Their debut single from 1980, Can't Cheat Karma was released on Crass Records and 39 years later still stands as one of the finest singles both politically and musically. For the next three singles, Zounds worked with Rough Trade Records, who also released their debut album The Curse of Zounds (1981). 1981's Demystification was a tense and stark masterpiece; it was followed by the haunting Mikey Dread-produced Dancing and then the more straight-up pop of More Trouble Coming Everyday (both 1982). The final single here is La Vache Qui Rit, released on Belgian label Not So Brave in 1983. It was originally supposed to be a split single with The Mob but ended up being two scratchy studio tracks and two rough and raw live tracks recorded in Holland in 1982. Every home should have these essential Zounds recordings.

 

PRICE: $18.00

CAT #: SOL 014EP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Losoul is back on Slices Of Life with two minimal house gems! Frankfurt-based DJ and producer legend Losoul is renowned for his unique sonic language and deep, captivating grooves. On his latest release for the Berlin imprint, the tracks take listeners on a journey back to the roots of minimal house. "Post Service Pop" on the A-side flows deep and funky, spreading pads like hot oil, topped with subtly modulated vocal snippets. "Modesty Bump" on the B-side dives into rawer territory with high-energy sounds and edgy sonic sparkles.

 

PRICE: $15.50

CAT #: SOL 197CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"The Legendary Pink Dots have toured the world countless times and released dozens of albums after forming in London in 1980, while Matt Howarth has made his name with his comic books and graphic novels over a career stretching back to the mid-1970s. Many of his works have a science fiction theme, but electronic and alternative music has always inspired him, leading him to projects with The Residents, Hawkwind, Moby, Ash Ra Tempel, Klaus Schulze, Nash the Slash, Foetus, Yello, Wire, Richard Pinhas, Ron Geesin, David Borden, and more. Soleilmoon presents this captivating cross-disciplinary cooperative project by two of the label's favorite artists. Matt Howarth writes: 'I have spent much of my career infusing my comics with eclectic music. I did music reviews as comic strips ('Sonic Curiosity'). I got several real world musicians to guest star in many of my works (like Hawkwind, the Residents, Wire, Conrad Schnitzler, and others in my 'Savage Henry' series). It made perfect sense that I would mutate such connections into actual collaborations with musicians (like Klaus Schulze, Hugh Hopper, Arthur Brown, and more). My musical tastes are far from commercial drivel, so it makes perfect sense that I would want to work with musicians whom I deeply respected (like the Legendary Pink Dots). And each of these collaborations comes with a unique 'how we got there' tale. Many years ago, my friend Carl Howard, who ran Audiofile Tapes, turned me onto The Pink Dots. And later, it was Carl who got me in contact with Edward Ka-Spel. Edward and I discussed the possibility of working together, but life has a way of getting in the way, and it would be several years before that ambition bore fruit. In fact, the COVID-19 lockdown was integral in that happening. Trapped at home, Edward found the opportunity to put his creative juices to work on our project. We discussed some vague story ideas, then I did the comic. That gave Edward something to directly inspire the music. His interpretation was spot-on, flavoring a simple adventure story with deeply emotional content.' In addition to the Legendary Pink Dots' music, the enhanced CD includes Matt's comic in PDF?format, viewable on your television with a DVD player, or on any computer with a built-in or connected external CD or DVD drive."

 

PRICE: $16.50

CAT #: TR 595CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Prolapse formed in Leicester in the early '90s and are now spread across the UK and Scandinavia. Still pursuing their own path of repetition and twisted melodies, they merge influences from post punk to krautrock and even folk. Their previous releases have included numerous singles and four albums on various labels, including Cherry Red and Radar. They feature vocalists Mick Derrick and Linda Steelyard, whose intense dueling vocals combine with ferocious triple guitar assault and pummeling rhythms. The fifth Prolapse album I Wonder When They're Going to Destroy Your Face is released on Tapete Records and marks the band's first new recordings since their last album, Ghosts of Dead Aeroplanes. From the opening incessant riff of "The Fall of Cashline," Prolapse set their stall out, hammering the message that they're back, over and over (and over and over) again. The album was mainly written in Leicester and recorded at Foel Studio in Wales. Some songs had been evolving for a few years whilst others (three on the album) were improvised and recorded on the spot, just like they've always done. Get ready, turn the microphones on, press record -- and something just happens. Perhaps channeling some of the ghosts that have previously recorded at Foel: Amon D??l II, the Groundhogs, Young Marble Giants, My Bloody Valentine, and inevitably The Fall. The last words of the album are said by Linda Steelyard, recounting a tale of arriving at Leicester Forest East Services, and deciding to stay -- forever.

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: TR 595LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Prolapse formed in Leicester in the early '90s and are now spread across the UK and Scandinavia. Still pursuing their own path of repetition and twisted melodies, they merge influences from post punk to krautrock and even folk. Their previous releases have included numerous singles and four albums on various labels, including Cherry Red and Radar. They feature vocalists Mick Derrick and Linda Steelyard, whose intense dueling vocals combine with ferocious triple guitar assault and pummeling rhythms. The fifth Prolapse album I Wonder When They're Going to Destroy Your Face is released on Tapete Records and marks the band's first new recordings since their last album, Ghosts of Dead Aeroplanes. From the opening incessant riff of "The Fall of Cashline," Prolapse set their stall out, hammering the message that they're back, over and over (and over and over) again. The album was mainly written in Leicester and recorded at Foel Studio in Wales. Some songs had been evolving for a few years whilst others (three on the album) were improvised and recorded on the spot, just like they've always done. Get ready, turn the microphones on, press record -- and something just happens. Perhaps channeling some of the ghosts that have previously recorded at Foel: Amon D??l II, the Groundhogs, Young Marble Giants, My Bloody Valentine, and inevitably The Fall. The last words of the album are said by Linda Steelyard, recounting a tale of arriving at Leicester Forest East Services, and deciding to stay -- forever.

 

PRICE: $19.00

CAT #: EYE 018EP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

After years in aesthetic exile, Wolfgang Voigt returns as Wassermann -- for the first time on These Eyes. An elegant escalation, a technoid homage to The Palace in Gstaad -- alpine glamour meets minimalist rigor. Between champagne flute and fog machine, Voigt draws his unmistakable lines: precise, cool, hypnotic. High society meets high fidelity. Alpine views in 4/4 time. Vinyl comes with insert.

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: V 25AH426

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2025 restock. Victory present a reissue of Pacific, originally released in 1978. Reuniting the best session musicians Japan had to offer to make an album that would evoke the atmospheres of the South Pacific islands, the kind of places Japanese people spend their vacations. Pacific is a treat to the ears; its theme of the southern Pacific ocean and its warm cerulean waters relax its listeners with a fusion of city pop, soft jazz, and that good old 1970s funk while remaining surprisingly fully instrumental throughout all contributions from artists Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki, and Tatsuro Yamashita. A true cult LP and an inspiration for a lot of so called "vaporware" music. LP includes insert.

 

PRICE: $28.50

CAT #: VL 900051LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2025 restock. Although Warhol, who was listed as producer on the album, allegedly gave the Velvets free reign over their sound, it was on his insistence that Nico performed on this album. However, this does not detract from the fact that when this album was made the Red Sea parted, and the Velvet Underground crossed into the Promised Land. Deluxe gatefold jacket with peeling banana and "Chelsea Girls" bonus track on B5