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In many ways, DJ Black Low’s debut album, Uwami, shows the signs of an artist’s first offering in any musical genre. Showcasing fluency in a broad range of styles and stuffing a number of ideas [...]
Norwegian duo Lost Girls, artist and writer Jenny Hval and multi-instrumentalist Havard Volden, release their first album after collaborating for more than ten years. Volden has been playing [...]
Alan Vega’s name is synonymous with unfettered, tireless creativity. Beginning in the late 1950s, when he was a fine art student at Brooklyn College, through his years playing in Suicide, and all [...]
Peshekhod, the debut album from Dima Pantyushin & Sasha Lipsky, oscillates through an immaculate synth-pop ecosystem in which every shift feels both accurate in it’s absurdity and [...]
Behold the Female Species! A once-in-a-decade discovery of two sisters, married to music for life, always charging forward, indefatigable, indomitable, at last seen and heard. From their origins [...]
Featuring members of hardcore juggernauts, Regional Justice Center and Seattle’s New Gods, Shine channels the noise and driving aggression of the these bands, but through a more playful, [...]
Featuring members of hardcore juggernauts, Regional Justice Center and Seattle’s New Gods, Shine channels the noise and driving aggression of the these bands, but through a more playful, [...]
In a Word, the sixteenth installment of the intergenerational collaboration series FRKWYS, brings together postminimalist composer Daniel Lentz with vocalist and sound artist Ian William Craig [...]
Release Date: April 9th, 2021 Label Description: Back in 2016, five years ago, London based darkwave duo The Agnes Circle released their first and so far only full-length album on Avant!. Some [...]
2021 repress. “American composer and multi-instrumentalist Alvin Curran has remained one of the great emblems of experimental music for the last half-century. In 1966, along with Frederic [...]
The Germs are one of the most legendary and venerated of all Los Angeles hardcore punk bands. The roots of the group stemmed from the meeting of two minds at an alternative school in the late [...]
“Archival reissue of a dark, moody, introspective album by the mysterious Ricky Banda, a compatriot and bandmate of Rikki Ililonga and Dr. Footswitch. A welcome addition to the Zamrock [...]
2020 repress, originally released in 2013. Barcelona’s Belgrado return with their second album Siglo XXI and first for La Vida Es Un Mus. The 11-track album melds dark and dreamy goth and [...]
“There are few instruments more uniquely suited to capturing the beauty and ennui of the rural American midwest than the acoustic steel-string guitar. In the hands of a master, the range of [...]
Repressed. Inner Space present a reissue of Organisation‘s Tone Float, originally released in 1970. German rock band, Organisation, is often referred to as the prototype or predecessor of [...]
Originally initiated for the Merzbow, Kelly Moran, Prurient USA tour (representing three generations of heavy electronics), this archival recording is finally released as Chain Reaction At Dusk. [...]
Hungarian “minimalist” instrumentalist/composer Tibor Szemző is considered a genius by many, although his accomplishments as an artist are sometimes overshadowed by the likes of [...]
“When Government Issue recorded Boycott Stabb in November 1982 they initially tracked twenty songs, including several older previously recorded songs. The band had been through a major [...]
First vinyl reissue of Alarm by the Peter Brötzmann Group, originally released on FMP in 1983. Harry Miller: bass; Louis Moholo: drums; Alexander von Schlippenbach: piano; Peter Brötzmann: [...]
2021 black vinyl repress; available on 180-gram vinyl (no longer comes with download code). This the first time that this title has been available on vinyl. At the risk of belaboring a rather [...]
2021 repress. “Jackson C. Frank’s eponymous album is the embodiment of folk legend. Issued in late 1965 on the UK Columbia label, it was for many years more famous for its producer [...]
For the second of Cecil Taylor’s two Blue Note albums (following Unit Structures), the innovative pianist utilized a sextet comprised of trumpeter Bill Dixon, altoist Jimmy Lyons, both [...]
These 20 classic hits from the inimitable Byron Lee & The Dragonaires are available together for the first time as Uptown Top Ranking.
“Originally recorded at Studio Davout in Paris on August 16th, 1969. An intense and sublime album by Archie Shepp with Lester Bowie and Malachi Flavors (from the Art Ensemble of Chicago) [...]
from movies: A1 – Vishwatma (1990) A2 – Sumbandh (1982) A3 – Bade Dil Wala (1982) B1 – Taqdeer Ka Badshah (1982) B2 – Tumhaare Bina (1982) B3 – Bulundi (1982) [...]
A fascinating reissue that comfortably straddles the lines of jazz, folk, and world music, working up a storm by way of a jazz protest album that points toward the Spanish Civil War in particular [...]
“Super-session recorded in Paris on August 17, 1969. Alan Silva collected here many of the top free jazz players of the time, an incredible 11-piece ensemble featuring, among others, [...]
Recorded August 12, 1969, Studio Saravah, Paris. Reproduction of the 1969 original; issued in a gatefold jacket.
This 1981 album epitomizes the incredible career of a prodigy, who started at age 11 as a member of an Ese ensemble, a traditional Nigerian form of choral music, and has since excelled in many of [...]
Reissue of the 1967 Brazilian holy grail LP that foreshadowed much of the genre-crossing aspects of the TROPICALIA movement. The rock and blues of his style really came to the fore in this album [...]
One of the first trombonists to explore free jazz, Grachan Moncur III recorded this album (his 2 nd as a leader for BYG) at the Studio Saravah in Paris on September 10 and November 4, 1969. [...]
“An album recorded at Studio Saravah in Paris on August 22, 1969 by Don Cherry (pocket trumpet, piano, Indian flute, bamboo flute, voice, bells, percussions) with Ed Blackwell (drums, [...]
Recorded with two different ensembles, Thembi was a departure from the slowly developing, side-long, mantra-like grooves Pharoah Sanders had been pursuing for most of his solo career. It’s [...]
The title track, ‘Gentleman’, has often been hailed as Fela’s masterpiece. The politically scathing song opposes Westernization and those who imitate Western ways. Fela had many Ghanaian friends [...]
U-Roy was a true reggae pioneer, dubbed The Originator for good reason. Bursting onto the Jamaican scene in the early 1970s, he pioneered the vocal approach called “toasting,” which in addition [...]
Free-flying Eric Dolphy veered into the contrarian zone in his musical approach on his one and only Blue Note album, Out to Lunch. Breaking away from the clichés of postbop jazz and speaking [...]
In the 1970s Boston was a fertile ground for a very creative jazz scene. Small, independent venues ranging from lofts to churches to clubs opened up to support this thriving backdrop while jazz [...]
Before his career-defining records on Arista/Novus in the 80s and 90s, jazz and fusion guitarist Michael Gregory Jackson recorded his debut for ESP-Disk . The sessions, recorded in New York, [...]
High quality vinyl edition, originally issued in 1976. Lee Perry & The Upsetters create unequaled Reggae CLASSICS.
Beautiful 180 gram re-issue of his legendary first LP, originally released in 1972. Includes colour insert with comprehensive sleeve notes.
Terry Riley‘s Descending Moonshine Dervishes is a long-form piece from a concert in Paris (on November 19) 10 days later the legendary performance held at the Metamusik Festival in Berlin. [...]
“This album follows on from where Gussie and Big Youth produced the first of the new groundbreaking deejay albums Screaming Target (on 180 gram vinyl). These albums revolutionized the whole [...]
Thirteen alto saxophones, performed by the 13 members of the student-collective Kug-Sax-Sippia in Graz, Austria, occupy the entire field of “Odd Music,” the first track on Julien Malaussena’s [...]
Released in 1975 and produced by Lawrence Lindo aka Jack Ruby, Burning Spear’s magnificent ‘Marcus Garvey’ album set the benchmark for Roots Reggae and is still widely considered the greatest [...]
This LP is Ayler’s first Impulse set. There are two selections apiece from a pair of live appearances with Ayler having a rare outing on alto on the emotional “For John [...]
This is the classic long lost British psychedelic funk album by Demon Fuzz In a just world, Demon Fuzz would have been very successful. Sadly, however, the only real success they enjoyed is the [...]
Recorded November 22, 1969, Studio Saravah, Paris.
21st volume in the BYG Actuel series; gatefold sleeve, 180 gram vinyl. “A wonderful and fairly adventurous recording session that was taped in Paris on August 11, 1969 for one of the first [...]