“Appearing after the sprawling, unfocused double-album set Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother may boast more focus, even a concept, yet that doesn’t mean it’s more accessible. If [...]
Conceptual/art-music melding of minds between two lynchpins of the 60’s. Label: Apple Records – T-5001 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US Released: 1969 VG+/VG+
“Chamber music, loud riffs, pure choirs, electronic textures, This first album from OGIVES, “La mémoiredes orages” (The Memory of Storms) is a myriad of contrasts. The double LP [...]
“Ultra limited LP release, comes with 6 pages booklet, featuring two tape works pieces by conceptual artist John Perreault (b. 1937). The first work, “A Recorded Message,” features a tape [...]
“Shit & Shine’s sidestep from percussion led bunny rabbit rock ensemble performance based glee to ultimate heavy fools of the sticky dancefloor remains one of the more inspiring turn [...]
Contains both Country Club albums and the EP Brothers. Label: Breathing Problem Productions – BPP-151 Format: 3 x Vinyl, LP, Remastered Country: US Released: 2021 VG+/VG+
“It’s been speculated that this album, taped in front of an enthusiastic Tokyo audience in the early ’70s, was recorded without UFO’s knowledge. When it was issued, [...]
“Kate NV’s WOW offers listeners a prismatic shift in perspective and scale, a parallel dimension in which the mundane becomes funny, unfamiliar, and altogether sensational. Turning the [...]
Works for electric organ and multiple pianos by the Belgian composer. Label: Musica Magna – MAG 50 010 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: Belgium Released: VG+/VG+. Sleeve has some […]
“The first piece on this CD originates in a commission that Stockhausen received from the WDR, but nobody – perhaps not even Stockhausen – could foresee the kind of music […]
Split comp between The Razors & Modern World. Live and hard Belgian punk! Label: Gnome Records – 00001 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Unofficial Release Country: Belgium Released: 2000 VG+/VG+
Compilation of various tracks from Fallout Records. Features The Adicts, UK Subs, Urban Dogs & more. Label: Fallout Records – FALL LP 040 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: UK Released: [...]
“Charles Ives is one of the most important American classical composers of international distinction, but it wasn’t always so: he was frustrated by indifferent audiences and ambivalent [...]
“Originally released in 1981 as a limited vinyl pressing of 300 copies on Agi Yuzuru’s fabled experimental label Vanity Records (R.N.A. Organism, Dada, Sympathy Nervous, Tolerance…), Lady [...]
“Lawrence’s pedigree as an artist extends beyond his solo career, as the drummer of popular Americana act The Felice Brothers, as well as John Early and the Lemon Squares and […]
Kentucky singer, songwriter and poet, Grace Rogers, comes from a family of old time, traditional and string band musicians. Her great grandpa Charlie Rogers played guitar in the Kentucky String [...]
“Shutaro Noguchi didn’t set out to make a farewell album, but On the Run captures a moment of profound change. Recorded just weeks before moving back to Japan after 20 […]
Stretching out from purple dawn (Patch of Violet) to cicada twilight (Spittle of the Morning Moon) like Whitman laying on his back observing the dew drop worlds collected on shards […]
““Piece” for cello and harp. “Motet” for mezzo-soprano, narrator, bass clarinet and harp. “Three New Mexico Landscapes” for piano and clarinet. “Toccata” for electronically derived [...]
“”RÊVE PARISIEN” features four new Rhys Chatham compositions that were performed live at Kassay’s exhibition at Art: Concept in Paris in 2010, and loosely functions as an audio [...]
Part of Deutsche Grammophon’s avantgarde series. Label: Deutsche Grammophon – 137 001 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Germany Released: 1968 VG+/VG. jacket has small radio station [...]
“One of the London Sinfonietta’s landmark commissions of the past fifty years, Henze’s Voices is a collection of 22 folk songs from all over the world, spanning the soundworld of […]
Works specifically composed for the Finnish youth orchestra. Label: Ondine – ODE 705 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Finland Released: 1986 VG+/VG. Sleeve has some creasing/wear
“XKatedral Anthology I is the first in a series of archival releases dedicated to presenting music by XKatedral affiliated composers working within the realm of slowly evolving harmonic and [...]
Tremor – the breathtaking sixth album by Daniel Avery. An inner world built from chaotic noise, transcendental ambience and voices that echo around it like pulsing transmissions from some distant [...]
I first encountered the Gotobeds in August 2014, at a benefit for the great rock bard Karl Hendricks in their mutual hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Gotobeds went on fashionably […]
“Icelandic artist and musician Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson is known for his work with Stilluppsteypa, numerous solo albums and collaborations with other artists, such as Swedish composer BJ [...]
“One of the finest pianists and composers of the hard bop era, Sonny Clark seemed to arrive fully formed on his supremely swinging debut album Dial “S” for Sonny recorded […]
“Sound sculptures and gongs by Harry Bertoia unite both sides of the album. O’Neil’s Medusa Smack was commissioned by Venessa Renwick for her video installation of the same name, [...]
“It could be said that Tank (BB 070CD/LP), Kreidler’s critically-acclaimed previous album — is a drum album. Not in the sense of the brute force of a Ginger Baker or […]
One night, not too long ago at Union Pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Ryan Sawyer introduced his piece, “For Those Who Wish to Sing, Will Always Find a Song.” He invited […]
I often think about a video that Ben made in the mid-2000s, shot in profile with his shadow cast on a dimly lit Ohio punk house wall. In the video, […]
“Exact reproduction LP of a Swedish release from 1970. A bit of confusion surrounds this release: The album has been credited to Träd, Gräs och Stenar, but they aren’t featured […]
The long overdue first proper jazz album on Discreet Music! Niklas Persson Trio is a free jazz group consisting of three of Sweden’s leading improvisers. The trio started 10 years […]
Discreet Music encountered Philadelphia-based Carrie Decunzo Mirande for the first time in 2024 when she performed at Longest Night in Gothenburg alongside Arv & Miljö and Christian Mirande. [...]
“Available from Blank Forms for the first time since its original 1980 release on ALM-Uranoia, New Sense of Hearing documents a collaboration between Takehisa Kosugi and Akio Suzuki, two [...]
Joan Shelley follows her critically-acclaimed 2022 album The Spur with Real Warmth. Her 7th album, recorded in Toronto with producer Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station), the 13-tracks feature [...]
“The recordings Contained herein are contained here after many years on the shelf…”So begin Michael Hurley’s notes to these unbelievably great recordings from [...]
Country, township jazz, and pop hits from the height of Zambia’s freedom movement.Vocalist, guitarist, and bandleader Alick Nkhata moved effortlessly between lonesome country slide, big band [...]
As crushed, musicians Bre Morell and Shaun Durkan make maximalist dream pop music for themselves. Recording out of various homes, not fixed to any single location (Morell from Texas, now […]
In the discourse around new albums from singular, world-building artists, the phrase “a big step forward” can often be a blinking red warning sign. You know you’re about to be […]
François J. Bonnet – Banshee Banshee is an ear directed towards the edges of the old world, where these infinite fines terrae cut and fractalize into coasts, harbours, fjords, peninsulas […]
Entering its 26th year of activity, the morphing, Los Angeles based experimental outfit, Sissy Spacek, joins Shelter Press with Entrance, among the project’s most captivating outings to date. [...]
Canto A Lo Divino is the unique musical expression of the Chilean peasant world – a conversation with the divine nourished by Biblical and other sacred texts. It is communal […]
A reimagined version of Michael Hurley’s 2002 masterpiece! Some of the most beautiful recordings of his catalog available on vinyl for the first time. Sweetkorn was originally released on [...]
One of the greatest, heaviest, and hardest-to-find guitar records from 1970s West Africa, available on vinyl for the first time in over a decade!!! A product of Mali’s golden age, […]