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  • Tarotplane – Between Soil And Sky
    Tarotplane – Between Soil And Sky
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    Between Soil and Sky is the 2024 CD release by devoted experimentalist, PJ Dorsey (Tarotplane), and his second release with Noir Age. A curated embodiment of an amphibious reality — […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Little Annie Meets Night Foundation – Inertia
    Little Annie Meets Night Foundation – Inertia
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    A multidisciplinary artist, and avant-garde icon in her own right, Little Annie leaves little room for an introduction that is worthy of her prolific career. She has remained relevant for […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • L. Subramaniam Featuring Frank Morgan Also Emil Richards And Milcho Leviev – Fantasy Without Limits
    L. Subramaniam Featuring Frank Morgan Also Emil Richards And Milcho Leviev – Fantasy Without Limits
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    Violin-led Hindustani influenced jazz. Absolute ripper. Label: Trend – TR-524 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1980 VG+/VG+. Sleeve low end VG+. WOS/wear at upper corner.

    GENRE: Hindustani, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Herbie Mann & João Gilberto with Antonio Carlos Jobim – Herbie Mann & Joao Gilberto With Antonio Carlos Jobim
    Herbie Mann & João Gilberto with Antonio Carlos Jobim – Herbie Mann & Joao Gilberto With Antonio Carlos Jobim
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    Compilation featuring key tracks from Mann and Gilberto/Jobim. A bossa nova classic. Label: Atlantic – 8105 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1965 VG+/VG+. Drillhole. Some [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Latin
  • Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas – Totality
    Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas – Totality
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    Totality! It can only be good news. The second convergence of Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas, years removed from the first, misses no steps and posits low-key revolutions in […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sun Ra And The Arkestra – Sound Of Joy
    Sun Ra And The Arkestra – Sound Of Joy
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    Sun Ra’s second album was a Delmark release recorded in 1957, although it was originally intended for the Transition label, which did not survive long enough to release it. Personnel: […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Residents – Meet The Residents
    The Residents – Meet The Residents
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    Vinyl reissue of The Residents’ classic debut originally released on Ralph Records in 1974. The whole, bizarre Residents trip started here (at least officially)! Mixing everything from [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue
    Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue
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    Regarded by many critics as the greatest jazz album of all time and Davis’s masterpiece. This 1959 album’s influence on music, including jazz, rock and classical, has led music [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Residents – The Third Reich ‘N’ Roll
    The Residents – The Third Reich ‘N’ Roll
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    The Residents released of their third album, “The Third Reich ‘n’ Roll” in 1976. People have speculated whether the Residents were hinting that Rock ‘n’ Roll [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Residents – Duck Stab
    The Residents – Duck Stab
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    Musically, it’s difficult to describe this diverse album. There is a silky, seductive, and murky aspect which creates a supporting liquid background upon which the lyrics float. There is a [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Meters – Fire On The Bayou
    The Meters – Fire On The Bayou
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    “By the time they released Fire On the Bayou in 1975, the Meters (now a quintet, with addition of Cyril Neville to the lineup) had graduated from regional cult heroes […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • John Coltrane – Trane: The Atlantic Collection
    John Coltrane – Trane: The Atlantic Collection
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    Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition of this introduction to John Coltrane’s revered Atlantic recordings. Trane: The Atlantic Collection includes the hit single ‘My [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Heldon – Heldon.6. Interface
    Heldon – Heldon.6. Interface
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    Spoiler alert. A brilliant moment occurs right at the end of 1977’s Interface. The album’s final song, its side-long title track, builds up slowly into a roaring tornado of fiercely […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Faust – The Faust Tapes
    Faust – The Faust Tapes
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    Vinyl LP pressing. Originally released in 1973. There’s something perversely fabulous about the thought of this warped masterwork wandering into 60,000 unsuspecting British homes in 1973. [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Sun Ra And His Outer Space Arkestra* – A Fireside Chat With Lucifer
    Sun Ra And His Outer Space Arkestra* – A Fireside Chat With Lucifer
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    A Fireside Chat with Lucifer was issued by Sun Ra in 1983 (Saturn Gemini 19841). Like many Sun Ra albums, Fireside Chat offered stylistic random shuffle, as was the artist’s […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Heldon – Electronique Guerilla
    Heldon – Electronique Guerilla
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    In 1973, 22-year-old Richard Pinhas was well on his way to becoming a full-time philosopher. He had almost finished his Ph.D and begun teaching at the University of Paris. But […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Ray Barretto Charanga Band – Barretto Para Bailar
    Ray Barretto Charanga Band – Barretto Para Bailar
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    Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Includes bonus track. This release presents the complete original LP Barretto para bailar, which was Ray Barretto’s debut album as a leader. For 40 years, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Latin
  • Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Prophet
    Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Prophet
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    Featuring what may be his only recordings on the Prophet keyboard, these once lost performances expand the omniverse of Ra across a stellar set of lengthy cuts! All recorded in […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Merzbow – Solonoise 1 & 2
    Merzbow – Solonoise 1 & 2
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    “Double CD reissue of two historical tapes from the early Japanoise era. This albums offers pure “ANALOG NOISE” with varied timbre and string, keyboard, percussion. Inspired by DADA & [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Metgumbnerbone ‎– Out Of The Ground
    Metgumbnerbone ‎– Out Of The Ground
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    “Seven new, previously unreleased subterranean events from the notorious Newcastle-Upon-Tyne ritual / industrial act featuring members of The New Blockaders, Masstishaddhu, Sir Ashleigh [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Nightspore ‎– Godseed
    Nightspore ‎– Godseed
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    “Mid-paced gnostic acid techno recorded to cassette 4-track. Deluxe CD with 6-panel fold out insert. The new full-length album of strange rhythms and ominous vocals strikes a tone for the [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Pearls Before Swine – These Things Too
    Pearls Before Swine – These Things Too
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    “By the time of their third LP, Pearls Before Swine’s mainstay Tom Rapp hadn’t changed much in his approach. He was still singing inscrutable folk-rock-psychedelic songs with a [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • Pearls Before Swine ‎– The Use Of Ashes
    Pearls Before Swine ‎– The Use Of Ashes
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    “For their second Reprise Records outing, Pearls Before Swine worked primarily with Nashville-based musicians, including a small orchestra who provide a stately feel to the highly intimate [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • Psychonaut* – The Witches’ Sabbath
    Psychonaut* – The Witches’ Sabbath
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    Tribal dark ambient filled with occult influences. Label: Athanor – ATNR 007 Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition Country: France Released: 2000 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Aube / John Duncan / Schloss Tegal ‎– The Mind Of A Missile
    Aube / John Duncan / Schloss Tegal ‎– The Mind Of A Missile
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    Three-way split between three titans of experimental & noise music. Label: Heel Stone Records – STONE 003 Format: CD, Limited Edition Country: Germany Released: 1996 VG/VG+. Light marks, some [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Black Zone Myth Chant – Bad Decisions
    Black Zone Myth Chant – Bad Decisions
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    Included with Embryo Zine Issue #2 Label: Natural Sciences – none Format: CDr, Album Country: UK Released: 2022 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Galerie Schallschutz – Montauk Project
    Galerie Schallschutz – Montauk Project
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    “Finally, 3 years after the “Haarp” CD, Galerie Schallschutz delivers another superior release with strong thematic content. We all know something is out there, but no one knows [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Isomer – Serpent Age
    Isomer – Serpent Age
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    “Isomer is the solo project of Australian David Tonkin, who remains one of the few active producers of dark ambient music in this far-flung continent. „Serpent Age“ heralds a new […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Tom Rapp, Pearls Before Swine ‎– City Of Gold
    Tom Rapp, Pearls Before Swine ‎– City Of Gold
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    “”Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot and turn to attack you” sayeth Jesus in Matthew […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • Tom Rapp, Pearls Before Swine ‎– …Beautiful Lies You Could Live In
    Tom Rapp, Pearls Before Swine ‎– …Beautiful Lies You Could Live In
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    “”Beautiful Lies You Could Live In was the sixth Tom Rapp/Pearls Before Swine release, the fourth and last on Warner Brothers. Originally released in 1971 with a more country/rock [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • Toroidh – Europe Is Dead
    Toroidh – Europe Is Dead
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    “The great project from Nordvargr Kremator, aka MZ.412 and Folkstorm! Powerful Orchestral, very dark folk, the sounds of history and echoes from the past. “Folk music from the times [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Nurse With Wound – A Sucked Orange
    Nurse With Wound – A Sucked Orange
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    “Sucked Orange was not conceived as an album. During the eighties I had accumulated several dozen reels of old worn and drastically edited quarter inch magnetic tapes, the debris from […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The New Blockaders + Ice Yacht – Wer Ist Wer Und Was Ist Was
    The New Blockaders + Ice Yacht – Wer Ist Wer Und Was Ist Was
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    ‘In my hand a beautifully designed CD on Nihilist Records from Chicago. It contains four long soundscapish minimal noise-ambient ‘constructions’ developed by The New Blockaders [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Diana Rogerson – Blue Bottle In A Jam Jar
    Diana Rogerson – Blue Bottle In A Jam Jar
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    “Heavily obscured sounds, along with her voice, gives the music a rather radiophonic and sound poetry-like nature. Sometimes quiet and intimate, something loud and jubilant; in that sense, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The New Blockaders – Live At Morden Tower Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
    The New Blockaders – Live At Morden Tower Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
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    “Armed with hammers and some carefully chosen materials, TNB perform a ‘conceptual destruction’ of pure sonic violence. By deliberate saturation of the environment by way of [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Nurse With Wound With Bladderflask – Backside
    Nurse With Wound With Bladderflask – Backside
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    2024 – New studio album featuring Bladderflask. Originally issued as a limited edition Lp lathe cut. STEVE STAPLETON, ANDREW LILES AND RICHARD RUPENUS Contains 20 minutes extra material. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Demi – Demi
    Demi – Demi
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    Mix from Softer Recordings. ~~~~ intimacy; a single saline drop, smearing the ink; the sound of 1,000 bedroom sessions; reading silently with a friend, bathed in sunlight; a damp umbrella […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The Bill Evans Trio – Bill Evans Trio At Shelly’s Manne-Hole
    The Bill Evans Trio – Bill Evans Trio At Shelly’s Manne-Hole
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    Although the Scott LaFaro-Paul Motian lineup of the Bill Evans Trio is generally considered to be the strongest, Chuck Israels and Larry Bunker make a strong case of their own […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • McCoy Tyner – Today And Tomorrow
    McCoy Tyner – Today And Tomorrow
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    McCoy Tyner’s fourth studio album has a split personality, with three tracks featuring an intriguing sextet of all-stars, and the rest with his trusty trio, done eight months apart. Perhaps [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Matmos – Return To Archive
    Matmos – Return To Archive
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    In 1948, Moses Asch founded Folkways Records with a self-proclaimed mandate to record the sounds of the entire world. From the Sounds of North American Frogs to Speech After the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The New Stan Getz Quartet ft. Astrud Gilberto – Getz Au Go Go
    The New Stan Getz Quartet ft. Astrud Gilberto – Getz Au Go Go
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    Recorded in 1964 during two concerts in the venerable Greenwich Village venue, the Café Au Go Go, two months after Astrud Gilberto’s “Girl From Ipanema” became a Top Five pop [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Archie Shepp – The Magic Of Ju-Ju
    Archie Shepp – The Magic Of Ju-Ju
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    Opening with the 18+ minute track of the same name, Archie Shepp’s The Magic of Ju-Ju takes on a fevered pace as the centerpiece of this date from 1968. Shepp […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Nuno Canavarro – Plux Quba
    Nuno Canavarro – Plux Quba
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    Koln, Germany around 1991. After a 40-minute train ride from Aachen, Christoph Heemann and Jim O’Rourke are sitting around with Jan St. Werner, C-Schulz, Frank Dommert and George Odjik. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Clifford Thornton – Ketchaoua
    Clifford Thornton – Ketchaoua
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    Official BYG Records release: one of the defining labels of the Free Jazz era – Follow-up release of Live at the Panafrican Festival by Archie Shepp. After appearing with Archie […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Clifford Thornton – Ketchaoua
    Clifford Thornton – Ketchaoua
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    Official BYG Records release: one of the defining labels of the Free Jazz era – Follow-up release of Live at the Panafrican Festival by Archie Shepp. After appearing with Archie […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Paul Bley – Ramblin’
    Paul Bley – Ramblin’
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    CD edition presented in a deluxe digi-sleeve that echoes the original LP’s aesthetics, complete with a 16-page booklet and an inner printed wallet. Includes exclusive notes by author and [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Mother Gong – Fairy Tales
    Mother Gong – Fairy Tales
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    Enhanced CD Edition remastered from the original master tapes. CD digi-sleeve mimics the vibe of the original LP and comes with a 12-page booklet that includes lyrics for an immersive […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • 13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere
    13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere
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    New 96KHZ-24bit transfer from an original mixed master – Facsimile stereo edition . 1967 second studio album by the Texan pioneers of psychedelia. This ground-breaking album not only [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • 13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere
    13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    New 96KHZ-24bit transfer from an original mixed master – Facsimile stereo edition . 1967 second studio album by the Texan pioneers of psychedelia. This ground-breaking album not only [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Sam Rivers ‎– Contrasts (180g Reissue)
    Sam Rivers ‎– Contrasts (180g Reissue)
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    “Tenor saxophonist Sam Rivers (also heard on soprano and flute) teams up in a quartet with trombonist George Lewis, bassist Dave Holland and drummer Thurman Barker (doubling on marimba) for [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz