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  • Bill Nace/Diagram A Duo Tape
    Bill Nace/Diagram A Duo Tape
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    Bill Nace and Diagram A duo tape, picked up directly from Bill Nace at the Cincinnati stop of the 2023 Sissy Spacek Tour

  • Alejandro Jodorowsky – Allen Klein Presents Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain (Original Soundtrack) (Cloud & Blue Sky Vinyl)
    Alejandro Jodorowsky – Allen Klein Presents Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain (Original Soundtrack) (Cloud & Blue Sky Vinyl)
    $52.00 | , Add to cart

    The Holy Mountain score is every bit hallucinatory as the visual imagery in the film. Musical styles that range from deep, primordial chants, to sitar folk melodies, to blaring orchestral […]

  • Sult – Always I Gnaw
    Sult – Always I Gnaw
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    Over the past decade Sult has created a thrillingly dynamic and visceral sound world, forging a musical unity while also asserting the radically unique languages of its three core members, […]

  • Esplendor Geometrico – Kosmos Kino
    Esplendor Geometrico – Kosmos Kino
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    Reissue of Kosmos Kino, originally released in 1988. A Spanish industrial classic album by Esplendor Geométrico, has been unavailable on vinyl for more than 12 years, now out on limited, […]

  • Richard Ramirez – Trick
    Richard Ramirez – Trick
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    Hospital Productions announces Trick on double LP. Trick is deeply important to the Hospital history as it was the first time working with the icon Richard Ramirez in 1999. Five […]

  • Kali Malone – Living Torch
    Kali Malone – Living Torch
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    What our staff has to say: “Another needed reissue in from GRM. One of the best Kali Malone releases IMO. Dive into some minimalism here. It’s dark and psyched out.” […]

  • Coil – The Ape Of Naples
    Coil – The Ape Of Naples
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    What our staff has to say: “Their true final studio LP is a creative and meek electronic album that feels like chamber music for purgatory.” – Alex “Really glad to […]

  • Natural Information Society – Since Time Is Gravity
    Natural Information Society – Since Time Is Gravity
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    What our staff has to say: “The album that grew on us all. Seems to be playing at least once a day in the shop. Moody jazz album that sits […]

  • Jeff Parker – Slight Freedom
    Jeff Parker – Slight Freedom
    $36.00 | Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “I know I’ve picked guitar records almost five weeks in a row, but here I go again. Parker brings chilled out, looping guitar compositions […]

  • Nurse With Wound – Homotopy To Marie
    Nurse With Wound – Homotopy To Marie
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    What our staff has to say: “Definitely my favorite Nurse With Wound release and probably one of my favorite pieces of experimental music. Frightening, funny, surreal and everything in [...]

  • Henry Grimes Trio – The Call
    Henry Grimes Trio – The Call
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    What our staff has to say: “The near hidden Black General holding down the low end (bass) on countless essential Jazz recordings gets his ESP debut as a leader. Cult, […]

  • Misha Mengelberg, Peter Brotzmann, Evan Parker, Peter Bennink, Paul Rutherford, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink – Groupcomposing
    Misha Mengelberg, Peter Brotzmann, Evan Parker, Peter Bennink, Paul Rutherford, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink – Groupcomposing
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    Reissue, originally released in 1978. Founded in Amsterdam in 1967 by saxophonist Willem Breuker, pianist Misha Mengelberg, and percussionist Han Bennink, Instant Composers Pool (or ICP) was an [...]

  • Joe McPhee –  Nation Time
    Joe McPhee – Nation Time
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    2021 repress. “‘It’s been nearly five decades since Joe McPhee assembled a group of musicians to perform the weekend concerts that would become Nation Time, his debut LP. It was [...]

  • Noel Meek & Mattin – Homage to Annea Lockwood Book + CD
    Noel Meek & Mattin – Homage to Annea Lockwood Book + CD
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    Recital presents a book and CD homage to the New Zealand-born American composer Annea Lockwood (b. 1939). The unique concept for this album was conceived by artists Noel Meek (New […]

  • Ernest Hood – Back to the Woodlands
    Ernest Hood – Back to the Woodlands
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    What our staff has to say: “Such an odd, charming album bringing together field recordings of the forest and kind of ambient, acid?, folk. This previously lost album continues on […]

  • The Cat & Bells Club – S/T
    The Cat & Bells Club – S/T
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    In 1992, under the guise of the Cat & Bells Club, eighteen-year-old Cheriton residents Graham Lambkin and Darren Harris self-released three tapes—two yellow cassettes and one pink—documenting [...]

  • Liam Grant – Amoskeag
    Liam Grant – Amoskeag
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    Every song on this album taps into raw, rich veins of sound that are simultaneously dense but easy to enjoy; vintage and modern; new yet timeless. The album kicks off […]

  • Dead C – Operation Of The Sonne
    Dead C – Operation Of The Sonne
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    What our staff has to say: “The weird, undersung cousin of Tusk & The White House. Operation Of The Sonne is the closest Dead C’s gotten to touching on the […]

  • Dead C – The White House
    Dead C – The White House
    $33.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “The pinnacle of rock n roll / noise rock – THE DEAD C. Thankfully Ba Da Bing! have brought these back around. Remastered by […]

  • S*Glass – Cesspool Of The Angels
    S*Glass – Cesspool Of The Angels
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    First solo LP of 2023 by S. Glass of Glands of External Secretion, Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble, This Is Yvonne Lovejoy and Bananafish Magazine. Numerous practices make up the electro-acoustic sound [...]

  • Steve Gunn, John Truscinski, & Bill Nace –  Glass Band
    Steve Gunn, John Truscinski, & Bill Nace – Glass Band
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    We have here three musicians with such a rich shared history that they might as well share the same blood. Each an accomplished solo artist in their own right, there’s […]

  • Body/Dilloway/Head – S/T
    Body/Dilloway/Head – S/T
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    Second pressing (first sold out prior to street date) of this debut studio collaboration between Kim Gordon, Bill Nace and Aaron Dilloway. It meets and exceeds all expectations fans of […]

  • Lonnie Liston-Smith – Cosmic Funk
    Lonnie Liston-Smith – Cosmic Funk
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    Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes’ groundbreaking albums for the Flying Dutchman label don’t get the attention from jazz fans that they should. In fact, among the many distinguished […]

  • Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings – Resolve
    Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings – Resolve
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    Resolve acts in dialogue with the minimalist inspirations of the first Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings release, 1982’s Nodal Excitation – in effect, looking beneath the [...]

  • Jim O’Rourke – Hands That Bind (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
    Jim O’Rourke – Hands That Bind (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    O’Rourke’s process — sourcing resonant sounds to be enmeshed together into a music that supersedes their resident parts — makes a fitting soundtrack for Kyle Armstrong’s “prairie gothic” tale of [...]

  • Bill Nace – Through A Room
    Bill Nace – Through A Room
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Fever dream experimental guitar with an array of other instruments that are all completely abstracted. Uneasy listening.” – Hannah Using the [...]

  • Bill Nace – Both
    Bill Nace – Both
    $31.00 | , Add to cart

    Free guitar for the new age: improv with intention, construction and destruction, all with the grain and air of performance captured and telescoped in a sonic particle collider. Makes sense, […]

  • Scott Walker – Tilt
    Scott Walker – Tilt
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    “It’s been 25 years since Scott Walker released his dark masterpiece Tilt (8 May 1995). The album was met with positive reviews despite or maybe because of its arcane, unpleasant, […]

  • A Handful Of Dust – The Drum Is The Shaman’s Horse
    A Handful Of Dust – The Drum Is The Shaman’s Horse
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    With the death in 2020 of long-standing occasional third member Peter Stapleton (percussion/electronics), A Handful of Dust has regrouped as the core duo of Alastair Galbraith (violin, guitar, [...]

  • Ken Vandermark & Hamid Drake – Eternal River
    Ken Vandermark & Hamid Drake – Eternal River
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    On their first stand-alone record as a duo, Ken Vandermark and Hamid Drake celebrate their 30+ year playing relationship with an electrifying live set of pieces, all featuring music composed […]

  • Takehisa Kosugi – S/T
    Takehisa Kosugi – S/T
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    Slowscan’s latest, a stunning, remastered vinyl edition of Takehisa Kosugi’s New York, August 14, 1991 – expanded to include an entire second LP of recordings made by the [...]

  • Hannibal Marvin Peterson & The Sunrise Orchestra – Children Of The Fire
    Hannibal Marvin Peterson & The Sunrise Orchestra – Children Of The Fire
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Hannibal’s “Children of The Fire” is a unique deep jazz album composed as a suite and featuring a full orchestra. Originally self-released on the tiny Sunrise label in 1974, [...]

  • Ornette Coleman – Something Else!!!!
    Ornette Coleman – Something Else!!!!
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    Originally released in 1958 and recorded by legendary engineer Roy DuNann, Ornette Coleman’s debut album Something Else!!!! introduced the world to his innovative style and features his band of [...]

  • Charles Mingus – The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady
    Charles Mingus – The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady
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    Charles Mingus consciously designed this six-part ballet as his magnum opus, and — implied in his famous inclusion of liner notes by his psychologist — it’s as much an examination […]

  • Muhal Richard Abrams – Sightsong
    Muhal Richard Abrams – Sightsong
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    Perhaps the great pianist’s best record — duets with the Arts Ensemble bassist Malachi Favors, in 1975.

  • Michael Gregory Jackson – Clarity
    Michael Gregory Jackson – Clarity
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    Before his career defining records on Arista/Novus in the 80s and 90s, jazz and fusion guitaristMichael Gregory Jackson recorded his debut for ESP-Disk’. The sessions, recorded in New York, [...]

  • Last Poets – Right On! (Original Soundtrack)
    Last Poets – Right On! (Original Soundtrack)
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    Soundtrack to the 1971 film about the Last Poets. Formed on Malcolm X’s birthday in 1968 in East Harlem, The Original Last Poets consisted of Gylan Kain, David Nelson, and […]

  • Gene Russell – New Direction
    Gene Russell – New Direction
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “First record from the legendary imprint Black Jazz. Can’t help but be put in a great mood while listening, the opening track is truly […]

  • Don Patterson – Hip Cake Walk
    Don Patterson – Hip Cake Walk
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    Hip Cake Walk is an album by organist Don Patterson recorded in 1964 and released on the Prestige label.

  • Cleveland Eaton – Plenty Good Eaton
    Cleveland Eaton – Plenty Good Eaton
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    The jazz world lost a true legend when bassist Cleveland Eaton passed away in the Summer of 2020. This 1975 album, one of the real gems in the hallowed Black […]

  • Archie Shepp – Yasmina, A Black Woman
    Archie Shepp – Yasmina, A Black Woman
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    Fourth volume in the BYG Actuel series; gatefold sleeve, 180 gram vinyl. “A great recording session for the French BYG Actuel label dated August 12, 1969. Tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp [...]

  • Don Wilkerson – Shoutin’
    Don Wilkerson – Shoutin’
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    Don Wilkerson’s final album, Shoutin’, found him returning to the confines of a quartet, which actually liberated his playing. Without the competition provided from a trumpeter, [...]

  • Walter Bishop, Jr. – Soul Village
    Walter Bishop, Jr. – Soul Village
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    Soul Village is an album by pianist Walter Bishop Jr. which was recorded in 1977 and released on the Muse label

  • Thelonious Monk – The Prophet
    Thelonious Monk – The Prophet
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Originally released in France in 1954 as Thelonious Monk ‎– Piano Solo.

  • Thelonious Monk – S/T
    Thelonious Monk – S/T
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    Originally released in France in 1954 as Thelonious Monk ‎– Piano Solo.

  • Thelonious Monk – Golden Monk
    Thelonious Monk – Golden Monk
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    Monk (Prestige PRLP 7053)[3] is a 1956 compilation album by jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, featuring material recorded from 1953 to 1954 for the Prestige label and performed by […]

  • Roy Haynes With Booker Ervin – Cracklin’
    Roy Haynes With Booker Ervin – Cracklin’
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    Cracklin’ is an album recorded by American jazz drummer Roy Haynes with tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin and released in July 1963 by Prestige Records.[1][2] The two tracks written by pianist [...]

  • Roy Ayers Ubiquity – A Tear To A Smile
    Roy Ayers Ubiquity – A Tear To A Smile
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    Classic Ubiquity line-up featuring Bernard Purdy, Jimmy Owens, Harry Whitaker and Dee Dee Bridgewater on the original version of “2000 Black”, “The Old One Two” and the [...]

  • Paul Chambers – 1st Bassman
    Paul Chambers – 1st Bassman
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    1st Bassman is an album by jazz bassist Paul Chambers, recorded at Bell Sound Studios on May 12, 1960 and released by the Vee-Jay label.[1][2][3] This album is notable for […]

  • Lou Donaldson – Everything I Play Is Funky
    Lou Donaldson – Everything I Play Is Funky
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    Everything I Play is Funky is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded for the Blue Note label featuring Donaldson with Blue Mitchell, Lonnie Smith, Melvin Sparks, Jimmy Lewis […]

  • Lee Morgan – Sonic Boom
    Lee Morgan – Sonic Boom
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    Sonic Boom is an album by jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan, recorded on April 14 and 28, 1967 but not released on the Blue Note label until 1979. The 2003 CD […]

  • Lee Morgan – Lee-Way
    Lee Morgan – Lee-Way
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    Leeway is an album by jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan released on the Blue Note label. It was recorded on April 28, 1960 and features performances by Morgan with Jackie McLean, […]

  • Kenny Dorham – Trompeta Toccata
    Kenny Dorham – Trompeta Toccata
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    Trompeta Toccata is a 1964 jazz album by trumpeter Kenny Dorham. It was released on Blue Note label in 1965 as BST 84181. It was remastered by original recording engineer […]

  • Johnny Griffin – The Congregation
    Johnny Griffin – The Congregation
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    The Congregation is an album by American tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin, recorded in 1957 and released on the Blue Note label. It was his last recording for the label.[3] The […]

  • John Patton – Oh Baby!
    John Patton – Oh Baby!
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    Oh Baby! is an album by American organist Big John Patton recorded in 1965 and released on the Blue Note label.[1]

  • Jackie Mclean – Capuchin Swing
    Jackie Mclean – Capuchin Swing
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “McLean is the man. 1960 bebop chiller, and a good starting point for his vast catalog. He’s well worth diving into deeply, mid to […]

  • Jackie Mclean – A Fickle Sonance
    Jackie Mclean – A Fickle Sonance
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    A Fickle Sonance is an album by American saxophonist Jackie McLean recorded in 1961 and released on the Blue Note label.[2] It features McLean in a quintet with trumpeter Tommy […]

  • Hank Mobley – Hi Voltage
    Hank Mobley – Hi Voltage
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    Hi Voltage is an album by jazz tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley recorded on October 9, 1967 and released on the Blue Note label the following year.[3][4] It features performances by […]

  • Hank Mobley  – A Caddy For Daddy
    Hank Mobley – A Caddy For Daddy
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    A Caddy for Daddy is an album by jazz saxophonist Hank Mobley recorded on December 18, 1965, and released on the Blue Note label in 1967. It features performances by […]

  • Grant Green – The Main Attraction
    Grant Green – The Main Attraction
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    The Main Attraction is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1976 and released on the Kudu label.