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  • Rocker Magazine – Issue #3
    Rocker Magazine – Issue #3
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    ROCKER is a new bimonthly digest printed and published in the great city of Philadelphia, PA, USA. It focuses on harsh noise, ambient, musique concrète, electroacoustic, drone, tape music, wall [...]

  • Tongue Depressor + Austin Larkin – Landau Bar
    Tongue Depressor + Austin Larkin – Landau Bar
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    Tongue Depressor (New Haven, CT) is the duo of Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey. They write, improvise, and perform drone-based music with fiddles, pedal steel, lap steel, contrabass, organ, and [...]

  • Luther Thomas Human Arts Ensemble Directs The Saint Louis, Missouri Creative Ensemble – Funky Donkey Vol. 1
    Luther Thomas Human Arts Ensemble Directs The Saint Louis, Missouri Creative Ensemble – Funky Donkey Vol. 1
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    Wewantsounds, in collaboration with Corbett vs. Dempsey, reissues one of the great albums out of the BAG galaxy recorded by Luther Thomas and a cohort of musicians including Joe Bowie, […]

  • Peter Brotzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love –  Chicken Shit Bingo
    Peter Brotzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love – Chicken Shit Bingo
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    Release date: 3/1/24.  Will ship on or around release date. Peter Brötzmann collaborated with many artists in his career, regularly adding new compatriots into the fold, and Norwegian drummer [...]

  • Masayuki ‘Jojo’ Takayanagi & New Direction For The Arts – Free Form Suite
    Masayuki ‘Jojo’ Takayanagi & New Direction For The Arts – Free Form Suite
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    Release date: 3/1/24.  Will ship on or around release date. Masayuki “Jojo” Takayanagi (1932 – 1991) was a Japanese jazz/free improvisational musician. He was active in the [...]

  • L’Infonie – S/T (Pre-Order)
    L’Infonie – S/T (Pre-Order)
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    Release date: 3/1/24.  Will ship on or around release date. Beat poetry influence free form jazz collective, formed in Montreal in 1967, L’Infonie existed officially until 1974. Lead by [...]

  • Skullflower – IIIrd Gatekeeper
    Skullflower – IIIrd Gatekeeper
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    Release date: 3/1/24.  Will ship on or around release date. Double vinyl reissue of Skullflower’s epochal IIIrd Gatekeeper album — the first time that this album has been available on [...]

  • Drew McDowall – Lamina
    Drew McDowall – Lamina
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    This long-gestating box set of Scottish electronic pioneer Drew McDowall’s solo work takes its title from a technical term meaning ‘plate’ or ‘layer’ most often used [...]

  • Gerycz Powers Rolin – Activator
    Gerycz Powers Rolin – Activator
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    Activator is the third installment from the trio of Jayson Gerycz, Jen Powers and Matthew Rolin, who respectively need no introduction writ-large. For anyone observing the American underground in [...]

  • Sonic Youth – Slaapkamers Met Slagroom
    Sonic Youth – Slaapkamers Met Slagroom
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    Unfettered by studio time limitations with their own home base of Echo Canyon, SYR 2 shows Sonic Youth chasing the shadows of predecessor SYR 1 and the series’ distinct aesthetic: […]

  • Coil – Moon’s Milk (In Four Phases)
    Coil – Moon’s Milk (In Four Phases)
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    Release Date: 3/15/24. Will shipped on or around release date. First compiled as a double CD in 2002, Moon’s Milk (in Four Phases) is a suite of four EPs that […]

  • La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela – Dream House 78’17”
    La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela – Dream House 78’17”
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    Release Date: 3/22/24.  Will ship on or around to release date. Originally released in 1974 on Shandar, Dream House 78’17” is the second full-length album by La Monte Young and […]

  • Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet – Four Guitars Live
    Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet – Four Guitars Live
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    Release Date: 3/22/24.  Will ship on or around release date. “As Bill Orcutt’s most mature and exhilarating LP to date, Music for Four Guitars was a slab of undeniable Apollonian […]

  • Omit – in/Sec
    Omit – in/Sec
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    Release Date: 2/23/24. Will ship on or around release date. Omit’s in/Sec is “new,” but not new. Recorded in 2013, the masters lost in the label’s murky somewheresville that always […]

  • Sonic Youth – Anagrama
    Sonic Youth – Anagrama
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    Release date: 3/22/24. Will ship on or around release date. BACK IN PRINT ON VINYL! While 1995’s Washing Machine LP moniker was a thinly-veiled jab at the corporate aesthetic (“no, [...]

  • Personal Best 9
    Personal Best 9
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    Lasse Marghaug’s magazine Personal Best is back! Issue number 9 will be in hand and shipping mid to late June. Still my favorite magazine around. Issue 9 features interviews with […]

  • New Monuments – Language Is The Skin CD
    New Monuments – Language Is The Skin CD
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    What our staff has to say: “The birth of NEW FREE JAZZ. A completely unhinged document of New Monuments. Fresh new quartet line-up. This is the next level, and the […]

  • Point Of Memory – Void Pusher
    Point Of Memory – Void Pusher
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    Void Pusher is acoustic computer music; combining digital cut ups and live ambient noise with raw organic qualities. Inaudible super-bass frequencies pumping through a room filled with acoustic [...]

  • Point Of Memory – Void Pusher
    Point Of Memory – Void Pusher
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    Void Pusher is acoustic computer music; combining digital cut ups and live ambient noise with raw organic qualities. Inaudible super-bass frequencies pumping through a room filled with acoustic [...]

  • Keränen – Tammisalo Tapes – The Final Early Recordings
    Keränen – Tammisalo Tapes – The Final Early Recordings
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    Five early tracks of thundering noise from the finnish noise king. While perhaps best known as being one half of Testicle Hazard, his solo CD albums Bats In The Attic […]

  • Lettera 22 – Salvado
    Lettera 22 – Salvado
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    Recorded during two days in the spring of 2022, Salvado sees Lettera 22 go all in musique concrete. One single long tape loop worming its way around a room through […]

  • Merzbow / Sissy Spacek – Coronado
    Merzbow / Sissy Spacek – Coronado
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    In their first collaborative album, pioneering Japanese sound artist Merzbow and prolific outsider outfit Sissy Spacek unite to unleash an unstoppable firebomb of frenzied electronics and raging [...]

  • Sissy Spacek – Cosm
    Sissy Spacek – Cosm
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    A new Sissy Spacek album in the realm of free-improv, but a great expansion of the perimeter. This power trio features Charlie Mumma on drums, Masahiko Ohno (Solmania) on guitar, […]

  • C.C.C.C. – Community Center Cyber Crash / Live In Pittsburgh
    C.C.C.C. – Community Center Cyber Crash / Live In Pittsburgh
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    A searing document of C.C.C.C.’s indelible live performance at Wilkins School Community Center on October 11, 1992, Community Center Cyber Crash/Live In Pittsburgh voyages into an abyss of [...]

  • C.C.C.C. – Amplified Crystal
    C.C.C.C. – Amplified Crystal
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    A howling vortex of psychedelic whiteout and swirling shimmer by trailblazing Japanese icons C.C.C.C. (Cosmic Coincidence Control Center), featuring the core foursome of Mayuko Hino (electronics, [...]

  • The Haters – Tractor 2023
    The Haters – Tractor 2023
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    The Haters classic remixed, remastered and reenvisioned! A full volume grinding cacophony of entropic sound and amplified destruction across three reworked live actions—8/15/87 San Francisco [...]

  • Phew – New Decade (Clear Vinyl)
    Phew – New Decade (Clear Vinyl)
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    conic Japanese experimentalist Phew returns to Mute for first time in 30 years with a haunted and strung out set of barely-there vox and submerged synths     “Rising to […]

  • Simon Fisher Turner, Edmund de Waal – A Quiet Corner In Time
    Simon Fisher Turner, Edmund de Waal – A Quiet Corner In Time
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    A Quiet Corner In Time began life as a sound work created by the composer Fisher Turner for renowned ceramicist and author Edmund de Waal’s architectural installation, – one way […]

  • Sarah Davachi – Antiphonals
    Sarah Davachi – Antiphonals
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    Chock full of humid, resonant soundscapes that bend time and emphasize texture, tone and timbre, Sarah Davachi’s latest is her most defining and rewarding full-length to date. We’re [...]

  • Bastard Noise & Merzbow – Retribution By All Other Creatures
    Bastard Noise & Merzbow – Retribution By All Other Creatures
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    The experimental legends BASTARD NOISE and MERZBOW present their new collaborative album, RETRIBUTION BY ALL OTHER CREATURES. A lashing out against man-made institutions that perpetuate animal [...]

  • Steve Reid –  Odyssey of the Oblong Square (Gold Vinyl)
    Steve Reid – Odyssey of the Oblong Square (Gold Vinyl)
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    New special one-off limited-edition gold vinyl pressing of this deep spiritual jazz classic. // Drummer extraordinaire and legend, Reid has played with everyone from James Brown to Sun Ra, Fela [...]

  • Azymuth, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Jazz Is Dead 4
    Azymuth, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Jazz Is Dead 4
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    The instrumental trio Azymuth modernized the sound and style of Brazilian jazz with their electronic instruments, angular arrangements and ingenious synthesis of jazz, funk, rock and samba. After [...]

  • The Pyramids – Birth/Speed/Merging
    The Pyramids – Birth/Speed/Merging
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    Birth/Speed/Merging was recorded in 1976 after the band’s move to San Francisco. The album closes the Pyramids’ 70s trilogy and makes more use of studio technology: adding overdubs [...]

  • Roy Ayers, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Roy Ayers
    Roy Ayers, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Roy Ayers
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    In February 2018, Roy Ayers performed four sold out shows in Los Angeles as part of the Jazz Is Dead Black History Month series. It wasn’t until 2020 that fans […]

  • Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Jazz Is Dead 001
    Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Jazz Is Dead 001
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    Music exists in movement and change, but before any part of it can be pinned down for analysis, it has often moved and taken on a new face. The transformation […]

  • V/A – Soul Love Now: The Black Fire Records Story 1975-1993
    V/A – Soul Love Now: The Black Fire Records Story 1975-1993
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    Strut present the rst ever compilation bringing together classics and rarities from the seminal spiritual jazz and conscious soul label Black Fire, covering 1975 to 1993.

  • Alabaster DePlume – Come With Fierce Grace
    Alabaster DePlume – Come With Fierce Grace
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    When we are boldly and sincerely requested as ourselves, as whoever we may be, we can, in response to one-another, create naturally, things that no-one could have ever specifically demanded […]

  • Doug Carn, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge – Doug Carn
    Doug Carn, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge – Doug Carn
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    Doug Carn’s newest project, his entry in the Jazz Is Dead album series helmed by Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, takes his unique and timeless art and places it […]

  • Steve Reid Ensemble (feat. Kieran Hebden) – Spirit Walk
    Steve Reid Ensemble (feat. Kieran Hebden) – Spirit Walk
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    A special one-off exclusive double vinyl edition for Record Store Day 2021 – out of print for nearly 15 years, this album was recorded at the start of the long […]

  • Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra – Lightning Dreamers
    Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra – Lightning Dreamers
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    Lightning Dreamers is new work by composer, trumpeter, post-rock and avant-jazz legend Rob Mazurek (Isotope 217, Chicago Underground) , who wrote the music for a compacted version of his [...]

  • Salah Ragab & The Cairo Jazz Band –  Egypt Strut
    Salah Ragab & The Cairo Jazz Band – Egypt Strut
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    Strut present the 1973 Egyptian jazz classic, ‘Egypt Strut’ by Salah Ragab and Cairo Jazz Band.

  • Juju – A Message From Mozambique
    Juju – A Message From Mozambique
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    The roots of Juju started in San Francisco after Plunky had met his musical mentor, Zulu musician Ndikho Xaba, helping to form his band Ndikho and The Natives. Three members […]

  • Carlos Niño & Friends – I’m Just Chillin’, On Fire
    Carlos Niño & Friends – I’m Just Chillin’, On Fire
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    Prolific percussionist/producer Carlos Niño’s most singular, intentional work ever, featuring a vibrant and abundant gathering of “friends.” Featured artists across 80+ minutes of [...]

  • Full Moon Ensemble – Crowded With Loneliness
    Full Moon Ensemble – Crowded With Loneliness
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    Reissue of this French spiritual free jazz masterpiece, includes the killer poetry jazz tune ʻSamba Miaouʼ! Crowded with Loneliness by Full Moon Ensemble was produced by Claude Delcloo, check the [...]

  • We Jazz Issue 09: Oisters
    We Jazz Issue 09: Oisters
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    The ninth issue of We Jazz Magazine, Oisters. Featuring: Jason Moran, Carlos Garnett, Oren Ambarchi, Darius Jones, Black Fire Records, Robyn Steward, columnist Mats Gustafsson, reviews, and more. [...]

  • We Jazz Issue 05: Amaryllis
    We Jazz Issue 05: Amaryllis
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    2022 release. The fifth issue of We Jazz Magazine, Amaryllis for Mary Halvorson. All articles presented in English. Stories include Mary Halvorson by Peter Margasak, Pi Recordings by Will Layman, [...]

  • We Jazz Issue 04: The Call
    We Jazz Issue 04: The Call
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    2022 release. The fourth issue of We Jazz Magazine, The Call for Horace Tapscott. All articles presented in English. Stories include Horace Tapscott by Andy Thomas, Tigran Hamasyan by Rui […]

  • We Jazz Issue 03: Tetragon
    We Jazz Issue 03: Tetragon
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    2022 release. This is the third issue of the new We Jazz Magazine, Tetragon for Joe Henderson. All articles presented in English. Stories include Joe Henderson by Daniel Spicer, International [...]

  • Eve Aboulkheir / Lasse Marhaug – 22/12/2017 Guilin Synthetic Daydream / How to Avoid Ants
    Eve Aboulkheir / Lasse Marhaug – 22/12/2017 Guilin Synthetic Daydream / How to Avoid Ants
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    “22/12/2017 Guilin Synthetic Daydream” is a perceptual trap. Inspired by an experience of intense perceptive disorientation while crossing a market in China, Eve Aboulkheir [...]

  • Sven Torstenson – Drugs
    Sven Torstenson – Drugs
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    Sven Torstenson‘s notorious Drugs is a loopdigga’s fever dream, bursting with breaks for days and featuring possibly the most iconic cover of all library music’s cult classics. [...]

  • Art Ensemble Of Chicago – Les Stances A Sophie
    Art Ensemble Of Chicago – Les Stances A Sophie
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    On May 28, 1969, four American musicians — reed/wind players Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman, bassist Malachi Favors, and (accompanied by his wife, singer Fontella Bass) trumpeter Lester [...]

  • Albert Ayler – Bells (White Vinyl)
    Albert Ayler – Bells (White Vinyl)
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    Reissue on 180-gram opaque white vinyl. Originally released in 1965. The transitional “Bells” was just under 20 minutes, released originally as one side of a clear vinyl LP with the [...]

  • Evan Parker & George Lewis – From Saxophone & Trombone
    Evan Parker & George Lewis – From Saxophone & Trombone
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    First vinyl re-issue of Evan Parker‘s duo with George Lewis. Transferred from the original masters, Otoroku has discovered that the original Incus LP was cut at the wrong speed — […]

  • Creative Construction Company – Creative Construction Company
    Creative Construction Company – Creative Construction Company
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    Label: Muse Records – MR 5071 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1975   V+G/VG+ Light marks, some rubbing/ringwear & edgewear. Old store sticker

  • Ornette Coleman – The Art Of The Improvisers
    Ornette Coleman – The Art Of The Improvisers
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    Label: Atlantic – SD 1572 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, RI Country: US Released: 1970   VG+/VG+ Light marks, some sleeve staining/wear. Old store sticker. WOL

  • Steve Lacy, Roswell Rudd, Kent Carter, Beaver Harris – Trickles
    Steve Lacy, Roswell Rudd, Kent Carter, Beaver Harris – Trickles
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    Label: Black Saint – BSR 0008 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Italy Released: 1976   VG+/VG+

  • The Art Ensemble Of Chicago – Bap-tizum
    The Art Ensemble Of Chicago – Bap-tizum
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    Label: Atlantic – SD 1639, Atlantic – SD1639, Atlantic – SD-1639 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, PRC Country: US Released: 1973   VG+/VG+ – Faint wear. Jacket maybe close to VG. […]

  • Joseph Jarman – Sunbound Volume One
    Joseph Jarman – Sunbound Volume One
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    Label: AECO Records – AECO 002 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: 1978   VG+/VG – Record has a couple faint marks. Jacket has light shelf wear and an old […]

  • Anthony Braxton / Gunter Hampel / Jeanne Lee – Familie
    Anthony Braxton / Gunter Hampel / Jeanne Lee – Familie
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    Label: Birth Records – BIRTH 008 Series: Jubilee Edition: 15 Years Gunter Hampel Group – (1958 – 1973) – Jubiläumsausgabe – 008 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Germany Released: 1972 […]

  • Albert Ayler – Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe
    Albert Ayler – Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe
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    Label: Impulse! – AS-9191, ABC Records – AS-9191 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: Apr 1970   VG+/VG+ – Sticker residue in top right corner, bit of foxing inside […]