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  • Dickie Landry ‎– Solos
    Dickie Landry ‎– Solos
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    “On February 19, 1972, a crew of mostly Louisiana-raised musicians came together at the Leo Castelli Gallery on West Broadway in Soho to perform a wholly improvised concert. This ensemble’s [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Jennifer Veillerobe ‎– Luftlöcher
    Jennifer Veillerobe ‎– Luftlöcher
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    “Recorded at home in Oreno di Vimercate (Italy), September 2012, using various kinds of sparkling liquids recorded through miniature holes on plastic bottles. No overdubs, postproduction or [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Chicaloyoh ‎– Folie Sacrée
    Chicaloyoh ‎– Folie Sacrée
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    “Folie Sacrée is the debut full length record of Chicaloyoh, musical incarnation of Normandy resident Alice Dourlen. Creating music between soundscape exploration and intimate [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Alessandro Cortini ‎– Nati Infiniti
    Alessandro Cortini ‎– Nati Infiniti
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    “Following up on 2021’s Scuro Chiaro, NATI INFINITI is a 40-minute piece split into five movements, based on an immersive audio installation that Cortini originally created for the Sónar [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Lucrecia Dalt – Ou
    Lucrecia Dalt – Ou
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    “Along the arc of Dalt’s music, beyond what steers her so allusively away from self-repetition, there is an undefinable forward inertia. What can explain, for instance, the near absence of [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Smell & Quim ‎– Atom Heart Motherfucker
    Smell & Quim ‎– Atom Heart Motherfucker
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    “Reissue of 2017 cassette on Vis a Vis Audio Arts that came out as an extremely small edition.” Label: Wonderland Media, LLC – WM009 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Ruth Goller ‎– Skylla
    Ruth Goller ‎– Skylla
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    “Ruth Goller’s ‘Skylla’ shines a long-awaited light on one of the most important musicians to have driven and revolutionised the UK jazz and improv scenes over the last 16 years. […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Joe McPhee ‎– Black Magic Man
    Joe McPhee ‎– Black Magic Man
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    “Black Magic Man is arguably the pivotal Joe McPhee release. It bridged the span between the regional and the international, bypassing the national altogether. Recorded in the same sessions [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Cortex A9 ‎– Basic Housekeeping – Order.
    Cortex A9 ‎– Basic Housekeeping – Order.
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    Music By – Dan Johansson (sewer election) , Frederikke Hoffmeier (puce mary), Hugo Randulv Label: Förlag För Fri Musik – 013 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Sweden Released: 2019 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Graham Lambkin ‎– Poem (For Voice & Tape)
    Graham Lambkin ‎– Poem (For Voice & Tape)
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    “Graham Lambkin’s first solo release, and the premiere record of his then newly-formed label Kye, Poem (For Voice & Tape) (Kye, 2001) captures his Shadow Ring bandmate, Tim Goss, as [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The Velvet Underground ‎– White Light/White Heat [early 70s Stereo/Mono]
    The Velvet Underground ‎– White Light/White Heat [early 70s Stereo/Mon…
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    “The world of pop music was hardly ready for The Velvet Underground’s first album when it appeared in the spring of 1967, but while The Velvet Underground and Nico sounded […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • J.J. Johnson ‎– Proof Positive
    J.J. Johnson ‎– Proof Positive
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    Trombonist J.J Johnson at his absolute peak on this killer set. Label: Impulse! – A-68 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Country: US Released: 1965 VG+/VG. Sleeve has some edgewear and […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Phillip Upchurch – Darkness, Darkness
    Phillip Upchurch – Darkness, Darkness
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    “Recorded in 1971, shortly after he departed Cadet where he served as a house sideman-playing on dozens of records and a prefferred guitarist for Curtis Mayfield and Jerry Butler, Phil […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Dangerous Rhythms : Jazz and the Underworld
    Dangerous Rhythms : Jazz and the Underworld
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    Dangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of jazz and the underworld: a relationship fostered in some of 20th century America’s most notorious vice districts. For the first half of the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Jackie-O Motherfucker – Flags Of The Sacred Harp
    Jackie-O Motherfucker – Flags Of The Sacred Harp
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    20th anniversary 2xLP reissue of Flags Of The Sacred Harp, a transcendent masterpiece of free-folk, gospel-drone, and psychedelic Americana. A re-imagining of traditional hymns and anthems from [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Indie / Alternative
  • Angel Bat Dawid – The Oracle
    Angel Bat Dawid – The Oracle
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    Angel Bat Dawid’s International Anthem debut The Oracle introduced her multifaceted voice to the world. The response to its modest, initial cassette/digital release in January of 2019 was [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Bevis Frond – Bevis Through The Looking Glass (The Great Magnet Disaster)
    Bevis Frond – Bevis Through The Looking Glass (The Great Magnet Disast…
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    An album originally recorded in the great Woronzow studios (Nick’s Back Room) until the great magnet disaster, which meant that it had to be mastered from a second generation cassette. […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Bevis Frond – Inner Marshland (Purple Vinyl)
    Bevis Frond – Inner Marshland (Purple Vinyl)
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    This is the second album by Nick Saloman, aka the Bevis Frond. Released after the unexpected success of Miasma, it features some of his most enduring tracks including “Eyes in […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Bevis Frond – Miasma
    The Bevis Frond – Miasma
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    After experience in a couple of Post Punk Psychedelic Bands, Nick Saloman was involved in a horrendous Motorbike smash, courtesy of Camden Council. Eventually they paid compensation, and Nick [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Charles Mingus – Mingus At Monterey
    Charles Mingus – Mingus At Monterey
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    Any list of the greatest jazz artists of all time includes the legendary Charles Mingus. Bassist, composer, outspoken jazz pioneer, Mingus was an innovator whose legacy continues to inspire us. [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Chick Corea, Brian Blade, Christian McBride – Trilogy 3
    Chick Corea, Brian Blade, Christian McBride – Trilogy 3
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    In 2020, Chick Corea—27-time GRAMMY® winner, National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, and one of the most iconic figures in jazz—hit the road with his powerhouse trio of Christian […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Charles Mingus – Reincarnations
    Charles Mingus – Reincarnations
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    Rare Mingus tracks unavailable on vinyl for decades, reassembled as a stand-alone album. The companion album to Incarnations.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Charles Mingus – Reincarnations
    Charles Mingus – Reincarnations
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    Rare Mingus tracks unavailable on vinyl for decades, reassembled as a stand-alone album. The companion album to Incarnations.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • John Beasley, Frankfurt Radio Big Band – Returning To Forever
    John Beasley, Frankfurt Radio Big Band – Returning To Forever
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    THE MUSIC OF CHICK COREA’S LEGENDARY GROUP, RETURN TO FOREVER . . . REIMAGINED THE LATEST COLLABORATION BETWEEN MULTIPLE GRAMMY®- WINNER BEASLEY & THE TWICE-NOMINATED FRANKFURT RADIO BIG BAND [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Chick Corea Elektric Band – Beneath The Mask
    Chick Corea Elektric Band – Beneath The Mask
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    Beneath the Mask marks a return to the more commercially viable jazz-funk of the Chick Corea Elektric Band’s earlier albums, and marks the end of the first stage in the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Oneohtrix Point Never – Again (Blue Vinyl)
    Oneohtrix Point Never – Again (Blue Vinyl)
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    Oneohtrix Point Never, AKA Daniel Lopatin, has announced his new album Again, set for release September 29 via Warp. In Lopatin’s words the album is in part “a speculative autobiography,” […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Charles Mingus – Mingus
    Charles Mingus – Mingus
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    At the time of this recording, Mingus had been working regularly with the piano-less quartet of Eric Dolphy, Ted Curson and Dannie Richmond. The same group featured on the 1960 […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Thelonious Monk – The Classic Quartet
    Thelonious Monk – The Classic Quartet
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    At the time of this recording, Thelonious Monk was at both a creative and critical peak. He had recently signed with Columbia Records, notably one of the biggest jazz labels […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Thelonious Monk – The Classic Quartet
    Thelonious Monk – The Classic Quartet
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    At the time of this recording, Thelonious Monk was at both a creative and critical peak. He had recently signed with Columbia Records, notably one of the biggest jazz labels […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Clark Terry – Color Changes
    Clark Terry – Color Changes
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    Color Changes is considered by many to be one of the finest albums by trumpeter and pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, Clark Terry. Rather than have the usual jam […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Cecil Taylor – The World Of Cecil Taylor
    Cecil Taylor – The World Of Cecil Taylor
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    The World Of Cecil Taylor is the fifth studio album by radical, free jazz pianist pioneer, Cecil Taylor. Taylor’s music is often described as ahead of its time. And its […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Charles Mingus – Presents Charles Mingus
    Charles Mingus – Presents Charles Mingus
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    In 1960, celebrated jazz critic Nat Hentoff called Charles Mingus to record a number of sessions for the new Candid label. Mingus was given absolute freedom on these sessions, and […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Wayne Shorter – Live At The Detroit Jazz Festival
    Wayne Shorter – Live At The Detroit Jazz Festival
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    “In 2017, Wayne Shorter was artist-in-residence at the Detroit Jazz Festival. He was scheduled to perform three times during the weekend: Once with his longstanding quartet — pianist [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Max Roach – We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite
    Max Roach – We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite
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    An avant-garde masterpiece, a vocal-instrumental suite, a work of collective improvisation, directly addressing the racial and political issues of it’s day, We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Charles Mingus – Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
    Charles Mingus – Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
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    In 1960, celebrated jazz critic Nat Hentoff called Charles Mingus to record a number of sessions for the new Candid label. Mingus was given absolute freedom on these sessions, and […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Nijiumu – When I Sing, I Slip Into The Microphone. Into That Void, I Bring Comrade “prayers”, Then, Turning To Face The Outside, Together We Explode
    Nijiumu – When I Sing, I Slip Into The Microphone. Into That Void, I B…
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    Among the true Keiji Haino devotees, Nijiumu’s Era of Sad Wings (released on P.S.F. in 1993) has always held a special place in the pantheon. Operating for only a few […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Bill Orcutt – Another Perfect Day
    Bill Orcutt – Another Perfect Day
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    “Another Perfect Day is Bill Orcutt’s first solo electric guitar record since 2017’s eponymous Bill Orcutt. While that eight-year gap might not seem like a ton of time on the [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Richard Youngs – Hidden
    Richard Youngs – Hidden
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    The inimitable Richard Youngs returns to Black Truffle with this third full-length for the label, Hidden. Like CXXI (BT 081LP) and Modern Sorrow (BT 101LP, Hidden unfolds across two side-long [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Project Undark – Radium Girls
    Project Undark – Radium Girls
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    In the shadow of the nuclear accident in Fukushima in 2011, Japanese musician Phew, artist Erika Kobayashi, and German electronic music pioneer Dieter Moebius (Cluster, Harmonia) came together [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise
  • The Horace Silver Quintet ‎– Song For My Father
    The Horace Silver Quintet ‎– Song For My Father
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    One of Blue Note’s greatest mainstream hard bop dates, Song for My Father is Horace Silver’s signature LP and the peak of a discography already studded with classics. Silver was […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ornette Coleman & Prime Time – In All Languages
    Ornette Coleman & Prime Time – In All Languages
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    “Ornette Coleman, on alto and tenor, has a reunion with his original quartet, which is comprised of trumpeter Don Cherry, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Billy Higgins. The second CD […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Fripp & Eno ‎– Evening Star (check condition, plays w/noise)
    Fripp & Eno ‎– Evening Star (check condition, plays w/noise)
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    “Robert Fripp’s second team up with Brian Eno was a less harsh, more varied affair, closer to Eno’s then-developing idea of ambient music than what had come before in (No […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Big Star ‎– Sister Lovers (The Third Album) (1987 UK Reissue)
    Big Star ‎– Sister Lovers (The Third Album) (1987 UK Reissue)
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    “A shambling wreck of an album, Big Star’s Third/Sister Lovers ranks among the most harrowing experiences in pop music; impassioned, erratic, and stark, it’s the slow, sinking [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Rock / Pop
  • Blue Cheer – Blue Cheer (German Pressing Comp)
    Blue Cheer – Blue Cheer (German Pressing Comp)
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    German comp including the entirety of Outsideinside, along with two extra tracks. Label: Philips – 6463 142 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Stereo Country: Germany Released: VG/VG. light marks on [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Sam Weinberg Trio – Of Peeling Passage: Live At Sisters
    Sam Weinberg Trio – Of Peeling Passage: Live At Sisters
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    Although this is only second album of my trio with Henry Fraser and Jason Nazary (after last year’s “Plays Quarter Notes and Other Notes”), the three of us have been […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Synths, Sax and Situationists: The French Musical Underground 1968-1978
    Synths, Sax and Situationists: The French Musical Underground 1968-197…
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    At the dawn of the ’70s, in a country still reeling from the aftershocks of World War 2, an underground movement of rock musicians resolved to tear it all up […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Non-Fiction
  • Thelonious Monk – Unique
    Thelonious Monk – Unique
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    “The seven-song Unique Thelonious Monk (1956) platter was the pianist’s second during his remarkable five-year tenure on Riverside. His debut for the label was the aptly titled Plays [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Thelonious Monk – Genius Of Modern Music Vol.1
    Thelonious Monk – Genius Of Modern Music Vol.1
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    “Thelonious Monk was a little-known figure on the New York City bebop scene when Blue Note founder Alfred Lion discovered and fell in love with the pianist’s utterly unique music […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Miles Davis – Bags Groove
    Miles Davis – Bags Groove
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    There are a multitude of reasons why Bags’ Groove remains a cornerstone of the post-bop genre. Of course there will always be the lure of the urban myth surrounding the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Chet Baker – Big Band
    Chet Baker – Big Band
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    “Releasing an entire album under the moniker Chet Baker Big Band is a bit of a misnomer, as only the first four sides actually incorporate an 11-person configuration. The remaining […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz