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Edition of 250.

“Aircraft was the name Steve Cohen used for the largely unknown and quite fantastic synthesizer music he was creating in NYC in the '80s. This was in the same period Steve was in the late-period No Wave band, China Shop, along with guitarist Naux (who would go on to play with the Voidoids) and percussionist Richard Edson (whose next band was Sonic Youth).
Steve had been active in the NYC sub-underground since the '70s, even playing at Giorgio Gomelsky's legendary 'Zu Music...

"One afternoon, a teenaged Jason Ajemian was laying carpet at a country music recording studio in the Blue Ridge Mountains. "I saw an upright bass on top of a vocal booth, so I asked the engineer if I could string it up and borrow it." And so he did...

First-time ever vinyl reissue of this fun and unusual album!
A very rare lp from 1976, this was this Norwegian band's only release - then they disappeared. Heavy progressive , with lots of guitar and organ/mellotron/keyboards, plus vocals, bass ...

The description below doesn’t give any hint towards this, but this is the debut by a VERY good, instrumental Rock Progressivo Italiano band that utilizes a string quartet, electric and acoustic guitars, vibes, acoustic piano, flutes, bass and drums.

“The compositions contained in this work make use of an image of great symbolic value. The wind. Also in this publication, as in the previous work ("The Tales of the Sea"), each composition is a painting or an instrumental musical story, where the...

This certainly qualifies as one of the least likely comeback albums ever!

“The legendary experimental pop outfit returns with a brand-new record entitled Figures, written, conceived and produced over the last couple of years by Marc Hollander (founder of Aksak Maboul and of the Crammed label) and Véronique Vincent (former singer with The Honeymoon Killers).
Figures is a double album containing 22 tracks and interludes, resulting from the flow of creative ideas which arose after a gap of over...

“During the year which followed the release of the Figures double album, 14 artists have revisited or remixed songs from Aksak Maboul's acclaimed "comeback" opus. Participants include experimental pop luminaries The Notwist (DE), Cate Le Bon (GB), Kate NV (RU) and Vanishing Twin (GB), respected electronic music artists Felix Kubin (DE), Tolouse Low Trax (DE), Hello Skinny aka Tom Skinner (Thom Yorke's new bandmate in the Smile project, GB), Matias Aguayo (CL/DE) and Stubbleman aka Pascal Gabriel (GB/BE)...

“Fifteen artists revisit the tracks AND the cover art of Aksak Maboul's latest album 'Figures'!
Ranging from simple remixes to reconstructions and cover versions, these 18 tracks are released on two separate, limited-edition vinyl LPs.
In order to extend the fun (and the metaphor in the title), Aksak Maboul have asked the contributors to also revisit Véronique Vincent’s painting which adorned the front cover of the album.
The participants include experimental pop luminaries The Notwist...

This original generation Rock In Opposition classic is beautifully presented here, with a large format photo and texts booklet telling the story of the band during this era AS WELL AS including the CD "Before And After Bandits", which includes a ton of live and demo material, all of it unreleased, and in 'significantly better than I expected it to be' sound quality, considering the era it is from and it's scarcity, and which is ONLY available with this lp!
Aksak Maboul were one of...

This was the first album of two by Aksak Maboul (later changed to Aqsak Maboul, just to fool people), which really wasn't a band, but just a studio project, mostly consisting of Mark Hollander-piano, Farfisa organ, Fender Rhodes piano, alto sax, bass clarinet, clarinets, circa 1977 primitive drum machine, etc. with Vincent Kenis-guitars, bass, piano, accordion and a few other guests on voice, guitars, etc.
This is a completely tuneful and charming mixture of European folk music, Canterbury...

"La Terra is the second Aktuala's LP, made by an 'open musical collective'from milan, a fixed nucleus with many different contributes from guest musicians. As the Third Ear Band have always been inserted in the international prog panorama, the same happened with Aktuala, who were real music pioneers able to blend world, ethnic, jazz and avantgarde music.
"La Terra" was released in 1974 and consolidated the fame and the harmony of Aktuala, more and more at the center of attention of critics and...

"La Terra is the second Aktuala's LP, made by an 'open musical collective'from milan, a fixed nucleus with many different contributes from guest musicians. As the Third Ear Band have always been inserted in the international prog panorama, the same happened with Aktuala, who were real music pioneers able to blend world, ethnic, jazz and avantgarde music.
"La Terra" was released in 1974 and consolidated the fame and the harmony of Aktuala, more and more at the center of attention of critics and...

"Following the same path as Third Ear Band in England, Aktuala tried to mix together the western musical tradition with african and asian instruments, rhythms, cultures, with a result that can hardly be described as "progressive" in the classical sense...

"This is another one exquisite band from Argentina which released only 2 albums, the first one being released in 1976 as a eponymous album and featuring 3 members ala ELP, the musical orientation of that album was more bombastic very reminiscent to ELP indeed, and with the fusion touch ala Return to Forever, that was a great debut album, but later the former bass/guitar player Alex Zucker left the band, he was replaced by a very talented musician, Pedro Aznar. So they worked and made compositions and in...

Peter Breitbarth-guitar
Thomas Büscher-drums
Achim Hubricht-bass
Harald Hubricht-keyboards
Christian Köppen-piano
Hansi Köppen-vocals
Jürgen Polzin-percussion

"Albatros from Hagen on the northern edge of the Sauerland, named after the song by Fleetwood Mac, played polished art rock in the vein of the early Genesis or the early Wallenstein. Actually they were so good that their one and only record, "Garden of Eden", is a real treat for the ears. It is so imaginative a

Anthony Pirog – guitar
Janel Leppin - cello, modified cello
Jessika Kenney – vocals
Eyvind Kang – viola
Skúli Sverrisson – bass
Doug Wieselman - clarinet, bass clarinet

Legendary pedal steel player Susan Alcorn presents her music as curated and arranged by cellist and composer Janel Leppin. This recording is from a live performance from her residency at Issue Project Room in July 2012. Leppin's arrangements and curation emotes the brilliance, transparency and resonance of t

Rashied Ali – drums
Ramon Morris – tenor sax
Dewey Johnson – trumpet
Stanley Cowell – piano
Reggie Johnson - bass

"Preserved on two reels in Rashied Ali's tape archive, this set has remained unreleased until now. This document may have been only the second time that Ali had led a band in public. The band membership is stellar and unprecedented, and the tunes they play predate all known segments of Ali's career as a composer or bandleader.
Ali was still officially on the jo

Martin K�chen saxophones / Thomas Johansson trumpet / Mats �leklint trombone / Jon Rune Str�m double bass / Tollef �stvang drums.

"The Scandinavian contributions for the present status of that music called jazz are no longer possible to dismiss..

Daevid Allen - lead guitar, vocals
Archie Legget - bass
Robert Wyatt - drums, lead guitar & vocals (2), backing vocals (3)
Christian Tritsch - bass & rhythm guitar (1)
Pip Pyle - drums (1)
Gary Wright - piano (2,5)
Gerry Fields - violin (4)
Gilli Smyth - "Space Whisper" (6-8)
Nick Evans - trombone (8)
Barry St. John - backing vocals (5)
Maggie Bell - backing vocals (5)

This is the first time that this 1971 classic, recorded after Daevid snuck....

"Patrizio Alluminio was the keyboard player for the trio Alluminogeni. Their brand of Italian classical rock was in the same vein as the other similar trios - Le Orme, The Trip etc and is recommended to fans of this genre."

In addition to the...

Acoustic and electric guitarist Thomas Almqvist made a number of albums in the late 70s and on, but this one, from 1979, is generally acknowledged as his best. This is its first-ever reissue.

“Nyanser is widely considered Thomas Almvqvist's masterpiece. With his adventurous, virtuoso guitar technique to the fore, the album explores a unique path through world music, folk, jazz, and acoustic experimentation, whilst retaining a very personal vision.
The majority of the album is a solo...

“We brought you Rialzu, Skryvania, Cheval Fou, and now it’s time for the first vinyl reissue of Alpha Centauri’s diamond: "Alpha Centaury."
Originally privately released in a limited pressing of 300 copies in 1976, this hard-to-find gem is shrouded in mystery. Despite extremely limited resources, including having to borrow friends' cars to travel to the few provincial venues they managed to book for live shows, Alpha Centauri nevertheless composed an absolute must-have for French prog/psych...

Alphataurus were one of the (many) great 'one and done' Italian symphonic rock band and one of the most fondly remembered; once you have seen it, who could forget the amazing triple-gatefold 'Dove of War' lp jacket and the equally amazing music contained inside? Now, nearly 40 years after their 1973 album, three of the original members (the keyboardist, guitarist and drummer) have joined forces with a new vocalist, bassist and 2nd keyboardist to bring forth a new album which is a very strong effort of...

“Previously released in 1980 on David Toop's Quartz label at a time when improvised music in London was settling into a long spell of excellence.
The players here are Steve Beresford, Peter Cusack, Terry Day, and David Toop. Terry had been a member of The People Band in the '60s, one of the groups forming part of the first wave of British improvisation. The rest of the group could be regarded as pioneers of a second generation of improvisers who emerged out of the explosion of musical development...

Fritz Kahl (bass)
Karl-Heinz Blumenberg (vocals, bass/soprano saxes, bass)
Klaus Gerlach (guitar)
Wolfgang Wulff (tenor sax)
Karl-Heinz Gossler (drums)
Werner von Gosen (guitar)
Michael von Rönn (tenor sax)

"With their roots as ex-Thrice Mice members, Altona wisely chose this new name (Altona is a town on the edge of Hamburg) when dropping the former band's classical edge in preference for a jazzier front.
On their debut Altona played a lively fusion that crossed

All throughout the late 70s and early 80s, this peculiarly titled album by this peculiarly titled artist (sometimes listed as Alvaro and sometimes listed as Alvaro The Chilean With The Singing Nose) was featured with glowing praise in the Recommended...

"Alvaro rides again."-Sounds, London, 1980.

"A fabulous collection of musicals and unmusicals, includes a recipe."-Time Out, London, 1980.

"Another classic piece of the mysterious puzzle that is Alvaro. Miss it at your own extreme personal peril. Edition of 400."

"First vinyl reissue of the second LP released by Alavaro Pena originally released in 1979 following the runaway success of his debut album, Drinkin My Own Sperm. Although recorded in Germany, Alvaro again employed his.

Still sealed, with a cut-out notch; never released on CD, this has the entire Arkestra on 3 tracks!

"Songwriter and guitarist Dave Alvin was the heart of the Blasters, one of America's greatest roots rock bands, but his brother, vocalist Phil...

“Maryanne Amacher (1938-2009) was a composer of large-scale fixed-duration sound installations and a highly original thinker in the areas of perception, sound spatialization, creative intelligence, and aural architecture. She is frequently cited as a pioneer of what has come to be called "sound art", although her thought and creative practice consistently challenge key assumptions about the capacities and limitations of the genre. Amacher's work anticipates some of the most important developments in...

Trevor Watts – saxes
Jeff Clyne or Barry Guy – bass
John Stevens – drums

“Originally released in 1969. While stationed in Germany in the RAF during the late 1950s and early 1960s, York-born alto and soprano saxophonist Trevor Watts met the drummer John Stevens, with whom he would form the Spontaneous Music Ensemble upon returning to the UK in 1965, which became an important vehicle for British free improvisation. Watts's spin-off project Amalgam came two years later with Stevens and...

If you know and appreciate Oren’s ‘Hubris’ for the masterpiece that it is, you will understand the the excitement over this expansion of the idea!

“[This documents] the hypnotic and electrifying live performance of Oren Ambarchi's 2016 LP Hubris by a fifteen-strong band at London's Café Oto.
Over three days in May 2019, Oto toasted Oren Ambarchi at 50/Black Truffle at 10 with Ambarchi and a large group of close friends and collaborators in a series of performances that interspersed existing..

“Tenth anniversary reissue of this rhythmically churning one-man-band monster of an album, recorded in a single inspired studio session and originally released in 2012 on Editions Mego.
From the original Editions Mego press release:
"For anyone who still associates Oren Ambarchi exclusively with the clipped, bass-heavy tones of solo electric guitar works such as 'Suspension', this rhythmically churning one-man-band monster of an album-length piece might seem to come out of nowhere. However...

“Evolving the tactics of acclaimed Ambarchi works such as Quixotism, Hubris and Simian Angel, Oren invites an international all-star cast to dialogue with his guitar + triggers inventions. Intricate theme-and-variations build upon the staccato rhythms via expansive improvs from BJ Cole, Sam Dunscomb, Chris Abrahams, Jim O’Rourke and Julia Reidy. Magnetically compulsive!”

This is priced and marketed as an EP, but it’s nearly 30’ long, so it’s a pretty good deal.
This is similar to / working in a similar vein to Oren’s (utterly fantastic) Hubris release and anyone who enjoyed that (or driving electronics with a deep / trance feel) will enjoy this one!

“The three multi-instrumentalists collaborated with the goal of creating subtly shifting musical passageways: sonic routes that run between continents of musical category. The results are two variations of...

"Oren Ambarchi's Editions Mego release, Hubris, gets the remix treatment courtesy of electronic music legend Ricardo Villalobos. Villalobos expertly transforms Ambarchi's layered web of countless sustained and pulsating palm-muted guitars into a funky, mesmerizing and propulsive long-form piece."

"Black Truffle make Oren Ambarchi's Grapes From The Estate available once more on vinyl. Originally released on CD on Touch in 2004 (TO 061CD) and reissued on Southern Lord as a limited double-LP in 2006 during Ambarchi's tenure as a member of Sunn O))), Grapes From The Estate was a landmark release for Ambarchi, seeing him expand his sonic palette beyond the clipped, bass-heavy electric guitar tones he was known for at that point. Incorporating subtle layers of strings, keyboards, percussion over a...

This is the first-ever vinyl re-issue taken from the original OHR stereo masters.

"Ohr present a reissue of Amon Düül's Paradieswärts Düül, originally released in 1971. In 1968, the Münchner Kommune, formed in 1967, had applied to Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser, the organizer of the Essen Songtage, for a gig there. When the Düüls arrived in Essen, already two bands of this name in the meantime, since three members had split off and now called themselves Amon Düül II. Paradieswärts Düül was released in 1971...

This is the first time that this legendary, raw album, that comes direct from the (very stoned) id, has been reissued on vinyl from the original master tapes. It’s still as distorted and raw as ever, but as the way Duul intended it now...
The album was transferred in high resolution from the analog master tapes at Dierks Studios and carefully remastered.

“The band Amon Düül formed in 1967, with music being only one part of their artistic work. In 1969, the albums Paradieswärts Düül and..

"Amos & Sara were Jim Welton of L. Voag (Amos) and Chris Gray (Sara). Alga Marghen present a reissue of Amos & Sara's Amos & Sara... Invite To 'Endless Latino', originally released by It's War Boys on cassette in 1983."

"Overhead comes this thrum-thrum-thrum. They look up to see a plane circling just off the island. The door facing them opens and out pop two figures, tumbling down into the water. Lazily, without a care in the world, the plane turns north and flies away. Of course, the guys start...

“Here's a vinyl reissue of the eponymous first album by a classically influenced (think Bach and Beethoven) krautrock outfit, originally issued in 1974 by the Spiegelei imprint.
The music is full of angst, weird psychedelic elements, mind bending space rock moves and surprising twists, and will be of interest to fans of The Nice and Egg. The insert features a lot of rare photos.”

"German progressive rock band Analogy released its sole classic, Analogy (1972), and even scored a deal for Italy but soon seemed to have faded into obscurity. Nobody really was aware of a recording named The Suite that happened around 1980. It presented the folky side of Analogy, who seemed at least quite creative for a time when electronic pop took over the whole music scene. Analogy went into the opposite direction and reached out for musical realms that have been visited by legendary English acts...

"The hypnotic 11-minute instrumental track builds slowly from distant, shuddering atmospherics to an imposing sound that is at once monolithic and spacious."-The Wall Street Journal

This is an album of ambient guitar wizardry from J.R. Bohannon..

“This is the first ever official physical release of the soundtrack to Lars Von Trier's controversial film Antichrist, originally released in 2009. Ten years after the film's initial release, the extreme, provocative performances from Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg in Antichrist still have the power to shock, repulse, and divide.
The sound design by Kristian Eidnes Andersen with Lars Von Trier was composed using only natural sounds and samples (including internal body recordings). Each...

"On her Thrill Jockey debut, acclaimed guitarist Marisa Anderson's music is boundless. Anderson is undeniably a master of the North American traditions of country, folk, and blues on guitar. On Cloud Corner, Anderson expands on those styles as well as instrumentation. Written and recorded in a period of political and personal upheaval, the album is intended as a refuge, an ode to stillness in an era of ceaseless noise. The results are an album of remarkably intimate beauty.
The solo guitar work...

"Bureau B present a reissue of Jurriaan Andriessen's The Awakening Dream, originally released in 1977. Jurriaan Andriessen (1925-1996) was a Dutch composer. Although he was actually at home in classical music, he recorded three synthesizer albums in the late 1970s, the first of which, The Awakening Dream, is an outstanding excursion into experimental ambient and minimal music. Andriessen himself, 52 years of age at the time, called it a "trance symphony". The music - perhaps surprisingly for a...

Kawabata Makoto : guitars (Acid Mothers Temple)
Nakaya Koichi : synthesizer, theremin (Nasca Car)
Okano Furtoshi : drums (Acid Mothers, Ghost)

“Andromelos2 brings an electronic-psychedelic-progressive sound to rival with early Tangerine Dream and early Heldon but in the spirit of Acid Mothers Temple.”

Third from this perennially popular Swedish band has them moving further away from a strictly ''progressive rock'' sound into a sound that combines a dark, cyclically mesmerizing hard rock sound with their progressive rock roots. Some fans may not like it as much as the earlier stuff, but I think it's their most original release yet & a real good one!

Anekdoten are a quartet of guitars, mellotron, cello, bass, drums, & voice, this is Krimson-ish, heavy prog with it's own sound. Very strong, self assured & totally in the "classic" mold, without being moldy! Fans of that sound will love these.
Their 2nd album, this is the most straightforwardly 'progressive rock' of all their releases, I think.

Alexander Zethson piano
Mattias Ståhl vibraphone
Magnus Broo trumpet
Goran Kajfes cornet
Mats Äleklint trombone
Eirik Hegdal baritone saxophone
Johan Berthling double bass
Andreas Werliin drums
Martin Küchen alto and tenor saxophones
"Martin Kuchen’s nonet returns for more avant-jazz to dance to, confirming once again that creative music with political conscience can be festive, even considering the seriousness of the subject of this record. The title is an..

NOTE: These copies have small creases on a couple of the corners. C'est la vie.

Alexander Zethson piano / Mattias St�hl vibraphone / Johan Berthling double bass Andreas Werliin drums / Magnus Broo trumpet / Goran Kajfes cornet / Mats Aleklint....

This Swedish instrumental band love the classic Goblin and Fabio Frizzi soundtrack style progressive rock. This features folks who have also played with Anglagard, Mats/Morgan and more.
As good as anything as Goblin ever did (and better than some of what they did) - this is the soundtrack to your favorite scary scene playing behind your eyelids.
As the band themselves state, "with their roots in classic progressive rock they make perfect use of Hammond organs, Mellotrons and Moogs to create a...