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"First time on vinyl for Arve Henriksen's heart-wrenching 2004 album, Chiaroscuro. Chiaroscuro was the follow-up to this fantastic trumpet player's debut album, the much acclaimed Sakuteiki from 2001.
BBC Online called Sakuteiki "a thing of rare and compelling beauty.... music making as natural and essential as breathing."
This time he is joined by drummer Audun Kleive and sound artist Jan Bang to create some very beautiful musical soundscapes where the trumpet is the natural point of focus...

"....an elegant railway system linking jazz, folk, tango, Berlin cabaret music, middle-eastern music and the chamber music style of the post-serialist 20th-century conservatoire... a masterpiece of subtlety."-BBC Music Magazine

“Recorded at the same Rainbow Studio sessions, and with the same top musicians and legendary engineer Jan Erik Kongshaug, this can only be seen as the rightful twin companion to The Nature Of Connections from 2014. One can easily understand how Arve Henriksen must have...

A 7x LP vinyl box containing three albums by Arve Henriksen with added bonus tracks, plus brand-new album Chron. Also includes two data DVDs with all tracks as 16/44 files, hi-res FLAC files and original master quality 24/44 or 24/96 WAV files...

“The Height Of The Reeds started as a commissioned work to the city of Hull, Great Britain´s cultural capital 2017. Composed by Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset and Jan Bang, the work celebrates the longstanding seafaring relationship between Hull and Scandinavia. It was originally the musical companion to a sound walk that took place in April, May and June 2017. Those who took part could listen to the music on headphones while crossing the Humber Bridge. Initially intended for April only, the arrangement....

"Arve Henriksen stumbled across the title of his latest album while reading a book about furniture-making. "The author mentioned the complexity of making a chair and all the people involved in the process," the Norwegian trumpet player says. "The high...

“In a world where being loud seems to be the only ticket for attention, Arve Henriksen has somewhat quietly and without much ado established himself as an important, major player on the European jazz scene. In his 20 years with Rune Grammofon counting 11 solo albums (including one for ECM) and 12 albums with Supersilent (including two for Smalltown Supersound), in addition to four albums with Food as well as numerous collaborations, far too many to mention here.
During these years he has also...

"With Towards Language, trumpeter Arve Henriksen is back with his trusted long-time musical partners Jan Bang and Erik Honoré. Also, an important part of the line-up is Eivind Aarset, the ECM associated guitarist extraordinaire. Towards Language is Arve's ninth album (eight on Rune Grammofon and one on ECM) under his own name. Asked to comment on his new album, and its title, here's what he has to say: "To express something on your own can be quite challenging at times. I have, for years, been in...

The last of the Henry Cow albums originally on Virgin, this includes their amazing final BBC session (one of the best 25' snapshots of the band ever, imo), a small taste of the famous shows that they performed with Robert Wyatt and a lot of free improvisation, which is a lot of what they were doing live at this time.

"From its earlier records, the band was known for its rather complex compositional work. This double-LP for the first time gave serious space to the improvisations that accounted for..

This features very strong playing & compositions coupled with a ''lightness'' of sound unlike any of their other albums; the closest Cow ever got to sounding like Hatfield & The North!

This is high quality live Swedish radio recordings from Goteborg (1975 - with John Greaves) and Stockholm (1977 - with Georgie Born). The sound is great here; Bob Drake worked from the original 8 track and stereo 2 track masters and you can finally hear Tim's follow-up masterpiece to "Living in the Heart of the Beast", entitled "Erk Gah". There's also some nice improvisations and other tunes and Fred's never otherwise released "The March", which is a really great one as well. Highly recommended...

NOTE: This copy has a seam split and is priced accordingly!Their 2nd album featured the addition of Lindsay Cooper's bassoon/oboe, giving them sort of a proto-Univers Zero sound (Cow were first) & is reissued with superior sonics. One side of composed music and one side of (mostly) improvised music with studio work. There was a period in my life when this was one of my most listened to albums!

The final Henry Cow album, & along with their first, this is my favorite of their many great works. This stuff is the ultimate in humanly impossible to play works, but there they are playing it!
One side of Tim Hodgkinson's composerly insanity (no wonder he gave up composed music for the improvised life! How does one top this?) and one side of Lindsay Cooper's fine works.
Fred Frith provides guitar and bass & Chris Cutler turns in one of his greatest drumming performances.
You know that the...

“Premiered on March 29th 2003, salle Olivier Messiaen de Radio France, Paris. Commissioned by Radio France. An expedition in sound in 10 sequences: Enfoncement [Deep Sink], Gouffre circulaire [Circular Abyss], Noyau secret [Secret Core], Apesanteur [Weightlessness], Entrailles [Entrails], Four solaire [Solar Furnace], Fissures [Cracks], Mer intérieure [Inner Sea], Éruption [Eruption], Remontée [Ascension].
Labyrinthe ! is not only a very unique piece in Pierre Henry's masterful repertoire, but....

Originally released privately in 1978 and long sought after by collectors, “III” is the one and only album by dual guitar-driven Dutch progressive rock quartet Het Pandorra Ensemble, on which they injected a touch of anarchy into their mix of improv and King Crimson influenced prog.
In 1973, the flower power era was long gone, progressive music had turned into bombastic symphonic rock, and even Pink Floyd had transmogrified into a middle-of-the-road band. In that year Gert-Jan Blom and Dolf...

"A solo record of guitar and live custom electronics from artist Patrick Higgins, an American avant-garde composer and producer from New York City. Higgins is known for his work in experimental and contemporary classical music, playing guitar and composing in the ensemble Zs, which is said to be one of the strongest innovative bands in New York. His work as a composer traverses the styles of the European avant-garde styles with the post-minimalist sounds of New York. Dossier is a four-movement piece...

"A reissue of High Rise's II, originally released in 1986. High Rise exploded onto Tokyo's underground music scene with the roar and reckless abandon of a motorcycle accelerating headlong into a dead man's curve. Born from the explosive chemistry of bassist/vocalist Asahito Nanjo and frenetic guitarist Munehiro Narita, the band blazed a wild new stream of psychedelic guitar music. Their second album is a defining document of the band and unquestionably one of the greatest albums to emerge from 20th...

Very early (1969) heavy rock/progressive/oddball classic featuring Tony Hill-guitar, Simon House-violin (later to go onto Hawkwind and David Bowie), Peter Pavli-bass (later to go onto the amazing Rustic Hinge) and Roger Hadden-drums. Facsimile edition from the master tapes and in a gatefold sleeve, like the originals. Recommended.

"One of the most innovative British bands of all time and the only band that seriously got the heavy and the complex down perfectly at the same time. 1969's Sea...

"Some gigs are simply meant to be out there - even if they take decades to actually make it into our hands. This is without doubt one of those concerts; recorded at the Philips Halle, Düsselsdorf on the 28th March 1979 during the Live Herald Tour.
Released following the AIM-nominated deluxe box set from Hillage, Searching for the Spark, this Düsselsdorf double CD showcases the Steve Hillage Band's prowess with excellent sound quality - a quality so high that you'll forget that it's a live recording...

“Steve Hillage is releasing nine previously unreleased tracks of his recordings during an a capella echo guitar jam session in addition to 5 tracks from the session previously only available in the ‘Searching For The Spark’ box set.
The recordings are part of a series of archived tapes liberated from deep storage by Hillage for the box set, and this tape was labelled 'Wata Trip! 1973'. It was recorded when Hillage was 21, living in the Gong communal house in Sens, France with Miquette Giraudy, as...

Excellent, heavy Swedish spacerock/stoner-rock/psych trio. Simple, but very effective, trancey/psych music made with guitars, organ, bass and drums.
So many great Swedish bands and so little time to take enough drugs to enjoy them all!
"Alive At Roadburn is Gothenburg based Hills' third album with Rocket Recordings. Hot off the Swedish psychedelia revival of the past few years and after their hailed 2015 album Frid, Hills connect the dots to their country's rich and intoxicating past with a...

Third-eye visionaries Hills present their third opus, a dizzying journey that traverses through the band's origins and beyond to new dimensions. The Gothenburg, Sweden-based band have released two full-length albums since forming in 2006.

Part of a rich local scene that also includes friends and Rocket Recordings label-mates Goat, they form the next chapter in a tradition of Swedish psychedelia that found its origins in late-'60s and early-'70s freakouts and mind-melts by the likes of Baby....

Terumasa Hino is undoubtedly one of the most famous Japanese jazzmen. Learning the trumpet at the age of nine, he began his career as a professional musician by playing in the orchestra of an US Army base, before joining Hideo Shiraki's Quintet and then forming his own band in 1964. On Hi-Nology, his brother Motohiko Hino appears on drums, Hiroma Suzuki on electric piano, Kumitsu Inaba on electric bass and Takeru Muraoka on tenor sax. The inspiration from the "electric period" of Miles Davis (notably....

“On Into the Heaven, which was released in 1970, Terumasa Hino is surrounded by the same musicians as on Hi- Nology), released a year earlier: his brother Motohiko Hino on drums, Hiromasa Suzuki on electric piano, Kunimitsu Inaba on electric bass, and Takeru Muraoka on tenor sax. The eponymous piece, which lasts more than 20 minutes, is a jazz fusion giving room to choruses and which is reminiscent of the early electric music that Miles Davis then offered.”

In 1976, keyboardist Hoenig (ex Agitation Free, Tangerine Dream) and guitarist/keyboardist Göttsching (ex Ash Ra Tempel) were slated to tour France. They recorded their final rehearsal together before leaving, which was probably a good thing as the tour was cancelled!
20 years later, this wonderful 48' session was released for the first time. Classic Berlin-style floaty electronics & guitar and one of the great ones from Manuel, imo.
This has been unavailable for at least 15 years and never...

Christopher Hoffman - cello, electric cello, drum programming & synth
Frank LoCrasto - keyboards
Bill Campbell - drums
Henry Threadgill - alto saxophone (track 2)
Ryan Scott - guitar (tracks 2 & 6)
Anna Webber - flute (track 5)
Alfredo Colón - EWI (track 7)

“Vision Is The Identity finds him in a sound world that blends acoustic instruments with electronica, continuing down a path all his own. His last, Asp Nimbus, was a tribute to the 60s avant jazz he loves like

"Sounding at times like Vashti Bunyan fronting Sunforest, Floret Silva is a haunting mix of medieval music and progressive psych folk with Latin lyrics straight from the 13th-century Carmina Burana manuscript.

The Floret Silva project was born when minimalist composer Kay Hoffman went to Italy in the mid-'70s. Once there, she met Welsh soprano Jacqueline Darby, who had recently been working with the Italian avant-prog band Pierrot Lunaire. Darby was working on new compositions with RCA....

NOTE: These are new and unplayed, but they have some dinged corners.

“Released in a run of just 200 copies the new album from John Holden is our longest single LP release; it contains both a poster and a lyric booklet.
‘Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with gold’. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, not only is there no attempt to hide the damage, but the repair is literally...

They don’t talk about it anywhere, but The Holy Family is all of the final edition of Guapo (David Smith, Kavus Torabi, Emmett Elvin, Sam Warren) working in a more ‘tribal/hypnotic’ styling. But you can hear it’s them.

“The second album by underground rock-and-beyond shapeshifters The Holy Family follows up the British group’s widely praised self-titled debut from 2021 and – says foundational member David Jason Smith – “is based on a hypothetical theory that there is no such thing as ‘the future’..

So, while this album is hugely different from being an album by Guapo, it contains all of the current members of Guapo (David Smith, Kavis Torabi, Emmett Elvin & Sam Warren and was worked on by Guapo’s long-time engineer/mixer Antti Uulsmaki. Jes’ saying!

“The debut album by The Holy Family has arrived to bewitch and delight. The scope of ‘The Holy Family’ is bound- less. It’s an intrepid voyage through sound-worlds, as This Heat-esque polyrhythms, spidery zeuhl, oceanic kosmische, blissful...

Andreas Angell - Accordion
Aleksander Tidemann - Drums & Synthesizer

"If you like the colorful atmospheres of the North European music of today, be it folk, pop, jazz or experimental, here is something special for you. And special because you can’t label it in any way: the music combines aspects of all those tendencies, but goes somewhere else. The Holy Mountain is a Norwegian duo with two instruments we don’t usually find together, accordion (played by Andreas Angell) and drums (with...

Ole-Henrik Moe violin
Kim Johannesen guitar, guitar-banjo
Ola Høyer double bass
Erik Nylander drums, roland tr-77 drum machine
Klaus Ellerhusen Holm alto sax, Bb-clarinet
Special guest:
Ab Baars Tenor sax, Bb clarinet and shakuhachi

"Klaus Ellerhusen Holm’s writing for the band Honest John may have the kind of ondulations and turnings you recognize from Anthony Braxton’s compositions, but the use of chamber music historical references and of folk instruments (li

Pär Hallgren – bass
Jacob Hamilton - drums and percussion
Jocke Jönsson – guitars
Bengt Wahlgren - keyboards
guest appearances by:
Samuel Lundström – violin
Johannes Tärk – percussion
Ida Karlsson – saxophone
Göran Abelli – trombone
Gustaf Sörnmo – trumpet

The second release from this excellent Swedish outfit with very strong keyboard work and much more tasty bits.
They mix progressive rock and jazz/rock and come up with a second winner in a row. H

Adam Hopkins - bass, compositions
Anna Webber - tenor saxophone
Ed Rosenberg - tenor saxophone, bass saxophone (track 6)
Josh Sinton - baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
Jonathan Goldberger - guitar
Devin Gray - drums

“...But what is uncommon about this release is Hopkins’ blend of free jazz, fusion, and rock stylings.”-Avant Music News

“Adam Hopkins has been an active figure on the New York City scene since settling in Brooklyn in 2011, and has toured.

"Another Futura classic digitally reissued for the fan-of-sound-at-large. A zonked and distant set of quartet-klang... recorded during February of 1971 in Nice, France. More zen-like passages channel the space-grunt of the Taj Mahal Travelers, the...

“Horse Lords bring the fervor and fury of the beloved band's show to wax with As It Happened: Horse Lords Live, a collection of recordings that capture the quartet's galvanic energy as never before while toying with the trope of a live album.
Captured at a series of concerts across Europe spanning multiple tours throughout 2022 and 2023, As It Happened is a mediated, and at moments consciously and conspicuously edited presentation of a Horse Lords performance that strives for a certain level of...

Andrew Bernstein - saxophone, percussion, electronics
Max Eilbacher - bass, electronics
Owen Gardner - guitar, electronics
Sam Haberman - drums

Another great, brain-melting, just-intonated and poly-rhythmic release from this fabulous outfit.

“Horse Lords return with Comradely Objects, a continuation of the quartet's exploration of repetition in minimalism and traditional musics, complex counterpoint, timbres and texture, but also an evolution of these sometimes disparate..

This is the fourth album by this extra-ordinary Baltimore band. As I have said before, it's hard to describe, but think of Beefheart guitars and drums with microtones and Steve Reichian & Terry Rileyian ideas and structures and that gives you a little bit of the sound.
You could also imagine a less note-flinging version of Upsilon Acrux and you wouldn't be that far off the path either. This will either give you a headache or an orgasm.

“Horse Lords make music for the liberation of mind...

“Reissue of this amazing 1986 album where drum machines meet improv jazz. Wayne Horvitz gathers together his drum machine and synths along with his talented friends -- Elliot Sharp included -- for this really original record that is both composed and improvised.
An obscure gem by one of the most spirited musicians to populate NY '80s avant-garde, a golden era for vanguard attitudes and sounds. Horvitz, keyboard player at Naked City (along with John Zorn, Bill Frisell, and Fred Frith) had classical...

NOTE: We can ONLY send this single with orders for other vinyl items; we can not ship a vinyl single by itself or with CDs only. Thank you.

This is NEW OLD stock at OLD STYLE prices on the fairly rare 7” by the late, great Hosemobile, who only made two (fairly great) albums in the late 90s. And this even less known single.
This is two songs recorded by Steve Albini at Electrical Sound, preliminarily to his recording some of “What Can and Can’t Go On”.
Both songs are found nowhere..

“Originally released in 1979, this album is somewhat of a companion piece to the previous year's Pacific. A beautiful piece of Japanese smooth fusion-jazz with elements of traditional Greek music and Balearic grooves, it's one of Hosono's cleanest and most focused works to date.
Long sought-after by collectors, this record is nearly impossible to find in original pressings outside of Japan and this is a welcome reissue of one of the greatest titles in Hosono's seemingly infinite catalog. Essential...

"The unbelievably prolific Haruomi Hosono is one of the major architects of modern Japanese pop music. With his encyclopedic knowledge of music and boundless curiosity for new sounds, Hosono is the auteur of his own idiosyncratic musical world, putting his unmistakable stamp on hundreds of recordings as an artist, session player, songwriter and producer. Hosono's solo career would take many twists and turns from this point forward, with forays into exotica, electronic, ambient, and techno, culminating...

"Daytime Viewing (1979-80) is an extended narrative song, based on a casual analysis of daytime television drama and the audience phenomena such programming addresses. The piece explores the use of fantasy as a survival mechanism against loneliness, illustrating the human compulsion to inflate the mundane to mythological proportions. A central female character weaves tales, using threads of personal experience and the idea of TV as friend, as mantra, and as transformational window between imagined....

"Privately pressed to LP in 1978 under the name "J. Jasmine" and made especially for the Ann Arbor Film Festival, with artistic collaboration from the festival's founder and Once Group artist, George Manupelli, My New Music is the debut album by Jacqueline Humbert and David Rosenboom. Featuring a cast of Mills College personalities like David Behrman and Sam Ashley on backup vocal duties, this song cycle is at every turn boundary pushing and intent upon gender-busting, yet still hilarious, sweet, and...

Ståle Storløkken fender rhodes, synth and electronics
Thomas Strønen drums and electronics

"So, there’s five now. The latest one is Humcrush with Sidsel Endresen – a partnership with one of Norway's most legendary singers and improvisers, showing specific coordinates because of that circumstance. And if “Ha!” was different from the previous albums, here is the new “Humcrush” introducing some profound changes in relation to “Humcrush”, “Hornswoggle” and “Rest at World’s End”. Between the...

"Ashley Hutchings is the single most important figure in English folk-rock" - Bob Dylan 2015

In 1987 Ashley Hutchings released By Gloucester Docks I Sat Down and Wept, an album that told a very personal love story. It was unusual in that the story was not told from a 'looking back' perspective, Ashley had written the songs, the poems and letters as the story itself was unfolding. Only later did he realise that all those fragments could come together to tell some of the story. But it was an...

"Brothers Hypnotic will restore your faith in humanity, bring a tear to your eye, a heavy stomp to your right foot and, possibly, make you curse your parents for not forcing you to wake up at the crack of dawn for tuba practice."-CBS

“For the eight young men in the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, "brotherhood" is literal: they're all sons of anti-establishment jazz legend, Phil Cohran. Cohran and their mothers raised them together on Chicago's South Side on a strict diet of jazz, funk and Black...

Terrific, avant-progressive/brutal-prog, instrumental power trio from Ohio. These guys were previously known (with a slightly different line-up) as Kuan, another fine avant/brutal band. Personally recommended!

"Best New Band (2012): Hyrrokkin.