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Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Union Cafe CD Back in print! The 7th, hard to find, 1993 release by this unclassifiable instrumental ensemble who use strings, reeds, ukelele, piano & more. [Tangram] 00-TN85249 $15.00
Penguin Cafe - The Imperfect Sea Penguin Cafe grew out of Simon Jeffes' Penguin Cafe Orchestra and is the band led by his son, Arthur Jeffes. I can't really say that there are any surprises in their sound but if you loved the unique sound of the PCO, you'll enjoy PC as much / nearly as much and will be happy that the sound lives on! "A penguin stands in the middle of a scorching desert, far away from its natural habitat. This mirrors composer Arthur Jeffes' journey and exploration into a new musical territory. Penguin Cafe... 39-CD-ERATP-097 $17.00
Cherry, Don - Live at Cafe Monmartre, Volume 2 CD Never-before released! With Don Cherry (trumpet), Gato Barbieri (tenor saxophone), Bo Stief (bass), Karl Berger (vibraphone), Aldo Romano (drums). The opening set at the Café Montmartre is presented here. 05-ESP4043 $15.00
Penguin Cafe - Handfuls of Night “Handfuls of Night is the highly anticipated follow-up to Penguin Cafe's much applauded 2017 album The Imperfect Sea 'inspired by the Antarctic, Arthur Jeffes' journey following in Scott's footsteps and our penguin friends that reside there. Using gut-stringed violins, viola, cello, bass, percussion, upright and grand pianos, synthesiser, harmonium and more, Arthur Jeffes and his cohorts have crafted a vivid series of panoramic sonic landscapes, that are as rich in cerebral poignancy as they are in... 39-CD-ERATP-127 $16.00
Merzbow - Café OTO 2 x CDs “A documentation of prolific Japanese noise master Merzbow's double show at London's Cafe OTO in October 2016. Rhythm-driven and rammed with highly sculpted frequencies, Akita's sound is entirely remorseless. Furious squalls and delicate sine-warps post this one on the more psychedelic end of Akita's output. Truly relentless, it is still hard to believe he created "Untitled Knife I" on a casual Saturday afternoon. Be careful with that volume. Double CD in a matt-finish gatefold ecopak with... 05-CSR 331CD $23.00
Penguin Café - Rain Before Seven... CD “A sense of optimism infuses Penguin Cafe’s fifth studio album Rain Before Seven… not the braggadocious, overconfident kind, but more a blithe, self-effacing optimism in keeping with the national character. Even when all signs point to the contrary, it operates within the certainty that things are going to be alright. Probably. The title comes from an old weather proverb with the rhyming prognostication — fine before eleven — hinting at a happy ending, irrespective of the science: “I found it... 39-CD-ERATP-159 $19.00
Penguin Cafe + Cornelius - Umbrella EP "At first glance, I knew this would be a great combo - the hyperactive glitch kitsch of Keigo Oyamada's Cornelius project, married to the lilting lo-fi folk of Penguin Cafe - what's not to like? Well, far from what I thought I was getting myself into with this, they've actually combined to create completely the opposite of what I imagined it'd be. I pictured a million instruments all playing at once, cut up glitched guitars bouncing all over the place, and madcap percussion pinging across the.... 28-ERAT96.2 $15.00
Jackson, Bobby - The Cafe Extra-Ordinaire Story So, in hipster circles, there's thing genre called 'deep jazz' and many very, very obscure albums are being exhumed and reissued. The genre can mean almost anything and many pretty lukewarm albums have been reissued under that rubric. This however... 05-JMAN 035CD $18.00
Wilkinson, Alan/John Edwards/Steve Noble - Live At Cafe Oto "Bo' Weavil Recordings presents a live recording of UK free jazz trio Alan Wilkinson (baritone/alto sax, voice), John Edwards (bass), and Steve Noble (drums/percussion). Let's face it, the recording, the thing (CD, vinyl, iPod), is a convenient form... 05-WEAVIL033CD $18.00
Cherry, Don - Live at Cafe Monmartre, Volume 3 CD Don Cherry (trumpet); Gato Barbieri (tenor saxophone); Bo Stief (bass); Karl Berger (vibraphone); Aldo Romano (drums). "The final volume of this three-part series, containing two extended performances of 'Complete Communion' and 'Remembrance.'.. 05-ESP4051 $15.00
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - When In Rome CD The band's first live album, taken from a concert in London, July 9th, 1987, in excellent sound. A nine piece band gives the sound of a small orchestra. Tuneful and wonderful! [EG] 15-EG56 $13.00
Konono No. 1 - Live at Couleur Cafe CD This is a recording of a live performance from The Netherlands in 2003. Konono is an African band from Congo, who blend traditional Bazombo trance music with heavy amplification. The band features three electric likembes (thumb pianos), makeshift... 28-CRDC45.2 $12.00
Curran, Alvin / Jon Rose - Café Grand Abyss “Two giants on great form: Alvin spookily surefooted in deployment of his often counterintuitive palette of sounds, Jon just stunning – in a partnership that provides perfect context for both performers. And it’s beautifully recorded. I know this stuff is a hard sell, but it deserves better; this is proper musicianship and it embodies a lifetime of research and performance coupled with some exquisite musical thinking, and no sense of complacency; a master-class. Dense and complex with passages of simple... 21-ReR JRAC1 $15.00
Cherry, Don - Live at Cafe Montmartre CD Recorded live in 1966 with Gato Barbieri, Karl Berger, Aldo Romano, Bo Stief. I believe that this material has never been released before. Also included in this set is a new ESP DVD-audio sampler, featuring selections of almost every ESP artist. Over 12 hours of music! "Don Cherry, more than any other artist in the jazz of his era, pioneered the music’s internationalist nature that has now come to be commonly accepted as an integral part of its character. The individuality of Cherry’s... 05-ESP4032 $17.00
Mikami, Kan / John Edwards / Alex Nielson - Live At Cafe Oto "Japanese bluesman Kan Mikami is nothing less than an unalloyed force of nature; a skin-shredding blast of frozen wind from the poor, rural north of Japan that he calls home. In the late 1960s, like thousands of other Japanese young people Mikami made his way to Tokyo in search of a life different from that of his parents. Since then he has forcefully carved out a space for himself in the culture as a modernist poet, a raging folk singer, an author, an actor, an engaging TV personality, and one of... 05-ROKU 013CD $18.00
Uneven Eleven - Live at Cafe Oto 2 x CDs Hard to imagine a more powerful or intriguing, improvising power trio than these 3: Charles Hayward on drums (This Heat and Massacre), Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple) and Guy Segers (Univers Zero). Let's hope that this 1st, live session... 05-SR 391CD $20.00
Cafe do Vento - calangotango The debut CD from a quartet from Brasil who fuse the popular music of Northeast Brazilian music with jazz, bits of Andean folk music and perhaps even a touch of chamber music. Two guys handle drums and percussion and the other two are utility... RDMMIX008 $18.00
Penguin Cafe - The Imperfect Sea vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Penguin Cafe grew out of Simon Jeffes' Penguin Cafe Orchestra and is the band led by his son, Arthur Jeffes. I can't really say that there are any surprises in their sound but if you loved the unique sound of the PCO, you'll enjoy PC as much / nearly as much and will be happy that the sound lives on! "A penguin stands in the middle of a scorching desert, far away from its natural habitat. This mirrors composer Arthur Jeffes' journey and exploration into a new musical territory. Penguin Cafe... 28-CD-ERATP-097 $27.00
Penguin Cafe - Handfuls of Night vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “Handfuls of Night is the highly anticipated follow-up to Penguin Cafe's much applauded 2017 album The Imperfect Sea 'inspired by the Antarctic, Arthur Jeffes' journey following in Scott's footsteps and our penguin friends that reside there. Using gut-stringed violins, viola, cello, bass, percussion, upright and grand pianos, synthesiser, harmonium and more, Arthur Jeffes and his cohorts have crafted a vivid series of panoramic sonic landscapes, that are as rich in cerebral poignancy as they are in... 39-LP-ERATP-127 $25.00
Penguin Café - Rain Before Seven... 2 x vinyl lps (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “A sense of optimism infuses Penguin Cafe’s fifth studio album Rain Before Seven… not the braggadocious, overconfident kind, but more a blithe, self-effacing optimism in keeping with the national character. Even when all signs point to the contrary, it operates within the certainty that things are going to be alright. Probably. The title comes from an old weather proverb with the rhyming prognostication — fine before eleven — hinting at a happy ending, irrespective of the science: “I found it... 39-LP-ERATP-159 $25.00
Uneven Eleven - Live at Cafe Oto vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Vinyl version featuring four tracks from the 10 song CD. Hard to imagine a more powerful or intriguing, improvising power trio than these 3: Charles Hayward on drums (This Heat and Massacre), Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple) and Guy Segers... 05-SR 391LP $17.00
Cardboard Amanda - Cardboard Amanda CD (Mega Blowout Sale) Cardboard Amanda is the work of Frank Camiola (along with two other musicians), who was one of the driving forces behind the band Frogg Cafe during their most interesting period. After leaving the band, he has been working on this album for a few years now and now it is here. It's a real weirdy; if this released was 30 years ago, all the hipsters would be talking about 'drug-coma induced tape fuckery' when this was re-discovered. For some reason he's using an alias here (sorry if I blew your cover, man!)... LIARLEAVER001 $7.00
Jeffes, Simon - Piano Music Simon Jeffes was the founder, leader and composer of the great Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and this is a posthumous tribute to him, consisting of a large number of piano-only pieces, most of which have never been heard before and one final work by the PCO,... 28-PNGC100.2 $23.00
Trigon - Herzberg 2004 Excellent instrumental quartet of keyboards, guitar, bass & drums playing a jammy-styled psychedelic spacerock. They refer to their music as 'heavy zen jazz' and while they certainly aren't a 'jazz band', this comfortably fits into the heavy/hard fusio... HZJ01 $13.00
Thing / Thurston Moore - Live On tour for their album Boot!, the Scandinavian free-jazz monsters teamed up with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth fame at London's Café OTO to produce some heavy improvised thunder. Recorded live in concert at Café OTO, London, February 10th, 2013. 05-TTR 003CD $18.00
Last Knight - Seven Deadly Sins "Last Knight is a Neo-prog supergroup that has consisted of several different musicians, many of whom have played with other progressive and non-progressive bands. Some of the many musicians that have participated on Last Knight albums in the past have consisted of Theo Travis (who has worked extensively with Robert Fripp and Steven Wilson of various ptojects), Ashley Mulford (Sad Café, Mike & the Mechanics), Troy Donockley (Iona, Nightwish), Geoffrey Richardson (Penguin Café Orchestra, Caravan), and... 21-SDM005 $18.00
Cherry, Don - Complete Communion Live at the Liederhalle in Stuttgart, May 12th 1966 vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “The legendary Don Cherry with his great 1966 quintet featuring Gato Barbieri on tenor sax, Karl Berger on piano, Bo Stief on bass and Aldo Romano on drums. This quintet can also be heard on three releases on ESP-Disk, three volumes titled Live at Café Monmartre 1966 and with the New York Total Music Company in 1968. This recording is taken from an excellent radio broadcast.” 05-OI 013LP $28.00
Decoy/Joe McPhee - Oto CD "In its short life, London's Café Oto has played host to more than its share of memorable gigs by such improvisers as John Tchicai, Marshall Allen and Evan Parker, but surely none more remarkable than the December 2009 meeting of the veteran American... 05-Weavil041 $17.00
Ayler, Albert - Bells / Prophesy 2 x CDs (expanded) "Albert Ayler's trio with Gary Peacock and Sunny Murray is best known for the July 10, 1964, recording of Spiritual Unity, the album that made both Ayler and ESP-Disk' famous when it was released in 1965. A decade after that, in 1975, ESP-Disk' also released, as Prophecy, the first documentation of the group, recorded a month before Spiritual Unity by Canadian poet Paul Haines at a concert at a 91st Street club. These Cellar Café recordings are augmented here beyond the five cuts from the original... 05-ESP 4076CD $17.00
Brotzmann, Peter / Steve Noble / John Edwards - The Worse The Better "With the very first tone this gigantic wave comes over you, seizes you and pulls you under water."-The Free Jazz Collective "Originally released on vinyl in 2012. Café OTO is a concert venue operating in Dalston, East London, specializing in various strains of avant-music: free-jazz, song, electronics, etc. OTO have been professionally recording various shows on and off since the venue opened in 2008. The Worse the Better is a recording of the stunning first set performed by the trio of Peter... 05 ROKU 001CD $18.00
Brooklyn Rider - Passport "This wildly eclectic CD reflects its members' omnivorous tastes: haunting Armenian laments, Osvaldo Golijov's arrangement of a lovely ballad by the Mexican art-rock band Cafe Tacuba, and the driving Gypsy-inflected improvisations of Colin Jacobsen's tour de force 'Brooklesca.' Brooklyn Rider is recreating the 300-year-old form of string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble."-National Public Radio "Born out of a desire to use the rich medium of the string quartet as a vehicle for.. 21-ICR 001 $14.00
Mertens, Wim - Vergessen Back in print after being unavailable for years, and sounding better than ever. In 1981, at the nadir of quiet, interesting music, there appeared a very nice, interesting double lp compilation called 'Fruit of the Original Sin' (see listing elsewhere). On it was a 'band' I had never heard of called Soft Verdict, who played a rather progressive rock-influenced music, somewhere between Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Michael Nyman and Steve Reich! After waiting and searching, I managed to find this, their... 15-WMM 1182 $19.00
Ensemble 0 - Jojoni CD This is Made To Measure release #49! Maybe imagine Penguinn Café Orchestra in a smaller ensemble size and with more tuned percussion instruments and with a bit (just a bit, but definitely noticable) more dissonance in their work and you might have a good of idea of what this album does! “Depending on the chosen directions, compositions and instrumentation, Ensemble 0 plays with an astonishing variety of topographies. First and foremost with it's own compositions and with the trio, which is like... 28-MMSU49.2 $16.00
Decoy with Joe McPhee - AC/DC CD “Two totally infectious sets from Decoy -- the trio of John Edwards, Steve Noble, and Alexander Hawkins -- reunited with pocket trumpet and saxophone player Joe McPhee on the closing night of his four day residency at Cafe OTO. In the eight years between the recordings which make up AC/DC and their last release Spontaneous Combustion, Decoy and each of its members have been practicing individually at the very top of their form. Coming together again in such celebratory circumstances and in the good... 05-ROKU 023CD $16.00
Angles 3 - Parede Ingebrigt Håker Flaten double bass Kjell Nordeson drums and percussion Martin Küchen tenor and soprano saxophone "After concerts and recordings as Angles 10, Angles 9, Angles 8 and Angles 6, here is back the original Angles line-up, Angles 3. It was 2004 and for a gig at the Glenn Miller Cafe it's mentor and saxophonist, Martin Küchen invited two Scandinavian musicians now living in the United States (respectively, Austin - Texas and San Diego - California), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and... CF 483 $15.00
Andersen, Arild / Clive Bell / Mark Wastell - Tales Of Hackney Arild Andersen (double-bass, electronics) Clive Bell (Thai mouth organ, shakuhachi, pi saw, shinobue) Mark Wastell (percussion, shruti box) “This genre defying trio release their debut offering, Tales Of Hackney. Quick to capture the energy and undeniable empathy of their celebrated live performances at Cafe OTO on September 24, 2017, the troika reconvened the following day for an intense ten-hour east London studio session. The beguiling, often meditative results see Andersen deploy his 05-CORE 005CD $16.00
Peltola, Markku - Buster Keatonin Ratsutilalla This is not a new album, but it's an album I just recently was hipped to by Jussi Lehtisalo of Circle and Pharoah Overlord, and it's a excellent, unlikely release from a man best known as the lead actor in the Aki Kaurismäki film, The Man Without A Past. This is mostly small, charming pieces with some resemblances to Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Well worth hearing! "Have you met Markku Peltola? No?! Well, maybe you have but cannot remember. Peltola played the main character in Aki Kaurismäki's... 05-KLANGBAD 025CD $20.00
Ambarchi, Oren - Live Hubris vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) 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.. 05-BT 083LP $34.00
Laubrock, Ingrid / Kris Davis - Blood Moon CD Ingrid Laubrock: Tenor & Soprano Saxophone Kris Davis: Piano "More than a decade ago, saxophonist-composer Ingrid Laubrock met pianist-composer Kris Davis at the recently shuttered historic hang Cornelia Street Cafe in downtown Manhattan, before Laubrock had moved to New York. Over the next years, Laubrock and Davis would inspire and challenge each other within varied musical contexts – and across a number of re-cordings – including Laubrock's critically-acclaimed quintet Anti-House, 28-Intakt 345 $19.00
Anthropology Band - Scald – Live 2022 : 3 x CDs A very lively electric jazz / jazz-rock ensemble with lots of room for improvisation, but also with strong themes to base it all on. “Anthropology Band live in 2022 at the Newcastle Festival Of Jazz And Improvised Music and at Café Oto, London. The band's current 8 piece line up was on fiery form for both gigs, playing a mixture of both old and new material to full houses. With the electric 70s music of Miles Davis as its starting point and the improvised abstraction of AACM as its end point. Discus 155CD $22.00
Various Artists - The Complete Obscure Records Collection 1975-1978 : 10 x CD box set (due to weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) This is all 10 of the original releases on Obscure, some of them very easily available for decades, and a number of them never before reissued. Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic Christopher Hobbs, John Adams, Gavin Bryars - Ensemble Pieces Brian Eno - Discreet Music David Toop, Max Eastley - New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments Jan Steele, John Cage - Voices and Instruments Michael Nyman - Decay Music The Penguin Café Orchestra - Music From the Penguin C 05-DIACD 926BOX $170.00
Palestine, Charlemagne / Grumbling Fur Time Machine Orchestra- ggrrreeebbb.....!!! vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) The early master of minimalism meets Guapo's master of keyboard and minimalism and maximalism! "In 2013, when Daniel O'Sullivan was invited to curate the sixth installment of Ravenna, Italy's Transmissions festival, his first request was for... 05-IMPREC 409LP $26.00
Schweizer, Irene / Omri Ziegele - Where's Africa? Irène Schweizer: Piano / Omri Ziegele: Saxophone, Voice "Irène Schweizer and Omri Ziegele are a pair as perfectly opposite as Monk and Johnny Griffin: she is a mercurial, superior architect at the piano, with a presence one can only admire... 34-Intakt 098 $19.00
Miasma and the Carousel of Headless Horses - Perils CD You only think you don't know who this is. Miasma is a side project of Guapo who have released this, their first album. Operating to my ears in a more straight-forwardly RIO/avant progressive style than Guapo and with a lot more European folk touches... 28-MIMI25.2 $17.00
Schweizer, Irene - First Choice : Piano Solo KKL Luzern CD "A first, long improvisation called “First Choice.” For twenty minutes, Irène Schweizer unwound for the evening, arriving, in the course of this long-distance run, at one of the wild African dances her audience loves so much. With the ambitious second... 28-ITK108.2 $19.00
Moholo-Moholo, Louis - 4 Blokes Alexander Hawkins-piano, John Edwards-bass, Louis Moholo-Moholo-drums, Jason Yarde-saxes. "It’s the feeling that differentiates free jazz and its offshoots from every other species of contemporary western music: the sensation that the body and... Ogun OGCD 043 $16.00
Sphincter Ensemble - Harrodian Event #1 vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "First-ever vinyl release of these legendary prog recordings. Recorded in January 1972, this rare recording features a unique event where seven gifted progressive musicians came together to record a session of unique experimental music. Keyboard player J. Peter Robinson (a member of Quatermass, later of Brand X), John Gustafson (had also been in Quatermass and would go on to play with Steve Hackett, Ian Gillan and Roxy Music), Martyn Ford had been an arranger for Barclay James Harvest before working with... 05-TDP 54046LP $22.00
Palo Alto - Difference and Repetition: A Musical Evocation Of Gilles Deleuze 2 x vinyl lps (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “Palo Alto's tenth album was born from two ambitions: to pay tribute to Soft Machine's Third (1970) on form (four sides/four titles) and to philosopher Gilles Deleuze (Difference and Repetition is the title of his thesis) on the contents. The four long pieces of this double concept album were developed over two years and each has a different style and climate. Bold and kaleidoscopic, Difference and Repetition perfectly synthesizes the musical and literary obsessions of Palo Alto. Difference and... 05-SR 484LP $28.00
Jethro Tull - Live at Montreux 2003 DVD "In 2003 the band made their first (and so far only) visit to the Montreux Festival. Split into a semi-acoustic first half and full on electric second half, the concert was a triumph combining newer songs with classic favorites. As ever Ian Anderson... 21-EAGLE39153 $15.00
Garbarek, Jan - In Praise of Dreams "Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek cut his teeth emulating John Coltrane and blowing gales through the muscular compositions of George Russell and open improvisations of Keith Jarrett. But since the mid 1980s, the saxophonist has been making an... 28-ECM1880 $17.00