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Festival - A Film by Murray Lerner DVD Of limited interest to most of our customers, but still an interesting period piece and some great performances (NOT all complete though) by Dylan, Johnny Cash, Mississippi John Hurt, Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Howlin' Wolf! "This film by Murray L... 21-EAGLE39101 $15.00
Golson, Benny - The Whisper Not Tour DVD "A legend in every sense of the word, Benny Golson is one of the few jazzmen whose achievements as a composer equal his accomplishments as a saxophonist. This DVD features far more than just the genius of Golson. Performing alongside Benny in this... ARKADIA72004 $20.00
Destroy All Monsters - Grow Live Monsters DVD (Mega Blowout Sale) "Grow Live Monsters is a selection from short home-made no-budget 8mm, super 8 and 16mm film fantasies made between 1971-1976. Most of the films revolved around a group of friends and the wall of noise they would create in basement cellars and in live... 21-MVD4568 $9.00
Monti, Maria - Il Bestiario vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "Maria Monti's 1974 LP Il Bestario is a rare item even in its native country. Monti is an Italian singer and actress with a noteworthy career, performing as a cabaret singer in the '60s, an ambitious avant-garde folk artist in the '70s, and starring in films by directors such Sergio Leone (Fistful of Dynamite) and Bernardo Bertolucci (1900) all the while. In addition to lyrics by the infamous poet Aldo Braibanti, Il Bestiario features arrangements and synthesizer from legendary avant-garde composer Alvin... 37-UW 008 LP $18.00
Takami, Leo - Next Door CD “Adroit jazz guitar, prog rock fantasia, and Japanese environmental music all rest comfortably behind Leo Takami's "Next Door." The follow up to the acclaimed "Felis Catus & Silence", "Next Door" finds Takami ruminating on passages-of time, seasons, consciousness. Through music, Leo contemplates daily events and finds beauty in ordinary moments. He also seems to be questioning the value of being stuck in the world, allowing his mind to wander towards something beyond it. His music is earnest, deeply... 28-USEE55.2 $15.00
Little, Booker/Teddy Charles - Live: The Complete Concert (special) "How's this for a group. Teddy Quintet leader and vibes, Booker Ervin on tenor, Booker Little on trumpet, Mal Waldron piano, Addison Farmer on bass and Ed Shaughnessy (who latter was really co-leader of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show band) on drums... 10--JZV32 $8.00
Tenores Di Bitti - Intonos ''Human voice sounds magic! Strong and primitive. The a tenore singing is a very ancient and my-sterious polyphonic style, of the center of Sardinia, originated in the prehistoric ages by imitating the nature sounds. From two decades Tenores Di Bitti a... 08-NT6727 $18.00
Tenores Di Bitti - Ammentos ''Human voice sounds magic! Strong and primitive. The a tenore singing is a very ancient and my-sterious polyphonic style, of the center of Sardinia, originated in the prehistoric ages by imitating the nature sounds. From two decades Tenores Di Bitti a... 08-NT6746 $18.00
Suicide - First Rehearsal Tapes vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "On Suicide's First Rehearsal Tapes, recorded in 1975, Alan Vega and Martin Rev create minimalist aural structures, traces of which would surface on their eponymous debut album, released on the Red Star label in late 1977. These songs are not a sketchpad of semi-formed ideas. The First Rehearsal Tapes comprise an audio diary of two men out in the ether, measuring themselves as evolving individual artists and as a unit who would rely on inseparability to realize their unique and often confrontational... 16-SV 128 $24.00
Coxhill, Lol - More Together Than Alone "Soprano saxophonist Lol Coxhill always sounds good regardless of what area he is playing in and who he is playing with. This collection just features his free improvising, but with a variety of partners. The late Hugh Davis was a master instrument... 05-EMANEM4136 $20.00
Ange - Tome 87 With the exception of the last three tracks on the album, the 'live' versions of all seven of the other songs, taken from the different studio albums, were constructed within the framework of a unified stylistics. Here, all of them are a bit more heavy... 01-MUSEA 4444 $16.00
Cauvin, Philippe - Memento 'Disciple of the wizards', One of the greatest French virtuosos of the guitar", "A new trouvere", "A modern griot"... Here are a few sentences chosen by the French press at the beginning of the Eighties, to qualify Philippe Cauvin's works. The leader o... 01-MUSEA 4513 $16.00
Lehman, Steve / Sebeyone - Xaybu: The Unseen CD “Xaybu: The Unseen is the sophomore release from Sélébéyone, the international avant-rap collective led by saxophonist and composer Steve Lehman, who has been hailed by The New York Times for his "sure-footed futurism" in the realms of modern jazz and contemporary classical music. Comprised of MCs HPrizm and Gaston Bandimic, saxophonists Lehman and Maciek Lasserre, and drummer Damion Reid, their eponymous 2016 debut was hailed as a game-changing synthesis of underground hip-hop, modern jazz and live... 28-PIRC95.2 $16.00
Tyner, McCoy - Inception / Reaching Fourth Impulse! Is celebrating their 50th anniversary with several re-issues including a collection of “2-fers," two albums on one compact disc. "This set combines two of pianist McCoy Tyner's early-'60s LPs for Impulse! Records, 1962’s Inception... 15-Impulse 5334721 $14.00
MacLean, Steve / Mercy - Future(s) "This CD of songs, grittily arranged and produced is noticeably more straight-ahead than ReR’s usual releases though it sits comfortably within the broad range of Steve’s tirelessly experimental output. This is a project with a long history: Steve... 21-ReR SM6 $15.00
Various Artists - St. Albert's Dream, Vol. 2: Lucid Electric Prophet vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “"Heavy 'dosed' psychedelia where The Prophet takes you to the depths of the unknown Acid Land. Twelve tracks from some of the deepest underground acts in North America, from the years 1968-1972. Plenty of raw fuzz, swirling effects, deep lyrics, heavy beats, and cool hooks from these mostly unknown heroes of this long past era of musical creativity. Sourced from micro-pressed 45s and unreleased master tapes, these songs have never been compiled on vinyl before. Hear wizardry from such acts as Osceola... 18-MMP 042319 $23.00
Residents - God In 3 Persons Live Blu-ray “Presented from the point of view of Mister X, the quintessential unreliable narrator, God in 3 Persons relates the story of his involvement with a pair of conjoined twin faith healers. As the increasingly improbable story unfolds, ending with Mister X's destruction of the mysterious Holy Union, the audience never knows how much of the dubious tale is fact, fiction or the fading reminisces of an aging Lothario. Operatic in its vision and profound in its implications, God in 3 Persons examines the... 21-MVD 11859BR $21.00
Equilibrio Vital - Tributo a Marcos Chacon (Mega Blowout Sale) I haven't heard Equilibrio Vital until now, but I know that Tributo a Marcos Chacon" is the fifth album by this Venezuelan band and their first release on Musea Records... MUSEA 4457 MBS $11.00
Pride, Mike - Drummer's Corpse "The 33 minute maximum intensity transformative epic Drummer's Corpse was recorded within the same month as the diametrically opposed (in concept, content and title) Birthday Days, and no pair of records better represent his multifarious artistic... 25-AUM-CD-078 $14.00
Willowglass - Book of Hours vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Very, very good and completely retro-style symphonic progressive rock. Willowglass is Andrew Marshall on electric, acoustic, 12-string and classical guitars, analog keyboards (yes, Virginia, including lots and lots of mellotron), bass and bass pedals... 23-WGLP 002 $30.00
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
Ministry Of Inside Things - Everlasting Moment 2 x CDs Some of you who are fans of US space music will remember synthesist Chuck van Zyl, who released music under the name Xile, his own name, and in collaboration with The Nightcrawlers, among others. For almost 25 years he has hosted "Stars End", a program... SYNKRONOS026 $14.00
Charming Hostess - Sarajevo Blues CD Note the Ahvak and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum personnel involved in this one! "Following up on the enormous success of her Trilectic release from 2000, Jewlia Eisenberg has again fashioned a remarkable program of a cappella vocal and instrumental music ... TZ7197 $13.00
Zorn, John - Xu Feng CD This exciting release initiates a new series of CDs documenting the best of John Zorn's infamous game pieces. Composed largely between 1977 and 1989, these pieces harness improvisers in complex compositional formats, combining the unpredictable edge of... TZ7329 $13.00
Zorn, John - Filmworks X: In The Mirror Of Maya Deren CD ''Hypnotic, sensual and evocative music for Martina Kudlaceks brilliant and detailed documentary on the life and work of underground film legend Maya Deren. Mixing myth and ritual with avant-garde dance and film techniques, Maya forged a creative lang... TZ7333 $13.00
Zorn, John - Filmworks XII: Three Documentaries The popular Filmworks series is a microcosm of the Zorn universe, following his maturing as a composer and his ever-widening musical interests. The music of Volume 12, all recorded in the space of a few weeks (March/April 2002,) is as varied as the fil... TZ7340 $13.00
Cracow Klezmer Band, The - The Cracow Klezmer Band Plays John Zorn Sanatorium Under The Sign of the Hourglass: A Tribute to Bruno Schultz The Cracow Klezmer Band is one of the most passionate, virtuosic and creative bands in the New Jewish Renaissance and with each new release they just keep getting better and better. For their fourth CD on Tzadik they collaborate with John Zorn to paint... TZ7349 $13.00
Amacher, Maryanne - Sound Characters, Volume 2 "One of contemporary music’s greatest and most elusive mavericks returns to Tzadik with yet another CD of ear bending electronic sounds. A student of Stockhausen and close collaborator of John Cage and David Behrman, Amacher has been creating acoustic... TZ8055 $13.00
Leimgruber, Urs / Jacques Demierre / Barre Phillips - Wing Vane CD Sax, piano & double bass. "The choices Leimgruber, Demierre, and Phillips have made are everywhere unexpected and unexplained, but fit together as aural expression in the ambiguous area between imagination (a belief without experience to support it) an... VICTO079 $15.00
Rova Sax Quartet - Resistance Ignore the passing of time as a measure of anything real. Twenty-five years and counting is a milestone, but really only means they've had more opportunities and experiences -- commissions, recordings, performances, musical and personal challenges -- a... VICTO086 $15.00
Jaivas - La Ventana CD (expanded) “Nearly 50 years after its original release on the Chilean label IRT, here is the iconic CD issue of this album that includes the anthems 'Todos Juntos' and 'Mira Niñita.' Original master tapes have been used for this reissue, following the reels find at the IRT vaults. State of the art technology has also been used to guarantee a top-quality remastered sound that shows music details barely noticeable in the original pressing. The artwork restoration process has been undertaken by Martín Uribe.. MYECD 018 $15.00
Weather Report - Live In Cologne 1983 : 2 x CDs "To celebrate the 40th ''birthday'' of one of the world's best bands - Weather Report - the label Art of Groove is releasing the band's Rockpalast concert in Cologne 1983 - a premiere on CD. What a feast the concert was for the Cologne-based audience that night, and is now for us all these years later. As Omar Hakim has said: ''Weather Report wasn't typical instrumental music: there was Europe, Africa, jazz, blues, Latin, all inside one thing. It was true world music....''. Here's to that!... 21-MIG80052 $17.00
Weather Report - Live In Cologne 1983 DVD "To celebrate the 40th ''birthday'' of one of the world's best bands - Weather Report - the label Art of Groove is releasing the band's Rockpalast concert in Cologne 1983 - a premiere on DVD. What a feast the concert was for the Cologne-based audience that night, and is now for us all these years later. As Omar Hakim has said: ''Weather Report wasn't typical instrumental music: there was Europe, Africa, jazz, blues, Latin, all inside one thing. It was true world music....''. Here's to that!... 21-MIG80057 $17.00
Jazz Passengers - Still Life With Trouble CD The return of one of the many, many great bands centered around the Downtown / Knitting Factory in the mid/late 80s. Delightful. "The JAZZ PASSENGERS are a fantastical fusion of post-bop and musical comedy, once called 'a perverse mainstream hard-bop group as imagined by Frank Zappa' - Bob Blumenthal, Boston Globe, 1989). Their name, a take-off on Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, reveals the musicians wild ride along the eccentric currents in modern American music. Saxophonist Roy Nathanson... 28-THI57213.2 $16.00
Davis, Miles - In Concert : Live At Philharmonic Hall 2 x CDs This is the only live recording released by Miles’ short lived and crazy-cray, very electric nonet: Like the contemporaneous “On The Corner”, this is total ‘love it or hate it’ territory... “Of the myriad double-live sets Miles Davis recorded in the early '70s, In Concert: Live at Philharmonic Hall is the only one documenting his On the Corner street-funk period, which is immediately obvious from the cover art. Actually, in terms of repertoire, the material from Get Up With It, Big Fun, and.. 15-MOCCD 13892 $16.00
Geronimo Black - Freak Out Phantasia vinyl lp + CD (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Unreleased late 1960s live and studio sessions by Geronimo Black, a Los Angeles band which featured members of The Mothers of Invention (Jimmy Carl Black, Bunk Gardner, Ray Collins, and Denny Walley) and main songwriter Andy Cahan, part of Dr John's band at the time. The included CD has the entire album plus four bonus tracks! “These previously unreleased live and studio sessions are a loose exercise in spontaneity, and sheer art, which has been lost in the mists of time. Geronimo Black, a... 05-MR 387LP $29.00
Qluster - Antworten 180 gram vinyl lp with download code (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "Antworten (meaning: answer) is the third installment in a trilogy of Qluster music, following on from the Fragen (meaning: question) and Rufen (BB 075CD/LP) studio albums. The fact that the music on Antworten was created before Rufen and Fragen were... 05-BB 077 LP $28.00
Camberwell Now - The Ghost Trade vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Copy The Camberwell Now were led by Charles Hayward, the drumming/vocalist mastermind behind This Heat, and was the band that he formed immediately after This Heat broke up. They released an album and 2 EPs in their lifetime, and this is the album, which was their middle release. Their sound was very informed by the This Heat esthetic, with more creative usages of drones than before and some incredible basswork. While they didn't always quite achieve This Heat's greatness, on this album they... 28-LIAA921.1 $27.00
Wapassou - Wapassou (expanded) CD First album by this Crypto band. This is their first album, recorded in late 1973 and presents a very simple, stripped-down approach, with many tracks consisting of only simple electric keyboards (Crumar organ, Wulitzer electric piano, Eminent synthesizer), violin & acoustic guitar/female vocals. Simple and kinda charming in a very primitive way, at times this is almost like a proto, progressive version of Young Marble Giants! Includes their rare, non-lp single form about one year later... 18-Lion 684 $14.00
P16.D4 - Distruct CD “Reissue, originally released in 1984. P16.D4 was a German electronic noise music collective, active primarily from 1980 to 1988. P16.D4 embraced tape cut-ups, musique concrète, endless recycling, and transformation of previously published material, and many long-distance collaborations with like-minded artists such as DDAA, Vortex Campaign, Nurse With Wound, and Merzbow. Their active participation in the international industrial tape scene yielded collaborative output such as their release Distruct.... 05-SNS 023CD $17.00
Fontaine, Brigitte - Kekeland For this 1998 release, Brigitte Fontaine teams up with an unlikely cast of collaborators from across the '90s' avant-pop spectrum, enlisting Sonic Youth, jazz legend Archie Shepp, the singer simply known as M, French rock groups Noir Désir and les... 02-VIRGIN3810661 $7.00
Cunningham, David - Grey Scale CD (expanded) First ever CD issue of this weird, sort-of-systems-music release from 1976! “David Cunningham was born in Ireland in 1954. His work ranges from pop music to gallery installations including several collaborations with visual artists. His first significant commercial success came with The Flying Lizards' single "Money," an international hit in 1979. Originally released in 1976, Cunningham's first solo album Grey Scale has become a landmark statement of DIY minimalist composition - continuing... 28-SPRV175.2 $19.00
Milk From Cheltenham - Triptych of Poisoners I remember reading about these releases when they were coming out in the early 80's, but I've never heard any until now. I can happily report that it is just as out and strange as one would be hoping, given the principals involved! ... 05-ALGA 057 $21.00
Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra - Take Off! This huge, 20 piece German band, led by Daniel Gatzel who composes all the music, mixes some pop elements with jazz and traditional classical music touches, as well as exotica and beyond. It doesn't necessarily push stylistic envelopes, but it's a... 05-ALIENTRANSISTOR018 $18.00
Hennix, Catherine Christer - Further Selections From the Electric Harpsichord CD “Rediscovered and compiled for release shortly before her death in November 2023, Further Selections from the Electric Harpsichord presents a never-before-heard recording of composer and artist Catherine Christer Hennix's early magnum opus. Originally debuted in 1976 at the festival Brouwer's Lattice at Stockholm's Moderna Museet, The Electric Harpsichord has steadily mystified fans and students of Western minimalist music for it's implacable, transformative qualities, and the long-held, relative... 28-BKFO71.2 $16.00
Cunningham, David - Grey Scale 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 reissue of this weird, sort-of-systems-music release from 1976! “David Cunningham was born in Ireland in 1954. His work ranges from pop music to gallery installations including several collaborations with visual artists. His first significant commercial success came with The Flying Lizards' single "Money," an international hit in 1979. Originally released in 1976, Cunningham's first solo album Grey Scale has become a landmark statement of DIY minimalist composition - continuing... 28-SPRV175.1 $27.00
Tietchens, Asmus / Miki Yui - Neues Boot CD Asmus Tietchens: "Miki and I quickly developed some ideas towards our eventual collaboration. We agreed upon an ongoing mutual exchange of material. We have both been very familiar with each other's music for a long time and we found our individual approach towards sound design to be uniquely compatible. We do not use our electronic tools in order to merely achieve the maximum of technical possibilities, but to illustrate aesthetic necessities. This entails a deliberate reduction and refined perception... 05-TAL 023CD $17.00
Lacey, Bruce - The Spacey Bruce Lacey: Film Music and Improvisations This is the first-ever collection of music by renowned British sculptor, filmmaker, composer, performer and cult icon, Bruce Lacey, who, among other things, appeared in The Beatles' Help! (1965) and had a song written about him by Fairport Convention.... 05-JBH 053CD $18.00
Nu Creative Methods - Nu Jungle Dances vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Pierre Bastien and Bernard Pruvost perform on double bass, seil-cord, prepared piano, prepared double bass, electric guitar, zither, alto saxophones and sopranino, cornets, shennaï, Pakistani oboe, flute. “When the second Nu Creative Methods album was released, New And Rediscovered Musical Instruments (1975) by Max Eastley and David Toop had already been available for almost three years. Without being able to say that there was a direct, real-time influence, the direction taken by the British... 05-FFL 042LP $27.00
Qluster - Antworten "Antworten (meaning: answer) is the third installment in a trilogy of Qluster music, following on from the Fragen (meaning: question) and Rufen (BB 075CD/LP) studio albums. The fact that the music on Antworten was created before Rufen and Fragen were... 05-BB 077 $18.00