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Dim Gray - Firmament CD “Elegiac and beautifully dense art rock from Norway”-PROG Magazine “12 vivid and melody driven songs influenced by genres as diverse as chamber pop, indie folk, electronica and grandiose art rock The trio who comprise Dim Gray come from different places, both musically and geographically, with all three – guitarist Håkon Høiberg, singer/keyboardist Oskar Holldorff and drummer Tom Ian Klungland – moving from different parts of Norway to Oslo a decade ago to study. Having found each other, they. 23-EERCD 0031 $15.00
Dim Gray - Firmament vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “Elegiac and beautifully dense art rock from Norway”-PROG Magazine “12 vivid and melody driven songs influenced by genres as diverse as chamber pop, indie folk, electronica and grandiose art rock The trio who comprise Dim Gray come from different places, both musically and geographically, with all three – guitarist Håkon Høiberg, singer/keyboardist Oskar Holldorff and drummer Tom Ian Klungland – moving from different parts of Norway to Oslo a decade ago to study. Having found each other, they. 23-PLG 114 $36.00
Noy, Oz - Triple Play CD “Brand new live record from guitar master Oz Noy with the amazing Dennis Chambers (Carlos Santana, John McLaughlin) on drums and Jimmy Haslip (Allan Holdsworth) on bass. Recorded live at The Stages Music Arts in Maryland on December 29, 30, 2022.” 28-ABLG70.2 $17.00
Sun Ra - Ra To The Rescue CD (expanded) “One of the rarer albums in the Sun Ra canon, RTTR originally entered our orbit in 1983, mystifying listeners and confounding Ra fanatics with the minimal info on the Saturn pressing. Recorded at several locations over several years (including legendary avant-garde arts enclave, the Squat Theater in NYC), the tracks here include everything from Ra’s sci-fi synthesizer insanity, Marshall Allen’s skronking sax, an excellent Arkestra vocal track “They Plan To Leave,” and so much more. Available on CD... 39-CD-MH-222 $16.00
City Boy - City Boy / Dinner At The Ritz (expanded / remastered) City Boy were an English art-rock band of mid 70s; think Roxy Music, 10cc, Bebop Deluxe, etc, who were especially notable for their intricate vocal arrangements. This is the first official release of this, their first two albums, on CD and... 23-CDLEMD 223 $18.00
Stone, Carl - Wat Dong Moon Lek CD “Carl Stone continues his late career prolific renaissance with a new album of sculpted, tuneful MAX/MSP fantasias. Stone "plays" his source material the way Terry Riley's In C "plays" an ensemble - with a loose, freewheeling charm connected to the ancient human impulse to make sound, melody, and rhythm from anything. Stone's unique technique simultaneously focuses and sprays sound like a symphony of uncapped fire hydrants. Is this techno, avant-garde, sound art? It's simply (or rather fantastically.. 28-USEE42.2 $15.00
Sun Ra - Ra To The Rescue vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “One of the rarer albums in the Sun Ra canon, RTTR originally entered our orbit in 1983, mystifying listeners and confounding Ra fanatics with the minimal info on the Saturn pressing. Recorded at several locations over several years (including legendary avant-garde arts enclave, the Squat Theater in NYC), the tracks here include everything from Ra’s sci-fi synthesizer insanity, Marshall Allen’s skronking sax, an excellent Arkestra vocal track “They Plan To Leave,” and so much more. 39-LP-MH-222 $26.00
Cutler, Chris - Compositions And Collaborations 1972-2022 : 10 CD + DVDA + 80 page boolet box set (due to weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “To make public a mass of unreleased material I decided to wrap this musical collection into a box. These 10 CDs (and a audio DVD) include over five hours of unreleased materials, my three previously released solo CDs (‘solo’, ‘twice around the earth’ and ‘there and back again’), plus a double CD collection of tracks spanning 50 years of official recordings (It Makes Sense to Me), as well as the 22-hour radio programme I made for Radio Art Zone last year (that’s on the DVD). 36 hours of audio... 21-RER CC BOX1 $78.00
Elias Hulk - Unchained vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “Amazing unique album by Elias hulk, a British quintet from Bournemouth, UK. Beautiful cover art, and great proto-hard-blues psych 70's rock.”-rym “A classic in the collecting circuit since ages, the sole release by UK group Elias Hulk was out in 1970 on the Youngblood label. Raw hard-rock, adding some Eastern and blues-rock elements as well. Original artwork; insert with photos and extensive liners by Andy Morten.” 18-GUESS 226 $35.00
Yawning Man - Pot Head 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 first album by desert rock heroes, Yawning Man. All new album art, created in concert with the band, to better fit the vibe of the album. Yawning Man, who hail from the arid desert area of Southern California, have been playing, jamming, and recording since 1986, and are a highly influential band. Most of their fans and those heavily influenced by them consider them to be 'the originators' of the entire "Desert Rock" movement/genre, and their influence has reigned far and wide across... 21-RIPLP206 $26.00
Shimizu, Yasuaki - Made To Measure Vol. 12 / Music For Commercials CD "Calling Yasuaki Shimizu a talented musician is like calling Michael Jordan a kind of OK basketball player. Whether working with art luminaries like Nam June Paik, music icons like Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Ryuichi Sakamoto, or corporate behemoths like Honda, Shimizu is the type of versatile collaborator who elevates all of the projects he touches into something far more than ‘just’ sound. The Music for Commercials album – reissued for the first time since its original release by Crammed in 1987 – is... 28-MMSU12.2 $15.00
Shipp, Matthew - Symbol Systems Matthew Shipp piano "Symbol Systems occupies a special place in Matthew Shipp’s discography. Originally issued in 1995 on the No More Records label, it was at the time his sixth release as a leader or co-leader, but significantly his first solo album, and as such provided us with the purest view to date of his multifaceted, indivisible improvisational/compositional concepts."-Art Lange 34-hatOLOGY 749 $19.00
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
Bent Knee - You Know What They Mean "A band occupying sonic territory entirely their own, BENT KNEE continues to break ground with each successive album, a record maintained with 2019’s extraordinary “You Know What They Mean”. The Boston outfit’s myriad influences are distilled into a deeply moving art-form that defies categorization, merging texture and style into music that’s thrilling, addictive, and unapologetically original. “You Know What They Mean”, the fifth full-length by BENT KNEE is a prime example how to unite rock, pop... 19-IO 190759895320 $14.00
Lovely Little Girls - Effusive Supreme CDR “Lovely Little Girls is a theatrical art-rock band from Chicago that features members of Cheer-Accident and The Flying Luttenbachers. They specialize in odd harmonies and catchy melodies served with a histrionic flair. “Effusive Supreme”, their third LP for SKiN GRAFT Records, delves into more personal and abstract territory, highlighting the utilitarian and fetishistic relationship to shoes on one track, while enthusiastically accepting ego-death’s indifferent embrace on the next. Equally informed... 39-CD-GRA-153 $14.00
Karfagen - Messages From Afar: Second Nature CD “I`m very pleased with the album. It has some “best moments” from Rick Wakeman, Camel, Happy the Man, ELP, King Crimson - it`s like a magical fusion of the music i like and want to hear as a listener. Pure symphonic art rock with jazz rock touches.”-Antony Kalugin As a cherry on top, Mr. Colin Bass of Camel fame is featured on one of the tracks.” 21-CM 24034 $15.00
Davey, Alan / Psychedelic Warlords - Captain Lockheed and The Starfighters Live! CD "Alan Davey's Hawkwind inspired project, Psychedelic Warlords, perform the entirety of Robert Calvert's 1974 masterpiece concept album, Captain Lockeed And The Starfighters! Recorded in 2014 at The Underworld in Camden, London, this epic performance will appeal to fans of classic British art rock and the large contingent of Hawkwind superfans!" 28-PRLE1399.2 $17.00
Yawning Man - Pot Head CD “The legendary first album by desert rock heroes, Yawning Man. All new album art, created in concert with the band, to better fit the vibe of the album. Yawning Man, who hail from the arid desert area of Southern California, have been playing, jamming, and recording since 1986, and are a highly influential band. Most of their fans and those heavily influenced by them consider them to be 'the originators' of the entire "Desert Rock" movement/genre, and their influence has reigned far and wide across... 21-RIPCD215 $18.00
Corea, Chick / Gary Burton - Crystal Silence “Crystal Silence launched one of jazz’s most long-lasting small groups, whose history would extend over more than 40 years. On this 1972 recording Gary Burton and Chick Corea, brought together by producer Manfred Eicher, raised the bar for the art of the duo. As Billboard perceptively noted, “The lyrical qualities of both men are displayed to maximum advantage, while the material at hand includes some of Corea’s most durable compositions. Recorded in Oslo, the album may prove a classic, for its... 28-ECM 1024 $12.00
Oliveros, Pauline / Roscoe Mitchell/ John Tilbury / Wadada Leo Smith - Nessuno "Roscoe Mitchell (Art Ensemble of Chicago), John Tilbury (AMM), Pauline Oliveros (electronics innovator, Deep Listening Band), Wadada Leo Smith (U.S. avant garde). Pointillistic improvisations by the experts. A conservative but beautifully recorded live concert performance from the Angelica Festival, 2011." 21-IDA 035 $15.00
Lovely Little Girls - Effusive Supreme vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “Lovely Little Girls is a theatrical art-rock band from Chicago that features members of Cheer-Accident and The Flying Luttenbachers. They specialize in odd harmonies and catchy melodies served with a histrionic flair. “Effusive Supreme”, their third LP for SKiN GRAFT Records, delves into more personal and abstract territory, highlighting the utilitarian and fetishistic relationship to shoes on one track, while enthusiastically accepting ego-death’s indifferent embrace on the next. Equally informed... 39-LP-GRA-153 $25.00
Dark Day / R.L. Crutchfield - Darker Days 3 x CD box (due to weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) All three of Robin’s Dark Day albums: Exterminating Angel (1980), Window (1982), Darkest Before Dawn (1989). R.L. Crutchfield was a performance artist in the SoHo and Tribeca art scene before becoming an original member of the seminal No Wave band DNA alongside Arto Lindsay and Ikue Mori. He played keyboards in the first version of the band. 21-MK 456 $48.00
Mission Of Burma - Signals, Calls, and Marches (expanded) 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 first album by the best US post-punk band that I know of - think of Gang of Four, but not English. This is great stuff on its own and it's also where half of Birdsongs of the Mesozoic came from when Burma collapsed. "The moment punk turned into art" - Salon.com. 39-LP-OLE-867 $24.00
(ec) Nudes - Vanishing Point The Nudes are something of an avant supergroup, with Chris Cutler, Amy Denio, & Swiss guitarist Wadi Gysi. Energetic & fun punk/folk/jazz/art-rock songs; these will make fans of Chris' & Amy's work very happy. "Your ticket to pop paradise. Maybe."... RER N1 $12.00
Pere Ubu - Live...Fox Warfield ’80 (Mega Blowout Sale) “Pere Ubu's appearance in San Francisco at the Fox Warfield Theater in 1980, recalls their early poise in punk rock, but with abstract definition. The ambitious new wave touring project Urgh! co-ordinated by Miles Copeland would capture the likes of Pere Ubu in this period, but the significance of this early show promises so much more than any package tour could promise. Drawing on their new album The Art Of Walking while recalling shots of Dub Housing and The Modern Dance, David Thomas is joined by... 23-INTRCD0011 $7.00
Tagaq, Tanya - Sinaa (Mega Blowout Sale) This is different and fairly unique, as it is Inuit throat singing in a bit more modern clothing than what is thought of as traditional Inuit vocal music. Tanya Tagaq was born in 1977 and raised in an Inuit community. She studied at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. While there, she took an interest in traditional Inuit throat singing, a multiphonic and percussive form that is customarily performed by two people. Thus she was obliged to teach herself a solo variation and later... 23-SS 137 05 $7.00
Levin, Daniel - Organic Modernism Daniel Levin, cello / Nate Wooley, trumpet / Matt Moran vibraphone / Peter Bitenc, double bass. "Music may be an abstract art, meaning, as Stravinsky used to say, “nothing more than its own sounds”, but when it's presented with a title like... Clean Feed CF 212 $17.00
Martusciello - To Extend the Visibility DVD Beautiful and I mean BEAUTIFUL packageing on this one! "As a Limited Edition of 300 copies in North America, this DVD comes in a threefold art DVD case with a full color 48 page book offering substantial exegetical essays (in English and Italian)... REREM2 $30.00
Perelman, Ivo/Dominic Duval/Jackson Krall - Black On White "The natural affinity of music and visual art has rarely ever been expressed as vividly as in the visual imagery created by noted jazz saxophonist, Ivo Perelman. Born 12/01/1961 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, he came to the United States in 1981 to pursue a musica CF024CD $17.00
Not Waving - Futuro 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) “Futuro is Not Waving's sublime synth/ambient soundtrack to one of the world's most intense art/theatre experiences: Sean Rogg's radical immersive artwork The Waldorf Project -- fusing choreography, spatial design, music, and performance into a cohesive experience. Drawn from more than 20 hours of material made for the project between 2013-2018, Futuro finds Alessio Natalizia exploring a style of tonal and spatial minimalism that works as a fine palette cleanser from much of what you've heard from him... 05-ELP 040LP $30.00
Zorn, John - The Garden Of Earthly Delights "The sixth CD by Zorn’s heaviest 21st century ensemble Simulacrum celebrates the 500th anniversary of the passing of one of the greatest painters the world has ever known—Hieronymus Bosch. A visionary of unparalleled power whose imagination and fantastical creations re- main uniquely his own, Bosch is one of the most enigmatic figures in world art. Inspired by his surreal visions of Heaven and Hell, “The Garden of Earthly Delights” blends heavy metal, blues, funk, jazz and modern classical music together... TZ 8351 $17.00
Cluster - Cluster 71 CD Cluster 71 is the first album by Cluster and the least known of their early clasics. It is reissued here with the original cover art in a digipack. It's been reissued a zillion times, but no matter which edition, it's a great release... 05-Bureau B 058 $18.00
Circle - Saturnus Reality DVD "Circle don't need an introduction, but just in case: the highly prolific band's been cycling through psychedelia, art-punk, krautrock, atmospherics, and metal (among other things) since 1991."-Pitchfork Media... 28-NOQ200020DVD $13.00
Glass, Philip / Robert Wilson / Lucinda Childs - Einstein On The Beach 2 x Blu-Rays (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) One of the most significant stage productions of the 20th century, Einstein On The Beach is an amazing, baffling, entrancing work on multiple levels. It’s simply a huge and monumental work. It was first staged worldwide world-wide in 1976. I was lucky enough to see it at it’s first ‘revival’ showing in 1984 at B.A.M. and it was then staged again in 1992 but it remained unperformed from that time until the 2012-2013 stage production which is featured on this set. Over 4 hours of art and amazement... 15-OA BD7173D $48.00
Glass, Philip / Robert Wilson / Lucinda Childs - Einstein On The Beach 2 x DVDs (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) One of the most significant stage productions of the 20th century, Einstein On The Beach is an amazing, baffling, entrancing work on multiple levels. It’s simply a huge and monumental work. It was first staged worldwide world-wide in 1976. I was lucky enough to see it at it’s first ‘revival’ showing in 1984 at B.A.M. and it was then staged again in 1992 but it remained unperformed from that time until the 2012-2013 stage production which is featured on this set. Over 4 hours of art and amazement... 15-OA 1178D $41.00
Marsh, Warne - The 1950s Collection 4 x CDs This is eight albums (some quite rare, some not) of the great tenorist Warne Marsh with folks like Lee Konitz, Joe Albany, Art Pepper, Ronnie Ball, Sal Mosca and many others. You get: Lee Konitiz with Warne Marsh Jazz Of Two Cities (a killer!) Art Peper with Warne Marsh The Right Combination Music For Prancing Warne Marsh The Art Of Improvising, Vol I The Art Of Improvising, Vol II 21-EN4CD9196 $14.00
Berrocal / Fenech / Epplay - Transcodex CD “Fourth album by French group consisting of Jac Berrocal, David Fenech and Vincent Epplay. Guests: Jan Wobble and Jean-Herve Peron. Jac Berrocal is a 1946-born musician (trumpet player), poet and sometime film actor who came of age in the '70s Paris improv scene, where the boundaries between music, art and theatre were porous and begging to be breached. During the 70s his uproarious performances routinely wound up jazz and rock audiences alike, but earned the admiration of many musicians... 21-GG 402 $19.00
Roedelius - Selbsportrait Wahre Liebe “The first part of Hans-Joachim Roedelius's Selbstportrait (Self-Portrait) series was originally released under the title Sanfte Musik on Sky Records in 1979. Now, some forty years later, a new instalment has arrived in the form of an album entitled Wahre Liebe. One of the initiators of the Berlin Zodiak Free Arts Lab in 1967, Roedelius went on to co-found Kluster/Cluster and Harmonia, unleashing a new and free form of music which, with the benefit of hindsight, can be considered a milestone in the... 05-BB 335 $18.00
Roedelius - Selbsportrait Wahre Liebe 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 first part of Hans-Joachim Roedelius's Selbstportrait (Self-Portrait) series was originally released under the title Sanfte Musik on Sky Records in 1979. Now, some forty years later, a new instalment has arrived in the form of an album entitled Wahre Liebe. One of the initiators of the Berlin Zodiak Free Arts Lab in 1967, Roedelius went on to co-found Kluster/Cluster and Harmonia, unleashing a new and free form of music which, with the benefit of hindsight, can be considered a milestone in the... 05-BB 335 LP $25.00
Let See Thin - 2Years 2Late CD “Founded in 2018 in Łódź, Let See Thin released their debut album 2Years 2Late at the end of 2020. The band say that they perform music 'from the borderland of progressive rock, art rock and crossover prog'. This is a description that I agree with, but I would add that there is also a strong alternative rock feel, and some classic rock elements too. Let See Thin's 2Years 2Late is very song-focused with strong melodic choruses and verses that often have good solos without anything extraneous... 23-PGR-CD 0032 $18.00
Lockwood, Annea - Ground Of Being "Edition of 500. Housed in a six-panel wallet, with an insert of writings by Annea Lockwood. Annea Lockwood (b. 1939, New Zealand) has been an active member of the sound art world for over 50 years. Known prominently for her "Glass Concerts", exploring the sonic temperaments of glass; her "Piano Transplants", a performance piece where a piano is lit on fire or partially buried; and "Sound Maps", detailed audio studies of rivers in the United States. She has received international recognition for her... 05-R 007CD $15.00
Various Artists - Soul of a Nation 2: Jazz is the Teacher, Funk is the Preacher: Afro-Centric Jazz, Street Funk and the Roots of Rap in the Black Power Era 1969-75 CD + big booklet (due to weight, this price for the USA only) “This new album features a number of important and ground-breaking African-American artists – The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Don Cherry, Funkadelic, Gil Scott-Heron and more – alongside a host of lesser-known artists all of whom in the early 1970s were exploring new Afrocentric poly-rhythmical styles of music – radical jazz, street funk and proto-rap – while at the same time exploring the Black Power and civil-rights inspired notions of self-definition, self-respect and self-empowerment in their own lives"... 39-CD-SOJR-423 $23.00
NIMBY - Songs For Adults "Tired of hearing music designed for teenagers? Bored with all that revisionist jazz and self-indulgent art-noise? Here's something completely unexpected, from veterans of Motor Totemist Guild, Thinking Plague, 5UU's, and Giant Ant Farm. The result of this detour from their usual avant-gardism is a splendid recording, made mostly live in a barn in the south of France, of a 21st Century song-cycle representing a tongue-in-cheek manifesto for middle age in crisis. But this is not a collection of songs so.... ADHOC09 $15.00
Berliner Ring - Orbital What the London orbital is to the English capital, the Berliner ring is to Berlin: a circular highway that surrounds the city. The first contemporary release from Art Yard amalgamates disparate elements: electro mechanical devices, invented... ARTYARD701 $16.00
Budjana, Dewa - Joged Kahyangan " Every so often a major pop artist steps out of the loop and shows the world another side of his or her technical acumen and penchant for executing within a more demanding, if not less commercially viable art-form. Drummer Charlie Watts of the Rolling... MoonJune MJR 059 $13.00
Mass Culture Control Bureau / M.C.C.B - Things From The Past CD (Mega Blowout Sale) Totally wonderful round up of all the 7” and EP titles that Geoff Leigh (ex-Henry Cow) released in the late 70s and early 80s. Quite wonderful arty-art-damaged post punk whatever whoo-haa! Recommended. “Zig-zagged music, the specialty of MCCB. Across a wide spectrum of sound comes minimal electronics, jilted avantpop, artpunx, and progressive music. Some folk in there as well, somehow. This is a very fine collection of Leigh's various musings, and with it his sharp humor and immense talent shines... Ad Hoc 01 $5.00
Upsilon Acrux - Galapagos Momentum CD As I hope most of you have noticed, I have a strong belief and interest in the new, young(er) bands who are playing now what would have been called progressive rock if they had been doing it 35-40 years ago, but now they sit in a sort of a odd, uncomfortable place between math-rock, art-punk, technical-rock and god knows what other hyphenated names you care to use. In any event and in my opinion, this is one of the most intense, indescribably brilliant albums we've ever released. It's stupidly Rune 245 $15.00
Black To Comm - At Zeenath Parallel Heavens vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “Over the course of 20 years, German artist Black To Comm aka Marc Richter has pushed the limits of and merged the aesthetics of art, conceptual installations and music, coming in a wave of innovation alongside his peers Pita, Fennesz, Felicia Atkinson and later Sarah Davachi to name a few. His list of collaborations and commissions is long and impressive. Through it all Richter as Black to Comm has challenged assumptions, explored identity and confronted the concept of authorship itself. Black to Comm’s... 39-LP-THRILL-599 $29.00
Hammill, Peter - Incoherence "Thirty-five years and dozens of recordings down the pike, Peter Hammill has finally devoted an entire album of material (one 41-minute work in 14 sections) to the subject that is at the very heart of his art: language. His lyrics - even in the early days, on the first albums by Van der Graaf Generator - have always been insightful, literate and thought-provoking, ever the beating heart of his music. This album explores multiple aspects of the word - its meaning, power, implications, magic and more... 39-Fie 9129 $16.00
NIMBY - Songs For Adults (Mega Blowout Sale) "Tired of hearing music designed for teenagers? Bored with all that revisionist jazz and self-indulgent art-noise? Here's something completely unexpected, from veterans of Motor Totemist Guild, Thinking Plague, 5UU's, and Giant Ant Farm. The result of this detour from their usual avant-gardism is a splendid recording, made mostly live in a barn in the south of France, of a 21st Century song-cycle representing a tongue-in-cheek manifesto for middle age in crisis. But this is not a collection of songs so.... Ad Hoc 09 $4.00