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100 FLOWERS - 100 FLOWERSFirst-time reissue of underground LA classic, originally released in 1983. This band, previously known as THE URINALS, had a sound that rests between the inspired bursts of The Minutemen and the pastoral jangle of the Dream Syndicate, with similarities to the equally ... read more » |
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ARESKI & BRIGITTE FONTAINE - JE NE CONNAIS PAS CET HOMMEHere's a vinyl reissue of this intriguing 1973 collaboration. The music is deeply rooted in North African and European folk traditions and features evocative vignettes with breezy vocals and minimal accompaniment of classical guitar, strings and woodwinds. |
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ARTEMIEV, EDWARD - SOLARIS O.S.T. (ORIGINAL)It's only appropriate that Solaris, Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's psychological sci-fi classic from 1972, contains an equally original and mind-bending score. Solaris explores the inadequacies of time and memory on an enigmatic planet below a derelict space station. ... read more » |
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ARTEMIEV, EDWARD - THE MIRROR/STALKER O.S.T. (USA)It comes as no surprise that Andrei Tarkovsky, master of Soviet cinema, turned to composer Edward Artemiev to score his two lyrical and haunting films, The Mirror (1975) and Stalker (1979), as he had done for Solaris (also available on Superior Viaduct). Artemiev's ... read more » |
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AVENGERS - AVENGERSReissue of the band's first and only album, originally released in 1983. Essential US punk! |
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AVENGERS - AVENGERSA vinyl reissue of this essential 1983 US punk album, presented with a poster and download. |
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BATTIATO, FRANCO - CLICOn his fourth album, entitled 'Clic', Franco Battiato moved further out to create a seminal work that flows naturally from one musical form to the next. Every second ripples with orbital chords, kosmische textures and schizophrenic string quartets, yet somehow manages the ... read more » |
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BATTIATO, FRANCO - FETUSA reissue of the classic avant-pop debut-album from the legendary electronic music pioneer. Originally released in 1971 on Bla Bla, 'Fetus' predated the prodigious Cramps and Multhipla catalogues to become one of the first electronic records produced in Italy. With his ... read more » |
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BATTIATO, FRANCO - POLLUTION'Pollution' from 1972 is the captivating follow-up to 'Fetus'. Like its predecessor, the album features Baroque textures, motorik rhythms, weird tape effects and Battiato's perfectly oblique vocals. Upon hearing 'Pollution', Frank Zappa joyfully proclaimed it ... read more » |
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BATTIATO, FRANCO - SULLE CORDE DI ARIES1973's 'Sulle Corde Di Aries' is the third chapter in Battiato's foray into esoteric pop. While the artist would venture further out into avant-garde terrain on subsequent releases, his early records enjoy a lyrical and playful spirit-eschewing traditional, song-based ... read more » |
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BENDER, JOHN - I DON'T REMEMBER NOW/I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT'I Don't Remember Now/I Don't Want To Talk About It', Bender's first album from 1980, is a holy grail of minimal lo-fi electronics. Layers of fractured melodies, distorted synthesizers, hollowed-out rhythms and claustrophobic vocals unfold over the 40 minutes of this lost ... read more » |
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BENDER, JOHN - PLASTER FALLINGA vinyl-reissue of John Bender's 1981 release 'Plaster Falling'. Veering towards skeletal urgency, these recordings set bright analogue melodies against half-whispered vocals and expand Bender's electronic cryptography thru a series of lone signifiers. |
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BENDER, JOHN - POP SURGERYFollowing the release of lo-fi electronic masterpiece 'I Don't Remember Now'/'I Don't Want To Talk About It' and his brilliant follow-up 'Plaster Falling', Cincinnati-based artist John Bender began assembling his third and last album, 'Pop Surgery', in late 1982. While all ... read more » |
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BRANCA, GLENN - LESSON NO. 1 (2X12")After cutting his teeth in the late '70s no wave scene with bands Theoretical Girls and The Static, Glenn Branca made his first solo statement, 'Lesson No. 1', in 1980. The inaugural release on legendary post-punk/dance label 99 Records, 'Lesson No. 1' unveiled Branca's ... read more » |
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BRANCA, GLENN - THE ASCENSIONGlenn Branca's first full-length album 'The Ascension' is a colossal achievement. After touring much of 1980 with an all-star band featuring four guitarists (Branca, fellow composers Ned Sublette and David Rosenbloom, and future Sonic Youth member Lee Ranaldo) along with ... read more » |
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BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. - CALL ME BURROUGHSOriginally released in 1965 by The English Bookshop in Paris and later by ESP-Disk in New York, 'Call Me Burroughs' marks the recorded debut of William Burroughs. While Burroughs has had pervasive influence on counterculture in the past 50 years -from the beats to punk rock ... read more » |
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COLEMAN, ORNETTE - TO WHOM WHO KEEPS A RECORDThis awesome collection of outtakes from COLEMAN's Atlantic period gets its first ever reissue on vinyl. Originally issued in 1975, the recordings date from 1959 and 1960. |
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COLTRANE, ALICE - A MONASTIC TRIOFirst time vinyl reissue of one of the great debuts in jazz history, originally released on Impulse in 1968. This album showcases her immense talent for fusing spiritual free jazz and new age with classical, Eastern, post-bop and gospel styles. |
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COLTRANE, ALICE - LORD OF LORDSOriginally released in 1972, 'Lord Of Lords' was Alice Coltrane's final album for Impulse! and the last installment in her awe-inspiring trilogy that also included 'Universal Consciousness' and 'World Galaxy'. While all three records featured strings alongside a jazz ... read more » |
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COLTRANE, JOHN -& ALICE COLTRANE- - COSMIC MUSIC (USA)Reissue of a fantastic 1968 free jazz album. Two tracks are John Coltrane's last recordings from 1966, two further cuts are creditied to Alice, and date from 1968. |
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CONRAD, TONY - TEN YEARS ALIVE ON THE INFINITE PLAIN (2CD)'Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain' is the quintessential work of artist/filmmaker/composer TONY CONRAD. Comprising a film installation as well as a minimalist score for amplified strings, this work leaps across genre and medium to connect his revolutionary structural ... read more » |
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CONRAD, TONY - TEN YEARS ALIVE ON THE INFINITE PLAIN (2LP)'Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain' is the quintessential work of artist/filmmaker/composer TONY CONRAD. Comprising a film installation as well as a minimalist score for amplified strings, this work leaps across genre and medium to connect his revolutionary structural ... read more » |
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CONRAD, TONY -WITH FAUST- - OUTSIDE THE DREAM SYNDICATE'Outside The Dream Syndicate', originally released in Europe only in 1973, is a stunning debut. Two side-long tracks -'The Side Of Man And Womankind' and 'The Side Of The Machine'- show just how far Conrad had moved beyond his minimalist peers. Werner Diermaier's repetitive ... read more » |
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CONRAD, TONY -WITH FAUST- - OUTSIDE THE DREAM SYNDICATE'Outside The Dream Syndicate', originally released in Europe only in 1973, is a stunning debut. Two side-long tracks -'The Side Of Man And Womankind' and 'The Side Of The Machine'- show just how far Conrad had moved beyond his minimalist peers. Werner Diermaier's repetitive ... read more » |
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CRIME - MURDER BY GUITARSan Francisco's first and only rock n' roll band, CRIME loomed over the entire Mabuhay Gardens scene with their blistering 1976 single 'Hot Wire My Heart.' CRIME's loose, damaged rock n' roll was as immediate as it was controversial. They were punk by any definition, yet ... read more » |
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