Rock för kropp och själ stands as the final, definitive statement from Träd, Gräs och Stenar during their original tenure with the legendary Silence label. By 1972, the band had reached a breaking point. After five years of relentless touring -- defined by marathon three-to-four-hour performances delivered four or five nights a week -- the collective was physically and creatively spent. The weight of expectation had become a burden; the band felt pressured to deliver "maximum ecstasy" and total psychic immersion at every single gig. This period of high-intensity "flipped out" performances culminated in their final appearance at the Falun prison in July 1972, after which the members dispersed to refocus and recreate their individual artistic paths. Expanded content: Includes a bonus LP of rare live material from Denmark and Gothenburg.

Since 2003, Philadelphia-based improv ensemble Kohoutek -- founded and directed by percussionist Scott Verrastro -- has forged a dynamic, visceral range of sound, consisting of textural drone, atmospheric rock, abstract harsh noise freak-outs, clattering percussion, guitar heroics and alien electronics, all congealing to form a multihued psychedelic extravaganza. Inspired by such varied musical entities as Can, Amon Duul 2, Trad Gras Och Stenar, Dead C, Sun City Girls, Hawkwind, This Heat, Sun Ra, Art Ensemble of Chicago, and King Crimson, they inhabit a world of murky terrain where drone, musique concrete, and noise coalesce with cosmic folk, where doom and sludge metal merge with fiery jazzoid polyrhythms. All Kohoutek performances are rituals channeling untapped energy transmogrified through pure expression and response to the immediate environment. Akvoturo was recorded in April 2022 at Strange and New Sounds in Richmond VA with JK Kassalow (Cough/Caves Caverns), and unveils the band as a sextet featuring longtime core members Verrastro (Bitter Wish/Heavy Lidders/Henbane), bassist Craig Garrett, guitarists John Stanton (The Redeemers/Kuschty Rye Ergot), and Jeff Barsky (Insect Factory/Time Is Fire/Bed Maker) and electronics wizard John Simler (Cash Slave Clique). Kassalow augmented the ensemble with violin and analog electronics and edited and mixed the album with Verrastro. The unparalleled James Plotkin did the mastering. With Akvoturo, Kohoutek is delving into a more experimental form of their brand of US psych/space jams, a loose concept album sonically examining the consequential role that water has played in nascent civilizations, starting from our ancestral habitats. The title is in Esperanto, in theory a language as universal to humanity as water is to its diet, as well as an homage to the label ESP which is a substantial inspiration on the Kohoutek ethos, informed by revolutionary free jazz and outsider psychedelia. This release consists of four tracks. Side A starts out with "Pluvobaro," a combination of Eastern inspired components, including repetitive gamelan-esque marimba and other rhythmic work, with an insect-like drone. The side continues with "Inundo," a more traditional sounding American psych jammer. "Disfalo" starts side B, sparse and loose, like rain drops falling on various ephemera in a scrap yard, while the hum of machinery drones and squeals in the background. "Irigacio" returns to classic Kohoutek form, starting from a spacey/slide guitar based, mid-tempo head- nodding jam. It eventually builds into an ecstatic and faster single-note (almost surf) melodic guitar journey, before finally returning to the slow-head-nod tempo from the start of the song.

Triple LP version. Music springs eternal. Recognizing the enduring power of timeless albums to guide the world through life, Forever Records is a reissue series dedicated to rediscovering lost musical treasures from across the spectrum of head-feeding, heart-rending electronic music. Established by Rush Hour co-founder Christiaan Macdonald and Delsin founder Marsel van der Wielen, Forever Records places heartfelt faith in a carefully curated sequence of seminal, largely forgotten records from disparate eras, scenes and spaces within electronic music history. Tipped towards the mellow and introspective, these are albums that stop time when the needle hits the groove, stirring only when it's time to flip over before you sink back into the experience. That's what albums were always meant to be about, back then, right now, always and forever. Striking the sweet spot between sampledelic downtempo and Earth-rooted deep house, Fila Brazillia's Old Codes New Chaos is a maverick patchwork of grooves and soundscapes. Crafted in North East England in the vibrant period before chill-out was co-opted by advertising, Steve Cobby and Dave McSherry's sharp-eared funk formula remains a cult classic suite of exquisite productions spanning deep house, broken beat and ambient shot through with wry humor. Last physically released in limited quantities in 2002, Forever Records are revisiting this 1994 gem with an extensive reissue led by a triple vinyl pressing, newly mastered from the original mixdowns. Also available as a limited edition, 4LP edition including bonus tracks plus an exclusive print of Catherine Brennand's watercolor painting that graces the front of the album. All editions also feature liner notes by veteran music journalist John McCready.

LP version. Purple color vinyl. Truthdare Doubledare marked a significant change in the direction of synth-pop trio Bronski Beat's as a band, with vocalist Jimmy Somerville leaving and being replaced with John Jøn Foster. Whilst maintaining a clear voice in support of gay rights and political activism, the production gave way to a rougher and rawer style, featuring more real instruments, ever-powerful lyrics and more variety in genre. This never-before re-issued album features the #3 single "Hit That Perfect Beat," a full remaster, new remixes from the likes of I. JORDAN and Ted Carfrae and rare, unreleased studio and live versions. All editions feature full album remaster, updated artwork with rare and unseen photos. 1CD version includes 2026 Remixes from I. JORDAN and Ted Carfrae and exclusive liner notes from vocalist John Jøn Foster. Purple LP version (LMS 1725750) includes B-Sides & unreleased rarities. 3CD collector edition (LMS 1725749) includes B-Sides and unreleased rarities plus live versions and unheard studio sessions, BBC Radio 1 Session, 2026 Remixes from I. JORDAN and Ted Carfrae, as well as exclusive liner notes from vocalist John Jøn Foster and exclusive detailed timeline by project consultant Barnaby Ashton-Bullock.

2026 repress. ESP-Disk present a vinyl reissue of Henry Grimes Trio's The Call, originally released in 1966. It has occasionally been assumed that Henry Grimes got this December 28, 1965 recording date as a reward for his long service in the avant-garde of jazz. Having already honed his musical conception with a varied range of players, from Benny Goodman and Arnett Cobb to Lee Morgan, Gerry Mulligan, and Sonny Rollins to McCoy Tyner, Steve Lacy, Albert Ayler -- including Spirits Rejoice (ESPDISK 1020CD/LP)--, Don Cherry, and Cecil Taylor (to name just a few), the service was certainly there, but he got this gig fully on his merits. For The Call, Grimes teamed with highly original clarinetist Perry Robinson (as label owner Bernard Stollman has noted, "a virtuoso who merits far wider recognition...and this recording reflects both of their contributions, in equal measure") and stalwart drummer/ESP-Disk' regular Tom Price. As a bassist, Grimes's melodic style is well up to the task of being co-equal voice with a horn, resulting in a thoughtful and texturally rewarding LP with a level of quality far above the rote sideman session cliché, and far away from equally clichéd ideas of unrelentingly full-bore free jazz. It offers the sound of three excellent musicians listening to each other and responding superbly. The Juilliard-trained Grimes appeared on six other ESP LPs besides those already mentioned. He retired at some point after the last of them, 1967's Marzette Watts LP, and went so far off the scene that it was rumored that he had died. Happily, that was not the case, and he reemerged in 2003, moved back to New York, and returned to his prolific ways until illness slowed him down and then took him from us earlier this year (2020). Standard weight vinyl featuring original artwork.

2026 repress. Legendary Sun Ra bassist (Ronnie Boykins 1935-1980) stepped out on his own for his first and only release as a leader on The Will Come, Is Now. He was invited by ESP in 1964 to record his own album, and in February 1974, he told ESP that he was finally ready, and the session took place later that month. This recording not only features Boykins's solid abilities as a bassist, including his marvelous arco work, but also his talents as a composer and arranger. In addition, one is treated to an all-natural bass sound, a rare sound during this particular era of jazz history. In septet format, Boykins's six originals create a variety of moods and textures that not only evoke the music of Sun Ra but also reflect Boykins's own sensibilities as an artist. Original pressings, made just before ESP-Disk' went on hiatus for forty years and thus less common that other ESP LPs, often go for upwards of $150. 180 gram vinyl features original artwork.

After paying his dues with bluesmen Albert King and Bobby "Blue" Bland and jazzman Jaki Byard, Michael Marcus had his first album released in 1991, when he was 39. He's been prolific since then, co-leading Cosmosamatics with Sonny Simmons, SaxEmble with Frank Lowe and James Carter, Blue Reality Quartet with Joe McPhee, Warren Smith, and Jay Rosen, and Duology with Ted Daniel as well as Marcus's many albums as sole leader. Marcus had his debut on ESP with Abstractions in Lime Caverns in 2022. As Cisco Bradley writes in his liner notes, "One of the unique features of this record is Marcus's use of the tarogato. This woodwind instrument is better known for its roots in Hungarian music. The tarogato has a crisp, pure sound that allows for the precision and sensual beauty of these pieces that will leave the listener in a state of euphoria as Marcus ascends the mountains and glides across the vast valleys of these sonic landscapes." Bradley writes of the other players, "Williams, who has worked with David Murray, Cassandra Wilson, Dewey Redman, and Olu Dara in addition to making several albums of his own for Muse and elsewhere, is especially crucial in bringing to life the funky Monk concepts in these tunes. Mednard, who in recent years has established himself through associations with Guillermo Klein, Arthur Kell, Brandee Younger and others, meshes well with Rodriguez (whose credits include Alvin Batiste and Dafnis Prieto) to create tight rhythms from which these compositions and arrangements spring forth."

"Marcus joins the ranks of such visionary jazz clarinetists as Don Byron, John Carter, Jimmy Giuffre, and Perry Robinson." --All About Jazz

"Marcus writes some of the finest tunes on the avant-garde scene." --Time Out New York

"Michael Marcus is a passionate player and a fluent composer of themes that inspire improvisers." --Bob Blumenthal, Boston Globe

"He plays on that Dolphy-esque knife between inside and outside that makes for joyous listening." --Ben Watson, The Wire

2026 repress. LP version. Far Out Recordings present a reissue of Azymuth's Outubro, originally released in 1980. Following on from their seminal album Light As A Feather (1979), Outubro ("October") began Azymuth's run of prolific output for Milestone Records throughout the decade. Typifying the consummate craftsmanship of the three members's performances - each with such distinct personality and together so perfectly balanced - their perfectionist attitude to sound is maintained across the production on the album, beautifully coloring the expressionist fusion of samba rhythm, jazz progression, funk attitude and psychedelic electronics. The album hosts a wonderful mix of tempos and styles, from Alex Malheiros's earth-shaking slap-bass on "Dear Limmertz", which was to become a hit on London's underground disco and jazz-dance club scenes alike, to the late maestro Jose Roberto Bertrami's genial melodic Rhodes excursions on the vocoder laden, samba-jazz masterpiece "Un Amigo", while Ivan "Mamao" Conti's signature swing on "Maracana" exemplifies the root of Azymuth's "samba doidoi" ("crazy samba") philosophy. The two cover versions on the album consist of the title track, which was originally penned by Milton Nascimento, and Chick Corea's "500 Miles High", both of which magically re-imagine the originals and further demonstrate the immense virtuosity of this cult recording. This reissue was mixed and mastered from the original tapes.

Broadly speaking, the music of Stella Kola could be labeled psychedelic folk, although the term feels limited and pedestrian when one encounters the elegant majesty of the work itself. While drinking from the same well as Shirley Collins, Fairport Convention, C.O.B., Pentangle, Anne Briggs, Bridget St. John, and the like, not for a second does it play as a retro exercise. The music wears its influences comfortably, swimming in the atmosphere of its forebearers without feeling beholden to stylistic conceits or overt reference. If you're looking for flashy hipsterism, you've stumbled into the wrong tavern. It's a dream band, impossible to place, arising from somewhere beyond the individuals responsible. Stella Kola is an entity larger than all that. A small tear in the fabric of time allowing some light from The Land of Timelessness to come dancing through. RIYL: Bridget St. John, Slapp Happy, Broadcast, C.O.B., Julie Tippetts, Myriam Gendron, Tia Blake, Julee Cruise, Blossom Dearie, Vashti Bunyan, Kevin Ayers and the Whole World.

"Robert Thomas is known for raising a wide variety of rackets inside the Sunburned Hand of the Man multi-verse. He has also shown himself to be a dab prog hand with Dalthom, his duo with Gary War. But this project -- Stella Kola -- a duet with the great Beverly Ketch (Bunwinkies, Jow Jow, Weeping Bong Band) has a sneaky genteel vibe that is new for him. Bev and Rob wrote all the material together, having decided to collaborate in the early days of the Plague. Things came together at their own pace, with lots of friends enlisted to help. These include P.G. Six, Jeremy Pisani, Wednesday Knudsen, Willie Lane, Jen Gelineau, Gary War and others. But the shape of the material was determined by the prime movers, and possesses a shocking amount of charm and beauty. Admittedly, this is often the case with Bev's endeavors, but Rob was able to get a new flow going that compliments her calm. And the results are boss. I was a bit surprised how 'pro' the arrangements are -- strings, horns and keys are employed as though this was a big budget slab. But it manages to create a certain whiff of left field early '70s major label albums that sailed under the radar. And that is a beautiful bed in which to rest. Let Stella Kola cradle your heavy head for a bit. You'll be glad you did." -Byron Coley, December 2022

20th anniversary edition of what began the electronic era of Prurient. Subtle alternate layout with mini poster. New audio restoration for vinyl. Presented on clear smoke vinyl. Digital download code included.

Alden Hellmuth is a saxophonist, improviser, and composer "out of the ordinary" and currently based in New York. Her newest project Tether propels a two-bass acoustic jazz quartet into thrilling new low-end territory. With two of LA's most wildly inventive and radical bass players, Logan Kane and Miller Wrenn, and acclaimed drummer Justin Brown delivering a landmark performance, this band truly goes beyond the guard rails. Hellmuth, a Herbie Hancock Institute graduate with both serious compositional vision and jaw-dropping chops has carefully and creatively crafted a new sonic realm, equally at home in a jazz festival and punk rock show. Featuring appearances by Paul Cornish and Yakiv Tsvietinskyi, the album is a bold statement from a group of musicians redefining the genre. For Fans of: Herbie Hancock, Ambrose Akinmusire, Steve Lehman.

Repressed. Across an extensive suite of enchanting miniatures, Matthias Kremsreiter and Christian Schoppik present the hypnagogic vision of Taghelle Nacht. Recording under their respective Roudi Vagou and Läuten der Seele aliases, Kremsreiter and Schoppik combine their distinct but equally accomplished instrumental practices into a new collaboration that weaves swooning samples amongst instrumental passages. They lead listeners through 16 vignettes that revel in the cognitive dissonance and seductive magic of moonlight at midnight. Both artists have past form within the folds of contemporary experimental electronic music in Germany. Kremsreiter's work as alibikonkret has manifested on DIY tape releases created with a methodical, technically-minded approach. Debuting his Roudi Vagou pseudonym on Taghelle Nacht, he pivots to a more playful, instinctively felt method that allows the compositions to flow with a natural cadence. Schoppik has been a key figure in the celebrated dark-ambient-folk scene, not least as part of the group Brannten Schnüre. His work as Läuten der Seele includes the acclaimed "water trilogy" of LPs between 2022 and 2024, with a greater emphasis on instrumental, atmospheric production, and a last, stunning collaborative album with Nový Svět's Jota Solo. On Taghelle Nacht the precise ingredients of each piece soften at the edges as tape loops and swathes of reverb seal the joints between spellbinding melodic refrains. At every turn a new scene is painted, distinct from the last and yet all bound up in the pervasive, pale blue light cast over the sleeping landscape Kremsreiter and Schoppik have sculpted. Snatches of song drift by like dreamlike fragments, and achingly tender flourishes fleetingly appear and retreat -- ideas and expressions momentarily caught in the light before retreating into the shadows once more. This is the evocative world of Taghelle Nacht -- an unsettling depiction of the surreal blend of memories and imagination that merge into each other once the sun goes down.

2026 repress. Twenty-five years after its initial release, and accompanying the re-release of Internal Empire (TRESOR 027CD/LP), Tresor present a 180 gram pressing of Robert Hood's Master Builder. "25 years ago, I was faced with the challenge of following up on Minimal Nation. I cancelled all my tour dates for that summer, setup my studio in the living room and began to work on Internal Empire. My intention was to create something distinctively different. Looking out my living room window in Detroit watching people go by gave me a new perspective. It made me look at the world within myself." --Robert Hood

2026 restock. "There is something really special about music based on drones. Whether it's the vocals of Pandit Pran Nath, the ARP 2500 of Eliane Radigue, or the nearly-blown amps of Sunn O))), by changing the listener's focus on details to one that favors flow, drones are uniquely capable of transporting our brains far far away. The debut LP, Repeater, by this loudly droning Austin septet is a goddamn splendid example of how the process works. Using the motto, 'Maximal Repetition Minimal Deviation,' Water Damage create glowing fields of post-rock lava that pretty much suck you right in and boil you alive. Water Damage, while technically a septet, actually operate in various configurations, with the proviso there should always be two drummers and two bass players on hand. They prefer if each of their sonic ideas takes up a whole reel of tape, and once they start they don't look back. Everything proceeds towards an imaginary end point that is only achieved when the tape starts flapping. What a way to run a railroad! But the folks in the band are all vets of various projects -- Spray Paint, USA/Mexico, Marriage, Black Eyes, Thor & Friends, among others -- so let's assume they know what they're doing. And why not? They sound fucking great. Their approach to the form is less front-loaded than most of their peers, and the surface of their sound is sometimes ruffled by aural events of an un-dronelike nature. But the main gush is usually a blend of harmonic tones and textures pointing towards a goal that is just out of ear-shot, just over the next bluff, and perhaps forever just beyond our reach. So remember to drink plenty of liquid while you spin this fine album. Nobody wants you to parch." --Byron Coley

2026 restock of Bureau B's 2009 reissue. LP version. Originally released in 1978 on Sky Records, After The Heat was the second collaborative release by Brian Eno with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Cluster). Produced once again by Conny Plank, After The Heat is a suite of micro-managed organic and electronic instrumentation that features recited and sung vocals by Eno on 3 tracks. As Asmus Tietchens writes in the liner notes: "Cluster & Eno can, with the benefit of hindsight and without overstating its case, be seen as the first ambient album to have been produced in Germany. The second LP, After The Heat, is, however, a completely different story. Whilst Cluster & Eno bears the hallmark of a Cluster composition guided by Eno's ambient concept, After The Heat is more of an Eno album bearing stylistic characteristics of Cluster music." Sweet, slow-moving and airy, with a modern classical/prog appeal.

Circuitry presents the reissue of House Without A View, the out-of-print second album by singer-songwriter Lande Hekt. With a new album Lucky Now released on Tapete, Lande's contemporary twist on the classic C86 indie sound -- with a queer feminist punk identity lyrically explicit throughout -- is drawing in an ever-growing audience of devotees, such is the consistent quality of her songwriting, and the personality within. The opening track of the album is "Half With You" which "is about growing into yourself as a queer person, and enjoying who you are after not enjoying it for so long," says Lande. "Cut My Hair" is about how her relationship with her gender has changed over the last few years, becoming more comfortable in herself and understanding more about what makes her happy. "It's also about how easy it is to not talk to people when you're struggling, which is something I did for a long time," admits Lande. The title track of "House Without a View" deals with childhood trauma and how events of our formative years "affect us so much into our adult lives and are intrinsic to our personalities and the way we cope (or don't) with life and relationships," says Lande. Although there's darkness and sadness within the record, there's also some shining beacons of positivity and a light-hearted side, albeit with a side of frustration. "Lola" was written about Lande's cat shortly after she came to live with her and her girlfriend. "She's the first pet I've ever had and I wasn't quite ready for how hard it would be to not be able to verbally communicate with her. I worried constantly that she was depressed because all she did was sleep, but my girlfriend assured me that that was regular cat behavior."

"Rare early '80s 12-inch single mix of a track first found on Black Sounds Of Freedom. This version is a new drum track for a thick, rub-a-dub on the album cut. Features extended Prince Jammy Dub Treatment."

2026 restock; LP version. "La Monte Young was born in Bern, Idaho in 1935. He began his music studies in Los Angeles and later Berkeley, California before relocating to New York City in 1960, where he became a primary influence on Minimalism, the Fluxus movement and performance art through his legendary compositions of extended time durations and the development of just intonation and rational number based tuning systems. With wife and collaborator, artist Marian Zazeela, they would formulate the composite sound environments of the Dream House, which continues to this day. Seeing reissue for the first time since its initial 1969 release, Young and Zazeela's first full-length album is often referred to as The Black Record due to Zazeela's stunning cover design, complete with Young's original liner notes in magnificent calligraphy. Side one was recorded in 1969 (on the date and time indicated by the title) at the gallery of Heiner Friedrich in Munich, where Young and Zazeela premiered their Dream House sound and light installation. Featuring Young and Zazeela's voices against a sine wave drone, the recording is a section of the longer composition "Map of 49's Dream the Two Systems of Eleven Sets of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery" (begun in 1966 as a sub-section of the even larger work The Tortoise, His Dreams and Journeys, which was begun in 1964 with Young's group The Theatre of Eternal Music). According to Young, the raga-like melodic phrases of his voice were heavily influenced by his future teacher, the Hindustani singer Pandit Pran Nath. Side two, recorded in Young and Zazeela's NYC studio in 1964, is a section of the longer composition Studies in the Bowed Disc. This composition is an extended, highly abstract noise piece for bowed gong (gifted by sculptor Robert Morris). The liner notes state that the live performance can be heard at 33 and 1/3 RPM, but may also be played at any constant slower speed down to 8 and 1/3 RPM for turntables with this capacity." "La Monte Young is the daddy of us all." --Brian Eno

2026 restock. Wewantsounds present the first vinyl reissue Omar Khorshid's cult instrumental album from 1978 originally released in Lebanon. The album features Khorshid's trademark twangy electric guitar sound over Arabic melodies enhanced by fascinating fuzzed-up arrangements and early synthesizer sounds. Wewantsounds' series of Arabic music reissues are curated by Lebanese-born Arabic music expert Mario Choueiry from Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. The album has been newly remastered and comes with the original Voice of Lebanon LP artwork. One of the greatest guitar players of the Arab world accompanying such stars as Oum Kalthoum, Abdel Halim Hafez, and Farid El Atrache, Omar Khorshid was born in Cairo in 1945. After studying music from an early age, he joined the Egyptian pop group Les Petits Chats in 1966 and played with them for a couple of years. After seeing the group playing, Abdel Halim Hafez then recruited Khorshid for his band which led him to subsequently play for Egyptian diva Oum Khalthoum and a few other Egyptian pop stars. Following the political troubles faced by Egypt in the early '70s, Khorshid decided to move to Lebanon in 1973 and started recording under his own name for a few Beirut-based labels. In 1977, he was invited by Egyptian President Anwar El-Sadat to perform at the White House for the celebration of the Camp David Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty. In 1978, Khorshid moved out again -- to Syria this time -- for a about a year before returning to his homeland of Egypt to concentrate on live performances and on his nascent film career. Unfortunately, Khorshid efforts were cut short and he didn't have time to fulfil his ambitions tragically dying in a motorbike crash in May 1981, aged just 36. With Love released by the Beirut-based Voice of Lebanon label in 1978 is a testament to Omar Khorshid's greatness and encapsulate the unique sound of his guitar playing over modern arrangements establishing him as one of Arabic music's true innovator. Featuring reworkings of such favorites as Mohamed Abdel Wahab's "Ahwak", Farid El-Atrache's "Hebbina Hebbina" (a Brian Eno favorite), and the Rahbani Brothers' "Rahbaniyat", the album is a fascinating example of modern Arabic music that aimed at fusing traditional influences with the more contemporary ones, and has become highly sought-after by lovers of this Middle Eastern sounds around the world.

"Messrs. Corsano and Dorji are both familiar names in the Feeding Tube discography. Chris has played drums on eight FTR LPs (and recorded two other), and Tashi has played guitar on six (details upon request if you are lazy.) But this is the first time they have appeared on vinyl as a duo, and we are damn proud to have them. Over the past years Chris has recorded with a lot of the era's best guitarists -- Bill Nace, Ben Chasny, Thurston Moore, Nels Cline, David Vanzan, Bill Orcutt, Rick Bishop, Glenn Jones, Jim O'Rourke, Flo Stoffner, and onward. And Tashi has worked with some fine-ass drummers -- Thom Nguyên, Tyler Damon, Michael Zerang, Dylan Fujioka, Susie Ibarra, Marshall Trammell, etc. So perhaps this team-up was inevitable. They played their first live duo show at a one-off in 2023 and it went so well, they set up a four date tour for 2025. This set was recorded at the tour's inaugural date in Tashi's hometown, Asheville NC, at Ritual Botanica, a space run by Tashi's pals, Potion. And it is a corker. Chris runs through a panorama of his playing styles. Sometimes he flashes polyrhythmic jazzoid explosions across every available drum head. At others he lays into a slightly off-kilter backbeat like some sort of prog rock lumberjack. Simultaneously, Tashi lays out lines of space-oid feedback, drives through angular chunk-riffs ala early John McLaughlin, or spirals into psych flairs worthy of Japan's sub-underground masters. Together, they make a powerful argument for the divine mastery of drum/guitar duos, a non-standard format first introduced (to me, anyway) on Randy Holden's Population II. Live at Ritual Botanica is a different animal than Holden's classic LP, but a stone by any other name, y'know?" --Byron Coley, 2026

"Totality! Automaginary! The in-studio convergence of Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas: two albums made over a decade of time, brought ye now together on CD. Congenial and organic, individual and ensemble inclinations incline in crafting new rhythm 'n gravity pieces. Invisible force meets ancient object: unique passages in time by two ensembles in shared and separate forever arcs."

Gold disc CD housed in a digi-pack. Music springs eternal. Recognizing the enduring power of timeless albums to guide the world through life, Forever Records is a reissue series dedicated to rediscovering lost musical treasures from across the spectrum of head-feeding, heart-rending electronic music. Established by Rush Hour co-founder Christiaan Macdonald and Delsin founder Marsel van der Wielen, Forever Records places heartfelt faith in a carefully curated sequence of seminal, largely forgotten records from disparate eras, scenes and spaces within electronic music history. Tipped towards the mellow and introspective, these are albums that stop time when the needle hits the groove, stirring only when it's time to flip over before you sink back into the experience. That's what albums were always meant to be about, back then, right now, always and forever. Dancing on the wildest edge of the '90s outsider techno zeitgeist while proudly independent of any so-called scene, Ov Biospheres And Sacred Grooves: A Document Ov New Edge Folk Classics is both of its time and out of time. Rooted in the experiments of electronic music pioneers, industrial culture and ethnic music from around the globe while responding to the house and techno explosion, Robbert Heynen, Reinier Brekelmans, Reinoud van den Broek, and Tim Freeman's freewheeling masterpiece takes in lush electronica and murky abstraction on its singular voyage through parts unknown. Forever Records presents an extensive reissue edition of the first "fully released" Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia album. Originally released in 1992, this is the first time the full, previously CD-only, version of Ov Biospheres and Sacred Grooves is pressed on vinyl. The original LP and CD artwork from the various editions released in the early '90s has been combined and designed by the band, and the audio has been remastered with their full approval. Also available as limited edition housed in a gatefold sleeve that comes with a bonus 10" featuring two previously unreleased tracks (FRVR 001LTD-LP).

Double LP version. Deluxe reissue of the sole album by The Eighteenth Day Of May. Beginning life as a trio in London, 2003, the original line-up consisted of Allison Brice (vocals, flute), Richard Olson (acoustic guitar) and Ben Phillipson (guitar, mandolin) before expanding the following year to include the rhythm section of Mark Nicholas (bass) and Karl Sabino (drums, autoharp) and finally Alison Cotton (viola). This being the mid zeros, the independent music scene in the UK was reluctant to embrace a sun-dazed folk band but this, their sole album, has gradually feathered a bed of affection amongst international folk fans. Twenty years on, the album is now rightfully seen as a trailblazer for the myriad alternative/psych folk bands that emerged in its wake. Andy Childs who signed the band originally takes up the story. "I first heard their music on a cover mounted CD with the much missed Comes With A Smile magazine and as far as I could tell no-one was making music like this anymore, certainly not with such panache and confidence. To my jaded ears it all sounded so uninhibited -- old weird folk songs, Americana, original psych-folk, minimalist drones. Great melodies and all six of them could sing! A joyous, unfettered sound that could in one moment conjure up flashes of The Byrds and then effortlessly the spirit of Velvet Underground would drift through. They even covered a Spacemen 3 song. I loved the fact that they had the aplomb to tackle traditional folk songs like 'Lady Margaret' and 'Flowers In The Forest' and not be afraid to stamp their own identity on them. Signing them to the Hannibal label was straightforward. If anything the album somehow sounds fresh and undated, even better than it did in the day when perhaps eclecticism was out of synch with the times; its subtleties have become more apparent."

LP version. Red color vinyl. The first time on any format for Pier Paolo Pasolini's controversial 1975 vision of the Marquis De Sade's 120 Days Of Sodom, featuring beautiful and discordant classical compositions, in stark contrast to the shocking and cruel events unfolding onscreen. Three weeks before the scandalous release of Salò, or The 120 Days Of Sodom, Pasolini was brutally murdered in Ostia, Italy. In the wake of the tragedy, legendary composer Ennio Morricone wrote "Addio a Pier Paolo Pasolini" (Goodbye to Pier Paolo Pasolini) for the late filmmaker, included in the final edit. Following the narrative of one of Pasolini's defining cinematic moments, the soundtrack opens with Ennio Morricone's "Son Tanto Triste," descends into the melancholic minor chords of Bach, Chopin, Orff, Puccini, and Graziosi, incorporates sinister renditions by the cast, and includes Morricone's own somber tribute to the director. Disgusted by the flood of crass sexploitation movies which filled the space opened up by his Trilogy Of Life, Pasolini turned to the most nihilistic thinker in European history for what became his final film. His version of De Sade's 120 Days Of Sodom, amplified with motifs from Dante's Inferno, confronts the ultimate implications of fascism in a series of sexual and moral atrocities. Limited LP edition of 500 copies on blood red vinyl in gatefold matt-laminate sleeve.

The inaugural release for Nairobi label From Cool Waters is a feverish amalgam of traditional Kenyan currents and moody, minimalist electronics. Emerging from the confluence of three special talents -- Nairobi-based Nyege Nyege collaborator and experimental drummer Sven Kacirek, esteemed 83-year-old folk artist Ogoya Nengo and dodo singer/songwriter and luthier Olith Ratego -- Palagoma channels an electroacoustic synergy unlike anything you've ever heard before. The artists have collaborated in various guises before; German-born Kacirek co-produced and recorded Nengo's 2014 captivating debut LP for Honest Jon's, Rang'ala, while Ratego and Kacirek formed the duo Odd Okoddo in 2018, performing at Uganda's influential Nyege Nyege Festival in 2019 and 2023 and at events all over the world.

A closing chapter for Iro Aka: ambient introspection and precise IDM meet in a deeply personal, memory-driven LP. Barcelona-based duo Iro Aka present Memories Exploration, a record that marks the closing of a creative chapter. The LP unfolds as a personal archive -- tracing ideas, influences, and emotional states shaped over time. The A-side moves through ambient-leaning territories, building meditative landscapes where time seems to dissolve and blur. Through tracks like "Frozen Sun" and "Golden Sea," the duo showcase a refined approach to sound design, shaped by carefully distilled emotion. Meanwhile, "Gendo" and "Intervertert" lean further inward -- sketching moments of deep introspection through soft textures and a minimalist sensitivity that invites contemplation. On the B-side, the record shifts. Rhythmic structures come into focus, drawing from IDM and broken beat patterns with a precise, understated touch. "L," "Ozadene," and "Phased9" introduce movement while maintaining the album's introspective core. Closing track "We Felt in Love with a Loop" brings the album to a gentle, open-ended close. The artwork by Jack Anderson reflects this sense of fragmented memory and process, complementing the album's emotional tone. Rather than a definitive ending, Memories Exploration feels like a transition -- an understated way of closing one chapter before the next begins.

"Taco" means "octopus," "kite," and even "bunion" in Japanese. Bald men or men with shaven heads, as well as red-faced, staggering drunks, are also referred to as "Taco." It's a word that appears in a lot of slang and sayings. Taco is also the name of an '80s music and performance collective whose performances were like nothing before or since. The Japanese band Taco, formed at the beginning of the '80s, is a loose group/collective of varying members that belongs to the post-punk alternative music movement. The network of members were all friends and acquaintances of Harumi Yamazaki, ex-member of Gaseneta and Taco's central member. Taco can be described as a band of guerrillas who, over the years, continued to connect, collect, interrupt, and scatter while sending out into the world music and sounds that can best be described as transient. Taco also performed without Harumi, and so it is as though the band is an anonymous group of mercenaries. Taco's first album was released in 1983 and had a huge impact on Japan's underground music scene as an anomalous and collaborative album involving various participating artists (the stars of Japan's underground music scene!) and Harumi, who provided the lyrics. Although each track represents a reverberating conglomeration of sounds created by this transient local network, common to all the tracks are Harumi's expressive lyrics. However, because of another incident in which the records were recalled due to the scandal caused by some of the lyrics, only a limited number of people actually own a copy of the album. Taco's second album, released in 1984, features a live recording of a performance that was held at the end of 1982. This is an album which effectively conveys the power of Taco's astounding and legendary live performances, as well as Harumi's inflammatory, sensational, and masochistic presence on stage. Her mutterings and screams, which practically ignore the detached beat, confront the audience like an overwhelming groundswell.

The historic and perhaps infamous Psychopathia Sexualis LP, originally recorded and released on creamy-colored vinyl in 1982, and for decades a clandestine, highly sought-after collector's item, is now here for the very first time in CD format! Finally! This brand-new Susan Lawly legacy reissue CD version, digitally remastered by Andrew Liles, features a beautiful 12-page booklet packed with photos, technical info, and a biographical text by William Bennett.

"On the cover: EarthBall: The Canadian improvised free rock collective have earned a reputation for electrifying live sets since their 2019 inception. Last year's Actual Earth Music Volumes 1 & 2 documented performances in Vancouver and London, with guest collaborations from Chris Corsano and Steve Beresford. This year they follow up with Volumes 3 & 4 incorporating live recordings from Geneva and the Le Guess Who? festival in Utrecht. By Emily Pothast. Inside: DoYeon Kim: The Seoul born, New York based gayageum player, composer and improvisor has released her highly anticipated debut Wellspring on TAO Forms, supported by an ensemble featuring drummer Tyshawn Sorey, double-bassist Henry Fraser and violist Mat Maneri. By Stewart Smith; Jocy de Oliveira: In the year of her 90th birthday, the pioneering Brazillian composer and pianist's work is the subject of Dácio Pinheiro's documentary film The Circular Universe, reflecting on her life, work and legacy. By Andy Cumming; Onilu: For their forthcoming album Jakutá's Dance, on New York's 577 records, Onilu founders Kevin Diehl and Joe Chambers have been joined by Craig McIver and Daniel Villarreal to create a formidable percussion ensemble. By Phil Freeman."

LP version. White color vinyl. Circuitry presents the reissue of House Without A View, the out-of-print second album by singer-songwriter Lande Hekt. With a new album Lucky Now released on Tapete, Lande's contemporary twist on the classic C86 indie sound -- with a queer feminist punk identity lyrically explicit throughout -- is drawing in an ever-growing audience of devotees, such is the consistent quality of her songwriting, and the personality within. The opening track of the album is "Half With You" which "is about growing into yourself as a queer person, and enjoying who you are after not enjoying it for so long," says Lande. "Cut My Hair" is about how her relationship with her gender has changed over the last few years, becoming more comfortable in herself and understanding more about what makes her happy. "It's also about how easy it is to not talk to people when you're struggling, which is something I did for a long time," admits Lande. The title track of "House Without a View" deals with childhood trauma and how events of our formative years "affect us so much into our adult lives and are intrinsic to our personalities and the way we cope (or don't) with life and relationships," says Lande. Although there's darkness and sadness within the record, there's also some shining beacons of positivity and a light-hearted side, albeit with a side of frustration. "Lola" was written about Lande's cat shortly after she came to live with her and her girlfriend. "She's the first pet I've ever had and I wasn't quite ready for how hard it would be to not be able to verbally communicate with her. I worried constantly that she was depressed because all she did was sleep, but my girlfriend assured me that that was regular cat behavior."

Cluster -- Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius -- occupy a central position in the evolution of European electronic music, moving from early experimental noise into more open, melodic forms without losing their exploratory edge. Released in 1976, Sowiesoso finds the duo working with a new sense of clarity and restraint, shaping gentle, cyclical pieces from a small set of tools and a deliberately reduced studio setup. The music unfolds with quiet precision, balancing repetition and variation while maintaining an understated rhythmic flow. Marking its 50th anniversary, the album is reissued as a limited LP edition on 180g vinyl, hand-numbered and restricted to 1000 copies. A defining work from Cluster's mid-1970s period, presented in a carefully produced anniversary format. Sowiesoso follows on from Cluster's most highly acclaimed album Zuckerzeit. Michael Rother's influence was clearly audible on the latter, Cluster already having recorded two albums with him under the name of Harmonia. 1976 saw the duo looking for new musical forms. More than any other Cluster album, Sowiesoso represents the utopian vision of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius, its mellow transparency evoking the landscape of the Weser Uplands where the two musicians lived at the time. Sowiesoso is not the work of fanatic dreamers who have fled the metropolis, but the reward for their tenacious search for a new musical language. The LP's seven cuts were recorded in their own studio with modest equipment -- a fourtrack tape machine, two Revox A77 stereo tapedecks and a simple 8-channel mixer. Cluster were thus completely independent, able to work where and when they wanted, at their own pace. With no guest musicians, sound engineers or producers to accommodate, Cluster thrived on their new-found autonomous freedom. Sowiesoso captures them at the peak of their creative development, with the limited range of recording equipment enhancing the clarity of their vision, allowing them to concentrate on the music without drifting into narcissistic muso territory. Minimalist, yet neither formulaic nor automated, the album is a rhythmic tapestry of electronic and acoustic elements. This could only be Cluster music, its harmonies reaffirm the quality of song, in spite of eluding song structure as such.

Standard 140g black vinyl, limited edition. High-quality 380gsm invercote cardboard sleeves and antistatic polylined inner sleeves. Following the internationally acclaimed and German Jazz Award-nominated success of their 2025 debut MYT, the Moses Yoofee Trio returns with Chasing Light -- a six-track EP capturing the unrestrained, instinctive spirit of their Neukölln rehearsal sessions. Pianist Moses Yoofee, bassist Roman Klobe and drummer Noah Fürbringer spent a full week recording freely, jamming ideas, and pushing each other out of their comfort zones, resulting in their most vibrant and exploratory release to date. Fresh from an extensive 2025 world tour across Asia, the US and Europe, the trio channels the adrenaline of the road into an EP where jazz and hip-hop-infused improvisation meets afrobeat-driven grooves, frenetic breakbeats and lush harmonic textures. From the siren-like synths of "Nothing to Lose" to the rhythmic intricacies of "Inner Circles," the layered richness of the title track and the hip-hop swagger of "Honest," Chasing Light invites listeners deep into the trio's uniquely intuitive musical universe.

Restocked! Hardcover, 656 pages, 500 color images. 28 × 21 cm. "A massive photographic archive of Lee 'Scratch' Perry's legendary recording studio. A 600-page tribute to one of the most famous locales in music history, Black Ark is a detailed inventory of photographs and writings from the Black Ark Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, where producer Lee 'Scratch' Perry created music from 1973 onward. The eclectic and constantly evolving decoration of the studio provides an enduring visual counterpart to Perry's expansive musical catalog. From mural paintings to shape-shifting assemblages of records, instruments, found objects, posters and newspaper clippings, the artworks layer upon one another as they intertwine with the studio building itself. Perry created his own dense and diverse world in which to work: memorialized in this volume before the Black Ark disappears for good. The photographic documentation of the studio in the spring of 2021 was supplemented by efforts to secure and preserve Perry's works, objects and recordings as part of a joint project with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Black Ark reflects the rhythm and layering effects of collage both in its content and the materials used to craft the book. Perry was involved in the development of this publication until his death in August 2021. The book closes with memorial essays from Ishion Hutchinson, David Katz, Kodwo Eshun, and John Corbett. Lee 'Scratch' Perry (1936-2021) was a musician and producer best known for pioneering the dub genre in the 1970s. He worked with well-known Jamaican artists such as Bob Marley and the Wailers, the Heptones, the Congos, and Max Romeo. In 2003 he won a Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album."

Opponents Stims has two cuts from Clark's live show, the blistering, pummeling, nominatively deterministic 'Relentless Opponent' and the euphoric/cathartic 'Who Booed the Geese,' maxing out Goose intensity. They nestle up against two coy vignettes, Uxor Cut and My Crow Life and then Frisky Mellows. That's an addictive, briskly paced 4/4 Detroit-tinted number that could almost be a lost Carl Craig classic.

LP version. Lau Nau (Laura Naukkarinen), Linda Fredriksson, and Matti Bye enter the We Jazz Records realm as Kiri Ra!, a trio that creates their sound slowly, in a process of improvisation and discovery. Filtered through the musicians' long-standing friendship and collaboration, Kiri Ra!'s music is a testament to the joy of creation and invention. Their sound together draws from each of the artists' work before, while creating new world of sound. Their music is about letting go and being free to take in the even softest whisper and the most minute sonic particle to complete a mosaic filled with beauty. Kiri Ra! follow their own path with courage, showing how letting go can create new worlds. From Kiri Ra!: "This music does not try to be anything. No pre-determined references, we get into our recording sessions without any verbal communication. It's more like a state of mind where we are not trying anything, we just see what happens. We create a moment that is unexpected and doesn't have any locked direction. We are not trying to be anything, We are existing together. This music was made with a lot of time. We drank coffee and tea. Played. Enjoyed pulla and cookies. Played a bit more. We talked. We were slow. It took 10 years to combine the right pieces for the album. We were not in a hurry. Keywords: air, space, love, time, rest, electronic, synthetic, organic, warmth, wood." RIYL: Linda Fredriksson "Juniper", Lau Nau, Matti Bye, Laraaji, Laurie Spiegel, Joanna Brouk, Nala Sinephro, ambient, abstract electronic music.