Browse by Label: QBICO (ITALY)

Artist:	MURUGA & THE GLOBAL VILLAGE CEREMONIAL BAND
Title:
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 048LP

"New rocket by Muruga, after the Free Funk LP! This healing session opens and closes with two funk/jazz tracks, rec. by Muruga in trio & 4et with Ken Kozara on muted trumpet and Richard Smith on bass; Belita Woods, from P-Funk, is added on the last track of the album, 'May The Funk Be With You.' The middle of the record is mostly perc. heavy and trance/ethnic oriented. 'Ascension' had been written by the late master Baba Olatunji and had been rec. live @ The Spirit Drum Fest. w/special guest Badal Roy (who rec. w/Miles Davis, Ornette, Don Cherry, ect...) and Sikiru Adepoju (who rec. w/Mickey Hart, Olatunji, ect..). 'Nelson Ledges' is a drums trio rec. live as well @ The Rhythm Fest in Ohio. 'Out of Nothing' is a very special duo piece rec. w/Prem Das: here Muruga uses a unique Nada drum, while Prem Das (long years of apprenticeship in Mexico with a Huichol shaman and was also a colleague of Timothy Leary & Ralph Metzner) uses a water drum for a quite hypnotic effect ! Open your heart and let your body move... to the rhythm, to the groove!"

Artist:	MACKAY AND THE RADON ENSEMBLE, STEVE
Title:	Tunnel Diner
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 049LP

"Sax player Steve Mackay blow with The Stooges on the legendary Fun House session in 1970 (and rejoined them in 2003 when they played their first show in 29 years at the Coachella Festival, and he has performed with them ever since + rec. two more albums)... nearly 25 years later he got involved w/Radon Ensemble, which includes members from such disparate groups such as Temple of Bon Matin & the Arthur Doyle EAE (Paternostro/Wilcox), Nimrod (Lohman), Koonda Holaa (Kamilsky), ect... the 10 tracks from his 3rd release as a leader (1st being a recent collaboration w/Smegma issued on CD + Michigan and Arcturus, as well on CD) are the highlights from live or radio sessions rec. over a two year span: 2004/06. Musically speaking you're on a magic carpet for a wild ride: they rock hard and swing free with whimsical & powerful electronic touches... it's really a unique ride in his genre!"

Artist:	PENGO
Title:	Toadstools Amongst the Tombstones
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 055LP

Green vinyl with grey. "Pengo is: John Schoen, Jason Finkbeiner, R. Nuuja. Pengo comes from Rochester, NY and are simply a dark-bright beacon of madness in the subterranean swamp of psychedelic junk collectors. They're kind of elusive, having issued only an LP prior to this release (it had been a year since we're working on this album) + a few CD-Rs and tapes. Got affiliations with Coffee & the Doyle EAE... wild stuff/weird vibes!"

Artist:	TRULOFA
Title:	Trulofa
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 062LP

"I met these very young and promising fellas at the Qbico U-nite I did in Aarhus and to me this is the most exciting music coming out of Denmark right now, with Family Underground included, of course. Here they presented a very varied set, starting with some electronic trance inducing music by Marc Gade, to followed by an ad hoc baroque drunken marching band live from a Poland tour. Side B starts with another beautiful & melancholic all acoustic affair (mostly stringed) and ends with an improvised electro-acoustic number of magical and fragile beauty. Marc Gade one day was reading a Shirley Collins text where she explained that true love came from the root of an old Danish word: trulofa."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Qbico U-Nite V, Turku, Finland
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 067LP

Recorded live @ Dynamo Klubi on March 11, 2006 by Mikko Lagernohm. "Two unique sides: on side A you'll hear a rare meeting among Rakhim (Circle's more dark side project) and Hans-Joachim Irmler from legendary Faust! While on side B, a two male/two female playful affair (Qbico's idea) among brothers Tolvi (Rahun Orkesteri) and Antti Tolvi's wife Lau Nau with Kuupuu. True united spirit and perfect balance between both sides with opposite moods..." Pressed on blue marbled vinyl. Last copy.

Artist:	BORIS MORGANA
Title:	Liquid Child
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 069LP

Recorded early 2006 in Pakkala, Finland. Robin Ellis, Juho Hotanen, Juuso Paaso, Taneli Tuominen, Jukka Vallisto and Hermanni Yli-Tepsa. "When I went in Finland for the first Qbico u-nite in Turku, I met Taneli (sax player) who gave me this strong recording of his group Boris Morgana... after hearing a few seconds of it, I immediately thought that it alone was worth the trip up North: heavy stuff and pretty unique in its kind!" Pressed on chocolate brown vinyl.

Artist:	GEERKEN, HARTMUT
Title:	Amanita
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$42.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 075LP

"Practically impossible to make it brief here, H. Geerken: author, composer, musician, film-maker, performer, actor, mycologist, archivist, stager of exhibitions, publisher of numerous authors from the circle of literary expressionism and Dada, lumberjack, bumble-bee keeper. During his six-year stay in Egypt in the '60s, he co-founded (together with Salah Ragab and Edu Vizvari) the Cairo Jazz Band as well as the Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble, played in various music groups: Embryo, a trio with John Tchicai and Don Moye (extensive tour of Africa) and also with the Art Ensemble of Chicago. He worked with Sunny Murray, Don Cherry, Okay Termiz, Peter Kowald, Takehisa Kosugi, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Michael Ranta, etc. Today Geerken possesses one of the most comprehensive Sun Ra archives. His book Omniverse Sun Ra (1994) , which contains the first all-embracing discography of the musician, has meanwhile grown to be a priceless cult book. Together with James Wolf from the Library Of Congress in Washington D.C., he is editor of the recently published collected poems and philosophical works of Sun Ra (The Immeasurable Equation, 2005). This is Geerken's first-ever solo release (a major event indeed!) and it was recorded under the influence of magic mushrooms (dried amanita muscaria). One of the instruments played here is Sun Ra's Sun harp (a Bulgarian bandura), which Sun Ra gave him in 1971 in Egypt, where Hartmut invited the Arkestra to play. They didn't get any money to fly back to the States, so Hartmut kindly borrowed them some bread for the trip back... in exchange, Sun Ra gave him his Sun harp (which you'd hear on several Saturn LPs and which was one of the few instruments that Sun Ra played besides keyboards) saying I'll buy it back from you one day... which evidently never happened. The other string instrument played here is a swarmandal, which was given to him in 1976 in New Delhi by the renowned Dhrupad singers: the Dagar brothers. Probably the wildest Qbico ever... alien sounds!" Originally recorded on May 11, 1995. Parts of this are as screwed up as as something like the Seventh Sons' 4 A.M. At Frank's -- killer. Limited stock.

Artist:	ERUPTION
Title:	Live Action, 1972 Wuppertal
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$42.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 076LP

Music by: Conrad Schnitzler, Klaus Freudigmann, Wolfgang Seidel and friends. Three side-long tracks, the complete concert. "Here we go, after releasing a 1970 rec. of Eruption. I'm so honored to make available for the first time ever the complete Live Action, 1972 recorded in Wuppertal by Conrad Schnitzler's loose collective. Space is the stage." Last copies; it is believed that this is the same recording as issued under the artist name Kluster by Important Records (IMPREC 180: Volcano). Last copies...

Artist:	COTTON MUSEUM
Title:	No Face in the Bog
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$24.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 078LP

"Cow's milk vinyl, artworks and music by Chris Pottinger, with insert. Side A originally released as a limited edition CD-R art set in 100 copies on Tasty Soil, Creature. B1 track is unreleased, recorded in 2007. B2 originally released in 2006 on Fag Tapes as a side of a tour cassette with Sick Llama. B3 was played as a loop for 8 months straight on a pirate radio station that broadcast out of the Cloud House on 107.9 FM. Far-out electronic music for the third millennium! The track on side A is side long and totally insane (don't know but I hear echoes of Kawabata's solo on Qbico #11, could be a new step/continuation?!), my amplifier's pointers never went so schizophrenic! Side B starts with a short electronic meditation thinned out by pure acid. The middle piece is long and it grows on you, deeper and deeper. This futuristic rocket ends with a mesmerizing short track that was broadcast as a loop on a pirate radio station for 8 consecutive months! All in tune: the cover, the vinyl color, the music AND the creatures! An exhibition (curated by Thurston Moore) of Chris Pottinger's fine artwork was displayed at the latest No Fun Fest."

Artist:	ODD CLOUDS
Title:	Odd Clouds
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	PIC. DISC
Price:	$24.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 079LP

Picture disk, with artwork by Chris Pottinger & Jamie Easter. Recorded between 2004-2007 in Detroit, Ferndale, and Hamtramck, Michigan. Performers: Chris Pottinger, Jamie Easter, Heath Moerland, Glen Morren, Chris Sprague, Matt Smith, Noah Eikhoff & Free Wade. "Their 1st LP that came out a couple of years ago, was among the best things I had heard and seen in the last few years. So I didn't hesitate to get in touch with them. They kindly brought some odd clouds at the Qbico U-nite I did in 2007, along with some special gifts, so I immediately liked them! The music is simply one of the most exciting ever released on Qbico, as well as the artwork. Hear, see and feel to believe in some mighty clouds."

Artist:	COOPER, MIKE
Title:	Live At The Hint House
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 091LP

Recorded in NYC, 2000. "Live At The Hint House might be considered a field recording in as much as it is a recording of an ambience or soundscape. Made on my first ever trip to mainland America to play music this is the 2nd set of that evening, the 1st set had been an acoustic one of songs and slide guitar. At the start of the 2nd set I quickly realized that my guitar was not working and rather than stop and attempt to find out what was wrong I decided to just continue and improvise with what was at hand on the table in front of me. A Casio SK1 sampler keyboard, a Yamaha SU10 sampling unit with some pre-recorded samples loaded, a mini disc with some tropical ambience rec. from Malaysia and a pitch shifter delay pedal. I was not very happy with what happened that night and when Matt Zwed gave me two CD-Rs the next day I don't remember giving much attention to the 2nd set. Five years on, coincidently to the day as I write this, I realized he had captured more than me trying to get through the piece. It was me, the people in the room, the dog that ran around barking, the traffic sounds coming through the door that was open right behind me and a whole host of magically transported tropical birds and insects that suddenly found themselves reciting whatever it was in the loft space on the edge of Harlem, competing or colluding with all of the above to produce a piece of urban exotica." -- Mike Cooper

Artist:	CHURINGA CANARIES
Title:	Untitled
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 092LP

Phil Legard, Alexander Neilson, Tirath Singh Nirmala, and Phil Todd. Recorded in Leeds, December 2005. Originally released as a CD-R limited to 100 copies. "Collaborations can be a hell of a gamble. Fortunately, it seems that in the world of the underground music lover, collaborative ventures always seem to turn out to be synergetic exercises that yield amazing results. Churinga Canaries is such an endeavor: a one-off group effort improvised by four of the brightest lights in the UK underground music dog-and-pony show. A rundown of the participants should be more than enough to cause many of you to drool with excitement. Phil Legard (Xenis Emputae Travelling Band), Alex Neilson (Scatter, Richard Youngs collaborator, etc.), Tirath Singh Nirmala (formerly John Clyde-Evans of Hood) and Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations) assembled in Leeds in chilly December 2005 to bang out some noise and melt the ice right out from under themselves with a warm bowl of sonic porridge. The results are two stunning long-form tracks of joyful jazz-inflected psych-noise in the vein of some of the wilder Ash Nav moments. Neilson's propulsive yet amazingly free drumming serves as the perfect background for the virtual maelstrom conjured up by the other three improvisers. About five minutes into the leading track, 'Under Heavy Rent,' the sound is so dense and chaotic that it's almost dizzying. The foursome manage to keep themselves and their sound from breaking apart into a million tiny pieces, but just barely. 'A Sovtek Swirl' starts off subdued, with a recurring thematic element gluing the shards of our dumbstruck minds back together again. By the time the disc is finished however, you'll be left panting in a useless heap on the floor. This is powerful stuff, not to be taken lightly. Don't say I didn't warn you!" -- Review of the CD-R by Byron Hayes from July 2006 (Foxy Digitalis)

Artist:	KLUSTER AND FRIENDS
Title:	1969-1973
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	6LP BOX
Price:	$225.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 094

Small (and final) repress of this limited box, which has been made in an edition of only a few hundred. Unreleased music from Schnitzler, Freudigmann, Seidel & Friends. "6LP (black vinyls/black labels/black inner sleeves) box, spray painted (stencil/lettering by Troglosound) in gold or silver or bronze (3 versions). Unreleased music!" "Kluster was never over. There is KLUSTER until today. If we friends met, we didn't think about, under which name we met. It is the style of the music which comes out. No other group made such music. This is Kluster-music, it is a style.." -- Conrad Schnitzler.

Artist:	TOYOZUMI & MOTOTERU TAKAGI, SABU
Title:	If Ocean Is Broken
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$42.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 095LP

"Unreleased free jazz from Japan in its prime, recorded live in Tokyo in 1971. Mototeru Takagi already released two beautiful duo LPs back then with master Japanese drummers like Masahiko Togashi (Isolation) and Toshi Tsuchitori (Origination), so this last DLP is complete in a sense the set of duo recorded with the best, 1st generation, free music drummers from Japan. On the other side it's complete also, the duo recorded by Sabu with the greatest reeds player from Japan (still of the 1st generation); being, his various duos with legendary Kaoru Abe, already documented on Qbico (Senzei) and elsewhere. About the music: raw and passionate = primitive beauty; both musicians are in top form and surely in their most creative period. Mr. Takagi plays tenor, soprano sax and bass clarinet, while Sabu is on drums and percussion. Original recordings were very well preserved (fortunately) and the pressing came out wonderful! Cover by qbico which Sabu can really dig, saying that En no Gyoja is deeply respected by him, he opened the way..."

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Artist:	Z-FUNK
Title:	Z-Funk
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 036LP

Artist:	FAMILY UNDERGROUND/RAUHAN ORKESTERI
Title:	U-Nite III, Bruxelles
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 043LP

Artist:	CLUSTER DUO
Title:	Dances
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 044LP

Artist:	LAUHKEAT LAMPAAT
Title:	The Most Pollo
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 045LP

Artist:	RAKHIM
Title:	Rakhim
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 046LP

Artist:	BACZKOWSKI/RAVI PADMANABHA, STEVE
Title:	Aqua Machine
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 051LP

Artist:	SB, THE
Title:	Who Will Feed Them
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 054LP

Artist:	SONDHEIM, ALAN
Title:	Fifty-Six
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 056LP

Artist:	VA
Title:	Qbico U-nite-IV, Aarhus
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$40.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 063/4LP

Artist:	PSYCHATRONE RHONEDAKK
Title:	Early Free-Form Waveforms
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 070LP

Artist:	RAHDUNES
Title:	Rahdunes
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	PIC. DISC
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 071LP

Artist:	DATASHOCK
Title:	Datashock
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$24.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 074LP

Artist:	SLITHER
Title:	Venom Injection/Invertebrate
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$24.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 077LP

Artist:	LOOSERS
Title:	Natives Are Restless
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$42.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 081LP

Artist:	ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS
Title:	Running On Autokinetic
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 090LP

Artist:	ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB
Title:	Psychic Smog 1-7
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 093LP

Artist:	KAWABATA, MAKOTO
Title:	Under Your Moonshine
Label:	QBICO (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	QBICO 096LP