Browse by Label: SPALAX (FRANCE)

Artist:	POPOL VUH
Title:	Einsjager & Siebenjager
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14118

Vinyl version of the 5th album from 1975, ("A Soldier And Seven Soldiers"). "One of Popol Vuh's hardest albums. Daniel Fichelscher shines here with crispy guitar solos and driving drums...the title track is the album's crescendo. It is a strange mix of all the band's previous styles, with Djong Yun's vocals thrown in for added eeriness. This track just floods the room with its gentle piano theme, and intruding drums and guitar." Limited stock.

Artist:	SCHULZE, KLAUS
Title:	Irrlicht
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14121

Vinyl version of Klaus Schulze's first solo album, from 1972. "After stints in the legendary bands Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel, Irrlicht was Klaus Schulze's first stab at a a solo project. He had radical ideas for the newly developed electronic music scene which are blatantly present here. Equipped with a small orchestra, 4-track, guitar, percussion, organ, and a little electronic gadgetry, he created a 'cosmic classic'. No synthesizers were used here, just a remarkable use of sampled tapes and Klaus' magical touch. This album is just mesmerizing, with music that reaches into a whole other world."

Artist:	SCHNITZLER, CONRAD
Title:	Ballet Statique
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14223

First of 2 CDs on the label, by the legendary German composer/electronics master. Bubbly, trancey electronic whirlings. "A legend spoken in hushed tones among connoisseurs of electronica (his albums are]...completely brilliant, using electronics is a totally abstract way that's over a decade ahead of its time. 'Electric Garden' from Ballet Statique is maybe my favorite piece of electronic music ever, and that's a serious thing to say. This track is so strong it ought to be illegal, and the whole album is absolutely blinding." -- Mixmaster Morris.

Artist:	AGITATION FREE
Title:	2nd
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14228

Long awaited reissue of the space-jamming 2nd A. Free album, completing the group's catalog of 4 albums, now all on CD. Adds bouzouki, mellotron, 12-string guitar to their classic twin guitar, heavy Krautrock sound. "Recorded and released in 1973, few months after the first and incredible Malesch, Second is at the frontiers of experimental, progressive, jazz. If Malesch was experimental recording with a touch of progressive, Second just appears as a progressive recording with experimental touch, revealing the incredible music of the band in an 'easier,' HIGHER way." [deleted]

Artist:	G�TTSCHING, MANUEL
Title:	E2-E4
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14241

The first solo album by Ash Ra Tempel's G�ttsching (to be issued under his own name anyway), recorded in 1981, but not released on LP until 1984. One 60 minute instrumental piece of hypnotic electronics with his trademark guitar laid on top. Has an early minimalistic techno feel -- and is in fact now considered somewhat of a seminal tract in those circles, and a big influence on legendary Detroit techno figureheads like Derrick May, Carl Craig, etc.

Artist:	ASH RA TEMPEL
Title:
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14244

The reissue of historic, early albums of Germany's legendary space/psych outfit is a legitimately great thing, and the network of people who continue to discover this stuff seems to expand daily with no let up. The first, self-titled, Ash Ra Tempel album, from 1971, is a flat-out massive overdriven psych monster. Formed by Klaus Schulze (on drums & electronics, after having left Tangerine Dream), guitarist Manuel Gottsching (who would remain the one constant with Ash Ra), and Hartmut Enke (bass), this is the most intense recording in their discography & an absolute must if you're interested in the early glories of Krautrock bliss.

Artist:	ASH RA TEMPEL
Title:	Join Inn
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14246

"The original Ash Ra Tempel line-up got together to record Join Inn during breaks in the Tarot album recordings. The album's two lengthy tracks were completely improvised. The first, 'Freak 'n Roll' is basically self-explanatory(!) with Manuel Gottsching coming into his own with his talented, bluesy upbeat improvisations. 'Jenseits' (Beyond), on the other hand, is a showcase for Klaus Schulze's then new-found electronic sound painting skills. The lyrics on the 2nd track are read by Rosi Muller; new band member and then-girlfriend of Gottsching. She tells the story of the band's meeting with Timothy Leary and all the excitement that surrounded it."

Artist:	PAUVROS, JEAN-FRANCOIS
Title:	Le Corps Est Un Menteur
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14264

Two strange CDs of experimental-guitar based "music for ballet" by Pauvros, "a well-known avant garde guitarist composer & performer. He met and plays since the early 70s with the most renown musicians (Ted Milton/Blurt, Arto Lindsay/DNA, Elliot Sharp/Carbon). Part of Catalogue with Jac Berrocal and Gilbert Artman (Lard Free & Urban Sax)...the two CDs are in style of Rock in Opposition, DNA, ethnical Original Sound Tracks, borned from Jean-Francois Pauvros's outer-space mind."

Artist:	ELECTRIC SUN
Title:	Earthquake
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14265

1995 reissue of this 1979 hard rock album by Uli Roth (post-Scorpions), accidently in stock. "Dedicated to the spirt of Jimi Hendrix." "Strong tracks include "Burning Wheels Turning' and 'Still So Many Lives Away', which have the most fantastic guitar solos, and perhaps one of Uli's most famous solo. Another good song is the opening track, 'Electric Sun', in which Uli welcomes the world to the Electric Sun band/concept with a one minute opening guitar salvo/solo that will leave guitar fans breathless. The CD is worth a buy for the two instrumental tracks alone - the very brief but cool 'Winterdays' and the closing title track, a ten minute plus opus of Strat magic, with its well thought out arrangement and brilliant classical workouts, weaving what would become Roth's trademark sonic tapestry Neo-Classical Metal/Hard Rock."

Artist:	LIMBUS 4
Title:	Mandalas
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14277

Reissue of the 2nd Limbus album (their even more obscure debut from 1969, under the name Limbus 3, has been bootlegged on CD by Germanofon & is legitimately available on LP via the Batschong label), which was originally issued by OHR in 1970. A fantastic dose of early 70s German freeform weirdness and an essential reissue for the tuned-out community. "Formed in 1968, Limbus were a most unusual band who grew a unique music out of jazz, folk and avant-garde roots. As the more varied instrumental quartet Limbus 4, with swirling organ, studio effects and a most bizarre use of kazoos, Mandalas has perplexed and confused many. Limbus 4 were certainly one of a kind. We uncover: Odysseus Artnern, Bernd Henninger, Matthias Knieper & Gerd Kraus (piano, bass, cello, viola, violin, flutes, percussion, tablas)."

Artist:	COSMIC JOKERS
Title:
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14293

The Cosmic Jokers were a German space/electronic/psych supergroup, who recorded for the legendary Cosmic Couriers label in the mid 70s. The line up was Ash Ra Tempel's Manuel Gottsching, Wallenstein's Harald Grosskopf & Jurgen Dollase, Klaus Schulze and scene engineer/sideman Dieter Dierks. This CD was their debut from 1974, and it's a pretty spectacular surge into 70s drugged byways, Gottsching's trademark acid guitar on top of instrumental waves of analog synth gurgling and spaced out electronic effects. Until recently this stuff was largely unknown and way underrated, at least in American circles. All 5 Cosmic Jokers CDs come in pleasing digipaks.

Artist:	ASH RA TEMPEL
Title:	New Age Of Earth
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14505

"...was Manuel Gottsching and Ash Ra Tempel's seventh album, originally released in 1976. It has been described as the quintessence of all that they had previously produced...it's simply an undisputed masterpiece." Despite the name and prominent Rosi Muller photo on the cover, this is a all-solo Gottsching affair, playing keyboards, synthesizer and guitar; long cosmic tracks, showing some Schulz-ian trance-out influence, as well as bits of the roots-of-Derrick-May sound that would fully unravel with the later E2-E4. Previously tough to find on CD via a label known as Virgin. This album marked the beginning of his relationship with that label, which he followed up Blackouts, Correlations & Belle Alliance.

Artist:	BLACKWATER PARK
Title:	Dirt Box
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14511

"Blackwater Park were originally a strictly German outfit, but once fitted with a feisty English singer they fought for fame with similar British heavy bands of their era (circa 1971). Fame not always being akin to good music, it's only in recent years that they have received the recognition they deserved. Dirt Box is undoubtedly one of the best albums from this throng of rockers." Previously issued on CD by Second Battle, this is your basic hard-blues pants-o-rama rock.

Artist:	YAMASH'TA, STOMU
Title:	Red Buddha
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14512

"Recorded in 1970 -- first issue 1971. First CD reissue of this incredible album of Stomu Yamash'ta. The 2 tracks performed by Yamash'ta are purely percussional. Yamash'ta is renowned worldwide for his work as an avant garde composer, and is deeply involved in the fields of 'musique contemporaine'. He also approached electronic music in the late 70s through a collaboration with Klaus Schulze." The 1st piece is composed for metal strings, tambury, cymbal, music saw, mandorin harp; the 2nd for steel drum, marimba, cow bell, wood block & skin drum. Excellent atmospherics throughout.

Artist:	ANIMA
Title:
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14530

Reissue of this classic outsider freak-out album, first issued by Pilz in 1972, featuring the duo of Paul & Limpe Fuchs (vocals, electronics, zither, percussion, drums, Fuchshorn, etc.). Their 2nd album and a classic example of 70s improvisational madness, highly peaked. "Anima were an adventurous German trio who liked to take jazz music to the extreme. On this album they were joined by Austrian avant-gardist Friedrich Gulda, with whom they recorded two studio jamming sessions. Nothing was decided beforehand or premeditated, and the result is two tracks of completely spontaneous off the wall jazz. Anima are one of the few of Rolf Ulrich-Kaiser's protege's who are still actively touring and recording today."

Artist:	MORMOS
Title:	Great Wall Of China
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14540

"In the early 70s, James Cuomo, Tobia Taylor and Sandy Spencer all came to Paris with a NY experimental theatre group's production of 'La Mama' and decided to stay on afterwards. All coming from musical backgrounds, they agreed on putting together a group. Great Wall Of China was their first album, released in 1971. It comprises of a wonderful progressive music which is a mix of folk, classical and traditional instruments and influences. A clever use of vocal arrangements and rhythms that we find here give the group a completely unique sound."

Artist:	AME SON
Title:	Primitive Expression
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14543

First release of this archival material by this French rock band, best known for their classic Catalyse album (originally issued by BYG in 1970; CD is Spalax 14823). "This second album covers a period of about ten years of different experiences. From the first band, Les Primitiv's, till different incarnations of Ame Son with guests and other musicians. This issue of unprevious released tapes or more recently in 1995 rehearsing with Jean-Francois Pavros for concerts in Paris or solos work of Marc Blanc known as Ame songs during the '80s."

Artist:	SZAJNER, BERNARD
Title:	Some Deaths Take Forever
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14545

Reissue of the first Bernard Szajner album, originally released by Path� in France in 1980. Has Magma/Heldon connections (Bernard Paganotti, Klaus Blasquiz appear) and is also considered an influential electronic album, as the following quote attests. Szajner palsy RSF modular synth, Korg vocoder, DB sequencers and electronic percussion. "Among the all time top ten of the famous DJ Carl Craig, one can find Manuel Gottsching's E2E4 as number 9. But his favorite number, the number one, is Some Deaths Take Forever by Bernard Szajner. Bernard was certainly one of the major electronic artists from the seventies. Not only did he produce outstanding, robotic, metronomic, and hypnotic sounds, but he also created one of the first and best laser shows in Europe in the mid-seventies, and these shows were used by Klaus Schulz and AshRa during their tours. Spalax is proud to reissue the works of Bernard Szajner, who took care himself of the remastering."

Artist:	ZED (BERNARD SZAJNER)
Title:	Visions Of Dune
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14547

"Spalax is currently reissuing all the works of Bernard Szajner, one of the major electronic musicians to have emerged in the seventies. One of the first technicians to build and conceive lasershows, he is now today recognized by the most famous DJs as one of their best sources of inspiration. Vision of Dune is his first LP which was originally released under the group name of Zed." "1979 album inspired by the Frank Herbert novel Dune, fills in a few extra pieces of the Szajner puzzle (strategically) left out by Carl Craig. An all star cast (rivaling any Altman movie) were assembled to perform this life-opus (Hahn Rowe on bass, Klaus Basquiz on treated voice, Colin Swinburne on guitar, Celement Bailly drums, Annanka Raghel on synthesized voice, and Szajner on Oberheim/Arp/laser generators, etc...), which ended up sonically similar to earlier records by Heldon (massive analog-synth-sequences modulating up in whole steps for 10 straight minutes), easily 20 X better than the dreck Toto/Eno wrote for Lynch (too bad synthesizer technology had to go & change so much -- for the best, of course, between '79 and '83). Szajner thanks Frank Herbert 'for the visions that he gave me', in fact I'm channeling crystal-clear visions of the Freeman Brothers, locked in their living room with only two weeks worth of pizza rinds as sustenance, wearing matching Darth/Luke masks, fighting over the last remaining quantities of 'spice'. From-fucking-outer-space." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	CAMIZOLE
Title:
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14549

"Camizole was co-founder with Etron Fou Leloublan of the collective Dupon et ses Fantomes. In 1977 Camizole was composed of Jacky Dupety (tenor sax, oboe, perc), Jean-Luc Dupety (drums, tuba, trumpet), Francoise Cruble (alto sax, guitar) and Dominque Griamnd (sax, guitar, synth)." First ever issue of some live recordings from 1977 (intended for release by Tapioca) by this underground French group with linkage to Etron Fou, Lard Free, Art et Technique, etc. Primitive, at times violent free form flotsom that is quite damaged and freaked out.

Artist:	QUAD SAX
Title:	Quad Sax 1
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14563

"Quad Sax grew out of the group Urban Sax, tending towards a possible re-writing by the composer Gilbert Artman, not to make a 'reduction' but rather to render, in perhaps a clearer manner, the same concept. In effect, each composition is like a puzzle that can put itself together, then mix itself at (some other) interval. Using the acoustic and the electronic at the same time, each participant in this Saxophony of rough brilliance is at once both accompanist and soloist. Improvisation and movement in space make up this particular universe." Quad Sax is: Fred Aquavia (ts, ss), Alain Douchet (bs, as), S�bastien Jallier (as, ss) & Phillipe Bolliet (bs, as). Performing the works of Gilbert Artman (Lard Free, Urban Sax).

Artist:	MYTHOS
Title:	Strange Guys
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14570

Third album from 1978, more overtly hard rock than their classic self-titled album from '72 or Dreamlab from '75. "Mythos were one of the finest of Berlin bands, yet were unfairly overlooked by most of the media. Maybe this was because of the group's leader Stephan Kaske's most unusual strongly accented vocals, who like J�rgen Dollase of Wallenstein, often came across as a strange Kraut Peter Hammill! Aside from his odd vocals, Stephan was also a highly talented multi-instrumentalist, and a visionary....this era saw a move to a more direct, harder edged rockform, though still uniquely Mythos, with the heavy guitars acting as a foil to Stephan's myriads of synthesizers."

Artist:	NEKROPOLIS
Title:	Le Culte Des Goules
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14572

"After having been involved in many Krautrock bands, Peter Frohmader started publishing his own soloworks under the name of Nekropolis. A multi instrumentalist as well as a painter and designer, Peter Frohmader is without any doubt one of the most innovative artists to have emerged on the Munich scene. One of his best works, Le Culte Des Goules is a strange mixing of classical music, rock, and electronic. Dark and powerful." Recorded in 1981 and originally issued on the Nekropolis label. Frohmader is credited on: synthesizers, rhythm composer, fretless bass, 8-string bass, 12-string guitar, percussion, choirs, electronics, sounds.

Artist:	CLEARLIGHT SYMPHONY
Title:
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14592

Reissue of the first Clearlight album, originally issued by Virgin in 1975 (previous CD edition on Mantra is long deleted) "First album of Cyrille Verdeaux's project called Clearlight Symphony. Clearlight Symphony is composed of members of Gong (Steve Hillage, Tim Blake, Didier Malherbe), Christian Boul� and Gilbert Artman of Lard Free. The music is electronic and symphonic with rich arrangements and deep atmospheres. This album is a top quality illustration of the experiments with electronic music that were going on at the time. Like Tubular Bell, at the time this album and these electronic/symphonic experiments achieved great commercial success."

Artist:	13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS
Title:	Grackle Debacle
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14596

"This CD features great rare live recordings at the Avalon Ballroom (San Francisco), at La Maison (Houston) in 1966 and some tracks from the 1976 concert at the 'Sleeping Lay Caf�' in Fairfax. Contains comprehensive liner notes and exclusive rare photos." Also features 3 solo Roky tracks, live at the Sleeping Lady Cafe, 1976. A mish-mash of stuff, rather unattractively packaged, in that legendary Spalax half-hearted fashion. Does feature real ghetto graph on the front cover (underneath the word "Debacle" no less), a theoretical first for the Elevators discography.

Artist:	LARD FREE
Title:	III/Spirale Malax
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14224

Artist:	ASH RA
Title:	Walkin' The Desert
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14240

Artist:	MACHIAVEL
Title:	Machiavel
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14262

Artist:	DEMON THOR
Title:	Written In The Sky
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14270

Artist:	WALLENSTEIN
Title:	Mother Universe
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14273

Artist:	RICH, ROBERT
Title:	Geometry
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14279

Artist:	CATHARSIS
Title:	Et S'Aimer... Et Mourir...
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14280

Artist:	FLOH DE COLOGNE
Title:	Lucky Streik
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14291

Artist:	GURU GURU
Title:	UFO
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14296

Artist:	BIRTH CONTROL
Title:	Operation
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14299

Artist:	PAUVROS/GABY BIZIEN, JEAN-FRANCOIS
Title:	No Man's Land
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14506

Artist:	GOMORRHA
Title:	Trauma
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14509

Artist:	VIRUS
Title:	Revelation
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14510

Artist:	AMON D��L UK
Title:	Die L�sung
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14517

Artist:	GONG
Title:	The Mystery & History of Planet Gong
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14518

Artist:	MOTHER GONG
Title:	Wild Child
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14521

Artist:	PAGEANT
Title:	The Pay For Dreamer's Sin
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14533

Artist:	HOENIG/GOTTSCHING
Title:	Early Water
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14536

Artist:	ULBRICH, LUTZ
Title:	L��l
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14565

Artist:	FROHMADER, PETER
Title:	Nekropolis 2
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14573

Artist:	K�NG�R�
Title:	Kang�r�
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14574