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KRONONAUT
2020. Coming out of the fertile London jazz and experimental scenes, Krononaut is a richly textured ensemble helmed by guitarist/producer Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Imogen Heap, Jon Hopkins) and drummer Martin France ..
WEIJTERS BRAM -CRAZY MEN
2021. Bram Weijters' Crazy Men is a thrilling take on Belgian jazz-rock and fusion from the 1970's. Consisting of musicians from a wide array of contemporary jazz bands including Lucid Lucia (ex-BRZZVLL), Dans Dans,..
MOOR ANDY
2008. Born in London England 1962 Andy began his musical life in Edinburgh, Scotland playing guitar with the band Dog Faced Hermans, a multi faceted eclectic group that mixed energetic post punk energy with traditio..
GILSON JEF -TRIO-
2021. First ever vinyl reissue of this highly sought after French experimental jazz recording by the legendary Jef Gilson. In 1971, the day after the death of Igor Stravinsky, Jef Gilson and his Unit (Pierre Moret a..
REGENORCHESTER XII
2020. Founded 1995 in London by Austrian trumpeter and band leader Franz Hautzinger as an ensemble for experimental music, the project developed over the years into a mixed style fusion band. Various musicians like ..
REGENORCHESTER XII
2020. Founded 1995 in London by Austrian trumpeter and band leader Franz Hautzinger as an ensemble for experimental music, the project developed over the years into a mixed style fusion band. Various musicians like ..
VÝBEROVKA
2020. An unearthed treasure from the 70's Italian avantgarde archives. A previously unreleased recording from the Beat72 club in Rome in 1973, featuring a one-off Italian-American all-star ensemble with Roberto Lane..
VÝBEROVKA
2020. An unearthed treasure from the 70's Italian avantgarde archives. A previously unreleased recording from the Beat72 club in Rome in 1973, featuring a one-off Italian-American all-star ensemble with Roberto Lane..
BOOK OF AIR
2015. The sound to be found in nature can have a very slow groove. A groove embedded by silence, so slow it can almost only be felt while spending a few hours in the nature at sea, during a forest trip, in open fiel..
REICH STEVE & ENSEMBLE M
2019. As noted on Alternative Fox's 'Live In Berkeley 1970' and 'Information Transmission, Modulation And Noise' releases, the New York-born composer and abstract keyboard artist Steve Reich was one of the most imp..
LAST CALL AT NIGHTOWLS
2020. Last Call At Nightowls is an international musical collaborative group comprising of Adriano Vincenti (Detour Doom Project, Macelleria Mobile Di Mezzanotte, Senketsu No Night Club) and rounded out by Melbourne..
OK-YUN GIL/LEE SAENG-GAN
2021. Lyrical pop composer and saxophonist Gil Ok-yun was a central figure in Korea's golden age of gayo. It was through his meeting with Korean classical musician Lee Saeng-gang in the 1980s - an era in Korea that ..
KRONONAUT
2020. Coming out of the fertile London jazz and experimental scenes, Krononaut is a richly textured ensemble helmed by guitarist/producer Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Imogen Heap, Jon Hopkins) and drummer Martin France ..
ROGAI LOU
2019. 'Cathedral' is an experimental elegy for chamber ensemble in three movements. Orchestrations of classical guitar, winds, brass, synthesizer, vocals and piano are interwoven with tendrils of string passages and..
ROGAI LOU
2019. 'Cathedral' is an experimental elegy for chamber ensemble in three movements. Orchestrations of classical guitar, winds, brass, synthesizer, vocals and piano are interwoven with tendrils of string passages ..
TUULETAR
2019. Passionate, wild and spirited, but also tender, poetic and sensitive: The Finnish 'vocal hop' ensemble Tuuletar proves again on his second album 'Rajatila/Borderline' its versatility. Experimental in the best ..
SPHINCTER ENSEMBLE
2018. Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the first ever release of "HARRODIAN EVENT #1". Recorded in January 1972, this rare recording features a unique event where seven gifted progressive musici..
KOSUGI TAKEHISA
2018. Composer, multi-instrumentalist and mixed-media artist, Takehisa Kosugi has stood on the forefront of the Japanese avant-garde for over six decades. In the 1960s, he was part of Japan's first improvisational m..
COHEN-SOLAL JEAN
2018. In a dreamlike fictive and windswept Brittany, hippy pirates and wild women more or less inspired by Gérard de Nerval fight it out in a theatre, the magic of which brings to mind Cocteau, and where musi..
FAFCHAMPS JEAN-LUC
2018. Third chapter in the Sufi Word's series. "The Sufi Letters is a vast project of 28 compositions (for the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet) undertaken in 2000 and still ongoing. I am drawing inspiration f..
ENTOURAGE
2018. ...& OUTTAKES, 1972-1977' - Formed in Baltimore in the early '70s, The Entourage Music And Theatre Ensemble played a kind of experimental, ambient, new age, proto-world music, made to accompany multi-media..
ENTOURAGE
2018. ...& OUTTAKES, 1972-1977' - Formed in Baltimore in the early '70s, The Entourage Music And Theatre Ensemble played a kind of experimental, ambient, new age, proto-world music, made to accompany multi-media..
PITRE DUANE
2013. Beautiful ensemble performance of Duane Pitre's Feel Free including James Blackshaw on hammered dulcimer. The LP is pressed in an audiophile grade edition of 1000 copies. Shortly after the release of Pitre's F..
OVERTONE ENSEMBLE
2016. 'Bayou Electric' is the final installment in an unplanned trilogy, with 'Feel Free' and 'Bridges' being the first and second parts of the series. All three works share similar characteristics and compositional..
KEPLER IS FREE
2023. Athens, Greece based jazz-rock ensemble Kepler Is Free make expansive music that straddles the line between '70s soul-jazz, alternative hip-hop, and experimental electronica. The long awaited 'Second Light' wa..
MAZUR MARILYN
2019. In 1978, Danish percussion master Marilyn Mazur founded the bold, innovative Primi Band, an all-female music-theater ensemble that drew from a deep well of primal energy and experimental audacity. Four deca..
ONSEGEN ENSEMBLE
2020. 2020 album by Onségen Ensemble, a group of musicians from northern Finland. An experimental fusion of postrock, jazz and stoner, mixed with touches of cinematic and flamboyant overtones.
MAZUR MARILYN
2019. In 1978, Danish percussion master Marilyn Mazur founded the bold, innovative Primi Band, an all-female music-theater ensemble that drew from a deep well of primal energy and experimental audacity. Four decades..
TESTFACE
2017. Testface, the brainchild of David Snider, hails from central Oregon, via years of winters in the cold woods of New Hampshire. Almost a decade of woodsheding and selectively chiseling out songs in the shadows p..
VÝBEROVKA
2017. pulsoptional, Durham, North Carolina's Band of Composers, challenges and enthralls audiences with its innovative new music programming. Since its inception in January of 2000, the new music ensemble and compos..
WOLFF CHRISTIAN
2024. In May 2022, at the age of 88, Christian Wolff performed once again at AngelicA, nine years after the monographic concerts the festival had dedicated to him in 2013 (documented on the CD album 'Angelica Music,..
GUSTAFSSON MATS & ENSEMB
2023. "The initial idea behind Ensemble E was to combine traditions of contemporary music, noise, improvised music, free jazz and other experimental music fields and traditions with the deeper music traditions...
SUPERSEMPFFT
2024. Avant-garde kraut ensemble Supersempfft laid the foundation for its own brand of techno-tropical pop music in 1979 with the debut-album 'Roboterwerke'. In 1981 the group returned with the outstanding album ..
SUPERSEMPFFT
2024. Avant-garde kraut ensemble Supersempfft laid the foundation for its own brand of techno-tropical pop music in 1979 with the debut-album 'Roboterwerke'. In 1981 the group returned with the outstanding album 'Me..
FENELLA
2023. Fenella (Jane Weaver's experimental ensemble in collaboration with Peter Philipson and Raz Ullah) returns with 2022's 'The Metallic Index', a hallucinogenic excursion into ambient textures and hypnagogic drone..
AIKA UUSI
2023. Uusi Aika is an ensemble from Finland which present their self-titled debut album. The band's music could be described as introspective and meditative, their instrumentation acoustic and their sound organic. B..
LONDON ODENSE ENSEMBLE
2023. London Odense Ensemble is a powerhouse quintet that combines forces from the Causa Sui/El Paraiso family tree (Jakob Skott, Jonas Munk, Martin Rude) with the vibrant, experimental London jazz scene (Tamar Osbo..
VÝBEROVKA
1990. Beack in print! 'a global psychedelic curriculum 1968 to 1975'. Funky fuzzy psychedelic tracks from '60s and '70s nigeria, iran, turkey, russia, south korea and other exotic countries.&nb..
LEAGUS
2023. Leagus is a contemporary and experimental musical duo from Sápmi, Norway, whose music alternates between formal composed parts, open structures, and free improvisation, and ranges from subdued, minimali..
EAZYCON
2014. Carlo Musso (Carl Lee) and Frankie Partipilo first met in high school in Turin. Moved by a common passion for arts & music, the two came together as a voice/guitar/sax project more akin to free experimenta..
AIKA UUSI
2023. Uusi Aika is an ensemble from Finland which present their self-titled debut album. The band's music could be described as introspective and meditative, their instrumentation acoustic and their sound organic. B..
BENT ARCANA
2023. Black vinyl edition! bent arcana, the experimental ensemble led by osees' john dwyer, releases a notable live album on the double-lp format! it contains renditions of dwyer's pandemic-era space jazz..
GILLES GOBERT
2019. A subtle mix of electronic composition and contemporary touches. Gilles Gobert composes and play electronic/mixed music with different groups like the laptop duo [KNAPP], the LAPS ensemble or individual instru..
SZORSTKIE
2022. This work by a Polish ensemble moves in the areas of experimental music and avant-garde. The compositions are largely based on improvisations, variations and the creation of various noisy sounds.
AIRFISH
2023. Airfish is an experimental, post-industrial, psychedelic ensemble weaving sounds from Palermo, Sicily, since 1992. A real backbone of the Sicilian underground music scene, this is a band of difficult categoriz..
LOVECRAFT SEXTET
2021. Drenched in cinematic moods, but also incorporating elements of classical, operatic and Gregorian music and inspired by the atmosphere of funerals, 'In Memoriam' is the 2021 release from this experimental jazz..
MOUNT FUJI DOOMJAZZ CORPO
2017. For the third full-length document of his classical works, Mario Diaz De Leon presents his most unified offering to date, distilling the modernistic hellfire of his previous releases to a crystalline essenc..
MORDAI
2020. Repress on red vinyl with 2 inserts! Mordái is a Hungarian folk rock group that draws upon the repertoire of the experimental folk movements of the '60s and '70s (Muzsikás Zenekar, Sebo Ensemble,..
LETORT BRUNO
2010. Lignes is a complex piece composed by Bruno Letort, based on the eponymous novel by Murakami Ryù. Performed by the chamber ensemble Musiques Nouvelles conducted by Jean-Paul Dessy with the voice of the ..
LOS ANGELES FREE MUSIC SOCIETY
2012. "A budget-priced four-CD of the Los Angeles Free Music Society's late-'70s/early-'80s compilation records, with almost three hours of new material, this offering amounts to a retrospective of the scraggly..
T.R.A.S.E
2013. Known amongst a small group of teenage friends as T.R.A.S.E. (Tape Recorder And Synthesiser Ensemble) this previously unearthed and fully formed electronic music project was spearheaded by a 16-year-old school..
T.R.A.S.E
2013. Known amongst a small group of teenage friends as T.R.A.S.E. (Tape Recorder And Synthesiser Ensemble) this previously unearthed and fully formed electronic music project was spearheaded by a 16-year-old school..
NONO LUIGI
2014. Reissue of the Luigi Nono LP on Edition RZ (originally released in 1990), plus three legendary recordings. Two CD's in a box, including a booklet with notes in German and English. CD1: 01. A Carlo Scarpa. A..
SUPER BORGOU DE PARAKOU
2012. Lost sounds are the archives of a forgotten history. The raucously raw, Vodoun-inspired rhythms of Cotonou have confirmed Benin as a mecca of '70s Afro sounds and revived the story of its people, but the unop..
SUPER BORGOU DE PARAKOU
2012. Lost sounds are the archives of a forgotten history. The raucously raw, Vodoun-inspired rhythms of Cotonou have confirmed Benin as a mecca of 70s Afro sounds and revived the story of its people, but the unope..
MUSLIMGAUZE
2011. "One of the Muslimgauze albums the world was waiting for, Beirut Transister is among the more organic and 'Arab' of releases and bound to compliment any fan's collection. Fundamentally in the traditional-..
KRIEGER ULRICH
2010. New series framework is an extension of sub rosa's concrete electronics noise, a brand new mix-up of unusual conceptions of sound material by young unknown composers, well known not-so-young compose..
SNARLING ADJECTIV CONVENT
2008. Snarling Adjective Convention is an adventurous group of talented artists who are fiercely experimental in their approach to music. Combining elements of avant-garde jazz, metal, dark ambient, psychedelic, pro..