FOLK'AVANT
2017. Consisting of Anna Wikenius (vocals), Maija Kauhanen (kantele and vocals) and Anna Rubinsztein (fiddle and vocals) and mainly focusing on original material, this Swedish-Finnish trio has its roots in the Nordi..
ARNQVIST MARIA
2024. Debut album from Swedish multiinstrumentalist and composer Maria Arnqvist. With seven critically praised and forward thinking albums with her exciting avant/folk/psych duo Siri Karlsson - now is the time to fi..
MOGARD ABUL
2019. 'And We Are Passing Through Silently' is the sublime first survey of reworks by cult synthesist Abul Mogard. The album culminates with Brian Eno's collaboration with Irish avant-folk band Fovea Hex. Also inclu..
MONSIEUR DOUMANI
2021. This much acclaimed Cyprus-based trio return with a thrilling fourth album. The record pushes their trademark Mediterranean sonics into a deep psychedelic and avant-folk direction. A danceable fever storm of s..
MAHTI
2023. Mahti are a Finnish four-piece group presenting a unique mixture of ambient-rock, electronic music and traditional Finnish-Karelian music. Lengthy semi-improvisational pieces are built on top of complex, hypno..
CARTER DOROTHY
2024. Reverse board tip on with silver pantone print. The first ever reissue of Dorothy Carter's 1978 folk/psych/drone masterpiece. A truly unique album in Dorothy's catalog of otherwise traditional psaltery folk mu..
ANSWER LIES IN THE BLACK
2022. The Answer Lies In The Black Void is a collaboration between Martina Horváth (singer for the avant-garde metal project Thy Catafalque) and Jason Köhnen (Celestial Season, Bong-Ra, ex- The Kilimanj..
TRAVESIA
2022. Originally released in 1983, a Uruguayan folk-pop gem sees its awaited reissue on vinyl. This sole album by female trio Travesia blends Latin influences with avant-garde pop and sweet harmonies that will pleas..
VÝBEROVKA
2022. British jazz composer, pianist and songwriter Mike Taylor (a.k.a. "The Syd Barrett of the avant-jazz scene") died tragically young, leaving just two albums as well as co-writes with Ginger Baker for ..
MODERN FOLK
2022. Avant-pastoral folk from the USA. The Modern Folk is a borderless musical recording and improvisational group based mostly out of the Cowlitz and Clackamas land currently known as Portland, Oregon. They make f..
DREAMWALKERS INC
2024. Offering 85 minutes of music, 'The First Tragedy Of Klahera' is the first part in a multi-part concept by progressive metal band Dreamwalkers Inc. The album combines the metallic and heavy sounds of metal with..
CARTER DOROTHY
2024. The first ever reissue of Dorothy Carter's 1978 folk/psych/drone masterpiece. A truly unique album in Dorothy's catalog of otherwise traditional psaltery folk music, 'Waillee Waillee's essence sits in the conf..
NEHAN
2024. Nehan is a Japanese free improvisation and avant-garde rock quintet formed in August 2022. Their performances are initiated by a 9hz brain wave emitted from a testee who has been brought into a deep meditative..
DAWN OF A DARK AGE
2024. Presented on CD are seven tracks that fuse extreme metal with elements of avant garde, free jazz and traditional folk music. Dawn Of A Dark Age features Italian jazz musician/clarinet player Vittorio Sabelli, ..
KINIT HER
2023. With their album 'The Nature Out There', Kinit Her has reached a culminating and breath-taking height in their organic growth. Transcending all artificial limitations such as genre or instrumentation, the symb..
HIILI JONATHAN
2021. Jonathan Hilli is an award-winning Finnish-Swedish singer, guitarist and songwriter. Expressionist, painter in words and tones. His songs are characterised by tightly woven lyric lines and expressive arrangeme..
KINIT HER
2024. With their album 'The Nature Out There', Kinit Her has reached a culminating and breath-taking height in their organic growth. Transcending all artificial limitations such as genre or instrumentation, the symb..
KINIT HER
2024. With their album 'The Nature Out There', Kinit Her has reached a culminating and breath-taking height in their organic growth. Transcending all artificial limitations such as genre or instrumentation, the symb..
KACIMI
2024. On 'Les Avant-Gardes' and 'La Gare', Kacimi continues his production of absurd psychedelic songs, assisted by Romano Bianchi. The orchestration consists of pop, mixing easy listening and groovy bossa with acid..
KADONNUT MANNER
2023. 'Finnish Primitive Guitar Vol. 4' by Northern Finland finger-picker Kadonnut Manner is a solo acoustic album that draws on Mississippi John Hurt's country blues, John Fahey's school of American primitive guita..
MAHTI
2023. The second album from Finnish experimental band featuring members of the legendary Circle. Mahti are a Finnish four-piece group presenting a unique mixture of ambient-rock, electronic music and traditional Fin..
MAHTI
2023. Mahti are a Finnish four-piece group presenting a unique mixture of ambient-rock, electronic music and traditional Finnish-Karelian music. Lengthy semi-improvisational pieces are built on top of complex, hypno..
MAHTI
2023. The second album from Finnish experimental band featuring members of the legendary Circle. Mahti are a Finnish four-piece group presenting a unique mixture of ambient-rock, electronic music and traditional Fin..
HOLLINS & STARR
2012. At times this album is a gorgeous, ethereal blend of psychedelic folk and offbeat pop; but there are some funk and avant-garde moves too (where did those crazy orchestrations, wild guitar, and breakbeats on th..
ALAS
2022. First official release of this one-of-a-kind gem by Argentinean progmeisters Alas, in a strictly limited edition of 300 copies, with a newly designed (and band-approved) back cover. 'Pinta Tu Aldea,' recorded ..
PUMPKIN FRIEND
2022. Outsider/country folk with just the right amount of avant-garde surreal laden poetry.
NAKORNCHAI MANOP
2022. Psych folk and experimental avant-garde guitar from this underground Thai artist.
LOS JAIVAS
2020. Vinyl reissue of the now classic 1971 album. Produced by Transamericas in collaboration with the band from original master tapes, in a fully analog process at recording studios in María Pinto (Chile), L..
HOPPER JUSTIN & SHARRON
2019. This interesting release is the result of the spoken word and music project by writer Justin Hopper and folk musician Sharron Kraus, based on live performances of Hopper's 2017 book 'The Old Weird Albion'. Ble..
HOPPER JUSTIN & SHARRON
2019. This interesting release is the result of the spoken word and music project by writer Justin Hopper and folk musician Sharron Kraus, based on live performances of Hopper's 2017 book 'The Old Weird Albion'. ..
RED SQUARE
2016. Ultra-rare recordings by '70s UK avant-rockers Red Square, the missing link between original free-noise practitioners like AMM, Nihilist Spasm Band and Peter Brotzmann and post-No Wavers ala the Blue Humans, B..
NORDIC NOTES 100 / VARIOUS
2017. 34 Song from 34 artists. Including tracks by Joonas Widenius Trio, Louisa Lyne & di Yiddish Kapelye, Uusikuu, J-P Piirainen, Arvvas, Folk Avant, RIM, Paivi Hirvonen, Elin Kaven, Subsonic Trio, Okra Playgro..
ELKINGTON JAMES
2020. Chicago songwriter and guitarist James Elkington -who has collaborated with everyone from Richard Thompson to Jeff Tweedy to Tortoise- recorded his sophomore album at Wilco's Loft, expanding upon his celebrate..
ELKINGTON JAMES
2020. Chicago songwriter and guitarist James Elkington -who has collaborated with everyone from Richard Thompson to Jeff Tweedy to Tortoise- recorded his sophomore album at Wilco's Loft, expanding upon his celebrate..
ELKINGTON JAMES
2020. Chicago songwriter and guitarist James Elkington -who has collaborated with everyone from Richard Thompson to Jeff Tweedy to Tortoise- recorded his sophomore album at Wilco's Loft, expanding upon his celebrate..
CHERRY DON
2020. Recorded live at the Donaueschingen Music Festival on October 17, 1971, 'Actions' features a truly mind-bending confluence of musicians of the avant-garde, in the broadest sense of the term. Don Cherry - the b..
GRDINA GORDON -SQUARE PE
2020. Gorgeous live debut LP by an extremely flexible quartet put together by Vancouver based string-monster Gordon Grdina. Grdina plays both electric guitar and oud. His fellow trvellers are violinist Mat Maneri, b..
ANGELI PAOLO & IVA BITTO
2020. Czech avant-folk violinist Iva Battova and Italian experimental guitarist Paolo Angeli join forces for an intriguing album. The material was recorded live during performances in Czech Republic, Portugal, Belgi..
SPIRAL GALAXY
2020. Traveling the spaceways as Spiral Galaxy, flautist/painter Sara Gossett and treated guitar/machines manipulator Plastic Crimewave (of Plastic Crimewave Syndicate/Galactic Zoo Dossier magazine) have created dev..
SLAPP HAPPY
2020. Rsd 2020 release. 'acnalbasac noom' - meant to be the german-english-american avant-pop group slapp happy's second album - was originally recorded in 1973 but did not see release original..
HORNSBY BLAKE
2021. 2021 album by Blake Hornsby, an experimental folk musician based out of Western North Carolina. His work is influenced by psychedelia, folk, Indian music, middle eastern music, American primitive guitar, the a..
BLOOD AXIS
2010. There will be at least one resurrection on Easter Sunday, 2010, when Blood Axis unveils its latest work, Born Again. The second full-length studio album in the group's twenty-year history, Born Again signals s..
ALCORN SUSAN
2021. Susan Alcorn has taken the pedal steel guitar far beyond its traditional role in country music. Having first paid her dues in Texas country and western bands, she began to expand the vocabulary of her instrume..
LA OLA INTERIOR: SPANISH AMBIE..
2021. 'spanish ambient & acid exoticism 1983-1990'- a compilation exploring the ambient side of the spanish electronic music produced in the '80s. It gathers musicians from various horizons..
YU SU
2021. Vancouver-based artist Yu Su releases her debut album 'Yellow River Blue' for Second Circle's parent label Music From Memory. 'Yellow River Blue' is a tribute to the Huanghe river that flows all the way from ..
MONSIEUR DOUMANI
2021. This much acclaimed Cyprus-based trio return with a thrilling fourth album. The record pushes their trademark Mediterranean sonics into a deep psychedelic and avant-folk direction. A danceable fever storm of s..
WHITE TRASH BOOM-BOOM
2021. Released on vinyl are four early '70s tracks dug up from the deep archives of disco legend and synth wizard Patrick Cowley. In 1972 Patrick was living in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood with Theresa McGinley a..
NTS (NEJTEK / TICHY / SMETACEK
2009. The abbreviation NTS stands for a joint project of three musicians with different backgrounds: contemporary art-music composer and keyboard player Michal Nejtek, jazz double-bass player Petr Tichý and rock dru..
WILLIAM R. STRICKLAND
2021. Released in both the UK and USA on Decca's DERAM label in 1969, most music observers became aware of WILLIAM R STRICKLAND by his inclusion on the classic 1969 sampler album "WOWIE ZOWIE - THE WORLD OF PRO..
HIILI JONATHAN
2021. Jonathan Hilli is an award-winning Finnish-Swedish singer, guitarist and songwriter. Expressionist, painter in words and tones. His songs are characterised by tightly woven lyric lines and expressive arrangeme..
TOMOKAWA KAZUKI
2022. In the 1970s, Kazuki Tomokawa catapulted into Tokyo's avant-garde scene with his cathartic and utterly electrifying performances. 'Straight From The Throat,' Tomokawa's second album, released in July 1976 by H..
JOYNES C
2021. Over the last decade-and-a-half, C Joynes has ploughed a singular furrow through solo guitar, with a body of work incorporating English folk-tunes alongside North and West African music, and lifting proto-mini..
FUGS
1990. The Fugs were the original outsider artists, releasing their first recordings on the legendary avant-garde label ESP-Disk' in the mid 1960s before signing to Reprise. Formed around the core of Ed Sanders and T..