MUSIC

Limited edition CD, self-released and independent. Comes in a reverse board, 6 panel package including all 6 drawings.

Includes the tracks Chartreuse, Rose, Lavender, Lime, Grey, and Violet.

One of the drone / ambient gems suitable for the coming autumn day, where a ray of light that makes you feel hope comes in from the nostalgic, tranquility and shadowy sound scenery! Matte laminate & embossed sleeve specifications. Highly recommended !!!!

Rhythm fiends, your time! Lisbon’s DJ Nigga Fox swangs it wide, precise and deadly on his first new tunes since 2019’s outstanding ‘Cartas Na Magna’ LP and a killer live tape in ’21 Deploying four immediately upfront, naturally experimental workouts, ‘Música Da Terra’ marks just over 10 years since DJ Nigga Fox came to our attention on the ‘African Digital Dance’ compilation, and solidly affirms his role as the leader of Lisbon’s new school. Balancing a cosmic jazzy depth akin to Jamal Moss or Ron Trent’s deep house with more urgent, syncopated ghetto grooves, his music is the pinnacle of contemporary Kuduro, if you ask us. The lad’s catalogue practically charts the sound’s development from grimy and hardcore to more sensual, textured and rhythmelodically psychedelic in a way that places him like Kuduro’s answer to Dego or A Guy Called Gerald, and especially on this EP. Including an instant standout jam with fellow Príncipe don DJ Firmeza in the muscular bass churn, bolshy brass and groggy pads of ‘Sanzaleiro’, Nigga Fox absolutely bosses it on his three solo works. There’s the adrenalizing scorcher ‘Madeso’ at the front, with its shards of marching horns sliced up into swingeing heads-down swagger, but also laid with a mental breakdown, while ‘Gás Natural’ cools off for a hot minute with its exquisite, chill breeze melody and in-the-pocket log drums leading somewhere deliciously darker, and ‘Sasuke’ simply slays with jaw-dropping twist of cosmic acid broken beat soul, lathering hazy organs, 303 and nimblest drums into the tightest, inimitable step. Oh my days this is fucking strong. TIP!

DJ Python’s Worldwide Unlimited net Lisbon legend Blastah for a bag of sensuous, playfully animated dembow, drill and kuduro mutations that sit ever so sweetly beside the label’s gems from Sangre Nueva and Henzo. Blastah blesses his debut firmware with a dreamily memorable set of six concise, lowkey burners that hover around reggaeton’s 100-110BPM brackets. Over the years he’s developed an online penpal relationship with Brian Piñero aka DJ Python, naturally leading to this shared conception of romantic club music with a mutable bent that lends itself just as easily to end-of-night slow jam sections as low lit bedrooms. The vibe is perfectly sensuous and set in woozy soft focus, from the Elysia Crampton-esque, dusky fusion of R&B pads and soundsystem stabs on ‘Raining’ to the neck-caressing nod to Timbaland and Timberlake in its ‘Closer’. A heartical deep house dembow sound is echoed on ‘Cendres’, and a prime fusion of US drill softened with subtropical appeal shapes ‘Unknown’ and the slinky, subbass-gilded minimalism of ‘Call’, while ‘Fish Friends’ most clearly betrays his taste for late night Lisbon tarraxho. Up-to-the-moment, inch-tight, timeless pearls for the dancehall lovers.

Cellist, composer & sound​ artist Leila Bordreuil takes us deep into the bowels and liminal spaces of a deserted NYC with 40 minute long contrasting works of a tempestuous and sorely enervated nature, played on location in the subway at the Ralph Avenue subway stop in Brooklyn - complete with passing trains, people, and tension in the air. If you’re into anything from Arthur Russell to Lea Bertucci - this one’s a total headmelt. First pinging our radar with her ‘Headflush’ album for Catch Wave back in 2019, Leila Bordreuil has a tactile, extreme approach to the cello, one that focuses on its visceral aspects in a way that mimics the most spirited, fraught and melancholy human emotions. Despite the complex nature of her playing, you can trace Bordreuil's lineage back to Arthur Russell’s defining ‘World Of Echo’ in methodology and spirit - Leila plays with no processing or effect pedals, everything stems from the player, her instrument, and their surroundings. On ‘For Tamio’ - Leila performs in tribute to her collaborator and saxophonist Tamio Shiraishi, whose late night performances at the Spring Street subway, 10 stops away from Ralph Avenue, greatly inspired her own approach to capturing and playing with resonance in the subway. For just shy of 20 mins, she makes the air burn and buckle with a combustible grasp of loud/quiet dynamics and keening discord that has us seat-edge by the end. The setting is evocative to the extreme - the usually chaotic and bustling subway station now emptied of its usual inhabitants, reclaimed as a performance space in which Leila played late into the night - accompanied by memories and echoes of life, as well as a person living in the subway station who started dancing to her music, an engrossed audience of one. In contrast, ‘Past Continuous’ on the flipside was recorded in Leila’s building’s hallway, where she attached a brick to the pedal of a broken upright piano and angled her microphones in a way that gave the illusion of a large reverberant room. Adding sinewaves to enhance natural frequencies, the result is a heartbeat sketch that operates at barely perceptible levels of tonality, working in a liminal space with almost hallucinatory, ghostly overtones and a colossal sub that speaks to the anxiety dreams of a megatropolis in stasis. ‘Not An Elegy’ is a grippingly stark work that owes as much to the city’s history of jazz as it does to experimental classical forms. It's an uneasy but deeply life-affirming trip through the dense fog of memory and modern anxiety, coaxed by a player whose hands shape, and whose feelings ooze through the recordings in a way that’s impossible not to be affected by in the deepest sense. It’s a remarkable document of a time, and an artist, right on the cusp.

Demdike Stare zoom into the late 90’s sweetspot where jungle producers swang into UKG and R&B with a high grade mixtape spliced together with typical, obsessive knowledge and swerve - trust it’s one of their best. Mining one of their essential touchstones, ‘The Call’ highlights the ’97-’99 period in the UK when the likes of Steve Gurley, Anthill Mob and Sky Joose were key players in the phase shift from ruff to sweet club styles around needlepoint 2-step drum programming. Also spotlighting the irrevocable influence of US R&B at the time, the mix homes in on one of the hardcore ‘nuum’s most fascinating innovations, when original, leading producers reclaimed their music from the sweatier excesses of jungle/D&B, and ushered it back to sexier, slinkier styles primed for dressing up and showing off - not gurning your tits off and brukking the f uck out. Stitched together with subtle, patented sleight-of-hand edits and dial strafe smudges, the mix exerts exquisite control for one hour of dainty rudeboy shuffle and woodblock parry in honour of their innovative heroes. Without overstating it, they trace UKG’s flex from bumpty speed garage soul inflicted with syrupy R&B, to its four-to-da-floor variants, and the sparkier punctuation of 2-step, proper, emphasising the sound’s rhythmic and textural sensuality with triple deep and eternal cuts that find the sound crystallizing from a delicious flux of puckered US garage-house and R&B-soul aspects, and updating the memory banks of original UK rave. Like the post-factum UKG archaeology of Finn and Oneman, Demdike’s picks are educated and educational, but never academic - presenting an ideal primer on the way styles shifted quickly back then, exemplifying how the tussle of energies between the house traction of Grant Nelson, Dem 2’s dissection of Timbaland/The Neptunes’ mainstream R&B, and the restless bad foot of rave were factored by the adroit chops of early jungle DJs on radio stations such as Freak FM and Jason Kaye’s Sun City mixes.

The long awaited third volume. New age, Balearic, and ambient listeners should check out Good Morning Tapes, a cult label in the current experimental scene based in France, which is home to the likes of D.K., Anthony Naples, and Tapes. This is the first time in a year that the label has released a showcase compilation album featuring all of their label mates who have been getting a lot of attention lately. Nueen, a producer/visual artist based in Barcelona, Spain, who also released a masterpiece of ambient music on Quiet Time Tapes, and Saphileaum, a multimedia artist from Georgia who was born and raised in a music/art family, are among the gorgeous labelmates. This comp is great guide to Good Morning Tapes.

Recorded at Channel One studio with the Roots Radics Band, mega rare top early dancehall LP back on Radiation Roots!!!

Recorded in New York 1959. Impressive session led jointly by Herbie Mann and John Rae. On side A, the group incessantly shifts from soft vibes-and-flute jazz to percussion-heavy Afro-Cuban rhythms to classic "Blue-Note" hard bop. Side B is the African Suite, a percussive trip across the Sahara.

Reissue of the 6th studio album by Brazilian jazz legend Antonio Carlos Jobim. Released in 1970 on A&M Records, this instrumental Bossa Jazz masterpiece was produced by Creed Taylor and engineered by Rudy Van Gelder. It features the arrangements of Eumir Deodato (who also conducted the band) and includes a plethora of sidemen from the U.S. jazz scene, such as Joe Farrell, Hubert Laws and Ron Carter, as well as Brazilian stars like Hermeto Pascoal, Airto Moreira and Joao Palma. Produced by Creed Taylor, engineered by Rudy van Gelder, arrangements by Eumir Deodato and featuring among others: Joe Farrell, Hubert Laws, Ron Carter, Hermeto Pascoal, Airto Moreira, and Joao Palma.

Orfeu Da Conceição was originally a stage play in three acts by poet and lyricist Vinicius De Moraes with music by Antonio Carlos Jobim. Premiered in 1956 in Rio de Janeiro. The play put the basis for the classic films Orfeu Negro. Needless to remember that Jobim and De Moraes were two seminal figures in Brazilian music, two modernists whose work was a major influence for generations to come. In fact Orfeu Da Conceição can be considered the beginning of their songwriting relationship. First released as 10" in the same year of the theater premier, the album features vocalist Roberto Paiva and guitarist Luiz Bonfà. An essential release for all Brazilian music fans out there.

A first box set containing 16 CDs, presenting more than 40 works and 18 hours of listening, including never released before music by Denis Dufour and texts in a detailed booklet (Fr/Eng/Ger). With his morphological and expressive approach to sound, Denis Dufour works on pieces in a constant state of renewal and on ideas that are specific to each piece. This results to a work looking like a large fresco in which no theme sounds alike, containing varied and breathtaking soundscapes and a patchwork of sounds, thoughts and colors that enable us to appreciate the sheer imagination as well as the consistence of his style. By deliberately but effortlessly opening his music to all sounds, Denis Dufour works with liberty, independence, rigor, and craftsmanship so refined that makes one forget oneself. Every second of sound is wrapped by a conscious ear so that so that his work contains no trace of automatic tools. Composer, teacher, researcher, director of label and festival, Denis Dufour, has greatly contributed to the development of acousmatic art in the world during forty years. First volume of the integral of his acousmatic work, this boxset regroups 44 works of Denis Dufour, composed between 1977 and 2020. Each one of the 16 discs is conceived as a listening program, which provides to listeners an immense landscape. The second volume is expected in 2022, and his instrumental work is under publication as well.

Efficient Space presents Soft and Fragile by Ros Bandt and LIME (Live Improvised Music Events), originally released by Move Records in 1983. A pioneering figure in Australian music, Bandt is known for her work with sound sculpture, electronics, acoustic ecology, and invented instruments, as well as her writings and teaching. Soft and Fragile comprises a series of structured improvisations performed on custom-built bells and gongs. On the side-long ‘Ocean Bells’, Bandt performs on her ‘flagong’, a three-tiered vertical glass marimba that she made in 1978, inspired by the ‘cloud chamber bowls’ of maverick instrument builder and microtonal composer Harry Partch. Over a long tape loop made up of slowed down sounds from the same instrument, she delicately strikes the glass bells with mallets, allowing individual pitches to ring out and decay with the aquatic wavering quality that suggested the piece’s title, eventually building into flowing melodic sequences. Structured as a series of events determined by the length of the performer’s breath, this gently undulating music invites listeners to lose themselves in delicate microtonal fluctuations and subtle yet expressive phrasing. For ‘Shifts’, Bandt is joined by Julie Doyle, Gavan McCarthy, and Carolyn Robb on a collectively composed work for clay bells. Atop a steady pulse, melodic and rhythmic cells expand and contract, shifting between LIME’s four members. LIME also perform the closing ‘Annapurna’, where timbres sourced from glass, clay and metal are freely threaded through a pulsating tape backdrop generated from loops of the ensemble chanting. Presented in a redesigned sleeve showcasing the performers and their instruments, the reissue reproduces the extensive original liner notes. While Bandt’s ideas and techniques draw on aspects of the invented instrument tradition of Partch and Bertoia, Stockhausen’s intuitive music, and the cyclical structures of American minimalism and Javanese gamelan, the floating world of Soft and Fragile also resonates with the work of New Age outlier Stephan Micus and contemporary practitioners such as Tomoko Sauvage. In Bandt’s own words, this is ‘elegant and sensual music where the body and mind have the time to reflect and catch up with the moment as it passes…It is a music intended for respite’.

Kalita are excited to unveil the first ever reissue of one of – if not the – strongest South African kwaito/bubblegum albums in existence, Jivaro’s 1989 masterpiece ‘Saturday Fever’. Originally released on Maurice Horwitz’s Music Team label at the turn of the decade, the album features various heavy hitting tracks that perfectly encapsulate the post-boogie/proto-house movement that had taken over the country’s airwaves and clubs at the time. Sourced from the original analogue master tapes, this definitive release by Kalita is a truly essential piece of musical history and one sure to set any discerning dance floor on fire.

Music From Memory are excited to present a special release with The Zenmenn in the shape of a limited 7” containing 2 tracks taken from the same recording sessions that resulted in their debut album 'Enter The Zenmenn' from 2021. About MFM057 The Zenmenn say: “Bella Fantasia and Topaz 2 are two uncut gems that we couldn't quite fit on the record. In the last couple of days before the deadline, we were tripping a little bit that Topaz was no good, so we tried to do it in a different way and came out with this more melancholy vocal version, looking back at the small moments from a past relationship that somehow slipped away. We kept both versions in the collection.” “For Bella Fantasia we were finding it funny to have this vocal using Ben's extremely limited Italian vocabulary, but after a while of it being a joke, it slowly settled into just being what it is. An angelic female voice seemed like it would fit in well, so we called up our dear friend Kari K and she flew in on gossamer wings to take care of the job like a real professional sent directly from beyond the pearly gates. In the final seconds of the song, much like Indiana Jones reaching back in the nick of time to snatch his hat from beneath the closing temple door, Magnus heroically managed to squeeze in a quick reference to the late great George Michael – R.I.P. Hopefully his estate never finds out about this.”

The sequel to Yabby You's (Vivian Jackson) definitive compilation, Deeper Roots. This is the sequel to Yabby You's definitive compilation "Deeper Roots", which includes rare dub plates, rare 7"'s, and the first ever collection of material handed over by Yabby You himself before his death. This time, the focus is on more instrumental tracks and intense DUBs, and to my surprise, it also includes the first collection of material handed to me by Yabby Yu himself before he died! The album includes "Thirty pieces of Silver," where most of the parts are cut off to create an incredibly powerful instrumental, "Sipping I & I Chalice," which has only been released on 7" and is known as a fantastic track, and "Psalm 16," which is a deep dub mix with a spacey feel. I Chalice," a deep dub mix with a cosmic feel, and more. The result is a work that is very worth listening to!
Disc 1
1. Walls of Jerusalem - Vivian Jackson & The Prophets
2. Thirty Pieces of Silver - Yabby You & The Prophets
3. Sipping I & I Chalice - Vivian Jackson & the Prophets
4. Sipping I & I Chalice - Vivian Jackson & the Prophets
5. Man of the Living - Wayne Wade and the Prophets
6. Psalm 16 - Prophets Allstars
7. Chant Down Babylon Kingdom - Yabby You & The Prophets
8. Chant Down Babylon Version - Prophets Allstars

Disc 2
1. Stop Your Quarreling - Yabby You & the Prophets
2. Stop Your Quarreling version – The Prophets Allstars
3. Outside The City Walls (Obey Your Parents) – Prophets Allstars
4. Jah Vengence - Vivian Jackson & The Sons of Jah
5. I Can’t Hide - Tony Tuff & The Prophets
6. I Can’t Hide version - The Prophet Allstars
7. Time Changing - Samuel Patterson
8. Mash Down (Mash Down Rome Instrumental) - Prophets Allstars

Shout Out! To Freedom… encapsulates the endless potential that can come about from stasis. It's a record that as is celebratory of N.O.W.’s past as it is determined to break from it.

An album that locally records the traditional music of the Sundanese who live in western Java. A variety of items such as a flute called Surin made of bamboo, an instrumental ensemble Kakapi Surin with a plucked string instrument Kakapi like a koto, a bowed string instrument Rebab with a characteristic singing tone, and Tenban Sunda with a focus on singing. Includes music. There is a sound similar to the famous gamelan in Bali, but the instruments are completely different, so you can enjoy a unique and interesting sound.
Recording: 1972-73 Java Island

1. Beber layar (“Spread the Sails”)
& Kembang bungur (“Flower of the Bungur-tree”)
2. Palwa (a proper name) & Lalayaran (“Sailing Tour”)
3. Rancag: Pancaniti (a proper name), Bayubud (a place name), Mangari (a place name), Liwung (“Worry”)
/ Kawih: Sumarambah (“Heart Full of Memories”)
4. Rancag: Bayubud (a place name), Liwung (“Worry”)
/ Kawih: Bungur (“The Bungur-tree”)
5. Rancag: Panyawang (“Rest in the Open”),
Pamekaran (“Blossom”) / Kawih: Samar-samar (“Blurred Pictures”)
6. Sinyur (a musical structure), Samarangan (“As he pleases”) 7. Rancag: Lor-loran (“Towards the North”), Erang barong / Kawih: Tablo (a musical structure).

Edition of 500 copies. Wooden box set, numbered. From the original master tapes. Includes a booklet. * Piero Umiliani is unquestionably one of the most consistent figures in terms of soundtrack music and library music worldwide. This precious 13CD Box is dedicated to the period of greatest maturity and artistic freedom which coincides with the creation of his personal studio: the Sound Work Shop. The 82 square meter room is elaborated with a particular acoustic treatment suitable for multi-track recording. The instruments available were the best of world production; to these were numerous instruments from all over the globe thanks to his passion for travel. It is also equipped with the best of the most modern projection and slow motion systems. Of the 13 albums included, spanning a period from 1971 to 1983, 9 had never been reissued digitally; the transfer took place from the original tapes provided by the heirs who continue to take care of everything concerning the artist's life with the utmost attention. With the most bizarre pseudonyms we listen to the Maestro confront himself with the most disparate genres: percussive and electronic experiments to drive sampling lovers crazy (CD1); the rock-prog-psych of The Braen's Machine, a group formed with Alessandro Alessandroni (CD2/3); the delicate melodies, lounge; groovy exotic (CD4/7/11/12), modern classical music (CD5); experimental dramatic tensions with synth, bass and primitive percussion on a string orchestra carpet (CD6); disco-funk-jazz (CD8); sound exploration in psychic disorders dictated by the human condition (CD9); pure Italian jazz (CD10); experimental ambient with synths (13). The luxurious wooden box includes a sequentially numbered booklet up to 500. The paper CD covers are reproductions of the original LP releases. details: CD1 PERCUSSIONI ED EFFETTI SPECIALI | 1972 1. Problematica giovanile / 2. Problematica giovanile n.2 / 3. Subacquea / 4. Bongos in suspense / 5. Dinamica in beat / 6. Dinamica in beat n.2 / 7. Contrasto ritmico / 8. Percussioni speciali / 9. Protesta giovanile / 10. Timpani statici / 11. Timpani in movimento / 12. Marasma / 13. Timbales / 14. Ritmi in swing / 15. Ritmi in swing n.2 / 16. Fascia astrale / 17. Stato ipnotico / 18. Dinamica in tensione / 19. Dinamica in tensione n. 2 / 20. Esplosioni / 21. Esplosioni n.2 / 22. Distorsioni / 23. Detective / 24. Echi della natura / 25. Fascia metallica / 26. Organo in suspense / 27. Battimenti / 28. Battimenti n.2 / 29. Segnali morse / 30. Segnali morse n.2 / 31. Sottosuolo CD2 UNDERGROUND | 1971 1. Fying / 2. Imphormal / 3. Murder / 4. Gap / 5. Militar Police / 6. New Experiences / 7. Fall Out / 8. Obstinacy / 9. Description CD3 TEMI RITMICI E DINAMICI | 1973 1. Movimento / 2. Dinamica / 3. Competizione / 4. Attività All’Aperto / 5. Ritmica Sportiva / 6. Esercizi Ginnici / 7. Gara / 8. Dilettanti / 9. Rinuncia / 10. Passeggiata / 11. Allenamento / 12. Aspetti Grotteschi CD4 NUOVE ARIE ROMANTICHE |1974 (1st time in digital) 1. Dolce Flauto / 2. Neve Sul Campanile / 3. Divertimento / 4. Ispirazione / 5. Luminosita’ / 6. Meditazione / 7. Bachiana / 8. Mozartiana / 9. Dolce Ed Austero / 10. Modo Settecentesco / 11. Tranquillita’ / 12. Ritrovarsi / 13. Malinconia D’Autunno / 14. Perla Di Ghiaccio CD5 MUSICA CLASSICA PER L'UOMO D'OGGI | 1974 (1st time in digital) 1. Impegno / 2. Elevazione / 3. Con Nostalgia / 4. Aria Di Fiesta / 5. Idea Mistica / 6. Gioioso / 7. Vocazione / 8. Molto Solenne / 9. Nuovo Umanesimo / 10. Ricostruzione / 11. Allegretto Classico / 12. Origini / 13. A Misura D’Uomo / 14. Preludio Arioso / 15. Come Un Corale CD6 MONDO INQUIETO | 1974 (1st time in digital) 1. Mondo Inquieto / 2. Emarginati / 3. Stato D’Ansia / 4. Attualita’ / 5. Riforme / 6. Boicottaggio / 7. Strategia / 8. Recessione / 9. Fermenti / 11. Doppio Gioco / 12. Incidenti / 13. Situazione / 14. Sotto Il Talone / 15. Eversione / 16. Crisi / 17. Popoli Inquieti / 18. Sanzioni. / 19. Inquietudine CD7 MOTIVI ALLEGRI E DISTENSIVI | 1978 (1st time in digital) 1. Su Con La Vita! / 2. Su Con La Vita! / 3. Su Con La Vita! / 4. Su Con La Vita! / 5. La Bella Vita / 6. Storie Di Villagio / 7. La Voce Dell’Organetto / 8. Tromba In Vacanza / 9. Sax In Vacanza / 10. Archi Innamorati / 11. Idea Romantica / 12. Idea Romantica / 13. Happy Boogie / 14. Happy Boogie CD8 DISCOMUSIC | 1978 1. Carousel / 2. Discomania / 3. Optimist / 4. Hobby / 5. Odeon / 6. Skypass / 7. Impact / 8. Forcing / 9. Marlowe / 10. Happy End CD9 TENSIONE | 1979 (1st time in digital) 1. Staccato E Tremolo / 2. Pedale In Suspence / 3. L’Orco / 4. Segnali Da Marte / 5. Prefiche / 6. Clavinet Suspence / 7. Pianofender Suspence / 8. Tremolo Ossessivo / 9. Tema In Suspence / 10. Intermezzo Neutro / 11. Pedale Lancinante / 12. Espressivo E Drammatico / 13. Notte D’Orrore / 14. Basso In Suspence / 15. Suspence Sommessa / 16. L’Orchessa / 17. Marcia Suspence / 18. Archi Informali / 19. Fascia Ossessiva / 20. Suspence Interlocutoria CD10 FILM CONCERTO | 1979 (1st time in digital) 1. Blues For Gassman / 2. Tension / 3. Smog / 4. Thinkin’ Blues / 5. Twilight At Los Angeles / 6. A Cavallo Della Tigre / 7. Solitudine / 8. Solitudine 2 / 9. Mah-Na' Mah-Na’ / 10. La Ragazza Dalla Pelle Di Luna / 11. O Dolci Baci / 12. Quando La Coppia Scoppia / 13. Insieme CD11 PANORAMA ITALIANO | 1979 (1st time in digital) 1. Calen Di Maggio / 2. Torna Primavera / 3. Tempo Di Madrigale / 4. Paesanella / 5 Paesanella / 6. Tempo Di Madrigale / 7. Nostalgia Di Marinaro / 8. Farina E Festa / 9. Stornello Felice / 10. Stornello Dolce / 11. Stornello Triste / 12. Richiamo Alpino / 13. Trinacria / 14. Notturno Siciliano CD12 ALBUM DI VIAGGIO | 1981 (1st time in digital) 1. Appuntamento Al Plaza / 2. Le Foreste Di Kuala Lumpur / 3. Attico A Montecarlo / 4. Martedi Grasso A N. Orleans / 5. Alabama Song / 6. Ritorno A Chicago / 7. Album Di Viaggio / 8. In Vacanza / 9. Viaggio Sentimentale / 10. Manhattan Blues / 11. Gospel Song / 12. Le Cascate Di Iguaçú CD13 SUSPENCE ELETTRONICA | 1983 (1st time in digital) 1. Sospetto / 2. Segni Premonitori / 3. Relitti / 4. Nave Spia / 5. Mutazioni / 6. Ballata Tragica / 7. Attesa Ansiosa / 8. Incubo / 9. Batticuore / 10. Rintocchi / 11. Sinistro Carillon / 12. Schizofrenia / 13. Leggermente Misterioso / 14. Degrado

Giorgio Brugnolini (1931-2020) was a composer and saxophonist from Italy, known for his cult recordings under the name Narassa, who sadly passed away last year. This is the first analogue reissue of the obscure masterpiece "Utopia" released in 1972 on the library label Gemelli, on the prestigious soundtrack/library label Sonor Music Editions. The first official release since the maestro's passing, with excellent arrangements on Hammond and piano by Giorgio Carnini and direction by Franco Tamponi. A dreamy, underground mood, a rather dangerous one! A ton of great jazz-funk-lounge-jazz sessions, bursting with avant-garde jazz sophistication, orchestration, and gorgeous grooves.

A masterpiece buried in history for a long time finally sees the light of day! !! The original is a very rare Roman progressive jazz rock band, Spirale's only work released in 1974 is the first official reissue from Milan's ! Corrado Nofri (key), Gaetano Delfini (vo, sax), Giancarlo Maurino (sax / flute), Peppe Caporello (ba, g), Giampaolo Ascolese (dr). This work has a gorgeous, beautiful and tough sound with a unique Mediterranean atmosphere that is similar to jazz rock bands such as Napoli Centrale and Arti & Mestieri in Italy. This is a must-listen for those who like Germany's Out Of Focus and Xhol Caravan of the same age! !! Limited to 500 sheets.

After Dinner from Japan, embraced new wave, traditional Japanese music, free contemporary and avant-garde rock. Founded under hand of delicious female vocalist, musician and composer Haco in 1981, broaching a very interesting collective cohesion; their background, though however various, brought them together during times of recording and live performance. 1982-85 includes all their first production; the complete 1st album “Glass Tube", 2 tracks from the 1st 7” single and a bonus track track from a 1985’s compilation on Celluloid. Includes 24-pages booklet

Music From Memory are excited to announce a special compilation that they’ve been working on for some time now; MFM053 – VA – Heisei No Oto – Japanese Left-field Pop From The CD Age (1989-1996). Compiled by long-time friends of the label, Eiji Taniguchi and Norio Sato, Heisei No Oto delves into a world of music released almost exclusively on CD and brings together a fascinating selection of discoveries from a little known and overlooked part of Japan’s musical history. The last ten or so years have seen a global wave of interest in Japanese music encompassing ambient, jazz, new wave and pop records from the 1980s, some of which is increasingly considered the most innovative and visionary music of that time. Although some music from this period, in the form of ‘City Pop’ or ‘rare groove’ records, had been coveted by collectors and DJs for a number of years, most Japanese music from the time was little known outside and often even within Japan. Sometime around the mid 2000s, two Osaka record store owners, Eiji Taniguchi of Revelation Time and Norio Sato of Rare Groove, along with a handful of deep Japanese diggers such as Chee Shimizu of Organic Music records in Tokyo, began to explore beyond the typical ‘grooves’ or ‘breaks’. Much like their counterparts in Europe and the US, they began delving into home-grown ambient, jazz, new wave and pop records, discovering visionary music, often driven by synthesizers or drum computers, that broke beyond the typical confines of their genres. Spending tireless hours in local record stores and embarking on digging trips across the country, Eiji Taniguchi and Norio Sato, much like Chee Shimizu, have been at the forefront of unearthing and introducing many of the very Japanese records now loved and sought after around the world. Yet as YouTube algorithms and vinyl reissues would transport such music into the global consciousness and demand and therefore scarcity intensified for such records, so Eiji and Norio have recently begun to turn their attention to CDs. The title of the compilation Heisei No Oto refers to the sound of the Heisei era, which began in 1989 and corresponds to the reign of Emperor Akihito until his abdication in 2019. Marking the culmination of one of the most rapid economic growths in Japanese history, 1989 also coincided with the music industry’s final shift away from vinyl in favour of CDs. And, although compact discs were first introduced seven years earlier it wasn’t until late into the ‘80s that, beyond dance music labels, CDs became the exclusive format for major and independent labels in Japan and throughout the world. This however didn’t signal the end of the innovation in Japan. Many of those same musicians who have become known for their work in the ‘80s would continue to produce outstanding music well into the mid ‘90s, as greater innovation and advances in musical equipment allowed Japanese musicians and producers to refine and explore new sounds. While musicians such as the seminal Haruomi Hosono, whose productions feature on a number of tracks, would continue to push the boundaries of these new technologies, these technological advances also meant less established musicians were able to make use of increasingly affordable but state-of-the-art equipment. Including music by Haruomi Hosono as well as Yasuaki Shimizu, Toshifumi Hinata and Ichiko Hashimoto who have become known and loved around the world in recent years, Hesei No Oto also features Japanese pop star Yosui Inoue, producers Jun Sato and Keisuke Kikuchi in aaddition to less established artists from the contemporary, jazz, new wave, pop and dance music scenes. Bringing together a selection of tracks that seem to define these specific genres and in fact move fluidly between a number of them, the music on the compilation is again underscored by experimentations with synthesizers and drum computers though with something of a gentle Pop sensibility. Reimagined here then under the encompassing term ‘Left-field Pop’, this is an exciting chapter in Japanese musical history that has only just begun to be fully explored.

Bongo Joe celebrate their 5 year anniversary with FUTUR ANTÉRIEUR, a digital compilation of 19 brand new tracks, created by Bongo Joe’s contemporary artist community, who provide their own stamp and interpretation of tracks that have previously been released as part of the label’s celebrated re-issue catalogue of archaeological discoveries. The anniversary and compilation release coincides with the re-opening of the Les Disques Bongo Joe’s record store, relocated to a new home on the banks of Lake Geneva, which opened for trade in March. Re-affirming the label’s disregard of genres and boundaries, the compilation sees artists like Bogota and Colombia’s pioneering and eccentric cumbia artist Meridian Brothers take on Extranos Juegos by the Spanish group Zombies (LA CONTRA OLA: Synth Wave & Post Punk from Spain 1980-86), the Geneva residents-en-psych-groove L’Eclair take on Mauritian singer Allen Meller on Moin Qui Bizin Travail (Soul Sega Sa! Indian Ocean Segas From The 70s) and Turkish outfit Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek reinterpret Ay Dili Dili from Azerbaijan guitarist Rüstem Quliyev, whose retrospective album Azerbaijani Gitara was released in 2020. Founder of the label, Cyril Yeterian, half of Cyril Cyril, recollects, “Looking back to our past 5 years' mixed catalog of music from the past and the present made us immediately think about bridging these musical worlds into one. Several bands we have on our roster told us our reissues inspired their music so it sounded like the obvious thing to propose, to all our current bands on the label.” In just five years Bongo Joe has established itself as a label on a mission, doing things on their own terms, without hierarchy making sense of the world and industry from their community base and record store/cafe/DJ and event space in Geneva Switzerland; and it’s a method that has garnered much respect, with audiences and artists alike. The present compilation is the result of this vibrating energy coming from the shores of Geneva Lake. Definitely time to support musicians : all benefits will go to our artists