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This is a page for everybody who likes to listen music on vinyl , who loves audio design. I'm collector of vinyl. In my collection more than 6000 albums of all styles. Every day I show new albums of different styles from my collection . I'm sure you will found that you like. I use only my original photos of albums, for it I made more than 2500 photos of albums. I can found here too much interesting information about albums, bands, singers from all countries.




Luís Mira Campelo












A Certain Ratio - Sextet

'Their third LP originally came out in 1982, two years after Talking Heads dropped Remain In Light and concurrently with the NYC groove experiments of ESG and Liquid Liquid. All of those sounds are present here, from dry bassline funk tracks like ‘Skipscada’ to the dub-punk of ‘Rialto. These hip strains are then fused with a distinctly English post-punk sensibility that sits somewhere between Public Image Limited’s Metal Box and The Clash’s Sandinista. Even after all these years it still sounds fresh...

 

 Factory. 1982

 Vinyl 180 gram





Adam Bałdych & Helge Lien Trio - Bridges

This is the third album for the prestigious German ACT label by Polish Jazz violinist / composer Adam Baldych, clearly the most significant representative of the Polish Jazz violin school active today. Contrary to most Jazz musicians, Baldych obviously prefers to create ad hoc associations with various musicians rather than lead his own band, which in his case seems to be the ideal solution in order to fully communicate his enormous versatility. This time he cooperates with the Norwegian piano trio, led by pianist Helge Lien, which also includes bassist Frode Berg and drummer Per Oddvar Johansen. The album's eleven tracks consist of nine original compositions by Baldych and one piece co-composed by Baldych and Lien and additionally an arrangement of a pop tune. Two of the compositions were arranged by Polish Jazz pianist / composer / arranger Krzysztof Herdzin.


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 Act Music . 2015

 Vinyl 180 gram





Adam Bałdych & Helge Lien Trio - Brothers

The album "Brothers" by Adam Baldych and Helge Lien Trio is a captivating jazz collaboration that was released by the renowned record label, Act. This unique musical endeavor brings together the exceptional talents of Polish violinist Adam Baldych and Norwegian pianist Helge Lien, along with their respective trios.

With a seamless blend of classical influences and contemporary jazz elements, "Brothers" offers a refreshing and innovative take on the genre. 


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 Act Music . 2017

 Vinyl 180 gram





Andrew Hill – Dance With Death

Recorded in 1968 as part of a quintet featuring saxophonist Joe Farrell, trumpeter Charles Tolliver, bassist Victor Sproles and drummer Billy Higgins, American jazz pianist Andrew Hill’s ‘Dance With Death’ wasn’t released for over a decade, finally seeing the light of day via Blue Note in 1980. These six remarkable originals represent some of the best yet most undervalued in his large discography.

 

 Blue Note . 2023 (Reissue)

 Vinyl 180 gram





Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - The Big Beat

Recorded in 1968 as part of a quintet featuring saxophonist Joe Farrell, trumpeter Charles Tolliver, bassist Victor Sproles and drummer Billy Higgins, American jazz pianist Andrew Hill’s ‘Dance With Death’ wasn’t released for over a decade, finally seeing the light of day via Blue Note in 1980. These six remarkable originals represent some of the best yet most undervalued in his large discography.

 

 Blue Note .1960

 Vinyl 180 gram





Bauhaus - Burning From The Inside

1983’s Burning From The Inside, the fourth and final album made by Bauhaus in their original incarnation before their split that same year. Illness meant less Peter Murphy and more from the rest of the band, with interesting results.

Though Bauhaus released a 5th LP in 2008 (Go Away White), Burning From The Inside stood as the band’s last will and testament. Despite being recorded under a cloud of illness, absence and other internal difficulties, Burning From The Inside still stands out as one of the group’s boldest statements. As well as typically fervid Gothic rock pieces (‘Antonin Artaud’, ‘Lagartija Nick’) there are forays into neo-folk (‘King Volcano’), dub (‘She’s In Parties’), Talk Talk-ish art-rock (‘Who Killed Mr. Moonlight?’)


 

 Beggars Bnquet . 1983

 Vinyl 180 gram





Bell Orchestre - As Seen Through Windows

2009’s ‘As Seen Through Windows’ was the second studio album from Canadian instrumental band Bell Orchestre, who included among their number a couple of members of indie titans Arcade Fire. Produced by Tortoise drummer John McEntire, it finessed the sound of their loose, sprawling debut ‘Recording A Tape The Colour Of The Light’ into something cathartic and elemental.

 

 Erased Tapes . 2009

 Vinyl 180 gram





Bernard Fevre - Orbit Ceremony 77

Newly unearthed lost album from the cosmic disco pioneer behind Black Devil Disco Club, an obscure late 70’s LP given new life by Rephlex (via Gwen Jamois/Iueke) back in 2004. Orbit Ceremony 77 was recorded as a fourth LP by Fevre, but never released at the time and thereafter sentenced to four decades in the musician’s vaults. With a strong sci-fi undercurrent and all the wacked out synth magic of the albums that did reach the public, this lost treasure is sure to appeal to anybody with a love for the strange world of Bernard Fevre. Or perhaps it is a love waiting to happen.

 

 Medical Records . 2016

 Vinyl 180 gram





Bex Burch - There Is Only Love And Fear

Invited by International Anthem to spend a month in the US in the summer of 2022, Berlin-based composer Bex Burch immersed herself not only in the musical community attached to the Chicago-based label, but also sought out unusual places Stateside to make field recordings and capture spontaneous moments with her new collaborators.

 

 International Anthem . 2023

 Vinyl 180 gram





Brian Eno - Top Boy

Coinciding with the series’ final season in 2023, the legendary Brian Eno releases his original music for ‘Top Boy’. Aside from two tracks that were included on his compilation ‘Film Music 1976-2020’, none of Eno’s music for the crime drama series has ever been officially released. Evocative and ethereal, the score perfectly complements the grit and drama of the action.



 Netflix Music . 2023

 Vinyl 180 gram





Bruce Brubaker - Codex

Deep and emotive workings of American pianist Bruce Brubaker, each one building on the foundational piano works of his Codex album released in January 2018 by InFiné.

On Codex,  Bruce Brubaker sets up a clash (or a discussion) between Terry Riley’s Keyboard Study No. 2 (1965) and

the Codex Faenza, a 15th century manuscript considered to be one of the very first collections of keyboard music.



 Infiné . 2018

 Vinyl 180 gram





Bruce Brubaker  - Eno Piano

On Eno Piano renowned pianist and ambient explorer Bruce Brubaker reworks some of Brian Eno’s most well-known ambient compositions including Music for Airports, examining them solely through piano and the unusual resonant drones Brubaker produces from it. Also accompanying these reworkings are three original pieces, written to compliment and ruminate on Eno’s ambient masterpieces.



 Infiné . 2023

 Vinyl 180 gram





Bugge Wesseltoft - Everybody Loves Angels

With Norway, we Europeans living in the south link combine with open landscape, fjords deeply carved into the landscape, and midsummer festivals. The fact that an extensive jazz scene has established in the Northern Kingdom which scene is active all over the country and has produced internationally successful musicians such as Jan Gabarek and Terje Rypdal is not only familiar to European jazz fans. 


With Petter Molvær, Bugge Wesseltoft founded a jazz quartet in the 80s, which attracted attention not least with the electronic futuristic effects that Bugge Wesseltoft elicited his Atari ST. The quite wild, sometimes uncivilized compositions for the quartet were the trigger for the New Conception of Jazz, which merged live electronic effects with conventional jazz, and supplied new generations of jazz musicians with new ammunition. In addition to this kind of ensemble jazz, Bugge Wesseltoft always remained faithful to the purely acoustic piano playing, as now on "Everybody Loves Angels" and in 1997 on the very successful album "It's Snowing On My Piano", the most beautiful Christmas CD in the history of the newer Jazz has been received.

 

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 Act Music . 2017

 Vinyl 180 gram





Bruno Bavota - For Apartments: Songs & Loops

A double album package inspired by the isolation and worry over Italy’s COVID outbreak, composer Bruno Bavota presents a collection of spartan, solo piano pieces and an accompanying suite of synthesizer loops. While they sound very different, the two ‘Apartments’ pieces are united by Bavota’s unmistakable vision.

 

 Temporary Residence . 2021

 Vinyl 180 gram





Can - Rite Time

Can’s twelfth and final album, ‘Rite Time’, was considered a reunion album of sorts due to the inclusion of original vocalist Malcolm Mooney after his departure soon after ‘Monster Movie’ and the fact that it marked a return to releasing music after the a large hiatus. Originally released in 1985, the LP is a psychedelic riot of the kind of inspiration and innovation heard in early Can recordings. Essential listening...

 

 
 

 Mute . 1989

 Vinyl 180 gram




Clarice Jensen - The experience of repetition as death

Following a stunning a debut and an illustrious career playing with the likes of Nick Cave, Björk and Dirty Projectors, Brooklyn-based cellist and composer Clarice Jensen appears on FatCat’s 130701 imprint for her brooding second LP. The Experience of Repetition as Death is a texturally rich work of meditative (and menacing) drone, performed with steadfast restraint and a rock solid sense for the minimal.

 

 
 

 FatCat Records . 2020

 Vinyl 180 gram




Clock DVA - Thirst

One of the most interesting experimental groups. They have started with industrial on the one wave with Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle but then abstracted from them and began to write own music. This release is the most unusual and experimental from their works. There are lurking industrial elements, and jazz, and even classic rock and of course post-punk elements. We get avant-garde post-punk as a result. Lyrically it reminds famous Joy Division or Bauhaus.

 

 
 

 Fetish Records . 1981

 Vinyl 120 gram




David Byrne - Songs From The Broadway Production Of "The Catherine Wheel"

Written for a dance piece by choreographer Twla Tharp the music was more of a success than the stage show. It is a mixture of heady funk, ambient and percussive pieces with some primitive sampling. My favourites are the atmospherically sweeping "Two Soldiers" and the spacey "Cloud Chamber".

 

 
 

 Sire .1981

 Vinyl 180 gram




David Helbock - The New Cool

Three renowned bandleaders & solo artists of European jazz come together to form a very special trio. What unites them is the love for clear themes, melodies, harmonies, with a strong rhythmic grounding. Qualities that originate in the cool jazz of the 40s and 50s which philosophy the trio continues using the jazz vocabulary of today.

 

 
 

 Act music . 2021

 Vinyl 180 gram




Northern Irish musical ingenue David Holmes provides the original score to ‘This England’, the 2022 limited docudrama series about Boris Johnson’s first few months as British Prime Minister and how his administration bungled the early response to the Covid pandemic. Tense, dramatic and deeply melancholic.

 

 
 

 Stranger Than Paradise Records. 2023

 Vinyl 180 gram




David Sylvian ‎– Alchemy - An Index Of Possibilities

Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities was the second solo album by David Sylvian. The album is made up of two projects coming together, hence the use of the word alchemy in the title. Both projects were worked on in 1985, in between Sylvian's Brilliant Trees and Gone To Earth albums, and featured help from a number of creative types. Avant-garde composer Jon Hassell, Can’s Holger Czukay, Robert Fripp of King Crimson, Ryuichi Sakamoto, jazz trumpeter Kenny Wheeler and fellow Japan bandmate, Steve Jensen all contributed. 180g vinyl reissue on Virgin/EMI.

 

 
 

Virgin . 1985

Vinyl 180 gram




Deena Abdelwahed - Khonnar

Deena Abdelwahed has her roots in the Tunisian alternative music scene. She went on to DJ everywhere around the world, including Boiler Room and Concrete. She has an EP under her belt which centred on club music. She has changed gear somewhat for her debut album, Khonnar, which is an atmospheric work, centering on introspection. Limited edition deluxe LP with poster on Infine.

 

 
 

Infine . 2018

Vinyl 180 gram




Black Celebration is Depeche Mode's fifth album, and was originally released in 1986. It is regarded by many fans of the band as their zenith, and with good, disturbing cause: the dark sound that was nascent on Black Celebration's predecessors, Construction Time Again and Some Great Reward was fully realised here.

 

 
 

 Mute. 1986

 Vinyl 180 gram




It would have been impossible to predict when watching them as children on Top of the Pops doing "New Life" that Depeche Mode would become enormous stadium fillers with success in that massive place we call the United States of America. 'Violator' is the one that sent them completely overground and contains forever classics like 'Personal Jesus' and the surely never to be surpassed pop brilliance of 'Enjoy the Silence'. 

 

 
 

 Mute. 1990

 Vinyl 180 gram




On May 23 of 1963 a trio of bebop originals joined up with a worthy European compatriot and visited CBS Studios in Paris. The comeback of tenor giant Dexter Gordon was well underway, but the Continent was a relatively recent change of scene. Pianist Bud Powell and drummer Kenny “Klook” Clarke had been living in France for quite some time however, and bassist Pierre Michelot was born there. Together this quartet agreed upon five standards and executed them with utter brilliance. Blue Note titled it Our Man in Paris, and 60 years later it remains a classic.

 

 
 

 Blue Note. 1963

 Vinyl 180 gram




Dominic Miller - Silent Light

You might recognize the name Dominic Miller, as he's been the guitarist in Sting's band for many years, but this veteran musician has also worked with the likes of Paul Simon, Phil Collins, Bryan Adams, Chris Botti, Peter Gabriel, Sheryl Crow, and Steve Winwood, among many others. Originally from Argentina, raised in both the US and England but now living in France, he's spent the last three decades touring and recording with some of the best in the music industry. Though he has a number of solo releases to his credit, Silent Light is his first for the acclaimed ECM Records label, and features mostly his solo guitar with some light percussion courtesy of Miles Bould.

 

 

 Ecm . 2017

 Vinyl 180 gram


Dustin O'Halloran - Silfur

As well as constituting one half of A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Dustin O’Halloran has been a solo piano artist for nearly two decades. ‘Silfur’ is a revamped collection of selected works from his solo records from 2004 to 2011 (that is, ‘Piano Solos’ I & II, ‘Vorleben’ and ‘Lumiere’) mixed with streaming in mind. There’s also two new pieces in ‘Opus 56’ and ‘Constellation No.2’.

 

 
 


Deutsche Grammophon . 2021

 Vinyl 180 gram


Editors - The End Has A Start

 The End Has A Start is the sophomore LP from Joy Division revivalists Editors. After the underground success of 2005’s The Back Room, this is the record on which the Brummie band made a play for the big leagues. They put meat on the bones of their sinewy post-punk style with the anthemic tones of Echo & The Bunnymen and Bloc Party. It worked, too - The End Has A Start hit number 1 in the album chart and produced the top 10 single ‘Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors’.

 

 Kitchenware Records. 2007

 Vinyl 180 gram



Embryo - Auf Auf

 ‘Cult Krautrock outfit Embryo were formed by Christian Burchard in 1969, and made headway in the scene by taking inspiration from far-afield sounds, fusing them with psychedelic rock and jazz. Christan’s daughter Marja took the reins of the ensemble after Christian’s death in 2018, remaining true to the roots of the project but adding her own unique style into the mix. They started recording ‘Auf Auf’, finishing it in the throes of the Covid pandemic in 2020. Madlib has often said Embryo is his favorite rock band, and so Marja got in contact with the idea to release the new album on Madlib Invazion - the reply was a resounding, definitive yes, and here is the finished product; a proud continuation of the Embryo legacy.

 

 Madlib Invazion. 2021

 Vinyl 180 gram



Erlend Apneseth Trio - Lokk

 Scandinavia boasts a wealth of avant-folk, free jazz and improvisational music. The fertile area where these scenes meet and intersect is represented brilliantly by the Hubro record label, whose roster includes the ambient jazz guitarist Trond Kallevåg, the spacy, proggy fusion of Stein Urheim and the deconstructed folk of Frode Haltli. But the jewel in the label’s crown is fiddle player Erlend Apneseth’s trio, which features Øyvind Hegg-Lunde on drums and guitarist Stephan Meidell. The group’s influences cover a huge range: wide-eyed, cultish freak-folk rubs shoulders with musique concrete, archival recordings flirt with modernist composition and traditional dance tunes coexist with wild and unfettered jazz.

 

 Hubro music. 2021

 Vinyl 180 gram



Erland Cooper - Folded Landscapes

 ‘Folded Landscapes’ is the fourth studio album from Scottish composer Erland Cooper. It’s the most grandiose expression of his penchant for fusing classical and electronic music of his career so far, thematically concerned with climate breakdown and suffused with field recordings of the natural environment (breaking glaciers and raging forest fires, etc.) plus vocal contributions from poet Simon Armitage, visual artist Norman Ackroyd and activist Greta Thunberg among others.

 

 Mercury KX. 2023

 Vinyl 180 gram



Erik Honoré - Unrest

 Unrest is a collection of masterly collages from the hand of Erik Honoré in which he captures, with absolute precision, the moods and tonal imagery of improvisations and weaves them together in a personal and evocative musical process.

 

 Hubro music. 2017

 Vinyl 180 gram



Fats Navarro - The Fabulous Fats Navarro Vol. 1

 Released posthumously in 1957, ‘The Fabulous Fats Navarro Vol. 1’ was an overview of some of the incredible material that jazz trumpeter and bebop pioneer Fats Navarro had laid down between 1947 and 1949 as part of other ensembles - The Tadd Dameron Sextet, Bud Powell Quintet and The McGhee-Navarro Boptet.

 

Blue Note. 1957

Vinyl 180 gram



Felt - Forever Breathes The Lonely Word

 The first Felt album for Creation and the first not to feature guitar wizard Maurice Deebank. Forever Breathes the Lonely Word is kind of a bridge album between their old sound and the lighter more varied work in the second half of the eighties. As a result of Deebank's departure Martin Duffy's organ takes centre stage, wandering all over the place.

 

Creation . 1986

Vinyl 180 gram



Finlay Shakespeare - Illusion + Memory

 Finlay Shakespeare follows stellar albums for Editions Mego, Superpang and his own Goto label, cementing his place in classic UK electronic pop heritage, following a lineage that can be traced back to early Human League, Chris & Cosey, Blancmange etc. Shakespeare is not only an artist but something of a tech wizard, pushing technology forwards within his artistic work, meaning things on 'Illusion + Memory' remain fresh rather than overly nostalgic. An impressive symbiosis of man and machine - an album which is not only technically dazzling but oozing human soul and emotion.

 

Alter . 2023

Vinyl 180 gram



Galya Bisengalieva - Polygon

‘Polygon’ is the second studio album from Kazakh-British musician Galya Bisengalieva. Like its 2020 predecessor ‘Aralkum’ it concerns historical and current events in Kazakhstan - this time, she chooses the vast Semipalatinsk test site (known as ‘The Polygon’) in the north-east of the country where the Soviet Union tested atomic weaponry throughout the Cold War and where 1.5 million people were said to have been exposed to nuclear fallout despite the area being officially classed as uninhabited. Track by track, Bisengalieva examines the culture, ecology and history of various landmarks and populations in the territory.

 

 One Little Independent Records . 2023

 Vinyl 180 gram



Gary Peacock ‎– Voice From The Past - PARADIGM

This great album by US bassist / composer Gary Peacock is a milestone achievement in his extensive career. Recorded with an all star quartet with Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko, Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek and his life-long partner drummer Jack DeJohnette, the album presents six extended pieces, all composed by Peacock, beautifully executed by the participants. In retrospect this is one of the pivotal albums, which summarize the 1970s, which was perhaps the most creative period for Free Jazz, expanding upon the seeds planted a decade earlier by the pioneers of the genre. Most Jazz musicians in the 1980s were to return to the "roots", with modern mainstream experiencing a remarkable renaissance. But this album is still very much rooted in the Free Jazz tradition, with creative group improvisation and telepathic interplay are the main ingredients. Stanko's input is simply breathtaking, which confirms the fact that he was at that time at one of his creative peaks. But all the musicians play incredibly well and the session displays creative fire of rare magnitude. In retrospect this is definitely on of the strongest albums of that period, sadly rarely mentioned as such. Brilliant stuff!esents Tancade, his debut album as a solo artist.
Tancade is the result of a long, patient creative process which began in earnest over a few days while in a small village in Luberon, France in 2017. The pandemic of 2020 allowed Claus to revisit the same themes of isolation and solitude, and refocus his energy as the world, and his schedule as a touring musician, ground to a halt.
Created entirely using cello apart from the odd spoken word, its styles and influences are as broad as his list of collaborators suggests. Emotive film scores, timeless folk and contemporary jazz are some of the touching points as he tweaks and repurposes the cello, as a staccato-ed percussive driving force or as an expansive bed of reverb-drenched notes.

 

 ECM . 1982

 Vinyl 180 gram



Gaspar Claus - Tancade

Gaspar Claus is an accomplished French cellist, best known until now for his many cross-genre collaborations with such luminaries as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sufjan Stevens, Efterklang and his father Pedro Soler. InFiné presents Tancade, his debut album as a solo artist.
Tancade is the result of a long, patient creative process which began in earnest over a few days while in a small village in Luberon, France in 2017. The pandemic of 2020 allowed Claus to revisit the same themes of isolation and solitude, and refocus his energy as the world, and his schedule as a touring musician, ground to a halt.
Created entirely using cello apart from the odd spoken word, its styles and influences are as broad as his list of collaborators suggests. Emotive film scores, timeless folk and contemporary jazz are some of the touching points as he tweaks and repurposes the cello, as a staccato-ed percussive driving force or as an expansive bed of reverb-drenched notes.

 

 InFiné . 2021

 Vinyl 180 gram


Gavin Bryars - After the Requiem

Cross-border commuter between classical concert music and, well, Jazz, with a bend towards minimalism, Gavin Bryars seems to be a typical exponent of his generation. On the title track, there's the distorted guitar of a Bill Frisell, and there's the nervous fiddling of Alexander Bălănescu. The next piece starts on a slightly freer, more sophisticated mode, then meanders off into minimalist arpeggios and from there to a choral with a jazzy arrangement. The last two pieces feature more of that pretty sound, which is best described, and not entirely favorably, by the German word, "Schönklang".
Molto sostenuto, very fitting for an ECM release, winterly, essentially trivial. But a nice choice for a cold, cloudy day.

 

 

 Ecm . 1991

 Vinyl 120 gram

Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic

'The Sinking of the Titanic' is considered by many to be the magnum opus of Yorkshire's own Gavin Bryars. Originally released in 1975, it was the first release on Brian Eno's fledgling Obscure Music Label. This modern classical masterpiece was produced by Eno and was Bryars's first major and most enduring work. It features Derek Bailey, Michael Nyman, and John White and is an imagined reconstruction of the passenger's experience of being aboard the sinking vessel. It's an incredibly poignant work and features 'Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet' which is apparently Tom Waits's favorite piece of music of all time.
Molto sostenuto, very fitting for an ECM release, winterly, essentially trivial. But a nice choice for a cold, cloudy day.

 

 
 

 Obscure . 1975

 Vinyl 120 gram

Goldmund ‎– The Time It Takes

Through his minimal, piano-centred ambient music, Goldmund (aka Pennsylvania’s Keith Kenniff) has crafted an instantly recognizable sound without it ever feeling recycled. ‘The Time It Takes’ (October 16, Western Vinyl) is another emotional album, and one that recalls loss and mourning – not on a personal scale, but a global one – and it’s also capable of shining with hope, patiently waiting for better days to come.
A single piano is enough to deepen the waters of sorrow, but a radiating synth is there to uplift it, support it, and to set it on its feet again; the synth and the other additional elements are threads of optimism, running throughout the music. Chords as bright as slanted sunlight peek through and break free, and Kenniff is a master at developing the atmosphere. The compositions unfold in their own time, but they’re always seeking to grow, standing taller and taller, like a sunflower as it seeks out its source of light. In the same way, the chords drink in the light as if it contained vital nutrients, not only sustaining the music but making it come to life.

 

Western Vinyl . 2020

Vinyl 180 gram

Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra - The Unfolding

Off the back of a nomination for the Mercury Prize with her 2021 album ‘Fir Wave’, British producer and composer Hannah Peel presents this painstaking collaboration with Bristolian ensemble Paraorchestra. Recorded over three years when the various lockdowns allowed, ‘The Unfolding’ is a beautiful synthesis of acoustic, analogue and digital instrumentation challenging preconceptions of what orchestral music can and should sound like.

 

 

Real World . 2022

Vinyl 180 gram

Hank Mobley - Curtain Call

Recorded in 1957 but not released until 1984 on the legendary Blue Note imprint, Hank Mobley’s ‘Curtain Call’ is one of the jazz label’s finest hidden treasures. Featuring a backing quintet that included trumpeter Kenny Dorham and pianist Sonny Clark, the tracklist features four Mobley originals and takes on two standards, including a cover of ‘30s popular tune ‘My Reverie’.

 

 

Western Vinyl . 2020

Vinyl 180 gram

Harold Budd - Abandoned Cities

Harold Budd's Abandoned Cities contained two of the most ambitious pieces of music ever written. The slow-motion hovering of the 20-minute "Dark Star", collocating drones and symphonics, felt like a somber nebulae hanging over a dormant city, a threatening mirage of a world dead for thousands of years. The 23-minute "Abandoned Cities" went even deeper into hibernation, sank even further into existential despair; this music was pure anemia, resembling barely audible emotions that implode towards the abyss; a requiem for a star that vanishes into eternity and only it's memory is left. At some distant world, you can still see the star, it's flickering light still traveling through a hostile universe, but in actuality the star has died.

 

All Saints . 1984

Vinyl 180 gram

Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off

Takin’ Off is the highly regarded debut album by Herbie Hancock. It was originally released in 1962. Hancock is joined by an impressive cast of cats: Dexter Gordon, Freddie Hubbard, Butch Warren and Billy Higgins. It includes the track, 'Watermelon Man', which was so successful it made it into the pop charts and has since become a jazz standard.

 

Not Now Music . 1962

Vinyl 120 gram

Ingram Marshall - Fog Tropes / Gradual Requiem

One of the most vaporous albums I've ever heard. Two separate pieces, the 10-minute opener of "Fog Tropes" followed by the somewhat similar in tone "Gradual Requiem." True to its name, the composition is dedicated to Ingram Marshall's deceased father. Take a look at the genre tags for a hint of what this sounds like: ambient, minimalism, electroacoustic. The tone (mirrored by the excellent album art) is decidedly undecided; themes are notably left open-ended as suspended layers of sound swirl in a haze. The effect is of standing still as weather passes by.

 

 New Albion . 1984

 Vinyl 180 gram





Jackie McLean - Tippin' The Scales

‘Tippin’ The Scales’ is a 1962 album by alto saxophonist Jackie McLean. The album sees McLean backed by pianist Sonny Clark, drummer Art Taylor and bass player Butch Warren. The LP is a little more run-of-the-mill than McLean’s usual jazz fusion/avant-garde output but the laid-back quartet offer some top-notch playing making it well worth your time. The album was produced by Blue Note co-founder Alfred Lion.

 

2020 . Western Vinyl

Vinyl 180 gram

Japan - Quiet Life

With their third studio album ‘Quiet Life’, David Sylvian and Japan completed their transition from glammy punk naifs to sleek art-house pop stars. Containing a stylish take on The Velvet Underground’s ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’, is a timely reminder of the power of an art-rock group who perhaps remain a bit underrated in the modern era.

 

Hansa . 1979

Vinyl 180 gram

Japan - Tin Drum

Tin Drum is Japan’s fifth and final studio LP. It is also regarded as arguably their finest work - indeed, in a 2011 poll BBC Radio 6 Music named the album the best LP of 1981. In Tin Drum, David Sylvian et al delivered a record that combined their art-pop sensibilities and knack for painterly ballads with a groove-driven post-punk style to great effect. At once refined yet fiery, Tin Drum prefigures the success of Talk Talk and Orange Juice.

 

Virgin . 1981

Vinyl 180 gram

Jean-Michel Blais - Aubades

Jean-Michel Blaise can be considered a latecomer to music, having decided to become a professional musician only at the age of 25. At the age of sixteen, he first devoted himself to piano studies at a Canadian conservatory, but dropped out after only two years when he realized that he was not made for the academic world. A few years abroad followed without any serious connection to music until he returned to Montreal as a self-taught composer in his mid-twenties and turned his love of music into a professional career. Jean-Michel Blaise's compositions are influenced by classical, jazz and experimental music. His works are characterized by tonal variety and fine emotion, which are spontaneous and improvised in parts and are modeled above all on musical impressionism and minimalism à la Eric Satie and Philip Glass. Minimalism and the absence of overdubs dominate his albums, of which the critically acclaimed debut album II, released in 2016, was recorded entirely in his Montreal apartment. A year later followed the album Cascades, on which synthesizers and electronic sound elements are used in addition to piano to add color to the minimalist compositions, some of which are reminiscent of John Cage. This was followed by the album Dans ma main, on which classical music is combined with electronic music, and currently the album audbades, which, like the previous albums, was released on the Arts & Crafts label.


One of the season’s loveliest albums was borne out of heartbreak.  An aubade is “a morning love song about lovers separating at dawn.”  Composer Jean-Michel Blais used the end of a relationship to reaffirm his commitment to life.  Known primarily for his piano work, Blais has opened his tonal palette to embrace orchestral elements and shifted his keys from minor to major, resulting in a set that at times sounds utterly triumphant, despite the circumstances.  It becomes a statement of faith in life and yes, even love.


 

Mercury kx . 2022

Vinyl 180 gram

Jean-Michel Blais - Dans Ma Main

Canadian pianist/composer Jean-Michel Blais releases his second LP via Arts & Crafts (Moby, Broken Social Scene). Dans Ma Main is a collection of expressive contemporary classical compositions that will be up your street if you’ve kept an eye on Village Green or Erased Tapes over the past couple of years. The opening tracks here have the piano front and centre, and the best of these - ‘Roses’, ‘Outsiders’ - nod to the likes of Philip Glass and Max Richter. Dans Ma Main’s midsection sees Blais branch out and take influence from techno (‘Blinf’, ‘A Heartbeat Away’) and the cinematic industrialism of Nine Inch Nails (‘Igloo’, ‘God(s)’). We return to the keys for closer ‘Chanson’.

 

Arts & Crafts. 2018

Vinyl 180 gram

Joep Beving - Solipsism

Joep Beving composes and performs pieces for piano with a delicacy and a sense of stateliness that puts him right in there with the likes of Nils Frahm and Olafur Arnalds. Solipsism, his debut, was recorded in the middle of the night for extra depth of feeling: this is neo-classical piano of the most relaxing sort. Originally released on On I Are Giant and reissued by Deutsche Grammophon.

 

Unseen Worlds . 2019

Vinyl 180 gram

Jóhann Jóhannsson - A Prayer To The Dynamo

I had a dynamo on my bike in 1982. I'm not sure that this is what Jóhann Jóhannsson's - 'A Prayer To The Dynamo' is all about. Instead, it was written in response to a commission by Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra - the sort of band who wear gloves when they play. It is one of the freest pieces Johannsson has ever written - letting him off the leash from the constraints of film score.


 

Deutsche Grammophon . 2023

Vinyl 180 gram

Jóhann Jóhannsson - IBM 1401, A User's Manual

4AD herald the cries of one thousand and one modern classic heads by cutting to vinyl Jóhann Jóhannsson's 2006, overtly sci-fi concept album about an Icelandic computer - IBM 1401 A User's Manual.

With much of Jóhann Jóhannsson's material, we'd usually say its best suited to CD or digital formats. Yet with the incredibly vivid future-past feeling translated within the IBM 1401 A User's Manual (and the fact blown up, the sleeve looks stunning) the retroactive current feels completely at home pressed to vinyl. It's a curious album, to say the least. Flitting between passages of Jóhannsson's richly cinematic yet calmingly tranquil string sections, while the meditative state of mind it demands is punctuated with a rather posh sounding cyberpunk narrative about how to operate an old computer.

Technology hitting its peak!



 

4ad. 2006

Vinyl 180 gram

Jóhann Jóhannsson - The Theory of Everything

History will likely remember Johann Johannsson as one of the pre-eminent film composers of the early 21st Century - no mean feat when you consider the competition. One of the late composer’s works that will surely be singled out for praise is his Oscar-nominated score for the 2014 Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory Of Everything. Johannsson’s stirring music breathes new life into the well-worn trend of film scores composed for strings. While the clear influence of Elgar and Britten invokes the stately English climbs of the film’s Cambridge setting, his tasteful touches of electronics, piano and brass give the soundtrack great range. Given Hawking has also recently passed away, this record serves as a fitting tribute to both men.


 

Music on Vinyl . 2018

Vinyl 180 gram

Jóhann Jóhannsson - Virðulegu Forsetar

First Touch title of 2011 is this career best LP from Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson first released in 2004 now surfacing through Deutsche Grammaphon it's beautifully packaged. Written for 11 brass players, with inflections of piano, electronics and process kissing the edges, it's really all about the overwhelming swell of horns, bursting at the seams in a rush of pure cinematic widescreen loveliness. Breathtaking.


 

Deutsche Grammophon . 2004

Vinyl 180 gram

Jóhann Jóhannsson - And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees

Jóhann Jóhannsson is back with a score for Marc Craste's animated film 'Varmints'. A collection of beautifully orchestrated tracks balanced with his signature electronic elements this is a haunting and evocative listen, with the same underlying depth and warmth to the arrangements that made 'Englabörn' so special.


 

Deutsche Grammophon . 2009

Vinyl 180 gram

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

This is, literally, John Coltrane’s staggeringly legendary 'A Love Supreme', and you shouldn’t really need to be told any more than that in order to pounce on it. Spiritual and energetic, melodic but hinting towards Coltrane’s later free explorations, this is deservedly a classic. Considered by many to be one of the most important records ever made.

 

Impulse! . 1964

Vinyl 180 gram

John Foxx – The Garden

‘The Garden’ is the second solo LP by John Foxx and was originally released in 1981. The LP sees Foxx reverted to a full band set up following his synth-only debut ‘Metamatic’ and stylistically referencing ‘Systems of Romance’, the last LP he recorded with former band Ultravox in 1978. The subject matter here ranges from his catholic upbringing to architecture.

 

Virgin . 1981

Vinyl 180 gram

John Metcalfe - Tree

‘John  Metcalfe is probably best known for his work with The Durutti Column and for helping to make U2 and Coldplay songs less awful due to his arrangement skills.  His latest solo album sees him soundtracking an activity I might enjoy  - namely sitting under a tree all day from dawn to dusk and seeing how the light is ever-shifting.

 

Real World Records . 2023

Vinyl 180 gram

Kaffe Matthews - Foreigner

Pioneering electroacoustic composer Kaffe Matthews lands on Objects Limited with a weighty work of avant-garde drone mastery, and the first volume of a planned series. Foreigner utilises many facets to create its ruthlessly stark wall of sound, chief among them a second hand ELKA 400 electric accordion organ, which formulates deep, ghostly tones across these mammoth, side-long pieces.

 

 

Western Vinyl .2020

Vinyl 180 gram

Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert

When Keith Jarrett turned up at the venue for this gig in April 1975,  the first ever gig being put on by a 17 year-old German wannabe promoter, it seemed that it was doomed before it started. He was late, he needed feeding, the piano was horribly out of tune, but due to Jarrett being such a great musician, The Köln Concert just happens to be one of the greatest live jazz albums ever recorded.

 

 
 

 Ecm . 1975

 Vinyl 180 gram


Kenny Drew - Undercurrent

Kenny Drew was an underrated master of bebop. A brilliant pianist who started with the example of Bud Powell and then developed his own sound within the style, in the ’50s Drew worked with the likes of Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Buddy DeFranco, Dinah Washington and Art Blakey. By 1960 when he recorded Undercurrent, Drew had already led ten albums of his own, mostly with duos and trios. Oddly enough he only had the opportunity to lead two albums in his life for Blue Note, an early effort from 1953 and the classic Undercurrent. Matched in a quintet with the young firebrand trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and the always-stimulating tenor-saxophonist Hank Mobley, the 32-year old pianist was ready to truly make his mark. All six compositions are his, and in his accompaniment of the passionate horn men and in his soulful solos, Drew shows that he was one of the major hard bop stylists. He would not make another album as a leader until 1973, nine years after he permanently moved to Europe, but Kenny Drew’s playing on Undercurrent, a superb and very well-recorded Blue Note album that is arguably his finest work, is timeless.

 

 

Blue Note . 1961

Vinyl 180 gram

Klaus Weiss - Open Space Motion (Underscores)

A drummer for hire who headed up many of his own ensembles too, German musician Klaus Weiss became associated with a particularly funky strain of library music, characterised by his hard-hitting playing. His 1981 album ‘Open Space Motion: Underscores’, however, is a total outlier in this regard, completely devoid of percussion and instead presaging the mood of chill-out music and blue rooms the best part of a decade before such ideas became widely understood.

 

 

Coloursound Library. 1981

Vinyl 180 gram

Lambert - Open

Mysterious German pianist musician Lambert, famed for his incognito performances in which he wears a Sicilian mask, elects to revisit the sounds of his earliest work with ‘Open’, his seventh studio album. Setting downbeat solo piano music to soul-searching ambient backdrops, this is fifteen tracks of post-classical bliss.

 

 

Mercury KX. 2022

Vinyl 180 gram

Love & Rockets - Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven

Formed by Daniel Ash, David J and Kevin Haskins after they quit goth icons Bauhaus in the mid-Eighties, Love And Rockets released their first album ‘Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven’ in 1985. Spearheaded by a drastic reimagining of The Temptations’ ‘Ball Of Confusion’, it was an embrace of psychedelia and Sixties pop over the angular, post-punk and gothic rock of their previous band.

 

 
 

 Beggars Banquet. 1985

 Vinyl 180 gram




Max Richter – The New Four Seasons Vivaldi Recomposed

Max Richter’s innovative rearrangement of Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’ back in 2012, grounding it in post-modern and minimalist music, is further reinterpreted courtesy of British ensemble Chineke! Orchestra and the immensely talented soloist Elena Urioste. On ‘The New Four Seasons - Vivaldi Recomposed’, these famous pieces are rendered by gut-stringed instruments and other period-relevant 18th century instruments, which mingle interestingly with Richter’s analogue synthesizers.

 

 

 Deutsch Grammophon . 2022

 Vinyl 180 gram




Michael Nyman - The End of the Affair

The End Of The Affair is a 1999 romantic drama film written and directed by Neil Jordan. The screenplay stars Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore and Stephen Rea. It was based on the 1951 homonymous novel by British author Graham Green. The score was composed and conducted by Michael Nyman, one of Britain's most innovative and celebrated composers who is best known for his efforts for The Piano (1993) and Gattaca (1997). Dominated by the 24 violin players in the Michael Nyman Orchestra, his compositions perfectly reflect the full emotional range of Jordan's film.

 

 
 

 Sony Music . 1999

 Vinyl 180 gram




Michael Wollny Trio - Weltentraum

There is a charming quality to the creative fearlessness that pianist Michael Wollny displays in his projects. His trio [em] was all modern piano trio, but along with the unrepentant flair for drama were Wollny’s quirky compositions that tinkered with cadence and melody in ways that seemed counterintuitive to the evocative aims typical to that particular brand of jazz-rock fusion. Wunderkind, his duo collaboration with Tamar Halperin, built around keyboard instruments, with harpsichord as the centerpiece, isn’t the kind of project that is going to lead to a musician getting pigeonholed as anything ordinary.

 

 #jazz #contemporaryjazz #actmusic #audiophilegrade #vinylcollector
 

 Act  Music. 2014

 Vinyl 180 gram




Ólafur Arnalds ‎– Some Kind Of Peace

Serial treader of electronic and classical music’s crossover zones Ólafur Arnalds delivers some of his most intimate recordings to date with some kind of peace. The all-lower case format of its title hints at the compositional closeness within. Songs like ‘We Contain Multitudes’ and the circular movements of ‘Woven Song’ creak and whisper with Arnalds’ delicate piano work as if the listener is listening from deep inside the instrument, as distant vocal recordings ground compositions in significant memories yet to be fully unlocked. It feels uncommon for such a personal LP to feature guests like Bonobo, JFDR and Josin, but here they fit in perfectly.

 

 
 

 Decca . 2020

 Vinyl 180 gram




The Oscar Peterson Trio - Night Train

1963’s ‘Night Train’ by the Oscar Peterson Trio has long stood as a classic of the era. Featuring the Maharaja of the keys accompanied by double bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen, it consists mainly of stately covers of jazz standards but also features an early version of Peterson’s own ‘Hymn To Freedom’.

 

 
 

 Verve . 1963

 Vinyl 180 gram




Owen Pallett - He Poos Clouds

‘He Poos Clouds’ is the second album from Canadian violinist and electronic music composer Owen Pallett, released in 2006 under his Final Fantasy moniker. Loosely themed around the eight schools of magic in the game ‘Dungeons & Dragons’, it won Canada’s Polaris Music Prize the same year.

 

 
 

 Domino. 2006

 Vinyl 180 gram




The Pale Fountains - Pacific Street

An absolutely wonderful highly sophisticated pop album, in my view at the very top of the sophistipop pile. The first two tracks are pop classics, bursting with ascending melodies, sparkling optimism and even some very tasteful backwards guitar. Further in, "Southbound Excursion" features delightful summery flute and an appealing lyric about day-tripping in the country and evading the train fare.

 

 
 

 Virgin. 1984

 Vinyl 120 gram




Pan Americann - In Daylight Dub

London imprint Foam On A Wave gathers together a series of ambient dub/dub techno tracks from Pan•American, which is of course the work of Mark Nelson - frontman of Virginia post-rock heroes Labradford. The tracks were originally released via a series of labels; (K-RAA-K)³, Vertical Form and BSI Records, have been restored from original copies of the records, and remastered and cut by engineer Frank Merritt. You'd never guess the tracks weren't originally released in this form as it's a totally cohesive work, shimmering with delays, reverbs and glistening dub f/x, it could almost be a lost Chain Reaction EP. Tip for fans of older Vladislav Delay material and Jan Jelinek.

 

 Foam On A Wave . 2023

 Vinyl 180 gram





Penguin Cafe - Handfuls of Night

A continuation project of his father’s Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Arthur Jeffes returns with his fourth Penguin Cafe album Handfuls of Night. Inspired by Scott’s voyage to the Antarctic, the nine-track experience is bookended by beautiful instrumentals and takes in minimalist, cinematic pieces and uplifting, almost cathartic peaks.

 

 
 

 Erased Tapes. 2019

 Vinyl 180 gram






Plaid - Polymer

It’s album ten in the bag for Warp veterans Plaid. Another fine set of energetic and melodic breakbeats, no doubt, although this one seems a bit darker than usual. The duo uses the triple-theme of “polyphony, pollution and politics” to springboard into varying levels of charm and unease. Polymer may also have taken its name from the legendary record label who released Spinal Tap's Smell the Glove. 

 

 
 

 Warp. 2019

 Vinyl 180 gram






Rain Tree Crow ‎– Rain Tree Crow

Japan didn’t reform but all the members reunited in 1989 and spent a year or two improvising and recording music. The result was a self-titled album by a new band called Rain Tree Crow originally released in 1991. David Sylvian, Mick Karn, Steve Jansen and Richard Barbieri were joined by Be Bop Deluxe guitarist Bill Nelson and session guitarist Phil Palmer.

 

 
 

 Virgin . 1991

 Vinyl 180 gram






Ryuichi Sakamoto - Love After Love

Marvellous Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto presents his first ever soundtrack for a Chinese film with 'Love After Love'. He provides a typically atmospheric score for a film which concerns a young girl getting mixed up in a tangled web of power and deceit. It has already been awarded Best Original Film Score at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

 

 
 

 JIAOLIU. 2022

 Vinyl 180 gram






Ryuichi Sakamoto - 12

With '12', the legendary Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto delivers his first non-soundtrack studio album under his own name in more than five years. Written during his lengthy treatment for cancer during 2021 and 2022, each track title refers to the date of its composition, and it scans as a moving audio diary of recovery.

 

 
 

 Commmons. 2023

 Vinyl 180 gram






Robert Fripp - Exposure

‘Exposure’ is the first solo album by King Crimson’s virtuoso guitarist Robert Fripp and was originally released in 1979. The album contains a number of styles from straight up rock ‘n’ roll to complex jazz rock via the odd pop ballad. Includes guest appearances from Peter Gabriel, Darryl Hall, Phil Collins, Tony Levin and Brian Eno.

 

Eg . 1979

Vinyl 180 gram

Roger Eno - The Turning Year - Rarities

2022’s ‘The Turning Year’ represented Roger Eno’s first solo album for the Deutsche Grammophon label. Outtakes from the album’s sessions were subsequently released as three EPs - ‘Piano’, ‘Bells’ and ‘Quartets’ - which are now gathered on one LP called ‘The Turning Year - Rarities’ alongside an unreleased track ‘Moving Chords’.

 

Deutsche Grammophon . 2023

Vinyl 180 gram

Shai Maestro ‎– Human

The Israeli-born, Brooklyn-based pianist Shai Maestro appears on the ECM label for the second time as a leader with Human, an album featuring the same rhythmic foundation of his previous work - bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Ofri Nehemya - plus the excellent trumpeter Philip Dizack, who brings further melodic possibilities to the table. With huge ears, the members of this quartet achieve top-notch levels of musicianship in the course of a cohesive narrative that consists of 10 Maestro originals and one jazz standard.

 


 Ecm. 2021

 Vinyl 180 gram





Sol Invictus - Against The Modern World

It is a good neofolk record that through its lo-fi side reache to post-punk in some moments, the lo-fi side gives the sound a better vibe and the voice more interesting.

 


 L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords. 1988

 Vinyl 120 gram





Swans - Greed

A slightly more experimental Swans album that still has its roots in their industrial sound. Atmospheric and uncomfortable to listen to, but a must for those who really like extremely heavy industrial music or those who like dense atmosphere and tone.

 


 PVC Records. 1986

 Vinyl 180 gram





Steven Brown - El Hombre Invisible

Representing his first solo album in about three decades, ‘El Hombre Invisible’ sees experimental music veteran Steven Brown in atmospheric form. His haunting vocal is spotlighted by a sparse accompaniment provided by local Oaxaca-based musicians and a host of guests, among them Brown’s Tuxedomoon bandmate Luc Van Lieshout on trumpet.

 


 Crammed Discs. 2022

 Vinyl 180 gram





Terry Riley - A Rainbow In Curved Air

Terry Riley is the master of tape. Turning 8-second loops into musical instrumentation you can see how he is an inspiration for composers such as Phillip Glass  and William Basinski, you can also hear from this record The Who’s inspiration for Baba O’riley.

 


CBS. 1969

 Vinyl 180 gram





The The - Soul Mining

Calling your band The The makes it very difficult to Google. This won't have bothered the acclaimed post-punk outfit, though, as they got into the mix well before the internet. 'Soul Mining', The The's debut LP, originally emerged in 1983 and brought the band critical acclaim. Contains, among other tracks, their beloved single 'This is the Day'.

 


 Some Bizzare. 1983

 Vinyl 180 gram





Throbbing Gristle – Journey Through A Body

Recorded as a piece of art for and in the studios of Italian National Radio RAI in Rome in March 1981 on the recommendation of Robert Wyatt, it was to be the last TG studio recording following their dissolution in 1981.

Originally commissioning Cosey Fanni Tutti to create a sound work based on the theme of ‘A Journey Through The Body’, the project expanded into a full Throbbing Gristle mission. Recorded over five days, a day per body section, each track was mixed immediately after recording. By far one of the most stomach clenching industrial abstractions from the group, it's unarguable to say that the influence of Journey Through A Body upon new generations will soon be felt...

 


 Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien. 1981

 Vinyl 120 gram





Tuxedomoon - Half-Mute

After two excellent EPs and a few singles of highly experimental and original post punk, Tuxedomoon had set the bars high for their debut album. The band was reduced to a trio of Brown/ Principle and Reininger at this point, and that´s perhaps why the music seem more minimal compared to previous releases, both in terms of arrangements, compositions and content. The sound palette consists of bass, sax, viola, synths, and occational drum machines, and the album is devided ca. 50/50 between vocal songs and instrumentals. The lyrics are usually short and repetetive, mostly expressing that life is misery, everything is hopeless, so what´s the use?


But despite being rather depressive, Half Mute is in my opinion the second best Tuxedomoon album. Desire had a stronger emotional impact on me, but both are essential.


Ralph Records . 1980

 Vinyl 180 gram



Various - Fragments / Erik Satie

Based on monthly releases of individual tracks, Deutsche Grammophon present the full ‘Fragments’ series of adaptations of Erik Satie’s music. The influential French composer’s catalogue has made its mark on minimalist, ambient and even post-rock music, as these adaptations by the likes of Two Lanes, Monolink and Dominik Eulberg attest.

 

 

Deutsche Grammophon . 2022

 Vinyl 180 gram






Víkingur Ólafsson – Philip Glass: Piano Works

Vikingur Olafsson, who is widely considered Iceland’s pre-eminent pianist, hasn’t had music lessons since he graduated from the Juilliard School in 2008. He has taken part in a master class here and there, but these days, he says, he learns more by simply listening to his own recordings.
The technique seems to have paid off: In recent years, Mr. Olafsson has given the premieres of six piano concertos, including one conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Reykjavik Festival in April. And Philip Glass invited Mr. Olafsson to share the billing with him in a performance of his Études.

 

 

 Deutsche Grammophon . 2017

 Vinyl 180 gram







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