3LP – Limited Deluxe Edition Vinyl Set housed in a triple-gatefold LP sleeve printed on all sides with OBI strip.Vinyl pressed at Optimal in Germany (2025 Reissue). This deluxe 2025 vinyl edition of The Grateful Dead’s Grayfolded was pressed at Optimal in Germany, known for their high end audiophile pressings.In 1993 Canadian composer John Oswald […]
2 LP Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & s t a r g a ze announce their album ‘Song Of The Earth’, with the first single ‘Uninhabitable Earth, Paragraph One’. ‘Song Of The Earth’ is due April 4th 2025 via Transgressive for the world ex-US ( which goes through Nonesuch). Song of the Earth is performed […]
Seattle drone-rock titans Earth release their latest live document, WEM Dominator (Live in London NW1, 2016), an unrelenting display of the band’s seismic force, recorded during their performance at London’s KOKO in 2016. Sharing the bill with legendary heavyweights Neurosis, Earth delivered a set of hypnotic intensity, crushing volume, and towering, glacial beauty. For over […]
Limited Edition Deluxe 4CD Box Set bringing together the seminal Columbia recordings of Terry Riley. A deluxe 4-CD box set bringing together the seminal Columbia recordings of Terry Riley. A landmark reissue from one of the most pivotal figures in 20th-century music. The Columbia Recordings brings together the four seminal albums that Terry Riley created for Columbia Masterworks between 1968 and 1980—a […]
Album of the Week: Car Seat Headrest – The Scholars Staff Review It’s been a while since we’ve heard a new studio album from indie rock stalwarts Car Seat Headrest. Their last release, Making A Door Less Open (2020), followed the critical success of Twin Fantasy, Teens of Denial, and Teens of Style, albums that established Will Toledo’s band as […]
In C is a musical piece by the composer and performing musician Terry Riley. As one of the first minimalist compositions and a masterpiece of this genre it’s a response to the modern music that dominated the scene in 1968. The piece inspired a lot of famous composers, like Philip Glass and Steve Reich. In […]
Bobby Lee trades in a wide screen brand of cosmic country-folk, full of space and pawn shop guitars. There are touches of JJ Cales analogue Americana, the swampy groove of Tony Joe White and Richard Thompsons sinewy, modal guitar work. Amps hum in the warm afternoon sun, kids and dogs snooze on the grass and […]
2LP – Standard Edition Black Vinyl. Multidisciplinary artist Lyra Pramuk – producer, composer, vocalist, performance artist, DJ and astrologer – shares her sophomore album Hymnal: an earthy, raw and psychedelic burst of euphony for our collective healing. Classically trained and deeply inspired by Berlin’s club culture, Lyra has garnered critical acclaim for her vocal virtuosity and original, genre-fluid […]
Keyboard virtuoso Terry Riley started experimenting with different instruments in the ‘50s. One of his electronic music landmarks is his third album A Rainbow in Curved Air. Through the use of overdubbing, he recorded all the instruments to feature on the title track. The composition consists of three movements, each representing another part of his […]
“Terry Riley has become a totemic presence in music over the past half-century.” – The Guardian “Great for meditating to the cosmos.” – Thurston Moore Originally recorded live in Berlin in 1975 and released by Kuckuck in 1982, Beacon Sound reissued the album in 2016 to widespread acclaim. Remastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri in 2016. […]
