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AGITATION FREE - FRAGMENTS (MIG 01083 LP: mintgreen vinyl) LP £21.00 - Classic Agitation Free reunion live & session from 1974. Includes the only known documents featuring Chris Franke & Micky Duwe with the band!
AMON DÜÜL II - LIVE IN LONDON (SPV 305361 LP) LP £22.00 - Live at The Greyhound, Croydon (16/12/1972), featuring radically different versions of classic tracks & a 3'42" improvisation.
ARDO DOMBEC - ARDO DOMBEC (Garden of Delights LP 037: GF,4xBT) LP £20.00 - Bluesy/jazz & varied prog with 2 very different lead singers, between Creative Rock & McChurch Soundroom, with roots from BS&T, Chicago type brassy rock. Pilz LP. © 1971. 1000 copy numbered edition with 4-page LP-sized booklet. P&P = 7 units.
# ARMAGGEDON - ARMAGGEDON (Missing Vinyl MV009) LP £19.00 - Heavy German progressive (© 1970), featuring Frank Diez. With excellent version of Jeff Beck's "Rice Pudding"!
ARSENAL - 6 (Melodia C60 31575 005) LP m/vg+ £8.00 - One of their best, with hints of Passport, "Guitar" Zappa, Nucleus, Mahavishnu Orchestra, etc.
BABLICON - THE ORANGE TAPERED MOON (Pickled Egg EGG 20: 220g vinyl,GF) LP new/vg+ £12.00 - Recorded in a Chicago underground bunker, it often sounds like early Soft Machine meeting Henry Cow, with a bit of that radical Volcano The Bear type of thing. P&P = 7 units.
# BIGLIETTO PER L'INFERNO - BIGLIETTO PER L'INFERNO (Trident TRI 1005: RE) LP £19.00 - Legendary Italian heavy keyboard based classical progressive, featuring Baffo Banfi. © 1974.
BIRTH CONTROL - OPERATION (Ohr OMM 56.015-6: GF) LP £25.00 - "Back to the master tape" reissue of their 2nd album (© 1971), released on Charisma in UK! P&P = 7 units.
BIRTH CONTROL - HOODOO MAN (Music On Vinyl MOVLP1523: 180g vinyl,GF) LP £24.00 - Classic heavy experimental progressive. Outrageous cover! © 1972. P&P = 7 units.
TIM BLAKE - CRYSTAL MACHINE (Culture Factory 783 191: translucent blue vinyl) LP £27.00 - Legendary synth/space-music album by "Hi T Moonweed". © 1977.
IAN BODDY - PHOENIX (Something Else SER 001) LP new/ex £15.00 - One of the UK's top synthesists. On this much more energetic synth LP Ian ventured towards Mark Shreeve realms. © 1986.
BRAINTICKET - PSYCHONAUT (Lilith LR312C: clear 180g vinyl) LP £20.00 - 2nd album (also 1971). This was more your typical trippy progressive, with actual songs & compositions, sometimes in the vein of early Hawkwind, yet often closer to Quintessence & Group 1850.
PETER BRYNGELSSON - VIA (Slask SLALP 001: IN) LP ex+/ex £13.00 - 1990 debut solo from former Ragnarok & Triangulus member, in similar vein but with more World music & fusion influences. Reduced!
CAMIZOLE - CAMIZOLE (Souffle Continu FFL029) 2LP £25.00 - Historic recordings of 1970's French underground band. This fills in the gaps between Etron Fou & Video-Aventures histories. Deranged & raw eccentric music for the adventurous listener! Reissue of the Spalax CD (note: 1 track is omitted, being replaced by 3 previously unreleased tracks).
# CAMPO DI MARTE - CAMPO DI MARTE (AMS AMSLP01: IN) LP £22.00 - Legendary 1973 Italian progressive in classic Semiramis/Il Balletto Di Bronzo "Ys" vein. Obscure 2006 AMS reissue.
CAN - MONSTER MOVIE (Spoon XLSPOON4) LP £20.00 - 1969 debut, wild & manic, aggressive psychy sound, with vocals by Malcolm Mooney. Limited edition issue on "Monster Sky Vinyl" that includes a download code.
CAN - SOUNDTRACKS (Spoon XLSPOON5) LP £20.00 - Music composed for films, inc. "Mother Sky" (from "Deep End"). © 1970. Limited edition issue on "Clear purple Vinyl" that includes a download code.
CAN - TAGO MAGO (Spoon XLSPOON6/7_UK: RM,GF) 2LP £26.00 - Can's ultimate classic! Starting intensively mantric, this gets weirder & weirder, radical to the extreme. Great too! © 1971. Limited edition on orange vinyl, includes download code.
CAN - LANDED (Spoon XSPOON25_UK) LP £19.00 - Featuring their most esoteric & brooding opus, the aptly entitled free-form avant-garde "Unfinished"! © 1975.
CAN - UNLIMITED EDITION (Spoon XSPOON23/24: RM,GF) 2LP £22.00 - Archive recordings (1970-75), featuring "Limited Edition" LP plus an LP of previously unreleased material. With complete version of "Cutaway". Incl. free Download Code.
CAN - LIVE IN STUTTGART 1975 (Spoon SPOON63: GF) 3LP £32.00 - Limited edition on orange vinyl, triple fold-out sleeve. Live in Stuttgart, Germany (31/10/1975). P&P = 12 units.
CAN - LIVE IN BRIGHTON 1975 (Spoon SPOON64: triple) 3LP £32.00 - Only a few days after the Stuttgart gig (19/11/1975), but with a very different set largely presenting "Landed" material, if in largely instrumental form. Limited edition on gold vinyl, includes digital download. © 2021.
CHENE NOIR - AURORA (Souffle Continu FFL060) LP £20.00 - Futura debut from this French surreal theatre troupe, with jazzy trippy music & excellent female vocals, hints of classic Brigitte Fontaine, Catherine Ribeiro+Alpes & Colette Magny. Excellent & very obscure!
CLUSTER - CLUSTER II (Bureau B BB406: GF) LP £25.00 - Numbered limited edition of 1000 copies on 180g vinyl! The influential duo of Dieter Moebius & Hans-Joachim Roedelius. Industrial space-electronics: tripped-out, free floating processed organ, guitar, etc. © 1972. P&P = 8 units.
THE COSMIC JOKERS - THE COSMIC JOKERS (Die Kosmischen Kuriere KM 58.009.6: RM) LP £25.00 - Brand new "back to the master tape" reissue. First album from the Ash Ra Tempel/Wallenstein supergroup (© 1974), & an awesome cosmic classic!
THE COSMIC JOKERS - GALACTIC SUPERMARKET (Die Kosmischen Kuriere KM 58.008.6) LP £25.00 - 2nd LP (© 1974) & another cosmic classic! Brand new "back to the master tape" reissue.
# THE COSMIC JOKERS - SCI-FI PARTY (Die Kosmischen Kuriere KM 58.011-6) LP £25.00 - A carefully created Cosmic Music sampler, with overdubbed Cosmic Jokers, segued & remixed recordings from Ash Ra Tempel, Walter Wegmuller & Wallenstein. © 1974. This brand new "back to the master tape" reissue also includes a 3'37" track missing on previous releases.
# THE COSMIC JOKERS - PLANETEN SIT-IN (Die Kosmischen Kuriere KM 58.013-6) LP £25.00 - Brand new "back to the master tape" reissue of the most haphazard & surprising Cosmic Jokers trip, overloaded with electronics! © 1974.
DAY OF PHOENIX - WIDE OPEN N-WAY (ViNiLiSSSiMO MR-SSS553: GF) LP £11.00 - Legendary Danish progressive-psych, with Secret Oyster musicians, beyond H.P. Lovecraft, Quicksilver onto weird fusion! © 1970.
# DEUTER - D (Missing Vinyl MV022) LP £19.00 - Revolutionary 1971 debut of ethnic rock in instrumental Amon Düül II & Popol Vuh realms. Brilliant use of multitracking!
DIRE WOLVES - EXCURSIONS TO CLOUDLAND (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Records BBIBR03) LP £18.00 - Excellent wigged-out trippy American band, with elements of The Myrrors & Eternal Tapestry. © 2017. Download card included.
DIRE WOLVES - GROW TOWARDS THE LIGHT (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Records BBIBR057) LP £18.00 - Awesome trippy psychedelic rock sounding somewhere between Amon Düül II & Melting Euphoria/Vespero. © 2019. Download card included.
# DRUM CIRCUS - MAGIC THEATRE (Garden of Delights LP 028) LP £20.00 - Peter Giger project from 1971, fronted by 3 drummers, with the prolific jazz winds player Gerd Dudek, & Brainticket members Joel Vandroogenbroeck & Carole Muriel. Pre-empting "Celestial Ocean" in some ways, but much more jazz & ethnic than electronic. 1000 copy numbered edition with 12-page LP-sized booklet. P&P = 7 units.
EELA CRAIG - EELA CRAIG (Garden of Delights LP 019: GF) LP £20.00 - Obscure 1971 debut. Krautrocky blues & classical rock/psych/underground hybrid. Essential 1970's prog. Plus bonus tracks: "Stories/Cheese" single. 2000 copy numbered edition with 20-page LP-sized booklet. P&P = 9 units.
# EILIFF - CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH THEIR THIRD ONE (Garden of Delights LP 036) LP £20.00 - Live at the WDR (18/10/72), with 1 unique track & 3 extended album cuts, this is a sizzler! 1000 copy numbered edition with 20-page LP-sized booklet. P&P = 7 units.
EJWUUSL WESSAHQQAN - EJWUUSL WESSAHQQAN (Garden of Delights LP 016: 2xBT) LP £20.00 - Munich 1975 underground. German Oak/Bodkin/Ainigma realms & beyond! Trips to freaky Embryo/Xhol realms, cosmic & classical rock like Arzachel & Second Hand, etc. 1000 copy numbered edition with 8-page LP-sized booklet.
EMBRYO - OPAL (Ohr OMM 56006-2: RM,GF) LP £25.00 - Classic pioneering fusion (ex-Amon Düül II), breaking out of the psychedelic, blues, jazz & rock, & making something radical & new. Note: this is from a different master tape & mix than that of the original LP.
EMBRYO - LA BLAMA SPAROZZI (Schneeball 1028/830281: GF) 2LP £32.00 - Documenting Embryo's adventures in North Africa. 2 very different LP's, one of lop-sided ethno-punk experiments, the other with more traditional world music concoctions. © 1982. P&P = 8 units.
EMTIDI - SAAT (Pilz 20 29077-6: GF) LP £27.00 - Not really a folk album, nor exactly cosmic rock, but a rare unique music transcending both genres, with the superb Dolly Holmes. Also features Dieter Dierks on percussion, bass & Mellotron. Originally released on Pilz in 1972.
# EPIDAURUS - EARTHLY PARADISE (Garden of Delights LP 001) LP £20.00 - Dreamy mid-1970's prog band, akin to Camel, Streetmark, Pink Floyd, Pulsar, etc. Largely instrumental (female vocals on opener) multi-keys fronted & close to early Faithful Breath. © 1977. 1000 copy numbered edition with 4-page LP-sized booklet.
EPIDERMIS - JUNE 1975 (Garden of Delights LP 039) LP £20.00 - Excellent originally unreleased album by this Krautrock era prog-rock band, with quite a bit of Gentle Giant influence. 1000 copy numbered edition with 20-page LP-sized booklet. P&P = 7 units.
EPSILON - MOVE ON (Bacillus 9860711: GF) LP £26.00 - 2nd album, a much more varied collection of hard-rock, psych & folky tracks. © 1971.
FAUST - THE FAUST TAPES (Virgin VC 501) LP ex+/vg+ £20.00 - (Bureau B BB391) LP £23.00 - Archive material, rock & avant-garde invention of high Krautrock calibre. Both have the original Bridget Riley artwork.
FAUST - PUNKT. (Bureau B BB392) LP £23.00 - Definitive version of the originally unreleased "Faust V", containing quite different version/mixes to material found on "Munic & Elsewhere" & never before released material (excepting this disc in the recent Faust box set).
# THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL SEX OPERA BAND - ANITA (Golden Pavilion GPMUSIC01LP) LP £14.00 - Extraordinary Dutch whacked-out psychedelic album from 1969. © 1969.
FREE / SLOPE - BLISSFUL REPETITIONS (Polytechnic Youth PY138: clear vinyl) LP £15.00 - Swedish solo multi-instrumentalist Daniel Fridlund Brandt working in the minimal motorik vein, with Harmonia, Kraftwerk, Rother, La Düsseldorf influences. © 2022.
# AX GENRICH - WAVE CUT (Sunhair Music SH 0026: IN) LP £20.00 - The sequel to "Psychedelic Guitar" is even more Guru Guru styled, yet also so vital & surprising! © 1995. 300 copy hand numbered edition on yellow vinyl
# GILA - GILA "FREE ELECTRIC SOUND" (Garden of Delights LP 044: GF) LP £23.00 - Gila's 1971 debut. The best LP Pink Floyd never made! Imagine a mix of cosmic "Umagumma" styles, Ash Ra Tempel & Popol Vuh. This is widely regarded as one of the finest Krautrock albums. 2000 copy numbered edition with folded poster & 20-page LP-sized booklet. P&P = 9 units.
# GILA - BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE (Garden of Delights LP 010) LP £20.00 - 2nd album, with Florian Fricke & Danny Fichelscher, in Popol Vuh vein with Pink Floyd & Amon Düül II touches. 2000 copy numbered edition with 4-page LP-sized booklet.
# GILA - NIGHT WORKS (Garden of Delights LP 035) LP £20.00 - Live at the WDR (26/2/1972), in the style of their debut, a mostly instrumental set with superb freaky jams & space-drives, a little Pink Floyd but uniquely Gila! Note: their are some flaws & drop-outs in the recording! 1000 copy numbered edition with 12-page LP-sized booklet. P&P = 7 units.
# HANUMAN - HANUMAN (Missing Vinyl MV013) LP £19.00 - Hinting at label-mates Out Of Focus, but more lyrical & offbeat. Excellent musically, pretty angst ridden, & full of clever changes, unusual rhythmic structures, solos, etc. © 1971.
HARMONIA - DOCUMENTS 1975 (Grönland LPGRON152) CD £17.00 - Archive recordings. 2 tracks in Harmonia Studio (Forst) & 2 live tracks recorded in Hamburg (at Onkel Po & Fabrik).
JUKKA HAURU & SUPERKINGS - POP LIISA LIVE IN STUDIO 02 (Svart SRE002) LP £20.00 - High flying guitar-fronted instrumental fusion from Finland. Live on 10/10/1973.
HELDON - ALLEZ-TEIA (Bureau B BB 281) LP £20.00 - Aka "Heldon II", the duo of Richard Pinhas & Georges Grunblatt in a largely moody frame of mind, with Frippian guitar tones, lots of Mellotron & electronics.
HELDON - THIRD, IT'S ALWAYS ROCK 'N' ROLL (Bureau B BB 282: GF) 2LP £28.00 - Extravagant double album that crosses Fripp & Eno with space-rock & psychedelic! Richard Pinhas with guests: Gilbert Artman, Georges Grunblatt, Patrick Gauthier, Jean-My Truong & Ariel Kalma. © 1975.
HELDON - AGNETA NILSSON (Bureau B BB 283) LP £20.00 - "Heldon 4" (© 1976), transitional Heldon, with a bigger more powerful sound: Mellotron, synths, Frippian guitars galore!
HELDON - UN REVE SANS CONSEQUENCE SPECIALE (Bureau B BB 329) LP £20.00 - "Heldon 5", superb electronic rock as only the French have made. © 1976.
HELDON - STAND BY (Bureau B BB 331) LP £20.00 - The ultimate power synth-rock opus - amazing! King Crimson trip into hyperspace! © 1979.
HELDON - THE ELECTRONIC GUERILLAS (Bootleg: IN) LP m/ex+ £100.00 - This is the Richard Pinhas & Alain Renaud line-up live in Paris (26/5/75). It also contains a 2'08" studio track circa 1982. Copy #90/100.
PIERRE HENRY - MALEFICES (Cacophonic 6CACKLP) LP £16.00 - Side A contains the "Malefices" soundtrack (released as a 7" EP in 1962), side B contains 4 tracks (3 of them previously unreleased?). 2013 compilation.
HOOFFOOT - THE LIGHTS IN THE AISLE WILL GUIDE YOU (Paura Di Niente PDN002) LP £22.00 - Great new Swedish supergroup. Their excellent 2nd album with only two members continuing from the debut, & four slight diversions in style, Elephant9 touches again, plus Jukka Tolonen & Canterbury stylisms. © 2019.
MICHEL HUYGEN - BARCELONA 1992 (Thunderbolt THBL 056) LP new/ex+ £9.00 - © 1986. TV movie soundtrack from Neuronium leader.
JADE WARRIOR - JADE WARRIOR (Repertoire REP 2285 V180: GF) LP £18.00 - 1st album (© 1971) by this really unique British band, blending rock, folk, oriental styles. Originally issued on Vertigo. 180g vinyl.
# JOY UNLIMITED - SCHMETTERLINGE (Garden of Delights LP 021: GF) LP £20.00 - Ambitious conceptual rock ballad suite that runs from spacious jazz (hints of Xhol & Out Of Focus), via psych onto a wild tongue-in-cheek raunchy blues, etc. Originally on the Pilz label, © 1971. 1000 copy numbered edition with 16-page LP-sized booklet. P&P = 7 units
JOY UNLIMITED - REFLECTIONS (Garden of Delights LP 022) LP £20.00 - 3rd LP, with Joy Fleming being replaced by Ken Traylor, akin to Colosseum, Gravy Train, Raw Material, etc. Plus bonus tracks: "Early Morning Moanin/Proud Angelina" single. 1000 copy numbered edition with 16-page LP-sized booklet. P&P = 7 units.
# JOY UNLIMITED - MINNE (Garden of Delights LP 023) LP £20.00 - A very Teutonic, slightly Floh De Cologne like, progressive folk-rock, fleshed-out by a near-on mini orchestra version of Joy Unlimited, with German vocals. © 1975. 1000 copy numbered edition with 16-page LP-sized booklet.
KAIAMBÁ - MADE IN BRAZIL (New Music - Green Tree GTR 148-1) LP £14.00 - Excellent little-known album by this Brazilian trippy psychedelic band with Gong connections. Recorded in 2006, released in 2014.
KLUSTER - KLOPFZEICHEN (Bureau B BB 110: RE) LP £22.00 - Trio of Schnitzler/Moebius/Roedelius. Their 1971 debut of fantastic dark avant-garde Krautrock.
KLUSTER - ZWEI OSTEREI (Bureau B BB 111: RE) LP £22.00 - Manic echo avant-garde industrial krautrock, pre-Cluster with Konrad Schnitzler. 2nd LP, also from 1971.
THE ROLF KÜHN GROUP - TOTAL SPACE (MPS 0214251MSW) LP £20.00 - Legendary 1975 experimental jazz fusion session featuring Joachim Kuhn, Daniel Humair, Philip Catherine, Gerd Dudek, etc.
# LAGGER BLUES MACHINE - LAGGER BLUES MACHINE (Amber Soundroom AS LP 041: IN) LP £20.00 - Amazing Belgian classical & heavy progressive, kinda Frumpy meets many an Italian band. © 1971.
THE LAND OF YRX - FORGET THE LESSONS OF THE PAST! (SELECTED CASSETTE RECORDINGS MAY 1983 - AUGUST 1984) (Polytechnic Youth PY136) LP £10.00 - First ever vinyl LP release by The Land Of Yrx, a compilation of tracks from their classic era!
# LIED DES TEUFELS - LIED DES TEUFELS (Missing Vinyl MV007) LP £19.00 - Ex-Hanuman, with a Lokomotive Kreuzberg/Floh De Cologne type edge. © 1973.
LIGHTSHINE - FEELING (Garden of Delights LP 008) LP £20.00 - Legendary Krautrock rarity, typically Teutonic with heavy/spacey/eccentric style, hints of Jane, Bacillus bands, etc. © 1976. 1000 copy numbered edition with 4-page LP-sized booklet.
MAAJUN - VIVRE LA MORT DU VIEUX MONDE (Souffle Continu FFL077) LP £24.00 - Legendary French prog/psych/folk-underground album from 1971. Precursor to Mahjun. P&P = 7 units.
# MISSUS BEASTLY - MISSUS BEASTLY (Garden of Delights LP 017: 1xBT) LP £20.00 - Top rate 1974 Kraut jazz-fusion. 2nd album, kinda early Passport meets Embryo & Niagara, & totally riddled with solos. 1000 copy numbered edition with 8-page LP-sized booklet.
# MISSUS BEASTLY - BREMEN 1974 (Garden of Delights LP 018) LP £20.00 - Excellent quality live, with unique line-up featuring Eddy Marron from Dzyan! Just 3 big tracks - all unique! 1000 copy numbered edition with 8-page LP-sized booklet.
MOEBIUS & PLANK - RASTAKRAUT PASTA (Bureau B BB048: RE) LP £20.00 - Take the Cluster, Neu!, Kraftwerk type sound & mix in a bit of dub, reggae & other things. Unique! © 1980.
THE MOTHMEN - PAY ATTENTION! (On-U Sounds LP 2) LP ex+/vg £40.00 - The Mothmen's debut (© 1981) is a rare UK Krautrocky classic, with Can, Metabolist, & very cleverly twisted funk/dub ala Public Image Ltd. or Suns Of Arqua.
NICK MOTT - ALMOST ENTIRELY OF NERVES AND BLOOD (Lumberton Trading Company LUMB006) 7" m/m £10.00 - Former member of Volcano The Bear. Numbered limited edition (this is copy 93/100) 1-sided single plus art print. P&P = 3 units.
# MURPHY BLEND - FIRST LOSS (Missing Vinyl MV008) LP £19.00 - Classical syled German progressive (© 1970), with hints of Jane, Epsilon, Pell Mell, some Coloseum, etc. Actually very Teutonic with original style.
MYTHOS - MYTHOS (Ohr 20 21200-6: RM,GF) LP £26.00 - The Ohr space-rock classic (© 1972), from Pink Floyd & Quintessence realms onto Ash Ra Tempel! Brand new "back to the master tape" reissue.
MYTHOS - DREAMLAB (Die Kosmischen Kuriere KM 58.016: RM) LP £25.00 - Classic 1972 album of cosmic flute led space-rock, with lots of synths, Mellotron, dark VdGG/Floyd/Focus realms. Brand new "back to the master tape" reissue.
NEU! - NEU! 75 (Grönland LPGRONIII: GF,RE) LP £17.00 - The embryo of La Dusseldorf: Dinger, Rother, Dinger & Lampe. Varied album with all sorts of Neu! & Rother solo styles. © 1975.
NEW TROLLS - CONCERTO GROSSO PER 1 (Cetra/Vinyl Magic VMLP 129: 180g vinyl,GF) LP £23.00 - "Limited Edition Clear Green Coloured Vinyl" Classic collaboration with Luis Bacalov, a soundtrack LP.
NINE DAYS WONDER - NINE DAYS WONDER (Bacillus 9861916) LP £24.00 - These were totally out & radical Krautrock fusion, complex, eccentric, beyond Message! Lots of complex changes, rock & jazz schizopheria akin to classic Zappa. Their 1971 debut. With Hipgnosis cover design.
NINE DAYS WONDER - ONLY THE DANCERS (Bacillus 9860919: GF) LP £26.00 - 3rd album, more sophisticated with stronger, yet still strange, songs. Features Dave Jackson (Van der Graaf Generator) & Steve Robinson (2066 & Then) as guests. These may be on coloured vinyl.
# N.U.N. - NOCTURNAL DISCOMBOBULATION (Telesterion Records 004) 7"EP £6.00 - Composed by Are Mundal. Limited numbered edition of 100 copies. © 2021.
NURSE WITH WOUND - TO THE QUIET MEN FROM A TINY GIRL (United Dirter DPROMLP152: yellow vinyl) LP £20.00 - LP #2, with guest Jac Berrocal.
MIKE OLDFIELD - TUBULAR BELLS (Virgin V2001: 2nd pressing) LP ex/ex+ £6.00 - The Mike Oldfield classic! With guests: Viv Stanshall, Jon Field, Lindsay Cooper, etc. © 1973.
MIKE OLDFIELD - OMMADAWN (Virgin V2043: IN) LP ex/ex £5.00 - © 1975.
RICHARD PINHAS - RHIZOSPHERE (Bureau B BB 279) LP £20.00 - Richard's solo debut (© 1977) is like Heldon "Interface" but without guitar, instead a real heavy dose of synths!
RICHARD PINHAS - ICELAND (Bureau B BB 393) LP £22.00 - 3rd solo (© 1980). Hautingly bleak & chillingly beautiful synths & guitar.
RICHARD PINHAS - L'ETHIQUE (Bureau B BB 293) LP £19.00 - Pinhas' ultimate album featuring the mighty "Dedicated to K.C.". © 1982.
# POLONIO - BLOAD STATIONS*SYNTAX ERROR (ViNiLiSSSiMO MR-SSS 41 / Geometrik GR 2144) LP £11.00 - Spanish musician with an avant-synth cyclical style (ex-IT). © 1987.
PULSAR - BIENVENUE AU CONSEIL D'ADMINISTRATION (Musea FGBG 2020: IN) LP £12.00 - A very different ballet performance soundtrack, with different Pink Floyd angles (a bit of "Animals" era sound), punky Arachnoid edges. Excellent & full of surprises. © 1981.
QUAD - QUAD (Sulatron st1704) LP £15.00 - Limited stocks of this totally tripped-out instrumental album from Gary Ramon of Sun Dial with guitars, sitar, electronics, drums, etc. © 1997.
MICHEL REDOLFI - SONIC WATERS, UNDERWATER MUSIC 1979-1987 (Sub Rosa SR493V) LP £20.00 - Collection of works from his "Sonic Waters" releases. The liner notes say it is new unreleased mixes, & although much of it may sound familiar from the old releases a lot does seem to be new and different.
RENAISSANCE - RENAISSANCE (Repertoire REP 2278 V173: RM,GF) LP £18.00 - Legendary debut of trippy progressive with classical & folk touches, nothing like the later Annie Haslam lead incarnation. © 1969. 180g vinyl.
SHAUN ROBERT - ATAVIST / ENVELOP (Institute For Alien Research IFAR001) 7" £2.50 - A bizarre lengthy single of sonic art construction, it reminds me of some Asmus Tietchens, freeform H.N.A.S. & that weirdo File Under Pop single that Rough Trade issued. Nurse With Wound fans may like it too. © 2019.
RUPHUS - NEW BORN DAY (Karisma KAR162LPC2: GF,white vinyl) LP £26.00 - Classic debut (© 1973) by this Norwegian progressive band, with male & female vocals, heavy & spacey parts, lots of keyboards, towards the first Earth & Fire with a touch of Sandrose, etc.
SANTANA - CARAVANSERAI (CBS S 65299: GF) LP ex/vg+ £5.00 - Santana's most esoteric but powerful album, with dual guitars overdose!
SBB - NOWY HORYZONT (Muza SX 1206: red labels) LP vg-ex+/ex £16.00 - 2nd LP, recorded in 1975. Dazzling guitar mixes with space-rock & Mahavishnu Orchestra fusion.
GÜNTER SCHICKERT - UBERFALLIG (Bureau B BB 96: RE) LP £22.00 - Master echo-guitarist, a pioneer of the genre alongside Manuel Gottsching, but working in darker realms, with stranger moods in his art. A unique concoction! © 1979.
CONRAD SCHNITZLER - PARACON (THE PARAGON SESSION OUTTAKES 1978-1979) (Bureau B BB355) LP £20.00 - Excellent previously unreleased sessions at Peter Baumann's studio in 1978-1979.
# SEMOOL - ESSAIS (Souffle Continu FFL006) LP £19.00 - Rare Futura underground (1969-71). Imagine Syd Barret playing guitar with Pauvros & Bizien, or maybe break-down early Lard Free to a more abstract form, you could have this typically French oddity!
# SIDDHARTHA - WELTSCHMERZ (Garden of Delights LP 013) LP £20.00 - 1975 self-produced Krautrock obscurity, with Pink Floyd/Anaolgy touches, a touch amateurishly produced but... 1000 copy numbered edition with 4-page LP-sized booklet.
# SILOAH - SILOAH (Garden of Delights LP 029: 2xBT) LP £20.00 - Aka "Saureadler" (1970 LP), obscure hippy Krautrock underground with hints of Amon Düül's "Paradieswarts Düül". 1000 copy numbered edition with 16-page LP-sized booklet. P&P = 7 units.
SILOAH - SUKRAM GURK (Garden of Delights LP 033: 1xBT) LP £20.00 - 2nd LP (1972), more hippy blues-rock than stoned Düül-isms on this one, with hints of Ainigma, early Jane, Necronomicon, though pretty amateurish & untogether. Nice organ & good jamming trips. 1000 copy numbered edition with 4-page LP-sized booklet.
SKY MUSIC - A TRIBUTE TO TERJE RYPDAL VOL. 2 (Rune Grammofon RLP 2195) LP £19.00 - Project instigated by Henry Kaiser with an all-star cast of Scandinavian & American talent, presenting two bigger, more improvised Rypdal jazz-rock works on this one. Includes CD version.
SONDE - EN CONCERT (Music Gallery Editions MGE 14: IN) LP ex/ex £50.00 - Canadian electroacoustic ensemble, largely using their own instruments & sound sculptures. A collection of live recordings: Montreal (13/7/1977) & Toronto (14+17/1/1978).
SONGS OF NORWAY - DESPITE THE CLOAK (Beta-lactum ring mt058a) LP £20.00 - Volcano the Bear alter-ego project of Aaron Moore & Nick Mott = freeform abstractions, duets & trios, scuttle & writhe. This is one of a limited number that come with a bonus 7" EP (mt058b). P&P = 7 units!
STERN-COMBO MEISSEN - WEISSES GOLD (Amiga 8 55 636: blue labels) LP ex+/vg £13.00 - Classic DDR symphonic spacey progressive. 2nd album, © 1979.
SUPERFJORD - FOR THE MOMENT VOL. 1 (Strange Fish twenty four) LP £16.00 - Excellent space rock with a Krautrocky feel. Sealed copy, may be on black or coloured vinyl. © 2021.
TAIVAANVUOHI - POP LIISA LIVE IN STUDIO 04 (Svart SRE002) LP £20.00 - Excellent Finnish fusion band with all sorts of influences including a great Zappa cover. Live on 5/12/1973.
TETRAGON - STRETCH (Garden of Delights LP 004) LP £20.00 - Unreleased 1971 archives. Excellent instrumental classical rock, kinda Krautrock twist on Italian bands of the era, nods to ELP, Egg, Canterbury, etc. Includes a cover of John McLaughlin's "Dragon Song". 1000 copy numbered edition with 4-page LP-sized booklet.
TIN PAN ALLEY - TIN PAN ALLEY (Garden of Delights LP 041: GF) LP £20.00 - Aka Irmin's Way (Kissing Spell CD release) under the band's real name, to quote our Cosmic Egg rom "In the classic tradition of Krautrock bands of the era, they drew on all sorts of influences, notably the cosmic side of Pink Floyd, somewhat close to Belgian's Dragon, or towards Gäa's psychedelic space-tripping". 1000 copy numbered edition with 8-page LP-sized booklet. P&P = 7 units.
TRACE IMPRINT - GOLITHA FALLS (private) LP £12.00 - Project of one Jon Chinn of Trappist Afterland, feeling more like some sort of fantasy soundtrack, with ambient & crossover library music like elements. © 2021
# UPPERSEPTION - CORNICULA (Korusuro Records KS 639.002: IN) LP £15.00 - Originally unreleased 1970 Berlin Krautrock. Not actually "pre Os Mundi" as stated on the sticker, but related, this LP contains rough demos of an excellent band mixing heavy rock, classical themes & space rock, with elements of Ruphus Zufall & Gila.
VANGELIS - CHARIOTS OF FIRE (Polydor POLS 1026) LP vg+-ex/vg £3.50 - 1982 version with "Accademy Award. Best Original Score 1981" on front cover.
VOLCANO THE BEAR - GOLDEN RHYTHM/INK MUSIC (Rune Grammofon RLP 3127) LP £15.00 - Their last album (includes recordings from 2006 & 2008). © 2012. With download voucher.
# WALLENSTEIN - BLITZKRIEG (Pilz 20 29064-6: RM,GF) LP £25.00 - "Back to the master tape" reissue of their classical space-rock debut (© 1972) with great energy & dynamics, features Cosmic Jokers Jurgen Dollase & Harald Grosskopf.
# WALLENSTEIN - COSMIC CENTURY (Die Kosmischen Kuriere 658006-6: RM) LP £25.00 - "Back to the master tape" reissue of their 3rd album (1973). "Pink Floyd meets Van der Graaf Generator" on a classical rock trip.
WITTHÜSER & WESTRUPP - BAUER PLATH (ZYX OHR 70035-1) LP £14.00 - 3rd album (© 1972), with Jurgen Dollase, Jerry Berkers, Harald Grosskopf, etc.
WITTHÜSER & WESTRUPP - DER JESUSPILZ - LIVE! (Sireena SIR 4045) LP £22.00 - Excellent concert document (circa 11/1971) from the Cosmic Buskers! © 2018.
WONDERLAND BAND - Nº 1 (Polydor 2371 125) LP m/vg £60.00 - Outrageous psych-progressive by Achim Reichel & Frank Dorstal circa 1970. Elements of The Mothers, early Jade Warrior, "Atom Heart Mother" period Pink Floyd & those unique Reichel songs.
XHOL CARAVAN - ELECTRIP (Garden of Delights LP 045) CD £23.00 - Underground Krautrock fusion & psychedelic masterwork! One part Mothers "Uncle Meat/King Kong" with electric sax & one part early Kraut: Faust/Nosferatu/Alcatraz vein. Intensive & radical. Plus their "Planet Earth/So Down" single! 2000 copy numbered edition with 68-page LP-sized booklet. P&P = 10 units.
YAMASH'TA & THE HORIZON - SUNRISE FROM WEST SEA "LIVE" (: GF) LP £23.00 - Originally a 1971 impossibly rare Japanese LP, & unknown of by us until a decade or so ago. This historic Yamash'ta concert super-session with legends Masahiko Satoh (Sound Breakers/Amalgamation) & Takehisa Kosugi (of Taj Mahal Travellers) is fascinating!
YES - GOING FOR THE ONE (Atlantic K50379: triple-GF,IN) LP vg-ex+/ex £4.00 - 1977 album, with the return of Rick Wakeman. With very lavish triple fold-out cover.
THIERRY ZABOITZEFF - PROMETHEE (Cryonic INC 1154) LP ex+/ex+ £30.00 - Rare debut solo from Art Zoyd member. Weirder & darker than Art Zoyd of the same era, & electronic based.
FRANK ZAPPA - THE STRING QUARTET (Flashback 04.89.0104-33) LP m/ex+ £50.00 - Rare splatter vinyl bootleg (© 1989). The Mothers Of Invention feat. Wild Man Fischer live in Fullerton (8/11/68).
Note: most vinyl is very limited, often with only
one copy in stock!
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