BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

"Folk Magic Band represents one of the most interesting and original, yet lesser-known experiences of the italian jazz scene of the 1970s. In the legendary alternative environment of the Folk Studio in Rome, an open 18-members lineup is inspired by the free jazz of its ...
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BS082CD | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

"In the late 1960s, Antonio Infantino linked his name to the Beat world and to italian performance and gestural music circles (Bussotti, Chiari, Curran). A poet and singer, a tireless devotee of the musical traditions of Southern Italy, he focuses his research mainly on ...
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BS081CD | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

"In the late 1960s, Antonio Infantino linked his name to the Beat world and to italian performance and gestural music circles (Bussotti, Chiari, Curran). A poet and singer, a tireless devotee of the musical traditions of Southern Italy, he focuses his research mainly on ...
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BS081LP | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

"Since the 1970s Mario De Leo works as a musician and visual artist. His mechanical paintings are hybrid works that reveal the cosmic spiritualism hidden in the meanders of electronics. With Riccardo Sinigaglia (Futuro Antico, Correnti Magnetiche, Doubling Riders) De ...
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BS080LP | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

"The visionary French musician stays true, in this third compendium too, to his path of planetary asceticism. A new treasure chest of secrets reveals to us the same spirituality of total experimentation, by balancing the universe and the inner soul. In Taste The ...
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BS078 | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

"Art Of Primitive Sound is a sensational journey to the origin of Music. In his crucial research chapter on the Paleolithic, Walter Maioli between 1986 and 1991 investigates the soundscape of different geographical, climatic and botanical environments, in which the ...
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BS073CD | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

"ASince the early 1980s, the Nexus creature has represented one of the most interesting realities of the Italian jazz scene. Daniele Cavallanti (Aktuala) and Tiziano Tononi (Moon On The Water/D.o.m Alia Orchestra) realize a sensational mix of orchestral praxis and ...
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BS076LP | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

"Everest Magma rediscovers the folk roots of his dreamy alter ego Woodcutter. Once again he appears as a minstrel crossing moonstruck woods inhabited by gnomes, butterflies and crawling creatures. Nature is sublimated into a personal alien vision in which a lysergic ...
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BS074 / SP007 | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

"Art Of Primitive Sound is a sensational journey to the origin of Music. In his crucial research chapter on the Paleolithic, Walter Maioli between 1986 and 1991 investigates the soundscape of different geographical, climatic and botanical environments, in which the ...
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BS073LP | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

"What is this? Who are them? Free jazz? Psychedelic? This album has been recorded by jooking faryds folks that came up in the middle of June 2015 at the space-time door Guscio Studio, Milan. At the very beginning there was no plan to release this jamming jam until a ...
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BS071 | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

"Roberto Laneri's works always convey a clear artistic certainty: a total composer with an eclectic cultural background. In this latest adventure it seems to propose a kind of weird and curious Exotica music; his Mediterranean ragas release glows and shadows, but the ...
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BS068 | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

"Greta Lindholm is an absolutely unique personality in the contemporary dance scene. She toured in India, Mexico, Japan, Scandinavia, Italy and France, during the '70 and '80 making known her synthetic and experimental approach in the choreographic field. Her art ...
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BS065-CD | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

Reissue with unreleased tracks from the only one tour of this supergroup composed in 1975 by Franco Battiato, Lino Capra Vaccina, Juri Camisasca, Mino Di Martino, Roberto Mazza, Terra Di Benedetto. "In the mid 70's the Italian underground scene also seemed to mature an ...
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BS034 | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

"CUCOMA is the Italian moka pot? in Romagna, its most exotic region on the Adriatic Coast. Visionary musician, producer and traveller Marco Zanotti (Classica Orchestra Afrobeat / Mothra / Del Barrio), has been planting and collecting all kinds of coffee seeds from the ...
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BS052 / SP001 | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

"An amazing document of the life experiment that was the Organic Music Society. This super quality audio, recorded by RAI (the italian public broadcasting company) in 1976 for television, documents a quartet concert focused on vocals compositions and improvisations. ...
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BS058CD | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

"A mysterious sound aurora on the magical paths of the infinite universe of percussion, originally released in 1985 and then almost completley lost. The well-educated drummer Tiziano Tononi, together with David Searcy and Jonathan Scully, while working at the temple of ...
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BS054 | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

"The eclectic sensitivity of the composer Roberto Laneri (Prima Materia) looks unparalleled in the Italian avant-garde context. Anadyomene, published for the first time in 1987, shows the myth of Venus in a dystopian and dreamlike world. Laneri conceives a sound poem ...
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BS060 | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

"Originally released on tape by Sound Reporters in 1986. Het Jacoba Prieel is a very weird compendium of imaginary soundscapes, in which every coordinate seems lost and totally deviated. Fred Gales, in collaboration with Walter Maioli and Pit Piccinelli, presents his ...
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BS055CD | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

"Originally released on tape by Sound Reporters in 1986. Ethnoelectronics is a further episode of pioneering fusion between ethnic and electronic music, involving dauntless explorers such as Walter Maioli, Nirodh Fortini, Fred Gales, Raffaele Serra, John Zandijk and the ...
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BS056 | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

repress "Sarah and Ariel blend their strong individual personalities in a single trip on the edge of time. Their kosmiche music is pure, magnificent and elegant, an intergalactic hypnosis that seems to tell of distant times, a millenary vortex of a lost Era. In the ...
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BS053 | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

"If "Conversations" celebrates the memory, the artistic and spiritual heritage of bassist Fred Hopkins - an historical member of the revolutionary AACM of Chicago - who died in January 1999, it also marks the amazing collaboration between the Ritual Trio of Kahil ...
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BS038 | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

"Together with Florian Fricke and Peter Michael Hamel, Deuter is certainly the main responsible of a fruitful encounter between European sensibility and Eastern aesthetics in the German music of the 1970s. Soundtrack was originally produced by Kuckuck in 1973 not for an ...
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BS041 | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

"Unreleased recordings of future members of Aktuala and I.P.Son Group. The history takes us back in the alternative Milan of the early 70's, to the flavour of the first jam-blues of that era when musicians from different parts of the world (India, Africa or ...
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BS035 | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

"In the late 70's the Italian music scene recorded a renewed interest in a sound research involved to a stimulating fusion of popular elements, jazz improvisation and suggestions of the middle-oriental classical heritage. Starting from the experience of Aktuala the idea ...
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BS032 | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS

"A selection of the most radical impressive works composed by Siegel when he was mid-twenties. Moved to Denmark, between 1979 and 1980, he began to investigate possibilities of a very personal language, contributing to mould the heterogeneous kaleidoscope of ...
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BS028CD | BLACK SWEAT RECORDS