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Founded in 2011 and run by Michael Stahl, owner of the Unrock Store in Krefeld. Vinyl-only releases by Alan Bishop aka Alvarius B, Sir Richard Bishop, Karkhana, The Dwarfs of East Agouza, Ava Mendoza, Tashi Dorji, Bill Orcutt, Eyvind Kang and more.

 
"Dwarfs Of East Agouza are a leading force of improvised musical excitement and stand apart from wider parts of an lame ass underground of the 20ies. Founded in Cairo circa 2015 by Alan Bishop (ex-Sun City Girls) with Sam Shalabi (Land Of Kush, Karkhana) and Maurice ...
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UNR30-3 | UNROCK
"When internally the plan came up to release a bunch of vinyl singles for Unrock's 30th anniversary as an entity, Richard just like his brother Alan, the other keyholder of Sun City Girls legacy was among the first to take a deep look into his archives. Out came two ...
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UNR30-2 | UNROCK
"If you ever witnessed an Alvarius B show you are probably aware that there are a few things only in underground music matching this level. If you haven't, don't miss him when he's coming close next. "Karaoke" shows one of the many charakters you could explore during ...
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UNR30-1 | UNROCK
"The legendary Lebanese trio of trumpeter Mazen Kerbaj (Karkhana, Johnny Kafta), guitarrist Sharif Sehnaoui (Calamita, Karkhana, Johnny Kafta ) and bassist Raed Yassin (Praed, Praed Orchestra) celebrates their 20th anniversary with The Binding Third on Unrock. They ...
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UNR024 | UNROCK
"This album is a critical meditation on variations of Orientalism practiced by Arabs themselves, as well as those who were born and raised within the diaspora. It originally began as a documentation of extended drum techniques, but eventually morphed into a project of ...
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UNR023 | UNROCK
"A Non-Western concept split album. The Coleman classic "Lonely Woman" , deeply Middle- and South-Eastern adaptded and re-arranged by two different artists. Arranged by Joel Robinson, Arizona's Sunn Trio are transmitting the track into a different genre with dilruba (a ...
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UNR020 | UNROCK
"Follow up to their 2012 "Feign To Delight, Gaiety Of Gods" on Beirut's Annihaya Records, the long history of the band continues. An eclectic multi-instrumentalists delight from Will Eizlini, Anthony von Seck, Alexandre St-Onge and Sam Shalabi. Features the centerpiece ...
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UNR021 | UNROCK
Volume 1 in Unrock's "Raw Edits" series. Limited to 100 copies.
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RAWEDITS.001 | UNROCK
"W. David Oliphant, well known for his visionary work with industrial outfit Maybe Mental, dark ambient ritual group Life Garden, his huge solo-output and various collaborations with the Brothers Bishop, Michael Pistrui and Alan Bishop came together in Arizona in ...
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UNR019X | UNROCK
"W. David Oliphant, well known for his visionary work with industrial outfit Maybe Mental, dark ambient ritual group Life Garden, his huge solo-output and various collaborations with the Brothers Bishop, Michael Pistrui and Alan Bishop came together in Arizona in ...
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UNR019 | UNROCK
including 7" "After a long hiatus the noisy and most telepathic Montreal impro trio Jane & The Magik Bananas, led by Sam Shalabi (Karkhana, Dwarfs Of East Agouza) returned with a shifted focus exploring rhythm in a global sense. Live compositional practice, with rhythm ...
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UNR017 | UNROCK
"Limited edition four-track split vinyl 10" featuring legendary Sun City Girls Alan and Richard Bishop, celebrating Unrock's 25th anniversary. It features the first new recordings by Sir Richard Bishop since his 2015 Tangier Sessions and two exclusive pearls by Alan ...
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UNRXXXEP | UNROCK
Second edition of 500 copies with cover printed inside out, white vinyl. Very few copies back in stock "After having released records on labels such as Locust, Drag City and John Fahey's Revenant, Richard Bishop's new Album called The Unrock Tapes will be released at ...
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UNR001LP | UNROCK
"Saginaw Racket, the new double album by Sir Richard Bishop, features the first new recordings from the former Sun City Girls guitarist in over five years. It is a singular work for electric guitar in four parts with each part being a full side. Each of the four parts ...
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UNR026LP | UNROCK
"Trolling The De-Enlightenment is a solo live recording from Alan Bishop under his well-known Alvarius B. alias. It was recorded on various occasions throughout western Europe during and after the period he was recording his 2017 trilogy release With A Beaker On The ...
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UNR025 | UNROCK
"After a long hiatus the noisy and most telepathic Montreal impro trio Jane & The Magik Bananas, led by Sam Shalabi (Karkhana, Dwarfs Of East Agouza) returned with a shifted focus exploring rhythm in a global sense. Live compositional practice, with rhythm and ...
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UNR017 | UNROCK
"Yet another luxurious spectacle from the Saraswati Series. Ex-Sun City Girls master guitarist Richard Bishop teams up with Cul De Sac's long time Girls live collaborator, Ed Yazijian. Two grand seigneurs of underground deliver a unique album, deeply Western-rooted, ...
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UNR016 | UNROCK

SUNN TRIO - FAYRUS (LP)

"More than 10 years after the demise of Sun City Girls as an entity, something wild and weird has now surfaced, grown and ripened in the heat and dust of the same desert. Described as "deep spirited, Arabic-music-tinged free jazz-punk and harsh exotica", Sunn Trio's ...
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UNR011 | UNROCK
"The Well Known Strangers 7" Singles Box Set documents the history of the Unrock singles (as we know it). International dervishes galore. Fourteen singles, thirteen were originally released in the Unrock Series, or have been part of our Saraswati Series and came first ...
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UNR | UNROCK
special offer "More than 10 years after the demise of Sun City Girls as an entity, something wild and weird has now surfaced, grown and ripened in the heat and dust of the same desert. Described as "deep spirited, Arabic-music-tinged free jazz-punk and harsh exotica", ...
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UNR011X | UNROCK
special offer "Yet another luxurious spectacle from the Saraswati Series. Ex-Sun City Girls master guitarist Richard Bishop teams up with Cul De Sac's long time Girls live collaborator, Ed Yazijian. Two grand seigneurs of underground deliver a unique album, deeply ...
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UNR016x | UNROCK
special offer ""Unrock The House", by Alan & Richard Bishop aka Brothers Unconnected, is a truly remarkable document and album. It´s a desirable object for eyes and ears that stands completely for itself. It is history (de la Musica Underground, as we know it) and ...
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UNR002LP | UNROCK

SQUARE9 - TSUNAMI.2 (LP)

"Recorded live on Sept. 22, 1991 and originally released by visionary operator Nick Schultz on Majora Records, Tsunami.2 was, still is, and will remain a mysterious album. Because the music didn't represent or sound like either of the bands involved, they decided to ...
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UNR022 | UNROCK
""Road to Siam" shows Richard Bishop on a musical trip from the Iberian Peninsula all along through North Africa and the Orient to the Far East. "Mekong", the 11.22 minutes long centerpiece of the record, is an improvisation on 6-string guitar based on the particular ...
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UNR002EP | UNROCK
"In 1980, 33 years ago, a band came to Krefeld, a small town at the Lower Rhine Area, which later became one of the most influential bands of their decade. This Heat from London, a trio who´s sound comparison to Industrial rock does not really hit the point, but which ...
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UNR001EP | UNROCK