"Over the decades, the image of Kompakt as a pirate ship has taken root in our minds, braving the dangers of the seven seas of the music market. Sometimes it glides with a tailwind through calm waters, sometimes it has to survive violent storms. When we set sail in ...
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comes with org. computer score print
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"The roots of African music are always open to new possibilities. This is revealed in the music of this unprecedented quartet. Alongside the Malian singer Rokia Traore', Mamah Diabate, Malian griot and djeli ngoni player, has been playing for several years with Stefano ...
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"The visionary Walter Maioli (Futuro Antico, Aktuala) and the eccentric electronic musician John Zandijik first met in 1984 when they both gravitated toward the experimental Sound Reporters collective, participating in the release of Ethnoelectronics (1986). Shortly ...
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"PURPLE TRAP, the powerful trio of KEIJI HAINO (voice, guitar), BILL LASWELL on bass and RASHIED ALI (drums), recorded live on stage at The Stone.Recorded in december 2005, this furious live album by what can easily be called a super group remained unreleased till in ...
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"The second full-length release from psychedelic bread bakers and bird whisperers BADGERLORE-the beard-core supergroup of BEN CHASNY (SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE, COMETS ON FIRE), TOM CARTER (CHARALAMBIDES), PETE SWANSON (YELLOW SWANS), and ROB FISK (7 YEAR RABBIT CYCLE, ...
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"Although Berlin-based musical seekers Jules Reidy and Sam Dunscombe are friends who've worked together in numerous contexts over the last decade or so, Edge Games is their first, long overdue collaborative album. Over two expansive, mind-bending excursions the former's ...
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