XXTREMELY RARE, THINK KWIK!! "In October 2018, the manager of ESP-Disk', Steve Holtje was invited by the 8th OCT-LOFT Jazz Festival to give a lecture titled 55 Years of Nurturing Avant-Garde and Outsider Music: ESP- DISK's Perpetual Revolution, in Shenzhen, China. During this event, Tu Fei, the curator of the festival, as well as the co-owner of Old Heaven Books, reached an agreement with Steve on further co-operations. For over half a century, ESP-DISK' has been publishing a massive amount of great records, among them are many free jazz masterpieces. And with great honor, the Old Heaven Books is authorized to produce and release this cassette boxset including 5 selected ESP DISK' classics, as a tribute to the label concept “The artists alone decide what you will hear on their ESP-Disk.”' This cassette boxset include 5 ESP-DISK releases: Albert Ayler- Spirits RejoiceRecorded Sept. 23, 1965 at Judson Hall, New York CityMarion Brown Quartet - Marion Brown QuartetRecorded in New York City in November 1965Sonny Simmons - Staying on the WatchRecorded in New York City on August 30, 1966Ronnie Boykins - The Will Come, Is Now© & ℗ 2009 ESP-Disk' Ltd./Syndicore Music (BMI)Sun Ra - Concert for the Comet KohoutekRecorded live at Town Hall, New York City, December 22, 1973. Limited Edition to 300 CopiesReleased by ESP-DISK' & Old Heaven Books

October felt like the appropriate time for Yara Asmar to unveil her intimate new album "synth waltzes & accordion laments" - a captivating new collection of home recordings Acclaimed Lebanese artist Yara Asmar is set to mesmerize listeners once again with her new album, synth waltzes & accordion laments. This eagerly anticipated album, a collection of intimate recordings, provides another glimpse into Yara's world. The album showcases her ability to channel raw emotion into her music. Vulnerable, intimate and moving these pieces were once again recorded at her home in Beirut using lo-fi recording processes. The sound palette here is richer than on her debut, with more focus on synth work and the warm drone of her grandmother's Hohner Marchesa accordion.

Tomo Jacobson - double bass, cover image Claus Poulsen - bowed cymbal, pedals, sound mix Tomo and Claus are highly prolific figures on the Copenhagen jazz and experimental music scene (when there’s not a virus going round) and after talking about bass bows one day, they just had to meet up and see what would happen. Much enjoying the improvisations, Tomo is using very extended techniques on his double bass while Claus enjoys sounding like saxophone and alternately double bass bowing a hihat cymbal and using effects.

TTT is more than happy to release this masterpiece from Hanali, the universal master of Gorge music. Full of toms, energy, electronic madness and psychedelic voice samples, this tape will definitely be welcomed in the walkmans of all rock climbers worldwide, and beyond ! Dancefloor and/or really trippy, it is hard to categorize Hanali's music and this release is no exception. What an unexpected travel it is : sometimes dark, sometimes sunny, sometimes funny, but for sure it is always catchy and makes you want to join the ride in lost mountains of Japan ! Gorge is crazy, Gorge is unique, Gorge is Gorge Hanali is the solo roots Gorge project by Toki Takumi. After starting his music career in Tokyo in 2000, he shifted his focus to mountain climbing, and free climbing, but now he has been working on a new style of rhythm work with his toms. Impacted by the dynamism of the Gorge concept, he began his musical career in 2012 with the roots Gorge style. He has released a number of tracks under various names, and has also performed at live houses, clubs and outdoor events. His dynamic and tricky toms sound has contributed greatly to popularizing the value of "golfi" in Japan. He moved to Fukuoka in 2019. Currently, his music activities are mainly online, and offline he is mostly a rock activity.

Hailing from Amiens, a city which has produced some of France’s most radical and unique experimentation since the 2000’s, Terrine is Claire Gapenne (Me Donner, Headwar) solo project. From her debut as a solo guitar noise project, Terrine slowly morphed into hypnotic abstract electronic improvisations, whose tense and collaged atmospheres still maintain a mesmeric sense of playfulness. A true iconoclast in the tradition of French luminaries such as Jacques Thollot and Jacques Berrocal, Terrine draws inspiration from the fierce spirit of free jazz and the uncompromising rawness of industrial music. Armed with a drum machine which she’s playing like others would a trumpet, Terrine seems to have quietly formed a highly nuanced reading of electronic music history in her own unique yet empirical manner. In the 20 minutes that this album spans the shadows of Pan Sonic, Carla Bley and Annette Peacock all make appearances amidst field recordings that evoke the sonic palette of an early Chantal Akerman film. These influences all somehow manage to seamlessly fuse together and produce a corrosive yet romantic soundtrack to the madness of our times.

Pro dubbed tape edition with 6-panel leaflet. Graphics by Cranky Bow. "Cranky Bow is the psychedelic step-son of Gábor Kovács (Új Bála). A weird and often absurd collage-project that deals with the forgotten members of the audio-spectrum. Samples, drones and noises that belong to the junkyard of a well-balanced life. Just take a look at the table, it's Cher's face on a slice of toast and arsenic in the coffee."

SIDE A Shadow Pattern - Drunk Drawer Recorded in The Den, autumn 2022. SIDE B Anna Peaker - Dust Duets Various recordings made late 2022 to early 2023. Assembled and mixed spring 2023. Artwork by Ellen Burroughs Layout by Anna Peaker 2023, Infant Tree

Earlier this century Spencer Clark created a sound phantasy with Skaters and after that he pursued a new alchemy under various aliases (Charles Berlitz, Fourth World Magazine, Monopoly Child, Typhonian Highlife, etc.) and projects (like Egyptian Sports Network, Tarzana or The Temple Defectors). He’s back with a new album under a new name, Star Searchers, a futuristic eco-friendly record. It’s life on earth as you never heard it. The story goes like this: Spencer Clark wanted to do a soundtrack for the yet to be made Avatar 2. And if you know Spencer’s work, you’ll know that he engaged on this mission reading material that influenced the rich and crazy imaginary world of Avatar. If you think about it a little bit, something like Avatar could have really come out from the mind of Spencer Clark. But it didn’t. So, he dwelled around the idea of that soundtrack, working on what is now known as Avatar Blue. The record we now release is a selection he made from the 2CD released last year on his own Pacific City Sound Visions.Like many of Spencer’s other alias or incarnations, Star Searchers introduces the listener to a new world. Besides making sounds/soundtracks for alternative realities he cares about making a world for his music to live in. It’s never superficial or dedicated just to the act of imagination, Spencer creates sounds that sustain the reality he imagined. That’s why they’re so rich and consequential in the realisation of music as a medium.Avatar Blue is music but also literature. And cinema. Star Searchers’ sound creates an absorbent sound about what’s happening in aquatic life. It goes beyond the perception of what we’ve seen or what we’ve known, it’s a neo-future aquatic life, with a world building structure and sounds and narratives that go along with it. All done with a sound-aesthetics that could be described as slowed-down-trance, that fits 1980s synth nostalgia and dreams of sci-fi to come.

Pauline Oliveros' Tara's Room has long been a favorite in the Imprec office and it's a great honor to be able to release it on LP for the very first time. Tara's Room was cut by John Golden and pressed at RTI in order to achieve a quiet, dynamic pressing. Originally released on cassette in 1987 following the 1986 release of "Sounding / Way" with Guy Klucevsek which is also available on LP via Imprec.(For more info scroll down past audio...._

rance-Formations 1: Ancient Minimal Meditations (1986) was originally composed between 1981-1985 and released in 1986.  These long, extended cyclic pieces were composed and recorded using delayed analog synthesizers and Emmanuel credits the inspiration of Terry Riley and Steve Reich for sending him in this musical direction. The release of this album followed his acclaimed Wizards (1982).Recorded using three Sequential Circuits Pro-One synthesizers and a Yamaha SK-20 Poly-Synthesizer. 100% analog sound. Mastered by JD Emmanuel.

On Rain Forest Music (1981) J D Emmanuel builds gentle, short cycles of notes into floating clouds of sound, mostly improvising around single chords. The "minimalism" in his music lies not in repetitive patterns that barely change but more in the spare arrangements that  focus the listener while also taking them on a sonic journey. A tape loop technique used by Brian Eno, Terry Riley, Robert Fripp (and likely many more)  called Continuous Looping was used in the creation of this album and a loop diagram is included in the packaging.  "I originally designed this music to enhance relaxation and meditation, as a background for massage or for counseling to help a person relax and open up faster.  Dr. Robert Pennington, PhD., a clinical psychologist and friend, was very interested in the idea of using music in this way. So he used the Rain Forest Music in his counseling sessions as background and noticed a marked difference in the quality of the patient's sessions. He continues to use this and similar music as a background for his counseling." J D Emmanuel

"Wizards was my first deep trance electronic music album. This album was inspired by Terry Riley , one of the earliest people ever to compose and perform long, extended, cyclic pieces in the electronic format. This music was composed and performed in '81 and '82. "I consider this album my best work. "The instrumentation is three Sequential Circuits PRO-1s, Crumar Traveler One and a Yamaha SK-20, all real time recording to a Teac 4-track reel-to-reel. I mixed the four tracks to a Teac A-7300 Master 2-Track tape recorder using a DeltaLab DL-2 to create the delay track. In 2006, I used a Tascam 34B 4-track to remaster all my master tapes to digital master of 196 KHz/24 bit .WAV files using Soundforge 8 software. "The original Wizards LP was published in the Summer of 1982 with the black and white cover. The initial tracks had not names and were call Movements I-V. Several years later sales had slowed down, in an effort to improve sales we tried the color cover and I created names for each track, as shown on the samples." ~ J.D. Emmanuel

Born from the fractal innerworld of Vymethoxy Redspiders, better known as Urocerus Gigas from Leeds-based xenofeminist crisis energy rock duo Guttersnipe, The Ephemeron Loop's debut is a synaesthetic acid bath that cracks open the doors of perception to reveal a sonic landscape of ineffable beauty, divine femininity and continual transformation. "Psychonautic Escapism" sublimes Guttersnipe's teeth-gnashing spacegrind aesthetic leaving washes of dream pop ambience, dilated speedcore fusillades and shapeshifting psychedelic dub effects. It's an album that lodges itself creatively between Cocteau Twins, Arca, Basic Channel and Napalm Death, lysergically fluxing imperceptibly between seemingly contradictory sonics and philosophies.Miss VR took 14 long, difficult years to write the album, which developed cautiously as she broke through the misery of her pre-transition life with shoegaze music, rave and psychedelic drugs in Leeds' queer underground. An existence languishing in negativity, soundtracked by extreme music was replaced with the opportunity to experience euphoria, elation and ecstatic freedom, emotions that coalesce sensually on "Psychonautic Escapism". These formative experiences are the album's initial building blocks, assembled between 2007 and 2018 as Miss VR came to grips with her reality as an autistic/ADHD trans woman and the multi-dimensional psychotropic experiences that assisted that realization. And as V's worldview expanded and shifted as she lived a fresh life, the music itself developed spiritually.In 2018, after being impressed with producer Ross Halden's work with Guttersnipe, Miss VR asked him to assist her with developing The Ephemeron Loop's fragmented songs and visions. "I learned a lot about why people don’t usually combine various kinds of sounds or styles in music," she admits. "It is very difficult to get it to all work together!" But after two-and-a-half years of the duo navigating a "labyrinth of fragmented Reason 5 and Logic projects," re-recording and processing, and working tirelessly on complex arrangements and compositions, they eventually found a light at the end of the tunnel. The finished album is towering and ambitious, Escher-like in its illusory reconstruction of familiar elements into brain-altering forms.The album begins with 'Psychonautic Escapism (Cold Alienation)', decorating Miss VR’s disembodied moans with throbbing dub techno synths, insectoid digital percussion and disorientating high-BPM electronics. Her vocals hover weightlessly between My Bloody Valentine's Bilinda Butcher and Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser, and on 'Lattice Dysmorphism of Lysothymic Oneiroid Cytoterrain' drift against grinding industrial hardcore kicks, serrated bass and Lorenzo Senni-esque trance pointillism. On 'Trench Through Pink Death', Miss VR’s voice mutates into a shrill scream as she directs the music from splattered free-flowing doom into harsh hyper-speed death metal and breakcore.Woven together with both precision and delicacy, "Psychonautic Escapism" turns a rough patchwork of ideas, experiences, feelings and vivid emotions into a glorious neon tapestry. In living and exploring the realities of autism, ADHD and trans identity, Vymethoxy Redspiders has masterminded a sonic language that feels fresh, urgent and shockingly honest. Psychedelic is a term that gets thrown around far too loosely at the moment - in this case there's just no better way of describing the album's scope.

Yong Yong tap into some “Torraye Braggs shit.” Downtempo signals, ghetto tech jibber, skull caps under knit beanies, hacky sack. A kind of pan-ethnic cooking analogy comes to mind: a plume of brown spices, melodies like foreign legumes. Fire up Dr. Sammy Sample and reappropriate whatever, basically. Smoothness is definitely not a priority – don’t save this for your BeatsByDre. I use cellphone speakers and let the bass snap like a baby carrot. B-side trades in ADD groove splicing for an extended trip. Less cut-and-paste here; more long-form four the floor. Things melting into other things. For the dancefloor in your day spa. --- Goaty Tapes, 2015

Another Beatles cover and acoustic guitar feedback album by Shanghai guitarist MAI MAI.The second in a series where MAI MAI focuses on the feedback and textures of favourite Beatles song --- 卖卖 MAI MAI plays: Martin M-38 acoustic guitar Yamaha hs8 powered speaker system Rode NT-5 pair microphones --- Released: Zoomin' Night Released: May 4, 2018 Recorded in Shanghai, spring 2018 Art work by Liu Lu Limited to 100 copies

Commissioned for an artist residency at the Mahler & LeWitt Studios in Spoleto, Italy, the Sacro Bosco tape explores various themes from the region’s holy mountain of Monteluco (Latin: lucus - a wood sacred to Jupiter), and its myths of saintly protection.Taking form as an installation in Piazza della Genga during a full moon, over 50 hand-drawn talismans invoking the spirits of the surrounding forest and beyond were nailed to the walls to create a 'universal sacred space'.Whilst the use of protective paper talismans (ofuda/fulu) is typical to Daoist practice, Sacro Bosco attempts to observe and unify the local collective religious beliefs of Catholicism and the Pagan god Jupiter. Inspired by a tale about the patron saint of Spoleto, Pontianius, and how in 1703, on his feast day, earthquakes affected the entire region of Italy, save Spoleto.This is a limited run of 50 cassette tapes - each wrapped in one of the original talismans - inked in black and cinnabar (as historically vermilion was regarded as the colour of blood, thus the colour of life), depicting the emblems and living spirits of wild boars, snakes, and trees in the surrounding forest. --- --- Self Released, 2022

Nika Son presents a radiophonic submersion into oceanic rasp and heave, meshes of synth tones, and displaced voices that intone a dismembered, claustrophobic sea story. Released as an edition of 50 pro-dubbed cassettes. --- Surfacing underneath you sea asu lapis Trying to imagine being underneath a liquid that we call water while clutching to a metal ledge of a big concrete building with air in my lungs.Sensing water in your ears and eyes. Being split by water. Thoughts astray.Algaic groaning gulping machines touching the liquid surface. Outer voices uttering in displaced languages. Who are you I am? Sinking. Waves floating over and under. Listening to antartic krill that sway to and fro. Emerging. Walking over oceanic noise, turning the page.Your ears on surfaces. --- Psykick Dancehall Recordings, 2017