Available again for the first time in a few years is Eliane Radigue's monumental Adnos. These are in stock and ready to ship. Scroll down for more info and links. View all available Radigue titles here.
New Wanderwelle LP Now Shipping
Please pardon the delay. Wanderwelle's trilogy completing Ghosts Beneath The Brine LP is now shipping. Unfortunately, our initial shipment was destroyed in transit but replacements have arrived safely. A trilogy bundle is available. Scroll down for more info, images and purchase links.
Henry "Sandy" Jacobs(1924-2015) began experimenting with tape in 1952, produced one of the earliest "world music" radio programs, produced the first Lenny Bruce recordings and by 1957 he launched the Vortex Concerts with Jordan Belson which many believe to be the earliest example of "surround sound."
Henry produced recordings for his friend Alan Watts, released his own work on Folkways, collaborated with filmmakers and caught the attention of George Lucas who utilized Henry's skills in his film THX 1138. I could go on and on about Henry Jacobs and I often do. If you're not already familiar I recommend you do your own research on this incredible pioneer. I talked to NPR about Henry in 2015 when Joel Rose produced a piece following Henry's death. Listen here
Important Records was fortunate enough to release two major Henry Jacobs projects and we're now offering them bundled with a signature Henry Jacobs t-shirt that has been out of print for many years.
Scroll down for links to the individual releases & the bundle.
This 20th anniversary edition was remastered by Tom Eaton at Sounds & Substance and is packaged in a deluxe, black paper sleeve using metallic silver inks. More info and ELEH releases below. Check here for a complete listing of in-stock ELEH shirts.
Coil - Ape Of Naples / Caterina Barbieri - Patterns Of Conciosness 2LP Sale
For the next 48 hours we're offering significant discounts on two of our biggest titles. This is an exclusive offer for Imprec mailorder customers. When these copies are gone that's it for these records on Important Records so grab them while you can:
Slowly but surely we're offering a selection of titles recalled from various distributors. Today we're offering a bundle of three Alvin Lucier CDs - two of which were previously out of stock at Imprec. Get all three discs for $30 for a very limited time. Offer ends on Friday.
Available again for the first time in nearly 20 years is our old Mondrian 2 logo shirt now available in two colors: sage & brown. This logo was designed in 2004 and lasted around 10 years before it was replaced by the Imprec logo we're still using.
We've just posted a new interview with John Chowning conducted by David Burraston. They go deep on Stria, FM synthesis and included are downloads for two Scala microtuning files for anyone interested in experimenting with both the 9 and 18 note Phi tunings in Stria, rendered by Dave Burraston. You can find the interview here: https://importantrecords.com/blogs/news/dr-john-chowning-interview-by-david-burraston
Harry Bertoia Screen Printed Poster
Available now is a hand numbered, screen printed poster featuring Harry Bertoia's hand drawn cover concepts for the final Sonambient records he released in his lifetime. You can shop Bertoia/Sonambient here: https://importantrecords.com/collections/sonambient
Two New Releases From Pauline Oliveros
Over 10 years ago Pauline Oliveros and I began work on Two Days In Dreamland and Triple Point. Like many things at Important Records, progress was slow and Pauline left us before the projects were completed. It's a thrill to finally present these discs showcasing Oliveros' knack for improvisation, deep listening and group-thought. It's a relief to have finally completed work on these discs and a pleasure to finally share them and to honor Oliveros' incredible legacy.
Analog Tara Cassette
Analog Tara's new tape is a real banger and draws inspiration from Pauline Oliveros' early electronic works, both in combining generative systems with improvised interventions, and with a nod to her album and track titles.
Audio and info can be found on the individual release pages via Imprec.com
As usual, a Supporter Pack containing all 3 new release is available at a discounted price for a limited time.
When Eliane Radigue departed this realm in February 2026, at age 94, she left behind a singular, inimitable body of work. Her focus on slowly changing, highly detailed drone music yielded numerous monoliths among which Adnos stands tall.
Composed and recorded on tape between 1973-1982 using an Arp 2500 modular synthesizer, these astonishing pieces exemplify Radigue's quote about how slow changes, vibrations deep within her sounds, ultimately shape the textures of her sonic work:
"If a stone in the river moves, the river is not changed, but after a long time it becomes something completely different."
This 2026 repress preserves the 2013 package design; a thorough collaboration between Eliane Radigue and John Brien of Important Records. A 24 page booklet of Adnos era archival material accompanies the three compact discs in a heavy duty quad-fold, 8 panel cardboard jacket printed inside and out.
"Time is of no importance. All that counts is the duration necessary for a seamless development. My music evolves organically. It's like a plant. We never see a plant move, but it is growing continually. Like plants, immobile but always growing, my music is never stable. It is ever changing."Eliane Radigue
" Ms. Radigue, inspired by the idea of moving water as metaphor for sound in motion, writes, 'In the conch formed by sound waves, the ear filters, selects and emphasizes some areas of hearing, just as one's eyes would look at the shimmering of water: at the same time absent and multiple, oriented toward an outside whose image lives reflected in the inner universe.' 'A lot of the best new music can't be captured in sound bites -- you have to listen for a long time. Of no one is that truer than Eliane Radigue, who lives in France, but whose unarticulated time sense brings her closer to La Monte Young in sensibility than to anyone in Europe. Listen to her exquisitely-sculpted electronic works for two, three, even seven minutes, and you may hear nothing but a drone. But over a far longer period, her electronic drones thicken, begin to pulse, and change into complexly gritty textures so gradually that you suddenly wonder why you didn't notice the change. Over the long haul her works crescendo into glacially slow climaxes, bristling with harmonics, inducing in the listener an altered state of ecstatic spirituality.'" --Kyle Gann
"A steady stream of sonic activity taking place right at the edge of one's perception." New York Times
"This piece represents the height of musical sensitivity." Village Voice
After All Hands Bury The Cliffs At Sea (2023) and Black Clouds Above The Bows (2022), Amsterdam-based collective Wanderwelle presents the final entry of their album trilogy for Important Records(IMPREC). Conceived as a sonic reflection on the climate crisis and its devastating impact on coastal ecosystems, Ghosts Beneath The Brine (2026) addresses the mass deaths of fish, seabirds, crustaceans and countless other creatures that call these seas home, now rapidly being overfished, warming and acidifying.
"For the better part of two decades, the American imprint, Important Records, has occupied a crucial place in the landscape of ambitious and forward-thinking contemporary sound, offering a home to an incredibly diverse range of artists." Sound Ohm
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The complete trilogy: Wanderwelle - Ghosts Beneath The Brine LP Wanderwelle - All Hands Bury The Cliffs At Sea LP Wanderwelle - Black Clouds Above The Bows CD
When ELEH's debut Floating Frequencies/Intuitive Synthesis I was originally released it was praised as a powerful piece of new electronic minimalism. Twenty years later the artist's legacy has grown while ELEHcontinues to hypnotize new listeners with time stopping music. Critics, fans and neurologists have praised the music of ELEH as aiding attention and focus while seeming to slow time. ELEH's slow change drones are a state of flow aiding listeners into meditative focus.
Natural color vinyl limited to 200 copies. Black vinyl is also available
Both Henry Jacobs releases & a Henry Jacobs Nagra t-shirt for only $30 More info on each below.....
ELECTRIC BLUE ON NAVY
Alan Watts on Henry "Sandy" Jacobs in his book In My Own Words: "Sandy records everything and is, in fact, seldom seen without a Nagra slung over his shoulder."
"During a house renovation in Mill Valley a couple of years ago, a stash of reel-to-reel tapes and 45s was discovered beneath the floorboards. Caked in grime, the collection found its way to nearby resident Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto, whose own large sound archive included several records released by the owner of the collection: Henry Jacobs. Remarkably preserved for all the exposure to the elements, the more than eighty tapes chronicle wild collaborations with close friend and theologian Alan Watts, San Francisco soundscapes, riffs with Ken Nordine, fictitious radio spots, warped tabla beats, feedback mayhem, hipster parodies, and goof conversations. In collaboration with Henry Jacobs, Jack Dangers has selected, restored, sequenced and mastered this audio stew into a seamless travelogue. Equipped with a reel-to-reel, a microphone, and insatiable curiosity, Jacobs created a breathtakingly original approach that deserves to be appreciated by a much wider audience.
"Concerning the Henry Jacobs’ archival tapes, the several of them found underneath Henry’s old house in Mill Valley, you should know that Sandy, which is Henry’s nickname, has tapes hidden away in many places, usually along long stretches of inaccessible beaches, hence his nick name. The fact that this set of tapes was found under one of his houses and not along along beach is a deviation from the norm, one that history will thank you for." ~ Ken Nordine, Father of Word Jazz
Absurd folklorist Henry Jacobs returns with a selection of rare interviews, odd loops, sales pitches, early synthesizer demos, an ether-infused evening, and more! Produced in San Francisco and New York City, Around the World With Henry Jacobs is a travelogue that continues the story begun with The Wide Weird World of Henry Jacobs, mixing archival material from the 1950s with recent improvisations by Jacobs. Guests include Stan Freberg and Dr. Irwin Corey, with Alan Watts returning for a visit, too.
Also included is a special bonus disc - First Night, one of the true gems from the collection. Recorded in February 1957 by Henry Jacobs on the opening night of the Poetry/Jazz Series at The Cellar in San Francisco,this unique document captures the first time Kenneth Rexroth and Lawrence Ferlinghetti read their poetry to jazz in this very intimate setting. In contrast to Fantasy Records' Poetry Readings in the Cellar, you feel yourself a part of the audience here, moments punctuated with a register ringing, muted conversations, laughter, and clinking glasses. Includes Rexroth reading "Between Myself And Death" and "She Is Away", and Ferlinghetti reading "The World is A Beautiful Place."
Sound sculptures and gongs by Harry Bertoia unite the sides of this split LP from Tara Jane O'Neil and Eleh. Packaged in deluxe letterpress printed jackets in an edition of 800. The first 300 copies are on metallic gold vinyl.
O'Neil's composition was commissioned by Venessa Renwick for her Medusa Smack video installation (originally screened in 2012 at the Oregon Biennial). The piece is partially comprised of sounds recorded by Harry Bertoia on his own Sonambient sound sculptures, as well as a recording Tara made of Athanasius Kircher's Bell Wheel at the Museum of Jurassic Technology.
Eleh's side consists of 100 gongs synthesized on a Serge modular system to honor the centennial of Bertoia's birth in 2015.
ELEH's Harmonic Twins is slow moving monophony tuned to the overtone vocalizations generated by a particularly beautiful sound sculpture made by Harry Bertoia.
These two pieces are inspired by early music, choral masses, motets, the cathedral reverberations of sacred geometry and deep bass. Harmonic Twins was originally debuted by ELEH at Unsound, Krakow in 2017.
This split release between ELEH and NYZ (David Burraston) is packaged in a heavy duty sleeve printed on both sides of the packaging and utilizing metallic inks. This is a first edition of 500 copies and a brand new full length from NYZ is being released at the same time via Important Records.
Much needed restock of this ELEH design based on the cover art for 100 Gongs For Arieto. Printed by Neil Burke/Monoroid using a water based golden shimmer ink for a comfortable feel.
In 2015 ELEH used analog based FM sythesis to ring 100 gongs in honor of Harry Bertoia's 100th birthday. This print, based on the original sleeve design, features 100 gongs designed by John Brien, also in honor of Bertoia's 100th birthday.
24" x 24"
The first edition of gold on black sold out quickly. This 2nd edition of gold on white was hand printed by Neil Burke/Monoroid using a metallic shimmer gold ink.
PITRELEH Pitreleh Tape
** 2nd printing in blue cassette shells now available **
Cassette reissue of 2013's acclaimed Duane Pitre & ELEH duo recordings. The combination of these two distinct artists creates powerful music with a singular vision....
ELEH Art Edition: Floating Frequencies/Intuitive Synthesis 1 - 3 3CD
Packaged in a metal box that includes 3 CDs and signed/numbered letterpress prints corresponding to each CD.
The first 15 copies are housed in a silver slip-sleeve and the remaining 35 are packaged in a gold slip-sleeve.
- Ltd. edition of 50
- Letterpress O-card sleeve
- 3 Letterpress prints corresponding to each CD. These prints are signed, titled and numbered
Printed on heavy duty French paper 19" x 12" Cover stock weight
This screen print features Bertoia's own drawings of draft cover concepts used for the 10 records he pressed in the final year of his life. Likely drawn in 1977, the record sleeves featured photos of Bertoia's sculptures and layouts designed by Harry Bertoia.
Dr. John Chowning (b. 1934) is a pioneering computer musician, composer and professor who, in 1967, discovered the FM synthesis algorithm. This breakthrough in electronic music allowed for simple, yet rich timbres described as sounding "real." With this discovery, Chowning composed singular, dramatic electronic music and changed the timbre of music forever.
Chowning utilized the potential of computers to synthesize sounds according to programmed instructions. The composer's use of his own FM algorithms, digital synthesis with computers and the new compositional concepts offered by a programmable musical structure combine to create some of the most original and unique electronic music ever created.
These stunning recordings combine the great strengths of Pauline Oliveros on her Roland V-Accordion, Issui Minegishi; Ichigenkin master and great-great granddaughter of the founder of the Seikyodo Ichigenkin tradition and Miya Masaoka on her 21 string Japanese Koto. Together, these masterful improvisors create a beautiful and fascinating world of instrumental communication. This trio of legendary artists establish a sonic zone so compelling that you'll never want to leave.
Triple Point, featuring Pauline Oliveros, Doug Van Nort and Jonas Braasch, was an improvising trio with a core instrumentation of soprano saxophone, greis/electronics, and V-accordion. The name refers to the point of equilibrium on a phase plot, which acts as a metaphor for the group's improvisational dialogue.
Life of the Mother is a sonic meditation on the depth, expansiveness, complexity, and power that this phrase holds. Made from layers of generative processes and interactions with them. With a Zillion sequencer and Xone mixer as system guides, and sounds of the ARP 2500, Jealous Heart, Access Virus, Oberheim OB-6, Jomox XBase, Moog DFAM, and more.
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Oliveros/Minegishi/Masaoka - Two Days In Dreamland - 2CD Oliveros/Braasch/Van Nort - Triple Point - CD Analog Tara - Life Of The Mother - Tape
NYZ (David Burraston) presents this collection of generative music pieces carefully extracted from a PreenFM2 gifted to him by Aphex Twin. PRN2_M15t is being released at the same time as an LP titled Stria from Dr. John Chowning who invented the original FM synthesis algorithms which were sold to Yamaha and used in the creation of the DX series of keyboards. An interview with Chowning, is available here.
David Burraston is an award winning artist/scientist working in the areas of technology and electronic music, operating Noyzelab as an independent art/science music studio since 1981. Numerous research publications include a 2006 PhD thesis Generative Music & Cellular Automata, which developed and applied fundamental new concepts from generative music practice to a key problem in complex systems theory.
Lose yourself in the circuitry of the original 1965 Buchla 100 with NYZ (Dave Burraston) as he utilizes Barbara Hero's Lambdoma tuning theories to create two slow, deeply layered, subconscious, organic and meditative compositions.
The Buchla 100 experimental session begins with a documentary recording of the noise generators. Something I find endlessly fascinating is listening to different noise sources, so I always feel compelled to record them. The remaining tracks are sequenced by my MANIAC Cellular Automata sequencer. First up are three little sequenced ditties that also incorporate the ARP 2600 modular interconnected to the Buchla 100. After this is an ultra-minimal setup using MANIAC and the mind-numbingly rare Waveform Synthesizer Model 132 module. As far as I'm aware this is the only one of these modules that Buchla ever built! A truly unique module where you have 32 pots that setup the output waveform, and an FM input as well.. The last two tracks are a Cellular Automata / FM crossmod oscillator stereo setup, lots of crunchy high pitched stuff with some deep bass notes thrown in too :]
Grateful Dead / John Oswald - Grayfolded - 3LP - Black or Clear Vinyl
Grateful Dead / John Oswald - Grayfolded - 3 Cassette Set
Grayfolded - Phil Zone - Waves Shirt
Grayfolded Text Logo Sunglasses - Black Wayfarer
Dark Star Dark Roast by Sound Coffee
Available directly from Imprec or from the artist's Bandcamp Allison Graves is a 20 year old singer, songwriter and naturalist from New England who has created a powerful, breathy debut that sounds aged and well loved, like an old home, with dogs barking in the background and kids playing in the yard. Allison Graves' rich sense of melody and harmony underscores the depth of the work.
Written and recorded across six months and two coasts, with a secondhand guitar and a broken laptop, I Still Look For The Mountains draws inspiration from many wells including Adrianne Lenker and Bon Iver. As if Graves' debut was a long lost reissue from Joe Boyd's Witchseason catalog, this album is also reminiscent of Nick Drake and Vashti Bunyan. Highly recommended to Imprec fans of Kurt Weisman, Diane Cluck, Kimya Dawson, Asa Irons/Swaan Miller.
JAD FAIR 7" & Papercut
50 unassembled copies, leftover from the 2004 release are now available for sale and each copy includes an original 2004 papercut by Jad Fair.
"It's a keeper on all known levels." ~ The Wire
Harry Bertoia "Diamond Chairs 1968" Shirt
This three color print is based on Massimo Vignelli's 1968 Bertoia design for Knoll Furniture
100% cotton shirt by Bella Canvas
Printed by Neil Burke @ Monoroid
Caterina Barbieri "Patterns Of Consciousness" 2LP Caterina Barbieri "Born Again In The Voltage" LP
Pauline Oliveros"The Well & The Gentle" 2LP Razen "Postcards From Hereafter" CD Gregory Kramer "Veils Of Transformation" CD
Eliane Radigue "11 Dec 1980" 2CD Wanderwelle "All Hands Bury The Cliffs At Sea" LP PITRELEH"s/t" CASS
Michael Ranta "Transits: Volume 1" 2CD Harry Bertoia"Mechanization 1 & 2" LP
Alina KalanceaLetters Never Sent -CD William Trevaskis Hopes & Theory - Tape Atsuko Hatano - Insulated Paradise - Tape Quintron/NYZ - Weather Music - Tape
Stuart Dempster "Underground Overlays From The Cistern Chapel" 2LP Alvin Lucier"One Arm Bandits" CD Jose Orozco Mora "Sucesiones" CASS
Pauline Oliveros "The Well & The Gentle" 2LP Stuart Dempster "Underground Overlays From The Cistern Chapel" 2LP
Silver Apples & Makoto Kawabata "Mirage" LP Zak Riles "Earthwave" CASS Zak Riles "S/T" CD
Niels Lyhne Lokkegaard & Quatuor Bozzini"Colliding Bubbles" CD Stephen Ruppenthal & Gary Weisberg "Strange Times" CD Anthony Vine & Gareth Davis "Fluorescent Standard" CASS
Meredith Young-Sowers Agartha: Personal Meditation Music 7CD Box & Booklet
RIYL: Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros, Eleh, Duane Pitre, La Monte Young, Eno, Larajji, Iasos
Available via Imprec.com and Imprec.Bandcamp.com. If you purchase directly from Imprec simply request a download and we'll reply with a link.
"This astounding body of almost entirely unknown electronic music is an absolute revelation and blows the lid off of countless preconceptions relating to the music of the New Age movement, as it drenches the ear in truly engrossing sounds.”Sound Ohm
"It's easy to get distracted by the circumstances surrounding the release but the music remains engaging, immersive and even wise."Uncut
Agartha, Personal Meditation Music is a 7 CD boxed set, originally released on cassette in 1986, at the height of New Age, as an aid for meditation and alignment. Bringing to mind 20th century composers like Eliane Radigue, La Monte Young or even Brian Eno's Shutov Assembly, the time-stopping, enveloping, electronic music contained in this series sounds eerily modern, mysterious and moving. Characterized by deep analog drones, rising overtones, floating frequencies surfing on sine-waves and intervals with mystic modulation, this is truly moving, vibrational music.
In Agartha, the individual notes of each Harmonic Triad proceed in a fashion that is neither improvisational nor chance-based, nor is it generative. Instead the music flows outward as if being transmitted— or channeled — from a place outside human consciousness. There is a profound sense of cosmic depth expanding ever outward as the music fills the listener with waves of emotion, and a palpable somatic response is felt, although there are subtle differences with each unique Triad.
Each disc is individually packaged in original replica sleeves and housed in a heavy dutycardboard clamshell box. Digitized and remastered by Jessica Thompson. Liner notes include extensive instructions for use from the original text and an essay by library music scholar David Hollander.
The original edition of Agartha, Personal Meditation Music, featured one track 30 minute track per tape repeated on both sides. Subsequent editions had unique Side B tracks on all but two of the 7 volumes. We have included all tracks in this boxed set.
On this new LP Harry Bertoia shows why he may have been the first industrial musician. Bertoia often referred to his sound sculptures as a "collaboration with industry" and on this new LP Bertoia is intentionally creating heavy, rhythmic music he described as "mechanized," "mechanical" and "factory like."
This first edition is packaged in a full color sleeve with metallic inks. Mastered by Tom Eaton at Sounds & Substance.(continue)
Michael Ranta Transits: Volume 1 2CD
American percussionist and composer Michael Ranta is a legendary figure who has worked with some of the most significant names of 20th century music but despite this and impressive body of work of his own, he has remained an obscure figure.
Important Records and is pleased to present Transits: Volume 1 the first in a series of releases by composer/percussionist Sarah Hennies documenting never before heard chamber works mostly composed in the 1970s while Ranta was living in Taiwan.
Based overseas since the late 60s, Ranta is known primarily as a percussionist who worked closely with Harry Partch, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Helmut Lachenmann, Toru Takemitsu and Jean-Claude Éloy but is also an accomplished artist himself with a vast body of work spanning improvisation, electronic music, and composition... (continue)
BOUSQUET Florescere LP
** Quintessential Imprec LP steeped in the sounds of the label **
Florescere by Jonathan Bousquet is a powerful debut exploring a tapestry of electronic textures, compositional structures, and themes. Produced and designed by John Brien, mastered by Tom Eaton at Sound & Substance, screen printed by Neil Burke at Monoroid - this is a quintessential Imprec release.Hand numbered edition of 300.
Japan's long running masters of psych/kosmische jamming return to Important Records for a vinyl outing featuring beloved original member Cotton Casino. This first edition is pressed in an edition of 500 copies.
Lee Ranaldo and Rob Menard have been friends and collaborators for years and this split cassette release on Important Records'Cassauna label amplifies their unique musical personalities and sonic compatibility. Both artists contributed over 30 minutes of music making this a pair of mini-albums on one tape.
For six voices, electromagnetic waves and electronics. Commissioned by nyMusikk Trondheim 2022
100 copies are available on undyed natural color vinyl.
Christina Kubisch’s Stromsänger finds this legendary sound artist at the top of her game mixing electromagnetic wave recordings with a score for six voices, creating powerful results.
Stromsänger is based on a collaboration with the Norwegian vocal ensemble Trondheim Voices and on a special experience while researching and recording electromagnetic waves in the city of Trondheim (more.....).
Stephen Ruppenthal & Gary R. Weisberg Strange Times CD
Strange Times is a virtuosic realization of contemporary electroacoustic soundscapes composed and performed by Stephen Ruppenthal and Gary R. Weisberg. With masterful employment of electro-acoustic techniques and tools, including the original 70's Buchla Music Easel Ruppenthal used in the Electric Weasel Ensemble, these two artist create an essential, psychedelic, electro-acoustic experience.
Niels Lyhne Lokkegaard & Quatuor Bozzini Colliding Bubbles CD
Colliding Bubbles (surface tension and release) is a composition for string quartet and harmonica quartet, meaning that Quatuor Bozzini is playing string instruments while playing harmonicas.
Mirage is a cosmic collaboration between the Silver Apples and Makoto Kawabata of Japan's Acid Mothers Temple. Packaged in a deluxe jacket printed with metallic silver ink.
Dragonfly's First Flight, taking up the full side A, features Simeon Coxe and Kawabata Makoto jamming over familiar Silver Apples hypnotic rhythms. Fans of both groups will delight in the interplay between Simeon's keyboard and Makoto's drone guitar feedback soloing.
Side B ranges from free-form freakouts to ambient poetry readings by Simeon with Japanese translation spoken by Makoto. Future Reminiscence, which closes side B, is a song that sounds like a long-lost Silver Apples track.
Mirage is dedicated to the memory of Simeone Coxe who died September 8, 2020 while this project was being assembled.
Stuart Dempster Underground Overlays From The Cistern Chapel 2LP
"This is where you have been forever and will always be forever." Stuart Dempster, speaking about what it feels like to be in a cistern where time seems to stop.
Stuart Dempster created Underground Overlays From The Cistern Chapel in the same cistern where the legendary Deep Listening album was recorded. Reverberating with powerful, deep tones, this double LP is intended as a companion to the acclaimed Oliveros/Dempster/Panaiotis album Deep Listening.
Underground Overlays From The Cistern Chapel is one of the deepest drone albums ever recorded. Nine trombones, didjeridu and Tibetan bells fill the massive two million gallon cistern with dense sonic reverberations that are both haunting and healing.
Packaged in a heavy duty paper sleeve printed with metallic gold ink to match the Deep Listening design.
Pauline Oliveros The Well & The Gentle 2LP
The Well & The Gentle, two of the major works of Pauline Oliveros, are presented here in a first time reissue on double vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with extensive liner notes.
If Oliveros had followed a more conventional path she may have, all social obstacles aside, been considered among the major composers of her time. However, Oliveros approached composition in a more egalitarian manner. She wrote music for musicians to interact with or, in the composers words, she wished to create "an inclusive and interdependent and unfolding world of relationships."
Oliveros' propensity towards inclusion is part of what makes this work so remarkably distinctive. The Well & The Gentleis carefully crafted, allowing performers to participate in the creation of the work. Players are asked to collaborate, focus, react and make imaginative choices. Only then can the performers "pass through stages of awakening to the possibilities inherent in making music, working together, leading to the essence of what can shape musical impulses and individual freedom simultaneously."
Unlike most major composers of the era, Oliveros' work focuses on collaboration and improvisation. For Oliveros, the processes involved in making music are as fundamental as the music itself. Oliveros creates, as Arthur Sabatini put it so eloquently in the liner notes,
"A world in which sound and the practices entailed in making music merge; become, at once, source and atmosphere, energy and essence, presence and dynamic."
Coil Ape Of Naples 2LP
Red splatter vinyl version now available
** NEW ** 5 panel embroidered hat (black)
** NEW ** 5 panel embroidered hat (grey)
Black hats back in stock
Alina Kalancea Letters Never Sent CD
Highly recommended to fans of Alessandro Cortini, Caterina Barbieri, Shasta Cults
"A slow building beauty of electronic soundscapes." The Vinyl District
Alina Kalancea is a sonic alchemist who can warp and weave electronic signals into complex tapestries of synthesized analog timbre. These transportive environments were recorded using the artist's personal collection of historic Buchla electronic music instruments including Allen Strange's expanded Music Easel.
Letters Never Sent, Alina Kalancea's second full length for Imprec follows 2021's double LP titled Impedance and is being released at the same time as a new cassette titled Alchemy.
Alessandro Cortini Forse 1-3 Shirt box
Limited edition reprint available in all sizes.
- 3 color screen printed t-shirts - Packaged in a screen printed Forse box
Caterina Barbieri Patterns Of Consciousness 2LP yellow & black vinyl
2023 Repress
Caterina Barbieri Born Again In The Voltage LP yellow or black vinyl
2023 Repress
Gregory Kramer Veils Of Transformation 1972 - 1980 CD / Tape
Veils Of Transformation 1972 - 1980 is a collection of the earliest works of Gregory Kramer, one of the 20th century masters of textural electronic music. This collection is available on CD and cassette with liner notes from Gregory Kramer and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, who first brought this fascinating work to the attention of Important Records.
“Greg is one of the pioneers of electronic music and these pieces are unique opportunities to discover how intricate and dynamic early synthesizers are.” Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Kramer developed a musical language focused on continuous transformation of timbre, yielding a continuity of attention. This musical language, formed of timbral change, is a compelling aesthetic in its own right and a source of meditative experience. The four works on this album share a deep sense of order derived not from organizing pitches or rhythms, but from the evolution of timbre itself.
Gregory Kramer (b. 1952) is a pioneering electronic composer, inventor, researcher, teacher and author. In 1975 he co-founded Electronic Musicmobile, a synthesizer ensemble later renamed Electronic Musicmobile, a series of synthesizer concerts in New York from which he formed the Electronic Art Ensemble, a highly regarded all electronic quartet. His work extended to developing synthesizers and related equipment. Kramer also co-founded the not-for-profit arts organization Harvestworks in New York City. He is recognized as the founding figure of the intensely cross-disciplinary field of data sonification. Since 1980, Kramer teaches Buddhist meditation.
Alessandro Cortini Forse 1 2LP
Ltd. repress including 100 copies on red splatter vinyl
Alessandro Cortini Forse 1 Print
4 color screen print. Designed, signed, numbered and titled by John Brien. Measures: 24" x 24" Edition: 50
Alessandro Cortini Forse 3 2LP Edition of 250 on RED VINYL.
2015 factory mis-press on red vinyl instead of purple vinyl.
Alessandro Cortini Forse 1-4 4CD
Packaged in matte coated digipacks housed in a heavy duty tip-on style outer box.
2021 digital master by Stephan Mathieu.
Composed using only an original Buchla Music Easel, an incredibly rare electronic music instrument designed by Don Buchla, the Forse series features long, romantic compositions full of voluminous, bombastic tones and dripping with thick timbre.
Tod Dockstader Aerial 2 2LP
Tod Dockstader'sAerial series, an electronic/drone masterpiece, is cherished among fans of the artist's work and this first volume is available in a double LP edition of 500 copies with 100 copies on clear vinyl exclusively for Imprec mailorder customers......
Harry Bertoia Sonambient Tape Archive Logo T-Shirt
Metallic shimmer print on a soft, slightly fitted shirt.
* 2022 Edition * - 11 CD set adapted from 12 CD edition. All tracks included. - Clamshell style box w/ single pocket disc sleeves similar to the Bertoia box
*2022 Edition Signed* - Signed edition available. We will include a jewel box insert signed by Pauline from the original 2012 edition
* 2012 Edition Signed * - 7 original boxes are still available signed by Pauline
