Pre-orders are now available for three new limited-edition releases on Imprec. These titles are due to be released in October and we'll begin shipping them soon to ensure they land on your doorstep before the release date.
Supporter packs are a convenient way to puchase all of our upcoming releases at once and support Important Records.
"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
** 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.
Murals For Immersion is Gibson’s 6th ambient outing under his given name, this time around collaborating with saxophonist Paul Carman who played and recorded with Frank Zappa in what Zappa called The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life. (more.....).
Gabriele Gasparotti’s second full length album, Tropismi, is a collection of mesmerizing compositions with masterful polyrhythmical textures and harmonies, strings, prepared piano, magnetic tape and field recordings. Gasparotti's unique style uses classical composition techniques such as counterpoint, canone inverso and serialism to create morphing expanding harmonies continuously. (more.....).
The Generous Law, a new album by organist Jack Langdon and guitarist Anthony Vine, presents a glimpse of the inner voices and acoustical splendor of the Fisk Organ at Wellesley College, enlivened by the intuition of two improvisers. At the keyboards, Langdon crafts geometries of patiently braided lines and incisions, configuring the hues and shades of organ stops with an ear to the materiality of sound. Vine seizes on this, tuning his guitar to the organ and bringing his strings into alignment (more.....).
Christina Kubisch & Trondheim Voices Stromsanger LP
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.....).
Melbourne/Naarm-based musician and curator Rama Parwata, known for being the backbone drummer in bands such as Kilat,Whitehorse and Rinuwat, releases his second major solo album titled ‘Ceases’ on Cassauna/Important Records.
Parwata's gripping new electro-acoustic work is a sonic exploration within the realms of post-free-jazz and experimental electronics. At its core, ‘Ceases’ navigates the liminal spaces between rhythm and noise, structure and chaos. The album traverses a vast emotional and conceptual landscape, touching upon themes of impermanence, transformation, and the cyclical nature of existence.
"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
Help support Imprec and Imprec artists with our support packs. Get all of our new releases and help us continue our search for unheard sounds past, present and future.
Christina Kubisch Stromsänger LP - clear or black Rama Parwata Ceases Tape
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.
Earthwave is Zak Riles’(Grails/Watter) follow-up to his eponymous debut CD released on Important Records in 2008, a cinematic ascent through dark space, volatile illumination, reflection and refraction. Recorded during the pandemic—when Riles took refuge in his rural Kentucky studio, providing remote engineering work for groups like Sleep, Om, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Mono, and Joan Shelley—it’s a monumental exploration of his enduring interest in late '70s/early '80s instrumental electronic and new-age music.
The humid atmosphere and ominous moods of Earthwave were accomplished using an Arp 2600 and multiple Yamaha and Farfisakeyboards. The recordings were then run through analog equipment—MCI JH110 tape machine, Lexicon Prime Time, Roland Space Echo—adding to the sense of a time out of time. Echoes of past Riles compositions float through Earthwave’s chambers, the saz, oud and twelve-string acoustic recalling his memorable contributions to early Grails recordings. The only guest is the legendary Britt Walford (Slint), whose drumming appears on two tracks.
Earthwave is a project of sonic world-building by a master of his craft. Let yourself be overcome by its tectonic movement.
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
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....
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.
Alina Kalancea Bundle Tape
- Impedance CD or 2LP - Letters Never Sent CD - Alchemy tape
Atsuko Hatano Insulated Paradise Tape
Atsuko Hatano is a contemporay classical Viola player who works with electronics to add textures and layers to her sound. Located in Tokyo, Japan, she is a commanding instrumentalist and composer who constructs innovative compositions with strings and layered electronics.
Working in isolation due to the Covid pandemic, Atsuko Hatano played violin, viola, synthesizer and electronics to create these powerful, unique compositions. Insulated Paradise is an investigation into the social nature of humanity, an inward gaze during a time of isolation and a reaction to isolation itself.
Lambda Sond Waglands 1921 Tape
Hopes and Theory is a collection of songs inspired by wild plants and intentional gardens. At its core this music is rooted in synthesis, autonomy, and purely tuned harmony. At its heart there is chaos, color, and evolution. Hopes and Theory was recorded on the island of North Haven, Maine and reflects the anarchy of serenity in a seemingly peaceful place.
William Trevaskis is a composer and sound artist living and working in the Fox Islands of Maine who uses xenharmony to explore themes of chaos and nature. William's r&d marries modular synthesis with microtonality and live performance. Currently, he works using a combination of generative and live-performance systems to create a sonic landscape that calms and transfixes.
Lambda Sond Waglands 1921 Tape
Weather Music features music controlled by the weather and performed on instruments built by Quintron & NYZ.
Side A features the Weather Warlock, designed by New Orleans artist & instrument builder Quintron.
Side B features David Burraston's rain wire, a long string instrument stretched across a valley in Australia where it's mic'd like a guitar with a single string being played by the rain. Like Quintron's Weather Warlock, this piece is devoid of human organization but has a natural form we can easily recognize rhythmically as the steady randomness of rainfall mixed with the deep-space reverberations of this long wire instrument.
Lambda Sond Waglands 1921 Tape
*2nd printing. This edition has brown print on a yellow tape shell *Last copies of Lambda Sond's Chronological Compression II tape are avilable here * Shirt/tape bundle available
"Succinct sounds, stately atmospherics, affected instrumentation & synthetic chamber music. Eclectic ambient music of the highest order..." Slow Music Movement
"Beautifully nostalgic, brooding pearls of puckered melody and cinematic synth gaze from the lesser spotted Lambda Sond, gracing Important with a real lowkey gem tipped to followers of Alessandro Cortini, Kali Malone or Pauline Oliveros. Don't sleep on it until you've got one of these and then let it color your dreams..." Boomkat
Waglands 1921 is a quiet, intense and deeply personal new collection from Lambda Sond
Waglands 1921 exists in a vacuum somewhere between Pauline Oliveros, spiritual jazz, analog drone & heavy new age. Unlike the first two Lambda Sond cassettes on the Cassauna label, (2011’s Chronological Compression & 2014’s Chronological Compression II) this work is characterized by unrepeated melodies, unforgettably understated harmonies, timeless drones and feelings made musical.
This poetic music contains vignettes of emotion, memory and melancholy that are as uplifting, hopeful and grounding as a deep breath. Waglands 1921 exists at the verge of inspiration where hesitation is withheld and truths are articulated once but felt forever.
Waglands 1921 is Lambda Sond’s first recording for IMPREC and their self titled album will be available in 2022.
- 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
Supporter Pack 3: Spring 2023 Part 1
ParishCascades Of Refinement CD or Tape mHzProof Of Identity - Tape Francesco Gennari - Frammenti - Tape Emiliano Romanelli - Tabulatura (Volume #2) - Tape
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.
SUPPORTER PACK 2: March 2023 NEW RELEASES
"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
Help support Imprec and Imprec artists with our support packs. Get all of our new releases and help us continue our search for unheard sounds past, present and future.
Pauline OliverosThe Well & The Gentle 2LP - clear or black RazenPostcards From Hereafter - CD Gregory KramerVeils Of Transformation 1972-1980 - CD or Tape
SUPPORTER PACK 1: February 2023 NEW RELEASES
"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
Help support Imprec and Imprec artists with our support packs. Get all of our new releases and help us continue our search for unheard sounds past, present and future.
Wanderwelle All Hands Bury The Cliffs At Sea LP - clear or black PITRELEHPitreleh - Tape Eliane Radigue11 Dec 1980 - 2CD
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.
Harry Bertoia business card CDr
This 5 minute edit is excerpted from a recording Bertoia made on 8/29/71 and it has not been released in any other manner.
Bertoia's notes on this date indicate that he had recently brought new sculptures into the barn where he recorded his orchestra of Sonambient sculptures. Recordings of this type are rare and fascinating because they indicate moments of discovery when a new piece was examined to see if it could play along with the other sculptures in the barn.
These are the last of our Bertoia business card CDRs and they will not be reproduced. This one has different audio from the earlier business card CDRs. ......
* 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
IMPREC label group sticker pack!
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
