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  • Sean McCann, Matthew Sullivan, Alex Twomey – Saturday Night
    Sean McCann, Matthew Sullivan, Alex Twomey – Saturday Night
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    “Saturday Night is the debut LP by old friends and collaborators Alex Twomey, Matthew Sullivan, and Sean McCann. Recorded over numerous evenings at the artists’ homes, and completed just [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Morton Subotnick – Silver Apples Of The Moon For Electronic Music Synthesizer
    Morton Subotnick – Silver Apples Of The Moon For Electronic Music Synthesizer
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    “Morton Subotnick helped bring the modular voltage-controlled synthesizer to a state of readiness for performance and recording and was the first composer to take advantage of the new [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Church Shuttle – ESP Grifter / Junk Oracle
    Church Shuttle – ESP Grifter / Junk Oracle
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    Pre-order ships on or around April 1st, 2025. Church Shuttle “ESP Grifter / Junk Oracle” is an 8 track LP of alien abducted industrial music. Specifically Pure Michigan soundscapes Chris […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • The Velvet Underground & Nico – S/T (1968 Stereo West Coast Press)
    The Velvet Underground & Nico – S/T (1968 Stereo West Coast Press)
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    What else can be said about The Velvet Underground’s debut album? Changed the course of music history as we know it and still sounds fresh nearly 60 years later. Label: […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Sandy Bull With Billy Higgins – Fantasias For Guitar And Banjo
    Sandy Bull With Billy Higgins – Fantasias For Guitar And Banjo
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    “Sandy Bull should be a household name, as he was a true musical visionary who was clearly ahead of his time. This, his first album, is a truly auspicious debut. […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Elyse Weinberg – Greasepaint Smile
    Elyse Weinberg – Greasepaint Smile
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    “The unreleased second album by an original lady from the canyon. Recorded and recanted in 1969, Greasepaint Smile is more assured than its self-titled, Tetragrammaton-issued predecessor. [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Burning Witch – Crippled Lucifer (4LP+DVD)
    Burning Witch – Crippled Lucifer (4LP+DVD)
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    Includes: Towers, Rift Canyon Dreams, The Bleeder/Rift Canyon Dreams 12″, Live At The China Club 1996 and a DVD of two live sets from 1997. . Label: Southern Lord – […]

    GENRE: Metal
  • MinuteFlag ‎– MinuteFlag
    MinuteFlag ‎– MinuteFlag
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    “Minuteflag was an experimental jam band collaboration between members of the American punk bands Minutemen and Black Flag. Their only release, an EP, consists entirely of instrumentals [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Various ‎– Hipsville 29 B.C.
    Various ‎– Hipsville 29 B.C.
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    Compilation of rare Garage 45s, featuring The Vagrants & The Fantastic Dee-Jays. Label: Kramden Records – KR 101 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Repress Country: US Released: 1996 VG/VG. [...]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Joy Division ‎– Substance [1988 pressing]
    Joy Division ‎– Substance [1988 pressing]
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    “After New Order released their own Substance compilation in 1987, it was perhaps inevitable that a similar and long-overdue collection would apply to Joy Division, especially given the [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Caetano Veloso ‎– Caetano Veloso
    Caetano Veloso ‎– Caetano Veloso
    $55.00 | , , Add to cart

    “One look at the doleful expression that Caetano Veloso wears on the cover of his third self-titled album, from 1971, and it’s clear that the listener is in for a […]

    GENRE: Latin
  • Trees – Trees
    Trees – Trees
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    “It’s now over fifty years since Trees’ formation, a band who helped define ‘Acid Folk’, creating a sub-category in the lexicon of record dealers and music critics alike. Earth’s new […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Love ‎– Da Capo
    Love ‎– Da Capo
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    “1967’s Da Capo captured Love in a transitional phase, evolving from the frenetic garage folk of their debut album to the lush, psychedelic textures of their third release, Forever [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Lee Hazlewood ‎– Forty
    Lee Hazlewood ‎– Forty
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    “Originally titled Will The Real Lee Hazlewood Please Stand Up?, Forty was a different kind of Hazlewood album, one in which Lee just focused on being a performer. In 1969 […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Eric Dolphy ‎– Iron Man
    Eric Dolphy ‎– Iron Man
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    “The companion piece to Conversations (recorded at the same mid-1963 sessions with producer Alan Douglas), Iron Man is every bit as essential and strikes a more consistent ambience than its [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Go-Betweens ‎– 16 Lovers Lane
    The Go-Betweens ‎– 16 Lovers Lane
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    “Arguably Australia’s greatest pop group ever, The Go-Betweens seemed to save the best for last when they split in 1989. (They reunited in 1999, and have issued two more studio […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Hapshash And The Coloured Coat – Featuring The Human Host And The Heavy Metal Kids
    Hapshash And The Coloured Coat – Featuring The Human Host And The Heavy Metal Kids
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    “One of the most sought-after of all ’60s cult LPs, 1967’s Hapshash and the Coloured Coat Featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids is the sort of record […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Fabulous Wailers Featuring Rockin’ Robin And Gail Harris – At The Castle
    The Fabulous Wailers Featuring Rockin’ Robin And Gail Harris – At The Castle
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    “Bobby Blue” Bland, James Brown, Freddy King: the Wailers all had that roots music imbedded in us, we played black music but white people thought it was ours. It was […]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Steve Adams / Ken Filiano Quartet – Anacrusis
    Steve Adams / Ken Filiano Quartet – Anacrusis
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    Interesting, reed-led Free Jazz from a power group featuring Billy Mintz, Ken Filiano, Steve Adams, and Vinny Golia Label: Nine Winds Records – NW 0128 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Only Ones – Live In London
    The Only Ones – Live In London
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    This live set from The Only Ones features rawer & more ragged arrangements of some of their best tracks, including Another Girl, Another Planet. Label: Skyclad Records – GOD 67 […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Rock / Pop
  • Talking Heads – Remain In Light
    Talking Heads – Remain In Light
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    “The musical transition that seemed to have just begun with Fear of Music came to fruition on Talking Heads’ fourth album, Remain in Light. “I Zimbra” and “Life [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Merry Airbrakes ‎– Merry Airbrakes
    Merry Airbrakes ‎– Merry Airbrakes
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    “Its 1973… in three years it will be 1976. This album of music, conceived and recorded during the months between the 1972 Presidential election and the full-flowering of the Watergate [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Circuit Des Yeux ‎– Symphone
    Circuit Des Yeux ‎– Symphone
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    Debut release from Circuit Des Yeux that shows Haley Fohr at her darkest and most lo-fi. Label: De Stijl – IND-066 Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, White Label, Gray Marbled […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Bee Mask ‎– When We Were Eating Unripe Pears
    Bee Mask ‎– When We Were Eating Unripe Pears
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    “That old saw about dancing and architecture notwithstanding, I am like most people who make records in that I do not especially relish the task of writing about them. (Better […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Greymouth ‎– Parked Up
    Greymouth ‎– Parked Up
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    The duo of Mark Anderson (Bancho Taste / Mysteries of Love) and Mark Sadgrove (Mazda Hatchback / Mysteries of Love) take the wheel and don the louvres to serve up […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Gene Dunlap ‎– Party In Me
    Gene Dunlap ‎– Party In Me
    $70.00 | , , Add to cart

    Hard-hitting and heavy Disco/Soul, ala Roy Ayers, from one of the most underrated percussionists of 70’s & 80’s. Label: Capitol Records – ST-12190 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The New Lee Dorsey – Working In The Coal Mine – Holy Cow
    The New Lee Dorsey – Working In The Coal Mine – Holy Cow
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    “Lee Dorsey epitomized the loose, easy-going charm of New Orleans R&B perhaps more than any other artist of the ’60s. Working with legendary Crescent City producer/writer Allen [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • New York Contemporary 5* – Vol. 2.
    New York Contemporary 5* – Vol. 2.
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    “Recorded at the end of a string of engagements throughout the Scandinavian countries, Archie Shepp + The New York Contemporary Five, Vol. 2 captures a group of young musicians seeking […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Devo – Freedom Of Choice
    Devo – Freedom Of Choice
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    “With Freedom of Choice, Devo completed their transition into a full-fledged synth-pop group, producing arguably their most musically cohesive effort in the process. Synthesizers are now [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Alexander von Schlippenbach – Globe Unity
    Alexander von Schlippenbach – Globe Unity
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    “In 1966, pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach assembled his first large ensemble to play his compositions “Globe Unity” and “Sun.” This 14-piece band, which brought together some of the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Yvette Mimieux & Ustad Ali Akbar Khan – Baudelaire’s Flowers Of Evil (Les Fleurs Du Mal)
    Yvette Mimieux & Ustad Ali Akbar Khan – Baudelaire’s Flowers Of Evil (Les Fleurs Du Mal)
    $22.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, whose father was the great Bengali (now Bangladeshi) musician Allauddin Khan, and who himself is one of the most important musicians in Indian classical music, has [...]

    GENRE: Hindustani
  • John Cage Assisted By David Tudor – Variations IV Volume II
    John Cage Assisted By David Tudor – Variations IV Volume II
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    “This work was originally used as music for the choreographed piece by Merce Cunningham, “Field Dances,” with stage and costume design in the original version by Robert [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Tom Waits ‎– Swordfishtrombones
    Tom Waits ‎– Swordfishtrombones
    $42.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Between the release of Heartattack and Vine in 1980 and Swordfishtrombones in 1983, Tom Waits got rid of his manager, his producer, and his record company. And he drastically altered […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Tom Waits – Heartattack And Vine
    Tom Waits – Heartattack And Vine
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    “Heartattack and Vine is Tom Waits’ seventh and final album for Asylum. As such, it’s transitional. As demonstrated by its immediate predecessors, 1978’s excellent Blue [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Tom Waits – Closing Time
    Tom Waits – Closing Time
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    “Tom Waits’ debut album is a minor-key masterpiece filled with songs of late-night loneliness. Within his chosen narrow range of the cocktail bar pianistics and muttered vocals, Waits [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Woolies ‎– Basic Rock
    The Woolies ‎– Basic Rock
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    “Lansing, Michigan’s Woolies weren’t as bracing or confrontational as contemporaries like MC5 or the Stooges (or even the Rationals, for that matter), but they got a lot of [...]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Nico – The End…
    Nico – The End…
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    “It is one of the most entrenched visions in the rock critic’s vocabulary; Nico as doomed valkyrie, droning death-like through a harsh gothic monotone, a drained beauty pumping dirges [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Stooges ‎– The Stooges
    The Stooges ‎– The Stooges
    $175.00 | , , Add to cart

    “While the Stooges had a few obvious points of influence — the swagger of the early Rolling Stones, the horny pound of the Troggs, the fuzztone sneer of a thousand […]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Mort Garson ‎– Mother Earth’s Plantasia
    Mort Garson ‎– Mother Earth’s Plantasia
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    “If you purchased a snake plant, asparagus fern, peace lily, or what have you from Mother Earth on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles (or bought a Simmons mattress from Sears), […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Uniform ‎– Perfect World
    Uniform ‎– Perfect World
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    “Uniform formed in New York City in late 2013 when old friends Ben Greenberg (Hubble, The Men, Pygymy Shrews) and Michael Berdan (York Factory Complaint, Drunkdriver, Believer/Law) realized [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Fontella Bass – Free
    Fontella Bass – Free
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    “If Fontella Bass’ “Rescue Me” is the best soul single that Aretha Franklin never made, then Free is the lost classic that deserves space in any record collection housing [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Lenny Breau – The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau – Live!
    Lenny Breau – The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau – Live!
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    “Recorded live at Shelly’s Manne-Hole in Hollywood, California, The Velvet Touch of Lenny Breau: Live! features a trio setting of Breau on electric guitar, Reg Kelln on drums, and Ron [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Devo ‎– Duty Now For The Future
    Devo ‎– Duty Now For The Future
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    Devo begins to embrace poppier leanings on their second album. Particular highlight is their cover of Johnny Rivers’ Secret Agent Man. Label: Warner Bros Records – BSK 3337 Format: Vinyl, [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Raw Deal!
    Raw Deal!
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    Part of Raw Records New Wave Series, this compilation features The Users and The G.T’s, along with several other Power-Pop/New Wave influenced UK punk bands. Label: Raw Records – RAWL […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Star Club – The Very Best Of The Star Club
    The Star Club – The Very Best Of The Star Club
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    A compilation of the best of the early material from the first era of The Star Club, a long running and heavily influential Japanese punk band. Label: Club The Star […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Bad Brains – I And I Survive (1982 Bad Brains Records)
    Bad Brains – I And I Survive (1982 Bad Brains Records)
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    “”I And I Survive” is a 1982 EP by Bad Brains, released on the heels of their iconic self-titled debut album. Like the band’s subsequent album “Rock for [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Modern Lovers – The Original Modern Lovers
    The Modern Lovers – The Original Modern Lovers
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    “After recording demo sessions in 1972 with John Cale for Warner Bros. Records and others with Alan Mason and Robert Appere for A&M, the Modern Lovers re-performed some of the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Suicidal Tendencies – Join The Army
    Suicidal Tendencies – Join The Army
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    Suicidal Tendencies embrace thrash & metal influences on their second album Label: Caroline Records – CAROL 1336 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1987 VG+/VG. Vinyl is clean [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Iggy And The Stooges – Raw Power (1973 Japanese Press)
    Iggy And The Stooges – Raw Power (1973 Japanese Press)
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    “In 1972, the Stooges were near the point of collapse when David Bowie’s management team, MainMan, took a chance on the band at Bowie’s behest. By this point, guitarist Ron […]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Husker Du – Metal Circus
    Husker Du – Metal Circus
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    “A five-song EP bristling with energy and pummeling guitars, Metal Circus is the first indication of Hüsker Dü’s greatness. With these five songs, the band shows more invention, [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Wheezing Maniac – Shade Through The Night Door
    Wheezing Maniac – Shade Through The Night Door
    $28.00 | Add to cart

    Wheezing Maniac was a mysterious, short-lived band with enigmatic lyrics that was active in Southern California in the late eighties. Due to their off-kilter originality, high energy, and thanks [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • PRE-ORDER
    Cameron Knowler – CRK
    Cameron Knowler – CRK
    $27.00 | , Ships on/around Apr 04, 2025 Add to cart

    ***Ships On Or Around 04/04/25 “Pure musical expression pulling from over a hundred years of American folk history but still feels unburdened by the past and looks sharply towards the […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • PRE-ORDER
    Dylan Golden Aycock – No New Summers
    Dylan Golden Aycock – No New Summers
    $30.00 | , Ships on/around Mar 21, 2025 Add to cart

    ***Pre-Order Item – Ships on or around 3/21 Nice to hear the first solo LP in a good while by this most excellent guitarist who also runs the superb Scissor […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • The Kinks – Arthur Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire
    The Kinks – Arthur Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire
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    “Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) extends the British-oriented themes of Village Green Preservation Society, telling the story of a London man’s decision to move [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Clifford Thornton & The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra – The Gardens Of Harlem (Japanese Pressing)
    Clifford Thornton & The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra – The Gardens Of Harlem (Japanese Pressing)
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    “The documentation of avant-garde jazz from any period becomes severely hampered by production insecurities as soon as the subject at hand is large-scale orchestral music. The Jazz [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Alan Sondheim / Ritual-All-770* – Ritual-All-7-70
    Alan Sondheim / Ritual-All-770* – Ritual-All-7-70
    $40.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Ritual All 7-70 is a curious collection of short improvisations by the multi-instrumentalist Alan Sondheim — who plays, among others, koto, English horn, electric and acoustic [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Wilson Pickett – The Wicked Pickett [white label promo]
    Wilson Pickett – The Wicked Pickett [white label promo]
    $100.00 | , , Add to cart

    “A fabulous album, done when Pickett was in the midst of his best period at Atlantic. It had everything — great songs, wonderful production and arrangements, and a hungry, galvanizing [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Gregorio Paniagua ‎– Batiscafo
    Gregorio Paniagua ‎– Batiscafo
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    ““Batiscafo” by Gregorio Paniagua is one of these elusive treasures. First released in 1980 on Hispavox, the album disappeared after a short run and no further editions in any format […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • The Watersons ‎– Frost And Fire (A Calendar Of Ritual And Magical Songs) [1977 Mono]
    The Watersons ‎– Frost And Fire (A Calendar Of Ritual And Magical Songs) [1977 Mono]
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Seasons of anxiety, seasons of joy. The common people had their rites of propitiation and triumph, older than the rituals of the Church and closer bound to their daily lives. […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Leo Cuypers ‎– Leo Cuypers
    Leo Cuypers ‎– Leo Cuypers
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    The Dutch free-jazz legend’s intense debut Label: BASF – 14 25182-9 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Netherlands Released:1972 VG+/VG. Sleeve shows noticeable edgewear/corner creasing

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz