Baikal is a new burner from Bardo Pond brothers John & Michael Gibbons along with fellow Bardo Pond members Clint Takeda and Jason Kourkonis. (more)

Imagine Kurt Weill chewing sausages with the Residents underneath the Williamsburg Bridge while watching a Russian wedding dance and you have some approximation of Barbez, Brooklyn's one-of-a-kind post-cabaret punk chamber ensemble. Provoked by such musics as Slavic folksong, Argentine tango, post-war classical and pre-mtv punk, Barbez wrings these disparate worlds into the band's own unique soundscape.

.Limited to 1000. First 100 mailorder copies are on color vinyl. These are completely different recordings than the Bark Haze compact disc also on Important. The Bark Haze is primarily a guitar duo of GOWN (nom de plume of one Andrew Macgregor) and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth etfuckingcetera). . (more)

These are completely different recordings than the Bark Haze LP also on Important. The Bark Haze is primarily a guitar duo of GOWN (nom de plume of one Andrew Macgregor) and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth etfuckingcetera).(more)

A further step out in Birchville Cat Motel's ruminations on time space distortion featuring the addtional mystikal talents of fellow gravity destroyer, Matthew Bower (Hototogisu/Sunroof!.) (more)

Yellow Swans & Birchville Cat Motel is the the first collaboration between these two underground phenomenons.This collaboration was recorded entirely in New Zealand both live and in the studio.

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Black Magic Disco is the new all-star band featuring Tom Greenwood (JOMF), Maurizio & Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien) and Ramona Ponzini (Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Praxinoscope)...... (more)

After the by now usual gap of some two years, Beequeen is
ready to present their latest album, further maturing their sound from The Bodyshop (also on Important Records). More song based, this album features now vocals by......(more)

Limited edition of 300 copies in heavy duty screen printed jackets by Monoroid. The Sandancing Demos 10", as it's title suggests, contains the original ideas that birthed Beequeen's wonderful new album Sandancing. Original versions, rough mixes & home demos plus an unreleased track. .(more)

Good things come slow, and this is certainly the case for Beequeen. Unlike so many others, who spit out albums every week, the Beequeen takes a slow course. It took Frans de Waard and Freek Kinkelaar two years to complete the recordings for The Bodyshop, the successor to their much-acclaimed CD Ownliness from 2002. Not because of laziness, band fights or drug abuse, but simply because the whole thing had to be good. Every single second, every single instrument and every single sound has been examined and re-examined until the boys were satisfied with the results.

This is Beequeens most instrumented album to date including beautiful female vocals and a cover of Nick Drake's Black Dog

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.Deluxe 10 panel digipak includes a 12 page essay by Anthony Braxton on the topic of Ghost Trance Music.
Quartet (GTM) 2006 is Anthony Braxton's first release for Important Records. GTM stands for Ghost Trance Music and this four cd box set contains four Ghost Trance compositions recorded in quartet........(more)