This track was recorded by a band lineup consisting of Jungo Miura (bass), Yusuke Sato (piano), Takuro Saito (guitar), and Shun Ishikawa (drums). It also features YONCE (Suchmos / Hedigan’s). Masashi Uramoto handled the mixing, and Colin Leonard handled the mastering. The artwork photograph is by Rieko Shiga (child’s play 2011), and the layout was ...Read moredesigned by Seiji Suzuki. The B-side features a superb instrumental version (sample 2) of the same track performed by this all-star lineup, woven from a blend of jazz, post-rock, mid-tempo, and reggae rhythms. Limited edition 10-inch vinyl.

A 2016 masterpiece that represents the cutting edge of post-rock and modern jazz, seamlessly blending the improvisational skills of a unique jazz guitarist with a mellow beatmaking style reminiscent of J Dilla—all wrapped up in a “smokin’,” almost clumsy funk sensibility. This album, a miracle of balance, also marked a turning point for Jeff Parker. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)

From Jeff Parker, the virtuoso guitarist of Tortoise—the post-rock band that spearheaded the Chicago sound scene—comes a post-rock album that seamlessly fuses his improvisational jazz guitar playing with a smoky, almost clumsy funk sensibility in his beatmaking, reminiscent of J Dilla’s mellow style. modern jazz, which was presented as a cutting-ed ...Read more (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)ge work in 2016. This 2020 follow-up masterpiece—a dark, smoky, laid-back, post-rock-infused, funky, minimalist jazz gem—features 11 tracks.
It also includes interpretations of songs by Joe Henderson and John Coltrane, and the seamless integration of contemporary production with jazz tradition is a key feature. While possessing a personal dimension that includes a tribute to his family, this is an ambitious work that pursues the “fusion of improvisation and the digital age.” (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)

Members: Owen—drums & percussion; Joseph: guitar, vocals, electronics; Otis: electric piano, synthesizer, mallets. This trio weaves together seven tracks that explore the intersection of post-rock, electronica, krautrock, indie rock, and post-jazz in a DIY spirit.
A release from Kit Records, run by Richard Greenan, which continues to put out u ...Read more (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)nique releases in the genres of toy pop, electronica, and avant-pop. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)

Anna Butter, a bassist and composer born in Adelaide, Australia, who is active primarily in the Chicago music scene. She has contributed to albums by Jeff Parker, Makaya McCraven, and Daniel Villarreal, and her album under the name SML—featuring members associated with *International Anthem*—also garnered significant attention. This is her first so ...Read more (Original Japanese text by Saito)lo album. Ben Lumsdaine, a drummer, engineer, and producer who has collaborated with both Anna and Daniel, is featured on the album. Saxophonist Josh Johnson, who also plays with the Chicago Underground Quartet, and guitarist Gregory Uhlmann are members of SML. Jeff Parker also makes a guest appearance. (Original Japanese text by Saito)

This album consists of two extended tracks featuring unedited, improvised performances, recorded live during the band’s three-night residency at Zebulon in Los Angeles in December 2025. These sessions took place just a few weeks after the release of the band’s second album, HOW YOU BEEN. The recording and mixing were handled live on stereo analog t ...Read moreape by engineer and “magician” Bryce Gonzalez, known for his beautiful live recordings of the Jeff Parker ETA Quartet.
Through HOW YOU BEEN and their 2024 debut album SMALL MEDIUM LARGE (both of which were heavily edited and post-produced), SML has established a reputation for their meticulously crafted sound. In these works, “editing” as a medium takes center stage; the pieces are constructed by carefully selecting and editing the most compelling fragments.
However, the source material for both of these albums consists entirely of live recordings—improvisations that unfold in long, undulating waves of raw groove. More importantly, every single one of the band’s performances to date has been performed as a complete improvisation in keeping with that spirit.
This duality can also be seen in artists who could be considered their ideological kin. For example, the lengthy, unrestrained performances on Can’s Live in Paris 1973 contrast with the more compact Future Days, released the same year. Or consider the chaotic, high-speed funk of Miles Davis’s Dark Magus versus the thoroughly deconstructed structures found on On the Corner and Big Fun.
Spontaneous Music Live is a work that strips away this curatorial perspective and peels back the curtain on the editing process. What remains is the psychedelic realism of a band performing collective improvisation, existing in that very moment in the city of Los Angeles. It is music that, while fully present in the moment, unearths moments of discovery. There, each individual sound is scattered like stars between collective chaos and control, serving as fragments that could become future SML tracks. (From the label information)

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すでにNumeroレーベルのファンの間では高い人気を誇る本作は、シューゲイザー、スロウコア、そしてポストロックが交差する神聖な中間地帯──私たちがとりわけ愛する領域──を静かに体現した一枚だ。全4面にわたって収められたミニマルなポップソングは、解放感よりも抑制を、身振りよりも空気感を大切にしている。

音楽は決して急がず、意図的に結論を示さない。柔らかなディストーション、滑るように響くギター、そして現れるかどうかもわからないほどゆっくりと姿を見せるメロディによって築かれている。『Feed Like Fishes』が描き出すのは、行き先のない運動。どこか私的で、夜の気配に満ち、ほんの少しだけ現実からずれたような響き。

CDのみでリリースされたオリジ ...Read moreナル盤のほぼ2倍の収録時間となった本作には、完成度や勢いにとらわれることなく、本能のままに音楽を紡ぐバンドの姿が刻まれている。

ほのかな灯りの下、夜更けに少人数で静かに耳を傾けるための音楽──そんな一枚である。

His 360° musical tastes include deep house, jazz, electronic music, soul, Brazilian MPB, and even classical music, and he has put it all together with a group of talented musicians in a simple, sweet, dreamy, and sonic composition with a true crossover touch. The result is a musical epic that is soft, powerful, and wonderful in every way. This is a ...Read more masterpiece of a debut album released in 2015 on Pluto, an independent label started by Sam Shepherd, a.k.a. Floating Points, the leader of the Eglo label.
This 10th anniversary edition of the album includes the addition of "Precursor," which is being released on vinyl for the first time.
The limited edition 2LP also includes "Precursor," which was created during a session with the band members (Leo Taylor, Alex Reeve, and Susumu Mukai) who came together to recreate the "Elaenia" album live at the time, and which has already been performed live and has been long awaited by fans. The song "Kuiper (18:28)" is an epic and beautiful 18.5 minutes long piece, which has already been performed live and fans have longed to hear it on record, and "Elaenla", a track from the album "Elaenla", which is performed with his Buchla, Oberheim, Arp Odyssey analog synths, Fender Rhodes, Vibraphone, Percussion and Vocal. It is also a pleasure to note that "For Marmish Part II (14:10)," a sequel to "For Marmish," one of the most popular songs from "Elaenla," and also a serene, minimal and jazz meditative masterpiece that is over 14 minutes long, is also included.

This is the second ND album by Tristeza, a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who transitioned into his career as The Album Leaf, which also included Jimmy LaValle and guitarist Tristeza.
"Recorded in Chicago, Dream Signals In Full Circles weaves shimmering counterpoint guitars, calculated precision percussion, synth glades, and dramat ...Read more (Original Japanese text by Saito)ic strings into a trance-inducing sonic screen saver."
A masterpiece that, after 25 years, is recognized as an unshakable masterpiece. (Original Japanese text by Saito)

Rob Mazurek's "Alternate Moon Cycles" was our very first release. This unbelievably spare, single-note chant built around cornet, bass, and organ was captured on tape at Curio, a tiny Chicago bar, as part of a performance series conceived long before the label itself was even a thought. Documenting this performance—utterly unique even within Mazure ...Read morek's vast catalog—galvanized that idea, and talk of issuing the recording on a new label followed almost immediately.

The music unfolds at a glacial pace amid the gentle creaks, sounds, whispers, and rustling of a living room full of people. It's hard to imagine a more honest presentation of these two strains of organic minimal music, and near impossible to separate the sound from the context of the performance. It's equally hard to imagine a more understated yet striking way to introduce a new label to the world.

This gem of supernatural frequency excavation returns to print with fresh liner notes by Mikel Patrick Avery and obi design by Aaron Lowell Denton.

Featuring Rob Mazurek, Matt Lux, and Mikel Patrick Avery.

"This is ambient music well suited to meditation, but its textural shifts genuinely reward close listening." - The New York Times

Built around the duo of David Grubbs and Jim O'Rourke, Gastr Del Sol were a key Chicago post-rock band active from 1991 to 1998. With John McEntire and Bundy K. Brown later joining the fold, they left behind seven releases, including the eternal masterpiece "Upgrade & Afterlife," which featured Tony Conrad and Kevin Drumm. Twenty-five years after g ...Read more (Original Japanese text by Saito)oing on hiatus, a 3LP box set including previously unreleased material has arrived. It opens with an instrumental live version of the classic "The Seasons Reverse" and gathers material released outside Drag City, such as "Quietly Approaching" (contributed to Red Hot + Bothered), "The Japanese Room At La Pagode" (from the split 7-inch with Tony Conrad), and "Harp Factory on Lake Street" (from Table of Elements), along with unreleased live recordings. All tracks remastered by JIM O'ROURKE himself. 3LP box set. (Original Japanese text by Saito)

英国ブライトンを拠点に活動、VVilhelm (Trombone)、Conor Knight (Guitar)、Hari - Lee Evans (Bass)、Louis Jenkins (Keys)、 Sam Schlich Davies (Drums)の5人からなるUKモダンジャズ/ポストロック・バンドEbi Soda、モダンジャズやフリージャズのレジェンダリーなオリジネーターたちへのリスペクトを表しつつ、クラブシーンやレイヴ・シーン、実験的ポストパンク＆ダブ、ポストロック、ヒップホップなどからのインスピレーションで新たなジャスを更新している。これまでにジャイルス・ピーターソン主宰のWe Out Here FestivalやSXSW、EFG London Jazz Festivalなどに ...Read more (コンピューマ)も出演を果たし、〈Soul Jazz Records〉や〈Majestic Casual〉のコンピレーションにも名を連ねているUKジャズ界のアウトサイダー、Ebi Soda待望ニューアルバム。
都心から離れた南イングランドにある田舎の借家に篭って行われたセッションから生まれた本作は、どこにでもある町の背景で静かに人生を紡ぐ、名もなき日常の通行人たちへのオマージュであり、これまで以上にジャズの枠を超え、エレクトロニクス、ポストパンク、グライム、ダブといった様々なジャンルの要素を大胆に取り入れながら、Ebi Sodaならではの“音楽の実験場”のような世界を築き上げている。ブリアルやゾンビー、ジョー・アーモン・ジョーンズらUKベース・サウンズ、UKジャズ・モダンダブなどからの影響からアンビエンスとダブワイズ、そして、アスレチック・プログレッション、ヤミィ・オンライン、プレイボーイ・カルティのような現代的なラフさを取り入れた、ミックステープ音質のようなザラついたDIYサウンドとのバランスの狭間、“UKジャズの未来形”が探求される11トラックを収録。 (コンピューマ)

スピリチュアル・ジャズ、アンビエント・ダブ、エクスペリメンタルを横断した、アトモスフェリック・メディテーショナルなミニマルジャズ/ポストロック・バンド、GODTETによる2020年のサードアルバム「III」全８曲。La Sape Recordsを代表する名作アルバム。スペーシー桃源郷メランコリックなポストロック的な展開構成も見事。 (コンピューマ)

The Mercury Program, a Boston band that started out under the influence of the DC post-hardcore scene before shifting toward a style closer to Chicago post-rock. Their second album, released in 2000 and long commanding high prices on the used market, is reissued by NUMERO GROUP 25 years on. Emotional guitar, vibraphone, aggressive math-rock-leaning ...Read more drums and bass. They became an instrumental band after this record, but here there are still tracks with restrained vocals. (Saito)

"After post-rock exploded out of Louisville by way of Chicago, The Mercury Program arrived, vibraphone in hand, at a fast-shifting, shapeless 'scene.' Released on Tiger Style in 2000, The Vapors of Gasoline is no sophomore slump: ten cerebral, dissonant jams that quietly answer a question no one ever asked—what if new age and post-hardcore bought a house in the suburbs? This 25th anniversary remaster reveals the genius of an overlooked masterpiece in stunningly vivid detail."

Drums, percussion, bass, keyboard, sampler, synth, guitar, guitar synth, bass, ukulele, iPhone Notes, tenor saxophone, electric guitar, trumpet, and flugelhorn—this album features 11 tracks meticulously reconstructed to reach new sonic heights, created by fragmenting, psychedelically experimenting with, and deconstructing audio material from numero ...Read more (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)us improvised jam sessions.
While rooted in post-rock, free-jazz, and free-form jazz, the music also evokes the traditional music of a fictional Earth. It features an electronica utopia with meditative tension, Afrobeat, breakbeat sessions, minimalism, Krautrock, cut-up collage, dubwise, and various effects—all intensely woven together in this ambitious work brimming with thrilling, meditative, and stimulating euphoria. Every track is fascinating.
Avant-garde, perverse punk rock in the vein of Mr. Bungle (Mike Patton) and the Butthole Surfers. Strong influences from junk music are also clearly evident. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)

シカゴ音響派シーンを牽引したポストロックバンドTortoisのギタリスト名手JEFF PARKERによる2016年の名作アルバム「The New Breed」をより発展させた2020年リリースの続編的傑作アルバム「Suite for Max Brown」からの黒々としたスモーキ＾・レイドバックしたポストロック・ファンキーなミニマルジャズ名曲。「Max Brown Part 1 & 2」を収録。当店初入荷！！あまり流通していないレコードのように思われます。気になった方はお早めにどうぞ。 (コンピューマ)

スピリチュアル・ジャズ、アンビエント・ダブ、エクスペリメンタルを横断した、アトモスフェリック・メディテーショナルなミニマルジャズ/ポストロック・バンド、GODTETによる2019年のセカンドアルバム「Ⅱ」全9曲。La Sape Recordsを代表する名作アルバム。メランコリックなポストロック的な展開構成も見事。 (コンピューマ)