Qbico’s reissue programme dedicated to vinyl issues of Makoto Kawabata of Acid Mothers Temple’s early tape works continues with this full-length album from Baroque Bordello, originally reissued as part of Kawabata’s Early Works 1978-1981 10 CD-R box set. Recorded in 1980, Abnormal Songs was originally composed to accompany a play entitled Alice In Nakedland scripted by Kawabata himself. His music was dumped but his script was used and here’s the rejected recording in its entirety, a stumbling non-pro DIY noise mixing inspired idiot-avant moves with early moments of intuitive psychedelic flash. Features Kawabata on guitar, bass, synth, percussion, keyboard and voice as well as Tetsushi Kawagishi on guitar, bass, keyboard and percussion, Iwaki Yasuo on percussion, keyboard, synth, guitar, bass, organ and trumpet and Hirashima on guitar and bass. Comes on light blue clear vinyl with yellow effects and artwork by Jose Carrillo Morales.

"New rocket by Muruga, after the Free Funk LP ! This healing session open and close with two funk/jazz tracks, rec. by Muruga in trio & 4et with Ken Kozara on muted trumpet and Richard Smith on bass; Belita Woods, from P-Funk, is added on the last track of the album May the funk be with you. The middle of the record is mostly perc heavy and trance/ethnic oriented. Ascension had been written by the late master Baba Olatunji and had been rec. live @ The Spirit Drum Fest. w/special guest Badal Roy (who rec. w/Miles Davis, Ornette, Don Cherry, etc...) and Sikiru Adepoju (who rec. w/Mickey Hart, Olatunji, etc..). Nelson Ledge is a drums trio rec. live as well @ The Rhythm Fest in Ohio. Shaman drum, Nada drum is a very special duo piece rec. w/Prem Das: here Muruga use a unique Nada drum, while Prem Das (long years of apprentice in Mexico with an Huichol shaman and was also a colleague of Timothy Leary & Ralph Metzner) use a water drum for a quite hypnotic effect ! Open yr heart and let yr body move... to the rhythm, to the groove ! in light." - Qbico. On pink and black vinyl.

2006 recordings from Vibracathedral Orchestra, pressed on kiwi coloured vinyl and with cover art by Mick Flower and Adam Davenport. Very heavy, lo-fi, almost Xpressway-style delivery here, with the band sounding closer to Faust circa "Krautrock" than any US pot smokers but the ascent is still beautifully vertical, with level upon smudgy level of constantly peaking fuzz narcosis generating phantom elevators into whole new aspects of there. Recommended.

New European folk/trance orkustra from Denmark with their debut release on Qbico. Various acoustic instruments cohere in hymns to the roar of the cosmos that are as dippily fried as the first Siloah LP and as aggressively invasive as Pelt at their most planet-levitating. Their name comes from Shirley Collins's tracing of the idea of the true love knot to the Danish word Trulofa.

More new free jazz from Finland. "When I went in Finland for the 1st Qbico U-Nite in Turku, I met Taneli (sax player) who gave me this strong rec. of his group Boris Morgana... after hearing few sec. of it, I immediately thought that it was alone worth the trip up North: heavy stuff and pretty unique in his kind !" - Qbico.

“One side is a synth/guitar duo with WFMU's music director Brian Turner, while side B is a solo synth affair. Both tracks rec. in the mid 90's. Psychedelic waveforms with a free-form sound that grows on you... subtle and mesmerizing.”

Weird ‘field recording’ of what Cooper describes as “urban exotica”, recorded on his first ever trip to the USA live at The No-Neck Blues Band’s Hint House art space. Cooper is best known as an improvising guitarist working on the most abstract fringes of post-jazz thought, but recent years have seen him consolidate a vision that would incorporate electronics as well as various aspects of exotica. This set kinda combines them all, even though there are no guitar moments at all. This was the second set he played at the NNCK house, this time using only a sampler keyboard, a Yamaha sampling unit with pre-recorded samplers, a mini disc with some tropical ambience and a pitch shifter delay pedal. The recording flits between audio documentation of room sounds and activities, tropical jungle sounds and orchestras of bird calls and cyclical electronics in a way that is subtly dislocating. Recorded in 2000, limited vinyl pressing on black wax.

Great limited triple LP set that bundles two nights of wild free jazz that Qbico presented in Detroit and Buffalo back in 2006. High energy sets from Arthur Doyle & Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, Andrew Barker & Daniel Carter, Steve Baczkowski & Ravi Padmanabha, Muruga Free Funk (with Perry Robinson), Faruq Z Bey & Northwoods Improvisers and Odu Afrobeat Orchestra.