Label: Superior Viaduct - All

Thursday May 24, 2018

Sun Ra And His Arkestra Featuring Pharoah Sanders and Black Harold

Sun Ra And His Arkestra Featuring Pharoah Sanders and Black Harold

''To understand the significance of the word 'featuring' on Featuring Pharoah Sanders And Black Harold, consider how infrequently Sun Ra used it and t... more...

LP Superior Viaduct: SV143

Tuesday May 9, 2017

Liquid Idiot / Idiot Orchestra

Liquid Idiot / Idiot Orchestra

Prior to forming Liquid Liquid in 1981, the band members were in two other groups: Liquid Idiot and Idiot Orchestra. While these ensembles sounded mor... more...

12inch Superior Viaduct: SV091

Liquid Liquid

Optimo

Liquid Liquid continued toward dance-floor perfection with their third EP. 1983's Optimo features the band's best-known songs and remains a high water... more...

12inch Superior Viaduct: SV090

Liquid Liquid

Successive Reflexes

Following their debut in 1981, Liquid Liquid wasted no time with their second release the same year. Successive Reflexes picks up where the previous E... more...

12inch Superior Viaduct: SV089

Liquid Liquid

Liquid Liquid

Liquid Liquid emerged from New York City's vibrant Downtown scene in 1981. Formed by drummer Scott Hartley, bassist Richard McGuire, vocalist Sal Prin... more...

12inch Superior Viaduct: SV088

Scientist

Introducing Scientist - The Best Dub Album In The World...

Hopeton Brown, better known as Scientist, has been a pioneering figure in the world of dub for nearly 40 years. His early love of electronics proved f... more...

LP Superior Viaduct: SV093

Alice Coltrane

Universal Consciousness

Originally released on Impulse! in 1971, Universal Consciousness is a major turning point in Alice Coltrane's momentous career. While her previous alb... more...

LP Superior Viaduct: SV070

Charlie Mingus

Mingus Plays Piano (Spontaneous Compositions And Improvisations)

Bassist / composer Charles Mingus is one of the most radical figures in American music. Throughout the '50s, he worked as a sideman with legendary pla... more...

LP Superior Viaduct: SV066

Alice Coltrane

A Monastic Trio

Born Alice McLeod into a musical Detroit family, Alice Coltrane began playing piano at age seven and later studied with Bud Powell in Paris. Upon retu... more...

LP Superior Viaduct: SV020

Thursday Feb 23, 2017

Ennio Morricone

Un Uomo Da Rispettare

Un Uomo Da Rispettare translates to ''A Man to Respect,'' which can easily be said of Ennio Morricone himself – the unparalleled maestro of the soundt... more...

LP Superior Viaduct: SV047

Tuesday Jan 17, 2017

Steve Reich

Four Organs / Phase Patterns

''Four Organs'' is the ultimate minimalist composition. Performed by Reich, Glass, Art Murphy and Steve Chambers, four identical Farfisa organs strike... more...

LP Superior Viaduct: SV096

Monday Jan 26, 2015

Alain Goraguer

La Planete Sauvage

Animated sci-fi masterpiece La Planète Sauvage (a.k.a. Fantastic Planet), winner at Cannes Film Festival in 1973, is a bizarre and beautiful film. Tow... more...

LP Superior Viaduct: SV058

Thursday Nov 27, 2014

Gruppo D improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza

Gruppo D improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza

Considered the first collective of experimental composers, GRUPPO D'IMPROVVISAZIONE NUOVA CONSONANZA formed in 1964 in Rome to chase the expressive po... more...

LP Superior Viaduct: SV067

Saturday Sep 14, 2013

Craig Leon

Nommos

First appearing incongruously on John Fahey's Takoma label in 1981, Nommos remains enshrouded in impenetrable mystery – from its understated artwork t... more...

LP Superior Viaduct: SV017

Saturday May 11, 2013

Gruppo D Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza

Musica Su Schemi

Musica Su Schemi is unpredictable, fluid and always marked by a tension between the performers and their conscious rejection of traditional forms. Eac... more...

LP Superior Viaduct: SV015

Suicide

First Rehearsal Tapes

''On Suicide's First Rehearsal Tapes, recorded in 1975, Alan Vega and Martin Rev create minimalist aural structures, traces of which would surface on... more...

LP Superior Viaduct: SV128

Flaming Tunes

Flaming Tunes

Flaming Tunes' sole release is perhaps the finest elegy to the '80s home recording ethos that you've never heard. Originally released in 1985 on casse... more...

LP Superior Viaduct: SV170
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Eduard Artemiev

Solaris

It's only appropriate that Solaris, Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's psychological sci-fi classic from 1972, contains an equally original and mind... more...

LP Superior Viaduct: SV018KAHC