Important Records

Important Records is an American independant label founded by John Brien in 2001. Not overly conceptual, the label focuses on an extraordinarily diverse roster of artists who are neither ephemeral nor trendy and continue to make passionate and evocative music throughout their lives. The character conveyed most often in Important releases isn't style but substance, with a personal and emotional depth that makes the label easy to understand but difficult to explain. Artists including James Blackshaw, Eliane Radigue, Jozef Van Wissem, Catherine Christer Hennix, Duane Pitre, ELEH, Pauline Oliveros, The Thirteenth Assembly, David Rothenberg, Diane Cluck, Acid Mothers Temple, Christina Kubisch, Merzbow and Smegma continue to expand the scope of Important by consistently releasing some of their best work through the label.
 
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12 titles
 
Alvin Lucier - One Arm Bandits (CD)
2023
currently out of stock
An hour-long piece in four parts, scored for four cellists, featuring Tyler J. Borden, Laura Cetilia, Charles Curtis and Judith Hamann.
Pauline Oliveros - The Well & The Gentle (2 vinyl LP)
2023
The Well & The Gentle, two of the major works of Pauline Oliveros, are presented here in a first time reissue on double vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with extensive liner notes.
Éliane Radigue - 11 Dec 1980 (2 CD)
2023
currently out of stock
On December 11, 1980 Eliane Radigue performed live on KPFA. Her full performance is included here, remastered, on two compact discs. Upon hearing these performances for the first time in many years Radigue declared them to be the best versions she'd ever heard.
Pauline Oliveros - Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1960 -1970 (11 CD box set)
2022
This dense 11 disc retrospective of Pauline Oliveros' early and unreleased electronic work includes her very first piece made for tape in 1959.
Pauline Oliveros - The Wanderer (vinyl LP)
2022
currently out of stock
An utterly essential document of early American minimalism, available on LP for the first time since it was originally released in 1984. Cut at Golden and pressed at RTI for maximum fidelity.
Pauline Oliveros - The Wanderer (CD)
2022
An utterly essential document of early American minimalism, available on LP for the first time since it was originally released in 1984. Cut at Golden and pressed at RTI for maximum fidelity.
Alvin Lucier - Out Of Our Hands (vinyl LP)
2022
31.00 26.50 €
"Out of Our Hands" brings together Alvin Lucier and Jordan Dykstra who, through the hands of Ordinary Affects, have created debut recordings of two new compositions.
Ned Lagin - Seastones - Set 4 and Set 5 (vinyl LP)
2020
Originally released by the Grateful Dead's Round Records in 1975, Ned Lagin's Seastones is a pioneering electronic composition interweaving metaphors from nature, science, art and music and the origins of music.
 Coil - The Ape Of Naples (2 vinyl LP)
2023
sold out
Repress of Coil's final studio album and absolute masterpiece, re-cut from original Peter Christopherson approved masters.
Stuart Dempster - Underground Overlays From The Cistern Chapel (2 vinyl LP)
2023
sold out
One of the deepest drone albums ever recorded: nine trombones, didjeridu and Tibetan bells fill the massive two million gallon cistern with dense sonic reverberations that are both haunting and healing.
Pauline Oliveros - Accordion & Voice (vinyl LP)
2022
sold out
Pauline Oliveros' first solo recording, available on LP for the first time since it was originally released in 1982.
Éliane Radigue - Opus 17 (2 CD)
2022
sold out
A major turning-point in the sonic oeuvre of Eliane Radigue.
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