Desertshore is Nico's third solo album, recorded and released in 1970. It was co-produced by John Cale and Joe Boyd. Like its predecessor The Marble Index (HE 68005LP, 2023), it is an avant-garde album with chamber music elements. The back and front covers feature stills from the film La cicatrice interieure by Philippe Garrel, which starred Nico, Garrel and her son Ari Boulogne. A few of the songs from the album were included on the soundtrack of the film.

Nico's second solo album, 1968's 'The Marble Index', has long been out of print. This reissue includes audio mastered from the original tapes and previously unreleased photos of Nico by Guy Webster. Nico's haunting vocals predicted the Gothic movement and co-producer and Velvet Underground's band mate John Cale's startingly modern classical production ensured 'The Marble Index's timeless appeal. The iconic music journalist Lester Bangs wrote, “The Marble Index is the greatest piece of 'avant-garde classical', 'serious' music of the last half of the 20th century so far,” and the New Yorker recently hailed both records as “austere miracles of will and invention.”

BRAIN LABEL Brain: History Of German Rock 1972 - 1976 (1976 German 13-track double compilation LP, stickered gatefold picture sleeve. Great primer for the cult German Krautrock label, features tracks from some of the genre's most celebrated acts; Neu, Grobschnitt, Harmonia, Klaus Schulze alongside several that have slipped into relative obscurity such as Jane, Release Music Orchestra and Novalis.

L'une des rares formations à avoir dépassé les frontières de Slovénie (ex-Yougoslavie). Influencé par New Order, Kraftwerk et l'avant-garde viennoise et berlinoise, ce groupe de provocateurs joue sur le terrain douteux de l'ambiguïté en utilisant toute une symbolique extrémiste (aussi bien stalinienne qu'hitlérienne ou mussolinienne). Inaudible pour certains, novatrice pour d'autres, leur musique mélange rock industriel, techno, détournements situationnistes… et satanisme ! Laibach s'est signalé par des reprises iconoclastes des Beatles (« Let It Be ») et des Stones (« Sympathy For The Devil », bien sûr), difficilement reconnaissables.

A full frontal dive into the secretive, cult catalogue of Düsseldorf’s Christine Weyrether aka Maria Zerfall, rounding up lost recordings and her entire oeuvre 1983-1993 in a must-check payload for fans of Throbbing Gristle, Nurse With Wound, Maurizio Bianchi, Pharmakon, Russell Haswell.