The first new Sun City Girls release since Funeral Mariachi (2010), Live at the Sky Church is a performance that melds their signature alien-jazz improv, Asian-tinged psychedelia, and Middle Eastern meditations together with their ranting psychodrama. An audio and visual recording from Seattle in 2004 shows a group that is both aware and committed to […]
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Grab one while ordering, just add it to your shopping basket and you will get it for free….. Alvarius B / Sir Richard Bishop – Strange Fruit 10“ (UnrockEPXxx) *** 4-track 33rpm split vinyl 10” featuring legendary Sun City Girls Alan & Richard Bishop, celebrating Unrock’s 25th anniversary. It features two elegant tracks from […]
The arms of Karkhana spread wide and embrace rivulets of noise, experimental eddies, psychedelic jazz, and raga rotations. The band pulls in players from Beirut, Cairo, and Istanbul alongside Montreal’s Sam Shalabai (Land of Kush, Mosasses, Shalabi Effect) for a sound that’s decidedly progressive while adhering to a traditional core of Middle Eastern tones […]
The new, second studio album from Middle-Eastern Supergroup KARKHANA, „Bitter Balls“ is available from us with an exclusive limited edition (150 copies) extra 7“ which features a live version (part 1 & part 2) of the Tunesian traditional song “Sidi-Mansour”, which became a smash hit for german popsters Boney M. under the name “Ma […]
There are always currents quietly bubbling under the collective consciousness – tributaries of sound that go largely unnoticed by a buying public, but for those who are tapped to the right frequencies they are as vital as any. One such current happens to be Unrock’s collaborative 12”s with the brothers Bishop. Dubbed the Saraswati Series, […]
UNROCK RETURNS TO KREFELD ! (…..for a single show) SUNN TRIO, aus Phoenix, Arizona, deren Zweitling „FAYRUS“ (arabisch für Virus) 2018 bei uns erschien, sind zu ihrer ersten kleineren Europatournee aufgebrochen. Nach einem Auftritt beim Tusk-Festival und einer Stipvisite im berühmten Londoner Café Oto kommen Joel Robinson und Co. in unsere Breiten. Der sogenannte „Sun-Damaged […]
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***Sunn Trio, one of the hottest new bands around, walking with perfect elegance on the thin line between psychedelic free form & avant-jazz, the melting point between Sun City Girls, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 and the Meat Puppets are coming to visit Europes Western Lands…. Yeez, we’re regularly not into always loosing big words…..but […]
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„A“Trio & AMM – AAMM LP Unrock LP Awareness focused in the fingertips; close attention extended through the hand’s grip and its versatile movements pressure of the prehensile thumb, flexing of the wrist. Percussionist Eddie Prévost and pianist John Tilbury transmit tactile sensitivity through their music, and sensations of touch evidently feed back into their […]
Sir Richard Bishop & W. David Oliphant / Kharkana with Nadah El Shazly—Carte Blanche (Unrock) Unrock Records follows in the footsteps of other record store / record label combos. Like Other Music, Rough Trade, Delmark / Jazz Record Mart, and so many more, sometimes one side enables the other to do something it might not […]
If you are into, read what Toneshift wrote about Carte Blanche… Aesthetic cooking in a spiritual saucepan, with multicultural raw materials. If this doesn’t make any sense, keep reading. The Saraswati series of the German label Unrock, is hosting one-of-a-kind music outfits; releasing curation of the utmost care. Carte Blanche is such a fine example, where […]