Ergot Records

Heavy hitting musique concrète, early electronic, and avant-garde LPs from the likes of Bernard Parmegiani, Roland Kayn, Pierre Henry, Ivo Malec, Arne Nordheim, Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson, Morton Subotnick, Stockhausen, Xenakis, and many ➡️ many more going out today alongside ➡️ a handful of scarce books on the topic. 🌾 ✨

RIP David Henderson.

Writer and poet David Henderson was a co-founder of the Black Arts Movement, the author of an acclaimed biography of Jimi Hendrix, and the voice reciting the poem on the title track of Ornette Coleman’s incredible 1972 LP ‘Science Fiction.’ He was also, plainly and simply, the man. We had the honor of welcoming him to the shop for a reading—in 2022—celebrating the legacy of and the renewed availability of their discography. For about a year after, while he still lived in the neighborhood, David became a fixture at the shop, popping by here and there to trade us stories about Sun Ra and Sly Stone for demonstrations of industrial music (which he did not like). Rest easy, David.