Various Artists
The Beginning of Japanese Electroacoustic Music Vol.2
Big Tip! Born in the mid-1950s, the NHK Electronic Music Studio was a world-leading lab where Japan’s electronic music took shape. This album gathers works created there between 1968 and 1974—a vivid snapshot of chance operations, ring modulation, waveform experiments, broadcast collage, and intense hand-made tape craft.
Launched in 1993 in memory of the studio’s founding architect Hiroshi Shioya, our project treats these tapes as living works—not nostalgia. We re-check sources, rebuild the li…
The Watchers
On The Watchers, eight Todmorden‑based artists summon a new, collectively woven score for Richard Foster’s 1969 cult short, amplifying its semi‑rural folk horror, UFO lore and moorland unease into a creaking, psychic soundscape.
Nimbus West small vinyl bundle
Specially priced bundles drawn from the catalog of Nimbus West — the American label widely regarded as the greatest single depository of West Coast avant-garde jazz. With the label's future uncertain and no represses planned, this is a final opportunity to explore one of the most vital and visionary corners of recorded jazz before it disappears from circulation for good.Nimbus West bundle six contains the following LPs:
Curtis Clark "Amsterdam Sunshine"
Curtis Clark "Deep Sea Diver"
Horace Taps…
Nimbus West vinyl bundle
Specially priced bundles drawn from the catalog of Nimbus West — the American label widely regarded as the greatest single depository of West Coast avant-garde jazz. With the label's future uncertain and no represses planned, this is a final opportunity to explore one of the most vital and visionary corners of recorded jazz before it disappears from circulation for good.Nimbus West bundle four contains the following LPs:
Curtis Clark "Amsterdam Sunshine"
Curtis Clark "Deep Sea Diver"
Horace Tap…
Neue Chormusik I (LP)
First volume of new music for choir by by some of the most inportant XXth Century composers (Anton Webern, Henri Pousseur, Dieter Schnebel, Luigi Nono, Sylvano Bussotti, Hans Otte, György Ligeti) performed by Schola Cantorum Stuttgart and released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in the 70's. With insert.
Neue Chormusik II (LP)
Second volume of new music for choir by by Heinz Holliger, Dieter Schnebel, Krzysztof Penderecki and Friedrich Cerha, performed by Schola Cantorum Stuttgart and released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in the 70's. With insert.
Prima Vista (LP)
Rare compositions for solo instruments or small ensembles with or without electronics by some of the greatest XXth Century composers (Mauricio Kagel, Earle Brown, John Cage, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Wolfgang Fortner, Klaus Hinrich Stahmer, György Ligeti, Henri Pousseur) spanning from 1952 to 1979 performed by Pro Musica Da Camera and released on Thorofon in 1981. With insert.
Il Quartetto Contemporaneo (LP)
A panorama of Italian 1960-70's contemporary music for string quartet composed by Boris Porena, Bruno Canino, Azio Corghi, Aldo Clementi, Franco Donatoni, Umberto Rotondi and Marcello Panni, performed by the Quartetto Della Società Cameristica Italiana and released on the beautiful Italia label in 1978.
Air Maul - An Arnold Schönberg, 5860 Canyon-Cove, Hollywood, CA (2LP)
A strange 2LP compilation released by Murawski-Zimmermann Verlag in 1988 as a hommage to Arnold Schönberg, with piece for voices and intruments by Hans-Joachim Hespos, Howard Skempton, Dieter Schnebel, Christian Wolff, Michael Rumpf and Kurt Schwitters. With insert.
Zeitgenössische Musik In Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1 (1945-1950) (3LP box)
First volume of the massive and exhaustive 3LP box series of "Contemporary Music from West Germany" released in the early 80's by Deutscher Musikrat, presenting pieces composed between 1945 and 1952 by Richard Strauss, Werner Egk, Paul Hindemith, Ernst Pepping, Johann Nepomuk David, Philipp Jarnach and Hermann Reutter. With insert.
Zeitgenössische Musik In Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 4 (1950-1960) (3LP box)
Fourth volume of the massive and exhaustive 3LP box series of "Contemporary Music from West Germany" released in the early 80's by Deutscher Musikrat, presenting pieces composed between 1950 and 1960 by Hans Werner Henze, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Hans G. Helms / Hans Otte, Dieter Schnebel, Mauricio Kagel, Winfried Zillig, Giselher Klebe, Karl Höller, Siegfried Borris, Fritz Büchtger, Harald Genzmer and Hans Ulrich Engelmann. With insert.
Zeitgenössische Musik In Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 8 (1970-1980) (3LP box)
Eigth volume of the massive and exhaustive 3LP box series of "Contemporary Music from West Germany" released in the early 80's by Deutscher Musikrat, presenting pieces composed between 1970 and 1980 by Hans Werner Henze, Wolfgang Rihm, Hans-Joachim Hespos, Walter Zimmermann, Josef Anton Riedl, Peter Michael Hamel, Mauricio Kagel, Isang Yun, Mathias Spahlinger, Nicolaus A. Huber. With insert.
Zeitgenössische Musik In Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 10 (1970-1980) (3LP box)
Tenth volume of the massive and exhaustive 3LP box series of "Contemporary Music from West Germany" released in the early 80's by Deutscher Musikrat, presenting pieces composed between 1970 and 1980 by Helmut Lachenmann, Dieter Schnebel, Karlheinz Stockhausen, York Höller, Robert HP Platz, Wilhelm Killmayer, Wolfgang Rihm, Mauricio Kagel. With insert.
Italia Wiva Complication 1
Rare 1983 LP seminal compilation of Italian new wave bands released by Suono Records and featuring Art Fleury, Ruins, Bisca, Lunar Sex, Illegal Coiffeur, Nai-Lon, Avion Travel, Litfiba, Naif Orchestra and Al Aprile & The Electric Art.
Brian Jones Died For Your Sins (tape + fanzine)
Rare 1986 cassette-only compilation on Crazy Mannequin accompanied by an A4 xeroxed booklet, featuring Peter Sellers and other very obscure Italian new wave / psych / garage bands - Bad Medicine, Acid Flowers, Human Jukebox, Screamin' M.C., This Gun For Hire, Falling Spikes - playing hommages to the Rolling Stones martyr.
Gathered
Original 1982 edition of the "new Italian rock" compilation released by Electric Eye covering new wave, punk, metal and electronic music by Victrola, State Of Art, X-Rated, Not Moving, Blaue Reiter, Death SS, Dirty Actions, B-Sides, Style Sindrome, Wax Heroes, Eazy Con, Pankow.
Lucifer's Friends (LP)
1988 compilation on Peter Sellers & The Hollywood Party's label Crazy Mannequin featuring severeal Italian and British post-punk / neo-psych band including Swell Maps' Nikki Sudden's Jacobites plus The Acid Flowers, The Jazz Butcher, Kim Squad And Dinah Shore Headbangers, The Falling Spikes, King Holiday And The Shadowmen, Diggers Maze, Hitchcock's Scream, Degenerazione Musicale, Sir Chime And The Lovers, Membranes, Pinky Silence And The Mad Horses, Bad Medicine, Jacobites, Last Train From Drug …
Prima Dell'Alba (tape + Sexual Lobotomy nr.3 fanzine)
Very rare cassette compilation of very obscure new wave bands: D.H.G., Atelier Du Mal, Clima, The Khan Chy's Yawn, Colour Movies, Braque, Δtx. With Sexual Lobotomy nr.3 fanzine included in original PVC bag.
Zero Zero (tape + fanzine)
Rare very varied 1985 cassette compilation of Italian punk / new wave / synth-wave bands featuring Bahnhof, Reptil Chime, Weimar Gesang, 2+2=5, Oh Oh Art, Kubrix, Nijinsky Folie and Funebris Suavitas complete with booklet.
Portraits polychromes n°1: Luc Ferrari (book)
2007 expanded edition of the 2001 INA-GRM book, first volume of the "Polychrome Portraits" series, with three essays on the composer plus a biographical catalogue. French text.