Various Artists
Continuum Ensemble Dortmund (LP)
condition (record/cover): VG (record looks near mint but has surface noise throughout) / VG+ (creasing + small tag on front + spine wear + minimal general wear). Italian post-war avant-garde meets the new music pioneers! This rare Italia label release documents the Continuum Ensemble Dortmund under conductor Werner Seiss performing landmark works from the European experimental vanguard. Carlos Roqué Alsina's Funktionen (1965) showcases the Argentine-French composer's work with Luciano Berio and …
Alle Vittime Di Hiroshima (LP)
condition (record/cover): VG+ (record looks near mint but has some surface noise) / VG+ (small tag on front + light wear) Political consciousness meets avant-garde innovation. This Italian RCA Red Seal release dedicates itself to the victims of Hiroshima through landmark compositions of social protest and sonic experimentation. Bruno Maderna (1920-1973), conductor and co-founder of Milan's Studio di Fonologia, leads the Soloists of the Rome Symphony Orchestra with flutist Severino Gazzelloni in …
Folk Songs (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/EX . Contemporary composers reimagine folk traditions. Commissioned by the Festival Musica '900 (Trento) and Incontri Internazionali di Musica Contemporanea (Bolzano), premiered November 14, 1988.
Salvatore Sciarrino arranges Ary Barroso's Brazil. Luca Francesconi, Carlo Galante, Claudio Ambrosini, and Andrea Mascagni contribute new works alongside international voices: Betty Olivero (Israel), Zygmunt Krauze (Poland), Walter Zimmermann (Germany), Hubert Stuppner, and…
Musica Cameristica Italiana Contemporanea (LP)
condition (record/cover): EX- (minimal surface noise) / VG+ (small tag on front + ring wear) Gatefold sleeve. Italian post-war chamber music at its finest. Marcello Panni conducts the Solisti di Teatromusica, the ensemble he founded in 1971, in essential works by four masters of Italian modernism. Recorded Rome, March 1972. Collana Edizioni Suvini Zerboni.
Franco Donatoni's Souvenir (Kammersymphonie, Op.18) showcases his serial period before the compositional crisis of the mid-1960s. Camillo To…
Musica Futurista (2LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/NM Gatefold sleeve with original innersleeves. The sound of the Italian avant-garde 1909-1935! First edition on Multhipla Records, Gianni Sassi's label dedicated to avant-garde music and performance. Music and words from the Italian Futurist movement, featuring original recordings and contemporary performances. Luigi Russolo's Esempi Sonori documents his revolutionary Intonarumori (noise intoners) – mechanical noise-generators that realized his manifesto L'Arte dei R…
Musica Futurista (2LP)
condition (record/cover): M/M (still sealed) Gatefold sleeve with original innersleeves. The sound of the Italian avant-garde 1909-1935! First edition on Multhipla Records, Gianni Sassi's label dedicated to avant-garde music and performance. Music and words from the Italian Futurist movement, featuring original recordings and contemporary performances.
Luigi Russolo's Esempi Sonori documents his revolutionary Intonarumori (noise intoners) – mechanical noise-generators that realized his manifesto…
Musica Futurista (8CD box)
condition (discs/cover): M/EX (still sealed but box has minimal wear) A pioneering voice in Italian experimental music! Daniele Lombardi (1946-2017), distinguished pianist, composer and musicologist, dedicated much of his career to preserving and reinterpreting the revolutionary music of Italian Futurism. This comprehensive 8-CD box set presents a complete survey of his work in this field - from meticulous reconstructions of Luigi Russolo's intonarumori compositions to performances of works by F…
Musica Futurista (2CD)
condition (discs/cover): NM/NM Includes 20-page booklet with text in Italian and English. The sound of the Italian avant-garde 1909-1935! First edition on Multhipla Records, Gianni Sassi's label dedicated to avant-garde music and performance. Music and words from the Italian Futurist movement, featuring original recordings and contemporary performances.
Luigi Russolo's Esempi Sonori documents his revolutionary Intonarumori (noise intoners) – mechanical noise-generators that realized his manifes…
Musica nuova a Siena (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/EX - this album captures world premieres and rare works performed by Gruppo Octandre under Alain Meunier and other distinguished ensembles. The program features Salvatore Sciarrino's Due Nuove Melodie, Andrea Mannucci's Adagio Sostenuto, Franco Donatoni's Françoise Variationen, Maurizio Ferrari's Berceuse, Gilberto Bosco's Aria delle Carte (based on Carmen), and Giacomo Manzoni's Due Sonetti Italiani - a complex choral work from 1961 receiving its belated first perfo…
7 Per Petrassi - Festival Fontino Di Musica 1984 (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/NM Gatefold sleeve. A remarkable tribute to one of Italy's most influential composers! This album honors Goffredo Petrassi (1904-2003) with his own Inno alongside six commissioned works by distinguished international composers: Elliott Carter's Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi, Armando Gentilucci's Metafore del Tempo, Gérard Grisey's Anubis et Nout, Donald Martino's Canzone sul Nome Petrassi, Luis de Pablo's Dos Epigramas de Marcial, Cristóbal Halffter's Dialogo, a…
Music For Black Pigeons
*2025 stock* After 14 years of filming/recording some of today’s most influential musicians, the music from Andreas Koefoed’s and Jørgen Leth’s celebrated film “Music For Black Pigeons” is now available for the first time (vinyl only). The soundtrack is based on compositions by Jakob Bro, performed by Bill Frisell, Lee Konitz, Craig Taborn, Paul Motian, Andrew Cyrille, Arve Henriksen, Midori Takada and many others.
Venice Film Festival title “Music for Black Pigeons,” directed by Danish filmmake…
Pure Will, Without The Confusions Of Intellect
1991 release **
Ix-Ex-Splue – Shaped By Two / Three / FourEngineer – Ix-Ex-SpluePerformer – Babalu, Dani Meier, Kreie, Markus Jud, Remo HobiPerformer, Guest – Bummi
Dislocation – Depth / On The MoveAlto Saxophone – Yoshinori YanagawaBass – Avant QuasiDrum Programming, Percussion – Avant SelassieEdited By – DislocationPDS 8000 – Syohei IwasakiElectronics – Toyohiro OkazakiEsraj – Fujio KimuraSampler – Robert HortonTrumpet, Violin – DJ No
PGR – Invisible CitiesField Recordings, Extraction – Kim C…
Computer Music Concerto
1988 release ** Excellent documentation of Italian computer music of the 1980's.
Mauro Bagella - Poco prima della notte (1988) realized at the Studio per la Ricerca Elletroacustica Musicale (STREAM) in Rome.Nicola Sani - Tendenze (1987) realized and recorded at the C.P.R.F. of RAI in Rome on 9-12 February, 1987.Serena Tamburini - Per cieli e piani (1986) realized in 1986 at the S.I.M. (Societa Informatica Musicale) in Rome.Giorgio Nottoli - Grid (1985) realized at the S.I.M. in Rome.Francesco Ga…
Punti di ascolto 2005
2005 release ** Documentation of Italian electro-acoustic/computer music of the 2000's.
1. Massimo Carlentini (1966) riversi Mondi diversi (2003)for violin and electronics (11’09”)Diego Conti violinProduction: Edison Studio - Rome
2. Marco Marinoni (1974) WAHN (2005)for piano and electronics (7’24”)Marco Marinoni pianoProduction: composer’s studio.Live electronics project by Davide Tiso
3. Massimo Mariani (1960) Six-o-four (2003)for 8 channel tape and prerecorded voice (stereo version) (9'39")Li…
Earthen - A Cold Spring Sampler
With two exclusive tracks by Coil and Psychic TV.
Krautrock - Cosmic Rock and its Legacy
** condition: (book) EX** Softcover book with illustrations.
The late 1960s in West Germany was a period of profound breakthroughs, upheavals and reversals. Communes were spreading, protests organised throughout the entire country, the desire to begin everything anew permeating the young. Out of this climate, a music scene exploded that would forever change the face of western rock; at times anarchic, at others mystical, magickal, or utopian, it pushed rock beyond any known limits. Never a genr…
Hyperreality
2007 release ** Packed in round metalbox and limited to 333 copies. "By the look on compilation someone will maybe say that here is again senseless, thrown group of artists, that has by chance find themselves and they are presenting their multiple sounds and noises. The truth is totally opposite. After successful reviews and reactions of project SIGNS /what contributes that this project has been sold out/ Aliens production has followed development of the projects, that generates in positive dire…
Out Of Standard !! - Italia 3
2016 release ** Limited edition of 50 copies in folded card sleeve. Featuring: Å, Low-F, Giovanni Venosta, Al Doum & Fhe Faryds, Fracture, Luciano Margorani, Antonio Siniscalchi, Enten Hitti, Eternal Zio, Eugenio Sanna, Silvia Bolognesi, Roberto Del Piano.
Dokument. Program Strefa
1994 release ** Cardboard sleeve. The album features fragments of concerts organised in 1999-2004 as part of the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art's "Strefa" Program. The recordings come from collections of Dominik "Wolfram" Kowalczyk, Jarosław Żwirblis, Jarek Guła, Marcin Witkowski, and from the artists' archives - thanks to them for making them available. Featuring: Andrzej Załęski, Pavel Fajt, Anna Zaradny, Polwechsel, Bartek Qźniak, Robert Piotrowicz, Burkhard Stangl, Ruins, Ceza…
Songs Of Hate And Devotion
2000 release ** Folded cardboard sleeve. Featuring: Mikhail Atom, :Of The Wand & The Moon:, C.H. District, Mantichora, Coitus Excelsi, Empyrium, Hybris, Deadlight, Prisoner Of Flesh, Arcane Art–, Ethereal Void, This Morn' Omina, Atak 1200, Geiger Box.