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See this Sound. Audiovisuology
A totally essential real sound art bible, 452 pages! A companion volume to 2009's See This Sound, this all-embracing compendium brings together texts on the various art forms that have combined sound and image. The full spectrum of audiovisual art …
Musica Improvvisa
Musica Improvvisa is a cutting-edge project of multi-sensorial improvisation, an open dialogue among different musical experiences, narratives and aesthetics that charters the unexplored soundscape of the telluric territory of the new Italian improvi…
Popcorn
a follow up to last years' la bamba drama compilation, which annoyed the shit out of everyone that ever put it on, and made in conjunction with the ue popcorn night(mare), a night where over 30 people played a live cover version of gershon kingsley's…
Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series Vol. 2
3-CD Set. Recorded between 1960 and 1973, the original eighteen LPs that comprise Earle Brown's legendary Contemporary Sound Series have been highly sought after in the secondary market since 1978 when they were discontinued. These rare and historic…
4 seasons pizza
An unusual radical noise compilation " shape the dough into a 12" in a lightly greased bowl, and divide it in 4 parts. Side A: let's consider the 4 sections obtained as different kind of pizza: the Italian mushroom one dj Balli, the artichokes from B…
Atrocity exhibition
Here's an unmissable and collectable 150 copies limited edition CD album, released to celebrate our fifth year of activities and available only as a free "bonus" included in the "bag" that contains the latest 13 Silentes releases. Born from an idea b…
danza meccanica
Gorgeous collection of rare and early italian wave releases from 1982 - 1987, after an exhausting work of "archeological" research, selected by Danza and with intro text by Fred Ventura in a limited run of 500
135 Grand Street, New York, 1979
AMAZING!!! Dug out of storage after 30 years in a basement, Soul Jazz present '135 Grand Street New York 1979', Ericka Beckman's thrilling document of downtown New York during the infamous No Wave period of late 1970s. Over 60 minutes she features…
Wayfaring Strangers: Guitar Soli
another gem, a wonderful collection of obscure solo acoustic guitar tunes from the mid 60s up to the dawn of the 80s -- beautiful work from a slew of players we've never heard of -- but we'd put right up there with Fahey and Basho in the way they …
An Anthology Of Noise and Electronic Music: Volume 2
Finally available on vinyl for the very first time - featuring exclusive and never before available material from the likes of Autechre, Tod Dockstader, Luc Ferrari and so much more - in a super heavyweight and deluxe gatefold package* This second…
Musik Oblik: Musics In The Margin 2
This is the second volume of the Musics in the Margin compilation series. Like volume 1 in 2006 (SR 254CD), this new production mixes visual arts with music, focusing on the affinities existing between three visual art fields considered on equal t…
Excavated Shellac: Strings
Excavated Shellac is an incredible resource for rare international 78rpm recordings. With each post, shellac excavator Jonathan Ward takes great care to ensure that the transfer is as clean as possible. His blog posts always go the extra mile in plac…
Oto No Hajimari Wo Motomete 8: Inamura, Tokuono, Sasaki, Ohtsu Work
The final issue of archve series of NHK electronic music studio. Recent issue of archve series of NHK electronic music studio. 4 engineer Kiyoshi Inamura, Masao Toku'ono, Kishichi Sasaki and Sadamu Ohtsu assisted 50-60's works. Especially works of Ma…
Strings
Fourteen outstanding performances from the four corners of the world played on stringed instruments and recorded and released on 78rpm records circa 1920-1950. This vinyl LP features fiddles, shamisen, charango, Paraguyan harp, Indian vina, Lebanese …
Three Ideophones
With Goodiepal (DK), Alejandra Salinas (E) and Aeron Bergman (US), Jörg Piringer (AT). Onomatopee got into a quest for onomatopoeic qualities, whereby we refer to literal, auditory and visual qualities within one medium, and invited three artists …
Oscillation III
Along the lines of the prior subscription CD EP series, Purposeful Availment and Modern Containment, Oscillation III consists of ten CDs by ten different artists which were released over the course of 2008. These discs were previously only availabl…
Undercurrents The Hidden Wiring of Modern Music
The Wire magazine has come to be known as the authoritative source on modern music. This collection of essays springs originally from the Undercurrents, and subsequently, the Tangents series of articles that were “thinkpieces” based on 12 basic the…
Black Mirror: Reflections in Global Musics (1918-1955)
fantastic CD of recordings made between 1918 and 1955 assembled and annotated by Ian Nagoski. This compilation contains 24 tracks from Bali, Burma, Cameroon, China, England, Germany, Greece, India, Japan, Java, Laos, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Sp…
No Maps for These Territories
William Gibson recounts his life and the meaning of his work in contemplative fashion throughout this film and the insight gained is well worth whatever work one may need to do in order to seek this out....On an overcast morning in April 1999, Willia…
The Atrocity Exhibition
Amazing experimental film with music by Jim Thirwell (Foetus). J.G. Ballard once said that the Atrocity Exhibition had been considered his only ‘unfilmable’ novel. Until Jonathan Weiss' feature adaptation of this infamous work of experimental fiction…