Pour Entrer Et Sortir d Un Conte - L'Eglise Oubliee
Two musique-concrete episodes from a larger work entitled Les Contes de la forêt profonde (Tales from the Deep Forest) sparse entries, with an emphasis on sliding shepard tones & digitally mutating concrète texturesPour entrer et sortir d'un conte (1…
Eloge de la betise ou les peripeties des Ubu
Funambulesqueries en 14 séquences adapted from Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi, for voices, saxophones and tape. Jacques Lejeune studied music at the Schola Cantorum and the Paris Conservatory with Daniel-Lesur and Pierre Schaeffer before working with Françoi…
4 rooms
This is Jacob Kirkegaard's second release for the Touch label, after Eldfjall. Born in Denmark, now living and working in Germany, here he explores one of the worst man-made disasters in history. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded on April…
In Opposition To Our Acceleration
In Opposition to Our Acceleration mostly consists of soft, atmospheric sound art pieces, as usual fusing electronics, computer treatments, and improvisation on amplified objects. The characteristic mood swings of Illusion of Safety are nowhere to be …
I, Angelica
Sounding like an archaic echo, If, Bwana could be the title of a Bob Hope-Bing Crosby vehicle that never got made. A little investigation reveals it as the oddly worded cover for Al Margolis, who is perhaps better known as a tireless activist in the …
Electronic music
Iannis Xenakis is without a doubt one of the major figures in the development of music in the 20th century. In 1957, he joined Pierre Schaeffer and others at the GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales) in Paris, and it was there that Xenakis composed hi…
Kerflooey
Mindblowing pure droney nectar limited LP, very last copies around..."Beautiful artwork can be the gateway to a promised land of sensual delights and aural ecstasy. This is a perfect example of that collision. Recorded at home for the famed Reson…
Tapestries
Hugh Davies was one of the masters of contemporary experimental music. His tireless search for musical invention and his historical accuracy led him to explore different fields in music. This one is a selection of his lesser known electronic pieces, …
s/t
an awesome album by Vaggione whose music (instrumental and electroacoustic) is regularly played worldwide in major centers of contemporary music. awards includes the first newcomp computer music prize (usa, 1983), bourges prizes (1982, 1986, 1988), i…
La maquina de cantar
Argentinian born electronic composer Horacio vaggione (known to some for his involvement with the Alea group) threw together this 2 track masterpiece of multilayered sci-fi epic glop in 1978 for the Cramps label's relished Nova Musicha series... Rely…
BJ NILSEN and STILLUPPSTEYPA, Second Childhood
This CD is the first collaborative release by prolific Icelandian sound artists Hildur Gudnadottir, BJ Nilsen and Stilluppsteypa. Hildur Ingveldardóttir Gudnadóttir : She has been around in the core of the neu-icelandic music scene for the past ye…
Mouvements
With 'mouvements' the artist Hervé Boghossian presents his newest work. Regarding the technique of composition as well as the acoustic effect the album is an exception. Starting point are several guitar-compositions played live into computer. In a se…
New American Ethnic Music Volume 4 : Ascent to the sun
The final release in the New American Ethnic Music series (but not the last Henry Flynt on Recorded) is Ascent to the Sun, a brilliant, sparkling hillbilly raga in the family of You Are My Everlovin' but with a unique double violin approach and a mi…
New American Ethnic Music Volume 3 : Hillbilly tape music
Third volume in the New Americam Ethnic Music series, following: You Are My Everlovin' & Spindizzy. Featuring recordings from 1971 through 1978, this focuses on shorter tracks that explore the third-ear mania of looped violin playing as well as co…
Purified by the fire
a drone masterpiece, The psychedelic sounds of musical pioneer Henry Flynt's drone works with collaborator C.C. Hennix are quietly becoming the stuff of legend. Over some 40 plus minutes, we are treated to a true tour de force that's part Hindustani …
La danse des tonneaux roulants et brisés
Le pionnier légendaire de La poésie sonore Henri Chopin (1922 - 2008) livre ici sa dernière composition datant de novembre 2003, réalisée chez lui à Dereham en Angleterre avec son micro et son Revox stéréo. Cette pièce de 51 minutes en trois volets t…
Paysages Planétaires
In 2000, Henri Pousseur was asked by Philippe Samyn, a Brussels-based architect who liked to work in collaboration with other artforms, to lend his support to the plan for the construction of a business complex by one of the most important buildin…
The water has no hair to hold on to
Dekorder is proud to release a brand new and very limited release by The Hafler Trio aka Andrew McKenzie from Iceland. This is the 2nd release in a series of 10"s for Dekorder (the 1st is sold out). McKenzie is one of the most influential sound artis…
Chœurs imaginaires
This piece develops a preoccupation already begun in “Naissance du verbe” (Birth of the Word), the result of research on language and phonemes undertaken by Bernard Ucla. The idea behind this research is that the sign in language is not arbitrary, bu…