The Garden of Forking Paths
"I leave to several futures (not to all) my garden of forking paths" - Ts'ui Pen
The Garden of Forking Paths was compiled for Important Records by guitarist James Blackshaw. Compositions were recorded especially for this collection by Helena Espeval …
Challenger
Burning Star Core began in 1993 in Cincinnati, OH where it currently resides with primary member C. Spencer Yeh. It is considered a project and not a pseudonym. While the Burning Star Core project has included much wider ensembles, Challenger is a di…
Judy\'s Dust
Judy's Dust is the debut full-length LP by Car Commercials of New Brunswick, New Jersey. Here, the duo of David Sutton (Friends and Family, Current Amnesia, Ladderwoe) and Daniel DiMaggio (Home Blitz) expand on the rock/mumble strategies from the sel…
Edinburgh 1997
Live at the Flux New Music Festival in Edinburgh. "Three weeks of festival, theatre, pantomime, experimental arts and music. In amongst these, Faust: A legend for the connoisseur, with constantly changing sound experiments over the past 25 years. Fau…
Home Cookin'
A series of duets between Ibarra (drummer for David Ware, William Parker's In Order to Survive, etc) and Tsahar (previous recordings on Eremite, Silkheart). Consists of home recordings and material from the Knitting Factory 2/28/98. Ibarra on drums, …
Designed Land Limit And
Technical hard core unit. Screaming Pinch Hitter is so called Kyoto's No Mean's No. This new album was produced by Hoppy Kamiyama.
Pet
Son of Earth began life in early 2000 as Son of Earth-Flesh on Bone Trio. Aaron Rosenblum, Matt Krefting and John Shaw, inspired by many spirited late-night experimenting sessions, began to play out using wild arrays of sound-making devices. As the y…
The Inexplicable Flyswatter (Works On Paper: 1959-64)
A very special, full-color 48-page perfectbound Gallery Edition Book+CD: "FLYSWATTER", commemorating Peter Brötzmann's first-ever exhibition of visual art, featuring his works on paper from 1959-1964 at the Art Institute of Chicago this coming March …
Slow Crimes
This disc is Ad Hoc Records' definitive digital release of the first album by the English underground band, The Work. Originally issued on vinyl in 1982, this music, along with that of compatriots This Heat and Unrest Work & Play, set the stage for a…
strings
strings is primarily an attempt to reconcile the aesthetics of digital sound with that of the more traditional music instruments and to enrich the respective domains with the qualities of each other. In a larger scale, the album targets the stereotyp…
Please just leave me
1996 flare-out from mr. T... dedicated to Dave Brubeck's right (left?) hand man & composer of 'suicide is painless.' Pure was started in 1994 by RRRecords as a series of very affordable cds by a wide range of experimental and noise musicians. All rel…
Batztoutai with material gadgets
CD1 : 'Batztoutai with material gadgets'. Re-create version of 'Batztoutai with memorial gadgets' Previously released on RRR-04. CD2 : 'Loop panic limited'.
transform
'transform', originally released on mille plateaux (mp 102, 2001), is now being re-released on raster-noton. the album, released as cd, comes with a new cover and digitally remastered. On 'transform', alva noto means to reduce the aesthetic of pop to…
Plays Cosey
Coh plays cosey CD is the first part of an ongoing collaborative project between Ivan Pavlov-COH and cosey Fanni Tutti known for her solo performances and work with Chris Carter-CTI as well as for being a part of the radical cultural phenomena COUM T…
The End Of An Ear
At this point Wyatt was in between work with the Soft Machine and Matching Mole and was aided by the likes of Elton Dean (alto saxello), David Sinclair (organ), Mark Charig (cornet), Neville Whitehead (bass), Mark Ellidge (piano) & Cyril Ayers (percu…
Glassworks
In 1982 Philip Glass became the first composer since Aaron Copland to join the CBS Masterworks label. Glass had formed the Philip Glass Ensemble in 1968, but it wasn't until his opera Einstein on the Beach (1976) that he achieved great critical and p…
Inner Cities
Performed by Daan Vandewalle (piano), 4 hours, 24 minutes worth. "Alvin Curran's music-making embraces all the contradictions (composed/improvises, tonal/atonal, maximal/minimal) in a serene dialectical encounter. His more than 100 works feature tape…
Music for the Bluegrass States
Native Kentuckian R. Keenan Lawler speaks a private, fundamental language via his trademark metal-bodied resonator guitar. With an intensely focused technique, he sets bluegrass and blues-inflected tonalities against dense masses of harmonic overtone…
Birds
Collections of Colonies of Bees sweep in grandly, in billowing swarms of sound, borne aloft on a thousand wings of minuscule, elegant detail. Guitars chime and soar, recalling the best campaigns of the guitar armies of both Glenn Branca and Rhys Chat…