Wrapped islands
The predominantly Viennese quartet Polwechsel have exhaustively explored the grey areas between composition and improvisation, electronic and acoustic, jazz and classical for much of the past decade. Austrian Christian Fennesz, while initially a guit…
Plays Brötzmann
How to improvise on an existing work of improvisation? American outfit Pillow took the plunge by carefully placing European free jazz legend Peter Brötzmann’s group improvisation piece Images on the rack. Don’t expect any tortured notes or twisted ch…
Les Premières Machines 1968 - 1988
Manipulating and experimenting in all directions, Pierre Bastien gets help from a lot of human-being (Percussions, piano, cello & accordion) but also from machines: toy robots play percussion, xylophone or even the guitar. The result is surprising, v…
YPGPN
"YPGPN (Young Person's Guide to Phill Niblock) is the long-awaited re-release of a 2 CD-set that was a joint production by the UK based Blast First label and The Wire magazine in 1995. It includes the following works: Held Tones (1982-94) Barbara Hel…
The movement of people working
New version (with slightly revised visuals, same video and audio content) of this classic Niblock DVD release, originally from 2003. Double-sided DVD; Total time: 3 hours, 28 min. Features 6 short movies (25 to 70 minutes each), plus separate 5.1 DVD…
G2, 44+/x2
"Yep, in this day and age, there's money in this minimalism thing. Which is nice for a fellow like Phill Niblock, a man who's been out in the field for over thirty years. While some may be happy to dabble in approximate music, or that only hinted at …
Unheard spaces
'Absence and Presence (2006). Absence and Presence was originally written for five musicians and four loudspeakers positioned throughout the site of performance in order to explore the traction between amplified and acoustic space. The performance wa…
Surf
Surf is the second CD from the British experimenter whose sound manipulations begin with record players and tape machines. His work "Vinyl Requiem" (with Lol Sargent) for 120 Dansette record players was awarded Time Out magazine's 1993 Performance Aw…
A doughnut in both hands
Solo singing. The variety of sounds that this man can make with his voice and mouth is totally unbelievable. Reissue of Rift 3 with extra material from the same and slightly later sessions. 56 minutes.
Experimenting with household chemicals
Experimenting With Household Chemicals' is a 1995 album by the laregly elusive post-minimalist Downtown experimenter Peter Zummo. Whilst possibly best known for his work on classic Arthur Russell recordings, he's been a mainstay of New York's vaunted…
Desolation Beauty Violence
Born in New Zealand, currently residing in London England, Peter Wright has spent the past decade or more producing limited release recordings of drift-guitar space walks of mesmerising beauty. Desolation Beauty Violence is his third CD release prope…
Depiction is a crime. Video works 1969-1975
Born on March 5, 1945 in Odessa, Ukraine. Having fled to Austria, he grew up in Ried im Innkreis, Upper Austria. When graduating from school in 1963 he studied French, film and comparative literature for a year in Paris before transferring to medicin…
Madam I'm Adam
2015 restock. The music of of the Finnish experimental music pioneer Pekka Airaksinen has been far ahead of it's time for most of his 40-year long career. His finest recordings from the 60's are more reminiscent of Industrial Music and Noise (which w…
The Minexcio Connection: Live at the Rosendale Cafe
One of the most unexpected yet fruitful partnerships of recent years: in the mid-1990s, Pauline Oliveros, electronic music pioneer and sage of the environmental drone, began working with Reynols, the prolific and resolutely undefinable Argentinian gr…
No mo
"In the summer of 1966 I worked in the classical Electronic Music Studio at the University of Toronto for six weeks. The system I used to create No Mo and Something Else consisted of Layfette tone generators, noise source and tape delay. In the Fall …
Neuph (1978-80)
Compositions for Euphonium and Trombone, recorded 1978-80. To make his third solo album, Rutherford went into a studio with both trombone and euphonium and used over-dubbing techniques to create unique pieces involving up to four brass instruments. T…
Awareness response
Dunmall and Rogers have performed together for years both as a duo and as part of larger groups, such as the quartet Mujician. The three improvisations feature Dunmall on border bagpipes, tenor and soprano saxophones respectively. This is their earli…
Ethnicities
Ethnicities is an electro-acoustical scope of unreleased recordings of PACIFIC 231's post-industrial period. Successive and consecutive cuts were made until he put together the concept of the album as: pluri-cultural diversity of the sounds, tropical…
Guitar solo
Guitar solo performed by otomo Yoshihide. Recorded on12th Octber 2004 @ Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo. First otomo's guitar solo work. This work include beautiful acoustic pieces and intense electric pieces, recorded on 12th Oct, 2004 at Shinjuku Pit Inn a…