The Warm Garden
Tip! A pivotal force in the foundations of Noise music in Japan, Fumio Kosakai is half of The Incapacitants, and has recorded with other acts such as Hijokaidan, CCCC, and Club Skull. Originally released on cassette in an edition of fifty copies in 1993, "The Warm Garden" is a pinacle for collectors of 90s noise and the outer realms of Japanese psychadelia. The work steps away from the denshi zatsuon (electronic noise) of his other groups and instead comprises two pieces of minimal electronics, …
Experimente
Dive back into the primal heart of Krautrock with Amon Düül's "Experimente", a stunning collection of rare and obscure live material excavated from the same incendiary late '60s sessions that birthed their legendary debut Psychedelic Underground. This previously unreleased treasure captures the band's unbridled spontaneity, delivering a sonic assault that's as hypnotic as it is feral.
Amon Düül's jam sessions on Experimente are pure, unfiltered ritual – predominantly instrumental eruptions domin…
Divided by Dusk
Night is about to fall, the day slowly fades away, and it is this twilight time that Magda Drozd’s latest album inhabits. Divided by Dusk carries the promise of a crepuscular otherworldliness. Inspired by Drozd’s stays in Japan, its rich tradition in ambient and experimental music and a collaboration with Japanese flutist Rai Tateishi, as well as a renewed engagement with her roots in Poland and its folk and ancient history, her work is a form of sonic excavation. Layers of dark-ambient tones in…
All the mess
"Take out this tape and press ‘play’ my darlings. Remember when you were a child? Remember that deep immersive play you almost fell into? Be prepared to fall again oh sweetness. Slithering breath becomes iced molasses on “Moon bear water.” A voice-within-a-voice daydream hums with toothy sibilance. Yellow synths crackle like fire, the most ancient of all musics. Rules-based organisations quake at the critique of “All the mess.” Blunt stabs of fizzing electricity reach an ever-sustaining peak lik…
John Cage (LP)
The first album on Cramps' superlative "Nova musicha" experimental music series released in 1974, presenting pieces for piano, voice and radio noises spanning from 1947 to 1971, performed by an all-star cast including Walter Marchetti, Demetrio Stratos, Juan Hidalgo and Gianni-Emilio Simonetti.
Empty Words Part IV (2LP)
Rare 1987 double LP on Edition Michael Frauenlob Bauer with the composer himself performing his 1970's text-composition recorded live in 1984. Truly extreme stuff.
Empty Words - Parte III (2CD)
2011 re-issue on Ampersand of the 1990 2CD set with the legendary extreme live vocal performance by the composer in Milano in 1977, which caused quite a riot. With slipcase.
Fourteen-Seven-Ten-Three²
Rare 2006 CD on Megadisc Classics of late compositions for ensemble from the late 1980's / early 90's, performed by tJames Fulkerson's Barton Workshop.
John Cage (Book)
Rare first catalogue of Cage’s works published by Peters & Henman Press in 1962.
Diary: How To Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) Continued Part Three (book)
Rare first edition of Cage's 1967 artist book with multi-colored text, published by Something Else Press in 1967.
Per gli Uccelli (book)
Italian edition of the 1976 book of conversations with Daniel Charles, translated by Walter Marchetti and published by Multhipla in 1977.
Sounday 15-6-78 (book)
Rare fully illustrated hommage to the composer published as the program for the 1978 première and recording of Sounday by KRO Radio in Holland, with texts by Pierre Boulez, Merce Cunningham, David Tudor, Christian Wolff, etc..
View Vol.I No.1 April, 1978 - John Cage (magazine)
First issue of American art/music magazine published by Crown Point Press in 1978 completely devoted to John Cage.
Happy Birthday, a Year from Cage (book)
Thick program for the 2002 series of concerts and events around John Cage organized in Milano for the composer’s 90th birthday.
Music Sound Language Theater (book)
Illustrated exhibition catalogue published by Crown Point Press in 1980 with several essays on Cage, Marioni, Barry and Jonas.
Ausstellung un konzert John Cage April/Mai 1978 (poster)
Rare poster for a series of exhibitions and concerts by Cage through Germany in 1978, ilustrated with the score of Variations VIII.
Ives/Duchamp/Cage
Historical avant-garde pieces for two pianos (prepared, quarter-tone or with tape) spanning from 1913 to 1944, performed by Kristine Schol and Mats Persson and released on Caprice in 1982 and never re-issued on either LP or CD.
Voices And Instruments (LP)
1978 re-issue of the 1976 album on the classic Obscure label and series curated by Brian Eno, with five early Cage pieces from the 1940's for solo piano, solo voice, and percussion and voice, performed by Robert Wyatt, Carla Bley and Richard Bernas, backed with three compositions for ensemble and two pianos by Steele.
Extended Voices (LP)
1970 re-press of the 1967 fantastic, mind-blowing and essential compilation of pieces for chorus and for voices altered electronically by sound synthesizers and vocoder, conducted by Alvin Lucier and released on Odyseey's "Music Of Our Time" avant-garde music series curated by David Behrman.
Variations III For Voices And Percussion With Solos / Nexus 16 / Culmination / L'Après-Midi Du Dracoula (LP)
Cage's 1963 piece for voices and percussion with solos plus three more experimental compositions from the 1960's by the other composers, performed by the San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble and released on Wergo's "Große Interpreten Neuer Musik" series in 1971. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.