The great learning
Long out of print, very rare nowadays - The Great Learning was one of British composer Cornelius Cardew's most important works, a series of seven "paragraphs" with text from the writings of Confucius and scored for generally large numbers of both trained and untrained performers. The original productions of this piece, in fact, served as the genesis of the legendary pro-amateur Scratch Orchestra. This 2000 release includes three of the paragraphs, two from the 1971 Deutsche Grammophon album that…
Summer Salt & Subway Sun
The expanded / re-issued version of "Summer Salt & Subway Sun" Ltd. edition of 400 in beautiful box with bonus-album "Wildcat Fights." The first 400 copies are packaged in a deluxe full color book bound box, 16 page lyric booklet , full color book bound cd cases and the bonus album "Wildcat Fights". Eyeless are an earful. Messrs Bates et Becker have miraculously come trembling through the decades musically unscathed. And yay though it is within the office of many bands to have precedents in…
Let It Out: Poems In Words And Music
Gray-area reissue. From 1971. Incredible Kraut/funk meeting of U.S. expatriate and the cream of the German rock scene: Achim Reichel, Conny Plank, Wolfgang 'Zabba' Lindner (drums, ex-Wind), Peter Hecht (piano, from Lucifer's Friend) and many others. Dymon, probably better known for his role as 'Black Power Militant' in Godard's Sympathy For The Devil and as director of the super-obscure Death May Be Your Santa Claus, mellifluously rants on subjects such as past sexual conquests, racial injustice…
Weapons of Ass Destruction
With a set of puns that would have even The Sun blushing, Diskaholics Anonymous' new album 'Weapons Of Ass Destruction' (quiet at the back!) sees the leftfield super-group of Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rouke and Mats Gustafsson reforming for some avant/jazz/improv/punk/noise/kitchen-sink buisness. Ear-plugs, as ever, are optional... Comprised of two XXXtended tracks, the handily titled 'Weapons Of Ass Destruction Part 1 & 2' revel in their free-wheeling jazz roots; with Sweden's Gustafsson belligeren…
Microcastle / Weird Era Continued
Includes a bonus disc containing an entire second album recorded a few months after Microcastle, entitled Weird Era Continued. Here it is, the highly anticipated follow-up to 2007's Cryptograms album, which launched the band into the stratosphere of hype. Whether or not that was or is deserved is entirely subjective. Microcastle was recorded over the course of a week at Rare Book Studios in Brooklyn, New York with Nicolas Verhes in April of this year. The album was recorded as a four-piece consi…
Original Darkness
The latest album from the longtime Charalambides mainstay follows her Electrice album from late 2006 on Kranky as well as a split album with Pocahaunted from early in 2008. Christina Carter has a gift. In a world where most people shy away from the truth, from honesty in emotion, Christina has the strength to address those feelings head on through her music. Within the songs of Original Darkness, she confronts loneliness, self doubt, inadequacy and desire. She bares these emotions in a sometimes…
Migraine Inducers / Antagonistic Music
Martyn Bates' elusive work as Migraine Inducers issued before his involvement with Eyeless in Gaza finally gets released on CD. Originally circulated on cassette in a tiny quantity as Dissonance/Antagonistic Music in 1979, it later saw a marginally wider release in the United States in somewhat abbreviated form. The complete version of this legendary album is included here, as is a second disc recorded in 1994 with Gaza partner Peter Becker to complete the work.
#13. Karlheinz Stockhausen
An amazing magazine + CD "È dedicato a Karleinz Stockhausen il numero appena uscito (il 27 Agosto 2008) del trimestrale Finnegans, rivista edita in Veneto e distribuita su tutto il territorio nazionale nelle migliori librerie e negozi di musica, oltre che in abbonamento. Grazie al contributo straordinario di Pierre Albert Castanet, Michel Rigoni, Antonio Trudu, Biagio Putignano e Alvise Vidolin, studiosi della sua opera, ai lettori viene offerto un piccolo ed importante corpus di saggi, analisi …
Axiologue / Thermidor One Five
Crafted in their fine tradition, Aufgehoben continue to carve harsh chunks of noise with this, their first departure on 7" vinyl. guitar and electronics sound like neither, while sprawling percussion tumbles across the rotten landscape. The two tracks on this monochromatic record jump right for the jugular, leaving little time for subtlety or reflection. not recommended for antique styluses. There are 524 copies of this picture disc record.
Khora
"Khora" is the fifth full-length by Aufgehoben. Since the release of their previous album, "Messidor", the group has somewhat relaxed their strict commitment to anonymity by allowing their names to be known and photos to be taken, and even playing a few well-received live shows. "Messidor" may have been mellower, but the progression displayed on "Khora" leads one to believe that full-on rock may be in the cards for this group, who have seemingly removed the elbow patches from their jackets and r…
The View Underneath
Limited edition: 300. Ignaz Schick & Dawid Szczesny met for The first time in 2005 when Dawid was performing with Sofie Loizou in Berlin. Coming both from quite different backgrounds (Hip Hop-Electronica and Noise-Experimental Electro-Acoustics) They decided to collaborate on some recordings. The first session took place 'live on radio' without previous rehearsals The first night of Ignaz' three weeks residency at Radio Copernicus in Wroclaw in December 2005. The next very early morning They wen…
Kings with Straw Mats
A pilgrimage into the heart of India's greatest sacred celebration, the Kumbh Mela which takes place every 12 years. Filmmaker and poet Ira Cohen brings us face to face with an unforgettable gathering of holy men and into the heart of a visionary experience by rendering it as it really is: a circus of high madness, true devotion and showbiz savvy. The Kumbh Mela takes its name from the Hindu legend which tells how four drops of the gods holy elixir fell to the earth from a "kumbh" or…
Cinque frammenti all\'Italia / Versuch uber Sprache
Original 1st pressing on German Deutsche Grammophon Avant Garde series, that are by far the most scarce and hard to find, released in a really very small quantity and most never re-released on any format. It features an amazing work by Sylvano Bussotti and Nicolaus A.Huber: "Cinque Frammenti All'Italia" was composed in 1967/68. As opposed to the "cosmic" music, accomplished by the accumulation of musical happenings or mathematical treatment of masses, which becomes more and more common from Stoc…
The last LP
If i might say so, this is my favourite Faust album, a true masterpiece being the unreleased "Faust Party" tapes, Recorded in Germany in 1971 and released by recomended in 1988. This the very first edition limited to 1988 numbered copies with a silkscreened jacket.
Munic & Elsewhere
Featuring material recorded before and after their 10 year disappearance it proves to be as ageless as the Faust legend itself. Their music is as restless as it ever was. Nomadic in their defiance of borders on time and space, their mostly improvised pieces move like sandstorm drifts across the broad span of rock. They occasionally settle on a familiar landmark, only to distort or blanket its shape completely under wave upon wave of crackling electronics and treated guitar. Limited to 1000 copie…
Comme Au Temps Du Chaos
In this double live album, the CHAOS project appears as a trio (the original elements), floating through noise and electronica, ethnics and ambient, showing off ethnic instruments, manipulated trumpets, real time sequencering, visionary guitars, creating a continuum rich in tensions and relaxations, and all rigorously as improvisation! The CD contains also a multimedia track featuring a couple of video extracts from the live.
The First Lake
A keyboard/percussions duo from Ivrea (Italy) featuring flowing sounds gliding from ambient to tribal rhythms. Three long tracks with sound masses moving in layers with a wise care of the instrumental dynamics. A strange mix in which can be found echoes from Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, minimalism and refined post-rock.
Introspettivo
“L'imbroglio” is a dense CD featuring vibes, brass, stick and much more, exploding in Cool experimental sounds like Soft Machine or Miles Davis' and Co. NY school. Lots of guest performers alternating along 13 tracks in a metaphorical ride, rich of shivering emotions, a succeeded concentration of seductions.
Wolfango Dalla Vecchia Suona Wolfango Dalla Vecchia
Ten years after his death, some first live perfomances by the italian (born in Padua) composer and organist Wolfango Dalla Vecchia, pupil of Goffredo Petrassi and for a long time collaborator at the Padua University Sonology Center (Centro di Sonologia dell'Università di Padova). This compact disc presents the major organ works (Gaudeamuscorale, Adagiosissimo, Seven corali in honour of J.S.Bach) and, in its absolute first execution, Media Vita for organ and magnetic tape, all performed in the ei…
Di Acqua e di Respiro
Composed by Chaos for the installation "Di acqua e di respiro" by Elisa Nogarin at the Studio Menguante, Filanda Motta di Campocroce, Mogliano V.to (TV), on the occasion of "Open Studio", october 21st 2006.