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Third archival MEV release on Allan Bryant's label. The first track, 'Quadrupl Play', is a piece for rubberbands recorded in 1966 by Allen Bryant. It can be described as 'variations on melody' and was played at the first MEV concerts in St. Paul du Vence, France and at Teatro Argentina in Rome. The second track, 'Pich Out' (or 'Rocket Take Off)', for 4 guitars, is loud and thundering, played by 4 musicians through 4 speakers at Sala Beloch, Rome in March 1967. Features Rzewski, Phetteplace, Curr…
untitled (1968)
A previously unreleased document of MEV -- four sections of an improvisation recorded in London, 1968, spread out over 43 minutes. The line up was Bryant (synthesizer), Alvin Curran (trumpet, percussion), Frederick Rzewski (amplified percussion, singing), Jon Phetteplace (amplified cello). Powerful, historic noise and the first easily available MEV music on CD. Also comes with a Bryant solo synth wig-out piece at the end. Both of these IRML CDs come in regular jewel cases, and endearingly primit…
Sound Paintings
Joan La Barbara begins Sound Paintings with a scream that pushes you into an unusual world of vocal sound. Her virtuoso singing style, developed over a 20-year period, can be heard on this disc, which combines some of her earlier works with more recent compositions. She takes her extended techniques, which include multiphonics, overtone singing, and glottal clicks, and orchestrates them in layered soundscape compositions using from 8 to 16 tracks of material.
Nothing works as planned
This double CD presents diverse approaches to the phrase ‘nothing works as planned' by nine composers and sound artists. Each and every one of them captures a singular moment which was compiled together to create an esthetic sonic statement of reason and beauty. ‘Nothing works as planned' is comprised of live recordings of concerts in Tel Aviv and New York. The double CD is a documentation of a series, entitled “Nothing Works as planned”, which held at the above mentioned cities and was premier…
Live At Lace
This album was originally recorded and released as an LP in 1978; Airway was a group featuring Joe Potts, Chip Chapman, Rick Potts, Dennis Duck, Juan Gomez and Tom Recchion. Live At Lacewas later included in the Cortical Foundation/RRR 10CD LAFMS box from 1995, but this version has been remastered, using the original tapes for the LP. It is considered to exhibit a "pretty different feeling of sound" and features unique artwork that was only used on Japanese-export copies of the LP when it was fi…
Beyond The Pink Live
Airway started in 1977 as a plot by Joe Potts to subliminally program audiences behind the cover of a chaotic wall of sound. To create the wash of ear-splitting noise, all of the instruments, Vetza's vocals, and the subliminal implants are mixed together and processed through a daisy-chain of flangers, phase-shifters, delays and distortions. Then the super-charged signal is blasted through guitar amps carefully placed to maximize the ricochet of sound from wall to wall. Airway kicks the notion o…
Omega
The third and final part of the Organum trilogy that started with »Sanctus« (Robot Records - RR35) and »Amen« (Die Stadt - DS95). »Omega« is a further continuation of the first two parts. »While The Stars Be Not Darkened«. First edition of 600 copies in digipack sleeve. Collecting music for the sake of collecting is not something I am very keen. Music hearing for the sake of hearing music, that is what I like. There are a few artists whose new works I usually try to get, and Organum is one of th…
An Indigo Ballad
Simply one of the most seminal band in italian underground rock in the last 10 years. Don't miss them. Hard to explain the birth of a band like A Short Apnea so ahead in the conception before that in the sounds to band borned in countries traditionally more evoluted. if the past experience of the protagonists, experienced to experimentation like to other musical kinds since early '80s. always in search of a music in which barriers between progressive, post rock, free jazz, avantgard and other do…
Five Greeny Stages
Simply one of the most seminal band in italian underground rock in the last 10 years. Don't miss them.
Tesa Musica Marginale
Pure core music, laically spiritual, in constant tension between order & chaos, law & anarchy, silence and loudness, modernism and tradition. Tense border music. Away from mainstream artistic path, the band keeps on his quest for an honest experimental musical language. Anatrofobia’s music is a mix of improvisation, writing, acoustic and electronics, experimentation of non-idiomatic structures, unique timbral combinations: Anatrofobia plays with constantly variable themes, saturation and rarefac…
Rollerball
Portland Oregon's Rollerball are the very definition of a cult band. Their image is shrouded by aliases & self sustained mystique and their discography packed with hidden gems and genre warping artistry. In the decade plus since Rollerball first formed, this highly prolific family of musicians have conjured up staggering amount of recorded material; 12 full lengths albums, another dozen eps and singles and countless compilation appearances. Whether slipping between vampy cabaret numbers, horn dr…
Millenovecentosettantatre
Heavly influenced by the seventies, Brown Y Aur is able as no one to pick those elements and build them in a fresh and modern kraut-psychedlic shape.
Quien Sabe?
Heavly influenced by the seventies, Brown Y Aur is able as no one to pick those elements and build them in a fresh and modern kraut-psychedlic shape.
Polvere
Xabier Iriondo and Mattia Coletti. Polvere by some means is the avant/kraut folk project of this couple of musicians and beside the experimental/post-psychedelic characteristics of the cd it shows their melodical/acoustic virtues.
Brevi Momenti di Presenza
Pure core music, laically spiritual, in constant tension between order & chaos, law & anarchy, silence and loudness, modernism and tradition. Tense border music.
The Album
The two Old Time Relijun member Arrington De Dionyso and Aaron Hartman join Jacopo Andreini (Bz Bz ueu, L'Enfance Rouge...) and Fabio Magistrali (A Short Apnea) for a instrumental avant-jazz improvised project.
Die letzte Musik vor dem Krieg
Two brand new pieces from 2003. Piano on side A and Tibetan horns on side B add new sound colours to the classic Organum drones. Edition of 500 copies.
Charlotte Corday
Original and long time no see, limited edition of 700 copies. Far-out electro-acoustic sound collage, a development of ideas explored more briefly on Oizzo No. Sounds and voices in unexpected juxtapositions, and distorted in strange ways. It's outlandish enough to make it genuinely uneasy listening, and very imaginative, but as far as the genre's concerned it's all quite respectable, quite traditional. A simple narrative underlies all of Charlotte Corday, so it could be viewed simply as an abstr…
Oizzo No
Long time deleted, this is the original Limited edition of 700 copies. The music on this cd represents the early works of irish composer Roger Doyle - pieces composed in the late 1960s to mid 70s. it includes his extremely rare self-released 1975 debut lp oizzo no and his second lp thalia from 1978, originally released on cbs classics with two tracks (10 & 11) originally released in 1978 on the LP "Thalia". A home-recorded industrialism and tape experimentalism masterpiece, Oizzo No, originally …
ned n.2
Andrea Belfi's debut album, issued in 200 copies only, each disc enclosed in a beautiful blue velvet case "In Ned n°2 objects, people, intresting situations, computer errors, melodies, rooms, and many other "sound stuffs" translated as wavewfiles on PC, are the musical elements of this album. The tracks are builded trought the concept of the creation of a personal sound-environments, inspired by various kind of experiences like the vision of the Werner Herog’s filmwork or like some days lived in…