shadowgraph
another awesome release from ed. graphon, with an elaborate packaging as usual...it comes with drawing (paper-lasercut) by Judith Egger, letterpress, in embossed case. The album is a dreamy journey using a pedal steel guitar and theremin. Shadowgra…
Andapa Garden
now deleted, this is the first release from Edition Graphon, issued in a lavishly packaged in embossed slip case with inner sleeve that folds out in four directions to a '+' shape, plus 6-panel insert. Subtitled 'sounds from an abandoned house in the…
Early Electronic / Tape Collage Music
* 350 copies * Alga Marghen proudly presents an LP edition including some of the seminal electronic/tape collage pieces by Malcolm Goldstein, created in close connection to the sulphuric New York pre-Fluxus environment of the early 1960s. The 1960s d…
Unrein bis zum Abend / Reise ins Diesseits
** Limited edition to 280 copies. ** A record of extreme Poetry and Sound. Arnulf Meifert was the first drummer in the legendary German group Faust (he is only present on "Faust", the first LP issued by Polydor). Later and for many years he was compa…
Kein Mitleid
** Edition of 115 copies ** After completing the "Unrein bis zum Abend / Reise ins Diesseits" LP recordings, Arnulf Meifert (Faust) decided to be available for the Slashdeath project, this time under the direction of Kommissar Hjuler and in collabora…
High Fidelity
Housed in a gatefold sleeve with a 36-page catalogue. The first LP is John Cage Speaks MUREAU by John Cage, its title assembled from the first syllable of the word "music" and the author's name "Thoreau." Malte Hubrig writes "The performance of Murea…
Broken Music
When Broken Music was first released in 1979 on the microscopic label Multhipla, it went by largely unnoticed. This brand new CD reissue forced a reappraisal of Milan Knizak's pioneering work, especially in the wake of his followers Christian Marclay…
The Complete Recordings
From the Joyce archives with the exclusive permission of the Joyce foundation, the only two recordings of the author, reading from "Ulysses" in Paris during the twenties and from "Finnegans Wake" in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Das 6-Tage-Spiel Des Orgien Mysterien Theaters
long out of print, this is the limited to 500 copies deluxe vinyl LP + CD rom documenting the 3rd day, 5th of August 1998 Aktion at Nitsch castle. Packaged in heavy laserdisc gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeves, heavy vinyl release...At its mo…
Das 6-Tage-Spiel Des Orgien Mysterien Theaters: 5-Tag
long deleted, last copy of this outstanding box: Hermann Nitsch is perhaps the best known of the notorious Vienna Actionists. His carefully choreographed performance art frequently involves cacophonous noise, buckets of blood and animal dismemberment…
Sound Characters 2 (Making Sonic Spaces)
One of contemporary music's greatest and most elusive mavericks returns to Tzadik with yet another CD of ear-bending electronic sounds. A student of Stockhausen and close collaborator of John Cage and David Behrman, Maryanne Amacher has been creating…
KO/USK
84 page Hardcover book with embossed cloth cover & spine, also includes 12 page cd-booklet. Recorded & mixed between 1988 and 1995. Sound sources are stones collected all over the world. Beautiful artist book by Giancarlo Toniutti in collaboration wi…
Alla ricerca del silenzio perduto - Il treno di John Cage
Included in 160-page, hardcover book with bilingual (Italian/English) 'Any and all sounds are music : the sounds that surround us, whether we are in a concert hall or not...' 'We can begin from this quote by John Cage to unearth the traces of one of …
Orchesterproben Ludwig Van Beethoven 6. Sinfonie
This is a blast! Another of Edition RZ’s great early issues comes up again, presenting pioneering early 20th century conductor and modernist champion Herman Scherchen leading rehearsals for performances of Beethoven’s 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th …
on and on
Despite his long career in sound art, the name John Hudak doesn't appear that often in Vital Weekly, perhaps mainly because releases these days are a bit sparse. Here on 'On And On' we hear him play guitar. Inspired by the black-capped chickadee, whi…
Saskatchewan sound installations
Gordon Monahan conjures up the prairies of Saskatchewan with an impressive series of varied tracks utilising his fascinating installations. The piercing cry of the 'Theremin Pendulum' begins an auditory odyssey that takes us across a soundscape both …
Off the wall
More Yoshi Wada from EM Records! The long-awaited reissue of Wada's 1985 LP Off The Wall, recorded in Berlin and originally released on the esteemed FMP-subsidiary SAJ label. A minimalist yet majestic monsterpiece ("massive," as Tom Johnson decla…
The night walker
A 7 inches album with the two songs that were composed in & for the video work The Night Walker (2008). Here the songs are recorded in studio after the video. 500 copies limited edition signed & numbered. Recorded and performed by Smoke Machine, Lond…
How to Make a Happening
Historic release. Originally released as an LP in 1966 by Mass Art, this is Allen Kaprow, father of The Happening explaining how to do it, and what is - and is not - a Happening. Simple in construction, yet profound in context, How to Make a Happenin…
Air Pressure Fluctuations
Here is a CD containing a recording of air pressure fluctuations. When played on ordinary audio equipment, the recorded air pressure fluctuations (technically named infrasound) are reproduced at 360 times the original speed, and thus can be perceived…