Music for Public Ensemble
First full-length album by Sean McCann since 2013’s Music for Private Ensemble, built around a fascinating conceptual framework, spanning a wide array of aesthetic and conceptual ideas, many of them outside the field of music. Three years in the making, Public Ensemble employs the talents of many Recital allies; a mélange of voices and instruments: violin, viola, cello, contrabass, piano, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, flute, trumpet, pedal steel, electronic keyboards (organ, farfisa, har…
Quadrat
On “Quadrat” : Quadrat is the title of Konrad Kraft’s (aka Detlef Funder) newest album, this time released on 12” vinyl. In some ways this album constitutes a kind of continuation of his previous work, which started with Temporary Audiosculptures. A sound manifestation of imaginary, sculptural and graphic structures. Like before, the production concentrates, in a more diffused way than in his previous album, on adding compositorial characteristics to graphic-geometric structures. The result is a…
Das Tränenmeer
The actor and director Martin Engler has appeared on many stages in Germany and abroad, most recently in the Theater Basel. In addition to acting, he lectures at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch Berlin (The Ernst Busch Acting Academy) and narrates and directs radio plays in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France. He has made a number of short and experimental films as well as working on freelance projects that straddle drama, art and science. He came across Dieter Roth’s texts in…
Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln' s Profile
This two cd set includes remastered recordings of Kelley's 55 minute performance poem "Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile" at Artists Space, New York on dec. 5th, 1985 and the peristaltic airwaves, a live performance that aired on kpfk radio, Los Angeles on september 30th, 1986. The only existing audio documentation of Mike Kelley's groundbreaking performance work. plato's cave rothko's chapel, lincoln's profile in kelley's words was the "longest and most elaborate" of the texts he…
Profondeurs Vertes
Profondeurs Vertes is the title of a three-channel video installation produced by Mike Kelley for the louvre, paris, in 2006. the music on this cd functions as the soundtrack music for the three videos. Profondeur vertes begins with a traditional sea chanty complete with waves, creaking timbers, and seagulls, moving into an airy romantic-era piano and harp piece based on Charles Tomlinson griffes' veil of dreams which then transitions into an orchestral rendition of the shark attack from John Si…
Kandor 10
Original motion picture soundtrack for videos originally presented at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, California in 2011. Moody evocations of exotic and decrepit alien cultures. Music by Mike Kelley. Produced by Mike Kelley and Scott Benzel."
Flüchtige Musik
The trio Argo was formed in Darmstadt in 1985 by Hans Essel (violin), Marit Hoffmann (viola), and Thomas Stett (clarinet). It existed until 2016 when it was forced to an end by the untimely death of Stett. Argo set out to explore new ways of free collective improvisation that were aimed neither at personal expressivity nor at the evocation of a certain mood or atmosphere. Eschewing any compositional agreements, they experimented with musical forms and processes that emerged spontaneously between…
Overlap - Recouvrement
I Dischi Della Casa Rossa proudly presents this LP record art multiple by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, produced on the occasion of the artist’s new sound installation at La Maison Rouge in Paris. The LP features two identical sides of unmanipulated fire cocrete recording, investigating the relationships between pattern and background. The work of Céleste Boursier-Mougenot must be seen first and foremost as that of a musician who, for the past twelve years, has shown his work exclusively in contemp…
Italian Cathedrals, Sound Archive 2006 / 2014
“Cathedrals” (pietroriparbelli.bandcamp.com) is a sound archive born in 2006, conceived and developed by Pietro Riparbelli. Opened to many artists and researcher’s contribution, up to now it has tens of hours of field recordings, captured inside cathedrals and other sacred places of Christian tradition. A selection of the field recordings of cathedrals, basiliche, Italian shrines, edited by Riparbelli himself, gives birth to “Italian Cathedrals, Sound Archive 2006 / 2014”.
"Half-human, half-div…
Ritorno All'Acqua
A composition (based on rough field recordings and tape loops) about evolution, the baptism of Jesus, about human beings who change deeply form and essence in their life time but also about a conscientious involution. Andrea Penso (Italy, 1985) is a sound maker, already active under different aliases (with some albums under Denovali records). “Ritorno All'Acqua” is his first official work under his real name. He is part of Black Moss / Canti Magnetici label team and runs the micro-label Kirlian …
Plastic Ono Band
This long-overdue vinyl reissue of Yoko Ono's seminal, but massively under-appreciated Plastic Ono Band has all the makings of a classic rock nostalgia trip: Ono, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Klaus Voorman and free-jazz legend Ornette Coleman. All the pieces are here to stir up a dangerous amount of nostalgia. But once the needle drops, the record achieves something exactly perpendicular to nostalgia. Released in 1970, the album not only influenced the approach of other musicians for decades, it …
Composed Nature / Yokomono Pro
** In collaboration with LOLA Landscape Architects, issued by this Alga Marghen-related imprint in an edition of 250 copies. ** "Produced by Staalplaat Soundsystem in order to document their recent sonic activities and researches, this LP record is focused on two projects. Composed Nature by Staalplaat Soundsystem and LOLA landscape architects, is an installation developed for the Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst Dordrecht, consisting of a matrix of 64 trees. Controllable mechanical vibrators are m…
Ronde matutinale à Amillis / Berenice
** Ltd. 300 copies ** Planam proudly presents the second LP by the artist and sound sculptor Michel Vogel. Born in 1941 in Strasbourg, France, Michel Vogel's artistic activities started in 1960 when, as a painter under the influences of Antoni Tàpies and Jean Dubuffet, his mineral and sound experimentations built a universe influenced by free jazz, extra-European music and Olivier Messiaen. His research developed with new sculptures and the creation of his own resonating metal instruments. His f…
In Terram Utopicam
2010 release. Walter Marchetti is one of the most original and controversial pre-Fluxus authors. In this work he frees all of his sophisticated poeticism. In Terram Utopican includes "J'aimerais jouer avec un piano qui aurait une grosse queue" (1974/75) and "Per la sete dell'orecchio" (1981). The 16-page booklet presents the original score of "J'aimerais jouer," photos of the performances in Milano and at the Venice Biennale, and the reproduction of the original In Terram Utopicam LP layout.…
A Garden Party
** in restock now, will ship on Tuesday** This entrancing 1983 recording by the legendary Fluxus artist Joe Jones is a must-have for anyone who picked up last year's vinyl reissue of the seminal 'Solar Music At Sierksdorf' once again showcasing a gauzy and cloudy shimmering wash of faux-gamelan, hums and whirrs, tribal percussion and homemade ethnodelic fantasies.On 26 June 1983, Joe Jones set up a solar orchestra in Erik Andersch's garden in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Guests w…
Charlemagne at Sonnabend
Special limited edition of 300 signed and numbered copies, packaged in large oversized gatefold cover. Privately issued by the composer in collaboration with Sonnabend Gallery and issued in an edition of 300 signed copies in large silkscreened gatefold folio in 2002. This art edition was never officially distributed and after 10 years a limited amount of copies is now exclusively available for the first time from Alga Marghen. The first contact between Charlemagne Palestine and the Sonnabend…
Metal Box
Edition limited to 20 copies of which only 12 are available for sale, last copy left. Your chance to own now this uniquely resonating art multiple. Luxury metal box hand made by artist and sound sculptor Michel Vogel. This art edition, limited to 20 numbered copies, includes the first two record LPs by Vogel, or “Une petite musique de nuit” as well as the new “Ronde matutinal à Amillis / Berenice”. The box also includes an LP-size metal gong contructed by the artist, protected by a silk bag. Hi…
Cello Anthology
New and somewhat cheaper version of this box set first released in 2007, in only slightly less elaborate packaging. It is certainly surprising that until now an exhaustive recognition of the work of Charlotte Moorman has not been undertaken. The cellist can be numbered among the most charismatic and influential protagonists to have appeared on the avant-garde or experimental music scenes since the early '60s. A documentation of her activities as a performer is generally available only in various…
Bruits Du Beaubourg
A previously unpublished and obscure sound work by the famous artist Brion Gysin... ‘Bruits du Beaubourg’ or, quite literally, the concrete noises coming from the builder’s yard of the Beaubourg recorded on location in June 1977. Different layers of sounds that, with the natural development of the piece, create an hypnotic soundscape. Abstract and concrete. The recording comes from the original masters that Ramuntcho Matta personally got as a gift from Gysin himself; and Matta generously offered…
Revue OU
few copies, factory sealed 1st edition, long out of print, legendary LP edition!! A hen’s teeth rare and long out of print set of historic recordings by Bernard Heidsieck, Brion Gysin, Henri Chopin, François Dufrêne, Mimmo Rotella, Raoul Hausmann, Paul de Vree, Gil J Wolman, Bob Cobbing, Ladislav Novak, Hugh Davies, Bengt Emil Johnson, Sten Hanson, Jacques Bekaert, J.A. da Silva, William Burroughs, Ake Hodell, Charles Amirkhanian and Arthur Rimbaud in a limited Collectors Vinyl Edition. The pic…