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the duo of Paul and Limpe Fuchs emerged onto the experimental/free improv scene in Munich in the late 1960s as Anima. Both worked with a number of both conventional and homemade instruments. “Muusiccia” was produced by Limpe and Christoph and released in 1993. Very rare, long deleted now

It reflects a sprawling metropolis within which indulgence and superficiality were magnified in advance of the event

A partial re-release of Kurt Schwitters' URSONATE, as performed by Jaap Blonk. Jaap Blonk, born 1953,Êis one of the world's most famous voice performers. This CD will give you 2 complete performances of The Ursonate: the 1986 studio version, and the 2003 live version.For a long time, the Schwitters estate did not grant permission to issue recordings of his work. In 2002 the ban was lifted and the performing and publishing rights were turned over to a foundation based in the Sprengel Museum in H…

On a single October evening in 1959, fabled people's poet Kenneth Patchen and Vancouver's Alan Neil Quartet made a little bit of history. Together, they cut one of the first jazz-and poetry recordings to disc -- fiery, spontaneous and free of pretensions, where hard bop playing wailed neck-and-neck with Patchen's scathing, slurred, rabid vocalizations. Today, many see Jazz In Canada as among the very first truly beat documents on record -- preceding efforts by Kerouac, Ferlinghetti & Ginsberg. T…

All pieces made by live sampling and processing things in and around the performance. Track two is the only one using violin.

Live convertor Kaffe Matthews on the case in Oslo, Chicago and London. "Matthews is turning in real craft, every jolting explosion and manic loop qualifies as a fully embroidered, triple fired, hand painted work of art. " Ed Pinsent. The Sound Projector. 1999. Awarded Honorary Mention Ars Electronica, Prix 2000

This is the limited friends edition of 33 numbered copies in a red Box Set with silver or golden imprints instead of the black Box Set with black imprints, especially for the artist and a few other people in relation to VOD - a gorgeous box covering john duncan’s early sound/film work - of the vod releases in the last year, this is the nicest on a presentation-scale (the included medias are of course lovely as well.)

An unstoppable attraction for extreme sounds, in line with the passions that emerged from the international underground at the end of the Seventies, carried John Duncan through complex paths and artistic practices (from Los Angeles to Amsterdam, then Tokyo, then Italy, in Scrutto San Leonardo, Tuscany). More and more contaminated territories, close to a certain kind of performing art which, in the Viennese actionism and body art, the transgre…

32pp book in French, lavishly illustrated. Born in 1901 Jean Dubuffet studied painting, gave it up to become a wine merchant. Then in 1943 he became a full time artist, working in various media, including what we would now call installations, in a style often referred to as Art Brut ( now associated with the art of children, the mentally ill, or naifs) - a term coined by Dubuffet himself, though not to describe his own work but that of outsiders who had no stake in the artworld, and who eschewed…

This is the only available collection of sound works by the influential Finnish artist J.O. Mallander. More Time - Hits & Variations 1968-1970 collects two sought-after vinyl EP's Extended Play and Decompositions (the only Finnish entries in Broken Music catalog), and a previously unreleased piece. J.O.mallander began his artistic activities in 1960's within the blooming Finnish Underground movement, taking part, amongst other things, in the notorious music-performance collective Sperm. He has s…

Five Years 1985-1990 Exhibitions Concerts Performances Installations Lectures Publications Het Apollohuis 148-page A4 book documenting 102 exhibitions and 163 concerts. In a former nineteenth-century cigar factory in Eindhoven, something remarkable happened between 1985 and 1990. Het Apollohuis became one of Europe's most vital platforms for experimental music, sound art, and performance - a place where boundaries between disciplines dissolved and artists from across the world gathered to presen…

Alga Marghen proudly present the documentation of Requiem für meine Frau Beate, which took place in the Chiesa di Santa Lucia in Bologna, Italy, in 1977 shortly after Beate Nitsch's death. This was not only one of the strongest and most powerful aktionen by Hermann Nitsch but also a crucial point in the development of his art. Beginning in 1977, Beate Nitsch was travelling in Schwarzwald. She has been inaugurating a nursery-school and wanted to meet some relatives in Stuttgart when, near Ulm, sh…

Alga Marghen proudly present the documentation of Requiem fur meine Frau Beate, which took place in the Chiesa di Santa Lucia in Bologna, Italy, in 1977 shortly after Beate Nitsch's death. This was not only one of the strongest and most powerful aktionen by Hermann Nitsch but also a crucial point in the development of his art. Begining 1977, Beate Nitsch was travelling in Schwarzwald. She has been inaugurating a nursery-school and wanted to meet some relatives in Stuttgart when, near Ulm, she h…

Music plays a fundamental role in the life and work of Hermann Nitsch. It has always been one of the founding elements of his Orgien Misterien Theater (Theatre of Orgies and Mysteries). The initial use of music as purely functional to action was later replaced with a necessity for autonomous composition, in which music finds its own role, independent from the theatrical sphere. Nitsch's poetic is made up of strong contrasts where music represents the syntax of his theatre. Going through the scor…

Electronic Kabuki Mambo is a stupefying pre-psychedelic vintage 50s affair featuring a tapestry of then local musical talents (One Henry Jacobs, Gordon Longfellow, David Talcott, and William Loughborough). Prepare yourself for a liberation of your senses. Prepare for an irresistible taste of the 50s in all of it's sonic sci-fi glory because this caravan of sound is where head music really began! Think Taj Mahal Travelers meets Harry Partch in an echo chamber. Think?Think? It's difficult to belie…

Harry Partch (like his friend Anaïs Nin) considered his life's work to be a letter to the world. His last act was going to be to add the enclosures. He never got around to it. After 20 years of working on the Partch archives, Philip Blackburn has now completed the seven-part 'Enclosures' series as it were on his behalf. Enclosure 7, the culminating DVD of this multimedia series, is a monumental tribute to the most significant works of this American original and iconoclast. It includes n…

No Obi. Awesome CD release documenting the 'magic' world of Harry Bertoia sound scuptures. This reissues two of this American genius's many self-released LPs as a great public service. His "sounding sculptures" consist of "ranks of tall slender rods, placed either upright or at special slants in rectangular formations. These metallic faces are not rigid, but 'give' when stroked -- at the same time releasing lingering musical chords of a weirdly haunting nature."

A theremin controls a MIDI interface that manipulates several sound sculptures. The results range from abstract atmospheres to heavy low-frequencies and driving rhythm, with nary a dull moment. Long piano strings are beaten senseless by metallic strikers while water droplets fall in rhythmic patterns onto amplified percussive plates suspended above the ground, blurring the borders between the electronic and the organic. This piece, which had its premiere at the 2003 Open Ears Festival, is, in th…

This release is the first of three discs that C3R is slated to release by Gordon Monahan, and represents his first release in fourteen years. This CD is a re-release of two of Monahan’s best-known early works: ‘Piano Mechanics’ (which won first prize at the 1984 CBC Young Composers Competition), and ‘Speaker Swinging’ (his universally acclaimed, manually-operated sound installation). Both of these remastered pieces are awe-inspiring sound experimentations, possessing a visceral quality th…

Bruno Ganz reads poems by Friedrich Hölderlin, framed by texts by René Char, Johannes R. Becher and Paul Celan, with short instrumental sound pieces; recorded in Berlin in March 1984 and produced by Manfred Eicher for the ECM New Series.

On the new Untitled (2005) CD the Spanish composer Francisco López presents four recently composed pieces which span a broad dynamic as well as stylistic range. Together these constitute a fascinating and intense research exploration into the deep essence of sound. From sizzling jungle atmospheres to rumbling subterranean drones and microscopic details, this is a Francisco López tour de force. In addition to three pieces based on environmental recordings, Untitled (2005) features also an instrum…

Five installations by Ernie Althoff

The legacy of radio and the arts has spawned forms of radical culture, from early Modernist notions of the “Wireless Imagination” and its subsequent vernacular tongues to Acoustic Ecology’s call for “Radical Radio” based on removing the DJ, transmission and broadcast media upsets and redistributes understandings of place, corporeality, social exchange, and the politics of information. Such instances of radicality find their current expression in radio networking and streaming, which seek to coun…

"Stratosfera" offre in cd tutta la sua produzione per la Cramps con ben cinque album raccolti in uno splenido box deluxe ["Cantare la voce", "Metrodora", "Le milleuna", "Recitarcantando" e "Concerto Dell'Elfo"] Awesome deluxe 5 CD box set documenting one of the most important artists in Italian musical history. As lead singer for prog art terrorists Area, the Greek-born Stratos used his voice as an instrument in ways never heard before or since. Some of the weirdest purely vocal music ever made …

Germany most famous sound artist with a new album recorded exclusively with tuning forks. A meditative album that takes on a different meaning, feeling and association with every sound, in places almost microsound-ish and in others like a heavily delayed gamelan set. CD comes  with a beautiful 16-page colour booklet with shots of the tuning forks and the installation where this is piece is taken from. Last copy available

extremely limited LP by the artist/turntable god Christian Marclay’s ‘Guitar Drag’. The piece was originally a video, shown in 2000 at London’s Hayward Gallery, following an electric guitar lashed to the back of a pick-up truck in dusty San Antonio, Texas. The guitar was dragged by the truck for 15 minutes and the sound recorded, which resulted in otherworldly rumblings, hissing, buzzing and crunching – even the odd chord strangely enough, and of course, the soundtrack quickly achieved cu…

Private edition limited to 200 copies "A documentation of Charlotte Moorman activities as a performer is generally available only on the iconographic level in various catalogues which documents the crucial intersection with the work of Nam June Paik or the association with events connected to the Fluxus movement. One of Charlotte Moorman's more substantial merits is having consciously reversed the traditional role of the virtuoso performer on her own instrument, uncovering by this overturning on…

Originally released on the Barooni label and sold out since a long time. Charlemagne palestine and Alga Marghen have decided to make the two cds available in a new 2cd set edition. The cds are a new print of the original ones, both included in a newly designed slipcase. Godbear. Flying. In the stratosphere of the overtones. Turn out the lights. Close your eyes. Trance out. Into SONORAMAGNIFICATALAND. Pushed by Remy Martin cognac, the piano would replay the encoded performances exactly in three p…

“Charlemagne Palestine made recordings of the Jamaica Day parade in New York City - where people from Jamaica, Guyana, Cuba, Haiti and other places come to dance, sing, eat and drink. These field recordings of shouting people, passing parade floats and helicopters hovering overhead are interwoven with the electronic sonorities. Together they give a completely new dimension to Charlemagne’s work: Jamaica Heinekens in Brooklyn is colorful, exciting, trance enducing and it slowly unfolds into a mag…

Site Specific Sound documents a series of sound installations from 1998 to 2002 by sound-artist and writer Brandon LaBelle. Each installation was created as part of the Beyond Music Sound Festival in Los Angeles, an annual festival on sound practice at Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center. Functioning site-specifically, and drawing upon the architectural structure of the building, the installations explore the relationship between sound and space by staging social and spatial interventions. In do…

one of his best and inspiring work, along with a huge book documenting the CD's vocal poems.

the third title in the heidsieck “singles” series, released in april 2005 & consisting of a single piece from 1967/1968. of the three “singles” mixing found-sound-effects against a high edit-per-second ratio of heidseick’s ululations...a part impossible to circumvent of bernard heidsieck in a book which in offer also lcoute via cd. uvre proclamation made up in 1968, couper is not to play proposed the theoretical bases and the practical application of writings of assembly using the practices dins…

zonked 1974 recording of an extended “sound-letter to brion gysin” by pioneering sound-poet Bernard Heidsieck, here aided on voice by françoise janicot, laurence lacina, ricky stein, and recently unearthed musician ariel kalma (via beta-lactam ring’s reissue of his “osmose” lp) on saxophone.The levels of insanity get pretty damn high on this one (listen to the sound sample!) with un-related sound-events firing off in each of the stereo channels for the duration. Parts echo the spiritual highs of…

Edition of 200 signed copies.

One-sided LP in an edition of 345 copies. "The new Ben Patterson piece, issued on Alga Marghen's VocSon series, is based on the basic principles of the polyphonic music of the Bantu tribes of West and Central Africa. First principle: the practice of interlocking individual pitches or tones performed by one person into spaces between other pitches or tones performed by another person, thus alternating pitches or tones of one part with those of another part to create a whole. Second principle: use…

First collaboration between Tietchens & Mueller, the man behind thefabulous crouton music label. On '7 stücke' Tietchens has reworked Mueller's drum head sounds and formed them into a subtle yawning, moving and buzzing soundstream. a beautiful work, creating a language totally its own. Limited to 500 copies.

Printed score of Giya Kancheli's 18 Miniatures for Viola and Piano, based on themes from his incidental music for films and plays. Two A4 books, score (48 pages) and viola part (20 pages), sold by ECM.

Spanish translation by Richard Gross of Wolfgang Sandner's biography of Keith Jarrett, first published in German in 2015, covering his early years, his work with Blakey, Lloyd and Davis, and his ECM recordings. Libros del Kultrum, 2019, softcover, 315 pages.

Printed score of Giya Kancheli's 12 Miniatures for Voice and Piano, songs based on themes from his film and theatre music with Georgian lyrics by Ia Sakandelidze. Published 2016, A4, 40 pages, texts in Georgian and English.