★Creel Pone
Elektronische Musik Elektronische + Phonetische Kompositionen (4
2017 "upgrade" of this early Creel Pone title; this replica edition includes all of the material from Reinhold Weber's two Corona-label LPs, "Elektronische Musik" & "Elektronische + Phonetische Kompositionen" - Creel Pones #009 & #099, respectively - along with everything from his two later Sound Star Ton LPs (again) "Elektronische Musik" & "Computermusik", all on four separate discs. Those who have already acquired the first two titles in earlier sweeps can simply purchase the CP 009-099.2 pack…
Le Robot, Symphonie Rouge, Symphonie Jaune
2018 edition. As I understand it, in the short history of Creel Pone thus far, there have been a few candidates for replication that were refused simply on the grounds that the music within fell outside of the “Core” EAI - or "Era of Interest" - represented by the series: 1948 - 1981; those dates on the foil-seal. Why these specific dates, you ask? Well, on October 5th, 1948, the ORTF broadcast Pierre Schaeffer’s “Cinq Etudes de Bruits,” hailed by many as the birth-date of Musique Concrète and s…
A Sound Work To Accompany
Issued privately in 1972 by Toronto's Carmen Lamanna Gallery following an Autumn 1970 exhibition, this "Sound Work" by Sculptor Robin MacKenzie is a wonder of simplicity. Presenting a series of unadorned Sound Events - the approaches & recessions of single vehicles on what sounds like a lonely stretch of the 403 at 3am, then the Composer's footsteps similarly walking toward & away from the microphone's singular vantage point - in a manner befitting both the storied "Sounds of the Junkyard" Folk…
Elektron Musik Studion, Dokumentation 1-4
2018 repress. Issued privately by Stockholm’s "Elektron Musik Studion” (EMS)
between 1966 & 1973, the four “Dokumentation” LPs were something of a
seasonal report card of the studio’s charter output, “internally”
issuing key early works. Composers Ralph Lundsten
& Leo Nilsen - whose side-length “Aloha Arita” & “Kalejdoskop”
have only been issued in severely excerpted form in the interim, -
Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Bengt Emil Johnson, Jan W. Morthenson, Arne
Mellnäs, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, and Sv…
Electro/Acoustic, The Referee Has Vanished, Zaat
Lovely set of tape-music by composer Jack Tamul, issued in 1980
by Spectrum - not the Wergo sub-label, but the same Bear Mountain-area
powerhouse that released William Hoskins’ “Galactic Fantasy” &
William Strickland’s “An Electronic Visit to the Zoo” the year prior -
“recorded at the Jacksonville Museum of Arts & Sciences."Starting with a series of pieces incorporating acoustic
materials: “Genesis” is a choir piece peppered with synthesizer &
tape-manipulation; “Lament for Gettysburg” is …
Keyboard Music
Handy, double-pack reproduction offering a pair of Compilations on the Greek Music Box label, the first comprised of key Magnetic Tape & Spectral Computer Music pieces by Iannis Xenakis, Dimitris Kamarotos, Xaris Xanthoudakis, & Vasilis Riziotis, the latter of, essentially, Dark Ambient & assorted "Wave" & "Age" fare by Vangelis Katsoulis, Lena Platonos, "Antitheseis" alum Michael Grigoriou, & Minas Alexiades, each on its own disc inside a "Gatefold" booklet. Released pretty much back-to-back - …
Electronic Music from York
On the Creel Pone short-list for easily as long as #200's William S. Fischer title, this 1973 compilation of music, all composed at York University's Electronic Music Studio during the late 60s & early 70s has been a real white whale for ages & ages, until composer Martin Wesley-Smith's personal copy landed (literally) in the lap of the core C.P. cognoscenti earlier this year. Consisting of three sides (1, 3, 5, appearing here as disc one) of music by resident composers, staff, and hangers-on at…
Radiophonic Tape Compositions
Replica edition of this impossible-to-find, internal compilation of
early-mid-80s Australian Tape Collage & Digital Assemblage, issued
privately by Sydney Classical radio station 2MBS & consisting of
five extended pieces; one each by Composers Peter Mumme, Peter Schaefer,
Robert Douglas, Jon Rose, & Michael Hannan. There is a fair
deal of the Fairlight's timbral & formal palette across the album's
otherwise conceptually disparate offerings; understandable given
the era & geographic associ…
Soliloque I, Soliloque IV, Match, Antifonia
Nicolae Brînduș was born in Bucharest in 1935 and swiftly
matriculated through his studies in Piano & Composition at
the National University of Music before embarking on the life-changing
seminars at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt
throughout the late 60s & early 70s; even working at Ircam for a
spell in the mid-1980s. How this formative music, composed & recorded largely during his
Darmstadt phase, has remained so relatively unknown is insane to me; it
has all of…
Ciclul „Cosmofonie”
The second title in Creel Pone's 23x survey of Romanian Early
Electronic Music, offering both pieces from the lone Electrecord LP by
Composer Dinu Petrescu, along with a composition from one of the many
Corul Madrigal offerings, here conducted by Marin Constantin. "Space Doina", or possibly "Doina Space (1978)", "music
for symphony orchestra, mixed choir, children's choir, synthesizer,
magnetic tape and electronic modulation" starts off with a gaseous drone
of distant reverberance, seguei…
Groupe De Recherches Musicales
This is the last of the 199.x titles, a great diversion
into those that were endlessly divisive amongst the C.P. cabal; so much
so that common ground had to be carved out & explored... I'd heard legend of this internal-issue-only "White Label" GRM
compilation, from trusted source "Ravi" Ben, of La Dame Blanche fame,
but had never heard nor seen a copy until one literally landed in my lap
at a soirée recently. Largely consisting of alternative & revised
versions of prime 1973-era GRM pieces…
Maté/Vallancien
One thing I've learned as I've grown and progressed
through music is that there is an incredible wealth of largely
unheralded & seldom-heard music buried deep in the expansive Saravah
catalogue, largely due to the street-level largesse of in-house
engineer Daniel Vallencien, who aside from engineering a large portion
of the canonic BYG catalogue - Don Cherry, Anthony Braxton, Musica
Elettronica Viva, Sonny Sharrock, Sunny Murray, etc. - was crucial in
the development of the label's sound …
Magnetic Fields
Reproduction of this obscure 1977 Private Press stunner
by Extradition, Company Caine, & Phyl Vinnecombe sideman & early
18th Century Quartet member Stephen Dunstan, a key part of Australia's
Electronic Music history alongside Val Stephen, Bruce Clarke, Keith
Humble, Felix Werder, & Ian Bonighton. Steve was a tragic figure; operating across multiple disciplines
before disappearing under suspicious circumstances in the mid-80s while
out retrieving a Moog Modular system, Dunstan was both a c…
Hardscore
C.P. reproduction of this obscure early 80s affair between the GRM-aligned French Composer Michel Redolfi and venerable Free Sax proponent André Jaume. Featuring easily the worst cover imaginable (hence its appearance in the maligned 199.x serié) this two-part suite is actually a hidden gem of rogue Acoustic-Electronic interplay & tight, blocky Concrète moves, heavily featuring Redolfi's Synclavier interjections.
The A-Side's Jaume-led suite features a quartet w/ Jean-Marc Montera on gui…
Kavafis Songs, Antiphonies
ncredible, unheralded set of music by Νικηφόρος Ρώτας (Nikiforos Rotas), incorporating Electronic & Experimental modes into mid-70s Éntekhno & Sound-Poetry forms.The first record, "Τραγούδια Καβάφη" (Kavafis Songs) sets works by early 20th Century Alexandrian poet Constantine P. Cavafy to music. Much in the vein of "Works of Electronic Music" contributor Thanos Mikroutsikos' experiments formulating a more Avant-Garde strain of Éntekhno from the mid-70s onwards, Rotas' use of non-musical sounds, …
Smog, Musique Electroacoustique
Despite the all-time top-ten C.P. GOAT title "Greek Electronic Music-1" & it's counterpart "Works of Electronic Music", the series has seen precious little Greek Early Electronic Music. Attempts to secure copies of key Nikiforos Rotas, Nikos Mamagakis, & Dragatakis Koutouki sides have been futile for some time, until one of the key C.P. cabal struck gold in the form of this epic double-LP Tape Music suite by Greek Composer Kyriakos Sfetsas, released alongside the two Roland Hollinger LPs on the …
Electronic Etudes (Op 18) Songs For Synthesized Soprano (Op 19)
Issued on the Composer's Private Doria imprint in 1982 & featuring two side-length suites of music; "Electronic Etudes (Op. 18)" & "Songs For Synthesized Soprano (Op. 19)" this debut LP of music by American Composer & Improvising Thereminist Eric Ross was well off of my radar until one of the core C.P. Cabal brought it to light.Featuring a salacious bevy of instrumentation: Buchla 200, Serge Modular, Moog III, Moog 10, Brewer Custom Synthesizer, Theremin, etc. this set transposes & processes aco…
The First See + Hear, Oh See Can You Say
Amazingly well-timed compendium of See/Hear 1 & 2, both released exactly 49 years ago this month (well, going on 50 actually, in September 1968; this one's been in the works for a few months, mainly due to the insanely effort-oriented reproduction of all of the printed ephemera present in the inner pocket of "The First See + Hear" - all recreated here in perfect 5/12 scale in the form of ten separate inserts grouped into four "folios") &, other than Bill Bissett & Th Mandan Massacre's canonic "A…
Synthetik 1
Here’s inarguably the Holy Grail of the tri-section of the Krautrock / Düsseldorf-school / experimental-electronic crossroads; the sole ”Private Issue” 1973 LP, documenting “Elektronische Musik” as recorded between “1971 bis 1973” by Wolf-J & Eckart Seesselberg. I have long seen this titanic set as so much more than a mere footnote in the “Electronic Psych” canon; if anything, the free-wheeling, free-form live-electronic blasting that ensues pretty much from the onset obliterates the majority of…
Percussion und Elektronik
Quite hard-to-find - I've had the original on my personal wantlist for ages - set of "Percussion und Elektronik" works from German Composer Klaus Hashagen, notable for being the only non-Roland Kayn Electronic title on Colosseum - the label that issued the latter's run of mammoth LP boxes.On the surface a square, Academic "Drumsploitation" number, this is in fact a beast of pointillist Live-Electronics; the A-side's opening number "Percussion VI - musik für tonband (1959-1973)" offers a fine moo…