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Roma
**Edition of 200, sold out at source** For Romani musicians, music and life are often opposite sides of the same coin; much like a bridge, with its above, where people walk, and its below, which is mostly hidden to the view. Roma is an imaginary line, made of sound, that runs perpendicular to the horizontal, physical axis of a bridge, subtly trying to oppose, deny, and overturn this flat polarity.Roma is a limited edition of 200 signed and numbered vinyl records by the artist Giorgio Andreotta C…
The Conversation
**Edition of 200, sold out at source** The edition consists of a one-sided vinyl, including a track written by the artist herself for the performance interpreted by a deaf man who reprocesses the music detected only through vibrations, using the Italian sign language. The Conversation extends the concept of artistic and musical performance by addressing new relations among music, noise, deaf culture and the very act of listening. Francesca Grilli’s research is indeed often focused on human commu…
Carillon
This LP documents two compositions that are part of Olaf Nicolai’s work Carillon: Isabel Mundry’s Outisde In, a piece for 15 cowbells, and Carillon, the field recording of a freeform composition created by 15 grazing cows.Carillon was conceived for Museion in Bolzano on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the new museum building. The first step was the production of 15 cowbells especially for this purpose. Each cowbell is different and has its own unique sound. Nicolai had commissioned the c…
My Heart's In My Hand, And My Hand Is Pierced, And My Hand's In
**in stock, very last ones** This double LP, released by NERO magazine and Shady Lane Productions, gathers selected materials, both texts and audio recordings, from Phil Collins's project of the same name, for which Collins collaborated with guests of Gulliver, a self-described "survival station for the homeless" in Cologne, Germany. There, Collins installed a phone booth for free and unlimited local and international calls, on the condition that the conversations would be recorded and ano…