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Traubenfleisch
**300 copies** First recording of the grand scale symphony Traubenfleisch (2007-2017) by Hermann Nitsch, performed at the Nitsch Museum, Mistelbach (Austria) on September 2, 2017. Orchestra Klangvereinigung Wien and a new choir formed for the occasion. Directed by Andrea Cusumano. This Double-LP comes in a full-color gatefold sleeve.
Diotima Hat Ihre Lektüre Gewechselt
**300 copies** The 1971 detective audio play Diotima Hat Ihre Lektüre Gewechselt goes back to the records of a murder trial that took place around the turn of the 20th century: two music students were killed upon their own request - because of a love affair - by their piano teacher, who afterwards lacked the courage to shoot himself too, as planned. The court records are read out by two girls in alternation. The text is accompanied by background noise that the listeners can understand in relatio…
Ausgewählte Kurze Hörstücke 1961-1987
**300 copies** Unlike previous Gerhard Rühm editions on Tochnit Aleph which portrayed his phonetic poetry and longform radio-plays, the pieces on Ausgewählte Kurze Hörstücke are more conceptual, actionist, and (mostly) sound-based works recorded between 1961 and 1987. Liner notes by Gerhard Rühm in English and German.
Ère isouienne an 52 : un musicien Lettriste
First ever release of the text-sound pieces by French lettrist artists Gérard-Philippe Broutin (b. 1948). Broutin studied Art History at the University of Paris and the École du Louvre. Alongside other artists such as Maurice Lemaître, Roland Sabatier, Alain Satié, François Poyet or Jean-Pierre Gillard in particular, Broutin meets Isidore Isou in 1968 and from then on participates in most of the events and literary exhibitions of the lettrist movement. His first pictorial works were shown in Mar…
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Smells Like Teen Spirit is premised in a haptic interrogation of each of the label's previous editions. Berlin-based and Mexico City-born multi-disciplinary artist Mario de Vega occupied the gallery space of Rumpsti Pumsti (Musik) for three consecutive days in October 2016 with a hitherto complete Tochnit Aleph catalog, sanding machine, hammer, and recording equipment. Conflating acts of "playing" with destruction, de Vega took to the recorded works and assorted media with his Spartan too…
Six Juxtaposed Works
First release by japanese artist Hideaki Shimada aka Agencement since 2001. "Six Juxtaposed Works“ presents new pieces for violin, viola, cello, electronics and tape. Performed and recorded between 2013 and 2017. Shimada (born 1962) plays violin improvisations since the late 1970’s and formed the Agencement project in the early 1980’s adding electronics and tape-techniques to his play and releasing the first self titled cassette in 1984. Between 1986 and 2001 he published four more Agencem…
Tote rennen - Lieder
Fifth part in the Selten Gehörte Musik reissue series. Recorded by Dieter Roth and Oswald Wiener at Mosfellssveit, Iceland, May 28 - 30, 1976. Packaged in fullcolour LP cover (reproduction of the original), with printed innersleeve featuring a new text about “Tote Rennen Lieder” by Michel Roth (with the English translation as an insert), as well as a rare drawing / “liner notes” by Dieter Roth. Edition of 500 copies. “The tense relationship between Wiener and Roth, borne by great mutual admirati…
Sprachmusik
New electro-acoustic text-sound composition by Berlin based fine artist Stefan Roigk. The radio play like combination of poetic lectures, vocals treatments, concrete sounds and deep vocal drones is based on several live recordings an performances made between 2012 and 2015.
Streichquartett in 4 Sätzen
Recording of the first performance of the original 60 minute version of this new composition for string quartet in 4 parts. Recorded at the Hermann Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, 2016. Fullcolour 6-panel digipak. Edition of 300 copies.
Grand orchestra
Grand Orchestra, for mixed orchestra and bagpipes. Composed and directed by Reinhold Friedl. Performed by zeitkratzer & guest at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, August 21, 2011. The score for Grand Orchestra has been developed for musicians, laymen, old people, children, adolescents, for anyone who likes to join in. Grand Orchestra is not for education. It's not about explaining, intellectual understanding or the training of cultural values; rather it's about having faith in the abilities an…
6. Sinfonie
Edition of 500 copies Double-CD of Hermann Nitsch’s Sixth Symphony for large orchestra performed and recorded November 1, 1980 at Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna. Packaged in big 2CD jewel-case with 12 page booklet. "Hermann Nitsch is looked upon as the true successor of the great masters of symphony: Beethoven, Bruckner, and Mahler. He draws from Scriabin's, Schoenberg's, and Webern's experience, however, comes up with different conclusions than their (sanctioned) successors. That is to say…
Ewig gruen
Edition of 270 copies. Fullcolour cover and innersleeve by Dorothy Iannone. "When I was living in France in 1975, I made an audio cassette singing some lines from a famous German song: 'Wenn keiner treu Dir bliebe, ich bleib Dir ewig grün, Du meine alte Liebe, Berlin bleibt doch Berlin.' [When no one stays by you, I'll remain forever true, my old love, you, Berlin will always stay Berlin.]Maybe the song was on my mind because I had just received the news that I had been awarded a DAAD artist gra…
Orgelkonzert Berlin 2016
Recording of Hermann Nitsch's pipe organ concert, Berlin, January 22, 2016. "Hermann Nitsch is looked upon as the true successor the great masters of symphony: Beethoven, Bruckner and Mahler. He draws from Scriabin's, Schoenberg's and Webern's experience, however comes up with different conclusions than their (sanctioned) successors. That is to say: Nitsch disregards Webern's analysis of music. Unlike others he does not attempt to advance atonal music with methods that should be handed over to s…
Streichquartett 558171 (Romenthalquartett)
Fourth part in the Selten Gehörte Musik reissue series. Two CD’s packaged in illustrated 12“ LP gatefold-sleeve. Edition of 500 copies. "The next 'Rarely heard music' production was staged once again in a private setting: at Hermann Nitsch’s Villa Romenthal by Lake Ammer on 12th February 1975:with Günter BRUS, Hermann NITSCH, Dieter ROTH and Gerhard RÜHM, which filled all of a three album boxed set. Although originally we had simply made a selection of the recorded material large enough to…
A Fluxus Essay
Dorothy Iannone (b.1933) tells her Fluxus Story. Recorded in Berlin in 1979. Edition of 300 copies. CD with 20-page A4 offset-printed booklet. "There, Maciunas and I looked deeply but impassively into each other’s eyes, not knowing then that we would meet again on these pages. Perhaps he was thinking, “Who is this woman?”. Perhaps it might even have amused him, somewhere far back in his mind, to know that I am she who is the Fluxus women artist who is not the Fluxus women artist.“Dorothy Iannone…
Vier Politische Kompositionen Fur Tonband
Four political tape compositions 1976-1979 by Swiss composer Max E.Keller (b.1947). A rare case of left-wing / socialist electroacoustic music. The CD includes Keller's piece from the long out-of-print and sort of legendary Split-LP with Martin Schwarzenlander from 1977 plus 3 previously unreleased tape compositions. Max E. Keller originally started out as one of the first Swiss Free-Jazz musicians in the mid 1960's and studied composition with Hans Ulrich Lehmann and Helmut Lachenmann, and elec…
Sinfonie fur Mexico City
First release of Hermann Nitsch’s Symphony for Mexico City, his most recent & massive work, recorded February 27, 2015 at Museo ExTeresa Arte Actual. Mexico City. Performed by Ensemble [LIMINAR] and Students of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música. Conducted by Andrea Cusumano.
“in fact i only want to cause that great state in which one gets goose pimples, when painfully unfathomable shudders of happiness run through one with pleasure in the pain,(…) the basic movement, the ‘basic power’ …
Lullaby For The Fishes
Milestone reissue!! Here's the much needed reprint of Rolf Julius’ first and only (and almost impossible to find) LP from 1985 / Rolf Julius was the archetypal “sound artist“. He painted with sound, he colored with pitch, and his work demands the attention and open-mindedness of those who embrace modern art. He collected found sounds, and mixed them with prerecorded single tone notes which were then, electronically modified and filtered through tiny loudspeakers, transformed into music. De…
Gour
New works by Swiss musique concrete composer and visual artist Marc Zeier / G*Park. Active since the early 80's Zeier was a founding member of the Schimpfluch-Gruppe. He lives and works in Zürich as a composer, installation- and video-artist and plankton fisherman. Gour presents one long composition of his highly fascinating and unique crypto electro-acoustics based solely of micro field-recordings and natural phenomena. 'Musique concrete seems eternally old-fashioned and eternally modern…
Das Munchner Konzert 1974
Third part in the reissue series of all Selten Gehörte Musik records. This is the Münchner Konzert 1974 performed by all-star artist line-up of Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Oswald Wiener, Hermann Nitsch and Günter Brus. Originally published as a 3LP-Box by Hansjörg Mayer in 1975. Now reissued as a double-CD set, packaged in illustrated LP-Gatefold sleeve (reproduction of the original artwork), with printed innersleeve and a reprint of the original fullcolour concert-poster by Günter Brus. Edi…