Reissues
cool jojo
Third volume in a series of Takayanagi reissues on this Japanese jazz label. As with the prior Free Form Suite, this features super deluxe hardbound book-like packaging and "extended resolution CD" sound. First reissue of this obscure album, original…
Tempo Furioso
RESTOCKED The extraordinary Cramps label classic. Stockhausen meets Luc Ferrari & a hint of Xenakis. This breaks all the rules & invents new cross-genre concoctions, atmospheric to wild to totally perplexing! Five stars, groundbreaking record. Beauti…
press my hungry button
A selection of the best work of Cultural Amnesia spanning 1980--1983. Includes remastered tracks from their three released cassette albums and from compilations. Nearly half the tracks are previously unreleased, including pieces from two unfinished l…
Shanked And Slithering
"Nearly 80 minutes of the most animalistic and violent industrial noise to ever crack the crust of the earth. Compiles and reworks early and unreleased out of print noise classics as well as brand new noise aberrations. For fans of early Controlled B…
Musiques Machinales
1 copy only, long out of print - for many years, Pierre BASTIEN has developed his personal music based on musical machines made with Mecano. His orchestra MECANIUM is his backing band both on album and on stage. All this creates a tender, delicate an…
Tape Works of Kuniharu Akiyama. Obscure Tape Music of Japan vol. 006
Kuniharu Akiyama (1929-1996) was well-known as a music critic, mainly of modern and contemporary music. However, his career was not only in the music field -- he was also a very well-regarded avant-garde artist (he especially related to the early Flu…
Cosmos of Toshi Ichiyanagi III-1960\'s & 1990\'s
'Music For Electric Metronomes' (1960). 'For Strings' (1961) + 'Music For Piano No. 4' (1960) + 'Music For Piano No. 6' (1961) simultaneous performance. 'Duet' (1961). 'Parallel Music' (1962). 'Symphony No. 5 'Time Perspective' (1997). 'Piano Concert…
Medium II, Cogito
An expanded version of the previous rz LP by Christou. All works by Christou, the late, legendary "freely-atonal" Greek composer. Features: "Enantiodromia" (1965-68, for orchestra); "Praxis" (1966-69, for string orchestra and piano), "Epicycle" (1968…
Pictures of Pictures from Pictures of Pictures (1975-1979)
Rare and long out of print LP...This album, featuring solo piano compositions, was released in 1983. The work draws inspiration from Modest Moussorgsky's 1874 composition "Pictures at an Exhibition," which was based on ten etchings. Klaus Peter Brehm…
Klavierduett: In memoriam George Maciunas
Signed Copy. Original and very rare now, a double LP published by Edition Block, Germany. In 1978 George Maciunas, founder and chairman of FLUXUS, died in New York at the age of 47. In invert of these numbers the duration of the piano-duett, performe…
Up from Zero
Originally released in 1982 on cassette (Aeroplane Records AR3, UK), Up From Zero was David Jackman's third album of compositions. Integrating tapes, loops, shortwave radio signals, guitar tones, voice and a host of percussion elements, each piece ac…
pieces
Third archival MEV release on Allan Bryant's label. The first track, 'Quadrupl Play', is a piece for rubberbands recorded in 1966 by Allen Bryant. It can be described as 'variations on melody' and was played at the first MEV concerts in St. Paul du V…
untitled (1968)
A previously unreleased document of MEV -- four sections of an improvisation recorded in London, 1968, spread out over 43 minutes. The line up was Bryant (synthesizer), Alvin Curran (trumpet, percussion), Frederick Rzewski (amplified percussion, sing…
Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band All Night Flight
Possibly the best currently available recording of Terry Riley's solo saxophone/organ/time-lag accumulator improvisations (for just the organ/time-lag, make a b-line to “persian surgery dervishes”), recorded in concert in buffalo, ny in the waning da…
Reed Streams
This CD represents the first album by Terry Riley, originally released in 1966, as well as the first recordings Riley made using his two personal Revox reel-to-reel tape machines (or 'Time Lag Accumulators') later heard on his groundbreaking Poppy No…
Les Yeux Fermés & Lifespan
After changing the world in the late '60s with In C and A Rainbow in Curved Air, legendary American composer and father of minimalism Terry Riley abandoned tape manipulation and written composition to concentrate on longform keyboard cycles and impro…
Lament For The Rise and Fall of the Elephantine Crocodile
2014 repress! Finally, a CD reissue of Yoshi Wada's most important and most rare LP, Lament For The Rise And Fall Of The Elephantine Crocodile, originally released in 1982 on the India Navigation label. Yoshi Wada is a Japanese sound installation a…
Ohm+ : The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music : 1948 - 1980
met with critical acclaim, this award-winning box set celebrated the composers and inventors who led the electronic music revolution. Five years later due to continued demand from passionate aficionados (eBay sales at $150, etc.) we're now re-releasi…
Rainforest
Two versions of David Tudor's electronic environment masterpiece, the first performed in 1968 by Tudor and Takehisa Kosugi for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; the 2nd is an electro-acoustic environment from 1973. "'Rainforest' blends music and sc…
Live At Lace
This album was originally recorded and released as an LP in 1978; Airway was a group featuring Joe Potts, Chip Chapman, Rick Potts, Dennis Duck, Juan Gomez and Tom Recchion. Live At Lacewas later included in the Cortical Foundation/RRR 10CD LAFMS box…