Reissues
Dinner Music For A Pack Of Hungry Cannibals
A reissue of a great exotica LP, recorded in 1958 and originally appearing in 1961. Dave Harris' only release as a band leader was a magnificent tribute to Raymond Scott, the legendary forerunner of space-age sound.
Afghanistan / Ziegenmarkt
* Edition of 25 copies: 1 x LP Dubplate, double sided A4 score printed on Neobond synthetic paper, full colour poster (297mm x 400mm) 3 x Photo documentation of the Zeigenmarkt aktion printed on Chromoluxkarton paper, 1 x Numbered authentication certificate with credits. All housed in a hand stamped rigid board box with metal corners * Two rare Henning Christiansen works from the eighties. Ziegenmarkt previousely only as a part of the PPHC cassette set (Penultimate Press) in an edition of 100 co…
Reminded by the Instruments. David Tudor's Music (Book)
** 768 Pages | Over 300 illustrations ** David Tudor is remembered today in two guises: as an extraordinary pianist of post-war avant-garde music who worked closely with composers like John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen and as a founding figure of live-electronic music. His early realization of indeterminate graphic scores and his later performances using homemade modular instruments both inspired a whole generation of musicians. But his reticence, his unorthodox approaches, and the diversity …
We Are in Open Circuits. Writings by Nam June Paik (Book)
* Hardcover Edition. Large size, nearly 500 pages * Essays, project plans, and correspondence from across Nam Jun Paik's career, much of it previously out of print or unpublished.
Nam June Paik (1932–2006) is a pivotal figure in the history of modern art. Arguably the most important video artist of all time, and certainly among the most influential and prolific, Paik was a legendary innovator who transformed the electronic moving image into an artist's medium. He wrote incessantly—corresponding …
Stripsody
** Italian Edition. 384 pages ** Stripsody, riedizione del celebre volume pubblicato nel 1966 in occasione del felice incontro artistico tra Cathy Berberian, Eugenio Carmi e Umberto Eco. Si tratta di un libro che illustra pagina dopo pagina, nelle tavole di Eugenio Carmi, il percorso sonoro vocalizzato da Cathy Berberian, usando solo le onomatopee codificate dalla lingua dei fumetti. La voce inconfondibile di Cathy Berberian canta Stripsody – senza più bisogno di musica – fondendosi con le illus…
In Là
Timed in celebration of his 80th birthday, the venerable imprint, Alga Marghen, releases “In Là”, a stunning LP comprising a brand-new work by the groundbreaking English composer Gavin Bryars.
Ocean of Sound
Italian Edition. 384 pages «Negli anni mi è capitato spesso di descrivere Oceano di suono come «uno dei libri di musica più importanti mai scritti» e ogni volta la definizione mi è sembrata fuorviante, imprecisa, non in grado di restituire il respiro di un’opera che, in un impeto di entusiasmo, il mensile «The Wire» arrivò a paragonare nientemeno che alle Città invisibili di Italo Calvino». - dalla prefazione di Valerio Mattioli. La straordinaria storia sonora di David Toop inizia nelle foreste…
Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off: Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past
** 376 Pages, soft cover ** Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off: Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past rethinks the history and socioaesthetics of ambient music as a popular genre with roots in the psychedelic countercultures of the late twentieth century. Victor Szabo reveals how anglophone audio producers and DJs between the mid-1960s and century's end commodified drone- and loop-based records as "ambient audio": slow, spare, spacious audio sold as artful personal media for creating atmosphere, fostering c…
Handmade electronic music. The art of hardware hacking. Second e
** 452 Pages, soft cover ** Nicolas Collins's Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking provides a long-needed, practical, and engaging introduction to the craft of making—as well as creatively cannibalizing—electronic circuits for artistic purposes. With a sense of adventure and no prior knowledge, the reader can subvert the intentions designed into devices such as radios and toys to discover a new sonic world. You will also learn how to make contact microphones, pickups for electr…
Break through in grey room
2023 Restored edition. Clear vinyl. Inspired by the original Industrial Records release of William S. Burroughs’s Nothing Here Now but the Recordings, Belgian record label Sub Rosa worked with Burroughs to release another album: Break Through In Grey Room. Originally compiled in 1986 by producer Bill Rich, the album features Burroughs's experimental recordings from 1961 to 1976, featuring field recordings by Burroughs of the Master Musicians of Jajouka, experimental collaborations with mathemati…
Nothing Here Now but the Recordings
2023 Restored edition. Clear vinyl. In 1980, Genesis P-Orridge and Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson (then of Throbbing Gristle renown) travelled to New York City to meet up at the fortified apartment, known as The Bunker, of famed beat writer and cultural pioneer William S. Burroughs and his executor James Grauerholz to starting the daunting task to compile the experimental sounds works of Burroughs, which, up until that point, had never been heard.
During those visits, Burroughs would play back hi…
By Myself
Huge Tip! This long out-of-print holy grail private press album, originally released by the late Abdul Wadud himself in 1977, is finally being reissued on vinyl. This reissue was originally sanctioned by Abdul himself. Unfortunately, he passed away on August 10, 2022. We thank his family, and particularly his son, Raheem DeVaughn, in assisting us see this masterpiece through to become available on vinyl to a new generation.
There really is no easily comparable album in existence. Abdul Wadud…
Meet The Residents
3 LP set with the 1974 original mono mix (record 1), the 1977 stereo mix (record 2), and outtakes / ephemera (record 3) Formed in the early 1970s, The Residents have now been charting a unique path through the musical landscape for half a century. To commemorate their 50th Anniversary, the group revisit their 'classic' early period, presenting here the first in a series of expanded vinyl reissues featuring previously unreleased and newly rediscovered 1970s material from their ever-expanding arc…
Dangerous
Jinya Disc presents a live concert by New Direction. The album includes the last performance of Action Direct and the last performance of Takayanagi's life. In other words, it is Masayuki Takayanagi's "remaining work". An astounding force set free upon the world, heaving with life and fire, bound to stop even the most seasoned listener dead in their tracks It’s hard to offer a better description than that offered by Japanese free jazz critic Teruto Soejima who wrote "New Direction Unit performa…
Tori Kudo At Goodman 1984-1986
Tori Kudo's live recordings from 1984 to 1986 at Ogikubo good-man will be released on 9 CDs by boid/Voice Of Ghost label on May 19, 2021. The cassette recordings of Tori Kudo's many live performances, mainly at Ogikubo Goodman on the eve of the formation of Maher Shalal Hash Baz and shortly thereafter, have been re-recorded on 9 CDs. In addition to a hand-written index and hand-drawn flyers, this gorgeous box set also includes a DVD of "Maher Shalal Hash Baz" as an enclosed bonus.
Tori Kudo beg…
Michael O'Shea
Michael O’Shea’s sole, breathtaking album ranks among our favourite of all time - yet hardly anyone seems to have heard of it. Produced by Wire’s Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis at the Dome studio in 1982, it’s an utterly singular work of magick meshing myriad, worldly modes into music that rarely fails to reduce us to tears. It’s one of those albums that basically sounds like nothing else - the only record we can draw some parallels is Dariush Dolat-Shahi’s life changing 'Electronic Music, Tar a…
Natibel
**300 copies** Edmony Krater grew up on the side of Morne Rouge in Sainte-Rose, north of Guadeloupe. His mother sang in church, but Edmony was drawn to the sound of Gwo Ka, which was frowned upon but very present in ceremonies or funeral vigils.
As both a fashion designer for the theater and a musician (percussion, trumpet, vocals) in the group Gwakasonné, formed by Robert Oumaou and Georges Troupé, Edmony left Guadeloupe in 1983 to settle in mainland France just after recording their first albu…
Paradise Crick
— Black Vinyl edition — Like a winding system of trails and paths cutting through a digital forest-scape, M. Sage’s Paradise Crick is shaped by time. Full of wonder and charm, designed patiently and from a rich, curious mulch of synthesized and acoustic sound, the versatile American artist and magic realist’s new suite of music is an imaginary destination and a pastoral fantasy that envisions the natural and fabricated worlds as one.
Matthew Sage is a musician, intermedia artist, recording engin…
FRKWYS Vol. 13: Sunergy
“Pacific Blue” on translucent blue vinyl. Expanded LP, containing the previously CD and digital only bonus track "Retrograde"
Quantum Primitiv
Legendary Pink Dots’ frontman Edward Ka-Spel and Modelbau mainman Frans De Waard have been friends for 30 years, yet it took a Global pandemic to light the touch paper for a collaboration. With much the World’s population peeking through closed curtains in surgical masks, Frans sent a few hours of musical ideas to Edward through cyberspace. However there were a few well developed nuggets that Frans wanted to be given special attention. They were the works he had created together with Johan Nÿlan…