Sonatas And Interludes For Prepared Piano (2LP)
Cage's very rare first album of his landmark 1946-48 compositions performed by Maro Ajemian, released as a double LP set on Dial Records in 1951, it can't get more seminal than this. An essential piece of history in embossed heavy cardboard gatefold sleeve with stickers.
John Cage / Kenneth Patchen (LP)
Very rare ultra-limited first release from 1988 on RRRip of very early electro-acoustic pieces from the 1940's including the collaboration with experimental writer Kenneth Patchen.
John Cage / Christian Wolff (LP)
1970 re-issue on Mainstream of the 1963 split LP on Time Records experimental music series curated by Earl Brown, with Cage's 1960 wild noise/industrial (20 years in advance) electronic piece performed with David Tudor, backed with three compostions by Wolff for duet and string quartet. Essential.
Variations IV (LP)
First volume of excerpts from the ground-breaking and mind-blowing August 1965 sound collage performance (predating Nurse With Wound and Bladder Flask for about 15 years), released by Everest in 1966 (this is a 1970 re-press with different labels). Essential.
Variations IV Volume II (LP)
Second volume of excerpts from the ground-breaking and mind-blowing August 1965 sound collage performance (predating Nurse With Wound and Bladder Flask for about 15 years), released by Everest in 1969 (this is a 1970 re-press with different labels). Essential.
Microphone (LP)
The astonishing and influential first solo electronic album by the pianist/composer and one of the rarest on Cramps' superlative "Nova musicha" experimental music series, released in 1978. Some of the best and most extreme electronic music ever.
Music For Merce Cunningham / Dialects / Untitled (LP)
Rare 1998 red vinyl LP on Rotating Arts Press in a limited edition of 200 numbered copies with an undated recording of a satellite broadcast of the electronic environment for a live event by Merce Cunningham, plus two 1988 live radio recording.
All the mess
"Take out this tape and press ‘play’ my darlings. Remember when you were a child? Remember that deep immersive play you almost fell into? Be prepared to fall again oh sweetness. Slithering breath becomes iced molasses on “Moon bear water.” A voice-within-a-voice daydream hums with toothy sibilance. Yellow synths crackle like fire, the most ancient of all musics. Rules-based organisations quake at the critique of “All the mess.” Blunt stabs of fizzing electricity reach an ever-sustaining peak lik…
John Cage (LP)
The first album on Cramps' superlative "Nova musicha" experimental music series released in 1974, presenting pieces for piano, voice and radio noises spanning from 1947 to 1971, performed by an all-star cast including Walter Marchetti, Demetrio Stratos, Juan Hidalgo and Gianni-Emilio Simonetti.
Empty Words Part IV (2LP)
Rare 1987 double LP on Edition Michael Frauenlob Bauer with the composer himself performing his 1970's text-composition recorded live in 1984. Truly extreme stuff.
Empty Words - Parte III (2CD)
2011 re-issue on Ampersand of the 1990 2CD set with the legendary extreme live vocal performance by the composer in Milano in 1977, which caused quite a riot. With slipcase.
John Cage (Book)
Rare first catalogue of Cage’s works published by Peters & Henman Press in 1962.
Diary: How To Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) Continued Part Three (book)
Rare first edition of Cage's 1967 artist book with multi-colored text, published by Something Else Press in 1967.
Per gli Uccelli (book)
Italian edition of the 1976 book of conversations with Daniel Charles, translated by Walter Marchetti and published by Multhipla in 1977.
Sounday 15-6-78 (book)
Rare fully illustrated hommage to the composer published as the program for the 1978 première and recording of Sounday by KRO Radio in Holland, with texts by Pierre Boulez, Merce Cunningham, David Tudor, Christian Wolff, etc..
View Vol.I No.1 April, 1978 - John Cage (magazine)
First issue of American art/music magazine published by Crown Point Press in 1978 completely devoted to John Cage.
Happy Birthday, a Year from Cage (book)
Thick program for the 2002 series of concerts and events around John Cage organized in Milano for the composer’s 90th birthday.
Music Sound Language Theater (book)
Illustrated exhibition catalogue published by Crown Point Press in 1980 with several essays on Cage, Marioni, Barry and Jonas.
Ausstellung un konzert John Cage April/Mai 1978 (poster)
Rare poster for a series of exhibitions and concerts by Cage through Germany in 1978, ilustrated with the score of Variations VIII.
Five Hanau Silence (7" + book)
1992 book with enclosed EP released by KomistA in a limited edition of 500 numbered copies with performances of Cage composition by Sterneck and KomistA.