Maggot Brain #19 (Dec/Jan/Feb 2025)
"On the Cover: The Velvet Underground -- Lost in Sound -- Multiple features on your favorite band, with rare images and cool ephemera throughout. Here Come The Tapes: A Guide To The Velvet Underground's Live Tape Stash by Tyler Wilcox.
Plus, full length reviews of new reissues of cassette tapes by ur-VU drummer Angus MacLise, and a lengthy appreciation by Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Light in the Attic's excellent pre-VU Lou Reed set.
Killer Content: "TV on the Radio and the Magic Negro Myth." M…
Selected Recordings from Grapefruit
For the first time a full album with recordings based on Yoko Ono’s 1964 collection of texts, event scores and drawings “Grapefruit”, a foundational cornerstone of what became known as conceptual art, and enveloping the orbits of Fluxus and experimental music. Performed by The Great Learning Orchestra which has during the 25 years of its existence worked with Gavin Bryars, Terry Riley, Pauline Oliveros, J.g. Thirlwell, Arnold Dreyblatt a.o.
Originally self-published in 1964 in a limited edition …
Klangskulpturen
Rare fully illustrated catalogue of installations and performances by the great Alvin Lucier published in 1991 by daadgalerie.
Enclosure 4: Harry Partch (VHS)
Fourth installment of Innova's documentation of seminal American Avant-garde composer Harry Partch's work. A rare VHS presenting a 1971 film version of Partch's major dramatic work Delusion of the Fury.
Enclosure 1 (VHS)
First installment of Innova's documentation of seminal American Avant-garde composer Harry Partch's work. A rare VHS presenting four historic films.
The Bewitched: A Ballet Satire
Original copy of CRI's 1973 double LP re-issue of Harry Partch alien sounding avant-garde major opus recorded in 1953.
Delusion Of The Fury
Original 1971 firt release on CRI of Harry Partch's monumental opus for an ensemble of unique instruments as a 3xLP box set.
Fourteen-Seven-Ten-Three²
Extremely rare 2006 CD of monumental and radical John Cage late compositions by the Barton Workshop.
Prepared Piano: The First Four Decades (LP)
Uncompromising anthology sounding more musique concrete than piano music. Including Cage, Harrison as well as younger composers and featuring experimental vocalist Joan La Barbara.
Concert Percussion For Orchestra
Rarer Italian mono pressing with different gatefold cover of Time Records LP featuring 1930's/40's seminal compostions for percussion by John Cage, Lou Harrison, Henry Cowell, Amadeo Roldan and William Russell.
Five Hanau Silence
Scarce 1992 book with enclosed EP released in a limited edition of 500 numbered copies.
Etudes Australes, Libro I (N. 1-8)
1978 double LP set on the obscure Italian label I Dischi Dell'Ippopotamo with a landmark performance of John Cages' composition by pianist extraordinnaire Bruno Canino, never re-issued since.
View Vol.II No.1 April, 1979 - Joan Jonas
Scarce first issue of American art/music magazine from 1979 completely devoted to Joan Jonas.
Cheap imitation
The second of the two glorious John Cage albums released by Cramps Records on the unparalleled Nova Musicha series. Superb copy with original innersleeve.
Seasons
Great copy of Yuji Takahashi 1977 solo piano LP on the highly collectable ALM Records woth three John Cage pieces plus J.S. Bach's Toccata No. 2 In C-Minor.
Sonatas and Interludes
Fylkingen first CD re-issue of Yuji Takahashi's landmark performance of Cage's prepared piano masterwork recorded in 1965.
Indeterminacy: New Aspect Of Form In Instrumental And Electronic
Perfect copy of Cage & Tudor's landmark album for Folkways from 1959 released as 2xLP box set with booklet.
The Music of John Cage and Harry Partch
Superb selection of historical recordings (1947 to 1973) of music by two undisputed masters of the American avant-garde.
The City Wears A Slouch Hat
Long out of print 2000 first CD re-issue on Cortical label in an edition limited to 1000 copies of very early John Cage electro-acoustic pieces from the 40's including his collaboration with experimental writer Kenneth Patchen. With OBI.
Maggot Brain #18 (Sep/Oct/Nov 2024)
"On the cover: Grace Jones by Tamara Palmer: Palmer delves into the entire history of this remarkable artist, who will naturally deliver us a stunning cover image. Jones is even more of a one-of-a-kind musician and persona than most of us realize, so we're extra excited to feature her on the cover of this issue. Deep Archival Dives With Living Luminaries -- PULP: Peeling back the onion of time, we are graced with a fine selection of ephemera and rare images from the forthcoming Hat + Beard book …