Sound Art / Outsider Art

* The two recent Holidays Records releases in a special discounted bundle. Edition of 100 copies * Lullabies wrote and sang for, with, and by their son Arion. Composed and recorded by Jonida Prifti and Stefano Di Trapani. Produced by Antonio Giannatonio and Acchiappashpirt. Edited by Antonio Giannatonio. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Cover artwork by Re Delle Aringhe. Jonida Prifti: vocals, toy keyboards. Stefano Di Trapani: gears, field recordings, Casiotone, piano, vocals. Special vocals: Arion…

Temporary Super Offer! The legendary French painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet exalted naivety and spontaneity in visual art, and his brazenly experimental recordings on Musical Experiences evince the same spirit through sound. He once reflected, "Certain unexpected windfalls ... come of improvising on an instrument one doesn't really know how to use."Dubuffet, who famously founded the art brut (or outsider art) movement, began making music in the early 1960s with avant-garde figure Asger Jorn. …

Edition of 100 copies. A travel diary, in sound. Ezio Piermattei: tapes, field recordings, voice, harmonica, organ, bells, objects, piano, etc. Recorded in Tallinn, Scanno, Helsinki, Santo Stefano di Sessanio, Vilnius, Rosello, Brighton, Campo Imperatore, Jūrmala, Barreiro, Ortona, Budapest, Civitella Alfedena. Many thanks for their contributions to: Mamma, Nonna, Barbara Gileno, Emiliano Tenaglia, Angelo Barbati, Paola Marcocchia, Felice Sciorilli, Meridiana Barbati. Unintentional appearances: …

Edition of 100 copies. Lullabies wrote and sang for, with, and by their son Arion. Composed and recorded by Jonida Prifti and Stefano Di Trapani. Produced by Antonio Giannatonio and Acchiappashpirt. Edited by Antonio Giannatonio. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Cover artwork by Re Delle Aringhe. Jonida Prifti: vocals, toy keyboards. Stefano Di Trapani: gears, field recordings, Casiotone, piano, vocals. Special vocals: Arion. Includes "Ai miei figli e ai miei nipoti", a poem by Dania De Vincenzi.

Larry Wendt (b. 1946, Napa California) began creating artistic text-sound compositions in San Jose, California in the mid 70’s and was a proponent of the use of "low-tech" and "repurposed" electronics. He was also among the early designers and users of “hand-built,” microprocessor-based, sound manipulation equipment to use in the production of his recorded work as well as in his on-stage performances. Active in the audio cassette culture of that time, many of his works were released and distribu…

Original 1989 LP, few copies available "Haiku Lingo" is constructed as a narrative musical labyrinth of characters, styles, orchestrations, texts and juxtapositions. The work makes use of Shelley Hirsch's vocal power and flexibility, humor and imaginative language together with David Weinstein's chameleon-powered sampling keyboards and electronics. Hirsch/Weinstein have collaborated regularly since 1985 including staged works "Occidental Dreams Of A Geisha" and "Celebration Of The Obvious", the …

Absurd folklorist Henry Jacobs returns with a selection of rare interviews, odd loops, sales pitches, early synthesizer demos, an ether-infused evening, and more! Produced in San Francisco and New York City, Around The World With Henry Jacobs is a travelogue that continues the story begun with The Wide Weird World of Henry Jacobs, mixing archival material from the 1950s with recent improvisations by Jacobs. Guests include Stan Freberg and Dr. Irwin Corey, with Alan Watts returning for a visit, t…

To celebrate composer Charlie Morrow’s 80th birthday, Recital presents 80 minutes of voice-based recordings in his new album, Chanter. While Morrow’s previous two albums on Recital Toot! Too (2017) and America Lament (2020) focused on chamber and electronic compositions, Chanter covers over 60 years of vocal explorations. Spanning from Charlie’s first ever tape recording Ella (1960) to two intimate chanting improvisations made in 2021 for this CD. Curated by Sean McCann, the dozen tracks which c…

*Edition of 200 copies, comes with insert* Christian Poitevin, artistically known as Julien Blaine, is a poet, visual artist, performer, and editor who has dedicated himself to sound poetry, visual poetry, and mail art. He began to be interested in the relationship between word and image in the early 1960s when he created his first magazine, Les Carnets de l’Octéor. During this time, he also made his first performances, such as Reps elephant 306 where he interviewed a circus elephant. From 1975 …

Matte laminate CD, embossed artwork, insert card and 28 page book. In 1979, Akio Suzuki recorded a performance, ’New Sense Of Hearing’, at the Nagoya American Centre. During the performance, Suzuki used voice, turntables, glass harmonica and his self-designed instrument the Analapos to create a series of improvised pieces that effectively charted out his sonic investigations for the proceeding decades.  In 1980 these recordings were issued by ALM records as Analapos, the first work made publicly…

Edition of 300. Introduction by Henri Chopin. Serbian-Hungarian poet, actress, and visual artist Katalin Ladik has to be considered as one of the most pioneering artists alive. Educated in the former Yugoslavia, Katalin Ladik (Novi Sad, Serbia, 1942) began her career with interventions on Radio Novi Sad (1963–77) and as an actress with the avant-garde theatre group Bosch+Bosch in the city of Subotica (1977–92). Her work is bound to feminist matters in Eastern Europe and reflects the personal, so…

New volume of the Avant Marghen series, an ultra-limited splendid set in a numbered edition of 80 copies. This luxury black boxset edition actually includes the fifth group of 7 LPs previously issued for the VocSon series and now sold out. Each individual LP record includes a numbered Avant Marghen inner-sleeves LP 1) Jean-Louis Brau "Instrumentations verbales" LP. First 80 copies from the original pressing of 350 copies issued in 2010. Jean-Louis Brau (1930-1985) approached everything in an exp…

** 500 copies** Die Tödliche Doris was born out of West Berlin’s lively post-punk community in the early ‘80s. Along with Einstürzende Neubauten, Malaria, Sprung Aus Den Wolken and Frieder Butzmann, Die Tödliche Doris ranks amongst the Geniale Dilletanten – which roughly translates as “ingenious dilettantes” – who sought to democratize cultural productions beyond the grip of both Western capitalism and GDR socialism. The Geniale Dilletanten became synonymous with a free-for-all approach to music…

** Limited edition of 400 copies ** De Nor (‘the can’, or prison, in comic book Dutch) is an open-air venue/sculpture/pavillion at the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp. During its inaugural summer, Elko Blijweert played a live concert there that left an indelible mark on those lucky enough to witness it. What exactly did he do, you ask? Well, Blijweert basicly used the entire garden as an instrument alongside an array of pre-programmed pedals, keyboards, drum machines, guitars, a mandoline, and booz…

Performed with Nell Peto on the occasion of her 12th birthday.  Also features appearances from Amelia Borg, Christine Borg, Alfred Schnittke, Edward Lawrenson and Rialzu.  Recorded at Cafe Oto, London on the evening of the 4th august, 2017 during the 2 day event "Fuck you wheres my sugar". Two nights around the themes of depression and hysteria curated by Lucy Stein and Mark Harwood.  Thanks to Shaun Crook for recording.

In (a, b, c) Ulises Carrión presents one if his early linguistic exercises in English, originally handwritten in green ink in 1972. The author observes and explores the structure of the sonnet. He develops fourteen interrelated sequences, which he uses as a key to codify a narrative. The text of each poem follows the schematic order of its title. His attitude to poetry precluded, to a certain extent, his book The new art of making books: “The text of a book in the new art can be a novel as well …

20 Seconds is an independently published print publication for experimental music and art, based in Berlin. Published twice annually, 20 Seconds features collections of photography, longform journalism, scores, poetry, interviews and more, all captured in an exciting visual format. Contributions for the latest issue come from the likes of Dick Higgins, Felicia Atkinson, Lawrence English, Bogomir Doringer, Anna Jermolaewa and plenty more.

Production Gas (hereinafter, Gas), an anonymous artist group that was active in Nagoya from 1969 to 1974, released a 7-inch LP record, Gas’ Disk, in 1970. It includes four songs; “Gas no Theme (Gas’ Theme),” “Uta (Song),” “Proo” and “Hiren (Sad Love),” and the group name and title was branded on the wooden jacket. This type of self-produced record was referred to as “private record,” “angura (underground) record” or “personal record” at that time. The members contributed money to press 1,000 cop…

Limited 80 copies, numbered. Legendary 1973 recordings by the sound artist Yoichi Niisato. The cassette tape recorder played an important role in Niisato's unusual works  - as the recording of his footsteps in a subway car - through a cicle of works titles 'Research' that were subsequently described in his autobiographical book, Story, which was published in 1982. "The break is over, and I put on my work clothes. Don’t be cool. The hands that hold a drill are singing. There is a feeling of cold,…

Restocked, reduced price Limited 80 copies, numbered. Legendary 1973 recordings by the sound artist Morihiro Wada (1947-2007). When a transition from one articulated time and space to another begins, language is generated as a factor for the first time. When language needs a certain meaning, it means that a beautiful misunderstanding of communication has already begun.I can’t do anything but see a discrepancy between what is actually expressed and me. The greater the discrepancy is…, there is… …

Rarities and ephemera from the life and work of Piero Heliczer—poet, filmmaker, publisher, the Apollinaire of the international ’60s avant-garde

Komare return with a 4 part document recorded during the apocalypse. Limited to 100 copies.

Pairing the "Hommage to Home Electronics"  released by Omega Point, this anthology is an archive containing a large number of unpublished documents, which further extensively covers the extensive experimentality of Veltz.This archive board opens its curtain on the silent track "World is Loud". Although Akira Matsuoka (aka Veltz) often presents a silent approach, this track is an artistic response unique to Veltz towards a modern situation filled with too much information and disturbing air. In a…

Huge Tip! Large format, 400 pages Out of the Grid presents a critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communication strategies across the territory of self publishing. Widely mapping Italian society, particularly youth culture—over an extended period that can be symbolically defined as the "post-movement" and "pre-internet3.0"—, this outpouring of creativity gave v…

Eric as Alain. Philosophical trimmings as unabashed art. Satire isn't mean, it's about being funny. Get in on the joke. Eric as Homer Simpson. Includes 88-page artist's book; Softbound: 8.5″ x 11″. Edition of 170.

Filled with artworks, photos, and memorabilia, this epistolary portrait depicts Wojnarowicz's development as a writer and artist via his heartfelt letters to his Parisian lover.

if Alan Licht ever continues with his revered Minimal Top Ten lists then Sam Esh would surely be added to the pile.  Penultimate Press is proud to release one of the most audacious and unrelenting entries in the entire minimal cannon. A collection of recordings from a true American eccentric maverick pioneer, Sam Esh. Originally available as 2 x cassettes in tiny editions on Mike Rep Hummel’s Old Age / No Age label these are now bound together on a 2CD set which does not interrupt the unrelentin…

Limited edition of 200 copies. Soberly entitled “Dictaphones”, this LP draws on twenty years of archives recorded by Charles Pennequin on mini-cassettes. Spontaneous recordings of his readings, unpublished solitary monologues, vocal and sound experiments, ambient sounds were selected and edited in the studio by the poet, and thought of as a global composition that goes through different registers and eras of his poetry.Charles Pennequin (born 1965 in Cambrai, France) is a writer and performer, a…

Considered one of the most influential contemporary artists, Dieter Roth was consistent in his artistic search for inner self through and produced artworks in the various media, from graphics, drawings, and sculptures, to assemblages / ready-made, sound and music recordings.Dieter Roth's Verlag was founded in 1974 under the name Dieter Roth's Familienverlag and renamed in 1978. The label gradually acquired something of a cult status in the 1970s, and Colette Roper’s “Piano Pieces”, which was rel…

2xLP pressed at RTI inside a tip-on jacket printed at Stoughton. Lacquer cut directly from reel-to-reel by Paul Gold.  Recorded in Lary 7’s legendary apartment studio Plastikville over nearly a decade, Larynx is the first full-length retrospective of the East Village icon’s hybrid music and engineering practice. The record mobilizes 7’s array of homemade instruments, which he ‘frankensteins’ together from offcast and outmoded bits of technology. An ode to the long-lost Canal Street junk shops h…

* Housed in a 6-panel wallet, including a 24-page booklet reproducing the photos, scores, and writings from the original LP, along with a new foreword written by Enzo Minarelli in 2015 * A CD issue of the long unavailable international sound poetry compilation LP, Voooxing Poooêtre. Originally released in 1982, this collection was assembled by Italian sound poet Enzo Minarelli (who has also curated releases on Slowscan and Baobab, in addition to operating the 3Vitre imprint). Comprised of voice…

InOut, a masterpiece for tuning whistle, mouthharps, flutes, toy and party gag instruments, percussion, bells, electric razor, model ship engine with propeller, birdcall whistles, CH-Phon, feedback speaker-microphone, siren, double shawm, falling down spoon, jew’s harp (only two short notes), tearing scotch tape from the spool, ocarina, hair dryer and other noise makers plus occasionally radio tuner was recorded in Zurich between May 17th and May 22nd, 1981, on a Sanyo M7300L stereo radio casset…

Crystalline examples of Zweig’s aesthetic and brilliance...A labyrinth of sound worth getting lost in

The third release in series of publications focussing on the art of Graham Lambkin following 'Dumb Answer to Miracles' and 'Dripping Junk' (Both sold out). Millows brings together two previously unpublished works, both dating from 2004. Full colour hardcover book with factory pressed cd (unpublished audio works from 2004, 20 mins running time). A limited edition of 500 copies

**Limited edition of 100. Includes 20-page color booklet with photos. Numbered** Jubilee is an album of selections from the last five years of multifarious output by the art collective FPBJPC, including Jonathan Gean, Michael Pollard, Ben Schumacher, and Peter Friel. Including 8-hand piano arrangements of Schiller’s “An Die Freude,” helpful techno, free guitar quartets, music from their film The China Chalet Group, and more, Jubilee is an incomplete picture of FPBJPC’s life-long research into wa…

250 copies only and no re-press ever; 180gr vinyl in custom-made screen-printed outer (sealed), containing two risograph inserts featuring original writing by director Jack Mcnamara; no digital Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods reads two stories by Alan Moore: In the Drownings (AD 43) and The Sun Looks Pale Upon the Wall (AD 1841). A new and unique collaboration marking 25 years since the publication of Moore's 'Voice of the Fire'.

** Previously unreleased material from 1983-1988. Edition of 260 copies on black vinyl with printed inner sleeve. Mastered by Graham Lambkin ** (The) Mudguards were a shadowy political art outfit active throughout the decade that saw the Thatcher/Reagan alignment lead us to the advent of the neoliberal nightmare we now all inhabit. This period in Britain was ripe with riots, strikes, social disorder and a general turbulence that ensured the gap between the wealthy and poor was an agenda at the f…

Pictured in all its tantalizing, eye-popping glory in Hans Pokora's 1001 Record Collector Dreams, this hellishly-rare Austrian avant garde LP from 1972 is nothing short of astonishing. There are no instruments, but rather varying configurations of solo, duo and ensemble vocal improvisations, presumably informed by the aforementioned (and nearly impenetrable) code (or "charts"). Although this might be seen as part of an interesting continuum, this unique and prescient music will stun even the mos…

Includes five albums:    etat16 - Various - I.D. Art #2 (LP)    etat17 - Le Forte Four / Doo-Dooettes - Live at the Brand (2xLP)    etat18 - Various - Blorp Esette Volume One (LP)    etat19 - Smegma - Glamour Girl 1941 (LP)    etat20 - Various - Sound (LP)

Black vinyl, edition of 400. Once more the Netherlands proves to be fertile ground for adventurous sonic explorations defiantly untainted from outside influences. The Levende Opjekten Sjooo (L.O.S.) was developed by Artist Hans Frisch, who had made a name for himself as a painter by dripping black car paint on white formica panels, calling this: Clean Art. His next project involved a set with moving statues and music. The statues were actually naked dancers hidden between layers of linnen and pl…