Charlemagne Palestine
Charlemagne Palestine is an American minimalist composer, performer, and visual artist. A contemporary of Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Phill Niblock, and Steve Reich, Palestine wrote intense, ritualistic music in the 1970s, intended by the composer to rub against Western audiences’ expectations of what is beautiful and meaningful in music. A composer-performer originally trained to be a cantor, he always performed his own works as soloist. His earliest works were compositions for carillon and electronic drones, and he is perhaps best known for his intensely performed piano works. He also performs as a vocalist.
Charlemagne Palestine is an American minimalist composer, performer, and visual artist. A contemporary of Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Phill Niblock, and Steve Reich, Palestine wrote intense, ritualistic music in the 1970s, intended by the composer to rub against Western audiences’ expectations of what is beautiful and meaningful in music. A composer-performer originally trained to be a cantor, he always performed his own works as soloist. His earliest works were compositions for carillon and electronic drones, and he is perhaps best known for his intensely performed piano works. He also performs as a vocalist.
CharleBelllzzz at Saint Thomas (Golden 666)
Presented in tri-fold digipak sleeve. Alga Marghen presents the "sixSIXsix"th installment of its Golden Research Charlemagne Palestine archive series: CharleBelllzzz at Saint Thomas. These previously unreleased recordings of Palestine's "Bells Studies" are both some of his earliest recordings and some of his darkest and most accomplished works. In 1963, while attending The High School of Music & Art in New York, the 15-year-old Palestine was asked if he'd be interested in playing a 26-bell caril…
Bells Studies
Edition of 400 copies. Includes original photos from the recording sessions. High up in a tower, accessible only by a spiral staircase that led to a concrete platform above the whole city, Charlemagne Palestine's "HellsBells" became the sonic mainstay of 53rd Street and 5th Avenue, NYC, from 1963 to 1970. In 1963, while attending The High School of Music & Art in New York, the 15-year-old Palestine was asked if he'd be interested in playing a 26-bell carillon at the St. Thomas Episcopal C…
Four Manifestations On Six Elements
**Edition limited to 120 copies in white vinyl** One of Charlemagne Palestine's most well-known works, Four Manifestations on Six Elements is presented here as 2LP record edition limited to 120 numbered copies pressed into white vinyl. The gatefold sleeve is silkscreened in one color and presents the original score from 1970. In 1973 Charlemagne Palestine was commissioned to make Four Manifestations on Six Elements by the Sonnabend Gallery in New York. As the gallery was well-known for its p…
Youuu+Mee=Weeee
Youuu + Mee = Weee is the first recorded collaboration between Charlemagne Palestine and Rhys Chatham. And it's precious. Following the musical meetings with Z'ev (Rubhitbangklanghear Rubhitbangklangear, SR340CD/LP), and with Tony Conrad, these new Sub Rosa sessions create a sort of trilogy. Rhys Chatham began his musical career as a piano tuner for avant-garde pioneer La Monte Young, also working as a harpsichord tuner for Gustav Leonhardt, Rosalyn Tureck, and Glenn Gould. He soon studied und…
Running and Chanting and Falling and Ranting
Privately issued by the artist in collaboration with alga marghen, "Running and Chanting and Falling and Ranting" is quite a unique book presenting Charlemagne Palestine complete video production. “Body Music I” (1973) and “Body Music II” (1974) were Palestine’s first incursions into the video medium. They were followed, from 1974 until 1979, by a series of works that together form one of the seminal and most distintive bodies of conceptual, performance-driven video of that decade. As a co…
Charlemagne Palestine, The golden sound
**restocked**mAnne Maregiano's documentary about Charlemagne Palestine, The Golden Sound (2011), allows the artist to tell his own story while putting his music and performance, in long, unedited takes, at the centre of the film…Born in New York City, composer, performer, and visual artist Charlemagne Palestine was a contemporary of Steve Reich and Phillip Glass in the avantgarde classical music scene of the 1960s and 1970s. On stages filled with his own home-made stuffed animals, Pales…
Rubhitbangklanghear Rubhitbangklangear
DOUBLE CD EDITION: For the second time in 20 years Charlemagne Palestine and Z'ev performed together, and this was the first time they recorded it. Part of the Sub Rosa/Laboratoire Central sessions, this is unreleased material from Charlemagne's lair -- a place now called "Charleworld," where both fellows spent three days in June 2010. "I first started to play the bells while at a high school for music and art in the '60s at St. Thomas Church across the street from the Museum of Modern Art…
Day Of The Demons
Through the unending fog and beyond the impassable door, a voice emerges. Charlemagne Palestine, writhing in uncontrollable terror, moves to ward off the demons for the sake of the listener by howling through the void. Janek Schaefer bellies a haven, a cocoon for the listener to hide in, to grasp some semblance of life that remains and hold on to it dearly. Bells chime ominously to help dispel the haunting and are yet another stark reminder of the impending doom. What hath wrought them? What can…
Two Electronic Sonorities
Two Electronic Sonorities LP includes 2 seminal electronic music radical realizations by Charlemagne Palestine: "Crwon Chan 1&2 + 3&4' subtitled "Gus Salomon Dance Concert '70' a continuous, ever-moving, ever-changing sound-form produced with simple sine tone generators, moog and arps, intended to create a texture for the Gus Solomons (a choreographer at New York University and Merce Cunningham associate) new dance work.
Second side is sublime late 60's electronic work inspired by Michelangelo A…
Voxorgachitectronumputer
Charlemagne Palestine: (voice/organs), X Joachim Montessuis: (voice/computer). After two massive works, From Etudes To Cataclysms (SR 272CD) - for the Doppio Borgato and Strumming Music
(SR 297CD) for piano, harpsichord and strings ensemble, Charlemagne's
work is now rooted in Sub Rosa for good. But next to his solo records,
the label wants to continue to publish collaborative works: they started
with An Aural Symbiotic Mystery (SR 204CD) featuring Tony Conrad.
This time, Joachim Montessuis…
Avant Marghen Vol. 4
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 forth 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 to 4) François Dufrene Oeuvre desintegrale 4 LP set. First 80 copies from the original pressing of 345 copies issued in 2007, presented here with minimal hand-elaboration on eac…
Illuminations
Awesome Alga Marghen re-release presenting the first ever release of “Illuminatios”, or Charlemagne Palestine and Simone Forti duo interactions, illuminated with dim red lights. In early 1970 Morton Subotnick asked Charlemagne Palestine to join his soon to be created Media Department at the new “Dream School of the Future” endowed by the Disneys to be called the California Institute of the Arts. Charlemagne and Simone Forti met there in 1970, when La Monte Young asked them to arrange a Californi…
Relationship Studies
Relationship Studies" LP includes 2 seminal electronic music radical realizations by Charlemagne Palestine, or "Relationship Study No. 1" (1967) and the generally titled "Electronic" from the same year.Sounds in motion like race cars, motor cycles, war planes, rocket ships excited Charlemagne sonic imagination when we was still a young teenager. Then came the experience of listening to the electronic music of Tod Dockstader, Alwyn Nikolais, Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaffer, Xenakis and "Poeme El…
Mother of us all
A concert from Charlemagne palestine (piano, voice, glass) recorded live at École Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Nancy, France, on June 27th 2009. Under the artistic direction of Antonio Guzmán. DVD Free zone. PAL. Dolby stereo.
Saiten In Flammen
Saiten In Flammen, a new album by Charlemagne Palestine and Christoph Heemann follows their collaborative work on Palestine's heavy-metal-piano workout The Apocalypse Will Blossom with a more textural approach. As on The Apocalypse... the only sound source used throughout these two electro-acoustic explorations of the lower depths is the Bösendorfer Imperial Grand Piano, notorious for its unique resonant qualities. The title is a German translation of 'strings aflame.' ...looking directly at the…
It ain't necessarily so
Ignaz Schick (tube sine wave, bows, objects, turntable), Joerg Maria Zeger (stomp boxes, guitars), Burkhard Beins (drums, percussion, objects, zither) and Charlemagne Palestine (fazoli grand piano, vocals, cognac glass). 'In early December 2006 a live performance of perlonex & Charlemagne Palestine took place at the Viennese jazz club Porgy & Bess, recorded and broadcasted by the Austrian radio ORF in 2006 & remastered at Amann Studios Vienna in 2008. Inspired by the club's name and the chance m…
31.10.1973
Magnificent original poster documenting an early Charlemagne Performance at Modern Art Agency gallery in Naples back in 1973. Large Format (cm105 x 80 cm), the poster is hand signed by the artist (on bottom), and is in great condition despite its age, having just a few age wear all around. 2 copies available
Karenina
Now rare and long delete "Karenina" was conceived in March 1997 in Paris at Galerie Donguy as a work to be played during a retrospective exhibition of his sculpture and photographs. The work is for his Falsetto voice and Indian Harmonium. In this work the use of the name "Karenina" and also other words and sounds from the unconscious trance magical sources. The male falsetto has a very special sacred significance. As a young singer in Synagogue music the singing Rabbi or Cantor as he is called s…
Holy 1+2
Double LP intended to allow the listener to recreate the environment resulting from the simultaneous playback of Holy 1 and Holy 2. Both composed in 1967, the complete 42 minutes of Holy 1 occupy the first disc, with the shorter Holy 2 fitting on side C. Side D features the music of Holy 1 and Holy 2 created in 1968 for Gus Solomon, a choreographer and student of Merce Cunningham. Edition of 380 copies. 1 only available
From Charlemagne Palestine's liner notes: "Holy1 and Holy2 were both reco…
SOUND 1
As the title well underlines, "Sound 1" electronic sonority is a starting point in Charlemagne Palestine researches for the Golden Sonority. Previously unpublished, this radical and foundamental work has now been released on LP record in collaboration with the New Media Dept of Centre Pompidou (National Museum of Modern Art) in Paris for the first "Ouvres sonores" event, December 15th, 2008. Charlemagne Palesitne started to dream of an expressive continuous evermoving everchanging sound form; an…