Frogs, a Selection of Field Recordings
200 copies, Green Vinyl. About 10 years ago I tried to contact Dutch artist and scientist Felix Hess, when he was still alive, but never got a reply. Years later, in 2022, I was talking to Frans de Waard, who told me he was administering the sound archive of the late Hess together with Mark Poysden. Together we started working on an album to celebrate his life and many accomplishments. It includes selections from all the highly collectible Frogs releases from the 80's and 90's, while the artwork…
Jazz Border - La Scena Jazz Italiana (Book + DVD)
* Italian Language Edition * 2024 Stock* La scena jazz italiana in un video e un libro di Claudio Chianura, con la partecipazione dei maggiori e più interessanti protagonisti in attività…Interviste e riprese originali con Francesco Bearzatti, Stefano Bollani, Claudio Cojaniz, Franco D'andrea, Zeno De Rossi, Maria Pia De Vito, Stefano Di Battista, Furio Di Castri, Paolo Fresu, Rita Marcotulli, Christian Meyer , Roy Paci, Enrico Rava, Antonello Salis, Gianluigi Trovesi, Stefano Zenni.
Adolphe Sax e il Sassofono (Book)
*Italian Language Edition* Un'immersione nella storia di Adolphe Sax, l'inventore del Saxofono, e della nascita di uno strumento musicale rivoluzionario. Una riflessione attorno alla gloria postuma di monsieur Sax e della sua affascinante invenzione, col prorompente impatto avuto sulla musica e sulla società moderna, al pari della chitarra elettrica, ma, diversamente da questa, dopo un percorso pieno di ostacoli. Strumento dalla voce umana, l'unico ibrido: per metà ottone, per metà legno, per me…
Tragicommedia Dell'Ascolto (Book)
* Italian Language Edition * 2024 Stock* In questo nuovo testo, che segue il fortunato "e non chiamatelo jazz", Giancarlo Schiaffini utilizza le sue esperienze di compositore, esecutore e improvvisatore per celebrare l'ascolto come momento indispensabile di una fenomenologia del discorso musicale. La sua apertura all'intero universo sonoro, senza limiti alla curiosità o pregiudizi restrittivi, fa sì che queste esperienze musicali, da metà anni '60 fino a oggi, abbiano come caratteristica princip…
Demetrio Stratos - Alla Ricerca Della Voce-Musica (Book + CD)
*Limited Numbered Edition of 100 copies* Italian Language Edition * 2024 Stock* In edizione limitata e numerata, la riedizione del libro di Janete El Haouli con allegato il cd antologico che ripercorre l'intera esperienza artistica del vocalist di origine greca attingendo a otto differenti album.
William Parker - Conversazioni Sul Jazz (Book)
* Italian Language Edition * 2024 Stock* Dagli anni Settanta tra i maggiori protagonisti del jazz contemporaneo, contrabbassista, leader, protagonista inesausto di un'enorme mole di incisioni, catalizzatore della scena newyorkese del jazz neroamericano d'avanguardia, e apprezzatissimo anche in italia, William Parker si racconta in una lunga intervista che ripercorre la sua esperienza e illumina la sua originale visione musicale. "nella musica ognuno deve poter scegliere il proprio ruolo: la libe…
Nico - La Biografia (Book)
* Italian Language Edition * 2024 Stock* La biografia definitiva di Nico (1938-1988), giovane modella tedesca, poi attrice in La dolce vita di Fellini, Superstar alla Factory di Andy Warhol e cantante con i Velvet Underground di Lou Reed e John Cale, compagna di Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, Iggy Pop e di Philippe Garrel con cui gira diversi film sperimentali. Questa è la biografia di una donna forte in un mondo di uomini, di un'artista determinata e originale che ha piegato gli eventi della storia…
Lo Spirito Della Musica Creativa (Book)
* Italian Language Edition * 2024 Stock* Come ha opportunamente notato Herbie Hancock, in questo lavoro "Garrison Fewell ha realizzato una brillante riflessione su creatività e spiritualità, analizzando in profondità la relazione tra due temi che ispirano le esplorazioni di moltissimi pionieri della musica jazz avant-garde". La serie di originali dialoghi con celebri improvvisatori quali John Tchicai, Han Bennink, Dave Burrell, Marilyn Crispell, Oliver Lake, Joelle Léandre, William Parker, Wadad…
Testi sulla Musica Elettronica e Strumentale. 1952-1962 – Saggi sulla teoria della composizione
Italian edition. Large Format. Prima traduzione integrale dell’originale tedesco, questo libro dal valore documentario e storico altissimo è uno dei testi più decisivi per comprendere le avanguardie artistiche del Secondo Novecento e in particolare la cosiddetta “Nuova musica”.Raccoglie i fondamentali testi scritti da Karleinz Stockhausen sui suoi brani per strumenti tradizionali e per suoni elettronici tra il 1952 e il 1962. Sono gli articoli relativi al periodo di sua massima esplorazione musi…
Loiter Volcano
The excellently titled Loiter Volcano was a constant source of somewhat surprising pleasure the first time I listened. "Surprising" because the general attack leans a bit more toward efi (I suppose "post-efi" has been appropriate for a good while) than I normally care for. But this mix of electronics, percussion and cello simply filled the space in a manner that held me rapt throughout. As with the other release featuring Dumont, it's partially about the textures and their creative deployment bu…
Centre Of Mass (For Cymbal And Resonant Objects)
Solo improvisation for cymbal and rotating objects
Scrub
A duo improvisation recorded in an exhibition space with several of Max Eastley's sound sculptures, and next door to a park where a firework display was taking place...
Dark Architecture
A duo improvisation recorded in an exhibition space with several of Max Eastley's sound sculptures, and next door to a park where a firework display was taking place...
Music from the Resting State
Mega Tip! **Edition of 300 copies, comes with insert** Some Fine Legacy is pleased to announce Arnold Dreyblatt’s Music from the Resting State. Though widely celebrated for the pioneering high-energy exploration of alternate tunings in his Orchestra of Excited Strings, Dreyblatt’s parallel work as an artist over the last forty years has received less attention in experimental music circles. This LP is drawn from a major installation work, The Resting State, exhibited at the Neuer Berliner Kunstv…
Musings Of A Bahamian Son
Joe McPhee is one of the great multi-instrumentalists of contemporary improvised music. His instrumental battery has included saxophones, clarinets, valve trombone, pocket trumpet, sound-on-sound tape recorder, and space organ, but another arrow in his quiver is text. McPhee has been writing poems since the 1970s. He occasionally introduces one into performance, as an introduction or afterword to music, and in recent years he's been known to do full-on readings, text only, featuring his inimitab…
John Giorno in Florence
2024 Stock. John Giorno is perhaps best known as the star of Andy Warhol’s Sleep. More significantly, Giorno’s multimedia publication and performance projects have consistently transgressed and redefined the boundaries of literature and mass media. The publisher of Giorno Poetry Systems LPs, CDs, tapes, and videopaks, Giorno first made his mark in the late sixties as the innovator of the Dial-A-Poem System (1969): a twelve-line telephonic system allowing callers to hear one of twelve different p…
Minimetal 11 Mantras (Book)
22 years ago, Nik Emch and Laurent Goei formed the Zürich-based artist duo Minimetal. They produce musical visual art projects and play both underground venues and white-roomed art galleries. Their “sound sculptures” are a veritable torrent of guitar sounds, drums, vocals – and images. A torrent that has been carrying audiences off into a hypnotic stratosphere for 22 years now. Minimetal is punk, rock, art and above all: a lifetime project. Back in the early ’90s Emch and Goei composed 11 songs …
Gunslinger Books 1 & 2
Tape comes with two inserts. One reproduction of a Ed Dorn Poetry Reading Flyer and one with a quote of Ed Dorn. Edition of 80 copies. Edward Merton Dorn was born in Villa Grove, Illinois. He grew up in rural poverty during the Great Depression. He attended a one-room schoolhouse for his first eight grades. He later studied at the University of Illinois and at Black Mountain College (1950-55). At Black Mountain he came into contact with Charles Olson, who greatly influenced his literary worldvie…
WPH (Tape)
Wph is the alias of Melbourne guitarist/sound artist Nathan Pilch. With his self titled debut offering for Nice Music, Pilch specialises in spatially organised, low dynamics cycles in high fidelity, using just the guitar. Expertly rendered shimmer and drift is captured as if bottled from a constant stream with no discernable beginning or end. These sounds are massive and environmental if the listener allows them close enough - a compelling, obscured topography of colourfully heathered landscape.…
I (Tape)
Nice Music is pleased to present 'I', the stunningly beautiful debut release from Sydney's Skyline, comprised of Del Lumanta (one half of duo Video Ezy with Nina Buchanan, Paradise Daily) and David Akerman of Dead Farmers (RIP Society). The duo's thoughtful attention to crystalline sonic detail conjures a rich glow around the edges of their elongated ambient synth and piano plateaus. Dutiful care has been taken with the mix over these four pieces, each gleaming with a warm and very genuine incan…