Various Artists
Cru 2 (Pauline Oliveros, Henri Chopin, T. Wishart, Gil J Wolman)
Second issue of CRU Magazine, the annual magazine of the Berlin art space La Plaque Tournante ran by french composer Frédéric Acquaviva and english mezzo soprano Loré Lixenberg, which states what has happened or could have happened in the last year at La Plaque Tournante. This issue, printed at 500 copies, includes this time 3 catalogues under the form of affiche + postcard + list of material exhibited + poster of the 3 main exhibs of last year, on Broutin (lettrist since 1968), Gil J Wolman (wi…
Pas de Deux
We are in 1985, a hectic year for the emerging independent record label Auxilio de Cientos. The company ‘offices’ are in full performance. There are several projects going on, and the first one at international level is no less than a compilation which meets up electronic music groups formed by a couple, a very common tendency these days. A nearly ‘conceptual’ Project in which electronic groups from such distant countries as USA or Germany take part; however, they have a common denomi…
Metamorphoses
Unusual Russian library LP of electronic interpretations of ‘classical’ pieces by Claude Debussy and Monteverdi among others. Yuri Bogdanov features on every track, on some tracks together with Edward Artemiev, composer for Andrei Tarkovsky and others. Other tracks feature Vladimir Martynov. The record is made on the basis of a kaleidoscope: it interspersed with pieces of various styles, genres and eras. For example, these pieces the authors wanted to show a variety of ways to use a synthesizer,…
Cru 1 (Alvin Lucier, Phill Niblock, Bernard Heidsieck)
CRU (Contemporary Radical Underground), is the annual magazine that documents what’s happening at La Plaque Tournante, a non commercial artist space in Berlin and run by French composer Frédéric Acquaviva and English mezzo-soprano Loré Lixenberg. This first issue of Frédéric Acquaviva and La Plaque Tournante’s audio / video hybrid magazine, includes a CD with music by Frédéric Acquaviva and Phill Niblock, a DVD with performances by Tomomi Adachi, Bernard Heidsieck, Katherine Liberovskaya, Jacque…
The Warriors
This deluxe double LP is three years in the making and features the re-mastered 1979 original soundtrack, in addition to, the vinyl debut of the complete film score by Barry DeVorzon. Directed by Walter Hill and based off of the 1965 novel by Sol Yurick of the same name, THE WARRIORS is the absolute definition of an influential cult-classic film. THE WARRIORS has permeated the landscape of pop culture, music, film, fashion, comics, and video games. Waxwork tirelessly worked directly from t…
Criminale vol.4 - Violenza!
2016 small repress. Pressed on 140-gram vinyl; includes CD. The decade from 1968 to 1978 had a pivotal importance in Italy's 20th-century history. It was a period of deep social and cultural transformation on the wings of the Berkeley youth protests and the May 1968 protests in France, which then developed in different directions due to the moral contradictions of one of the most conspiratorial countries of the western world. Years of high-tension events -- beginning with the tragic massac…
Criminale vol.3 - Colpo Gobbo
2016 small repress. Pressed on 140-gram vinyl; includes CD. The decade from 1968 to 1978 had a pivotal importance in Italy's 20th-century history. It was a period of deep social and cultural transformation on the wings of the Berkeley youth protests and the May 1968 protests in France, which then developed in different directions due to the moral contradictions of one of the most conspiratorial countries of the western world. Years of high-tension events -- beginning with the tragic massac…
Experimental Music Concert
All the composers appearing on this CD are the participants in my experimental music school, the series of which washeld ibn the summer of 2013. It is essentially impossible to teach any kind of art; you can only learn voluntary how to do it. I myself had never intended to become a teacher. Nevertheless, I conceived an idea that it would be useful to do a kind of school.' Taku Sugimoto. With pieces from Atsushi Yonemoto, Hisayo Kobayashi, Masayuki Takano, Hirohiko Yamada, Mamoru Nakajyo, R…
3 Nights at Cafe Oto
"Free-improv CDs sometimes turn up in the record-business equivalent of fish-and-chip paper, but this handsome book-form package encloses three audio CDs, a DVD, a raft of colour photography, and a thoughtful essay from Richard Williams. It documents a 2013 Cafe Oto season for the UK trio of drummer Eddie Prévost, bassist John Edwards and saxophonist Evan Parker, plus German musicians Christof Thewes (trombone) and the doyen of European free-jazz pianists, Alex von Schlippenbach – the Brit…
Ftarri 3rd Anniversary Vol.1
With Yoko Ikeda (viola), Léo Dupleix (electronics), Hikaru Yamada (alto saxophone, microphone) & Hayato Kurosawa (guitar), ffrond (Yoshinori Shiraishi, drums, percussion, Shiro Ochiai, electric piano, Tyler Eaton, double bass). The label made 80 copies each volume and gave some copies to audience members. These are the last copies. The Ftarri store/live performance space in Suidobashi, Tokyo, celebrated its 3rd anniversary in August 2015. To mark this occasion, we held six 3rd anniversary …
Ftarri 3rd Anniversary Vol.2
With Daysuke Takaoka, tuba, Takuro Okada, synthesizer, Hiroyuki Ura, drums, Shinjiro Yamaguchi, guitar, electric metronome, sine wave. The label made 80 copies each volume and gave some copies to audience members. These are the last copies. The Ftarri store/live performance space in Suidobashi, Tokyo, celebrated its 3rd anniversary in August 2015. To mark this occasion, we held six 3rd anniversary concerts in July and August. For each concert we produced a CD-R (each with different music)…
Ftarri 3rd Anniversary Vol.3
With Masashi Takashima, piano, drums, G.I.T.M. Yumiko Yoshimoto, electric guitar. Tomoko Kageyama, marimba, vibraphone, bowl, bells, vocal, voice, field recordings, lyrics & Kei Tainaka, guitar, effects. Takashi Masubuchi, full hollow-body guitar. The label made 80 copies each volume and gave some copies to audience members. These are the last copies. The Ftarri store/live performance space in Suidobashi, Tokyo, celebrated its 3rd anniversary in August 2015. To mark this occasion, we held s…
Ftarri 3rd Anniversary Vol.4
With Yuji Ishihara, drums, percussion. Kayu Nakada, bug synthesizer. Tetsuro Fujimaki, drums, percussion. Riuichi Daijo, acoustic guitar. The label made 80 copies each volume and gave some copies to audience members. These are the last copies. The Ftarri store/live performance space in Suidobashi, Tokyo, celebrated its 3rd anniversary in August 2015. To mark this occasion, we held six 3rd anniversary concerts in July and August. For each concert we produced a CD-R (each with different music…
Ftarri 3rd Anniversary Vol.6
With Yuhei Saito, tape recorders. Tomoe Takizawa, guitar. Yui Nakamura, throat, room. Keitetsu Murai, 4 parallel-connected oscillators with photosensors, stabilized DC power supply, Japanese candle cut in length to burn in about 15 minutes. The label made 80 copies each volume and gave some copies to audience members. These are the last copies. The Ftarri store/live performance space in Suidobashi, Tokyo, celebrated its 3rd anniversary in August 2015. To mark this occasion, we held six 3r…
Ftarri 3rd Anniversary Vol.5
With sawako, laptop. Yuma Takeshita, electro-bass. Tomoyoshi Date, piano. Straytone, modular synthesizer. The label made 80 copies each volume and gave some copies to audience members. These are the last copies. The Ftarri store/live performance space in Suidobashi, Tokyo, celebrated its 3rd anniversary in August 2015. To mark this occasion, we held six 3rd anniversary concerts in July and August. For each concert we produced a CD-R (each with different music) which was presented as a gift …
Broadcast #01
100 copies Soundtrack composed for Live Arts Week 2012 that took place in Bologna from 25.04.12 to 29.04.12, compiled by Claudio Rocchetti and Matteo Castro. Tapes are meant to be reproduced simultaneously, in loop..
Listen And Die!
Urashima is proud to present a six long playing box reissue from the legendary Slaughter Productions six cassette box set, "Listen And Die!" (SPT 100), from 1997! This rare collection of The Italian/American Power Electronics Massacre was limited to 100 copies, and featured contributions from (in order of appearance) Iugula-Thor, Sshe Retina Stimulants, Atrax Morgue, Murder Corporation, Diktat, Discordance, Surgical Stainless Steel, Taint, Deathpile, Slogun, Skin Crime and Bacillus: 4 hours And…
Audio Trans Art Vol.1
An incredible compilation featuring unreleased before pices by sound related artists such as Charles Dreyfus, Ferdinand Kriwet, Julien Blaine, Richard Maxfield, Bob George, Henri Chopin, Rolf Julius, , Diana Spodorek, Milan Knízak. Editon of 250 copies, non-gatefold cover. Recorded live at "Artists Talking Back To The Media " November 1985 at Time Based Arts, Amsterdam curated by Ulises Carrion and Max Bruinsma in a live radio broadcast by VPRO radio. Ferdinand Kriwet's piece recorded by KPFK-FM…
Second Life: Light Bulb 1977-81
As part of our Second Life series, we are pleased to present a special anthology of Light Bulbmagazine (1977–81), produced in cooperation with the Los Angeles Free Music Society and edited by LAFMS founding member Chip Chapman. Light Bulb was the house organ of the Los Angeles Free Music Society, made by and for the experimental collective of musicians that formed in 1972 Pasadena and soon "became a lightning rod for art-damaged, weird-music lovers everywhere." Nowhere is the DIY, visual complex…
Voooxing Poooetre
* 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…