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Subtitled: Fifty Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum. This is volume 2 of Dust-to-Digital's robust and highly-acclaimed Art of Field Recording series, assembled by esteemed archivist Art Rosenbaum. This impressive 4CD set includes ballads, blues, spirituals, work songs and slave songs, religious singing and other traditional folk music from Georgia, Arkansas, Texas, Florida and elsewhere. Housed in a 10"x10"x10" color cardboard box containing a 96-page perfect-bound b…

A follow-up to Beyond ignorance and borders including noise artists from Puerto Rico (Cornucopia), Indonesia (Aneka Digital Safari), Singapore (Mindfuckingboy), China (Osci-Vibra-Tor, Li Jianhong), Algeria (Nihil Humanum), Slovenia (Aluviana), Iran (Nyctalllz), Luxembourg (Switchonoff), Tunisia (Heart Burnt To Ashes), Switzerland (Dave Phillips), South Korea-Japan (10), Equador (Industria Masoquista), Canada (Szkieve), France-Belgium (Planet Aldol & C-drík), Belgium ( rno klank), Malta (Grosz Ea…

Radium is regarded as Table Of The Elements' rock offshoot, although they do write that in inverted commas (that's 'rock', in case you were wondering what that would look like). The label is given a showcase by this eight-track LP, calling upon Jonathan Kane, Megafaun, Ateleia, Collections Of Colonies of Bees and Neptune among others. Rhys Chatham, that most iconic of Radium artists gets the album underway with an untitled piece from 1986, featuring an arsenal of four guitars, a bass and drums. …

Much more than a simple record label, the TRAX experience coordinated from 1981 to 1987 by Vittore Baroni and Piermario Ciani represented a very original contribution to the "networking culture" that, making its first steps with Fluxus, Mail Art and other avantgarde circuits of the Sixties and Seventies, largely anticipated the advent of Internet and its interactive modalities. Twenty years after the end of a project that involved over 500 international artists and musicians in the creation of p…

Streets of Lhasa lifts us to the high plateau of Tibet where anonymous street balladeers sell folk songs for a living and ghostly voices drift in an ambience of time forgotten. Children, birds, trains, prayers and a traditional temple activity called 'bian jing' (where monks discourse about scripture and punctuate their points by clapping loudly) provide the backdrop for this disc with the folk music of the street taking center stage. These enterprising musicians sing passionate songs and play i…

...Cassette Culture D.I.Y.: 1979-1982 (Volume 1). An introduction to the D.I.Y. cassette scene 1979-84. The U.K.'s original cassette-scene hosted some of the most inept shambling in the history of recorded music, but there was no shortage of musical genius, either (be that accidental or otherwise). From endless bedrooms filled with home-made gadgets, Woolworths guitars, Casios and soldering fumes, came sounds both stunningly simple and sophisticated -- and vastly more varied than anything on vin…

Fluxus & Happening Friends was presented at L'Autre Caserne on the evening of October 21st 1998 in Limoilou, Quebec. The selection of artists and the choice of fluxus scores had been entrusted to Larry Miller, who also served as Master of Ceremony on that occasion. The actual documentation is an historic testimony of the Action Art as conceived and performed by fluxus. Alos, Dick Higgins made his last public appearence that night since he died shortly after. Scores by: Ay-O, Georges brecht, Al H…

3 CDs and a booklet of 70 pages (English and Spanish) for an anthology of the Mexican Electroacoustic Music from 1960 to 2007 under the direction of Manuel Rocha Iturbide. Composers from the first generation: Carlos Jiménez Mabarak, Manuel Enríquez, Manuel de Elías, Mario Lavista, Julio Estrada, Francisco Núñez, Héctor Quintanar. Composers from the second generation: Javier Álvarez, Roberto Morales Manzanares, Vicente Rojo Cama, Antonio Russek, Manuel Rocha Iturbide, Guillermo Galindo, Antonio F…

His Master's Noise presents works produced in the Institute of Sonology (Instituut voor Sonologie) in Utrecht and in The Hague, Netherlands. The Institute of Sonology was founded in 1960 after the Laboratory of Natural Sciences (Natlab, Philips Industries, Eindhoven) had decided to shut down its small 'electronic' studio (which was existing since 1952 and where Varèse made his Poème Electronique). Initially called STEM, projects were set out for scientific and compositional research. This compil…

2006 release, repressed! Radio Algeria is a multi-dimensional assembly of audio culture from the Mediterranean coast to the undefined border areas of the Sahara Desert and beyond. This is perhaps the most diverse collection of the Algerian listening experience ever presented featuring raw Berber folk, modern Arabic pop, sacred Islamic traditional, Andalusian orchestral, Guesba (the origin of Rai), classic early Rai, Khabyle, Tuareg, Saharaui, and hybrid music styles influenced by Europeans to th…

2CD feat 4 unpublished tracks based on "Parabolic studies" (SR174) the idea was to ask other musicians, of different generations, to attempt a new mix on the basis of these 8 studies: Oval, Main/Robert Hampson, Philip Jeck and Henri Pousseur himself.

Featuring Raoul Hausmann, Kurt Schwitters, Hans Arp edited by Marc Dachy (Dada specialist), this is a complete cd build on the 3 axes of the european Dada avant-garde: 3 major artists who read their own texts. Hans Arp was close to Tristran Tzara when he created Dada in Zürich. Kurt Schwitters one of the major figure of the german avant-garde and Raoul Hausmann one of the creator of Dada in Berlin. this is the first time that the 3 mighty artists appear together on one record.

Is it really possible to imagine what modern music would sound like if a few pioneering geniuses had not had the idea of electrifying their instruments, especially guitar and harmonica, between 1945 and 1950? Some purist will regret this evolution, but, in the '50s, the new sound will be heard in all the studios and night clubs of the United States; it will become a staple on the radio, in stores, at weddings, and private parties. It will radically transform the music scene and allow hundreds of…

...Female Blues Singers - Rarities 1923-1930. The Sub Rosa label presents a collection of works from obscure and forgotten female blues singers, exploring the question: what can be said about a singer whose entire work fits on a single-sided 78rpm record? What circumstances led to this recording? Who decided to do it? For whom was it intended? Why wasn't it followed by more recordings? Hypotheses get lost in places and moments themselves forgotten. What remains are these miraculous voices that h…

Performed by: Takefumi Naoshima (mixing board), Hirozumi Takeda (guitar), Utah Kawasaki (guitar), Mitsuteru Takeuchi (flute), Toshihiro Koike (trombone), Takahiro Kawaguchi (remodeled counters), Yasuo Totsuka (compressor). "Group improvisation mixing acoustic and electric/electronic instruments. Although there are seven players, the music consists entirely of faint sounds and silences from beginning to end. This ambitious recording communicates the strong determination with which the artists con…

Restocked, few available - featuring: Bdong, Daniel Menche, Nkondi, Okha, Pulse Emitter, Smegma. This one covers lots of territory, from hippy psych to refined noise. Edition of 300 with handmade covers.

An outstanding box, documenting the early 80's impro/experimental scene fro Russia - almost 10 hours of music, housed in a lavishly packaged box, with a 32 pages full color booklet, considered by the label itself as the most important release of the entire Leo Records catalogue "In a way the document is not only a summing up of a decade of new music in the USSR. It is also a summing up of Leo Records' activity during these ten years. The advances of Soviet new music were tremendous in spite of t…

A workshop-compilation of previously unpublished pieces composed by various RES artists. [halo XVI] - black santos [jupiter high prophet low mix]; [l’imbroglio] - nerocielo, [mu] - les miroirs ternis; [sticking drops] - acier; [max waves] - neu-neutral; [book of qi] - hemophant; [joachim thomas] - abused violin #2: chapter 2; [michele palmieri] - post meridiem; [gabriele bruzzolo] - quello che è strano, via; [from outer space] - f..rr..e.

Alex Ward (clarinet), Alexander Hawkins (piano), Dominic Lash (double bass), Paul May (percussion). An improvising quartet comprising four excellent young improvising musicians based in London and Oxford, none of whom have ever been to the outer London suburb of Barkingside. Two complete performances from concerts at Cambridge University and the 2007 Freedom Of The City festival in London.

Aka: Friends from all over the world united. Side A opens with three new enchanting songs from Matthew Mondanile's Ducktails, Argentina's Vluba provide smoke and sulphur to the same side. Gang Wizard's piece is called 'the Shed' and it's pure claustrophobia melted on a tape, while Golden Cup and Pumice's contribution is a romantic piece recorded live in Rome. 4 bands, 3 continents, 2 sides, 1 spirit! 100 copies. Silkscreened. Numbered.

A concept album focused on the esoteric side of electromagnetic activities (ITC, EVP and Trans-Dimensional phenomena) all around us. 'Collapse' features sound sources or signals by: Bad Sector, Clausthome, Galerie Schallschutz, Gruppo Psicofonico Di Grosseto, Pietro Riparbelli / K11, SSIM-EL and Strange Attractor. This second edition is limited to 211 copies with the bonus CDR 'Camera Sonora' featuring sound sources by: Massimo Magrini (Bad Sector), Clausthome, Galerie Schallschutz, Marcello Bac…

A collaborative opera focused on the esoteric side of electromagnetic activities (itc, evp, and trans-dimensional phenomenas) all around us. An orchestra of recorded audio phenomenas, selected by different authors with many different receiving instruments as sources materials, elaborated and recomposed by Pietro Riparbelli / K11 for the final captation: “Radiodrama”. Source materials by : BAD SECTOR, STRANGE ATTRACTOR, MASSIMILIANO VIEL/SSIM-EL, CLAUSTHOME, GALERIE SCHALLSCHUTZ, MARCELLO BACCI -…

Geography is an ongoing force shaping our understandings of the environments around us and, in turn, experiences ongoing transformation and development. Considering not only the natural world, but also culture, economy and politics in diverse settings and across many scales, contemporary geography acts as a glue - integrating disparate research streams and continuing to provide insights into our relations with space and place. On Audible Geography, 11 sound artists were asked to consider the sco…

Questo volume offre per la prima volta al pubblico italiano la storia dell'incontro tra la filosofia di Deleuze e Guattari e la musica elettronica. Una storia che comincia, forse, quando Deleuze partecipa nel 1972 alla registrazione del disco Electronique Guerrilla del gruppo rock sperimentale Heldon, prestando la sua voce a un frammento di Umano, troppo umano di Nietzsche.Per ripercorrere questa storia, complessa e ricca, Emanuele Quinz esplora alcuni concetti-chiave a partire dai quali Deleuze…

A very nice compilation distributed worldwide by Wire and produced by Xing. Fragments of Phonorama were recorded live at Raum, Bologna, in 2006-07 from two collective performances conceived by Riccardo Benassi for Xing. The original recordings were re-shaped and re-composed in Berlin by Valerio Tricoli and Riccardo Benassi. Phonorama is a live electronics happening generated from improvisations by 20 musicians to create a collective soundtrack. One long environmental suite involving some of the …

Two classic Y records reissued on the Unheard Music Series; hardcore improvised music by Beresford (Slits, Premiere U.K. Jounalisto), Honsinger (cellist extraordinaire), Toop (experimental Genius/author) & Kondo (Japanese improv legend). Originally released in 1980/81, never reissued before. With bonus tracks, new liner notes by Beresford.

With Karl-Birger Blomdahl: Mimamusik (1959). Bengt Hambraeus: Doppelrohr 2 (1955). Rune Lindblad: Formation (1958-59), Optica 2 (1960). Arne Mellns: Nite Music (1964). Sten Hanson: Fruits de mer (1962). Åke Karlung: Antihappening (1962). Leo Nilsson: Skorpionen (1964). Ralph Lundsten: Atomskymning (1964). Bengt Emil Johnson: Enmans Gubbdrunkning (1964). Lars-Gunnar Bodin: Den heter ingenting, den heter nog 'Seans 2' (1965). The cd includes a 16 page booklet with texts by Sten Hanson.

In the mid-1920s, The Gramophone Company sent representatives into Iraq to investigate the indigenous music found in its record stores and performance halls. Their research laid the foundation for sessions that produced almost 1,000 recordings. The selections on this disc, restored from their original 78s, present a compelling multicultural portrait of Iraq that is all but forgotten today.Rural Arab folk singers, Kurdish violinists, professional Jewish musicians, and prostitutes share equal bill…

Airwaves. A legendary document of 1970s American performance and sound art. Released in 1977 on One Ten Records (OT 001/2), this groundbreaking double LP compilation captures the radical intersection of visual art, performance, and experimental sound. Edited by Bob George, Airwaves: Two Record Anthology of Artists' Aural Work & Music features Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk, Dennis Oppenheim, Terry Fox, Connie Beckley, Diego Cortez, Jacki Apple, Julia Heyward, Leandro Katz, Richard …

AtRare original copy: a the time of its release in early 1975, unpitched speech was not taken for granted as musical material by composers, nor was there a widespread movement of sound poetry in the U.S.  This now-legendary anthology, therefore, was a novelty and for some an inspiring revelation. Long prized by collectors (it has been out-of-print since 1984), this album of sound art made of spoken words inspired a burst of related activity during the decade of its circulation. A younger generat…

Double CD Edition housed in Metal Case** This wonderful Lawrence English-curated compilation documents a number of works commissioned by the Queensland Music Festival in conjunction with Brisbane Airport, calling on the compositional talents of all the leading lights in contemporary electronic music, including Tim Hecker, Fennesz, Taylor Deupree, Richard Chartier, Francisco Lopez, Marc Behrens and Toshiya Tsunoda, to name but a few. The music here all comes from the starting point of field recor…

A compilation of the best moments of the Ring Ring 1997 festival which took place in Belgrad in May 1997. Included is a previously unreleased track by Justine.

International consortium of freaky vocal talent culled together here represent some of the finest exponents of extemporaneous jibber jabber extant. From the U.S., we have the zany N.Y. avant chanteuse Shelley Hirsch and her equally flipped out N.Y. compatriot in extended vocal technique David Moss as well as the L.A.-based Anna Homler, whose approach emerges from her personal zone of invented language generation as heard on her gorgeous Do Ya Sa Di Do CD, which I posted a while back. To that, ad…

All tracks are live recordings of experimental music from Freedom In A Vacuum Festivals, held since 1991 at the Music Gallery in Toronto.

Tetuzi Akiyama - acoustic and electric guitar. Martin Taxt - tuba. Eivind Lønning - trumpet. Espen Reinertsen - tenor saxophone and flute. On Varianter av døde trær the young Norwegian musicians Martin Taxt, Eivind Lønning and Espen Reinertsen meet the internationally acclaimed guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama from Tokyo. The three Norwegians are highly experienced young improvisers with background from groups like Trondheim Jazzorkester and Music for a Weill. Akiyama says he aims to create music with e…

Two tracks each by Francisco Lopez, Luis Mesa, Juan P. Monreal, Antonio Garcia, Miguel Ruiz, 1 track each by El Sueno de Hyparco, Markus Breuss, Orfeon Gagarin.

A beautifully packaged collection of specially recorded pieces (which could be most accurately described as "sound poems") from such left field luminaries as Nurse With Wound, Zoviet France and Graeme Revell (he of SPK and "Dead Calm" soundtrack fame).

Rare noise / experimental compilation released in 1992 by Freedom In A Vacuum (a canadian experimental, industrial label run by Robert W. Olver operating in conjunction with his "Freedom In A Vacuum" events at the Music Gallery in Toronto). This is the tracklist:1       Dead Masochistic Gut       Detuning2     Crawl/Child     Unbecome / Unborn / Unformed3     Allegory Chapel Ltd.     Brutality Of Love4     Plecid     Sssexy5     Randy Greif     Garden Of The Lights6     Pierre-André Arcand     A…

Featuring many of the pioneers of Japanoise (Merzbow, Null, Violent Onsen Geisha, Solmania, and 19 other artists),  demonstrates the flexibility of brute force as performed under the clever disguise of music. AA guaranteed kick in the head compliments of The Land of the Rising Sun. On the Furnace imprint. Very rare. Only one copy available.

Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center was an album of electronic music released in 1961. It was the recording of a concert performed at the McMillin Theatre (today called the Miller Theatre) at Columbia University on May 9 and 10, 1961. The Arel composition is completely electronic, with articulated signals over a continuous background texture. El-Dabh's composition, an "electronic drama," has a text drawn from the epic of Layla and Majnun, and consists primarily of tape manipulated instrum…