Various
Japanoise Of Death I + II
This limited collectors edition comes in a laser-engraved metal box and contains parts 1 and 2 of the cult Japanese Noise compilations. Part 1 was compiled by Koji Tano (MSBR -R.I.P.) and Shinichi Shikada (Noiseuse) and was originally released in 2003 on vinyl (Ltd 500) and CDR (Ltd 100). Part 1 has now been reissued onto CD for this release andt is not available separately! CD1 features: Defectro, Government Alpha, Guilty Connector, Incapacitants, K2, KK Null, Masonna, MSBR, Noiseuse and Wage-S…
People Who Do Noise
People Who Do Noise is a film about the experimental music of Portland, Oregon. Extensive interviews and intimate performance footage provide an intense portrait of the motivations, emotions, and ideas that go into this uncompromising, sometimes brutal musical form. Unwavering in its focus, the film brings to light an art form unfathomable to many, with only the words of the musicians themselves providing any explanation for the pulsating sonic chaos they create.The film takes a very personal a…
Radio art
A long deleted artist record anthology by Nicola Frangione, issued in a handful of copies back in 1997 "During the last 30 years Action Art has found fertile fields of confluence between the experimentation about vision and gesture and poetic- visual sound dramaturgy. A large space of this research has been characterized by the connection of Performance Art with the arguments connected to the poetics of the “total poetry” and by the development of the performance technologies in a technologica…
Italic Environments - Project By Nicola Frangione
another thought to find early compilation by Nicola Frangione, more into droney and electroacoustic vein than the previous, it might reminds the early Franco Battiato music sometimes...highly recommended
Mail Music
An amazing LP conceived and compiled by Nicola Frangione, back in 1983. In the spirit of the Mail Art movement of the 1980s comes the Mail Music project. Collecting 47 sound art samples sent in from around the world, Nicola Frangione compiles them together in a pastiche manner similar to the Distruct LP compiled by P16.D4. Each side is one continuous track and the individual sound submissions which are approximately 1 - 1.5 minutes long, overlap giving the impression of a collage work. This was …
Ohr Paper Sleeves Series
This strictly-limited special outer box set, showing the beautiful Ohr logo and containing these classic 5 Kraut titles (CTCD-625-629)! All CDs housed on papersleeve mini repros of the original LP sleeves. CTCD 625: Guru Guru - UFO CTCD 626: Guru Guru - Hinten CTCD 627: Mythos - Mythos CTCD 628: Annexus Quam - Osmose CTCD 629: Annexus Quam - Beziehungen.
Revolutions Per Minute, the art record
Amazing 2LP document of the Fluxus and associated art scenes from the US and elsewhere. The line-up on these records are amazing. Comes in a beautiful gatefold jacket with a 2-sided pull-out poster with artwork/words from all involved. gatefold sleeve with titles and text-information inside. *With inserted Introduction by Robert C. Morgan (folded sheet) and folded sheet with portraits of the participating artists: i.a. Jud Fine, Eleanor Antin, Terry Fox, Les Levine, Hannah Wilke, Vincenzo Agnett…
Northwest Passage: The Birth of Portland\'s D.I.Y. Culture
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Pacific Northwest witnessed a surge of idiosyncratic creativity that, for a time, banished the slack-jawed banality of mainstream music and art to the shabby bargain basement of the cultural wasteland. Countless young men and women turned their backs on the hollow blather generated in corporate boardrooms, producing their own music and art with a rebellious, energetic glee. Northwest Passage: The Birth of Portland's D.I.Y. Culture is an independent film…
Psychedelic Phinland
Subtitled: Finnish Hippie & Underground Music 1967-1974. Mostly amazing collection of underground Finnish music, presented in definitive fashion by the original Love Records label (there's a schmaltz/theatrical element on Disc 1 just to keep you on your toes). Great booklet of English notes and photos, Love Records does it again! Features Sperm, Baby Grandmothers, Suomen Talvisota, Pekka Airaksinen, J.O. Mallander, and a bunch of others.
More Arctic Hysteria / Son of Arctic Hysteria
...The later years of early Finnish avant-garde. Another incredible volume, following the inspiration and eye-opening 2001 CD Arktinen hysteria -- Suomi-avantgarden Wsipuutarhureita. Perfectly packaged document of more utterly obscure electronic mayhem and theatrical intoxication, presented as near-high-art. Now covered are the 1970s and 1980s. 34 artists. Featuring a lavishly illustrated leaflet of 20 pages. Compiled by Jukka Lindfors. Featuring Jimi Tenor, Läjä Äijälä and early Mika Vainio (Pa…
Canaries on the Pole #2
Jacques Foschia (eb & bass clarinet), Christoph IRMER (violin), Georg Wissel (prepared alto & tenor saxophones, objects) and Mike Goyvaerts (percussion, objects, toys). Recorded in 2008.
I Belong To This Band: 85 Years of Sacred Harp Recordings
This current collection of Sacred Harp singing is the first to offer a full range of recordings by traditional Sacred Harp singers from 1922 to the present, and is a companion to the Sacred Harp documentary by Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp, the first feature documentary about Sacred Harp singing. This CD is unique in a number of respects. It contains several prewar and mid-century recordings never before released on CD, some of which have never been released at all. Sacred H…
Art Of Field Recording Volume II
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…
Pangaea noise
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…
Impala Eardrums: A Radium Sampler
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. …
Trax Reprint 2: Notterossa/Rednight
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
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…
Messthetics Greatest HISS: Classics Of U.K...
...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
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…
That Mysterious Forest Below London Bridge
1. Chant-Lambert-Lexer-Milton (Tom Chant (soprano and tenor saxophones), Ross Lambert (guitar), Sebastian Lexer (piano and laptop), Matt Milton (violin). 2. Coleman-Wastell-Wright (Jamie Coleman (trumpet), Mark Wastell (harmonium), Seymour Wright (alto saxophone). 3. AMM (Eddie Prévost (percussion), John Tilbury (piano). Recorded by Rick Campion, edited and mastered by Sebastian Lexer.