Various
Mexico Electroacustico 1960-2007
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 - The Institute Of Sonology
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…
Radio Algeria
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…
4 Parabolic Mixes
2CD feat 4 unpublished tracks based on "Parabolic studies" (SR174) the idea was to ask other musicians, of different generations, to attempt a new mix on the basis of these 8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.
Dada Anti Dada Merz
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.
Dr. Boogie Presents Shim Sham Shimmy
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…
Oh, Run Into Me, But Don't Hurt Me! - Female Blues Singers (Rarities 1923 - 1930)
...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…
Septet
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…
New Music From Russia; The \'80s\'
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…
LAB@RES - RESampler Volume Due
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.
Barkingside
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.
Split
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.
Radiodrama - Colapse
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…
Radiodrama - Colapse + Camera Sonora
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 -…
Audible Geography
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…
MILLESUONI. DELEUZE, GUATTARI E LA MUSICA ELETTRONICA
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…
Phonorama
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 …
Imitation of Life / Double Indemnity
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.
Forerunners - Swedish Electronic & Concrete Music 1955-65
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.