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Etude IV / D'une Etoile Oubliee / La Grande Vague
Etude IV: points-lines-landscapes' (1979). This work is designed as an all-electronic piece without considering any configuration with soloist parts for later use (unlike the two following pieces featured on this CD). It was realized by Jean-Claude Eloy in 1979 on the CEMAMu's UPIC upon Iannis Xenakis's invitation to whom this work is dedicated as a friend. The UPIC (Unité Polyagogique Informatique du CEMAMu) is an electronic tool invented by Iannis Xenakis in the 1970s. It is a graphic interfac…
Butsumyoe / Sappho Hiketis
J.C. Eloy book (English text) around the cycle 'Songs for the other half of the sky' with the following pieces 'Butsumyoê', 'Sappho hikètis', 'Erkos', 'Galaxies', 'Gaia-songs'. Interview, documents, technicazl specification, photos. A CD with 'Butsumyoê' and 'Sappho hikètis'.'Butsumyôe' (1989). For voices, percussions and electroacoustic. With Yumi Nara and Fatima Miranda, voice and percussions. In 'Butsumyôe' ('The ceremony of Repentance') the singer Yumi Nara (soprano) occupies the function of…
Erkos / Galaxies (Chants Pour L'Autre Moitie Du Ciel Part I
Songs for the other half of the sky. With 'Erkos' (1990-91) and 'Galaxies' (1986-1996). Performed by Junko Ueda (satsuma biwa and voice) and Jean-Claude Eloy (sound projection). Erkos is a word from the Indo-European language and means song, praise. It is close to the Sanskrit word Arkas (hymn, chant, radiance) and to the Tokharien term Yarke (reverence, homage). The texts consist of extracts from the Devî-Upanishad and Devî-Mâhâtmya writings, in Sanskrit. In those texts, an homage is paid to t…
Shanti (1972-73)
Packaged in a 6 panel digipak. Includes a 16 page booklet in French & English. A massive, four side-long drone-epic masterpiece “Shânti” (1972-73) for electronic and concrete sounds, in a spectacular double CD digipack issue. A hundred-and-thirty-five minute piece of "meditation music" for a four-track magnetic tape by Jean-Claude Eloy, produced in the Electronic Studio of the Radio of Cologne “The term “meditation music” triggered many conflicting comments including positive ones (“... let us s…
Yo-In (1980)
First world publication for the seminal Yo-In (1980) an electro-acoustic work produced in Japan and revisited by the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris in 1981. “Sound Theater for an imaginary rite”. Yo-Inleads to a sort of “celebration-ritualization of the day of man on Earth”.Jean-Claude Eloy discovered the meaning of Yo-In by going deeper into the culture of Japan where he had been invited by Toru Takemitsu in 1970: “Yo-In, echo, rhyme, resonance, psychic reverberation”. Karheinz Stock…
Le Minuit de la Foi
'Le Minuit de la Foi' ('The midnight of the faith') (2014) for electronic and concrete sounds, around selected sentences by Edith Stein recorded by German actress Gisela Claudius. New work from Jean-Claude Eloy, a long piece under the power of expanded sounds and sacred words.'Le minuit de la foi' is a double album, each CD of which forms a stand-alone entity. Each CD can therefore be listened to separetly. However, you do need to liSten to the full album for it to become meaningful through its …
Live at White Cube
In collaboration between Christian Marclay and the London Sinfonietta, some of the world’s most renowned contemporary musicians have been invited to stage performances, including new compositions and live improvisation sessions inside the White Cube. Each performance over the course of the exhibition will be recorded, pressed and screen-printed live inside the gallery. The third performance is with John Butcher.
Good Liquor Caused my Heart for to Sing sets out to expose and connect the …
All Life Long
Created between March and May 2020, Does Spring Hide Its Joy is an immersive piece, positioned as a “study in harmonics and non-linear composition with a heightened focus on just intonation and beating interference patterns”.
Twelves
First-time vinyl reissue of 12-inch/EP tracks from the '80s and '90s. Remastered from the original tapes by Kevin Metcalf and then reissued for the first time in 2009 as part of the World In Your Eyes 3CD set on Reactor. Now remastered for vinyl and re-cut to lacquers by Shawn Joseph / Optimum Mastering and issued as Twelves (similar to their 7-inch comp called Sevens. Each side of this 3LP set has one of the 12"s in full, as well as the promo only live 12-inch Prisma Uber Europa. The 12-inch co…
Up Your Sleeve (LP)
** Edition of 500 copies with a numbered 4-page insert ** Previously released in 1980 on David Toop’s Quartz label at a time when improvised music in London was settling into a long spell of excellence. The players here are Steve Beresford, Peter Cusack, Terry Day and David Toop. Terry had been a member of The People Band in the 60s, one of the groups forming part of the first wave of British improvisation. The rest of the group could be regarded as pioneers of a second generation of improvisers…
Issue 82 (Magazine)
40 page magazine printed as an edition of 50 copies. Absolutely full with articles and reviews. See image 2 for contents. A great collector's item.
cover article: Captain Flapattak - French underground todayplus: Don Falcone (Spirits Burning) interview, Flasket Brinner - Scandinavian fusion legends 9, Mange Ferraille, Intermodulation (1970s avant-garde ensemble): Unlikely Connections, Choice French label classics: Atem, The Dr Space / ØSC & co. Sector, labels: Whitelabrecs, ReR Megacorp, PQR-Dis…
Issue 27 (Magazine)
Audion 27 ((3/1994) 40 pages. Cover article: Ozric Tentacles - A Psychedelic History plus: UK Electronica 1993: Land Of Yrx, Richard Pinhas, Geinoh Yamashiro Gumi, Carlo La Manna, Progressive Rock Worldwide, World Music Messenger Service, Progfest '93 Citadel, Änglagård, Quill, IQ, Man live, Klaus Schulze - Silver Edition, Bacillus Records - Classic labels #5, Happy Family - A Japanese Zeuhl Monster, etc.
Issue 31 (Magazine)
Audion 31 (4/1995) 40 pages. Cover article: Rock In Opposition, part 2 - the Henry Cow legacyplus: Cuneiform Records, Legend Music, Lost Vinyl, Discipline Global Mobile, Tony Conrad With Faust + AMM - QEH, London, 17/2/95, Art Gallery, Teru's Symphonia, Bi Kyo Ran: A Japanese Progressive Legend, Magical Power Mako, Jorge Reyes, plus: MIA, Grey Lady Down, Frei Zinger, reviews, etc.
Issue 33 (Magazine)
Audion 33 (10/1995) 44 pages. Cover article: Agitation Free - Roots Of The Berlin Krautrock Sceneplus: Fushitsusha , Chris Cutler - The Interview, Rescued Relics: Atlas, Fifty Foot Hose, Vita Nova, etc., Nuova Consonanza, Hoelderlin, U.K. Electronica 1995, Maureen Anderson / Shapeshifter, reviews: Boud Deun, Cranioclast, Cul De Sac, Groon, Heretic, Magma, Melting Euphoria, Mimir, Saddar Bazaar, etc.
Issue 65 (Magazine)
Audion 65 (10/2021) 40 pages. Cover article: Kungens Män - Free-rock from the "King's Men" of Swedenplus: Gravity Adjusters Expansion Band, Terje Rypdal - the early years 1968-78 (Scandinavian fusion legends 1), Wallenstein - the Krautrock era, Choice British label classics: B&C Records and Chrysalis, Obscure psychedelic & progressive singles of the 1960s/70s, part 3: Italy, Mexicanos Oscuros, Musea, Rescued Relics: Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Dunkelziffer, Faust - 1971-1974 box set, Nektar, Ta…
Issue 66 (Magazine)
Audion 66 (12/2021) 40 pages. Cover article: Datashock - "Neo-Hippie-Spook-Folk"plus: Alco Frisbass, Etherfysh - interview, The return of Ken Moore, Guranfoe, Dave Powell: Fried Rosin, The Scratch Orchestra: with Cornelius Cardew, Vangelis: the progressive/experimental era, Witthüser & Westrupp , Choice British Label Classics: Dandelion, Alan Freeman - Topology Of A Phantom City (review), the return of "the avant-garde sector", Prix Russolo at The Western, Rescued Relics: The Electric Prunes, Ta…
Issue 80 (Magazine)
Audion 80 (12/2024) 44 pages. Cover article: Dr Space - a chat with the pilot of the Øresund Space CollectiveCornelius Cardew Treatise (event), Mirthrandir - article & interview, Pekka Pohjola - Scandinavian fusion legends 7, Choice British label classics: Virgin part 2 (plus Caroline, and a round-up of other releases), Modulight & others - live at The Church of Sound (event), Alain Basso, labels: Bam Balam, Fou Records, Seelie Court Digital, reviews: Flasket Brinner, Lightwave, Moonseeds, Nurse…
Defensive Acoustics
*300 copies limited edition* Aicher is the work of longtime label veteran Liam Andrews (My Disco, Eros), with additional production from his My Disco spar Rohan Rebeiro – an experimental percussionist and erstwhile collaborator of Roland S. Howard and HTRK. Together, they make resoundingly coarse, bullish industrial musick, distilling fascinations with tone and space through eight gristly and darkly sublime cuts, sharpened by production from Boris Wilsdorf of Einstürzende Neubauten and Swans fam…
Distruct
“On this, their second LP, P16.D4 solicited tapes from several artists from Europe, England, the U.S., Canada, and Japan, and mixed that with their own material. Though in the current digital age collaborations from artists thousands of miles apart is quite normal, this was a quite radical approach back in 1982, when work on this LP began – an interesting concept that actually works quite well, since these artists, which include Bladder Flask, DDAA, the Haters, Merzbow, Nocturnal Emissions, Nurs…
The Air Outside Feels Crazy Right Now
Perila returns with a contemplative spiritual successor to her album »7.37/2.11«, which was also released on Vaagner’s sister label A Sunken Mall back in 2022. Featuring a collection of 8 pieces produced between 2021 and 2023, the album carries a serene vulnerability that underpins each work, drawing the listener in while gently grounding them amidst a drifting, ephemeral motion of echoing voices, droning guitars and sonorous soundscapes. Like a whispered conversation in the quiet moments of the…