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Jujus / Alchemy of the Blues
Big Tip! Jujus/Alchemy of the Blues is Sarah Webster Fabio’s third album for Folkways. Funky riffs and jazz arrangements written and performed by her children and their band Don’t Fight the Feeling underpin Fabio’s poetry, giving her words gravity. "I feel that these [poems] represent the epitome of my experimenting with the integration of music and poetry in a Black idiom taken from the rich source of inspiration welling from the Black experience here in America,” explains Fabio in the album’s …
Together To The Tune Of Coltrane's "Equinox"
Big Tip! Known for her contributions to the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s, Sarah Webster Fabio published a plethora of poetry collections and works of cultural criticism. Together to the Tune of John Coltrane’s “Equinox” is her fourth and final record for Folkways, and sees her vivid language and distinctive voice becoming enmeshed with a dynamic backdrop of exploratory jazz. Fabio pays homage to Black jazz and blues musicians Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and John Coltrane. F…
Diamorphoses / Concret Ph / Orient Occident / Bohor
Iannis Xenakis's early electroacoustic works define already the compositional space he is using later in his mature, almost one-hour long works like Persepolis or La Légende d'Er. After arriving in Paris as a Greek refuge in 1947, Xenakis quickly found a work as construction engineer with the architect Le Corbusier. He tried in vain for several years to become a member of the Groupe De Musique Concrète (GRM) and thus to gain access to the electroacoustic studios at the French radio. Pierre Schae…
Maki Asakawa
2019 Repress. A stunning survey of the 1970s heyday of this great Japanese singer and countercultural icon. The “Queen of the Japanese Underground” stuck to her unique personal style – long black dress, dark glasses, cloud of cigarette smoke…Deep-indigo, dead-of-night enka, folk and blues, inhaling Billie Holiday and Nina Simone down to the bone. A traditional waltz abuts Nico-style incantation; defamiliarised versions of Oscar Brown Jr and Bessie Smith collide with big-band experiments alongsi…
Hibiki Hana-Ma / Mycenae Alpha / Polytope De Cluny
*Restocked, reduced price* "Hibiki Hana-Ma" was created in 1969 for the Steel Pavilion of the Japan Iron and Steel Federation at the Expo 1970 in Osaka as musical part of a multimedia show. Even though the work does not bear the designation in its title, it can be already regarded as a Polytope: it was created for a specific architectural location, lasers and mirrors have been installed: a light choreography by the Japanese artist Keiji Usami accompanied the spectacle. This concept of synchroniz…
Power Failures
Huge Tip! The New York based duo of Che Chen and Rick Brown, 75 Dollar Bill, return with Power Failures, their first full length since 2020. Issued as a beautiful double LP by Karlrecords, and possibly their best record to date - taking on expanded explorations and a greater sense of abstraction - across its four sides we encounter Chen and Brown interweaving hypnotic polyrhythms and complex tonal collisions, with occasional (and brilliant) contributions from "Little Big Band" mainstays Steve Ma…
At Sound 323
Originally released by Confront in 2013 on compact disc as The Complete August 15th 2001. Now freshly remixed and remastered in 2023 for release on a delux double 180g white vinyl LP set and digital. Recorded at Sound 323, London by Tim Fletcher on 15 August 2001
Frammenti
Francesco Gennari is trained as a classical pianist and he commits himself to sound exploration through modular synth practice as further evolution of his musical journey. Gennari's origins are with black and white keys, noise-punk bands and DIY instrument building. This stunning debut, titled Frammenti, is the culmination of all of Gennari's interests. Through simple ideas developed with classical techniques like counterpoint and harmonic expansions, Francesco uses the modular setup as a virtua…
Jazz Border - La Scena Jazz Italiana (Book + DVD)
* Italian Language Edition * 2024 Stock* La scena jazz italiana in un video e un libro di Claudio Chianura, con la partecipazione dei maggiori e più interessanti protagonisti in attività…Interviste e riprese originali con Francesco Bearzatti, Stefano Bollani, Claudio Cojaniz, Franco D'andrea, Zeno De Rossi, Maria Pia De Vito, Stefano Di Battista, Furio Di Castri, Paolo Fresu, Rita Marcotulli, Christian Meyer , Roy Paci, Enrico Rava, Antonello Salis, Gianluigi Trovesi, Stefano Zenni.
Adolphe Sax e il Sassofono (Book)
*Italian Language Edition* Un'immersione nella storia di Adolphe Sax, l'inventore del Saxofono, e della nascita di uno strumento musicale rivoluzionario. Una riflessione attorno alla gloria postuma di monsieur Sax e della sua affascinante invenzione, col prorompente impatto avuto sulla musica e sulla società moderna, al pari della chitarra elettrica, ma, diversamente da questa, dopo un percorso pieno di ostacoli. Strumento dalla voce umana, l'unico ibrido: per metà ottone, per metà legno, per me…
From A Harbour Softly Drawn & Andrew Wild
Tip! *100 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* From A Harbour Softly Drawn & Andrew Wild, is the inaugural release from newly established Glasgow-based experimental label, 4th Ward Private Press. As much as the works herein superficially pull in different sonic directions within minimalist composition, both share a macro/micro concern, fluidly shifting focus between expansive, spacious composition and granular, material detail. From A Harbour Softly Drawn is a new project from Scottis…
Aeolian Darts
Aeolian Darts is a collection of playful minimal poetry by sound-thinker and garage-printer Michael Klausman. He has been an avid collector of small press chapbooks for many years, frequently posting his obscure finds on his Drifting Lament Instagram, a labyrinthine rabbit-hole of post-Fluxus poets, esoteric private press records & found art. This book is a culmination of his interests in the edges of culture, a space where mimeographed liners, mail art and handmade cassettes rub shoulder…
Tragicommedia Dell'Ascolto (Book)
* Italian Language Edition * 2024 Stock* In questo nuovo testo, che segue il fortunato "e non chiamatelo jazz", Giancarlo Schiaffini utilizza le sue esperienze di compositore, esecutore e improvvisatore per celebrare l'ascolto come momento indispensabile di una fenomenologia del discorso musicale. La sua apertura all'intero universo sonoro, senza limiti alla curiosità o pregiudizi restrittivi, fa sì che queste esperienze musicali, da metà anni '60 fino a oggi, abbiano come caratteristica princip…
Demetrio Stratos - Alla Ricerca Della Voce-Musica (Book + CD)
*Limited Numbered Edition of 100 copies* Italian Language Edition * 2024 Stock* In edizione limitata e numerata, la riedizione del libro di Janete El Haouli con allegato il cd antologico che ripercorre l'intera esperienza artistica del vocalist di origine greca attingendo a otto differenti album.
William Parker - Conversazioni Sul Jazz (Book)
* Italian Language Edition * 2024 Stock* Dagli anni Settanta tra i maggiori protagonisti del jazz contemporaneo, contrabbassista, leader, protagonista inesausto di un'enorme mole di incisioni, catalizzatore della scena newyorkese del jazz neroamericano d'avanguardia, e apprezzatissimo anche in italia, William Parker si racconta in una lunga intervista che ripercorre la sua esperienza e illumina la sua originale visione musicale. "nella musica ognuno deve poter scegliere il proprio ruolo: la libe…
Nico - La Biografia (Book)
* Italian Language Edition * 2024 Stock* La biografia definitiva di Nico (1938-1988), giovane modella tedesca, poi attrice in La dolce vita di Fellini, Superstar alla Factory di Andy Warhol e cantante con i Velvet Underground di Lou Reed e John Cale, compagna di Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, Iggy Pop e di Philippe Garrel con cui gira diversi film sperimentali. Questa è la biografia di una donna forte in un mondo di uomini, di un'artista determinata e originale che ha piegato gli eventi della storia…
Lo Spirito Della Musica Creativa (Book)
* Italian Language Edition * 2024 Stock* Come ha opportunamente notato Herbie Hancock, in questo lavoro "Garrison Fewell ha realizzato una brillante riflessione su creatività e spiritualità, analizzando in profondità la relazione tra due temi che ispirano le esplorazioni di moltissimi pionieri della musica jazz avant-garde". La serie di originali dialoghi con celebri improvvisatori quali John Tchicai, Han Bennink, Dave Burrell, Marilyn Crispell, Oliver Lake, Joelle Léandre, William Parker, Wadad…
Pulsión
*2023 reissue* Pusión includes nine tracks recorded between november 2008 and May 2009. Pulsión is in fact the album that follows Compuesto de Hierro (2003) as 8 Traks and Live (2007) can be considered as a transition, being a record made to go with the DVD, and contained some tracks that were in fact versions of older ones. Esplendor Geométrico style continues having a unique and unmistakable mark that distinguishes them from later bands they have had influence onto. At first sight, Pulsión is …
Beuys Laughing
In early 1974 Joseph Beuys, Klaus Staeck and Gerhard Steidl sat in a Boeing 747 from New York to Düsseldorf, returning home after Beuys’ American tour. The trip had been a controversial success, and its every stage carefully documented by Staeck and Steidl in videos, photographs and audio their trusty Sony TC-50 cassette recorder was always at Beuys’ side during his lectures, conferences and workshops. To relieve the boredom of the flight, the three listened to some of the recordings and Beuys s…
Walks
Tip! *50 copies limited edition* Special limited run of 50 cassettes with photographs UV printed on the tapes of a cow and some buildings (urban mountains) made by Ermke. The covers/cases feature interpretations of mountains the philosopher and artist/musician Tim Bradley made from photographs provided by Ermke. Each cover is hand painted with watercolors, acryclic, and pencil, plus many are melted and burned by Bradley for this edition! Extremely detailed and beautiful work on these.
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