Tip! Black vinyl, with silkscreen and insert. In the spring of 1999, Charles Curtis, Alan Licht, and Dean Roberts brought an unconventional mix of drone, improvisation, and experimental rock on an eleven-stop tour of Europe. The concept was straightf…
Audion 25 (6/1993) 40 pages. Cover article: Carpe Diem - Seize The Day! plus: Dome: Bruce Gilbert & Graham Lewis, Pat Metheny - live 93, Iannis Xenakis - Electronic music of..., Steve Hackett - live, Icebreaker - Phoenix Arts 93, Goblin - Music To Te…
2023 Much-needed Repress. Finally reissued, one of the key recordings in the development of free improvisation and originally the first release on Incus, the label founded by Evan Parker, Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley to document the music. Outstanding…
Audion 60 (12/2020) 40 pages. Cover article: Karaba and the New Munich Undergroundplus: Electric Orange, Patrick Gauthier Interview, Richard Pinhas/Heldon - Live At The Venue London 1982, Grobschnitt, Endgame (review), Group 1850 - Purple Sky, Else-M…
Audion 61 (2/2021) 40 pages. Cover article: Ståle Storløkken interviewplus: Ange: a fantastic first decade, Wolfgang Dauner's Krautrock era, Time Of Commotion, Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, Suspirium (part 2), Tangerine Dream - In Searc…
Audion 62 (4/2021) 40 pages. Cover article: Steve Roach: A Deeper Shade Of Spaceplus: In The Wake Of Ange - Alan investigates the French way of "prog", Avant-Garde Krautrock, Collegium Musicum, Dire Wolves interview, Supersilent 8-12, Twenty-Five Vie…
Audion 63 (6/2021) 40 pages. Cover article: Ring Van Möbius interview - the unlikely new prog heroes of Norwayplus: Banned In Czechoslovakia, Gentle Fire, July to Jade Warrior & beyond, Obscure psychedelic & progressive singles of the 1960s/70s, Part…
Audion 67 (2/2022) 48 pages. Cover article: King Crimson part 1 - In The Court Of The Crimson King and other diversionsplus: Alcatraz, Dierks Studios Breeze music reissues (including interviews), Domboshawa - A cosmic one-man-band, Abrete Gandul - ex…
Audion 68(4/2022) 44 pages. Cover article: Premiata Forneria Marconi - Tales from the award winning Marconi bakery...plus: King Crimson part 2, Kornmo, Diagonal, Taj Mahal Travellers, Lutz Ulbrich interview, Choice British Label Classics: Deram, Stra…
“Though this German group started out as a the new wave band P.D., by the time of Kuhe in 1/2 Trauer, their first LP under the P16.D4 name from 1984, they had developed far beyond into extremely experimental music similar to other post-industrial art…
Sheet Erosion is the third episode in a series of works based around ideas of audio archaeology and found sounds. The setting this time is the city of Brest in France.
It is composed of field recordings made in early 2020 during the storms Ciara and …
2009 release ** "Tom Hamilton is unquestionably among the most inquisitive minds around. Local Customs explores some obscure notions about music theory and performance practice, leading to sound combinations that are at once unsettling and yet someho…
1995 release ** Documenta: Gloves & MittsDocumenta 9, Kassel, Germany; June 14, 1992Christian Marclay, turntables; Lê Quan Ninh, percussion; J. A. Deane, trombone, live sampling; Martin Schütz, cellos; Günter Müller, drums, electronics.Conducting is …
2006 release ** "Aided by musician M.D.T. (aka the Museum of Torture), this time leaving Maurizio Bianchi concessions acoustic Antarctic Mosaic and MI Nheem Alysm (where an upright piano hammers for 10 minutes a tether claustrophobic) to resume the s…
1996 release ** "Reedist Willem Breuker has a fascination with the mechanical organ, particularly instruments like the European street organ. The mechanical organ works like a player piano, and on these recordings is controlled by either Ben Uijtiens…
2018 release ** "Pauline Oliveros was only partly serious when she coined the term "deep listening" 30 years ago. The American composer, accordionist and electronic music pioneer first offered the phrase after recording an album 14 feet underground. …
2003 release ** On the eve of the festival Avanto releases its traditional monumental compilation CD, with contributions from all the live performers at the festival, as well as excerpts from the soundtracks of the film programme: FM Einheit/Jon Caff…
Jerry Hunt (1943–1993) has been described as a shamanic figure with the look of a Central Texas meat inspector. One of the most compelling composers in the world of late twentieth-century new music, he made work that combined video synthesis, install…
“Il faro in capo al mondo” (The Light at the Edge of the World) is a 1971 film directed by Kevin Billington, based on a novel by Jules Verne. It’s a dark, solitary adventure set on a remote island off Cape Horn, where a group of pirates led by the ru…