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The Shadow Ring 1992-2002
A comprehensive overview of the work produced by British musicians Graham Lambkin, Darren Harris, and later Tim Goss over the course of a decade, across eleven CDs and a DVD, accompanied by an nearly five-hundred-page book.
May 99
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 straightforward, yet novel: each night, they would improvise a single piece while sustained sine waves played for the duration of the concert. May 99, culled from three shorter pieces recorded for a radio program at Amsterdam’s VPRO near the end of the tour, …
Issue 25 (Magazine)
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 Terrorise, Toru Takemitsu, Franco Battiato - Pollution, Änglagård - Hybris, John Mclaughlin Trio, The Rain Garden, Courtyard Moth (live reviews); Edition RZ, reviews, etc. rear cover: Instant Record Collection 3: Teddy Lasry - e=mc² to Jorge Reyes - Ek…
The Topography of the Lungs
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 deluxe vinyl edition of one of the most iconic free improv LP ever made, a landmark album in the British avant garde.Liner notes by Evan Parker (for the 2014 re-issue):‘The Topography of the Lungs’ was the first recording I made as a "leader" - in t…
Issue 60 (Magazine)
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-Marie Pade, Karlheinz Stockhausen, French Underground from Caen & Lille, Canterbury Reborn (reviews), New Italian Prog & Underground, Trip Rock 3 - N to Z, Melodic Energy Commission, Auricle Reissues (label feature), Soleil Zeuhl (label feature), Sva…
Issue 61 (Magazine)
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 Search Of Hades, Auricle reissues: Poultry Products, Bureau B, Cuneiform, DiN, new International fusion discoveries, 10 greatest sitar albums of 1960s/70s, Sounds like Zeuhl, Head In The Clouds, etc.
Issue 62 (Magazine)
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 Views Of Worthing, Auricle reissues: Kevin O'Neill, label features: Cosmic Egg, Garden Of Delights, Long Hair Music, Moonjune Records, Soleil Zeuhl, Viajero Inmovil, plus: Sounds like Neu?, Weird!, Rescued Relics, etc.
Issue 63 (Magazine)
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 1: France, Achim Reichel: A.R. & Machines, Doctor Space connections, Ruin - Leicester's best-kept secret, part two, Ruphus, New Italian Prog & Underground - part 2, ECM Records (label feature), Stephen Iliffe's Ambient Sector (reviews), El Paraiso,…
Issue 67 (Magazine)
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 - exciting sounds from Chile, Eye Make The Horizon - the earlier years, 25 questions with Harald Grosskopf, Mauricio Kagel and the Kölner Ensemble Für Neue Musik, Hubro, Choice British Label Classics: Dawn, Cuneiform (reviews), Seelie Court Digital, etc.…
Issue 68 (Magazine)
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, Strange Curios & Eclectic Arcana - Alan Freeman explores the unclassifiable - part 1, Seelie Court Digital (part 2), Hubro, New Italian Prog & Underground - part 3, DiN - Ian Boddy and related reviews, etc.
Kühe In 1/2 Trauer
“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 artists working with abstract avant-garde soundscapes. There’s a bleak industrial feel to the gritty, lo-fi electronics and tape loops, while the group throws in enough curve balls to keep it interesting. On some pieces, strange, looped choirs bubble ou…
Sheet Erosion
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 Desmond plus a batch of found open-reel tape recordings dating from the 70s and 80s. The tapes include domestic home recordings but mostly document the recordist, Michel's tastes in music and radio programmes of the time. Daily life bleeds into these…
Local Customs
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 somehow familiar. One discovers that there is very little in Local Customs that follows from conventionally intentional music writing. It is perhaps better to regard it as a group of artifacts of little-known origins, modified through new transformations i…
Conduction #22: Documenta: gloves & mitts
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 no longer a mere method for an interpretation, but an actual part of the process of composition. Conduction is a means by which a conductor may compose, (re)orchestrate, (re)arrange and sculpt both notated and non-notated music. Using a vocabulary of…
Conduction #28: Cherry Blossom, conduction #31: Angelica
1995 release ** Conduction #28: Cherry Blossom: P3 Art and Environment, Tokyo, Japan; March 28, 1993Yukihiro Isso, nokan; Shonosuke Okura, ohtsuzumi; Makiko Sakurai, shomyo, music box; Michihiro Sato, tugaru syamisen; Kizan Daiyoshi, shakuhachi; Yuji Katsui, violin; Haruna Miyake, piano; Asuka Kaneko, voice; Shuichi Chino, computer; Koichi Makigami, voice; Yoshihide Otomo, turntables, CD player; Kazutoki Umezu, bass clarinet; Sachiko Nagata, percussion; Motoharu Yoshizawa, electric bass; Kazuo O…
Genologic Technocide
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 speech sound historical works as Symphony For A Genocide (grazed in the title) and Regel. If the departure (Departure) aligns with the hordes of former electronics student Merzbow, in pieces like Return or Arrival distortion is channeled into a world …
The Busy Drone
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 or Chris Weeda. His previous Bvhaast album, Lunchconcert for three Amsterdam streetorgans recorded from 1967-1969 is an unusual album of organ work that takes the instrument is lesser known territories, and included a tribute piece to John Coltrane.…
Alarm
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. Regardless, it has grown to become a meaningful term in avant-garde music circles, promoting the idea that artists can (and perhaps should) listen and react to their environment when performing. This new effort from Xenofox - electric guitarist Olaf …
Avantoscore 2003
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 Caffery/Alexander v. Borsig, Mika Vainio, Curd Duca, Pekka Airaksinen, Radian, Dubbing Mixers, Helsingin tietokoneorkesteri, Mira Calix, Ultra-red + Kanak Attak, Kari Peitsamo, Ibrahim Terzic, Terre Thaemlitz, Simon Wickham-Smith, Leif Elggren, Staalplaa…
Blank Forms 08: Transmission from the Pleroma (Book)
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, installation art, and early computers with rough-hewn sculptures, scores drawn from celestial alphabets, and homemade electronics activated by his signature wands and impassioned gestures. Hunt lived his entire life in Texas, eventually settling in a house …