Music from United States

Cage's very rare first album of his landmark 1946-48 compositions performed by Maro Ajemian, released as a double LP set on Dial Records in 1951, it can't get more seminal than this. An essential piece of history in embossed heavy cardboard gatefold sleeve with stickers.

1980 re-issue as a single LP on Harmonia Mundi's distinctively packaged "Musique d'abord" series of the seminal first album of music by Cage with his landmark 1946-48 compositions performed by Maro Ajemian, originally released in 1951 as a double LP set on Dial. French text.

Original 1976 LP on Denon with Cage's landmark 1946-48 compositions for prepared piano superbly performed by Yuji Takahashi in 1975. With insert.

1997 CD re-issue on Fylkingen of Yuji Takahashi's landmark performance of Cage's prepared piano masterwork recorded in 1965 and originally released on the same label as two separate LP's in 1966.

Very rare ultra-limited first release from 1988 on RRRip of very early electro-acoustic pieces from the 1940's including the collaboration with experimental writer Kenneth Patchen.

1970 re-issue on Mainstream of the 1963 split LP on Time Records experimental music series curated by Earl Brown, with Cage's 1960 wild noise/industrial (20 years in advance) electronic piece performed with David Tudor, backed with three compostions by Wolff for duet and string quartet. Essential.

First volume of excerpts from the ground-breaking and mind-blowing August 1965 sound collage performance (predating Nurse With Wound and Bladder Flask for about 15 years), released by Everest in 1966 (this is a 1970 re-press with different labels). Essential.

Second volume of excerpts from the ground-breaking and mind-blowing August 1965 sound collage performance (predating Nurse With Wound and Bladder Flask for about 15 years), released by Everest in 1969 (this is a 1970 re-press with different labels). Essential.

The astonishing and influential first solo electronic album by the pianist/composer and one of the rarest on Cramps' superlative "Nova musicha" experimental music series, released in 1978. Some of the best and most extreme electronic music ever.

Rare 1998 red vinyl LP on Rotating Arts Press in a limited edition of 200 numbered copies with an undated recording of a satellite broadcast of the electronic environment for a live event by Merce Cunningham, plus two 1988 live radio recording.

Tip! Jim O'Rourke and Jos Smolders teamed up again after their first collaboration, Additive Inverse from 2021. Over a period of three years, both artists worked in sessions of a day, each in their own studio.The result is sometimes like a warm cloud of sounds, suddenly breaking up into a rhythmic, irregular pattern, after which it dives into introverted mindsets. The music is in constant flux. The project followed the same workflow, but this time Jim took the lead and kicked off with a salvo of…

*250 copies limited edition* Microliths and Momentary Drifts is the first full-length collaboration from the trio of zakè (Zach Frizzell), Ossa (Kaiton Slusher), and ASC (James Clements), where rolling analog synth lines, chest-rattling bass, and otherworldly atmospherics evoke and build on the timeless qualities of peak-era 90s ambient. Each artist has released solo and collaborative works for Zakè Drone Recordings and Past Inside The Present over the last half-decade, but in this combination, …

*350 copies limited edition* In spring 2025, Abul Mogard and Rafael Anton Irisarri created the source material for their second album, Where Light Pauses in the Silence of the Sun, during a three-day residency at Morphine Raum in Berlin. Functioning as both recording studio and performance venue, the space has no stage, with the audience gathered around the performers. Working within an open framework, the duo reshaped the music each evening while recording the performances live to multitrack. R…

The first album on Cramps' superlative "Nova musicha" experimental music series released in 1974, presenting pieces for piano, voice and radio noises spanning from 1947 to 1971, performed by an all-star cast including Walter Marchetti, Demetrio Stratos, Juan Hidalgo and Gianni-Emilio Simonetti.

17th album on Cramps' superlative "Nova musicha" experimental music series released in 1977, with piano pieces performed by the composer himself recorded live in 1976.

2000 CD re-issue on Ambersand of the 17th album on Cramps' superlative "Nova musicha" experimental music series released in 1977, with piano pieces performed by the composer himself recorded live in 1976.

1977 LP on ALM with three piano pieces spanning from 1938 to 1969, plus a toccata by Johann Sebastian Bach, superbly performed by Yuji Takahashi.

1978 double LP set on the obscure Italian label I Dischi Dell'Ippopotamo with a landmark performance of Cage's composition by pianist extraordinnaire Bruno Canino, never re-issued on either CD or LP.

Very Pieces for (prepared) piano, percussion and voice in various combinations from the 1940's and 50's, performed by Joshua Pierce and the Paul Price Percussion Ensemble, released by Tomato in 1978.compositions from the 1940's for (prepared) piano, piano and violin, percussion, performed by pianist Reinbert de Leeuw and released by Philips in 1980, never re-issued on either LP or CD.

1981 LP on CP² Recordings with two compositions respectively from 1978 and 1969 performed on the violin Paul Zukofsky.