Music from United States

When you wish upon a star… that turns out to be Saturn!

John Cage's importance for a comprehensive aesthetic reorientation of New Music after the Second World War can hardly be overestimated. His self-discovery and compositional articulation took place particularly in the field of piano music: in the art-merging experimental laboratory of New York around the dancer Merce Cunningham, the painter Robert Rauschenberg and the congenial performer and pianist David Tudor. It is good fortune that Sabine Liebner, who has already released several internationa…

Big two-sided invitation card to a 1983 Fluxus exhibition at daadgalerie in Berlin featuring John Cage and Nam June Paik.

Signed copy by John Cage of first issue of American art/music magazine from 1978 completely devoted the composer.

Untouched copy of rare invitation card for a series of exhibitions and concerts by John Cage through Germany in 1978 ilustrated with a score.

Mailed copy of rare invitation card for a series of exhibitions and concerts by John Cage through Germany in 1978 ilustrated with a score.

Very rare two-sided poster for a John Cage exhibition with Mark Brusse at Galerie Kleber in Berlin in 1972.

Rare 1969 first hard-bound edition on Something Else Press of a superb collection of graphical scores conceived and edited by John Cage, including works by Sylvano Bussotti, Henning Christiansen, Franco Evangelisti, Mauricio Kagel, Takeisha Kosugi, Max Neuhaus, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Terry Riley, Diter Rot, Wolf Vostell, David Tudor, La Monte Young, etc.

Rare 1969 first soft-bound edition on Something Else Press of a superb collection of graphical scores conceived and edited by John Cage, including works by Sylvano Bussotti, Henning Christiansen, Franco Evangelisti, Mauricio Kagel, Takeisha Kosugi, Max Neuhaus, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Terry Riley, Diter Rot, Wolf Vostell, David Tudor, La Monte Young, etc.

Rare first edition of Cage's 1967 artist book with multi-colored text, published by Something Else Press in 1967.

The second of the two glorious John Cage albums released by Cramps Records on the unparalleled Nova Musicha series. Superb copy with original innersleeve.

Fylkingen first CD re-issue of Yuji Takahashi's landmark performance of Cage's prepared piano masterwork recorded in 1965.

Perfect copy of Cage & Tudor's landmark album for Folkways from 1959 released as 2xLP box set with booklet.

Superb selection of historical recordings (1947 to 1973) of music by two undisputed masters of the American avant-garde.

Long out of print 2000 first CD re-issue on Cortical label in an edition limited to 1000 copies of very early John Cage electro-acoustic pieces from the 40's including his collaboration with experimental writer Kenneth Patchen. With OBI.

Solid copy of John Cage's 1951 first album as a double LP set, it can't get more seminal than this. A piece of history in gatefold heavy cardboard embossed sleeve with stickers.

New Forces is proud to present Richard Ramirez Volume 2, a 6-CD boxset compiling some of the best work by noise legend Richard Ramirez: Supply and Shutdown, Nature's Afterbirth, Barebacking, This Angel's Rusted Halo, and Mistaken Genital Apparatus. Each of these discs contains a classic recording of pure noise from one of the genre's key figures; a massive collection you don't want to miss.

When I arrived in Geneva, Claude picked me up in his Aston Martin. He had a tape deck playing Lowell Fulsom – a guy who used to come to Memphis a lot and I knew some of his musicians. I grew up around the Blues, so this was a natural sound for me. Claude didn’t tell me until much, much later that he played Blues harmonica. He took us to the hotel where we had a warm and cordial welcome. Montreux was a quaint and sleepy town in 1967. However, there was a palpable excitement in the air and we coul…

This year, one of the greatest pianists of improvised music, Marilyn Crispell became the winner of the famous NEA Jazz Masters 2025 award, thus joining the ranks of such jazz wizards as, among others. in Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Cecil Taylor, Dizzy Gillespie, Sun Ra, Gil Evans, Sarah Vaughan, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Muhal Richard Abrams and Anthony Braxton, with whom, by the way, Marilyn spent several years in his second great quartet. As all of us intrigu…

Building off of their debut album last year, legendary musicians and 577 mainstays reunite for a second volume. As in the first, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter, pianist Leo Genovese, bassist William Parker (also playing Gralla and Shakuhachi on this album), and drummer and vocalist Francisco Mela, unite for another cosmic album. This project again draw from classic jazz arrangements, juxtaposed with a modern experimentalism and a huge range of instrumentation. Shine Hear, Vo…