Music For Solo Piano (1960-2001)
Performed by Daan Vandewalle, piano. Gordon Mumma (b. 1935) is best known for his pioneering role in the development and evolution of electronic and live-electronic music. The piano has played a significant if underestimated role in his career. With …
The Intermediary
Digital remaster of this Lovely Music LP release from 1982. The Intermediary gathers all of 'Blue's' musical impulses together in one, sweeping work for prose, improvisation, electronics, and piano. A program records, processes, and plays back the ch…
Just For The Record
Digital remaster of this Lovely Music LP from 1979. Just For The Record is a musical snapshot of West Coast post-classical music via Mills College: multiple-keyboard works by Robert Ashley, Phil Harmonic, Paul DeMarinis and John Bischoff.
Star Jaws
Digitally remastered reissue of an old Lovely Music LP from 1978. Peter Gordon and 'Blue' Gene Tyranny are long-time Lovely Music stalwarts, having contributed their talents to many a LML release: Peter Gordon has acted as producer for a few early Ro…
The Absence of Essence
Carlos Giffoni's heavy synthesizer work recalls the crushing, massiveness of early power electronics. Completely consuming the air around it with heavy vibrations and total deprivation. These four tracks rip holes through the sonic barriers, loud and…
Descending Moonshine Dervishes
With their rhapsodic, Eastern-inspired melodies, spiraling rhythms and mesmerizing repetitions, Descending Monnshine Dervishes and Songs for the Ten Voices of the Two Prophets deftly illustrate just why an entire generation of musicians has looked …
Casablanca Moon / Desperate Straights
Recorded in Faust's studio in Hamburg, Germany, Casablanca Moon is the 2nd Slapp Happy record. It's an eccentric yet melodic record with addictive songs... Blegvad, Dagmar Krause and Anthony Moore work in a short song format, and understandably ... …
An Optimist Notes The Dusk
Blow UP record of the month "A step into the void' is how David Grubbs describes An Optimist Notes The Dusk, his first solo album since 2004's A Guess At The Riddle. Much the same way that each of Gastr del Sol's albums sought to avoid precedent and …
Ongakushitsu
Double LP version. Aki Tsuyuko may be best known on this side of the planet as the voice for Nobukazu Takemura, but she has been making her own music quietly and unassumingly for the last few years. Tsuyuko's own music is subdued, and more introspect…
A House Waiting For Its Master
Recorded and otherwise applied to various surfaces and objects at the G*D facility, Reykjavík, during the glorious winter of 2002- 3, assisted by various woodland creatures and several nymphs. pract .dept. - a: Mxll, b: J. Jóhannsson, c: Bibbi publis…
Dr. Boogie Presents Rarities from the Bob Hite Vaults
These rare pieces are taken from Bob Hite's fabulous collection of 78rpm records. A historical collection that helped, in its own way, save from oblivion the rural bluesmen who have dropped out of the scene decades ago and made possible their reinteg…
Dada Anti Dada Merz
Featuring Raoul Hausmann, Kurt Schwitters, Hans Arp edited by Marc Dachy (Dada specialist), this is a complete cd build on the 3 axes of the european Dada avant-garde: 3 major artists who read their own texts. Hans Arp was close to Tristran Tzara whe…
Sarod recital / live in Peshawar
Asad Qizilbash is the only Sarod player in Pakistan since 1992, keeping this traditional instrument and its music alive. Asad was born in 1963 to the famous violinist K.H. Qizilbash, who was responsible for closing the gap between western and eastern…
Songs For The Broken Hearted
Most everyone has experienced love as well as heartbreak. The 10 songs that form the new Windy & Carl album are interpretations of those emotions that run the gamut from pain, anger and longing, to warmth, admiration and joy. Started in early 2007 an…
Chioma SuperNormal. The Dark Album
This Opus Magnus, its unrelenting poetry, its lucidly structured composition, its incredibly elaborate arrangements, cannot be grasped with terms like Rock Opera, Musical Play, Oratorio, or Horror Show. Doubtlessly, all of this is part of it somehow,…
Sadness & Life
An older great release performing the never ending circle of life and death, made of narrative passages combined with weird rock elements and detailed textures of modern composition. Recorded 1996.
Chioma Sings Tales Of Danny Dark
A vibrant mixture of avant-rock, modern composition, jazz and experimental electronica, this mysterious album has been circulating for a while now and deserves to be heard.Put together by Walter and Horace Cardew (sons of Cornelius), and featuring th…
Walter & Sabrina Play Pop; Walter & Sabrina Play Classical
Like a chorus of eunuchs standing over you on your deathbed sending you off to hell with jews harp and squalid tunes from children’s plays—or like outtakes from a Diamanda Galas Mass, in which the choir tries to have fun with the libretto to keep fro…
Loose Community
Otomo Yoshide (turntables, guitar) is active on a worldwide scale in such fields as free improvisation, composition, and film music. On a trip to Seoul in May of 2002, Otomo made a studio recording with Seoul musicians Park Je Chun (percussion) and M…