Electric Chair And Table
mimeo: Keith Rowe, Phil Durrant, Kaffe Matthews, Jérôme Noetinger, Gert-Jan Prins, Cor Fuhler, Thomas Lehn, Marcus Schmickler, Markus Wettstein, Christian Fennesz, Peter Rehberg and Rafael Toral. The Music In Movement Electronic Orchestra (mimeo) presents a double CD with recordings made at the Cologne "Jack Pohl presents..." festival in December 1998. Marcus Schmickler and Rafael Toral each edited one CD from the seven hours of live material. After the documentation CD queue (GROB 005, now avai…
Ring Ring 1997
A compilation of the best moments of the Ring Ring 1997 festival which took place in Belgrad in May 1997. Included is a previously unreleased track by Justine.
Lingua II: Maledetto / Antiphony VIII
The work and thought of the American composer Kenneth Gaburo (1926-1993) exhibited many striking changes during his lifetime. In fact, while the world of commercial endeavor still insists that artists develop a recognizable personal "style," Gaburo's life-work can be seen as one of continual change and exploration, rather than one of codification and promotion. Some of these changes are beautifully illustrated by the two works on this CD, Maledetto, for seven speaking voices, from 1967-68, and A…
Texture Time
Texture Time” is the third album by Dense Band and quite possibly the best. It signals a further development of Moss' use of live sampling and electronics to magnify the impact of that already dramatic vocal delivery, showcasing Moss' astonishing leaps from register to register and his ability to shape time like an origami master folds paper. No other improvising vocalist that I know of has created such an intense, idiosyncratic vocabulary. Texture Time is indispensable.
World of Strings
Stephan Wittwer Intakt solo album, World of Strings has him all over the guitar. Live recordings.
Five Voices
International consortium of freaky vocal talent culled together here represent some of the finest exponents of extemporaneous jibber jabber extant. From the U.S., we have the zany N.Y. avant chanteuse Shelley Hirsch and her equally flipped out N.Y. compatriot in extended vocal technique David Moss as well as the L.A.-based Anna Homler, whose approach emerges from her personal zone of invented language generation as heard on her gorgeous Do Ya Sa Di Do CD, which I posted a while back. To that, ad…
Uluru
Solo work by one great saxophone player, founder of the Butch Morris' X-Communication and of the Cecil Taylor's European Big Band.
Azzazin
Shorter than many of Muslimgauze's 1990s albums - 13 untitled songs over 45 minutes - Azzazin, originally released as part of the limited-edition subscription series, feels more like a collection of random experiments than a cohesive piece of work per se. If not something that would intrigue the casual listener, the hard-core fan will likely find something of interest on the various tracks here. Starting with an extremely minimal opening number - it's no surprise Finnish experimental duo Pan Son…
Allez Teia
Heldon were one of the quintessential European progressive groups of the 70s. Led by Richard Pinhas (and assorted backing guests), they released 7 albums from 1974 to 1979, all reissued in the early 90s by Cuneiform (inferior French editions can be found on Spalax). Pinhas went on to record a series of solo albums under his own name, also to be found on Cuneiform. Allez Teia was the second Heldon album from 1975 -- it features Pinhas's trademark instrumental sound: waves of distorted post-Frippi…
Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy / Art Forms Of Dimensions Tomorr
Much of what was unique about the original Pink Floyd's sound - the use of echo and piercing organ for musical effect - is present here, Floyd fans take note. Wonder if Syd Barrett had been exposed to Sun Ra's music. "Cosmic Tones" sounds like a 20th Century space-inflected chamber music quite unlike jazz, though it contains elements of it. The music attempts to paint pictures in an abstract fashion unencumbered by notions of traditional musical form. Instruments enter, contribute to the picture…
Hu-du-men: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack for a movie by Shu Kei. Chino Shuichi: piano, organ, synthesizer; Uchihashi Kazuhisa: guitar, bass, banjo; Matsumoto Osamu (5): trombone; Otsubo Hirohiko (2,10,16,17): contrabass; Nasuno Mitsuru (5): bass; Yoshigaki Yasuhiro: drums, latin percussions; Aya (2,16,17): vocal; Otomo Yoshihide (1): sampler.
Electro-Acoustic Solo Works 1984-95
Electro-Acoustic Solo Works (1984-95) collected assorted compositions of musique concrete and interactive computer music (Chatterlings of april 1995 for sampler and drums, and an excerpt from Aivilik Rays of may 1990, originally more than one hour long).
Wonderful World
“Wonderful World” is the first single release to be taken from the acclaimed Nine Horses album "Snow Borne Sorrow". It features a previously unreleased composition, ‘When Monday Comes Around’, along with a radio edit of “Wonderful World”.
Asymmetrical Music
The new cd with Norwegian composer Eivind Buene and his composition, asymmetrical music. This is Sofa first release with a written score, but it doesn't mean that improvisation is abandoned. On the contrary, asymmetrical music focuses on the meeting point between composition and improvisation. The two soloists, Ivar Grydeland guitar and Ingar Zach Ð percussion, are improvising as a duo but also on another level, with the written score. The members of the Ensemble featured on this disc are also v…
A Blind Man's Gallery Of Mirrors
All tracks are live recordings of experimental music from Freedom In A Vacuum Festivals, held since 1991 at the Music Gallery in Toronto.
Tap Dancing in the Sand
A selection of pieces by the great musical pioneer Robert ashley performed by the Dutch Ensemble MAE. Some of the works were especially written for the Ensemble in the last few years, and have never been recorded before, namely the title work 'Tap Dancing in the Sand' featuring ashley's voice and 'Hidden Similarites'. Other works presented on the CD are 'Outcome Inevitable', 'in memoriam Esteban Gomez' and 'She was a Visitor'.
Upbeat
Upbeat was drawn from concerts the quartet had performed in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France and Spain in November 1997. It contained composed material from each of the group members, plus improvised pieces.
Kolednice
Legendary east block vocalist. Here is 17 tracks of experimental child songs mixed with traditional folky style that are calm and relaxing. Beautiful voice as always.
Elegy
Recording of a file-card composition, performed on flute, viola, guitar, turntables, sound effects, percussion & voice. "Creates a mysterious world of erotic perversion, drawing inspiration from the writings of Jean Genet, and features an unusual collection of some of SF's most interesting musicians: David Abel, Barbara Chaffe, Mike Patton, David Shea, David Slusser, Trey Spruance & William Winant.
La nuit est au courant
The fabulous "La nuit est au courant", documenting a rare tour by an extraordinary quartet featuring enfants terribles Jac Berrocal (trumpet) and Jacques Thollot (drums), with bassists Francis Marmande and Hubertus Biermann. Long out of print