Kodachrome: Compositions For Orchestra By Raymond Scott
Kodachrome is a sparkling collection of Raymond Scott's idiosyncratic orchestral music, performed by the 60-piece Metropole Orchestra. All compositions make their CD debut here. With Kodachrome, the Raymond Scott legacy grows yet again. After Scott disbanded his legendary 'Quintet' in 1939, he formed the first of his many orchestras. Scott continued to compose, this time for a larger canvas, and some of his more historically fascinating work often went commercially unrecorded, performed only on …
Otra Musica
The full title of this landmark collection, Otra Musica: Tape Music, Fluxus & Free Improvisation in Buenos Aires 1963-70, says a tremendous amount this overwhelming package in & of itself. Though he has only recently come to international attention through his recordings for Hatart as a leader and with Franz Koglmann, Argentinean clarinetist and alto saxophonist Guillermo Gregorio had a fascinating earlier artistic incarnation in Buenos Aires. Heretofore totally unknown, these recordings bring t…
You\'re Never Alone with a Cigarette (Singles Volume 1)
Recorded in July of 1988 during the sessions that produced Sun City Girls' most popular recording, these nine tracks represent the other half of songs which were originally prepared as a 2LP demo version of Torch of the Mystics for Placebo Records in 1989. The sequencing of all 20 tracks at the time was entirely different with the predominately instrumental tracks in this collection mixed in and around the mostly vocal tracks of what became Torch. Placebo went out of business shortly after this …
From The Kitchen Archives - New Music New York 1979
Founded in New York in 1971, The Kitchen is internationally known as a leading center for video, music, dance, performance, new media and literature. Orange Mountain Music has begun the restoration of audio reels from performances at The Kitchen with the goal of producing a series of CDs entitled From The Kitchen Archives. New Music, New York 1979, the debut release in this series, is a two-disc set offering re-mastered recordings from the landmark concerts of 'New Music, New York: A Festival of…
It\'s always rock'n'roll vol.2
One of their best work, released as double LP in 1975 by the French electronic band led by RICHARD PINHAS: If you're looking for really uncompromising and rough music - this is it. Very neurotic and tough, driving electronic drones all over, this is music not for the faint-hearted! It's quite aggressive stuff, usually very alien sounding, with cold and abstract synthetic drive. If you like sweet twittering music for relaxation, you will probably have a heart attack when listening to this.
It\'s always rock\'n\'roll vol.1
One of their best work, released as double LP in 1975 by the French electronic band led by RICHARD PINHAS: If you're looking for really uncompromising and rough music - this is it. Very neurotic and tough, driving electronic drones all over, this is music not for the faint-hearted! It's quite aggressive stuff, usually very alien sounding, with cold and abstract synthetic drive. If you like sweet twittering music for relaxation, you will probably have a heart attack when listening to this.
Collapsing
The 2nd Amon Düül I album, of 1969 recordings. This is one that did not come come out on Captain Trip, and hence the most in-demand of the Spalax issues. Short, spectacular trance-out blasts in a similar vein to Disaster.
Hecker, Höller, Tracks
Spending time together in Gothenburg in the spring of 2003, Florian Hecker and Carsten Höller discovered that they don't share only a passion for Munich's culinary speciality Saures Lüngerl. Carsten later driving off to Berlin, equipped with a single CD-R of some unreleased Hecker tracks playing on heavy rotation in his car, and Florian enjoying the Upside Down Goggles, they said goodbye, but not for long. Once Florian mentioned to Carsten his fascination for psycho acoustics, he soon found a CD…
Eternal Noise
Carlos Giffoni knows no mercy. Of all the noise terrorists on the loose today, Giffoni causes the most upheaval. We know he specialises in brutal and invincible noise collages, but there is so much more to it than that. There is always a glimmer of hope that shines through the dense clouds of noise. His noise lives, broods and swings. His latest album for Bottrop-Boy is a true revelation in this respect, not just for the listener, but also for the artist himself. After all, the Venezuelan artist…
Summon With Electronic Corcery
This is the soundtrack of your favourite nightmare. The aural cinema delivered by the Starving Weirdos is best experienced with one’s eyes closed. A dark psychedelic joyride on the inside of one’s eyelids. Instead of the obvious, hypnotically safe vision or bouncing orangey sunspots, entire films are projected onto the eyeball. Think desolate valleys, sweaty engine rooms and dark alleyways. The four trips committed to record by this Californian band taunt every accepted boundary. The black magic…
No Canal
Guitar, drums and electronics. There are no further requirements for turning the world on its head. Since their inception in 2002, Mouthus from Brooklyn have delighted and enraptured their audience. Thundering noise eruptions, mail-fisted guitar drones, infernal drumbeats and an indomitable drive are these devilish duos hallmarks. This is undiluted rock ‘n’ rock for noise junkies. When it comes to live performances, Mouthus are unbeatable. Nevertheless, in order to nourish the other parts of the…
Phonometak Series #4
4th limited release of the PhonoMetak recordings feat. for the 2nd time a collabotation between Zu and Xavier Iriondo, co-founder of the PhonoMetak releases. On a side, Damo Suzuki (Network, CAN, ...) is improvisating with the Metak Network and on the other is experimenting with Zu and Iriondo. Always such Experimental and always noisy and intense.
Reproduction
Secular Musics Of South Yorkshire is the new project name for Mark Fell, who is half of SND and Shirt Trax. Reproduction is his first solo album after having only released a solo 12" as .H on Hobby Industries in 2000. The album is a reworking of sorts of the same-titled album from The Human League from the 80s, using it as source material for not only the music but also for the complete album concept. Although close in sound to the SND aesthetic Secular Musics Of South Yorkshire sounds more angu…
Rubber Johnny
Rubber Johnny is the latest creation from the UK's most imaginative filmmaker, Chris Cunningham. Featuring exclusive music by Aphex Twin, this nightmarish and hallucinatory experimental short film is accompanied by 40 pages of drawings and photographs - Cunningham's first published book of original artwork. Synopsis: Johnny is a hyperactive, shape-shifting mutant child, kept locked away in a basement. With only his feverish imagination and his terrified dog for company, he finds ways to amuse hi…
Early Filmworks 1996 to 2006
As an artist, Sänpäkkilä is someone who transcends conventional boundaries: film, music and visual art each vie for his attention. In fact, these separate areas are integrated in his work to such an extent that he could with equal justification be considered a visual artist, a filmmaker or a musician. His experimental short films are most notably characterised by a certain suspension. For instance, Sänpäkkilä portrays repetitive jumps, trudging through snow or waking up repeatedly. This suspensi…
The Magic Sun , a film by Phill Niblock
The classic 1966 film by Phill Niblock featuring Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra, plus rare & exclusive Sun Ra footage, photos & audio 'proclamations'! Composer, photographer and filmmaker Phill Niblock's classic of experimental underground filmmaking with a sensational soundtrack by pianist Sun Ra and the members of his Solar Arkestra. Shot in the mid '60s, when the Arkestra was based in New York, this film was produced using a unique negative process and ultra-tight close-ups on the moving hands a…
play Phallus Dei
Long deleted now, an extraordinarily rare and timeless piece of footage of a legendary and hugely influential band at the peak of their lysergically enhanced powers.Un filmato davvero raro, che cattura in concerto una delle più grande band tedesche degli anni'60/'70, gli Amon Düül II. La pellicola originale è del 1968 e presenta la primissima, leggendaria formazione del gruppo, impegnata in musiche che avrebbero poi visto la luce sul loro album di debutto, pubblicato l'anno seguente. La pellicol…
New York-Atlanta
Two best sets from 2007 tour by developing audio partnership, direct soundboard recording. Steel string binds knobs, vocal cries machine code, fuzz and foil avalanche, fireworks and drought. Epic movements in entirety, minimal editing meddling. Words no good, just jam. Track 1 recorded at the Silent Barn, New York, NY, October 19, 2007. Track 2 recorded at Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA, October 24, 2007.
Shama
An awesome new release by Girolamo De Simone, a talented composer that emerged from the "new avant-garde" scene, which arose in Naples in the 70s around his maestro Luciano Cilio, of which he plays several parts in the legendary Dell¹Universo Assente CD. The pieces presented here are intimate and introspective miniatures, full of melancholy and sweet decay. Blending acoustic and electronic particles, De Simone creates a fascinating osmotic process of endless beauty.
I can\'t take my head to see higer...
'I can't take my head to see HIGHER becouse the sky is landing over my neck' is the the third and last cd of the "Trilogy of the voice". The work is dedicated to two artists: Angus MacLise and Jackson Pollock and inspired by their individual researchs; only two tracks for about 50 minutes. "I don't take..." is, first of all, a cd that it talks of love and it's dedicated to all lovers. This cd is been used and conceived for an installation in "Circolo degli artisti" in Rome called: "Mumu goes rou…