Lovotic
Written and conceived by Stephan Crasneanscki, ‘Lovotic’ is a concept album by Soundwalk Collective, composed in collaboration with lauded actress and singer/songwriter Charlotte Gainsbourg, Featuring veteran techno stalwart Atom™, rising singer/composer/performance artist Lyra Pramuk, celebrated actor Willem Dafoe, and writer/philosopher Paul B. Preciado, the album will be available from April 1st via the new Berlin-based Analogue Foundation. Inspired by a relatively new field of research that …
Rotomotor bundle
This special bundle includes the following Anton Bruhin releases on Alga Marghen:- Rotomotor / InOut (LP)- Vogelsang / Vogelsong / Vogelsung / Vögelsäng (4CD Box)- Rotormotor (CD)Anton Bruhin - Rotomotor / InOut (LP)InOut, a masterpiece for tuning whistle, mouthharps, flutes, toy and party gag instruments, percussion, bells, electric razor, model ship engine with propeller, birdcall whistles, CH-Phon, feedback speaker-microphone, siren, double shawm, falling down spoon, jew’s harp (only two shor…
Rotomotor / InOut
InOut, a masterpiece for tuning whistle, mouthharps, flutes, toy and party gag instruments, percussion, bells, electric razor, model ship engine with propeller, birdcall whistles, CH-Phon, feedback speaker-microphone, siren, double shawm, falling down spoon, jew’s harp (only two short notes), tearing scotch tape from the spool, ocarina, hair dryer and other noise makers plus occasionally radio tuner was recorded in Zurich between May 17th and May 22nd, 1981, on a Sanyo M7300L stereo radio casset…
Vogelsang / Vogelsong / Vogelsung / Vögelsäng
** 100 copies ** Alga Marghen proudly present the new 4CD edition of the complete cycle titled Vogelsang / Vogelsong / Vogelsung / Vögelsäng from 1977, available now with new artwork and issued in an edition limited to 100 numbered copies. If the idea of recording birds could have come from his friend Hans Krusi (this was a common practice for Art-Brut master Krusi who layered into primitive multi-track sonic sculptures the recordings of the many birds sharing his living space), Anton Bruhin is …
A Piece Of Work
**Edition of 300 copies** Sound can be a labyrinth, a twilight drift. Sound can truely unfold when it escapes logic or categorisation. For it is never really one thing or another, especially abstract, collaged or found sound, as it is always connected to a time and a place, or sometimes to an intention, or a notion, or – even more vague – to something as dubious as a feeling. So all this is inevitably inherent in a sound too. Sound is a fact but also an inbetween. In A Piece Of Work, concrete co…
The Refrain (Lp)
"Black Truffle proudly present The Refrain from Melbourne-based artist Francis Plagne, whose growing catalog of collaborative and solo releases range from song-based work to abstract audio collages. Closely aligned with Plagne's Moss Trumpet LP (released by Penultimate Press in 2018, PP 038LP), The Refrain's two side-long tracks mix sounds of the mundane with the otherworldly; rising, receding and overlapping. The result feels like being led through a series of scenes devoid of context or direct…
Synthesizer Evolution
Synthesizer Evolution: From Analogue to Digital (and Back) celebrates the impact of synths on music and culture by providing a comprehensive and meticulously researched directory of every major synthesizer, drum machine and sampler made between 1963 and 1995. Each featured instrument is illustrated by hand and shown alongside its vital statistics and some fascinatingly quirky facts.
Tape Leaders: A Compendium of Early British Electronic Music Composers
Absolute tip! In the form of a richly illustrated compendium, Tape Leaders is an indispensable reference guide for anyone interested in electronic sound and its origins in Great Britain. For the first time a book sets out information on practically everyone active with experimental electronics and tape recording across the country, revealing the hidden history of early British electronic music. With an individual entry for each composer, starting with Daevid Allen and going through to Peter Zin…
All Words Are Sacred
A collection of spoken recordings made by Aleister Crowley, captured on wax cylinders between 1910 and 1914.
Washington D. C. 1989
* Comes with an insert. Edition of 64 * Excellent crystalclear reading from 1989, by the American Beat Generation poet, travel writer and translator, Gary Snyder
The Bob Lens Archives vol. 2
* Edition of 60 * Tracks from Bob Lens's rare album Geluiden (Sounds), the follow-up to the Woorden album he made with Simon Vinkenoog and Hans Wesseling. Music and sounds for his expo's provided by friends Rolf Julius and Henning Christiansen
The Bob Lens Archives vol. 1
* Edition of 60 * The early 1980's, Dutch Fluxus artist Bob Lens was working in NY at the time. He recorded his tours in the city, soundscapes intended for use in later works.Bob catalogues the bridges he passes, the neighborhoods. He talks to passers-by and ends up in the loft of La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela where a concert is going on
From the Archives Vol. 8 (Tape)
Another release in the ongoing CCC Archives series. From the archives vol. 8 with rare material by Black Panther Huey P. Newton, Charles Plymell, Edward T. Hall, Marshall McLuhan and a British acid radio program
Dundee 2003
* Edition of 80 * The legendary Ira Cohen recorded live at Kill Your Timid Notion, Dundee. Free music provided by Chris Corsano on drums and David Keenan on guitar. Includes two small photographs.
USCO Tapes
* Comes with an insert. Edition of 64 * Rare audio recordings by Gerd Stern, one of the original Beats and seminal multimedia artists. Gerd Stern is a poet, artist, and multimedia pioneer whose remarkable life spans 40s bohemia, 50s Beat culture, 60s hippiedom, 70s hip capitalism, and continues today. USCO The sixties can be seen as the USCO era, although USCO (aka Us Company or the Company of Us) didn’t really begin until at least 1963. Stern had began creating mechanical sculptures as a natu…
666: The Hymn to Lucifer (Book)
** Limited edition of 30 * 27x20cm folder containing 12 prints. First published by The Diggers / Communication Company, San Francisco, 1968 "Frank Reynolds was secretary of the San Francisco chapter of the Hell’s Angels through most of the 1960s. Beat poet Michael McClure collaborated with Reynolds during poetry readings and published his interview of him as “Freewheelin Frank, Secretary of the Angels” in 1967. Reynolds’ LSD and amphetamine fuelled Hymn to Lucifer was published the following yea…
Behind The Buddha’s Mask (Book)
** Limited edition of 100 * Louise Landes Levi born in NYC, poet & musician, traveler & translator. The chap is a cycle of mythical poems written while in covid-exile in Japan. A sumi-e drawing by Kawabata Makoto is included in the text. Gold on purple cover, pure beauty! An edition of 100 # copies, including a full color insert.
Afghanistan per Du Perdü
**100 copies** In hardbound embossed special package (like previous edition in this series), numbered & signed, with an original work by Hartmut Andryczuk, signed and numbered. 52 pages with a foreword by Hartmut Geerken and 38 applicants for the Goethe Institute in Kabul in the 1970s. With Audio CD. To do justice to the dark irreparable situation afghanistan, bombed far back by the west, is in today, i am juxtaposing 38 passport photos of afghan people, in original format & still from the time…
Gapassipi
Stunning 40-page hardback book & CD entitled Gapassipi, a 1995 sound installation by Magnús Pálsson (b. 1929) edition of 200, each signed and numbered by Pálsson himself Gapassipi. With an oeuvre constituted by book art, sculpture, sound poetry, and performance, Magnús Pálsson is considered one of the most influential proponents of interdisciplinary, Fluxus-adjacent practices in Iceland during the late 20th century. With connections to non-Icelandic artists such as Dieter Roth, Philip Corner, a…
Soundscape Røst – Spaces and Species Vol I
**300 copies release** Soundscape Røst-Spaces and Species Vol I is a unique collection of field recordings and soundscapes, from the Røst archipelago – 100 km into the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Nordland (NO/Sápmi). The album is a careful edited selection of hours and hours of sound material listened to and recorded between 2010 and 2011. The listener will experience a multitude of nature and sea-bird voices/spaces and acoustic moments, spanning from booming roars to the faintest of hums. …