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Rekem Records and Fragment Factory are proud to present a solo album from veteran Swedish artist Leif Elggren. Skirting both the area of pure sound, as well as that of symbolism, the record is a powerful statement on the limits of social and political absurdity and corruption in our present time. ‘Das Baank’ is notable for the absence of its creator’s voice, as the sound of Elggren’s characteristic spoken word is nowhere to be found. Instead the music traverses between carefully paced dram…

Like his literary fellow traveler William S. Burroughs, who made tape experiments a few years earlier, German beat writer Jürgen Ploog (born 1935) began experimenting with tape recorders in the 1970s. Due to his career as a transcontinental pilot, Ploog was constantly on the go. The material on this LP was recorded and edited by Jürgen Ploog on different flights between 1971 and 1976 on a portable tape-recorder. Final selection, montage and editing by Robert Schalinski. Limited to 500 copies. Jü…

"It aint what you make, its what makes you do it." Theme for a Major Hit is the soundtrack to an installation with motor driven marionette, wood, cloth, felt, tape player & external speakers made in 1974 by Dennis Oppenheim. Recorded at Angel Sound, New York in 1974. This piece consists of 15 marionettes with the artist's face, dressed in felt suits. They are rigged to machinery that engages them in a jerky, disturbing dance to a soundtrack. Stepping into the room (and consequently stepping into…

“Work comes out of work”, Richard Serra does not stop to stress concerning the various modes of his artist enterprises, be it sculpture, film, drawing or print. With 'Intimacy' sound artist Pietro Riparbelli proves that from the factual labor and workspaces of contemporary artists work evolves into new and unprecedented art.  Post-minimal with respect to the process art aspects of production, Riparbelli recorded …

** Handstamped sleeves (each one unique) edition of 300 ** Oscilla is the fifth full length solo album of Japanese artist Miki Yui and it is her first release on her new imprint MY. Miki Yui has a background in fine arts and works in the fields of music, drawing, installation and performance. Her works have been shown worldwide. Compared to her previous albums, "Oscilla" is an generous and playful blend of environmental and pure electronic sounds like microphone feedback, analogue sy…

New album by Cork based composer Karen Power, featuring compositions & field-recording based work alongside short notes by Mary Nunan, Chris Watson and David Toop. Presented as a full colour tri-fold A5 size booklet printed on uncoated paper stock, each hand numbered. This CD is presented as a special fold-out booklet, printed on uncoated board and paper. The edition is limited to just 500 copies with each one hand numbered. The tri-fold booklet contains short sleeve notes by invited contri…

Farpoint Recordings is delighted to announce the release of The Wounds Of Returning, Sound Works II 1974-1983 by Boston based sound artist Jed Speare. This new CD features audio works from the aforementioned period, representing the long anticipated complement to the CD release by Family Vineyard, Soundworks 1982-1987. It contains track-by-track sleeve notes by the artist, full colour images from his video works, and a special text by poet and artist George Quasha, Sayings Made Possible by …

pcahuilcsaigmon is the new cassette release from innovative US based sound and visual artist Steve Roden and the second instalment in our new series of cassette tape editions. Farpoint Recordings are pleased to present this latest audio work from Steve Roden containing two new long tracks presented on compact audio cassette.   Featuring a vibrant blue cassette shell, each wrapped with full colour fold-out artwork with a front image by Steve Roden all housed in a clear plastic box. On the i…

Edition of 250 copies. Dowsing, the new vinyl long player from electronic musician and sound artist Stephen Vitiello. 33rpm black vinyl LP, cover printed on heavy uncoated paper stock, hand numbered, mastered by Taylor Dupree. Bundled with free digital download.Dowsing is a new vinyl long player from electronic musician and sound artist Stephen Vitiello. It contains 4 tracks and features short sleeve notes and cover photography by Stephen Vitiello. LP designed by Doreen Kennedy.Vitiello…

Needless to say, Akio Suzuki is one of the representative sound artists in Japan. Many of his previous releases are sometimes interpreted as the work of a hermit or wizard creating beautiful sounds with his self-made musical instrument called "Analapos," glass harmonica (De Koolmees), and stone flute, but the title of Suzuki's first sound piece, aidan ni Mono wo Nageru (Throwing Things at the Stairs) at Nagoya Station in 1963, reflects his perspective on the noises in his work. This LP consists …

The newest cosmic excursion Lp by  Raymond Dijkstra, here playing Mellotron, Moog IIIp and Percussion. His mixture of electronics and Mellotron with assorted percussions conjures up visions of deep, mystical emotion: spacy, abrasive, frightening, and beautiful all at once. From the label press "The following Text is not about the Content of the LP. Nor is it an Effort trying to explain what this LP is about. The LP is not about Memories, nor about Remembering any of the Events described below, d…

Dutch visual and sound artist Raymond Dijkstra has honed a direction with his work that is as complex as it is singular – following patterns both sonically and visually which create a sense of isolation as well as a powerful vision. And this one is not an exception, again with the help of Timo van Luijk (of Elodie, Af Usrin fame) and Frédérique Bruyas on vocals. "Part from these reservations placed upon the kind of relationship more or less intimate that I should maintain with you, my mouth is r…

Located on the train journey between London St Pancras and Margate, Sonorama is an audio work by composer Claudia Molitor that offers sounds and voices for the otherwise silent view from the train. The work is downloadable as an app for listening with headphones.Imagining the journey itself as the ‘score’ Molitor has composed a cycle of works and collected interviews, readings and archival material which respond to both the present, and the history of the route. With each track relating to a dif…

Listening into writing, reading into writing take shape in F.M.R.L. through a collection of short texts, fragments and ‘deranged essays’, with attention to pacing and linguistic derives. An archive of books, notebooks, events and records prompts the texts in these pages, responding to encounters with Michel Leiris’s autobiographical fictions; concerts and events at Café Oto and the Swedenborg House in London; visits to museums such as the Pitt Rivers in Oxford and exhibitions such as Ice …

First historical edition! Limited to 500 copies. This three-disc box collects Number One Intersystems (1967), presenting the correct side sequence and (for the first time) the original tracks' sub-section divisions; Peachy (1967), with (for the first time) the correct track separations, timings, and titles; and Free Psychedelic Poster Inside (1968), with (for the first time) the original (double) track titles. All works remastered by Intersystems founding member John Mills-Cockell for this editi…

On the occasion of the 2015 exhibition Le Caselle di Anton Bruhin at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma in Milan, Alga Marghen presents the complete edition of Anton Bruhin's 1977 cycle Vogelsang/Vogelsong/Vogelsung/Vögelsäng. If the idea of recording birds came from Bruhin's friend, the Swiss painter Hans Krüsi (this was a common practice for the art brut master, who layered recordings of the many birds sharing his living space into primitive multi-track sonic sculptures), Bruhin is able to use th…

Canciones de Cadaques is a musical collaboration between Dieter Roth and Richard Hamilton that was originally published by Hansjörg Mayer in 1976. It takes the form of a double 45 record and features the two artists alternately performing on vocals and guitar, with assistance from a Cadaqués dog named Chispas Luis, who periodically takes over vocal duties with a particularly sharp bark. This facsimile editions reproduces the original’s gatefold design, and features eight color photographs of the…

Rvng present one of their most unique releases to date with a limited art zine and cassette that shines light on the work of psych musician Bobby Brown. Bobby Brown exists beyond being. Bobby’s documented music covers a dynamic emotional and spiritual terrain, his vocals, ever prominent, traverse six octaves of sound. Bobby’s understanding of — and unbending faith — in physics and technology manifest in unbelievable instrumental and intellectual innovations. Bobby’s dedication to the fundaments …

Previously-unreleased recordings from live sessions at the Logos Foundation, Ghent, Belgium, recorded in 1974, 1979, and 1981. This double LP, the first release in a vinyl-only series, includes the following recordings: a 1979 performance by Max Eastley and Logos Ensemble (Max Eastley, Godfried-Willem Raes, Moniek Darge, and Rob Keymeulen playing xylophone bars, Aeolian flutes, springboard, sanzas); a 1974 performance by Feminist Improvising Group (Georgie Born: cello, bass guitar; Lindsay Coope…

First two chapter in a series of releases based on field recordings. A stunning collection of nature interventions and humans observations. Edition of 100 each. Massimo Carozzi since 1994 concerned with the relations between sound and image, sound and script, sound and literature, sound and space. Carozzi has created sound design for theatre, documentaries, short films, installations. He played and collaborated with Sinistri, 3/4HadBeenEliminated, Starfuckers, Andrea Belfi, Stefano Pilia, Margar…

First two chapter in a series of releases based on field recordings. A stunning collection of nature interventions and humans observations. Edition of 100 each. Massimo Carozzi since 1994 concerned with the relations between sound and image, sound and script, sound and literature, sound and space. Carozzi has created sound design for theatre, documentaries, short films, installations. He played and collaborated with Sinistri, 3/4HadBeenEliminated, Starfuckers, Andrea Belfi, Stefano Pilia, Margar…

Milan Knizak and Opening Performance Orchestra revisit Knizak's 1979 Broken Music (SR 400LP) in Berlin, 2014. "In 2008-9 we transferred the original recording from vinyl records into digital form. As we did so, we weren't interested in the precise, clean fidelity offered by the digital world, which fundamentally causes the fine structure of natural sound to be lost. Instead we were seeking the opposite: the world of errors and distortion, which remains hidden when digital audio is manipulated to…

Issues results from the invitation made to Sébastien Roux to compose from the six issues' collection of the contemporary art magazine about sound Volume, released between 2010 and 2013, using the textual corpus as a generator of scores to write and eventually have performed.'And so, as a follow-up to some of the projects that periodically interacted with the printed version of the review, you will now be able to listen to Volume through this record, the six sound pieces of which respectively 'tr…

Autumnal Sisters is a DVD collection of seven performances by Alessandro Bosetti, in solo and teaming up with writer Kim Taeyong and video maker Orolo. It is published by The Manual. In the seven short films of this collection - filmed in Seoul in 2013 - you experience the unedited original performances which have been reframed and juxtaposed with a series of visual cues and interventions. The seven episodes of Autumnal Sisters are part experimental videos, part performative documents, and part …

**in stock, very last ones** This double LP, released by NERO magazine and Shady Lane Productions, gathers selected materials, both texts and audio recordings, from Phil Collins's project of the same name, for which Collins collaborated with guests of Gulliver, a self-described "survival station for the homeless" in Cologne, Germany. There, Collins installed a phone booth for free and unlimited local and international calls, on the condition that the conversations would be recorded and ano…

Milestone reissue! Ellen Fullman began developing her installation The Long String Instrument in 1981, in search of tonalities that could not be achieved with traditional instruments. This large-scale work consisted of 70-foot-long metallic wires, anchored by a wooden resonator, across which the performer moves backwards and forwards with rosin-covered fingers. The overall effect has been rightfully compared to the experience of standing inside an enormous grand piano.Recorded during Fullman's 1…

In one of the last projects he conceived, interrupted by his premature death, Davide Mosconi chose to absolutize as ‘concrete’ sonic data the complete cycle of Wagner’s “Ring”. Mosconi, an artist equally divided between the sonic universe and the visual sphere, perhaps could not resist the temptation of picking up the torch to intentionally fan the flame of he who made the Gesamtkunstwerk one of the theoretical groundings of his futuristic ideology and therefore inspiring a never-more-to-be-soot…

2021 restock. "Includes liner notes & archival photographs. 1970 was an important year in Eliane Radigue's musical life since it was the year just before she acquired her ARP 2500 synthesizer. Since 1967, she had been using the feedback as a material; feedback from two tape recorders reworked through intensive studio techniques: slowing down, alteration, superimposition, montage. In 1970, the last year she dedicated to feedback, several milestone pieces saw the light of day: Omnht, a wonderful s…

Homemade noise made by, among others, Philip Corner, Max Neuhaus, Steve Reich, James Tenney, Malcolm Goldstein, Jackson Mac Low, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, Carolee Schneemann, Jerome Rothenberg... the Technicians of the Sacred. Gift Event III: A Celebration for poets, musicians, and dancers, based on the orders of the Seneca Indian Eagle Dance and performed at the Judson Dance Theatre, Judson Memorial Church, New York City, March 21 and 22, 1967. A part of the Spring Happenings. The legandary…

2010 release. In 1977, Max Neuhaus turned a triangle of pedestrian space between 45th and 46th Streets in Times Square into an island of harmonic sound. The rich textures of that sound continue today, emanating from beneath the sidewalk grating, to anonymously reach an individual’s ears as if one has stumbled upon a secret. Known as Times Square, the celebrated installation was restored in 2002 with support from Dia Art Foundation, which further commissioned a site-specific piece, Time Piece Bea…

One of the most innovative artists of the second half of the 20th century is given his legendary 1963 Whispered History of Art - at once a poem, installation, performance piece and recording. Filliou’s work challenged the role of art in everyday life through conceptual strategies and innovative techniques, based on performance, chance, wit and play. The process-based approach of Robert Filliou, united with his pursuit for an anti-individualistic art that could happen at any time and place, …

**restocked** Solar Music by Joe Jones, performed and recorded early morning April 1, 1984, on the Baltic Sea beach of Sierksdorf in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. This recording was originally published as a tape by Edition Hundertmark in an edition of 15 copies and later reissued as a CD by ? Records. The original tape edition included seven photo prints and a title page which were missing from the CD and are reproduced here for the first time.Edition of 200 in gatefold PVC sleeve. Right-hand si…

The Maciunas Ensemble was founded in 1968 by Dutch musicians and sound artists Paul Panhuysen, Remko Scha and Jan van Riet. It has existed ever since, though having gone through a number of membership changes until today. The group's intention was to realize the piece "Music for Everyman" by Fluxus initiator George Maciunas which they interpreted as allowing boundless freedom in the sounds being produced. The group met at a regular basis, usually improvising on a number of instruments that were …

2015 release ** Four political tape compositions 1976-1979 by Swiss composer Max E.Keller (b.1947). A rare case of left-wing / socialist electroacoustic music. The CD includes Keller's piece from the long out-of-print and sort of legendary Split-LP with Martin Schwarzenlander from 1977 plus 3 previously unreleased tape compositions. Max E. Keller originally started out as one of the first Swiss Free-Jazz musicians in the mid 1960's and studied composition with Hans Ulrich Lehmann and Helmut Lach…

A colossal audivisual adaption of Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto, by Thomas Koner, one of the uncontested master isolationists of the ethereal static sounds, a sonic symphony of the unconsciouss and a defiant decceleration critique of today society through the ultimate modern text. The Futurist Manifesto is the ultimate 4 bpm masterpiece.100 years ago, in 1909, the italian poet and artist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published the ‘Futurist Manifesto’ which became the foundation of the futurist mov…

A milestone. T H I R - Ten Hundred Inch Radii - is among the most historically significant works in Phill Niblock's output, and one of the genuinely undiscovered jewels of American experimental film. Completed in 1972 as the fourth and final chapter of his Environments cycle - begun in 1968 - it is presented here for the first time on DVD, with two alternate soundtracks, by the Italian imprint Von. Niblock occupies a peculiar and underacknowledged position in the history of American Minimalism. …

Unreleased very first recordings from 1979 (!)by Giancarlo Toniutti together with Tiziano Dominighini (pre “airthrob in” project!) documinting his very first approach on electric and acoustic instruments and noises. Recovered and mixed by Giancarlo Toniutti 2014. Limited to 300 copies

Doppeldoppelgänger, a compilation of tracks by poets and sound artists selected by David le Simple and Vincent Romagny, was created on the occasion of the three-exhibition Doppelgänger cycle at the Centre Européen d'Actions Artistiques Contemporaines, Strasbourg, France, curated by Romagny. The double LP is a purely subjective compilation of sound works by artists (Félicia Atkinson, bruant&spangaro), sound from films by artists (David Lamelas), sound poetry and performances (John Giorno, Karl …

First release of Hermann Nitsch’s Symphony for Mexico City, his most recent & massive work, recorded February 27, 2015 at Museo ExTeresa Arte Actual. Mexico City. Performed by Ensemble [LIMINAR] and Students of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música. Conducted by Andrea Cusumano. “in fact i only want to cause that great state in which one gets goose pimples, when painfully unfathomable shudders of happiness run through one with pleasure in the pain,(…) the basic movement, the ‘basic power’ …

As part of our Second Life series, we are pleased to present a special anthology of Light Bulbmagazine (1977–81), produced in cooperation with the Los Angeles Free Music Society and edited by LAFMS founding member Chip Chapman. Light Bulb was the house organ of the Los Angeles Free Music Society, made by and for the experimental collective of musicians that formed in 1972 Pasadena and soon "became a lightning rod for art-damaged, weird-music lovers everywhere." Nowhere is the DIY, visual complex…