Meredith Monk in Conversation With Bonnie Marranca
*BIlingual Edition Italian/English* "There was a certain time when I felt that to make ar t that was useful,I wanted to offer an alternative template of the possibilities of the human being, and I wanted to creatework that was more of a sacred space, where we could come to with a belief that art has a healing power." This book is a result of a conversation between Meredith Monk and Bonnie Marranca.
Prima Voce
*BIlingual Edition Italian/English* Everything is sound. It is according to this principle that the sound of things becomes. “vocation"-literally an emission of voice-that must be accepted: sound is the matrix, while voice is the way in which it is given as a memory of its first manifestation.
Voices In The First Person Volume 2
Throughout his life as an artist of increasing renown, William Parker has always made it a point to shine light on those who do not as often receive recognition for their work, and from whose work Parker has found resonance with & received inspiration from. There have always been song dedications and odes to their inspiration on his albums. And, on a larger scale, there are now four extant volumes of his indispensable 'Conversations' books which, through relaxed & in-depth interviews, allow the …
Perspectives on Sylvano Bussotti
The music of Sylvano Bussotti seems to achieve the squaring of the circle: in many ways radical, avant-garde, and innovative, it manifests, at the same time, an idea of beauty, with a strong sensual as well as personal side, not easily reconciled with the avant-garde movements of the 20th century. This volume explores the work of the Italian composer from a multi-perspective and polyvalent approach, addressing cultural questions of identity and authorship, issues of gender and non-normative sexu…
Theatre
*150 copies limited release* “It's music where nothing happened. It's the kind of music somebody might write in Adelaide, Australia. Nothing happened.” - Morton Feldman
Theatre is De la Catessen’s second venture into the archive of Jon Dale. Originally released in a tiny CDr edition of 50 copies on Tristes Tropiques in 2019, Theatre now reappeares in an edition of 150 glass-mastered CDs.
Theatre sees Jon Dale eschewing the hearthwarm drones of his previous album on de la Catessen, Last Blues, an…
Sometimes
*Limited Edition of 20 copies* EPRC share ‘Sometimes’, the first EP anticipating the upcoming full-length album ‘Bodies’, due out via Stray Signals on September 6th, 2024. A condensed narrative arc spanning the two poles of the duo's sonic spectrum, the EP features the eponymous 'Sometimes' - also the opening track of 'Bodies' - and 'Dark Red [ Lacquered ]' - the synth-only precursor to the album version.
Kneel For Truth
"Kneel for Truth - اركع للحقيقة”, the 12” single by Egyptian artist Abdullah Miniawy, is finally available.The vinyl is the second release of a limited edition series curated and conceived by Chiara Lee, freddie Murphy and Davide Quadrio as audio catalogue for the temporary exhibitions hosted at the museum. This second output is released within the exhibition “Trad u/i zioni d’Eurasia”
Extrasussurrante
An updated companion to "Architettura Sussurrante" the curious sound experiment by Alessandro Mendini. 70 minutes of brand new and unreleased music. Digipak comes with 16-page full color booklet, documenting Mendini's sound collaborations with critical texts and rare pictures. Also, Mauro Sabbione (who composed the track Casa Mia using fragments of the Mendini’s op-ed) offers an expanded and oblique version that this time around takes advantage of the entire transcript. On both tracks, one relea…
Harpo's Bulletin anno I n° I - marzo-aprile '81 (fanzine)
Ultrarare first issue of Harpo's Bulletin from 1981, with Gaznevada on the cover and features on the early Bologna underground post-punk scene. Almost impossible to find...
ADN Issue no.6 (fanzine)
Nr. 6 of the excellent fanzine xeroxed and published by the glorious ADN label with Art Zoyd, Brbonese Qualk, Die Form & Nulla Iperreale, Esplendor Geometrico, New 7th Music, Smegma, Steve Feigenbaum.
Trance n°2 - dicembre/gennaio 1985/1986 (magazine)
Excellent magazine "about music and society" with articles about Christian Death, Weimar Gesang, F.A.R., The Ar of Waiting, Rosemary's Baby, Thelema, Marc Bolan, Dirty Roseanne, And Also the Trees, Body Art, Yukio Mishima, Psychic TV, Lashtal, etc.
Ankh numero Aleph - ottobre-novembre 1984 (fanzine)
Rare 1984 fanzine about music, art, culture and esoterism.
Cracker anno I n.3 - novembre 1981 (fanzine)
Rare visually-striking tabloid size fanzine from 1981 with articles on Bauhaus, Kerosene, Luciano Castelli etc.
Rusty S. & Pitti Blue I-IV
* Limited Edition 200 Copies* Rusty S. & Pitti Blue I-IV is a one-act multimedia performance in eight fragments performed by a spectral cast of objects, sculptures and costumes activated by a sound and light score. The piece relies on a frantic layering of text, sculptures, costumes, recorded music, tape and paper collages, actions and gestures, horizontally sequenced spaces, blaring screens and performed images. The protagonists are Rusty S. & Pitti Blue I-IV, two death-like-mechanical puppets…
Urlo Wave 9 issues lot 1984-1987 (fanzine/magazine)
A beautiful lot of 9 issues, including two very rare early still xeroxed numbers, ranging from 1984 to 1987 of the important 'bulletin of the Italian new wave'. Texts in Italian.
Selected Recordings from Grapefruit
For the first time a full album with recordings based on Yoko Ono’s 1964 collection of texts, event scores and drawings “Grapefruit”, a foundational cornerstone of what became known as conceptual art, and enveloping the orbits of Fluxus and experimental music. Performed by The Great Learning Orchestra which has during the 25 years of its existence worked with Gavin Bryars, Terry Riley, Pauline Oliveros, J.g. Thirlwell, Arnold Dreyblatt a.o.
Originally self-published in 1964 in a limited edition …
Idola Tribus 4 (fanzine)
Excellent 1985 fanzine mainly inspired by Industrial culture with articles on Sonic Youth, Hassan-I-Sabbah, Yanomami, tattoo, record reviews, ads, etc.
Firecracker
it was during the workshop session of acoustic taiyuan: a native soundscape project, more precisely, on aug. 2nd, 2021, that the original recording made by my grandma had been fossicked off from a m size carton of a few hundred cassettes.
as distinguished from taping one’s own unaccompanied singing, which used to be a fad and the outputs of which one would still occasionally dig out in flea fairs, this recording registers a long period of firecrackers cracking with uncontrollability that mumbles…
Missing
*150 copies limited edition* sub jam is proud to announce the release of sun yizhou's new solo album "missing", his most hardcore dry and calm opporation on insignificant sound to date. sun yizhou (born in 2000, beijing) is one of the volunteered unpopular musicians who focus on a world with less (or, no) humanity influences, with full of human sensitivity and curiosity. he works with small machinese. sometimes broken ones and sometimes his body as a machine. he runs aloe records with zhang cai.…
Iannis Xenakis - Mythos und Technik
*2025 stock**Bilingual Edition English and German* In the films of this DVD, Peider A Defilla provides an insight into the oeuvre of Iannis Xenakis. The films show musica-viva performances of the works ’Syrmos’, ’Synaphai’, ’Theraps’, and ’Nekula’, and the respective BR-alpha broadcasts on these compositions. In an exclusive interview, the composer Iannis Xenakis is asked about his compositional oeuvre. In addition, the data section of the DVD contains further information on Iannis Xenakis, the …