The Gospel of Truth / Auf Der Exernsteine
**2019 stock** Martin Erik Andersen was born in 1964 and lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. He studied at Al-Fonun Al-Gamila (The Fine Arts Academy) in Cairo (1989-90) and graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (1992). Major solo exhibitions include Horsens Kunstmusem, Horsens (2009) and Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Holstebro (2008). Since 2009 Martin Erik Andersen has been Professor at the Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark. The self-released The Gospel of Truth / A…
Traubenfleisch
**300 copies** First recording of the grand scale symphony Traubenfleisch (2007-2017) by Hermann Nitsch, performed at the Nitsch Museum, Mistelbach (Austria) on September 2, 2017. Orchestra Klangvereinigung Wien and a new choir formed for the occasion. Directed by Andrea Cusumano. This Double-LP comes in a full-color gatefold sleeve.
Diotima Hat Ihre Lektüre Gewechselt
**300 copies** The 1971 detective audio play Diotima Hat Ihre Lektüre Gewechselt goes back to the records of a murder trial that took place around the turn of the 20th century: two music students were killed upon their own request - because of a love affair - by their piano teacher, who afterwards lacked the courage to shoot himself too, as planned. The court records are read out by two girls in alternation. The text is accompanied by background noise that the listeners can understand in relatio…
Ausgewählte Kurze Hörstücke 1961-1987
**300 copies** Unlike previous Gerhard Rühm editions on Tochnit Aleph which portrayed his phonetic poetry and longform radio-plays, the pieces on Ausgewählte Kurze Hörstücke are more conceptual, actionist, and (mostly) sound-based works recorded between 1961 and 1987. Liner notes by Gerhard Rühm in English and German.
Alex Barbier chante
**500 copies** In 1996, Alex Barbier set up a cartoon festival in Fillols, in the Pyrenees Orientales. For ten years on such occasion, he and Pascal Comelade offered a small recital of songs from the popular French repertoire of the 1920-30’s. Once a year, in the village square or in the Foyer de Fillols room, Alex Barbier sang, dressed in a long robe and wore a wig of circumstance, accompanied on the sober piano by Pascal Comelade, the French sound artist who is probably the most concerned by …
Experimental I / Mechanical I
When Harry Bertoia's Sonambient label was resurrected, Important Records' intention was to tell the story of Bertoia's groundbreaking Sonambient work as revealed through his extensive collection of notes and recordings. When the first new LP was released in 2016, Important were only in possession of 1/20th of the archive. Now, in 2019, the label is excited to release the first LP of new material from the full archive and they present it to increase understanding of what Bertoia was doing in his …
Extract From Field Recording Archive
Japanese sound artist Toshiya Tsunoda is a master of the art of field recording who discovers the hidden properties of sound and vibrations in the material world, from road surfaces to the sea. Through acute mic placement, field recordist Toshiya Tsunoda captures the unusual vibrations of everyday spaces. The recordings contained in this amazing box open up an expansive soundfield of subtle modulating frequencies and dramatic suspensions of time and space. Sounds such as these would be the envy …
August 14, 1991
Edition of 300 copies, historical recordings from 1991, as the composer wrote "the music was performed by myself, solo. Recorded live at my former apartment in New York". Composer, per former, conceptualist, improvisor, installation artist and violinist Takehisa Kosugi has been an important, though shadowy presence in the world of avant garde music since the beginning of the 1960s. This is one of the few authorized 'live' recordings - Kosugi has long been ambivalent about the value of audio docu…
LAX5
**100 copies** Five editions plus an encore (German / English) by and with Robert Lax (1915 - 2000) in a slipcase, edited by Hartmut Geerken with previously unpublished materials, audio CDs, films, notes, letters, photos and poems. Robert Lax was born in 1915 near New York, the son of jewish immigrants from Austria. Soon he belonged to the literary scene in New York and wrote for magazines like „The New Yorker“ and „Time“ as well as working for radio and film. After the war he lived in Paris for…
Elektrofotografie
**33 copies** Die Tödliche Doris was born out of West Berlin’s lively post-punk community in the early ‘80s. Along with Einstürzende Neubauten, Malaria, Sprung Aus Den Wolken and Frieder Butzmann, Die Tödliche Doris ranks amongst the Geniale Dilletanten – which roughly translates as “ingenious dilettantes” – who sought to democratize cultural productions beyond the grip of both Western capitalism and GDR socialism. The Geniale Dilletanten became synonymous with a free-for-all approach to music, …
Kavaliere
**75 copies** Die Tödliche Doris was born out of West Berlin’s lively post-punk community in the early ‘80s. Along with Einstürzende Neubauten, Malaria, Sprung Aus Den Wolken and Frieder Butzmann, Die Tödliche Doris ranks amongst the Geniale Dilletanten – which roughly translates as “ingenious dilettantes” – who sought to democratize cultural productions beyond the grip of both Western capitalism and GDR socialism. The Geniale Dilletanten became synonymous with a free-for-all approach to music, …
Kostüme
**120 copies** Die Tödliche Doris was born out of West Berlin’s lively post-punk community in the early ‘80s. Along with Einstürzende Neubauten, Malaria, Sprung Aus Den Wolken and Frieder Butzmann, Die Tödliche Doris ranks amongst the Geniale Dilletanten – which roughly translates as “ingenious dilettantes” – who sought to democratize cultural productions beyond the grip of both Western capitalism and GDR socialism. The Geniale Dilletanten became synonymous with a free-for-all approach to music,…
Performance
**100 copies** Die Tödliche Doris was born out of West Berlin’s lively post-punk community in the early ‘80s. Along with Einstürzende Neubauten, Malaria, Sprung Aus Den Wolken and Frieder Butzmann, Die Tödliche Doris ranks amongst the Geniale Dilletanten – which roughly translates as “ingenious dilettantes” – who sought to democratize cultural productions beyond the grip of both Western capitalism and GDR socialism. The Geniale Dilletanten became synonymous with a free-for-all approach to music,…
Obertonorgien
Edition of 25 copies, 14 CDs, book-bound, with 14 original collages by Hartmut Geerken (on each of the 14 CD sleeves). Archive edition of Geerkens' talk pieces in a period of twenty years with Klaus Ramm, Pierre Garnier, Robert Lax, Jochen Gerz, Herbert Achternbusch, Grace Yoon, Sainkho Namtchylak, Jörg Drews, and others. Hartmut Geerken is a German musician, composer, writer, journalist, playwright and filmmaker. Geerken studied orientalism, philosophy, German studies and comparative religion i…
Kochspuren - Traces of Cookery
**100 copies** Jaap Blonk is a self-taught composer, voice performer and sound poet. His unfinished studies in physics, mathematics and musicology mainly created a penchant for activities in a Dada vein, as did several unsuccessful jobs in offices and other well-organized systems. He took up saxophone and started to compose music, at first mainly jazz pieces and music for experimental theatre. In reciting poetry, especially the works of Antonin Artaud, Lucebert and Kurt Schwitters, he discovered…
Fehlberliner U-Wirr
**150 copies** Jaap Blonk is a self-taught composer, voice performer and sound poet. His unfinished studies in physics, mathematics and musicology mainly created a penchant for activities in a Dada vein, as did several unsuccessful jobs in offices and other well-organized systems. He took up saxophone and started to compose music, at first mainly jazz pieces and music for experimental theatre. In reciting poetry, especially the works of Antonin Artaud, Lucebert and Kurt Schwitters, he discovered…
Resonant Spaces
Edition of 300. Comes with 16pp booklet. The work presented here for the very first time is the full documentation of Japanese sound artist and instruments builder Akio Suzuki’s solo works performed as part of ‘Resonant Spaces’, a tour with UK saxophonist John Butcher arranged in 2006 by the Arika organisation. ‘Resonant Spaces’ allowed people to experience sound in some of the remotest regions of Scotland for a series of site-specific performances in natural, prehistoric, manmade and industria…
Stillness
Edition of 200. American interdisciplinary artist and composer Yann Novak returns to 901 Editions with his 4th edition for the label following ‘Blue.Hour' (2013), ‘Undefined' (with Richard Chartier, 2013), and ‘Liminality' (with Fabio Perletta, 2014). His new venture takes the form of a book and CD documenting the history of his series of works ‘Stillness' (2010–2017) through essays, photographs, and an audio CD. Stillness takes its inspiration from the two climates Novak has inhabited: Subtropi…
Aaangelicaaa May 10th 2015
Strummmmminggg for Stringggggsss N Thingggggsss is a reworking of Charlemagne Palestine’s venerable Strumming Music from the early 70s. If you’re familiar with the string ensemble version of the piece included on the Sub Rosa reissue Strumming Music then you will not be fully prepared for this. Palestine begins solo, keening in falsetto over rubbed glasses; the strings come in lower pitched, with cellos and basses augmenting the violins. The heavier texture, with Palestine’s singing, creates a r…
Unsere Debut
** 500 copies** Die Tödliche Doris was born out of West Berlin’s lively post-punk community in the early ‘80s. Along with Einstürzende Neubauten, Malaria, Sprung Aus Den Wolken and Frieder Butzmann, Die Tödliche Doris ranks amongst the Geniale Dilletanten – which roughly translates as “ingenious dilettantes” – who sought to democratize cultural productions beyond the grip of both Western capitalism and GDR socialism. The Geniale Dilletanten became synonymous with a free-for-all approach to music…