★Cramps Records
Musica Su Schemi (LP)
condition (record/cover): EX/EX Gatefold sleeve with original inndersleeve. Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, founded in Rome in 1964, brought together leading contemporary composers including Franco Evangelisti, Ennio Morricone, Mario Bertoncini, and John Heineman in a radical collective exploration of structured improvisation. Musica Su Schemi (Music on Schemes) documents their unique approach – using graphic scores and conceptual frameworks to generate spontaneous yet rigorously org…
In Terram Utopicam (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/VG+ (tiny stains on front) Gatefold sleeve with original innersleve. Walter Marchetti (1931-2015), co-founder of the legendary ZAJ collective in Madrid alongside Juan Hidalgo, presents three visionary works bridging concrete music, home-made electronics, and conceptual provocation. J'aimerais jouer avec un piano qui aurait une grosse queue (I would like to play with a piano that has a big tail, 1974-75) is a witty and subversive piano action documented at the Venice …
Musica Futurista (8CD box)
condition (discs/cover): M/EX (still sealed but box has minimal wear) A pioneering voice in Italian experimental music! Daniele Lombardi (1946-2017), distinguished pianist, composer and musicologist, dedicated much of his career to preserving and reinterpreting the revolutionary music of Italian Futurism. This comprehensive 8-CD box set presents a complete survey of his work in this field - from meticulous reconstructions of Luigi Russolo's intonarumori compositions to performances of works by F…
Musica Futurista (2CD)
condition (discs/cover): NM/NM Includes 20-page booklet with text in Italian and English. The sound of the Italian avant-garde 1909-1935! First edition on Multhipla Records, Gianni Sassi's label dedicated to avant-garde music and performance. Music and words from the Italian Futurist movement, featuring original recordings and contemporary performances.
Luigi Russolo's Esempi Sonori documents his revolutionary Intonarumori (noise intoners) – mechanical noise-generators that realized his manifes…
Improvisation (LP)
Original 1975 LP on Cramps' highly collectable DIVerso series with original innersleeve, with confident and superb guitar improvisations.
Musica su Schemi
A testament to one of Italy's most radical musical experiments, now available in this carefully crafted limited edition for a new generation of adventurous listeners.
W.W.3
2004 release ** Italian punk / new wave: Kaos Rock's first album from 1980, "a valid example of punk turned pop, fast and direct without frills yet stuffed with fast-catching melodies"."
Rock And Roll Exibition
2005 release ** ""Rock N’ Roll Exhibition" is a completely new and unique album in the career of Demetrio Stratos, Mauro Pagani and Paolo Tofani and also for the Cramps label: it is a live tribute to the origins of rock’n’roll.""
Rock' 80
2002 release ** "An oddity in Cramps production was the release in 1980 of a series of singles by seven Italian new-wave bands (Dirty Actions, Kandeggina Gang, Kaos Rock, Skiantos, Take Four Doses, Windopen, X-Rated) called "Rock 80". Most singles came on coloured vinyl and were subsequently collected on the "Rock 80" compilation." Seminal release for Italian punk / post-punk."
Bluesman
2002 release ** "Second solo album by the Roman blues guitarist, released in 1979, a year after his debut. Songs of his own composition, alternating with some covers, such as "Baby please don't go", by Muddy Waters, and "Bottle up and go", by John Lee Hooker. Recorded live, alone on stage, with the only accompaniment of a harmonica player.""
Arbeit Macht Frei
2014 release ** "Appearing as it did in 1973, Area's debut album must have sounded to the average Italian pop critics like the end of the world. Issued on the Cramps label, the album highlighted Area's early sound, which featured overt folk melodies, Canterbury Scene prog rock, acid psychedelia, and vanguard jazz all filtered through a particularly Italian sensibility. Those who came to love PFM later will not be able to handle the beautiful -- yet very disciplined -- weirdness of Area, at least…
Natura Morta
1989 release (RARE) ** Original first edition on Cramps. "Composed for a grand piano covered in fruit, Natura Morta is simple and slow with no punctures, peaks, or destinies. A very simple sequence of piano accidents, according to Robert Ashley one of the most beautiful piano pieces ever recorded."
Musica Futurista 1
1992 release ** "A selection of futurist music which combines some very rare audio documents that have survived (for example, the Chorale by Antonio Russolo) with piano reinterpretations by the composer Daniele Lombardi."
KUM - Percorsi intrecciati con Franco Battiato
300 copies. Double LP, gatefold cover + inserts. After Juke Box (1977), between September 1978 and March 1979, the inseparable Giusto Pio and Franco Battiato committed to three pieces that should be interpreted as a single work since they both pursue and envision a sound that is independent of any form of language: Motore immobile, L’Egitto prima delle sabbie, and Rappel. Motore Immobile by Pio (completed in October 1978) was published only in 1979 to avoid interfering with the release/publicati…
In Sara, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Men And Women
Glorious 1978 first edition with gatefold cover and original innersleeve on Cramps Records' Nova Musicha series of the first ground-breaking LP by fundamental composer Robert Ashley.
Microphone
Original copy in excellent condition with innersleeve of one of the most beloved and sought-after albums released by Cramps on their landmark Nova Musicha series, Tudor's 1978 stunning and extreme electronic piece just as thrilling and ahead of its time today as it was then.
Cheap imitation
The second of the two glorious John Cage albums released by Cramps Records on the unparalleled Nova Musicha series. Superb copy with original innersleeve.
Tic & Tac
Yellow vinyl / 180 grams, limited and numbered edition 300 copies. Following the tragic passing of the legendary Demetrio Stratos in 1979, the band Area wisely chose to forgo vocals (save for a few backing harmonies) on this album, as no one could ever replace the "maestro della voce". While this instrumental album may not push boundaries like its predecessors, it showcases a commendable blend of talent, with each musician shining brightly, particularly the remarkable bass work by Ares Tavolazzi…
Gelato Metropolitano
“I was born in the sun of a big country that free maybe never was, a big country of happy people, of big forests and big cities.” This is how Alberto Camerini's second album opens, and it is clear from the outset that one is dealing with something not easy to categorize, wild, but equally enveloping and fascinating. The overall sound, while diverse, retains its own continuity and comes across as a blend of Brazilian sounds, singer-songwriter songwriting, and DIY bedroom electronics, with Camerin…
Rock' 80 (LP)
2024 Restock * First ever vinyl repress. Limited to 500 copies, 180 gr. Transparent Vinyl. Replica of the original, with printed inner * In November 1979, at the Palalido in Milan, the metropolitan response to the famous Bologna Rock, a festival that, a few months earlier, had effectively sanctioned the birth of the new Italian Rock, was staged. A dozen Punk/New Wave bands and the like - almost all of them perfectly unknown, except for the star Skiantos, fresh from a contract with Cramps, Gianni…