★Cramps Records
Caged/Uncaged - A Rock/Experimental Homage To John Cage
2002 release. Issued for the XLV Biennale di Venezia with support from The Institute For Contemporary Art, New York, Mudima Fondazione per l'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy. All John Cage excerpts are from John Cage's "Silence and One Year from Monday," recorded at 222 Bowery in New York City, December 1968 and March 1969, courtesy of Giorno Poetry Systems. Featuring David Byrne, Debbie Harry, Arto Lindsay, Ars Hell and Mutt, John Zorn: Naked City, Chris Stein, Amy Denio, David Weinstein…
Musica Futurista
A stunner of an 8CD box set dedicated to the history of Italian futurist music – put together by Daniele Lombardi – the most complete collection of music ever assembled in reverence of the historical Futurismo movement of the Italian avant garde! Disc 1 features Daniele Lombardi at the piano performing material by FB Pratella, Silvio Mix, F. Casavola and others, plus the first recording of L Russolo's Intonarumori and Arco Enarmonico. Disc 2 features Metropolis – a three part composition by Lomb…
In Sara, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Men And Women
Long out of print, beautiful remastered digipack edition with extensive booklet "This uniquely original work for voice and electronics is dated 1972. The voice part is read with as few inflections and breaths as possible and the voice activates electronic sounds that respond with inflected sounds. The musical effect is that of an internal voice stimulating involuntary ideas and feelings offering a profound musical exploration of the relation between the physical nature of the voice and social/la…
Maledetti (Maudits)
1976 was a year of flux and change. For the recording of the fifth Area album, the core membership of Stratos, Fariselli, Tofani and Tavolazzi were present, but drummer Capiozzo only appears on about half of the album, replaced on various tracks by either Walter Calloni or Paul Litton. Steve Lacy augments the band, as do several other studio musicians (including a string quartet). Perhaps it was the contributions of this eclectic group of guests that gives Maledetti its bi-directional feel. On o…
Caution Radiation Area
With their new quintet format (including the entry of bassist Ares Tavolazzi) Area managed to consolidate their radical avant-garde approach to jazz-rock and achieve a more powerful ensemble sound: the result was properly incarnated in their genius second album “Caution Radiation Area”, a manifesto of bold inventiveness and sheer energy. Their explosive mixture of Weather Report/Mahavishnu Orchestra-inspired fusion, psychedelia, free jazz, North Africa/Middle East folk and concrete chamber comes…
Finale (1971-1973)
Awesome piano release on the legendary 'nova musicha' series, brand new remastered-digipack edition for this italian master of the post-avantgard scene.La genialità creativa di Paolo Castaldi eseguita dal preparatissimo musicista Giancarlo Cardini, interprete delle nuove esperienze acustico – rappresentative del maestro. “Questa versione esecutiva si presenta qua e là ridotta rispetto al testo integrale pubblicato da Ricordi. Le omissioni (sviste), possibili in questa partitura a differenza che…
En rouge et noire
an excellent and breathy recording with lush piano elegies awash in a radical sonic realm that is profoundly reminiscent of Charlemagne Palestine but in a very hectic/spirited way, truly an excellent and underrated recording that explores new piano possibilities. Beautiful digipack edition + large booklet
Recitarcantando
Restocked, special discounted price: one of his best and 'more affordable' release, Demetrio Stratos live in 1979 with Lucio "Violino" Fabbri (PFM violin player).The amazing research of Stratos brings many suggestions of unexplored fields of research that are still to be studied such as the particularly stimulating and innovative pre-eminence of the meaning over the meant, and the ritual value of the voice.[12] His research into the field of phonetics (Articulatory phonetics, Acoustic phonetics,…
suonare la voce
RESTOCKED! Finally available again, a must have early footage video documenting the incredible performances and vocal techniques of Demetrio Stratos, lead singer and organ player for Area. "Suonare la voce" is the most complete video collection of both performances and vocal studies of Demetrio Stratos during his solo years, with John Cage, M. Cunningham ecc. The VHS release on EMI has been longtime out of stock, now this very rare footage is available again in digital format.
Cantare la voce
Restocked, special price: digipak CD with 16 pages booklet, reissue of a 1978 LP out on Cramps Records. His research into the field of phonetic and experimental poetry led to his freeing his voice every naturalistic restraint, restoring its depth and dimension. The result of this van be heard in the two recordings of his compositions "Metrodora" and "Cantare la Voce" where what sounds like an instrument is in fact his voice.
Cheap imitation
Reissue of an LP originally on the Cramps Nova Musicha imprint. The music is a "cheap imitation" of Erik Satie. Nice meandering piano music played by Cage himself. Registered at Center for Contemporary Music of Mills College in Oakland, California, Cheap Imitation is a piece for solo piano by John Cage, composed in 1969. It is an indeterminate piece created using the I Ching and based, rhythmically, on Socrate by Erik Satie; it consists almost exclusively of a single melodic line, with occas…
Empty Words - 1977 Parte III
Long out of print double set...These two CDs contain the live recording of "Empty Words", a Cage’s unusual performance played at Teatro Lirico in Milan on December 2nd, 1977: the artist, sitting at a small table with a little light, read words and phonemes taken from diary of H.D. Thoreau. With a minimum singing, tenuous and light, John Cage read disconnected words and syllables, away from all the codes and mechanisms of our communication.
Musica su schemi
Founded in Italy between 1964 and 1965, the world's first composers collective, Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, sought to unhem the purposefulness of their respective instruments and the primacy of composition in order to open up a space for the emergence of free music and unintentional noise sounds.
The music sways between nearly inaudible whir, clatter and scrape and bubbling blasts of sound. Their overtures to noise, anti-musical operations and compositional experiments on this di…
Tempo Furioso
RESTOCKED The extraordinary Cramps label classic. Stockhausen meets Luc Ferrari & a hint of Xenakis. This breaks all the rules & invents new cross-genre concoctions, atmospheric to wild to totally perplexing! Five stars, groundbreaking record. Beautiful digipack edition with printed booklet. Davorin-Jagodic was a Yugoslavic/Croatian composer whoe realized this great NWW List/Cramps LP featuring some creepy, sometimes droning, electronic musique concret and is one of my favorites from Cramps. …