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Improvisations January 1997
** Edition limited to 240 copies with sensational full colour gatefold sleeve and breath-taking inside cover painting by Jean-Marcel Busson. ** An improvised music acid trip for instruments, voice and electronics by the GOL orchestra and the now defunct Telinga Ensemble navigating on the darkest waters of psychedelia. Five long tracks recorded 14 years ago in an icy flat in Pigalle, Paris with Ravi Shardja (bass guitar), Olivier Maurel (cello, objects), Emmanuel Quentin (guitar, prepared guitar)…
Puppet Island
** Double LP in full colour gatefold sleeve, issued in an edition of 280 copies. ** This is the Menstruation Sisters 2LP brand new effort, titled “Puppet Island” is a cabaret nightmare number of carnival hell disappearance, a prevocal natterings, no-fi/low-wave crash/bash masterpiece
Day 13. The green hell of the jungle stretches around us at all sides. Ifeel like I am being driven mad by the constant suffocation of its hotand terrible embrace. Everywhere, awful vegetable life fights forsupre…
Gol & Charles Hayward
** Edition limited to 350 copies. ** For this new "gollaboration" the French combo GOL confronts the British drums legend Charles Hayward (This Heat) for a rough/delicate and intense/mellow paradoxical music delight. The studio side compiles four improvised sessions exploring some possible oblique acceptations of the word "rock", while the live side recorded at 104, Paris, in dec 2008 during the Sonic protest festival, takes the encounters into the realm of psychedelia. The apparently chaotic ho…
Handcut
** Edition limited to 250 copies. ** Giuseppe Ielasi and Nicola Ratti, two musicians from Italy with an extensive solo activity, started the Bellows project together in 2006 and released their first CD in 2007. Their second release, an LP available now on PLANAM, was recorded in november 2009 in Tübingen, Germany. Quite different from the first, this new project was developed around the simple technique of cutting/destroying and amplifying vinyl records with contact microphones, creating new gro…
Kristallisationen 2
** Edition limited to 420 copies. ** Planam proudly presents the second LP production by Klaus Röder featuring two more pieces from the electronic Kristallisationen series, or “Kristallisation 5” (1993) for microphone recordings of children chimes (played by children), Yamaha TX 802 digital synthesizer and EMS Synthi A analog synthesizer, “Kristallisation 7” (1997) for microphone recordings and computer sounds, as well as “Frozen Sounds” (2002) for electric guitar sounds and computer sounds and …
Instant Coffee!
** Edition of 380 copies with hand printed coffee front cover. ** A bizarre love triangle strung between the Baltimore noise scene, contemporary electronics and the New York jazz world, Instant Coffee play improvised music which spontaneously assembles itself into ‘song’ shapes that blossom, catch fire, explode and distort in ways that are unpredictable and disorienting.A trio comprised of Lisle Ellis, M. C., Schmidt and Jason Willett, the band members boast some unusually chequered pasts. Lisle…
Languid Red Marchetti
** Edition limited to 340 copies, with full-color cover, infra-Suprematist inner sleeve and ultra-liner notes insert by Keith Connolly. ** Recorded close to the group's inception in 1994, “Languid Red Marchetti” is the NNCK sound in its empirical form, rhythmically a-linear and fundamentally abstract. While NNCK would go on to become a seven piece performing group, recording and touring extensively, this recording documents a smaller group of four original members engaged in the hermetically sea…
Disallow
“Disallow” is an art-record presenting the recording of a collaborative performance by poet-artist-architect Vito Acconci and New York group New Humans. Taking place within the sculpture installation “Disassociate” by artist Mika Tajima at Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, the release also includes the complete aural components that were present during the exhibition and live performances.For the public performances and private sessions within the exhibition, sculptures in the space were reconfig…
Kristallisationen
** Edition limited to 300 copies, also including a series of inserts with the diagrams and schedules of the 4 compositions presented on this LP. ** Klaus Roeder is guitar virtuoso an electronic music artist who studied with Kelemen and joined Kraftwerk for their famous "Autobahn" LP. He often works with very small sound particles, whose sound comes from different sources like tearing paper, the voice, a musical instrument, synthesizer or computer sounds. Sound structures are built by joining tog…
Une Petite Musique de Nuit
** Edition limited to 300 copies, with full colour space cover and innersleeve.** PLANAM proudly presents the first LP by the artist and sound sculptor Michel Vogel. Born in 1941 in Strasbourg, France, Michel Vogel artistic activities start in 1960 when, as a painter under the materic influences of Antoni Tapies and Jean Dubuffet, his mineral and sound experimentations built a universe influenced by free jazz, extra-European music and Olivier Messiaen. His researches develop with new sculptures …