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Klangi
*2024 Stock * English/Finnish Hardcover book, 52 pages with audio CD, documenting a sound art exhibition held at Museum of Archaeology and Contemporary Art Aboa Vetus Ars Nova in Turku, in 2010
El Hotsaren Espazioa. Begiradaren Denbora - Espacio Del Sonido. El Tiempo de la Mirada
*2024 Stock * English/Spanish Hardcover book, 128 pages with audio CD catalogue, documenting a sound art exhibition held at Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, Donostia - San Sebastiàn (Spain) in 1999.
KlangRaumLichtZeit
*2020 Stock * Christina Kubisch is part of the first generation of sound artists to develop their own techniques, such as magnetic induction, in the course of realizing their installations. Since 1986, the trained composer has added light as an additional formative element to her work with sound. This book compiles works that can be viewed as straddling the border between music and visual art.
The book also contains elements about the history of her work from 1980 to 2000. This is the bookstore …
Stromzeichnungen (Book)
* 2024 Stock * Christina Kubisch is one of the pioneers of sound art, with numerous sound installations, performances and compositions to her credit, along with an extensive body of accompanying material that actually forms the springboard for her work. Included are drawings, visual musical scores and text and image sketches from the last 35 years, most of which have never before been shown. Topics treated include architecture, acoustics, the composition process, electronic sound generation, ele…
Ra Can Row
2024 stock. Deluxe, thick carton paste-on cover - 180g vinyl. An instrumental band from the USA active in early 80s, built around guitars, throbbing bass lines and a solid drum drive, moog synths and electronics, enrich with a spatial feel four lengthy improvised spacerock jams. Through most of the album Ra Can Row move from rhythmic space jams to slow moving, multi-layered, out-there rock. Absolutely mindblowing music from start to finish.
Formed by Don Schott (bass, guitar, electronics), Stev…
The Trance of Seven Colors
Huge Tip! *2024 repress.* The Trance of Seven Colors by master Gnawa musician Maleem Mahmoud Ghania and free jazz legend Pharoah Sanders comes in a gatefold sleeve and also include download code. Produced by Bill Laswell and - according to The Attic - "one of the most important albums of Gnawa trance music released in the '90s", The Trance of Seven Colors was originally released in 1994 on Laswell's Axiom imprint and is the magic meeting of two true musical masters. Maleem Mahmoud Ghania(1951–20…
Beyond the Flat Earth
Tip! *300 copies limited release* "Fallen Sun, the noise/industrial moniker of Reverse Image from Malaysia, approaches the creation of noise music through the layering of sonic textures aligned with a sense of space and movement. Using Harsh Noise Wall as distant inspiration, she takes the seed of an idea and expands and contracts it, before further compressing and then twisting it, layer upon layer, until the idea has morphed into itself. 'Beyond the Flat Earth’'s ten concise tracks explore thi…
Open Close Open
In 1998, Carsten Nicolai, also known as Alva Noto, visited a sound installation created by Robert Lippok for a group exhibition in Weimar, Germany. Soon after, he invited Lippok to release music on his label raster-noton. »Open Close Open« was released in 2001 and marked the beginning of Lippok's solo career. Before, Lippok had already played in Ornament und Verbrechen (with his brother Ronald Lippok) and To Rococo Rot (with Ronald Lippok and Stefan Schneider).
The title of the EP is a linguisti…
Watching A Dog. Smiling
*300 copies limited edition*New release on NoBusiness from two of the best reed instruments' veterans.
Mats Gustafsson – slide flute, flute, baritone sax and live electronicsLiudas Mockūnas – sopranino, soprano, reedless soprano, overtone, bass sax and contrabass clarinet
Disco Trance Discs
*30 copies limited edition* Disco Trance Discs is a 6 CDr collection of unreleased Kösmonaut material. Pulsing with cosmic disco and acid funk undertones.
R.E.K. 1
*2024 stock* R.E.K. 1 is the singular album by German New Wave/electro-pop musician Richard Edward Kersten, performing under his initials with studio partner Frithjof Krepp. The album was released in 1983 on RCA. 35 years anniversary edition.
Final Alley
*2024 stock. 200 copies limited edition* Cosmic heads, here comes one of your your dream releases of 2020. Final Alley is the 1980 follow up to Alex Cima’s sought after debut „Cosmic Connection“ from 1979. Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft/Polydor label was intersted to release it in 1980 as well as they did with the first album „Cosmic Connection“ but „Final Alley“ remained and insanely rare promo only release. US based producer Alex Cima returning with his cosmic funk and psychedelic Disco on t…
Let's Go Into Space VI
Private Records presents „Let’s Go Into Space 6“. The collector series continues with another collection of scarce and unreleased 1980’s Italo Disco, Electro, Cosmic Disco songs. This time also with some sunny Reggae vibes and dozends of different vinyl colors aswell gimmicks cover with tangram game + Private Records sticker set. A lot of the featured songs cost about 200 € on Discogs and all are really amazing creating togehter this perfect album.
Let's Go Into Space VII
The hottest 1980’s cosmic italo disco songs from the Czech national music archive bundled on one album. Supraphon was founded in 1932 and is the biggest original music company of East Europe since now. They sold their vinyls also in own Supraphon music shops until the 1990’s and have more than 100000 master tape recordings in their archive. The shop in Prague is still active. It was a honor to license these rare and undiscovered recordings. The best singers and the finest musicians + even featur…
Les Idoles
Les Idoles is a mythical record of sixties psych rock prefiguring punk. A work which in style had no equivalent in France at the time. Thanks to the performance of the Rollsticks, a rock band created from scratch with musicians from different musical worlds, to accompany the erratic vocalizations of actors Pierre Clémenti, Bulle Ogier, and Jean-Pierre Kalfon. The band consists of Patrick Greussay (later of Calcium) on the drums and guitars, Stephane Vilar (later of Calcium, PLVG), Didier Léon (f…
Théâtre Musical 2
Monster Mélodies presents the second in a two-part unpublished recording of a concert by Brigitte Fontaine and Areski Belkacem at studio 102 of the Maison de la Radio dating May 21st, 1973. Areski Belkacem and Brigitte Fontaine, major artists of the French counterculture, were often be censored or deliberately ignored by the media due to their libertarian positions. Obtaining success at a late stage, it was not until the album Kékéland in 2001 and Rue Saint Louis en l'Ile in 2004, for Brigitte F…
Crown Ever Remain
*2024 stock* Written and produced by Stephen Bishop. Recorded in Her Presence, Newcastle upon Tyne. Mastered and cut by Helmut Erler at D&M
The Sound Sculptures of Bernard and François Baschet (Book)
This book is a classic in the history of art. In it François Baschet recounts the research and creation of his Sound Sculptures, with which he began a pioneering career combining art and science, sculpture and music. The willingness to share his findings inspired another breakthrough: participatory exhibitions, spaces where everyone could explore and play with sound. François Baschet’s conception of acoustics—a method of understanding the functional relations between form, matter, action and sou…
Amplified Crystal
A howling vortex of psychedelic whiteout and swirling shimmer by trailblazing Japanese icons C.C.C.C. (Cosmic Coincidence Control Center), featuring the core foursome of Mayuko Hino (electronics, voice, performance), Hiroshi Hasegawa (synthesizer, voice), Fumio Kosakai (electronics, tapes), and Ryuichi Nagakubo (bass). Originally released as a legendary, limited vinyl LP on the group’s own Endorphine Factory label, this seminal release has been painstakingly remastered in 2023 by John Wiese and …
Community Center Cyber Crash / Live In Pittsburgh
A searing document of C.C.C.C.’s indelible live performance at Wilkins School Community Center on October 11, 1992, Community Center Cyber Crash/Live In Pittsburgh voyages into an abyss of scorching sound featuring the lineup of Mayuko Hino (electronics, voice), Hiroshi Hasegawa (synthesizer, voice), and Fumio Kosakai (electronics, tapes). Originally released as a vinyl LP in 1993 that helped cement the ensemble’s legacy and influence, the album has been meticulously remastered in 2023 by John W…