New Arrivals
Plugged Inclinations
“I work since 1993 to an experimental approach of the church organ (Pentes, Tirets) : 1) we control a machine 2) the organ is halfway between vehicle and artificial intelligence : it is a public transport : a ship, a barque, a boat, a building within a building 3) passing the machinery to the filter of listening, gesture and architecture 4) bringing the blast into the space : ventilate 5) make this organ sound not like this other one 6) express the organ as one says about lemon.The blast is endl…
Only On Mondays (Getsuyobi-No Yuka)
A very cool mix of music by the legendary Toshiro Mayuzumi a Japanese composer known for his implementation of avant-garde instrumentation alongside traditional Japanese musical techniques. His works drew inspiration from a variety of sources ranging from jazz to Balinese music, and he was considered a pioneer in the realm of musique concrète and electronic music– served up here on a soundtrack that's almost
like having an audio version of a movie! The songs are all relatively
short, and are …
Simple Affections
Simple Affections: "I corralled a dream LP that I would want to listen to. Too smelly, too sweet." Album features contributions from: Peter Friel, Jackson Graham, Mark Harwood, Graham Lambkin, Lia Mazzari, Sean McCann, Madalyn Merkey, Michael Pollard, Eric Schmid, Zach Schwartz, Tom James Scott, Patrick Shiroishi, Christina Stanley, Matthew Sullivan, Dennis Tyfus, and Will Gottsegen.
One time pressing. Includes six 5x7″ postcards in printed envelope,
program notes insert by Sean McCann, Scente…
Le Renard Bleu
Le Renard Bleu, the new musical and cinematic collaboration between Lafawndah and composer Midori Takada, and filmmakers Partel Oliva,
takes a cross-generational echo as ground zero for recovering a crucial
myth for uncertain times: the blue fox. As transmitted by Takada, the
fox appears in both ancient Senegalese and Japanese folktales as the
trickster archetype. Above all else, the fox is famous for its cunning
nature. Renard Bleu marks the first new music released by Takada in nearly twe…
Taipei Disco
Holuzam is a new label from Prícncipe Discos co-founders José Moura and Márcio Matos. The second release on the label is a sublime disco missive from Macau, China, recorded between 1989 and 1993, bubbling up from a blindspot to offer a stunning package of sounds lesser, or even never, heard beyond private archives or Portugal’s borders... Dwart has been the vessel for journalist and musician António Duarte and his sometime musical partner, Manuela Duarte, since 1985. They played gigs at home in…
Moshi Too
2012 Release. 80 Minutes of previously unreleased recordings from 1969-70, not to be found on the tenor player's regular "Moshi" album. Dark and trance-like amalgam of Afro-blues, acid-rock jams, polyphonic rhythms and spiritual jazz influences from the likes of Coltrane or Sanders. Recorded 1969-1970 in Africa by Barney Wilen on Nagra (Stereo/ Mono). Unreleased archive sounds, transferred on Telefunken and Nagra from original tapes found in the estate of Barney Wilen. Moshi: trance utterance by…
The Replicant Dream Sequence (Blue PA14 Series) LP
LP version. Hieroglyphic Being, aka Jamal Moss, visited the Moog Sound Lab towards the end of 2016. Testing the lab through his prismatic rhythmic cubism meets synth expressionism methodology. 21st century Afro-futurism to the max. Both parties expressed their satisfaction with the encounter. Eldon Tyrell on the recordings: "I believe Bob Moog was (in the late 20th century) creating his modular system 55 synthesiser for artists yet to come... artists like Jamal Moss."Moog Recordings Library is n…
Ttuunneesszz Duh Rruunneesszz (Blue TB7 Series) LP
Charlemagne Palestine first started using electronic instruments in his music in the late 1960s. Palestine on the release: "Electronic instruments were very rare and exotic in the 1960s.There were Moogs around New York but they were only in universities who preciously guarded them from us young composers. So after all this time visiting The Moog Sound Lab is like a dream come true for me... to have so many oscillators all singing together is a truly beautiful experience. I am so glad I am still …
Interrvallissphereee (Blue TB7 Series) LP
Charlemagne Palestine first started using electronic instruments in his music in the late 1960s. Palestine on the release: "Electronic instruments were very rare and exotic in the 1960s.There were Moogs around New York but they were only in universities who preciously guarded them from us young composers. So after all this time visiting The Moog Sound Lab is like a dream come true for me... to have so many oscillators all singing together is a truly beautiful experience. I am so glad I am still …
Resonance
2008 release. Ken Vandermark has had a productive relationship with the Polish label Not Two, which put out the 12-disc boxed set of the complete Vandermark 5 at the Alchemia club in Krakow from 2004. The most recent collaboration has resulted in these two vinyl releases.The Resonance Ensemble is a 10-piece band that was assembled from Vandermark collaborators from Chicago, New York, Poland, Sweden and the Ukraine (where the 2008 concert featured on this LP was held). One might question how well…
First Thirst, Live at Cave12
Swiss drummer Nicolas Field (1975) has been collaborating with Japanese saxophone player living-legend Akira Sakata since his first visits in Japan in 2006. Nicolas Field is born in London in 1975. He studied drums and percussion at the Amsterdam Conservatorium (1996-2002), sonology at The Hague Conservatorium (1997-2002) and "Art and media" at HEAD in Geneva (2007-2009). He has received multiple awards and was artist in residence at the Swiss Institute in Rome (2010-11), AirAntwerpen (2011), Be…
Second Life: Light Bulb 1977-81
As part of our Second Life series, we are pleased to present a special anthology of Light Bulbmagazine (1977–81), produced in cooperation with the Los Angeles Free Music Society and edited by LAFMS founding member Chip Chapman. Light Bulb was the house organ of the Los Angeles Free Music Society, made by and for the experimental collective of musicians that formed in 1972 Pasadena and soon "became a lightning rod for art-damaged, weird-music lovers everywhere." Nowhere is the DIY, visual complex…
Don't Hold Onto The Clouds
Don't Hold Onto The Clouds is the fourth release on Kutiman's own record label Siyal following Space Cassava (2015), the White Monkey 7" (SYL 003EP, 2017), and 6AM
(SYL 002CD/LP, 2016). In the era of the brand, Kutiman is an anomaly. A
musician who's a video artist, a producer, an animator, and also the
unwilling star of one of Israel's most successful recent documentaries,
every one of his records contrasts with whatever it was that came
before. But that's fundamental to his appeal: no one…
Why Does Everybody Love Free Music ..
Edition of 250, few copies available. “Recorded in the US and UK 2011. Thanks to everyone who set up a show
last year, especially John Schoen, Larry Marotta, Helga Fassonaki,
Andrew Scott, Suzy Polling and Lee Etherington who made possible the
performances documented here.” Originally released on cassette in 2012
as PAL-007. Photos by R. Orcutt. "In short, almost everything you could want from a live document." Byron Coley
My Friends When I’m Not There
Edition of 250, few copies available. Recorded at Seminole Massacre Elementary, Miami FL, in the main stairwell, December 25, 2013 and originally released on cassette as PAL-028 in 2014. Photo by Jim Hensley. Mastered by James Plotkin. "A lovely contemplative performance, full of hope and sadness" Byron Coley
Greek Fusion Orchestra Vol.1
Kyriakos Sfetsas formed GFO in 1976, in order to accomplish an ambition dating back to his 1960's Avant-garde period in Paris: to create a piece of work that would expand the boundaries of Greek traditional music. The result is a Progressive-Jazz Fusion masterpiece comprising complex and intriguing compositions, and performed by Athens' best musicians of the day. Sfetsas grew up on the island of Lefkada where he studied classical music from an early age at the local conservatory. At the same tim…
Elektronische Musik Elektronische + Phonetische Kompositionen (4
2017 "upgrade" of this early Creel Pone title; this replica edition includes all of the material from Reinhold Weber's two Corona-label LPs, "Elektronische Musik" & "Elektronische + Phonetische Kompositionen" - Creel Pones #009 & #099, respectively - along with everything from his two later Sound Star Ton LPs (again) "Elektronische Musik" & "Computermusik", all on four separate discs. Those who have already acquired the first two titles in earlier sweeps can simply purchase the CP 009-099.2 pack…
Le Robot, Symphonie Rouge, Symphonie Jaune
2018 edition. As I understand it, in the short history of Creel Pone thus far, there have been a few candidates for replication that were refused simply on the grounds that the music within fell outside of the “Core” EAI - or "Era of Interest" - represented by the series: 1948 - 1981; those dates on the foil-seal. Why these specific dates, you ask? Well, on October 5th, 1948, the ORTF broadcast Pierre Schaeffer’s “Cinq Etudes de Bruits,” hailed by many as the birth-date of Musique Concrète and s…
Applied Autonomy
The great Robert Lippok (To Rococo Rot) returns with his first solo album in seven years, Applied Autonomy for Olaf Bender's Raster. A survey of what he’s been up to, as much as a statement of intent for here and now, Applied Autonomy reprises the fine balance of tuff-edged minimalism, spatial illusion and melodic delicacy that emerged with Redsuperstructure [2011], but ratcheting its effect with a renewed vigour for a frankly epic impact.As the title makes explicit, Robert’s 3rd solo album is c…
A Sound Work To Accompany
Issued privately in 1972 by Toronto's Carmen Lamanna Gallery following an Autumn 1970 exhibition, this "Sound Work" by Sculptor Robin MacKenzie is a wonder of simplicity. Presenting a series of unadorned Sound Events - the approaches & recessions of single vehicles on what sounds like a lonely stretch of the 403 at 3am, then the Composer's footsteps similarly walking toward & away from the microphone's singular vantage point - in a manner befitting both the storied "Sounds of the Junkyard" Folk…