New Arrivals
Fjordgata
John Butcher, saxophones. Michael Duch, contrabass. Jazzfest Trondheim, Trondelag Senter for Samtidskunst, 9th May 2015. Recorded in concert by Jonas Krossli and mastered by Karl Klaseie. Thanks to Ernst-Wiggo Sandbakk and Randi Martine Brockmann. 'I first heard John Butcher in 2001 playing duos with Rhodri Davies and Derek Bailey on the CD Vortices and Angels. I was completely mesmerized, particularly by the two tracks in the end with John and Rhodri playing together. Vortices and Angels is sti…
Terrain
A side, piano, live at Roulette, New York, 2013. Mostly inside piano in a dense stream.B side, clavinet, live at High Zero, Baltimore, 2013. The electric piano becomes like an electric guitar with lot of preparations! Based in Berlin, Magda Mayas doesn't so much play the piano as push it to its utmost limits. Both in her performance and compositions, Mayas jumps as freely between the free jazz and experimental genres as she does record labels. Records described by critics as powerful and breatht…
Tomorrow Outside Tomorrow
Alan Licht: guitar, electronics. Tetuzi Akiyama: guitar. Oren Ambarchi: guitar on 'Blues Deceiver'. Rob Mazurek: cornet on 'Tomorrow Outside Tomorrow'.Recorded by Makoto Oshiro, Tokyo, Nov 4, 2014. Mixed by Ted Young & Alan Licht at Outer Space, Brooklyn, July 15, 2015. Over the years Alan Licht (USA) and Tetuzi Akiyama (Japan) have individually explored the lines that divide improvisation, composition, folk, blues and experimental music. It was inevitable their careers and styles would cross pa…
Kouen Kyoudai
Prolific Japanese artist Masami Akita aka Merzbow teams up with session musician, producer, and singer-songwriter Eiko Ishibashi for a work that showcases yet another side to Akita's monumental catalog. Kouen Kyoudai consists of two side-long tracks that could be read as a contemporary take on the traditional avant-garde. With its skittering electronics, percussion, piano, doom, and noise, Kouen Kyoudai seamlessly incorporates many strands of experimental thought and practice. The tension th…
Nosferatu
The story of the Nosferatu soundtrack editions through the years appears a little caotic. Several editions, with several sleeves and completely different tracklists have appeared in different countries. What we tried to offer here is the definitive edition of Popol Vuh's works for this fantastic Werner Herzog 1979 tribute to the old Murnau classic. When asked for a new soundtrack for Herzog's project, Florian Fricke and Daniel Fichelscher came out with a magnificent album that once again, as it …
BRIAN ENO. Sound strategies
BOOK: 1. Biografia - 2. Sound ambience: Erik Satie, John Cage, Brian Eno di Claudio Chianura - 3. Brian Eno: altri paradossi di Fabio Martini - 4. Sound strategies: intuizioni, pensieri, riflessioni di Brian Eno - 5. Enoworks. DISC : 01. Asian River - 02. Zawinul/Lava - 03. Radiothesia III - 04. St. Elmo's Fire - 05. By This River - 06. Strawinsky - 07. Driving Me Backwards - 08. Music for Airports 1/2 - 09. Swanky - 10. Sparrowfall #1 - 11. Sparrowfall #2 - 12. Sparrowfall #3 - 13. Spi…
Strategie del rumore
Il Rumore è il ticchettìo dell'orologio mentre si cerca di dormire, il fragore del traffico cittadino o semplicemente la musica degli altri. Il suo elusivo movimento oscillatorio tra definizioni soggettive e tentativi di sistematizzazione rende il Rumore l'interessante oggetto della ricerca qui proposta dall'autrice con particolare riguardo al mondo dell'arte, della performance e della sperimentazione musicale ''noise''. Il rumore possiede una sua connotazione non solo fisica, ma anche me…
La musica di Fausto Romitelli
Il volume raccoglie saggi ad opera di alcuni fra i massimi esperti e conoscitori dell'opera del compositore goriziano, fra cui Riccardo Nova, Giovanni Verrando e Massimiliano Viel, che con Romitelli hanno fondato l'Associazione Sincronie nel 2002. È la prima monografia in italiano ad apparire dopo la sua morte, colmando lo spazio di una lacuna editoriale per certi versi davvero incomprensibile.
Le pioniere della musica elettronica
Italian version. Il più recente apporto femminile allo sviluppo della musica elettronica è ancora poco noto. Questo volume ripercorre e documenta l'avventura artistica, tra le altre, di Bebe Barron, Suzanne Ciani, Delia Derbyshire, Doris Norton, Pauline Oliveros, Daphne Oram, Teresa Rampazzi, Daria Semegen, Alice Shields, Laurie Spiegel, tutte protagoniste indiscusse della rivoluzione musicale novecentesca e le cui musiche sono qui raccolte nel compact disc allegato.
E non chiamatelo jazz
Italian only. Che ruolo riveste l'improvvisazione nelle diverse espressioni della musica d'oggi, jazz, etnica, colta, elettronica...? Prova a spiegarlo in questo libro Giancarlo Schiaffini con humour e competenza, attraverso le sue molte esperienze sul campo e alla luce della collaborazione con i maggiori e più originali protagonisti della scena musicale contemporanea: Cage, Scelsi, Nono, Stockhausen, Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy.
Oltre il silenzio
Italian version. Un filosofo (Daniel Charles, 1935-2008), un pianista-compositore (Giancarlo Cardini, 1940), un compositore (Gianfranco Pernaiachi, 1951) affrontano i temi proposti da uno studioso di estetica e di musica contemporanea (Michele Porzio, 1960). Quattro figure che hanno attraversato insieme lo spaesamento e il deserto della musica dopo John Cage: è ancora possibile l'arte oggi? Qual è il suo rapporto con la vita e con il nostro percorso interiore? Un libro che spazia tra music…
Lotus - La musica di Toshio Hosokawa
Italian version - Il compositore giapponese Toshio Hosokawa (Hiroshima 1955) appartiene a quella stirpe di compositori e pensatori musicali dal carattere assolutamente limpido e incorruttibile. Ha affermato: ''Devo vedere la realtà attraverso la musica, ed è questa la sola cosa che posso fare come artista, creare bellezza attraverso la mia opera.''
The Man Who Died In His Boat
2016 reissue. Following a series of impossible-to-obtain releases for her own Yellowelectric imprint and a CD compilation of her gorgeous 'A I A' set, Liz Harris seems to have settled with Kranky who are re-releasing her classic Type album 'Dragging a Dead Deer..' and this new album of previously unreleased material drawn from the same period: 'The Man Who Died In His Boat'. It's not so hard to believe but we'll say this straight away - the material on this new set is just jaw-dropping, a …
Appalachian Visionary
Hardcover 84-page book with CD and streaming/download code. Born blind on June 15, 1880, in Floyd County, Virginia, Alfred Reed grew up on a West Virginia farm. In the 1920s, when radio became available in his area, Alfred listened to and enjoyed performances by several of the era's popular singers. Alfred would purchase songbooks and hymnbooks, and his wife Nettie would read the lyrics to him. Because the songs he learned from others did not always express aspects of what he was thinking, …
Kobaia
180-gram vinyl. "In the late sixties, Christian Vander founded Magma and stated his commitment to produce a different kind of music. Released in 1970, Magma's début album Kobaïa succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations. The group's sound blended diverse influences from Bach to Coltrane to produce a brand new musical style. While the instruments were familiar, they were used in unconventional ways, and the vocals, which called on an invented language, only heightened the otherworldly…
Friends of Mine
Jill Cislaghi cut her one and only album in 1977, during her senior year at Regis College in Massachusetts. She recorded solely for friends, family, and as a memento for the members of her graduating class. Friends of Mine describes the loves and tribulations of Cislaghi's life with a mixture of naivetè and wisdom. With nothing more than her voice and (mostly unplugged) guitar, Cislaghi's folk sound is singular and resonant, bold yet humble. Friends of Mine's hopeful yet wintry vision should a…
At the Funkhaus LP
rec. 1973 live at the Funkhaus, Hamburg, Germany - ltd/numbered 1/69, with paste-on cover (front & back with notes) "two sides long pieces, available here for the 1st time, top sound quality/pressing" punzmann
Friendly Love
A vibrant Sun Ra recording session held in NYC at Variety Studio in 1973, ltd/numbered 1/79, with paste-on cover (front & back with notes) "meager, raw and totally oblique Arkestra rec. available here for the 1st time. very difficult record to do, came out amazing" punzmann
Werktag/Chessex/Buess
Werktag / Chessex / Buess takes its roots in the Zurich based trio Werktag, initiated in 2012, and to which Alex Buess and Antoine Chessex are now both bringing their own contribution.Wertag (Tobias Gerber, saxophone; Rafael Rütti, piano; Sebastian Hofmann, drums) evolves in the tension field between written, experimental and improvised music and tends to have a weakness for the combination of acoustic instruments and live multi-track electronic music. As a result, the volume is sometimes prett…
Kore
'Kore' is a natural advancement of Reinhold Friedl's earlier composition 'Xenakis [a]live!' (released 2007 on Asphodel) - a homage to the French-Greek composer Iannis Xenakis. The piece is conceived for nine amplified instruments demonstrating Zeitkratzer well established tradition of instrumental amplification (e.g. the early collaborations with Zbigniew Karkowski or Merzbow and more recently with William Bennett of Whitehouse) where playing amplified does not only mean making things louder, it…