New Arrivals
Oyvind Fahlstrom on the Air - Manipulating the World
Under the motto: "Manipulate the world - take care of the world", Fahlström set up a variety of meeting-places in which participants were invited to take part in an interdiciplinary game of purposeful discovery. He introduced elements of popular culture into his work early on and made substantial contributions to a critical assessment of the "medialisation" of art. In this, the most extensive book about Öyvind Fahlström to date, Teddy Hultberg charts the artist´s predominant lines of crea…
Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award 2014
Founder of Staalplaat and Staalplaat Soundsystem, Geert-Jan Hobijn is 'an open-minded, enthusiastic artist with a boundless curiosity. Fascinating by sound and space and making use of pedestrian materials, Geert-Jan is constantly devising new creations to use in his experiments.' This book shows some of his work through several photos, an introduction by Douglas Kahn, an essay by Jorinde Seijdel. Plus a single 7" with locked grooves that you can play manually or with a turntable, and a sma…
Objects In Mirror Are Closer Then They Appear
"Objects in mirror are closer than they appear" starts from field recording session made by Attilio Novellino and Saverio Rosi in August of 2013 at the woolen mill “Lanificio Leo”, the oldest textile factory active in Calabria, founded in 1873 in Soveria Mannelli (Cz), currently one of the most signifcant cases of company-museum in Italy and winner of Guggenheim Management Culture Prize in 2011.The sounds produced by machines from the late 19th century, with their distinctive timbres and unusua…
Pianist, Alone
Two fascinating pieces by Jurg Frey on this double CD, beautifully realized by Andy Lee, but fascinating for different reasons. "pianist, alone (1)" lasts for almost 90 minutes and consists of a series of discreet episodes. Will Robin's excellent notes on the site below do a far better job of describing things musicologically than I ever could, so I'll give a few other impressions. The opening chord sequence provide one of the most haunting and lovely sets of sounds I've heard in recent years. T…
Kali-Yug La dea della vendetta
Lavagnino’s soundtrack to the great 1962 movie ‘Kali-Yug La Dea Della Vendetta’ (also known as Goddess Of Vengeance (1963, UK); Kali Yug: Die Göttin Der Rache (1964, Germany); Kali-Yug, Déesse De La Vengeance (1963, France); Vengeance Of Kali (1963, United States), directed by Mario Camerini and starring Senta Berger and Lex Barker, finally get a proper reissue since it’s 1963 release on CAM Records. Composed and directed by Lavagnino, ‘Kali-Yug’ is one of the best soundtracks ever writte…
La resa dei conti
The stunning soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone for the 1968 movie La Resa Dei Conti, directed by Sergio Sollima and starring Lee Van Cleef, Tomas Milian, Walter Barnes, is finally available again on vinyl since its original 1968 release on Parade (Italy) and United Artists (USA). The typical Morricone’s western tunes are mixed here with avantgarde sounds and delicate romantic themes. Orchestra directed by Bruno Nicolai, featuring Bruno Battisti D’Amario (guitar), Michele Lacerenza (t…
Intensity Ghost
Intensity Ghost is the first studio release by Chris Forsyth with the Solar Motel Band (the new group formed in the wake of his critically acclaimed 2013 solo record Solar Motel) and it's a career-defining statement of purpose and a near virtual history tour of late 20th century electric guitar, touching on widescreen psychedelia, art rock, the late-70's New York scene, and the melting pot of early 90's underground bands, but writing a whole new chapter, unforeseen by most in 2014.
Solar …
Back In No Time
Reissue of a tape originally released in the Staaltape Documentatie Serie. Brion Gysin (1916-1986) dabbled with surrealism in the 1930s, lived in the Interzone of Tangier in the 1950’s, traveled the Algerian Sahara and was resident in the Beat Hotel in Paris. He introduced William Burroughs to the cut-up method and invented the Dream Machine, a hypnotic light device with the power to induce hallucinations. This tape is an interview conducted by Harry Hoogstraten in the early 1980s. In 195…
Adreneline & Richard
*One of the oddest records ever to come out of Australia newly reissued by Superior Viaduct* "In the late ’60s, Pip Proud recorded two of the oddest records ever to come out of Australia—Adreneline & Richard and A Bird in the Engine—before vanishing into obscurity for the better part of three decades. Often called the “Australian Syd Barrett,” Proud actually released his second album in 1969, a year prior to The Madcap Laughs, and developed his indigenous psychedelia in virtual isolation. …
Time Machine Volume IV
Fourth Volume of the series recorded directly from the Time Machine, a magic case containing an array of home-built oscillators activated by Renato Rinaldi to create pulsing rhythms and noise patterns using the mixer feedback. Edited and mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.
"The Time Machine project was conceived in order to find a simple and immediate way to work with rhythm. I built two cheap and imprecise, almost-square wave oscillators with a wide range of frequencies. These oscillators can …
Le Septieme Deguise En Neuf
An enigmatic new record from Michael Northam* tracing a reorientation process of moving from over a decade of nomadic life across Europe (2001-2013) to settling into rural life in the unique bioregion that is Southern Oregon. The tracks are improvisations recorded in distinct locations, each carrying a certain feeling-seed of this movement between September 2012 and September 2013. From resplendent Villa Waldberta in Bavaria to a humble shack along South Pacific Highway in Jackson County, Oregon…
Shangai Atelier
'I think it was in 2009 when i received email from Lionel... Wow, it's long enough to scheme a coup. Maybe two... Since then we discussed a lot about release his work on Sub Jam label and invite him to China... I wrote this long story into the book The Only Authentic Work which has been published with Lionel's CD 23 Formes en Élastique as one work in 2013.Then he came to China for a release tour. The day he arrived in Beijing was one of the heavy pollution days. On taxi to my home from airport w…
Antologia
Boxset with the six Perigeo original RCA albums ("Azimut", "Abbiamo tutti un blues da piangere", "Genealogia", "La valle dei templi", "Non è poi così lontano", "Live at Montreux"), the double album "Live in Italy 1976", released on Contempo label and one DVD with three live shows and an interview, Comes with a 52 colour pages book which features a new and detailed history of the band throughout their discography, written by Marco Giorgi with really rare photos.
La Maison Fille Du Soleil
Cross-pollinating the wants lists of art/jazz/print and architecture enthusiasts this seldom sighted 45 single is regarded as the rarest “lost” recording by American jazz trumpeter and global communal music missionary Don Cherry as he collaborates with French piano improv genius François Tusques. A missing link in the pre-formative years of improvised jazz this mythical private pressing unites two of the key exponents of both American and French free jazz – two entirely independent musical art f…
Electric Pure Land
Staggering ultra-limited out-of-nowhere double LP set of primo acid-drenched psych from the most legendary Japanese underground group of all time, the late Les Rallizes Denudes: reputedly sourced from the collection of an ‘insider’ Japanese underground musician and coming from the same source as the all-time epic France Demo Tapes LP, Electric Pure Land represents the second phase in this Dick’s Picks style on-going vinyl presentation of the hands-down greatest live moments of Mizutani’s …
Inverted Torch
Wisconsin's Jon Mueller and New Orleans' Duane Pitre are both towering figures in the world of avant-garde sound. Mueller has notched up an astounding amount of albums and collaborations in the past (including two on this very label) and while most of his time is spent eking out unusual textures from his plethora of percussive instruments, he can also be spotted moonlighting as the drummer for main-stage indie act Volcano Choir. Pitre, having retired as a professional skateboarder (serious…
Black To Comm
Hamburg's Marc Richter has been busy with his Black To Comm project since his last appearance under that name on Type, 2009's genre-bending and critically acclaimed Alphabet 1968 (TYPE 053CD). Aside from helming the prolific Dekorder imprint, he's put out a number of musical curios, including 2012's excellent film soundtrack EARTH. Now Richter is back with Alphabet 1968's proper follow-up, a self-titled double album pieced together from crumbling samples, vocal snippets, and an arsenal of no…
Statu Nascendi
This is Mamiffer’s first solo release since 2011’s "Mare Decendrii". The line up for this incarnation of Mamiffer consists of the core duo of Faith Coloccia and Aaron Turner. "It can be difficult to keep tabs on the elusive entity known as Mamiffer. Originating as the a studio project centered around Faith Coloccia, former mastermind of the Southern California desert-based experimen-tal music collective Everlovely Lightningheart, the first Mamiffer recordings were driven by somber piano in…
Movement Building Vol.1
Over the past few years Gabriel Saloman has developed a reputation for releasing penetrating works of haunting beauty in his new role as a solo performer and composer. Known for his part in the seminal electronic-noise duo Yellow Swans (alongside Pete Swanson), Saloman has taken the sweeping drones and fried electricity of his former band and embedded them within an expanding pallette of bowed strings, martial percussion and resonant piano. The majority of his work to date has been develo…
Song Project
Limited edition of six 7" singles with a 32-page book filled with lyrics, notes and rare photos. Features contributions from Mike Patton, Jesse Harris, Sofia Rei, Marc Ribot, John Medeski, Kenny Wollesen, Trevor Dunn, Joey Baron, Cyro Baptista. Flying Blind and more* "In celebration of his 60th Birthday, John Zorn asked his most acclaimed vocal collaborators to write lyrics to select compositions from his vast musical catalog. Including music originally written for Naked City, Masada, The…