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Contemporary & Electroacoustic pt. 2

Ceylon / Bird Of Passage (LP)
Promotional copy of the original US edition of the 1976 outstanding album of "psychedelic" intuitive music by the German composer with some of his closes collaborators. Essential.
Beton-studie / Zeitmass Fur Funf Holzblaser
Unofficial 2016 album on Modern Science with an early electronic piece and early recordings of two seminal compositions from the 1950's performed by David Tudor among others.
Zyklus / Refrain / Transición II (LP)
Italian edition on Ri-Fi with different cover of the 1961 album on Time's "Series 2000" with three landmark avant-garde compositions form the 1950's performed by David Tudor, Christoph Caskel and Bernhard and Aloys Kontarsky.
Zeitgenössische Musik Für Bläser (LP)
1973 album on Philips with five contemporary/avant-garde compositions for brass ensemble performed by the Danzi Quintet. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.
Tre Ricercari Su Una Scala Tetracordale / Simbologie Trasfigurate / Ceci... Cela... Et Autres Choses / Tre Ipotesi (LP)
Obscure 1975 album of contemporary music for solo instruments, duos and ensemble on the Ayna library label. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.
Sonetti A Orfeo (LP)
condition (record/cover): VG+ (light surface noise) / EX- (small tag on front) Fernando Sulpizi's Sonetti a Orfeo take their cue from Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus and translate them into a cycle for a single flautist playing piccolo, flute, alto flute and bass flute. The movements follow the poems' imagery: Una fanciulla, I sarcofaghi, La danza dell'arancia, Gli specchi, Invocazione alla danzatrice defunta.The soloist is Roberto Fabbriciani, the flautist who worked closely with Luigi Nono and pus…
Complete Piano Works (CD)
1990 CD-only release on Etcetera with a new recording of all piano works spanning from 1952 to 1989 by Roger Woodward.
Time Zones (LP)
Original US edition on Arista/Freedom of the electro-acoustic free jazz collaboration for saxophones and synthesizers by the jazz/contemporary composer and the experimental composer and MEV member.
At The Cathedral Of St. John The Divine (LP)
Rare first ever release on Quakebasket / Locust Music in 2002 of a recording of a 1970 "spontaneous sound" performance by highly-regarded but undocumented avant-garde multi-instrumentalist.
Canaries B&W (7")
Unofficial 1995 7" release in a limited edition of 200 copies on Dolor Del Estamago / Stomach Ache of recordings presumedly from 1995.
Zen-Tambura (LP)
Sole edition of the 1987 album on Wergo of meditative improvisations on the tambura by German experimental composer and Stockhausen collaborator. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.
Tambura Meditations (CD)
1984 CD-album album on Wergo of meditative improvisations on the tambura by German experimental composer and Stockhausen collaborator. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.
Ambiances / Images (2LP)
2017 re-issue on BIN / Institut for Dansk Lydarkæologi as a double LP set of the two rare 1972 albums of beautiful minimal musique concrète / electronic music with field recordings by the Danish sound artist.
Requiem
Rare 1979 album self-released in an edition of 100 copies with hand-painted sleeves with the Australian composer's Requiem for soprano, instruments and electronics.
Tongues Of Fire
1994 masterpiece of computer-manipulated vocal sounds self-released by the composer as a CD EP on his own Orpheus The Pantomime label.
Etudes Contrapuntiques / Tropi / Serenata / Musik Für Sieben Instrumente (LP)
1970 re-issue on Maistream's "Contemporary Sound Series" of the 1962 album on Time presenting four avat-garde chamber music compositions for 1959/60.
Improvisation Ajoutée / Variations I / Touches / Sons Brisés (LP)
1970's re-issue of the 1967 album on Wergo's "Große Interpreten neuer Musik" series by specialized Neue Musik organist playing compositions for organ from the 1960's by some of the most prominent avant-garde composers.
Phantasie Für Orgel Mit Obbligati / Sonorités / Volumina / Étude Nr.1 (LP)
1967 album on DGG's essential "Avantgarde" series by specialized Neue Musik organist playing compositions for organ from the 1960's by some of the most prominent avant-garde composers.
Variations On America / Douze Petits Chorals / Mein Blaues Klavier (LP)
1971 album on Wergo's superb "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" avant-garde music series by specialized Neue Musik organist playing modernist/contemporary compositions for organ spanning from 1891 to 1970.
Concerto For Four Hands And Chamber Orchestra / Omaggio / Kousochki / Making Ends Meet (LP)
Four compositions from the mid-1960's for piano duo (on with chamber orchestra) by four American composers, commissioned and performed by & Kenneth Wentworth and released on Desto in 1972. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.
Guitar
Four compositions for acoustic guitar from the 1970's/80's by four German contemporary music composers performed by Reinbert Evers and released by Pro Viva in 1984. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.
Il Flauto Contemporaneo (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM / EX Severino Gazzelloni was the flautist of the post-war avant-garde, the musician for whom Berio wrote Sequenza I and whom Eric Dolphy cited as a hero. Here, with Bruno Canino at the piano, he plays a programme written largely for him: Bruno Maderna's Honeyrêves (1963), Niccolò Castiglioni's Gymel (1960), Goffredo Petrassi's Dialogo angelico (1948) and Roman Vlad's Mozartian variations Il magico flauto di Severino.The second side turns to Japan, with Kazuo Fukushim…
George Bennette, Pianist Plays The Preludes Of Messiaen, The Fantasy Pieces Of Del Tredici, And Portrait By Helps (LP)
1970 recordings of piano music performed by George Bennette and released by Desto. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.
Der Phänomenale Heinz Holliger
The spectacular Heinz Holliger performs avant-garde compositions from the 1960's for oboe solo in duo with another instrument (harpsichord, piano, harp or violin) on this album released by Philips in 1970.
CelloDuo (LP)
Contemporary Four 1980's compositions for two cellos by three German contemporary composers, including Feedback Studio founder and Stockhausen collaborator Johannes Fritsch, performed by Biruta Aļļe and Michael Bach, released by Pro Viva in 1989 and never re-issued on either LP or CD.music for brass by the four Czech composers, released on Supraphon's Musica Nova Bohemica contemporary music series in 1986. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.
Brass Music (LP)
Contemporary music for brass by the four Czech composers, released on Supraphon's Musica Nova Bohemica contemporary music series in 1986. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.
Bjørn Kruse / Olav Berg / Nils Henrik Asheim / Kjell Samkopf (LP)
A panorama of contemporary music for ensemble (plus electronics) from Norway from the late 1970's / early 80's released by Philips in 1982 and never re-issued on either LP or CD.
Nuova Musica Per L'Europa (CD)
1990 CD-only compilation on Fonit Cetra with five contemporary music works for ensemble by three generations of Spanish composerts presented at the 46th Settimana Musicale Senese.
Encontre De Compositors I
1983 program for the Spanish contemporary music festival with the same name from which an LP with the same title was also released.
Folk Songs (LP)
1990 album on Dischi Ricordi with specifically commissioned compositions for Trento's Festival Musica '900 by international contemporary composers reimagining folk traditions.
Prima Vista (LP)
Rare compositions for solo instruments or small ensembles with or without electronics by some of the greatest XXth Century composers (Mauricio Kagel, Earle Brown, John Cage, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Wolfgang Fortner, Klaus Hinrich Stahmer, György Ligeti, Henri Pousseur) spanning from 1952 to 1979 performed by Pro Musica Da Camera and released on Thorofon in 1981. With insert.
IRCAM Les Années 90
Hard-to-find 3CD set released by IRCAM in 1998 with one disc of sound portraits and works by some of its more prominent composers plus two discs of electro-acoustic, mixed and ensemble works from the 1990's. Featuring: Pierre Boulez, Tristan Murail, Jonathan Harvey, Luca Francesconi, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Kaija Saariaho, Roger Reynolds, Michaël Levinas, Michael Obst, Ivan Fedele, George Benjamin, York Höller, Jean-Louis Agobet, Claudy Matherbe, Roland Auzet, Jacopo Baboni-Schilingi, Pierre Jod…
3 - Prix International Noroit-Léonce Petitot 1993 (CD)
Obscure 1994 CD-only release by the Centre Noroit with six electro-acoustic realizations presented at the third Arras International Acousmatic Music Competition in 1993.
Naši Hostia: Experimental Studio Bratislava Series, vol. 3
Third volume in 4mg Records' "Experimental Studio Bratislava" LP+CD (with the same contents) series presenting excerpts from superb electro-acoustic works realized at the studio from 1968 to 1982 by international composers.
Electronic 2000 (LP)
1971 compilation on Philips' "Universo Series" with electronic / musique concrète masterpieces from the 1960's culled from the Electronic Panorama box set.
FST 68
Two superb electronic pieces and two instrumental pieces composed by Swedish composers in 1968 and released by Phono Suecia in 1969.
Music For Tape/Band (LP)
A fantastic panorama of Swedish electronic music spanning from 1957 to 1971, released by Caprice in 1973. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.
Festival Of Electronic Music (LP)
Four excellent electro-acoustic pieces by four Swedish composers realized in the late 1970's, released by Caprice in 1980. Never re-issued on either LP or CD. With insert.
Stockholms Elektronmusikfestival 1982 (LP)
Excellent 1982 compilation on Fylkingen with five electro acoustic / text-sound compositions from the early 1980's by five internation composers. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.
New Directions In Music (2LP)
Still sealed copy of the rare 2LP compilation of "significant contemporary works for the computer", sometimes with instruments, released by the University Of Tulsa in 1978. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.