Reissues
Dataphonics
A star of minimalist electronica and sound art, Ryoji Ikeda (born 1966) focuses on the building blocks of sound and aural minutiae, often deploying frequencies at the very edges of human hearing—sound that, as he puts it, “the listener becomes aware of only upon its disappearance.” His albums +/- (1997) and Matrix (2001) spread this soundworld of sine waves and ambient glitchery to a wider audience; since then, he has exhibited and collaborated (notably with Carsten Nicolai) across the world. A …
La Plaine des Respirs
CD Version of the out of print LP from 2007, Henri Chopin's last release in his lifetime. Latest works by legendary french sound-poetry pioneer Henri Chopin (1922-2008), produced and recorded November 2003 - January 2004. Mastered June 2006 by Rashad Becker / D&M. Edition of 500 Copies in Jewel-Case with 6-page booklet, with text by Henri Chopin (original french, plus english & german translations), and photography by Florence Gonot-Yterce.
AAM1 - Aktions Analytische Musik LP
Few copies available: this is Austrian reissue of Otto Muehl's AA Commune most sought after record from the 70's. "Musikalische Selbstdarstellungen 1974/75". Crazy group-therapy sessions, improvised music with different commune members coming forward and 'singing' about their parents, free-sexuality, mister jealousy, and how two-people-relationships kill sex-life, etc.. Record comes in fullcolour cover (reprint of the original), stamped label, plus 10-page A4 booklet with transcription of all te…
Eighth Symphony
Recordings of the first performance of Nitsch's 8th Symphony (for Choir, Orchestra, and Noise Orchestra). Composed by Hermann Nitsch. Performed June 25th 1990 at the MAK Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna by Ensemble 20.Jahrhundert, Hugo Distler Chor, Blasorchester der Wiener E-Werke, Wolfgang Mitterer (Synthesizer).Professionally recorded, extremely dramatic, dynamic, rich, full-blown orchestral music & noise, heavy drones, and austrian 'Volksmusik'. Comes in big double-disc jewelcase, in…
Like A Duck To Water
Like A Duck To Water was Mother Mallard's 2nd & final release, and was originally released in 1976. The music is a unique and extremely enjoyable blend of space electronics (ala Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze), minimal music (Terry Riley, Philip Glass), and contemporary classical & electronics (Gordon Mumma, John Cage). This album showcases a uniquely American slant on synthesizer music by a band whose pioneering contributions to the genre had been forgotten until now. Includes the original albu…
It\'s Time For Tristram Cary
LP version, 1st edition. Subtitled: Works For Film, Television, Exhibition & Sculpture. The Trunk label presents one of the most important, innovative, influential and almost-forgotten artists of all time, British/Australian electroacoustic composer, Tristram Cary. Without Tristram's inventions and musical experiments, Dr. Who would sound very different. We'd have no VCS3 synthesizers, no Brian Eno, no crazy electronics for Pink Floyd, etc. This is a retrospective of the composer's work, includi…
Bandoneon! (A Combine)
In 1966 ten New York artists and thirty engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories collaborated on a series of innovative dance, music and theater performances, 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, held in October at the 69th Regiment Armory, New York City. The artists included were John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor and Robert Whitman. Archival material has been assembled into ten films, …
E Pluribus Unum
a pure mantra: blending North African and Middle Eastern textures within a western context into our experience, regrettably the experience of a small few, but hopefully a wider community of listeners to come. Not only important historically, but musically: a wide range of music genres over the last couple of decades have worked with drone-note principles and it is an increasingly common device, but Sandy Bull was/is a superlative master of utilising the drone sounds;understated but effect…
E.G.Box 2
Arrived! VOL 2! Japanese special release by Captain Trip Records: a truly deluxe 6xCD Box-set collecting the early releases from legendary Spanish industrial unit Esplendor Geometrico, featuring the original albums, cassettes, and rare material of Esplendor Geometrico from the era 1986-1989. All original cover-artworks of the original LPs- and cassettes-designs have carefully been reproduced as miniature paper sleeves. Includes: 1. en directo: madrid y tolosa (ctcd-663) 2. kosmos kino (ctcd…
Interference
Double LP featuring the never released record from Interference, one of the premier bands of the downtown NYC music scene of the early 1980s. Originally slated for release on Josh Bauer and Glenn Branca’s legendary Neutral Records, it has remained unavailable until now. Comes with a bonus remix LP with contributions from David Last, Doily, Criterion, Binsang AKA Toshio Kajiwara, Bubblyfish & glomag and QPE. Deluxe artwork with individual jackets for each LP and full liner notes. Comes wit…
Oscillator
Mindblowing reissue! Another hot date with the history of Italian new wave: Neon, in the Year of Our Lord 1979, with Marcello Michelotti on vocals, accompanied by Stefano Fuochi. At the mixer: Maurizio Fasolo and Massimo Michelotti, soon to be known as Pankow. Halfway between hard goth and elegant neo-Futurism, with the determination needed to metabolize and mould into something new, the influences of Kraftwerk, Harmonia, Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire. Oscillator is the missing link bet…
Live Peace In Toronto
Limited edition, audiophile pressing, with original spiral bound 1970 calendar w/ photoLive Peace in Toronto 1969 is a 1969 live album recorded by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, as the Plastic Ono Band, at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival. Lennon after being asked by local promoter John Brower if he and Yoko would accept an invitation to emcee the show on short notice instead decided to make his post Beatle debut at this festival. Featuring Eric Clapton on guitar (fresh from the breakup of …
3000 Miles Away
A rare album by Philippe Grancher published in 1977, including Jean-Louis Rizet, a member of the legendary radical synth duo Pôle and is produced by Philippe Besombes, a Pôle Records stalwart. The music on ‘3000 Miles Away’ is based on piano compositions with Moog, Mellotron or other vintage keyboards accompanyment. The composing method is close to that of Roedelius or Heldon. The B side includes guest musicians, adding an almost prog-rock touch to well-crafted, naive melodies. The title track’s…
Terrace Industry - M Squared Box 1980-1983
RESTOCKED! Ascension Records presents terrace industry, an extraordinary array of sonic material – 81 tracks over 4 CDs – originally released on vinyl or cassette by Sydney independent record label M Squared between 1980 and 1983 with the majority now appearing on CD for the first time. Originally released on vinyl or cassette by the M Squared label between 1980 and 1983 the majority of these tracks now appear on CD for the very first time. This completely remastered 3…
Lost Daylight
'The compositions on Lost Daylight' by John CAGE and the almost-forgotten American Fluxus composer Terry JENNINGS date from between 1958 and 1966. Yet in the hands of John Tilbury and Sebastian Lexer they sound astonishingly modern. JENNINGS' solo pieces couldn't be more conventional in using only pure keyboard notes, but they could hardly be more radical in the way in which the notes are reduced, isolated and surrounded with silences. As Michael Pisaro's sleevenotes say, 'It is music of simplic…
Luck In The Valley
LP version, presented in an old-style tip-on jacket with a hand-pasted letterpressed cover, limited edition...Like all pre-war recordings and all of Rose's releases, this album was recorded live. It was not created using overdubs but rather by recording a few 'takes' and selecting the best performance out of those. Rose stated, 'I wanted the songs to have an immediacy and spontaneity as they were being recorded. All the musicians chosen for the record know how to play the songs withou…
Re: Mr. A Fan
The NNCK are a mysterious bunch. Their ethos seem to be staunchly anti-corporate (or at least, not at all sales driven) as they have no website, low, hard to find pressings of their records, cryptic cover art, and well, cryptic everything. I have no idea who plays on the 6 records of theirs I have (though I assume all the naked men played on the Ken's Electric Lake 2xLP). Aside from that unnecessarily revealing picture, NNCK are a faceless collective of strange, otherworldly, free, avant noise w…
The Heliopolar egg 1976
JUST ARRIVED, and wow... this is a sensational release!! Truly monumental last ever Qbico release is a feast of exotic instruments, skilful playing and spirituality. No less than six LP's, recorded in various places and various countries, with special guest Toshi Ichiyanagi on synthesizerHartmut Geerkenpiano, prepared piano, piano strings, tibetan tingshak, water tingshak, waldteufel, mokkatam pot rattles, bells, water bells, sleigh bells, gongs, water gongs, tibetan boo-chals, water boo-chals, …
Combinatoria
A comprehensive guide to the core recordings of one of the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical musicians from Italy, this 2-CD BOX Deluxe Edition captures Pietro Grossi original vision, presenting a wide selection of his studio early recordings, beautifully re-mastered to preserve the enduring quality. Pietro Grossi used to playfully define himself as pigro [lazy], but he wasn’t lazy at all! Few musicians have been working everyday at such a cracking pace, creating, teaching and…
Under the fig tree / The magic carpet
** FEW RESURFACED COPIES, VERY LAST ** Two masterpieces of the early 70s by released by Die Schachtel for the first time ever. Using VCS3 live electronics and environmental sounds, Alvin Curran created a hypnotic and meditative transcendency of minimalist beauty. Limited deluxe vinyl LP edition."The two works presented here are “seminal” pieces of two genres from which a great part of my musical practice springs and to this day continues to evolve from. Under the Fig Tree is in fact the realizat…