Reissues
Didascalies
The idea of bringing together Rencontres fortuites, Didascalies and Tautologos III - two recent works for piano, viola and electronics, and one open-ended work - imposed itself at a concert at the Boendael Chapel in Brussels, where Collard-Neven and Royer performed Didascalies, with Ferrari attending. A few months later, we found ourselves in the legendary Brème studios, having to deal with the waiting, the Tonmeister's mood swings, and Luc, sick, having a hard time with long commutes and schedu…
Tautologos and other early electronic works
Luc Ferrari is among the best known of the early electronic music pioneers. He was director of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales from 1959 to 1960, working closely with Pierre Schaeffer, and his music played a decisive role in defining the range of musique concrète. But he went further to become one of the most radical composers of his time, and this CD, with its incisive character and exceptional sounds, marks the starting point for his artistic evolution. The compositions include 'Etudes aux …
Acousmatrix 3
Third volume in the Acousmatrix series. "A lovely work of electro-acoustic music by one of the French pioneers of musique concrete, Petite Symphonie Intuitive Pour un Paysage de Printemps ('Little Intuitive Symphony for a Spring Landscape') recreates the composer's experiences during a climb toward sunset on the Causse Mejean, a high plateau in the Massif Central, including his recollection of a shepherd's flute and its reverberations across the landscape. The flute sounds and multiple echoes co…
Cycle des souvenirs
2023 restock. First ever release of a large scale electroacoustic piece five years in the making that revisits numerous periods from Luc Ferrari's five decades of work. From the composer's liner notes: "I have been composing a new series of works under the general title Exploitation des Concepts. The point is to take concepts I have been experimenting with throughout my entire life as a composer, and to put them to use in every possible direction: in instrumental as well as electroacoustic music…
Interrupteur/Tautologos 3
Luc Ferrari -- along with Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, François Bayle, and others -- is one of the pioneers of the particular style of tape music known as 'musique concrète'. More significantly, he must be counted as one of the most complexly, most idiosyncratically compelling of post-War composers. Ferrari has time and again ranged far afield of musique concrète, and Interrupteur/Tautologos 3 is one such foray into instrumental music. But what a setting-forth! Mon dieu! These particular real…
Lost Aaraaf
Haino's first group, live recorded in '71! Bizarre voice + piano + drums. Incredible & historical recordings.
Night through. Singles and collected works, 1976-2004
Reissue. Essential 3xCD collection of Singles by New York City guitarist Loren (nee MazzaCane) Connors, one of America's most unique and challenging voices. Night through.spans four decades of Connors' recordings from the earliest acoustic session and first solo 7 - Ribbon o' Blues on St. Joan - to rare Singles issued by Table of the Elements, Road Cone, Father Yod, Menlo Park, Gyttja, Union Pole, and others, to his late 90s band Haunted House and recent acoustic recordings. Overall, three and h…
Spectral soprano
This retrospective double CD gives examples of Coxhill's early to recent work involving elements of improvisation including R & B, formally structured jazz, electronics, spontaneous music, an open rendition of an old play, and the odd bit of singing. An enormous variety of music ranging from straight-ahead jazz, to a concerto performance with the London Improvisers Orchestra, to an underwater slide saxophone solo recorded using a microphone in a condom. 135 minutes -- mostly previously unissued.
Logos works
Logos Works contains eight works by the Logos Duo featuring both Darge and Raes on various instruments, as well as other performers on a wide range of instruments. "This latest recording comes as they look back upon 25 years of collaboration as the Logos Duo. More than a retrospective, we see them affirming a long artistic relationship and forging new horizons--together and on divergent musical paths. In this, their work is a metaphorical journey: an inward exploration of the elegance of algorit…
Lingual Music
Britain’s best known sound poet is Bob Cobbing, but it’s hard to come up with a list of other sound poets working in Britain in the 60’s and 70’s. It’s equally difficult to think of any female sound poets working anywhere. Lily Greenham was Danish, but spent her childhood in Vienna. After several relocations across Europe she settled in London in 1972 with her British husband (musician and poet Peter Greenham), where she lived until her death in 2001. Nearly all of her own writings and compositi…
Composing Motion
“Sound crazy people vibrate to sound and this disc is for them; it’s got some of the sharpest astringent zings of sound that ever cut the air, maybe because it’s all made with doctor’s blade steel, some of it the sharpest. … All I know is that when it’s set up in motorized vibrating and shaking devices, and struck with strikers, it cuts a new sound groove.” Len Lye
Tapes 1990-1999
Lasse Marhaug released between 60 to 70 cassette tapes in the 90-ies. These tapes were released in limited quantities in the noise/metal underground and have been unavailable for years, so for many this will be the first time to hear this music. From the early cut-up voice and turntable experiments, to the later full-on wall-of-sound scrap metal noise. Mostly solo work (none of Marhaug's work with Origami Replika is represented), but there's also collaboration tracks with artists like Macronymph…
Clouds
Produced in 1977. Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Swedish composer and graphic artist, was one of those who during the first half of the 60's tried to integrate elements of different fields of art in his works: instrumental music, tapes, texts, actions, projections etc. In Clouds (1972-76) he developed an advanced form of musical drama involving electronic music in 8 channels, singers, dancers and slide and film projections on five screens. The music on this record is a shortened version of Clouds, especiall…
Winter nightfall
lars-gunnar bodin (1935), mainly active in the electroacoustic music field, in concrete poetry, and he coined the term 'Text/sound Composition'. 1. Mare Atlantica (1997) 2. Divertimento for Dalle (1991) 3. GYZO (1998) 4. Wonder-Void, text-sound-suite (1990) 5. Winter Nightfall (2000).
Ursonate
A partial re-release of Kurt Schwitters' URSONATE, as performed by Jaap Blonk. Jaap Blonk, born 1953,Êis one of the world's most famous voice performers. This CD will give you 2 complete performances of The Ursonate: the 1986 studio version, and the 2003 live version. For a long time, the Schwitters estate did not grant permission to issue recordings of his work. In 2002 the ban was lifted and the performing and publishing rights were turned over to a foundation based in the Sprengel Museum in H…
Structural films
Rare selection of Kren films, spanning works from 1957 to 1979. Kurt Krens achievements with regard to the montage of short cuts in his early works was many years ahead of the rest of the (film)world, in both form and content. Kurt Kren was a pioneere: an avantgardist in the classic and best sense of the word. A filmmaker who knows how to think in images like few others in this trade, and who realized these images in films that are among the 'most beautiful' and 'most important' in cinematic his…
Action films
Though undoubtedly a collection of avant-garde works, it’s tempting to view Kurt Kren’s “action films” as documentaries. A series of collaborations made between 1964 and 1967, these ten assembled shorts find the Austrian director working primarily with the performance artists Günter Brus and Otto Mühl. Each piece serves as a recording of their actions – funny, confrontational, shocking examples of body art that should be vaguely familiar to most – yet addresses them in Kren’s own distinct manner…
Eruption
monolithic guitar / drum / synth tumblers ; an awesome, necessary adjunct to the important Kluster records. Credited to Eruption, that was a short-lived German krautrock or experimental music super group founded by former Tangerine Dream member and then current Kluster (3) member Conrad Schnitzler. Eruption performed free-form, improvisational, experimental music, some of which resembles industrial music
1979 First live
Jutok Kaneko (guitar), Mick (vocals), Hiroshi Yokoyama (synth) and Toshiko Watanabe (drums). 'Miraculously unearthed live tape from one of the earliest incarnations of Tokyo heavy psychedelic legends Kousokuya. For a group with a 25-year history on the Tokyo underground scene, Kousokuya have left very little imprint of their activities. Once heard, though, their sound is unmistakeable Ð a grinding, soaring sonic-blackhole that charts the empty gulfs of tension-space like no one else this side of…
6 - Cologne - WDR: Early Electronic Music
Sixth volume in the Acousmatrix series. Features: Herbert Eimert, Robert Beyer, Karel Goeyvaerts, Paul Gredinger, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Henri Pousseur, Bengt Hambraeus, Franco Evangelisti, György Ligeti, Giselher Wolfgang Klebe, Herbert Brün