Reissues
Hydrorion Remnants
Embassador Dulgoon is known for his intrepid contributions for the world-traversing experimental science ensemble Nonlocal Society, however the eccentric Chilean multi-instrumentalist points us in a very different direction for his most recent revelation entitled Hydrorion Remnants. Dulgoon delivers a fantastic voyage by way of transportive electro-acoustic elements, roaming crypto-zoological sampling, and soaring synthesized melodies that all work to create a truly unique escapade. Burrowed sys…
Perfect Prey
While stumbling through the Shiek's Bazaar of the Bizarre, I came across
Idaho Joe serenading a flea circus under a rug. Corum hovered nearby
conducting with tea tree oil toothpicks. Fortunately, the tape was
running. The smoke is thick but you can make out some shapes in the
haze. Joe seems to be floating through the same wing of the ethno
forgery museum that Alvarius B called home. There are some seasonings
that taste a little like Tower Recordings with mashed potatoes. This all
comes h…
Civilization
Adele H is the experimental recording project of Italian singer and songwriter Adele Pappalardo. Using just her voice and a Brazilian tambourine to create powerful melodies and hypnotic rhythms that feel primordial and instinctive blending soul and psychedelia.
On One Of These Bends
By 1981, after four years of DIY electronics, it was time for a change. For Philip Sanderson that change came in the form of film. At first, requests came from friends for soundtrack work, and by the end of the decade he was making short experimental 8mm films himself. On One Of These Bends is a collection of unreleased songs, soundtrack work and obscure cassette-only pieces from the 80’s which reflect Philip’s shift in focus. It was a departure from the industrial music he had been making with …
Iceland
Originally released in 1979, Iceland is Richard Pinhas' third solo album and his first following the breakup of Heldon. While moving away from the maximalism of his old band, paring down Heldon's hybrid of otherworldly sci-fi imagery and pummeling psych-prog riffs, the journey through Iceland is decidedly more inward. Consisting of longer, brooding synth-based pieces as well as short proto-industrial études and interstitial sketches, Iceland features Pinhas' delay-ridden electric guitar, pulsat…
The Book Of Sounds
Last Copies. Edition of 500 copies. "This work, a masterpiece of restraint, reflects the musical imagination of someone who has spent long periods in the quiet recesses of the mind." (Terry Riley) Beacon Sound present a reissue of Hans Otte's The Book Of Sounds (Das Buch Der Klänge) originally released in 1984. Hans Otte (1926-2007) was a multifaceted artist, poet, pianist, composer, and promoter who synthesized the strands of minimalism, Eastern spirituality, and radical art into his own unique…
Company Week
In May 1977 Derek Bailey gave me a press ticket for Company Week - a series of concerts of improvised music in London. I made some notes at the time, but there seemed to be nowhere suitable to publish the extended commentary I eventually produced. So I wrote it into a dummy book and it to Derek. Most of it is reproduced here." Peter RileyOriginal copies of this rare and invaluable document, published in 350 copies
New / Rediscovered Instruments Volume 1 (Booklet)
A long overdue, larger, reprint of the 1975 classic pamphlet by Hugh
Davies, Paul Burwell, Max Eastley, Evan Parker, Paul Lytton, and David
Toop. A rare look into the maker culture inherent in the 1970s UK
experimental music scene with descriptions and pictures of Hugh Davies's shozyg, the communally blown horn, and more. Preface by David Toop.
Sound American Vol. 2
Due to a surprisingly large demand, SA began printing their back issues in this collected format last year and almost immediately sold out of Volume 1! Now we're pleased to present Volume 2 which features the best articles, essays, and interviews from our issues originally presented in 2014: SA4: The What Is Music Issue, SA5: The Philadelphia Issue, SA6: The Maker Issue, SA7: The Deep Listening Issue
Sound American Vol. 1
Finally, the online magazine Sound American is available in a lovable,
givable, carryable, trainable form! We’ve culled our favorite articles
from the first three issues and commissioned some special new works not
found at soundamerican.org for this special book presentation!
This first volume features writing by and about Rick Moody, Ben Hall,
Nate Wooley, Shinkoyo Collective, League of Automatic Music Composers,
Women in Electronic Music, TECHNE, John King, John Cage’s Number Pieces
an…
Ott
Limited to 300 vinyl version live at Ottfest 2014. France set out for a wild mesmerizing revelry of sound. The result is one of their best recordings to date. Imagine Tony Conrad & Faust reincarnated as a french trio in 2014, using only a minimal drum kit, bass and hurdy-gurdy to drone you into another dimension. The music of France is built around the idea that a circular rhythm section combined with the trance-inducing riffs of the hurdy-gurdy can generate an endless series of (micro)tonals va…
Heat
Exclusive Purple vinyl edition / 300 copies. Heat is a surprise new double album from Shinichi Atobe for Demdike Stare. It follows on from 2017's From The Heart, It's A Start, A Work Of Art (DDS 023LP) and continues a run of highly enigmatic, acclaimed and completely unparalleled productions that follow their own timeless logic. There's no sonic fiction involved; this material really does just turn up on a CD sent by air mail from Japan to Manchester, sparse info, no messing, pure gold. What's t…
"Se mor". Nansensgade 1971 / Sangen Om Kaffekoppen
**Edition of 300. White vinyl edition, including leporello-folded booklet** Over the last couple of years, the Institute for Danish Sound Archaeology has been blowing minds, issuing a startling array of releases which singlehandedly reform the broad understanding of Denmark’s historic movements in sound. Not only were there revelatory reissues of works by Knud Viktor, Alison Knowles, Henning Christiansen, and Per Norgard, but there was that incredible Danish Tape Amateurs 1959 -1976 compilation,…
The Visitors
The soundtrack to the globally acclaimed video installation ‘The Visitors’. Pressed on 180-gram heavyweight black vinyl. Vinyl housed in a stunning handmade five-panel 1200 micron duplexed sleeve showcasing the photographic stills of the band in situ at Rokeby Mansion and including multi-fold silk art liner notes by Canadian poet Anne Carson. "As with most of Ragnar Kjartansson’s performances and artworks, music and creative collaboration with his friends also play a crucial role in ‘The Visitor…
Yom Kippur 1973
The record you are holding in your hands is a previously unheard masterpiece of Israeli multimedia artist Ami Shavit. As a professor of both philosophy and art and established kinetic artist in the 1970s Shavit was fascinated with new and interactive technologies. While mostly focusing on visual art and mixed-media installations, a trip to New York in 1972 introduced him to synthesizers and triggered his curiosity to do some explorations into the world of music or "sound" as he preferred to call…
Reverberations 1
In 2012 Important Records released Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 (IMPREC 352CD), a historic 12-CD box set compiling much of Pauline Oliveros' early and unreleased electronic work. Reverberations 1 is the first release in an ongoing series dedicated to releasing the entire 12-CD box set on vinyl. Organized chronologically by studio, the complete Reverberations not only documents Pauline's earliest electronic music but it also functions as an early history of electronic music i…
Music For Cello
Phill Niblock's Music For Cello collects three pieces from the '70s and early '80s, performed by cellist David Gibson. This CD includes a 16-page unpublished interview with Niblock. Since the late sixties Phill Niblock has been composing long-form acoustic drones with a focus on the rhythms and overtones that rise from closely tuned instruments. His highly original and influential music is an exploration of timbre, microtonality, stability, duration and psychoacoustic phenomenon."3 To 7 - 196' i…
The Judson Years
It’s hard to overstate the importance of Philip Corner. For more than half a century he has been a cornerstone of the American musical avant-garde. A once student of Otto Leuning, Henry Cowell, Olivier Messiaen, and Dorothy Taubman, who went on to inherit John Cage’s legendary Modern Music class at the New School for Social Research. A founding member of Fluxus, Corner made waves fast, creating a body of singular work, both on his own and within ensembles like Gamelan Son of Lion and Tone Roads,…
The Stratus Seekers
Doxy presents a reissue of the George Russell Septet's The Stratus Seekers, originally issued in 1962. Joe Goldberg, from the original liner notes: "'Color'
is a word that crops up with great frequency whenever George Russell
discusses music. 'Dixieland has a color,' he has said; 'bop is a
definite color, and so is atonality.' Following that train of thought,
one might extend Russell's thesis and refer to him as a kaleidoscopic
musical figure: so many different 'colors,' to use his phrase, …
Jeu du Monde
“Jeu du monde” is a collection of around twenty musique concrète pieces which spreads over more than six hours of music. Each CD has been designed as an audio film which tells a full story. The box set includes previously released works which have long been unavailable, reworked versions of digital releases, as well as unreleased pieces especially composed for this occasion. With the use of a complex sound palette ( synthesizers, analog and digital manipulation, percussion, low fidelity samplers…