Reissues
A Path Through Haze
CD reissue of this ultra-rare 70s Japanese rock album. Kimo Mizutani was the guitarist in the excellent Japanese Freak-out group, Love Live Life + 1 and this reissue is of his first solo album from 1971. Mizutani plays electric and "folk" guitar and leads a largish ensemble (bass, drums, organ, Moog and vocals) through what is widely regarded as one of the true psychedelic masterpieces of the 70s Japanese scene. Sensitive interludes (accompanied by the Toyama String Quartet and the Etoh Wood Qua…
Love will make a better you
Number six on the Japrocksampler Top 50, available again for the first time in over a decade! Phoenix Records releases a fully-remastered edition of the 1971 sole album by Love Live Life + One. There were several progressive psychedelic groups in Japan in the early '70s including the short-lived Love Live Life + One. The band played a few live gigs and released this lone album before disbanding. The group consisted of 9 musicians and the "plus one" seems to refer to vocalist Akira Fuse who h…
Anywhere
UK version. First album from the legendary Japanese rockers fronted by Yuya Uchida. Although an album consisting mainly of cover versions, Anywhere still exhibited many of the musical traits that were to come to the fore on the bands next release, the classic Satori, an album of original material delivered with panache by the increasingly confident Uchida. An album made memorable by its risque cover as well as its ground-breaking approach to Western rock music.
Text-Sound Compositions: A Stockholm Festival
Fylkingen Records in collaboration with the Swedish Radio released a series of LP records with text-sound compositions between the years of 1968-77. All of these were documentations of the international festival Text-Sound Compositions. A Stockholm Festival, which Fylkingen presented in Stockholm several times during these years. Most of the LPs were only pressed in batches of about 400-500 records, and most of the LPs sold out during the festivals. A re-release had long been planned, and this 5…
Swedish Contemporary Music
1983 release, original copy. This album is released in collaboration with the Swedish section of the ISCM and presents both orchestral and chamber music from the World Music Days in Greece, Belgium, Sweden and Israel. Mats Persson Refractions, Jan Sandström Campane in campi aperti, Lars Sandberg Fall, Tommy Zwedberg Hanging." Another impressive collection of compositions by Swedish composers on the ever reliable Fylkingen label, this time concentrating on (bar one track) straight piano rather th…
Electronic Music
Pär Lindgren (1952), Swedish composer, studied composition with Gunnar Bucht and Lars-Gunnar Bodin at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where he himself has been a member of the teaching staff since 1980. He's one of Sweden's leading composers of electroacoustic music. He presents here three of his works. 'Houdinism' (1984), 'Rummet' (The room) (1980), 'Den förstenade' (The petrified one) (1982).
Tnt
1986 Release, original copy. Rolf Enström can look back on a fifteen year period as a composer. His list of works includes a number of very carefully crafted compositions of high artistic quality. Several of his works have become classics; one thinks especially of Directions (1979) and Final Curses (1981). Rolf Enström is a composer who unceasingly seeks new artistic paths and new means of expression and this is something which has led him to combine music with other art forms, primarily t…
Ite, Missa Est (Computer Music)
1982 original release. Tamas Ungvary is a conductor and computer music composer. Since 1972, Ungvary's many compositions have been performed at the majority of the European and American festivals. Ungvary has held numerous workshops and seminars both in Europe and in the United States. Melos No. 3, Interactions No. 2, Traum des Einsamen, Ite, missa est. Torsten Nilsson, organ. Rimma Gotzkozik, violin
Stockholm Elektronmusikfestival 1982
Original LP from 1982. "Since 1979, the Swedish Radio Company and the Stockholm Electronic Music Studio (EMS) have arranged an annual 3-day Stockholm Electonic Musik Festival. It's purpose is to present a sample of the electronic music being composed in different parts of the world. This record contains four works from the 1980 festival - two are Swedish and two are international; two are for tape and two combine tape with live performance." Lars-Gunnar Bodin: Epilogue; rhapsodie de la seconde r…
Clouds
**original copies from the 70s** 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 short…
Electronic Music
**Original copies fromm the 70s** Excellent minimal electronic album of this Swedish avantgarde composer. Since Sven-Erik Back's début in the 1940′s he has been regarded as a radical avantgardist, his compositions are kept together by a never failing formal imagination and an intuitive sensitivity to sound qualities. Electronic Music was released on vinyl by Fylkingen Records (FYLP 1021) in 1978.
5 September 1982 A Tribute To John Cage
1983 original copy! This is Fylkingen's contribution to the celebration of John Cage's 70th birthday. The album presents works - all commissioned by Fylkingen on this special occasion - by composers from the 1960«s generation and shows their relations to an important percursor. Lars-Gunnar Bodin For Jon III, Leo Nilsson Early Ear, Folke Rabe To the Barbender, Sten Hanson The Flight of the Bumble Bee, Arne Mellns 31 Variations on CAGE.
Sonatas and Interludes
The recordings of John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes (1946-48) with Yuji Takahashi on preparated piano was originally made in 1965 and released on two LP:s 1966.They were Fylkingen Records' first releases with the intention to make documentations of Fylkingen's concerts in public, and a test of the sound expert Stig Carlsson's thoughts about recording techniques.The Sonates and interludes are an attempt to express in music the "permanent emotions" of Indian tradition: the heroic, the erotic, the …
In C
Definitive remastered edition with extensive liner notes* 'In C' is one of Terry Riley's best-known and loved compositions, and essentially the first ever "minimalist" composition. It's a semi-aleatoric work - basically open-ended - written by Riley in 1964, and here performed in 1967 by the composer, and leader on saxophone, with members of the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts in the State University of New York at Buffalo, featuring Jon and Margaret Hassell among other notable…
Planes
Recorded on 11 May 1974 without interrupting the course of the music. Features two long brooding electronic pieces that reminds early Kluster, with doning voices add some uniqueness on first track, while the 2nd has some nice touch guitar amongst the usual dark electronic moods. Composed by Gregor Cürten & Anselm Rogmans.Initially released in 1974 as a private press LP, this is the first official reissue of Planes, produced in close collaboration with Gregor Cürten. Remastered from the original …
For Tomasz Sikorski
This release then of three short pieces under ten minutes by the Pole; Autograph (1980), Rondo (1984) and Zertstreutes Hinausschauen (1971) clearly holds some emotional resonance for Tilbury as he reflects on the music of his deceased old friend, and he then adds a fourth track here, a thirteen minute long improvisation in Sikorski's memory. The composed pieces here are each a nice listen, with the opening Autograph possibly the pick, as small flurries of melodic fragment are rotated, so …
Mariental tapes
Norbert Eisbrenner, electric guitar. Conrad Schnitzler, analog synth. Sven-Ake Johansson, percussion. Incredible recording from 1970!
Patiences
A serie of duet with André Jaume and another musician, recorded in 1980 and 1983 by Jean Roché, Jean-Marc Foussat, Daniel Deshays. Raymond Boni, electric guitar. Hervé Bourde, flute. André Jaume, saxophones, bass clarinet. Jean-Marc Montera, acoustic guitare. François Mechali, doublebass. Fred Ramanonjiarisoa, piano. Gérard Siracusa, percussions.
1979-1982
De Brassers are one of the most notorious bands in the Belgian new wave/punk history. With their no nonsense attitude they scared the shit out of the local catholic community of Hamont. De Brassers were a local mixture of the Sex Pistols (in the lowest gear) and Joy Division (they always performed a cover version of Joy Division’s Shadowplay), combining a criticism of bureaucracy and politics with experiences of psychological and existential tensions. The doomed sound they produced tells a lo…