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*Comes in a CD-sized papersleeve album replica (gatefold), with obi-strip and insert of notes mostly in Japanese* Solo album released in 1976 by multi-instrumentalist Teddy Rasley, son of Jack Rasley, who manipulated creative instruments made from metal parts, and who also played on Magma's early works. With Janik Top on bass and Andre Ceccarelli on drums, the rest is Teddy's own playing. A naive, magical and imaginative instrumental work on the themes of space and mystery, the album is consider…
Oto no Hajimari wo Motomete vol.10
Recent issue of archve series of NHK electronic music studio. This issue consists of 5 works in 70s – 80s of new generation composers.
1. Jo Kondo “Tokyo Bay” (1987) This piece is a rearrangement of an instrumental piece into electronic music. The original piece was called "Non Projection," a piece for two pianos and orchestra. At that time, we were already in the age of PCs, though PCs were able to create beautiful sounds in the usual sense, Electronic music can only be heard on tape. In this c…
Soul Jazz Records presents Space, Energy & Light
*New edition* Soul Jazz Records' new Space, Energy and Light is a collection of music by early electronic and synthesizer pioneers (from the 1960s through the 1970s), mid-1970s proto-new age gurus and 1980s guerrilla D-I-Y cassette-era electronic artists, spanning in total over a near 30-year time frame. "All of these artists used electronic advancements in music technology as a means of exploring not only space and the idea of the future, but also of looking inwards to the soul and of creating …
Racines Synthetiques
In 1978, keyboardist and composer Joël Fajerman published « Racines Synthétiques » in collaboration with Jan Yrssen. Some songs were featured on « L’Aventure des plantes » soundtrack, one of the first ecological program on french TV. Living up to its title, this is an astonishing album filled with melancholia and beauty.
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2021 Stock ** Remastered. Limited to 300 copies, Japan release only** Early pioneers of the German New Wave music scene, Din A Testbild were formed in 1978 by Mark Eins and Gudrun Gut (former member of Einstürzende Neubauten, Mania D. and Malaria!). This is their first album on Klaus Schulze’s Innovative Communication Label in 1980. Produced and mixed by Klaus Schulze. First time reissue on CD! Including 3 Remixes from “TV Junk And New Beat Funk”, 1989 compilation album. Remixed by Fritz Hilpet …
La Maquina de Cantar (LP)
At long last, after remaining out of print for decades, the Milan based imprint, Dialogo, dives into the legendary catalog of Cramps, bringing forth the first ever vinyl reissue of Horacio Vaggione’s LP, "La Maquina de Cantar", issued as the 18th instalment of the label’s Nova Musicha series in 1978 and among the most important examples of Latin American experimental music from the 1970s. Engrossing and creatively riveting, heard more than 40 years on its rippling electronic tones recast the ter…
Stries
Bernard Parmegiani (1927–2013), the grand old man of French electroacoustic music, did not write much music for tape with live performers. Among them is “Stries” for the unusual combi- nation of three live synthesizer players and tape. Until recently, “Stries” had not been played live for some 30 years. This is the first complete recording, only part of it had been previously released on LP on the INA/GRM label. “Stries” was written for the three synthesizer players of the Paris- based electro…