Kybernetische Musik II
The second volume of Kayn's cybernetic works, a single CD holding two long pieces: Assemblage (1984) and Refractions (1995). Music not composed and practised but set going, arising from merged control loops and feedback in a system that can be entire…
Kybernetische Musik III
The third volume, six pieces from 1986 to 1996 across two discs: Cybernetic Serendipity, Transfluxion and Syntropie on the first, An Artificial Acoustic Environment, Syzygy Dynamical Units and Equivalence Sonor I on the second. A decade of self-regul…
Gärten Der Lüste / Cybernetics II / L'Innominata
Two long pieces from the turn of the millennium, Gärten Der Lüste (1999-2000) and L'Innominata (2000), each in two sections, with the early Cybernetics II (1969) set between them on the first disc. Thirty years of Kayn's electronic practice in a sing…
Invisible Music / Hommage a K. R. H. Sonderborg
Invisible Music (2003) spread over three parts across two discs, followed by Hommage a K. R. H. Sonderborg from the same year. Late Kayn, sound with no visible source, left to a self-regulating electronic system to unfold at its own pace.
Etoile du Nord / Ghyress Für Ilse-Emily Kayn
Two long pieces from 2004: Etoile du Nord in two parts on the first disc, Ghyress für Ilse-Emily Kayn on the second, named for the daughter who would later reawaken her father's label. Among the last titles Kayn issued on Reiger Records Reeks himself…
Requiem pour Patrice Lumumba, Interations, Composizione AD
Issued under Kayn's Multiplex Sound-Art heading: Requiem pour Patrice Lumumba (2002) and Interations (2003) on the first disc, the four-section Composizione AD (2002) and Prismes Reflectes (2002) on the second. Among the most recent pieces the compos…
Ultra / Redundancy TR / Megaphonie
Also under Kayn's Multiplex Sound-Art heading: Ultra (2001) and Redundancy TR (2003) on the first disc, the three-section Megaphonie (2001) on the second. Three of the last pieces Roland Kayn completed and released on his own label.
UkabazUmorezU
**2019 stock** "Sugai Ken follows in the vein of RVNG Intl’s Visible Cloaks release with an exquisite meditation on traditional Japanese percussion and 4th world electronics ruptured by unpredictable runs into more abstract terrain.UkabazUmorezU work…
Orbit
**300 copies, 2019 stock** "Orbit titles the intersection of bassist / composer Scott Worthington and Italian photographer Renato D’Agostin. Worthington’s minimal approach to sound, like D’Agostin’s to image, reveals the hidden complexities of intera…
Photophonie
Since their launch in 2017, the Paris based imprint, Transversales Disques, has done the seemingly impossible. Not only have they carved out an entirely singular place in the contemporary landscape of reissues and archival releases, but they’ve raise…
Scanning
Recorded in 1982-83 and heard in public barely once, Scanning is the largest of Kayn's cybernetic works: ten CDs, ten hours, twenty-four moments moving between shimmering harmonic ambience and raw droning distance. Remastered by Jim O'Rourke from the…
Rendez-Vous
**2019 stock** French group Un Drame Musical Instantané was founded in 1976. They present an original, unclassifiable, inventive music, which drifts from jazz to electronic sounds and contemporary music. Klanggalerie has started an extensive re-issue…
RMX
**2019 stock** The Residents are fiddlers. Not fiddle players, just fiddlers. They like to play around and see different ways their songs could sound. They call this RMX. Some say RMX stands for "remix" but with The Residents, who knows? While the RM…
Himalaya
Following his critically acclaimed collections Electronic Music from the Seventies and Eighties and Electronic Music from the Eighties and Nineties, Carl Stone quickly follows-up Baroo with a double-LP album of recent works, including the final secti…
Baroo
"I have always been searching for a way to articulate the intangible area between the recognizable and the unfathomable, a feeling perhaps informed by some long-abandoned experiments with psychedelics. This has been a continued pursuit starting with …
Thalia
The concrète riddle of Thalia is the Nurse With Wound-listed and cultishly desired Roger Doyle album withdrawn by CBS Classics shortly after its release in 1978. Less than 200 copies reached shops some three years after his distinctive debut Oizzo No…
Dome 3
With the demise of Wire in 1980, founding members Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis joined forces to create Dome. With the assistance of engineer Eric Radcliffe and his Blackwing Studio, Dome took the ethic of "using the studio as a compositional tool" …
Does the World Need Another Drum Solo?
**50 copies** Riccardo La Foresta is a percussionist, composer and improviser from Modena (Italy) whose interests range from improvisation and composition, sound performance and sound art. His research led him to use the drum as a wind instrument wit…
Schleifen
**280 copies, 2026 stock** A publication for the exhibition Schleifen – November 10-24, 2016 – at «Kassette.für projekte» in Zurich, Switzerland. Book has 52 pages, 30 drawings, size A5 (148 x 210 mm), includes Audio CD. Cover: digital printing on bl…
Pitched Intervention
Finally available on vinyl! Recorded in Los Angeles in February 2018, Pitched Intervention consists of a Concrete and collage session by Charlie Mumma and John Wiese with Don Bolles (The Germs, Ariel Pink) and Mitchell Brown (Gasp), and one session w…