Akhnaten (3LP box)
Original 1987 edition of the 3LP box set with the brilliant 1983 opera based on the Egyptian pharaoh's life, released by CBS in 1987. With booklet.
Music In Twelve Parts (6LP box)
Ultra-rare vinyl edition of the first release of the full early 1970's landmark colossal Minimalist compostion, recorded partly in 1975 and partly in 1983, issued as a massive 6LP box set with albums with individual covers by Venture/Virgin in 1988. With insert.
Dance Nos. 1-5 (2LP)
Original Dutch-only vinyl edition of the excellent 1988 double album on CBS with the minimalist music for the 1979 ballet by Lucinda Childs and Sol LeWitt.
1000 Airplanes On The Roof (LP)
1989 US LP edition on Virgin of the science fiction music drama for winds, brass, vocals (Linda Rondstadt) and electronics.
The Art Of Joan La Barbara (LP)
Fantastic album with the great singer performing with her extended vocal technique and electronics three compositions for voice, instruments and electronics by herself plus one piece for voice, cellos, English horn and synthesizer by Subotnick, released by Nonesuch in 1985.
Frieze For Four Pianos / Pulse Music III (LP)
Rare 1987 LP on Edition Michael Frauenlob Bauer pairing a superb 1979 electronic piece with aminimalist and playful 1974 compoaition for four pianos. Never re-issued on either Lp or CD.
Drumming / Music For Mallet Instruments Voices And Organ / Six Pianos (3LP box)
Mid/late 1970's re-press of essential 3LP box set on DGG with three seminal phasing minimalist compositions from the early 1970's of evocative beauty, with Cornelius Cardew, Joan La Barbara, Jay Clayton, Glen Velez and the composer himself among the performers. With booklet
Music For 18 Musicians (LP)
Rare original 1978 edition on ECM of one of the most beautiful and evocative Minimalist pieces ever, composed in 1976. Essential Minimalism.
Music For 18 Musicians (LP)
Rare mid-1980's re-issue on ECM New Series of one of the most beautiful and evocative Minimalist pieces ever, composed in 1976. Essential Minimalism.
Octet / Music For A Large Ensemble / Violin Phase (LP)
Mid-1980's re-issue on ECM New Series of the 1980 LP with two late 1970's beautiful classic Minimalist compositions for large and small ensamble, plus one for solo violin from 1967. Essential Minimalism.
Tehillim (LP)
Mid-1980's re-issue on ECM New Series of the 1982 LP with the 1981 composition developing from Minimalist origins into a new personal style. With insert.
The Desert Music (LP)
Original German edition of the 1985 LP on Nonesuch of the 1983 pulsing cantata for voices and orchestra.
Movie
*150 copies limited edition* Filmmaking and music-making share a common element of worldbuilding. Whole cloth, environments are raised in which a perspective can be placed; the viewer, the listener, is taken on a ride into the unknown for a time. Movie, the newest album by DMV-based duo Lifted, is like a film shot with microphones rather than cameras, using the pacing, spatialization, and semiotics of cinematic sound design to lead us through a surreal soundworld that draws as much from Foley ar…
Cadenza On The Night Plain And Other String Quartets (2LP)
2LP set released by Gramavision in 1985 with the string quartets in collaboration with the Kronos Quartet moving beyond the Minimalism of the early period. Includes catalogue.
For Piano I / For Pianist / Burdocks (LP)
1972 album on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series with two avant-garde solo piano pieces from the 1950's plus the classic partly indeterminated instrumental composition from 1971 performed by an all-star group including David Tudor, Gordon Mumma, Frederic Rzewski, David Behrman and the composer himself. With insert.
Helt
Formed in 2022, Fjall features a cornucopia of instrumental sounds, both acoustic and electronic, which the group uses to create soundscapes rooted in folk and ceremonial music, together with field recording material drawn from the sounds of the natural world - all mixed together on a canvas of open ended improvisation. This release documents in full two performances by the group, both in front of large and attentive audiences.
Wandering Away Is Safer Than Getting Lost On Your Own
Five years after his first quartet release “Kora” (Aut Records, 2021), Giacomo Zanus returns with a new album titled “wandering away is safer than getting lost on your own.”
Composed and produced by the italian guitarist, “wandering away…” is a collection of little stories — postcards and travel notes that evoke faces, places and sensations to immerse oneself in, get lost in and ultimately rediscover.
Emblematic figures such as Calvino’s silent Palomar — almost a manifesto for the entire project…
Murder Ballads :: Volume II :: The Positive Reinforcement Campaign
Jessie Marino is a Berlin-based composer, performer, and media artist. Her compositions and performances abstract ideas drawn from all stripes of popular culture and political discourse, girded by a definitively humanistic sensibility rife with equal doses of wit and pathos. “Murder Ballads Vol II: The Positive Reinforcement Campaign” is the first recorded output from an ongoing band project, launched in 2023, with the Norwegian percussion trio Pinquins (Sigrun Rogstad Gomnæs, Ane Marthe Sørlien…
Ondanaconda
Ondanaconda does not compose with the jaw harp, but through it. For their self-titled debut album, the quartet turns this lamellophone, often perceived as archaic, into the record’s sole sound source. Found for centuries across continents, from Asia to Europe, the jaw harp is played against the teeth, using the mouth as a resonating chamber, shaping sound through breath and bodily movement. Here, amplified, prepared and sometimes pushed to its limits, it becomes percussion, bass, drone and textu…
Early Music
Coming a couple of years after High Peak Selections, Early Music was the second 'studio' full-length album by Jon Collin. More spare and sparse than its predecessor, both in atmosphere and presentation (the track names are simply numbers), it's also perhaps more focused and consistent in terms of sound and mood (as well as instrumental set-up and recording locale). While High Peak Selections and later recordings feature environmental and external sounds bleeding in and out of recordings, the onl…