Poetry & Music
Essential anthology culling sonic experiments made between late '60s and early 70s by the legendary composer, performer, and poet Jackson MacLow. The work of Jackson MacLow, was concerned with the primacy of words, their structures and especially the…
Solar Music Tent
**Edition of 200 in gatefold PVC sleeve and booklet** LP reissue of the cassette edition "Solar Music Tent" documenting an installation and performance in Hagen, Germany, originally released by Joe Jones in 1982 in an edition of 10 copies. From the e…
Originale
**very last copies** Private edition, limited to 100 copies "A documentation of a music happening recorded at Judson Hall, NYC. Sept 8-9, 11-13, 1964 with a stellar line-up that includes James Tenney on piano, David Behrman, Max Neuhaus, Alvin Lucier…
Music With Memory
** Small repress available. An essential entry, offering crucial insight into one of America’s most important composers. Beautiful, challenging, and visionary, this what music should always be - the heights of creativity bound to the specificity of t…
Action-Interview At WBAI Radio Station-N.Y.
Primary Informatio is happy to announce the reissue of the LP by The Guerrilla Art Action Group titled Action-Interview at WBAI Radio Station-N.Y, orginally released by the legendary Radiotaxi imprint, and now impossible to obtain. The recording docu…
Den dynamiske violin
Cassette tape by Danish avantgarde/mail art/fluxus artist Mogens Otto Nielsen. Comes with eight riso-printed inserts, as in the original. Originally released by Danish independent publisher Edition After Hand in 1977. Re-issued by Institute for Danis…
The California Sandals
Flexi disc with recording of a performance from 1985 by Alison Knowles. The flexi disc The California Sandals was originally released as part of a black cardboard box published by The Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark in 1989, thus pred…
Satie i høj sø
The most enigmatic and rare of Danish artist and composer Henning Christiansen’s albums Satie i høj sø is now re-issued by Institute for Danish Sound Archeology and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark. The album collects five central …
Slowscan vol 40
Last copies, regular edition, numbered to 97 + 3 AP copies in a woodenbox (20X20X3 cm) with 7"" records only (NO catalog and NO tapes). It contains 7 x 7" Eps by Albert M Fine, George Brecht, Joe Jones, Charles Amirkhanian, Ken Friedman, Adriano Spat…
Gamelan Coming & Going
Recorded in 1985, this long piece, unpublished until now, belongs to the Gamelan series, which Philip Corner has worked for years and counting dozens of pieces. In the word of the author, the piece, for two pianists "...represents one of the most “cu…
Poems and Metapoems
Recital present a reissue of Dick Higgins's Poems And Metapoems, originally released on cassette by New Wilderness Audiographics in 1982. Label head Sean McCann on the reissue: "Since the beginning of Recital, I have been trying to publish the work …
Art Record Covers
Since the dawn of modernism, visual and music production have had a particularly intimate relationship. From Luigi Russolo’s 1913 Futurist manifesto L’Arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noise) to Marcel Duchamp’s 1925 double-sided discs Rotoreliefs, the 20t…
Dé-Coll/Age Musik
A seminal figure in the history of 20th century avant-garde, yet sinfully overlooked, Wolf Vostell unleashed ideas - those running wild through his debut LP Dé-coll/age Musik, which remain a slap to the face, more than half a century after they we…
Born in the state of FLUX/us
Restocked, reduced price Performing and visual artist Ben Patterson (born 1934) was a founding member of Fluxus' participatory, do-it-yourself, anticommercialist avant-garde network. While many Fluxus artists, influenced by John Cage's precedent, emp…
Off the wall
First vinyl reissue of composer and Fluxus artist Yoshi Wada's second album, Off The Wall, originally released in 1985 by famed free jazz label FMP. Recorded in Berlin on May 11 and 12, 1984, by a quartet featuring Yoshi Wada and Wayne Hankin on bagp…
A Fluxus Essay
Dorothy Iannone (b.1933) tells her Fluxus Story. Recorded in Berlin in 1979. Edition of 300 copies. CD with 20-page A4 offset-printed booklet. "There, Maciunas and I looked deeply but impassively into each other’s eyes, not knowing then that we would…
PoorManMusic
Homemade noise made by, among others, Philip Corner, Max Neuhaus, Steve Reich, James Tenney, Malcolm Goldstein, Jackson Mac Low, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, Carolee Schneemann, Jerome Rothenberg... the Technicians of the Sacred. Gift Event III: A C…
The Long Hot Summer/Interview Oct. 1969 /Waiting for Commercials
This CD restores three documents from the Charlotte Moorman canon. One happy example is a choral work performed on the 3rd of September 1964, during the second New York Avant Garde Festival, a performance of Jackson Mac Low's composition "The Long Ho…
TV cello
Of the famous "TV Cello," conceived by Nam June Paik for Charlotte Moorman as a "living sculpture," this CD offers an in-situ recording released on one of the three days inaugurating the Paik retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chica…
Aachen Konzert, July 25th, 1966
This CD presents a concert from July 25th, 1966 in the Theatersaal in Aachen, Germany. In addition to the New York concert on September 12th, 1964, the recordings of this European concert well represent the kind of performances that Charlotte Moorman…