The Space Between with Joëlle Léandre
Recorded live at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, Berkeley, CA, November 2 & 3, 2002. The Space Between brings together the freedom of spontaneous improvisation with a number of diverse traditions and ideas, not the least of which is the legendary Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening concept. In the Cadence review of their 2001 debut, The Space Between with Barre Phillips, Frank Rubolino wrote, "As a unit, they speak in a broken tongue of rarified beauty that is demanding but fully r…
YoplaBoum + Permanent Wave (2LP + CD)
* Edition of 300. 2xLP + CD * The double LP is housed in a single sleeve with two printed inner sleeves featuring liner notes by Leon van Noorden and Mario van Horrik, and a selection of photos and artwork from the period. The CD comes in its own cardboard sleeve and is attached to the outer LP sleeve with a removable glue dot. Third release by the Maciunas Ensemble on Edition Telemark after 1976 and the self-titled 50th anniversary LP from 2018. The group had been founded in Eindhoven, The Net…
Faculty Canon
** Edition of 75 with with insert. Translucent Voices Piled Into Strata--accordion Folded On Polyester Film ** Faculty Canon is artist Tim Simonds' first audio publication: a group reading of his book ╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲, including reading exercises, rehearsals, and canons. ╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲ is a book composed of text and images taken from hesitations, misspellings, auto-corrections, and concealed errors in a teacher's marginalia, comments, and endnotes. Printed on the occasion of the exhibition I sai…
Once More (White LP) / Martellate. Scritti Fighi 1990-2020
Two stunning debuts from Xong - the new label launched by Bologna based cultural platform Xing - Lydia Mancinelli and Marcello Maloberti’s 'Martellate. Scritti Fighi 1990-2020' and Kinkaleri and Jacopo Benassi’s 'Once More', take deep dives into singular creative frontiers that rest at the boundaries of the theatrical, sound art, experimental music, noise, the poetic, and the generatively performative. Both are absolutely incredible - blurring the boundaries between action and the act of listeni…
On Perpetual (Musical) Peace?
This LP features the results of "On Perpetual (Musical) Peace?" realized in Mexico City in 2019 with Liminar, a Mexican ensemble that works at the boundaries between composed and improvised music, performance and sound installation, and regularly performs in Mexico City's main chamber music halls as well as in museums, galleries and alternative venues. An extensive PMP concert took place at Bucareli 69, an art and concert space in a late-19th-century villa near the city's historical centre. The …
Once More
Xing presents the first release of the XONG series: the artist record Once More by Kinkaleri performance group and the photographer and artist Jacopo Benassi.
The release is on white vinyl, in a limited and numbered edition, and it comes with a 24-page booklet with photos by Jacopo Benassi.
Free Jazz Communism
Rab-Rab Press announces the publication of Free Jazz Communism, a new book actualising Archie Shepp–Bill Dixon Quartet at the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki 1962. Including archive material and documents, commissioned theoretical and historical texts, and interviews, the book edited by Sezgin Boynik and Taneli Viitahuhta contextualizes politics of free jazz music in light of global decolonisation movements, anti-war activism, structures of racial capitalism, and forms of av…
Free Jazz Und Kinder
Restocked, last copies... Reissue of the rare & infamous double 7“ originally published by FMP in 1973. Recordings from a workshop at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, April 1972, featuring 15 children (aged 8-11) and Peter Brötzmann, Fred van Hove, and Han Bennink.At the beginning of the work, the fifteen invited children aged eight to ten years were asked to come for four days in a row, so that a fixed, unchanging group could be expected. In practice, this was difficult to carry out, since every af…
Levende Opjekten Sjooo
Limited color vinyl, edition of 100. Once more the Netherlands proves to be fertile ground for adventurous sonic explorations defiantly untainted from outside influences. The Levende Opjekten Sjooo (L.O.S.) was developed by Artist Hans Frisch, who had made a name for himself as a painter by dripping black car paint on white formica panels, calling this: Clean Art. His next project involved a set with moving statues and music. The statues were actually naked dancers hidden between layers of linne…
Valentina plays the batterie fragile
On March 2017, on the occasion of the Festival Super Flux (Tours, FR), co-organised by Le Temps Machine and Le Petit Faucheux, the French artist Yves Chaudouët has been invited to exhibit his Batterie Fragile, a drum-kit made of porcelain, in the museum des Beaux Arts de Tours while Valentina Magaletti, drummer for Tomaga, The Oscillation, Vanishing Twin, Helm… has been invited for a gig of duet Tomaga in le Petit Faucheux.Three ten minutes long improvisations resulted of the meeting between the…
Abart von Kunstlern
Reissue of tape from 1972. Edition of 200 copies. "a re-issue of a tape originally published by albrecht.d in 1972 through his Reflection Press, Stuttgart. The artists on the recording are supporting Wolf Vostell because Frankfurter galerist and art dealer Hans Neuendorf accused Vostell not making art anymore but only makes press conferences. Side 2 contains a chance composition by Nam June Paik.
"In the early eighties Dietrich and me were talking a lot on the phone ab…
The East Village Other
Originally released in 1966. The first North American release of the "electric newspaper," an archetypal '60s counterculture "happening" from August 6, 1966, this is also the first edition anywhere since the original vinyl to include the lengthy closing track, "Interview with Hairy." A legendary all-star cast of performers got together to make an anti-war collage of words and sounds that defies mere track listings -- one of the elements is "Silence" by Andy Warhol, which, contrary to at least on…
Apollo And Marsyas: Het Apollohuis 1980-1997 An Anthology Of New
A special bundle edition for this double CD-set with accompanying 4 books that provide an outline of the programme series as het Apollohuis from the fall of 1980 to the mid 90s. Four catalogues and the two discs with thirty-eight excerpts are arranged in chronological order and give a truthful and appealing view of the width, the depth and the diversity of the concert programme of Het Apollohuis. The CDs feature Derek Bailey / Ernst Reijseger, Tom Johnson, David Gibson, Group 180, Rolf Juliu…
Think Space
Group improvisations intended to accompany a film on the Viking space probe in 1975. Includes the original Doo-Dooettes lineup; Dennis Duck, Juan Gomez, Fredrik Nilsen, Tom Recchion, Harold Schroeder. The 7" includes a Doo-Dooette version of Faust's 'Picnic On A Frozen River' recorded in 1978. Packaged in 7" gatefold jacket. Limited edition. First time available. The release includes: The Doo-Dooettes performing Faust's 'Picnic On A Frozen River' 7", CD of Think Space. Hand numbered edition of 7…
Boris The Spider/Priceless
This edit of Le-Forte Four is wedged between their former incarnation as The Patients and their debut LP that was put together in the electronic music studio at Cal Arts in 1974. Edited by Rick Potts in 1973. All the references made in their debut Bikini Tennis Shoes LP, from Speed Racer to Zappa to Looneytoons to the Moog, is very clearly foretold in the 'Boris The Spider/Priceless' edit. Includes Extended Grunge and Arguments From The Patients reworking of The Who's 'Boris The Spider' that was…