Greatest Hits
Edition of 300. A release featuring the first twelve presentations of Hit Parade, where a total of 180 performers in Seoul, Montreal, Quebec City, Dundee, Winnipeg, Porto, New York, Toronto, Rotterdam, Kitchener, Milan and Melbourne, lying face down hit the ground 1000 times with a microphone.
Tote rennen - Lieder
Fifth part in the Selten Gehörte Musik reissue series. Recorded by Dieter Roth and Oswald Wiener at Mosfellssveit, Iceland, May 28 - 30, 1976. Packaged in fullcolour LP cover (reproduction of the original), with printed innersleeve featuring a new text about “Tote Rennen Lieder” by Michel Roth (with the English translation as an insert), as well as a rare drawing / “liner notes” by Dieter Roth. Edition of 500 copies. “The tense relationship between Wiener and Roth, borne by great mutual admirati…
Cello Anthology
New and somewhat cheaper version of this box set first released in 2007, in only slightly less elaborate packaging. It is certainly surprising that until now an exhaustive recognition of the work of Charlotte Moorman has not been undertaken. The cellist can be numbered among the most charismatic and influential protagonists to have appeared on the avant-garde or experimental music scenes since the early '60s. A documentation of her activities as a performer is generally available only in various…
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 meet again on these pages. Perhaps he was thinking, “Who is this woman?”. Perhaps it might even have amused him, somewhere far back in his mind, to know that I am she who is the Fluxus women artist who is not the Fluxus women artist.“Dorothy Iannone…
conceptmusic
Conceptmusic is a work
that speaks for itself.
It is a solicitation.
It is a statement.
It is an object of art,
but also a musical object.
Actual and potential.
“conceptmusic” is a verbal score that leave you the
chance not only to perform but even to conceive
your own music.
It contains no "sounding" support.
Every box is numbered.
Dieter Roth and Music
**Restocked, reduced price** One time limited edition of 300 copies. Amazing art edition in a sturdy plywood box with 3 LP in gatefold-cover (Recorded live at Musik-Akademie Basel, Grosser Saal, 2. February 1977) with a fascimile poster announcing the original Quadrupelkonzert, plus one DVD and six books
The oeuvre of the internationally renowned Swiss artist Dieter Roth reflects the multiplicity of his talents. He was active not just as a visual artist, writer, graphic artist, jewellery and fur…
Sometimes we all disappear
A restrained electronic improvisation from the duo of Jamie Drouin on suitcase modular & portable radio, and Lance Austin Olsen on amplified objects and audio cassettes, utlitizing space, isolated and connected events, and the listener's own environment.
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 Hot Summer." This very relevant concert, distinguished by a marked ethico-political intonation and valence, sees in an exceptional reunion the names of Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Philip Corner, and Malcolm Goldstein, as well …
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 Chicago, on the 11th, 12th and 14th of September in 1982. This version contains, respectively, the "TV Cello Duets" with Paul Garrin and the "Concerto for TV Cello and Videotapes," largely improvised, "including a tape collage by Ornette Coleman prepare…
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 and Nam June Paik presented in Europe in the second stage of their historical "duo" exhibitions. This Aachen event, in fact, is testimony to the progressive and always more pronounced emergence of meta-musical elements deliberately turned toward the…
Terra incognita
Terra Incognita is a documentation of Antoine Chessex's live stuff recorded in Berlin and in Asia. 2 sax / electronics blasts, capturing as much as possible of Antoine’s live energy and atmosphere. Harsh Noise pieces with only very little recognizable sax-playing. Comes in a nice fold-out cover with full colour artwork inside. The record is basically a 12″ on one side and a 7″ on the other.
Striked accidentally to do a 1sided LP of Antoine's work a couple of months ago. Turned out to be no more …
La Caccia
One Walter Marchetti compositions and two ZAJ pieces from 1965, '66, and '73, a work for hunting calls and whistles and two extreme electronic works; with a 16 page booklet of photos and text. Alga marghen very proudly presents the only authorized reissue of all Walter Marchetti original recordings previously released by Cramps Records. The recording of La Caccia, one of the most radical in the neo-avantgarde panorama for 35 years, is divided in two tracks: 'Versione All'aria Aperta' and 'Versio…
True Mirror Microfiche
Lovely Artist Record, A side: "B" (for Bartleby) is written by Alex Waterman. Recorded at The 7th Regiment Part Avenue Armory Building, New York City, 23 March, 2008, performed by Peter Evans (trumpet), Marina Rosenfeld (phonographs), Hrabba Attladottir (stroh violin), and Alex Waterman (violincello); (2) The Kitchen, New York City, 25 November 2008, solo; and (3) The ICA, London, 30 May 2009, solo. Mixed by Alex Waterman in Brooklyn.Side B is written and performed by Dan Fox. Recorded and mixed…
Dé-Coll/Age Musik
Awesome reissue of the vinyl-lp originally released 1983 by Multhipla (Cramps) and focused on his de-collage tecnique: much of Wolf Vostell's work deals with the idea of de-collage just as it sounds, rendering the whole into parts. He put this into practice with video and with sound, with his sound contributions being of interest here. Real-life events, dialogues, and existing recorded materials are spliced apart, ragged at the ends. From liner notes: "Some years ago I asked Giuseppe Chiari 'Wha…
An Attempt To Record Coincidence
Pictured in all its tantalizing, eye-popping glory in Hans Pokora's 1001 Record Collector Dreams, this hellishly-rare Austrian avant garde LP from 1972 is nothing short of astonishing. There are no instruments, but rather varying configurations of solo, duo and ensemble vocal improvisations, presumably informed by the aforementioned (and nearly impenetrable) code (or "charts"). Although this might be seen as part of an interesting continuum, this unique and prescient music will stun even the mos…
Das Tagstück
**Rare 1988 LP document of an Action-Theatre play for 4 performers and experimental improvised music.** Performers: Michael Kopfermann, Peter Fjodoroff, Thomas Hirsch, Wilhelm Riemenschneider; directed by Carmen Nagel-Berninger
Disband
Long-lost recordings culled from performances between 1979 and 1982 from the loose group of feminist performers known as Disband. Ilona Granet, Donna Henes, Barbara Kruger, Ingrid Sischy, Diane Torr, and Martha Wilson screamed, shouted, sang, and stomped through the heyday of New York City's new- and no-wave scenes, blurring the line between performance art and live music. Mirroring the chaos and temporarity of that time, the band split up in 1982 having never produced a record. This is the firs…
Live With The Birds
The ensemble (4 of them) performs on an aluminium strip suspended from a rubber band (for subtle pitch shifting). As with Stockausen's Mikrophonie 1 this single source is bowed, scraped, beaten, tapped, stroked and so on. The Kanary Grand band comprises some 40 birds of various breeds who, sing along. N sum, varieties of interesting gong like drones with realtime fully interactive birds. A must. 3-way gatefold digipack, 12pp booklet with thoughtful essay. Limited art edition of 1000 copies.
Na-Gi 1997
A CD of minimalist environmental sounds by this Japanese sound-artist Akio Suzuki. This music was recorded in Takano, Tango-cho, the northern-most coast of Kyoto, where I live. The bay surrounded by volcanic rock caves is the place where the mighty sounds of waves of the open sea have their muffled echo. Seawater flows into the hollows in the rock again and again like breathing in and breathing out. Spring water constantly drips in the cave, and now and then the wind from the meadow above the ch…
More from the Judson years Vol. 1
2004 release. "Yet not to forget that extraordinary place where so much of the new and exciting performances at that most interesting time in New York, took place. There was a Theater there; and a place for the first Happenings. An Art Gallery... and later the famous Judson Dance Theater -- the site of Philip Corner's first performance. The concert was in early 1962, January 2nd, to be exact. Excerpts from the liner notes of volume one of More from the Judson Years, Early 60s, written by Philip …