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Illusions Of Infinite Bliss
2024 Stock. ** 888 hand-numbered copies, it comes with 4-page booklet ** Australian composer born in Germany, John Watermann (1935-2002) composed a special kind of electro-acoustic music infused with a post-industrial aesthetic. His style is characterized by the shortness of tracks, obsessive loops, media samples, treated field recordings and a pervading feeling of menace. His aesthetic blends Cold War freezing climate, claustrophobic movies like Eraserhead, post-Auschwitz memorabilia (he was te…
Azabu
Edition of 500. CD and 8 page booklet in gatefold cardboard sleeve * Even though only being fully terminated 50 years after its conception, 'Azabu' can be regarded as the starting point of Michael Ranta’s creative self-discovery. The recordings that form the base of 'Azabu' were mostly made in the Tokyo district with the same name (Azabu-Juban). Next to abstracted field recordings 'Azabu' is also pervaded by a rich variety of percussion, string and wind instruments, all played by Ranta himself.
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The Great Wall / Chanta Khat
* Original 1991 edition on Ranta's own Asian Sound Records imprint * Michael Ranta has collaborated with Takehisa Kosugi, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Jean-Claude Eloy, Conny Plank, Mike Lewis, and Hartmut Geerken, just to name a few. He was also assistant to Harry Partch and performer in the Gate 5 Ensemble in the 1960s. Additionally, Ranta performed in Stockhausen's ensemble during the 1970 World Expo in Osaka. Ranta's resume also includes recordings by Helmut Lachenmann, Herbert Brün, Toru Takemitsu, Jo…
Home Comfort
** CD Edition. 300 copies in gatefold sleeve + 20 page booklet and bonus track** Very pleased and grateful to announce this ‘Home Comfort’ reissue by Mark Glynne and Bart Zwier, originally self-released in 1980. Maybe a bit of an unexpected title to appear in the LSD catalog but my love for this album goes back to my late teenage years and has had an addictive effect since, like a spleen infused magnet.With this album Glynne and Zwier, based in the Netherlands and connected to the Ultra scene, d…
Elles Sont De Sortie N° 101 E (Book)
Elica is pleased to publish some rather peculiar and spectacular recent works by Bruno Richard in a series of five books, which individually or altogether constitute the 101th volume of Elles Sont De Sortie. Each volume is an almost fac-simile of a partly coloured second-hand colouring book for children, reworked by Richard with his drawings, with superb, eye-popping results. This is the fifth volume (E), a stapled 16-page, full color 22x31cm. book. Each volume is published in a limited editio…
Elles Sont De Sortie N° 101 D (Book)
Elica is pleased to publish some rather peculiar and spectacular recent works by Bruno Richard in a series of five books, which individually or altogether constitute the 101th volume of Elles Sont De Sortie. Each volume is an almost fac-simile of a partly coloured second-hand colouring book for children, reworked by Richard with his drawings, with superb, eye-popping results. This is the fourth volume (D), a stapled 16-page, full color 22x31cm. book. Each volume is published in a limited editi…
Elles Sont De Sortie N° 101 C (Book)
Elica is pleased to publish some rather peculiar and spectacular recent works by Bruno Richard in a series of five books, which individually or altogether constitute the 101th volume of Elles Sont De Sortie. Each volume is an almost fac-simile of a partly coloured second-hand colouring book for children, reworked by Richard with his drawings, with superb, eye-popping results. This is the third volume (C), a stapled 16-page, full color 22x31cm. book. Each volume is published in a limited editio…
Elles Sont De Sortie N° 101 B (Book)
Elica is pleased to publish some rather peculiar and spectacular recent works by Bruno Richard in a series of five books, which individually or altogether constitute the 101th volume of Elles Sont De Sortie. Each volume is an almost fac-simile of a partly coloured second-hand colouring book for children, reworked by Richard with his drawings, with superb, eye-popping results. This is the second volume (B), a stapled 16-page, full color 22x31cm. book. Each volume is published in a limited editi…
Elles Sont De Sortie N° 101 A (Book)
Elica is pleased to publish some rather peculiar and spectacular recent works by Bruno Richard in a series of five books, which individually or altogether constitute the 101th volume of Elles Sont De Sortie. Each volume is an almost fac-simile of a partly coloured second-hand colouring book for children, reworked by Richard with his drawings, with superb, eye-popping results. This is the first volume (A), a stapled 16-page, full color 22x31cm. book. Each volume is published in a limited editio…
Untitled (Book)
Very nice artists' zine by Faith Coloccia. Includes photographs, collage and paintings.
Mamiffer - Mare Decendrii (Book)
Very nice artists' book by Faith Coloccia. Includes artwork, documentation and composition notation from the album "Mare Decendrii". Limited edition of 100 copies. 60 pages, 7" x 8", perfect bound, professionally printed on uncoated heavyweight stock, full color and black and white, hand numbered.
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…
Miettes (Book)
In reading this text, we rediscover the subtle pleasure we feel when listening to Michel Doneda's solo concerts. Beneath an apparent disorder in which intuition alone seems to guide the unfolding of a pointillist discourse, a highly structured thought process emerges.Never relinquishing primacy to the sensitive approach, Michel Doneda delivers a reflection on improvisation, tested by decades of uncompromising personal practice. Like his music, Doneda's writing gives pride of place to the quality…
Ephemere I & II
Alga Marghen presents Éphémère I & II (for tape, or to be played with various instruments) -- two previously-unpublished masterpieces which represent for several reasons a very specific moment in the creative life and catalog of Luc Ferrari. Even if Ferrari's perfect skill in creating some of the most beautiful sonic works ever is now well known to the large audience appreciating his music, the undetermined character marking the two works presented here is quite surprising. Luc Ferrari was tempt…
Between Concrete And Abstract. Gaku-No-Michi (Book)
For those who loves the piece, this is a nice way to learn more about it. For those who don't know it yet, it will be a good introduction to listen to it. Gaku-no-Michi is an electro-acoustic work of wide proportions realised in 1977-78 at the Denshi Ongaku Studio (electronic music studio) of NHK radio (Nippon Hoso Kyokai), Tokyo. This work has been programed in numerous countries by various modern music festivals, as a full evening concert, from 1978 to 2006. This publication is made of a group…
The Dream
2024 stock. That’s right, Carter plays piano on this date! It’s the first thing heard as this disc kicks immediately into definite but mature overdrive. It’s a blast to hear William Parker, bassist for Cecil Taylor’s much-lauded Feel Trio, free-walking under Carter’s percussive attacks, certainly indebted to Taylor but even more pointalistic. The case is made on “Zero Softly”, a spare minimalist musing where notes hang in the air like galaxies only to fade beneath Federico Ughi’s carpet of brush…
Mobilisation Générale: Protest and Spirit Jazz from France 1970-1976
** 2021 Stock ** 1968. France, Incorporated. The entire building was being consumed by flames and was slowly collapsing. Nothing would survive. Out of the rubble of the old world jumped the children of Marx and Coca-Cola, ripping the white and blue stripes off the French flag. Yet, the socialist revolution was more mythic than real and music did nothing to mitigate people’s behavior. It was time for innovation.
While singles from the Stones, Who, Kinks and MC5 provided an incendiary soundtrack f…
35 S. Raymond Avenue
**Edition of 200** One afternoon in 1975, friend and fellow music traveler, Harold Schroeder, showed up at Poo-Bah Record Shop where Tom Recchion worked selling records and experimental music to people, forcing them to buy albums that he swore would change their lives. Harold asked if Tom wanted to share in a studio space close to the shop. After seeing it Tom immediately said "YES!". They moved in and divided the space in half. On Tom's half he made drawings, paintings, performances, video, scu…
Opus 17
* Limited Edition. Remastered, improved sound quality * There is no artist, working in the contemporary field of experimental sound, that is more important than the French composer Eliane Radigue. She is a shining light, who, for more than half a century, has quietly blazed trails with a body of work that is as creatively visionary as it is sublime. Back in the 2010s, Alga Marghen launched a crucial archival series, dedicated to some of Radigue’s earliest and previously unavailable works, many p…
The Blue Horizon
*200 copies limited edition* Third work for Richard B. Lewis, who, with "The Blue Horizon", takes us on a journey through the whirlpools of mental disorder that blur the unreachable blue horizon like a thick fog. Sounds that penetrate inside and leave you naked in a bond between nature and dream. Drones and noises that keep you suspended in an oppressive limbo but let you see the light... You can't touch it, but it seems to be there waiting to welcome you. With "The Blue Horizon", Richard B. Lew…