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* Comes with a four-page foldout insert* Originally released in 1977, Locanda Delle Fate's "Forse le lucciole non si amano più" is an LP for which the term 'masterpiece' is never wasted. Perhaps the last true album of Italian Progressive Rock, before the genre was completely overshadowed by waves of 'new' music, and then come back strongly in vogue in the new millennium.Reviewed hundreds of times and as many incensed, it is a record that has stood the inexorable passage of time, due to its perfe…
Steve Reich’s Drumming , more than forty years after its composition, stands as a watershed document of modern music. In its ambitious scope, intellectual rigor, and artistic seriousness, this piece, along with Terry Riley’s In C and Philip Glass’s Music in Twelve Parts, went a long way toward establishing minimalism’s quickly expanding influence in the early 1970s.Most of Steve Reich’s early music is focused on phase patterns, in which a fixed rhythmic pattern is layered and moved in and out of…
Over an hour of new material from American noise artist Worth. Spread over 8 widely varied pieces, "Oculus" is a symphony for incarceration and mental illness. Some of his strongest work to date. Packaged in A5 6 panel digipak sleeve.
'Stephen CORNFORD is better known for his work in sound sculptures and installations than as an improvising musician. But on ÔTurned Moment, weighting' (at-b07) he uses the piano as a source for feedback patterns, which he blends with the gentle Feldmanesque playing of pianist Samuel RODGERS to produce three extended improvisations of astonishingly delicacy. Samuel RODGERS has said that 'though being aware of and struggling with the tradition and limitations of the instrument, I have found the…
Mini album, CD, self released by Machinefabriek, November 20, 2015. 200 copies. The Dutch word 'deining' (pronounced 'dining') translates to 'heave' and also 'commotion'. For 'Deining', I asked violinist Anne Bakker to bow each string of her instrument while sliding slowly from the lowest note to the highest, for exactly five minutes, as fluently as possible. Obviously, it turned out nearly impossible to do this really smoothly, but the unavoidable irregularities are a welcomed bonus. Anne also…
Prolific collaborator Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek) marks another notch on his laptop in this improvised live recording with One Man Nation aka Marc Chia. Their fifteen minute performance was captured at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam, December 8, 2011, for ethnomusically-minded gathering, The Future Sounds of Folk, and manifests a minimal sound sculpture of clicks and pops ballasted by quaking bass and free-roaming electro-acoustic diffusions. Machinefabriek's own remix, done after the moment, red…
This release documents a concert recorded on May 2nd 2014, at the record shop Blutopia in Rome, and was part of a short italian tour. All three musicians have been collaborating for many years in different formations (duo Badrutt-Kocher, duo Koch-Badrutt, …), but they teamed up for the first time as a trio for this occasion. Recorded by Carlo Cimmino and mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.
For the recording, Henrik Rylander and Joachim Nordwall of drone operators The Skull Defekts got together with the performance and noise duo The Sons Of God - consisting of conceptual artist and self-proclaimed king of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland Leif Elggren and electro-acoustic sound artist Kent Tankred. The place for the meeting was Rylander's Studio Dental and the album was received in one night. the process developed immediately and there was no struggle to find a common idea of soun…
Op.192 Umwälzung - Fluxorum Organum 1990 Eurasienstab Ist Immernoch Angelpunkt is a previously unissued work by Henning Christiansen from 1990. Around the formation of the European Union, Henning approached his original Eurasienstab organ recordings from 1968 as a platform to remold a vast amount of audio he made over the subsequent years This special two-CD release comprises two different mixes of Umwälzung that were made for Werner Durand in 1990 to be used as backing tapes for a performanc…
Camizole was co-founder with Etron Fou Leloublan of the collective Dupon et ses Fantomes. In 1977 Camizole was composed of Jacky Dupety (tenor sax, oboe, perc), Jean-Luc Dupety (drums, tuba, trumpet), Francoise Cruble (alto sax, guitar) and Dominque Grimaud (sax, guitar, synth). First ever issue of some live recordings from 1977 (intended for release by Tapioca) by this underground French group with linkage to Etron Fou, Lard Free, Art et Technique, etc. Primitive, at times violent free form flo…
Four fascinating and detailed compositions from Canadian composer and painter Lance Austin Olsen, each work giving the performers space to collaborate on the results, using graphic scores and Cage-like elements from recordings; performers include Terje Paulsen, Gil Sanson, Ryoko Akama, Isaiah Ceccarelli, Katelyn Clark, Patrick Farmer and Apartment House.
Soundtrack to Vito Acconci’s 1971 video “Waterways: Four Saliva Studies” as well as a remix by undo (Christof Migone and Alexandre St-Onge) entitled “Vito Acconci’s undoing.” cd in custom cardboard box with video stills of each Acconci study covered by hand in silver paint. "New York artist Vito Acconci belongs to that generation of conceptual players, including Chris Burden and Denis Oppenheim, who were more interested in what th…
Burkhard Stangl and dieb13 live and work in Vienna, both being long time protagonists of the local scene as well as travelling and collaborating with musicians from all over the planet. Many of those collaborations and connections have been documented on the double-CD compilation klingt.org: 10 Jahre Bessere Farben [mikroton cd 5 | 6] commemorating the first ten years of existence of named online platform, which was founded and is since being run by dieb13.Burkhard Stangl needs no further introd…
For the first time since its inception 36 years ago, Steve Hiett’s elusive "Down On the Road By the Beach" is finally made available outside of Japan. Now widely celebrated as a desert island disc, this definitive reissue is restored from original masters with vivid reproductions of the "Down On the Road By the Beach" exhibition catalogue, intended to accompany its original release, and extensive liner notes penned by fellow Steve Hiett obsessive Mikey IQ Jones.
Being the fruit of the gesticulation of the ninety-nine fingers of the unspeakable guiding hand which in the end does not appear to guide and of which we can perhaps speak.Simon Brown lived on a dairy farm until age of five (Sucker of Coc). A sibylline apostate put blood in the choclate milk. Taintid; Simon was God punishd bye-bye. He accept this, form of full-body massage, manifestations of mental illness and pornography. Dylan Crichton is afraid of touching things. His life skills were honed i…
Complete Bundle of the three box collection of The Fred Records Story by Fred Frith, one of the most innovative guitarists and composers of his generation, containing 27 ReR CDs, 3 bonus Fred title and 3 fat historic booklet with artwork, photographs, extensive notes and other comments by Fred, all packed into in sturdy boxes.Vol. 1 Rocking The Boat (9CD Box)
Box one contains: The legendary Guitar Solos, Gravity (with Etron Fou Leloublan and Samla Mammas Manna), Cheap at Half the Price, Killing …
Twelve dreams of musicians, artists, and filmmakers, interpreted by FM Einheit (ex-Einstürzende Neubauten), with voices by: Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Psychic Tv / Throbbing Gristle), Susan Stenger (Band Of Susans), Émilie Pitoiset, Erika Stucky, and the Gulbenkian Choir; with guest musicians: Volker Kamp, Saskia von Klitzing, Robert Poss, and Susan Stenger.
Exhibition Of A Dream (L'exposition D'un Rêve) is formed of twelve dreams interpreted as songs. Exploded in time,…
CD Edition. Venerable composer and pianist Charlemagne Palestine revisits his seminal 1976 work ‘The Golden Mean’ in duo with enigmatic artist Rrose, reprising a dialogue started 10 years ago when Rrose was studying at Mills College and looking for a score to Charlemagne’s amazing ‘Strumming Music’…“In 2018 the Festival Variations in Nantes commissions Palestine to perform The Golden Mean, reworking the piece for two pianists. Palestine chose Rrose to join him in this new rendition of the work. …
** Edition of 200 ** The second release on Constructive is ‘Last Afternoon’ by Japanese composer Takuma Watanabe. Having studied at Berklee College in the USA he is currently living in Japan where he composes for film using a string ensemble founded by himself. This is Watanabe’s first full length artist album. ‘Last Afternoon’ features collaborations with American vocalist and composer Joan La Barbara known for her recorded works with John Cage, Morton Feldman, Robert Ashley and composer and so…
All My Circles Run is the fourth full length release by Montreal-based electro-acoustic composer Sarah Davachi and her second outing for Students of Decay. In a move which may surprise followers of her previous output, the five compositions on this record eschew synthesizer entirely, each focusing on a different instrument, including strings, voice, organ and piano. What remains consistent however is the striking attention to detail and commitment to investigating tonal possibility that c…