Requiem
Produced at the studios of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales and commissioned by the Ina-GRM in Paris (France) and was premiered on March 19, 1973 at the Théâtre Récamier in Paris, in a concert given by the GRM. "The Requiem was composed whilst thinking about the troubled minority of the living, rather than the silent majority of the dead. Also, I tried to turn this oratorio into a "great sonic show," cinemascope music. One can detect the obvious (at least to me) influence of a few filmmakers a…
From Etudes to Cataclysms - for the Doppio Borgato
After the epiphany of An Aural Symbiotic Mystery by Charlemagne Palestine and Tony Conrad (SR204) this is the first solo work by Charlemagne on Sub Rosa - the first but probably not the last - because we would like not only to release some new important material like this one - but re-release too a series of his classic works (most of them, unfortunately, are unavailable). From Etudes to a Cataclysms is one of the most important work 'till this day. An impressive composition of more than 140 min…
Wildflowers Under the Sofa
The third release by Italian duo consisting of sound artist legend Becuzzi along with relative newbie Fabio Orsi, “Wildflowers” is a surprisingly passionate mix of found sounds, acoustic and electronic, along with some guitars to flesh out the vision.There are three fairly long pieces, which offer the duo the opportunity to develop the tracks through various moods and pitches; here, the traditional and the experimental dance around each other, with rhythms both borrowed from and suggested by an …
Banana Humberto
Brand new Terry Riley CD, BH2K was commissioned by the Paul Dresher Ensemble and first performed on Feb. 10, 2001 at. Stanford University as part of the Lively Arts Festival and featured Terry Riley as piano soloist. The fifty-minute work is in four movements. The work takes the form of a chamber concerto and was written specifically for the performance capabilities of the Dresher Ensemble and guest soloist Tracy Silverman on Electric Viola. The first movement is the most classical in form an…
I Like Your Eyes Liberty
an amazing collaboration by poet Michael McClure and Terry Riley recorded at the Sri Moonshine Ranch (2003-2004) features the mesmerizing voice of McClure. Riley creates a spellbinding counterpart on his Yamaha Midi Grand piano improvising an effortless undulating sound current which sensuously embraces the rich imagery. A real marriage of two masters of psychedlia.
Atlantis Nath
The debut release on Terry Riley's new label, from 2002 in a deluxe packaging. "Sri Moonshine Studios is happy to announce it's first release, Atlantis Nath, recorded, mixed and edited during the period of 1993-98 in Nice France at the CIRM studios. Terry's first big studio production since the 1978 Shri Camel is a 74-minute seamless journey featuring voices, strings, synthesizer, piano and loops from India. The CD is packaged in a natural paper 6-panel foldout with radiant Asian inspired illus…
Zwei-Osterei
A drone monumentum, erected by one of the best Kraut bands ever - special limited edition reissue in a run of 450 copies with embossed plastic sleeves that mimic the original. Recorded in 1971 this was the original Krautrock trio of Conrad Schnitzler, Hans Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius' second album and is another unimpeachably great set of austere drones, Industrial electro-acoustic ritual and deep, deep space occasionally populated by solitary UFO blips and automatic speech. Comes with …
Cloud
restocked: The four gentlemen of the guitar are: Keith Rowe guitar, electronics. Oren Ambarchi guitar, electronics. Christian Fennesz guitar, computer. Toshimaru Nakamura no-input mixing board. 'Keith Rowe, Oren Ambarchi, Christian Fennesz and Toshimaru Nakamura are four of the most prominent and influential musicians in experimental music today, each with extensive discographies and distinctive styles. In mid-2004, they formed the Four Gentlemen of the Guitar (4g), and played a series of shows …
Mila's journey inspired by a dream
Performed (Arp synthesizer) and recorded by Eliane Radigue; Robert Ashley, English voice; Lama Kunga Rinpoche, Tibetan voice. Milarepa is a great saint and poet of Tibet who lived in the 11th Century. His autobiography, the Mila Kabum or Namthar, as told to his closest disciple, Rechungpa, has been translated into several Western languages. In this story of Milarepa's life, we can see how, through years dedicated to meditation and related practices in the solitude of the mountains, Milarepa achi…
Combine And Laminates
long time deleted now, this recording is one of their finest. "Combine + Laminates" tends to seesaw between aggressive, noisy sections dominated by Prevost and softer drone-like territories with Tilbury's muffled piano tones in the foreground. Both areas are given immense structural support by Keith Rowe's tabletop guitar arsenal: earthshakingly deep tremors in the louder portions, quietly keening harmonics in the more serene ones. Tilbury's unique genius in integrating the piano's more "traditi…
Distant Bombs
Peter Wright's music has a warm, organic quality to it, and he even manages a short song here to close the cd. Recorded august 2001-april 2002, Sumner, New Zealand. Guitars, violin, bowed gas bottle, supsended bottles, electronics and voices. Originally issued on cd-r by Peter's own Apoplexy label.'
Osso Exótico + Z’EV
'Since 1989, the Portugal avant garde ensemble osso Exótico have created a stunning body of work. Current members are André Maranha, David Maranha and Patricia Machás, but besides the recordings, very little historical information can be found about the group. Rather, the music speaks for itself. Percussionist Z'EV, who has spent the better part of 40 years finding ways to coax sound out of material, and then creating a mystic cacaphony out of it, also uses sound as communication. Together, this…
1978-1983
John Bischoff, Jim Horton, Tim Perkis, David Behrman, Paul DeMarinis, Rich Gold. 'The League of Automatic Music Composers was a band-collective of electronic music experimentalists active in the San Francisco Bay Area between 1977 and 1983. Widely regarded as the first musicians to incorporate the newly available microcomputers of the day into live musical performance, the League created networks of interacting computers and other electronic circuits with an eye to eliciting surprising and new '…
Skylla
'Silvia Fssler: computer, electronics, guitar. Billy Roisz: computer, turntable. Recorded & mixed June 2007 by Dieter Kovacic at Fleetinsel-Hamburg. Mastered by Martin Siewert at Motone Sound Services-Vienna. 'Skylla' is a monster. A sheering, scathing collision of computer generated sounds meshed with guitar and turntable. The results are intense yet bearable, funny but not stupid. From the rhythmical excesses of 'Pink Umbrella' and 'Kirre' to the subtle dronescape of 'Syne', this is a full on …
Kalmukia
'Angel is Ilpo Vaisanen (Pan sonic), Hildur Gudnadóttir (Lost In Hildurness) and Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM). 'Kalmukia' is a vast epic, sprawling through guitar riffs spanning deep electronic canyons overlooked by a melocholic grey sky. A journey leading to discovery and a final mutation. All players delicately playing off each other creating a mesmerising work that sounds like nothing they have done before yet still retaining the audio signatures they have become known for. Packaged in a n…
Cassettencombinat - West-Berlin 1980-1981
LAST COPY, this is the special member edtion with different cover and a bonus 7", limited to 50 copies only. All the tracks – most rare and long out of print - have been compiled by Kiddy of Sprung Aus Den Wolken who also ran the label. Includes Sprung Aus Den Wolken, A.v.Borsig/Sentimentale Jugend, Leben und Arbeiten, Frau Siebenrock Combo, Out, Lemmy Und Die Schomker, Meisterwerk Sprung/Borsig/Aus Lauter Liebe and Einwegexistenz/Out. An excellent snapshot of the early-eighties industrial/punk …
Zondag
The Dutch word zondag translates as Sunday in English and indeed these improvisations were recorded in a single day, a Sunday in January 2005. Quite in contrast with the speed of the recording, the recordings themselves were then shelved for no less than 2,5 years before they were revised by Roel Meelkop in June 2007. This CD, smartly packed in cardboard material as used for cardboard boxes, lists exactly who does what on the sleeve. Meelkop plays on Roland SH-101, Ielasi plays guitar, De Waard …
Tempo Furioso
RESTOCKED The extraordinary Cramps label classic. Stockhausen meets Luc Ferrari & a hint of Xenakis. This breaks all the rules & invents new cross-genre concoctions, atmospheric to wild to totally perplexing! Five stars, groundbreaking record. Beautiful digipack edition with printed booklet. Davorin-Jagodic was a Yugoslavic/Croatian composer whoe realized this great NWW List/Cramps LP featuring some creepy, sometimes droning, electronic musique concret and is one of my favorites from Cramps. …
6¡fskyquake\'003
'6¡Fskyquake is an audio composition designed in 2001 but explored conjunction with the american sculptor Banks Violette's solo shows in summer 2007. Actually, two shows at two different galleries, Barbara Gladstone & Team, running simultaneously for the duration. The interaction of sound and Violette's work revisited concepts touched in prior collaboration of loss, absence, residual energy of a missed evocative experience. The composition was captured at a recording session during the installa…
Tape Works of Kuniharu Akiyama. Obscure Tape Music of Japan vol. 006
Kuniharu Akiyama (1929-1996) was well-known as a music critic, mainly of modern and contemporary music. However, his career was not only in the music field -- he was also a very well-regarded avant-garde artist (he especially related to the early Fluxus movement). This release consists of his three unknown tape music pieces. They are very strange. Excerpt from the liner notes: "'Environmental Mechanical Orchestra' (1966) was made for an exhibition called 'From Space to Environment,' carried out …