DIY Canons
"The pieces on this CD are all based on the ideas in Larry Polansky's four voice canons, a series of pieces he began in 1975. These canons are usually "mensuration canons," which means that the tempi of successive voices is proportional to their star…
ARKTINEN HYSTERIA
With M.A. Numminen, Tommi Parko, Pekka Kujanpää, Sähkökvartetti, Erkki Salmenhaara, Blues Section, Erkki Kurenniemi, Jukka Ruohomäki, Jouni Kesti & Seppo I. Laine, The Sperm, J.O.Mallander, Pekka Airaksinen, S.Albert Kivinen.
An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music - vol 3
this third volume of sub rosa's anthology series continues to showcase all aspects of electronic music from its early beginnings to the present day. here you'll find more than two and a half hours of music, much of which is rare and unpublished, in f…
5 COMPOSERS: Electroacoustic music from Sweden 1987-91
Peter Lundén 'Living Structures', Jens Hedman / Erik Mikael Karlsson 'Threads and Cords', Paul Pignon 'Z', Thomas Bjelkeborn 'El-Azraq'.
La Rose des voix
"la rose de voix" was is an amazing collaborative work, conceived by its two authors as a musical meeting of the music from the four corners of the earth. A complex work for four speakers, four vocal quartets, four choirs and eight instruments; (in c…
Extracts
The first word that came to mind on playing Extracts was understatement, with an almost oriental minimalism and profundity on display. At times I was forced to check whether sounds were coming from the speakers or from outside. However, this is a far…
Invisible adversaries
Anna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction. Her schizophrenia is reflected in the juxtapositions of long movie camera takes with violently edited montages: private with public spaces; black & white with …
3 experimental short films
Austrian artist Valie Export has been an influential and provocative figure on the international art scene for over three decades. Her practice includes film, video, photography, text and performance. Initially expanding the Actionist project to conf…
Luwa
“Analog” improv trio date led by Tetuzi Akiyama (here on “tape delayed” electric guitar) with Jason Kahn on modular synth/cymbal and Utah Kawasaki on “dismantled roland synthesizer”.
Amnistia !
Los Angeles collective Ultra-red (previous releases available from Comatonse, Mille Plateaux, Fat Cat, and Beta Bodega) come forward with an intense, playful and urgent commentary on the rights of undocumented immigrant workers. Using the May Day 200…
Schnack
Limited edition of 300 copies. Heavy Vinyl. Schnack is the Live-Duo of improvising musicians Paul Hubweber (Cologne) and Uli Böttcher (Wiesbaden). The play a fascinating and restless mix of trombone noises and real time sampling and electronics.Paul …
Burned bridges and lost loves
Burned Bridges And Lost Loves is the second part of a project in which friends, colleagues and lovers were asked to remix the works of Chicago improvisation-trio TV Pow. Like its predecessor Power Friends and Devoted Lovers, a double-album that conta…
Powerful friends and devoted lovers
The first part of a giant collection of remixes of tracks mostly taken from TV Pow's Friendship Patrol album, which was released on their own Not For Profit label in 2001. This is a double-CD set containing remixes from Oren Ambarchi, Sutekh, Otomo Y…
Menagerie - Beach singularity - Vocalise
Releasing electro acoustic music in this country has historically, always been a dedicated persuit. With no national record labels and very few electronic music studios to support this music, the UK has always lagged behind its counterparts in both t…
Red bird - Anticredos
Extremely great reissue of the previously-semi-available-but-not-so-for-quite-a-l ong-time October Music CD (which itself was a reissue of the 1977 LP on Wishart's own Yes imprint, along with the piece 'Anticredos' for 6 voices, from an LP on Hyperio…
Voiceprints
Master composer Trevor Wishart shapes recordings of the human voice into a majestic, sonic extravaganza. With satire, sympathy, and his extraordinary talent with sound, Wishart gives us an audio panorama of the world today through the voices of many …
6 dialogues
Watts' first free improvisation record in around 25 years finds him playing soprano & alto saxophones with Weston on piano. Six superlative unedited duets recorded at Gateway Studio. 61 minutes.
Drum drama
New solo work from the Japanese underground’s drummer of choice. Six years on from 1999`s masterful Red Night (PSFD-107), Toshiaki “Toshi” Ishizuka is back with a new set of deep, shimmering nightscapes for percussion. Toshi has been a pivotal figure…
Music For Living Process
Two pieces by Japanese avant garde composers, performed in 1973. ("Music For Living Process" for Shakuhachi, flute, harp, percussion) & ("Cho-Etsu" for Shakuhachi, shell horns, percussion, harp). "On Music for Living, both composers present pieces th…