Just Before Dawn
What we are here presenting is one of the most intimate releases Ants has produced ever. Luca Miti is a “strange” kind of composer and musician. And organizer, too. He has the uncommon attitude to make private experiences and let them become “public…
Archives sauvees des Eaux
2004 live recording of a 2000-2001 luc ferrari composition, performed by ferrari himself on cds and erikm on minidisc and kaoss pad. This was to be one of the final performances by mr. ferrari before he passed away in the fall of 2005.
Tautologos and other early electronic works
Luc Ferrari is among the best known of the early electronic music pioneers. He was director of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales from 1959 to 1960, working closely with Pierre Schaeffer, and his music played a decisive role in defining the range of …
No Strings Attached
Matchless Recordings presents the first solo recordings from Lou Gare, founding member of AMM, recorded at Firefly Studios, Thowleigh, Devon, England on 13th and 20th April 2005.
The album includes four tracks performed by Lou Gare - tenor saxophone.…
Lost Aaraaf
Haino's first group, live recorded in '71! Bizarre voice + piano + drums. Incredible & historical recordings.
Night through. Singles and collected works, 1976-2004
Reissue. Essential 3xCD collection of Singles by New York City guitarist Loren (nee MazzaCane) Connors, one of America's most unique and challenging voices. Night through.spans four decades of Connors' recordings from the earliest acoustic session an…
The air in the sand
Loren Chasse is a member of the Jewelled Antler Collective, and his solo work on The Air in The Sand is nothing short of extraordinary. Via a series of sweeping atmospheres, and brooding at times almost melodic deep tones, Chasse edits together dense…
Worms organising archdukes
Extended concert recordings from Rotterdam and Brussels provide a contrast to their equally fine previous soprano saxophone & piano duo CD Boundless (Emanem 2021). There is also a short track on which Weston switches to chamber organ. 79 minutes -- p…
Boundless
A fine sequence of shortish soprano saxophone and piano duos reflecting the moods of two exceptional improvisers on a winter's day. The first time they have appeared as a duo on record since 1978, revealing their playing to be more adventurous than e…
Alone and together
Improvised unaccompanied soprano and sopranino saxophone solos of the usual high standard, plus duets with STEVIE WISHART (violin & hurdy gurdy) and MARCIO MATTOS (cello & electronics). All recorded in concert. 70 minutes - previously unissued.
L’incandescence de l’étoile
L'incanDescence De l'étoile is a Musique Concrète piece based on the everlasting universal (re)cycle. It is it's own modulator, oscillating at immense speed, almost standing still. The composer has interpreted and given an auditive representation of …
Disambiguation
Limited edition of 500 copies, CD in full colour paper sleeve.Disambiguation [46:25]'Disambiguation' is the third CD from the duo of Zbigniew Karkowski and Kaspar T. Toeplitz. It features one ongoing stream of grey, heavy and disturbing noises. It co…
The Lowest Form Of Music
Long out of print huge box, The Los Angeles Free Music Society was a complete screwball fringe music collective that peaked in the true heart of darkness -- America in the mid 70s. They self-released LPs, 7"s and cassettes in the dawn before real ind…
Structural films
Rare selection of Kren films, spanning works from 1957 to 1979. Kurt Krens achievements with regard to the montage of short cuts in his early works was many years ahead of the rest of the (film)world, in both form and content. Kurt Kren was a pioneer…
Action films
Though undoubtedly a collection of avant-garde works, it’s tempting to view Kurt Kren’s “action films” as documentaries. A series of collaborations made between 1964 and 1967, these ten assembled shorts find the Austrian director working primarily wi…
Document 1 - 1999/2003
3 years of live electronic improvisation from the Kraakgeluiden series of improvised music performances in Amsterdam. Appearing on the CD are over 30 musicians including Jaap Blonk, Cor Fuhler, Gert-Jan Prins, Anne La Berge + Marko Ciciliani.
Number one
American performance/noise/percussion artist Z'ev, Japanese composer/performer K.K. Null, and field-recording artist Chris Watson (formerly of Cabaret Voltaire and the Hafler Trio) conjoin in a first collaboration for Touch. The idea for this recordi…
Yokosawa-iri
A former member of Merzbow, Mizutani has been creating his solo work since 1989, delving into areas of electronic noise, structural sound systems of feedback and instrumentation as well as natural compositional arrangements of field recordings. Yokos…
Gauntlet
Kevin drumm (guitar and noise) and Daniel Menche (organ and noise) recorded Fall of 2006 in Chicago at Uggae's Porta-toilet studio. Mixed and mastered at Stereophonic Mastering in Portland, Oregon. One organ, one guitar, several fuzz boxes and two hi…