The Epidemic Symphony No.9
We've long championed the work of Maurizio Bianchi, the grim electronic sculptor whose work in the early '80s paralleled the likes of Whitehouse, Ramleh, and Matthew Bower's early power electronics project Total. As much as we would like to ramble on about Bianchi's intriguing musical and existential history in reference to this record, it's almost a moot point as it's really hard to discern any sounds that bear the signature of Mr. Bianchi. Don't let that caveat scare you off from checking out …
the silver chair
A stunning collection of Sunday morning sleep-in destroying, home-recorded gems from the younger staff members of the C/Psi/P empire . Features Caspar Kneale's legendary ‘Feather Duster' lathe cut 7" (recorded at the age of 4), Winter Kneale's hobbling, square-wheeled, dance-music (also the efforts of a 4 year old), and a mind-melting live guitar, casiotone, bowed everything, blowout featuring a decrepit 30 year old guest. Genius? Bonkers? Or just too much ice cream?
majestic header
Killer new disc from the extended Kneale clan, with Campbell Kneale (Birchville Cat Motel/Black Boned Angel et al) joined by his children for a heavy run-through of aleatoric punk strategy, enveloping hand-scrawled drones and Kosmiche brut. Somewhere between The Shaggs play The Velvets, The Scratch Orchestra, The Portsmouth Sinfonia, Damaskus-era Hijokaidan and a pre-teen Theatre Of Eternal Non-Music. Excellent.
myriapod
There's nothing quite like a wig out in Dads shed after a delightful family meal listening to a nice Hijokaidan album. Am I bringing my kids up wrong? Perhaps I should have sent them to work at the coalmine when I had the chance? The latest 'beautiful family time' named after Caspars latest insect preoccupation. Over-amplified exoskeletons roar in fury as they are crushed under gigantic sneakers. Wild. (label press)
lora draws blood
Latest blast of abstract sounds from the murky and mysterious musical world of Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, this one from UK dronelord Culver, who tries his hand, according to the blurb on the website, at some atmospheric ambient 'metal', there's even an Abruptum namedrop which obviously sets the bar pretty dang high. It is true, Abruptum, among others, has definitely proven that mood and atmosphere can be just as heavy and grim as riffs and shrieks, although we're not so sure this is -quite- as ev…
chry-ptus
'Chry-Ptus' (1971). Originally two tapes which are to be played simultaneously, with or withour synchronisation, which does not affect the structure of the work, but creates changes in the game of sub-harmonics and overtones. Three variations on this piece were performed at the New York Cultural Center in 1971, with variations of amplitude and location modulation as well as synchronisation. Realised on the Buchla Synthesizer at the New York University. The booklet contains a text by painter Paul…
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Finally we can present this longawaited treat of a concert film. The sold out concert took place in Oslo in August last year and was beautifully captured by Kim Hiorthøy and friends to 16 mm black and white film, and later edited by Hiorthøy. The sound was recorded by Athletic Sound and mixed by Helge Sten. Needless to say, it looks and sounds fantastic. The concert itself was rewarded a six out of six review at the time in Norway´s major national paper Aftenposten. You get the complete concert,…
anthology box 8 dvd
Raro Video presents the Andy Warhol Anthology. An 8 DVD box set which includes 11 films and accompanying books: issued in region-free PAL format, it comes with extensive bilingual notes, interviews, and bonus material accompanying the discsANDY WARHOL - 4 SILENT MOVIES4 silent movies by Andy Warhol on 1 DVD from Raro Video (Italy)Kiss1963, USA, 50 minutes (34 mins at 24 fps for this selection of 13 “kisses”; the length of each “kiss” is 100 feet = approx. 3 minutes), black and white, Digitally …
Nostra Signora dei Turchi (Lady of the Turks) & Hermitage
Independent filmmaker Carmelo Bene makes his debut in this feature that concerns the murder of the Saracens in the city of Otranto centuries ago. Our Lady appears at various time in the film, symbolic of the carnal desires and spiritual dreams of all men. Flashbacks and avant garde cinematic techniques provide passages of erotica and black humor on occasion. The story was taken from Bene's own novel as the author oversees all aspects of writing, production and direction in this experimental and …
Tooth and Nail: Film and Video 1970-1974 by Dennis Oppenheim
Dennis Oppenheim (born 1938) has received international attention for a conceptual oeuvre spanning performance, video, sculpture, installation, and land art. In the early 1970s, Dennis Oppenheim was in the vanguard of artists using film and video to investigate themes relating to body and performance. This portfolio features a selection of his works known as the Aspen Tapes, produced between 1970 and 1974, in which Oppenheim uses his own body as a site of experimentation on the personal. In thes…
Episodes at 4AM
Bob Downes is most often thought of as a jazz flautist, composer and group leader, but throughout his varied career that has included such diverse musical activity as working with the John Barry Seven and playing on Egg's second LP, he also had his own fluid conceptual group Open Music with principle bass player Barry Guy and drummer Denis Smith. Other players that passed through Open Music include Chris Spedding, Kenny Wheeler, Ray Russell, Ian Carr, Henry Lowther, Harry Beckett, Harry Miller, …
inout
INOUT was recorded on a Sanyo M7300L stereo radio cassette recorder with both an integrated and external microphone. The recorder is in the recording standby position, both RECORD and PAUSE buttons are pushed. Then I sing or play a tone into the microphone. During this tone, I release the PAUSE button by pushing it. Subsequently, I press the PAUSE button again within a fraction of a second. Now the first short note is recorded. In InOut I added this way thousands of very short notes like a patch…
Insiememusicadiversa
** CD Box. The white industrial cardboard box includes an audio CD, a 12-page booklet, five folded posters with graphical scores, plus “Roulette”, a clock-like gadget originally used as the score of the aleatory composition with the same title.** Insieme Musica Diversa, which can be translated in different ways (as diverse music toghether, or different collective music ecc.) truly is a source of endless enchantment. Merging elements of DIY electronica, psychedelia, noise, progressive and free-fo…
Insiemeusicadiversa
Formed in mid-70's in Umbria, this experimental group only released a self-produced album in 1979, after some performances in art galleries and theatres. Their musical style is improvised avantgarde, with every kind of instruments and percussion and use of wordless vocal parts. This rare album only released in a few hundred copies and it's nearly impossible to get
Quatuor Hêlios
Isabelle Berteletti, Florent Haladjian, Jean-Christophe Feldhandler, Lê Quan Ninh. “D’une lumière” (1996) by Jean-Christophe Feldhandler for piano, electric guitar, melodica, percussions, etc., “Oscille” (1997) by Lê Quan Ninh for 4 stones, 4 lightnings II and computer, “Kvadrat” (1988) by Vinko Globokar for 4 percussions, “Seasons” (1970) by Toru Takemitsu for percussions and tape.
La musique de l’Afrique est en nous
With Daniel Biga (texte, voice), Alex Grillo (composition,voice), Didier Petit (cello, voice) and Christian Sebille (computer, voice).
Popular soviet songs and youth music
Zoviet*France are one of the most important collectives in the 'post-industrial' era. Their swirling, repetitive music changes shape each time it is listened to and has been, as much as the elborate packaging, of great inspiration to the current ambient music. Issued in a round felt piece on front and back of the set with a Soviet miltary pin holding the whole set together.
One and many
"These life conditions lead to a radical conclusion: the traditional definitions of music are irrelevant and music theories and music as a cultural concept must be destroyed. That is what we find in his latest works, in which his main concern is to produce pieces out of electronic sounds and acoustic walls on scores developed from the architecture of ruins. His last opus called One and many is the exact development of years of theories and practices. As many of Karkowski's pieces, this is a high…
s/t
Released in conjunction with a concert on the 11. November 2006 at the Lagerhaus Bremen the CD feat. exclusive tracks by Industrial Music legend Z'EV and New York based percussionist and multi media artist David Linton who has worked with among others Lee Ranaldo, Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, Diamanda Galas, Christian Marclay and Elliot Sharp. Each artist is featured with a solo track plus a remix of the other artist.