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 start times, so that the voices end together. They also use simple ideas of moving through a list of permutations, and applying the elements of those permutations to various musical parameters. A set of Polansky's canons was produced on Cold Blue Records…
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 here you'll find more than two and a half hours of music, much of which is rare and unpublished, in fact at least 75% of the material. included here are two pieces of historical "musique concrete" from the 70s, several pieces of american tape music and a special focus on the electronic music of germany: wdr early works, krautrock, electronica from t…
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 collaboration with Michel Butor); double bass, clarinet, tuba, saxophone, accordian, guitar, piano, 2 percussion. A masterpiece, very rare nowadays, 1 copy available.
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 cry from the Radu Malfatti school of implied music since it is very much about close group interplay. Simon H. Fell's sonorous bass is of particular note, underpinning, colouring and giving the proceedings a kind of still, stately authority. Likewis…
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 colour, still photographs with video, earsplitting sounds with disruptive camera angles. Anna uses her body like a map; after a devastating quarrel with her lover, she paints red stitches on herself. Watching their scenes together, we realize how sel…
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 confront a complex feminist critique of the social and political body, her works achieve a compelling fusion of the visceral and the conceptual. (Electronic Arts Intermix) 'Mann & Frau & Animal' 1970-73. 'Remote Remote' 1973. 'Syntagma' 1984.
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 2000 rally which took place on Wall Street in New York City as the sound source from which the group craft this suite of compositions, this 20 minute EP energetically brings the immediacy of the workers' situation to the fore. Ranging in style from fine…
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 Hubweber began with trombone studies in 1971 mainly concentrating on improvised music.He has developed his own special "trombone voice" and his musical focus. It is the special affinity for the balladic and the noisy, i. e. the non-separable combinat…
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 contains 29 remixes, the second and final installment also offers remixes of tracks that are mostly taken from TV Pow’s album Friendship Patrol. Adding another 31 remixes, the total amount of remixes is now equal to the amount of tracks that feature on Fr…
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 Yoshihide, Stephan Mathieu, Motor, Thymme Jones, Toshimaru Nakamura, Jazzkammer, Stilluppsteypa, Freiband, Reynols, Tu M', Leif Elggren and many others. 29 remixes in total.
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 the United States and throughout east and west Europe. Trevor started releasing his own music in 1973 and continues to do so to this day. Much of this CD was originally privately released in 1979. Whilst other maverick British composers (Nyman, Bryars…
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 Hyperion, 1982). Recent developments in Wishart's street cred (contributing to Or Some Computer Music Issue One, being name-dropped by Richie Devine on several occasions, Aphex Twin's use of CDP) seem to suddenly make Trevor... relevant to a younger set of …
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 different people, famous and unknown. You'll hear the voice of Margaret Thatcher as a political cartoon, a touching portrait of Princess Diana, the powerful resonance of Martin Luther King's well-known words, the crackly voice of Neil Armstrong, the …
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 in the Japanese underground since the late sixties, when he founded Japan’s first radical, politically-engaged punk group Zuno Keisatsu. Since then he has been the sticksman of choice for howling folk-poets Kazuki Tomokawa, Yasuki Fukushima and Kan …
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 that reflect a prominent influence of John Cage, which can be accredited to the fact that Ichiagi was a premier interpreter of Cage's music. The experimental work for violin incorporates elements of chance and improvisation; traditional Japanese modes …