Ananda
Ananda label was founded in Rome in 1976 by Alvin Curran, Roberto Laneri and Giacinto Scelsi, to improve a new way in contemporary music. As distinctive point of this label, in the way of complete authonomy, all the albums were entirely realized and produced by the authors, as you can read in the back cover of all the lps. Most of the copies sold poorly at the time, basically they were never distributed or even commercialized, so far they are difficult to locate and sought after. Of course the rarest album of this label are the two Giacinto Scelsi, particulary the last one of the series wich is a true nightmare for Scelsi collectors.
Ho Khoom Pranam
an original copy of an awesome Scelsi LP, featuring Hô (1960) - Four melodies for solo voices. Pranam I (1972) - (In memory of the tragic loss of Jani and Sia Christou) for voice, 12 instruments and tape. Khoom (1962) - (Seven episodes of a story of love and death in a distant land) for voice and 6 instruments. Hô and Khoom were recorded in 1960-1962: Pranam I, in 1972.
Canti E Vedute Del Giardino Magnetico
rare original copy of Canti E Vedute Del Giardino Magnetico (1974), that has to be considered the Alvin Curran's most lyrical collage, scored for for tape, voice, flugelhorn, synthesizer and tape of natural sounds (wind, high-tension wires, frogs, beach waves, etc). "Though I have been making music for some time, "Canti E Vedute Del Giardino Magnetico" is for me like a first piece. It marks a radical departure from the previous 7 years of experimental and collective music making with the group M…