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Rock is hard
vancouver's rodney graham is a superstar of modern art and film-with countless installations at acclaimed galleries around the world spanning the last 20 years (new york, berlin, paris, rome, athens, spain, tokyo, la, london, chicago, belgium-you name it, he's been there), and a longtime notable musician born out of the classic vancouver punk and new wave scene. we are pleased to distribute this debut solo album of unique, eclectic, literate, and mature rock songcraft. names dropped around here …
Dark summer
250 copies, vinyl limited edition. 'Some days everything goes wrong. Some days sky is always grey. Some days lovers goes. Some days the disease focuses on friends, other ones pass away. Some days life is hard to live. When everything happens at the same time, the same summer, it could be called a Dark summer. Summer 2006 was a Dark summer.' Thierry Müller. Rough improvisations (guitar and/or bass - 1 or 2 takes) recorded by Thierry Müller in summer 2006
Made in China
special artist multiple signed edition, limited to 150 copies, this is a collaborative record by swiss artists Marc Zeier (G*Park), Luigi Archetti, and Ian Anull. Released for their Exhibition 'Made in China' at Hans-Trudel-Haus, Baden, Switzerland, April-May 2009. The music consists of (manupulations of) recordings the three artist made during their travel to China in 2008. Traditional instruments and field-recordings with electro-acoustic treatment.
Broken Mirrors: rehearsals and shows 1977/1978
Broken Mirrors/Rehearsal & Shows 1977-'78" These are the earliest recordings of DAM's first lineup, w/Niagra, Ron Asheton (STOOGES), Michael Davis , Larry Miller, Ben Miller & Rob King. They were made on a Teac 1/4" reel to reel 2 track & contain covers; Stooges "Little Doll" & Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots" & some originals the band was working on from the Fall of '77 to Fall '78
Das Tagstück
**Rare 1988 LP document of an Action-Theatre play for 4 performers and experimental improvised music.** Performers: Michael Kopfermann, Peter Fjodoroff, Thomas Hirsch, Wilhelm Riemenschneider; directed by Carmen Nagel-Berninger
Musiktheater Und Experimentelle Musik
This is an original copy of a 1984 privately released avant experimental music Boxset of 3 LP’s (plus a 4 pages informative insert) by the obscure Phren ensemble. The music is very atmospheric and higly experimental/ free improvised not far from AMM, MEV or Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza but more in a 'german' way if i might say so (and if it says something!).
Deserted Islands of the mediterranean
special gallery edition artists book, issued for the 2009 exhibition held at Villa Romana (Florence), a research project on the deserted island of mediterranean by visual artists Amedeo Martegani, Armin Linke, Giulia Di Lenarda, Giovanna Silva and the sound artists Giuseppe Ielasi and Renato Rinaldi. A lavishly b/n illustrated catalogue contains a exclusive 7" with music based on field recordings of the islands, very few copies available
United (the 7\" Singles)
"United" collects the 4 long out of print and rare Throbbing Gristle 7"s issued between 1979-1980, plus a version of "United" by Marc Almond as bonus, originally found on a 1984 flexi-disc. Only a few copies available.
Redrawn, Soccer Committee & Machinefabriek Remixed And Covered
Limited copies back in stock. Last year's 'Drawn' from the amazing duo of Soccer Committee and Machinefabriek was a flickering beacon of hope in its understated beauty. A record which improved with age, the simple and unfussy folk songs were helped along by Rutger Zuydervelt's careful (and incredibly restrained) electronic production, giving them an individuality only bolstered by Mariska Baars' stunning voice.
It was seemingly inevitable then that Rutger would get round to fielding the tracks o…
Shuffle
Limited copies back in stock. It's hard to believe that it's been almost a year since Rutger Zuydervelt helped nail our jaws to the floor with his exceptional album 'Dauw'. It used to be that there was a new Machinefabriek album almost every week (sometimes two or three) but since 'Dauw' it seems like Rutger's slowed down and withdrawn into a self-imposed silence . And that's no bad thing - 'Shuffle' is his first self-released record in some time and it shows in the near-obsessive quality of the…
July 19, 2006
may 2009 release: label-less lp release (“private,” if you will) covering the first ever duo set between myself & geoff mullen, recorded in concert at the brendan murray-curated “uppercase sound #2” event @ pa’s lounge, somerville, ma, 02143, usa, on july 19th, 2006 ...the music is entirely improvised, with geoff sticking largely to a suitcase-electronics-based setup (although he does provide some fine guitar & pedal alterations throughout) & myself to the doepfer (ditto guitar & korg guitar-syn…
Broken Guitars
BROKEN GUITARS is the first recording by Italian visual artist Michele Lombardelli: acoustic guitar improvisations between Loren Connors, Derek Bailey and Robbie Basho, with a tinge of sadness that permeates every moment and creates a sense of longing and nostalgia that seems destined for a nameless past. Hused in a spectacuar multifold cover, limited LP edition of 150 copies
Bunte Flügel (1980)
His first album, with recordings by the mid 70s: Butzmann has been plying overt eccentricity for quite some time, as "Wundershone Ruckkoppelungen" (released archivally on Vinyl-On-Demand) documents via his work from the late 60's/early 70's, though he'd find his true metier during the NDW zeitgeist, a period during which his work was hugely influential, having been an early member of D.A.F. "Das Madchen..." was Butzmann's second full length missive to gain release under his own name (he also ope…
Parkanlage
Very nice catalogue with many colour-pictures of installation-works and texts in german & english, released on the occasion of the PARKPLATZ-exhibition (Wolfsburg, Juli-September 2006) from this german soundart-artist. On the CD 63 minutes of material with highly abstract and nice droning musique concrete
quattro pianoforti
Amazing catalogue (english/italian) focused on a 1999 Exhbition/Performance by Michael Harrison, Charlemagne Palestine, Philip Glass e Terry Riley, with amazing early pictures. A must have it for those into early minimalism, 60 pages, fully illustrated. Very few copies available, long out of print
Induced Musical Spasticity: B.C. Free Music Society (1984-2009)
Major archival unearthing that makes available for the first time the bulk of the 'official' releases - plus a ton of unreleased material - from the mythic Butte County Free Music Society, a collective of musical oddballs, 'noise' musicians, art pranksters, record collectors and rock/roll fans who modeled themselves on the Los Angeles Free Music Society in order to create an umbrella organization that would shelter 'out' musicians during times of musical drought, this one taking place in the ear…
Trois Biopsies
His first solo LP, focused on his late 60s compositions. Bernard Heidsieck commenced sound poetry in 1955 with his 'poem partitions' and, since 1966 on, a species he terms 'biopsies'. Both types are rooted in a direct relation to everyday life. Heidsieck sometimes refers to both the biopsies and poem-partitions as 'action' poems (not to be confused with the action poetry of either Steve McCaffery or Robert Filliou). 'Action' since the pieces incorporate the actuality of quotidian soundscapes: su…
Revolutions Per Minute, the art record
Amazing 2LP document of the Fluxus and associated art scenes from the US and elsewhere. The line-up on these records are amazing. Comes in a beautiful gatefold jacket with a 2-sided pull-out poster with artwork/words from all involved. gatefold sleeve with titles and text-information inside. *With inserted Introduction by Robert C. Morgan (folded sheet) and folded sheet with portraits of the participating artists: i.a. Jud Fine, Eleanor Antin, Terry Fox, Les Levine, Hannah Wilke, Vincenzo Agnett…
s/t
A collection of impro recorded in A Spirale basement studio, consisting in Maurizio Argenziano (guitars), Mario Gabola (reeds), SEC_(synth, elettronics), Emilio Barone (plastics, voice).Possible directions, new relations, from spastic and destructured funk to free folk, to avant-noise...A music that is like a desert, yes, but swarming, crossed by fluxes, teeming crowd in it; a swarm of bees, a rumble of soccer players, or a group of Tuareg. Myriad of lines dripping from any side, unpredictable m…
KO/USK
84 page Hardcover book with embossed cloth cover & spine, also includes 12 page cd-booklet. Recorded & mixed between 1988 and 1995. Sound sources are stones collected all over the world. Beautiful artist book by Giancarlo Toniutti in collaboration with Siegmar Fricke, that comes with a nice CD (with an extra booklet) "speaking of "KO/USK," there has been a double trajectory in composing/recording it. On one side, following a decision implying the use of such sound sources (stones), a decision li…