New Arrivals
Wednesday 19 September · 2 records
The World of Buckminster Fuller
a 1974 documentary by he cult figure Buckminster Fuller, an impossible to categorize, the anticipatory Design scientist, foreshadows the complex persona of a contemporary media artist. John Cage, America's foremost avant garde composer, became enamored of Fuller during the first summer Cage spent at Black Mountain College, and his admiration grew over the years. This film is not so much about Fuller but rather Buckminster Fuller explaining himself in his own words. As such, it is a fascinating h…
Tuesday 18 September · 3 records
Musiques Électroacoustiques
**Original LP from the 80s, few copies in stock. Copies are unplayed and new, covers might have some wear here and there due to long storage** The vision of electronic music’s rise - musique concrète and synthesis, during the post-war period, has historically favoured the lens of innovators in Europe and The United States, particularly those associated with the studios like those connected to Princeton and Columbia Universities, Groupe de Recherche Musicales, The San Francisco Tape Music Center,…
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Tesis
Espacial Discos present a reissue of Aviador Dro's second album, Tesis,
originally released in 1983. In 1983, Aviador Dro, the legendary
Spanish synth-pop band, are at the height of their powers: their own DRO
record label is working full time, they share management with famous
Spanish new wave bands like Alaska y Los Pegamoides, Los Nikis,
their songs are heavily played on the radio and they play numerous gigs
all across Spain. 1983 was also when the band decide to create their
most ambi…
Alas Sobre El Mundo
Espacial Discos present a reissue of Aviador Dro's first, self-released album, Alas Sobre El Mundo,
originally released in 1982. Legendary Spanish synth-pop band Aviador
Dro was formed in Madrid in the late 1970s, influenced by bands like Devo, Kraftwerk, and Cabaret Voltaire
as well as by science fiction and movements like punk, futurism,
anarchism, and Dada. Dressed in matching space-age uniforms, the group
created a particular synth-pop sound, which they defined as "tecno-pop".
Signed t…
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Monday 17 September · 5 records
Swaddling Songs
Classic, highly regarded and sought after acid folk / progressive rock album. Featuring girl singers Clodagh Simonds and Alison Williams, Mellow Candle never achieved commercial success they deserved spawning a legendary psychedelic folk-rock album akin to Fairport Convention or Fotheringay. Touring to support Thin Lizzy (Simonds played on Lizzy's album Shades of a Blue Orphanage) and Horslips, the band had a short lived existence. Clodagh Simonds later went on to play again with Mike Oldfield a…
The Words in between
The story goes that Ian A. Anderson and Gef Lucena were walking
the streets of Clifton, trying to come up with a name for their new
record label. At the time (the early 70s) Greenwich Village was
naturally the mecca destination for any musician worth his 12-string, so
the pair had taken to referring to their slice of Bristol as ‘Clifton
Village’ (long before this was taken up by estate agents across the
land, albeit in a very different fashion). And so The Village Thing was
born; home to …
L.A. Turnaround
First of a diptych of albums recorded in and influenced by Bert Jansch’s time in America. As the title suggests, this album was something of a contrast to Jansch’s usual style – taking in swathes of Nashville-infused pedal steel to sparkling effect. Produced in part by the Monkees’ Mike Nesmith, whose guidance is much in evidence on this perfectly measured slice of British country-rock.
The Hymn Of The 7th Illusion
Pan Sonic, arranged and edited by Barry Adamson, with an additional re-arrangement by The Hafler Trio. Here, Barry Adamson and Pan Sonic have composed a 12-minute music piece that is performed by the Hljomeyki Choir
and Pan Sonic. Originally released on CD by Icelandic label Kitchen
Motors in 2001, now released on vinyl for the first time by Cold Spring.
Produced by Barry Adamson, Jóhann Jóhannsson, and Pan Sonic. The cover
art features Icelandic electronic composer Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson…
Kondole / Dead Cat
Cold Spring Records present Kondole / Dead Cat, a double CD and DVD collection. The rare film features: Derek Jarman, Andrew Tiernan -- The Pianist (2002), 300 (2006), The Bunker (2001), Derek Jarman's Edward II (1991) -- and Genesis P-Orridge (Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle). The first CD features the complete, long version of "Dead Cat". "...what
could be more beautiful that such a sustaining & chronic radical as
Gen could have provided us all -- in the form of Kondole -- with a piece of trul…
Friday 14 September · 2 records
Il Quaderno Punk 1979-1981 - La Nascita Del Nuovo Rock Italiano
Italian version only. A whole generation of kids growing in the mid/late Seventies got blown away by a tv program called "Odeon - Tutto quanto fa spettacolo" - on RAI, the national broadcasting company - which spread the punk word all over Italy. Two young brothers from the northern region of Piemonte, in 1979, started collecting all the infos about the italian punk and new wave movement and glueing photos on an exercise book. "Il quadernone", as it was called, was a naive attempt at archiving a…
And The Light Beams Will Guide The Way
Lullabies for Insomniacs keep their remit steeply psychedelic with a 2nd invocation of Raga drone by Unearth Noise complemented by his Dreamspeak collaboration with vocalist Mariam Zohra D, a.k.a. Myrh On the first disc Roger Berkowitz a.k.a. Unearth Noise goes dolo down a wormhole of plasmic drones and glossolalia vox echoing the worldly psychedelia of Lullabies For Insomniacs’ prior reissue of László Hortobágyi’s ‘Transreplica Meccano’, leading to exceptional highlights in the free-floating c…
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Thursday 13 September · 2 records
Panama / Suez
A-Ton is proud to announce Panama / Suez, the first EP by trio Oren Ambarchi, Konrad Sprenger and Phillip Sollmann (aka Efdemin). The three multi-instrumentalists collaborated with the goal of creating subtly shifting musical passageways: sonic routes that run between continents of musical category. The results are two variations of kraut-y, groove-based post-techno that unfurl through mutating polyrhythms and chiming, ethereal guitar play – a rare moment of guitar and techno in deep embrace. Wi…
Plugged Inclinations
“I work since 1993 to an experimental approach of the church organ (Pentes, Tirets) : 1) we control a machine 2) the organ is halfway between vehicle and artificial intelligence : it is a public transport : a ship, a barque, a boat, a building within a building 3) passing the machinery to the filter of listening, gesture and architecture 4) bringing the blast into the space : ventilate 5) make this organ sound not like this other one 6) express the organ as one says about lemon.The blast is endl…
Monday 10 September · 1 record
Only On Mondays (Getsuyobi-No Yuka)
A very cool mix of music by the legendary Toshiro Mayuzumi a Japanese composer known for his implementation of avant-garde instrumentation alongside traditional Japanese musical techniques. His works drew inspiration from a variety of sources ranging from jazz to Balinese music, and he was considered a pioneer in the realm of musique concrète and electronic music– served up here on a soundtrack that's almost
like having an audio version of a movie! The songs are all relatively
short, and are …
Monday 3 September · 1 record
Simple Affections
Simple Affections: "I corralled a dream LP that I would want to listen to. Too smelly, too sweet." Album features contributions from: Peter Friel, Jackson Graham, Mark Harwood, Graham Lambkin, Lia Mazzari, Sean McCann, Madalyn Merkey, Michael Pollard, Eric Schmid, Zach Schwartz, Tom James Scott, Patrick Shiroishi, Christina Stanley, Matthew Sullivan, Dennis Tyfus, and Will Gottsegen.
One time pressing. Includes six 5x7″ postcards in printed envelope,
program notes insert by Sean McCann, Scente…
Tuesday 28 August · 1 record
Le Renard Bleu
Le Renard Bleu, the new musical and cinematic collaboration between Lafawndah and composer Midori Takada, and filmmakers Partel Oliva,
takes a cross-generational echo as ground zero for recovering a crucial
myth for uncertain times: the blue fox. As transmitted by Takada, the
fox appears in both ancient Senegalese and Japanese folktales as the
trickster archetype. Above all else, the fox is famous for its cunning
nature. Renard Bleu marks the first new music released by Takada in nearly twe…
Friday 24 August · 1 record
Taipei Disco
Holuzam is a new label from Prícncipe Discos co-founders José Moura and Márcio Matos. The second release on the label is a sublime disco missive from Macau, China, recorded between 1989 and 1993, bubbling up from a blindspot to offer a stunning package of sounds lesser, or even never, heard beyond private archives or Portugal’s borders... Dwart has been the vessel for journalist and musician António Duarte and his sometime musical partner, Manuela Duarte, since 1985. They played gigs at home in…
Friday 17 August · 1 record
Moshi Too
2012 Release. 80 Minutes of previously unreleased recordings from 1969-70, not to be found on the tenor player's regular "Moshi" album. Dark and trance-like amalgam of Afro-blues, acid-rock jams, polyphonic rhythms and spiritual jazz influences from the likes of Coltrane or Sanders. Recorded 1969-1970 in Africa by Barney Wilen on Nagra (Stereo/ Mono). Unreleased archive sounds, transferred on Telefunken and Nagra from original tapes found in the estate of Barney Wilen. Moshi: trance utterance by…
Monday 13 August · 3 records
The Replicant Dream Sequence (Blue PA14 Series) LP
LP version. Hieroglyphic Being, aka Jamal Moss, visited the Moog Sound Lab towards the end of 2016. Testing the lab through his prismatic rhythmic cubism meets synth expressionism methodology. 21st century Afro-futurism to the max. Both parties expressed their satisfaction with the encounter. Eldon Tyrell on the recordings: "I believe Bob Moog was (in the late 20th century) creating his modular system 55 synthesiser for artists yet to come... artists like Jamal Moss."Moog Recordings Library is n…
Ttuunneesszz Duh Rruunneesszz (Blue TB7 Series) LP
Charlemagne Palestine first started using electronic instruments in his music in the late 1960s. Palestine on the release: "Electronic instruments were very rare and exotic in the 1960s.There were Moogs around New York but they were only in universities who preciously guarded them from us young composers. So after all this time visiting The Moog Sound Lab is like a dream come true for me... to have so many oscillators all singing together is a truly beautiful experience. I am so glad I am still …
Interrvallissphereee (Blue TB7 Series) LP
Charlemagne Palestine first started using electronic instruments in his music in the late 1960s. Palestine on the release: "Electronic instruments were very rare and exotic in the 1960s.There were Moogs around New York but they were only in universities who preciously guarded them from us young composers. So after all this time visiting The Moog Sound Lab is like a dream come true for me... to have so many oscillators all singing together is a truly beautiful experience. I am so glad I am still …
Sunday 12 August · 1 record
Resonance
2008 release. Ken Vandermark has had a productive relationship with the Polish label Not Two, which put out the 12-disc boxed set of the complete Vandermark 5 at the Alchemia club in Krakow from 2004. The most recent collaboration has resulted in these two vinyl releases.The Resonance Ensemble is a 10-piece band that was assembled from Vandermark collaborators from Chicago, New York, Poland, Sweden and the Ukraine (where the 2008 concert featured on this LP was held). One might question how well…
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Friday 10 August · 1 record
First Thirst, Live at Cave12
Swiss drummer Nicolas Field (1975) has been collaborating with Japanese saxophone player living-legend Akira Sakata since his first visits in Japan in 2006. Nicolas Field is born in London in 1975. He studied drums and percussion at the Amsterdam Conservatorium (1996-2002), sonology at The Hague Conservatorium (1997-2002) and "Art and media" at HEAD in Geneva (2007-2009). He has received multiple awards and was artist in residence at the Swiss Institute in Rome (2010-11), AirAntwerpen (2011), Be…
Tuesday 7 August · 1 record
Second Life: Light Bulb 1977-81
As part of our Second Life series, we are pleased to present a special anthology of Light Bulbmagazine (1977–81), produced in cooperation with the Los Angeles Free Music Society and edited by LAFMS founding member Chip Chapman. Light Bulb was the house organ of the Los Angeles Free Music Society, made by and for the experimental collective of musicians that formed in 1972 Pasadena and soon "became a lightning rod for art-damaged, weird-music lovers everywhere." Nowhere is the DIY, visual complex…
Saturday 4 August · 3 records
Why Does Everybody Love Free Music ..
Edition of 250, few copies available. “Recorded in the US and UK 2011. Thanks to everyone who set up a show
last year, especially John Schoen, Larry Marotta, Helga Fassonaki,
Andrew Scott, Suzy Polling and Lee Etherington who made possible the
performances documented here.” Originally released on cassette in 2012
as PAL-007. Photos by R. Orcutt. "In short, almost everything you could want from a live document." Byron Coley
My Friends When I’m Not There
Edition of 250, few copies available. Recorded at Seminole Massacre Elementary, Miami FL, in the main stairwell, December 25, 2013 and originally released on cassette as PAL-028 in 2014. Photo by Jim Hensley. Mastered by James Plotkin. "A lovely contemplative performance, full of hope and sadness" Byron Coley
Greek Fusion Orchestra Vol.1
Kyriakos Sfetsas formed GFO in 1976, in order to accomplish an ambition dating back to his 1960's Avant-garde period in Paris: to create a piece of work that would expand the boundaries of Greek traditional music. The result is a Progressive-Jazz Fusion masterpiece comprising complex and intriguing compositions, and performed by Athens' best musicians of the day. Sfetsas grew up on the island of Lefkada where he studied classical music from an early age at the local conservatory. At the same tim…
Tuesday 31 July · 2 records
Elektronische Musik Elektronische + Phonetische Kompositionen (4
2017 "upgrade" of this early Creel Pone title; this replica edition includes all of the material from Reinhold Weber's two Corona-label LPs, "Elektronische Musik" & "Elektronische + Phonetische Kompositionen" - Creel Pones #009 & #099, respectively - along with everything from his two later Sound Star Ton LPs (again) "Elektronische Musik" & "Computermusik", all on four separate discs. Those who have already acquired the first two titles in earlier sweeps can simply purchase the CP 009-099.2 pack…
Le Robot, Symphonie Rouge, Symphonie Jaune
2018 edition. As I understand it, in the short history of Creel Pone thus far, there have been a few candidates for replication that were refused simply on the grounds that the music within fell outside of the “Core” EAI - or "Era of Interest" - represented by the series: 1948 - 1981; those dates on the foil-seal. Why these specific dates, you ask? Well, on October 5th, 1948, the ORTF broadcast Pierre Schaeffer’s “Cinq Etudes de Bruits,” hailed by many as the birth-date of Musique Concrète and s…
Monday 30 July · 4 records
Applied Autonomy
The great Robert Lippok (To Rococo Rot) returns with his first solo album in seven years, Applied Autonomy for Olaf Bender's Raster. A survey of what he’s been up to, as much as a statement of intent for here and now, Applied Autonomy reprises the fine balance of tuff-edged minimalism, spatial illusion and melodic delicacy that emerged with Redsuperstructure [2011], but ratcheting its effect with a renewed vigour for a frankly epic impact.As the title makes explicit, Robert’s 3rd solo album is c…
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A Sound Work To Accompany
Issued privately in 1972 by Toronto's Carmen Lamanna Gallery following an Autumn 1970 exhibition, this "Sound Work" by Sculptor Robin MacKenzie is a wonder of simplicity. Presenting a series of unadorned Sound Events - the approaches & recessions of single vehicles on what sounds like a lonely stretch of the 403 at 3am, then the Composer's footsteps similarly walking toward & away from the microphone's singular vantage point - in a manner befitting both the storied "Sounds of the Junkyard" Folk…
Elektron Musik Studion, Dokumentation 1-4
2018 repress. Issued privately by Stockholm’s "Elektron Musik Studion” (EMS)
between 1966 & 1973, the four “Dokumentation” LPs were something of a
seasonal report card of the studio’s charter output, “internally”
issuing key early works. Composers Ralph Lundsten
& Leo Nilsen - whose side-length “Aloha Arita” & “Kalejdoskop”
have only been issued in severely excerpted form in the interim, -
Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Bengt Emil Johnson, Jan W. Morthenson, Arne
Mellnäs, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, and Sv…
Keyboard Music
Handy, double-pack reproduction offering a pair of Compilations on the Greek Music Box label, the first comprised of key Magnetic Tape & Spectral Computer Music pieces by Iannis Xenakis, Dimitris Kamarotos, Xaris Xanthoudakis, & Vasilis Riziotis, the latter of, essentially, Dark Ambient & assorted "Wave" & "Age" fare by Vangelis Katsoulis, Lena Platonos, "Antitheseis" alum Michael Grigoriou, & Minas Alexiades, each on its own disc inside a "Gatefold" booklet. Released pretty much back-to-back - …
Sunday 29 July · 8 records
Electro/Acoustic, The Referee Has Vanished, Zaat
Lovely set of tape-music by composer Jack Tamul, issued in 1980
by Spectrum - not the Wergo sub-label, but the same Bear Mountain-area
powerhouse that released William Hoskins’ “Galactic Fantasy” &
William Strickland’s “An Electronic Visit to the Zoo” the year prior -
“recorded at the Jacksonville Museum of Arts & Sciences."Starting with a series of pieces incorporating acoustic
materials: “Genesis” is a choir piece peppered with synthesizer &
tape-manipulation; “Lament for Gettysburg” is …
Radiophonic Tape Compositions
Replica edition of this impossible-to-find, internal compilation of
early-mid-80s Australian Tape Collage & Digital Assemblage, issued
privately by Sydney Classical radio station 2MBS & consisting of
five extended pieces; one each by Composers Peter Mumme, Peter Schaefer,
Robert Douglas, Jon Rose, & Michael Hannan. There is a fair
deal of the Fairlight's timbral & formal palette across the album's
otherwise conceptually disparate offerings; understandable given
the era & geographic associ…
Soliloque I, Soliloque IV, Match, Antifonia
Nicolae Brînduș was born in Bucharest in 1935 and swiftly
matriculated through his studies in Piano & Composition at
the National University of Music before embarking on the life-changing
seminars at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt
throughout the late 60s & early 70s; even working at Ircam for a
spell in the mid-1980s. How this formative music, composed & recorded largely during his
Darmstadt phase, has remained so relatively unknown is insane to me; it
has all of…
Ciclul „Cosmofonie”
The second title in Creel Pone's 23x survey of Romanian Early
Electronic Music, offering both pieces from the lone Electrecord LP by
Composer Dinu Petrescu, along with a composition from one of the many
Corul Madrigal offerings, here conducted by Marin Constantin. "Space Doina", or possibly "Doina Space (1978)", "music
for symphony orchestra, mixed choir, children's choir, synthesizer,
magnetic tape and electronic modulation" starts off with a gaseous drone
of distant reverberance, seguei…
Groupe De Recherches Musicales
This is the last of the 199.x titles, a great diversion
into those that were endlessly divisive amongst the C.P. cabal; so much
so that common ground had to be carved out & explored... I'd heard legend of this internal-issue-only "White Label" GRM
compilation, from trusted source "Ravi" Ben, of La Dame Blanche fame,
but had never heard nor seen a copy until one literally landed in my lap
at a soirée recently. Largely consisting of alternative & revised
versions of prime 1973-era GRM pieces…
Maté/Vallancien
One thing I've learned as I've grown and progressed
through music is that there is an incredible wealth of largely
unheralded & seldom-heard music buried deep in the expansive Saravah
catalogue, largely due to the street-level largesse of in-house
engineer Daniel Vallencien, who aside from engineering a large portion
of the canonic BYG catalogue - Don Cherry, Anthony Braxton, Musica
Elettronica Viva, Sonny Sharrock, Sunny Murray, etc. - was crucial in
the development of the label's sound …
Magnetic Fields
Reproduction of this obscure 1977 Private Press stunner
by Extradition, Company Caine, & Phyl Vinnecombe sideman & early
18th Century Quartet member Stephen Dunstan, a key part of Australia's
Electronic Music history alongside Val Stephen, Bruce Clarke, Keith
Humble, Felix Werder, & Ian Bonighton. Steve was a tragic figure; operating across multiple disciplines
before disappearing under suspicious circumstances in the mid-80s while
out retrieving a Moog Modular system, Dunstan was both a c…