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Experimental America: Cage & Beyond

With The U.S.A. making headlines everywhere these days, we are delighted to offer a superb selection of very rare - and not so rare but difficult to find anyway – vintage records, books, posters and other ephemera pertaining to the Great American Avant-garde Music (and Art). From the essential pioneers and early masters Charles Ives, Harry Partch, David Tudor, and with a special focus on John Cage - with a big selection of historical items - to the wonderful experimental works of the '60s and '70s by the so-called Minimalists Tony Conrad, Charlemagne Palestine, Terry Riley, Philip Glass and Steve Reich, and other innovators like Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma and beyond. A unique occasion to obtain such scarce and wonderful items - please check the condition in the descriptions as this is vintage stuff - and enjoy the astonishing and wonderful production of the America Avant-garde.

Rainforest IV (LP)
Original 1981 mint copies of the first edition of Tudor's electronic environment masterpiece from 1973 published by the legendary Edition Block.
An Anthology
Essential and visually stunning 1963 anthology edited by Young and Maciunas featuring most of the artist who would be take part in Fluxus. Very rare second edition published in 1970 of this important book.
Indeterminacy: New Aspect Of Form In Instrumental And Electronic
Perfect copy of Cage & Tudor's landmark album for Folkways from 1959 released as 2xLP box set with booklet.
Objekt '72
Very rare two-sided poster for a John Cage exhibition with Mark Brusse at Galerie Kleber in Berlin in 1972.
Automatic Writing
Original 1979 Lovely Records first edition of the breathtaking album by Robert Ashley at his most extreme and uncompromising, as furious as he can get in your wildest dreams!
Private Parts
Original 1978 Lovely Records edition of Robert Ashley’s masterpiece from the late 70s, a deeply hypnotic and powerful record.
Music on a long thin wire
Legendary sound installation for audio oscillator and electronic monochord. 1980 first edition on Lovely Music from 1980.
Vernal Equinox
First 1978 Lovely Records editionof Jon Hassel's groundbreaking first album featuring David Rosenboom, Nana Vasconcelos, etc.
Dresden / Venezia / Megaton
Original 1979 first pressing of one of the most uncompromising records out on Lovely Music and of the American avant-garde at large.
Mesa / Pontpoint / Fwyyn
Original 1986 edition on Lovely of music for bandoneaon and cybersonic console by Mumma featuring David Tudor and Pauline Oliveros. Only the best of the best!
Four Violins 1964
Rare first pressing with poster of this 1996 LP on TOTE presenting a 1964 recording of Tony Conrad's astonoshing classic piece. A triumph of minimalism.
Music With Changing Parts
Original 1971 first pressinng of Philip Glass' 2LP masterpiece on the composer's own semi-private Chatham Square label.
Persian Surgery Dervishes
One of our favorite transcendental minimalist records ever offered here in its first 1974 Shanti gatefold edition in excellent condition.
Woo Lae Oak
Original 1983 edition of Carl Stone’s of the beautiful absolute minimalist classic first album on Joan La Barbara’s Wizard Records
Vision Soundings
Rare original 1985 private release by Malcolm Goldstein of intese sound explorations, never re-issued.
United States Part II
Press release as a small poster for the 1980 performances of Laurie Anderson's United States at the Orpheum Theater in New York.
Dark Dogs American Dreams
Rare small photographic poster for Laurie Anderson's 1980 exhibition at Holly Solomon Gallery in New York.
Stadtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Invitation card to a Steve Reich Ensemble concert at the Stadtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in 1973.
Scores on Exhibition
Beautiful tri-folded illustrated invitation to a 1973 exhibition of hand-annotated scores by Steve Reich.
Writings Aabout Music
First 1974 edition of Steve Reich's important book. A must for anyone in new music.
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