Reissues
Argh!
Seven pieces, seven possibilities to discover the work from these two swedish composers. 'Argh!' tape collage, 1965 (Rabe), 'bolos' for trombones quartet 1962 (Bark & Rabe), 'bar' electroacoustic music 1968 (Bark), 'joe's harp' for Chamber Choir, 197…
Hortexte
Six radio texts by Ferdinand Kriwet in a beautifully designed 3 LP Picture Discs Luxury Box. Ferdinand Kriwet (born in Duesseldorf in 1942) is a multimedia artist and poet who has produced many seminal films and sound works for radio and television, …
Axolotl lullabies
A collection of remixes and compilation tracks 1999-2006. Carefully edited by Felix Kubin and Eric Mattson, this CD is more than a compilation. It brings lights on the different activities of a great open-minded composer from Hamburg. All these track…
Order: Spoil The Entire State
Incredible archival recordings from the 1980s by the noise orchestra of Brad Laner (Savage Republic) and Jim Goddal (Medicine, Whitehouse), featuring LAFMS superstars such as Solid Eye’s Rick Potts and Joseph Hammer and unknown San Fernando Valley no…
From saxophone & trombone
Originally issued on LP in 1980, From Saxophone & Trombone ought to offer fans of trombonist George Lewis and saxophonist Evan Parker quite a bit to get revved up about. No frills or hidden agendas to be found throughout these five improvisation base…
Aanityksia / Recordings 1963-1973
Brilliant collection of obscure early electronic music, on one of Finland's longest running independent labels; packaged with detailed liner notes (Finnish/English). Not to be missed. "One of the undeniable pioneers of Finnish electronic music is Erk…
Tefiton
TEFITON features over 40 minutes of thickly layered and at places elegantly slick noise textures generated from electronics, feedback and turntable. TEFITON features Ulrich Krieger (Zeitkratzer, Sonic Youth collaborator) on saxophone on one track. Th…
La voce ed il sintetizzatore
After almost forty years of creative activity, the name Enore Zaffiri still sounds "new", as his extraordinary artistic output has remained to a great extent unreleased. Pioneer of multimedia, electronic and ambient music (he founded the Turin Studio…
Trilogie de la mort
One of the landmarks of minimalism, Radigue's sonic investigation into life, death, and life elsewhere after death, considered to be Eliane Radigue's masterpiece. "Trilogie de la Mort is a work in three parts. The first, Kyema, was originally release…
Jetsun Mila
Beautiful extended ambient work from Eliane Radigue, a composer known for her work with magnetic tape and Arp Synthesizer, and who studied under Pierre Schaeefer and Pierre Henry in the late 50's. Her compositions are often drone-like, impeccably cra…
Songs of Milarepa
Originally released on Lovely Music in 1998. Double CD of all five of Elaine Radigue's songs in tribute to the Tibetan saint and poet from the 11th century. Two of the tracks dates from Radigue's first release in 1983, two are previously unreleased a…
Promenade D'Été D'Ulis Nasa
Beautiful, floating-above-Earth photos from a Nasa space mission adorn this sharp looking digi-pak from Nepless, an Italian label bent on reissuing some of the most lovely of the long lost electro-acoustic pieces. Edgardo Canton was a member of the G…
Musique-action
Compositions for the Hyperion ensemble by Dumitrescu, Avram, Hodgkinson and Cutler recorded at the Nancy-Vanoeuvre festival. Contents: New Meteors and Pulsars (Dumitrescu, 1982). For Tape and Percussion. Tape by Iancu Dumitrescu, Soloist, Chris Cutle…
s/t
This avant-garde Croatian composer and pianist's obscure experimental '70s work with his Acezantez Ensemble drew from all aspects of avant-garde music, including electronics and group improvisation. This release on Paradigm is the first available in …
The complete tape music
Tape music fans pay attention now, this re-issue of Dutch tape-pioneer Dick Raaijmakers’ complete tape work is about as crucial as it gets. Basta has long been making a name for itself issuing shockingly well-presented boxsets of the early electronic…
The London Concert
All of the music from the 1975 Wigmore Hall (London) concert by this duo then nearing the mid-point of their twenty years of work together. On CD for the first time. Reissue of Incus LP 16 plus 31 minutes of extra material.
Dart drug
Jamie Muir, percussion; Derek Bailey, guitar. Carminative (08.48), I soon learned to know this flower better (07.14), Jara (07.49), Dart drug (25.50). Recorded at Crane Grove, London in August 1981. Cover photograph (reproduced above) by Jamie Muir. …
s/t
Recorded live at Verity's 1972, this CD represents possibly the finest duo performance of Derek Bailey and Han Bennink. Reissue of the rare LP on Incus
Dix Portraits / Douze Mélodies Acousmatiques
In an allusion to Michel Chion’s ‘Dix études de musique concrète’, this collection of acousmatic moments represents a meditative opportunity for Denis Dufour. Sorting through his repertoire, it aims to seek out and identify characteristics and easily…