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A selection of the best work of Cultural Amnesia spanning 1980--1983. Includes remastered tracks from their three released cassette albums and from compilations. Nearly half the tracks are previously unreleased, including pieces from two unfinished late albums that the band consider amongst their strongest songs.
Shanked And Slithering
"Nearly 80 minutes of the most animalistic and violent industrial noise to ever crack the crust of the earth. Compiles and reworks early and unreleased out of print noise classics as well as brand new noise aberrations. For fans of early Controlled Bleeding ala Knees And Bones And Bladder Bags!" - Hospital Productions.
Musiques Machinales
1 copy only, long out of print - for many years, Pierre BASTIEN has developed his personal music based on musical machines made with Mecano. His orchestra MECANIUM is his backing band both on album and on stage. All this creates a tender, delicate and emotive machine music that seduced Pascal DOMELADE from the beginning. A terrific mixture of J. Dubuffet and John Cage
Tape Works of Kuniharu Akiyama. Obscure Tape Music of Japan vol. 006
Kuniharu Akiyama (1929-1996) was well-known as a music critic, mainly of modern and contemporary music. However, his career was not only in the music field -- he was also a very well-regarded avant-garde artist (he especially related to the early Fluxus movement). This release consists of his three unknown tape music pieces. They are very strange. Excerpt from the liner notes: "'Environmental Mechanical Orchestra' (1966) was made for an exhibition called 'From Space to Environment,' carried out …
Cosmos of Toshi Ichiyanagi III-1960\'s & 1990\'s
'Music For Electric Metronomes' (1960). 'For Strings' (1961) + 'Music For Piano No. 4' (1960) + 'Music For Piano No. 6' (1961) simultaneous performance. 'Duet' (1961). 'Parallel Music' (1962). 'Symphony No. 5 'Time Perspective' (1997). 'Piano Concerto No. 3 'Cross Water Roads' (1991). 'String Quartet No. 3 'Inner Landscape' (1994).Tracks 1.1 to 1.3 recorded on September 7, 1998 at Kimitsu Shimin Bunka Hall, Chiba, Japan. Track 1.4 recorded in 1962 at NHK Electric Music Studio, Tokyo Japan. Track…
Medium II, Cogito
An expanded version of the previous rz LP by Christou. All works by Christou, the late, legendary "freely-atonal" Greek composer. Features: "Enantiodromia" (1965-68, for orchestra); "Praxis" (1966-69, for string orchestra and piano), "Epicycle" (1968, for instruments, actors and voices); "Anaparastasis III" (1968-69, for soloist, ensemble and continuum [tapes]); "Mysterion" (1965-66, for narrator, actors, 3 choirs, orchestra and tapes)
Pictures of Pictures from Pictures of Pictures (1975-1979)
Rare and long out of print LP...This album, featuring solo piano compositions, was released in 1983. The work draws inspiration from Modest Moussorgsky's 1874 composition "Pictures at an Exhibition," which was based on ten etchings. Klaus Peter Brehmer reissued these etchings, while Philip Corner contributed his own interpretation. The repetitive melodies and rhythms reflect Russian folklore and minimalism, while the spatial arrangement resembles Japanese interiors. The succession of images in p…
Klavierduett: In memoriam George Maciunas
Signed Copy. Original and very rare now, a double LP published by Edition Block, Germany. In 1978 George Maciunas, founder and chairman of FLUXUS, died in New York at the age of 47. In invert of these numbers the duration of the piano-duett, performed to his memory by Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik was planned for 74 minutes. The end of this memorable evening at the Kunstakademie of Dusseldorf was determined by an alarm-clock, set for 9.14 pm. New
Up from Zero
Originally released in 1982 on cassette (Aeroplane Records AR3, UK), Up From Zero was David Jackman's third album of compositions. Integrating tapes, loops, shortwave radio signals, guitar tones, voice and a host of percussion elements, each piece accumulates into a complex collage of cycles that create a haunting set of 'movements' and bizarre spatial relationships. These are the most sought after of Jackman's first, solo recordings. The proto-Organum sound. Also included is 'Offshore', (1980).…
pieces
Third archival MEV release on Allan Bryant's label. The first track, 'Quadrupl Play', is a piece for rubberbands recorded in 1966 by Allen Bryant. It can be described as 'variations on melody' and was played at the first MEV concerts in St. Paul du Vence, France and at Teatro Argentina in Rome. The second track, 'Pich Out' (or 'Rocket Take Off)', for 4 guitars, is loud and thundering, played by 4 musicians through 4 speakers at Sala Beloch, Rome in March 1967. Features Rzewski, Phetteplace, Curr…
untitled (1968)
A previously unreleased document of MEV -- four sections of an improvisation recorded in London, 1968, spread out over 43 minutes. The line up was Bryant (synthesizer), Alvin Curran (trumpet, percussion), Frederick Rzewski (amplified percussion, singing), Jon Phetteplace (amplified cello). Powerful, historic noise and the first easily available MEV music on CD. Also comes with a Bryant solo synth wig-out piece at the end. Both of these IRML CDs come in regular jewel cases, and endearingly primit…
Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band All Night Flight
Possibly the best currently available recording of Terry Riley's solo saxophone/organ/time-lag accumulator improvisations (for just the organ/time-lag, make a b-line to “persian surgery dervishes”), recorded in concert in buffalo, ny in the waning days of the 1960s.A perfect prime-era challenged-fidelity recording; a better accompaniment to your daily 6:20pm post rush-hour zone-out i’ve yet to hear. overall, tonally, this is much darker & brooding than other riley, making it something of anomaly…
Reed Streams
This CD represents the first album by Terry Riley, originally released in 1966, as well as the first recordings Riley made using his two personal Revox reel-to-reel tape machines (or 'Time Lag Accumulators') later heard on his groundbreaking Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band All Night Flight. In 1966, Terry Riley was performing hypnotic keyboard studies in his loft, and later, such venues as the Electric Circus. Reed Streams, Riley's debut record, offers a rare glimpse into his early trance musi…
Les Yeux Fermés & Lifespan
After changing the world in the late '60s with In C and A Rainbow in Curved Air, legendary American composer and father of minimalism Terry Riley abandoned tape manipulation and written composition to concentrate on longform keyboard cycles and improvisations. In the early '70s, while in Europe, he was invited to create scores for two films. The first, in 1972, was Joel Santoni's Les Yeux Fermés, a feature-length art film that instantly became a cult classic by virtue of its never having screene…
Lament For The Rise and Fall of the Elephantine Crocodile
2014 repress! Finally, a CD reissue of Yoshi Wada's most important and most rare LP, Lament For The Rise And Fall Of The Elephantine Crocodile, originally released in 1982 on the India Navigation label. Yoshi Wada is a Japanese sound installation artist and musician -- he moved to New York in the late 1960s, and became well-known as a Fluxus artist with links to La Monte Young, and has been involved in many performances and sound installations. However, he has released only two recordings,…
Ohm+ : The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music : 1948 - 1980
met with critical acclaim, this award-winning box set celebrated the composers and inventors who led the electronic music revolution. Five years later due to continued demand from passionate aficionados (eBay sales at $150, etc.) we're now re-releasing the Special Edition OHM+ containing a bonus DVD with over two and a half hours of performances, interviews, and experimental video. Three CDs (42 original music tracks from 1948-1980) packaged in a deluxe fold-out digipak, slipcased with a 112-pag…
Rainforest
Two versions of David Tudor's electronic environment masterpiece, the first performed in 1968 by Tudor and Takehisa Kosugi for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; the 2nd is an electro-acoustic environment from 1973. "'Rainforest' blends music and sculpture by placing music in space in extraordinary ways. The idea is to channel electronic output through an object rather than through the usual device, a loudspeaker. Dozens of unique and unlikely objects are suspended from the ceiling at about ear…
Live At Lace
This album was originally recorded and released as an LP in 1978; Airway was a group featuring Joe Potts, Chip Chapman, Rick Potts, Dennis Duck, Juan Gomez and Tom Recchion. Live At Lacewas later included in the Cortical Foundation/RRR 10CD LAFMS box from 1995, but this version has been remastered, using the original tapes for the LP. It is considered to exhibit a "pretty different feeling of sound" and features unique artwork that was only used on Japanese-export copies of the LP when it was fi…
Beyond The Pink Live
Airway started in 1977 as a plot by Joe Potts to subliminally program audiences behind the cover of a chaotic wall of sound. To create the wash of ear-splitting noise, all of the instruments, Vetza's vocals, and the subliminal implants are mixed together and processed through a daisy-chain of flangers, phase-shifters, delays and distortions. Then the super-charged signal is blasted through guitar amps carefully placed to maximize the ricochet of sound from wall to wall. Airway kicks the notion o…
The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
Re-release of Ira Cohen's legendary 1968 film, The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda. Celebrated internationally for more than 30 years, and recently screened as part of the 'Day for Night' program at the 2006 Whitney Biennial."I must say this is the most chemically abused piece of cinema I’ve ever seen – I actually feel under the influence now, I don’t know if I’m safe to walk home. It’s so narcotic that I’m surprised it’s legal to buy over the counter… all this and it was made in 1968 – one ye…