Reissues
Persian Electronic Music: Yesterday and Today 1966-2006
The Sub Rosa label presents the work of Alireza Mashayekhi and Ata Ebtekar/Sote, two essential, key luminaries in the so far very unknown electronic music scene as composed in Iran from the '60s until today. These Iranian music masters work on ancestral structures to create something radically new, travelling around the world as vivid creators, working through the hazards of history. Alireza Mashayekhi (b. 1940) is a pioneer Iranian avant-garde composer whose ideas and works have been performed …
inout
INOUT was recorded on a Sanyo M7300L stereo radio cassette recorder with both an integrated and external microphone. The recorder is in the recording standby position, both RECORD and PAUSE buttons are pushed. Then I sing or play a tone into the microphone. During this tone, I release the PAUSE button by pushing it. Subsequently, I press the PAUSE button again within a fraction of a second. Now the first short note is recorded. In InOut I added this way thousands of very short notes like a patch…
Rumori alla Rotonda
Live recording at the Rotonda del Pellegrini, Milan, January 21st, 1959 featuring John Cage, Morton Feldman, Juan Hidalgo, Leopoldo La Rosa, and Walter Marchetti. Among all the events involving John Cage during the long stay in Europe that followed his controversial appearance at Darmstadt Ferienkurse in September 1958, the concert he held in Milan on January 21st perhaps represents a less well known episode.
Featuring Cage's intervention both as composer and performer of one's own work as well …
De musicorum infelicitate
edition limited to 300 copies only, and long sold out now, the spectacular hardcover book and gatefold double LP presentation... "Two years ago Alga Marghen issued the third compact disc by Walter Marchetti, the mysterious and inaccessible De musicorum infelicitate. The edition included a folded poster with the presentation written by Gabriele Bonomo, a series of aphorisms to introduce the listeners to this work. The composer had then decided to let this edition circulate with no extra informati…
supplementary benefit
side 1 of the lp comprises full length versions of the the first two storm bugs singles; namely the 5 track table matters ep (1980) and the metamorphose single (1981). whilst tracks from these singles have appeared on compilations before, this is the first time they are being presented in their entirety. this means the first re-issue of the spoof industrial rockabilly track tin and the vocal version of make customer matter. the tracks have been digitally re-mastered from virgin un-played copies …
early recordings 77-83
who of you does not know and searches for the wave-classic lp “trust no women”. the performance and video/music-artists zyx from vienna have looked into their archive and are now providing a finest selection of wave-classic-material which has been unreleased on vinyl to this point.
early recordings 1979-83 Lp-2
In the early 1980's, Ptose emerged from Niort, France. They were a trio who released a couple of albums, earning some comparisons to The Residents, and then they dissapeared from view - terrific minimal proto-techno stuff here, highly recommended
Insiememusicadiversa
** CD Box. The white industrial cardboard box includes an audio CD, a 12-page booklet, five folded posters with graphical scores, plus “Roulette”, a clock-like gadget originally used as the score of the aleatory composition with the same title.** Insieme Musica Diversa, which can be translated in different ways (as diverse music toghether, or different collective music ecc.) truly is a source of endless enchantment. Merging elements of DIY electronica, psychedelia, noise, progressive and free-fo…
Evidences Vol.1 - Final Industrial Music 1980
Limited edition of 600 numbered copies. The 5-Lp-Box contains all officially unreleased material on Vinyl.The tracks are re-mastered and digitally transferred from the following tapes: Mectpyo/Blut 1 & Mectpyo Blut 2 (1979/80) Atomique/Murder (1980) Gene-P (1980) Nervo/Hydra (1980) Technology 2 (1980)
C.O.I.T. - A Collection of Isolated Tracks 1981-1988
Eclectic French group (for some time also known as CO2 which started out in the early 80's and still active. Their music ranges from new wave to weird sound experiments. Awesome double LP release in a deluxe gatefold sleeve. "The ultimate compilation with rare, unreleased and demo material with early works of the French goth-legend."
Snatch Paste: An Assortment of Snatch Tapes
Compilation of one of the best DIY-tape labels of the early '80s compiled by Philip Sanderson (former member of Alien Brains) from the three Snatch Tape Compilations 1-3 (originally released (1978-81) with the odd extra bonus drawn from other Snatch Tapes." Artists include: David Jackman, Storm Bugs, Mannequin Movies, Philip Sanderson, Tony Clough, The N4s, Alien Brains, Karl's Empty Body, Orior and Claire Thomas & Susan Vezey. Limited vinyl edition of 500 copies.
Quatuor Hêlios
Isabelle Berteletti, Florent Haladjian, Jean-Christophe Feldhandler, Lê Quan Ninh. “D’une lumière” (1996) by Jean-Christophe Feldhandler for piano, electric guitar, melodica, percussions, etc., “Oscille” (1997) by Lê Quan Ninh for 4 stones, 4 lightnings II and computer, “Kvadrat” (1988) by Vinko Globokar for 4 percussions, “Seasons” (1970) by Toru Takemitsu for percussions and tape.
Headphone musics 1 to 6. As I As
In 1967 Z'EV took a tape music class at the UCLA night school. The leader of the course was Joseph Byrd who was the founder and theoretician of the first electronic rock band: the united states of america. So while it's almost 40 years now that he has been involved in the production of electro-acoustic music, Headphone Musics marks the first release of a product exclusively featuring this form of music. All of the source material is drawn from the collection of cassette tapes Z'EV has amassed ov…
Production and decay of spatial relations vs Reproduction
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the very first Zev studio album which originally came out on Backlash in 1981, Die Stadt is proud to announce the re-release of Production and Decay of Spacial Relations for the first time on CD. It features the original seven tracks from the vinyl plus six recodings entitled Reproduction and Decay of Spatial Relations made by Zev in May/June 2005. Back in the day, Zev used to bring boxes over from Holland when he would come back to New York City which he woul…
Turntables and computers
Turntables & Computers is an uncut live recording of Otomo Yoshihide and Nobukazu Takemura performing an improvised live set at the Super Deluxe club in Roppongi, for the 'Space Invaded' event on March 29, 2003. This live album documents the first performance ever of these two world renowned musicians together, and the intense collision between the sounds of Otomo's turntables and Takemura's computers.
Geography And Music
Small overview of yasunao tone’s life / work / art, including a 3”cd containing a 1979 piece performed by david tudor, john cage, takehisa kosugi, martin kalve, and yoshiharu suenobu.
Musica Iconologos
A surprising release from the radical Fluxus composer, Yasunao Tone
- an encoded description of the visual image in utmost detail. In the
mythical future, somebody can translate the sounds of this compact disc
back into pictures. Personnel: Yasunao Tone and Craig Kendall - image selection and processing; Craig Kendall - computer programming, digital sound creation, manipulation; John D.S. Adams - assistant producer and audio consultant.
Utopia andata e ritorno
2006 release. Music: the foundation of that presence in which we find ourselves shows itself as pure negative. Everything is founded on a demonstration of its own negativity: as awareness of its being negative, and does not look for an escape into a future presence that is an objective future, but, accepting its negativity, makes of this self-negation the real act, the true reality -- the true foundation, the real and actual continuity: this is music's sense. Utopia Andata e Ritorno is the…
The bird of paradise
Limited to 200 copies only, and long out of print nowadays, Walter Marchetti's Bird of Paradise: Hunting in the City. Performance time: from dawn to dusk. Leave your home, with a cool head, and carrying a briefcase full of birdcalls, of the kind used by hunters, as well as a portable tape recorder, slung across your back on a carrying strap. You will use it, at the proper time, to play a tape, which has also been placed in the briefcase. Once outside, you begin your performance of 'The Hunt' by…