The Play-Back
Lovingly packaged Lebanese CD of skillful turntablism from Dj Sniff on Annihaya.
Micromegas
Seeing Matthew Erickson perform live is an impressive experience. The sound he gets by blasting his saxophone through his Fender Twin literally shakes you to the core. Erickson has a great ear for experimental music; exercising tasteful timing and restraint, which I am finding to be more and more important. Whether performing in the sax-guitar duo Sudden Oak, or solo as Radiant Husk, his sonic presence has earned the respect of many.
The ReR Quarterly Volume 4 Number 2
CD contains commissioned works by Q.R. Ghazala: Sacrifice To Isis, , Mike Hovancsek/Paul Guerguerian:Three Cold Floors, Tom Dimuzio: Inception, Marie Goyette: Short-Cuts: Brahms, Ken Ando: Danseuse, Robert Iolini: Congo, Zimbabwe, Giovanni Venosta: Le Ombre Di Otello, Keith Rowe/A. De Fillips: Feu Brilliant, Brian Woodbury's Variety Orchestra:Shenandoah/Innsbruck, Richard Barrett: The Unthinkable, Stevan Tickmayer: Heterophony, Volapuk: Des objets de la plus grande importance, Boris Kovacs: Extr…
The ReR Quarterly Volume 4 Number 1
On the CD: John Oswald/John Zorn, Biota, Cornelius Cardew, ZGA, If Bwana, Kalahari Surfers + Lesogo Rampolokeng, Koongoortoog (Tuva),Blitziods, Al Margolis, Tom Nunn, Thinking Plague, Adenoid Quartet, N.O.R.M.A., Les Sales Combles, R.Deutsch, Martin Burlas, Peter Machajdik, David Myers, Chris Cutler/Fred Frith. New, found and commissioned work.
The ReR Quarterly - Selections From Vol. 2
Commissioned materials from Robert Wyatt, Iva Bittova / Pavel Fajt, LA 1919, Jocelyn Robert, James Grigsby, J. Lachan, Henry Kaiser, Increase The Angle, Bill Gilonis, David Thomas, Jospeh Racaille, John Oswald, Musci / Venosta, Luciano Margiorani, 5UU'S, When, Jean Derome. Taken from Volume 2 of the influential Quarterly, remastered, with an exquisite book by Dirk Vallons. L
ReR Quarterly Vol 1 - Selections
Selections from Volume 1 of the ReR Quarterly,including the legendary recording of the so-called 'supergroup' Duck And Cover (Tom Cora, Chris Cutler, Heiner Goebbels, Fred Frith, Alfred Harth, Dagmar Krause and George Lewis), Biota, Steve Moore, CASSIX, 5UU's, John Oswald. With generous book.
Getting A Head
Re-issue of Bob Ostertag's Getting A Head, and underground classic of tape manipulation from before the days of samplers. Best known for his work with computers, here a young Ostertag plays an instrument consisting of a highly unstable and peculiar recording system, which uses helium balloons to hold up tape loops between three tape recorders made to malfunction in a variety of ways. The record marks one of the first, and to this day one of the only, times that tape manipulation techniques devel…
The Pharoah's Bee
Allen Ravenstine, erstwhile eminence grise of classic-era Pere Ubu, was one of the best-integrated and least predictable pioneers of analogue synthesis in rock until, in the late 1980’s, he quit both the public and the musical arena to pursue entirely different interests. But he never lost his interest in, or his feel for, analogue electronics. A few years ago, with Pere Ubu’s current synthesist, Robert Wheeler, he recorded ‘Farm Report and City Desk - in the context of a documentary about modul…
Hearing Smoke
Polido has been fantasizing with the idea of free music throughout his artistic career. Free from restraints, logos, musical genres, but also from this modern obsession with narratives, plans, business plans, algorithms and bubble wrapped ideas for comfort of those of you that can’t breathe without everything making sense. “Hearing Smoke” has nothing of that. It has been four years since Holuzam released the double album “A Casa e os Cães / Sabor a Terra” and for four years I have been daydreami…
Zgamoniums
File under early Russian industrial rock/art; Harry Partch, incorporating primitive analogue electronics. A legend in art and industrial music circles, ZGA was formed under the old regime in Riga, Lavia, in 1984, by Nick Sudnik and Valery Dudkhin. Unable to rehearse acoustically because of the neighbours, they invented their own instruments from scrap and springs and shaped metal fitted with contact microphones; these were not just noise instruments, but ways of accessing complex pitches, strang…
Argonautika
A sound drama for tuba and electronics that constructs its own rich, twilit, rather alien, world. Only the sound of the tuba (sometimes), a few waves and a little thunder sound familiar, everything else is a mysterious presence; the electronics are not at all conventional and though much of the sound is clearly derived somehow from the tuba, it offers no foothold in a familiar place. If landscape were ever an appropriate metaphor for the product of a congeries of sounds, it would be applicable h…
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COLLEZIONE DEL SILENZIO is a series of 26 cassette tapes edited by SILENTES TAPESTRY SO SILENT... Each tape is associated with a letter of the alphabet Each letter is associated with an artist Each letter gives birth to an unwanted word The music is the artist's personal vision of silence 26 tapes by 26 italian acts Each tape is hand numbered and limited to 100 copies.
The letter W is associated with Under The Snow.
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COLLEZIONE DEL SILENZIO is a series of 26 cassette tapes edited by SILENTES TAPESTRY SO SILENT... Each tape is associated with a letter of the alphabet Each letter is associated with an artist Each letter gives birth to an unwanted word The music is the artist's personal vision of silence 26 tapes by 26 italian acts Each tape is hand numbered and limited to 100 copies.
The letter Q is associated with Simon Balestrazzi.
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COLLEZIONE DEL SILENZIO is a series of 26 cassette tapes edited by SILENTES TAPESTRY SO SILENT... Each tape is associated with a letter of the alphabet Each letter is associated with an artist Each letter gives birth to an unwanted word The music is the artist's personal vision of silence 26 tapes by 26 italian acts Each tape is hand numbered and limited to 100 copies.
The letter N is associated with Nosesoul.
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COLLEZIONE DEL SILENZIO is a series of 26 cassette tapes edited by SILENTES TAPESTRY SO SILENT... Each tape is associated with a letter of the alphabet Each letter is associated with an artist Each letter gives birth to an unwanted word The music is the artist's personal vision of silence 26 tapes by 26 italian acts Each tape is hand numbered and limited to 100 copies.
The letter M is associated with Mauthausen Orchestra.
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COLLEZIONE DEL SILENZIO is a series of 26 cassette tapes edited by SILENTES TAPESTRY SO SILENT... Each tape is associated with a letter of the alphabet Each letter is associated with an artist Each letter gives birth to an unwanted word The music is the artist's personal vision of silence 26 tapes by 26 italian acts Each tape is hand numbered and limited to 100 copies.
The letter K is associated with K11.
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COLLEZIONE DEL SILENZIO is a series of 26 cassette tapes edited by SILENTES TAPESTRY SO SILENT... Each tape is associated with a letter of the alphabet Each letter is associated with an artist Each letter gives birth to an unwanted word The music is the artist's personal vision of silence 26 tapes by 26 italian acts Each tape is hand numbered and limited to 100 copies.
The letter E is associated with LLS04.
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COLLEZIONE DEL SILENZIO is a series of 26 cassette tapes edited by SILENTES TAPESTRY SO SILENT... Each tape is associated with a letter of the alphabet Each letter is associated with an artist Each letter gives birth to an unwanted word The music is the artist's personal vision of silence 26 tapes by 26 italian acts Each tape is hand numbered and limited to 100 copies.
The letter D is associated with Devis Devils.
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COLLEZIONE DEL SILENZIO is a series of 26 cassette tapes edited by SILENTES TAPESTRY SO SILENT... Each tape is associated with a letter of the alphabet Each letter is associated with an artist Each letter gives birth to an unwanted word The music is the artist's personal vision of silence 26 tapes by 26 italian acts Each tape is hand numbered and limited to 100 copies.
The letter C is associated with Deison.
Honeyed Crest
Beautiful tape from Mike Shiflet on NNA Tapes. Modular synthesizer abuse, 2019-2021. No tapes were harmed in the making of these recordings.