Experimental / Contemporary

Rare 1985 album with amazing compositions respectively for voice and ensemble, computer and "plucked orchestra" spanning from 1961 to 1981 released on Amadeo's "Österreichische Musik Der Gegenwart" contemporary music series. With insert.

Unusual package originally including a kinetik sculpture (not included here) presenting the Swiss composer's strange 1968 electronic / musique concrète composition paired with Haydn's 101st Symphony, privately released in the late 1960's / early 1970's.

The British composer's powerful 1972 orchestral composition backed with his fantastic 1971 electronic piece in collaboration with Peter Zinovieff, released on Argo's "Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Series" contemporary music series in 1975.

Great electro-acoustic split LP with a 1976 piece for singing cellists and live-electronics by the British composer backed with a 1974 piece piano and synthesizer and a 1971 piece for trombone and orchestra, released on Bärenreiter-Musicaphon's "Basler Komponisten / New Music From Basle" contemporary music series in 1978.

Four classic compositions spanning from 1931 to to 1973 for percussion ensemble performed by the La Scala theatre precussionists, released on the tiny Italian label I Dischi Dell'Ippopotamo in 1979.

2LP set including some of the most important compositions for percussion ensemble of the 20th century, performed by Les Percussions De Strasbourg and released by Philips in 1983.

Great 1971 avant-garde/jazz/electronic extravaganza featuring Gunter Hampel, Stomu Yamash'ta, Willem Breuker and others, released on DGG in 1972. With insert.

1972 LP on EMI Eelectrola with two great pieces for trumpet and electronics performed by Edward H. Tarr.

Great 1976 LP on Orion presenting a rather far out electro-acoustic piece for oboe, harp and tape, backed with compositions for piano, soprano and piano, and chorus.

Three indispensable pieces for voice(s) and tape composed in the 1960's and released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in the 70's. With insert.

Two superb experimental pieces, 1971's Atemzüge for multiple voice and tape and 1969's Choralvorspiele for organ, instruments and tape, released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in 1976. With insert.

Two superb experimental pieces, 1971's Atemzüge for multiple voice and tape and 1969's Choralvorspiele for organ, instruments and tape, released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in 1976. Cream-titnted sleeve, no insert.

Surprizing and adventurous early 1980's compositions for extended vocal techniques and gestures, very similar to some sound poetry, released by the tiny label Edition Michael Frauenlob Bauer in 1989.

First 1967 edition of the first recording of the two superb electro-acoustic pieces from the mid-1960's respectively for tam-tam, two microphones and two filters, and for 12 singers, 4 ring modulators and Hammond organ, released on CBS' "Music Of Our Time" contemporary music series.

1976 3LP box set on DGG with the "Europa Version 1972" of the massive 1960's work for solo soprano, four mixed choirs, and thirteen instrumentalists (four trumpets, four trombones, three percussionists, and two electric keyboards) with the addition of an excerpt from the "Donaueschinger Version 1965". With booklet.

Sensational 7LP box set with the full intuitive music masterpiece performed by the composer with Carlos Roqué Alsina, Michel Portal, Rolf Gehlhaar, Peter Eötvös and Michael Vetter among others, released in 1973 by DGG. With booklet.

1970's re-issue of the Harmonia Mundi 1969 LP with a section from theb mighty "7 days" performed by Musique Vivante.

Four classic pieces composed in the 1950's and 1960's for orchestra with tape, string orchestra and smaller ensembles, conducted by Bruno Maderna and released on RCA Victrola "The New Music" series in 1967.

The superb 1976 "tape montage for two loudspeaker groups" plus another 1976 piece for 3 cellos and a 1980 composition for flute, alto and harpsichord, released on Wergo in 1982. With insert.

Fantastic 1970 album on Heliodor/Wergo with two 1960's pieces for jazz ensemble, featuring the Manfred Schoof Quintet including Alexander Von Schlippenbach and Can's Jaki Liebezeit, and a beaut‎iful 1966 composition for electronic sounds.

Rare compositions for solo instruments or small ensembles with or without electronics by some of the greatest XXth Century composers (Mauricio Kagel, Earle Brown, John Cage, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Wolfgang Fortner, Klaus Hinrich Stahmer, György Ligeti, Henri Pousseur) spanning from 1952 to 1979 performed by Pro Musica Da Camera and released on Thorofon in 1981. With insert.

First volume of the massive and exhaustive 3LP box series of "Contemporary Music from West Germany" released in the early 80's by Deutscher Musikrat, presenting pieces composed between 1945 and 1952 by Richard Strauss, Werner Egk, Paul Hindemith, Ernst Pepping, Johann Nepomuk David, Philipp Jarnach and Hermann Reutter. With insert.

Fourth volume of the massive and exhaustive 3LP box series of "Contemporary Music from West Germany" released in the early 80's by Deutscher Musikrat, presenting pieces composed between 1950 and 1960 by Hans Werner Henze, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Hans G. Helms / Hans Otte, Dieter Schnebel, Mauricio Kagel, Winfried Zillig, Giselher Klebe, Karl Höller, Siegfried Borris, Fritz Büchtger, Harald Genzmer and Hans Ulrich Engelmann. With insert.

Eigth volume of the massive and exhaustive 3LP box series of "Contemporary Music from West Germany" released in the early 80's by Deutscher Musikrat, presenting pieces composed between 1970 and 1980 by Hans Werner Henze, Wolfgang Rihm, Hans-Joachim Hespos, Walter Zimmermann, Josef Anton Riedl, Peter Michael Hamel, Mauricio Kagel, Isang Yun, Mathias Spahlinger, Nicolaus A. Huber. With insert.

Tenth volume of the massive and exhaustive 3LP box series of "Contemporary Music from West Germany" released in the early 80's by Deutscher Musikrat, presenting pieces composed between 1970 and 1980 by Helmut Lachenmann, Dieter Schnebel, Karlheinz Stockhausen, York Höller, Robert HP Platz, Wilhelm Killmayer, Wolfgang Rihm, Mauricio Kagel. With insert.

Experimental trio Giraffe crystalize time on Desert Haze, their new LP on Marionette. Giraffe is the musical project of Sascha Demand (guitar), Jürgen Hall (keys), and Charly Schöppner (percussion). Sascha Demand is a composer that comes from a contemporary and improvised musical background, collaborating with the likes of Ensemble Integrales and Vinko Globokar. Jürgen Hall works in electroacoustic experimental projects, theatre and film scores, with releases on Staubgold and Edition Stora. Char…

*In process of stocking* Since his Beat Diary debut (a 12xLP box set comprising 365 beats recorded daily over the course of a year), Julian Sartorius has immersed himself in unique and ambitious projects - trekking the path not travelled to arrive at rhythmic life forms through found objects and prepared instruments. Equally as mighty are his two other escapades, the most recent being Locked Grooves - 112 beats cut as endless loops on vinyl spanning 56 dense 1.8 second compositions per side. Pre…

*29 copies limited edition* A ritual object disguised as a release. Or perhaps the other way around. This limited edition of 29 units pairs a new work by Renato Grieco with a hand-forged bronze tuning fork designed by Swiss artist Alfatih and crafted in Naples by Ettore Palombi. Each fork takes the form of a small carcass - part amulet, part relic, part sculpture. Weighing roughly 30 grams, its resonant frequency hovers at the edge of silence: a tone you feel more than hear, a vibration that lin…

Excellent 2008 CD-only release on Robot of the 2000 piece for for memorized sounds coupled with the only CD re-issue of the 1968 recording of the 1967 piece for 4 soloists and 16 instruments.

2004 CD-only release on Sub Rosa of the evocative 2002 radio piece composed using recordings made during trips.

Wonderful symphony for 17 instruments and memorized sounds composed in 1998, performed by Ars Nova Ensemble and released by L'Empreinte Digitale in 2013 as a set including a DVD with Jacqueline Caux's film of the perfomance plus estras.

2007 CD with two very early GRM tape pieces plus the 1996 radio play Selbsportait available only here, released as volume 4 of the Sonopsys book+CD magazine published by Licences in a limited edition of 500 copies. Rare.

2006 CD-only release on Césaré with the Laborintus Ensemble performing 1977 piece for tape and orchestra and the 2005 "Archives sauvées des eaux" for two CDs & orchestra with eRikm.

Long in-depth interviews with the composer by friend and film-director Jacqueline Caux. French text.

2007 expanded edition of the 2001 INA-GRM book, first volume of the "Polychrome Portraits" series, with three essays on the composer plus a biographical catalogue. French text.

Enlightening collection of manuscripts edited by Brunhild Ferrari and Jérôme Hansen, with a preface by Jim O'Rourke, published in 2017. French text.

Beautiful book+DVD documentation of the 2018 performance in Milano of the 1969 open piece, organised by Sergio Armaroli and Steve Piccolo, featuring Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari, Walter Prati, Francesca Gemmo and other musicians.

Absolutely fantastic 1981 composition for 5 choirs, 2 double basses, 2 percussionists, 2 kettledrums and electronic tape, released on Harmonia Mundi's "Evénement / Musique française d'aujourd'hui" series in 1984.

Three excellent compositions spanning from 1968 to 1978 respectively for string trio and for for 2 electric guitars, 2 ondes Martenot, 2 electric organs and synthesisers, released on Sapphos's "Musique Française d'Aujourd'hui" series in 1978.