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2lp 2012/1978-2001 new Hungarian organist who moved to Stockholm & discovered the starry allure of Pierre Henry's 'Variations for a Door and a Sigh'. Mostly big trapezoids of blurred choral vocals... |
Ideologic Organ |
$28.00
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cd 2010/2006 new Bosetti started out playing sax, but these days does electroacoustic projects & installations. Here, he made tapes of speakers of foreign languages (that he can't speak/found... |
Sedimental |
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cd 1990/1970 new There's no more perfect illustration of site-specific composition than Lucier's renowned hall-of-mirrors tape piece. He recorded himself making a little speech, which described the... |
Lovely |
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cd 2010/1987/1965-81 new If a single person can be said to be responsible for the rise of site-specific sound installations, then Alvin Lucier's your man. A member of the Sonic Arts Union with Robert... |
Lovely |
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2cd 2005/1984-03 new 2nd generation (that is to say, mid-1960s) electronic composer whose unique contribution was in connecting electronic music to performance and site-specific installations.... |
New World |
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cd 2008 new Even after 40 years, AMM is so subtle it makes other improvised records seem like they were put together with jackhammers. Never just a drone, never just chirping, but curling waves of... |
Matchless |
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lp 2011/1965-69 new Badly mastered but nonetheless intense practice tapes of the 5th Velvet MacLise (okay, maybe the 7th Velvet after Nico & Doug Yule). Fat drapes of gorgeous & mournful organ played... |
Boo-Hooray |
$29.00
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cd 2007/1967-82 new Lots of folks have heard Lockwood's name tossed around here and there, but this is the title you want to actually get out your wallet for. Charmingly straightforward and dry... |
EM |
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lp 2010/1994-2000 new Bruhin's been playing jew's harp since the mid 60s and has invented several unusual modifications for the instrument. He samples himself on a little casio, and then solos over... |
Alga Marghen |
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cd 2001/1976-78 new Hisstastic field recordings layered by overdubbing between two portable cassette recorders. Elegant overblown harmonica with ghosts & tape fast forwards convening together in the... |
Alga Marghen |
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cd 2008/1969-79 new NWW list highlight. Swiss nutjob gets excited about the alpine tradition of playing the jews harp & is soon taping himself messing about on one along with a reed stuck to a PVC... |
Alga Marghen |
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lp 2009/2007 new Arch as eyebrows & horribly German art experiment. Arnulf appeared on the first Faust lp, and is here with Mama Bar & Kommissar Hjuler (whom you might remember from their version of... |
Die Taubnessel |
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3cd 2011/1962-98 new Best known for the electronic noises on the swingin' 'Free Electronic Pop Concept' lp, Souffriau was the quiet, dry sound engineer at the state television station in Belgium for... |
Metaphon |
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cd 2011 new Tietchens makes 'I Am Sitting in a Laptop'- that's to say he tries to take musical processing to it's ultimate conclusion. Using specific computer pieces from his past catalog, he re-runs... |
Line |
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cd 2011/1999 new So glad to see this one come around again. Ito is a Japanese kid in a rapper hat who occasionally plays in Otomo Yoshihide's big band. Instead of an instrument, he plays a long... |
Omega Point |
$23.50
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cd 2006/1979/1975-2001 new Whining pulses, trebly floating drones & a some echoey kerrangs made on the gargantuan EMS 100 at the Univ. of Indiana in the mid 70s. This cd reissues a Folkways lp from... |
EM |
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2cd 2013/1980-82 new Synthesizers & drum machines are tweaked into becoming trebly marimbas or reverberent whines that push on your head as smoothly & insistently as the waves. A few acoustic guitars... |
EM |
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4cd 2009/1975-78 new Took me a while to get around to this box because of the $$$, but I shouldn't have waited. Oosterlynck is Belgian, started out making site-specific sound installations, has... |
Matephon |
$78.00
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cd 1999/1960-1995 new A major Alga Margen release, and a definite candidate for my favorite Fluxus piece of all time is right here. It's Ben Patterson's 'A Simple Opera'. A brilliantly reflexive... |
Alga Marghen |
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cdr 2005/1987 new Charming record of Danish graphic scores that look like Mac Classic clip-art charts. The pieces here go back as far as '72. The well-monikered Bent is best known for his more trad... |
Creel Pone |
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lp 2012/1970-77 new Parmegiani begins here with a train, which is pretty ballsy, as he'd clearly be familiar with Pierre Schaeffer's famous train recording that kicked off the whole genre of musique... |
Mego |
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cd 2006/1991-06 new Slowed down clocks, pages turning, and everything else Parmegiani can think of to get you to pay attention to the passing of time. This was the first composition he made after... |
INA GRM |
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cd 2012/1969-72 new Zimmerman is a serial/post-serial composer from Germany, who happened to be the first guy to land upon the Quentin Tarantino (or John Zorn, if you like that better) style of... |
Wergo |
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lp 2009 new McClure tours galleries & sometimes music festivals, running short film loops on multiple modified 16mm projectors and amplifying the consequent sounds through a bank of guitar pedals & a... |
Olde English Spelling Bee |
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one sided lp 2010 new Luc Ferrari's wife took some tapes (5 of them) that her husband made in 1977 and boiled them down to a quiet, quivering little drone. Very smooth & clean, and not at all like... |
Alga Marghen |
$26.00
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cdr 2011/1978 new Buchla 200 pieces made for dancers & at the Columbia Princeton Electronic music studio when the means to make this kind of oscillator gorp was very new & clunky. The dance piece was... |
Creel Pone |
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cd 2012/2011 new A bass-laden, round & easygoing drone from math-friendly minimalist Hennix. Tuba, trombone, 2 voices, sine waves & it was all performed alongside a computer animation. Written for a... |
Travelling Time |
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cd 2010/1996/1974/1972-74 new If you're gonna treat your head like a bed, may as well get sheets with a thread count of about 50,000. And this should be your first luxuriant pillow-stop. Scrumptious... |
Alga Marghen |
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cd 2008/2000/1967-9 new Late 60s NYC minimalism from everybody's teddy, Chaz Palestine. One track is oscillators resonating an empty building (where Palestine sat on a dirty mattress in the middle of... |
Alga Marghen |
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cd 2008/1967-74 new Palestine was in a mid-70s minimalist supergroup with Tony Conrad & Rhys Chatham called the The Fundamental D Flat Group. Their only recorded moment, from a live show at a college... |
Alga Marghen |
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one sided lp 2009/197x new In his search for the most cozy, enveloping sound, Palestine has tried out Bosendorfer hammerings & long tone yowls, but he's also known for these oscillator drones, and... |
Alga Marghen |
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3cd 2010/1974-77 new Palestine's idea, the one which made his name as a minimalist, is that long bouts of repetetive hammering on the different harmonics of a string will make overtones start to peel... |
Sub Rosa |
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cd 2007/2000 new Chaz live in 2000 pounding out a deliciously repetetive drone on the bottom end of the fat, rich Bosendorfer Imperial piano. The piano is one of only 2 in the world desinged by Hans... |
Yesmissolga |
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lp 2012/1970 new Very gritty electronics for Palestine. Really seems like a slowed/sped cassette of a zildjian cymbal more than anything involving oscillators. In actuality however, it's a table full... |
Alga Marghen |
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cd 2013/2010 new Crackpot junction town meeting that turns out to be a sleepy sunny afternoon in the local city hall instead. Palestine plays a set of giant bells, & Z'ev plays a pair of giant kick... |
Sub Rosa |
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cd 2008/1950-53/1902-14 new Ives' fascinating musical model of simultaneous marching bands (which he turned into string orchestrations that, under the right baton, can shimmer against & transparently... |
El |
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4cd 2007/2006/1963-82 new Incredibly packaged box of Fluxus happenings involving Nam June Paik & gorgeous Charlotte Moorman. Impressively dirty & uncellolike glorps and crackles abound in these... |
Alga Marghen |
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cd 2011/1989-10 new Brown & William Winant are both teaching at Mills College in California at the moment. Winant's drumming is pretty integral to the proceedings, as Brown's pieces all invlove a... |
New World |
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12 inch 2011 new Watson's from both Cabaret Voltaire & the Hafler Trio, but I think his solo field recording work is some of his most fascinating. Recreation of a cross-country train journey in... |
Touch |
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cd 2008/2003 new Onetime member of Cabaret Voltaire definitively eclipses his past on the strength of these attentively edited field recordings. A national reserve in Kenya growls & swishes. A valley... |
Touch |
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cd 2012/1971/1952-71 new David Tudor, Frederic Rzewski, David Behrman (on violin), & Gordon Mumma (on harmonica & french horn!) all help out on this classic. Two of the pieces are very early... |
Wergo |
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cd 2012/2011 new Here's a little series of concerts that Jon Abbey put on last fall at the Stone in NYC. Both gents played tabletop guitar, and while AMM's Rowe had tons of little boxes & pedals as... |
Erstwhile |
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cd 2007 new Processed recordings from Kubisch's installation in which particpants walk around wearing wireless headphones that amplify the background electro-magnetic fields present in the... |
Important |
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cd 2010/2008 new Recordings from Kubisch's ongoing series in which participants walk around wearing wireless headphones that amplify the background electro-magnetic fields present in the environment.... |
Ville de Poitiers |
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cd 2011/1981-85 new One installation piece and one rework of a soundtrack, both from the 80s. The first is a slow-paced series of quiet low sine tones, all made from acoustic sources (like bass... |
Important |
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cd 2001/1997 new Processed field recordings of Canadian ladies & gents cracking their fingers, toes, elbows, wrists, necks, backs, knees, & hips. Migone found the folks to make the noises by putting... |
Locust |
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cd 2011 new Field recordings made outdoors & in a hotel in Ethiopia, settled neatly in a bed of tranquil low frequencies. Some fluttering turns out to be the morse code translation of a Rimbaud poem.... |
Touch |
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lp 2007 new Kommissar Hjuler (that's how you spell it when it's not in Flemish) is a real live policeman who lives in a little town in Germany with his quite-a-bit-younger wife Mama Bar. She is a... |
Ultra Eczema |
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cd 2012 new Even though making unplayable music by punching holes with a compass point into player piano rolls was bizarre enough, Nancarrow also experimented with using two different rolls in the... |
Wergo |
$25.00
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cd 2007/2005 new Inhuman compositions that Nancarrow was able to realize by souping up old player pianos instead of having real people play them. One of those incredibly stubborn people (think... |
MDG |
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