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Anton Bruhin Deux Pipes lp 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	$30.00 Add:
Anton Bruhin Rotomotor cd 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	$18.50 Add:
Anton Bruhin Vom Goldabfischer cd 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	$18.50 Add:
Ben Patterson Early Works cd 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	$18.50 Add:
Brunhild Ferrari Tranquilles Impatiences one sided lp 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 Add:
Charlemagne Palestine & Simone Forti Illuminations lp lp 2010/1971 new Chaz & dancer Forti lazed around in a giant concrete cube that was part of the unfinished architecture of the California Institute for the Arts at Valencia. There on the invitation...	Alga Marghen	$25.00 Add:
Charlemagne Palestine Four Manifestations on Six Elements cd 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	$18.50 Add:
Charlemagne Palestine Golden 1 cd 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	$18.50 Add:
Charlemagne Palestine Golden 4 cd 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	$18.50 Add:
Charlemagne Palestine Sound 1 lp 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	$30.00 Add:
Charlemagne Palestine Two Electronic Sonorities lp 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	$25.50 Add:
Charlotte Moorman Cello Anthology 4cd 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	$130.00 Add:
Dick Higgins The Thousand Symphonies cd cd 2009/2003/1968 new Higgins was one of the founders of Fluxus along with George Macuinas. Invited to participate in a late 60s show at a college with 'guns' as the theme, Higgins suggested a piece...	Alga Marghen	$18.50 Add:
Eliane Radigue Feedback Works 2lp 2lp 2012/1969-70 new Radigue started out as a student of Pierre Schaeffer, & worked as an assistant to Pierre Henry. Henry gave her some leftover equipment that she used to make her earliest pieces....	Alga Marghen	$47.00 Add:
Francois Dufrene Ouvre Desintegrale 3cd 3cd 2010/1977/1965-76 new Multiple overdubs of little spit bubbles, impressions of wind, mouth-fwapping, blowing on a mic, cassette feedback, bits of classical records, & general squeak-tones. Easy...	Alga Marghen	$70.50 Add:
Ghedalia Tazartes Transports cd cd 2009/1997/1977 new Unusually personal & intimate musique concrete. There's also some recordings of Tazartes' daughter & piano. Tazartes records always seem to work like a guided tour of his...	Alga Marghen	$18.50 Add:
Jacques Berrocal Paralleles cd cd 2009/2001/1972-79 new Free & windy goofing around on horns that smear & burble, woodworking machinery running unattended. And then, for unknown reasons, the drug-addled singer for Les Playboys...	Alga Marghen	$18.50 Add:
Luc Ferrari Ephemere cd cd 2010/1974-75 new Lots of musicians would like to make you slightly uncomfortable, but only Ferrari can make abstract tape music that turns quickly to metaphors about bathroom stall glory holes....	Alga Marghen	$18.50 Add:
Luc Ferrari Labyrinthe de Violence/Dance one sided lp one sided lp 2009/1975 new A deep bass drone with choppy & trebly bits seeping through over the top, and they turn out to be bits of Ferrari himself playing the electric organ. Sounds more like the...	Alga Marghen	$30.00 Add:
Malcolm Goldstein Early Electronic Tape Collage Music lp lp 2009/1963-67 new Violinist Goldstein got his start at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music center, and has a large collage here ('Illuminations from Fantastic Gardens') that gives a montaged &...	Alga Marghen	$26.00 Add:
Philip Corner Coldwater Basin 2 one sided lp one sided lp 2012/196x new Freshly back from studying with Olivier Messiaen in Paris, Corner got a pal to hold the mic of a portable tape recorder up next to the sink in his crappy NYC apartment, and...	Alga Marghen	$25.50 Add:
Quartetto Organic Playco 1969 cd cd 2008/1969 new Italian improv guys who eventually turned into the longrunning & still active band NADMA. Pianist Mosconi was also an avant garde photographer, & had recently spent a few years...	Alga Marghen	$18.50 Add:
Takis Pendules Magnetiques/Le Siecle de Kafka lp lp 2010/1993/1964-84 new Greek sculptor who is known for his interest in sound. Vassilakis Takis started out working with mobile sculptures, often made from taut nylon strings and magnets. In '63, he...	Alga Marghen	$29.50 Add:
Ulises Carrion The Poet's Tongue lp lp 2012/1977 new Arty Amsterdam bookshop owner who got there by way of growing up in Mexico. A little more on the side of conceptual poems than of sound poems per se. One piece reads the characters...	Alga Marghen	$25.50 Add:
Walter Marchetti In Terram Utopicam cd cd 2010/1966-75 new As the man himself says. "The intention of these pieces of music surely has nothing to do with any celebration of this shit-filled world which can know no hope of finding grace."...	Alga Marghen	$18.50 Add:
Walter Marchetti In Terram Utopicam lp lp 2010/1966-75 new As the man himself says. "The intention of these pieces of music surely has nothing to do with any celebration of this shit-filled world which can know no hope of finding grace."...	Alga Marghen	$25.00 Add:
Walter Marchetti La Caccia lp lp 2010/1965 new Marchetti became interested in Cage during the 50s, founded a Fluxus-ish group called ZAJ in the mid 60s, and has spent most of his life trying to erase the line between music and...	Alga Marghen	$25.00 Add:
Walter Marchetti Natura Morta cd cd 2010/1988/1980 new A slow, simple, melancholy piano line, tapped out mechanically with plenty of pedal & naturally reverberant room sound between each note. Apparently played on a piano that was...	Alga Marghen	$18.50 Add:
Walter Marchetti Per la Sete Dell'Orecchio lp lp 2010/1981-85 new Walter heads for the local public pool and throws rocks in it, making for a really fun series of big, wet, scatalogical plops. On the flip, there's a piece for Cage, who first...	Alga Marghen	$25.00 Add:
Walter Marchetti Vandalia cd cd 2010/1981-89 new There are individual pieces of Marchetti's I like better, but this albums provocative style is the most dry & tidy overall. Named after an imaginary land of perfect romance in...	Alga Marghen	$18.50 Add:
Walter Marchetti Vandalia lp lp 2010/1981-89 new There are individual pieces of Marchetti's I like better, but this albums provocative style is the most dry & tidy overall. Named after an imaginary land of perfect romance in...	Alga Marghen	$25.00 Add:
Nascita Della Sfera Per Una Scultura Di Ceschia lp lp 2006/1977 new Italian composer trying to make a tribute to a local sculptor hires a bunch of prog musicians, including 5 singers, in the middle of the 70s. Though a sure recipie for some sort of...	AMS	$32.00 Add:
Suzanne Ciani Lixiviation cd cd 2012/1969-85 new Ciani studied with Max Matthews, made the sound of coca-cola fizz, did the sound effects for the Meco 'Star Wars' album, made the sonic logo for Atari, and in recent years has...	B Music	$15.00 Add:
Wolfgang Fuchs/Jerome Bryerton/Damon Smith Three October cd cd 2001 M-/M- Fuchs has been playing around Berlin since the mid 70s & founded the King Ubu Orchestru in '83. On a solo tour of the US in 1997, he met a couple of younger Americans & took them under...	Balance Point Acoustics	$9.00 Add:
Raymond Scott Manhattan Research 2cd 2cd 2001/1953-69 new Scott's well known as a 30s bandleader & the silent architect of the Warner Bros. cartoon sound. Like James Brown, Buddy Rich & more, his perfectionism led him to demand greatly...	Basta	$27.00 Add:
Gyorgy Ligeti 1948-2001 A Ligeti Odyssey cd cd 2012/1994-06/1948-01 new One of Ligeti's best known chromatic cloud pieces (yep, the one that appears in Kubrick's '2001') is here. 'Lux Aeterna' is a graceful and unearthly drone made from a 16...	Bis	$19.00 Add:
Mauricio Kagel/Frederic Blondy/DJ Lenar Ludwig Van cd cd 2012/2011 new Kagel's piece cut up performances of Beethoven & glued them back together slightly out of tune, sometimes mixing two tunes together & sometimes the same one, as a way of...	Bolt	$14.50 Add:
Angus MacLise/Hetty MacLise Dreamweapon II lp 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 Add:
Reines D'Angleterre Globe et Dynastie cd cd 2012 new 3 French guys who like pasting & hooking lengths of noise onto each other. Jo Tanz runs the Tanzprocesz label, El-G has had a couple of records out on Nashazphone & SS. And they're here...	Boweavil	$15.00 Add:
Reines D'Angleterre Globe et Dynastie lp lp 2012 new 3 French guys who like pasting & hooking lengths of noise onto each other. Jo Tanz runs the Tanzprocesz label, El-G has had a couple of records out on Nashazphone & SS. And they're here...	Boweavil	$23.00 Add:
Francis Dhomont Acousmatrix Mouvances Metaphores 2cd 2cd 2007/1982-91 new Dhomont discovered/invented musique concrete roughly at the same time as Pierre Schaffer, but in isolation & using wire recording instead of lathe-acetates. Once people finally...	Bvhaast	$18.00 Add:
Various The Busy Drone cd cd 2007/1981-1995 new This cd has bad cover art & the title is misleading, but it's pretty impressive once you get to know it a little. During the early part of the 20th century in Germany &...	Bvhaast	$15.00 Add:
Gil Melle The Andromeda Strain Soundtrack cdr cdr 2006/1971 new This movie is a classic conspiracy/armageddon flick in the tradition of Heston's 'The Omega Man' or 'THX-1138'. Giant 70s computers loom and lights blink in color-coded rooms while...	BWIE	$5.00 Add:
Joseph Beuys/Nam June Paik Klavierduett cdr cdr 2011/1982/1978 new Memorial concert for Fluxus' manifesto writer & de facto leader George Maciunas. Beuys and Paik put two pianos facing one another along with a couple of mics & an alarm clock....	BWIE	$5.00 Add:
Martha Folts New Music for Organ cdr cdr 2006/1974 new Boston sports multiple local all-cdr labels of dubious legality. This particular one comes to us by way of a lovely fellow named George. It features what are obviously George's...	BWIE	$5.00 Add:
Michael Snow the Last lp cdr cdr 2007/1987 new Here's a little cdr of a great Michael Snow lp. You might remember Snow as the filmmaker of 'New York Eye and Ear Control' or as a performer on Steve Reich's 'Pendulum Music'. He...	BWIE	$5.00 Add:
Polly Bradfield Solo Violin Improvisations cdr cdr 2009/1979 new Bradfield's first, last, & only solo album is frank & flatly stark, with bone dry scrapes and chalky scratches cutting through big chunks of silence as dead as 3 day old fish. She's...	BWIE	$5.00 Add:
Various True Vine 78 Series Vol. 15: Missa Pro Defunctis cdr cdr 2008/1934 new Grand series, showcasing the stellar 78 collection of Ian Nagoski. If you don't know him, Ian is the onetime owner of the True Vine record store in Baltimore, MD, and also compiled...	BWIE	$6.00 Add:
Ernst Karel/Annette Krebs Falter 1-5 cd cd 2010/2006 new Ever wish you could visit an ant farm from the insects' point of view? Tiny little crunches of underfoot gravel, the hum of industiral environs, bacon fry, crinkles & tons of...	Cathnor	$10.00 Add:
Various Forbidden Planets Vol. 2 2cd 2cd 2011/1921-60 new 60 years of avant garde art music that starts with austere orchestral manifestos & ends up with happy electronic blooping. Whether you prefer to follow the rise of tape as a...	Chrome Dreams	$17.50 Add: