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cd 1996/1957 new Easy listening with bright-as-balloons orchestral arrangements that rival Esquivel's sense of the absurd, but were made using the cutup techniques of Jean Jacques Perrey & Pierre... |
Basta |
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cd 2012 new The Daphne Oram trust let Andrea Parker go through their archives looking for samples of unreleased material, & Parker used them alongside her Arp & 808 machines. Bass drones & lots of... |
Aperture |
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cd 2011 new Jumpy, harsh collage of abrasive sweeps & distorted grunts made with an interactive digital controller. Andrea's originally from Argentina & has been using unique high-tech systems (that... |
Zero Moon |
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cd 2012/1972 new You know how whenever there's a group of friends who all do the same stuff, everybody ends up sleeping with everybody until eventually they all hate each other? Well, when Carla Bley... |
Light in the Attic |
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2cdr 2009/1973 new Think Rod McKuen's sexual subtexts are ho-hum? Jandek's grey-slices-of-life are too easygoing? Welcome to the ultra-creepy world of Plinth. New York poet who started publishing in... |
BWIE |
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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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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 2010/2002/1974 new What could be more American than a soul-porn soundtrack? Bernard Purdie was already the world's premiere soul session drummer, and he'd released a record as a leader ('Soul... |
Light in the Attic |
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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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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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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 2013/1929 new Poole was already a popular country string performer. Pretty smartly, he realized that adding piano & a 2nd, extra classy violinist to his normal trio of banjo, fiddle & guitar would... |
Tompkins Square |
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4cd 2013/1972-99 new Conny is of course best known for producing the 1st two Kluster lps, the first Kraftwerk, Neu, Ash Ra Tempel, Guru Guru & even some Can. This set focuses on slightly later... |
Gronland |
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cd 2012/1967-75 new Keyboard player for Frank Zappa had several side jobs in the 70s that included making suggestions to Bob Moog, working for Meredith Monk, and playing synths on the 'Apocalypse... |
Sub Rosa |
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cd 2011/1972 new Peruvian folk that's quite a bit more traditional than the pop-psych of We All Together or Telegraph Avenue. If you're anything like me, well-to-do street musicians who park next to... |
Repsychled/Lion |
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cd 2009/1968 new Longtime rumor had it that Pomerance was a B-level Greenwich Village folkie who a few pals conspired to dose heavily with acid, and then turned on a tape recorder. In truth she's... |
ESP |
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cd 2008/1989 new Multiple melodic microtonal rivers come streaming out of one horn. Parker had just figured out a new way to fractalize his playing into tinier & tinier bubbles that he could... |
Emanem/PSI |
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cd 2009/1975 new Parker's earliest solo performances, half of them live. Long rivers of fluttering screechophonics hacked together with bloody gums & circular breathing, and some Samuel Beckett... |
PSI |
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cd 2009/1968-79 new Two rather obscure soundtracks, and about the only thing they have in common is their composer. Zorro gives you Spanish fanfares & sweeps of acoustic guitar with tidy strings.... |
GDM |
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cd 2005/1958-72 new Just intonation, selfmade instruments & musical plays satirizing society. Like many people, Partch thought that the contemporary West had segmented & whitewashed itself into... |
New World |
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4cd 1995/1943-92 new Partch was driven into inventing his own microtonal system & building oversized fake-Grecian instruments to play it because he wanted to mimic the inflection of voices better... |
Innova |
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cd 2005/1956 new Harry Partch Collection Vol. 4. The Bewitched is one of Partch's most successful pieces, second only to Delusion of the Fury. It's a loosely autobiographical musical, & doesn't have... |
New World |
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cd 2004/1949-55 new Harry reads in his unusual i-was-a-stutterer-in-a-former-life intonation, and is accompanied by his windy & atonal self-built instruments, guitar & violin licks. Some of these... |
New World |
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cd 2004 new Not a collaboration, but a three way split. Gurgling sound poet extraordinaire & Selektion's installation/architecture gent exceptional, who are abetted by one track from the contemporary... |
Flying Swimming |
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cd 2008/1953-99 new Pousseur is a Belgian professor who attended the famed dodecaphonic Darmstadt summer school lectures, along with Luigi Nono, Pierre Boulez, Bruno Maderna, Karlheinz Stockhausen,... |
Sub Rosa |
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cd 2011/1992 new Pousseur was a Belgian professor who attended the famed dodecaphonic Darmstadt summer school lectures, along with Luigi Nono, Pierre Boulez, Bruno Maderna, Karlheinz Stockhausen,... |
Sub Rosa |
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cd 1996/1970 new Perry was a French med student when he met George Jenny & decided to travel around demonstrating Jenny's ondioline in the early 50s. But it was Perrey's genius alone that led him to... |
Vanguard |
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cdr 2012/1957 new An early piece by the celebrated lounge blooper, issued by a sleep study institute and recorded specifically for you to dream to. Perrey plays ondioline, a proto-synthesizer... |
Creel Pone |
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cd 1996/1968 new Perrey is one of the prime architects of the sound of a bright & happy future, and since the late 60s is about the last time in our collective culture that such a future seemed... |
Vanguard |
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cd 1988/1961 new Johnny was from the cracker triangle, a little slice of rural southeast Texas where the most bigoted white people in the world reside. A picturesque county where you can still get... |
Memphis |
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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 |
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cd 2004/1959 new A generation older than the typical beat poets (he hung out with EE Cummings in Greenwich Village in the 40s, & his book 'Albion Moonlight' came out in 46). Released originally on... |
Locust |
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cd 2007/1948-54 new You know all those nice things people say about middle-period Brian Eno? It's all really true, except that they're applying the idea to the wrong guy. The real purveyor of mystic... |
El/Cherry Red |
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cd 2008/1970 new A real cornerstone of the acid folk boom, this reish features dental hygenist Linda's wonderfully melancholy vocals, overdubbed until they rain down like a waterfall. I do think this... |
The Wild Places |
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cd 2002/1946-71 new Tapes of an elderly self taught Cantonese qin player who went otherwise unrecorded & only performed for an audience once, doing some traditional pieces & some he wrote. The tapes... |
World Arbiter |
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cd 2010/1968 new Peterson is mostly known for funk jazz albums that he put out on MPS & Enja in the 70s under the nickname Hannibal. He also played on the wacky 'Gil Evans Plays the Music of Jimi... |
Jazzman |
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6cd 2008/1968-89 new Prokop started out in Prague with a blend of Elvis & Ray Charles piano-based soul that's campy, sweet & unique if rather untoothed. He might've turned into the Czech Tony Joe... |
Supraphon |
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2cd 2012/1981 new NDW meets postpunk head on in Hamburg. Stiff drums that sound like oil drums & German yelling, with stabs from a keyboard here & there. Early on they shared their drummer FM Einheit... |
Bureau B |
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cd 2008/1967 new Phil Spector underling & half the wrecking crew along with a member of the Roger Nicholls Trio plus a guy who would go on to appear in the cast of 'Planet of the Apes'. Those... |
Now Sounds |
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cd 2011/1970 new San Fran power trio that tries to rewrite Hendrix songs as their own, but for some reason they do so with fewer guitar solos. A few forays into Bloomfield blues too. Not super... |
Pilot |
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2cd 2012/1967-68 new The much & rightly loved beginning of Sweden's psychedelic dynasty. With Bo Anders Persson (Harvester, International Harvester, Trad Gras och Stenar) on guitar. Most bands start... |
Subliminal Sounds |
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cd 2007/1969 new Private press home-recorded suburban teens from NY awash in the perfume of reverb-covered innocence. Gentle, rural psych with 12 string & electric, autoharp, piano. 7 bonus tracks... |
Time Lag |
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cd 2005/2003 new Founder of the Het Apollohuis sound art space which ran in Holland though the 80s & 90s & his Macuinas ensemble is named after the Fluxus founder George. His drones are smooth as... |
Plinkety Plonk |
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cd 2012/1978 new Reggae from southern Nigeria. Pazy (real name Edire Etinagbedia) went on to be a producer in the 80s & his son is a local musician today. About half of the first side is major key... |
Secret Stash |
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cd 2007 new Duo of local popular musicians from western Mali who play electric ngonis (aka diddley bows with their bottoms stuck in gourd bowls). The local aunts & uncles come around & contribute to... |
Yaala Yaala |
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2cdr 2004/2001-04 new Rochester, NY's lakeside scuttlers let fly with garbage freedom noise & riffage. Must be those ugly winters. All over the place as usual, from free jazz jams to psych rock party... |
Carbon |
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cd 2007/1971 new Awesome higher-than-a-kite bliss out including the nutso guitar of Kimio Mizutani (Love Live Life + One). Field recordings, acid freaking, vocal chants. Illuminating liner note... |
Phoenix |
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