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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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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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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 |
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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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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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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 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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cd 2005/1983/1979-81 new Absurd little explosions of DIY that sometimes spurts into songs and sometimes just spurts into spurts. Careening electric guitar, mixed-up voices, horns & odd tinkles,... |
Alga Marghen |
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cd 2009/1978-81 new Deeply bizarre collision of Max Headroom 80s pop & avant classical pieces by this guy who hung around the Italian pop-art magazine 'Frigidaire'. Whiplash inducing collection that... |
Alga Marghen |
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cd 2008/1969 new American expats hanging around the hippie scene in Rome try to loosen up the strictured world of avant-classical performance practice. Truth be told though, their endless left turns... |
Alga Marghen |
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cd 2008/2001/1968-90 new Unbeatable nastyass belching from what must've been the local marching band's horn rejects, over some chaotic scribbles that could be either percussion or recordings of... |
Alga Marghen |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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... |
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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 |
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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 |
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