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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 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 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:
Milk From Cheltenham Triptych of Poisoners cd 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	$16.00 Add:
Monofonic Orchestra/Maurizio Marsico Early Works cd 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	$18.50 Add:
Musica Elettronica Viva Friday cd 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	$18.50 Add:
Musica Elettronica Viva Spacecraft/Unified Patchwork Theory cd 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	$19.00 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:
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: