From ear@xmission.com Sun Dec 1 23:12:08 2002 From: ear@xmission.com (EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 16:12:08 -0700 (MST) Subject: [ear-subscribers] this week's update Message-ID: Forgive the ugly formatting. I am out of town and don't have access to my computer. If you want to order something to be delivered in time for Christmas, please do so by Sunday, December 8th, if possible. You may order as late as the 15th--we should have your order filled on the 19th and shipped on the 20th, but please be aware that UPS doesnot guarantee delivery times during the holiday season. Blectum From Blechdom - Fishin' In Front Of People [PHTH43] Phthalo $11.75 "The apparently last album for this computermusic supergroup. With edits, and unlikely moments spanning a number of live performances, this also includes some previous favorites from the Messy Jesse Fiesta and D84 albums, as well as 2 campy vocal pop tunes from the exceedingly evil mind of Kevin Blechdom, with harmonies from Blevin. This is in Phthalo's opinion the most raw/unrefined/thrashy Blechdom album available (containing the most messy and drunken moments according to the cover), and tracks such as 'Rave Training Wheels' show the imagination and recklessness that techno can be injected with when executed by powerful minds. The duo will be missed, but solo careers for both Blevin and Kevin look promising." Bretschneider, Frank/Olafur Eliasson- Aerial Riverseries [WHATNE004] Whatness $15.50 Eliasson: "The experience of composition is, I believe, a matter of cultivation. As much as the senses and perception are linked with memory and recognition, our relation to composition, space or even colour is closely derived from our cultural habitat." Bretschneider: "The 'Riverseries' seemed somehow to fit with my approach to music. I was fascinated, in particular, by the filigree structures, the colour contrasts and nuances. The photographs then seemed very artificial to me, almost digital, in spite of the archaic landscape. I never actually perceived them as landscape images, probably because of the unfamiliar perspective." Butthole Surfers - Blind Eye Sees All: Live DVD (MVD) [320496] $18.25 This DVD contains vintage Buttholes' footage depicting the raw and insanely energetic Buttholes that took the American underground by storm. Take a journey back to 1985 to rock the hell out with the Buttholes as they terrorize Detroit and get your juices flowing. 13 tracks. Digitally remastered to 5.1 Surround Sound, Song & Interview Index, Butthole Karaoke, plus bonus live track, 1991. 80 minutes. Ciao! Manhanttan - The Movie DVD (?) [324716] $20.00 30th anniversary edition of this film by John Palmer & David Weisman. Out of print on video for over a decade! The DVD features never-before-seen footage of Edie Sedgewick and the Warhol Factory crowd - Brigid Berlin, Viva!, Baby Jane Holzer and Paul America. Plus Allen Ginsberg, Roger Vadim, Isabel Jewell and more! Color/B&W/91 min. NTSC. Coil - The World Ended A Long Time Ago WATCH [COILWATCH2] World Serpent $26.00 "Black Sun face with the following text written around the outer-face of the watch 'The World Ended A Long Time Ago'. The watch comes in the now classic Coil clear strap and is housed in a Black case." Limited availability. Current 93 - Dawn [DURTRO002CD] Durtro $15.75 "Digipack Re-Issue of Current 93's seminal 4TH or 5TH or 6TH. Recorded in 1985 or 1986, this was the last album by Current 93 before they turned to worshipping nursery rhymes, although hints of Tibet's future obsessions and happiness can be found here. For this digipak re-issue, the album has been, for the most part, digitally re-mastered from the original tapes." Ehlers, Ekkehard/Sebastian Meissner/Thom Willelms - Music for William Forsythe [WHATNE005] Whatness $15.50 "They compose music for what is arguably the world's best ballet company, utterly devoid of all false conservatism. Time and again, Ballett Frankfurt has rolled back frontiers in the way we look at classical dance. This new slant of seeing ballet with a detached gaze corresponds directly to the music of Ekkehard Ehlers, Sebastian Meissner and Thom Wilhelms, which calls for a whole new way of listening. Dancers do not dance 'to' the music they hear. Music guides the eye, hovering freely like dance, in an incorporeal perception that functions focus by focus, rather than note by note. Within this panorama, Willems, Meissner and Ehlers have created a vast musical range as broad and as deep as an 'aural vision' of the world can be." Flynt, Henry - Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Volume 2 [LOCUST14] Locust $13.25 "Here we find ourselves hot on the skidmarks of Henry's brawl with sonic self invention documented on last summer's splendid Raga Electric with two complementary volumes emerging from the same physical time but a very different head space continuum indeed. On BPHB Volume 2, avant-hillbilly master fiddler Henry Flynt scuffles through a most peculiar set of electrified and acoustic bumpkin fiddle howls and screeches circa early to mid 1960s. From the enviable opening 'echo rock', in which Flynt does his best to compete with the electro-echo buzz of a Jorgen Ingmann or Link Wray to the beauteous instrumental glow of the extended modal country jam of 'Jamboree', Flynt proves once again that his is not a music simply rooted in the taut belt of New York isms, schisms and jisms. This is music that howls from a unique voice whose love for the folk songbook (known and imagined) is as resonant as a cowbell and as deep as a freshwater well." Jam Master Jay - Be a DJ DVD (Warner Brothers) [324756] $13.75 This DVD contains exclusive live video performance footage of Jam Master Jay (the DJ behind the legendary rap group Run DMC). And Run DMC. Perfect for all levels for DJs. Part 1 - What to look for in a DJ starter kit, How to choose and hook up your equipment, How to do your very first mix and more. Part 2 - Advanced mixing skills, Digital Cueing and mixing techniques, How to become a mobile DJ and more. NTSC. Kid Loco - Anotherlatenight [ALN007CD] Another Late Night $15.25 RELEASE DATE: 01/28/2003 "Like the previous, highly acclaimed mix from skate legend Tommy Guerrero, this one features gems that reach back, way back to the dulcit tones of John Lucien and Harvey Mandel. We then move softly forward into the percussive persuasions of The Herbaliser, DJ Crystal and Public Image Ltd to name but a few. Carefully selected and smoothly arranged this mix will slip like velvet into the collection of any 'AnotherLateNight' fan. Also features Kid Loco's exclusive cover of Gang Of Four's 'Paralysed'. 22 tracks from the likes of John Lucien, Aim, DJ Crsytal, The Herbaliser, and more." King Crimson - Ladies Of The Road 2CD (DGM) [194812] $19.50 Double CD, special edition of live performances during 1971-72 drawn from the archives of the King Crimson Collectors' Club. The first CD is a series of performances beginning with the play-in shows at the Zoom Club, Hamburg through to the final Earthbound tour of America. The second CD is a compilation of sax and guitar solos played during performances of 21st Century Schizoid Man throughout its life. Koujiki, Kougezan - The Live 11th (Final) 2CD [NVR001/2] Horen $17.75 "Hren is the Japanese label that recently released a double CD retrospective of maverick composer and instrument builder Akio Suzuki. Although Suzuki contributes only six minutes to the current release (a peripatetic solo on stone flute), his fingerprints are visible throughout, most noticeably his comment on the CD spine wrapper: 'I'll tear off the ears of whoever says this is just rain'. This double CD documents a concert in autumn 2001 at the Koujiki temple in south Osaka. Matthews, Kaffe/Andrea Neumann/sAchiko M - In Case Of Fire Take The Stairs [IMJ503] Improvised Music from Japan $15.75 Kaffe Matthews: laptop, Andrea Neumann: inside piano, Sachiko M: sinewaves, contact microphones. "Although I and II include two and three tracks, respectively, each is a single work. They are divided into multiple tracks for listeners' convenience. Kaffe Matthews created her sound by live-sampling and processing her own and the other musicians' sounds as they played." Metamatics - Rewired In My Manor [DUKE112CD] Hydrogen Dukebox $15.75 RELEASE DATE: 12/10/2002 "The first in a series of three remix projects involving Lee Norris, Rewired In My Manor sees Lee operating as Metamatics (parts two and three are under his Norken and Nacht Plank guises). Artists include: Yasume, Verbose, Ilkae, Sleepy Town Manufacture, ENV(itre), Sabi, Kero, Stars As Eyes, Kettel, Xela vs Aeiou, Bauri, and Mati:K. Monkees - Hey Hey We're The Monkees DVD (?) [324706] $21.75 The Monkees were one of the most popular bands of the swinging 60s - and a groundbreaking TV and showbiz phenomenon, pre-dating music videos and prefab heartthrob boy bands by decades. Hey Hey We're The Monkees moves right into the heart of both the Monkees' music and their remarkable story with clips from their zany show, performances of hit songs, in-depth interviews, and rare footage. NTSC. Dolby Digital Stereo. Nico - Underground Experience + Heroine DVD (Cherry Red) [323436] $21.75 An Underground Experience is a seedy documentation of one of the most important icons of subculture. She is caught on suitably grainy video footage doing what she did best, performing in an underground club. Shot in the early eighties with punks as an audience, the film is hardly stunning, yet this somehow enhances its authenticity. Nico's presence is both powerful and at times moving especially during the interview section. Heroine is a hauntingly beautiful film of Nico's acoustic performance at Manchester's library theatre. NTSC Roman - 5 Minutes To Match [KKCD17] Karaoke Kalk $13.25 RELEASE DATE: 01/28/2003 "Sometimes it can be very difficult to say something about a work of music, even if you feel at home with it immediately. With Roman's debut 5 Minutes To Match, this is the case. Certainly, countless possible references spring to mind to describe what you hear. Vocals, arrangements, melodies and lyrics may remind one of the pop music of someone like Kid Montana or Aztec Camera." Sol Invictus - Paris [TURSA002CD] Tursa $14.50 RELEASE DATE: 12/03/2003 "An acoustic concert recorded at the Theater Dubois in 1994. Paris - one imagines the aroma of coffee and the bohemian chatter of Left Bank caf society. In future you will also think of Tony Wakeford, the Edith Piaf of Folk Noir and his live rendition of 'Black Easter'. Nathalie Van Keymeulen and Celine Marliex - Bardeau on violins, ably assist Tony Wakeford on some of this set. They played the striking and enchanting string arrangements on the seminal 'In The Rain' opus. Mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye studios in Scotland. Includes rare renditions of 'Nothing Changes' & 'Above Us The Sun'." Spencer, Jon Blues Explosion - Plastic Fang +13 2CD (Mute) [952182] $21.75 To celebrate their umpteenth Australian tour, JSBX re-release their 2002 album Plastic Fang as a limited Australian tour edition. The extremely generous bonus disc contains a plethora of bonus tracks (13 to be exact), remixes and video clips/live footage. Mute. Tennis - Fur Lines 2CD [BLEEP20/21] Bip Hop $14.00 "New and third album. Tennis have been playing quite a few shows (including Tate Modern and Ars Electronica) and the collaboration between Douglas Benford (si-cut.db) and Benjamin Edwards (Benge) is now really 'interactional'. Extanding that ideal of exchanging and sharing, Tennis opened their heart to some friends... So you get a second CD packed with remixes of tracks that appeared on Europe on horseback. Fur Lines is our 20th record, in two years of existence so to celebrate the birthday it includes a second CD free." List of remixers:1. Taylor Deupree, 2. Kptmichigan, 3. Warmdesk,4. Tim Hecker,5. Kim Cascone, 6. Scanner,7. Cray,8. Frank Bretschneider,9. ElectroniCat,10. BitTonic,11. Pimmon,12. The jerker / Oren Ambarchi,13. C K Dexter Haven,14. Mikael Stavstrand,15. Bovine Life. Various Artists - Risiko 100 100 [BUNG100CD] Bungalow $15.25 "Risiko 100 (translated: risk 100) is not only a new release. It's the brandnew testament; a Reader's Digest of the erratic Bungalow universe. But Risk 100 is not just a normal new bungalow release, it's a surprise package done with lots of love: The Audio-CD with brandnew unreleased songs of bungalow artists and other bands that are somehow connected to the wide Bungalow universe: The future! The DVD featuring all 28 bungalow videos. A 40-page booklet with the bungalow history." Various Artists - Seasonal Greetings [MOB002CD] Mobil $14.00 "New and previously unreleased christmas and winter songs by Erlend Oye (Kings of Convenience), Mm, Opiate, Future 3, Domotic, Orso, Morgan Caney & Kamal Joory, Komit, Saint Etienne, Badly Drawn Boy, Hood, Low, Hermann & Kleine. Booklike cd package by Herzog-Idex (Asthmatic Worm, Jazzanova, Disco Nouveau...). Paul Auster's 'Auggie Wren's Christmas Story' printed in the booklet." Velvet Underground - 1965-1970 The Story, The Lyrics CD+Book (Sonic) [952332] $18.00 The objective of this release is to add some useful material to throw more light on the work of such an essential band through the reading of all their lyrics, and also to give some idea of this kind of feeling and atmosphere that was evolving in those years in that part of the world called New York. The CD single features 6 rare recordings by pre-Velvet bands - Carol Lou Trio 'After Hours' (Reed), The Shades 'Leave Her For Me', The Shades 'So Blue', The All Night Workers 'Why Don't You Smile', The Primitives 'The Ostrich' (Reed, Sims, Vance, Phillips) & The Primitives 'Sneaky Pete' (Reed, Sims, Vance, Phillips). Wire, The - #227 January 2003 MAG [WIRE227] Wire $6.75 Available 1/7/02. On the cover: Asian Dub Foundation; Features: 2002 rewind -- A 12 page survey of the last 12 months in music: Records of the year, Critics' pros & cons, Musicians' reflections; The Shandar story, Albert Ayler, Henry Grimes, Matmos's Drew Daniel on Swiss extremists Schimpfluch, Gert-Jan Prins, David Chesworth, Oxbow. Yunx - SO*_WHATtype of MUSIC DOYOUMAKE* [YUNX004CD] Yunx $14.00 "This is a gorgeous, luscious, warm and enedearing collection; collecting tracks from the three Ep's - 'Soft Boucle Funnel Neck', 'Customer Services', and 'The Interview', together with 2 new and exclusive cuts, the breadth of style and delivery that yunx have painstakingly perfected has set them apart as one of the finest exponents of deep, varied and warm electronic music in the UK today. An essential purchase for fans of electronic music spanning from Detroit, through to Artificial intelligence, Black Dog, Skam and back again." From orders@ear-rational.com Sat Dec 7 07:18:05 2002 From: orders@ear-rational.com (EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 00:18:05 -0700 Subject: [ear-subscribers] December update Message-ID: <075AF051-09B4-11D7-A5DB-0003934871B6@ear-rational.com> EAR/Rational Music 1592 Kilkenny St. Boulder, CO 80303-1646 810/222-1904 (msg) 775/414-5414 (fax) http://www.ear-rational.com email addresses: orders@ear-rational.com for automated ordering status@ear-rational.com for automated order status contact@ear-rational.com for human contact Welcome to the December 2002 update of the EAR/Rational catalogue! EAR/Rational Top 10 for November, 2002 1. Various Artists - Ambient Cookbook II 2. Pete Namlook/Wolfram Spyra - Virtual Vices IV 3. Pete Namlook - New Organic Life III 4. Pete Namlook/Atom Heart - Jet Chamber Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Yanqui U.X.O. 6. Legendary Pink Dots - All the King's Horses Jill Stevenson - Underway 8. Windy & Carl - Introspection Taylor Deupree - Stil. Pete Namlook - Silence IV Pete Namlook/Bobby Bird - S.H.A.D.O. Legendary Pink Dots - All the King's Men Joy Division - Heart & Soul Pete Namlook/Atom TM - Jet Chamber V Pete Namlook/Geir Jenssen - Fires of Ork II Cabaret Voltaire - Nag, Nag, Nag Pete Namlook/David Moufang - Audiolounge Namlook/Schulze/Laswell - Evolution of the Dark Side of the Moog IMPORTANT NOTICES + November was a record month for us. Thanks for your patronage! + Have a happy, healthy, and safe holiday season! CATALOG ADDITIONS 23 Skidoo - Just Like Everybody Pt. 2 CD [957262] Ronin $21.75 A1 People - The Yellow Album CD [DUKE106CD] Hydrogen Dukeb $15.75 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Live In Japan CD [AMT006] Eclipse $19.50 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Univers Zen Ou De Zero a Zero CD [FRAC020] Fractal $14.25 Akwaaba - Too Shiny CD [DIS004CD] Discfunction $14.50 Alio Die - Password for Entheogenic Experience CD [HSL015] Hic Sunt Leone $16.00 Antonelli Electr. - Love And Other Solutions CD [ITALIC027CD] Italic $13.25 Argov, Sasha - Great Jewish Music CD [TZ7173] Tzadik $14.25 Aube - Howling Obsession [Revised] CD [04735MANCD39] Manifold $12.00 Autopoieses - La Vie a Noir CD [MP73] Mille Plateaux $13.00 Autopoieses - Live A Noir CD [RIT08] Ritornell $13.00 Beequeen - A Touch Of Brimstone CD [KP3011] Korm Plastics $14.25 Beequeen - A Touch of Brimstone CD [04795KP3011] Korm Plastics $13.25 Bjork - Family Tree CD Box [190182] Elekra $53.75 Black Dice - Lost Valley CD3 [MEOW063] Tigerbeat6 $ 7.50 Blechdom, Kevin - Your Butt CD [DUD001CD] Dudini $ 7.25 Blectum From Blechdom - Fishin' In Front Of People CD [PHTH43] Phthalo $11.75 Bretschneider, Frank/Olafur Eliasson - Aerial Riverseries CD [WHATNE004] Whatness $15.50 Butthole Surfers - Blind Eye Sees All: Live DVD [320496] MVD $18.25 Cage, John - The Works For Violin 5 CD [MODE118] Mode $15.00 Ciao! Manhanttan - The Movie DVD [324716] ? $20.00 Claes Oldenburg - Ray Gun Theater 1962 NTSC video [SV101] Saroff Edition $85.00 Coil - The World Ended A Long Time Ago watch [COILWATCH2] World Serpent $26.00 Config.sys - Ulysses CD [04710/PFLICHT12] Pflichtkauf $12.50 Connelly, Chris - Initials CC 2CD [UIN1058] Underground In $14.50 Conrad, Tony/Faust - Outside The Dream Syndicate 2CD [TABLE03] Table of the E $26.00 Crack - W.A.R. (We Are Rock) Silent Fantasy CD [MEOW066] Tigerbeat6 $10.25 Cult - Rare Cult Demo Sessions CD Box [959902] ? $68.50 Current 93 - Dawn CD [DURTRO002CD] Durtro $15.75 Dark Day - Collected: 1979-1982 CD [04730/D1025CD] Daft $13.00 Davis, Reverend Gary - The Sun of Our Life: Solos, Songs, a Sermon 1955-1957 CD [WA2005] World Arbiter $15.25 De Clario, Domenico - Shaker Road CD [NON010CD] Nonplace $14.50 Deadbeat - Wild Life Documentaries CD [SCAPE015CD] Scape $13.75 Deepart - Snapshots CD [DELSIN35CD] Delsin $14.25 Dive - Lies in Your Eyes CD [04733/D1040MCD] Daft $13.00 Dive - Snake Dressed CD [04726/D1022CD] Daft $13.00 DJ Broken Window - Parallel Universe Vol. 1 CD [TURD004CD] Violent Turd $10.25 DJ Hell - Electronic Body House Music 2CD [REACT226CD] React $18.75 Dungen - Stadsvandringar CD [DOLORE110] Dolore/Virgin $19.75 Ehlers, Ekkehard/Sebastian Meissner/Thom Willelms - Music for William Forsythe CD [WHATNE005] Whatness $15.50 End - Science/Fiction CD [04705/Y725] Hymen $12.50 EU - Warm Math CD [PAUSE008CD] Pause2 $14.50 F/i - The Past Darkly/The Future Lightly 2CD [LEXDEV005] Lexicon Devil $16.00 Fabrice Lig Pres. Bug Orchestra - Electro Shop CD [RG013CD] Raygun $14.00 Felix Kubin - Filmmusik CD [A13] a-Musik $13.00 Flynt, Henry - Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Volume 2 CD [LOCUST14] Locust $13.25 Fonoda - blinker:farben CD [KEPLAR004CD] Keplar $13.25 Francisco Lopez/Jorge Simonet - untitled #91 DVD [editioniv.v] edition $15.00 Frank Niehusmann - Fragrance CD Box [KKE3/5] Klangkunst-Edi $40.00 Gang of Four - Hard/solid Gold CD [193802] Wounded Bird $12.00 Girlfriends - CD CD [MT018] Beta-Lactam Ri $ 8.75 Groove Armada - Lovebox (STANDARD) CD [957872] Jive $21.75 Haino, Keiji - Mazu Wa Iro O Nakuso Ka CD [PSF8014] PSF $18.50 Han Bennink & Terrie Ex - The Laughing Owl CD [ALP129CD] Atavistic $13.00 Hanatarash - 4 CD [PBCD-3] Public Bath $13.00 Heeman & Andrew Chalk, Christoph - Cassia Fistula 7 inch [IDEA20051] Idea $ 6.50 Heimir Bjorgulfsson - Discreet Journey Digitalis CD [RIT18] Ritornell $13.00 Hrvatski - Swarm & Dither CD [PMU26] Planet Mu $14.50 Hudson, Jeff and Jane - Flesh CD [04732/D1037CD] Daft $13.00 Human League - Dare/Love And Dancing CD [948592] Virgin $25.00 Hybryds - Dreamscapes From a Dark Side CD [04723/D1016CD] Daft $12.50 Jacobs, Henry - Radio Programme No.1: Henry Jacobs' Music and Folklore CD [LOCUST18] Locust $13.25 Jam Master Jay - Be a DJ DVD [324756] Warner Brother $13.75 Jean-Francois Laporte - Mantra CD [MKCD028] Metamkine $ 7.00 Kareem - Full Spectrum Dominance CD [K228CD] K2O $13.25 Kawani, Hiroshi - Flashback CD [PSF130] PSF $18.50 Kid Loco - Anotherlatenight CD [ALN007CD] Another Late N $15.25 King Crimson - Ladies Of The Road 2CD [194812] DGM $19.50 Koujiki, Kougezan - The Live 11th (Final) 2CD [NVR001/2] Horen $17.75 Laddio Bolocko - The Life and Times of Laddio Bolocko CD [NQR002] No Quarter $15.50 Langley Schools Music Project - Innocence And Despair 2xLP [GMN2105LP] Gammon $17.75 Laswell, Bill - Book Of Exit - Dub Chamber 4 CD [191102] ROIR $13.25 Le Syndicat - Maximalist CD [04725/D1010CD] Daft $12.50 Legendary Pink Dots - Basilisk CD [04741TEKA09] Beta-Lactam Ri $13.50 Liars - Fins To Make Us More Fish Like CDEP [MUTE9184CD] Mute $ 7.00 Lionel Marchetti - Train de nuit (Noord 3-683) CD [MKCD029] Metamkine $ 7.00 Loose Fur - Loose Fur CD [DC203CD] Drag City $12.75 Lotus Eaters - Mind Control for Infants CD [NER23] Neurot $13.25 M.I.M.E.O. - Electric Chair + Table CD [GROB.206/7] Grob $20.00 Manitoba - Start Breaking My Heart CD [DOMUS011CD] Domino $14.25 Matthews, Kaffe/Andrea Neumann/Sachiko M - In Case Of Fire Take The Stairs CD [IMJ503] Improvised Mus $15.75 Mattin/Rosy Parlane - Mendietan CD [w.m.o/r05] w.m.o/r $15.00 Maya Deren - The Legend of Maya Deren: Volume 1, Part Two (1942 - 1947) CD [0-911689-17-6] Anthology Film $22.00 Meelkop, Roel/Tore Honore Boe - Sovezacht CD [BROM03] Staalplaat $14.25 Metamatics - Rewired In My Manor CD [DUKE112CD] Hydrogen Dukeb $15.75 Microstoria - Invisible Architecture 04 CD [AS05] Audiosphere $14.25 Mills, Jeff - At First Sight 2xLP [TRUE002LP] True People $15.50 Mills, Jeff - At First Sight CD [TRUE002CD] True People $14.00 Mirror - I Paint For Love Of Color LP [IDEA2001] Idea $14.00 Monkees - Hey Hey We're The Monkees DVD [324706] ? $21.75 Monolith - Compressed Form CD [04727/D1021CD] Daft $13.00 Monolith - Tribal Globe CD [04734/D1034CD] Daft $13.00 Montgomery, Gen Ken - Pondfloorsample 2CD [XI126] XI $12.25 Mr. De' - Electronicfunkysh*t CD [EF2001] Electrofunk $14.00 Mullinix, Tadd - Panes CDEP [GI011CD] Ghostly Intern $ 9.75 Mullinix, Tadd - Waking Makes A Face CD [GI001CD] Ghostly Intern $11.00 Musica Transonic - Hard Rock Transonic CD [FRAC019] Fractal $14.25 Muslimgauze - Chapter of Purity CD [TANTRAX9] Tantric-Harmon $10.00 Namlook, Pete/Atom Heart - Jet Chamber IV CD [PK08/137] Fax $17.50 Namlook, Pete/Bill Laswell - Transonic 2 CD [PS08/67] Fax $17.50 Necks, The - Athenaeum, Homebush, Quay & Raab CD Box [FOM0008CD] Fish of Milk $36.00 Nelson, Bill - Chameleon CD [956152] Fabled Quixote $17.75 Nelson, Bill - Orchestral Arcana 2CD [956102] Fabled Quixote $20.50 New Order - International/Very Best Of CD [946942] WEA $16.75 Nico - Underground Experience + Heroine DVD [323436] Cherry Red $21.75 Ohkami No Jikan - Mort Nuit CD [FRAC018] Fractal $14.25 Olsson, Bjorn - UPA CD [GRA011] Gravitation $14.00 Organum - Sphyx CD [ROBOT30] Robot $14.25 Orton, Beth - Anywhere CDS [943352] Heavenly $ 9.25 Paper Garden - Paper Garden CD [GF194] Gear Fab $12.25 Paul Glabicki - The Paul Glabicki Animation Tape NTSC video [S15645] Facets Video $28.00 Peer Bode, Andrew Deutsch & Pauline Oliveros - Carrier CD [DL8-1998CD] Deep Listenin $13.00 Pelican City/Scanner - Pelican City vs. Scanner CDEP [SF02] Space Foundati $ 9.25 Peter Frank - Something Else Press: An Annotated Bibliography Book [0-914232-40-1] McPherson & Co $45.00 Peterson, Gilles - CD [JDJ6] Journeys by DJ $14.50 Plod - Compilation 12 inch [WI028] Worm Interface $ 8.75 Primal Scream - Autobahn 66 CDEP [941002] Sony Japan $20.50 Quinoline Yellow - Car Air Freshener Object [SMAKAIR1] Smak $ 8.00 Rockenschaub, Gerwald/The Rip-off Artist - Ripped-Off Edition/Three Of A Perfect Pair 12 inch [EN/OF007] EN/OF $89.75 Roman - 5 Minutes To Match CD [KKCD17] Karaoke Kalk $13.25 Ruins - Tzomborgha CD [IPC35] Ipecac $14.50 S-core - Crime CD [04731/D1026CD] Daft $13.00 S.E.T.I. - Above Black CD [ASH31] Ash Internatio $12.25 Sandoz - Chant to Jah CD [SJRCD59] Soul Jazz $12.00 Sawako - Nana CD3 [throat3] Throat $ 8.00 Scanner - Untitled 12 inch [ZG002EP] Zero G Sounds $ 6.75 Shokar, Levin & Gibbons G - Dialtones CD [STCD160] Staalplaat $13.00 Sigillum S - Abstraction CD [04724/D1030CD] Daft $12.50 Silicon Scally - Mr Machine CD [SCSI009CD] SCSI $14.50 Sleep Chamber - Sirkus CD [04729/D1024CD] Daft $13.00 Sodahberk, Dwayne - Don't Want to Know You CD [MEOW058] Tigerbeat6 $12.75 Sol Invictus - Paris CD [TURSA002CD] Tursa $14.50 Somei Satoh - Mandara Trilogy CD [NA099] New Albion Rec $14.00 Somei Satoh - Toward The Night CD [NA056] New Albion Rec $14.00 Sonar - Remote Assualt CD [04728/D1036CD] Daft $13.00 Spencer, jon Blues Explosion - Plastic Fang +13 2CD [952182] Mute $21.75 Starling, Simon/Oren Ambarchi - Sunflower (Black)/Recto/Verson/Stacte.4 12 inch [EN/OF009] EN/OF $89.75 Steinbruchel - Zwischen.Raum CD [domizil15] domizil $12.00 Stratos, Demetrio - Demetrio Stratos CD Box [AK1037CD] Akarma $49.75 Suicide - American Supreme + Live 2CD [954332] Mute $21.75 Sun Ra & His Arkestra - Music From Tomorrow's World CD [ATA237] Atavistic $13.75 Synapscape - Raw CD [04707/ACT137] Ant-zen $12.50 Syzygys - Complete Studio Recordings CD [TZ7240] Tzadik $14.25 Teleform - cosine f CD [domizil16] domizil $15.00 Tennis - Fur Lines 2CD [BLEEP20/21] Bip Hop $14.00 Thomas, David - Monster CD Box [192682] Cooking Vinyl $28.50 Throbbing Gristle - 24 Hours Of Throbbing Gristle CD Box [MUTE9197CD] Mute $199.00 Tino's Breaks - Vol. 6: Halloween Dub CD [TNO2006] Tinocorp. $13.75 Transllusion - L.I.F.E CD [REPH128CD] Rephlex $15.25 U2 - Popmart/Live From Mexico City VCD VCD [312046] ? $20.50 UB40 - Collection-classic Videos Plus DVD [324306] ? $24.75 Umek - Neuro CD [TEH006CD] Tehnika $14.00 Various Artists - 430 West Presents: Back To The Rhythm CD [CEPT05CD] 430 West $15.00 Various Artists - Beats Beyond The Underground Vol. 1 2CD [BEYOND001CD] Beats Undergro $16.50 Various Artists - Beta-Beat 01 CD-R CD [04743/BB01] Beta-lactam $ 3.50 Various Artists - Chainstore Massacre CD [EFA68202] On-U $ 8.50 Various Artists - Clicks & Cuts 3 2CD [MP116CD] Mille Plateaux $17.00 Various Artists - Famous When Dead Two CD [PLAY004CD] Playhouse $13.25 Various Artists - French Girls CD [CAT054CD] Catalogue $13.75 Various Artists - French Sounds CD [CAT063CD] Catalogue $13.75 Various Artists - Jeff Recordings: Rough Beats From Peru & Trinidad 72-76 CD [CDHW084CD] Crippled Dick $14.00 Various Artists - Mahagitu: Harp and Vocal Music of Burma CD [SF40492] Smithsonian Fo $15.00 Various Artists - Maschinenfest 2002 2CD [04709/PFLICHT14] Pflichtkauf $14.25 Various Artists - Nordic CD [IRMA9518CD] IRMA $15.25 Various Artists - Paws Across America CD [MEOW067] Tigerbeat6 $10.25 Various Artists - Pop Ambient 2003 CD [KOMP22] Kompakt $14.50 Various Artists - Risiko 100 DVD+CD [BUNG100CD] Bungalow $15.25 Various Artists - Seasonal Greetings CD [MOB002CD] Mobil $14.00 Various Artists - This Is Hardcore CD [GMMH2304CD] God Made Me Ha $15.25 Various Artists - Trash Companion #1 CD [TREND001CD] End Recordings $15.25 Velvet Underground - 1965-1970 The Story, The Lyrics CD+Book [952332] Sonic $18.00 Venetian Snares - A Giant Alien Force More Violent & Sick Than Anything You can Imagine CD box [HYMEN405] Hymen $11.75 Venetian Snares - Winter in the Belly of a Snake CD [PMU66] Planet Mu $14.50 Verlaine, Tom - Tom Verlaine CD [CCM316] Collector's Ch $13.00 Vromb - Le Tourne-disque CD3 [04706/ACT121.3] Ant-zen $ 9.25 Whitman, Keith Fullerton - Dartmouth Street Underpass CD [LOCUST19] Locust $13.25 Wire, The - #227 January 2003 Magazine [WIRE227] Wire $ 6.75 Yunx - SO*_WHATtype of MUSIC DOYOUMAKE* CD [YUNX004CD] Yunx $14.00 Zorn, John - Masada Guitars CD [TZ7171] Tzadik $14.25 CATALOG DELETIONS Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Plastic Fang [OLE542CD] Matador $13.75 Manitoba - Start Breaking My Heart [LEAFBAY16CD] Leaf $14.00 Organum - Submission [CPCD9401] Complacency $10.25 Potter, Colin - And Then [ICR031] ICR $15.75 Sol Invictus - Trees in Winter [TURSA002CD] World Serpent $18.25 U2 - Popmart [312046] Asian $26.00 Zazeela, Marian - Drawings [REGENBOGMZ] Regenbog $24.00 Zoviet France - Loh Land [STCD018] Staalplaat $14.25 CATALOG PRICE DECREASES Boards of Canada - Twoism CD [WARP70CD] Warp $14.00 Haswell, Russell/Masami Akita - Satanstornade CD [WARP666CD] Warp $15.50 Hawtin, Richie/Sven Vath - The Sound Of The Third Season CD [MUTE3073CD] Mute $14.50 Max Tundra - Mastered By Guy At The Exchange CD [TB662] Tigerbeat6 $13.50 CATALOG PRICE INCREASES NONE! From orders@ear-rational.com Sun Dec 8 05:34:25 2002 From: orders@ear-rational.com (EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 22:34:25 -0700 Subject: [ear-subscribers] this week's update Message-ID: Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Vrioon [RASTER050] Raster Music $13.25 "During his first live tour in Japan, Carsten Nicolai met Ryuichi Sakamoto in Tokyo. A year after it happened that he was asked to remix material from Sakamoto for the Japanese magazine Code Unfinished.." Basinski, William - The River 2CD [RASTER048] Raster Music $14.00 "The River is the culmination of William Basinski's shortwavemusic experiments. It was recorded in real time in 1983 using tape loops and shortwave radio static. The loops were all culled from the airwaves, short bits of string melody taken from the Muzak radiostation, slowed down and mixed live to cassette from two 50's Norelco reel-to-reel decks with a random accompaniment of shifting shortwave radio static." Bianchi, Maurizio - Plays The Clockwork Orange LP [MART005] Marquis $26.00 "While producing the second ArcheoMB boxset (including the CD edition of 5 original M.B. LP records from the early 1980s: Das Testament; Endometrio; Carcinosi; The Plain Truth and Armaghedon), the documentation staff working on the Maurizio Bianchi reprint series came across a very strange and perculiar object. It was a private tape dating back from 1980, never mentioned in official discographies and given only to close friends (this copy actually coming from the archive of mail-artist Vittore Baroni). The music was introducing a unique approach in MB sound. It was soon evident that this tape marked the passage from the Sacher-pelz concrete techniques to the new M.B. universe; the loop brutal approach applied to poor & pure electronic sounds and concrete material, so typical in Sacher -pelz projects (see full documenation presented in Mutation for a Continuity 4CD boxset), was here pushed to its extreme consequences and used to manipulate the soundtrack of the famous movie by Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange (it is whispered that some Kraftwerk records also suffered the same treatment, but evidences of this were never found). In the same days, M.B. also produced his first power electronic tapes titled Cold, Voyeur and the epic double C90 Mectpyo Blut which set the new orientation to all his following works. M.B. plays A Clockwork Orange was a unique moment in Maurizio Bianchi sonic researches and is made now available for the very first time; the first LP record by M.B. isued in about 20 years. Due to the specific kind of material reproduced it was decided with M.B. to issue these historical recordings in an edition limited to 300 copies only." Caustic Window - Compilation [REPH009CD] Rephlex $14.50 Repressed. Caustic Window is Richard D. James AKA Aphex Twin/AFX/Diceman/Gak/Polygon Window/Q-Chastic/Soit-PP/Blue Calx/Rich of Mike And Rich/etc... This release collects ALL of the audio from his classic Joyrex J4/J5/J9i/J9ii releases (originally issued in the early-mid nineties on a head-scratching array of picture disc singles and limited vinyl) onto a neat (albeit far less graphically appealing) CD/3LP compendium, a welcome surprise after seeing the demand for original vinyl increase near-exponentially as of late. A varied mix of Dicky's trademark AFX melancholy and hardcore acid maelstrom. "The Caustic Window EP's were the first to appear on Rephlex and instantly set the standards for everyone else to follow. the first 2 EP's were limited to 2000 copies each and remain among the most in demand records on many a trainspotters' list.". Hotly tipped. In demand. Rephlex's new motto is "File under Braindance". Daedelus - Quiet Party [PR040CD] Plug Research $11.00 RELEASE DATE: 01/28/2003 "The Quiet Party EP sees immense talents reworking classic compositions from Daedelus' genre-blurring album Invention. Doo-Dooettes/Keiji Haino - Free Rock [PSF131] PSF $18.50 "Long-awaited archival collaboration from 1982." The Doo-Dooettes, mainstays of the LAFMS, were: Dennis Duck (drums), Fredrik Nilsen (bass), Tom Recchion (home-made instruments: mock cello & strungaphone), with Rick Potts (guitar) and Haino (guitar). Keiji Haino was visiting LA shortly after the release of his first solo album on Pinakotheca Records and this impromtu session was recorded on August 3, 1982. The first ever release of this one thiry-five minute piece (titled by Haino: "Blueprint For The Shimmering Quivers Of The Deep Purple Ultraviolet Tuning Fork"), recently discovered in the cassette collection of Dennis Duck, unheard for 18 years. Liner notes & cover artwork by Tom Recchion. Erasure - Other People's Songs [MUTE9198CD] Mute $14.75 RELEASE DATE: 01/28/2003 "Erasure's new album features a selection of the duo's favorite covers, from artists as varied as Peter Gabriel, The Righteous Brothers, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, & more." Fontaine, Brigitte - Plan Fixes 3CD [VIR3151CD] Virgin Norway $43.50 "Longbox including 60 songs, rare tracks, one 32-page booklet, unissued photos... Including her tracks from her Saravah period!" Gorse - May The GorsE Be With You [VVMOFFAL09CD] V/VM $14.50 "Gorse are Aphex Twin's favourite Cornish band, they sing about Cornish things like pasties and sailing....on acid." Haino, Keiji - Mazu Wa Iro O Nakuso Ka [PSF8014] PSF $18.50 (Translation: First Let's Remove the Color). "Gorgeous new bag of home-recorded mystery from Haino. Apparently recorded alone, late at night and at minimal volume, these latest recordings tremble with the same deep-welled emotional sensitivity and sense of veiled threat that animated classics like Watashi Dake?, Affection and Era of Sad Wings. With the trademark roar of his guitar held in check by necessity, Haino instead builds up a base of gently fractured looped riffs, over which he unfurls snaking, jagged ribbons of blue notes, layers of choral chant and whispered warnings. The atmosphere is replete with suggestions of medieval music, delta blues, and jazz - but glimpsed through a constantly shifting, dark and alien fog. The effect is entirely beautiful, managing to be impossibly touching, deeply meditative, and truly scary all at once. This is one that will suck the air out of the corners of your room late at night." -- Alan Cummings. Halfer Trio - Cleave: 9 Great Openings [04814/ERA2014-2] Nextera $16.00 The Hafler Trio's brand new studio album named "Cleave: 9 Great Openings" being released as "Part The First" of the Trilogy. "Part The Second" will be released next year on Die Stadt and "Part The Third" will follow later on Nextera. CD album is packed in "deluxe" embossed paper wallet with special transparent wrap-around. "Cleave: Nine Great Openings" is the first new CD release by H3O since 'Hljodmynd' released in 2000 on Die Stadt (though the material on this was already recorded in 1995). Cleave is a 60 minute piece which slowly changes, with a very wide sound, low and very resonant. It's *almost* ambient or 'meditative music' with very special atmosphere, and a few suprises. Source material for this album was recorded in 1999 for Andrew's friend's wedding ceremony in Nepal. We are sure that many people / fans eagerly await this new work (trilogy) by Andrew Mark McKenzie which is truely exceptional. This set of recordings shows that there's life in the old dog yet and it isn't quite buried. Hecate vs. Lustmord - Law of the Battle of Conquest LP [04800/Y041] Hymen-zen $10.00 Only on rare occasions do such opposites converge to create an enduring state of struggle. Of course Hymen does not postulate that Hecate vs. Lustmord's confrontational sonic assault "Law of the Battle of Conquest" is so pure a pairing of opposites - but it's damned close. Where the struggle of chaos vs. controlled atmospheres, of hellish breakbeats vs. dark drones takes the form of four riveting tracks. Rachael Kozak pushes the aggressive, the combative, the raw power of percussive sound in her recordings as Hecate, stressing the dominance of breakbeat as well as contemporary noise fury. Brian Williams, on the other hand, has a history running into the 80s of voicing subtler emotions like isolation, angst, and dysphoria as ambience, working as a sound designer for Graeme Revell as well as releasing genre-defining dark ambient albums under the Lustmord name. It's from four Lustmord albums in particular that the tracks on "Law of the Battle of Conquest" arise. In fact, the ferocity of Hecate's rhythmic prowess conjures a new whole by alchemizing an entire Lustmord album in each track. Lustmord's "This Monstrous Soul' from 1992 spawns Hecate's 'Monstrosity,' shredding the brooding minimal overtones of the original with horrific walls of rolling bass and apocalyptic breaks to accentuate a frantic tempo. A similarly toned 'Strong Attractron' (from 1996's "Strange Attractor/Black Star" 12-inch) together with 'Monstrosity' bookends 'Megavoid' and 'Heresy Resurrected' - where aphex-aceed drum patterns over 2001's Metavoid impart martial visions of the future, while Hecate invokes hades' noise from 1990's heresy through human and werewolf screams from graeme revell. 'I tried to make a track represent the original feeling of what Brian had in mind,' says Kozak. 'I think she reinterpreted it in a very unique way, and I admire what she did with it,' replies Brian, noting that because they initiated their friendship on that fateful morning in September 2001, the project took on a personal significance for both of them. 'She decoded the old and infused new sounds and a new spirit, blending both into something that is true to the original while pushing it into new areas. She made the old fresh and relevant in a new/different world.' 'Over the years there have been opportunities to have my material remixed, but I couldn't really see the point,' continues Brian. 'But Rachael is fresh and full of energy, and I feel a real empathy for where she's coming from sonically, so I knew the results would be interesting...' Helden, Johannes - Sketchbook [TOC025] Trente Oiseaux $14.50 "Based on field recordings Johannes made while traveling from Sweden to Russia via Norway, Sketchbook is a quiet, moody work of great atmosphere and devoid of all pretension. This CD will contain 17 photos taken by the artist during his voyage from Sweden to Russia via Norway on which he recorded the sound materials used in his work." Hood, Robert - Rare Species [LOG023CD] Logistic $15.25 Robert Hood mix CD. "Le fondateur d'Axis, Hardwax, M-Plant, rput indomptable livre ici un mix de 29 titres qui rvle la substantifique moelle de ses labels. Il sagit ici d'une hard techno soumise au funk torride et jouissif qui vient rappeler au public que cette musique est avant-tout faite pour danser, trs minimale tout en restant ultra-groove. Robert Hood passe trs rapidement d'un disque l'autre sans faire d'effet de style, sa techno n'en reste pas moins sensible et mlodique nous faisant passer d'un univers oppressant un voyage beacoup plus subtil o les morceaux viennent s'entrecroiser comme les strates d'un trange chateau." Artists include: Raekwon, Robert Hood, Mark Broom, Pulsinger & Tunakan, John Thomas, Derrick May, Moments by Murat, Jay Denham, D Wachman & HD Substance, Christian Smith vs Block, Recycled Loops, The Cause, G.M. Cole, Grudge, John Bacto. Ikeda, Ryoji - op. [TO60CD] Touch $12.25 Some tracks include: "op. 1 [for 9 strings].", "op. 2 [for string quartet]", "op. 3 [for string quartet]". "This is Ryoji Ikeda's sixth solo CD and his fourth for Touch, following the highly acclaimed +/- [1996], 0*C [1998] and matrix [2001]. He previously released 1000 Fragments on his own CCIrecordings, and Time and Space, a double 3 inch CD, for Staalplaat. op.1 was originally commissioned by 'experience de vol #3'. No electronic sounds have been used on this recording." Illusion Of Safety - More Violence and Geography [04812/DS52] Die Stadt $13.00 Rerelease of their very first self released vinyl only album from 1998. The 11 tracks display a much rawer and more 'industrial' feel with the use of harsh found sounds and voices, compared to recent works. Featuring new artwork by Dan Burke perfectly matching the albums title the CD also includes an unreleased live track (approx. 11 min. long) from the early 90's that didn't appear on the original album. Edition of 700 copies in folder cover and plastic sleeves. Landstrumm, Neil - Understanding Disinformation [TRES800CD] Tresor $13.75 RELEASE DATE: 01/28/2003 "Understanding Disinformation, Neil Landstrumm's debut album for Tresor from 1996, is domestically available in the USA for the first time.." Levins, Gibbons, Shakar - Dialtones: A Telesymphony Enhanced [04792/STCD160] Staalplaat $11.25 What is the sound of 200 mobile phones ringing? When it's choreographed by computer whiz Golan Levin, 'Lilith' frontman Scott Gibbons, and sound artist Gregory Shakar, the answer is: suprisingly sublime. 'Dialtones' is a large-scale concert performance whose sounds were wholly produced through the carefully triggered dialing and ringing of the audiences own mobile phones. In 'Dialtones', waves of polyphony cascade across the crowd, rendering unprecedented sonic phenomena like spatially-distributed melodies and chords. The magic is accomplished with a custom software system, developed by the artists, which allowed them to arrange the audience members' locations and ringtones before the concert, and then perform their mobiles in real time with a specially-designed dialing instrument. The composition is sometimes delicate and twinkly, sometimes cacophonous, and sometimes purifyingly haunting. More than just a simple composition, however, 'Dialtones' is a performance artwork which redirects our attention to the unexplored musical potential of a ubiquitous modern appliance, and inverts our understandings of private sound, public space, electromagnetic etiquette, and the fabric of the communications network which connects us. This disc contains a complete live recording of the 26-minute concert, as well as a special CD-ROM component with Quicktime video excerpts, interviews with the artists, and other information about the concert. Meelkop, Roel/Tore Boe - Sovezacht [04796/BROMBRON03] Brombron $13.50 "The Brombron project of Extrapool and Staalplaat is one of those rare opportunities for artists to exchange ideas and work together in a very close way. To be locked up for one week in a recording studio and live only one flight of stairs up is very intense and also very productive. When I was invited to do the project I had no idea what it would become. After some initial time scheduling problems, I invited Tore do to the collaboration with me. We did not decide on any theme or concept before we started, so we were basically blank when we entered the studio. The studio itself, with all its equipment and its specific acoustic qualities, became our source of inspiration. Working with the analogue synths in there and making room recordings, we gradually built up a body of raw material that led the way to the construction of the tracks on this CD. I am very happy with the result, because it is indeed a reflection of what happened between Tore and me in that space during that period. We slept very well." -Roel Meelkop The Brombron releases are packed in all carton sleeve which are developped and printed in Extrapool's printing studio. Jewel case sized, but without any plastic or glue and most definetly non industry standard. Moroder, Giorgio/Joe Esposito - Solitary Men [REP4949] Repertoire $14.00 German reissue of the disco legend's 1983 album with Joe Esposito. 14 tracks including 3 bonus 'Face To Face', 'Chase' (1985 remix by Brian Reeves) & 'Valley Of The Dolls' (Instrumental). 2001. Pretty tough release to digest in an 80s synth-wave vein (Joe's vocals are described as "husky, rich and emotive")... Myers, David Lee/Thomas Dimuzio - Uncertain Symmetry [04793/KP3008] Korm Plastics $12.50 New York's David Lee Myers and San Francisco's Thomas Dimuzio shared a stage at Tonic in New York City in March 2001--Myers' first public performance in ten years--which immediately sparked a year long regenerative process. The ensuing 2001-2002 project actually picks up where a paused 1991 collaboration for the Generations Unlimited label left off. Myers' first round of source material represented a veritable sound library of feedback tones, texture and contours for Dimuzio to compose from. The structures Dimuzio created, along with several tracks of feedback-induced source sound (recorded for their project 10 years prior) were sent back to Myers for additional manipulation and arrangement; the result of this phase became the first section of their new effort. A second stage involved Myers sending material (from a rehearsal for an upcoming performance) to Dimuzio, who sliced, diced and reworked the sounds into a series of in-depth sonic beds, eventually returning the mixes, along with a new disc of live-sampled feedback, to Myers who reworked and honed them into the second half of the album. The product of these manipulations is titled 'Uncertain Symmetry', the result of a bicoastal ping-ponging which is an even balance between the two artists--symmetrical-- but which the specific contributions from each can no longer be determined. Nightmares On Wax - Carboot Soul [WARP61CD] Warp $12.75 RELEASE DATE: 01/03. "Originally released in 1999, this classic album from Nightmares On Wax is back on Warp with three new tracks. The album includes the definitive version of 'Les Nuits' with a full orchestra, as well as many other popular down-tempo tracks such as 'Finer', 'Easejimi', and 'Ethnic Majority'." Pulseprogramming - Tulsa For One Second [AST26CD] Aesthetics $12.00 "A remarkable record, rich and personal with understated textures and wintry elegance while presenting an array of styles that reference artists such as Boards of Canada, Matmos, early Mouse on Mars, Telfon Tel Aviv (whose Charlie Cooper mixed 'Tulsa') and the Morr Music label. The Pulseprogrammers have expanded their use of vocals (including contributions from Lindsay of label mates L'altra) to create a handful of pop gems that interact with their lingering instrumentals and make for a singular listening experience." Qebo - Flopper [VM05CD] Vibrant $13.75 RELEASE DATE: 01/28/2003 "After many years PA-ing and releasing music in various independent labels, musicians/producers Alex Retsis-George Aggelides formed in 1999 Qebo, a group oriented in many forms of computer music." Scanner - Spray / Lambertia 12 inch [04815/0G002] Zero $8.25 Two new tracks from Robin Rimbaud. Stakker - Eurotechno [REPH129CD] Rephlex $11.00 RELEASE DATE: 01/28/2003 "Rephlex presents the first ever release of the soundtrack of the video Eurotechno from 1989. Hailed as a visionary landmark in dance music culture this mini-album is must for everybody into Acid Techno magic." Super Numeri - Great Aviaries [ZEN073CD] Ninja Tune $13.75 RELEASE DATE: 01/28/2003 "Super Numeri specialize in long, intense journeys into music that recall Miles Davis' seventies experiments and the work of Can without seeming beholden to either.." Thaemlitz, Terre - Lovebomb [MP117CD] Mille Plateaux $13.75 RELEASE DATE: 01/28/2003 "Rather than songs of love and unity, I long for audio of love's irreconcilable differences. Not the lovelorn elegy or torch song, but crossed strategies and layered content." -- Terre Thaemlitz. Various Artists - Electric Pop Vol. 1 2CD [MOFA005CD] Mofa $16.50 "Electric Pop, that is 2002 one of the key words. All the same, whether London, New York or Munich, everywhere the fresh sound from techno, electro and classical pop experiences a large eddy. CD compilations like Neue Heimat or Neo Pop made already first stocktakings. Particularly Germany proves with its citizen of Berlin like 2Raumwohnung and Martini Brs as fruitful soil for a new musician generation. Electric Pop creates an overview, which provides at present on the world-wide Electro stage for excitement and stretches thereby a far elbow of the underground, so-called synthcore things up to the electro-pop variant and remains always homelisteningfriendly and dancable." Artists include: Felix Da Housecat feat. Miss Kittin & Melistar, Sergej Auto, Northern Lite, Romanthony (Jan Driver mix), Dr Walker & Electro Atomu feat Mr Oral, Golden Boy with Miss Kittin, Midnight Mike, Crossover, Carl A. Finlow, Ellen Allien, Op:l Bastards, Ural 13 Diktators, G.D. Luxxe (Adult mix), Kitbuilders, Chicks on Speed (Alter Ego mix), Hakan Lidbo, Nora Below, Creme De Menthe, Luke Slater, Linda Lamb (Tiga mix), Bankok Impact, Twinnie, FC Kahuna, P.Lauer ft. Toni Maccaroni, Felix Rennefeld, Nothingface, Mia, Mains Ignition. Various Artists - Music of Our Time: 40 Years CD Box [WER6921] Wergo $36.00 "In fall 2002, Wergo celebrated its fortieth year. During this period Wergo has set standards, especially in the world of modern music. This is reflected not least in the large number of prize-winning CDs. To celebrate this occasion, Wergo presents this specially-priced 4-CD set, containing music from four decades ranging from Stockhausen?s Kontakte of 1960 to Wolfgang Rihm's compositions from the 1990s. Label founder WERner GOldschmidt's original idea was to combine key musical works of the twentieth century with still unknown recordings of contemporary works, while supplementing both with performer portraits." One disc each to the following composers: Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Gyorgy Ligeti and Wolfgan Rihm. Discs included have previously been available separately: Kontakte (WER 6009), Roaratorio (WER 6303), Trio Fur Violine, Horn und Klavier (WER 60100) & Image -- Echo/Bilder -- Echo (WER 6623). Various Artists - OST Morvern Callar [WARP98CD] Warp $15.75 "Morvern Catlar Is the latest film from Lynne Ramsay, one of the industry's strongest new voices of the past five years. The director of the shorts Small Deaths and Gasman, (both of which won the Cannes Prix du Jury) and Ratcatcher which on release was universally lauded as a highly accomplished debut film, she has defined herself as a idiosyncratic talent and drawn comparisons with luminaries such as Klesiowskl and Tarkovaky for her intuitive direction and singular unpretentious style.." Artists include: Can, Aphex Twin, Boards Of Canada, Sterolab, The Velvet Underground, Broadcast, Gamelan Drumming, Holgar Czukay, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra, and Ween. Various Artists - Playback Device Confusion Volume One featuring Aleph Empire CD3 [MEGO061] Mego $9.75 "Live decks at Rhiz, Vienna: 05/30/02. And it's a fucking shape-cd! Chuffed bloody sick." Wire, The - #225 NOVEMBER 2002 Magazine [WIRE225] Wire $6.75 Come Swith a FREE edition of The Wire Tapper 9, a special 30 track double CD compiled to mark our 20th anniversary. Wire, The - #226 DECEMBER 2002 Magazine [WIRE226] Wire $6.75 On the cover: Jackie-O Motherfucker; features: Acoustic Sound Ecology, Keith Levine, Schimpfluch, Erstwhile festival inTokyo; Invisible Jukebox: Kevin Ayers, Hrvatski, Soft Pink Truth, Beth Gibbons, Frank Denyer, Fursaxa. From orders@ear-rational.com Sat Dec 14 19:50:21 2002 From: orders@ear-rational.com (EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 12:50:21 -0700 Subject: [ear-subscribers] this week's update Message-ID: <47E35AF5-0F9D-11D7-8405-0003934871B6@ear-rational.com> [ T H I S W E E K ' S F E A T U R E D R E L E A S E S ] Cabaret Voltaire - Live At The Hacienda 83/86 DVD (Cherry Red) [323446] $21.50 The first DVD to feature Cabaret Voltaire, leaders of the industrial genre and one of British music's most enigmatic alternative bands. The NTSC DVD features 'the cabs' at their magnificent live best in 1983 and 1986, with both shows coming from the world famous Hacienda Club. Also featured are three of the band's promo videos, 'No Escape', 'Yashar' and 'Sluggin' For Jesus', which again capture their talent for the visual aid to their music. Cherry Red Records. Hafler Trio - Cleave: 9 Great Openings CD (Nextera) [04814/ERA2014] $16.00 The Hafler Trio's brand new studio album named "Cleave: 9 Great Openings" being released as "Part The First" of the Trilogy. "Part The Second" will be released next year on Die Stadt and "Part The Third" will follow later on Nextera. CD album is packed in "deluxe" embossed paper wallet with special transparent wrap-around. "Cleave: Nine Great Openings" is the first new CD release by H3O since 'Hljodmynd' released in 2000 on Die Stadt (though the material on this was already recorded in 1995). Cleave is a 60 minute piece which slowly changes, with a very wide sound, low and very resonant. It's *almost* ambient or 'meditative music' with very special atmosphere, and a few suprises. Source material for this album was recorded in 1999 for Andrew's friend's wedding ceremony in Nepal. We are sure that many people / fans eagerly await this new work (trilogy) by Andrew Mark McKenzie which is truely exceptional. This set of recordings shows that there's life in the old dog yet and it isn't quite buried. Hafler Trio, The - La Chanson Dada 10" [RAFT118] Raft $11.50 "Raft Recordings are proud to present the release of La Chanson Dada, the first ever fully orchestrated recording of Tristan Tzara's classic poetic text. Available here in both instrumental and vocal versions, The Hafler Trio have fashioned a refined gem from Georges Auric's musical setting and Tzaea's inimitable absurdist tract, scored specially for Strings, Harp, Harmonium and Voice." Humanoid - Sessions 84-88 [REPH130CD] Rephlex $15.25 RELEASE DATE: 02/18/2003 "Brian Dougans is most famous as half of the duo Future Sound Of London, but early recognition came for him with the European and UK hit single 'Stakker Humanoid', under the name Humanoid in 1988." Main - Transiency CDS (Tigerbeat6) [TB664] $7.75 RELEASE DATE: 01/17/03. Robert Hampson's post-Loop band Main are back. They've had several releases on Beggars Banquet as well as other labels like Fat Cat, Touch, K-raa-k and Staalplaat. Their ear-catching ambient/electroacoustic music contains strong references to Stockhausen and Xenakis but fully enjoys the benefits of modern technology, digital processing and reconstruction. Muslimgauze - Uzbekistani Bizarre And Souk [IMPREC007] Important $13.25 "Uzbekistani Bizarre and Souk has long been considered one of the pillars of the Muslimgauze catalog but has never enjoyed a proper release. Frequently passed around on CDr, it has only been available through Staalplaat as a D.A.T. in trade for multiple proofs of purchase from Staalplaat releases. This first edition release comes housed in a beautiful numbered, hand fed letterpress digipack made by Manifesto Letterpress and will never be available in this deluxe packaging again." Quinoline Yellow - L.M.W. Motors CD3 [SMAK111CD] Smak $11.50 "Ltd edition CD that comes in a printed car tax disc holder. 150 copies of the CD contain a coupon, send back the coupon to the label and they'll send you a limited edition keyring. 'whatcha' chief....after a new motor are you? Step through here into the yard'." Various Artists - Wanna Buy A Craprak? [CRPK023CD] Car Park $8.75 RELEASE DATE: 01/21/2003 " A unique multimedia CD sampler selling at a special low price, that will make everyone's wallet very happy. Wanna buy a craprak? contains 13 audio tracks and 4 videos from all of your favorite Carpark artists (such as Marumari, Greg Davis, Kit Clayton, Safety Scissors, Kid6o6, Dinky Ogurusu Norihide, and Signer). Many of the tracks are taken from future and past Carpark releases, some are exclusive (Lake Mandell, Freescha, Takagi Masakatsu, Hrvatski, and 242phots)." [ E L S E ] Acid Mothers Temple - Magical Power From Mars Vol. 1: Ziggy Sitar Dust Raga CD3 [IMPREC009] Important $8.75 RELEASE DATE: 01/07/2003 "One volume of the Acid Mothers Temple 3 CD set Magical Power From Mars will be released each month for three months. Each volume in the set is limited to 1000 copies each and has a deluxe 3D Lenticular cover based on a painting by Bob Vido. (the covers look like they are about 2 miles deep).Each volume represents three extremely different musical ideals that bind together to create the Acid Mothers Temple aesthetic.Each track is around 20 minutes long." Acid Mothers Temple - Magical Power From Mars Vol. 2: Diamond Doggy Peggy CD3 [IMPREC010] Important $8.75 RELEASE DATE: 02/04/2003 Acid Mothers Temple - Magical Power From Mars Vol. 3: Cosmic Funky Dolly CD3 [IMPREC011] Important $8.75 RELEASE DATE: 03/04/2003 Antenne - #2 [KP3006] Korm Plastics $14.25 "As the title implies #2 is the successor to Antenne's debut album #1 (2000, Korm Plastics), a mix of minimal, melancholic songs and repetitive electronica. #2 contains 7 tracks and starts out with a cover-version of 'Black Eyed Dog' by Nick Drake -- one of the last songs the legendary British folk singer recorded before his death in 1974. Antenne's version extends and enhances the sadness and melancholy of the original with a beautiful, repetitive mix of acoustic guitar, piano, glitch-electronica and the voice of Marie-Louise Munck who also sang on #1. This, and the other 6 tracks are all dark and intelligent trip-hop and ambient expressionally open towards a wider audience but still progressive enough to satisfy listeners of experimental electronics." Atari Teenage Riot - Redefeine The Enemy [DHR034CD] Digital Hardcore $13.75 "Redefine The Enemy! Digital Hardcore releases rare mixes and b-sides from one of the most influential electronic/rock artists Atari Teenage Riot. Packaged in an embossed silver tin and containing an 8 page booklet featuring rare photos, this package is a must for all ATR and hard electronic fans." Blamstrain - Ensi [MERCK013] Merck $13.25 "This is the first album by Blamstrain, a young Finnish lad by the name of Juho. Heavily influenced by other notable Finnish acts like Brothomstates, Lackluster and Vladislav Delay; his album straddles the divide between idm and techno.t." Butthole Surfers - Butthole Surfers/PCPEP CD (Latino Bugger) [LBV8] $15.00 01/24/03. The first two EPs available on CD for the first time, finally. Along with all the tracks from both releases there is also bonus tracks: a two-song encore ("Gary Floyd" and "Matchstick") added to the live EP, a track recorded for the first EP but never included and an early demo version of "Something." Can - Delay 1968 [SPOON9062] Spoon/Mute $13.75 Classic early recordings with Malcolm Mooney on vocals, recorded in Nrvenich, Germany in 1968-69, not released until 1981. "A collection of cuts featuring early vocalist Malcolm Mooney, these seven songs are among the very first Can ever recorded; while nowhere near as intricate or assured as the group's later work, the visceral energy of tracks like the deranged "Uphill" and "Butterfly" is undeniable." ? Jason Ankeny. Can - Ege Bamyasi [SPOON9056] Spoon/Mute $13.75 The group's fourth album, from 1972, originally issued by United Artists. "The follow-up to Tago Mago is only lesser in terms of being shorter; otherwise the Can collective delivers its expected musical recombination act with the usual power and ability. Liebezeit, at once minimalist and utterly funky, provides another base of key beat action for everyone to go off on ? from the buried, lengthy solos by Karoli on 'Pinch' to the rhythm box/keyboard action on 'Spoon'. Liebezeit and Czukay's groove on 'One More Night', calling to mind a particularly cool nightclub at the end of the evening, shows that Stereolab didn't just take the brain-melting crunch side of Can as inspiration. ? Ned Raggett Can - Future Days [SPOON9055] Spoon/Mute $13.75 The fifth Can album, originally issued in 1973. "Damo Suzuki's final effort is Can's most atmospheric and beautiful record, a spartan collection of lengthy, jazz-like compositions recorded with minimal vocal contributions. Employing keyboard washes to create a breezy, almost oceanic feel, the mix buries Suzuki's voice to elevate drummer Jaki Liebezeit's complex rhythms to the foreground; despite the deceptive tranquility of its surface, Future Days is an intense work, bubbling with radical ideas and concepts. ? Jason Ankeny. Can - Tago Mago [SPOON9054] Spoon/Mute $13.75 The group's third album, a sprawling masterpiece from 1971. Featuring the vocal invention of Damo Suzuki. "With the band in full artistic flower and Suzuki's sometimes moody, sometimes frenetic speak/sing/shrieking in full effect, Can released not merely one of the best Krautrock albums of all time, but one of the best albums ever, period. Tago Mago is that rarity of the early '70s, a double album without a wasted note, ranging from sweetly gentle float to full-on monster grooves. ? Ned Raggett." Depeche Mode - Videos 86>98 DVD (Reprise) [323616] $29.00 This release adds a second 90 minute disc (rare & unreleased material) to the complete 1999 DVD release The Videos 86>98. DVD 1 includes every music video - all 21 of them, including classics such as 'Personal Jesus', 'A Question Of Lust' and 'Barrel Of A Gun' - that Depeche Mode Made during that period, a conversation with the band members and their MTV Video Music Award-winning director Anton Corbijn and the 25-minute 'Depeche Mode-Short Film.' DVD 2 contributes four more videos plus the EPKs for 'Songs Of Faith And Devotion', 'Violator' and 'Ultra', filled with exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes footage. Deluxe slipcase packaging. Electric Company - It's Hard to be a Baby CD (Tigerbeat6) [TB668] $13.50 The solo project of Brad Laner, frontman for the seminal band Medicine. He has been making extremely leftfield electronic music since 1995. Guitars and other live instrumentation complement abstract and twisted electronics. This is a radical redirection for Electric Company towards melody and mood. Certainly his most accessible material yet. Fall - Extricate CD (Cog Sinister) [191242] $14.50 Remastered 2002 reissue of 1990 album. This is the first post-Brix release and featured producers Rex Sergeant, Craig Leon & Adrian Sherwood. Fila Brazilla - 3 White Roses and a Budd CDS (23 Records) [933022] $9.25 2002 collaboration between the UK electronica duo & American composer Harold Budd. Fila Brazillia - Saucy Joints CDS (23 Records) [933002] $9.25 2002 collaboration between the UK electronica duo & American composer Harold Budd. Kettel - Cenny Crush [DUB07CD] Djak-Up-Bitch $13.25 "Brilliant album by youngster Kettel (Reimer Eising) who previously releases on Planet mu and Nea Ouija. After great reactions on the limited pre12"...we now have the full length with exceptional beautyfull and deep indietronix (kind of indie pop meets electronica meets techno meets headz). When there is one person who is going to surprise the world with its music its 19 year old Kettel." Moonbuggy - Planet Lupo [MMXA320CD] Doxa $13.25 RELEASE DATE: 02/11/2002 " To make it clear, Monnbuggy are not minimal. These guys are rather the 'Post' of what the scene knows from the electronic pop and future dance of today. Moonbuggy are funky, funky as only a few electronic producers are able to be. " Myers, David Lee/Thomas Dimuzio - Uncertain Symmetry [KP3008] Korm Plastics $14.25 "New York's David Lee Myers and San Francisco's Thomas Dimuzio shared a stage at Tonic in New York City in March 2001 -- Myers' first public performance in ten years- -- which immediately sparked a year long regenerative process. The ensuing 2001-2002 project actually picks up where a paused 1991 collaboration for the Generations Unlimited label left off. Myers' first round of source material represented a veritable sound library of feedback tones, texture and contours for Dimuzio to compose from. The structures Dimuzio created, along with several tracks of feedback-induced source sound (recorded for their project 10 years prior) were sent back to Myers for additional manipulation and arrangement; the result of this phase became the first section of their new effort. A second stage involved Myers sending material (from a rehearsal for an upcoming performance) to Dimuzio, who sliced, diced and reworked the sounds into a series of in-depth sonic beds, eventually returning the mixes, along with a new disc of live-sampled feedback, to Myers who reworked and honed them into the second half of the album. The product of these manipulations is titled Uncertain Symmetry, the result of a bicoastal ping-ponging which is an even balance between the two artists--symmetrical-- but which the specific contributions from each can no longer be determined." New Order - Confusion (2002 Remixes) CDS (Whacked) [960152] $9.25 2002 single featuring five tracks, 'Confusion' (Koma & Bones Remix, Larry T's Remix, Junior Sanchez Vocal Mix, Arthur Baker Remix & Asto's Remix). Ostertag, Bob - Say No More Vol. 3 & 4 2CD (Seeland) [SEE522] $15.00 Second of two releases that comprise this project. Ostertag sent different musicians into the studio separately to record improvisations then manipulated those improvs on his computer. He then challenged those musicians to learn those creations. Volume 3 is Ostertag's reconfiguration of the live performance using his computer and Volume 4 is the group recorded that reconfigured piece live in Belgium. Packaged in a hand silk-screened steel box with color inserts. Sakamoto, Ryuichi - Works I CD (Warner Japan) [955222] $31.75 Compilation featuring works from the 80s, including previously unreleased tracks. Sakamoto, Ryuichi - Works II: TV & Instrumental CD (Warner Japan) [955232] $31.75 Compilation featuring works from the 80s, including previously unreleased tracks. Various Artists - Cambodian Rocks [PWCD6] Parallel World $13.25 CD reissue with 9 bonus tracks added. "Unknown to exist until recently, these recordings from the late 60s, early 70s Cambodian rock scene range from mad garage-band rave-ups to mystic go-go organ/fuzz guitar, with exotic female singers. Extremely sensual and emotionally charged -- you'll hear echoes of Jimi, Janis, Seeds, Them, and SF acid. ." Various Artists - Constellation Music Until Now [CSTCOMP1] Constellation $6.50 "A low-price compilation of music from our first five years, featuring one previously released track from each of the following: Sofa, Exhaust, Do Make Say Think, Sackville, Fly Pan Am, A Silver Mt. Zion, Frankie Sparo, 1-Speed Bike, Re:, and Hangedup. This Compact disc has a running time of approximately 65 minutes, sounds like an album in its own right, and comes packaged in a cardstock gatefold jacket with insert booklet. We want it to properly introduce people to the overall label aesthetic, so every effort is being made to create a stand-alone, non-disposable object that is both aurally and visually compelling." Various Artists - Indietronica [SONAR03] Sonarmusic $15.50 Artists include: Lali Puna, Donna Regina, Her Space Holiday, Nikakoi, Dntel, Mum, Hans Platzgumer Feat. Catriona Shaw, Tarwater, The Notwist, Mouse On Mars, Styrofoam, Undo, Schneider TM Vs. Kpt. Michi.Gan, Raz Ohara, Gush Collective Feat. Franz & Adam, Laub, and Apeiron. Various Artists - Psychedelic States: Alabama In The Sixties: Volume 2 [GF192]Gear Fab $12.25 "We head back to Alabama to unearth some more great undiscovered bands. From Birmingham to Mussel Shoals to Mobile to Montgomery.... lots of never before seen photos and the stories of the bands." From orders@ear-rational.com Sat Dec 21 21:19:09 2002 From: orders@ear-rational.com (EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 14:19:09 -0700 Subject: [ear-subscribers] this week's update Message-ID: Happy holiday! We expect to receive freight this week on the 26th and ship on the 27th as usual. There will be no update next week, so have a safe and healthy New Year! [ T H I S W E E K ' S F E A T U R E D R E L E A S E S ] DJ Spooky - Songs Of A Dead Dreamer [ASPH2009] Asphodel $11.25 The 2002 edition of DJ Spooky's legendary Songs of a Dead Dreamer, featuring 2 bonus tracks previously available only on the Japanese edition. "Abstract junglist, former leader of the Illbient movement, culture critic or just plain organized noise progenitor: there's no denying New Yorker DJ Spooky's immense influence on the American experimental electronic scene. 1996's groundbreaking Songs of a Dead Dreamer is the first full-length testament to his position. For anyone interested in contemporary IDM, from Berlin PowerBook dub to Kid606's groovy electropunk, Dead Dreamer is an ambient classic which deserves a space in your collectIon." Hafler Trio, The - Whistling About Chickens 2CD [FIREQ] Fire $17.00 "Late 2002 sees the return of the Hafler Trio into the world of music. In the usual cryptic manner, the theme of this CD (or in fact a whole series of interconnected and interlocking 'themes' is like multi-nested russian dolls. Various people involved in this CD are Willem de Ridder, Franz Graf, Jochen Schwartz as well as various Icelandic people. There has been a gap of 7 or 8 years between this work and other recent works are technological differences and developments (both externally and internally). Each one of them, in addition, deals with completely different 'things'. But as before The Hafler Trio deals with the same concerns, somtimes more obscure and sometimes clearer, depending on the approach for each situation. the essence is precisely the same. Perhaps it glows a little brighter..." Iran - The Moon Boys [TUMULT121] Tumult $11.75 "This is the second missive from San Francisco's premier NOISEPOP band, not noise pop in the jangly-pop-punk-San-Francisco-festival-tight-pants- thrift-store-t-shirt-wanna-be-on-MTV-bullshit sense, but the gorgeous-pop- songs-buried-under-a-thick-splattey-wall-of-buzz-hum-whir-skree-guitairs- set-on-self-destruct-Beatles-filtered-through-Skullflower sense. Like Sebadoh or Pavement being backed up by Throbbing Gristle or Whitehouse. Or Nurse With Wound fronted by Elliott Smith. You get the idea. Gorgeous, heart-breaking, voice-cracking lo-fi love (and un-love) soup, delivered in a wavery falsetto, over gentle guitars naive drumming and strange but wonderful backgrounds woven from vocals, amp hunt, guitar buzz, as well tumbling low end and squealing feedback." New Order - Retro CD Box (London) [960772] $49.75 A 4-CD retrospective including one disc of live tracks and one disc of club mixes. Includes a 5th bonus CD with 9 unreleased tracks including the 17-minute version of "Elegia". Various Artists - Rough Trade Shops 2002: Counter Culture 2CD [STUMM218CD] Mute $18.25 "It speaks for itself really: 42 indie tracks released in 2002 and selected by the Rough Trade team as the best new offerings. Some old names mixed with some new comers, all genre defying." Artists include: Akufen, Lord Kitchener, Electric 6, Prefuse 73, The Bug Vs Rootsman, Rubicks, Crossover, Gabriel Ananda, The Be Good Tanyas, The Boggs, Johnny Dowd, Baxter Dury, Melt Banana, Polyphonic Spree, Bis, Joyzipper, Soul Center, The Books, Dempsey, Trash Money, My Robot Friend, The Rogers Sisters, Dymaxion, Bright Eyes, Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Esg, Willis, Glass Candy, Edan, Langley Schools Music Project, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Schneider Tm, Tom Waits, Cabaret Voltaire, The Breeders, Tracy + The Plastics, Freeform Five, Bitstream, James Yorkston, Pink Grease, Mountain Goats. [ E L S E ] Berio, Luciano - The String Quartets [MO782155] Montaigne $17.00 "After so many benchmark recordings of the music of our time, the members of the Arditti Quartet were bound to give us one day a complete survey of the string quartets of Luciano Berio, the great Commendatore figure who has dominated Italian music since the 1950s." Child, Anthony/Andrew Ready - Guitar Treatments [K229CD] K2O $13.25 "It was in the early nineteen-nineties, as members of the avant-rock group Blim, that the guitarist and the treater began constructing musical works using electric guitar and the electronic treatments of the sounds produced. A significant point came about the day Frank Zappa died, when guitarist and treater performed and produced `The Eagle', a piece of music involving four tracks of slow, simple and sustained, interwoven guitar lines, treated using a variety of exotic effects. In light of this recording, it was suggested that a future project should take place, involving variations, far and wide, on this theme. As events progressed, the guitarist and the treater became separated physically, and time passed. Eventually it was decided that a short, but intense project should, and could take place, the result of which you hold now. The pieces were constructed in the same spirit, manner and framework as with the earlier pieces, a key aspect being that the works were split into two very distinct halves; those of guitar and treatment, the 'sound' being separated into two constituents, those of before and after it leaves the electric guitar. The guitarist played the electric guitar. Though he chose and produced the pitch and duration of the individual notes, he was not involved in any way with the `colour' of the notes, nor the treatments applied to the notes. The treater treated the electric guitar. Though he had no involvement with the choice of pitch or duration, nor of the playing of the individual guitar notes, he applied all the treatment subsequent to each note being produced. In many ways, due to the nature of the pieces, some being ideas, though unheard and unpractised, and others being purely improvisational, this `production' involved the totality of composing, arranging, playing, recording, treating and mixing. This intensity of effort over the two days was expected, was indeed planned, and it was welcomed. It was within in the spirit." Data 80 - Data 80 [FT52CD] Force Tracks $13.75 RELEASE DATE: 02/11/2003 "Force Tracks goes beyond what you've ever heard before by introducing the new pop-house project orchestrated by reknown house producer Hakan Lidbo. Data 80 is a mainframe for the past, present and future. Man-machine meets the fire of 70's funk, 80's trash and classic house." Die Blutleuchte - Rus [SAHKO018CD] Sahko $13.75 RELEASE DATE: 02/11/2003 "This thoroughly genius debut album from the Russian Industrial/Avantgarde duo Die Bluteuchte draws dark images from the evil Russian (war) history. A serious masterpiece full of visionary musical superiority." Dieb13/Pure/Siewert - Just In Case You Are Bored. So Are We. [DOC004] Doc $14.25 "Dieb13 plays (in the truest sense of the word) turntables like no other: his music is reduced, exceptionally musical, and can be described as anything but merely moving records around. He produces ambient soundscapes, often plunderphonic, but never just a patchwork. For many years now, Martin Siewert has been exploring the electronic guitar's possibilities for sonic abstraction, from jazz to distant electronic-electroacoustic soundscapes and more often recently, concrete sound (cf. the hatHut CD, Trapist.) Pure comes from the world of techno, where his beats became more and more abstract and in the meantime even elusive. A wonderful example of his bleak sound fantasies (fed from his work in techno, industrial, musique concrete and ambient) is his last CD, Noonbugs (Mego). For several years, dieb13 and Martin Siewert have regularly collaborated (including in EFZEG (whose most recent CD is Boogie on Grob). Here, their primarily analogue sound experiments are added to and complemented by Pure. After collaborations between Siewert and Pure in the area of production, in late 2000 the three found themselves more or less coincidentally working together on two completely improvised concerts, and have now collected the results of their first joint musical project on this recording. Each detail of the sonic landscape is precisely modulated, analogue amplitudes with digital peaks and abysses. The warm, gently pulsating sound of Siewert's guitar forms the primary basis for the abstract grooves and sounds of Pure's laptop (with its own software) and dieb's turntable experiments (such as adding piezoelectricity to the sound pickup). Many levels overlap, shift, and almost imperceptibly reform. Since repetitive structures dominate, there are no breaks, but plenty of sonic surprises." Fairmont - Paper Stars [TRAUM10] Traum $14.50 "Fairmont is the alias of Jacob Fairley and stands for his melodic techno soul side as opposed to his radical stripped down minimal techno releases on Dumb Unit, Sender, and Killer. Under Fairmont he has released two 12"s on Traum. Paper Stars features tracks that deliberatly have been recorded over the last 12 months for a project that was to introduce Jacobs vocals, guitars sounds, drum machines and synths. With Paper Stars he departs even more from his status as a minimal techno producer, giving credit to his rock roots, which a city such as Toronto is known for. Fairley humms melodies, rocks basslines that sound like 1000 trapped bees ('Last Words') and then dives into a minimal groover ('True North', 'Inside') to end in a folk nourtured "Ignore Me'. Paper Stars tells a story, is spiced with pictures and emotions that allow the listener to rehash a bit of his life. In contrast to his new project, The Uncut, we witness a stronger pop influence drawing for example on Wolfgang Voigt Gas project ('Kinmount') stating a light quality with bits of heavyness. Ten tracks that fly by as if you were sitting on the back seats of a car letting towns and buildings pass by." Kid Chocolat - Life And Death Of Romano Poal [POOR007CD] Poor Records $14.25 "Welcome to the astonishing, bewitching and magical world of Swiss genius sampler/electronic player Kid Chocolat. For fans of : Amon Tobin, DJ Shadow, Avalanche, Cornershop." Le Coeur - Suddenly [MG002CD] Mental Groove $14.50 "Le Coeur is a one man project from the growing Geneva scene. Although this production is musically rather far from Mental Groove's usual signing, the spirit is still there and the quality and originality of this record shine like never before in Mental Groove's empire. Using various analog electronic machines and other samplers, synth, electronics, pianos. Suddenly is a good lesson in how to make nowadays a brilliant record in today's stifling world of lap top/computer and other digital and new electronic music too often based on technology rather than on originality and ideas. For fans of : Susumu Yokota, The Orb, Brian Eno." Lucas, Gary - The Edge Of Heaven: Gary Lucas Plays Mid-Century Chinese Pop [LBLC2582] Indigo $15.25 "Gary Lucas, who is well known for his work with Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, is an incredibly talented and versatile NYC-based guitarist/singer/songwriter who has earned a worldwide following in his own right over the last several years. Lucas has been hailed for his brilliant solo guitar work, the long-standing band Gods and Monsters (based around Lucas' guitar and songwriting encompassing almost every style imaginable) and his work with many other outstanding musicians, including contributing songs and guitar playing for major label debut albums from Jeff Buckley and Joan Osborne. Lucas is moving beyond his reputation as one of the most innovative guitarists in the world today to firmly establish himself as a composer and Grammy-nominated songwriter. His new album, The Edge Of Heaven - Gary Lucas Plays Mid-Century Chinses Pop, is a tribute to the Chinese divas Chow Hsuan and Bai Kwong." Mover, The - Frontal Frustration [TRES198CD] Tresor $13.75 RELEASE DATE: 02/11/2003 "Open your Techno history books to 'Originator'... Born Marc Acardipane in Frankfurt, The Mover is Europe's most prolific Underground godfather, having since 1989 penned some of the most inspirational and pioneering Techno ever on his ACA, Cold Rush, PCP, Dance Ecstasy 2001 and other labels under pseudonyms like Marshall Masters, Nasty Django, Cipher, Pilldriver, Masters Of Rave ect...! Himself inspired by the powers of Detroit and especially Suburban Knight's 'The Art of Stalking', The Mover's own melancholic but deeply musical sound mirrors modern urban life (and lifelessness) and still remains experimental Techno far ahead of anyone's time and the inspiration for an immense array of artists and DJs. Tresor is proud to present The Mover's Frontal Frustration, 10 new dark & deep phuture tracks from the Master. Ranging between abrasive trackism and glorious anthems for doom temples, Frontal Frustration begins a new chapter for this renowned artist. See you in 2017." Various Artists - #228 February 2003 MAG [WIRE228] Wire $7.00 RELEASE DATE: 01/28/2003 On the cover: Lou Reed; Features: Alan Silva, Helmut Lachenmann, Supersilent; The Primer: Avant Disco; Invisible Jukebox: Spring Heel Jack. Various Artists - Improvised Music From Japan Magazine+CD [IMJ301] Improvised Music from Japan $16.50 Featuring: Ami Yoshida Interview, Sachiko M Interview, Toshimaru Nakamura Interview, Uchihashi Kazuhisa Interview, Phew Interview, Tetsu Saitoh & Nobuyoshi Ino Interview, Yasuhiro Yoshigaki Interview, Jon Abbey Interview, tamaru Interview, Utah Kawasaki Interview. CD Artists include: Toshimaru Nakamura; Brett Larner, Fred Frith, Anne Hege, Brett Larner, Andy Nathan, Jonathan Segel, John Shiurba and Matthew Sperry; Masahiko Okura, Masafumi Ezaki and Taku Unami; Haco / View Masters; Tetuzi Akiyama; Yoshio Machida; and Radu Malfatti and Taku Sugimoto. Various Artists - Painted Black [TUMULTBLK] Tumult $12.00 Long awaited compilation of "covers" of the Rolling Stones' "Paint It BlacK", inspired by Fennesz's legendary Mego single. "A pop song ruined. Everyone's favorite becomes ours. A seamless whole: variations as movements of a single greater interpretation. An international appreciation/depreciation in sound." Artists include: Mieskuoro Huutajaat, James Plotkin's Joy Of Disease, Stilluppsteypa, Kit Clayton, Acid Mother's Temple, Hrvatski, The Tape-Beatles, Troum, Fennesz, Circle, and Loren Chasse . Various Artists - Psychedelic States: Texas In The 60's Volume 1 [GF197] Gear Fab $12.25 "We head the Lone Star State in the first of many visits. Many never before released and rare bands from '66-'68 with lots of photos and stories of the bands. Includes two previously unreleased tracks by The Bubble Puppy." Artists include: The Pastels, The Countdown Five, The Bubble Puppy, The Nomadds, Airhead, The Crabbs, Euphoria, Michael, Elastic Prism, A440, Reasons Why, Persian Market, Head, and The Glass Kans. Various Artists - Timeless [MCD001CD] Metroplex $14.00 "As the source distributor for Metroplex Records, Submerge is proud to release the first ever Metroplex compilation. This is the definitive collection of the Metroplex releases that have influenced so many of the worlds electronic producers. It also contains many recent tracks released by some of Detroit's best artists." Compiled and Mixed by Juan Atkins featuring: M500, Audiotech, Channel One, Aaron Carl, Chaos, X-Ray, Eric Travis, Model 600, Gerald Mitchell, Model 500, Eddie Fowlkes, Shake, Infiniti, and DJ Bone. Worms - Pelican Songs [TUMULT111] Tumult $12.00 "Will Finland never cease to surprise us? How can one tiny country continue to produce so much progressive, transgressive, creative and fucking perfect experimental rock? Circle, Keuhkot, Avarus, Anaksimandros, Mieskuoro Huutajaat Pharoah, Overlord, Ektroverde, Skepticism, Kemialisett Ystavat. So here it is, finally, and man it is something. Five tracks of beautiful brutality. A dark and wintry, more motorik My Bloody Valentine, mixed with a little Circle and a little Filth-era Swans. Or some Frankensteinian dirge rock band, equal parts Godflesh, My Bloody Valentine, the Shadow Ring, and the Swans. The disc starts off with a massive 30 minute medley, a droning hypnotic dirge, like Terry Riley composing for Godflesh or the Melvins and quite reminiscent of Dutch riff gods Gore. Definitely for fans of all the above mentioned bands as well as connoisseurs of drone/dirge/doom. Crushingly beautiful." From orders@ear-rational.com Sat Dec 21 21:23:52 2002 From: orders@ear-rational.com (EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 14:23:52 -0700 Subject: [ear-subscribers] small addendum Message-ID: <81103DAF-152A-11D7-963E-00039351D41E@ear-rational.com> Sorry, this was buried in another listing, and the price was wrong to boot. Various Artists - #228 February 2003 MAG [WIRE228] Wire $6.75 RELEASE DATE: 01/28/2003 On the cover: Lou Reed; Features: Alan Silva, Helmut Lachenmann, Supersilent; The Primer: Avant Disco; Invisible Jukebox: Spring Heel Jack. From orders@ear-rational.com Sun Dec 22 02:02:54 2002 From: orders@ear-rational.com (EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 19:02:54 -0700 Subject: [ear-subscribers] sorry, a couple more Message-ID: <7BA59EB4-1551-11D7-9641-0003934871B6@ear-rational.com> Lopez, Francisco/Steve Roden - Chemin du Paradis, Le [04819/CD05] Fario $12.25 The Fario label was created in 1998 by the staff of the French magazine Fear Drop. The concept behind Fario is the meeting: collaborations between two artists. Each record shows two halves created seperately and a common track, a moment to share views or to oppose feelings. All tracks are previously unreleased. Francisco Lopez is a diver in the ocean of sounds. He has been exploring their different stages since the beginning of the eighties. First approached as abstract, Lopez sonic universe is also to be seen and heard as a deep and sensitive experience of the noise of the world - that he calls "belle confusion". For his own track, Lopez comments: "it's one the quietest pieces I have ever done (...) really changing the perception of time". Thus, he worked close to a frontier that must be considered as extreme as the opposite layers of pure noise. Steve Roden also known as 'In Be Tween Noise" acts as a revelator of the 'unsignificant' and 'forgotten' objects which surround us. From them, he builds his music and poetry, so sensitive, so delicate and strangely made. A subtle link from a concrete sound to its musical counterpart. Not so many have achieved to become, as Steve Roden, the vessel of the intimate emotions. Muslimgauze - Maroon [04821] Staalplaat $13.00 In 1995 Staalplaat released 'Maroon' by Muslimgauze and we announced there would be three different editions. A deluxe digipack with an original stamp by the Palestinian Authority (500 copies), a deluxe digipack without the stamp (500 copies) and an unlimited digipack with a new design. The third edition was never released, due to the high output of Muslimgauze at that time - it was shortly after the release of 'Maroon' that we started our limited edition subscription series. Over the years we believed to have lost the films and artwork for the third edition, another problem in producing it. Recentely the films showed up (albeit in a not too best state) and we decided to produce the original third, unlimited edition of 'Maroon'. It is now available. 'Maroon' was the first Muslimgauze of 1995 and brought back the sound of confrontation. Musically 'Maroon' continues 'Salaam Alekum Bastard' (which was a break with the 'Blue Mosque' and 'Zealot' releases) and is dub inspired techno, laid back sounds with taped radio voices from the middle east that appear random in the mix. From orders@ear-rational.com Sat Dec 28 19:41:22 2002 From: orders@ear-rational.com (EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 12:41:22 -0700 Subject: [ear-subscribers] Final update for 2002 Message-ID: <5867A644-1A9C-11D7-85BE-0003934871B6@ear-rational.com> This final update for 2002 is primarily experimental releases, which I've put at the end. Also a fair bit of pop, rock, video/DVD, and more. Have a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year! [ T H I S W E E K F E A T U R E D R E L E A S E S ] Amorphous Androgynous - Mello Hippo Disco Show CDEP (Artful) [961012] $12.00 Reworks of material from 'Isness'. Eight non-LP tracks, 'Yo - Yo', 'She Sell Electric Ego', 'Jacknife Lee Mix', 'Slo Mo', 'Hippo Drone', 'Trying To Make Impermanent Things Permanent', 'The Worlds In Transience' & 'Life A Flow'. Aube - Recontextual Abstraction 1996 2CD (Gender-Less Kibbutz) [glk15] $19.75 A collection of all the compilation tracks Akifumi recorded during the year 1996. As you can well imagine, some tracks didn't surface until later, and at least a couple were never released in the end. even following his work fairly closely that year, I never saw but a few of these compilations, so this is a great way to get them all now. each track still uses a single source material, but the source represented include heartbeat, 1 voltage controlled oscillator, brain waves, computer data signals, water, thunder, field recordings by Toy Bizarre, rocks, tracks by Blazen Y Sharp and Scour, blood vessel, monophonic analogue synthesizer, and fire. DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist - Product Placement Breaks CD (?) [964432] $18.25 Limited DJ promo collectors item. All the super hard to find undercover tracks as used by DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist on their classic mix tape. 20 tracks. Esplendor Geometrico - Compuesto de Hierro CD (Esplendor Music) [04824] $13.00 Finally the new album from Esplendor Geometrico, the legendary Industrial - rhythm & noise Spanish cult band. It is more than four years now, since Polyglophone album, that they have not published new material. "Compuesto de hierro" is a less aggressive and more serene work than Polyglophone, its 11 tracks are the most perfect example of the Industrial-tribal-noise sound of Esplendor, developed throughout two decades, reminding us sometimes of their most ethnic and aclaimed album, Mekano Turbo. The rhythms, hypnotic and very elaborated, are combined with mastery with lots of manipulated voices, analogical electronic sounds, and oriental (mostly Chinese) music recordings. "Compuesto de hierro" means a new point of view in the fusion of traditional or ethnic music with classic Industrial Music. Recorded in Beijing this year. His Name Is Alive - Last Night CD (4AD) [192652] $14.00 Last Night continues the Warn Defever and singer Lovetta Pippen collaboration and contains a haunting title track, the heart melt of 'Flowers', the beautifully stripped-down 'I Can See Myself In Her' and the smoky intimacy of the closing 'Train'. Timeless, soulful music. Digipak. Merzbow - New Takamagahara CD (Jazzassin/Ohm) [0.2ohm] $13.00 Twisted Japanese electronics and bold feedback. Jewel cased full color package with psychedelic naked women artwork. First edition of 500. Merzbow - Puroland CD ([Ohm]) [0.9ohm] $14.00 Gestern habe ich mi Partridge, Andy - Fuzzy Warbles Vol. 1 CD (Ape House) [962152] $19.00 19 previously unheard recordings (including demo versions & unreleased songs) from the XTC frontman, dating from the band's Virgin years. House label. Partridge,andy - Fuzzy Warbles Vol. 2 CD (Ape House) [962162] $19.00 18 previously unheard recordings (including demo versions & unreleased songs) from the XTC frontman, dating from the band's Virgin years. House label. Sakamoto, Ryuichi - Femme Fatale (O.S.T.) CD (WEA Japan) [939042] $33.50 No other territory currently scheduled. Japanese exclusive issue of the famed composer's score to Brian De Palma's 2002 film. Digipak. [ P O P / R O C K / M I X ] AC/DC - AC/DC 17 Album Box Set Box Set (Hecla) [962992] $239.50 Hey, we're WAY cheaper than Amazon on this one. This is the ultimate collection from one of the world's greatest rock bands. It's all here, for the first time 17 CDs bursting at the seams, in this one box of rock. From 'High Voltage' (1976) through to 'Stiff Upper Lip' (2000) with all the classic moments in between & the double live album. This is truly a must for any fan! Adams, Ryan - Demolition +4 2CD (Lost Highway) [957492] $27.50 Extremely limited European pressing of his 2002 demo album includes a bonus CD that features four non-LP tracks, 'New York, New York' (Live In Amsterdam), 'To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)' (Live In Amsterdam), 'Blue' & 'Song For Keith'. 17 tracks in all. Adams, Ryan - Nuclear #1 CDS (Universal) [965352] $9.25 From his 2002 album Demolition, 'Nuclear' is backed with 'Blue' (non-album) & 'Song For Keith' (non-album). Adams, Ryan - Nuclear #2 CDS (Universal) [965382] $9.25 'Nuclear' is backed with 2 live tracks, 'New York New York' & 'To Be Young'. Bjork - It's In Our Hands CDEP (Polydor Japane) [962342] $15.75 Japanese edition of the one new track released on her 2002 'Greatest Hits'. Features 5 tracks, 'Its In Our Hands', 'Its In Our Hands' (Soft Pink Truth Mix), 'Its In Our Hands' (Arcade Mix), 'So Broken' (Live) & 'Cocoon' (Retangled By Ensemble). Polydor. Bjork - It's In Our Hands CDS (One Little Indian) [956592] $9.25 Featuring three non-LP mixes, 'It's In Our Hands' (Main Mix, Soft Pink Truth Mix & Arcade mix), of the only new track on her 2002 compilation, 'Bjork's Greatest Hits'. Bjork - Venus Is A Boy (Observer Mag) CDS (One Little Indian) [964672] $9.25 Special promo single featured in the UK magazine Observer. Includes 'Venus Is A Boy', 'Big Time Sensuality' (Fluke Minimix), 'Pagan Poetry' (all taken from Bjork's Greatest Hits album), 'Bachelorette' (with the Brodsky Quartet) (taken from The Family Tree Box Set) & 'It's In Our Hands' (live in Koln) (taken from the album Vespertine Live). Paper sleeve. Camper Van Beethoven - Cigarettes & Carrot Juice: The Santa Cruz Years CD Box (Cooking Vinyl) [192602] $33.50 From one of the 80's great seminal college rock bands comes this 5 CD box set containing four albums that have been out of print since 1994 (Telephone Free Landslide Victory, II & III, Camper Van Beethoven, Camper Vantiquities) and one disc of previously unreleased live material, (Greatest Hits Played Faster), along with a 16 page full color booklet with exclusive photos and liner notes, packaged in a foil stamped digi-box. Each CD (housed in paper sleeves) features original album cover art. Cranes - Submarine CDEP (Instinct) [904552] $14.50 2002 EP features remixes of 'Don't Wake Me Up', 'Submarine', & 'Driving In the Sun' from Jack Dangers, Thin Men, Saru, Greg Long & more, the originalscan be found on the 2001 album, 'Future Songs'. Culture Club - Culture Club Box Set CD Box (Virgin) [959542] $59.75 2002 compilation for one of the most popular bands of the early 1980s ('Karma Chameleon' is still the best-selling UK single of all time in Virgin Records history, with 'Do You Really Want to Hurt Me' also still in the top ten). This four CD box-set represents the definitive history of the band with many added gems such as demos, remixes, alternative versions & previously unreleased songs. Lavish artwork includes a 72 page glossy booklet, official photos, personal photos, quotes & notes from band members. All previously unreleased tracks have been newly remastered. Long digi-book. Everything But The Girl - Like The Deserts Miss The Rain CD (Virgin) [948012] $21.50 'Every greatest hits collection seems the same, over-familiar tunes reheated & assembled in the boardroom & generally thrown at the public on a cold plate, so we thought we'd try something different,' says EBTG's Tracey. 'If there was going to be a retrospective we wanted it to be a personal view. We wanted to look back on some of the stuff we've been proudest of over the past twenty years. Some of them happen to be famous hits, some are obscure B-sides. It's just our take on things, & we hope it throws a fresh light on these songs & what they mean.' 'Like The Deserts Miss The Rain' is an alternative 'best of' collection. 16 tracks, over 70 minutes culled from 20 years, selected & compiled by Ben Watt & Tracey Thorn themselves. The choices range from EBTG's breakthrough jazz-inflected hit of 1984, 'Each & Every One', through rare B-sides like Tracey's beautiful, 'A Piece Of My Mind' to cornerstone album tracks such as the million-selling 'Amplified Heart' opener 'Rollercoaster' & big hitters like 1995's #1, Hooverphonic - Sometimes CDS (Sony) [961312] $9.25 Taken from their 2002 album Presents Jackie Cane, 'Sometimes' (original version) is backed with 3 non-album tracks, 'The Contract' & two versions of 'Sometimes' (TMF live version & Eli's Chilled Times Mix). Jamiroquai - Complete Odyssey CD Box (?) [957322] $62.50 Aussie exclusive box-set combines the UK dance act's first five albums, 'Emergency On Planet Earth' (1993), 'The Return Of The Space Cowboy' (1995), 'Travelling Without Moving' (1996), 'Synkronized' (1999) & 'A Funk Odyssey' (2001). Silver slipcase. Johnston, Daniel - Rejected Unknown CD (Gammon) [GMN2100] $13.25 The first album in more than 7 years from pop/outsider music phenom Daniel Johnston, hailed by many as his best work to date. Culled from more than 2 years of off-and-on home recording sessions with longtime friend & producer Brian Beattie, Rejected Unknown offers a range of styles from bubble gum optimism to primal heartache. Cover art by Mr. Johnston himself. Kula Shaker - Kollected: Best of CD (Mallikah) [964802] $16.75 Kula Shaker emerged from the psychedelic hinterland of London's suburbs in late 1995. Named after a ninth century Indian King, the band were intrigued by Eastern mysticism, fascinated by the swirling guitar sounds of the '60s & became one of the most popular & talked-about bands of the late '90s. Drawn from the Sony vaults, this fabulous 'Best Of' brings together the Kula Shaker's biggest hits, along with key moments from the band's two album, 1994-1999 career- including 'Grateful When You're Dead', 'Tattva', 'Hey Dude', 'Govinda' & many, many more. Love And Rockets - Love And Rockets + Swing 2CD (Beggars Banquet) [194112] $15.75 Their eponymous fourth album, remastered from the original studio tapes. Disc one of this deluxe double CD edition contains four previously unreleased bonus tracks 'Bike', 'Bikedance', 'No Big Deal' (remix) & 'Dreamtime' while disc two includes the legendary 'Swing' session, and a bonus radio interview with additional live versions. New Order - International +5 2CD (London) [948812] $25.00 Exclusive & very limited French pressing of 2002 compilation includes a bonus CD which features five tracks, 'Let's Go' (Salvation O.S.T.), 'Lonesome Tonight' (B-Side Of 'Thieves'), 'Fine Time' (Silk Hurley Mix), 'Round & Round' (Kevin Sanderson 12'' Mix) & 'Temptation' (Original 1982 Version). Oasis - Little By Little (tour EP) CDEP (Sony) [964062] $9.25 Special tour edition featuring the title track along with three others including a cover of the Who's 'My Generation', 'Columbia' (live version) & a video of 'Little By Little' (live at Finsbury Park). [ H I S T O R I C A L ] Damned - Best of CD (Imperial) [957182] $27.50 Japanese exclusive compilation featuring 26 classics of British punk! Packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Einstuerzende Neubauten - Fuenf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala CD (Potomak) [968552] $22.75 Remastered reissue of 1987 album. Digipak. Einstuerzende Neubauten - Haus Der Luege +3 CD (Indigo) [968582] $22.75 Remastered reissue of their 1989 album includes three bonus tracks, 'Feurio!' (Remix), 'Feurio!' (Turen Offen), 'Partymucke', & comes in a digipak. Einstuerzende Neubauten - Kollaps +1 CD (Potomak) [968592] $22.75 Remastered reissue of 1981 debut with one previously unreleased live bonus track, 'Negativ Nein', recorded at Tempodrom/Berlin, June 1987. Einstuerzende Neubauten - Zeichnungen Des Patienten +3 CD (Potomak) [968612] $22.75 Remastered reissue of their 2nd album from 1983 with 3 bonus tracks, 'DNS Wasserturm', 'Wardrobe' & 'Blutvergiftung'. Digipak. Grey Wolves - Blood and Sand CD (Cold Spring) [04827/CSR42CD] $13.50 Originally released as a cassette a decade ago, the original tapes have been radically remixed by the band, then digitally mastered to bring out the extreme sound of the UKs premiere Industrial unit. Do not expect simple noise - this CD contains extreme electronics, mixed with dark ambient rumblings, the sound of armoured helicopters and military transmissions. It was originally issued as a comment of the Gulf War, then raging in the early 1990s. Released a decade later in this remixed format - the timing is appropriate as the US once more attacks the Middle East. Laibach - John Peel Sessions CDEP (Strange Fruit) [926322] $14.50 2002 compilation showcases the industrial act's unique form of Baltic bombast to fine effect featuring their two John Peel Sessions from 1986 & 1987 respectively & including an early version of their hit single 'Life is Life'. Six tracks. Marley, Bob & The Wailers - Rebel CD Box (Virgin) [954852] $54.50 The finest of the complete Bob Marley & The Wailers from 1967-1972, featuring Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, Lee Scratch Perry, Rita Marley and more. 89 tracks (including previously unavailable mixes & previously unreleased tracks) on 4 remastered CDs housed in a long-box with 40 page booklet. Maurizio Bianchi - ArcheoMB 2 - boxset edition CD (EEs'T) [MBbox2] $63.00 'ArcheoMB' is the title given to the complete reprint of old M.B. records and here is Part 2. The sound has been improved for this digital edition from original masters tapes and under the supervision of M.B. himself. Each CD features the original artwork, the complete documentation (liner notes, reviews, statements) as well as bonus tracks. First press of 500 copies. The complete set of 5 CDs is also available in a boxset edition. Edition of 500 numbered copies that will include the previously unpublished M.B.'s essays titled 'A.T.E.M., a breath of veiled Drama' (1980) and 'The Dictionary of the Extra-Glaciality -part 2', written in 1979 and featuring short essays on Alternative TV, Cabaret Voltaire, Contortions, DNA, Human League, Thomas Leer, Mars, Monochrome Set, MX 80 Sound, The Normal, Parasites, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Wire, XTC (excerpt from 'The Expanded Dictionary of the Extra-Glaciality', a book that will be published by EEs'T and that will include all the essays and the reviews written by M.B. between 1977 and 1983); the 'Fanta-Punk Tale' written by M.B. in 1978; a short essay by Vittore Baroni titled 'Milano Burns' (1984) as well as the reproduction of original collages and graphics, plus four new artworks and an original signed photo. includes the albums Das Testament, Endometrio, Carcinosi, The Plain Truth, and Armaghedon, all but the last of which include many bonus tracks. Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Flaunt It/Dress For Excess CD (Codec) [961882] $18.00 Two-on-one reissue featuring both albums released by the bombastic '80s rock outfit, 1986's Flaunt It & 1989's Dress For Excess. Includes their international hit 'Love Missile' (re-recording part II) & 23 other cuts. Underworld - Dinosaur Adventure 3D CDEP (V2) [943752] $15.75 Japanese EP taken from their 2002 album, A Hundred Days Off. Includes 4 non-LP versions (Radio Edit, R.C.M. Version, Funk D'Void Vocal Remix & Darren Price Remix). V2. [ V I D E O / D V D ] Bjork - It's In Our Hands DVD (One Little Indian) [325386] $10.50 UK DVD single features the video for the sole new track off her 2002 compilation 'Bjork's Greatest Hits', along with two live videos for 'Harm Of Will' & 'Undo'. Bjork - Volumen II (videos 1993-2003) DVD (One Little Indian) [324996] $30.75 UK exclusive double sided NTSC/PAL version. 2002 release is the complete 21-track video collection ('Volumen' only had 14) of all the Icelandic superstar's videos to date. Bowie, David - Ziggy Stardust DVD (?) [323866] $27.00 Official Brazilian release DVD version of 90 minute compilation featuring 19 videos including 'Ziggy Stardust', 'Space Oddity', 'Changes', 'Let's Spend The Night Together' and more. Region Free/NTSC. Dolby Digital 2.0. Approx. 90 minutes. Cirque De Soleil - Alegria DVD (Atka) [325256] $26.50 Filmed live in Sydney, featuring multi-angle performances, music video, meet the artists, behind the scenes. Dolby Digital 5.1/NTSC. 90 minutes. Fields Of The Nephilim - Revelations/Forever Remain/Visionary Heads DVD (Beggars Banquet) [324496] $19.25 Three original video programs on one 190 minute DVD - Revelations (collection of their six promo videos), Forever Remain (live show from 1988) & Visionary Heads (1990 show). Includes the bonus tracks 'Penetration' (Nefilim), 'Crazed' (Rubicon) & 'Insatiable' (Rubicon). Firesign Theatre - Weirdly Cool DVD (Rhino) [323386] $16.00 The first ever television performance of the comedy team's greatest hits, which aired on PBS. Includes classic excerpts such as 'How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All?', 'Don't Crush That Dwarf' and 'Hand Me The Pliers'. Color. Approx. 105 minutes. NTSC. Focus - Masters From The Vaults DVD (Classic Rock Productions) [325576] $21.75 Previously unreleased footage from 1971-2002 featuring Thijs Van Leer, Jan Akkerman, Pierre Van Der Linden, Cyril Havermans and Bert Ruiter. Also included are extended extracts from the Old Grey Whistle Tests in 1972 and 1973 which helped break Focus in the UK, plus rare concert of the HamburgerConcerto era. Approx. 82 minutes. NTSC. Hendrix, Jimi - DVD (?) [323956] $19.25 Brazilian All Code/NTSC DVD featuring Hendrix live at Isle of Wight, 1970. 11 tracks including 'Message To Love' & 'Voodoo Chile'. Dolby Digital 5.1. 60 minutes. Monochrome Set - Live DVD (Classic Rock Productions) [322076] $21.75 The music of Monochrome Set is distinctive, distinguished and totally unique. As a result the Monochrome Set has developed a cult following. Singer and guitarist Bid leads the band through a selection of quintessentially English compositions. NTSC. Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Collection Volume 1 DVD (Rhino) [323376] $44.75 Cheaper than Amazon! Includes four of the top fan-requested episodes Catalina Caper, The Creeping Terror, Bloodlust and The Skydivers plus all four original feature films without MST commentary. Color & B&W, approx 675 minutes. Selektion Optik - Video 1 NTSC video (RRRecords) [RRR-TV-04] $12.00 abstract films by H Troppmann, MAKxS, Mas O Werth, S.B.O.T.H.I., Mkumo Samuwita, Petra und Marita Schulz, Clara Felding, and H Rottweiler. 60 min. Selektion Optik - Video 2 NTSC video (RRRecords) [RRR-TV-05] $12.00 abstract films and video by S.B.O.T.H.I., H.Maus/MAKXS, and MAKXS. 60 minutes. Selektion Optik - Video 3 NTSC video (RRRecords) [RRR-TV-06] $12.00 abstract film by Markus Caspers, Horst Maus, and Achim Wollscheid. 20 minutes. Stranglers - Live At Alexandra Palace DVD (Castle) [324586] $14.50 Filmed at the Alexandra Palace on August 11th 1980 - lead vocalist and guitarist Hugh Cornwell's final gig with the band, as would subsequently become apparent - 'Saturday Night, Sunday Morning' stands as a lasting testament to the rich tapestry of the Stranglers music, which had already spanned three decades. 60 minutes. 2.0 Digital Dolby. Various Artists - Message To Love DVD (?) [324016] $27.50 The classic 'Isle of Wight' festival from 1970, featuring Hendrix, The Who, ELP, Doors and many others. Region Free/NTSC. Various Artists - Visions of Warhol NTSC video (Re:Voir) [RV0008] $34.00 Scenes from the life of Andy Warhol, as seen by four pioneer avant-garde film-makers and close friends of the Pop-artist. Jonas Mekas, the irrepressible force behind the promotion and preservation of experimental film, is also known for his rapid-fire diary films. Award Presentation to Andy Warhol documents Mekas giving Warhol the Film Culture Independent Film Award. His Scenes from the Life chronicles not only Andy Warhol, but also the social and cultural excitement that swirled around him, throbbing to a hypnotic Velvet Underground beat. Willard Maas was husband of filmmaker, painter and actress Marie Menken. Together, they were, for Warhol, 'the last of the great Bohemians.' Their films have in common a lyric lightness and a love for jolting visual rhythms. Documenting Warhol's multimedia light-show with the Velvet Underground, 'Ronald Nameth does with cinema what the Beatles do with music: his film is dense, compact, yet somehow fluid and light. An eerie world of semi-slow motion against an aural back-ground of incredible frenzy. He makes kinetic empathy a new kind of poetry.' (Gene Youngblood) - label description. with Award Presentation To Andy Warhol 1963, 12 minutes with Gerard Malanga, Baby Jane Holzer, Ivy Nicholson, Gregory Markopoulos; Willard Maas Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations 1964, 4 minutes; Jonas Mekas Anthropological Sketches: Friendships And Intersections Scenes From The Life Of Andy Warhol 1963-90, 35 minutes with Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Tuli Kupferberg, Ed Sanders, George Maciunas, Barbara Rubin, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Mick Jagger^; Marie Menken Andy Warhol 1965, 18 minutes; and Ronald Nameth Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable 1967, 12 minutes with the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, Nico, Ingrid Superstar. Who - Who CD (?) [323876] $27.00 Official Brazilian release DVD version of 73 minute compilation featuring 20 of the best videos. Dolby Digital 2.0/5.1. Region Free/NTSC. [ E X P E R I M E N T A L ] AMM - Before driving to the chapel we took coffee with Rick and Jennifer Reed CD (Matchless Recordings) [MRCD35] $18.00 a gentle and sonorous exploration of improvised sound as recorded live at Rice University, Houston, Texas on 19th April 1996. with Keith Rowe, John Tilbury, and Eddie Prevost. AMM plus soloists - Irma CD (Matchless Recordings) [MRCD16] $18.00 performance of Tom Phillips' strange opera from 1988 (quite different from the earlier LP on Obscure). with Lol Coxhill, Elise Lorraine, Phil Minton, Ian Mitchell, Birte Pederson, Tom Phillips, Eddie Prevost, Keith Rowe, and John Tilbury. Achim Wollscheid - Shifts CD (Ritornell) [RIT17] $13.00 To broadcast CD's RADIO X in Frankfurt uses Denon DN C680. The players (3 of them in total) can be operated at the same time and are equipped with scan/search data-wheels that allows one to start or stop a CD at any given point. Moved while playing a CD the wheels send the disc into a locked groove, which can be shifted by constantly turning the wheel (about 60 shifts will scan one second of playing time). For the March edition of monthly Selektion broadcast Wollscheid scanned and shifted sections of 'A young person's guide to Phill Niblock' (Blast First), 'Construction' by John Hudak from 'the site of sound' (errant bodies), 'Kern' by Frank Bretschneider from 'Clicks & Cuts' (Mille Plateaux), 'This piano thing', by Gordon Monahan (swerve edition) , 'Pure Gaze' by Olivia Block (sedimental) and 'White winged moth/ribbon arcade' by Dean Roberts (formacentric). The impetus behind this work is to discover and use the broadcast medium as an 'instrument'-instrument not in the sense of a 'tool' (although this side always plays a role), but rather as a set of transformative possibilities, which can help to re-read the information available. - label description. Agencement - Boxe Consonantique CD (Pico) [Pico-04] $17.00 this is the fourth album of Hideaki Shimada's fractured violin musique concrete, after a hiatus of 8 years. the two pieces here were recorded in 1993 and 1999, and just as good as his earlier material. Albert Mayr - Hora Harmonica CD (Ants) [AG02] $16.00 The application of musical criteria to the organization of time. 'When we slow down a sound many times, all the way below 15 cps approximately, we perceive as a series of discrete pulses. In a physical sense it remains a sound, but not for human perception. Try now to imagine an extremely slow 'sound' where the fundamental has a period of 60 minutes. The - virtual - overtones would be integer divisions of that period, i.e.: 30', 20', 15', and so on. This is the structural principle of Hora Harmonica.' (Albert Mayr) In Hora Harmonica the author transform sound in rhythm and time become music. All Mayr's work is concerned on the relationship between sound/time/environment and this electronic visionary work - realized in 1983 and only now published - represent one of his most hazardous and conceptually valid expressions. Limited edition of 500 not-numbered copies. Folded cardboard cover. 16 pages booklet, with diagram of the composition. Notes by the author in Italian and English. - label description. Alvin Curran - Crystal Psalms CD (New Albion Records) [NA067] $14.00 On October 20, 1988, a large part of western Europe heard a unique radio concert -- Crystal Psalms -- a concerto for musicians in six nations, simultaneously performed, mixed and broadcast live in stereo to listeners from Palermo to Helsinki. This special event, composed and coordinated by myself, while part of a worldwide series commemorating the 50th anniversary of the infamous Kristallnacht (Crystal Night), was, through its unusual concept, one which demanded and demonstrated an exceptional quality of international artistic and technological collaboration -- the bringing together groups of musicians and technicians (some 300 in all, in six major European cities) who neither saw nor heard one another, yet performed as one unified ensemble to realize this complex score. The score was composed to be played by complementary ensembles in each of the six locations. These consisted of: a mixed chorus (16-32 voices), a quartet of strings or winds, a percussionist and accordionist. While each group of musicians was conducted independently, a recorded time track -- heard by each conductor -- was used to synchronize all six ensembles. A pre-recorded tape containing sounds of many aspects of Jewish life was often employed together with the live sounds. Hence, the archaic sounds of the shofar (ritual ram's horn), the Yemenite Jews praying at the Western ('Wailing') Wall, famous Eastern European cantors taken from old sound archives; children in a Roman Jewish orphanage; my young niece singing her Bat Mitzvah prayers and my father singing in Yiddish at a family gathering. Ship horns, trains, crows and breaking glass, too. To this sonic panorama one hears live choral fragments of the Renaissance Jewish composers Salomone Rossi from Italy and Caceres of the famous Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam, as well as from the renowned 19th Century composers of the Jewish liturgy, Lewandowski and Sulzer. This event -- for me a very special form of human artistic collaboration -- now exists, along side the memory of the inhuman pogrom of 1938 which inspired it. One can only wish that it had been otherwise that instead we could be remembering and celebrating some noble acts of humanity and love. - Alvin Curran. Alvin Curran - Electric Rags II CD (New Albion Records) [NA027] $14.00 Rova Saxophone Quartet with Alvin Curran on electronics. The music itself, like an experimental voyage, sets out to see what, if anything, lies beyond 'improvisation'. To this end both determinate and indeterminate notations are employed together with a special interactive system, which can reproduce electronically anything the players play -- as they play it, or any time after, and in some cases even before. The heart of the piece is a computerized electronic system enabling each player to pilot one or more Midi synthesizers directly from his own instrument. A flexible computer program 'conducts' or spontaneously structures the concert, which in spite of formally notated sections or the highly conditioned improvisational tendencies of the players, produces an ever new version of the work with each performance. The computer further effects a number of rich musical transformations in real and deferred time of whatever is played. Hundreds of colors and quasi-instrumental sounds are constantly 'orchestrated' by the system. The individual players are obliged not only to react to one another and to the products of decisions made beyond their will, but are made to listen to their own playing in quite a new way, since every note they play may end up going anywhere... - Alvin Curran. Alvin Lucier - Music With Roots in the Aether 3 NTSC video (Lovely Music, Ltd.) [LVHS3] $45.00 part 3 of Robert Ashley's 1976 'opera' for television. the first hour features Ashley and Lucier in conversation during which they perform Outlines of Persons and Things along with two dancers. the second hour features performances of his pieces Music for Solo Performer and Bird and Person Dyning, both different recordings than the records featuring those pieces. as Lucier's music often involve visual and spacial elements, this video really helps flesh out the depth of his works. 2 hours. Alvin Lucier - Crossings CD (Lovely Music, Ltd) [LCD1018] $13.00 Alvin Lucier, electronics; Thomas Ridenour, clarinet; The New World Consort of Wesleyan University. Three works for classical instruments and oscillators. Lucier explains the process: 'The three works on this compact disk explore interference phenomena between sound waves. When two or more closely tuned tones are sounded, their oscillations periodically coincide to produce audible beats of sound. The speed of the beating depends upon the distances between the pitches of the sounds. The further apart, the faster the beating; at unison, no beating occurs. Furthermore, under certain conditions, the beats may be heard to spin around the room.....' In Memoriam Jon Higgins, for clarinet in A and slow-sweep pure wave oscillator (19:00), Thomas Ridenour, clarinet Septet for Three Winds, Four Strings and Pure Wave Oscillator (19:28), The New World Consort of Wesleyan University Crossings, for small orchestra with slow-sweep pure wave oscillator (16:00). - label description Alvin Lucier - Still Lives CD (Lovely Music, Ltd.) [LCD5012] $13.00 Three new works for pure waves and instruments. 'Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators' with Marilyn Nonken, piano; 'On the carpet ofleaves illuminated by the moon' with Ryuko Mizutani, koto; and 'Still Lives' with Joseph Kubera, piano. Alvin Lucier - Theme CD (Lovely Music, Ltd.) [LCD5011] $13.00 includes Music for Piano with Magnetic Strings, Theme and Music For Gamelan Instruments, Microphones, Amplifiers and Loudspeakers. 'Music For Piano...' is a work in which the strings of a piano sound by themselves. Several E-Bows (small electromagnets used primarily with electric guitars) are placed on the strings of the piano. The pianist works from a prose score which describes the process and suggests (s)he freely position and reposition five E-Bows on the piano strings, creating strands of sounds of varying density and texture. Much of the pianist's time is spent listening for harmonics, audible beating, occasional rhythms produced as one or more magnets vibrate against adjacent strings, and other acoustic phenomena. 'Theme' sets a poem of John Ashbery's to music. Lucier didn't want to violate the flow of the words of the poem by fragmentation or any other cut-up method. The stanzas seemed musical enough just as they were, and he wanted the audience to hear the poem more or less in its pristine state. So working intuitively and by ear, he wrote out the poem for four readers in the order it was written, repeating words and phrases, overlapping and superimposing them in various ways. To 'set' the poem, he inserted microphones into the mouths of various vessels, including a small milk bottle, a sea shell, a vase , and an empty ostrich egg, to pick up the words as they were sounding inside the vessels. The readers speak normally, allowing the pitches of their voices which match those resonances of the vessels to create musical sounds. - label description, Analysis in Electroacoustic Music - Volume II Book+CD (GMEB / Editions Mnemosyne) [2-9511363-0-7] $28.00 Articles on practice with sound examples on CD by Clarence Barlow, Gerald Bennett, Jose Manuel Berenguer, Christian Clozier (not in book), Charles Dodge, Simon Emmerson, Sten Hanson, Francisco Kropfl, Leo Kupper, Max Matthews, Michael Obst, Eduardo Polonio, Jean-Claude Risset, Curtis Roads (not on disc), Nicola Sani, Barry Truax, and Horacio Vaggione. plus articles on theory by Franciose Barriere, Jose Manuel Berenguer, Lars Gunnar Bodin, Rainer Boesch, Pierre Boeswillwaid, Christian Clozier, Leo Kupper, Alain Savouret, Takayuki Rai, Nicola Sani, Alain Savouret, and Horacio Vaggione. 388 pages, English and French. Andrea Neumann & Toshimaru Nakamura - Aton CD (Rossbin) [RS001] $15.00 All sonic events happened around Andrea Neumann, Toshimaru Nakamura and their sound devices, captured by themselves with great assistance by Axel Dorner, in Berlin, June 2000. Editing and treatment by Toshimaru Nakamura at setreset in Tokyo, February 2001. Size: 8 standard carton sleeve with flap CD. Time: 56.00. Edition: 400 copies. Andrew Deutsch & Kevin McCoy - Der Sonne CDR (Magic If) [MI13] $12.00 Der Sonne was constructed by running ocean waves (recorded in Rye, New Hampshire) threw various sound processing devices. The most articulate of these processors was a tone generator that responded to specific frequencies in the ocean waves. The concept behind Der Sonne (The Sun) was to make 'static music' or a kind of music that just shimmered in place. This concept can be traced by to the works of Anthony Braxton in his Tri Axium Writings. 'Der Sonne' is another work that is meant to be listened to while drawing or on headphones. The work was also influenced by the early recordings of drone master Laraaji and is dedicated to him. - Andrew. Andrew Deutsch - ZZZ CDR (Magic If) [MI25] $12.00 ZZZ is another odd kind of drone work. The sounds spin in the wind, crawl on the ground, and shimmer in space. The whole thing is an electronic construction and includes ocean sounds recorded in North Carolina. Best listened to on headphones (for details). Each copy includes a digital image and tiny unique drawing on the Mitsui cd-r by Deutsch. 3 tracks total about 37 min. - Andrew. Angus MacLise - The Map of Dusk Book (SZ Press) [0-930125-02-9] $23.00 a poem of elemental struggle and quest from first to last, a testament of future holocaust and doomed striving where the poet himself is the map stretches from primordial time to the end of science. creating his own mythology under star shaping tides gives us an acre of spires pointing heavenward, a palm laid out for the winds. - Ira Cohen. poetry from the late percussionist who was an original member of La Monte Young's Theater of Eternal Music and the Velvet Underground. Annette Vande Gorne - Tao CD (empreintes DIGITALes) [IMED9311] $13.00 an acousmatic composition founded on materials, energies, transformations; a cyclical type of sequence made up of 5 elements, forces of nature, that destroy each other, as represented by white noise, opaque curtains, sizzles, crackling of water, rain, storm, flow and repetition, water mill, waves, undertow, stagnation, breathing, swaying, granulation, accumulation, explosions, projections, repeated blows of a tree being felled, endless rotation of a mill, swaying of a ping pong ball, percussions, smooth rubbing, free bounces, controlled bounces, rolling, mechanism, wave, door, breath/ejection, breath/crawling, corpuscles, rotation. Arno Peeters - AeroSon CD (Mille Plateaux) [mp38] $13.00 lucid audio-environments made up nature sounds and impressions, energy-rich sounds, alerting sounds, deep sounds, speech and voices, sequenced material,morphed sounds, noise, wolves, drones, and chanting. a collage dealing with contemporary existence incorporating voice mail voices, internet references, the loneliness of people, and being adrift in a technological society. sullen and not aggressive but not without underlying humor. Arnold, Martin - Cinemnesis NTSC Video (Re:Voir) [RV0017] $33.50 This tape collects all the major works by this Austrian filmmaker (the only things not being included are 5 short commissioned video works). Arnold's unique work consists of taking a short fragment of vintage b&w film and expanding upon it through editing, looping, and transposition. the result is a humorous micro view of frozen instants; normally imperceptible movements blown up into cruelly obvious twitches. the first film, pice touche (1989), takes only 18 seconds footage of a couple in their den and stretches it out to 15 minutes of dancing images with monotone pulse soundtrack. the other two films, starting with passage l'acte (1993), add manipulation of the soundtrack so fragments of speech and ambient noise because repeated in short loops to match the suspended animation of the figures on the screen. the last film, Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998), uses the largest amount of source material (featuring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland), and was good enough to inspire a tribute CD with Fennesz, Akira Rabelais, Pimmon and Steve Roden. 42 mins. contains a 16 page essay by Akira Lippit, Cinemnesis, Martin Arnold's Memory Machine. Artificial Memory Trace - Vol. 7: Ritmax Asimetra CD (Creamgardens) [CGR02] $13.00 Slavek Kwi, aka Artificial Memory Trace is a cultural refugee as much as an actual one. He walked 3 sleepless days without food to reach the West. This intensity and the power of his will is present in all that he does, be it the organic sound realm he creates, or the graphics and handwriting he invents. His musical universe is a precisely structured and perfect balanced mix of diverse 'Musique Concrete' materials. Frederick Rzewski, his musical mentor, has assisted him over the past 5 years and has been a major influence, as well as John Cage. From his unique language, his invention on fonts, to his unearthly harmonies, everything Slavek touches, turns into Slavek. On this new CD, Kwi gives emphasis to the combination of auditive and physical aspects from soundscapes. He creates architectural structures with highly unusual combinations of sounds, almost only of concrete origin. He is constantly searching for balance through observing the nature of each participant. Sounds are playing roles of 'individuals' coexisting inside 'societies of sounds' as he calls his compositions. The wide context of creative output from A.M.T. shakes up the world of electronic music by giving it the fresh wind of natural acoustics. Slavek Kwi about himself : '...maybe I am a sound painter, I do paint with colors of ambiences on the canvas of time...' Beautifully packaged in a shiny gatefold sleeve, including a picture- and info-booklet. Recommended for listening at a relatively high volume to conserve the natural dynamic recorded at low volume. - label description. Astro Twin/Cosmos - Cosmos/Astro Twin CD (F.M.N. Sound Factory) [FMC-026/27] $15.00 two discs, two female duos. both groups feature vocalist Ami Yoshida matched with another woman providing electronics. Astro Twin features Utah Kawasaki, while Cosmos seeing a pairing with Sachiko M. both discs tend toward minimal approach in that the level of activity tends to be low and the sounds are separated with space to hear them. they do not remain quiet all the time though, ranging from rather subtle to loud. a nice disc that should appeal to fans of the recent Japanese improvised music scene. Belson, Jordan - Mysterious Journey CD (The Great Media Co.) [KVL003] $31.50 Mysterious Journey offers a poetic journey from visionary abstract film artist Jordan Belson. This visual meditation on the cosmos is the longest film of Belson's career and perhaps his definitive artistic statement. 30 minutes, 1997. Bernard Fort - Compositions ornithologiques CD (38e Rugissants Productions / GMVL) [38R002] $17.00 patiently recorded birdsongs from the Canadian forest, acoustically transformed in the studio to become an acousmatic symphony of extraordinary sound colors. Bernard Heidsieck - Poeme-Partition F Book+CD (Le Corridor bleu) [2-914033-03-6] $16.00 Complete text and recording of piece from 1957 (recorded in 1960). just under 13 minutes. 60 pages. Edition of 500 copies. Bill Harkleroad & Billy James - Lunar Notes: Zoot Horn Rollo's Captain Beefheart Experience CD (SAF Publishing) [0-946719-21-7] $14.00 At last here is the insider's story, as Harkleroad [a.k.a. Zoot Horn Rollo] reviews the often uncomfortable and difficult inner working of the band, giving an unparalleled insight into what it was like to record, play and live with an eccentric genius such as Beefheart. - cover copy 160 pages, 156 x 234 mm, illustrated. Blutsiphon - Tammus CD (Gefriem) [GEFRIEM008] $15.00 Matthias Koeschling, drummer of Nilg & Workshop, now also in a new band called 1000 Feue Sommeri, presents his weird solo-album. Tape collages, sample mincemeat, whistle-tunes and spoken words. Somewhere between and beside Stock, Hausen & Walkman and Workshop's 'talent' lp. ... Lo-Fi recordings combined with lots of humor and sensitivity. Orgiastic sample fights meet Schlammpetziger-esque artificial pop creations. Highly recommended for the fans of Gefriem's pioneer releases. Brophy, Philip/Francois Tetaz/Darrin Verhagen - Beautiful Cyborg CD (Sound Punch/Dorobo) [04830/HURT-04] $12.50 Beautiful Cyborg was a live surround-sound event consisting of electronic music and digital sound effects produced live on stage in accompaniment to projected film images of contemporary Japanese science fiction animation.. The titles homaged in this futuristic audiovisual spectacle are Angel Cop, Battle Angel Alita, Bubblegum Crisis, Genocyber, Ghost in the Shell and Neon Genesis Evangelion. The first presentation of Beautiful Cyborg was commissioned for the 50th Melbourne International Film Festival in 2001. Devised by Philip Brophy, this event features music composed by him in collaboration with Darrin Verhagen (composer for numerous Chunky Move productions and head of Dorobo Records) and Francois Tetaz (composer for numerous short films and head of Moose Mastering). Beautiful Cyborg celebrates the visual themes typical of hard SF and cyberpunk anime in which Japan excels: sensuous metals; delicate super-conductors; contemplative gears; penile foreheads; delicious motor mechanics; dimensional speed; transfigured space; sculptured visages. To this is added a heady mix of musical motifs, textural sheets, pulsating rhythms and unearthly sounds which float throughout the auditorium in a hovering, shimmering, soaring and bombastic soundfield courtesy of 4-channel surround-sound playback. The CD release of Beautiful Cyborg documents the original performance and presents it in Dolby Surround. Musically, Beautiful Cyborg goes to the core of Japanese audiovision to uncover what Philip Brophy has noted is "the psycho-acoustic world turned inside-out" (Real Time No.32, 1999). The newly imagined and realized music of Beautiful Cyborg floats asynchronously, following the emotional compaction and contradiction which typifies the post-human psyche in Japanese anime. Listen to the erotic synapses firing in their bodies. Hear their engorged metallica hum and breathe. Loose yourself in the gorgeously inside-out world of anime. Burkhard Stangl and Taku Sugimoto - an old fashioned duet CD (slub music) [SMCD07] $15.00 acoustic guitars recorded by Werner Dafeldecker at Feedback-Studio, Vienna on November 14, 2001. CD mastered by Burkhard Stangl and Martin Siewert. Busratch - Giraffe CD (BOXmedia) [BOXCDR301] $9.00 turntable quartet from Kyoto Japan that create concrete soundscapes from altered vinyl and hand made records. imagine Christian Marclay and Otomo Yoshihide battling it out. limited edition of 50 with hand drawn covers by Brent Gutzeit. - label description. C. Lierman - Huon CD (Onethum Disc) [CL9159] $13.00 very stunning work from this Seattle artist. comparable in the best possible way with Ora, Andrew Chalk, Jonathan Coleclough, etc. Most of my projects up to this point are intended to act as 'private acoustics' to satisfy my yearning to be hypnotized by sounds. For myself, and possibly others, they act as specific and sustained 'sonic drugs'. My additional intention for this particular project was to create a slow, gradual, shifting space derived from landscapes, both interpreted (synthetic) and natural (field recordings.) This came about from exploring how events in nature - in this case, recording the random impact of water drops - can act as both proverbial conductor and orchestra. Although the title 'Huon' was meant to be an anonymous place, I later realized it is also a peninsula of Papua New Guinea. The second and shorter piece, Nimbus, is the flip-side of this process - an exploration of how natural events can, and eventually will, musically compose themselves. Though lightly shifted and filtered, the essential procedure of the recording was left untouched, similar to a manipulated photograph of an unlikely or unusual moment of time on film. - artist statement. This disc is intended to be played at a high volume. 67 minutes, Full color gatefold digipak, edition of 1000. CCMC + Christian Marclay - CM + CCMC 2CD (No Music Festival / Art Metropole) [NMRx0003/ARTMETCD004] $15.00 In December of 2000 Art Metropole hosted an evening of performance by Swiss / New York artist Christian Marclay and Toronto's CCMC (Michael Snow, John Oswald and Paul Dutton). The four played to a packed house at the Rivoli. Less than a year later they collaborated again, in New York City, as part of the No Music Festival. This new double CD contains both of these historic performances. Two hours of experimental free-improvisation by four world-renowned sound-artists. - label description. CCMC - Decisive Moments CD (Track and Light Recordings) [TLR02] $12.00 with Michael Snow (piano), Paul Dutton (voice), John Kamevaar (keyboard sampler), Al Mattes (guitar synthesizer), John Oswald (alto saxophone), and Jack Vorvis (drums). CCMC has existed since 1974. There have been several changes of personnel but the philosophy has remained consistent. From the beginning there has been a concern for the use of all possible sound sources which has included a conscious dialogue with and merging with electronic and acoustic sound. The poles of this power source are exemplified in the current ensemble by, on the one hand, the totally acoustic vocal adventures of Paul Dutton and on the other hand, by the powerful guitar synthesizer music of Al Mattes, who has synthesized all the non-imitative sounds he uses, which are activated by his guitar playing. The drums of Jack Vorvis, the piano of Michael Snow and the alto saxophone of John Oswald share the acoustic middle and on the electronic side, next to Mattes' sound is the keyboard sampler work of John Kamevaar who uses prerecorded and representational sound (traditional instruments, other musics, Cries, Crashes, Murmurs, Clanks). Carl Stone - Nak Won CD (Sonore) [SON-019] $15.00 Carl Stone achieves with 'Nak Won' a magnum opus in the field of experimental electronic music. Three pieces are gathered together on 'Nak Won', the first one 'Nak Won' was recorded live at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival 2000, the second one 'Kreutz' at The Schinder House in Los Angeles, and the third one 'Darul Kabap' at Studio 3037 in San Francisco. All the music on this new Carl Stone's CD was performed in real-time on a G3 Powerbook using Max/MSP, a very flexible programming software developed by David Zicarelli in the end of the 90's. Carl Stone plays with sound layers, building his compositions at the same time he's experimenting new resonant combinations. The blend of frequencies and tones he creates is really astounding. Carl Stone is a computer music authority and his work is mature and precise. If you are familiar with Carl Stone's works, you definitely need this CD, but in the case you are a beginner, then 'Nak Won' is a very good first step in the world of experimental electronic music. - label description. Carl Stone/Nagaya Kazuya - Resonator CD (Kunishima) [20020619-01/02] $22.00 one disc each by these two composers was created to accompany sculpture by Japanese sculptor Seiji Kunishima. the resulting works are very minimal and spacious, beautiful work that stands out. edition of 400 copies. Chas Smith - Nikko Wolverine CD (Cold Blue Records) [CB0003] $13.00 An American maverick composer who, in the spirit of Harry Partch, creates much of his music from exotic instruments of his own design. While occasionally dissonant, his works always present an inviting sound world. A full-color 10-page booklet shows each of the Smith-designed instruments featured on the recording. Christian Marclay - Records '81-'89 CD (Atavistic) [ALP062CD] $13.00 Some of the following recordings appeared previously on obscure compilation records or cassettes, but most were never released. Compositions such as Dust Breeding, Craft, One Thousand Cycles and Smokers were recorded at home on a cassette deck while rehearsing. I worked on these pieces until I found the right combination of records, then integrated them into my set. Usually lasting between twenty and thirty minutes, the set was an uninterrupted flow of records mixed on multiple turntables - four, six, or sometimes up to eight turntables. It evolved continously, as records got damaged beyond use and new ones were found. I do not remember specifically which records were used on most of these mixes; to my ears they were only sounds, very abstract and detached from their original sources. They lost their identity and became fragments to be mixed - a loop, a texture, a transition, a beat, an intro, a word. Christian Wolff - Cues: Writings & Conversations Book (MusikTexte) [MusikTexte005] $24.00 writings on his own and other's work, prose scores, program notes for his pieces, and a list of works. bilingual (German and English), 544 pages. Christina Kubisch - Diapason CD (Semishigure) [semi002] $15.00 Germany's most famous sound artist with a new album recorded exclusively with tuning forks. A meditative album that takes on a different meaning, feeling and association with every sound, in places almost microsound-ish and in others like a heavily delayed gamelan set. Comes with a beautiful 16-page colour booklet with shots of the tuning forks and the installation where this is piece is taken from. Limited to 500 copies. - label description. Cloudchamber - Safaris CD (Fylkingen Records) [FYCD1020] $15.00 Johannes Bergmark - constructions (whalefish, finger violin, blowfish, metal harp), analog and modular synthesizers, clavinet, voice, saw, unspecified objects; Martin Kuchen - soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, metal barrel, sandwich grill, miscellaneous percussive junk, bow, guitar, trumpet, voice; Soren Runolf - electric guitar, amplified objects, electronic processors, virtual modular synthesizer, cello; Leif Elggren - cover design. Composition and Technology in Electroacoustic Music - Volume VI CD (IMEB - Editions Mnemosyne) [acte6] $18.00 Essays (in French, German or English) by Larry Austin, Clarence Barlow, Jose-Manuel Berenguer, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Rainer Boesch, Christian Clozier, Simon Emmerson, Georg Katzer, Francisco Kropfl, Leo Kupper, Genevieve Mathon, Bernard Piettre, Eduardo Polonio, Jean-Claude Risset, Nicola Sani, Alain Savouret, Barry Truax, and Horacio Vaggione. 170 pages. Comte de Lautreamont - Maldoror and the complete works Book (Exact Change) [1-878972-12-X] $15.00 Translated by Alexis Lykiard. Andre Breton wrote that Maldoror is 'the expression of a revelation so complete it seems to exceed human potential.' Little is known about its pseudonymous author aside from his real name (Isidore Ducasse), birth in Uruguay (1846), and early death in Paris (1870). Lautreamont's writings bewildered his contemporaries but the Surrealists modeled their efforts after his lawless black humor and poetic leaps of logic, exemplified by the oft-quoted slogan, 'As beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella!' Maldoror's shocked first publisher refused to bind the sheets of the original edition. and perhaps no better invitation exists to this book which warns the reader, 'Only the few may relish this bitter fruit without danger.' This is the only complete annotated collection of Lautreamont's writings available in English, in a superior translation. in addition to 'Maldoror' itself, this includes 'Poesies', letters, apocryphal writings, biographical reminiscences, contemporary reactions, a chronology, comparisons with Melmoth, and 46 pages of notes. this work has been inspiration to more artists in this catalog than I care to point out. 352 pages, 6 x 8 paper. Conlon Nancarrow - Lost Works, Last Works CD (Other Minds) [OM1002-2] $14.00 The musical works on this disc fall into two categories: player-piano versions of works originally written for some other medium, and works that have never been recorded before. The latter fall into yet two more categories: abandoned works from early in Nancarrow's career, and the final pieces from the last years of his life. Following these works, There is a tape of excerpts from the 1977 interview with the composer, conducted by Charles Amirkhanian. - Kyle Gann. Costis Drygianakis & Nikos Veliotis - 28/04/2001 CD (Absurd) [absurdcdr#15] $10.00 Nikos Veliotis plays cello and Costis Drygianakis plays tape recorders. The first improvises and the second tapes that, and plays it back, along the improvisations of the cello. For the bigger part of the hour that this release lasts it's a soft scraping and scratching of sounds and occassionally we hear the hand manipulated sounds of tape that is spinning along the recording heads. Quite intense music to listen too, and pretty radical in that respect, simply because at times nothing much seems to be happening at various times. A work of free improvisation that can easily meet the works of people like Thomas Lehn or Phil Durrant (I'm referring to their CD on Fringes from years ago, which was also hoovering around in silence). - Frans de Waard in Vital Weekly 345. limited edition of 160. Dan Lander - Zoo CD (empreintes DIGITALes) [IMED9526] $13.00 meticulously collaged voices and vignettes. quite amusing juxtapositions and radio art dependent on sound recordings gathered from real life situations. David Behrman - Leapday Night CD (Lovely Music, Ltd) [LCD1042] $13.00 David Behrman, electronics; Takehisa Kosugi, violin; Ben Neill and Rhys Chatham, trumpets. Behrman creates thickly layered liquid sounds. This music utilizes a complex computer music system which absorbs, actually hears, the sounds of instrumentalists (violinist Takehisa Kosugi and trumpeters Ben Neill and Rhys Chatham), then plays off their improvisations with its own synthesized reactions. - label description. includes extra piece not on original LP. David Behrman - On the Other Ocean CD (Lovely Music, Ltd) [LCD1041] $13.00 David Behrman, electronics, Kim-1 microcomputer; Maggi Payne, flute; Arthur Stidfole, bassoon; David Gibson, cello. Recording engineers: 'Blue' Gene Tyranny and Richard Lainhart. Originally released by Lovely Music on LP in 1978; reissued on CD in 1996. On the Other Ocean is an improvisation by Maggi Payne and Arthur Stidfole centered around six pitches which, when they are played, activate electronic pitch-sensing circuits connected to the 'interrupt' line and input ports of a microcomputer, Kim-1. The microcomputer can sense the order and timing in which the six pitches are played and can react by sending harmony-changing messages to two handmade music synthesizers. The relationship between the two musicians and the computer is an interactive one, with the computer changing the electronically-produced harmonies in response to what the musicians play, and the musicians influenced in their improvising by what the computer does. Figure in a Clearing, made a few months before On the Other Ocean, was the first piece of Behrman's to use a computer for music. For Figure, the Kim-1 ran a program which varied the time intervals between chord changes. The time intervals were modeled on the motion of a satellite in falling elliptical orbit about a planet. David Gibson's only 'score' was a list of 6 pitches to be used in performance, and a request that he not speed up when the computer-controlled rhythm did. The timbral richness and concentrated eloquence of his playing sprang from his own sources. Charming booklet notes by David Behrman. David Behrman - Wave train CD (Alga Marghen) [B5NMN.020] $15.00 experimental music from 1959-68: Canons featuring David Tudor on piano and Christoph Caskel on percussion, Ricecar a prepared piece, Wave Train a powerful feedback piece performed live with Gordon Mumma, Players with Circuits a combination of live electronics and amplified acoustic sound, Sounds for a Film by Bob Watts for outdoor environment recording and homemade synthesizer recorded at Stony Point, and Runthrough with Lucier, Mumma, Ashley and Behrman on dials and switches of homemade synthesizer and distributing sound in space with homemade photocell mixers (different from version released on Sonic Arts Union LP). with 12 page color booklet. David Khan & Peter Wright - Confinement & Release CD (Apoplexy) [Apoplexy12] $11.00 Recorded in October 2000 based on the Khan/Wright performance aired in June at the Robert McDougall Gallery, this cd extends the style exhibited by the duo as the musical force behind DiS. Two tracks of guitar, keyboards, and a range of acoustic & amplified percussion; one claustrophobic and minimal, one abrasive and relentlessly expressive, all recorded live to four track and presented in a tastefully austere metallic blue sleeve. edition of 50. David Maranha - Noe's Lullaby CD (Rossbin) [RS004] $15.00 Maranha belongs to the same minimalist tradition as Paul Panhuysen and Arnold Dreyblatt. It is serious, deeply careful stuff (as anyone who has seen one of Maranha's complex scores will attest), but informed throughout with a sense of practical experiment and discovery rather than the austere conceptualism or mathematical certainty that certain other minimalists adhere to. Like Panhuysen and Dreyblatt, Maranha pays a great deal of attention to instrumental timbre - he's used the glass harmonica, didgeridoo and his own 'maranhophone' in the past - and his music is as much an opportunity for the sounds to illustrate their own character as it is for him to impose his own structure. - Brian Duguid, The Wire. David Rosenboom & Anthony Braxton - Two Lines CD (Lovely Music, Ltd.) [LCD3071] $13.00 David Rosenboom, MIDI Grand Piano, HFG (Hierarchical Form Generator), Responding Sampled Piano; Anthony Braxton, Sopranino, Soprano and Alto Saxophones, Clarinet and Flute. Two legendary composer/performers join forces on this recording to unite composition with improvisation, 'new music with 'new jazz'. Starting from Rosenboom's notated score for Two Lines and his musical computer program, these musicians have achieved, to paraphrase Rosenboom, a composition that is immediately heard. Duets with interactive HMSL software. Includes Rosenboom's Two Lines, plus compositions in collaboration with Braxton: Lineage, Enactment, Transfiguration and Transference. - label description. Deep Listening Band - The Ready Made Boomerang CD (New Albion Records) [NA044] $14.00 Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis and guests; recorded on location in The Cistern Chapel, Ft. Worden Cistern, Olympic Peninsula, WA. Timbres and harmonies warp as they well up toward the open air, change shape, resonate in unfamiliar, sometimes disturbing combinations. The pace is peaceful, pulseless, the boundaries of the compositions gaseous and difficult to define. -Seattle Weekly. Demetrio Stratos - Demetrio Stratos CD Box (Akarma) [AK1037] $46.50 A collection of the five out of print Cramps album by the vocalist of Area. Elegant 5 CD box set documenting one of the most important artists in the Italian musical panorama. These 5 albums (Cantare La Voce, Metrodora, Le Milleuna, Recitarcantando and Concerto All'Elfo ) span the career of the amazing vocalist who used his own voice as an instrument like few others had ever dared. 25 years later Demetrio's work is still extremely relevant, and he stands out as one of music history's true unique voices. - label description. Denis Smalley - Neve CDEP (GMEM - Effects Input) [EI03] $12.00 structures and imagery related to glaciers. slow, quiet, gradual grinding. 17 minutes. Diesel Guitar - Stream of Lights CD (F.M.N. Sound Factory) [FMC-023] $15.00 beautiful long droning tracks created entirely with guitar and effects. not too unlike Stars of the Lid and the like. the sixth track is recorded at Koukiji in the rain (Utsunomia's series at the temple). Dieter Kaufmann - Blech & Kehle CD (Amadeo) [437039-2] $18.00 beautiful cut-up collage from simple elements of Austrian folk songs and popular brass bands. recordings made in various studios including GMEB and INA-GRM. student of Schaeffer and Bayle. Dieter Kaufmann - Schrott & Korn CD (Amadeo) [437040-2] $18.00 placing acoustic situations into a vacuum. concrete-abstract anecdotes. signals that last a second are tied up one after another, and then into silence, and suddenly appearing. the harmonic coloring of sounds of the daily environment, the seemingly tuning of noises. gorgeous collage. Douglas Quin - Caratinga: Soundscapes from Brazil's Atlantic Rainforest CD (Earth Ear) [ee1072] $12.00 This CD, co-produced by Conservation International and EarthEar, presents lush, neotropical soundscapes from the Caratinga Biological Station in Brazil's disappearing Atlantic Rainforest. Its nine extended tracks of natural soundscapes explore the rich acoustic ecology of the area, including intimate portraits of the daily lives of primates, focusing on the endangered muriqui (or wooly spider monkey), and also featuring howler monkeys, capuchin monkeys, marmosets, tree frogs, and many birds, creating a sonic overview of the cycle of day and night in the forest. The CD begins with a morning chorus of birdsong along a small creek, then moves in to the forest for visits with each of the three main species of primates. An especially unique segment observes the mating lek of the White-bearded Manakin, a small understory bird which engages in an extraordinary aerial display including several calls and popping and snapping sound from their wings. An afternoon storm gives way to an especially engaging evening frog chorus to end the disc. Half the revenue received from sales of this disc will be send directly to the Caratinga Biological station, to support the important work being done there to study and protect this endangered habitat and soundscape. - label description. Douglas Quin - Forest - A book of hours CD (Earth Ear) [ee9022] $12.00 A groundbreaking, seamless combination of field recordings from Africa and Brazil remixed and transformed in the studio, blended with African chorus, woodwinds, and percussion. A tour-de-force of music informed by nature, by 'the Audubon of audio' (Washington Post). - label description. DownTown Ensemble - DownTown Only CD (Lovely Music, Ltd.) [LCD3081] $13.00 The DownTown Ensemble was formed in 1983 by co-directors, Daniel Goode and William Hellermann. The Ensemble has several points of focus: music for open (unspecified) instrumentation, emerging composers, commissions, graphic scores, ritual/intermedia music, and large ensemble works. While the Ensemble has a consistent core of players, performances always involve a variety of other artists. There have been over fifty such collaborations since the group's inception. This Lovely Music CD presents four of them! - label description. After a recent concert of the DownTown Ensemble a person said to me, 'I like them, because they seem to be enjoying themselves. They make the music sound like it's fun.' Nice observation. I always wish I could do that. Even more, I always wish that everybody could do that, so I would have more fun going to concerts. How did we get the idea that concert music should seem like a job to be done - that otherwise the musicians might be off somewhere else, having a good time? -from the CD liner notes by Robert Ashley Dream Radiation - DR CD (Ventricle) [VENT-15] $12.00 DR is another in the silver series of spectral ambient cds,called such because of the shiny silver booklets, and because of the ethereal female voice resonating at the threshold of feedback so that it too sounds like its glowing. Newcomer Melissa Webb has the timeless quality of a choirgirl, and hearing her voice turn into feedback and back into her voice is rarefied purity. Kelly Thistle adds enough prog moves to keep things from being too predictable. Earth Trumpet - Roman 2CD (Beta-Lactam Ring Records) [mt053.6] $12.00 Roman is a 24:05 audio CDR, with 31 second (42.1 MB) QuickTime movie on the second disc. While Chris makes some lofty comparisons with various avant composers, this seems to have more in common with acts like Sunroof and Hototogisu in that it is a somewhat ambling mixture of effected acoustic instruments with occasional underlying drone and outburst of noisiness; and it seems to come from a more rock mentality of composition than a classical one (even though it never comes any where near rocking out). Unfortunately duplicated on rather low grade CDRs, the cost seems to be made up for the fact that each cover is has a unique collage, sort of in the style of Bruce Conner. The QuickTime movie on disc two is in fact made up of the images from the different covers, allowing you to see them all. So, while a little short on total content, what is hear is good, and better that than being cluttered by unnecessarily filler. Eduardo Polonio - Uno es el Cubo CD (NO-CD Rekords) [CDNO22] $20.00 A Keplarian fantasy in five perfect solids. this is an electroacoustic opera based on moments in the life of Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe. Eric La Casa & Slavek Kwi - Fonderie Paccard CD (Collectif & Cie) [C&Cmts04] $15.00 Collaboration project of Eric La Casa and Slavek Kwi (AMT), sound-cartography of foundry of bells Paccard in Sevrier-Lac- d'Annecy, realised in period June 2000 - August 2001. collection Musiques Tracees de Savoie. Eric Lunde - LLND (a bible) CD (Alamut) [ALAprnt01] $7.00 the complete manifestation of LLND. the first book, in what would have been a series of three, illustrated with wood cut prints by the author, and a special drawing by James Johnson. 60 pages, paperback. Eric Lunde - Music/Water/Source CD (+EYE) [+EYE005] $9.00 tape manipulation and sound compositions derived from water sources. Eric Lunde - Suites for Solo Analog Cassette Recorders Volume 1 CD (+EYE) [+EYE002] $16.00 Very nice minimal work like m/s. The recording is composed of 4 different cassette recorders recording themselves through their own condenser mic. Each deck was placed in a sound proof box and set to record for 30 minutes. In wooden box; numbered edition of 30. Eric Lunde - When You Wish Upon a Scar CD (Povertech Industries) [PVRCD4] $13.00 retrospective of industrial sonic research covering terrain investigation, erosive processes, performance soundtracks, reading from his impenetrable novel, and the world's fastest tape recorder. includes tracks from all his rare vinyl releases as well as cassettes and video, plus live material. with booklet of notes and illustrations. Ernst Karel - Fern Room CD (BOXmedia) [BOXCDR203] $9.00 Fern Room is a stereo version of what was originally a four-channel installation in the Fern Room of the Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago, from November 8, 2001 to January 6, 2002 Delicate electronics and field recordings of plants - extremely nice - highly recommended. - label description. numbered edition of 50 copies. Fernando Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet Book (Exact Change) [1-878972-27-8] $13.00 Translated and with an introduction by Alfred Mac Adam. The rediscovery in the 1990s of the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is reminiscent of the rediscovery of Kafka in the 1950s. Like Kafka, Pessoa left his work in disarray, much of it to be published posthumously. And Pessoa is fast becoming an icon of postmodernism, as Kafka was of modernism. Pessoa's mystique comes largely from his practice of writing under 'heteronyms', each supplied with distinct biographies, life spans, even horoscopes. In The Book of Disquiet, Pessoa came as close as he would to autobiography. But this book is, like so much about Pessoa, an object of mystery. Left on disordered scraps of paper in a trunk, the fragments that make up The Book of Disquiet have no fixed sequence, and therefore each reader must make out of them a different text. This translation, published in hardcover by Pantheon in 1991, has been widely reviewed as the best available. 304 pages Paperback. Francisco Lopez & Joe Colley - Knowing when to not know CD (Antifrost) [Afro2009] $12.00 During the summer of 2001, Francisco Lopez visited Joe Colley, otherwise known to the world as Crawl Unit, in Sacramento, California, and they created this 18 minute work. Bookended by Lopez's signature silences, the interior is a pleasant droning work made of what sound to be natural sources, and largely is an audible work. Not harshly punctuated, but slowly building and receding. packaged in a clear sleeve and produced in a limited edition of 350 copies. Francisco Lopez/Peter Rehberg (aka Pita)/Zbigniew Karkowski - klr CD (ar.ms) [arms002] $13.00 Edition of 1000 copies. original recording made @ rhiz, wien 02.05.99 by francisco lopez, zbigniew karkowski and peter rehberg as part of the final event of the phonotaktik_99 festival. Frequencies (Hz) - Book (Hatje Cantz Publishers) [3-7757-1154-6] $37.00 Beyond the scope of the defining non-material characteristics of sound, sound becomes a formal material, a kind of audible sculpture accompanied by discourse on its constructive, societal, philosophical, and emotional aspects. At least, it does for the contemporary artists represented in Frequencies [HZ], each of whom works with sound within the context of visual art--Angela Bulloch, Farmersmanual, Ryoji Ikeda, Daniel Pflumm, Ultra-red, Mika Vainio, and others. With an audio CD ingeniously integrated into the book's cover design, and reproductions of sculptural and visual art, as well as specific, often minimalistic installations and interventions which employ sound or electronic experiments with sound, Frequencies [HZ] explores how sound impacts upon the perception of architecture and otherwise influences the components of individual experience. Participating artists reflect on the institutional context and the situation that evolves between the work of art and the viewer. Paperback, 8.75 x 11.5 in., 208 pgs, 30 color and 33 b&w illustrations. CD features tracks by Noto, Pomassl, Farmersmanual, Mika Vainio, Ryoji Ikeda, Mark Bain, CM von Hausswolff, Angela Bulloch, Knut Asdam Ultra-red, Pflumm/Kotai (The Customers), Ann Lislegaard, and Gronlund\Nisunen with A. Men Brass Band. Futurist Performance - Book (PAJ Publications) [1-55554-009-0] $18.00 This is the definitive text on the radical contributions of Futurism in theatre, dance, radio cinema, music, and scenography. It includes thirteen manifestos (such as 'The Art of Noise', 'The Futurist Synthetic Theatre') by Marinetti, Prampolini and Russolo, and forty-eight performance texts (sintesi) by Balla, Boccioni, Depero, Cangiullo, and Marinetti. - publisher description. Michael Kirby, editor. 336 pages, 6 x 8.34 inches, 56 photographs. George Crumb/Earle Brown - Celestial Mechanics * Zeitgeist/Corroboree CD (Mode Records) [mode19] $16.00 Cosmic dances for piano 4-hands, six tableau for two amplified pianos and 1964 piece for 3-pianos. Performed by Piano Duo Degenhardt-Kent. Composer supervised recordings. Ghedalia Tazartes - Voyage a l'ombre CD (Demosaurus) [dmsr001] $15.00 Ghedalia Tazartes combines an orchestra and a pop group in one person. his voice shifts constantly from child to diva, from African sorcerer to Tibetan monk. hypnotic, disturbing polyphonies draw us into a world of shadows. Tazartes' work is emotional, contemporary, unique. it's punk, sound poetry, folklore, and electroacoustics rolled into one. - label description. Gianfranco Pernaiachi - Ora 2CD (Ants) [AG01] $25.00 A meditation on silence, ecstatic and radical hearing of a soul who catch the real essence of sound and frees his creativity without a doubt. The result of a deep inner search, involved and involving. The journey of a non-compromised artist that choose the hardest way to reach a definition of his research. For Pernaiachi it's the overcoming of the 'classic' position of the author. Here the author call the nature, he settle any compromise with the instrument, with the musical writing. The work use the sounds of nature, of life. Itself is nature, and life. Unpolluted. And then difficult to perceive, to hear. It's a work of silence. An open work, that the listener can 'compose' with his own actions. 'Pernaiachi makes silence sacred: it is a silence charged with all silences. It is a flaming silence.' (Renzo Cresti) Limited edition of 500, numbered, copies. Cardboard box in 4 full colours. 20 pages booklet. 2 separate sheets with the diagrams of the composition, to be used for the 'montage' of the opera. Texts by the author and by Renzo Cresti, in Italian and English. - label description. Greg Kelley - if i never meet you in this life, let me feel the lack CD (Rossbin) [RS006] $15.00 As far as I know this is the second solo work of Greg Kelley, after the Meniscus release of few years ago... the impression is that this time he play his instrument in a more abstract way, probably this one is one of his most difficult work, or at least it seams to me; not difficult because noisy, but because of his complexity, very different from anything else he did before, far more experimental and far more compromised with a new way to be a musician and an improviser ... first time I listen to it I get surprised, it's one track only that last approximately 33 minutes, 33 minutes of pure 'trumpet' sounds, sometimes acoustics and sometimes elaborated, but always it's just difficult to perceive it's a trumpet... actually all the record sound very different from what it could be expected from a trumpet solo CD. Drones, glitches, almost quiet,with little changes of tones. It's a work that need time and wish to be penetrate but one you get into it will show you how complicate and vary could be something apparently so easy; lots of passion and a great technique make this records something absolutely pleasant; a great records from a great musician. - Alessandro Bianco. Greg Kelley graduated from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in 1995, returning to his native Massachusetts shortly thereafter. Upon moving to Boston in 1996, he soon became an integral member of the city's burgeoning experimental improvisation scene, garnering much praise for his unique vocabulary of extended techniques and timbral manipulation. In 1998, Kelley began a pattern of dedicated travelling, performing throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. These travels have led to collaborations w/ a coterie of international artists including Pauline Oliveros, Anthony Braxton, Le Quan Ninh, Phil Minton, Joe McPhee, Gunter Muller, Paul Lovens, Keiji Haino, Eddie Prevost, Kevin Drumm, John Butcher, and Donald Miller. It was also in 1998 that Kelley formed the group nmperign, w/ soprano saxophonist Bhob Rainey. Gunter Muller & Jim O'Rourke - Weighting CD (For 4 Ears Records) [CD824] $13.00 Gunter Muller - dr, elec / Jim O'Rourke - org, p, lapsteel, elec. recorded at Zack Studio, St.Gallen 16.07.1997. Cover artwork by Jim O'Rourke, Gunter Muller. Gunter Muller & Taku Sugimoto - I am happy if you are happy CD (For 4 Ears Records) [CD1140] $13.00 Gunter Muller - elec, MDs, selected dr; Taku Sugimoto - g. recorded at Studio CCAM, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France 13.10.1999. Fragile, tentative yet assured, this sounds as thought it were recorded in a balloon drifting away from fireworks display, with a pronounced sense of distance created by the ever-shifting perspective, and the dawning sensation that all is evaporating in impenetrable darkness. - E.Baxter, Wire. Gyan Riley - Food for the Bearded CD (New Albion Records) [NA119] $14.00 Gyan Riley, guitar, with Tracy Silverman, viola; David Doll, percussion; and very special guest Terry Riley, piano and voice. New Albion is pleased to announce the solo debut of guitarist and composer Gyan Riley. This set of compositions describes a path that started in what surely must have been a most unique household. Now, at the age of 25, his complete command of the canon for nylon string guitar is wedded with a Northern California sensibility for improvisation and drift. Gyan Riley, born in California in 1977, is the son of renowned avant garde composer and North Indian Raga vocalist Terry Riley. He completed his undergraduate studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music under the direction of David Tanenbaum and later received a Masters Degree at the Conservatory under Dusan Bogdanovic, mentor for both performance and composition. In March 1999 he received First Prize in the Portland Guitar Festival Competition and in February 2001 was awarded First Prize in the San Francisco Conservatory Guitar Concerto Competition. He performed in the Bremen Musikfest '98 in Bremen, Germany and the New American Music Festival '98 in Sacramento, California, both as a soloist and in duo with David Tanenbaum. Gyan performed piano-guitar duos with his father at the Muenchner Klaviersommer '99 festival in Munich and made his first New York appearance at Merkin Hall in January of 2000, performing solo and ensemble works with Terry Riley and the All-Stars. Later that month, Gyan appeared as guitarist for the Tracy Silverman Trio at Cemal Resit Rey Concert Hall in Istanbul, Turkey. In July of 2000, Gyan performed solo and in a duo with Dusan Bogdanovic at the Festival Sitar-Guitar in Rome. In January of 2001, Gyan played in the American premiere of John Adams' 'El Nino' with David Tanenbaum, soprano Dawn Upshaw, and the San Francisco Symphony. Gyan performed in the Other Minds Festival in March 2001 and in June 2001 Gyan appeared with the All-Stars at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London as part of the Meltdown Festival. The band also toured Italy and the US in Spring 2002. Gyan recently gave concerts of original solo works at the GFA 2001 Festival in La Jolla, California, and at the Planet Tree Festival in London. Gyan is currently the artistic director for the San Francisco Classical Guitar Society. He was commissioned by the Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center to write a solo guitar work for Jorge Caballero's February 2000 performance at Merkin Concert Hall in New York. Gyan is also featured on the New Albion recording The Book of Abbeyozzud, Terry Riley's series of 28 guitar pieces, each with a title beginning with a different letter of the Spanish alphabet. 'Piedad' is one of three solo works in the set, written as a gift for Gyan in his 18th birthday. Gyan (the word means 'knowledge' in Hindi) is the only person to have been named by Pandit Pran Nath: when Terry and Ann announced they were expecting, Pran Nath proclaimed 'Gyan Shankar is coming'. - label description. Haters, The - Death-Defying Sickness CD (Noisopoly) [NOP-05] $9.00 CD of the full complete vision of D-D.S.. Most who've heard this uncompromising blast consider it not only the harshest ever by The Haters, but also the best!!! Hear the oxidizing voices that inspired the tale of Doctor X: '... the image of 'the naughty nurse' never entered his mind. A biosafety level-4 laboratory was his only home. His whole wardrobe consisted mainly of hot claustrophobic and sweaty environmental suits that completely encapsulated his body. Doctor X, a prominent microbiologist, had been working for years on a cure for a disease called A.T. 80. A severe virus, A.T. 80 causes the victim's skeleton to become corrosive, eating away at the surrounding anatomy. Connective tissue was always the first to be effected. The result was complete with a sweeping numbness, high fever, and uncontrollable hemorrhaging...'. Haters, The - Untitled Title Shots CD (Noisopoly) [NOP-04] $9.00 CD of realtime recordings of GX's Untitled Title Belt feeding back on itself. No multi-tracking or post-production was applied. The recording engineer was Maria Moran (ZipperSpy). Conceived by GX, with electronics by Damion Romero (Speculum Fight), and leather-work by Paul Stoll (BodyM), this noise belt is unlike the traditional championship wrestling belt it was fashioned after. This implement functions as a combination microphone, distortion-pedal, & noise generator. Helmut Lachenmann - Allegro Sostenuto * Serynade CD (Kairos) [KAI1221] $16.00 performed by Yukiko Sugawara (piano), Lukas Fels (violincello) and Shizuyo Oka (clarinet). This is the first recording of the recently completed piano piece Serynade, - the special feature: Helmut Lachenmann composed it for Yukiko Sugawara, the performer on this CD - the piano sound is kept alive, worked and shaped, to stop the sound from fading and thus to stop time itself. - label description. Helmut Lachenmann - Kontrakadenz * Klangschatten * mein Saitenspiel * Fassade CD (Kairos) [KAI1223] $16.00 performed by SWR Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, NDR Sinfonieorchester, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, all conducted by Michael Gielen. includes detailed booklet with texts by Helmut Lachenmann and Edgar Reitz. Marcel Duchamp declared in 1952 that art emerges not in the hands of the artists, but in the heads of the recipients. Lachenmann seems to refer to this in Kontrakadenz when he uses radio recordings to compel the recipient, for just a moment, to reconsider the situation in the concert hall and not to experience it as a necessity, but as a possibility. - label description. Helmut Lachenmann - Nun * Notturno (Musik fur Julia) CD (Kairos) [KAI1214] $16.00 performed by WDR-Sinfonieorchester, Jonathan Nott, Andreas Lindenbaum, Klangforum Wien, and Hans Zender. Ruin-like music - which acquires its own kind of beauty from the debris and fragments of the past. With its innovative playing techniques, Notturno switches between opulent sound and 'eerily fluttering' color tones. The innovation is based on tradition and transcends far beyond it. - label description. Henri Chopin - Les portes ouvertes ouvertement Book+CD (Voix Editions) [2-9514799-13-1] $31.00 178 page book (in French) about the work and ideas of Chopin with 16 minute CDR of unreleased piece from 2000, dans le silence lance l'air. Henry Flynt - People Think Book (Henry Flynt) [22XII98] $14.00 an essay on commitments of belief involved in life's forward impulse (e.g. hope), and the strategizing which presupposes possibility. The essay takes up a series of concerns of the uneasy consciousness. Flynt ties all this to several interpretations of visionary elevation, touching on La Monte Young, Pandit Pran Nath, Christer Hennix. Self-published booklet version, 1999. 30 pages, spiral bound. Henry Jacobs' Vortex - Electronic Kabuki Mambo CD (Locust) [locust11] $13.00 Electronic Kabuki Mambo is a stupefying pre-psychedelic vintage 50s affair featuring a tapestry of then local musical talents (One Henry Jacobs, Gordon Longfellow, David Talcott, and William Loughborough). Prepare yourself for a liberation of your senses. Prepare for an irresistible taste of the 50s in all of it's sonic sci-fi glory because this caravan of sound is where head music really began! Think Taj Mahal Travelers meets Harry Partch in an echo chamber. Think^Think^ It's difficult to believe but for a period in 1955, Henry Jacobs, the grandmaster of left coast Zen Surrealism (known to some for his radio art innovations, his many recordings of Lenny Bruce, satirical forays as Shorty Petterstein, a fringe personality with the beat poets and a dear collaborator with Buddhist icon Alan Watts) and coveted experimental filmmaker Jordan Belson convinced San Francisco's fledgling Morrison Planetarium to allow the duo to put on the Vortex Experiments - a quadraphonic sound and vision show premiering strange audio collages of works by famed composers Takemitsu, Stockhausen, Berio and countless ethnic field recordings with weird, tripped out oscilloscope flicks, excerpts from Belson's classic Allures, and other kaleidoscopic visuals to a regularly sold out, packed crowd of local residents interested in seeing what this new and crazy sensory experience was all about. Needless to say, the Vortex Experiments were so popular, the Planetarium couldn't handle the capacity and after short while, and a surprise invitation to Brussels' Expo 58, the whole thing got axed. Electronic Kabuki Mambo presents the first digital reissue of the original 1959 Folkways in its entirety. Fully remastered. Features new liner notes and never before published photos and other ephemera. - label description. Herve Castellani - Flamme CD (trente oiseaux) [TOC981] $16.00 fifty-two minute minimal soundscape following his 3 on Metamkine. very low level movements from what would appear to be acoustic sources, perhaps a delicate action realized with matches over a long span of time. stretches of silence, small movements, an occasional drone of something off in the distance... packaged in a dark blue cover with silver print. recorded at GMVL studios. Het Apollohuis - 1995-2001: Apollo and Marsays Book+CD (Het Apollohuis) [ACD090218] $43.00 The 4th and last report of the activities at Het Apollohuis. The book goes with 2 cd's 'Apollo and Marsyas' - an anthology of new music concerts at Het Apollohuis from 1980-1997. This new publication documents the programme series from the fall of 1995 until 1997 and includes contributions of artists, curators and friends (as well as collaboration projects from 1997 until 2002. There are short descriptions of all the activities with black & white photographs. It completes the written history of Het Apollohuis. The two discs with thirty-eight excerpts are arranged in chronological order and give a truthful and appealing view of the width, the depth and the diversity of the concert programme of Het Apollohuis. some of the artists documented in the book include Felix Hess, Paul Panhuysen, Christiaan Zwanikken, Goji Hamada, Michael Vorfield, Maciunas Ensemble, 13th Tribe, Relly Tarlo, Pierre Bastien, Robin Minard, Jo Truman, Kaffe Matthews, Mathew Ostrowski, Gerry Hemmingway, Frederick Lonberg-Holm, Erwin Stache, Trimpin, Ad van Buuren, Herman de Vries, and many, many others. the CDs feature Derek Bailey / Ernst Reijseger, Tom Johnson, David Gibson, Group 180, Rolf Julius, Ned Rothenberg, Elliot Sharp, Vivenza, Arnold Dreyblatt, Pauline Oliveros, Carl Stone, Carles Santos, Joe Jones, Takehisa Kosugi, Terry Fox, Walter Fahndrich, Fast Forward, Alvin Lucier, Alvin Curran, Richard Lerman, Jerry Hunt, Shelley Hirsch / David Weinstein, Eliane Radigue, The Hub, Teodoro Anzelotti, Pierre Berthet / Brigida Romano, Warren Burt, SEM Ensemble, Jim O'Rourke, Borbetomagus, Butcher / Minton /Hirt, Iva Bittova, Stefan Kovacs Tickmayer, Rafael Toral, David First, Reinier van Houdt, Kaffe Matthews, and Matt Rogalsky. Hugh Davies & Hans-Karsten Raecke - Klangbilder CD (Klangwerkstatt Edition) [SM500135D] $16.00 a collection of duo improvisations, with one solo track by each, these 'Sound Pictures' (as the title translates to) are an exposition of invented instruments. this 1994 release was also the first CD release of either's music. both have long and interesting history. Davies was Stockhausen's assistant from 1964-66, compiled the International Electronic Music Catalog for GRM, was a founding member of live electronic group Gentle Fire, and played with improvising music ensembles as diverse as Music Improvisation Company, Naked Software, and Borbetomagus. building instrument which tend to focus on recycling everyday materials (one of the first was made inside the cover of an old encyclopedia volume), his focus tends to be on amplifying small sounds through simple electronic means, as demonstrated on this disc by various models of his Shozyg and Springboards. Raecke is less known, but been building new wind and string instruments since 1974, and was previously featured on Wergo's Sound Sculptures double LP. this two have worked together many times over the years, as it seen by the fact that the recordings on this disc span from 1985 up until 1994. last, Davies writes: The substantial contrast between our individual backgrounds and personalities, between the natures of our instruments and of our compositional styles, creates very stimulating interactions in our improvisations together. The sounds of some - but no too many - of our instruments are very similar and blend together very well, while the other instruments of each of us are very different and do not suggest such obvious linkages. Hans-Karsten normally chooses only one instrument for each of our shorter improvisations, while all my own instruments are spread out in front of me rather like those of a percussionist, so that it is always an interesting challenge for me to find a response to the strong character of whichever instruments he is playing. Ian Nagoski - Warm, Coursing Blood CD (Colorful Clouds for Acoustics) [CLOUD020] $12.00 minimal drones and electronic noise with warmth, gesture and humanity drawn from improvised music. recorded with crude tools at home with total disinterest in technique. last copies of this out of print title. Iannis Xenakis - Ensemble Music 1 CD (Mode Records) [mode53] $16.00 strange and dramatic modern classical. recorded live by ST-X Ensemble. Iannis Xenakis / Edgard Varese - Volume 3 CD (Mode Records) [mode58] $16.00 Xenakis: Dmmerschein for large orchestra; Persephassa for 6 percussionists; La Dessee Athna for baritone, percussion solo and chamber ensemble; Varse: Amriques for large orchestra including 11 percussionists and sirens. Jaap Blonk - Vocalor CD (Staalplaat) [STCD112] $15.00 recordings of sound poems written by Velimir Khlebnikov, Vicente Huidobro, Guy de Cointet, Man Ray, Georges Aperghis and himself. emphasizing vocal textures. first 1000 with limited packaging. Jeph Jerman & Bob Blaize - Fulu CD (In Tu It) [ITI-CD4] $10.00 compiled works of Blaize and Jerman together 1986-96. This CD is a combination of spontaneous expressions dealing with the rights of random concepts and emotional free strange circuitry. These circuits often appear in the shape of collective cultural hive awareness matrixes that convey a hint of some ancient ceremonial memory outlet. then like a shadow they disappear into different modes of improvisational sound dreams. Contracts of morphogenic sacredness have been carved in sound. Jim Fox - Last Things CD (Cold Blue Records) [CB0001] $13.00 For the past 20 years, Los Angeles composer Jim Fox has been writing quiet, rarefied yet seductive chamber music. The CD brings together two of his unusual and haunting electro-acoustic works. with Jim Fox (piano & electronics), Marty Walker (bass clarinet), Janyce Collins (voice), and Chas Smith (pedel steel guitar). Jim O'Rourke - Terminal Pharmacy CD (Tzadik) [TZA7011] $16.00 Born in 1969, composer/improviser/producer Jim O'Rourke has already built an impressive resume in the international rock/improvisation underground. He has recorded as a member of the experimental rock groups Gastr Del Sol, The Red Krayola, Brise Glace and Yona Kit, recorded a half dozen of his own albums of guitar improvisation and musique-concrete compositions on the Staalplaat, Extreme, Divided, Entenpfuhl and Metamkine labels, released collaborative recordings with Henry Kaiser, K.K. Null, Gunter Muller, Eddie Prevost, Evan Parker and Nicholas Collins, and produced forthcoming albums by Tony Conrad, Faust, Melt Banana and Space Streakings. Electro-acoustic music is the thread that connects O'Rourke's varied activities and comprises his main compositional effort. These pieces, two years in the making, stand out as his finest constructions to date. accordions: Rob Prosser, Isha Suftin; cellos: Mike Dockter, Hattie Franck, Robert Keck, Mary Labreque, Dan Loch, Stan Saderk; clarinet: Tony Burr; alto flutes: Lisa Hemmer, Sue Oberg; bass flutes: Wendi Lev, Jim Vanden; acoustic guitar: Jim O'Rourke; amplification: Steve Braack. - label description. Jliat - Noise CD (edition . . .) [editionxix] $12.00 Contains digitally remastered archive recordings of the following events: From the Bikini Series nuclear tests, [1] Able 22:00:34 30 June 1946 (GMT) Bikini Atoll lagoon, Marshall Islands, [2] Bravo 18:45:00 28 February 1954 (GMT) Artificial island on reef 2950 ft off Namu (Charlie) Island, Bikini Atoll, [3] Cherokee 17:51 20 May 1956 Off Namu (Charlie) Island, Bikini Atoll Test Site, [4] Fir 17:50.00.1 11 May 1958 (GMT) Bikini Barge. The first test, Able was History's fourth atomic explosion. A standard Fat Man type Mk 3A fission bomb, dropped by B-29 'Dave's Dream', was used in test. The bomb fell 980 ft short and 1870 ft left of target, perhaps due to a collapsed tail fin. The USS Gilliam was sunk, and four other vessels were either sunk or severly damaged. The misplaced bomb resulted in a government investigation of the flight crew. The Crossroads Series tests were the first nuclear explosions since World War II, and the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity. These were the first 'weapons effects' tests ever conducted - tests designed specifically to study how nuclear explosions affect other things - rather than tests of the behavior of a weapon design (as was Trinity). The purpose of the tests was to examine the effects of nuclear explosions on naval vessels, planes, and animals. A fleet of 71 surplus and captured ships anchored in the Bikini Atoll lagoon in the Marshall Islands were used as targets. This fleet included a number of famous Allied and Axis vessels such as the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, the battleships USS Nevada, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, and New York; the German cruiser Prinz Eugen and Japanese battleshp Nagato. The weapons used were Mk 3A ('Model 1561') Fat Man-type atomic bombs, essentially unmodified from the wartime designs. Incidently, archival film footage derived from the same sources was used in Bruce Conner's 1976 film 'Crossroads'. The Shrimp device tested in Bravo was a 15 Mt two stage thermonuclear surface burst. This was the first 'dry' or solid fuel (lithium deuteride fueled) H-Bomb tested by the U.S., and the first solid fuel Teller-Ulam device ever tested. It was the largest bomb ever tested by the U.S. although this was by accident. The yield of Bravo dramatically exceeded predictions, being about 2.5 times higher than the best guess and almost double the estimated maximum possible yield (6 Mt predicted, estimated yield range 4-8 Mt). The Bravo crater in the atoll reef had a diameter of 6510 ft, with a depth of 250 ft. Within one minute the mushroom cloud had reached 50,000 feet (15 km), breaking 100,000 feet (30 km) two minutes later. The cloud top rose and peaked at 130,000 feet (almost 40 km) after only six minutes. Eight minutes after the test the cloud had reached its full dimensions with a diameter of 100 km, a stem 7 km thick, and a cloud bottom rising above 55,000 feet (16.5 km). And these are just the first two tests. Extensive notes contained on plastic inserts backed with black liner. Black cdr. Initial edition of 50. File under: scary as Hell. - label description. John Cage - Complete Piano Music Vol. 10: Etcetera CD (MD & G Gold) [MDG6130798] $1.25 Pianist Steffen Schleiermacher completes his ten-volume CD edition of the complete piano music of John Cage. This recording features recently discovered works for piano by the American innovator and composer. John Cage - Complete Piano Music Vol. 1: The Prepared Piano 1940-1952 CD (MD & G Gold) [MDG6130781] $32.00 works written for piano which has been 'prepared' by placing screws, nails, erasers, paper clips and other items inside the instrument, creating completely new sounds not normally associated with a piano. performed by Steffen Schleiermacher. John Cage - Complete Piano Music Vol. 2: Music for Piano 1-85 & Electronic Music for Piano CD (MD & G Gold) [MDG6130784] $32.00 performed by Steffen Schleiermacher. John Cage - Complete Piano Music Vol. 3: Music of Changes CD (MD & G Gold) [MDG6130786-2] $16.00 performed by Steffen Schleiermacher. John Cage - Complete Piano Music Vol. 8: Hommage a Satie CD (MD & G Gold) [MDG6130794] $18.00 Cage, Satie and Schleiermacher add up to three personalities and one electrifying idea. On Vol. 8 of his Cage series Steffen Schleiermacher takes us back to the exciting times of Paris in the 1920s, when Satie was doing his part to revolutionize the music world. Cage occupied himself more with Satie than he did with any other composer. He collected all of Satie's published scores, penned articles in the field of music theory about the great eccentric, and had him appear as a literary figure in radio play. Cage's own works reflect his admiration for Satie in many ways. Aesthetically, Cage was fascinated above all by Satie's anti-romantic stance, by his formulation of the idea of a developmentless music already during the final years of the nineteeth century, Cage's composition commentary culminated in three works for piano solo with dance premiered in the United States in 1948. - label description. John Cage - I-VI Book+CD (Wesleyan University Press) [0-8195-6313-7] $24.00 'In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers all questions,' John Cage writes in this edition of his contribution to Harvard's prestigious Norton Lecture Series in 1988-89. More like performances than lectures, these six mesostics - a complex horizontal arrangement of text to form vertical letter sequences that spell out key words - illustrated for his audience the concept of 'nonintention', a kind of meticulously choreographed anarchy in which choice and chance join to redefine the concepts of meaning and meaningfulness. Drawing text from Thoreau, Wittgenstein, Joyce, McCluhan, and daily newspapers, Cage used a computer program to combine seemingly disparate lines into a whole that explored fifteen central aspects of his compositional credo. This edition includes the mesostics, transcriptions of the lively question-and-answer sessions that followed, and a CD recording of Cage reading in a sonorous baritone that infuses the mesostic with life, depth, and musicality. The aesthetic integrity and artistic growth that have characterized Cage's half century of production are nowhere more clearly evident than in this tour de force. John Cage - Musicage: Cage Muses on Words Art Music CD (Wesleyan University Press) [0-8195-6311-0] $24.00 conversations with Joan Retallack about words, visual art and music. 360 pages, paperback. John Cage - Silence: Lectures and Writings CD (Wesleyan University Press) [0-8195-6028-6] $23.00 collected writings and lectures from 1939-61. 276 pages, paperback. John Cage - Singing Through CD (New Albion Records) [NA035] $14.00 vocal compositions with Joan LaBarbara (voice), Leonard Stein (piano), and William Winant (percussion). For this recording, I focused on particular aspects of Cage: the sense of wonder, the feeling for beauty, the love of theatre, the fascination with words and sounds of all sorts and, of course, silence. Each of the songs has its own emotional and acoustical space, some of which have been dictated in performance notes, some are indicated by the music itself. Unless otherwise stated, the notes instruct the singer: 'To be sung without vibrato, as in folk singing.' In choosing these works I saw myself as singing through Cage, as he has done, writing through or reading through texts in order to study, to learn, to comprehend more fully. Finally, 'Singing Through' is a love song for my mentor to my mentor, my friend. - Joan La Barbara. John Duncan - Mort Aux Vaches (Seek) CD (Staalplaat) [01367] $13.00 a new work, composed for radio broadcast over VPRO feature de Avonden, produced by Berry Kamer and Jan Hiddink. sources include short-wave radio and computer-generated audio. l'Atessa (The Wait) was composed with Ciro Iamarco in Amsterdam, a year before his death. Ciro choose the title. limited edition of 1000. John Duncan/zeitkratzer - Fresh CD (Allquestions / x-tract) [AQ03/x-t2005] $16.00 includes Nav-Flex and Trinity, performed by zeitkratzer, composed and conducted by John Duncan. Released in an edition of 1000 with CD in teabag, inserted in hardboard sleeve. Color cover photographs by Giuliana Stefani. zeitkratzer began in 1997 and quickly gained international respect for their versatility in transforming a variety of music, including electronic and electroacoustic works, into performances for instruments normally reserved for traditional orchestra. zeitkratzer has recently performed works by Masami Akita, Zbigniew Karkowski, Christina Kubisch, Francisco Lopez, Phill Niblock, Lou Reed, Elliott Sharp, James Tenny, including feature concerts in Venice, Italy, of Metal Machine Music and a night of Phill Niblock works with the composers in attendance. zeitkratzer is based in Berlin, where this innovative ensemble finds a solid base with continued support from Akademie der Kunste academy of arts, Podewil and other institutions. John Duncan is widely recognized for his work in performance, music, and audio installations. His audio projects Tap Internal (2000) and Palace of Mind (2001, composed with Giuliana Stefani) are considered by critics and composers alike to be landmarks in experimental sound. He has worked and recorded with Leif Elggren, Jean-Louis Huhta, Zbigniew Karkowski, Edvard Graham Lewis, Francisco Lopez, Jim O'Rourke, Elliott Sharp, and C.M. von Hausswolff. Duncan's events and installations, often involving participants rendered nude and completely blind, have recently been held and shown at the Watari Museum of Art in Tokyo, Lucia A-Go-Go in Stockholm, Interzona in Verona. His work in performance has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; the Osterreichisches Museum fur Angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna; Museu d'Arte Contemporani, Barcelona (MACBA); and Museum of Tokyo (MOT). John Luther Adams - The Light That Fills the World CD (Cold Blue Records) [CB0010] $13.00 These three works exist amid an undeniable esthetic spirit of the times - the embracing of pre-compositional principles and structural processes in the service of a highly personal artistic statement. However, John Luther Adams' recent work tends to transcend his compositional devices-it is simply potent, compelling music that is timeless in its sublimity. This is quietly expressive music in which process never intrudes on the music's 'sounding', but churns away in the background, while the foreground shimmers with a simple yet great joy in the very making of sounds. It is a music that may be readily appreciated on both intellectual and sensual levels. Glancing quickly at the inner-workings beneath the music's kaleidoscopically changing surface-textures: 'The Light That Fills the World' (1998/2001), which was commissioned by the Paul Dresher Ensemble, develops via ever-expanding musical intervals in each of its instrumental parts, forming something of an arch, pivoting around the tritone, and at the same time a continuous ramp-the smaller intervals steadily giving way to the larger. The rhythmic subdivisions of the bars reflect the tessitura of each part's pitches in a broad harmonic spectrum (a la some of Henry Cowell's theories)-with higher notes moving with smaller subdivisions of the bar-providing a natural polyrhythmic motion. 'The Farthest Place' (2001) develops in a way that is consistent with the architecture of The Light That Fills the World, but here the harmonic world is pentatonic rather than diatonic. 'The Immeasurable Space of Tones' (1999/2001), the largest and most complex of the three pieces, might be considered five joined-at-the-hip movements, each of which has an interval expansion and contraction life of its own, yet also falls within a larger overall scheme of interval growth. - label description. Jon & Utsunomia - Utsunomia & Jon CD (Horen) [MIMI-004] $14.00 really just nuts - a tiny sounding Japanese girl singing with dysfunctional (yet competent) acoustic musical backing. very playful, but very odd. Jon the dog meets mad sound scientist Dr. Utsunomia (ex. After Dinner). This is most unusual recording I've heard some time and a production that is so original it manages almost to be shocking. A unique achievement. - Chris Cutler. It's so dooope.......Super density CD - Yamataka Eye. This piece of work greatly stirs up my desire to create. - Akio Suzuki. Jon - Smoke CD (Tzadik) [TZA7210] $16.00 Songs about a dog... This bizarre home-recorded gem offers a very private glimpse into the world of a mysterious woman from Japan known simply as Jon. Her strange childlike vocals and pump organ charm and enthrall on their own terms; Jon's fresh approach can't be compared to anything you've ever heard before. Primitive, melodious, captivating and completely unforgettable -- Jon is a true original, destined to become a cult classic. Jon: organ & voice / Saito-san: banjo. Jonas Mekas - This Side of Paradise CD (Re:Voir) [RV0024] $33.50 The images in this film, with few exceptions, all come from the summers Caroline and John Jr. spent in Montauk, with their cousins Anthony and Tina Radziwill...The time was still very close to the untimely , tragic death of John F. Kennedy. Jackie wanted to give something to her children to do, to help ease the transition, life without a father. One of her thoughts was that a movie camera would be fun for children...These were summers of happiness, joy and continuous celebrations of life and friendships. These were days of Little Fragments of Paradise.- Jonas Mekas. 35 mins. NTSC. Jonathan Coleclough - Cake: Alternate Version CD (Robot Records / Siren Records) [RR-14/SIREN03] $15.00 Originally released in 1998, Cake represented the first solo release from the U.K. based sound organizer Jonathan Coleclough. Cake was met with very favorable interest amongst those familiar with Colecloughs earlier collaborations with Andrew Chalk and Ora--a project featuring the work of Darren Tate, Colin Potter, Daisuke Suzuki, and Lol Coxill. Now an alternate version of Cake is available. Composed at the same time as the initially released edition, Coleclough has referred to this variation as an inversion or mirror image of the other. While both versions include aspects of the same source material, each stand apart as unique and individual pieces as two sides of a coin. Consisting of a single evolving piece, this alternate version of Cake further explores Colecloughs interest and use of field recordings while employing a sensitive amalgamation of organic textures. With a delicate yet pronounced sense of droning space, including an often filmic impression of landscape, the alternate version of Cake manages to produce a hauntingly beautiful atmosphere thatshould easily engage those interested in the likes of Organum, Giancarlo Toniutti, Eliane Radigue, a.o. Featuring the original artwork, this version of Cake is differentiated from the previous with a reverse of the booklet images creating a new front cover. Released in association with Siren Records (Tokyo) in edition of 400 copies only. - Kevin Spencer. Jurgen Reble - Passion NTSC video (Re:Voir / Barooni) [RV0013] $34.00 Jurgen Reble, former member of the German filmmaking group 'Schmelzdahin' (dissolved in 1989), focuses on exploring the film material through bacterial processes, weathering, and chemical treatment during and after development. 'Rumpelstilzchen' and 'Passion' were Reble's first solo works, hand-developed films about creation, evolution and destruction. Reble also does live performances developing and decomposing film loops using chemicals, acids and silver replacing agents. 'Passion' is a film diary in which Reble accompanies his unborn child through the year, following the seasons until his birth. Reble's unfamiliar chemistry generates slowly pulsating structures and colors. Micro- and macroscopic imagery build a near-abstract, hypnotic landscape - an intimate perceoption of creations 69 mins. NTSC. Kaija Saariaho - Graal theatre * Solar * Lichtbogen CD (Ondine) [ODE997-2] $18.00 World premiere release of Saariaho's Violin Concerto in the version for chamber orchestra. The 1994 'Graal theatre' violin concerto was commissioned by the BBC. This piece marked a profound change in her music with the addition of melodic element. 'Lichtbogen' is one of Saariaho's early works and includes the use of computer generated sounds and effects. 'Solar' from 1993 is written for 12 musicians. The early randomness gravitates to a fixed basic structure in a manner that she describes as similar to the gravitational pull of the sun on the planets of our solar system. Kaija Saariaho - New Gates CD (Mode Records) [mode91] $16.00 the first in series of discs from the ensemble Champ d'Action (further volumes will feature Ferrari and Xenakis), this contents four works by the Finnish composer dating 1988-96 concentrating on the instrumentation of flute, harp and viola, with additional instrumentation on two tracks. themes ranges from musical tension to relation of human voice to instruments to the idea of permanent harmonic structure. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Mantra CD (New Albion Records) [NA025] $14.00 performed by Yvar Mikhashoff and Rosalind Baven (pianos); Ole Orsted (electronics). From its headwaters in the small, southern German town of Donaueschingen, the river Donau runs through Bavaria, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria and Rumania, into the Black Sea. There is one thing that probably no one who was present at the world premiere of 'Mantra' in Donaueschingen on Sunday evening, October 18, 1970, was aware of: 'Mantra' is a key work in the development of Karlheinz Stockhausen's music. More than twenty years after its premiere, 'Mantra' occurs as Stockhausen's first 'Formelkomposition,' and therefore as a key work to almost all of his following pieces, such as 'Inori,' 'Tierkreis,' and 'Sirius,' as well as his music-theater cycle, 'Licht.' The basis of the piece is twelve-tone motive, where every note has a specific duration, rhythmic value and intensity. In connection with this, Stockhausen mentions that he has quite free images or sounds, just as in 'Aus den Sieben Tagen,' a meditation piece based on verbal notation which was created in California in 1968, and also in the piece 'Fur kommende Zeiten' that was written at the same time as 'Mantra.' Although in interviews Stockhausen talks about how he uses rigid and free forms in mixed ways, all the works following 'Mantra' are nevertheless 'Formula' compositions, or even -- as in 'Licht' -- 'Superformula' compositions. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Music for Bassoon CD (Nosag Records) [nosagCD042] $13.00 Knut Sonstevold (bassoon) and Kina Sonstevold (piano) performing Solo (1966), Spiral for Soloist (1968), Tierkreis (1975-76), and In Friendship (1977). Kazue Sawai Koto Ensemble - live at dacapo in Bremen '93 CD (d'c records) [d'c1] $20.00 works of Tadao Sawai, Hideaki Kuribayashi, Akira Nishimura, Yatsuhashi Kengyo, Yuji Takahasi, and John Cage (4'33) performed on Japanese string instrument. Keiji Haino w/Coa - You should draw out the billion and first prayer CD (Horen) [MIMI-010] $14.00 King of Japanese underground, Keiji Haino plays with bass / drum young female duo, Coa. Crystallization of An unique collaboration. Kenneth Gaburo - Tape Play CD (Pogus Productions) [P21020-2] $13.00 includes The Ten Tape Compositions: Fat Millie's Lament, The Wasting of Lucrecetzia, For Harry, Lemon Drops, Dante's Joynte, Rerun, Mouthpiece II, Hiss, Few (in collaboration with Henri Chopin), and Kyrie. Over his career, Kenneth Gaburo (1926-1993) produced a lot of electronic music. However, works for tape alone are fairly rare in his output. Over about a thirty-year period, ten works for solo tape were produced. Of the ten tape pieces, five were created in the mid-1960s at the University of Illinois, one was created in 1974-5 in his home studio in La Jolla, and four were made in the studio at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, which he directed during the 1980s and early 1990s. Not surprisingly for a composer whose stated aim was to blur the distinctions between language and music, six of the ten pieces feature an overt use of the voice, while two of the 'purely electronic' pieces use timbres that are so vocal in character that one is constantly thrown back onto a consideration of Kenneth's main obsession, the voice. Only two of the pieces, both from the Illinois period, seem to not deal with the voice in any way. - Warren Burt. Kent Tankred - A Revelation CD (Firework Edition Records) [FER1006] $13.00 much like the image on the cover, the sounds inside reveal themselves to be a layering of many distinct but indistinguishable sources making a whole not unlikely to be more than the sum of its parts. from the opening blissful surge of sound which flows into the beautiful drift of just out of focus noises of Desert and then into the throbbing machine works rhythm of the title track and back into a gray dinful drone like distant traffic and machines. Kiyoshi Mizutani - Yokosawa-iri CD (CMR) [CMR-1] $10.00 A former member of Merzbow, Mizutani has been creating his solo work since 1989, delving into areas of electronic noise, structural sound systems of feedback and instrumentation as well as natural compositional arrangements of field recordings. Yokosawa-iri falls into the latter category. All field recordings were made at this 'Satoyama', a traditional form of agricultural environment consisting of a mountain, a rice field and a small village where people and nature coexist in harmony. With beautiful clarity Mizutani illustrates an environment and its inhabitants through the delicate combination of found sounds both natural and mechanical. The Satoyama is a very rare setting in contemporary Japan, no doubt one of the reasons Mizutani chose to document the area. Constructed from overlapping forest sounds of wind, trees, birds, rocks, insects, animals and children (to name a few sources) the tracks rise and fall with intensity, at times suggesting the encroaching modern world on this traditional area. Yokosawa-iri is a beautiful entry into Mizutani's already impressive dossier of sound work. - label description. Kristoff K. Roll - Le petit bruit d'a cote du coeur du monde CD+Book (Vand'oeuvre) [VDO0222] $22.00 Le petit bruit d'a cote du coeur du monde (little murmur from next to the heart of the world) is a poetic homage to a piece of Africa found and loved. It is an homage born of the sounds brought back from a trip in 1994, and listened a thousand times over. The secret of the resonant matter perceived in a complex movement and immersed in an imaginary and temporary construction. CD 1 : Variation 5 with Kristoff K.Roll, Daunik Lazro, Noemi Schindler, Sona Khochafian and Christophe Roy - Musique concrete, field recordings, improvised saxophone and composed string trio. CD 2 : Variation 7 with Kristoff K.Roll and Daunik Lazro - Musique concrete, field recordings, improvised electroacoustic music and saxophone. - label description. La Societe des Timides a la parade des Oiseaux - 86-90 CD (Beta-Lactam Ring Records) [mt005] $12.00 CD format & packaged in a CD poly box with two double A-4 size inserts. This releases compiles two very obscure works from an EP release from 1986 on Illusion Productions (DDAA - Deficit des Annees Anterieures- related label) and an LP released in 1990 by KK Records. The LP edition on KK records was released but in a very limited effort. In addition the original master was kept and no royalties to the band were ever issued. This CD combines that original LP and the EP released on Illusion Productions. In the vein of the efficient bootlegger, the 1986 tracks were mastered from an original vinyl LP. One can still here some clicks and pops but it sounds better than its original vinyl release after the band mastered it again. The EP tracks were taken from the original two track masters. 'La STPO stands for 'La Societe des Timides a la parade des Oiseaux' which roughly translates to 'the shy peoples society at the parade of the birds'. La STPO's music can best be described as 'This six piece French ensemble has been around since the mid-eighties, and operates in the area somewhere between Etron Fou axis and Neo-chamber styles, applying humor, avant-gardisms, ultra high energy theatrics, and a well rounded eclecticism. They cover a pretty wide field of material within those realms, using guitars, bass, contrabass, drums, percussions, saxes, mallets and synths, plus a lot of unusual stuff like balafon and viola de gamba. Definitely EFL territory, and although vocalist Pascal Godjikian is nothing short of excellent in variety of styles, and musicianship is top notch all around, this is still fairly extreme music that is probably more excessive and explorative than most would be comfortable with in their daily musical diet. Still, for those who know this style of music and love it, STPO is the ticket. Recommended for the intrepid explorers, not the Marillion crowd' Peter Thelen EXPOSE-USA and 'really there's not been many crazier bands! STPO are of that crazy RIO vein, a little like Etron Fou, Debile Menthol, Look de Bouk... except much more theatrical and schizophrenic, thus a little like Albert Marcoeur too. Intensive, complex and overloaded with French jabbering vocal theatrics.' Alan Freeman Audion-GB. The label thinks Scot Solida of Christus Christus sums it up the best 'La STPO sound like a jam session between Henry Cow, Univers Zero, Dead Kennedys, Young Gods and maybe Tuxedomoon.' A little history of La STPO: back to 85, it was a time where there were often moves in the personal of the band. In December 84, the former bassist had left, and then in January 85 arrived Patrice Babin. We had no regular bass player. We had one from circa February to May. But we wanted not to lose his bass lines, so we decided to record two tracks (underground woman, vitellus) with him; he was OK for this, though he was not in the band anymore. We did it in June 85, (it was quite weird as we recorded this. It was not in a recording studio. It was in a kind of bar in a university; and there were outside people training with small motorcycles, for a race which should appear two weeks after. Every time a motorcycle was near us, we had to stop the recording, wait till it was gone, and then start the recording again. Crazy!!!). Then we had the people of Illusion Production (DDAA - Deficit des Annees Anterieures) listen to this, we just wanted to ask them if they would be OK to put these two tracks on a cassette compilation 'Sensationnel'; but they were far more impressed than we would have thought and offered to release an EP, so we could add two more tracks. We were absolutely happy; it was far more than we would have hoped. The real beginning of STPO; that's what we owe to them really. So we went back to record two other tracks (idol, thousand days), this time with J playing both guitar and bass. As the people were really in the artwork thing, they let us (or better to say, JimB instead of 'us') do what we want with the cover. JimB invented a big cover gatefold with pop-up birds. This was really beautiful. We received large sheets in different colors with the birds, and we did special cutting/sticking sessions together: we had to cut the birds on the sheets and stick them on the inside of the cover with little peace of carton so that they could pop up when the gatefold was open. It was quite a job, but every cover was unique. The EP was released at the beginning of 86 it have heard on an official French radio program about the music in Japan, that once somebody has seen this EP in a store in Tokyo: it was sold for 100 dollars!!! The original EP is very much in high demand with fans of this music. Highly Recommended. Serious progressive stylings mixed with Dada Rock, Lumpy Gravy era Zappa and vocal tone poem antics of Salvador Dali. - label description. Larry Polansky - the four-voice canons CD (Cold Blue Records) [CB0011] $13.00 Over the past 25 years, Larry Polansky has been composing a series of fascinating mensuration canons (a formal concept dating back to the Renaissance) that run a sonic gamut from wildly boisterous (#6) to serenely introverted (#17, Guitar Canon). This disc brings together thirteen of these pieces (one of which is found here in three different realizations). In these canons, each successively entering voice moves proportionally faster than the previous one (i.e., each successive voice is to some degree a temporal compression of the voice that precedes it, allowing all voices in any given canon to contain roughly the same amount of information yet all end simultaneously), causing each piece's density and rhythmic complexity to increase from beginning to end. Usually, but not always, the individual voices in Polansky's canons are permutation lists of a small number of musical elements (e.g., four or five or six elements), which may include any and/or all of a voice's parameters (pitch, rhythm, instrumentation, etc.). Each of the canons on this disc could be considered a different orchestration of two basic concepts-the mensuration canon and the permutational cycling of a small number of musical elements. The instrumentation varies widely: gamelan, electric guitars, children's voices, computer-generated sounds, marimbas, non-pitched percussion, choir, and chamber ensemble. The pitch materials, rhythms, tempos, tunings, and textures also vary dramatically from piece to piece. Three tracks on this CD involve the collaboration of noted composer/performers who have 'realized' (created from a set of specific instructions) their own distinct versions of Polansky's canon #13 (the DIY Canon), filling the piece's malleable template with their own pitch and rhythm materials and instrumentation. - label description. Leif Elggren/Kuwayama Kiyoharu/Brent Gutzeit - International Art Exhibition CD3 (BOXmedia) [BOXCDR3-001] $13.00 Limited edition 3 CDR featuring exclusive tracks from Leif Elggren, Kuwayama Kiyoharu/lethe, and brent gutzeit - - - limited edition of 50 - - comes with 3 computer prints from the exhibition. Luc Ferrari - Portraits Polychromes No. 1 Book (INA-GRM / CDMC) [2-86938-173-5] $13.00 entirely in FRENCH. contains texts about his work by Pierre-Albert Castanet, Luc Ferrari with Evelyn Gayou, and Daniel Teruggi, plus an exhaustive list of all of his work (which takes up almost half the book). includes section of b&w photographs. 86 pages. Luc Ferrari - Presque rien avec Luc Ferrari Book (Editions Main d'uvre) [2-911973-04-6] $24.00 With interviews, unpublished texts by Luc Ferrari and imaginary autobiographic texts. entirely in French, so maybe it's better to say: Une serie d'entretiens de Jacqueline Caux (entouree de Francois Delalande, Evelyne Gayou et Daniel Teruggi) avec Luc Ferrari + des textes et autobiographies imaginaires inedits du compositeur. includes 7 pages of photographs, and 26 page list of works. 219 pages. M.I.M.E.O. - Bruit Blanc Book (Peace Warriors & Fennec) [ISSN1291-1038] $6.00 Document in French and English of a 24 hour performance by M.I.M.E.O. at the 2000 Musique Action Festival where their program included Cardew's Treatise, Skempton's For Strings and compostions by the members. as well as being a document of what happened, the editors have interviewed the various participants (Prins, Lehn, Noetinger, Fennesz, Rowe, Durrant, Matthews, Fulher, Rehberg, Schmickler, Wettstein), asking all the same three questions. other observers, such as sound recordist Jean-Marc Foussat, provide other observations, and John Tilbury presents a very brief bio of Cardew. 56 pages, A5. MSBR - Space Lab Green CD (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) [CPP021] $12.00 When you eventually find yourself trapped in the same room as a live MSBR performance, you will notice that you are completely unable to coerce your rapidly spasming eyeballs into submission. Indeed, they seem to follow the rest of your head around with about a half-second delay, producing a visual sensation something akin to being driven to your local shopping center strapped to the underside of a Holden HQ. Safety goggles required. - label description. limited edition. MSBR - Ultimate Ambiance 2 CD (20 City) [20C-3] $10.00 Tokyo noise artist Koji Tano refuels his MSBR machine once again to cut two tracks for this release on 20 City (Japan). Two studio recordings and one audio assault on a live audience from a recent tour of the US make a masterly entry into MSBR's already impressive dossier of harsh and powerful electronic noise. Oscillations and distorted drones descend into highly detailed harsh cuts of sound. Through his own label MSBR has been a predominant force in the Japanese power electronics scene, releasing his own and other artists works as well as publishing the only magazine in Japanese dedicated to artists from his own country and abroad. With numerous releases under his belt, the cuts on Ultimate Ambience 2 serve to reinforce his influence and deserved place in the development of Japanese harsh electronics. A beautiful and intricately detailed mesh of analogue rumbles, distorted scratches and tones that can intrigue at a low volume as background speaker fuzz or demand as an up-front loud and unclean attack. To be placed in the 'extreme' section of your collection. - label description. Marcel Duchamp - A Life in Pictures Book (Atlas Press) [1-900565-15-3] $8.00 A must for Duchamp devotees everywhere! This little introduction to the life and works of Marcel Duchamp was originally published to accompany a Duchamp retrospective at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Modeled on a children's book it contains 12 deadpan full-page color illustrations of events in Duchamp's life with an equally tongue-in-cheek, and entirely accurate, biography. The book was much admired at the time (Andy Warhol being an enthusiast, among others), this is its first appearance in English. Gough-Cooper and Caumont are renowned Duchamp scholars, authors of the recently published Marcel Duchamp: Ephemerides (UK: Thames & Hudson) 28 pp hardback 16.5 x 13.5cm. Mario Rodrigue - Alchimie CD (empreintes DIGITALes) [IMED9415] $8.00 fluid and static electroacoustic compositions. chaotic assemblages of various sounds showing contrasts. includes pieces constructed in the classic method of recording on tape and varying the speed of playback. with 10 page booklet. Mark Wastell & Matt Davis - Derby 11.05.2002 / Liverpool 10.05.2002 CDR (Absurd) [absurdcdr#21] $10.00 Documentation of 2 pieces from their recent uk tour. is their electronics duo, they play absctract amplified textures allow me to say. Limited to 100. extremely minimal improv. Silent electronics, controlled feedback and surface scratching is what we get during the little over thirty minutes that this release lasts. They play their stuff with great skill, care and held back passion. Things evolve slowly, along the lines of people like Roel Meelkop or Bernard Gunther, but then in a more improvised way. Like the other release on Absurd, silence plays a big role here too. - Frans de Waard in Vital Weekly 345. Martine Altenburger, Jean Pallandre and Laurence Elvezi - Gresigne CD (Ouie-Dire Prod.) [Poil0799] $21.00 cello improvisations recorded in various locations in a forest. nice interplay of instrumental and natural textures. beautifully packaged in large plastic postcard wallet with full color printed cards. Maryanne Amacher - Sound Characters CD (Tzadik) [TZ7043:f] $14.25 Marianne Amacher is one of electronic music's truly legendary mavericks, whose music has been presented almost exclusively in huges spaces and installations for the past twenty years. This diverse collection of electronic soundscapes and 'ear-dances' was chosen by the composer especially for Tzadik to work in the more intimate settings of compact disc. Spectacular acoustical effects take you to expansive worlds of dancing difference tones and psychedelic sonorities. A rare release by one of the most reclusive and elusive of today's musical visionaries. - label description. Max Neuhaus - The Collection Book (Charta) [8-881581140] $18.00 catalog to do with a sound installation in Italy. texts in Italian and English. 40 pages with 11 illustrations. Michael Snow & Jack Vorvis - Black and White CD (Track and Light Recordings) [TLR01] $12.00 Vorvis and Snow are both members of the legendary Toronto improvisational group CCMC. Recognizing an exciting musical rapport they resolved to issue a recording of their own hot real-time compositions. This is it. Michael Snow (old) started playing piano publically with Toronto New Orleans / Dixieland Jazz groups in 1948. In the late 50's he played with Mike White's band and with such great musicians as Buck Clayton, Jimmy Rushing, Vic Dickerson and Pee Wee Russell as well as his own 'modern' groups (tunes of Thelonius Monk, Charlier Parker, Miles Davis). During the 60's and 70's his playing evolved intohis own continually growing open-form style which draws on history but is a new and personal music. Is it Jazz? Some of the preceding could be said of Jack Vorvis (young) but in his case he listened to a lot of the old stuff (on records) that Snow participated in. Vorvis has had varied experience with orchestral, Rock and Jazz music and has studied East Indian music. His own playing draws a new unified and hot percussion style from all these elements. His music is most clearly his in free improvisation situations. The music that Vorvis and Snow produce together is full of invention, energy and surprise. Though Snow's improvisations are often preceded by a decision to concentrate on a particular musical area of investigation, the music of Vorvis and Snow is spontaneously composed with amazing mutual intuition and sense of development. These pieces capture the creative reflexes of two strong musicians creating one strong music. This is a digital recording of hand-made music. - from the back cover. Michael Snow - Sinoms CD (Art Metropole) [AM1990] $12.00 A sound work composed and recording by Michael Snow, originally produced for the exhibition 'Paysages Verticaux' at the Musee du Quebec in 1989. Art Metropole's new version is an independent compact disc, produced with the permission of Musee du Quebec. The work manipulates 22 voices reading the names of 34 mayors of Quebec City, beginning with the first mayor Elzear Bedard. elected in 1833. - label description. note that this CD has a tray card, but does not come with a booklet or cover, that is the original packaging and nothing is missing. Michiko Akao - Hi Ka Li CD (World Windows) [WW-102-CD] $23.00 performance on ryuteki and nohkan of pieces by M. Jujita, T. Ichiyanagi, I. Matsushita, C. Stone, and M. Ishii with guests Nachiko Maekane (percussion), Carl Stone (electronics) and Kodo (drums). Mnemonists - Horde CD (ReR Megacorp) [ReRMN1] $17.75 drifting hypnotic sound collages out of pre industrial loops, processes ambient sound, rock 'n' roll guitar, and fragments of half forgotten memory. released on their own DYS label in 1981 and reissued by ReR in 1985, this stands as a classic early 'noise' album that lies somewhere between the work of AMM, Faust and Brian Eno. the process begins with the recording of played acoustic and electric instruments, the basic drums and guitar joined by remaindered early synthesizers, one off electric organs and bizarre mediaeval horns. the tapes are then put through a mangle, reprocessed and electrically altered, leading to a spiralling process of re-playing, recomposition and re-structuring. the parts are then woven organically into the fabric of a large scale work. starts with imperceptible noise loops, builds with wild fuzzz guitar improvisation, grooves with Krautrock obsessive drum patterns, diverts into free jazz saxophone and mediaeval folk tunes, and occasionally stops dead in its tracks. the listening experience is like that of an unseen observer inside an insect nest, with tiny sounds amplified beyond recognition into an epic symphony. Mneomonists went on to call themselves Biota. Monos - Sunny Day In Saginomiya CD (edition .) [editionxxiv] $15.00 for these 2001 recordings, Darren Tate and Colin Potter proceed and add to field recordings made in Tokyo by Daisuke Suzuki. Multer - Prototyp 1 CDR (Genesungswerk) [GW01] $12.00 early recordings, daghallmy-outtakes and an excerpt from a concert. leaning towards the musical side of industrial ambient. reissue of cassette. Multer - Prototyp 3 CDR (Genesungswerk) [GW04] $12.00 reissue of cassette. this tape combines excerpts from two extremely different concerts: reduction in the width of space versus movement, rhythm and an opening to the realm of rock music. Nachtluft - C.A.E.N. CD3 (eM 13n Reiztrager) [M130307] $8.00 an electro-acoustic live performance at the City of Caen, Normandie. contemporary collage. in full color 5 sleeve.Marc Milohnic produced on eM 13n the new 3 CD by the Swiss trio Nachtluft, featuring Andres Bosshard on cassette-machine and computer, Jacques Widmer on drums, and Gunter Muller on drums and electronics. Since 1986, this trio has been creating its own approach to improvisation within sound-installations. Nachtluft has been performing within many places of acoustic and architectural interest, like amongst others, the dam of the lago di Sambuco in Switzerland, the subterranean quarry at Matsushima in Japan or the cave Katerinska jeskyne at Brno in Czechia, as well as collaborating with many musicians and artists of different disciplines, including vocalist Daniel Mouthon, drummer-vocalist David Moss or the choir of the Engadiner Kantorei, with sculptor Jim Whiting, video-artist Claude Gacon or Lukas Berchtold's fire-performing group 'Salamandra'. Neina - Formed Verse CD (Mille Plateaux) [MP72] $13.00 Japanese group making background patterns made of looped digital fragments, a very textural music. similar to Oval.Neina is a unit produced and assembled by Hosomi Sakana, a keyboard player and producer active in Japan's music scene. The unit is comprised of an unrestricted and irregular lineup. Neina is the word for 'song' in Ainu, the language of the indigenous people of northern Japan. After graduating from conservatory, Hosomi commenced his career in 1984 as a professional keyboardist for a variety of artists and bands. Before long his talents as a programmer, arranger and producer came to the attention of many, and the number of artists with whom he has collaborated since, in performance and recording, has exceeded one hundred, the number of records he participated in, easily over two hundred. Alongside accomplishing a busy schedule of support work, he had continued tirelessly in pursuit of the challenge of his own mode of expression, mainly in his own studio. Meanwhile as an arranger, continuing to work with an ever-increasing variety of musical instruments utilizing digital technology has led him to new methods of working. The vast information contained within the digital world, and the often, almost organic logic within it, as well as the image it holds of chaotic and limitless possibility, grew to fascinate him. Eventually, all this came into being in the shape of Neina. Techno, drum'n'bass, noise, ambient, and all the music of recent years and its rapid progress and proliferation has brought on anticipation for the emergence of the next, new music, for both the enthusiast of the floor and the contemplative in the living room. Neina brings a new musicality into digital weirdness, one step further than projects like Oval and Microstoria. Neina also involves new processes of production, distribution and reception. - label press release. Neina - Subconsciousness CD (Mille Plateaux) [MP87] $13.00 Second album as Neina from japanese multitalent Hosomi Sakana. After working for 15 years as a professional keyboarder he started of in utilizing and exploring digital technology for now 2 years. Besides his project Maju on Extreme, where he offered two of the most exciting Ambient projects of the last year, Neina is his contribution for the new Mille Plateaux generation of sound navigators, crash designers and post- post modern artists in the digital world. Neina is like a microscopic journey to the center of your subconsciousness. With his new album the listener has to be prepared for the timbre to crash around his brainbox. Clicks and glitches, microscopic tonal manoeuvre, plinks and even melodic fragments are the instruments of Neina's fascinating programming. Like the first sunbeams of a new day Neina is the beginning of a new decade for digital processing. It is a new crash- or sounddesign with plenty of relaxation and amusement. Soundfiles, noises are so perfectly programmed that even a new musicality can be achieved in the streams of bits. Fluid motion resonates in a dens, clear fluctuation, which feels that music is gliding into your body and subconsciousness. Neina is art to make the interfaces audible, it is the implosion of computer music.It is the perfect sounddesign for hyperreality. - label press release. Nerve Net Noise - Meteor Circuit CD (Intransitive Recordings) [INT020] $13.00 Nerve Net Noise are the Japanese home-made synthesizer duo who confused and irritated just about everyone with their Meme CD, '160/240', several years ago. Each NNN album is an astoundingly thorough exploration of one aspect of what their rough and barely controllable synthesizers can do. 'Meteor Circuit' explores rhythms and beats, but it's no minimal glitch album (would I do that to you? c'mon, you should know Intransitive better than that by now); they turned the knobs until the machines produced rhythmic pulses, then hit 'record' and let the instruments decide what would happen next. The 'natural' imperfections of the synths determined how each piece would evolve with little or no interaction from the artists. The duo has great ears, and were able to edit the works into a coherent, intense and (it must be said bluntly) wonderfully bizarre album. There isn't anyone else doing quite what Nerve Net Noise is doing, and no convenient genre or style that they fit into, which is why they are one of Intransitive's favorite groups and why we are especially proud to present 'Meteor Circuit', their latest work. After several albums on Kazunao Nagata's cult Zero Gravity label and last year's stunning 'Various Amusements' CD on Hronir, 'Meteor Circuit' is the first Nerve Net Noise CD published in the US. Tsuyoshi Nakamura, one half of the group, records more accessible techno-pop under the alias Tagomago. He also records using the alias Toki-Meki Science for Nobukazu Takemura's Childisc label. He claims that Nerve Net Noise is 'electric noise music but not academic, not mere noisy sound. We think that our music is not so much noise music as new kind of pop music'. - label description. Nikos Veliotis/Dan Warburton - V/W CDR (Absurd) [absurdcdr#22] $10.00 a kind of a split release, using as raw sounds the recording they did in paris last year. actually bits of it, as the whole result was terrible as i was told by them and they used loops to create the pieces. nikos uses loops of cello (and suddenly a bass sound is inserted) to make a 22min 'lowercase' piece, that despite that may sound static to some is trully amazing. dan on the other hand using loops & sounds created from the violin he played, makes an amazing electroacoustic piece that is for me his best up to date. limited to 150. - Nicolas. Nils 0kland - straum CD (Rune Grammofon) [RCD2015] $16.00 Nils 0kland is one of Norways leading hardanger fiddle players, a renewer of traditional folk music who is also known to build bridges to classical and contemporary music. In contrast to many fiddlers 0kland writes most of the music himself, ranging from beautiful, melodic ballads to atmospheric experiments and darker soundscapes. This is his second solo album, the follow up to 'Bla Harding', an album that received fantastic reviews when it was released in 1996. Ora - Rosea CD (Hic Sunt Leones) [HSL010] $16.00 organic ambiance composed of delicate and hidden sounds, very secret and mysterious. features Andrew Chalk, Colin Potter, Lol Coxhill, Darren Tate, and Jonathan Coleclough. new second edition of 500 copies with full color cover and tray card. Orange Twin Field Works - Volume 1 CD (Orange Twin Records) [OTR003] $12.00 The first release of this series and is comprised of edited melodies and rhythms recorded almost entirely en route to and from and at the Koprivshtitsa festival in Bulgaria last summer. The festival is held annually and draws musicians from all over Bulgaria and the surrounding regions to perform on seven stages during a week of festivities. Amazingly hi-fi, the album is a mixture of angelic harmonies, highly energetic rhythms, and ripping horn and accordion solos in a similar style as 'The Secret Museum of Mankind' records. Jeff Mangum has beautifully collaged soundscapes of Bulgaria in between the songs of this album, increasing the intimate, on-site, feel that this album gives its listener. - label description. Oren Ambarchi & Robbie Avenaim - The Alter Rebbe's Nigun CD (Tzadik) [TZ7131:f] $14.25 Formerly orthodox students of Talmud and Tanya, these two members of the Australian punk unit Phlegm have brought together influences from the Japanese noise scene, traditional Jewish Nigunim and Yiddish theater, Marc Ribot, Ornette Coleman and countless others to create a new world of twisted dreams and startling sonorities. A must for lovers of weirdness. - label description. Organum - Sphyx CD (Robot Records) [RR-30] $15.00 Originally released as a vinyl LP in '94 on David Jackman's Aeroplane label, Sphyx was the culmination of pieces recorded over a three-year period ('90-'93) that included a monster nucleus of collaboration. Featuring Christoph Heemann, David Jackman, Jim O'Rourke, Eddie Prevost, and Dinah Jane Rowe. The result proved legendary and has been regarded as one of the finest Organum long-players to date. Right from the cascading shifts and interwoven percussion streams of the opening track, Aurora, the spacious landscape that is Organum emerges with a sinuous rupture of textural flares. The palette then expands with the title track, Sphyx, fusing deep distances and shakuhachi tonalities toward an intoxicating oblivion. Mutla concludes the original triptych of album tracks with a mammoth, eruptive reckoning of harmonic punctuations and slipstreams of keyed feedback. Also included (as bonus tracks) for the CD edition are AO and Shining Star (originally appearing on a small edition 7 in '95 on the German, Mermaid label). These two compositions (recorded and mixed shortly after of the Sphyx sessions) further explore a synthesis of woodwind elements and vast, glittering terrain. Remastered for essential track-to-track fidelity by David Jackman with the final flourish being administered by Robert Hampson of Main. Disc is housed in a black and white digipak in an initial edition of 700 copies. duration: 44 minutes - label description. Organum - Veil of Tears CD (Matchless Recordings) [MRCD24] $18.00 ranging from the atmospheric halves of Veil of Tears which begin and end the disc to more abrasive archival material from 1985. this also includes Delta, which was originally be released as an LP on Dom Bartwuchs, and 1994 track using archival recordings from Philip and Richard Rupenus (a.k.a The New Blockaders). with David Jackman, Dinah Jane Rowe, Michael Prime, Roger Sutherland, Jim O'Rourke and Robert Hampton. Otomo Yoshihide & Voice Crack - Bits, Bots and Signs CD (Erstwhile Records) [Erstwhile011] $13.00 Bits, Bots and Signs documents the long overdue first meeting of these pioneers, recorded in March 2000 in St. Gallen, Switzerland, although as Moslang says, 'from the beginning, it was as if we had played together for a long time.' The three musicians generate gently pulsing rumbles, piercing whistles and lingering whines, fusing these varied sounds into a series of expansive panoramas. The striking cover drawing was created by Swiss artist Alex Hanniman. Otomo Yoshihide-electronics; Norbert Moslang-cracked everyday-electronics; Andy Guhl-cracked everyday-electronics. - label press release. P16.D4 - Three Projects CD (RRRecords) [RRR-CD-08] $13.00 various collaborations originally released on Bruitiste, Captured Music, and Fifty. Collage of noises. Pandit Pran Nath - In Between The Notes NTSC video (California College of Performing Arts) [PPN-86] $31.00 a portrait of the master Indian musician with Terry Riley, La Monte Young, and Marian Zazeela. 28 minutes. NTSC. Pandit Pran Nath is the last in a long line of north Indian vocal masters originating in the 13th century in the court of Allaudin Khilji, a Mughul ruler of the Yadava dynasty. The legendary singer and saint, Gopal Nayak, a worshipper of Lord Krishna, was taken by Allaudin Khilji to Delhi, where, through the influence of the Sufi saints Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti and Khwaja Nizamuddin Aulia, he embraced the traditions of Islam as well. Gopal Nayak eventually moved to the nearby village of Kirana where, through the efforts of two of his disciples, the Kirana school of Indian classical music was established. Pran Nath's teacher, Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan, who died in 1950, was the acknowledged master of the Kirana style in the 20th century, and through his performances on All India Radio, was chiefly responsible for making it the most influential and popular classical style of its time. Beginning in the late 1930's Pran Nath too was hired to perform on All India Radio and quickly gained fame as the new young master of the style. After a long career in India, in 1970 Pran Nath met the American avant-garde composers Terry Riley and La Monte Young and Young's wife, the artist Marian Zazeela, who became his disciples. Mainly through their devotion and effort Pran Nath was able to begin a new career in the West as a teacher and performer. - from the back cover. Parson Sound - Parson Sound 2CD (Ti'llindien / Subliminal Sounds) [TILCD02] $26.00 After years of research we're proud to present the nucleus of the Swedish 1960's-70s underground psych rock scene: the legendary Parson Sound. This 2-CD set presents the most remarkable Swedish underground band, known in a later incarnation and continuation as International Harvester and Trad, Gras och Stenar (Trees, Grass and Stones), and features both intricate studio recordings and orgiastic live performances. Parson Sound never released any records in their time and that is why a very few have heard about them at all. The recordings date from 1967/68 while the band explored unknown musical territory as well as inner- and outer space. In 1968 they were invited by Andy Warhol to play at the opening of his exhibition: 'Screens, Films, Boxes, Clouds and a Book', at the museum of Modern Art in Stockholm and also opened for the Doors. Influenced by the musical concepts of Terry Riley, Parson Sound worked at discovering and perfecting their own unique approach towards the mixing of rock and minimalism. They created some of the most remarkable psych- trance- drone- pre-noise music- rock sounds ever recorded. Parson Sound's music described contexts, interplay and organic growth and shaped a conception of the world - an opposite of fragmentation, individual achievements and intellectual construction. This world was to be perceived as one body, a whole of inviolable parts. The minimalist repetition with slight changes gives associations of a slow growth, of cyclic process, of breathing, pulse, life, movement and machines. The persistent repetition gives the listener an opportunity to discover the sounds, to meditate, to go into the music, join the same journey. Many times one can discover a relationship with music of other cultures. In comparison the music of the Western world can feel cursory, unreliable - as a fear of entering deep into feeling. Parson Sound's compositions often consist of harsh structures - a rhythm pattern with ostinato bass, a melodic figure - which forms a base for improvisation. Other songs have a more thoroughly elaborated structure that still leaves room for variation. The moment, the audience, the location formed their music. Their key phrase was 'We, Here and Now!' With time, the music came to have an increasing 'religious' or shamanistic streak - with a raised demand of intensity, presence and warmth - a striving for euphoria and ecstasy. The bands psychedelic approach towards music is so fresh and vital that it transcends time. Listen to it now! A 2xCD with an informative booklet in English and lots of photos. - label description. Phill Niblock - Four Full Flutes CD (Experimental Intermedia) [XI101] $13.00 The four pieces on this 80 minute CD are for multiple tracks of alto flutes, flutes, flutes and alto flutes, and bass flutes, performed by Petr Kotik, Susan Stenger, and Eberhard Blum. -- Phill Niblock. Phill Niblock - Music By CD (Experimental Intermedia) [XI111] $13.00 Music by Phill Niblock features The Soldier String Quartet performing in Five More String Quartets, a piece for five multi-tracked string quartets and in Early Winter for flute, bass flute, string quartet and synthesizer, also featuring Susan Stenger-flute and Eberhard Blum-bass flute. In Five More String Quartets the musicians are tuned to specific pitches by calibrated sine tones as they play and the sound they produce is recorded, unprocessed, to multitrack tape. The piece is built up by means of multitrack recording. Early Winter has a different structure: a mixing of recorded instruments, computer controlled electronic instruments, and live instruments in the studio. - label description. Pierluigi Castellano - Zonacalda CD (Ants) [ant06cdr] $13.00 Zonacalda is the literal translation for the biological/clinical words 'Hot Zone', whose meaning is 'deadly infective area'. This work is about an inner journey, with a person infected by AIDS. 'Zonacalda' talks about his personal trouble, psychological just before as physical. In the recitatives the actress Federica Santoro personifies the ill and in the airs the same role is committed to the baritone voice of Roberto Abbondanza. The texts of John Keats (1795 - 1821), Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749 - 1832) and Tito Lucrezio Caro (I sec. a.C.) were chosen and adapted by Francesco Antinucci. Castellano's music explicit itself in two distinct 'voices' (instrumental and compositive), followed by two different approaches to the text. A personnel of exceptional musicians performs in a gifted vein: Roberto Abbondanza, Federica Santoro, Paolo Fresu, Diego Conti, Fabrizio Spera, Luca Venitucci, Pierluigi Castellano and, special guest, Alvin Curran. In few words, a formidable 'opera', in strength and beauty. Enhanced CD, readable on any CD player - for the Audio section - and on any computer - both PC and Apple - for the Multimedia section. The Multimedia, in HTML format, is legible with any browser - Internet Explorer, Netscape - and include all the texts from the opera, an interview with the author and a discography. Limited edition of 200, not-numbered, copies. Folded cardboard cover, with insert. With text by the author, in Italian and English. - label description. Pierre Redon - solo CD (L'Oreille Electronique) [O.E.002] $20.00 very nice and very odd, improvisation and compositions with guitar and mandolin, with electronic trickery (very stereo). the fact that this was mastered by Cedric Peyronnet of Toy Bizarre should say something about it's quality. comes in a color folder (with English and French notes) which is held in a very cool metal frame. he begins his forming in self-taught. After, He study the actual music in the CEMMI (Exchanges Center in Modern and improvised Music) in Limoges and perfects in the improvised music with Raoul Bjorkenheim of the group Zot, Laurent Dehors. He participates from 1995 till 1997 in the rock band Iemanja. From 1997 till 1999 he plays in the contemporary jazz trio (guitar, bass, battery) Trigonia Navis and even participle in the readings and improvised music project with Pierre Lasternas, Marc Guiilerot and Jllj's reeds. In spite of the importance improvised musicians, he is also inspired by the work of contemporary music composers like John Cage, Steve Reich, and many others. 'My solo project is a work on the spatializing of sound material, the polyphony in the solo, and the rhythms not governed by a regular pulsation. This music is partially written.' Polio - Gemini CD (Apoplexy) [Apoplexy13] $11.00 The dank undergrowth of New Zealand's southern isle vibrates yet again to the sound of the drone. Polio belongs to Peter Wright, known to some as the man responsible for coining the worst band name this side of Lorne Green's Wet Nipple (that'd be Atonal Death, and yes folks, he was joking!). Following the issue of the first Polio disc on Freedom From earlier this year, 'Gemini' presents 3 tasty pieces of debased analog recordings that generate a panoramic vista of pixelized subscaping minimalism. Perfect for zoning out to on a hazy afternoon. edition of 50. Poltergeist - Event Horizon CD (In Tu It) [ITI-CD6] $10.00 A visit into the black hole of live improvised sound that stands on the edge of logic. Bob Blaize with Miter X and Instument 19 recorded live at Anomalous Records on August 6, 1994. Professor Cantaloupe - Fungi Mountain CD (Professor Cantaloupe) [PCCDR-1] $8.00 Apparently made from recordings and other pre-recordings, this is a collage work. But instead of the usual barrage of quickly cut sounds this style usually exhibits, Professor Cantaloupe has created a mysterious and murky atmosphere, not unlike the stranger moments of Solid Eye. speaking of which, his other activities include collaborates with other musicians, such as in Los Angeles Sonic Arts Onion (which also includes Joseph Hammer, Leticia Castaneda, David Kendall, and Jeremy Drake). In slimline case with color reproduction of photocollage. Edition of 25 copies. Pumice - I'll Take No Chance Near a Volcano CD (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) [CPP023] $12.00 All the effortless fury of a bootlegged MC5 soundcheck, all the agoraphobic soul-suffocation of the best Jandek, all the lurching 'whomp whomp' and 'badda-bing' of the headiest Doo Rag, all the kitchen appliance paranoia of the most shit-faced Voice Crack. My friends, this is an absolute scorcher. - Campbell Kneale. limited edition. Pure - Home Is Where My Hard Disk Is Vol. 1 CD (d0c) [d0c0003] $15.00 Consisting of two recordings of Pure's live appearances in winter 2001/2002. The first track is the entire recording of a gig at the Hrbar, a monthly club in Hamburg, Germany that takes place in a small old cinema. Playing in the movie room created a very intense atmosphere as compared to other venues. The 38 min improvised piece interweaves low frequencies with orchestral sounds into dense, unsettling structures, only to dissolve them in its peaceful finish. The second track is an excerpt of a concert given at Aniki Bb, Porto, Portugal. Its minimal algorithmic patterns slowly evolve into a swaying string figure that is finished by processed vocal parts. Random Industries - Selected Random Works CD (Ritornell) [RIT15] $14.00 Composition by means of hardware for musical playback (here: CD player). Parallels should be drawn to the stochastic music of John Cage ans Iannis Xenakis. The idea of Random Industries (selected random works) is as well to combine analogue ways of working/aesthetics with digital ones and to find intersections between the two. The analogue is modelled on works of pioneers of early electronic music such as Steve Reich, Jean Claude Risset, James Tenney and Max Mathews, but also on movie soundtracks on the late seventies. The digital continues the work with non-sequentially composed music which had begun with Autopoieses. As a data medium, selected random works by Random Industries works on two levels. First, the 99 digital tones which are on the cd as the actual tracks, are given special emphasis. They can be played on the random/shuffle position of the cd player by which an approximately 8 minute track (single mode) or an endlessly continuing track (continuous mode) can be heard.In the index of each individual tone track which has the classical length of 3 seconds and serves as a break,can be found 98 compositions which are confronted with the tones. These can be heard only when the random/shuffle position of the cd player is deactivated. The acoustic micro structure of the 99 five-second compositions are digital tones which are the result of an intervention in any kind of software which normally is opened visually. By its dissection into its still existing acoustic components, the hard disc opens up a purely difgital organism. Random Industries is an acoustic experiment of the extremes which fully enjoys the limits of what is technically possible and yet develops an extremely audible synthesis. The marginal zones of the acoustic frequency fields which are just perceptible for the human ear seem to be defining themselves anew. The concept of Random Industries will be presented live as well. - label press release. Reyes, Jorge/Piet Jan Blauw - Pluma de Piedra CD (?) [04825/GR2108] $13.00 The Mexican great creator of mythic ceremonies, where music takes the most mysterious and intense paths, presents his new album PLUMA DE PIEDRA, with the help of the Dutch artist Piet Jan Blauw. In the last years Reyes has devoted himself intensively to live acts and the soundtrack composition, so the release of PLUMA DE PIEDRA is very good news for all his followers around the world. The talent of Jorge Reyes is acknowledged worldwide due to his huge discography and his exceptional live acts throughout America, Europe and Asia. The concerts are like ritual ceremonies that become a deep experience for the public, where an arsenal of pre-hispanic instruments is used: drums, teponazcle, turtle shell, stones, sonajas, vessels, together with electronic instruments. In occasions he is accompanied by Mexican indigenous dancers, dressed with the traditional costumes of the old pre-hispanic rituals. Also, the voice as prayer and enchantment becomes the propitiatory element for mystery and evocation; the body percussion and the rhythmic breathing, produce a sensual and hypnotic effect, that makes the music totally surrounding and organic. Jorge Reyes recovers with his music old traditions that are melt organically with the technology of the present, pretending to eliminate some stereotypes of the Mexican culture. Along his career he has collaborated with standing out musicians as North American Steve Roach and the famous avant-garde musician and producer Suso Saiz (forming the trio Suspended Memories), with Deep Forest, and now with PIET JAN BLAUW, recognized and multifarious dutch artist, also creator of original instruments. In PLUMA DE PIEDRA we see a greater position of the typical Reyes sound towards electronics, due to the influence of Piet without any doubt. Reynols - Pacalirte Sorban Cumanos CD (Beta-Lactam Ring Records) [mt051] $9.00 I think Reynols' may have devised a new genre of music which we shall call here 'sushikraut'. All the syrupy, seering guitar hallmarks & plodding time signatures of the finest psychedelic Krautrock legends: Ash Ra Temple, Amon Duul II, Guru Guru (early), Xhol Caravan, & Can (early) etc. All the psychedelic, syrupy random lo-fi looseness and spiritual spaciousness of Ghost, Acid Mothers Temple, White Heaven, & Magical Power Mako. Throw in sing-songy Gergorigegege style vocalizations (For some reason Jandek also sticks in my craw) & you've got yourself a masterpiece called Reynols. - label description. Robert Ashley - eL / Aficionado CD (Lovely Music, Ltd) [LCD1004] $15.00 Featuring Thomas Buckner as The Agent and Jacqueline Humbert, Sam Ashley and Robert Ashley as his interrogators. Orchestration by Robert Ashley. Engineering and mixing by Tom Hamilton. Booklet includes full libretto. This is the fourth opera in Ashley's Now Eleanor's Idea tetralogy: Junior, Jr.'s story. A group of scenes from the life of an Agent. The scenes are a kind of debriefing to a jury of Interrogators, in which the Interrogators challenge the Agent in various forms of musical dialogue. The mood of the opera owes much to our fascination with espionage and with the character of those people who lead double lives. Roel Meelkop - 7 Perceptions CD (Staalplaat) [STCD136] $15.00 Roel Meelkop's second full length CD, following 1996's '9 Holes In The Head'. Meelkop has been playing music since 1984, his first solo as Happy Halloween, and afterwards as a member of the electro-acoustic ensemble THU20 (with whom he recently recorded a third CD for Staalplaat). During the early nineties he gave up the arts altogether (being a trained painter and self-taught musician) and worked in several jobs, such as cook and as a construction worker. In 1995 new developments in music technology led him back to making music. With computers and samplers, he is now fully capable of realizing what he wants. His music are movies for the ears, painting/filming with sound, and constantly discussing the relation of 'time-space-sound'. Although he has been compared to bernard gunter (who released his first solo CD), his work is more open, joyful and above all more audible. Besides his solo work, he is also a member of the Kapotte Muziek live line-up and founding member of minimal techno group Goem. He also is the artistic director of the Audio.NL record label, and organizes sound exhibitions. limited edition of 600 copies. Rolf Julius - Music for a Garden (small music vol. 3) CD (Mattress Factory) [MF0001-2] $15.00 Shrill electronic environments for the outdoor garden designed by Winifred Lutz. electronic buzzers combined with nature sounds, all mixed and manipulated to achieve subtle interplay of slow moving sound Sawako - oto CD (Hiyoko Tape) [HT0205] $12.00 a collection of electronic pieces by this young Japanese woman which range from quiet to louder. nicely packaged in handmade covers. Seclusion - Yukigafuru CD (Some Fine Legacy) [SFL001] $10.00 a gentle collaboration between Christoph Heemann and Jack or Jive. very beautiful flowing sounds, with female voice in some places. 30 minutes. second edition. Sedayne - Magi CD (Ploughmyth International) [PMICDR12] $14.00 Daisuke, whose handling the Japanese editions, described it as ...the most powerful, focused, refined, and emotional Sedayne release, without exaggeration I think you can present Magi to anyone as your 'musical' identification card. Sedayne - The Onset of Winter CD (Ploughmyth International) [PMICDR10] $14.00 the seeds of which were sown when Benjamin Green invited me tocontribute an hours worth of material as part of his One Hour As... series on Resonance FM. Rejecting my first selection, he asked me for more 'difficult' listening along the lines of Stones&Trees and Masstishaddhu/Shekinah & I duly obliged by assembling material from the Winter Archive circa 87-89 into a continuous palimpsest of diverse aspects & attributes unheard these many years. In subsequent weeks I expanded this from 60 minutes to an altogether more reasonable 75 & judged it worthy of a wider audience. To quote Daisuke: 'Wild and fierce aspects of Sedayne music is condensed in this album, it's shining glitteringly like live coals'. Sedayne - Venereum Arvum / October Songs 2002 CD (Ploughmyth International) [PMICDR11] $14.00 Live recordings from our gigs on the Angel Hire Wires tour together with related & unrelated locations by way of both continuity & diversion. Includes entire set at the Newcastle Cluny in which we revisited the Bonny at Morn sequence originally performed at Baltic albeit altered / expanded. Seiji Sugiyama - MUSiC <-> NOiSE CD3 (UMU/commune-disc) [UMCD-002] $8.00 This album was made to think about the boundary between music and noise. limited edition. five panel insert contained in miniature sleeve with windows. Seth Nehil - Uva CD3 (20 City) [20C-9] $8.00 In the field of electroacoustic music, Nehil is perhaps best known for his longstanding partnership with John Grzinich and Olivia Block as Alial Straa, formed in 1994. Nehil also participated in the Orogenetics arts collective together with Michael Northam and John Grzinich, operating in Austin, Texas from 1996-99. Now based in Portland, Oregon, Nehil continues to collaborate with Grzinich, Northam and Block in sound, performance and organization. Seth Nehil possesses an uncanny ability to create a wealth of sounds using innovative recording and performance techniques, without relying on effects boxes and processors. He creates complex sound environments that are subtle, clear and close. His sounds seem to emphasize the very silence that surrounds them, creating an infinite space for the listener's imagination to roam. Uva presents one track, just over 20 minutes in length. Objects in motion, a complex layering of textures, circular sounds and harmonies that intensify and recede... these are the constituent parts of this engaging new work. The term 'uva' means grape, associated with ferment and intoxication, and is also associated with 'ova' (the womb, birth, new forms). Uva thus implies the intoxication of new forms, the pleasure and disorienting quality of this music, the ferment of its creation, and the birth of its reception through the ear. For more information on Seth Nehil, please visit: http://www.kaon.org/seth_nehil/index.php - label description. snd - MakeSND Cassette CD (Mille Plateaux) [MP69] $13.00 SND is a label and artist project from Sheffield. The project is run by two DJs and programmers, Mark Fell and Mat Steel. Both are involved in interface design for music software and sound manipulation; in interactive media & space. SND works on experimental radio broadcast, Mark Fell and Mat Steel are programming experimental music events around the UK. The project is influenced by electronic art, programming structures, information graphics and theory. All sounds of the album are virtual; SND are not using conventional music software or electronic instruments. The group develops software interfaces that generate patterns and modify sound. In this sense the process is more concerned ergonomic than aesthetic. SND are working in a cultural field which opposes contextualization of contemporary music in an only analogue domain. The music is made through an intermixing of digital residue with carefully disclosed source materials. The sound of the album is minimal but groovy, SND is like Oval on house. - label press release. Stephen Vitiello - Chairs Not Stairs CD (HD) [HDCD2221] $11.00 Early collection of soundtracks for film, video and performance, re-mixed for CD release. Lyrical, evocative sounds for electric guitar performed with percussionists Decio Ramos and Josefina Cerqueira, members of the Brazilian group, Uakti. - Stephen Vitiello. Stephen Vitiello - Enredando as Pessoas (Intriguing People) CD (EMVideo / Danish Film Institute) [ENRD078] $11.00 Soundtrack for an experimental feature film by Brazilian director, Eder Santos. Processed electric guitar, ambient effects from film and guest vocals by Mark Mulcahy and Tracy Leipold. Steve Peters - Hereings (a sonic geohistory) CD (La Alameda Press) [ppp02] $16.00 Hereings (a sonic geohistory) is a project I've been working on for nearly three years at The Land, a venue for site-specific environmental art in the high desert of central New Mexico. Spanning the disciplines of acoustic ecology, environmental and performance art, poetry, sculpture, installation, and contemplative practice, 'Hereings' documents the experience of immersion in a particular landscape, examining the gradual process of becoming intimately connected with Place through intentional listening. I listened to and recorded the sounds of The Land during each hour of the day and night over the course of one year. I then wrote 24 short poems describing what was heard during each hour. Those texts were carved onto stone 'listening benches,' to be placed permanently on all of the places where the recordings were made - a record of past events, an invitation to engage with the present. 'Hereings' was exhibited as a sound-only installation in 2001-02 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, and will be presented with the listening benches at 516 Magnifico Artspace in downtown Albuquerque in July 12 - August 9, 2002. After that, the benches will go to The Land, and the sound installation will be available to tour museums and galleries. The book is 72 pages, soft cover, perfect bound, illustrated with 12 beautiful black & white photographs of the site by Margot Geist. Part One gives background into the history, ideas and process of creating the piece. Part Two consists of the poems which were reproduced on the listening benches. Part Three is a detailed track list for the 72 minute CD: ambient field recordings made at the site, mixed with contact mic recordings of individual objects encountered there (grass, cactus, trees, ant hills, fences, etc.). - Steve Peters. Stilluppsteypa - Interferences Are Often Requested:Reverse Tendency As Parts Nearly Become Nothing CD (Ritornell) [RIT07] $14.00 Stilluppsteypa was formed in the beginning of 1992 to do more experiments with music than experimental music. In the first 5 years the band released 3 CD's and several vinyl releases, including split releases with The Hafler Trio, Hausen & Walkman and more. Stilluppsteypa decided 1997 to leave the original place, Iceland, to bring their activities to the Netherlands. Since that the band worked constantly in the studio and performed all over the world, opening up for Sonic Youth at Tempodrom Berlin, playing at the Cooler NYC, etc. In 1998 Stilluppsteypa released a new album and gave their work a more minimal approach, for instance with Japanese minimal composer Ryoji Ikeda remixing them on the album. Collaborations have been done with Japanese female singer Hanayo and Andy Diagram; of the Spaceheads. The first album for Mille Plateaux was recorded st Steim Studios in Amsterdam and in Iceland. The music is floating somewhere between Noto, Pan sonic and Ikeda. Stilluppsteypa are generating electrified sound surfaces, are modulating sinus sounds and working with minimal beats. The project develops a soft vision of minimal electronic music, a highly transparent sound design. - label press release. Stilluppsteypa - Stories Part Five CD (Ritornell) [RIT24] $13.00 With over 18 releases and a history of perplexing innovativeness, Stilluppsteypa return to Mille Plateaux's limited label Ritornell with their new album Stories Part Five. Recorded in Amsterdam's Mostlywood studios, Stilluppsteypa move forward towards producing a much more rhythmic variation of new material that distances these three members from their prior excursions into conceptual sound processing. Stories Part Five reflects a new aesthetic of Stilluppsteypa and brings them furthermore as purveyors of digital sound design. Stilluppsteypa is a group of sound artists known for collaborating with a wide range of experimental musicians. Originally from Iceland, the three members have relocated to mainland Europe. The group has worked with a long list of artists including The Hafler Trio, Nurse With Wound, Zoviet France and Stock, Hausen, and Walkman. What has made Stilluppsteypa so popular and unique has been their ability to mold disparate elements together to make interesting and cohesive compositions. - label description. Stylianos_Tziritas / Madder - Rabbitspeech CD (Absurd) [absurdcdr#19] $10.00 split release by two Greek units that are really just odd, to say the least. on the 23 & 24/4/02 our friend Stylianos_Tziritas handled his 'rabbitspeech' theatre performance at small music theatre. having told us in a couple of months ago that he had in mind to ask also a group to do a live show somehow influenced from the performance's text, we volunteered to be that project, as we feel like we share a lot in common w/ Styliano's ideology. so here's nothing but the documentation of our 2 live shows including also the soundscapes created by Stylianos_Tziritas for his performance. limited to 155 copies. Sun Ra & His Arkestra - Music From Tomorrow's World CD (Atavistic) [ALP237CD] $15.00 Driving down Cottage Grove you couldn't miss it, right next to the bank, with glass-brick facade and a sign out front: Wonder Inn. A long tavern, a straight shot back to the restrooms at the rear with a bar stretching along one side and tables on the other; an odd, baroquely decorated canopy arched over the cramped stage, classic Chicago pressed-tin ceiling above it. There was music nightly from 10 PM to 4 AM, and for a very long stretch- the house band was Sun Ra and his Arkestra, in a rather economical six-piece incarnation of the ensemble featuring tenor saxophonist John Gilmore, cornetist Phil Cohran plus occasional vocals by Ricky Murray. Over the course of the Arkestra's Wonder Inn year-long stay, Roland Kirk came out and sat in with the band, as did Stan Getz. John Coltrane, reputedly stood out front but wouldn't come inside, for mysterious reasons. Cohran remembers looking out into the crowd and seeing people who he would come to know better a few years later- namely the future founders of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, including Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman. Quite a scene it must have been. At a time when suits and ties were de rigueur, Sun Ra quietly began to challenge the sartorial norm. The Wonder Inn was the place where that all jelled, the stage on which Sun Ra intensified the spectacular quality of his self-presentation. He had already introduced costume into Arkestra performances, but they became a mainstay at the Wonder Inn. If the Wonder Inn recordings have been much speculated over during the four decades since they were made, a studio date from someplace called Majestic Hall rings only very distant bells, even for those who played on it. Majestic Hall was a fantastic session, with a slightly larger octet incarnation of the Arkestra, including Cohran on cornet, Gilmore again in gorgeous form, Marshall Allen and two other saxophonists: Gene Easton on alto and Ronald Wilson on baritone. Drummer Robert Barry is explosive on the latter track,and as with the Wonder Inn tracks, bassist Ronnie Boykins was the Arkestra's unfailing rudder. Behind it all looms the creative fireball named Sun Ra, concocting ceaselessly creative intros, comping imaginatively, or going without horns on the fragment of 'Interstellar Lo-Ways' that closes the disc. Here are two late-breaking installations from a single season in the story of Sun Ra's Chicago period, each focused on a different aspect of his concept. The Wonder Inn: Arkestra in motion, as part of the community, engaging the underground jazz intelligentsia on the south side. Majestic Hall: the grand scale of Ra's compositional and arranging genius, the heroic efforts of his band. Yet a couple more key pieces in the big puzzle that is Sun Ra's master-oeuvre. - label description. Takehisa Kosugi - Violin Improvisations CD (Lovely Music, Ltd) [LCD2071] $13.00 Takehisa Kosugi, electric violin. Takehisa Kosugi is a unique musician. His improvisations, both with violin and miscellaneous sounding objects, have a sense of emerging from the bottom of a spiritual unconscious. From this place comes a music based more on the feeling of sounds than conscious arrangement. Memory, physical action, tactile perceptions, environmental conditions, and awareness of subconscious microcosmic and macrocosmic extremes inform his work as much as the intention to assemble sounds into music. When listeners connect with his sounds, a direct identification of experience occurs between audience and performer. - label description Taku Sugimoto & Annette Krebs - Eine gitarre ist eine gitarrre ist keine gitarre ist eine gitarre. CD (Rossbin) [RS005] $15.00 Annette Krebs (b. 1967) studied classical guitar in Frankfurt/Main. She has lived in Berlin since 1993 as a freelance guitarist, and has worked intensively in the crossover area between improvisation and composition, exploring the possibilities of the electro-acoustic guitar with regard to sound structure, noise, the mixing of materials, and space. Various preparation methods are used to produce noises and sounds, which are then enlarged as with a magnifying glass through the use of different microphones and pickups, so they can be used as musical material. Collaborations with musicians in and outside Berlin in various groups, among others: duos with Andrea Neumann (inside piano) (Rotophormen cd on Charizma Records), with Taku Sugimoto (Cd out on Slub Music) and with Alessandro Bosetti, trios with Andrea Neumann and Kaffe Matthews (electronics) or Radu Malfatti (trombone), quartet with Axel Dorner (trumpet), Robin Hayward (tuba) and Andrea Neumann. Every year since '95, Sugimoto has performed in concerts overseas. He played with Akiyama-Sugimoto in New York in '95, and in Chicago and Detroit in '96; and solo and with cellist Bo Wiget in Switzerland and Berlin in '97. In '98, he went to Chicago and New York to play with local musicians such as Jim O'Rourke, Kevin Drumm, and Donald Miller. In Autumn of '99 he toured Belgium, France, England, and Austria, playing solo and with Gunter Muller (drums, electronics), Keith Rowe (guitar), and others. In November of that year, he also appeared in the festival Music Unlimited '99, in Wels, Austria. Taku Sugimoto, Burkhard Stangl & Christof Kurzmann - in Tokyo: First concert - second take CD (Musica Genera) [mg002] $15.00 taku sugimoto plays: electric guitar and 6-string bass guitar; burkhard stangl plays: electric and acoustic guitars; christof kurzmann plays: g3 and clarinet. date: April 10, 2001. live at: Off Site, Tokyo. recorded by: Taku Sugimoto and Tetuzi Akiyama. compositions by sugimoto, stangl (akm) and kurzmann (akm). Tatsuya Yoshida - Magaibutsu CD (Review Records) [rere163cd] $14.00 spastic, charged, and odd. A re-release of a Review Records/ No Man's Land CD from 1991. All pieces were remixed by Tatsuya Yoshida. In addition, there are 6 exclusive bonus tracks with a playing time of 13 min. Joachim Ody wrote in Spex in 1992: 'Tatsuya Yoshida is like an unvited guest from a distant corner of the milkyway and it all reminds one, ofc ourse, of the french band Magma, which isn't necessarily a bad reference.' Martin Bsser remarked in ZAP that 'if the word dada wasn't already so overused..., one must consider Yoshida to be the most successful musical dadaist of the 90's.' Tatsuya Yoshida is no longer an unknown. His discography fills pages. His best known project is with the Ruins but Akaten, ZubiZuva, Koenjihyakkei, Korekyojin and his work with John Zorn, Tenko, Ron Anderson (the Molecules), and his newest quartett with japanese pianist Satoku Fuji attest to his musical creativity and flexibility. - label description. Terry Riley - Lisbon Concert CD (New Albion Records) [NA087] $14.00 This concert represents about 50 years of thought, practice, composition and improvisation for that marvelous and ever challenging instrument -- the piano. I seriously started to consider my voice or role in this arena, which includes the Pantheon of my teachers and heroes, Duane Hampton, Adolf Baller, Wally Rose, Art Tatum, Bud Powell and Bill Evans, in the mid 1960s when I began formulating and composing Keyboard Studies. These works, based on very basic improvisational procedures and heavily informed by many years of study of North Indian raga and jazz, form the basis of nearly all the keyboard and piano playing I have done. Since 1984 I have performed almost exclusively with my voice (not heard on this album) and the magnificent grand piano, which opens doors to one of the most liberating forms imaginable, making available lyrical sounds, orchestral sounds, sounds that are oceanic and percussive, sounds that pulse and flow over its entire majestic range. On this magical night in the magical city of Lisbon a kind of retrospective of my work unfolded and I felt the spirit play through me in a way that gave feelings of rare and deep emotion. Here and there are exhilarating moments in which are framed split second decisions, which opened up entirely new avenues of musical direction and exploration. And finally it must be said that, without an audience, none of this could be brought into existence in the same way. The shared attention to the sound current helps to channel the spontaneity and inspiration that makes this experience one of life's most sacred and privileged moments. - Terry Riley. Terry Riley - Music for the Gift CD (Cortical Foundation) [Corti01] $18.00 This CD combines four seminal tapes works of Terry Riley. 'The Gift' music performed in Paris 1963 by Chet Baker, tape manipulations by Terry Riley. This was the first occasion on which Riley used tape delay to fragment, attenuate and return time, looping tape through twin-tape recorders. 'The Gift' recordings, referred to often by Soft Machine members, is the precursor to the landmark that launched the minimalist movement 'In C'. 'Bird of Paradise' is a radical tape-manipulation work, the earliest known plundering that inspired Steve Reich's 'It's Gonna Rain' era phase recordings. 'Mescalin Mix', a tape-loop recording from 1960-62 partly inspired by Riley's experience with Mescalin and the work he did with Richard Maxfield. For this recording, the tape-loops would extend out Riley's window to a wine-bottle spindle in the yard, composed for choreographer Anna Halprin's 'The 3 Legged Stool'. 'Concert for Two Pianos and Five Tape Recorders' was recorded live at Hertz Hall on Berkeley Campus in 1960 introduced with a humorous broadcast narrative doing the play by play. Performed by Terry Riley and La Monte Young, with broadcast announcements by Glenn Glascow. First time available. - label description. The Lightbox Orchestra - First Contact! CD (Locust) [locust09] $13.00 First Contact! brings together highlights from nearly half a decade of recordings by an extended and ever changing superstar lineup of Chicago jazz, punk and rock musicians under the tutelage of cellist/ leader Fred Lonberg-Holm (Peter Brotzmann Tentet, Terminal Four, Anthony Braxton). What you'll hear on this disc is an uproarious gathering of sonic jouissance featuring composer, songsmith and producer Jim O'Rourke (Sonic Youth, Gastr Del Sol), laptop guitar cum electronics-whiz Kevin Drumm (Mimeo), Jeb Bishop, Guillermo Gregorio, members of Town and Country, Pillow, TV Pow, and dozens of other bright lights from this city's creative gene pool on acoustic instruments, homemade sound concoctions and blistering digital and analog electronics as they explore elements of sonic growl, guttural hornspeak, and wistfully spaced out playing. Similar in approach to Butch Morris's Conduction performances and John Zorn's Cobra, Fred tackles the role of leader with nothing but the most playfully dictatorial intentions. On a 'typical' evening of Lightbox fare, Lonberg-Holm and a little over half a dozen different players enter the performance space in the spirit of a true sound lab experiment with no pre-composed harmonic or melodic material. Each player is assigned a light. Fred sits before his box of colored lights and toys with his lightbox and a stack of graphical & emphatic cue cards, inviting participants when to play and when not to play - sometimes producing gloriously melodious minisuites, at others, pitting the members of hismusical fiefdom against one another as only a true trickster would to oddly truncated effect. But this isn't just some dandy's hoity toity conceptual affair. Counterpoised somewhere between video game warfare and an explosive Arkestral Moog freakout from many a Sun Ra episode, this superb collection begins surely enough teetering on the edge of a sonic collision that sets the pace for a grand, adventurous listening experience that just as easily blends the pointilism and angular attack of classic European free music with the raw, blissful emotional group flow of mid-1970s Henry Threadgill. Chicagoans have known for several years what a great secret the Lightbox Orchestra is and with the release of First Contact!, the rest of the planet now has an opportunity to see why. - label description. The Mothers of Invention - Necessity Is... The Early Years of Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention Book (SAF Publishing) [0-946719-14-4] $15.00 The early Mothers of Invention were a band of anarchic, free-spirited, musically telepathic mavericks headed by the unparalleled musical genius of Frank Zappa. Featured on such classic LPs as Freak Out, Absolutely Free and We're Only In It For The Money, the band let rip over Zappa's satirical yet complex compositions. Using the band's on-the-road antics as a backdrop, a live performance was often akin to a free-form rock 'n' roll revue. Disbanded in 1970, Zappa would sometimes reassemble The Mothers of Invention in a number of different guises, but rarely found another group that collectively distilled his offbeat musical vision so perfectly. Billy James recaptures those early years as remembered by those who were there; Jimmy Carl Black, Roy Estrada, Bunk Gardner, Buzz Gardner and Don Preston. Completing the picture with anecdotes about other ex-members like Ray Collins, Lowell George, Art Tripp and Motorhead Sherwood, the book investigates the oddball humour that surrounded the Zappa entourage from 1964-1970. Fully illustrated, Necessity Is. presents a fitting tribute to a time when musical barriers were there to be broken. 155 pages - illustrated - Paperback. The Pioneers - Five Text-Sound Artists Book+CD (Phono Suecia Records) [PSCD63] $21.00 Anthology of important composers working with text based tape music with Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Ilmar Laaban, Sten Hansen, Ake Hodell, and Bengt Emil Johnson. Includes two 24-page booklets (one in English, one in Swedish). The first disc has more pieces based on actual text, whereas the second (featuring almost 30 minutes each from Hodell and Johnson) has more pieces that use the voice as sound material, creating some very nice sounds. The Residents - Meet the Residents: America's Most Eccentric Band Book (SAF Publishing) [0-946719-12-8] $13.00 In this fully updated edition, [biographer] Ian Shirley takes an outsider's view of their operations, exposing a world where nothing is quite as it seems.'Meet The Residents' is a fascinating tale f the musical anarchy and cartoon wackiness that has driven this unique bunch of artistic mavericks forward. - cover copy 192 pages, 156 x 234 mm, illustrated. The Vacuum Boys - play songs from the sea of love CD (FIRE.inc.) [f-24] $15.00 glitch quartet of Guy Amitai, Gert-Jan Prins, Heimir Bjorgulfsson, and Dan Armstrong posing as a rock band. don't be fooled though as there is no rock'n'roll on this little disc. maybe more accessible than what these guys usually do solo, but that is saying much at all really. comes in a very amusing faux 50's looking sleeve designed by Meeuw Muzak, and including The Secret of the Haunted Spanish Galleon - an actual story installment in 12 page set in the sleeve. experimental music with humor. The Vibracathedral String Quartet - CD (Vibracathedral Orchestra) [VCO-04] $11.00 37 minutes of live double-cello/acoustic guitar/mandolin take off and landing. Missing J Bradley, but so what? Builds from unamplified foundation to spill out all over the place once those contact mics are edged into the mix. Thuja - Suns CD (Emperor Jones Records) [EJ53CD] $13.00 Pianist Rob Reger, sound sculptor Loren Chasse and former Mirza members Steven R Smith and Glenn Donaldson make up the mysterious Thuja, who return with their third album of inspired forest clamor. Unlike their many space-travelling comtemporaries, Thuja are thankfully grounded on Earth and the many sounds of nature and machines. These expanding and billowingnoises are ideal for meditation or examination and carry the rare trait of begging repeated listenings as soon as they end. - label description. Tidal - Golem and Man CD (A Pyrrhic Victory/Manifold) [apvcdr6] $10.00 Thematic U.S. based sound and concept artist delves into the atmospheres evoked by the Yiddish legend of the Golem. Suitably ancient and solemn drones limned with ritualist undertones. Packaged in unique cloth and clay package. Previous release by Tidal was the stunning 'Four Rivers' disc on Alluvial Recordings, themed after the writings of japanese figure Mishima. Toshimaru Nakamura & Tetuzi Akiyama - Meeting at Off Site Vol. 1 CD (Improvised Music From Japan / reset) [reset003/IMJ501] $15.00 compiles live performances played at the monthly 'Meeting at Off Site' improvisation series organized by Toshimaru Nakamura and Tetuzi Akiyama. The musicians included are Toshimaru Nakamura, Tetuzi Akiyama, Taku Sugimoto, Ami Yoshida, Brett Larner, Thomas Ankersmit, Tetsuro Yasunaga, Toshihiro Koike, Utah Kawasaki, Jason Roebke, Yoshihide Otomo, Gregor Hotz, Michel Henritzi, Sachiko M, Bruno Meillier, and Seymour Wright. Toshimaru Nakamura - Vehicle CD (Cubic Music) [cubicmusic08] $15.00 As a pioneer of the 'no-input mixing board' style of music (which doesn't have an externed sound source but controls feedback internally) the artist, Toshimaru Nakamura, is a critically acclaimed musician in his own right, according to media throughout not only Japan, but in Europe. This solo album is Nakamura's third release. His first work was released by a Japanese electronic sound label called Zero Gravity and the second was from the French improvisational music label A Bruit Secret. Nakamura's third album entitled 'vehicle' uses this 'no-input mixing board' style to create high intensity and becomes his masterpiece work.This intensity manages to change the dwarfish view that many people have about the electronic world of music. Some people may categoreize this music style as 'improvisational', 'experimental', 'electronica', etc..., but Nakamura has been able to cultivate a new level to this style and has adopted it as his own. This high quality sound begins with an impressive beat that boldly unfolds. Followed by a delicate and beautiful drone melody, it moves into the second half of the music. In addition, this work has become widely known and liked by many because the sound is created so carefully. Surely this style will satisfy a range of music lovers, from listeners of 'floor music' to even 'contemporary music'. - label description. Tristan Honsinger, Steve Beresford, David Toop & Toshinori Kondo - Double Indemnity/Imitation of Life CD (Atavistic) [ALP224CD] $13.00 A bit more than twenty years ago, I was playing with a group called The Slits, who had started off as an all-woman punk group but had become more dub-ified and picked up some male members (obviously). When we did gigs, the sound person was Dick O'Dell, who also ran a label called 'Y' Records. (I think he got the Y motif from the back cover of 'Spiritual Unity' by Albert Ayler - one of my favourite records). 'Y' had an early hit with a single by Pigbag and put out an LP of low-fi stuff by The Slits. They also issued the first record by Diamanda Galas, but that was later. Tristan Honsinger is an American cellist who has lived for years in Europe and we met when we both played in Derek Bailey's 'Company'' at the ICA in London, 1977. We later played a memorable and scary UK tour opposite John Stevens's SME. Tristan was back in London to play the ICA when we took the opportunity to schlep a cassette recorder and two microphones there one afternoon and record a set of duets, using their OK grand piano. Although Dick had never at that point issued any free improvisation, he was immediately interested in issuing the recordings. (Tristan went on to guest on a few sessions by The Pop Group, another band Dick was involved with). Tessa Pollitt, the bass-player from The Slits, designed the cover. At that time, certain people from Rough Trade, who were distributing 'Y', were outraged that anyone should record an LP so quickly and suggested that it should sell for less than the normal price. In any case, Dick seemed happy and, the next year, we took advantage of the presence of Tristan and trumpeter Toshinori Kondo in London to set up a second session. Kondo I knew from a short UK tour with Eugene Chadbourne - they had flown from New York and played the first gig of the tour in old York. The multi-instrumentalist David Toop was an obvious choice for fourth person. In 1979, David and I, along with violinist Nigel Coombes, had travelled to new York to play with Chadbourne, John Zorn and Kondo, among others. You can read about that in David's book 'Ocean of Sound'. Plus, we were members of the quartet Alterations and had various other projects together. The ICA not being an option, guitarist Chris Reeves offered us the use of a large, airy first floor room near Old Street, east London. And lacking a piano, I brought bags of other instruments, pretty well what I was playing in Alterations at the time. - Steve Beresford, London July 2001. Ultrasound - Encomium CD (Mystery Sea) [MS02] $16.00 Ultrasound's core are Rfovetz & Kirk Laktas. Together they outline a rippling tapestry of subliminal & hypnagogic sounds, one of the most beautiful haunting drone music to be heard today... In this they share more than common ground with Stars Of The Lid of whom Kirk Laktas has been a former member... The material featured on .encomium. has been recorded at various moments between 1996 & 1998...specifically collected for mystery Sea, all pieces have carefully been chosen to form a flowing construction... Overall, the resulting 'Ocean of sound' is warm, shrouding, deeply immersing, shaping up a language of new perceptions... .encomium. unfolds at the pace of quiet glistening waves, spreading their dewdrop-particles into the listener's mind, making him reach a state of subdued dazzle... A drop falls with a slight resonant echo as in a ceremonial of infinite reflections & overlapping circles, paving the way for a sharper insight... V.V. - The Animals in These Cages are Injured in Some Way and Would Probably Die If Released CD (Aesova) [aesova00010010] $7.00 V.V. is California sound artist Ven Voisey, whose work thoughtfully combines field recording, electronics and various instrumentation into a captivating and evolving sound organisms. Vainio, Mika/Christian Fennesz - Invisible Architecture 02 CD (Audiosphere) [04833/AS02] $11.50 Audiosphere is a new label that was made possible by collaborations between Audioview and Sub Rosa, so as to explor all forms of electronic and improvisated music. To explore the most innovative aspects of the electronic scene today, we have create a brand new live series -- including some original collaborations between musicians -- called Invisible Architecture. Invisible Architecture is a new series devoted to specific live events, often involving special collaborations between two or three musicians offering pieces of a primarily unreleased nature. In appreciation of such urgent creativity, we have chosen to document and honor such recordings with this original series. Mika Vainio is one of the 2 heads of Pan Sonic -- active as performer, solo or in short collaboration. He is also involved in installations and performances at Museums and Galeries. Pan Sonic have remained, over recent years, as one the most interesting electronic bands, alongside artists such as Autechre and Oval. Christian Fennesz began as guitarist and became one of the most brilliant improvisers with a powerbook. He is highly appreciated by artists such as Jim O'Rourke, and has developed a great science of the de-structured sound. His last CD on Mego, "Endless Summer", was highly acclaimed. The recording contains two unpublished works from the Brussels 2000 sessions (30 minutes by Vainio alone + 30 minutes of Vainio & Fennesz). Highly abstract and obsessive (in total: 66 minutes). Various Artists - Circle 0 CD (Fylkingen Records) [FYCD1019] $19.00 compiled and produced by M. Stavostrand. cover design by A. Berthling. With Andreas Berthling, Richard Chartier, Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words, M. Fell, B.J. Nilsen, Heimir Bjorgulfsson, Jonas Lindgren, Ronsun, Taylor Deupree, TV Pow, Dion Workman, Pfeffenbauer, Kid606, Grecl, Mokira, .Porte, Tennis, Hayce, Mikael Stavostrand, All Spec Kit & Smyglyssna, Minimal Sweden, Folie, and Silent Comfort. Various Artists - Cold Spring Records Sampler CD (Cold Spring) [04828/CSR40CD] $8.75 This collection has been a long time in the making, over a year, and represents the present but mostly the future releases on COLD SPRING - one of the worlds oldest and most respected Industrial labels. From its birth in 1988, COLD SPRING has released albums from the worlds most famous bands of the scene - and this sampler shows that this trend is not to change. Featuring: IGNIS FATUUS, FOLKSTORM, MARK SNOW, LAIBACH, ENDVRA, NOVATRON, BAND OF PAIN, BENEDIKT MIDDLER, SCHLOSS TEGAL, VON THRONSTAHL, TOROIDH, SLEEP RESEARCH FACILITY, THE DAYS OF THE TRUMPET CALL, KEROVNIAN, A CHALLENGE OF HONOUR... Various Artists - Infernal Proteus: A Musical Herbal Book+CD (The Ajna Offensive) [0-9721820-0-4] $39.00 A very beautiful full color hardback book plus 4 CDs (each averaging about 67 minutes) in which each artist takes one plant (everything from oak to venus flytrap to marijuana) as inspiration and supplies a track of audio and a two page spread in the book. very diverse musically (From Folk to Rhythmic to Pop to Ambient to Electronic to beyond...), all but one of the tracks included is exclusive. the artists featured are O Paradis, Circe, Allerseelen, Hekate, Amber Asylum, rain., Alraune, Waldteufel, Venereum Arvum, In Gowan Ring, Alio Die, Unto Ashes, Endvra, David Woodard, Apoptose, Ultra, Jonathan Coleclough & Tim Hill, Troum, Israfel In Necropolis, Steve Roden, Yannick Dauby, Kern & Ven Pelt, Seth Nehil, Inade, The Red King, Numinosum, Jason H. Craban, Ah Cama-Sotz, Wolfskin, Nerthiagh, Mnortham, Baradelan, Mania, Igor 18, Aube, Lotus Eaters, Chaos As Shelter, Kawabata Makoto, HU, and Dave Knott. Various Artists - Inflation (*0 0.000 Remix) CD (Mu-Label) [LABEL003+004] $19.75 'Inflation' include 20 remix tracks of *0's '0.000'. All artists made a remix track from the inaudibile sounds on '0.000', higher frequencies than 20000Hz or lower than 20Hz.They tried to create 'something' from 'nothing' for sonic perception of human. The concept of 'Inflation' is 'nothing create everything', as like as our universe was born from 'nothing'. The title of the remix CD, 'Inflation' named from 'Inflationary cosmology'. The universe was expanded faster than the speed of light from nothing during 10-35 seconds by 'Inflation'. The CD 'Inflation' shows that 'nothing create the universe (every thing)' on the sonic perception of human. the disk title 'spin+1' (disk1) and 'spin+1/2' (disk2) means spin of elementaly particle. included on here are Merzbow, Taylor Deupree, Kozo Inada, Zbigniew Karkowski, Kim Cascone, Koji Asano, Dale Lloyd, Hsi-Chuang Cheng, /0, Aube, Richard Chartier, Marc Behrens, Akira Rabelais, John Hudak, Bernhard Gunter, steve roden, Stephan Mathiew, duul_drv, *0 , and immedia. limited 500 copies. Various Artists - Scatter CD (Ash International) [Ash3.5] $15.00 second (American) part of the triptych (which also includes Chiky(u) and Decay) with Kevin Drumm, John Hudak, Earth, Jim O'Rourke, and Daniel Menche. intense frequencies and textural ear play. Various Artists - SoundArt: The Swedish Scene Book+CD (STIM: Svensk Music) [91-85470-83-x] $26.00 Two CDs, actually. A history and document of recent Swedish sound art, written entirely in English and profusely illustrated. Features Thomas Bjelkeborn, Christian Bock, Leif Elggren, Sons of God, Kent Tankred, Johannes Bergmark, Anders Blomqvist, Josef Doukkali, Staffan Mossenmark, Zbigniew Karkowski, Mats Lindstrm, Sren Runolf, CM von Hausswolff, Rolf Enstrm, Dror Feiler, Sten Hanson, and Mikael Stavstrand. Includes biographies, useful addresses, and suggestions for further reading. 144 pages. Various Artists - Surrealism Reviewed CD (LTM) [LTMCD2343] $16.00 LTM are proud to announce the long-awaited sequel to the acclaimed Futurism & Dada Reviewed collection, with a full length archive CD titled Surrealism Reviewed. For the very first time, original recordings by the following key artists, writers, poets and theorists are now gathered together on a single volume: Marcel Duchamp, Andre Breton, Robert Desnos, Louis Aragon, Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, Tristan Tzara, Philippe Soupault, Man Ray, Roland Penrose, Antonin Artaud, Lee Miller, Herbert Read, and Jean Cocteau. The various recordings, made between 1929 And 1963, include poetry, interviews, lectures and manifestos. Most are in the English language, and some in French. Some, such as those by Desnos (1938) and Read (1937), have not been heard since they were first recorded onto acetate discs. Running for 74 minutes and featuring extensive sleevenotes, the disc is a must for all students of 20th Century art and literature and the avant garde, as well as left-field musical ideas and endeavour. - label description. Various Artists - The Dreams of Gaia CD (Earth Ear) [ee9012] $13.00 journeys of discovery and rememberance from 19 of the world's premier soundscape artists with Jean-Luc Herelle, Lang Elliot, Bernie Krause, Hans Ulrich Werner, Jonathan Storm, Kathy Turco, David Dunn, Walter Tilgner, Ted Levan and Joel Gordon, Sabine Breitsameter, Jean Roche, Hildegard Westerkamp, Francisco Lopez, David Lumsdaine, Douglas Quin, Michel Barataud, Chris Watson, and Ruth Happel. Various Artists - suffer / enjoy CD (Antifrost) [Afro2014] $15.00 ltd. 800 copies. in order of appearance: Francisco Lopez, PG-13, Zbigniew Karkowski, Coti, Utah Kawasaki, Ilios, as11, Philip Samartzis, Ami Yoshida, Jason Kahn, Kim Cascone, all suffer / enjoy a peculiar cutoff. Antifrost invited them to create a piece in a limited bandwidth of 200hz. From 'earth vibrating' very low frequencies to quasi ultra sound, here is the result. Rock'n'roll anyone? Various Artists - un tributo to james t. russell CD (alku) [alku15] $15.00 with Terre Thaemlitz, Yasunao Tone, Eric B. Parizo, Wobbly, cd_slopper, Discmen, Javier Hernando, Oval/Frank Metzger and Alku. James T. Russell - It could be said that each new invention was music to James T. Russell's ears. He came from humble beginnings, growing up in Washington state and attending Reed College in Oregon, but he found success as a physicist and inventor early in life. Yet it was his passion for music by composers like Beethoven and Bach that drew him to create a bold, new way to record and replay sound. Russell's revolutionary digital-to-optical recording system led to the creation of the first compact disk in 1970. Though Russell is responsible for a number of noteworthy inventions and dozens of patents, none of his inventions have impacted society as profoundly as the CD. Russell has since founded his own consulting firm, and develops new and exciting optical storage devices to this day. 29 minutes. Vertonen - Stendac CDR (BOXmedia) [BOXCDR302] $9.00 Chicago's Vertonen aka CIP's headman Blake Edwards brings out the bass for this one. gentle ambient bass drones make up most of this release rather than the typical noise Vertonen is known for. i think its one of his best releases yet. limited edition of 50. - label description. Vibracathedral Orchestra - Copse CD (Vibracathedral Orchestra) [VCO-02] $11.00 Second release, with same line-up as 'Mothing'. Chugs toward near-rock in places, and culminates in the ecstatic end blow-out of their first live performance. recorded 1998. Vibracathedral Orchestra - Mothing CD (Vibracathedral Orchestra) [VCO-01] $11.00 First issue from the Bradley-Campbell-Flower axis, delivered to a small number in 1998 and now reissued for everyone's pleasure. Includes the full 23 minute version of 'falling free you and me' from the 10-inch. recorded 1997/1998. Vibracathedral Orchestra - Music for red breath CD (Vibracathedral Orchestra) [VCO-05] $11.00 Music for a film by NYC filmmaker Justin Allen and up to full quintet complement. 74 minutes of moods, from long, languid rumbles and tiny loops and hums to the band's finest and fullest-on one chord headbanger, with the usual homespun exotica in between. Originally 'released' in such minuscule quantities that no-one really noticed, it's fine to have it 'available' again. Whatever happened to the film? Vibracathedral Orchestra - hollin CD (Vibracathedral Orchestra) [VCO-06] $11.00 CDR Companion piece to the 'lino hi' CD, recorded around the same time, and including two live sections. Comes in beautiful hand painted/assembled sleeve by Bridget Hayden. Vibracathedral Orchestra - long live the weeds CD (Vibracathedral Orchestra) [VCO-08] $11.00 Three rough-hewn chunks of 1999/2000 music, all recorded in front of actual members of the public, in notable Leeds drinking establishments. Each track sees the Orchestra augmented by additional members, including Sticky Foster, Matthew Bower, John Godbert, John Clyde-Evans and Ross Parfitt. Voice Crack - Kick That Habit NTSC video (RRRecords) [RRR-TV-14] $12.00 A sound movie with the musicians Norbert Moslang and Andy Guhl, guest Knut Remond. Swiss, released 1990, 16 mm, 24p/s, magnetic sound, without words, 43 mins. Voice of Eye - Mariner Sonique CD (Cyclotron Industries) [CYCICD-111] $14.00 strange nocturnal soundscapes using a variety of handmade instruments. unique electric sonic explorations. Voice of Eye - Transmigration CD (Cyclotron Industries) [CYCICD-333] $14.00 performed entirely on on traditional and handmade acoustic instruments. an intensely foreboding underworld journey through ghostly drones. Walter Marchetti - The Hunt and other writings Book (Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery / Archivio Francesco Conz) [0-88865-604-1] $18.00 an exhibition catalog from an installation in Canada at the beginning of 1999. this is probably the only book about Marchetti in English. although it primarily concerns itself with his pieces The Hunt and Birds of Paradise, it also includes selected writings by Marchetti, texts from Scott Watson, Jose Luis Castillejo and Gabriele Bonomo about him, and a very in depth chronology and list of works (including a discography). quite well done. 134 pages, b/w illustrations, soft cover. Werner Dafeldecker & Boris D Hegenbart - Eis 9 CD (Grob) [GROB.319] $15.00 Two years ago, the German pop music magazine Spex (a bit like Option in German) called the Viennese Werner Dafeldecker 'a Jim O'Rourke from the Alps.' The comparison strikes one as quite distorted but is based on a few things in common. Both represent an extended idea of improvisation that does not rest upon parameters like 'interaction', 'dynamics', or 'energy', but rather that appears airy, looser, more comprehensive: (sound in) space becomes more important, the occasion plays a bigger (more existential) role in the foreground. Indeed this occasion is not only another situation to improvise together, but rather an expression of a state that one should adjust his/her sensors completely anew. The influence of new music (the New York School and beyond) never seems apparent, but as it were, subcutaneously. Just like the improvisations of O'Rourke in the 90's, Dafeldecker's music is characterized by the logical but constantly surprising intervention that breaks the peaceful current of the music and continues it at the same time. Eis-9 [Ice Cream 9] is a summer record, no hermetic structures, no gloomy sounds, no wallowing in stagnation and hardening (= cold). Ice cream melts. Dafeldecker demonstrates here once more how he dissociates his strict instrumentalism (dealing with the instrument as essential sound material) from his original instrument, the contra bass, and transfers it to others: guitar, percussion, found objects, PowerBook. Just as gropingly as definite. Eis-9 is above all the product of an intensive cooperation with the Berlin/Viennese electronic musician Boris D. Hegenbart. Coming out of nowhere, he published the CD Hikuito in 1998, music developed in hand made paper that came to fragile melodies once peeling away its (apparent) influences (Carl Stone, Oval). The groping and the definite flowed into the Eis-9 cooperation. Improvised music as symbiosis, as something that does not only come into being in the instant, but rather that grows. Eis-9 also means 'ice cream' is not an unambiguous fixed construction, but one that dissolves in various forms, structures, and, well, states. - label description. Wheaton Research - Tokyo 02.00 CDR (BOXmedia) [BOXCDR008] $9.00 document of Brent Gutzeit's solo tour of Tokyo from February of 2000, live clips of solo and group performances featuring Otomo Yoshihide, Taku Sugimoto, Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshimaru Nakamura, Kazumoto Endo, Brian Labycz and more. - label description. Woom - For Pricilia CDR (Pricilia) [p:rec01] $12.00 the duo of Miho (sampler, etc.) and Alexandre Bellenger (analog synth) create gritty electronic music, rough around the edges. they both draw sounds out, and fracture them. Yasunao Tone - Musica Iconologos CD (Lovely Music, Ltd) [LCD3041] $13.00 digitized image transformed into sound: absolute chaotic electronic noise. former member of Fluxus and Group Ongaku. Yasunao Tone - Solo for Wounded CD CD (Tzadik) [TZA7212] $16.00 A founding member of the Fluxus movement [and Group Ongaku], Tone has been doing experimental sound pieces since the early 1960's. For the past ten years he has centered on extending the possibilities of CDs as a performance medium. With this CD, he has created a new noise music for the 21st century: a symphony of digital errors that reaches a new extreme in intensity and musical energy. - label description. Yokota, Susumu - Image 1983-1998 CD (Leaf) [01883] $15.25 The Leaf Label has licensed "Image 1983-1998", a collection of mainly acoustic and oddly moving instrumental and vocal pieces from Yokota's own Skintone label, for release outside Japan. Zbigniew Karkowski - Choice of points for the application of force CD (Ytterbium) [YTTERBIUM05] $18.00 Three long pieces recorded live at Watarium Museum of Contemporary Arts in Tokyo, December 1999. In black jewel case. Limited edition. Zbigniew Karkowski - Consciously Unconscious. Unconsciously Conscious CD3 (Metamkine) [MKCD033] $7.00 collection Cinema pour l'oreille Time: 19'47. Zbigniew Karkowski is a Polish-Swedish composer/musician presently living and working in Tokyo, Japan. He has worked professionally in the areas of written contemporary music, industrial music, pop music and experimental performance for the last 15 years. Karkowski has presented his work in more then 30 countries on nearly all continents. He is convinced that it is a responsibility of an artist in present time to travel and move and work around the World in order to learn and understand different cultures and traditions and discover truth about us and our planet. He is not interested in traditional definition of what is music, in his opinion all theory and systems of music as a cultural concepts have to be destroyed. So in his latest work his main concern is on realizing drama with sound electronic and acoustic walls with scores based on architectures of ruins. - label description. Zeitkratzer - Noise\. (larm) CD (Tourette) [TICK4] $16.00 Zeitkratzer are an ensemble of classical musicians who have commissioned and performed many interesting works. this CD, instead of presenting the works of known 'composers', as on their previous disc, presents compositions by noise artists: Masami Akita (Merzbow), Zbigniew Karkowski and Dror Feiler. working closely with the composers, as usual, Masami plays electronics on his two tracks, and Feiler conducts the ensemble for his composition. Zeitkratzer - Sonx CD (Zeitkratzer Records) [ZKR99Z2] $15.00 Performers: zeitkratzer composerperformer Burkhard Schlothauer (Viol.), Michael Moser (Vcl.), Alexander Frangenheim (Db), Axel D^rner (Trp), Melvyn Poore (Tuba), Ulrich Krieger (Sax), Reinhold Friedl (Piano), Luca Venitucci (Akk.), Raymond Kaczynski (Perc.) sonX: fresh song, expression but also clear form, play. While Luca Venitucci challenges the sonic fantasy of the ensemble with his action score, Parentesi ('Parentheses') - in a further development of John Zorn's game pieces, musicians decide according to a complex set of rules when to give each other space, when to interrupt, etc. - Nicolas Collins decomposes historical music for use as ostinato in his piece Broken Choir. The musicians take up chords of the looped Renaissance music, contrapose them. Pop rhythms and harmonies are set against concentrated solo outbursts. In A Chest of Drawers, percussionist Ray Kaczynski performs on - among other things - a bicycle wheel, with which he structures rhythms or ironically shatters sound textures. Nico Richter-De Vroe produced an acribically notated action and sound score for ^onen (Aeons) and zeitkratzer developed a dramatic concept for the tempi and sequences of sound and noise: filigree sounds arise as from out of nowhere, disappear into nothingness again: aeons. Elliott Sharp took on the challenge to devise an ensemble composition that doesn't conceal its origins and also challenges zeitkratzer. The title of the piece, Coriolis Effect, is taken from chaos theory - the coriolis effect describes the influence on weather when heterogeneous cloud layers move diversely against one another. The composition, rhythmically complex and consisting of several parts, follows this same principle. Elliott Sharp conducts the dynamic developments and the so-called pop-outs - short, wild solo inserts. Keith Rowe's score for Traces 51 (Pollock) consists entirely of fragments from the series 'Traces 51' by Jackson Pollock. Rowe worked especially hard with zeitkratzer in applying the gesture of action painting to instrumental gesture and on making the acoustic effects musically fruitful. Laurie Schwartz permits some musicians only one, allows others a choice between two musical gestures or sound events to be performed within narrowly defined parameters specific to each instrument. The fast cutting and radical assemblage of the cubes - the score principally indicates entrances and exits of musicians - is all the more intensified by the composer's penchant for the linguistic integration of the profane which, in this case, consists of voice recordings of actors James Urbaniak and Mary McBride performing excerpts from Richard Foreman's 1997 play 'The Universe' (used by kind permission). The last piece on the disc, Jammermusik ('Lamenting Music') by Daniel Ott is in essence a kind of street music. With its asymmetrical meters, however, it can also be understood as a playful parody of circus music. - label description. second edition with new cover. Zeitkratzer - Soundinx CD (Zeitkratzer Records) [ZKR9901] $15.00 Burkhard Schlothauer (Viol.), Michael Moser (Vcl.), Alexander Frangenheim (Db), Axel Drner (Trp), Melvyn Poore (Tuba), Ulrich Krieger (Sax), ReinholdFriedl (Piano), Luca Venitucci (Akk.), Raymond Kaczynski (Perc.) SoundinXMiniatures by Reinhold Friedl and Daniel Ott are interludes and introduction for this dramaturgically arranged CD. They appear between the well-balanced sound planes of Yun-Kyung Lee and Ulrich Krieger and the walls of sound of Mario Bertoncini or Phill Niblock. not tied, knot untied - old is the first of Phill Niblock's extremely rare acoustic pieces. Although composed as early as 1983, its first recording is presented here. The musicians follow microtonal fluctuations of a pre-recorded sound on headphones, which they reproduce on their own instruments. The resulting amalgam of drones gives rise to difference tones, so-called 'beating tones', rhythmically vibrating sounds. Reinhold Friedl, the founder of zeitkratzer, re-forms the inside-piano with newly developed performance techniques. His piece follows a fully notated score that prescribes the ways in which musicians are to react to acoustic events. Rhythmic and metrical symmetries are virtually nowhere to be found and the precisely calibrated circular breathing noise of the trumpet holds the kaleidoscopically organized sounds together. Mario Bertoncini has been a legend for some time now - one need only look to his pianistic innovations and his spectacular patents of recently developed instruments. In his two-part composition Sinfonia ('de respiri') - the first part, for bowed piano and ensemble, the second, for cymbals and aeolian gongs with other instruments gradually following - an initially agressive wall of sound dissolves, tranformed, into a breathing soundscape ('de respiri'). In Il cimetero chiuso ('The Closed Cemetery'), Ulrich Krieger deliberately treads a thin line between ambient, groove and 'walls of sound' and nevertheless - or perhaps that's just why - he reminds one of Xenakian sound eruptions. The Korean composer Yun-Kyung Lee - her Desert Voyage is notated in the same manner as John Cage's number pieces - is striking in her polished proportions and sonic shadings. - label description. second edition with new cover. Zeitkratzer - Xtensions CD (Zeitkratzer Records) [ZKR9903] $15.00 Performers: zeitkratzer composer-performer Burkhard Schlothauer (Viol.), Michael Moser (Vcl.), Alexander Frangenheim (Db), Axel Drner (Trp), Melvyn Poore (Tuba), Ulrich Krieger (Sax), Reinhold Friedl (Piano), Luca Venitucci (Akk.), Raymond Kaczynski (Perc.). Xtensions: stillness, breath, expansion. Burkhard Schlothauer is one of only a handful of experimenters working in the realm of 'stille Musik' ('quiet music') where sound and noise intersect. His 'tromper' is also a reminiscence of the sound of Miles Davis. Radu Malfatti, one of the most well-known representatives of European improvised music, has in recent years been devoting himself more intensively to composition. Perhaps the almost magical cohesion of extremely minimal materials in the composition 'sprachlos' ('speechless') is effectuated both through the background experience of the ensemble and the unreservedness of the musicians. Each musician uses only one pre-determined sound, which is repeated 33 times during the course of the piece - without intent and without dramatic purpose. The composition Rote Erde ('Red Earth') by Ulrich Krieger was conceived together with Reinhold Friedl. This duo for tenor saxophone and piano is a model of sonic intensity and instrumental finesse. For his piece 'After Durations II', Tuba player and composer Melvin Poore had each musician individually record one track of a multi-track tape according to strictly defined rules. Following the same rules, all musicians finally play together with the pre-produced tape recording, an almost unreal interaction is created between the sounds emanating from the tape and those performed live. Axel Drner's 'Komposition fr acht Instrumente' ('Composition for Eight Instruments') lives from the musicians' realization of the free, graphically notated instructions in the score. The convoluted rhythms and the big band 'section' instrumentation give more than an inkling as to the jazz roots of the trumpet player and improviser, who appears here for the first time as composer for ensemble. - label description. second edition with new cover. From orders@ear-rational.com Sat Dec 28 21:29:52 2002 From: orders@ear-rational.com (Dave @ EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 14:29:52 -0700 Subject: [ear-subscribers] End of year sale! Message-ID: <8091C5B4-1AAB-11D7-85BE-0003934871B6@ear-rational.com> Trying to clear the decks...lots of stuff marked down. http://www.ear-rational.com/search.cgi?salecat=1&instock=1 Dave From orders@ear-rational.com Sun Dec 29 15:19:20 2002 From: orders@ear-rational.com (EAR/Rational Music) Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 08:19:20 -0700 Subject: [ear-subscribers] Klaus Schulze - Contemporary Works Message-ID: Normally $137.50 + shipping, we are able to offer Klaus Schulze's=20 Contemporary Works (10 CDs) for $115 including shipping in the U.S. or=20= $120 shipped overseas. "I can hear the naysayers already. Didn't Klaus Schulze just put out a=20= 50-CD box set earlier this year? And now he expects us to buy into=20 another 10-CD set? Well, yes. If you have any interest at all in Klaus=20= Schulze's music, get it, because this is something special. Beautifully=20= packaged in a wood box, the music is, unlike The Ultimate Edition, all=20= completely new material, not archives. Opening powerfully with "Vanity=20= of Sounds," his trademark synth pads are joined by crashing orchestral=20= noises and electronic gurgles. An elegant sequence begins around the=20 4:00 mark, as a variety of electronics play off each other for the next=20= several minutes. Patiently, it develops, with percussion entering midway=20= through the 17-minute track. Throughout the entire 10-CD work, the drums=20= are crisp, sharp, and full of depth. The emphasis is on long, slowly=20 evolving pieces throughout, with no more than three or four tracks on=20 each CD, except for the last CD, "Adds & Edits," which serves as a brief=20= overview of everything preceding it. This is one of Schulze's finest=20 hours, well, 11 or 12 hours. There is a definite evolution to the work.=20= The first few CDs articulate Schulze's laid back style exemplified on=20 relatively recent works such as In Blue and Friendship. Still, there are=20= definite elements of his older works from the 70s and 80s sprinkled in=20= as well. Each disc is influenced by the several artists that Schulze=20 collaborates with. For example, disc three is under his Wahnfried=20 moniker, with J=F6rg Schaaf helping out. The result has a more modern=20 dance edge to it than some of the rest. My favorite may be disc four,=20 "Privee." Schulze is joined by Solar Moon System's O'Finken on guitars=20= and Razoof on drums, collectively calling themselves U.S.O. O'Finken's=20= guitar work adds just the right spice in just the right places to=20 Schulze's ever-present lush synth string pads. Disc four remains active=20= and hypnotic throughout. Vocals figure prominently when Schulze is=20 joined on disc five by all the members of Solar Moon System. Tom Dams=20 reminds me of when I used to listen to bands like Dead Can Dance and=20 Clan of Xymox. His moroseful dirge on "You Get What=85" would've really=20= appealed to me as an angst-ridden college student, but doesn't speak to=20= me now. Still, give credit to Schulze for again trying something=20 different. Disc five is mostly drums and bass and vocals, with=20 electronics and atmospheres blended in. The real strength of this set=20 comes in the form of Ballett 1-4, which covers discs six through nine.=20= Fans of classics like X and Audentity will find plenty to like here, as=20= Wolfgang Tiepold's masterful cello augments Schulze's sequencing and=20 textures. Some of it, like "Agony," is beautiful and stirring, so sad=20 that one can barely stand to experience the 36 minutes of despair.=20 "Atmosph'ere Concr'ete" is full of rich, dissonant sounds, including=20 Thomas Kagermann's haunting voice, which wails and moans at just the=20 right moments throughout Ballett's four-part suite. "Kagi's Lament" is a=20= superb blending of classical and electronic music, another Schulze=20 hallmark. The fourth movement of Ballett is the 75-minute epic "My Ty=20 She," which effectively combines the talents of nearly everyone who=20 participated in this project. Julia Messenger's lovely voice appears on=20= other discs in the set, and works especially well here. Thematically,=20 the music really comes to its majestic conclusion at disc nine, "Ballett=20= 4," and it is a fitting finish. Disc ten then closes with "Adds &=20 Edits," sixteen short snippets of source material for the first nine=20 discs, or similar ideas that weren't fully developed into 20-30 minute=20= segments. It's a sweeping overview of differing styles, all running into=20= one another. However, it conveys very well the broad range of material=20= that Schulze has undertaken, and it serves as an interesting=20 reinterpretation or summary of the whole. Another defining moment in=20 Schulze's illustrious and ever-growing body of work. Bring on=20 Contemporary Works Vol. 2!" (2001 (C) Phil Derby / Sequences Magazine) If you wish to order, please respond to this email, keeping the line=20 below in the email: [RHMR200010]