HELMUT LEMKE-SCHLICTE SUSSE 3″ CD, 1993, GERMANY Highly cryptic audio art from this enigmatic Germany improvisor integrating location recordings with arcane improv gestures in a very Bernard Vitet-like fashion. http://modisti.org/sys/archivo/zip.png” border=”0″> Download (members): http://modisti.com/ccount/click.php?id=105
Echo City : GRAMOPHONE (1987) Susie Honeyman – violin, phones, violin. Paul Shearsmith – trumpet, didgeridoo, phones/bells. Giles Leaman – percussion, didgeridoo, various phones, oboe. Rob Mills – alto/tenor saxes, various phones, percussion. Giles Perring – drums, percussion, various phones/bells, slide/guitar. Guy Evans – drums, percussion, various phones/bells, trumpet. + David Sawyer – boobongs (5), [...]
Wilhelm Killmayer (AGP60) I’m really excited about AGP60. It is the first of two featuring orchestral works by Wilhelm Killmayer, a German composer who managed to combine late 20th century techniques with tonal harmonies that in places sound right out of the orchestral tone poems of Franz Liszt, in a way that is musically intriguing [...]
Vinny Golia : Spirits in Fellowship recorded October 1977 NineWinds Records NW 0101 Vinny Golia, tenor and baritone saxophones, sho, piccolo, c and alto flutes, bass and alto recorders, percussion, John Carter, Bb clarinet, Roberto Miranda, bass, Alex Cline, drums, percussion 1. Anger (the transmutation of negative energy to positive) 2. The Human Beings (dedicated [...]
Lino Capra Vaccina : Antico Adagio LP,1978,Italy Lina ‘Capra’ Vaccina has studied percussions, piano and composition, and started his musical carrer with the band Aktuala, then he worked for Franco Battiato, along with he formed the short-living project ‘Telaio Magnetico’; after those experiences he released an amazing album, ‘antico adagio’, before disappear until the 90s, [...]
Marshall McLuhan -The Medium is the Message MLP,1967,USA Herbert Marshall McLuhan CC (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar– a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communications theorist. McLuhan’s work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory. McLuhan is [...]
GREGORY WHITEHEAD : THE PLEASURE OF RUINS AND OTHER CASTAWAYS CD, 1993, USA Perversions, inversions, defacings and distortions of speech and breath patterns woven with great skill and love into sickly dazzling little surrealistic audio vignettes by this singular American audio artist. Note: this lengthy CD has been divided into two parts. http://modisti.org/sys/archivo/zip.png” border=”0″> Download [...]
LIEUTENANT CARAMEL : S/T CD, 1989, FRANCE Here’s another stellar outing from this underrated surrealist sonic alchemist, interestingly issued on the electroacoustic imprint Metamkine, one of the first instances of the electroacoustic community acknowledging the work of electronic composers emerging from the post-industrial scene. This lengthy CD has been divided into two parts. http://modisti.org/sys/archivo/zip.png” border=”0″> [...]
LOL COXHILL-COUSCOUS LP, 1983, UK With a full roster of Nato label notables at his disposal (Steve Beresford, Jac Berrocal, Mike Cooper, Roger Turner, Georgie Born and Joelle Leandre to name just a few), this legendary soprano/sopranino sax master tackles some oddly disparate idioms on Couscous. Unusually, the album begins not with any Coxhill music, [...]
Philip Corner – 3 Pieces for Gamelan Ensemble Fluxus Bio on Corner “‘Gamelan’ means for Philip Corner more than the name for Indonesian orchestras. The composer uses the word the way, apart from Europe, someone might say ‘symphony’. A basis of making music, adding a few wonderful ideas from the Orient: a precise relation between [...]
