8999 Sun Ra : Toward The Stars (Pioneering In 1955-1956) A compilation of Sun Ra’s pioneering mid 50s work in Chicago – key years in Ra’s evolution that find him taking familiar styles of the time, from doo wop to bebop – and sending them into the stratosphere on a vessel that’s all Ra! All [...]
8998 VA : Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961-1973 This is an excellent and essential compilation of vintage first-generation electronic music from one of the most well-known electronic music studios. Tracklisting: 1. Bulent Arel – Postlude from “Music for a Sacred Service” {4:01} 2. Charles Dodge – Earth’s Magnetic Field {14:08} 3. Ilhan Mimaroglu – Prelude [...]
8994 Houle / Parker / Delbecq – La Lumire De Pierres Delbecq and Houle had often discussed expanding their collaborative concept to include a third person, so in 2005, when composer Michel Frigon invited them to perform at his Innovations concert series in Montral with Evan Parker, they seized the opportunity to record this new [...]
8985 Dficit Des Annes Antrieures- Lernen 5 Submusic tape,1985,France Here comes a strange litle tape from 1985,released of course through Illusion Prods.What we have here a somekind of aural lecture about post modern experimental music(post art brut/post musique concrete,etc) ,called generally submusic. All this of course in the very unique DDAA way.Packed as always in [...]
8984 Bark! – Contraption The second CD by the trio of Rex Casswell (electric guitar), Phillip Marks (percussion) and Paul Obermayer (samples). Bark! take their group virtuosity to new areas, creating beautiful jagged, sharp edged textures propelled by some of their tightest, strangest, most powerful rhythmic designs yet. James Brown meets the spirit of Modernism! [...]
8979 fORCH – Spin Networks Recorded at the SWR New Jazz Meeting in December 2005, is the first release from an ongoing project in which FURT is expanded into an electroacoustic octet with a unique collective sound, where vocals, instruments and electronics coalesce into a dense but transparent vortex. Label: Psi/Emanem Cat. #: psi 07.05/6 [...]
8978 ANNE GILLIS : BISHERIGORI LP, 1986, FRANCE As requested and following posts by both Jim and moi of, respectively, her Aha and Lxgrin albums, Bishirigori (her fourth LP) demonstrates a rather more homogenous and subtle dimension of her sonic explorations, with much focus placed on harmonically shimmering and resonating metallic sonorities and attenuated drifts [...]
8967 piero umiliani : Musica Dell’era Tecnologica Impulsi Catene Di Montaggio Omini Fruitori Computer Nevrotico Virus in Amore Blues Machine Lultimo Pastorello Finalissimo Atomico Antiquariato Requiem Per Un Autotreno Danza Dei Rocchetti Marcia Dei Robots Consumismo ULTRA RARE experimental lp by the genius Piero Umiliani …. Very special and rare material…… Recorded at the soundworkshop [...]
8956 BRUME : HYSTERICAL CDR, 1999, FRANCE French experimental electronic composer, here’s one of my favorite releases of his. Hysterical culls together a selection of alternate mixes from tracks first featured on assorted cassette releases of his, as well as tracks from many different cassette compilations, all also appearing in different versions here and in [...]
8946 Robert Schroeder: Galaxie Cygnus A (1982) Robert Schroeder’s lost “astral musique concrete” (it isn’t really musique concrete, but I just love this buzzword…) piece Galaxie Cygnus A which hasn’t been put onto CD yet. The piece blends Schroeder’s popular space electronics with star sounds recorded from a radio telescope – the whole thing was [...]
