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AKIYAMA, MITCHELL IF NIGHT IS A WEED AND DAY GROWS LESS

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CD

€14.80
"recorded in montréal, canada, the 4th solo cd by mitchell akiyama, marks a more concerted return to akiyama's classical roots. all eight pieces grew out of four piano compositions that were torn apart and reassembled - fragments of one piece contaminating another - reordered melodies, hidden references, obscured refrains." (label info)

AKIYAMA, MITCHELL SMALL EXPLOSIONS THAT ARE YOURS TO KEEP

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CD

€14.80
akiyama's fourth and most ambitious solo recording is a sprawling work that bristles, burns and slouches with emotion. 'small explosions that are yours to keep' came into being at the twilit edges of composition and digital manipulation and sets billowing strings drifting around household gamelans while shimmering guitars drown in saxophone waves. (label info)

ANARCHIST REPUBLIC OF BZZZ S/T

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LP

€13.90
"the exceptional and ephemeral reunion of two cult guitarists (marc ribot & arto lindsay) and two inspired and engaged rappers (sensational & mike ladd), with seb el zin at the helm. the group displays a level of urgency too rare nowadays. these five musicians break free from all the music rules and transcend all styles. this isn't free jazz per se, nor free improvisation or dub or hip-hop - actually, the anarchist republic of bzzz's sonic manifesto is simultaneously all that. this album is released exclusively on lp, in a scandalous sleeve designed by kiki picasso." (label info)

ART ZOYD EXPERIENCES DE VOL

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3CD

€21.90
"at last, we are happy that this vast enterprise is finally released. basically, it was a challenge: ask to 13 composers around the world to create a piece for ensemble musiques nouvelles - directed by jean-paul dessy (but founded by henri pousseur in 1962). from europa, usa or japan, try to explore the compositional frame of today's creators and not only in the well-known 'comtemporary scene' but to push further the boundary and discover the unexpected result of some of the greatest names of the today's electronic world." (label info) feat. kasper t.toeplitz, david shea, horatio radulescu, ryoi ikeda, gerard hourbette, fausto romitelli, jean-paul dessy and many more." (label info) back in stock!

ASAD QIZILBASH SAROD RECITAL LIVE IN PESHAWAR

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CD

€14.80
"asad qizilbash is the only sarod player in pakistan since 1992, keeping this traditional instrument and its music alive. asad was born in 1963 to the famous violinist k.h. qizilbash, who was responsible for closing the gap between western and eastern classical music. after attending a concert performed by his future master, ustad amjad ali khan, asad decided to devote himself to the instrument. today, asad qizilbash has the honour to perform regularly at his president's house where head of state representatives, monarchs, diplomats and guests from all around the world have witnessed and appreciated his unique style of classical narration." (label info)

BARUCH, BEN THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS 1949-1950

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2CD

€18.90
"this box set reissues the complete recordings of yitshak jacques zaludkowski (ben-baruch) published on 78-rpm picture discs by "saturne" in 1950. nine discs were recorded under rené cloërec's direction, the other two under léon algazi's. also included are "yehi rotson" and "shabes baym shalesh-shudes," two songs found on a non-picture disc record released by "le disque folklorique yiddish." this singer's repertoire is diversified: synagogal-like religious songs in hebrew ("kaddish," "kol nidrey"), yiddish songs ("kinderyorn"), songs about religious topics in hebrew ("haben yakir," dedicated to his father) or yiddish ("zol nokh zayn shabbes"), and songs in hebrew about the inception of the state of israel ("artseynu," "vu ahin zol ikh geyn"). jacques studied at the charles buls community school and later took evening singing classes at one of brussels music academies. he attended the synagogue on lenglentier street. between 1937 and 1940, jacques worked part-time in zionist leader léon kubowitzki's law firm and part-time in the latter's comité d'action economique in brussels, which worked toward a boycott of german products and would eventually become part of the brussels council of jewish organizations." (label info)

BATES, MARTYN YOUR JEWLED FOOTSTEPS

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CD

€14.80
"during those 20 years, against all odds, martyn bates (eyeless in gaza) managed to shape a unique, instantly recognizable form of music - that voice! - based on a deeply rooted, 100% english folk tradition. in our opinion, he is also greatly underrated as a songwriter. in his solo work and in eig, he has developed what can be called a style: a combination of angst (a working-class hero) and pure melancholia (time irremediably lost, the loss of idealized love), mixed in with an unconditional love of poetry (keats, yeats, joyce) and authentic popular song stylings. in other words, martyn bates belongs to a tradition that can be traced all the way back to the troubled times of the elizabethan era. your jewled footsteps journeys through made-in-england pop, folk, poetry recitation and reconstructions of songs whose origins are long forgotten. in addition to bates' essential pieces, the collection also includes several previously unreleased tracks, including some pre-industrial sound works predating eig's formation, in the late '70s." (label info) 20 tracks, 77 minutes lenght, 8 pages deluxe digipack + full booklet with all lyrics & credits.

BERTHET, PIERRE EXTENDED LOUDSPEAKERS

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CD

€14.80
"jerrycans connected by a network of steel wires, each wire length and can location is adapted to the space. a loudspeaker is slipped inside one of the cans; the sounds it broadcasts make the wires vibrate. when these sounds are modulated (pitch, timbre, volume, density), the cans produce various resonances, which can be injected back into the speaker (feedback). the cans are hanging, so that listeners can circulate and choose different listening perspectives. berthet works with frédéric le junter, pierre bastien, arnold dreyblatt etc." (label info)

BISK STRANGE OR FUNNY-HAHA?

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CD

€5.90

BOKAR RIMPOCHE TEACHING: SACRED CHANTS & TIBETAN RITUALS

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CD

€14.80
"these recordings match guy maezelle's film bokar rimpoche: maître de méditation and feature sacred chants recorded by bokar rimpoche himself and ritual music from the mirik monastery (himalayan mountains in northern india, between bhutan and nepal)." (label info)

BRÖTZMANN, CASPAR / PAGE HAMILTON ZULUTIME

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CD
(used)

€10.00

BUDD / BERNOCCHI, HAROLD / ERALDO MUSIC FOR FRAGMENTS FROM THE INSIDE

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CD

€14.80
"an astonishing piano player drifts on beats and scapes. recorded during a magic night in the courtyard of a siena renaissance italian palazzio where the lightness of harold budd meets eraldo bernocchi deep electronics. beats and bass, drones and scapes ties together harmonically to meet one of the most emotionally involving piano player/composer." (label info)

BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S BREAK THROUGH IN GREY ROOM

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LP

€13.90
"extraodinary cut-up voices recorded during the mid-60's in hotel rooms in new york, paris, london... it's impossible not to recognise the writer's voice - the sonority of this voice - a sonority also present in the silence of every text he wrote. an explosion of styles - a blasting of borders - the silence after a gunshot - the overtaking of the fetishized word - from the exploded painting to the cut tape." (label info) limited re-issue of 800 copies.

BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. BREAK THROUGH IN GREY ROOM

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CD

€14.90
"extraodinary cut-up voices recorded during the mid-60's in hotel rooms in new york, paris, london... it's impossible not to recognise the writer's voice - the sonority of this voice - a sonority also present in the silence of every text he wrote. an explosion of styles -a blasting of borders - the silence after a gunshot - the overtaking of the fetishized word - from the exploded painting to the cut tape. this record starts with a piece of more than 13 minutes, recorded around 1965 with ian sommerville somewhere in new york and london - k-9 was in combat with the alien mind-screens, including various monologues, radio short waves and music...tapes, cut and cut and cut up to the limit of sense - emerged new structures of communication... and senses . words gain power when loosing the boundaries of semantics. including too joujouka music recorded by ws burroughs in the hills of morocco with ornette coleman, circa 1973." (label info)

BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S THREE ALLUSIVE TRACKS FROM BREAK THROUGH IN GREY ROOM

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7"

€11.90
"three extracts from one of our absolute classics (ws burroughs: break through in grey room cd-lp sr08), extraodinary cut-up voices recorded during the mid-60's in hotel rooms in new york, paris, london... very limited edition of 300 copies only. labels designed by famous french artist stéphane blanquet" (label info)

CALLA CALLA

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CD

€15.30

CASCONE / SCANNER, KIM THE CRYSTALLINE ADDRESS

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CD

€14.80

CHANGCUN, WANG THE MOUNTAIN SWALLOWING SADNESS

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CD

€14.80
"the young changcun is a complexe noise-maker in the style of the great karkowski. this cd is his first published. his grand hotel piece is more than 40 minutes exploration. wang changcun : for grand hotel, i want to build an architecture in the ear, i am the cicerone when people hang around in the hotel (for me it's a hotel, listener may build any architecture in his ear world). the will to produce noise in such a country is a political action. probably the beginning of something strong. the other track is a field recordings of a burial in the area of harbin, north-east of china." (label info)

CHARLES, CHRISTOPHE UNDIRECTED 1992-2002

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CD

€5.90
"undirected 1992-2002 is an "exploration" through music, texts and photographs, an echo from earth and its inhabitants.composed in tokyo where christophe charles uses to live (he is now associate professor at musashino art university, tokyo), this release is a follow-up to 'undirected 1986-1996' (1997 mille plateaux). charles also remixed microstoria in reprovisers (1997 mille plateaux) and yoshihiro hanno in april remix (2001, sub rosa). he also appeared on oval's 'dok' album (1997 thrill jockey). and worked on several occasion with ikeda ryoji on installations in japan." (label info)

DE MEY, THIERRY PIECES ELECTRONIQUES

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CD

€14.80
"thierry de mey is a composer and filmmaker. much of his musical output is written for dance and film. for choreographers, he works as a composer and also a collaborator in the conception of "formal strategies." his main productions and works are rosas danst rosas (choreography by anne teresa de keersmaeker); what the body does not remember and les porteuses de mauvaises nouvelles (choreographies by wim vandekeybus), musique de table, poses, frisking pour percussions, and several ensemble pieces for maximalist! and ictus. he has been a guest at the brussels university, the montpellier festival, musica, ircams almost 10 years ago, sub rosa released his first opus: 'undo' (sr-39). a love of music, rigorous work ethics and a natural gift for disorderliness are what define him; he loves jimi hendrix and paul valéry, topology, he is also a specialist on mushrooms. composer of both rhythmical and lyrical music, a supporter of the "back to feeling" movement, through his latest works he builds a bridge between contemporary music and the electronic scene." (label info)

DE PUTTER, RENAUD CHERéE

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CD
(used)

€4.00

DE PUTTER, RENAUD CHERéE

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CD

€5.90

DJ SPOOKY RHYTHM SCIENCE

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CD

€14.80
"the result is a complete re-building of the label in 33 pieces." (label info)

DJ SPOOKY SOUND UNBOUND

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CD

€14.80
"the material on this "sound unbound" mix is an audio essay that links artists as diverse as marcel duchamp, vladimir mayakovsky, antonin artaud and allen ginsberg. it also foregrounds some issues that i think the 21st century really needs to understand - art isn't about objects anymore. art is a continuous investigation into humanity's place in the world, it gives us hope and tells us simply, that another world is possible, i hope you listen to the mix and think about it as another kind of text. a text that asks a simple, yet deceptively complex question: where does the 20th century end and the 21st century begin? where do we draw the line between art and objects, art and artifacts? the jazz musician eric dolphy once infamously said "when you hear music, after its over, it's gone, in the air. you can never capture it again." in the era of ubiquitous computing the new vision of music is about omnipresence - the music is everywhere." (dj spooky) come in 6 pages digipack and big wave spectrum poster.

DOCKSTADER, TOD AERIAL (VOLUME 1)

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CD

€14.80
about the aerial project: "when i was very young, people got most of their entertainment from radio. they called it "playing the radio," as if it were a musical instrument. that's what i've tried to do in this piece. about this time, a few people encouraged me to look into using a computer for this work. i'd never used one, but i saw it would allow me to keep my mixes digital - no more transfer losses. so, at the end of 2001, i got a computer and an editing program for it, and spent what seemed a long time learning it. i began selecting mixes and loading them into the computer in late march, 2002. out of the 580, i selected 90 "best" mixes - eventually reduced to 59, the ones on the cds. finally, in assembling the cds, i followed david myers' suggestion to allow each piece to flow into the next - making a continuous journey to the end." (tod dockstader)

DOCKSTADER, TOD AERIAL (VOLUME 2)

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CD

€14.80
"unequivocably awesome...grand in scope, colossal in sound." (mimaroglu music sales)

DOCKSTADER, TOD AERIAL (VOLUME 3)

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CD

€14.80
"this release is the third and last in a 3 part series. vol.1 has been released in march 2005 inside a slipcase's limited edition. vol 2 and 3 are released separately and packaged in individual standard jewel cases that will conveniently fit into the slipcase provided with vol.1." (label info)

DOWNSBROUGH, PETER AND THAT

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LP

€13.90
"the music downsbrough commissioned for the final edit was composed and recorded in 2007: a mix of ambient electric guitar, sweet electro, street field recordings, treatments and voices. as is often the case with downsbrough, the final piece seems to be emerging from a world put between parentheses - music that could last forever, where fragments seem to be missing (just like in his typographical work). it's those missing bits we ceaselessly try to find in this music without beginning or end." (label info)

DUCHAMP, MARCEL ERRATUM MUSICAL

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CD

€9.90
"performed by stephane ginsburgh [piano]. the principle of musical erratum is simple: you choose a keyboard - any keyboard - you draw each note at random - no note can be struck twice, but all are struck - the resulting whole is played without any particular modulation, "a uniformity de rhythm, anaccentuation" says duchamp.tthe premises of minimal and aleatory art are thus expressed in "the green box", published in 1934 (although the writings date back to 1912-15). stephane ginsburg is already known as a great pianist by the critics - he loves to build his concerts as a mix-up of styles - perfect in his performance of robert schumann, morton feldman and karl-heinz stockhausen." (label info)

DUCHAMP, MARCEL THE CREATIVE ACT

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CD

€15.30
contains duchamp's legendary speech "the creative act" from 1957, his reading of "some texts from à l'infinitif" from 1967, two interviews with richard hamilton from 1959 and two short pieces of "erratum musical".

EBTEKAR & THE IRANIAN ORCHESTRA FOR NEW MUSIC, ATA ORNAMENTALISM

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CD

€14.80
"perfect follow-up to the highly acclaimed persian electronic music (sr277), this new persian music album involves a cast of seasoned musicians performing works written by legendary iranian composer alireza mashayekhi; in which ata ebtekar (aka sote) was granted complete creative freedom by mashayekhi himself to transform these compositions into fully realized pieces using his techniques of synthesis and electronic manipulation. it's an organic electrocution without sacrificing the beauty of the performance. these sound sources and compositions were metamorphosed via electronic processing, rearranged and decomposed using sound generators, effect boxes, modular synthesizers and samplers. finally, ebtekar programs synthetic sounds and adds new electronic harmonies, melodies and soundscapes to the sonic palette of western classical music and persian instrumentation for a unique musical experience. sote unites the grace and symmetry of noise and silence inside the magic circle of electronic music composition." (label info)

EISLER / BRECHT WAR & EXIL

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CD

€14.90
marianne pousseur, voice + kaat de windt, piano

EYELESS IN GAZA PLAGUE OF YEARS

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CD

€14.80
"this cd deals with two sides of the group. first is its deeply lyrical vein, with summits like see red and lights of april, tracks that have almost never been included on "best-of" projects, despite the fact that they represent some of the most moving songs these musicians ever wrote. this collection also explores the group's more adventurous side through a number of instrumental pieces. this aspect of their output is little known and often neglected, even though it was there from their very beginnings. these two combining currents, where experimentation precedes lyricism (and the other way around), turn this album into a truly new way of (re)discovering eyeless in gaza. this unique architecture creates the impression that each side strengthens the other one's presence. probably for the first time ever, the 21 tracks so redistributed provide the band with irrefutable arguments toward its rebirth." (label info) songs and instrumentals 1980-2006, 21 tracks, 77 minutes lenght, 8 pages deluxe digipack + full booklet with all lyrics & credits.

FAFCHAMPS, JEAN-LUC ATTRITION

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CD

€14.80
performed by le bureau des pianistes, balanescu quartet, quatuor quadro, laurence cornez, jean-luc fafchamps and martine kivits

FANFARE SAVALE SPEED BRASS OF THE GYPSIES

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CD

€9.90
"a tiny eastern romanian village, called "zece pr_jini", having less than two hundred gypsy inhabitants, where any male can play at least one brass instrument and having probably the largest number of bands in europe - this is the place where the fanfare savale gypsy brass band comes from. from three years old kids to seventy years old grandpas, each person is a skilled and fully trained musician here. these romanian gypsies earn their living by working their lands and playing music at various feast, weddings and funeral services. usually they gather and play music only to cheer themselves up. on the other opportunities, e.g. on the so called "green gypsy thursday" hundred of brass players come together from different villages, to demonstrate their skills, compete and party "in private", without entertaining any audience." (label info)

FELDMAN, MORTON FOR BUNITA MARCUS

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CD

€14.80
"'for bunita marcus' (1985) is the third of the four large works for piano that morton feldman wrote during his last ten years. during his late period feldman was fascinated by what he referred to as crippled symmetry, a compositional strategy he derived from handmade oriental rugs. a pattern will be established and repeated an arbitrary number of times with each repetition having some tiny alteration, usually rhythmic. patterns come and go and return according to feldman's inner logic. there is also usually a pattern that functions more or less like a refrain at significant junctures. with rare exceptions the music is intended to be played as softly as is humanly possible. 'for bunita marcus' is feldman at his most austere. building from a pattern of repeated c-sharps in each hand, the music consists almost entirely of tiny melodic cells of two and three notes. chords are startling and the refrain, a five note scale played as an arpeggio, takes on a significance completely out of scale to the means employed." (label info) performed by stephane ginsburgh.

FELDMAN, MORTON LAST PIECES

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CD

€14.90
performed by stephane ginsburgh

FERRARI, LUC DIDASCALIES

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CD

€14.80
"the idea of bringing together rencontres fortuites, didascalies and tautologos iii - two recent works for piano, viola and electronics, and one open-ended work - imposed itself at a concert at the boendael chapel in brussels. a few months later, we found ourselves in the legendary brème studios, having to deal with the waiting, the tonmeister's mood swings, and luc, sick, having a hard time with long commutes and schedule changes. we were with luc in early july 2005, when he was working with jean-philippe collard-neven and vincent royer on what would become his last recorded piece: a new version of tautologos." (label info)

FERRARI, LUC DIDASCALIES 2

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LP

€13.90
"first record after our luc ferrari trilogy , didascalies 2 is not to be confused with didascalies already published 3 years ago - it's another composition unpublished and a premiere. this production will only released on vinyl. the other day i found a file from 1993, a score for 2 pianos entitled "revenir à la note de départ" ["getting back to the initial note"]. so i decided to turn it into a new composition without changing a single note in it - it contained very little notes actually, which suited me just fine. so i called it didascalies 2, in memory of what i had done the previous year: a piece for piano and viola entitled didascalies tout court. that piece was played on two notes, one for the piano and the same one for the viola. it had an obsessive feel. very, very obsessiiiiiiive !!! luc ferrari" (label info)

FERRARI, LUC DIDASCALIES LIMITED EDITION

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CD + DVD

€18.90
"the idea of bringing together rencontres fortuites, didascalies and tautologos iii - two recent works for piano, viola and electronics, and one open-ended work - imposed itself at a concert at the boendael chapel in brussels. a few months later, we found ourselves in the legendary brème studios, having to deal with the waiting, the tonmeister's mood swings, and luc, sick, having a hard time with long commutes and schedule changes. we were with luc in early july 2005, when he was working with jean-philippe collard-neven and vincent royer on what would become his last recorded piece: a new version of tautologos. a month later, we learned the news. the additional dvd is a real testimony of ferrari's last recording session in his mythic studio. french + english subtitles." (label info)

FERRARI, LUC LES ANECDOTIQUES

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CD

€14.80
"les anecdotiques - his last composition - is a vast sound-film of more than an hour who explores in 15 steps the intensity of re-composed sounds from his continual travel around the world - with electronic additional structures." (label info)

FERRARI, LUC SON MÉMORISÉ

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CD

€14.80
"this album is the central step, the one that offers both a retrospective (the previously unreleased promenade symphonique dans un paysage musical from 1976-78, the final presque rien #4) and a fresh reflection dating from the last months of 2002: saliceburry cocktail, a large-scale composition exploring the idea of hideout, scrambled listening, a tortuous entanglement of concrete and electronic. and that will be the end of our middle step." (label info)

GYSIN, BRION LIVE IN LONDON 1982

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CD

€14.80
"autumn 1982, brixton, london, brion gysin, the eternal accomplice of william burroughs, renews the methods of performance by reciting texts, hastily brought together: tessa, a member of slits, steve, of rip, rig and panic, gile, of penguin café orchestra and ramuntcho matta on guitar. ramuntcho, in the style of brion, called this session 'white funk'. most of the texts were written upon meeting burroughs, at the time of the invention of the cut-up. the influence that brion gysin has had on contemporary music may never be taken fully into account, particularly when he introduced brian jones, of the rolling stones, to the shepard's music of joujouka. those times were still audacious: the music was created during the sound-checks! musically, the choice of traditional instruments expresses the desire to be free of machines (because, as burroughs says, 'we ourselves are machines.'). this recording is evidence of the extraordinary creativity and spontaneity of the musical and artistic scene at that time. it hasn't aged a bit. beyond the nostalgia inspired by the invocation of that bygone cultural scene, there is a call for a creativity of which it is difficult to find examples today." (label info)

GYSIN, BRION ONE NIGHT AT THE 1001 VOL.1

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2CD

€14.80
"in 1954, brion gysin, writer, painter, inventor of the dream machine and favourite collaborator of william burroughs launches his 1001 nights club in tangier. in his mythic restaurant that stays opened only a few months, gysin invited the best traditional moroccan musicians to perform all night long.the first cd of this document is what the lucky western and moroccan customers of the interzone could hear at the time: a varied selection of pure traditional and trance music (along other joujouka master musicians, bachir attar's father). the second volume of this double cd document is based on a spoken word tape called dilaloo thatis a precise description - written and read in 1956 by brion gysin 'master brahim' himself - of an initiation ceremony in the village of jajouka. ramuntcho added a quiet electronic music background generated by a computer algorithm programme that he created in the gysin's random permutative spirit." (label info) reissue in jewelcase

HANNO, YOSHIHIRO APRIL REMIXES

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CD

€5.90
yoshihiro hanno a.k.a multiphonic ensemble begun to perform late 80's, took poetry reading and other role with his avant-garde jazz unit. its sound had a flavour of hip hop elements and method. his 1st album portrait of a poet under his real name yoshihiro hanno has universalistic beauty and received the many compliments from artist like ryuichi sakamoto and jim o'rourke. he composed the music for the movie flowers of shanghai, directed by hou hsiao-hsien, which was nominated to cannes film competition, this was hanno's first movie soundtrack. 1999, he released a 2nd album for sub rosa cirque as 'multiphonic ensemble'. hanno wrote the theme music for the movie called platform directed by chinese director jia jia zhangke who is most respected chinese director in the new generation. hanno's album april music on canvas#1 & canvas#2 (remixes) are now available as one release on sub rosa, including 'canvas#1' in its entirety and a selections of the remixes [oval, christophe charles, hidenobu ito] appearing on the 'canvas #2'. these tracks were only available in japan (on hanno's label cirque) so far from 'classical' music to intense destructuration, a new form of avant-garde. (label info)

HANNO, YOSHIHIRO ES

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CD

€14.80
"yoshihiro hanno explores for years now a wide range of musics: soundtracks, contemporary music, free jazz , drum 'n' bass, fragmented electronica, hip hop... with a definite taste for fusion and destructuration in order to create a new form of avant-garde." (label info)

HARD SLEEPER RAIN / A LEAF SPIRAL

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CD

€5.90
"constructing something ethereal and sublime from the detritus of pop, tentative shapes and melodies are pieced together through fragments of dislocated ounds. drums, piano, analog synthesizers and guitars are cast adrift in particle subtones, allowing music and images to travel a parallel journey through dreamy landscapes. first album-lenght release from dublin based artist, peter maybury." (label info)

HARRIS / BERNOCCHI OVERLOAD LADY

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CD

€16.40

HARRIS / BERNOCCHI TOTAL STATION

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LP
(used)

€15.00

HASHISHEEN THE END OF LAW

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CD

€14.80
"featuring ws burroughs, iggy pop, patti smith, anton fier, ira cohen, percy howard, jah wobble, genesis p-orridge, techno animal, eyeless in gaza. this conceptual project guided and supervised by bill laswell is presenting through, voices and music the ancient (11th century) and mystic story of hasan bin sabbah, alamut the "garden of earthly delights" and the rites of the hashisheens (also called the "assassins")." (label info)

HAYWARD, CHARLES SWITCH ON WAR

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CD

€5.90
"'switch on war' a dream state synthesis of nights watching live tv coverage of the 1st gulf war, the reduction of colours to an electron midnight blue, the long periods of nothing really happening, the contrasting landscapes, (the desert, the city at night, the newsroom), the sudden hurtling through space, through a doorway, a camera on the nose of a missile, the bearing of silent witness slowly turning into complicity and mute acquiescence. at the back of the mind the thought that all this would soon be reduced to snapshot memories, archive, newsreel, history. originally devised as a performance for the club integral, in south london, at the height of the military activity, 'switch on war' was a harsh and brutal response to the media coverage of the conflict informed by a grotesque and disconcerting anti-music aesthetic heavily influenced by the disorientating, overloaded sound world of space invaders arcades. the cd version was recorded binaurally some weeks later, live in a disused morgue, as the war came to its stalemate close. by this time the anger had a bleak streak of sadness, a distorted expressionist requiem. this cd had the life expectancy of a magazine article or some such, no more than a year and it would be archive, a mere souvenir." (charles hayward)

IBIMENI GARIFUNA TRADITIONAL MUSIC

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"the garinagu are the afro-amerindian people with the most transnational presence in central america. with a particular ethnogenesis, produced by the encounter of caribs and arawaks in the lesser antilles, they remained throughout the conquest period, due to the race mixing with black slaves. they interpret their traditional sounds in this album: lullabies, festive chants, processional marches, and songs of religion and labor. livingston is a small region located on the caribbean coast at the river mouth of rio dulce, guatemala - only accessible only by boat or airplane, their isolation allows the conservation of many cultural elements, such as music and dance. the musical expression is based on the group of two, three, and even four drums "garaon" (primera -the high pitched- and segunda -the lowest-) and sonajas "sisiras" that interpret rhythms accompanied by a solo singer and a choir that repeats a verse." (label info)

INUIT 55 HISTORICAL RECORDINGS. TRADITIONAL GREENLANDIC MUSIC

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"more than an hour of ultra-rare documents, the testimony of a century of inuits recordings! as a guide through this abundant material, we included a complete 24 pages booklet... a very helpful complement not only for purists! voices recorded almost hundred years ago in greenland on wax glader cylinders for today, hearing a lost shamanic story, a duel-song, a mounful melody, this record presents an unique collection of drumdance and songs - 55 historical recordings of traditional greenlandic music from1905 (by the british ethnologist william thalbitzer) to 1987 and collected by the danish ethnomusicologist michael hauser. this is - beyond the document in itself - a way to be lost in time and space. hope, happiness, mourning - humanity is right there." (label info)

JECK, PHILIP HOST

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"philip jeck's last opus /host are 4 pieces based on de-structured sounds and accumulation - choirs, electric guitar, vinyls material, echo chamber, voices, electric voltage, distorsions eroded, mixed and "reduced" to a new simplification. with these compositions, jeck continues his exploration of musical stratification." (label info)

KARKOWSKI, ZBIGNIEW ONE AND MANY

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"these life conditions lead to a radical conclusion: the traditional definitions of music are irrelevant and music theories and music as a cultural concept must be destroyed. that is what we find in his latest works, in which his main concern is to produce pieces out of electronic sounds and acoustic walls on scores developed from the architecture of ruins. his last opus called 'who am i' is the exact development of years of theories and practices. as many of karkowski's pieces, this is a highly delicate yet physical work, which can be seen as an ode to loudspeakers." (label info)

KARKOWSKI & TETSUO FURUDATE, ZBIGNIEW WORLD AS WILL III. PERFORMED BY ZEITKRATZER

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"mergence, below the demarcation and mix white conclude the world as will project, started ten years ago, the result of a collaboration between zbigniew karkowski and tetsuo furudate. the first piece arises from an infrabass ocean to crudely develop through a series of distant explosions, percussive energy, and short open cuts. as a whole, the structure is reminiscent of a slow crawling process. tremors follow (with karkowski, something always ends up shaking). for me, the second piece is both the imprint and the development of the first one. furudate's contribution to this joint venture is also easier to grasp. a menace passes by, and we are glad to remain hidden in our hole, letting the beast move along in short bursts (it must be rusty, metallic, torn, scorched). commissioned and performed by the berlin-based ensemble zeitkratzer, the third piece provides a cathartic and tragic conclusion, achieving what could be called a sketch of chaos." (label info)

KEEP, SIMON INTERVIEW WITH THE EGGS

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"simon keep aka holkham is a young londoner, composer, involved in a series of sound installations. the original sound installation consisted of three headphones playing back three different sounds. though the first set of headphones the sound of snow was heard, close up and sounding like dust or sugar. the second was the sound of a buddhist monk meditating in an empty room. the last was the sound of volcanic steam seeping out of the sides of a mountain." (label info)

L-R & RADIOMENTALE I COULD NEVER MAKE THAT MUSIC AGAIN

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"i could never make that music again is a choral album, a sound collage crafted out of interviews,where artists, musicians, djs and sound makers talk openly about their work, their visions, their hopes, their moments of doubts and their regrets in a loosely constructed narrative. even though most of the people interviewed here have just met on a few occasions, they have all participated in the making of the history of electronic music; from the early tape experiments in the 1950s to the latest trends in techno. derrick may and stacey pullen, the pioneers of detroit techno, reply to an audio letter recorded in 1966 at the phillips research laboratory in holland by fred judd talking to a certain tom dissevelt about the lack of commercial interest in electronic music. thirty five years on the musicians of today air their thoughts on the subject. steve reich and the residents swap anecdotes, dj shadow chats to coldcut, rioji ikeda to richie hawtin. autechre reflect on the beauty of machines, a guy called gerald ponders on the cosmic realms of sound, aphex twin remembers his dreams, and mad mike from underground resistance marvels at the forces of nature. the musician and author david toop reflects on the act of listening, and matthew herbert plays around with everyday sounds. the music that accompanies, underlines, perturbs and enrichs this flow of words, mirrors the sonic environment that surrounds us. everyday sounds, samples from hit records, disturbing frequencies and banging machines converse with this polyphonic chorus of voices and memories." (label info)

LASWELL, BILL AFTERMATHEMATICS INSTRUMENTAL

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feat. grandmixer dst. "going urban with some old-school hip-hop ingredients, then dubbing and scratching, laswell is paying tribute to the past of those musical styles and adapting the vibes to the present and future." (label info)

LASWELL, BILL OSCILLATIONS

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drum'n'bass from bill laswell

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