ALGA MARGHEN
Groundbreaking Italian label, founded in 1996 by Emanuele Carcano and specialised in sound poetry, artists' records, 20th century composition and outsider music. The huge catalogue includes releases by Hermann Nitsch, Charlemagne Palestine, Ghedalia Tazartes, Eliane Radigue, Philip Corner, Walter Marchetti, Intersystems, Anton Bruhin and many others.
"New volume of the Avant Marghen series issued in a numbered edition of 80 copies only. This luxury black boxset edition actually includes the fifth group of 7 LPs previously issued for the VocSon series and now sold out. Each individual LP record includes a numbered ...
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PLANA-VAALGA0:5 | ALGA MARGHEN
Edition of 100 copies, including an insert with liner notes and photo documentation of the installation, printed in the Reflex Blue color conceived for the Italian Pavillion of the Art Biennale in Venice. Record labels and sticker on the front cover exclusive to this ...
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plana-BB52NMN171BI | ALGA MARGHEN
"Herman Damen is a Dutch artist and language designer who, among other things, has created visual poems, performance works and verbosonies - a genre that Damen developed where vocalised morphomic elements are assembled in different ways. In his works he has been ...
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plana-D33VocSon174 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Phill Niblock "Boston / Tenor / Index", presents for the first time some of the earliest works by the American composer, inluding the three never before released "Index" (1969), "Tenor" and "Boston III" (both from 1972), thus making it possible to discover Niblock's ...
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plana-N 54NMN175 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Alga marghen proudly presents the previously unreleased "Collage 2" and "Collage 3 (Dies irae)" for magnetic tape, both realised at the Studio di Fonologia Muisicale RAI in Milan with the technical collaboration of Marino Zuccheri. These pieces are precious ...
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plana-C 49NMN167 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Phill Niblock "Boston / Tenor / Index", presents for the first time some of the earliest works by the American composer, inluding the three never before released "Index" (1969), "Tenor" and "Boston III" (both from 1972), thus making it possible to discover Niblock's ...
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plana-N 54NMN17 | ALGA MARGHEN
"While preparing a new edition of Anton Bruhin works, alga marghen discovered some misterious tapes by Hans Krasi. Fascinated by the raw and brut contents of those sounds, mixing field recordings of insects, sheeps and distant bells with primitive chanting, percussive ...
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PLANA-KALGA023 | ALGA MARGHEN
"In Là" is the outcome of the collaboration between Gavin Bryars and the Italian visual artist Massimo Bartolini. Staged as a large-scale installation at the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art in Prato, Italy, (the opening was in autumn of 2022 and the exhibition ...
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plana-BB52NMN171 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Alga marghen very proudly presents the last chapter from the Feedback Works documentation series, a brand new LP including "In Memoriam-Ostinato" and "Danse des Dakinis", two previous unreleased tracks by Eliane Radigue. Among the works of fixed duration from the ...
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PLANA-R51NMN170 | ALGA MARGHEN
2022 repress "alga marghen very proudly presents "Opus 17", a major turning-point in the sonic oeuvre of Eliane Radigue. Finished in 1970 it was the last work composed with feedback materials. From that experimental period "Opus 17" preserves the plastic character: a ...
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PLANA-PALGA045S | ALGA MARGHEN
"Live recording at the Rotonda del Pellegrini, Milan, January 21st, 1959 featuring John Cage, Morton Feldman, Juan Hidalgo, Leopoldo La Rosa, Walter Marchetti. edition includes a 36 pages essay with photos and full documentation of the event." (label info)
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PLANA-11NMN.031 | ALGA MARGHEN
"This is alga marghen's third installment of Smegma's original "Suburban Primitive Avant-folk music" Period (1973-1975) based in Pasadena, featuring three previously unreleased tracks from the deep vault of their home recordings. In the beginning, the Band Smegma had ...
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PLANA-S23TES.169 | ALGA MARGHEN
"alga marghen proudly present "Underground Altena", two visionary long-form works by Anima Sound, the radically freedom-pursuing Paul & Limpe Fuchs duo. 1973 represented a peak for Anima sonic explorations into sculptural sound at the crossing of Kraut Rock, free jazz ...
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PLANA-A48NMN166 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Among Corner's most fascinating works are those created between 1962 and 1964, during the period when he was resident composer at the Judson Dance Theatre, one the great occurrences in the emergence of avant-garde dance, movement, Happenings, and performance art. Even ...
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PLANA-C44NMN160 | ALGA MARGHEN
"alga marghen prsents the second and final chapter in documenting Charlemagne Palestine and Simone Forti seminal collaborations. The new "Meditative Sound Environments" LP is more centered around electronic music and also includes a unique two-voice work based on ...
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PLANA-PF31VOCSON161 | ALGA MARGHEN
2022 remastered reissue "The three previously unreleased recordings on this LP were made between October and December 1971. The first take titled "Illumination" is for two voices moving in the space with small bells and crystal glasses while Simone Forti plays the ...
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PLANA-PF21VOCSON082 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Sound poetry, concrète collage and tape music abstractions with unique feel for acoustics, spanning works from 1976-1978. Originally issued in 2001 by alga marghen, this new edition is presented for the first time in a brown paper stamped envelope and has been made ...
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PLANA-B6TES.041X | ALGA MARGHEN
"alga marghen proudly present the new 4CD edition of the complete cycle titled "Vogelsang / Vogelsong / Vogelsung / Vögelsäng" from 1977. First issued on the occasion of Anton Bruhin's exhibition at the Centro Culturale Svizzero in Milano in 2015, these works are now ...
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PLANA-B18TES.096.2 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Produced in collaboration with the legendary Jac Berrocal's label d'Avantage, "More Intra Musique" is the second LP in alga marghen's series dedicated to previously unreleased recording by the drummer and experimentalist Jacques Thollot. While the furious "Intra ...
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PLANA-TALGA043.2/D'AV08 | ALGA MARGHEN
"alga marghen proudly presents Luc Ferrari's Atelier de Liberation de la Musique, a collective he created together with Martin Davorin Jagodic, Philippe Besombes and Alain Petit in 1975 for a series of performances at the Galliera Museum in Paris. It was in those years ...
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PLANA-F43NMN.156 | ALGA MARGHEN
Repress with blue Sticker ""Sounds of Silence" is an anthology of some of the most intriguing silent tracks in recording history and includes rare works, among others, by Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Maurice Lemaitre, Sly & the Family Stone, Robert Wyatt, John Denver, ...
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PLANA-VAALGA046 | ALGA MARGHEN
""Phonopoetics" is the first ever survey of seminal Hungarian artist Katalin Ladik's sonic efforts. A thing of beauty, drawing from the period between 1968 and 1993, its two stunning sides shatter the lines between performance, the spoken word, fine art, and ...
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PLANA-L30VOCSON157 | ALGA MARGHEN
"In the mid-1970s Anton Bruhin was surely at the peak of his tape manipulation works. Always using poor techniques and equipment he sculpted everyday-life sonic objects turning them into very accomplished and yet totally experimental music artifacts. The works presented ...
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PLANA-B32VOCSON163 | ALGA MARGHEN
"alga marghen proudly presents "Water Angels", an LP with previously unreleased tracks by Katalin Ladik, following the monumental "Phonopoetics" from 2019. "Water Angel", the title track, is a side-long work from 1989. It began its life containing a plice of "O Fortuna" ...
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PLANA-L45NMN162 | ALGA MARGHEN
