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.
"There are records that stimulate curiosity to the extreme, records that make you want to dissolve yourself into the intense and beautiful surprise this music will bring. It is undeniable to the delighted ear that this exhumed document contains all the assets of the ...
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PLANA-TALGA043/D'AV06 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Sidestepping all normal expectations on this album, Ju Suk Reet Meate (founding member of Smegma) directly goes about casting musical spells, utilizing primitive "inner mind" techniques on hammered dulcimer, tape loops, thrift store records, a homemade synthesizer, ...
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PLANA-J19TES.153 | ALGA MARGHEN
"In 1973, when Smegma (the band) was born they had only one rule: No Musicians! That way they could re-invent the musical wheel with a new primitive, suburban, anti-hippie approach. 44 years later perhaps the world is ready for the first full LP of this original, ...
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PLANA-S20TES.154 | ALGA MARGHEN
"In 2010 Brunhild Ferrari decided to make public some of Luc Ferrari's original sound archives by offering a selected collection of recordings to other composers who may wish to use the material for the creation of original musical works.Her desire was to open this ...
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PPRP001 | ALGA MARGHEN
""Antibarbarus", issued as a compact disc in 1998, was the first edition Walter Marchetti released on alga marghen. Unavailable for distribution for more than a decade, we decided to present this masterpiece now as a double LP. In full color gatefold sleeve and printed ...
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PLANA-M3NMN.150 | ALGA MARGHEN
"These previously unissued recordings from the Porn Art Movement (1980-1982) include five performances recorded live on Ipanema Beach in 1982, as well as a selection of previously unheard studio recordings of Eduardo Kac yell-poems. Kac fused existing coarse and curse ...
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PLANA-K27VOCSON098 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Composed in 1994, the "Concerto for the left hand" belongs to an ongoing series of works written between 1994 and 1997: "Con vista sui suoni", "Eight or Nine Movements for String Quartet" and "La perdita del tempo" which develop from a preceding composition titled ...
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PLANA-M36NMN.092 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Composed in 1994, the "Concerto for the left hand" belongs to an ongoing series of works written between 1994 and 1997: "Con vista sui suoni", "Eight or Nine Movements for String Quartet" and "La perdita del tempo" which develop from a preceding composition titled ...
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PLANA-M36NMN.092 | ALGA MARGHEN
"The sound work of Intersystems cannibalized stray bits of McLuhanism, psychedelia, Cagean experimentalism, and even the modernist gestural strains of nascent electronic music, yet it was all couched within a very particular DIY ethos. "Peachy" pushes the meticulousness ...
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PLANA-I37NMN.093-2 | ALGA MARGHEN
"LSD and other hallucinogens were very popular sources of inspiration in the late 1960's. While Intersystems work was also fixated on inebriated euphoria and perceptual distortion, their sonic barrages also evoked the heightened awareness, intermittent psychosis, ...
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PLANA-I37NMN.093-1 | ALGA MARGHEN
"First historical edition! "Number One Intersystems" LP, presenting the correct side sequence and featuring for the first time the original tracks sub-section divisions. Original 1967 avant-press sleeve designed by Michael Hayden. "Peachy" LP, including for the first ...
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PLANA-I37NMN.093 | ALGA MARGHEN
"First historical edition! "Number One Intersystems" CD presenting the correct sequence and featuring for the first time the original tracks sub-section divisions. "Peachy" CD including for the first time the original tracks separations, timings and titles. "Free ...
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PLANA-I38NMN.094 | ALGA MARGHEN
"PoorManMusic (1966). Homemade noise made, among others, by Philip Corner, Max Neuhaus, Steve Reich, James Tenney, Malcolm Goldstein, Jackson Mac Low, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, Carolee Schneemann, Jerome Rothenberg. the Technicians of the Sacred. Gift Event III: A ...
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PLANA-CALGA48 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Might it be as a 'detournement' of Artaud's famous collection and masterpiece "Le theatre et son double" that Gil J Wolman calls this recording "Wolman et son double"? Artaud's conference at the Vieux Colombier theater on January 13, 1947 had a major impact on the ...
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PLANA-W26VOCSONO091 | ALGA MARGHEN
"New remastered CD edition of David Behrman "Wave Train" CD, featuring Sonic Arts Union. David Behrman experimental music from 1959 to 1968. The CD starts with the short piece called "Canons", a product of a 3 weeks stage in Darmstadt (summer 1959) featuring David Tudor ...
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PLANA-B5NMN.020 | ALGA MARGHEN
"New remastered CD edition of Robert Ashley "The Wolfman". This edition introduces us to the most extreme experimental side of the famous American composer. The program starts with "The Fox" (1957), the first electronic music work by Robert Ashley which already displays ...
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PLANA-A20NMN.048 | ALGA MARGHEN
"alga marghen proudly presents "CharleBelllzzz at Saint Thomas", a CD in tri-folded digipak sleeve including the original Bells Studies by Charlemagne Palestine. "sixSIXsix"th chapter of the "Golden Research" series, these previously unreleased tracks are both some of ...
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PLANA-P35NMN.090 | ALGA MARGHEN
"2015 repress. This lavish set includes the complete Ghédalia Tazartès recordings previously issued on CD by Alga Marghen. This edition is presented in a newly designed slipcase box including 4 CDs in elegant slim digipak sleeves. Diasporas is the CD edition of ...
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PLANA-11TES.063 | ALGA MARGHEN
"2015 repress. Remastered CD edition of Une éclipse totale de soleil, Ghédalia Tazartès' third LP, originally released in 1984. Far away from contemporary music intellectualisms and the works of synthetic noise purists, this album features a new form of musical ...
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PLANA-1TES.005 | ALGA MARGHEN
"New remastered version! New bonus tracks! New remastered CD edition of 'Tazartès', Ghédalia Tazartès forth LP, presented here in its integral original length. Also included is the first CD edition of 'Whatever Works Singing Wild My Rock Ghédalia' (previously issued ...
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PLANA-16TES.089 | ALGA MARGHEN
"New remastered version! New bonus tracks! New remastered CD edition of "Tazartès' Transports", Ghédalia Tazartès second LP, presented here with new bonus tracks. Also included are "Assassins 1 to 4" (previously issued as "Les danseurs de la pluie" miniCD), as well ...
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PLANA-15TES.011 | ALGA MARGHEN
Cello Anthology, Vol. 3 "Of the famous "TV Cello", conceived by Nam June Paik for Charlotte Moorman as a 'living sculpture', this CD offers an in-situ recording released on one of the three days inaugurating the Paik retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in ...
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PLANA-M27NMN064.3 | ALGA MARGHEN
MOORMAN, CHARLOTTE - CELLO ANTHOLOGY VOL. 4 - THE LONG HOT SUMMER / INTERVIEW OCT. 1969 / WAITING FOR COMMERCIALS (CD)
Cello Anthology, Vol. 4 "This CD restores three documents, collateral the the Concerts recordings issued on the other three Charlotte Moorman CDs but definitely not secondary. One happy example is a choral work performed on the 3rd of September 1964, during the second ...
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PLANA-M27NMN064.4 | ALGA MARGHEN
Cello Anthology, Vol. 2 "This CD presents a concert from July 25th,1966 in the Theatersaal in Aachen, Germany. As for the New York concert on September 12th, 1964, the recordings of this European concert well represent the kind of performances that Moorman and Paik ...
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PLANA-M27NMN064.2 | ALGA MARGHEN
"This CD highlights an exceptional document, a performance recorded by radio station WBAI in New York on September 12th, 1964. This event superbly represent the type of repertoire that Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik cultivated and proposed in the US, in the years ...
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PLANA-M27NMN064.1 | ALGA MARGHEN
