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.
"François Dufrêne (1930-1982) is one of the leading artists from the post-war European and French art scene. He played a key role in many of the initiatives of Lettrism, Nouveau Réalisme and sound poetry. In François Dufrêne's oeuvre, art and poetry intersect in a ...
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9789727391790 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Recordings from the legendary Judson Dance Theater in New York (1958-64) feat. Michael Corner, Jim Fulkerson, Daniel Goode, Dick Higgins, Malcolm Goldstein, Norma Marder, Max Nauhaus. Digipack first press of 1000 copies, including a 12 pages booklet with liner notes, ...
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PLANA-C25NMN.056 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Recordings from the legendary Judson Dance Theater in New York (1959-71) feat. A-yo, David Behrman, Jim Fulkerson, Malcom Goldstein, Dick Higgins, Joe Jones, Alison Knowles, Jackson Mac Low, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, Chieko Shiomi. Digipack first press of 1000 ...
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PLANA-C24NMN.055 | ALGA MARGHEN
Contains "Assassins 1", Assassins 2" (recorded in 1977), "Assasins 3" and "Assassins 4" (recorded in 2005).
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PLANA-11TES.063M | ALGA MARGHEN
"Utopia andata e ritorno is the title of the new composition by Walter Marchetti, recorded in MIlano in 2005. It has two parts, each one CD long. The first part, 'L'andata,' puts together two former recordings of Marchetti. The recording of a real storm and a recital ...
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PLANA-M26NMN.059 | ALGA MARGHEN
"NADMA was officially born between August and the beginning of September 1972 during the time spent in a little village in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. The identity and musical orientation of the collective centered on the convergence of heterogeneous interests and ...
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PLANA-N10TES.060 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Milk from Cheltenham is the first in a series of alga marghen editions documenting the activities of the It's War Boys underground label, founded by Amos (of The Homosexuals fame) in the late 1970s. The original LP was issued in an edition limited to 300 copies (most ...
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PLANA-M8TES.057 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Released in 1979 in a limited edition on his own d'Avantage label, Catalogue, with its overt theatricality is every bit as wild as the previous Paralleles. Not really jazz, not rock, having nothing to do with contemporary music either, Catalogue it's a kind of sonic ...
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PLANA-B9TES.058 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Four realizations of Karlheinz Stockhausen. Each of these four recorings is a document of a true solo performance, one person and two hands, with no additional live help and no overdubbing. This cd also offers four different kinds of beauty, four proofs that the ...
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PLANA-N23NMN.054 | ALGA MARGHEN
"This compact disc offers multiple realizations by the solo percussionist Max Neuhaus of scores by three key members of the New York School: Earle Brown (three realizations of "Four Systems - For Four Amplified Cymbals", recorded between 1964 and 1968), Morton Feldman ...
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PLANA-N22NMN.052 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Five early electronic compositions including "Sine Tone Study" (1967); "Open Closing" (1968), created through speed alterations of "Holy 1+2"; "Seven Organism Study" (1968); "Negative Sound Study" (1969) and "Timbral for Pran Nath" (1970). Late night electronic ...
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PLANA-P19NMN.047 | ALGA MARGHEN
"The first record released by Ghedalia Tazartes in 1979. Far away from contemporary music intellectualisms or from synthetical noise purists, this was certainly one of the most original and creative records of the 70s featuring a new form of musical expression...the ...
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PLANA-1TES.005 | ALGA MARGHEN
"The compact disc by Anton Bruhin issued by Alga Marghen is titled r o t o m o t o r and covers two different areas of the artist's research. The first one is represented by a group of works including the short and mysterious environmental recording 'ORAX' as well as ...
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PLANA-6TES.041 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Jacques Berrocal has been very active since the beginning of the 1970s. No one in France could mix jazz, improvisation, rock'n'roll, punk, no wave, spoken words and industrial music like him. He also had a central position in the creation of d'Avantage, a collective ...
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PLANA-B5TES.037 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Holy1 and Holy2 were both recorded in NYC in 1967. The sounds were played very very loud making all the room and objects in it resonate while outside all was quiet and sleeping. Holy1 & Holy2 were done this way. Then, in 1969 Tony Conrad asked Charlemagne Palestine to ...
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PLANA-P13NMN.035 | ALGA MARGHEN
"The first record ever produced by Ben Patterson: 'This is not only my first CD, but also the first recordings of these works available to the general public.' Starting as a virtuoso double-bass performer of classical music, Ben Patterson was one of the very first ...
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PLANA-P8NMN.028 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Gong + presents three previously unpublished compositions by Philip Corner recorded in New York City, 1974. 'Metal Meditations with Listening Center', a 29 minutes long piece, is a collaboration between Philip Corner and Bill Fontana. At that time Bill Fontana was very ...
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PLANA-C17NMN.042 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Coming after two CDs previously issued for Alga Marghen (Antibarbarus in 1998 and Nei Mari del Sud in 1999) these 'Ten Pieces in the Form of Painful Variations' dispose in their unceasing and implacable sequence the landing at an anaphorical finis terrae, the extreme ...
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PLANA-M16NMN.039 | ALGA MARGHEN
