"Laurie Spiegel's second full-length album, Unseen Worlds, arrived just over ten years after her debut album. Having realized the pieces found on The Expanding Universe (1980) on an instrument no longer available to her, the GROOVE System at Bell Laboratories, Spiegel ...
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UWCD22 | UNSEEN WORLDS
"Vinyl reissue of this great tribute to the poetry of Rimbaud and Verlaine made by our favorite French sorcerer, who exceptionally abandones his typical imaginary language to reinterpret six small poems in his own way, jumping from one musical genre to the other and ...
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HOL082 | HOLIDAYS RECORDS
"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
"Though often compared to Frank Zappa, Moondog, Captain Beefheart, Sun Ra, Jandek and Father Yod, Damiao Ferreira da Cruz, better know as Damiao Experiença, it's a truly unique outsider multi-instrumentalist (without even the remote capability to play any of the many ...
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DEPL108 | PLANETA LAMMA
""Upopo Sanke" means "Let's sing a song" in the Ainu language. Umeko Ando (1932-2004) was one of the best-known artists of the Ainu, an indigenous, long-suppressed community in northern Japan. She sings their traditional songs together with Oki Kano on the Tonkori harp, ...
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PINGIPUNG81 | PINGIPUNG
"Die Existenz von Kulturzeitschriften steht einmal wieder auf dem Prüfstand. Die Klage von Lettre International gegen Sinn und Form - wegen Wettbewerbsvorteil als an einer staatlichen Institution herausgegeben Zeitschrift -, die erstmal dazu führte, dass Sinn und Form ...
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136 | POSITIONEN
Boxset with two tapes and a book (German language and photos), 100 copies ""Ich will mich nicht aufspielen aber, sie verzeihen, meine Position ist die des, wie würden sie es nennen, religiös rituellen Spezialisten, was bedeuten wu¨rde, dass man mir alles glaubt. Das ...
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AATP92 | AUF ABWEGEN
"Radial is the result of a vivid creative merge between Esplendor Geometrico and AtomTM. A transparent diamond formed by a heavy implosion. Its underlying massive mechanics are covered by a crystal surface made to cut reality in half. Just one letter short of "radical", ...
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R-M209 | RASTER-NOTON
""Recorded in 1973 during a series of acid-fuelled all-night jam parties held at producer Dieter Dierks studio near Cologne, 'Cosmic Jokers' was the work of a veritable krautrock supergroup that included Dierks himself, Manuel Gottsching (Ash Ra Tempel), Klaus Schulze ...
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KM580096 | KOSMISCHE KURIERE
"Never colonized, Thailand has remained purely itself across the years even while developing, evolving and selectively adopting international influences; the same can be said of Thai popular music, and can be clearly heard in previous releases of Thai music on EM ...
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EM1186LP | EM RECORDS
"YPY is back with his third full-length album, his second on EM Records, following his 2016 debut Zurhyrethm, and 2020 on Where To Now? YPY is the solo alias of Osaka-based Koshiro Hino, who has honed his rhythmic instincts as leader of the acclaimed Japanese band goat ...
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EM1184CD | EM RECORDS