Specials - a-musik

ALVA NOTO & RYUCHI SAKAMOTO - 12 CONVERSATIONS (CD)

The partnership between the legendary musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and the German artist Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto) has produced some of the most distinctive and enduring works in contemporary electroacoustic music. Beginning with Vrioon in 2002, the ...
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N-068-1 | NOTON

ALVA NOTO & RYUCHI SAKAMOTO - 12 CONVERSATIONS (2LP)

The partnership between the legendary musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and the German artist Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto) has produced some of the most distinctive and enduring works in contemporary electroacoustic music. Beginning with Vrioon in 2002, the ...
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N-068-2 | NOTON

NIESWANDT, HANS - EDITS (12")

"Nachdenkliche Wehrpflichtige waren in der Zeit ihrer kurzen Existenz Anfang der 80er Jahre so etwas wie eine "Supergruppe" aus dem Umfeld des Hamburger Musikmagazins "Sounds". Im Zentrum stand bzw. sang Diedrich Diederichsen, andere prominente Mitglieder waren u.a. FM ...
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PUDEL49 | PUDEL PRODUKTE

BASINSKI, WILLIAM - SEPTEMBER 23RD (CD)

"The original piano recordings were made on on a piano belonging to my downstairs neighbor, John Epperson - later known more famously as world-renowned drag artist, Lypsinka - at 351 Jay Street aka Casa Degli Artisti, our first loft in New York. It was recoded with a ...
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TRR435CD | TEMPORARY RESIDENCE

BASINSKI, WILLIAM - LAMENTATIONS (2LP)

"William Basinski's reputation as the foremost producer of profound meditations on death and decay has long been established, but on his new album, Lamentations, he transforms operatic tragedy into abyssal beauty. More than any other work since The Disintegration Loops, ...
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TRR343 | TEMPORARY RESIDENCE

BASINSKI, WILLIAM - CASCADE (CD)

"Cascade and The Deluge are variations on the latest tape-loop and delay composition from the inimitable William Basinski. In Cascade, a single ancient lilting piano tape loop repeats endlessly carrying one along in its tessellating current. In The Deluge, the same loop ...
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2062_1501 | 2062

BASINSKI, WILLIAM - A RED SCORE IN TILE (CD)

"Composed way back in 1979, ,A Red Score In Tile" eventually surfaced as a vinyl-only edition in 2003. Made up of piano, this shows Basinski's patented tape-loop technique perfectly and still stands as one of his most affecting pieces of music. If you've heard ...
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2062.1301 | 2062

BASINSKI, WILLIAM - MELANCHOLIA (CD)

14 short melancholy tape-loops from the early eighties. Remastered and now available on conventional pressed CD in Trim-Pak (previously available as a very limited CDR). "Melancholia is probably the best Basinski's record until now, even if this is hard for me to say ...
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2062 0301 | 2062

BASINSKI, WILLIAM - WATERMUSIC II (CD)

Volume II. Originally issued as a limited CDR in 2003, now reissued as a fully pressed CD. "A certain flavour of composition puts emphasis more on what could be considered 'hang-time' than 'narrative'. Some pieces don't necessarily have to 'go' anywhere in particular, ...
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2062 0302 | 2062

DALT, LUCRECIA - ANTICLINES (CDs - USED m-/m-)

"Lucrecia Dalt's Anticlines is a volume of poetic theory and sound contemplating the bodies of self and earth's surface. On Anticlines, Dalt conjures a sonic space of speculative synthesis and spoken word where South American rhythms rattle contemporary composition ...
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RVNGNL47 | RVNG INTL.

TURNER, SIMON - THE MANY MOODS OF SIMON TURNER (CD - USED m-/m-)

MONDE14CD | RICHMOND RECORDS

MATMOS - THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS (CD - USED m-/vg++)

THRILL316CD | THRILL JOCKEY

ALLEN / KRAMER - HIT MEN (CD - USED m-/m-)

Daevid Allen & Kramer
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SHIMMY-080 | SHIMMY DISC

X & A - RAPPROCHMENT COMME AU CINEMA (12")

POL011 | POLY DANCE THEATRE

IE - REVERSE EARTH (LP)

Emerging from the Minneapolis underground and heading straight towards the sky, IE arrive on Quindi with a full-length album of sparkling, sophisticated wonder. Touching on kosmische grandeur, Riley-esque cyclical patterns, lounge pop and dubbed out psychedelia, the ...
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QUI019 | QUINDI RECORDS

MARINETTI, FORTUNATO DURUTTI - BITTER SWEET, SWEET BITTER (LP)

Known on both sides of the Atlantic for his baroque, poetic approach to songwriting, Fortunato Durutti Marinetti returns with Bitter Sweet, Sweet Bitter-his most sweeping, absurd, and emotionally acute statement to date. Calling it Poetic Jazz Rock-at once a private ...
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QUI018 | QUINDI RECORDS

ANDROO - SCENARIO POUR UN ALBUM (LP)

POL010 | POLY DANCE THEATRE

PLANTS HEAL - FOREST DWELLERS (LP)

Plants Heal is a collaborative project between Dan Nicholls on synths, Dave De Rose on drums and Lou Zon (aka Louise Boer) on visuals. The roots of the project are entwined with Dan and Lou's London-based event Free Movements, which began in 2018 to explore how ...
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QUI021 | QUINDI RECORDS

V.A. - THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO CHINA (3CD - USED m-/m-)

ESGCD324 | UNION SQUARE MUSIC

UNCHAINED - GABBEH (LP)

"A Colourful Storm begins 2024 with a luxurious suite of daydreaming introspection courtesy of Unchained, the longstanding solo project of Nathaniel Davis who was last seen on vinyl in the final Blackest Ever Black release. Recorded at home between 2020 and 2023, Gabbeh ...
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ACOLOUR046 | A COLOURFUL STORM

OLIVEROS, PAULINE & DAVID ROTHENBERG & TIMOTHY HILL - CICADA DREAM BAND (CD - USED m-/m-)

"2013 marked the arrival of millions of periodical cicadas to the New York Metropolitan area. These musical insects appear only once every seventeen years. On the occasion of this auspicious event, David Rothenberg performed a series of concerts together with composer ...
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GR149 | GRUENREKORDER