Specials - a-musik

MCENROE - 5 YEARS IN THE FACTORY (CD)

special offer "Raised in the prairie city of Winnipeg but now based in Vancouver, 26-year-old McEnroe (not, as the man himself puts it, to be confused with that 'washed up tennis guy') offers a grainy, articulate and consistently provocative response to US alt.hip hop. ...
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VFORM038CD | VERTICAL FORM

CALAMALKA - SHREDDERS DUB (CD - USED vg+/m-)

"Vancouver based producer and musician Calamalka (aka Michael Campitelli) is focused on the heavyweight. Drawing inspiration from the intense musical messages of Bad Brains, Public Enemy, and King Tubby he forges dub glowing with rebel fire. Each beat bangs with a ...
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PR49CD | PLUG RESEARCH

V.A. - FLOWERS IN THE WILDWOOD (CD)

"The songs on this CD date from the period before World War 2, when women in the American South started to claim country music for themselves. On these rare recordings you hear the female pioneers of the genre, who were establishing themselves in a man's world." (label ...
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US-0310 | TRIKONT

BAGHDASSARIANS / BALTSCHUN / BOSETTI / DONEDA, SERGE / BORIS / ALESSANDRO / MICHEL - STROM (CD - USED m-/m-)

"Serge Baghdassarians: guitar & mixing desk. Boris Baltschun: sampler. Alessandro Bosetti: soprano saxophone. Michel Doneda: soprano & sopranino saxophones. Recorded at Ausland / Berlin in March 2004.Strom can be considered as a seminal benchmark of the strategies ...
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P204 | POTLATCH

FINE, MILO - IKEBANA (2CD)

Highlights from improvisation sessions featuring multi-instrumentalist Fine (clarinets/drums/piano) during his extended visit to London. CD-A contains an octet with Angharad Davies & Philipp Wachsmann (violins), Simon H Fell, Marcio Mattos & Tony Wren (basses), Matt ...
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EMANEM4213 | EMANEM

LICHT-UNG / POOSTEW - SPLIT (7" - USED m-/m-)

none | PUNK KEIN ROCK

LICHT-UNG - KLAVIER MUSIK SPLIT MIT ELEKTRONISCHEN 80ERTAPES (7")

NUR 110 KOPIEN
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licht-ung7 | LICHT-UNG

HANSEN, MIKE / TOMASZ KRAKOWIAK - RELAY (CD)

"Hansen/Krakowiak attack and disseminate both the turntable and the drum. Their improvisations are built through layers of sound where the instrumentation interpolates becoming musical coitus. Hansen/Krakowiak constuct new waves of contemporary sound, influenced by ...
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SPF304 | SPOOL

KPT. MICHIGAN - KPTMICHIGAN (CD)

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AST33CD | AESTHETICS

KONK PACK - OFF LEASH (CD)

"Off Leash is the third release of the delicate high-energy trio Konk Pack - founded in 1998 and made up of Thomas Lehn on EMS-synthesizer, Roger Turner on drums and Tim Hodgkinson on la-top steel guitar and clarinet. Big Deep (1999, GROB 102) was a selection of their ...
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GROB654 | GROB

CARTER, TOM AND VANESSA ARN / THE MOGLASS - SNAKE-TONGUED, SWALLOW-TAILED (CD)

"Tom Carter (Charalambides) & Vanessa Arn (Primordial Undermind, Gourmet Chef) combined their powers to tap the reverberant waves of the ether on this split release with improv trio from Ukraine - the Moglass. While Carter / Arn part made with lap-steel guitars and ...
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NS28 | NEXSOUND

TEST TUBES, THE - S/T (CD)

"Recorded April 6 & September 4, 1997 at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre at the University of Guelph, Ontario. The performances were part of an exhibition of sculptural work by Reinhard Reitzenstein. The exhibition was in two parts, a sound installation entitled Klang ...
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SPL106 | SPOOL

PEGGY LEE BAND, THE - SOUNDS FROM THE BIG HOUSE (CD)

"Second release from the extraordinary ensemble. Lee's compositions kick, simmer and sing, and confirm her as a major talent of what Muhal Richard Abrams called contemporary creative music. The seamless improvisations which colored the first recording so vividly and ...
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SPL117 | SPOOL

SKRONKTET WEST, THE - EL (CD)

"Rosenberg's compositions are as thorny and challenging as their titles ("Shrrr", "Sdppd", "Sttm"...) - his scores leave much room for improvisation, but also present fiendish problems of ensemble coordination, which are brilliantly handled by the Skronktet West. It's ...
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SPA401 | SPOOL

SHIURBA, JOHN - TRIPLICATE (CD)

"John Shiurba has assembled an impressive West Coast octet, featuring vocalists Lara Bruckmann and Morgan Guberman, drummer Gino Robair, and bassist Matthew Sperry (among others), and conducts them through five of his tortuous compositions. Hearing the violent, sharp ...
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SPA402 | SPOOL

PEGGY LEE BAND, THE - S/T (CD)

"She can scrape and stridulate as required, but her cello playing also grants due place to clarity of line and sweetness of tone. Both aspects of Lee's musical character inform her compositions and their performance by an entirely sympathetic sextet." (The Wire) Peggy ...
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SPL105 | SPOOL

RAKE - S/T (CD)

"Enter rake, a musically adventurous trio based in Ottawa, Canada's capital of anything but free music. With the unusual instrumentation of two percussionists and a reed player who features bassoon as much as sax, rake creates rich, widely variegated textures. There ...
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SPL108 | SPOOL

SOME RA - RAKE-STAR (CD)

"Rake-Star nails the Ra mantra-approach with their huge sound. The band is heavy on the bottom end and the reeds suggest floating in a zone removed from earth's gravitational pull. Even though the listener can't see the dancer, this live recording is reminiscent of a ...
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SPL123 | SPOOL

KAISER, HENRY / PAUL PLIMLEY - PASSWORDS (CD)

with Danielle DeGruttola. "Recorded October 1996 and November 1997. These two masters of improvisation unfold a melange of musical wonderment. They are joined on several tracks by the rich, sonorous sounds of Danielle DeGruttola's cello. By turns, whimsical, ...
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SPL103 | SPOOL

SMASH AND TEENY - GATHERING (2CD)

"Gathering brings together the most exceptional music and video art of Toronto duo Smash and Teeny, created live in performance, studio and site-specific outdoor locations in Canada, the U.S. and England between 2001-2003. In this double-CD debut of Smash and Teeny, ...
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SPF305 | SPOOL

CAMERON, ALLISON - ORNAMENTS (CD)

"And indeed this music has the radical openness, the lack of boundary, the myopic detail (eschewing grand, overarching gesture), the (perhaps subtle) intricacy (...), and the particularity that I've ascribed to the idea of ornament. ... I think Cameron's pieces are ...
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SPP202 | SPOOL

PACK, BRADSHAW - ALOGOS (CD)

"One of the main features is Arioso Distante. It is a beautiful 12 minute string piece. It has a classical feel, but often sounds as if there were three different string quartets following similar but not identical scores. The result is a lush, powerful music. Pack uses ...
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SPP201 | SPOOL

BUTCHER / MIKE HANSEN / TOMASZ KRAKOWIAK, JOHN - EQUATIONS (CD)

"A key to the success of this recording is the well-balanced "equation" of these three specific musicians. Hansen is a Toronto-based turntablist who tends more to Christian Marclay than Kid Koala. He explains, "I started manipulating records back in high school during ...
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SPF303 | SPOOL

HENRY, PIERRE + SPOOKY TOOTH - CEREMONY (ILPS 9107 UK 1969) (LP - USED vg/vg)

cover and record pretty used.
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ILPS9107 | ISLAND

MOOG MACHINE, THE - SWITCHED-ON ROCK (LP - USED m-/vg++)

S63807 | CBS