Specials - a-musik

CAGE, JOHN - FREEMAN ETUDES, BOOKS ONE AND TWO (CD)

IRVINE ARDITTI, VIOLIN
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MODE32 | MODE

JOOKLO TRIO - IT IS WHAT IT IS (CD)

This release captures what is sure to become a legendary coupling. Genta and her long-time-partner-in-crime David Vanzan plus one Brandon Lopez, all amasse under the moniker Jooklo Trio. As you can imagine the meeting plays out like a stellar collision, their sonic ...
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RPR1119 | RELATIVE PITCH RECORDS

CAGE, JOHN - WORKS FOR PERCUSSION 3 (CD)

"The Works for Percussion 3. D'Arcy Philip Gray, percussion & bass guitar. 'Composed Improvisation' (1990) for bass guitar, snare drum & one-sided drum, 'Child of Tree' (1975) for amplified plant materials. 'One4' (1990) for solo drummer. Composed Improvisation' (1990) ...
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MODE272 | MODE

CAGE, JOHN - THE WORKS FOR PIANO 4 (CD)

"Until recently at Cage's publisher in New York, C.F. Peters, there was a box of works which Cage had held off publishing or had simply forgotten about. Among them were the dance pieces, Triple Paced and Ad Lib, Jazz Study and the film score, Works of Calder, all ...
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MODE106 | MODE

CAGE, JOHN - THE ORCHESTRAL WORKS 3 (CD)

Factory pressed CDr edition "Cage scored 108 for the largest number of players in any of the Number Pieces -- its duration of 43'30" makes an oblique reference to his groundbreaking 4'33' (1952). 108 can be played on its own or with either of two solo works from the ...
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MODE108 | MODE

CAGE, JOHN - THE WORKS FOR PERCUSSION 2 (CD)

""Third Construction" (1941) for percussion quartet. "Second Construction" (1940) for percussion quartet. "First Construction [in Metal]" (1939) for percussion sextet, with assistant. "Trio" (1936). "Quartet" (1935), "Living Room Music" (1940) for percussion & speech ...
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MODE243 | MODE

CAGE, JOHN - MUSIC FOR MERCE CUNNINGHAM (CD)

"2008 repress, featuring a 24-bit Hi-Definition remaster; originally released in 1991. Volume 4 in the Music of Cage series. The first audio document between Cage & Cunningham. It includes a 55-minute piece called "Five Stone Wind" performed by David Tudor (live ...
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MODE24 | MODE

CAGE, JOHN - COMPLETE SHORT WORKS FOR PREPARED PIANO (2CD)

Factory pressed CDr edition "John Cage's works for prepared piano expose his earliest experimentations in finding new and exotic sounds. Brief and attractive, they are among his most accessible work. This release marks the first time all of his short works for prepared ...
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MODE180/81 | MODE

CAGE, JOHN - 44 HARMONIES FROM APARTMENT HOUSE 1776 / CHEAP IMITATION (2CD)

Volume 33 of Mode's Complete John Cage Edition. Features 2 long works: "Cheap Imitation" (1977, for solo violin; peformed by Irving Arditti); "44 Harmonies from Apartment House 1776" (1976, for string quartet, performed by Arditti Quartet). World Premiere Recording of ...
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MODE144/45 | MODE

DOLPHIN BOY - HANDSOME AS EVER (10" - USED vg+/m-)

w/ Imitation Electric Piano Remix
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TUCH083 | TUMMY TOUCH

MIA. - MACHTSPIELE (10" - USED m-/vg++)

Modeselektor Remix
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SAMPMS11343 | EPIC

KARL HENDRICKS TRIO, THE - SOME GIRLS LIKE CIGARETTES (10" - USED)

PK010 | PEAS KOR

BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN - KLAVIERKONZERT - PIANO CONCERTO NO.3 (LP - USED m-/m-)

Vienna Philharmonic, Maurizio Pollini, Karl Böhm
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2531057 | DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON

SORROW - SLEEP NOW FOREVER (2LP)

"Sleep Now Forever is the second and final album released by Sorrow, the post-Strawberry Switchblade group fronted by singer Rose McDowall. Originally released in 1999 and long since deleted it is a cornucopia of pastoral, elegiac folk music, swirling atmospherics, ...
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LSSN091 | NIGHT SCHOOL

FOAT, GREG / GIGI MASIN - THE FISH FACTORY SESSIONS (LP)

UK jazz metro Greg Foat and Venetian electronic luminary Gigi Masin join forces once again for The Fish Factory Sessions, an exclusive release for RSD 2024.
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STRUTLP343 | STRUT

FRANK BLACK - HEADACHE (10" - USED vg+/vg+)

BADD4007 | 4AD

CREATION REBEL - DUB FROM CREATION (LP)

" This is the seminal first studio work by revered dub producer Adrian Sherwood (Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, African Head Charge), engineered by Dennis Bovell (Fela Kuti, The Slits, Orange Juice). Dub From Creation was originally released on pre-On-U Sound label Hitrun ...
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ONULP138 | ON-U SOUND

CREATION REBEL - STARSHIP AFRICA (LP)

"a true dub classic from 1980 backwards tapes drenched in interplanetary sound effects, ghostly voices from beyond the stars and ringing percussion, one of the most out-there attempts to push the limits of dub reggae beyond the final frontier ever recorded. featuring ...
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ONULP8 | ON-U SOUND

NOISE-MAKER'S FIFES - ZONA INCERTA (10" - USED m-/m-)

clear vinyl
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SUB-03 | SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA

PERC MEETS THE HIDDEN GENTLEMAN, THE - THE INFANT KING / VERMILLION SANDS (7" - USED vg+/vg+)

WAY20-7 | STRANGE WAYS RECORDS

KUBIN, FELIX & JAMES PANTS - TANZEN + BLITZEN / GLASS (7" - USED m-/m-)

"With this 7" two glorious bastards Felix Kubin and James Pants have gone into a bond more combustive than hydrogen. They offer you a taste of their explosive alliance right from the start. The piece Tanzen+Blitzen (Dancing+Lightning) with it's German Wirtschaftswunder ...
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APO6 | APOLKALYPSO

SONNA / PAUL NEWMAN - WAY TO BREATHE NO BREATH (7" - USED vg++/m-)

TRR16 | TEMPORARY RESIDENCE

STRANGLERS, THE - ORIGINAL ALBUM SERIES (5CD)

Black And White, Live (X Cert), The Raven, The Gospel According To The Meninblack, La Folie
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0825646048700 | PARLOPHONE

COLTRANE, JOHN - ORIGINAL ALBUM SERIES (5CD)

Giant Steps: 1960, Coltrane Jazz: 1961, My Favorite Things: 1961, Coltrane Plays The Blues: 1962, Coltrane's Sound: 1964 all Atlantic Recording Corporation
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8122797710 | RHINO

COIL - MUSICK TO PLAY IN THE DARK 2 (2LP)

"After leaving London in 1999 for the sleepy seaside retiree town of Weston-super-Mare, Coil co-founders John Balance and Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson set up shop in a palatial eight-bedroom estate to pursue the outer reaches of the group's heightening cabalistic ...
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DAIS184LP | DAIS