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Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Les Stances A Sophie vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) So wonderful that this great album is back in print! Hugely recommended. “In 1970, the members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago were living as expatriates in Paris. The group had only recently expanded to its permanent quintet status with the addition of drummer/percussionist Don Moye when they were asked by New Wave director Moshe Misrahi to provide the soundtrack for his movie, Les Stances a Sophie. The music was never used in the film but, luckily, it was recorded. The result was one of... 05-PL 135LP $32.00
Watch - The Art Of Bleeding Bleeding vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Simone Rossetti - lead vocals, Mellotron, synthesizers, flute Giorgio Gabriel - electric guitars, 6- & 12-string acoustic guitars, classical guitar Marco Fabbri - drums & percussion Mattia Rossetti - basses, bass pedals, 6- & 12-string electric guitars, vocals Valerio De Vittorio - keyboards, Hammond L122 organ, Mellotron, synthesizers “The Art Of Bleeding [is] the eighth studio (and first conceptual) album from Milan’s symphonic prog heavyweights The Watch. The quintet have... 33-TWM 0338 $28.00
A.R. & Machines / Achim Reichel - The Art Of German Psychedelic (1970-74) 10 x CD box set + hardbound book (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) A beautiful and huge 10 CD + 96 page hardcover book box set! This is out of print but we found a few more. This is completely essential for fans of Krautrock! Achim Reichel is a unfairly forgotten krautrock pioneer whose history traces back to The Rattles (Germany's most popular "beat" band) in the early 60s. Starting in 1970 with A.R. & Machines, he moved on musically and developed an early progressive / kosmiche / style using echo-plexed guitars and... 28-IMT3830774.2 $210.00
Jamal, Khan / Creative Arts Ensemble - Drum Dance to the Motherland vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Khan Jamal - vibraphone, marimba, clarinet Alex Ellison - drums and African percussion Mario Falana - sound effects Dwight James - drums, glockenspiel, clarinet Billy Mills - fender bass, double bass Monette Sudler - guitar, percussion "There's not another record on the planet that sounds even remotely like vibraphonist Khan Jamal's eccentric, one-of-a-kind masterpiece, drumdance to the motherland. in its improbable fusion of free jazz expressionism, Black psychedelia, & .. 05- ZORN 092LP $35.00
Nullstellensatz - Nullstellensatz NULLSTELLENSATZ is an experimental band, formed in 2011 by guitarist Julien ABRAHAM, trumpeter Jean-Pierre SOAREZ (ex ART ZOYD) and drummer Bernold DELGODA. The trio's name comes from an hypothesis, also known as "Theorem of Zeros", created... 01-GA 8863 $16.00
Zaboitzeff, Thierry - Miniaturen: Zoydian Suite In 3 Movements "As every RIO fan knows, Thierry Zaboitzeff had been active for playing upon hundreds of stages or releasing twelve albums in a vanguard of the RIO movement ART ZOYD in collaboration with a composer / violininst Gérard Hourbette from 1971 till 1997. After leaving Art Zoyd and opening his own studio, Thierry, in cooperation with several renowned directors, started many different projects, which had made attendances at lots of events all over Europe; Thierry has been pretty active for compositions... ACD 3035 $18.00
Zaboitzeff, Thierry - 50 Ans de Musique(s) 3 x CDs Multi-instrumentalist and composer Thierry played bass and cello for Art Zoyd, which he also co-led, from 1971-1997. He left to concentrate on writing for dance, theater, multimedia events, movies as well as for his own projects and performances. There are a few recordings here that you undoubtably know, but a lot of stuff that I certainly didn’t. “A selection of 43 compositions (solo, with Art Zoyd, Zaboitzeff & Crew, Aria Primitiva...), some remastered, others reinterpreted or revisited... 15-BMSTZ 50A $28.00
Aria Primitiva - Sleep No More Thierry Zaboitzeff - bass, cello, vocals, sampler, programming Nadia Ratsimandresy – Ondes Martenot, keyboards Cécile Thévenot – keyboards, sampler Aria Primitiva is the new ensemble formed by Thierry Zaboitzeff, the long time co-leader of Art Zoyd. They call it “electro symphonic art rock”, which it is! It’s also worth saying that the use of the Ondes gives this music a very unique sound, to say the least, but one that still has a lot of musical ties to Art Zoyd... BTZAP 001 $18.00
Subtilior - Absence Upon A Ground Subtilior is led by the leader of Areknames, who are one of the very best contemporary Italian progressive rock groups. With Subtilior, he is still working in progressive rock, but he's shifted his focus here strongly towards avant progressive.... 33-AltrOck 027 $17.00
Lopez, Francisco - Untitled #274 "...while these ears can't claim to have heard even close to everything that López has churned out in recent years, the quality of his recordings is one of the safer bets in modern music."-Dusted "Untitled #274 was composed by Francisco López... 05-IMPREC 415CD $16.00
Palo Alto - Difference and Repetition: A Musical Evocation Of Gilles Deleuze “Palo Alto's tenth album was born from two ambitions: to pay tribute to Soft Machine's Third (1970) on form (four sides/four titles) and to philosopher Gilles Deleuze (Difference and Repetition is the title of his thesis) on the contents. The four long pieces of this double concept album were developed over two years and each has a different style and climate. Bold and kaleidoscopic, Difference and Repetition perfectly synthesizes the musical and literary obsessions of Palo Alto. Difference and... 05-SR 484CD $17.00
Palo Alto - Difference and Repetition: A Musical Evocation Of Gilles Deleuze 2 x vinyl lps (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “Palo Alto's tenth album was born from two ambitions: to pay tribute to Soft Machine's Third (1970) on form (four sides/four titles) and to philosopher Gilles Deleuze (Difference and Repetition is the title of his thesis) on the contents. The four long pieces of this double concept album were developed over two years and each has a different style and climate. Bold and kaleidoscopic, Difference and Repetition perfectly synthesizes the musical and literary obsessions of Palo Alto. Difference and... 05-SR 484LP $28.00
Various Artists - Made To Measure Vol. 1 vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “Crammed's legendary MADE TO MEASURE Series of New Music was described at the time as the aural equivalent of a collection of art books. Charting a map of some of the most interesting instrumental music of the era, thirty-five albums came out between 1983 and 1995. The loose idea behind the title of the series was: this is music which has been or could have been "made to measure" as a soundtrack for other media (film, theatre, dance, video). Several years ago the label discreetly started... 28-MMSU1.1 $20.00
Various Artists - Made To Measure Vol. 1 CD “Crammed's legendary MADE TO MEASURE Series of New Music was described at the time as the aural equivalent of a collection of art books. Charting a map of some of the most interesting instrumental music of the era, thirty-five albums came out between 1983 and 1995. The loose idea behind the title of the series was: this is music which has been or could have been "made to measure" as a soundtrack for other media (film, theatre, dance, video). Several years ago the label discreetly started... 28-MMSU1.2 $14.00
Arca de Valjos - Las Tribulaciones de Valjos CD RAÚL VALVERDE: All instruments with HÉCTOR SILVA DOMÍNGUEZ: Keyboards (4, 8 & 9) “El Arca de Valjós is the project of the Mexican composer Raúl Valverde. “Las Tribulaciones de Valjós” is a concept album basen on Michel Focault’s Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la Folie à l'âge Classique (translated in English as “Madness and Civilization/ History of Madness”) and his vision of the Ship of Fools tradition in Sixteenth-Century England; vivid descriptions of the exclusion and confinement of.. Azafran KR006 $15.00
ZNR - Traite De Mecanique Populaire Back in print after being utterly unavailable for something like 20 years! And this is a great, landmark album (although it's a quiet landmark...). A gem and a classic and lovely to see this again! The 2nd and best of this legendary band's two albums, comprised of the duo of Hector Zazou & Joseph Racaille + guests, who use keboards, clarinets, guitars, violin and much more. This record was utterly out of step with the prevailing trends in 1977, but in retropect, this turned out to be an early... ReR ZNR2 $15.00
Vortex - Vortex vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “Faithfully remastered from the original mastertape. High quality gatefold cover. 4 page insert with rare photos and liner notes.” This is a rather important and also rather unexpected reissue! Vortex are an under-known and underappreciated band who combined jazz rock with zeuhl and avant-progressive tendencies and recorded two rather rare albums in their lifetime (Vortex and Les Cycles De Thanatos). This, their first album featured Fender piano, saxes, flute, bass and drums. “Vortex... 28-MYGR8001.1 $40.00
Steensland, Simon - Let's Go To Hell CD I have long enjoyed the work of Simon Steensland, a Swede who is a multi-instrumentalist and releases heavy, Zeuhl/Univers Zero-flavored heavy and dark progressive albums. “Simon Steensland is an outstanding musician and composer. He delivers yet another sonic gem!!!”-Quentin Nussbaumer “Simon Steensland is one of my favorite current artists, his last few albums have been outstanding. He must have the worst public relations department in the world as he pretty unknown even in circles... 28-TRSW164.2 $19.00
Robert, Jocelyn - The Maze “Jocelyn Robert is a multidisciplinary artist, active in the fields of sound and video art, installations, performance, computer art and writing since the late 1980s. He co-founded the audio and electronic arts centre Avatar in 1993 and has presented his work in numerous events and exhibitions across the globe. Robert lives and works in Quebec City, Canada, where he teaches at l'Ecole des arts visuels de l'Université Laval. 'The Maze' contains mostly field recordings, many with modified time scales, some... 26-Frag 35 $14.00
Frith, Fred - Gravity Gravity is one of Fred's most enduring & endearing works. It was his first post-Henry Cow solo album, and he recorded it with the backing of The Muffins on one side of the original album and Samla Mammas Manna on the other + Marc Hollander. It's the closest thing to a progressive rock disc that Fred has ever released and it's a tuneful yet still avant progressive rock work. This is a classic and is highly recommended! “1980's GRAVITY represented guitarist Fred Frith's first major break from. FREDFRO01 $15.00
Schnitzler, Conrad - Slow Motion CD “The 1960s weren't just about The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and hippies; they also ushered in new forms of art: happenings, Fluxus, Neo-Dada, video art, to name just a few. As borders blurred, pop influenced art and art influenced pop. Many protagonists of the time chose to ignore borders altogether. This chaotic, euphoric atmosphere of extreme innovation lasted well into the 1970s and continues to resonate today. All manner of trailblazers shaped the soundscape of the era. Conrad Schnitzler (born... 05-BB 452CD $19.00
Schnitzler, Conrad - Slow Motion vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “The 1960s weren't just about The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and hippies; they also ushered in new forms of art: happenings, Fluxus, Neo-Dada, video art, to name just a few. As borders blurred, pop influenced art and art influenced pop. Many protagonists of the time chose to ignore borders altogether. This chaotic, euphoric atmosphere of extreme innovation lasted well into the 1970s and continues to resonate today. All manner of trailblazers shaped the soundscape of the era. Conrad Schnitzler (born... 05-BB 452LP $31.00
Non Credo - Happy Wretched Family The 2nd release by this LA-based duo. Using female voice, clarinets, strings, keyboards, bass & drums they combine a large number of influences (art rock, Art Bears, art-song, electronics) into their own blend. [Victo] VICTO033 $15.00
Pylon - Gyrate vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "In the late 1970’s Athens, Georgia was buzzing with a raw but sophisticated music scene. The turn of the decade began producing new sounds from bands like the B-52’s, R.E.M. and Art-Rock luminaries, Pylon. Before they were a band, Pylon were art-school students at the University of Georgia: invigorated by big ideas about art and creativity. In 1980 the band released its first record, Gyrate and began touring across the country in support of the release. Following the critical acclaim of Gyrate, Pylon... 39-NW5352 $26.00
Pylon - Chomp vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "In the late 1970’s Athens, Georgia was buzzing with a raw but sophisticated music scene. The turn of the decade began producing new sounds from bands like the B-52’s, R.E.M. and Art-Rock luminaries, Pylon. Before they were a band, Pylon were art-school students at the University of Georgia: invigorated by big ideas about art and creativity. In 1980 the band released its first record, Gyrate and began touring across the country in support of the release. Following the critical acclaim of Gyrate, Pylon... 39-NW5361 $26.00
Balestracci, Franck - Modified Reality CD (Mega Blowout Sale) “Franck Balestracci is French (but he probably has Italian ancestors) and puts together sounds. Originally a drummer and percussionist, he has expanded his instruments to include various acoustic and electronic sound generators, mostly with keys. He records his albums (three to date) single-handedly, cobbling together a multitude of sounds and noises and using modern studio technology to transform the whole thing into complex, electro-acoustic sound creations. Every now and then he gets a little help... C7-076 $8.00
Story, Tim - Threads vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) I actually had a test pressing of this title, from way back in the Wayside days when we were selling a LOT of releases on Atem! Nice to see it out as it was meant to be out! “The saga of composer Tim Story's 1982 debut is a case study in the shifting sands of the early progressive music industry. Recorded on a Tascam 4-track reel-to-reel in his basement bedroom in Whitehouse, Ohio using a ragtag array of equipment - salvaged vibraphone, pawn shop Les Paul, his mother's spinet piano, a PAiA synth... 28-DAIS162.1 $22.00
Vortex - Les Cycles De Thanatos vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “Faithfully remastered from the original mastertape. High quality gatefold cover. 4 page insert with rare photos and liner notes.” This is a rather important and also rather unexpected reissue! Vortex are an under-known and underappreciated band who combined jazz rock with zeuhl and avant-progressive tendencies and recorded two rather rare albums in their lifetime (Vortex and Les Cycles De Thanatos). This, their final album featured Fender piano, two reed players, bass, drums, oboe, English horn.. 28-MYGR8002.1 $40.00
Panzerpappa - Astromalist vinyl lp with download code (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Great to see this fine Norwegian band catch a break by signing to the ever-excellent Rune Grammofon label and get introduced to a wider world than their previous releases have allowed them to do. And this is the right release for the world to notice... 05-RCD 3135 LP $25.00
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure CD Remastered, HDCD edition of this classic 1973 slice of art rock with all lyrics included. Did you know that if you look up 'early 70's art rock' in the dictionary, there is a picture of this album, along with Eno in his feathers? Last one for Eno, as... 28-VIR47449.2 $17.00
Mitchell, Roscoe - One Head Four People CD “Roscoe Mitchell (Art Ensemble Of Chicago) was 2023's recipient of an American Society of Arts and Letters award which let to the creation of this work. Mainly a trio and quartet work Roscoe plays Bass saxophone as well as his percussion array.” 21-WH-0379 $15.00
Mitchell, Roscoe - Duets With Tyshawn Sorey & Special Guest Hugh Ragin "Saxophone Legend Roscoe debut on Wide Hive Records with composer Tyshawn Sorey and fellow Art Ensemble of Chicago member and trumpet player Hugh Ragin. "One of the top Saxophone payers of the sixties, Roscoe Mitchell is a particularly strong and consistently adventurous improviser long associated with the Art Ensemble of Chicago"-All about Jazz 21-WHR031124 $13.00
Vallribera, Josep/Tony Moore - Assessments And Translations Budget price on cellist Tony Moore's interpretation of artist Josep Vallribea's art/scores. Now out of print on Matchless. MRCD28 $9.00
Gonzalez, Delia - In Remembrance CD + DVD (Mega Blowout Sale) For a short time, while they last, this 2015 release is $10.00 off the regular price! "A work nearly five years in its evolution, In Remembrance is Delia Gonzalez's first major project since she ended her collaboration with Gavin Russom to focus on her fine art career. Beginning as a set of 16mm films of ballet dancers accompanied by solo piano compositions, Gonzalez found inspiration for the piece in inspiration itself: In Remembrance celebrates the creative spark and clarity that make art... 23-DFA 2457 $7.00
Gonzalez, Delia - In Remembrance CD + DVD "A work nearly five years in its evolution, In Remembrance is Delia Gonzalez's first major project since she ended her collaboration with Gavin Russom to focus on her fine art career. Beginning as a set of 16mm films of ballet dancers accompanied by solo piano compositions, Gonzalez found inspiration for the piece in inspiration itself: In Remembrance celebrates the creative spark and clarity that make art possible in its hypnotic music and visuals. Her four piano pieces were influenced by spiritual... 37-DFA 2457 $17.00
Behrman, David / Paul Demarinis / Fern Friedman / Terry Hanlon / Anne Klingensmith - She’s More Wild... vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “This was recorded at Mills College in 1981. Previously known only to cognoscenti through an obscure self-released three-track 7", this is the first publication of the complete album, an outrageous confection that mixes art-song and theatrical monolog with live electronics. Starting life as a performance art piece described by the artists as "Western Performance Noir", the record centers on a series of texts written by Friedman and Hanlon in which female narrators comically embody a series of iconic... 05-BT 059LP $33.00
Work - Slow Crimes 180 gram vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) First-ever vinyl reissue of this classic, total art-punk/art-damage title. When Henry Cow fell apart in the summer of 1978, the main players in the band dispersed. Fred Frith left England to settle in NYC for a good number of years, getting... 05-MEGA 026LP $26.00
Henry Cow - Volume 7: Later and Post-Virgin Nearly 8 years after the big box set by Henry Cow was unleashed on the world, they’ve made the sets available individually! This is the period when I saw them (twice in June 1977). “A collection of live performances from late 1976 and 1977. "Joan" & "On Suicide", traditionally associated with Art Bears & Hopes and Fears (1978), feature here, showing that they were Henry Cow songs long before Art Bears existed "On Suicide" is longer here & ends with a cello solo by Georgie Born. The Art Bears'... 21-ReR HC13 $15.00
Various Artists - The Recommended Records Sampler 1982 - 25th Anniversary Edition 2 x CDs (Mega Blowout Sale) The early 1980s seemingly weren't a great time for creative music. Punk had come, swept away all the old (both good and bad - they didn't care!) and had mostly self-destructed by then, leaving the generally less interesting 'new wave' and all its subsets, all of which seemed to be made to get people to dress up 'creatively' and go out, snort cocaine and dance ('punk disco', my wife called it then). While there were a few exciting signs if you knew where to look for it, for the most part the collision... RER 25 $7.00
New Alchemy - On The Other Side Of Light CD (Mega Blowout Sale) "The New Alchemy is all about Swedish artists Per Svensson and Ebbot Lundberg making dark, intricate, swirling rock psychedelia. Ebbot Lundberg and Per Svensson had started their careers as artists at the legendary Radium 226.05 in Gothenburg during the swinging 1980s. Per was releasing sound art and poetry and Ebbot was the lead singer of Union Carbide Productions at that time. During the following decades, both guys have been developing their art; Per continuing on as a solo artist and Ebbot as.... 39-CD-SUB-101 $8.00
Residents - Strange Culture / The Rivers Of Hades / Haeckel's Tale 2 x CDs "Strange Culture (OST): In 2007, Director/artist Lynn Hershman-Leeson heard of a strange situation of an artist being arrested as a bioterrorist due to the fact that his "art" used harmless mold. She gathered a number of friends to make a film to bring more attention to the artist's plight. Among the friends were Tilda Swinton and The Residents who had worked with Ms Hershman on her previous film, Conceiving Ada. The Rivers of Hades: An aural art piece, Chaos Is Not Just A Theory, was written by... 21-GG215 $28.00
Dreyblatt, Arnold - Turntable History "Arnold Dreyblatt (b.1953) is an American composer who has studied with La Monte Young, Pauline Oliveros and Alvin Lucier. He is a member of the German Academy Of Art. He has released work on labels such as Table of the Elements, Cantaloupe, Tzadik, Hat Art and Dexter's Cigar. Turntable History is a recording of a 40-minute multi-channel sound composition which was conceived as part of an audio-visual installation installed in the circular vaulted brick space of a historical water container in Berlin... 05-IMPREC 323CD $16.00
Leimer, K - Found Objects CD “Found object is a loan translation from the French objet trouvé, describing art created from undisguised, but often modified, objects or products that are not normally considered materials from which art is made, often because they already have a non-art function. Like the results from automatic writing and readymades, Found Objects offers an approximation of those techniques in sound by repurposing displaced phrases and timbres, pitches, restatements, and treatments as the root technique... 28-PLLI32021.2 $16.00
Reich, Steve - Reich/Richter CD “Composed for a video art exhibit [and book] by Gerhard Richter that involves a series of halving and turning of a stripped pattern into pixels and back, Steve Reich's music has a built-in rhythmic base in which to play. The metered notes, half, quarter, eights, sixteenths, offered by Ensemble intercontemporain in the acoustic wonder of Philharmonie de Paris-Cité, named for Pierre Boulez, produce an engaging melodic pattern. This is a concert recording to add to the magic. The instrumentation is what... 28-NNS911893.2 $16.00
Thunderclap Newman - Hollywood Dream Reissue of everything by this charming, art-school, oddball band with connections to The Who and Pete Townshend, who was pals with keyboardist/saxist Andy Newman, who turned him onto jazz when they were at art school together (he undoubtably turned him... 15-POLYDOR833794 $11.00
Ciani, Suzanne - Buchla Concert At Galeria Bonino New York April 1974 vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “The very first Buchla synthesizer performance by revolutionary composer Suzanne Ciani finally makes its fifty-year journey from its switch-on New York art gallery to its long deserved and discerning global phonographic audience. With this previously unheard vinyl pressing, Finders Keepers Records present an archival project of "art music" that not only redefines musical history but lays genuine claim to the overused buzzwords such as pioneering, maverick, experimental, groundbreaking and esoteric, while... 05-FKR 118LP $35.00
Salle Gaveau - Alloy Led by guitarist Kido Natsuki of Bondage Fruit, Salle Gaveau combines the art-music tango, as typified by the brilliant and famous work of Astor Piazzolla with a rock energy and zaniness. Using the same quintet musical configuraration as Piazzolla's... KIDO MABO 023 $17.00
Iolini, Robert - Songs From Hurt CD Robert Iolini is a composer who transcends the divisions between music, documentary and radio art, mixing investigative journalism, sound ecology, storyboarding and conventional notated composition using songs, spoken word, field recording, improvisat... RER I2 $15.00
Asceta - Asceta CD Alfonso Vergara – clarinet Efra Vidal – bassoon Eduardo Rubio – electric bass, double bass Christian Peralta – cello Leonardo Saavedra – drums and percussion Arianne Guerra – violin Oscar Pizarro – piano, electric piano Rodrigo Maccioni – acoustic and electric guitar, flute, synths This is very good chamber rock, which is more acoustic based than electric, although it does rawk at points. Hints (but never copying) of Univers Zero or a less electric Far Corner make Azafran AP 2240 $15.00
Asceta - Erebus, La Suite de las Sombras CD Rodrigo Maccioni: Electric guitar, flute, synthesizer Cristián Peralta: Cello Alfonso Vergara: Clarinet, bass clarinet Arianne Guerra: Violin Alejandro Vera: Bassoon Eduardo Rubio: Electric bass, upright bass Leonardo Saavedra: Drums, percussion guest musicians: Oscar Pizarro: Piano Pascal Montenegro: Oboe The second release by this excellent chamber rock band from Chile. Like their first, this leans more towards the chamber (Julverne) than towards t Azafran AP 2346 $15.00