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Guru Guru - Wiesbaden 1973 CD "Guru Guru played in the Wartburg, a Wiesbaden hall, on September 17th, 1973. It was one of the gigs recorded by Xhol (Caravan) acquaintance Muck Krieger. His recording equipment was then state-of-the-art: an Uher tape recorder CR 124 and two Revox... 18-GOD 156 $20.00
Jarman, Joseph / Don Moye - Earth Passage : Density vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “An outstanding yet obscure release by two Art Ensemble of Chicago members, multi reeds player Joseph Jarman and drummer Don Moye, along with legendary bassist Rafael Garret (mostly remembered for his presence on Coltrane's masterpiece Kulu Se Mama) and young lion Craig Harris on trombone. Four great individuals digging deep between ancient African rituals and modern urban multidimensional grooves. A tribal ecstatic sound based on a multitude of instruments: reeds, bamboo flutes, didgeridoo, trombone..... 05-BS 120052V-LP $29.00
Bass Tone Trap - Trapping Reissue of a rare 1983 electric/harmolodic/downtown-style band consisting of 2 saxes, 2 guitars, double bass/vocals and drums, resulting in a more or less equal mix of Prime Time, Art Ensemble of Chicago, free-improv and white boy funk - not so unusual... BTT04 $15.00
Robert, Jocelyn - Pandore 4 x CDs Jocelyn Robert released an early CD on the ReR label in the very early 90's. "Jocelyn Robert studied pharmacy then architecture. Went into art as one goes into the resistance. Put out recordings, written works, perpetrated installations here and there,... AM903 $44.00
Montgomery, Gen Ken - Pondfloorsample 2 x CDs 2 cds for the price of 1. These two discs represent some of Gen Ken Montgomery's sound art and compositional work from 1981-2001. Pondfloorsample is a collection of sonic explorations utilizing common devices meant to hold something other than sound. ... XI126 $13.00
Rothenberg, Ned - The Lumina Recordings: Solo Works 1980-1985 - 2 x CDs Ned is a simply unbelievable reed player and speaking as someone who has seen him a few times, he has developed the sax/clarinet concert into a very impressive and high art form. "This special two-CD set collects all three of Ned Rothenberg's unique.... TZ7615 $20.00
Zorn, John - Filmworks XXII: The Last Supper (CD with deluxe packaging) One of the strangest films Zorn has ever scored (and that’s saying a LOT), The Last Supper is a science fiction/art film of wild imagination and style. The brainchild of French director Arno Bouchard, the film combines primal ritual with futuristic... TZ7371 $20.00
Ministry of Inside Things - Contact Point Second excellent album by synthesist Chuck van Zyl and guitarist Art Cohen. "The Ministry Of Inside Things are considered among the most innovative of US synthesists today. Influenced by the early music of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and Ash Ra Temp... SYNKRONOS027 $14.00
Zed - You Are Here "YYZed. Zed Leppelin. Zed and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. He Zed, She Zed. We don’t know where Zed came from, but we do know they play a fresh brand of progressive instrumental jazz fusion. Zed push themselves even further in a live setting... TONART001 $11.00
Moorefield, Virgil - Distractions On The Way To The King's Party Drummer/composer Moorefield leads his 9 piece ensemble (three guitars, trumpet, trombone, alto and tenor saxes, bass and drums) through a set of brilliantly written instrumental art-rock. This is forward-looking, innovative music by an avant big band t... RUNE56 $15.00
Gilson, Jef - Le Massacre Du Printemps vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “Souffle Continu Records present the first vinyl reissue of Jef Gilson's Le Massacre Du Printemps, originally released in 1971. In 1971, the day after the death of Igor Stravinsky, Jef Gilson, and his Unit (Pierre Moret and Jean-Claude Pourtier) made this curious homage to classical music. It is jazz, contemporary, and electroacoustic music that the trio interrogate through a wild "noise" session evoking as much John Cage as Pierre Henry, John Coltrane as the Percussions de Strasbourg, the Art Ensemble... 05-FFL 064LP $26.00
Marclay, Christian - dj TRIO (special) Christian Marclay was one of the earliest folks to make an art form out of the turntable, using the device as a tool to make suprising juxtapositions. Emerging from the unbelievably fertile late 70s / early 80s downtown improv scene (where I first... 02-Asphodel 2023 $7.00
Parkins, Andrea - Faulty (Broken Orbit) "Faulty (Broken Orbit) re-imagines Faulty (Per-Objective), an hour long 10-channel site-specific audio work, premiered in 2007 at Diapason gallery for sound in NYC, with sponsorship from Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center and the New York Electronic.. 05-IMPORTANT199 $15.00
Various Artists - Twinart Presents Instant This / Instant That CD “Unique female gazes, into a micro-scene with the NYC Lower East Side art scene circa late ‘78 -‘85, through the lenses of a variety of feminist perspectives on post-punk and true art-punk! An ultra-violet time machine to a micro-scene viewed and heard through the curration of twin artists Linda and Ellen Kahn who together are TwinArt. This magnificent jouney features the music they created for the Manhattan Cable, along with other female voices from within their orbit. Instant This Instant... 39-CD-MH-255 $18.00
Gutbucket - A Modest Proposal Destroying walls between art-rock, avant-squonk, jazz-core and beyond, the decade-old New York quartet Gutbucket is not only equally comfortable playing in front of 900 sweatily pogo-ing teenage skate-punks, a crowd of cosmic indie-psych freaks, on an... Rune 281 $15.00
Barreto, Jorge Lima - Zul Zelub Jorge Lima Barreto, piano. "As with any conceptual work of art — in this case an improvised work — this record has several layers. In its essence this is a piano solo recorded live in concert. It is simultaneously lyrical and experimental, rare.. CLEANFEEDCF111 $17.00
Amacher, Maryanne - Petra vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “Maryanne Amacher (1938-2009) was a composer of large-scale fixed-duration sound installations and a highly original thinker in the areas of perception, sound spatialization, creative intelligence, and aural architecture. She is frequently cited as a pioneer of what has come to be called "sound art", although her thought and creative practice consistently challenge key assumptions about the capacities and limitations of the genre. Amacher's work anticipates some of the most important developments in... 28-BF 005LP $32.00
Mnemonists - Gyromancy "The Mnemonists were a legendary group of composers and artists from Fort Collins, Colorado, who went on to call themselves Biota. They created drifting hypnotic sound collages out of pre-industrial loops, processed ambient sound, rock 'n' roll guitar, and fragments of half forgotten memory. Their work was highly visual, and always accompanied by beautiful line drawings and painted art works; the total meaning is forged from the combination of sonic and visual information. Gyromancy stands as a classic... RERMN2 $15.00
Carroll, Baikida - Orange Fish Tears 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 1972, trumpeter Baikida Carroll and some of his colleagues from the Black Artists Group (more precisely saxophonist/flutist Oliver Lake, trombonist Joseph Bowie, drummer Charles "Bobo" Shaw and trumpeter Floyd LeFlore) took the advice of their friends in the Art Ensemble Of Chicago and left their native Missouri to come and discover the bright lights of Paris for themselves. The following year they would even get the chance to record their only album which would rapidly attain mythical status and a... 05-FFL 088LP $35.00
Carroll, Baikida - Orange Fish Tears CD “In 1972, trumpeter Baikida Carroll and some of his colleagues from the Black Artists Group (more precisely saxophonist/flutist Oliver Lake, trombonist Joseph Bowie, drummer Charles "Bobo" Shaw and trumpeter Floyd LeFlore) took the advice of their friends in the Art Ensemble Of Chicago and left their native Missouri to come and discover the bright lights of Paris for themselves. The following year they would even get the chance to record their only album which would rapidly attain mythical status and a... 05-FFL 088CD $15.00
Amacher, Maryanne - Petra CD “Maryanne Amacher (1938-2009) was a composer of large-scale fixed-duration sound installations and a highly original thinker in the areas of perception, sound spatialization, creative intelligence, and aural architecture. She is frequently cited as a pioneer of what has come to be called "sound art", although her thought and creative practice consistently challenge key assumptions about the capacities and limitations of the genre. Amacher's work anticipates some of the most important developments in... 28-BF 005CD $16.00
Cutler, Chris / Lutz Glandien - Domestic Stories CD (Mega Blowout Sale) “Single work song cycle written by Cutler (words) and Glandien (music), with performances by Fred Frith, Dagmar Krause and Alfred Harth. Full book of texts and pictures. Following on from Art Bears and News From Babel. Cover by Peter Blegvad.” “Alternately harrowing and slyly humorous, this collaboration between Chris Cutler and Lutz Glandien plays more like an Art Bears reunion featuring, Fred Frith on guitar and the irrepressible Dagmar Krause on vocals. What Glandien brings to these... RER LSM $7.00
Humair, Daniel - Seasoning "American Jazz critic Nat Hentoff once made an example of Daniel Humair as one „who long ago destroyed the notion that European drummers can't swing“. However, the artist born in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 23, 1938, who has been living and playing in Paris with the greatest European and American Jazz-stars ever since he was twenty years old, refuses to let himself be limited to music, let alone swinging. Renowned as a painter, with his abstract art included in some of the world’s best collections... 34-INTCHR 71322 $17.00
Galas, Diamanda - The Divine Punishment CD “The first album in her Masque of the Red Death trilogy, The Divine Punishment is one of the most jarring works of art produced in response to the AIDS epidemic, and a milestone in Diamanda Galás's artistry and activism. Galás uses her famous voice both as an orational instrument and as well as a physical representation of AIDS and those it afflicts. The album features the panphonic* dirge work of Galás, accompanied by analogue synthesizers played by Dave Hunt. The texts are primarily taken from the Old... 28-ITVL6.2 $15.00
Trespass Trio - Was There To Illuminate The Night Sky Martin Küchen, sax / Per Zanussi, bass / Raymond Strid, drums "These are difficult times to be an idealist in what concerns the social function of music. Do really the art of sounds can change the world, something that many believed possible... CLEANFEEDCF149 $17.00
Speicher, Martin/Georg Wolf/Lou Grassi - Shapes And Shadows "Much has been said about the art of the improvising trio since the triangular interaction between Ornette Coleman, David Izenzon, and Charles Moffett. Now Martin Speicher, Georg Wolf, and Lou Grassi contribute another chapter to that long tradition. “Sha CF084CD $17.00
Honsinger, Tristan/Massimo Simonini - Call Me Us "Cellist Honsinger and pre-existing media manipulist Simonini with a piece that falls between radio art, music theatre and... and what? A highly unusual performance in 10 parts that deploys its materials sparingly and intelligently and, through a... RERIDA025 $15.00
Live - Live CD (expanded) "Live from Gevelsberg (Sauerland) played art-rock with flute; without the nerve-wracking breaks often heard in this genre, but rather harmonious. In 1974, they released a 7" single and recorded an LP which, however, didn’t come out at that time. Only... 18-GOD 124 $18.00
Shelton, Aram - Everything For Somebody "The Aram Shelton Quartet plays creative jazz music inspired by the likes of Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. In this quartet, Shelton is joined by Chicagoans Keefe Jackson on tenor saxophone, Anton... SSM 0011 $14.00
Morris, Joe/Augusti Fernandez - Ambrosia "A state-of-the-art duo recording from two masters of improvised music. Joe Morris (guitar) and Agustí Fernández (piano) create new musical vistas using rich melodic invention, resulting in completely unique and unprecedented sounds that challenge the... 05-Riti 011 $14.00
Schnitzler, Conrad / TM Schneider - Con-Struct “Conrad Schnitzler (1937-2011), composer and concept artist, was one of the most important representatives of Germany's electronic music avant-garde. A student of Joseph Beuys, he founded Berlin's legendary Zodiak Free Arts Lab, a subculture club in 1967/68, was a member of Tangerine Dream (with Klaus Schulze and Edgar Froese) and Kluster (with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius) and also released countless solo albums. Schneider TM (Dirk Dresselhaus) has been involved in various musical fields... 05-BB 252CD $18.00
Mitchell, Nicole - Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds "Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds is Nicole Mitchell's second album for Chicago-based FPE Records. Recorded in May of 2015 at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, it features her longtime collaborators Renee Baker (violin), Tomeka Reid (cello, banjo), Alex Wing (electric guitar, oud) and Jovia Armstrong (percussion), along with new members Tatsu Aoki (bass, shamisen, taiko) and Kojiro Umezaki (shakuhachi). Also in the mix is Chicago artist, scholar and poet avery r young, who brings the her lyrics... 21-FPE012CD $14.00
Lentz, Daniel - Ending(s) "While certain recognizable fingerprints are found throughout the body of Daniel Lentz's (b. 1942) work, he has never been content to settle within one particular style or mode of music for long, moving ever forward in an evolutional continuum, an overriding arc that defines his growth as a composer -- beginning with traditional music, diverting into electronic music, moving into performance art pieces for his various touring groups, then sallying into minimalism, followed by work distinguished for its... 05-NW 80815CD $17.00
Rhyton - Pharonic Crosstalk 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 sixth LP by NYC trio, Rhyton, is as heavy as an Egyptian space-funeral. The vibe of this masterful album is fully embodied by its gorgeous Robert Beatty cover art, which looks like a Mati Klarwein reinterpretation of Tony Scott's '68 Verve LP, Music for Yoga Meditation. Rhyton was formed in 2011 by Dave Shuford and fellow travelers, with a notion to balance the songwriterly stance of D. Charles Speer with something more improvisation based. As Shuford says, 'Originally we took certain international... 05-FTR 535LP $26.00
Jimmy, Yoko & Shin - Sei Shonagon (mini lp sleeve/blu-spec CD) Certainly the most anomalous release on the legendary, 70s audiophile Japanese jazz label Three Bind Mice. As far as the experts know, this is the only progressive rock album to be released on the label during its lifetime. The cover art looks straight... 14-THCD 259 $29.00
Bachman, Daniel - When The Roses Come Again CD “Bachman has a dedicated fan base who is tightly focused on his next steps. While he has always been restless with his art, his stylistic changes in 2020's "Axacan" demonstrated - and excited - many within that fan base as to how transformative his work and vision can be for "traditional" music in these modern times. This fresh work continued with 2022's "Almanac Behind". "When The Roses Come Again" is a perfect next step to this trendline, a synthesis of tradition and abstraction. In other words, it is... 39-CD-TLR-149 $13.00
Grupo Experimental de Música - Dessintetizador "The Grupo Exprimental de Música is a Brazilian group that whose purpose is to work into their music the art of building instruments. They only use natural materials and recycled stuff, such as metals, plastics, woods, old bicycles, steel rods, etc... rdm-GEM 001 $18.00
Kaiser, Henry - Requia And Other Improvisations For Guitar Solo State of the art solo, no overdubs, guitar solos for a wide number of different electric and acoustic guitars, all of which have their own voice and Henry allows that voice to speak clearly on each track. And a wonderful homage by Henry to John Fahey's... TZ 7645 $13.00
Residents - Theory Of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents DVD "The first official documentary sanctioned by The Residents. THEORY OF OBSCURITY tells the story of the iconic renegade cult band The Residents. From the group's formation in Shreveport to their success in the burgeoning San Francisco avant-garde music scene of the 60s and 70s, The Residents redefined what a rock band could be. With the advent of music videos in the 1980s, these masked musicians gained global fame as MTV darlings and serious art world figures... 21-FILM 5574 DVD $24.00
Phew / Oren Ambarchi / Jim O’Rourke - Patience Soup vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “Patience Soup presents the entirety of a live performance from the trio of Oren Ambarchi, Jim O'Rourke, and Japanese underground legend Phew that took place at the Kitakyushu Performing Arts Center on November 4th, 2015. Known to many listeners outside Japan primarily for her early collaborations with members of Can, Phew has been undergoing something of a creative renaissance in the last few years, prolifically recording and releasing a body of work that strips away the band arrangements present on... 05-BT 046LP $30.00
Barbieri, Caterina - Ecstatic Computation CD (expanded) "Three years after the original release date of Caterina Barbieri's career-defining album Ecstatic Computation, the Italian artist reissues the record on her newly found own label light-years. The reissue features a beautifully reworked version of the original cover art. Caterina Barbieri is an Italian composer who explores themes related to machine intelligence and object-oriented perception in sound through a focus on minimalism. Ecstatic Computation revolves around the creative use of complex... 05-LV 002 $17.00
Portico Quartet - Untitled (Aitaoa #2) Portico Quartet has always been an impossible band to pin down. Sending out echoes of jazz, electronica, ambient music and minimalism, the group have created their own singular sound. And while their new music mixes dense layers and textures with electronic and acoustic instruments the sound remains uniquely, recognizably their own. Untitled (AITAOA #2) was largely recorded at the same sessions as Art in the Age of Automation at Fish Factory Studios in London and Portico Quartet's own studio in East... 28-GOND22.2 $14.00
Moebius, Dieter - Nurton 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 release of this 2006 album! "On the second album of his late solo work, 2006's Nurton, krautrock legend Dieter Moebius (1944-2015) searches for flaws and uses them as a creative impulse. As usual, he blithely ignores any mainstream expectations. In science, an experiment is defined as an attempt to methodically gain information by systematically varying parameters. The results then confirm or refute the hypothesis or the model of the experiment. In art, however, confirmation is... 05-BB 210LP $25.00
Sunwatchers - Oh Yeah “Despite (perhaps) being the band's most accessible & melodic work to date, New York quartet Sunwatchers' fourth album arrives in a flurry of notes with the buzzing hum of "Sunwatchers vs. Tooth Decay"; the title referencing a 1976 album featuring athlete and activist Muhammad Ali. A cheeky nod to be sure, but laced with the utmost reverence. This attitude sums up Sunwatchers' aesthetic in a nutshell; the acknowledgement (typically via the band's irreverent song titles or album art) that the things in... 37-TIM153cd $14.00
McPhee, Joe - Sonic Elements (for pocket trumpet and alto saxophone) Joe McPhee, pocket trumpet and alto saxophone. "Joe McPhee is a musician of many solo albums (this is the number eight), but each one gives a different view of his art – either because of the instrumental choices, being the tenor saxophone... CF 278 $16.00
Guilbeault, Normand - Hommage A Mingus - Live At Upstairs 2008 “Tears came to my eyes when I started reading Normand Guilbeault’s transcriptions of tunes like What Love and The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady. I guess a pilgrim reaching Mecca for the first time must be experiencing similar feelings, or an art lover... AM185 $17.00
Kalma, Ariel - Osmose vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "Born and raised in Paris, Ariel Kalma studied electronics, computer science, music and art in Paris, he performed with several bands, then toured the world and visited Europe, Japan, India, Eastern Canada, and parts of the USA. Apart from rhythm &... 05-BS 007LP $28.00
Graves, Milford / Don Pullen - In Concert At Yale University 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 late percussionist Milford Graves was one of the most unique artists the world has ever seen. Born in Jamaica, Queens in 1941, he began his career in the early '60s as a part of New York's vibrant Latin jazz scene. His focus quickly turned inward, shifting towards a practice that explored the very nature of self. From his work in the New York Art Quartet and collaborations with Albert Ayler, Sonny Sharrock and more to his important contributions during NYC's loft era-he is, simply put, free jazz... 28-SPRV194.1 $31.00
Homosexuals - The Homosexuals Record One of the most enigmatic bands of the UK art-punk UK scene, The Homosexuals carved a subterranean legend that far exceeded their discography of self released 45s and the posthumous release of The Homosexuals Record as a Recommended Records lp in 1984.... 21-ReR HS1 $15.00
Yuganaut - This Musicship CD "Drawing from the traditions of Sun Ra, the Art Ensemble of Chicago as well as Miles Davis in his '60s and '70s electric period, multi-instrumentalists Steve Rush (fender rhodes, moog, bells, recorder, slide whistle, euphonium, maraca, ocarina... 05-ESP4044 $15.00