Archive for the Experimental Category
Robert Ashley “Private Parts” (Lovely Music)
Lovely Music presents a reissue of Robert Ashley’s Private Parts, originally issued in 1978. This newly mastered LP release is a must-have for aficionados as well as a perfect introductory work to Ashley’s oeuvre. Among Lovely Music’s first six releases, it came to be known as “the yellow record”. No […]
Julius Eastman “Crazy Nigger” (Blume)
It’s little wonder that Julius Eastman (who died in 1990 under unexplained circumstances), remained the supreme underground composer. He was Afro-American and gay, a composer who rocked the cerebral world of process music with his explosions of free improvisation. Crazy N*gger is the first time any of Eastman’s music has […]
Exael “Collex” (West Mineral)
Crafted over the two years since their first album,‘Collex’ finds Exael mining a finer and more elusive variant of ambient music, connecting dots between classic vapor-trail dub and hyper-modern inversions you’d more readily associate with 0PN or Kara-Lis Coverdale. With a richly refractive, iridescent quality, it marks the inward/outward distance […]
Moondog “Moondog & His Friends” (Primitiv)
Reissue on 180 gram vinyl of this 1953 album by this groundbreaking avant-garde musician.Moondog “Moondog & His Friends”
Terry Riley “Live At Salle Wagram” (DBQP)
‘The Descending Moonshine Dervishes’ is one of composer Terry Riley’s most well known pieces, a brilliant swelling organ masterpiece. Though his performance of the piece 10 days later, at the Metamusik Festival in Berlin, is more well known, this version from Paris on November 19, 1975 may be superior. Essential […]
Eliane Radigue “GeelriandreArthesis” (Important)
Eliane Radigue’s Geelriandre / Arthesis is named for the pieces that fill its two sides. Geelriandre, realized on an ARP 2500 synthesizer in 1972, features Gérard Fremy on prepared piano. Arthesis, realized using the University of Iowa’s Moog in 1973, comprises the full duration of side B. Eliane Radigue has received much deserved praise for her […]
Catsystem Corp. “Shopping@Helsinki” (Vinyl Digital)
A virtual trip through my past experiences in Helsinki mixed with my vision of what the world of Hiraeth looks like. Album features various recordings from my trip to Finland and multiple easy listening and WC jazz music.
Laurie Spiegel “Expanding Universe” (Unseen Worlds)
The Expanding Universe is the 1980 debut album by composer and computer music pioneer Laurie Spiegel. The original album is reissued here as a massively expanded 3LP set, containing all four original album tracks plus an additional 15 tracks from the same period, nearly all previously unreleased and many making […]
Steven Stapleton & David Tibet “The Threats Of Memories Double” (Dirtier Promotions)
“The Sadness Of Things” was originally released as side one of Steven Stapleton and David Tibet’s The Sadness Of Things(1991). “The Dead Side Of The Moon” and “BubbleHead” were, respectively, sides one and two of Stapleton and Tibet’s Musicalische Kürbs Hütte (1996). “DreamBreath” is a previously unreleased outtake from Musical Pumpkin Cottage (1996). Gatefold sleeve; Includes insert with […]
Want “Greatest Hits 5” (Southern Lord)
A lost classic pressed on vinyl for the first time ever! The Want were a hard driving, kick ass, straight up rock n’ roll band from New Jersey with a heavy dose of Led Zeppelin and Humble Pie worship within their dark grooves. Southern Lord released their recordings on CD […]
Dead C “Rare Ravers” (Ba Da Bing!)
Disguised as the meandering outpourings of vacant thought and activity dialed simultaneously from zero and ten. Formed in the cauldron of a fevered mistake resolute. Surrounded by ignorance, dis-interest, and the attention of the carefully self-selected. Recorded and burned through a thousand galaxies of dust and doubt and endless infinite […]
Philip Sanderson “On One Of These Bends” (Seance Centre)
By 1981, after four years of DIY electronics, it was time for a change. For Philip Sanderson that change came in the form of film. At first, requests came from friends for soundtrack work, and by the end of the decade he was making short experimental 16mm films himself. On One of […]
SHXCXCHCXSH “OUFOUFOF” (Rosten)
OUFOUFOF represents the beginning of a new turn for SHXCXCHCXSH, one born out of a fresh conceptual approach to rhythm. Having concentrated in recent years on music for more experimental scenes, SHXCXCHCXSH wanted to create music for the club, but not with the usual 4/4 approach. “…the main focus being […]
KWC 92 “Dream of the Walled City” (Long Island Electrical Systems)
(RE-ISSUE of the much longed for 2013 LP with alternate artwork). Samo DJ and Max Stenerudh have billed the record as a conceptual soundtrack set in Kowloon’s Walled City, an ex military fort in Hong Kong that became notorious for its dense population, Triad connections and lack of governmental control. […]
Hans Otte “The Book Of Sounds” (Beacon Sound)
Beacon Sound present a reissue of Hans Otte’s The Book Of Sounds (Das Buch Der Klänge) originally released in 1984. Hans Otte (1926-2007) was a multifaceted artist, poet, pianist, composer, and promoter who synthesized the strands of minimalism, Eastern spirituality, and radical art into his own unique and protean vision. In his younger […]
Pierre Favre Trio “Santana” (Be!)
This is a vibrant and exciting album, a lively document of early free music. Drummer Pierre Favre was interested in space and jagged rhythms at the time, with Irene Schweizer adding creative lyricism and Peter Kowald’s fat bass lines pulsing through the complex music. This is the first album in […]
Evan Parker “Snake Decides” (Otoroku)
Otoroku presents a reissue of Evan Parker’s The Snake Decides, originally released in 1986. One of the final Incus releases and one that was written up in The Penguin Guide to Jazz as an essential document of modern music, Otoroku releases it as a first ever vinyl re-issue. Featuring four solos recorded in 1986 […]
Peter Brotzmann & Heather Leigh “Sparrow” (Trost)
Comes in a heavy, ’60s style tip-on cover. Sparrow Nights is the first studio album from the furious duo of pedal steel player Heather Leigh and saxophone legend Peter Brötzmann. Their collaboration has quickly gained a well-earned reputation for their cutting-edge music and frenetic but sensuous playing. Recorded and mastered in Vienna by Martin Siewert. Features […]
Roht “Iðnsamfélagið Og Framtíð Þess” (Iron Lung)
Iðnsamfélagið Og Framtíð Þess which roughly translates to “Industry and its Future”, is taking the oddity and isolationism of hardcore punk and industrial noise and smashing them even further together than they did on previous releases. This is the sound of a band perfecting its approach to the world. And […]
Garrett List “Your Own Self” (Black Sweat)
Black Sweat presents a reissue of Garrett List’s Your Own Self, originally issued in 1972. Produced on Max Schubel’s Opus One label, it was a remarkable creative effort, conceived like a celebration of a higher self-consciousness. The context is avant-garde minimalism, but the music is enriched by a deep spiritualism; it echoes the […]
Cop Killers “Cop Killers” (Ecstatic)
Ecstatic presents a reissue of The Cop Killers’ self-titled album, originally issued in 1982. A genuine holy grail of Italian post-industrial music, The Cop Killers’ sole, eponymous tape is remastered and issued on vinyl for the first time via Alessio Natalizia’s Ecstatic label. Fetching triple figures on the second hand market (there’s […]
Alessandro Cortini & Lawrence English “Immediate” (Important)
Lawrence English and Alessandro Cortini issue Immediate Horizon, a live recording, made at the premiere of the piece, held at Kraftwerk in Berlin. Having become mutual admirers of each other’s work; English of Cortini’s Sonno (HOS 412CD, 2014) and Cortini of English’s Wilderness Of Mirrors (RM 460CD, 2014), the pair were very pleased to receive an invitation to […]
J Spaceman “Guitar Loops” (Treader)
“‘J. Spaceman recorded this strange record at his own Amazing Grace Studio in June 2005. Hard to describe in words, it contains elements of systems musics with gamelan-like overtones. Looped cells are contained within longer improvisations, forcing the listener to engage with and make some order from the insistent chaos. […]
Alejandro Jodorowsky “El Topo” (Finders Keepers)
Taken from the original master tapes and presented with new artwork based on the rare European and South American poster artwork for the film’s original release with exclusive sleevenotes form Andy Votel and actress/director (and Jodorowsky friend/collaborator) Asia Argento – an essential companion piece to Finders Keepers exclusive Jodorowsky series […]