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previous artist: gabriel paiuk		there are 12 titles featuring charlemagne palestine in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: agnès palier

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alga marghen (italy) #alga nmn28 cd

charlemagne palestine “sharing a sonority” compact disc

charlemagne palestine & terry jennings - short & sweet (11:13) 1974
charlemagne palestine & robert feldman - electronic and flute (5:56) 1967
fundamental d flat group (palestine, conrad, & chatham) - db (32:05) 1974

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "db"

march 2008 release - fourth in alga marghen’s “golden” series / survey of charlemagne palestine’s work, including three pieces recorded in 1967 & 1974 - most notably the only available recording of the short-lived fundamental d flat group (charlemagne palestine, tony conrad, & rhys chatham) but also a mellow cale / riley-esque duet between palestine & terry jennings and an remarkable live-electronic duet with robert feldman ...

the “db” piece, recorded shortly after tony’s collaboration with faust, hits on a bunch of similar touchstones & is worth the price of admission alone ... highly recommended !!!

alga marghen press release...

c h a r l e m a g n e p a l e s t i n e
sharing a sonority
with terry jenning, tony conrad, rhys chatham, bob feldman
(cat no. plana-p 28nmn.068)
digipack cd
edition of 1000 copies

alga marghen proudly presents a new chapter in the documentation series of charlemagne palestine historical works. this cd of previously unavailable recordings not only presents you charlemagne palestine activities in 1974, collaborating with some of most important experimental artists and composers from either the new york loft scene and cal arts. but also features world premiere recordings of terry jennings and the fundamental d flat group.

"short & sweet" is the title of a breathtaking duo for piano and sax performed on april 24th by charlemagne palestine and terry jennings. the two composers happened to play together in very private concerts at cal arts, but never recorded those sessions, untill a special day when charlemagne happened to have a little taperecorder around. the recording was considered lost for more than 30 years when finally a copy was found thanks to tony conrad. the piano part reminds some of the early pieces by charlemagne palestine titled piano drones (as the one pre-dating of a couple of years this duo and presented on the "continuous sound forms" cd issued on alga marghen. the liner notes of the same cd mention this duo with terry jennings at the time considered lost). terry jennings’ soprano sax is very elaborated and decorative (reminding the only other recording ever issued by this important outsider and la monte young friend, or the sax and cello duo with charlotte moorman present in "cello anthology" 4cd boxset issued on alga marghen).

around 1967 charlemagne was experimenting mainly with voice and electronic. he also occasionally recorded piano and sax improvisations with his friend bob feldman. this cd featured a very special duo by palestine and feldman playing electronic and flute. the two artists met in 1961 when bob feldman worked in a jazz record shop in the times square subway station. palestine didn’t know much about jazz and feldman guided him through the new progressive jazz styles of the times. later at the intermedia center of nyu where they had a buchla synthesizer (you can listen to charlemagne palestine electronic music studies as presented in "in-mid-air" cd issued on alga marghen). charlemagne and bob feldman experimented there between jazz raga and electronic. very little was recorded. this is one rare duet that dates probably from around 1967 (bob feldman also plays with charlemagne palestine and tony conrad in the historic recording of "alloy" for wbai in 1969 released on golden1 cd on alga marghen).

the last track on this cd is the first 30 minutes recording from april 22nd, 1972 by the fundamental d flat group performing in db. during one trip back to nyc from cal arts, charlemagne palestine was invited by tony conrad (together with rhys chatham) to albright college in new jersey for a sunday afternoon concert. that was the first and last time the fundamental d flat group played in public (tony conrad: violin, horn, string drone. rhys chatham: flute, organ, string drone. charlemagne palestine: voice, pipes, snifter). although the piece lasted all afternoon the first 30 minutes were the only portion recorded during the performance. the fundamental d flat group invite you to listen and meditate in the mode of db. to hear one one is to enter the deepest realm of knowledge of the sound current. the ear, the understanding, and the core of the spirit resonate to the mode of the single tone and its harmonic family. you read, and hear, and feel the empathy of human spirit. the body will channel the knowledge of the single note stronger and stronger, the more you hear. welcome to the fundamental d flat group.

this cd is included in a beatiful digipack full colour sleeve with photos and liner notes. the edition presents some of the best recordings ever issued by charlemagne palestine, a highlight in the alga marghen catalogue and a unique chance to listen to the core of charlemagne palestine golden research real, unedited, original sonorites.

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alga marghen (italy) #alga nmn19 cd

charlemagne palestine “in mid-air (golden 3)” compact disc

sine wave study (1965) 03’44”
open-closing (1965) 03’37”
seven organism study (1968) 07’50”
negative sound study (1969) 23’47”
tymbral for pran nath (1970) 15’18”

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "seven organism study (1968)"

alga marghen press release...

late night recordings at the n.y.u. intermedia center. buchlas 100 & 200 systems.

“the first time i heard electronically generated sounds probably came from the machines that i encountered in ordinary daily urban life the refrigerator electric motor electrical generator and the hammond electric' organ but it was especially the sounds of motion race cars motor cycles war planes rocket ships that first excited my sonic imagination as a young teenager then i heard the electronic musics of tod dockstader alwyn nikolais pierre henry & schaeffer poeme electronique of varese and xenakis and gesand der junglinge of stockhausen

i immediately bought a cheap reel to reel tape recorder took a class on tape music manipulation and started to cut and paste recording tape making collage sound experiments and fooled with reverb tricks and bass / treble tone knob filterings trying to create already an electronicesque language of my own at first i used my own voice and the bells of my carillon and sounds i recorded around the house as my sound sources then one day i experienced at an electronic music studio what electronically produced sound waves looked and sounded like through an oscilloscope and began studying helmholtz's on the sensation of tone

i started to dream of an expressive continuous evermoving everchanging sound form an enormous sonorous 3-dimensional sculptural canvas in mid-air using electronically produced sounds at first i began experiments with simple sine tone generators emitting the purest sound waves without any overtones then gradually with access to moog buchlas and arps i constructed sounds using the sine / sawtooth / square wave oscillators in a fluid everchanging mix of adding or filtering overtones and white noise to create sonorities constantly changing timbres and weight

i experimented in this way from 1964 till 74 in nyc and then california finally i assembled my own drone machine of 16 ultra stable oscillators designed by serge tcherepnin and 4 band pass filters designed by donald buchla and began to travel presenting spectral continuum searches for the golden sonority day week month long journeis of harmonies and their overtones in constant evolution and transformation in space untill the late seventies when i stopped composing & performing for nearly 15 years

when i resumed in the nineties my jamaica heinekens soundscape was made using arp and rubery oscillators and filters in holland and performed many sonorities in progress these last years with several simple yamaha synthesizers and now i am constructing a small electronic studio at home in bruxelles around the analog oberheim matrix 12 and expander that i bought just before the end of analog in the late eighties electronic sound forms continue to have a major place in my compositional palette.”

...charlemagne palestine

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alga marghen (italy) #alga nmn14 cd

charlemagne palestine “continuous sound forms (golden 2)” compact disc

duo strumming for two harpsichords (1978) - three excerpts (25’25” - 6’45” - 10’40”)
piano drone (1972) 22’10”

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "duo strumming for two harpsichords (1978)"

alga marghen press release...

“elisabeth freeman and i met in 1971 at cal arts near los angeles. she was a disciple of the great harpsichord virtuoso fernando valenti and i was in residence there as assistant professor and graduate student in multi-media. immediately we had a great chemistry between us and the sound and clarity of the harpsichord perfectly fitted my sonic approach. i invented a strumming for her eventually in 1975-76 that premiered in london + ny afterwards to critical success. then in 78 we played together at a harpsichord factory of willard martin in pennsylvania and the 3 exceprts come from sessions at that time she is playing far away + me up close. they were magic moments.

in 1972 while still at cal arts terry jennings, visionary composer, wonderful woodwind player clarinet soprano saxophone always in another time sense in another world. he and i played together from time to time for the moment all recordings are lost but this piano drone played the first bosendorfer imperial that inventited my piano music styles to come is a rare and special moment. he left the room with this stuff and some years later he left this world totally for his other world.

this piano moment on the original imperial of california i dedicate to him as in those days time was different. time passes time elusive liquid time stood still all that at the same time. piano drone is from that time and for terry.”

nayastay charlemagne logo d’orta 9/2000

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alga marghen (italy) #alga nmn13 cd

charlemagne palestine “alloy (golden 1)” compact disc

holy 1 & holy 2 (1967)
alloy (1969)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "alloy (1969)"

so the listing is a little misleading on this one... the first track is a full-on straight drone piece for 20 minutes, holy 1. the second track is the same drone with extra sonorities (aka holy 2) mixed in, thus holy 1+2. the third track is merely the holy 1 + 2 tape played in a large room (possibly the merce cunningham space?) with added accompaniment from tony conrad, robert feldman, deborah glaser palestine and cp himself. regardless of what the hell is actually on this cd, it sounds like: holy 1: the bones of a large whale being bowed from inside, holy 1+2: same whale, resisting, alloy: whale, now transplanted to chelsea piers, field documentation of whale on microcassette & accompaniment by a-list of factory hangers-on/”drone music.”

alga marghen press release...

holy 1 & holy 2
recorded in new york city n.y.u. intermedia center (1967)
late night electronic sonorities

alloy
tony conrad, robert feldman, deborah glaser palestine, charlemagne palestine
recorded live at free music store, radio station wbai, new york city (1969)

“holy 1 and holy 2 were both recorded in nyc in 1967 i was reading helmholz - and listening to a lot of ethnic world music but i was also very immersed in the late night new york soundscape

my friend saxophonist bob feldman and i would often take long long walks 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning from battery park at the lowest point in manhattan to where we lived on 87th street and riverside drive and absorb the spacial sound diversity and beauty that such a big city could only express very late at night then other nights when i composed i worked also at night.

from midnight to 7 or 8 in the morning with a mattress on the floor i would build up a sound oscillator by oscillator then add ever so slightly to the oscillators input tiny increments of white noise that would gr adually make the sounds thicker and thicker untill they were immense sacred machines humming like gargantuan tibetan bees making all the room and objects in it resonate while outside all was quiet and sleeping i worked like a painter with a palette and a canvas and i mixed and added and mixed and added over entire nights

i played them very very loud mixing adding and then lying on the mattress and listening and fine tuning finally at a certain point after several nights the sonority seemed ready to record i'd put on the tape prepare the tape machine with the proper level as not to overload it and i'd record the texture. holy 1 & 2 were done in this way

later on i was asked by gus solomons a choreographer at new york university to create a texture for a new dance work he wanted to present and as he was a student of merce cunningham he had the same habit of asking a composer to create a work without ever hearing it until the performance we just agreed on how long it would be we chose something lik e 70 minutes and in 1968 i brought both holy 1 & 2 to the theatre to decide which one to use for the dance and found that for me at that moment each one was too thin played alone for such a big open space and finally tried the 2 sonorities together

they fit strangely but wellso i used them both and after that i played them sometimes separately together and sometimes and so holy 1 & 2 became a work itself

then in 1969 tony conrad asked me to make some carillon music for his: film "coming attr actions we were seeing each other regularly for that when the free music store of radio station wbai asked me to create a piece for an event they were preparing to broadcast live on radio 1 so i asked tony my saxophonist friend bob feldman my then-wife and sopr ano debor ah glaser to collabor ate on a workthat i would organise around an instrument that i invented at that time called an alumonium made from pieces of aluminium siding attached with fishing wire each a different length thus different pitch when you hit them and a spanning sound as well if you hit them a special way and they'd begin to spin

tony played an instrument that he invented the long string drone that was a long string attached to a long wooden structure and amplified bob played the chimes and a conch deborah sang and played chimes and i sang also played the chimes and some percussion instruments that we found lying around the hall where we played

the piece became alloy and the sound that begins played through loudspeakers in the hall 'were holy 1 & 2 from 1968”

...charlemagne palestine

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alga marghen (italy) #alga 17 book

charlemagne palestine “sacred bordello” book and compact disc set

lecture at artnow centre in canada
multi-layer voice study of the early 1960s

alga marghen edition of charlemagne palestine’s recent monograph, bundled with a cd containing a 60-minute lecture / talk and an otherwise unreleased 60s “multi-layer voice study” ...

alga marghen press release...

as one of the most influential figures of experimental music and performance charlemagne palestine has remained an enigma. unlike his illustrious contemporaries terry riley, john cale, steve reich and phillip glass little has been written on palestine and his continuing influence. in his own right, he was and remains today a pivotal personality whose research in musical composition and performance has been characterized over the years by its incantatory repetitiveness, its flamboyance and its mysticism, but also by its violence.

born in brooklyn in 1947 his first musical experiences were as a cantorial singer in the synagogues of new york. through his contact with tony conrad palestine was soon introduced to the thriving experimental art scene of the late 1960s. the circles around andy warhol and la monte young provided a crucial backdrop for palestine's work which increasingly extended beyond the scope of music. his groundbreaking appearances, which combined violent piano playing, performance, video and installation, were considered to be amongst the most radical musical experiences, leaving a lasting impression on followers such as arto lindsay, glenn branca, sonic youth, and the sex pistols as well as tintin creator herge. his musical oeuvre escapes any ready categorisation.

palestine's epic durations, microtonal trembles and dense overtones are reoccurring features in contemporary industrial and electronic music. palestine's unique style of singing, indian singer prandit pran nath 'charleworld', were crucial influences on artists such as mike kelley and paul mccarthy. through recent collaborations with barcelona based techno duo pan sonic and david coulter (kronos quartet) palestine remains a crucial contributor to today's experimental music scene.

a wonderful full colour book (size cm. 23,50x18,50), with flexicover, 192 pages including essays, scores, original photos of both performances and installation. the most complete documentation on charlemagne palestine art. the compact disc will feature the 60 minutes recordings of a lecture that charlemagne palestine gave on march 7th, 1975 at artnow centre in canada. after the performance of a strumming music concert, the author freely speaks about his music, the philosophy beyond his composition techniques and art involving the students in some kind of magic ritual. starting as a question and answer conversation, the lecture develops into an intimate speech in which particularly private subjects are discussed. the lecture ends with a particularly touching suspended atmosphere showing how real communication in universities should be. the compact disc also includes a breathtaking multi-layer voice study of the early 1960s never published before on record, very similar in sound and structure to the electronic music studies just issued by alga marghen."

$15.81

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july 24th, 2007

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cold blue (usa) #cb 0025 cd

charlemagne palestine “a sweet quasimodo between black vampire butterflies for maybeck” compact disc

[introduction] (4:03)
a sweet quasimodo between black vampire butterflies for maybeck (36:49)

cold blue press release...

a sweet quasimodo between black vampire butterflies for maybeck cb0025

a sweet quasimodo … is a piece for two pianos played simultaneously in a tremolo style that palestine calls "strumming," a technique that has defined his piano music since the late '60s. it spins out its sonic tapestry in surges and ebbs, and dense sonorities with hypnotically dancing overtones grow from its few opening pitches.

this live recording from the maybeck recital hall also contains palestine's short comments about his life in california in the '70s and, accompanied by a rubbed brandy snifter, his singing of a few very short "ritual" songs in his unique falsetto vocal style.

charlemagne palestine is a composer/performer/visual artist, who grew up in brooklyn, singing in his synagogue choir. at age 16, he became carilloneur at nyc's st. thomas episcopal church. in the early days of his professional career, he had important musical associations with tony conrad, morton subotnick, pandit pran nath, ingram marshall, simone forti, and philip glass. during the 1970s, he was active as a much-acclaimed composer-performer on new york's minimalist music scene. his performances, particularly his piano "strumming" events, have always embraced eccentric elements--extremely physical performances on pianos covered with stuffed animals while consuming prodigious quantities of cognac and clove cigarettes. in the '80s, he all but retired from music and turned to creating visual art, often involving animal and stuffed-animal imagery, which has been exhibited throughout the world. in the 1990s, he resumed his music career. today, his audience larger than ever, he tours throughout the world, performing his own music and creating installations. a large, illustrated book about his life and work, sacred bordello, was published in 2003.

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new world (usa) #nw 80578 cd

charlemagne palestine “schlingen-blängen” compact disc

schlingen-blängen (71:38)

one of the better contemporary charlemagne palestine outings: a single solo organ piece lasting precisely 71 minutes and 38 seconds. heart-stopping stuff... includes liner notes by ingram marshall.

new world press release...

charlemagne palestine, organ schlingen blängen is an invaluable addition to the slender but precious discography of charlemagne palestine, one of the legendary figures of the amazingly fertile new york and west coast experimental music/art scene of the sixties and seventies. he is considered to be a seminal figure of early minimalism—as important as his better-documented contemporaries. his performances on the giant bells at st. thomas church and his evening-length bösendorfer shows are still spoken of with awe by those who were present. palestine left the music scene in the mid-seventies to focus on his visual art; he eventually moved to europe where he still resides.

schlingen blängen —a 70-minute long perambulation through the organ’s sonic landscape—was recorded in 1988 (ten years after its initial performance) in a small dutch church near the north sea. it is difficult to describe because so little happens in it, yet at the same time an immensity of activity is going on and there is so much of it that it boggles the mind. we experience sounds set into motion by the initial choosing of a chord and its timbres (the setting of the registers or stops); the melodic changes that occur are subtle and few. in short, it is a relentless and uncompromising exploration of the physicality of sound as well as its spiritual dimensions. palestine's music left its mark on a number of slightly younger composer-performers, among them rhys chatham and glenn branca. absolutely essential for a comprehensive understanding of the roots of minimalism and its offshoots.

$38.47

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slowscan (netherlands) #slowscan vol.16 lp

charlemagne palestine “old souls wearing new cloths” long playing record

old souls wearing new cloths (part 1) (25:00)
old souls wearing new cloths (part 2) (19:00)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "old souls wearing new cloths"

2003 release ; the estimable charlemagne palestine recorded in concert at s’hertogenbosch’s muziekcentrum on october 7th, 2001 ...

starting out with a rising pipe organ drone (ala “schlongo ...”) charlemagne first does some lovely drone-singing before sitting down @ the grand piano & “strumming” for the remainder of the session ... one of the better slowscans & an essential milemarker in palestine’s vast discography ...

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sub rosa (belgium) #sr 272 cd

charlemagne palestine “from etudes to cataclysms • for the doppio borgato” compact disc

super high tones (7:47)
tritone octave 5 (7:38)
tritone octave 4 (6:54)
tritone octave 3 (7:45)
tritone octave 2 (12:15)
tritone octave 1/1 (9:49)
tritone octave 1 part i (9:13)
tritone octave 1 part ii (3:41)
tritone octave 1 part iii (3:42)
tritone octave 1/2 (3:31)
cataclisma 1 (12:34)
cataclisma 2 (9:13)
cataclisma 3 (11:42)
cataclisma 4 (20:58)
cataclisma 5 (10:47)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "cataclisma 5"

may 2008 release ; amazing double-disc set covering charlemagne palestine’s first recordings on the italian doppio borgato - a double-piano played both with the hands and the feet ::

... hard image to shake, isn’t it ? ... imagine both sides of “strumming music” played atop each other and you’re getting close ... much more in the way of dissonance and use of the very low registers than in previous outings ; sounds like the doppio is getting absolutely savaged in spots (listen to the claustrophobic harmonic burst highlighted in the sound-sample) ... one of the better, if not the single best post-millienial palestine record ; one which he was born to make. highly recommended !!!

sub rosa press release...

from etudes to cataclysms - for the doppio borgato
charlemagne palestine
sr272

after the epiphany of an aural symbiotic mystery by charlemagne palestine and tony conrad (sr204) this is the first solo work by charlemagne on sub rosa - the first but probably not the last - because we would like not only to release some new important material like this one - but re-release too a series of his classic works (most of them, unfortunately, are unavailable).

from etudes to a cataclysms is one of the most important work 'till this day. an impressive composition of more than 140 minutes based on an unique instrument - a double piano on which one keyboard is played by the feet.

“several years ago martin kaufmann of kaufmann pianos in brussels told me he had seen and heard an amazing and unique instrument in italy a piano with 2 separate bodies ! one with a normal grand piano body having 88 notes to be played with the fingers, and below this piano was a second piano also with a grand piano body which could play simultaneously the lower 37 notes of a grand piano with pedals for the feet.

having known my music for years and that i had been a carilloneur where one plays with both fists and feet simultaneously martin kaufmann thought that the borgato would be perfect for my music the inventor of this unique instrument was luigi borgato from padua who developed this instrument with his wife paola. i was intriqued and through an intermediary, the italian pianist roberto posseda visited the borgatos in lonigo where they have their workshop and found that their instrument was perfect for my body and my music we immediately decided to organise recording sessions in a local church for one week and "from etudes to cataclysms" is the result !”charlemagne palestine
october 2007

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sub rosa (belgium) #sr 204 cd

charlemagne palestine / tony conrad “an aural symbiotic mystery” compact disc

an aural symbiotic mystery (51:32)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "an aural symbiotic mystery"

this is the recording of the concert from october 2005 in brussels; the one at which i both opened (awful; one of the worst sets of my professional career due to hardware/software failure and that nagging “the show must go on” sensation...) as well as joined in an encore with these two minimalist heavyweights (which was about 2 minutes long; “a minuet” as charlemagne was kind enough to dub it...) which i’m kind of glad isn’t on here (considering all things; it wasn’t very good...)

at the concert, i had the strange feeling that something wasn’t right with tony’s violin sound (this was probably the 10th time i’d seen him perform over the past 15-odd years - i could tell that something was amiss as the volume of his violin kept dropping out; the gain-stage needed to send it into full-on distortion was never quite reached...) - but it sounds lovely on the disc here...

the night in question was, even with everything that went wrong, one of the highlights of the past few years for me (oh, did i mention that i met phill niblock that night as well?), especially charlemagne’s enebriated ranting at the post-show dinner. it’s nice to be able to revisit it whenever i need to via this disc...

while not exactly the best thing either has done; there’s a fair bit of synergy and shared tonal language that propels the music forward - definitely making it a succesful venture.

sub rosa press release...

an aural symbiotic mystery
charlemagne palestine + tony conrad
sr204

"more that 30 years had passed since our last experimental duet. tony arrived and decided he could stay for several days in brussels and we casually started to play together one afternoon aude, my wife, remarks about that special moment that in 5 minutes if not less she heard a natural musical chemistry of beauty and power that greatly impressed her yet. tony and i hadn't played discussed or conversed about sound or anything in over 30 years none the less the result were totally surprising dazzling and deeply satisfyingg so that we do some concerts together in paris, nantes, naples & brussels, the present recording made in october 2005 at the mercelis theatre in brussels on " luc ferrari day " (the day that pompidou center in paris presented an entire day in honor of the french composer luc ferrari who had jsut recently died in italy) our duet had no title though we were very conscious of luc ferrari's " presence in spirit " during that evening. how is it that tony and i can play so magically together without ever discussing or planning or or anything ? ? ? i have no idea ! ! ! it's an aural symbiotic mystery ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! "

charlemagne palestine lago d'orta 7/2006

charlemagne palestine wrote intense, ritualistic music in the 1970s, intended by the composer to rub against audiences' expectations of what is beautiful and meaningful in music. a composer-performer, he always performed his own works as soloist. his earliest works were compositions for carillon and electronic drones, and he is best known for his intensely performed piano works. he also performs as a vocalist. palestine's performance style is ritualistic; he generally surrounds himself (and his piano) with stuffed animals, smokes large numbers of kretek (indonesian clove cigarettes) and drinks cognac.

works/selected discography
four manifestations on six elements (barooni, 1974), strumming music (shandar, 1977) was revolutionary in that it turned "strumming" into an avantgarde technique, and minimalism into highly dynamic (and noisy) music. palestine improvised on a piano emphasizing otherworldly overtones. schlingen-blaengen (new world, 1998), karenina (durtro), recorded in 1997, jamaica heinekens in brooklyn (barooni, 2000), a symphony of drones and found sounds.

tony conrad is an avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician/composer, sound artist, teacher and writer. along with john cale, angus maclise, la monte young, and marian zazeela conrad was an ealy member of the theater of eternal music, which utilized just intonation sustained sound to produce what they called dream music. this group performed compositions by la monte young in which the other performers would sustain certain harmonically related pitches determined by young for the duration of each piece. conrad continues to teach at the department of media study at university at buffalo.

works/selected discography
four violins (1964 - table of the elements, 1997), and his collaboration with faust - outsidethe dream syndicate (caroline, 1973 - table of the elements, 1996), works which, in his ownwords, explored the border "between pitch and rhythm". after leaving young's ensemble in 1965, he focused mainly on cinema, starting with "the flicker" {1966), fantastic glissando (1969 - table of the elements, 2003) was a performance of electronic music, while music and the mind of the word (1977), slapping pythagoras (table of the elements, 1995), recorded with a handful of post-rock musicians, is basically the logical continuation of outside the dream syndicate., early minimalism (table of the elements, 1997), thunderboy (table of the elements, 2002) is a typical avantgarde swindle: conrad recorded his son while the child was playing with turntables and other objects, bryant park (table of the elements, 2005)

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idiosyncratics (belgium) #id 001 cd

“idioscapes” compact disc

janek schaefer : scarlett arrives - for scarlett schaefer
keith fullerton whitman : quest appartments, newcastle nsw
critikal : critically fluffy
rapoon : the moment screams
kk null : idioscape / decomposition
charlemagne palestine : la beauté et la bête
steffen bashô-junghans : the blue hour
sébastien roux : d 821
troum : fantauma
eve and the sickness : infected nature
jazkamer : ruido rosa 5 minutos
daniel menche : cadence
idiosyncrasia : filt_h

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "quest appartments, newcastle nsw"

spring 2007 compilation of “idiosyncratic” music curated by yannick franck... includes music by a pretty damn excellent selection of contemporary drone/repetition practitioners ranging from the minimalist swell of charlemagne palestine to the munged roar of lasse marhaug & jon hegre’s jazkamer to steffen basho-junghan’s ringing steel-string figures...

just about everything is exclusive to this reasonably priced and quite lovely set (featuring tatiana klejniak’s scribbled-out paintings...) with a nice blend of darker & lighter tonalities. something for every fan of long-form sound. properly chilled.

idiosyncratics press release...

idcd 001
various artists : idioscapes 2007
digipack / 1000 copies

“the idea was to ask some of our favourite sound artists to take part in a compilation... and, to our surprise, they accepted. the only concept was that they had to provide a specific / particular / idiosyncratic piece. qualified as a “drone paradise” by lasse marhaug (of jazkamer), the result is a fine and coherent whole, full of extended textures, contrasted acoustic surfaces, subtle and strong. idioscapes contains 70 minutes of authentic acoustic researches, with glitches, loops, noises, deep and glittering textures, subliminal frequences and narrative inserts, punctured with sensible musical moments. idiosyncratics is honoured to present these sound masters on idioscapes. infinite thanks to all of them.” y.f.

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june 4th, 2008

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sub rosa (belgium) #sr 270 cd

“anthology of noise & electronic music / fifth a-chronology 1920-2007” double compact disc set

rogelio sosa - vinylika (7:02) 2003
christian galaretta - maranon (part vi) (10:27) 2004
li chin sung aka dickson dee - shame (4:57) 1994-2007
francois-bernard mache - prelude (5:28) 1959
richard maxfield - pastoral symphony (4:01) 1960
wolf vostell - elektronicher de-colagge. happening raum. (3:00) 1968
charlemagne palestine - seven organism study (7:53) 1968
andre boucourechilev - texte 2 (4:36) 1959
helmut lachenmann - scenario (12:30) 1965
alireza mashayekhi - shur, op.15 (6:28) 1966
claude ballif - points, mouvements (10:14) 1962
mauricio kagel - antithese (9:21) 1962
vladimir mayakovsky - and would you? (0:32) 1920
raoul hausmann - fmsbw (recorded by henri chopin) (0:45) 1918
gil joseph wolman - megapneumies, mars 1963 (4:54) 1963
leo kupper - electro-poeme (5:54) 1963-1970
josef anton riedl - leonce und lena (2:17) 1963
sten hanson + henri chopin - tete a tete (5:08) 1973
dajuin yao - satisfaction of oscillation (9:27) 1997
pere ubu - sentimental journey (7:01) 1978
ground zero - live 1992 (1:01) 1992
masonna / yamazaki "maso" takushi - spectrum ripper (part i-ii-iii) (3:32) 1996-1997
sutcliffe jugend - blind ignorance (5:39) 2007
club moral - l'enfer est intime (6:32) 1985
dub taylor - lumiere (part i) (17:11) 1972

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "francois-bernard mache - prelude"

january 2008 release ; the fifth volume of this ongoing series of double-disc compilations collecting newly unearthed/discovered/licensed gems from the assorted back alleyways of early electronic music with contemporary offerings from a current crop of like-minded electronic music practitioners ...

for this volume the (many) highlights include françois-bernard mâche’s “prélude,” wolf vostell’s “elektronicher dé-collage,” helmut lachenmann’s “scenario,” and from the more recent end of the spectrum a particularly nice blast from maso yamazaki & a bit of gristle from legendary early uk noise act sutcliffe jügend ...

given the purview of mms; these compilations are becoming something of a yearly festival - much in here to be excited about, thanks to the hard work of sub rosa’s guy-marc hinant. highly recommended, of course; and not just this most recent volume (the prior four all contain a veritable king’s ransom in early electronic music gold...)

sub rosa press release...

an anthology of noise & electronic music vol. 5 - fifth a-chronology 1920-2007

charlemagne palestine, père ubu, sutcliffe jügend, li chin sung aka dickson dee, alireza mashayekhi, rogelio sosa, christian galaretta, françois-bernard mâche, richard maxfield, wolf vostell, andré boucourechliev, helmut lachenmann, claude ballif, mauricio kagel, vladimir mayakovsky, raoul hausmann, gil joseph wolman, léo kupper, josef anton riedl, sten hanson + henri chopin, dajuin yao, ground zero, masonna, club moral, dub taylor

digipack 2 cd + 50 pages booklet
sr270

here i am, for the fifth time, facing this impossible task no one has asked me to do. how can one bring together the history of electronic and concrete music to the history of noise music? for this volume, i want to highlight pieces illustrating a technique (claude ballif's points,mouvements), a country (shur, op. 15 by alireza mashayekhi), a studio (helmut lachenmann at the ipem), there are also historic (françois bernard mâche's prélude), and radical (spectrum ripper by masonna) works that have ripped apart ancient definitions. all this organized with internationalism in mind and, for once, a focus on the voice - not as sung words, their traditional facet in music (from pop songs to lieder and operas), but as the word itself, recited, distorted, rendered abstract or disaggregated and screamed (the incantation so often a part of rock and noise music).

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...and that's everything in stock featuring charlemagne palestine.
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