morton feldman “morton feldman (1926-87)” compact disc

• piano three hands (8:03) 1957
  
• intermission 5 (3:52) 1952
  
• vertical thoughts 2 (6:49) 1963
  
• extensions (8:05) 1952
  
• four instruments (8:12) 1975
  
• intermission 5 (2:11) 1952
  
• piano piece 1956 a (2:23) 1956
  
• piano piece 1956 b (3:07) 1956
  
• intersection 3 (3:08) 1953
  
• instruments 1 (24:16) 1974

edition rz press release...

ed. rz 1010 cd morton feldman (1926 - 87) piano three hands, intermission 5, vertical thoughts 2, extensions 3, four instruments, intermission 5, piano piece 1956 a + b, intersection 3, instruments 1 piano three hands (m. feldman + j. tilbury) intermission 5 (m. feldman) vertical thoughts 2 (c. cardew, j. négyesy) extensions 3 (m. feldman) four instruments (cantilena chamber players) intermission 5 (d. tudor) piano piece 1956 a + b (d. tudor) intersection 3 (d. tudor) instruments 1 (e. blum, n. post, g. list, j. williams, j. kubera)

yoshi wada “earth horns with electronic drone” compact disc

• earth horns with electronic drone (77:00)

march 2009 release ; at long last - the fourth and final installment in this joint edition omega point / em records series, covering the sound-art work of fluxus-lineage sound-artist yoshi wada ... and what a long, strange trip it’s been !!! this whole series has instilled so much collective joy in amongst the leagues of past-looking experimental & drone-music followers that i’m sad to see it come to an end, but all things must ... and what better way than with this 77-minute excerpt of a 2 hour, 25 minute performance by yoshi, garrett list, barbara stewart, jim burton, and liz phillips recorded on february 24th, 1974 at the everson museum of art, syracuse, new york ... the piece opens (listen to the sound-sample) with a dry, slightly overtone-riddled sine-wave drone, over which the ensemble begin to intone on their “earth horns” - extended didgeridoo-lineage pipes (some up to 20 feet long !!!) - in unison over the tonal root ... as the piece gets underway, you really begin to feel the fabric of time slip away ; several consecutive listens-through consumed an entire afternoon, after which i had little memory of any events taking place ... this cd edition happens to be my preferred format-of-choice here as it offers the longest continuous stretch of music (plus, as the piece itself is something of a static, almost sculptural event you’ll probably want to keep this on automatic repeat for a few days - something very easy to achieve with cd players these days) ; comes with a fold-out booklet with english program notes on one side, and a george maciunas flyer for a performance by wada’s lip vibrators (see just below) on the flip. highly recommended !!!

em press release...

yoshi wada "earth horns with electronic drone" (cd) publisher: omega point / em records (op-0007 / em1081cd) a world premiere from yoshi wada and em records / omega point: the first-ever release of "earth horns with electronic drone", recorded live in 1974. combining four of wada's self-made "pipehorns" (made from plumbing materials, over three meters in length), with an electronic drone tuned to the electrical current of the performance space, this is a lost masterpiece of early minimalism, placing wada rightfully in the pantheon with la monte young, phill niblock, maryanne amacher and alvin lucier. recorded live in syracuse, new york, this recording captures the room-filling complex overtones generated by the ever-shifting interplay of the breathing horns and the constant electronic drone. this is a music of ritual hypnotic power, its heavy low end mass and sense of change within constancy engendering a meditative transcendency. "earth horns with electronic drone" is the fourth and ultimate release in our yoshi wada series, a must for all fans of minimalism, heavy drones, ritual, mystery and world-shaking transcendence. from an original performance of almost three hours, the cd features a 77 minute excerpt; we are especially honored to also offer the full performance as a triple lp set. from earth horns to beyond the firmament: prepare to be elevated!

musica elettronica viva “mev40” quadruple compact disc set

• spacecraft (30:49) 1967
  
• stop the war (44:39) 1972
  
  
• stedelijk museum, amsterdam, pt. 1 (43:07) 1982
  
• kunstmuseum, bern (24:37) 1990
  
  
• stedelijk museum, amsterdam, pt. 2 (44:05) 1982
  
• new music america festival (30:51) 1989
  
  
• ferrara, italy (67:03) 2002
  
• mass. pike (10:57) 2007

new world press release...

musica elettronica viva - mev40 80675 (4 cds) allan bryant, alvin curran, carol plantamura, frederic rzewski, ivan vandor, karl berger, garrett list, gregory reeve, richard teitelbaum, steve lacy, george lewis musica elettronica viva (mev) was begun one evening in the spring of 1966 by allan bryant, alvin curran, jon phetteplace, carol plantamura, frederic rzweski, richard teitelbaum and ivan vandor in a room in rome overlooking the pantheon. mev’s music right from the start was also totally open, allowing all and everything to come in and seeking in every way to get out beyond the heartless conventions of contemporary music. taking its cue from tudor and cage, mev began sticking contact mics to anything that sounded and amplified their raw sounds: bed springs, sheets of glass, tin cans, rubber bands, toy pianos, sex vibrators, and assorted metal junk; a crushed old trumpet, cello and tenor sax kept us within musical credibility, while a home-made synthesizer of some 48 oscillators along with the first moog synthesizer in europe gave our otherwise neo-primitive sound an inimitable edge. in the name of the collectivity, the group abandoned both written scores and leadership and replaced them with improvisation and critical listening. rehearsals and concerts were begun at the appropriate time by a kind of spontaneous combustion and continued until total exhaustion set in. it mattered little who played what when or how, but the fragile bond of human trust that linked us all in every moment remained unbroken. the music could go anywhere, gliding into self-regenerating unity or lurching into irrevocable chaos—both were valuable goals. in the general euphoria of the times, mev thought it had re-invented music; in any case it had certainly rediscovered it. —alvin curran this 4-cd set, covering the years 1967–2007, comprises the best surviving recorded documents from four decades of performances, personally curated by its three core members — alvin curran, frederic rzewski, and richard teitelbaum. as such, it is an invaluable historical anthology of one of the pioneering and truly legendary exponents of live-electronic music.