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$16.81

back in stock as of
october 11th, 2011

first in stock on
february 23rd, 2011

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northern spy (usa) #ns 004 lp

rhys chatham “outdoor spell” long playing record

outdoor spell (7:41)
crossing the sword bridge of the abyss (18:01)
corn maiden's rite (6:31)
the magician (12:19)

february 2011 release ; lovely set of trumpet & echoplex jams from “punk minimalist” rhys chatham ...

oddly, what i’m reminded of the most are charlie nothing’s spacious side-long extrapolations, albeit a&a’ed here by tons & processing (mostly harmonizer & tape / looping) & rhys’ woozy, lip / tongue heavy embouchures ...

neat stuff, nice to hear a full albumsworth of this side of rhys musical personality, which has lain dormant since the late 90’s (when he dropped a 12” of similar works for ... ninja tune i believe) ...

northern spy press release...

rhys chatham – outdoor spell

lp • limited to 1000 copies
high quality virgin vinyl • pro printed jackets

rhys chatham: voice, trumpet
beatriz rojas: cajón (on ‘corn maiden’s rite’)
jean-marc montera: electric guitar (on ‘the magician’)
kevin shea: drums (on ‘the magician’)

rhys chatham has trail-blazed a course through late 20th century music, equally aplomb in post-minimalist composition as he is in punk. not since roebling laid his span across the east river has there been an artist who builds bridges in both how we hear music and how we can appreciate art. his latest album, outdoor spell, is a further document in that direction. here has has eschewed 100 guitars, or even himself playing a single guitar, for the trumpet and voice, both electrified and dry. it is an earthquake island for the 21st century, tugging at the corners of new ideas, taking in forms endemic to a shared imagination and renewing the beauty there.

$13.44

back in stock as of
october 11th, 2011

first in stock on
february 23rd, 2011

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northern spy (usa) #ns 004 cd

rhys chatham “outdoor spell” compact disc

outdoor spell (7:41)
crossing the sword bridge of the abyss (18:01)
corn maiden's rite (6:31)
the magician (12:19)

february 2011 release ; lovely set of trumpet & echoplex jams from “punk minimalist” rhys chatham ...

oddly, what i’m reminded of the most are charlie nothing’s spacious side-long extrapolations, albeit a&a’ed here by tons & processing (mostly harmonizer & tape / looping) & rhys’ woozy, lip / tongue heavy embouchures ...

neat stuff, nice to hear a full albumsworth of this side of rhys’ musical personality, which has lain dormant since the late 90’s (when he dropped a 12” of similar works for ... ninja tune i believe) ...

northern spy press release...

rhys chatham – outdoor spell

cd • 4 panel digipak

rhys chatham: voice, trumpet
beatriz rojas: cajón (on ‘corn maiden’s rite’)
jean-marc montera: electric guitar (on ‘the magician’)
kevin shea: drums (on ‘the magician’)

rhys chatham has trail-blazed a course through late 20th century music, equally aplomb in post-minimalist composition as he is in punk. not since roebling laid his span across the east river has there been an artist who builds bridges in both how we hear music and how we can appreciate art. his latest album, outdoor spell, is a further document in that direction. here has has eschewed 100 guitars, or even himself playing a single guitar, for the trumpet and voice, both electrified and dry. it is an earthquake island for the 21st century, tugging at the corners of new ideas, taking in forms endemic to a shared imagination and renewing the beauty there.

$24.18

back in stock as of
april 21st, 2010

first in stock on
february 29th, 2008

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best of 2008 !!!

table of the elements (usa) #toe 813 cd

rhys chatham “guitar trio is my life !” triple compact disc set

guitar trio pt. 1, brooklyn (19:27)
guitar trio pt. 2, chicago (23:34)
guitar trio pt. 1, buffalo (21:15)
guitar trio pt. 2, toronto (19:20)
guitar trio pt. 1, montreal (22:24)
guitar trio pt. 2, cleveland (16:35)
guitar trio pt. 1, minneapolis (6:45)
guitar trio pt. 2, milwaukee (19:04)
guitar trio pt. 1, chicago (30:23)
guitar trio pt. 2, brooklyn (16:27)

... as psyched i am for this mammoth set of alternating renditions of rhys chatham’s “guitar trio pt. 1” and “guitar trio pt.2” - i can’t help but be a little bummed at the omission of either of the boston takes (which, to my amp-damaged ears, sounded quite fine w/chris brokaw, david daniell, winston bramman, myself, and the devil music guys essentially playing a single-chord to a sold-out allston-rock-city crowd for over an hour) - but that’s neither here nor there ...

what you do get from this excellent triple-disc box are takes from the brooklyn, buffalo, chicago, cleveland, milwaukee, minneapolis, montreal, and toronto stagings of the piece during february 2007, performed with ludicrously high levels of energy by chatham himself, along with such notables as andrew broder, tony conrad, david daniell, kim gordon, alan licht, robert longo, rob “lichens” lowe, doug mccombs, thurston moore, jon mueller, harris newman, jeff parker, lee ranaldo, chris rosenau, adam & ben vida, etc ...

if you don’t know the piece ; it’s essentially an exercise in yielding what chatham himself describes as “choiring” - a heavy, upper-register buildup of harmonic movement that results when so many guitar players, over 20 minutes, slowly work across an open e minor chord from the low e to the high e, at deafening volume, while a single drummer keeps time on a hi-hat (pt. 1) or contributes with a “driving backbeat” followed by a long fill / freak-out (pt. 2) - it’s the ultimate in high-gain rock ‘n’ roll minimalism, really, and because of the open interpretation, the piece can swing pretty heavily in a number of directions given the players - hence this collection offering 5 different realizations of each part by 8 different groups ...

highly recommended as a historical document and as a testament to the piece’s lasting relevance ...

table of the elements press release...

rhys chatham & his guitar trio all-stars
“guitar trio is my life !”

utilizing multiple electric guitars and a single chord, 1977’s “guitar trio” is composer rhys chatham’s signature work, and a euphoric, minimal-punk classic. it’s an inspired amalgamation — the droning, shimmering harmonics of john cale and tony conrad fused with the power and fury of the ramones — that had a meteoric impact. it placed chatham at the forefront of the burgeoning no wave scene; its influence then spread further, as protégés and participants in chatham’s ensembles — including glenn branca and members of sonic youth — folded the sound into their own. “guitar trio” remains a composition with a half-life, an adventure in sound that continues to radiate influence and inspiration.

now, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of “guitar trio” on an epic scale, chatham musters an all-star guitar army for the 3xcd set, “guitar trio is my life!” the sprawling collection features members of sonic youth, swans, tortoise, godspeed you! black emperor, hüsker dü, modern lovers, silver mt. zion, town and country, die kreutzen, 90-day men, collections of colonies of bees, and many more; even tony conrad gets in on the act. together these artists celebrate chatham’s wordless anthem, with its minimalist origins, rock & roll rhythm, ecstatic whorl of harmonics, and ever-evolving, ever-expanding nature.

so, take a listen, and hear what one man can do with hundreds of guitars, 30 years, one chord, and a skyscraper of amps set to liquefy. “guitar trio” endures.

3xcd set of previously unreleased material;
includes 32-page book with liner notes and unpublished photographs

$14.82

back in stock as of
april 21st, 2010

first in stock on
january 22nd, 2007

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best of 2007 !!!

table of the elements (usa) #toe 106 cd

rhys chatham “a crimson grail for 400 electric guitars” compact disc

a crimson grail: part one (20:42)
a crimson grail: part two (16:00)
a crimson grail: part three (19:49)

september 2008 ; this was unavailable for the last year or so, but is finally back in stock !!!

january 2007 release of this titanic piece by rhys chatham for rhythm section (the incomparable ernie brooks & jonathan kane) and 400 guitarists (including jean-françois pauvros !! try to pick him out !!!)

not since “lesson nº 1” have i heard such a triumphant wall of pick-string energy; the massive guitar-amp din that filled the space must have been overwhelming. this room-recording is as close as we’ll get to the event; the distance from the mics to the amps adds a nice ambience, merging all of that energy into one cohesive sound.

chatham’s been on a roll for the last few years; more power to him. this is an essential bit of massed guitar sound that i can and will recommend uncategorically. just plain awesome.

table of the elements press release...

rhys chatham a crimson grail for 400 electric guitars

rhys chatham, the man who rocks the minimalist canon like a hurricane, gathers up the city of light in the evanescent beauty of his latest piece - written for 400 guitars and performed live in the basilica of landmark sacre coeur - with 10,000 people watching and 100,000 more on national tv. as the music shimmers, it offers a snapshot of eternity, an echo of a moment a thousand years gone - and a thousand years yet to come

$14.82

back in stock as of
april 21st, 2010

first in stock on
april 2nd, 2008

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table of the elements (usa) #toe 056 cd

rhys chatham “a rhys chatham compendium • selected works 1971-1989” compact disc

an angel moves too fast to see (edit) (7:36) 1989
guitar trio (edit) (3:04) 1977
drastic classicism (edit) (3:50) 1982
two gongs (edit) (7:00) 1971
guitar cetet (bonus track not contained in box set) (2:55) 1977
waterloo, no. 2 (edit) (2:28) 1986
die donnergötter (complete version) (21:46) 1985

... sampler disc for the (o/p) chatham box set, includes a recording of “guitar cetet” not on the box ...

table of the elements press release...

excerpts from the forthcoming rhys chatham 3-cd box set, an angel moves too fast to see

at first glance, new york-born composer rhys chatham might have seemed unlikely to alter the dna of rock; a classically trained musician, chatham was piano tuner to glenn gould and la monte young, student of young and morton subotnick, protegee of tony conrad, and in 1971, while still in his teens, founder of the highly influential experimental music program at the kitchen in lower manhattan. nevertheless, it was rhys chatham who first applied multiple electric guitars to extended-duration, overtone-drenched minimalism. this amalgamation - of the intellectual experimentalism and textural sophistication of the avant-garde with the rhythmic brashness and visceral punch of punk rock - produced a raucous, ecstatic new type of urban music that energized the downtown new york scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, a music whose influence can be heard in the subsequent work of the many luminaries who participated in chatham's ensembles, including glenn branca and members of sonic youth, mars, band of susans and swans.

a rhys chatham compendium is distilled from the comprehensive 3-disc retrospective, an angel moves too fast to see, which includes all of chatham's major "minimal" pieces, from the thunderous "two gongs" (1971) and the no-wave tumult of "guitar trio" (1977) to the brass-based "massacre on macdougal street" (1982) and the epic, previously unreleased "an angel moves too fast to see" (1989), performed by an orchestra of 100 electric guitars. the accompanying 136-page book features dozens of never-before-published photos plus essays by chatham, tony conrad and lee ranaldo and artwork by famed visual artist robert longo. together they present a portrait of a city and a milieu where, for a moment, the raw, the sophisticated, the meditative and the danceable merged.

selected works 1971-1989, including unreleased recordings of his orchestra for 100 guitars

$15.61

back in stock as of
april 21st, 2010

first in stock on
may 13th, 2008

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table of the elements (usa) #toe 812 lp
radium (usa) #toe 812 lp

“impala eardrums • a radium sampler” long playing record

rhys chatham - untitled (1986) (5:20)
jonathan kane’s february - pops (6:26)
megafaun - beloved binge (3:15)
paul duncan - silver eagle (4:24)
collections of colonies of bees - athlete (4:37)
neptune - lightning and the flight of birds (4:11)
ateleia - grasses (5:14)
school of seven bells - limb by limb (4:27)

may 2008 release ; first label-comp for this table of the elements sub-series ; something of a springboard for the friendlier / contemporary styles / artists affiliated with the label ... exclusive material from the majority of the roster ; much variety makes for a nice, diverse listen ... lovely milky-white lp.

table of the elements press release...

impala eardrums a radium sampler

for fifteen years, table of the elements has been the preeminent source of avant audio, championing minimal, improvised, and outsider musics of various spots and stripes. now, as its influence radiates outward, the label presents radium, its “rock” imprint, showcased here with impala eardrums, a radium sampler.

while minimalist legend rhys chatham leads the way with a delightful unreleased piece from his mid-80s archives, most of the other contributors are younger folks, from a new generation of performers. it’s a diverse bunch, ranging from the raw americana of megafaun and jonathan kane, to the humid, pulsating krautrock of ateleia and the spectral songcraft of paul duncan. neptune serves up its version of home-forged proto-clangor, while collections of colonies of bees and school of seven bells pour forth in glistening, shimmering waves.

together, these eight tracks — all previously unreleased — have one thing in common: a resolute will to march headlong into the untamed brambles and briar patches of 21st-century sound.

$14.04

back in stock as of
april 21st, 2010

first in stock on
may 13th, 2008

threads:
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table of the elements (usa) #toe 812 cd
radium (usa) #toe 812 cd

“impala eardrums • a radium sampler” compact disc

rhys chatham - untitled (1986) (5:20)
jonathan kane’s february - pops (6:26)
megafaun - beloved binge (3:15)
paul duncan - silver eagle (4:24)
collections of colonies of bees - athlete (4:37)
neptune - lightning and the flight of birds (4:11)
ateleia - grasses (5:14)
school of seven bells - limb by limb (4:27)

cd version ...

table of the elements press release...

$21.06

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april 21st, 2010

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october 24th, 2006

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table of the elements (usa) #toe 090 cd

“a field guide to table of the elements - southeastern edition” double compact disc set

jonathan kane curl
arnold dreyblatt star trap
zeena parkins below the wall
san agustin embers
tony conrad indicting lully
tony conrad with faust encore
rhys chatham 100 guitars
leif inge 9 beet stretch (excerpt)

double-disc compilation containing exclusive materials from a large part of the tote roster. the second disc is an excerpt of leif inge’s 24-hour timestretch of beethoven’s 9th symphony, and it worth the price of the compilation alone...

table of the elements press release...

happy 21st century. here, on these eight unique tracks, is a field guide to the essential table of the elements. this sampler is more than a summary of label highlights, and certainly nothing so casual as an assortment of odds’n’sods. the performances make a statement as bold as their visceral impact and as rich as the conceptual process that underpins their creation. it’s no coincidence that jonathan kane jump-starts the show with “curl,” a low-down blues rumble powered by the drummer’s signature mule kick. the new york based musician has been the rhythmic motor behind so me of the singularly monolithic bands of the last 30 years. here, he summons the ghosts of slim harpo and junior kimbrough to commune with the shimmering harmonic textures his band creates. this blessed-out boogaloo may be the perfect response to the rallying cry: f*ck dance, let’s art! in the right pair of hands, gripping the right set of drumsticks, there’s scarcely any difference. dig in as north mississippi meets downtown new york. it’s the new, new, new hip-shake thing. and it’s superbad.

like kane, whose name is perfectly suited for a skin-slapping urban blues magus, arnold dreyblatt is a minimalist who never forgot that music is still the human mating call. anyone who has experienced the composer’s recordings with his marvelously-dubbed orchestra of excited strings knows how madly dreyblatt’s pieces swing. they’ve flaunt time as precise as a swiss watch. indeed, music like this can put you in the mind of the whirring cogs and pulleys of some small mechanized device. everything’s moving, twitching about, a bunch of individual sounds racheting up and down in a modulated relationship to all the other individual sounds. this animated playfulness gives “star trap” a real charm. springy rhythms dance with each other, as clipped percussion and purposefully bowed strings generate delightful harmonic chatter.

no less pixilated is the collaboration between improvising electric harpist zeena parkins and fellow traveler david kean – an engineer and instrument collector who oversees a most curious and impressive array of obscure keyboards at his audities foundation in calgary. here, the duo manifests some ticklish repartee between plucks and loops, as micro-sounds caper and vault through the spontaneous choreography of pure textural play.

georgia natives san agustin (david daniell, guitar; andrew burnes, guitar; bryan fielden, drums) have their own peculiar relationship with the sonic phenomena they create, awash in eddying pools of feedback and resonance evoked as if a natural event and as evaporative as a cirrus cloud floating high against crispy blue.

composer tony conrad and the german rock band faust partake of a different sort of conversation on a segment of their final live performance together: the encore from a feb. 18, 1995, concert at queen elizabeth hall in london. pitting conrad’s ferociously amplified violin against the primitive percussive onslaught of faust, and discordant shouts from the audience, the piece clangs and drones its way to an ecstatic pinnacle. conrad’s “indicting lully” hails from 1998, and an installation at the museum of contemporary art in los angeles. the piece finds conrad and alex gelencser on violin and cello, playing to the “orchestral” drone of three hurdy gurdy-like violins, turned upside-down, with the strings jutting against a spinning wheel, which agitated each string equally. the musicians performed while garbed in 18th century period costumes.

the concept of massed strings gets supersized in this excerpt from rhys chatham’s legendary “100 guitars.” this prelude to one of the most extraordinary works in the minimalist canon hints at the majestic potential inherent in chatham’s amplified imagination. eric burdon once fantastized about “10,000 guitars, grooving real loud,” but this composer makes a dream come true. and yet, if that’s not enough, check out the sampler’s closer. “9 beet stretch” is an instant milestone in modern music. think 100 guitars can’t be beat? try 24 hours of beethoven. this snippet comes from leif inge’s digitally realized adaptation of beethoven’s 9th symphony. extended to 24 hours by a literal “stretch,” which involved slowing down a recording of the masterpiece — with no distortion in pitch — so that it becomes a wholly new creature, “beet” opens up into an impossibly wondrous world of sonic phenomena. saturated in the rushing whirl of nameless angelic choirs, the listener is propelled forward into the eternal – no less a transcendent movement through the end of time than a passage through kubrick’s kaleidoscopic stargate. it’s a fitting way to conclude this compilation, stealing fire from the western cultural pantheon to fuel a voyage into uncharted territories, but it’s just such an enterprise that makes table of the elements such essential listening. happy 21st century, indeed.

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