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previous artist: the legendary stardust cowboy		there are 7 titles featuring thomas lehn in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: hanno leichtmann

$12.85

back in stock as of
october 27th, 2008

first in stock on
july 16th, 2007

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cathnor (uk) #cath 004 cd

mimeo “sight” compact disc

sight (60:04)

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

cathnor press release...

cath004
mimeo
sight

released may 2007
cd in oversized digipack

mimeo
gert-jan prins
thomas lehn
kaffe matthews
peter rehberg
jerome noetinger
marcus schmickler
christian fennesz
phil durrant
rafael toral
cor fuhler
keith rowe

sight is the title of the fifth album by the electronic improvisation supergroup mimeo.

sight is a project inspired by stories of the american painter cy twombly that describe how he took up the occasional practice of drawing and painting blindfolded, creating art despite being unable to use the most obvious sense required for the task.

for the sight project each of the eleven members of mimeo spread across europe were asked to place approximately five minutes of sound anywhere they chose onto a blank sixty minute cdr. this was done independently of one another, with no communication between the musicians about how or where the music should be distributed on the disc.

this process was only completed after the musicians had spent considerable time considering the task at hand, trying to understand what their colleagues may be doing. finally in late 2006 the finished cdrs were sent to one group member, marcus schmickler, who then compiled all eleven discs onto one single cdr, superimposing the eleven pieces of music over each other to create a single work. this task was completed without listening to the music at any stage.

the cdr was then later sent to myself at cathnor recordings where it remained unplayed until it was sent to the pressing plant.

$13.25

back in stock as of
october 24th, 2007

first in stock on
december 18th, 2003

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digital-musics

erstwhile (usa) #erstwhile 027 cd

keith rowe / thomas lehn / marcus schmickler “rabbit run” compact disc

1 piece split into 42 segments
designed to be played either linearly or randomly

erstwhile press release...

keith rowe: tabletop guitar, electronics
thomas lehn: analogue synthesizer
marcus schmickler: digital synthesizer, computer

keith rowe, thomas lehn and marcus schmickler are three of the most prominent names in the european experimental world, each with their own distinct history and discography. all three are members of the all-star electronic orchestra mimeo, and in late 2001, they began performing occasionally as a trio, eventually resulting in rabbit run.

rowe, best known for his groundbreaking work with amm, has recently been pursuing numerous other projects. some of the most exceptional documents of this recent work include weather sky (w/ toshimaru nakamura), the hands of caravaggio (with mimeo and special guest john tilbury), an ongoing series of works with oren ambarchi, and the forthcoming double cd of duos with his longtime sparring partner john tilbury, duos for doris (erstwhile, out in may), as well as his continued solo explorations, recently documented with a superb 3 inch disc on sound 323.

lehn's unique command of the analogue synthesizer has established him as one of the most exciting musicians on the european festival circuit. his considerable range of ideas and approaches have been showcased in small groups such as konk pack and toot, in energetic duos with gerry hemingway and marcus schmickler, and in an ultra-minimal trio with radu malfatti and phil durrant.

schmickler has been involved with numerous projects over the past decade, including the seminal collective kontakta. while rooted in electronic music, schmickler also has a background in contemporary composition, having studied under prominent stockhausen collaborator johannes fritsch. as a solo artist, schmickler has created important works such as wabi sabi, sator rotas and param, as well as three cds under the name pluramon, with a fourth to be released in 2003.

rowe, lehn and schmickler gathered together in june of 2002, in schmickler's piethopraxis studio in cologne, for two days of recordings. the results were rabbit run, which is two records in one: a single 41 minute piece designed to be played linearly, and the same piece subdivided into 42 shorter tracks, designed to be played on random shuffle, creating a unique record with each play. the cover painting is by rowe, in his unique pop-art style, subsumed by cologne designer heike sperling into a startlingly original design.

$13.25

back in stock as of
october 24th, 2007

first in stock on
july 18th, 2005

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erstwhile (usa) #erstlive 002 cd
erstlive (usa) #erstlive 002 cd

keith rowe / toshimaru nakamura / thomas lehn / marcus schmickler “erstlive 002” compact disc

(38:47)

double-duo session, featuring lehn & schmickler matching wits with rowe & nakamura ...

erstwhile press release...

keith rowe - guitar, electronics
toshimaru nakamura - no-input mixing board
thomas lehn - analogue synthesizer
marcus schmickler - synthesizer, computer

erstlive is a new series of releases from erstwhile records, documenting notable live sets associated with the label. the discs are designed to simulate a concert experience, each in the same template design using two colors chosen by the musicians involved, with a photo of the concert on the back cover. each will be in an edition of 800 cds and not reprinted. the initial releases will be chosen from the amplify 2004 festival which took place in cologne and berlin in may 2004.

erstlive 002 is from the quartet of keith rowe, toshimaru nakamura, thomas lehn and marcus schmickler, the final quartet performance in the cologne half of amplify 2004: addition, also in may 2004. this was the quartet's first performance together.

$15.12

back in stock as of
january 25th, 2008

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august 9th, 2006

grob (germany) #grob 654 cd

konk pack “off leash” compact disc

off leash (43:21)

grob press release...

konk pack - off leash

off leash is the third release of the delicate high-energy trio konk pack – founded in 1998 and made up of thomas lehn on ems-synthesizer, roger turner on drums and tim hodgkinson on la-top steel guitar and clarinet.

big deep (1999, grob 102) was a selection of their first concerts: warp out (2001, grob 323) was the first studio recording. off leash is a live recording again, from a concert in utrecht in 2001 that was made under most favorable conditions conceivable. the sound is superb, the details of the live performance can be heard in the cd’s tonal image, the instruments are present and clear. if you close your eyes, you can easily imagine sitting directly in a stirring concert. but what are the best recording conditions worth with the music cannot keep with them?

off leash bears up to the musicians’ critical ears. for the first time they are so convinced of their own concert that they found it valuable to release it in its entirety on a cd. (this, by the way, is why the cd is only being released now: they listened to the music again and again, checked it, compared it to other recordings, and then it was mastered by thomas lehn in the end.) for the first time, off leash offers the opportunity of following an entire konk pack improvisation in real time, without any post production dramaturgy and cosmetics. the extremely powerful passages, their legendary free punk, is in a perfectly balanced proportion to the peaceful, sometimes fragile, passages that nearly crumble apart.

the music is both: it is consistent, like of a cast, like from a group that had played far more than 100 concerts (which is seldom in the world of improvised music); the music, however, is also eruptive, often surprising, fragmentary and heterogeneous. the music from konk pack is the contradiction made productive: finely engraved tonal work and hard free punk are not placed non-reconcilably next to each other; in fact, they determine each other

an essential reason for this is the radically horizontal improvisational method of the musicians. all three constantly play with each other. there is no fore or background, no soloists and no accompaniment; in general no solo and no “feature” of one individual. the system “konk pack” means that each has to constantly keep the other two in his ear. their music is and remains consequently collective. off leash, the utrecht concert, is currently the best live recording of their holy palaver.

the cover art work is from tim hodgkinson and roger turner.

$15.12

back in stock as of
january 25th, 2008

first in stock on
august 9th, 2006

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grob (germany) #grob 205 cd

chadlehn “c inside” compact disc

crossroads 1 (12.59)
crossroads 2 (06.34)
crossroads 3 (07.13)
crossroads 4 (11.09)
crossroads 5 (08.20)
intersection (01.42)
line out (02.42)

grob press release...

chadlehn - c inside (05.2000)

eugene chadbourne, deering goodtimes banjo, modified guild slim jim acoustic electric guitar, various objects
thomas lehn, ems synthi 'a' analogue synthesizer

the virtuous string player eugene chadbourne and the ingenious synthesizer player thomas lehn met in the summer of 1999 to celebrate an impossible event: the confrontation of a banjo with an analogue ems-synthesizer... both know well, as if dreaming, how to move between material extension and its demolition in the best tradition of european improvised music and country songs, as only chadbourne can recite them. as if they had never done anything else...

it doesn't matter if they weave dense interactions and lump them into great noise or consciously go separate ways and seem to play without the other-their exchange is always direct, constantly the other knows the right answer. spontaneous improvisation in full completion: c inside actually documents the first meeting of these master musicians.

thomas lehn
eugene chadbourne

$14.15

new to stock as of
march 17th, 2008

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musica genera (poland) #mg ga 001 cd

ivar grydeland / thomas lehn / ingar zach “szc zcz cze zec eci cin” compact disc

zecin
szcin
szczec

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

musica genera press release...

ga 001 : ivar grydeland / thomas lehn / ingar zach
"szc zcz cze zec eci cin"

recorded at teater kana at the musica genera festival in szczecin/poland on 28th of may 2005

thomas lehn - analogue synthesizer
ivar grydeland - guitar, guitar banjo
ingar zach - percussion

$110.01

back in stock as of
january 12th, 2008

first in stock on
december 18th, 2003

threads:
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erstwhile (usa) #erstwhile 033-040 cd

“amplify 2002: balance” septuple compact disc and dvd set

seven discs and a dvd!

disc one (outside festival shows)

thomas lehn / toshimaru nakamura (13:12)
günter müller / tetuzi akiyama / nakamura (19:20)
christof kurzmann / nakamura (24:08)
lehn / nakamura / taku sugimoto (13:20)

disc two (studio sessions) - günter müller / toshimaru nakamura - tint

.tint (4:51)
..tint (4:58)
...tint (15:11)
....tint (13:25)
.....tint (10:20)

disc three (festival):

cosmos (sachiko m/ami yoshida) (24:35)
keith rowe / lehn / marcus schmickler (39:29)

disc four (festival):

müller / otomo yoshihide (36:10)
lehn / schmickler (39:41)

disc five (festival):

burkhard stangl / kurzmann / sugimoto (24:00)
rowe / nakamura (31:49)

disc six (festival):

stangl / müller (33:43)
nakamura / sachiko (21:30)

disc seven: (seven guitars):

seven guitarists: rowe / akiyama / oren ambarchi / nakamura / otomo / stangl / sugimoto (cornelius cardew - treatise pp. 82-84) (38:25)
seven guitarists (improvisation) (31:03)

dvd - balance beams

"balance beams” (109:00)
5.1 surround sound audio-only versions of the rowe/lehn/schmickler and müller/otomo sets
three short individual features based on the three nights of outside festival performances that discs 1 and 7 were chosen from
including keith rowe discussing with the other guitarists how he believes a musician should approach performing the graphic score of cardew's treatise.

price went down a bit on this one... now a better deal than ever.

erstwhile press release...

thomas lehn - analogue synthesizer
toshimaru nakamura - no-input mixing board
tetuzi akiyama - amplified acoustic guitar
günter müller - ipod, minidisc, selected percussion, electronics
christof kurzmann - g3
taku sugimoto - electric guitar
sachiko m - sinewaves, contact mike
ami yoshida - voice
keith rowe - guitar, electronics
marcus schmickler - digital synthesizer, computer
otomo yoshihide - electric guitar, turntables, electronics
burkhard stangl - acoustic and electric guitars, electronic devices
oren ambarchi - guitar, electronics

the amplify 2002: balance box set has been designed and assembled to recreate as much as possible the experience of being in tokyo in late october 2002 for the week-long whirlwind of music and camaraderie revolving around the 2002 amplify festival.

the annual series of amplify festivals began in 2001 in nyc, followed in 2002 by the event documented in this box. amplify returned to nyc in february 2003, and the next amplify will be in cologne and berlin in may 2004, co-curated by keith rowe and jon abbey. the festivals are closely tied to the erstwhile label, and are designed to showcase an ambitious amount of music within a short time period, demanding increased attention and focus from both the musicians and the audience. this box set aims to convey at least part of the intense atmosphere created by amplify's climate of total immersion.

the amplify 2002: balance box set contains over seven hours of music on seven cds, consisting of:

1) eight of the twelve sets from the festival itself, which took place over three nights at star pine's cafe in kichijoji, tokyo.

2) two cds compiled from the smaller club shows which took place before and after the festival itself, organized by toshimaru nakamura and taku sugimoto, including an entire disc by the all-star guitar septet of keith rowe, tetuzi akiyama, oren ambarchi, nakamura, otomo yoshihide, burkhard stangl and sugimoto.

3) a studio recording by the duo of günter müller and toshimaru nakamura, recorded that same week. this disc has been carefully sequenced and constructed, and is essentially a regular erstwhile release contained within the larger box.

the box also features a dvd by filmmaker jonas leddington and a 52 page, full-color booklet with photography by yuko zama and twenty separate essays by many of the people involved in the festival.

leddington's dvd contains a 109-minute visual document titled "balance beams," which is built around the festival itself and includes structured excerpts from all twelve sets, commentary from the musicians, behind-the-scenes footage, as well as images and sounds from tokyo. footage of the stangl/kurzmann set includes cuts of viennese filmmaker michaela grill's schnee video, as it was shown live in tokyo.

the dvd extras include 5.1 surround sound audio-only versions of the rowe/lehn/schmickler and müller/otomo sets, as well as three short individual features based on the three nights of outside festival performances that discs 1 and 7 were chosen from, including keith rowe discussing with the other guitarists how he believes a musician should approach performing the graphic score of cardew's treatise.

the box set is a limited edition of 800 copies, and will not be reprinted.

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