stellar om source “heartland’s suite” long playing record

• grace i (1:53)
  
• sequentia (3:56)
  
• latin sirens (3:10)
  
• lux refulget (2:38)
  
  
• xlandia (4:28)
  
• glow fear (1:40)
  
• detachment prelude (0:54)
  
• devotion (3:15)
  
• grace ii (1:26)

expo ‘70 “inaudible bicoastal trajectory” long playing record

• hypnotic brain cloud float
  
  
• mystical bamboo garden cultivation

cloudland ballroom “illusion circles” c40 cassette

• mode select
  
• sender
  
• afternoon's depths
  
• time-flight
  
• cassidy bayou
  
• esl 204
  
  
• faculty x phase one
  
• faculty x phase two
  
• the ponds
  
• illusion circles
  
• last second of lucidity
  
• crossing this frontier

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zorn09 cloudland ballroom - illusion circles (cs) pure listening pleasure for your synthetic dreams. kosmische delicatesse which sounds a lot like early brother raven and jd emmanuel. limited to 100 copies

l.r.j martens “eternal landscapes” long playing record

• eternal hunting grounds
  
  
• spirits and landscapes

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zorn08 l.r.j martens & ada van hoorebeke - eternal landscapes lp collage of continuous sound recordings, created for two expo's by ada van hoorebeke. re-worked for release on vinyl in march 2011 by lieven martens of dolphins into the future.  a) spirits and landscapes (wiels, brussels, iulae 2010) b) the eternal hunting grounds (croxhapox, gent, ianuali 2010)  cover artwork by ada van hoorebeke. a cetacean nation communication, aukake 2010. mahalo nui loa. * mastered on vhs * gatefold cover * limited to 500 copies * 3 inserts * 160gr. vinyl

innercity “future life • future life reloaded” long playing record and c60 cassette set

• untitled (1)
  
• untitled (2)
  
• untitled (3)
  
• untitled (4)
  
  
• untitled (5)
  
• untitled (6)
  
• untitled (7)
  
• untitled (8)
  
  
• part three: lost in simulation
  (untitled 9)
  
  
• part four: the anti-mind and christ eating olives at temple of broken brains
  (untitled 10 - untitled 11 - untitled 12)

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innercity – future life lp after several releases this year on taped sounds, ikuisuus, rotifer, ruralfaune, upstairs and his own why so serious imprint,  antwerp’s synthscaper / soundmanipulator and anti-musician innercity serves his first vinyl.  bouncing from the barren fields of destroyed audio into the realms of divine and hallucinatory sound and back through the jungles of 100 years of popular music, the lo-frequencies chrystalize sounding like new hope and new ideas in dark industrial wastelands. imagine you find yourself wandering places unreal, lost and desperate, only to have it gradually dawn in you, you’ve been laying waste the invisible lands in your mind. your desperateness becomes amazement as you start paving paths to link and sync barren levels of reality and start to familiarize with different formless and shape-shifting entities manifesting as inhabitants of apparently different inner worlds. you are being prepared for a major evolutionary phase-shift regarded unreal and i believe that is what future life is about, the differences in realities, and their level of importance in the whole picture. released in an edition of 300 comes with an optional c60 tape: “future life reloaded”

secret colors “lunar” long playing record

• stretching out
  
  
• zoning out

red electric rainbow “dark days” long playing record

• ferris wheel
  
• transluscent hallicunations
  
  
• pleasure machine
  
• dark days

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zorn04 red electric rainbow - dark days (lp) vinyl debut by 21st century face melter and sonic explorer daniel d. smith. dark days offers us mesmerizing synth explorations reminiscent of caboladies & john elliott. get yourself prepared for the technocalyps with this record as the ideal soundtrack. all music recorded june 2010 using a nord lead 2.    daniel also runs the neon blossom label & organized last year's neon marshmallow festival. limited to 200 copies.

brother raven “diving into the pineapple portal • eagle vision” long playing record and c40 cassette set

• diving into the pineapple portal (12:54)
  
• it's raining in atlantis (2:06)
  
  
• speaking whale from my sea canoe (8:46)
  
• happy astronaut (6:14)
  
  
• eagle vision
  
• four walled world
  
  
• back to tonasket's hand
  
• tran's mission
  
• salamander
  
• the foragers

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brother raven – diving into the pineapple portal lp the synth explorations by brother raven recall cluster & harmonia with a touch of dream & fantasy. “diving into the pineapple portal” offers you a view into the craters of the synthesizer moon, seen from earth through 3d new age glasses. the original tape release of ditpp was only handed out to a few friends & artists. as this is one of their most profilic recordings, it deserves a proper release. brother raven is a seattle-based duo that creates experimental music through improvisations with synthesizers, tape, and effects. drawing influence from synth music of the early 80s, inuit mythology, and time travel, their music combines the atmospheric zones of space music with the positive-vibe ambiance of early new age. formed in 2008 by jamie potter and jason e anderson. released in an edition of 300. comes with an optional c40 tape: “eagle vision”

caboladies “live anywhere” long playing record

• live anywhere (1)
  
  
• live anywhere (2)

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caboladies - live anywhere lp “electronic chaos & control at the same time” on the 15th of januari performers chris - flower man - bush & eric lanham recorded this lp live on air.  the a side is the take off side. electronic chaos & control at the same time. the b side offers up some more distorted alienating sounds. comes with insert. released in an edition of 330 lps.

josh burke “prana” long playing record

• sea of miracles
  
• gliding
  
• crystal dream
  
• surrounded by data
  
• mind door
  
  
• synchronous memories
  
• omni bay
  
• a rotating view

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josh burke - prana lp “the perfect mix and relaxing listening experience” josh burke continues his endeavor into new age. with relaxing synths, and the occasional outbreak, the man behind sky limousine & the illustre midnight star media cassette label, takes you to space and back in just over 30 minutes. there are faster, more layered tracks varied with bare, minimal, classical new age tracks. it makes the perfect mix and relaxing listening experience. comes with insert. released in an edition of 330.

kevin drumm “self-titled” double long playing record set

• untitled (1) (7:36)
  
• untitled (2) (3:03)
  
• untitled (3) (9:57)
  
  
• untitled (4) (5:28)
  
• untitled (5) (9:47)
  
• untitled (6) (3:41)
  
  
• untitled (7) (17:09)
  
  
• untitled (8) (8:24)
  
• untitled (9) (11:17)

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thin wrist recordings presents the expanded and definitive double lp edition of kevin drumm's groundbreaking first album, originally released in 1997. featuring some of the most fiercely abstract and organic guitar work ever heard, drumm's debut is both jarring and completely alien. dubbed by some as the greatest prepared guitar record ever recorded it prefigured (and continues to trump) almost an entire decade or so of contemporary "out" music that would follow. beautiful and completely essential. this edition includes an entire fourth side of previously unreleased recordings from drumm's personal archive, all recorded in the same era as the original album. it also includes entirely new artwork featuring the body of the actual guitar used to record the album. the album comes housed in a heavy textured gatefold jacket and includes two full color inserts. high quality 2 x 180 gram vinyl pressed at pallas germany and mastered by rashad becker at d&m berlin. looking back at kevin through his formidably individual tunnel of works, it's hard to remember that his first official recorded statement would be caught sneaking into bed alongside history's milestones of "solo instrument improvisation." or that, in turn, it also would be caught trying to sneak out of the house built by father jazz, into a backyard that still hasn't quite been fenced off yet. those running around chicago chasing down the sound in the mid-90's should've already known about this guy and his contributions both in and out of the relative spotlight. for those far from the city winds, thankfully they might've gotten the message in the form of this missive. in the afterglow of later love letters titled “sheer hellish miasma” and “imperial distortion”, it's absolutely overdue that this first musty green postcard be dug out, polished off, and framed. judged by its understated title, "self-titled" aka "guitar" is incredibly literal -- what you hear is what you get. in the simplest considerations, the ensuing connotations and possibilities are wide open; the real-time velocity of urgent decision and movement are wrapped in a clearly-mapped compositional endurance that continues to stand firmly in the relative spotlights of this day. no surprise then, that even all these years later, we would still be trying to figure out exactly at which table kevin should squarely sit. they say that every kid who heard this record immediately went out and grabbed a busted guitar with a scratchy selector switch, ready to subject their friends to fuzzy pauses of amp hum. i know of at least four. -- c. spencer yeh, spring 2010, brooklyn ny

upsilon acrux “radian futura” long playing record

• in-a-gadda-devito
  
• landscape with gun and chandelier
  
• keeping rice evil
  
• the infinitesimal fractions of ping & pong
  
• transparent seas
  
  
• transparent seas
  
• prelude to forshadow’n

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tw-hd upsilon acrux "radian futura" phil cobb: keyboards paul lai: guitar chris meszler: drums david moeggenberg: guitar marty sataman: bass recorded and mixed by pete lyman at infrasonic sound mastering by brad blackwood and pete lyman front cover painting by rob sato back cover painting by allison schulnik embossed, full color heavy tip-on cover 180 gram vinyl edition of 500

luc ferrari / brunhild ferrari “programme commun” double compact disc set

• luc ferrari - programme commun (17:17) 1972
  
• luc ferrari - didascalies 2 (17:55) 1993
  
• luc ferrari - les emois d'aphrodite (22:48) 1986/1998
  
  
• brunhild ferrari - dérivatif (27:05) 2008
  
• brunhild ferrari - brumes du réveil (28:20) 2009
  
• brunhild ferrari - tranquilles impatiences (20:24) 2010

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luc + brunhild ferrari programme commun 114 minutes 2 x cd digipack inside a slipcase wallet + a 36 page booklet (photos, scores, texts) sr363 ab performed by elisabeth chojnacka jean-philippe collard-neven vincent royer mc band these two volumes are being released together and simultaneously, as a sign of continuation. for luc ferrari, this is the first full-length cd to come out after the trilogy we developed with him les anecdotiques / 2002, a fifteen-part suite (cd sr207), son mémorisé / 1976-2002 (cd sr252) and didascalies / 2007 (cd sr259). what we have here is three substantial pieces: programme commun pour clavecin et bande magnétique / 1972 performed by elisabeth chonacka, didascalies 2 / 1993 performed by jean-philippe collard-neven, claude berset, and vincent royer (in 2009) and available only on vinyl srv305 (note that didascalies and didascalies 2 are two different compositions), and another previously unreleased piece that he held dear: les émois d'aphrodite / 1986-1998, performed by san francisco's mc band under his direction. we are pleased to release for the first time, the solo works of brunhild ferrari: derivatif / 2008, brumes du reveil / 2009, tranquilles impatiences / 2010 forming a trilogy on reconstruction from a memory that is still quite alive. to us, these works are new bricks in the erection of a liberating oeuvre.

etat brut “mutations et prothèses” long playing record

• informations
  
• malaise
  
• hommes nus
  
• marche (1)
  
  
• crash
  
• douce nuit
  
• marche (2)
  
• bande sonore du film 'paysage mental'
  
• bruit

etat brut “mutations et prothèses” compact disc

• informations (1:40)
  
• malaise (5:30)
  
• hommes nus (4:15)
  
• marche (1) (0:47)
  
• crash (1:32)
  
• douce nuit (3:40)
  
• marche (2) (1:00)
  
• bande sonore du film 'paysage mental' (3:45)
  
• bruit (3:10)
  
• sollicitation extérieure (8:32)
  
• psychosomatique (5:08)

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etat brut mutations et prothèses cd digipack rare recordings by pioneers of industrial / noise music 1979-1983. never released before on cd and lp. etat brut is a pioneer industrial / noise band from brussels that operated from 1979 until 1983. the duo (phillippe x and philippe x, today academic scientists) released a dozen of cassettes, various flyers and xeroxed booklets. some collective concerts were organized at that time with club moral and pseudocode. cassettes like emissions 1 (1981) or géométrie d'un assassinat (1982) were released on their own label, some others in collaboration with danny devos (club moral) or jerry wx (2tracks, digital dance). eb001 was released by club moral in 1986, a few years after the facts. the double cassette mutations et prothèses was released in 1981 (etat brut, eb 004) and re-released by club moral in 1986. the two bonus tracks (only on cd) sollicitation extérieure and psychosomatique are extracted from 4 in 1, a cassette released in 1982 by grafika airlines, brussels, including works by pseudocode, human flesh and mécanique végétale. features etat brut

john cage “song books” double compact disc set

• solo for voice no.17 (4:00)
  
• solo for voice no.20 (1:46)
  
• song books mix 1 (12:24)
  
• solo for voice no.65 (4:36)
  
• solo for voice no.4 (1:42)
  
• song books mix 6 (19:14)
  
• solo for voice no.3 (2:37)
  
• solo for voice no.11 (4:49)
  
• song books mix 7 (9:34)
  
• solo for voice no.79 (3:30)
  
• song books mix 3 (14:28)
  
  
• solo for voice no.47 (3:13)
  
• solo for voice no.91 (7:52)
  
• song books mix 5 (6:47)
  
• solo for voice no.5 (9:04)
  
• solo for voice mix 4 (11:25)
  
• song books no.67 (2:30)
  
• solo for voice no.21 (0:45)
  
• solo for voice no.70 (5:11)
  
• song books no.90 (3:25)
  
• song books mix 2 (22:54)

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john cage song books 2cd digipack + 24 page booklet (including photos, scores and exclusive texts) performed by loré lixenberg and gregory rose - vocalists robert worby - electronics the human voice is a magical instrument and john cage's gargantuan opus, song books (solos for voice 3-92), is a magnificent homage. these performances by lore lixenberg, gregory rose, and robert worby are a stunning achievement, and this first complete recording makes a welcome (and long overdue) addition to the ever-expanding catalog of cage's recorded works. laura kuhn - the john cage trust this year, 2012, john cage would have been 100 years old. he defined experimental music in the 1930s and, since that time, his ideas, his music and his work have been copied by hundreds of other composers and musicians time and time and time again. anybody who claims to make experimental music today has to acknowledge their debt to him. song books is a collection of 90 'solos for voice' that cage composed in 1970. as a theme, he took a line from his diaries: 'we connect satie with thoreau'. satie being the eccentric french composer erik satie, whom cage greatly admired. and thoreau, the american writer who lived alone in the woods writing about nature and his own type of anarchy. any number of the solos may be performed by any number of people, in any order, selected by chance operations. songs and theatre and electronics mash up fluxus-like food events, amplified board games, electroacoustic voices, 'animal heads' and intense feedback. cage says that 'a virtuoso performance will include a wide variety of styles of singing and vocal production.' this is the first ever recording of all of the solos for voice contained in song books.

dat politics “blitz gazer” long playing record

• yes way (3:43)
  
• slastic girl (3:58)
  
• people r inside (3:20)
  
• switch on (5:00)
  
• face in sustain (6:15)
  
  
• hypnotricks (5:28)
  
• between us (4:54)
  
• corpsile (4:15)
  
• melt down (5:47)

dat politics “blitz gazer” compact disc

• yes way (3:43)
  
• slastic girl (3:58)
  
• people r inside (3:20)
  
• face in sustain (6:15)
  
• switch on (5:00)
  
• sourcloud (1:44)
  
• hypnotricks (5:28)
  
• between us (4:54)
  
• corpsile (4:15)
  
• melt down (5:47)
  
• lazer x (3:21)
  
• innerlude (2:43)

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dat politics blitz gazer cd digipack sr342 cd electro pop garage band since 1999, dat politics is by far one of the most extatic electro party bands on the planet. their remarkably energetic live shows explain the cult like enthusiasm that surround the french electronic combo as they've been touring the world extensively over the years. dat politics channel a rough-edged turbo pop mood through their laptops to create some of the most unexpectedly catchy and lively music ever assembled by digital means. they use to keep the possibility of mistakes and chaos in their hot wired dance smash is by approaching songwriting and performance the same way a garage band might. dat politics' new album 'blitz gazer' is an exhilarating reboot in the band's career. entirely recorded in berlin in 2011 by the newly formed duo, this new piece will certainly give satisfaction to the electro-maniac fanbase who will find in these 12 tunes their share of synthetic 80's hits, catchy loops and bouncy drum machines. less expected, but pleasantly surprising is their ability to turn the voltage level down by chanting neon lite robo ballads. some dreamy melodic breaks rise in a rhythmic electric storm. we explore a brand new aspect of the band's wide influences and possibilities. blitz gazer is a magnificent patchwork, a dynamic and fanciful mixture that only dat politics could have pulled off. features claude pailliot gaetan collet

eric thielemans “earr plays a snare is a bell” long playing record

• snare mother suite
  
  
• texture de contrebasse isolée
  
• music for a while
  
• ich will hier bei dir stehen
  
• prière
  
• proloog
  
• say that thou didst forsake me for some fault
  
• wind in tube

eric thielemans “earr plays a snare is a bell” double compact disc set

• a snare is a bell (22:12)
  
  
• earr plays a snare is a bell (42:43)
  
  proloog
  texture de contrebasse isolée
  music for a while
  ich will hier bei dir stehen
  snare mother suite
  prière (erik satie)
  say that thou didst forsake me for some fault

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eric thielemans earr plays a snare is a bell digisleeve 2cd (cd1 = free bonus cd) sr339 - 2cd yes, it certainly is a walk you propose to us with this recording. a walk into place and sound, into a place through the sound, into a sound via the place. your instrument is this place and your snare drum really brings to live the surroundings like the bow enlivens the violin or a reed needs the mouthpiece of a clarinet. as a result i've been very sensitive towards experiencing musical time and space.  - olivier messiaen's higly appreciated organ player, louis thiry on a snare is a bell earr plays a snare is a bell earr plays a snare is a bell, is a revisitation of the roll and it's overtones by an ensemble of musicians with very different musical backgrounds. the choice of musicians is above all a heart thing. i love hearing and seeing what they play. i like their recipes and the special cookies they bake. and i like sitting down and watching the stars with them. so it started again with my snare drum and voice in a room, and we all listened and added voices and sounds to what we were hearing. as if we were all fishes in a stream. sometimes just swimming, sometimes wanting to show ourselves, wanting to be heard, making sounds and noises, adding to that stream, sometimes just floating, breathing, hanging in there. and sometimes we heard not only single sounds but many sounds together and sometimes we heard a song. and we started to think about where all these sounds, songs and noises were coming from. and where they were going to. and we thought of all those recipes in all our grandmas' and grandpas' cookbooks, and all their grandmas and grandpas, and we started to feel simple and happy. happy fishes in a big stream, watching the stars. eric thielemans genre crossing / blending percussionist / drummer working from a classically trained ear via jazz drumming, free improv and all sorts of contemporary musics towards his own realms in music and performance. being a teenager in the mid eighties of the 20th century, for him, as for many of his generation, multi disciplinarily is an evidence. from his first moments of active musicianship up until now, eric thielemans always has been interested in performing arts, theatre, poetry and dance. consequently he has worked with a wide range of (sound and visual) artists, performers and dancers. currently plays in lidlboj (jozef dumoulin's eclectic post jazz playgarden), jozef dumoulin trio with trevor dunn on bass, tape cuts tape (a trio with rudy trouvé known as founding member of deus and lynn cassiers aka singer of lidlboj), rops, snare et les autres (concert/ballad) with josse de pauw, rudy trouvé, and wim lots, the love substitutes, jean-yves evrard's trio, kaat helling's band and his own earr (ensemble artists repertoire research) with claron mc fadden, jean-yves evrard, peter jacquemyn, jozef dumoulin, hilary jeffery and jorgen cassier. other collaborations and work in progress include following artists: alexander berne, james harrar (cinema soloriens) and marshall allen (sun ra), daysuke takaoka, and louise landes levi. for the past 3 years he has been focussing on the development of a body of solo works on percussion. his first acclaimed solo work "a snare is a bell" was released on vinyl in 2008 on the antwerp based label ultra eczema (ue49). besides this work eric thielemans is active as a producer and teacher / coach. in 2011 he produced "hit of the century", kaat hellings' new release. in the past he produced both albums of ghalia benali's "romeo & laila" and maak's spirit's "stroke". eric was the drummer of the adventurous avant jazz band maak's spirit for 9 years until march 2008 and before that of the ben sluys quartet for 7 years. earr ensemble artists repertoire research founded by eric thielemans in 2008, is a contemporary chamber music ensemble focussing on research and development of a new original music repertoire with a nurturing attitude towards the process of features claron mc fadden, voice jorgen cassier, voice peter jasquemyn, double bass jozef dumoulin, piano & keyboards hillary jeffery, trombone jean-yves evrard, guitar eric thielemans, snaredrum, drums, musical directions

don preston “filters, oscillators & envelopes • 1967-75” long playing record

• electronic music (15:21) 1967
  
  
• analog heaven #1 (10:24) 1975
  
• analog heaven #2 (2:16) 1975
  
• analog heaven #3 (3:47) 1975
  
• analog heaven #4 (2:28) 1975
  
• analog heaven #5 (1:31) 1975
  
• analog heaven #6 (3:06) 1975
  
• analog heaven #7 (2:51) 1975

don preston “filters, oscillators & envelopes • 1967-75” compact disc

• electronic music (15:21) 1967
  
• analog heaven #1 (10:24) 1975
  
• analog heaven #2 (2:16) 1975
  
• analog heaven #3 (3:47) 1975
  
• analog heaven #4 (2:28) 1975
  
• analog heaven #5 (1:31) 1975
  
• analog heaven #6 (3:06) 1975
  
• analog heaven #7 (2:51) 1975
  
• fred & me (20:37) 1982

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don preston filters, oscillators & envelopes 1967-82 digipack cd previously unreleased electronic music from original mothers of invention keyboardist. one could hardly not see in don preston a key musician within frank zappa's oeuvre. he is not only that, but his presence has marked the mothers' major records from 1966 to 1974. his touch was already there before the arrival of ian underwood, and it continued after ian left. you all remember king kong (its magnificence as interpreted by dom dewild) from the second uncle meat suite. a certain form of jubilation emanates from this track, thanks to preston's fluid style and lightly astringent tone on the moog synthesizer - that instrument never sounded quite like that before or after. this might have to do with his double training, his twin interests, since he had been simultaneously working with gil evans and listening intensely to luciano berio, karlheinz stockhausen, and tod dockstader. immersed in jazz music, he was imagining secret ties with the nascent electronic music. in the mid-'60s, preston started developing an electronic instrument, using a home-made synthesizer and a series of oscillators and filters. out of this instrument came electronic (1967), his first piece. two years later, he became a close friend of robert moog, and their discussions gave birth to a number of applications in relation with the flexibility of the instrument. nowadays, you can't mention the mini-moog without thinking of preston. bob moog himself said about his solo in waka jawaka: "that's impossible. you can't do that on a moog.". filters, oscillators & envelopes features the other side, the hidden side of don preston: the composer of purely electronic music. we're coming to the beginning of a new era wherein the development of the inner self is the most important thing. we have to train ourselves. so that we can improvise on anything: a bird, a sock, a fuming beaker. this is, this too can be music. anything can be music. - don preston

zbigniew karkowski / anton lukoszevieze “nerve cell_0 for cello and computer” compact disc

• nerve cell_o (37:48)

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zbigniew karkowski nerve cell_0 (for cello and computer) features zbigniew karkowski computer anton lukoszevieze cello show me something new and i will begin all over again. - erik satie zbigniew karkowski zbigniew karkowski is one of the most influential electronic music composers working today. linking the worlds of modern composition and industrial music he is a pivotal figure in the development of advanced noise. constantly on the road, he is a frequent performer on the geographical fringes of experimental music culture as well as a mainstay on the established festival circuit. anton lukoszevieze cellist anton lukoszevieze is one of the most diverse performers of his generation and is notable for his performances of avant-garde, experimental and improvised music. he is unique in the uk through his use of the curved bow (bach-bogen), which he is using to develop new repertoire for the cello. anton is the subject of several films by the renowned artist-filmmaker jayne parker and he is also a member of zeitkratzer. in june 2009 he was awarded the 'millennium star' medal, for services to lithuanian culture, by the government of the republic of lithuania. this work is not music in a conventional sense, it does inhabit that world, but in a new way. the cello is treated fundamentally, as a resonating body, transmitting sounds elementally. the bow on a string, the flux of weight, pressure, speed and angularity releases a myriad of complex sound phenomena. the juxtaposition of multiple sounds on adjacent strings creates fluctuating and rhythmical beatings. the detuning of the instrument increases its pitch potential and basso profundity. in combination with computer electronics these elements are multiplied, extended and enriched. nerve cell-0 is a joyous, ecstatic, exhilarating and epic vista of sound. it defies categorisation. play it very loud.   - anton lukoszevieze

art zoyd “symphonie pour le jour où brûleront les cités” long playing record

• brigades spéciales (13:25)
  
• masques (9:03)
  
  
• simulacres (7:01)
  
• les fourmis (5:35)
  
• scènes de carnaval (8:57)

art zoyd “symphonie pour le jour où brûleront les cités” compact disc

• brigades spéciales (13:25)
  
• masques (9:03)
  
• simulacres (7:01)
  
• les fourmis (5:35)
  
• scènes de carnaval (8:57)
  
• don juan • danse macabre (1:25)
  
• don juan • le bain (1:40)
  
• don juan • la sainte famille (3:15)
  
• un jour au chateau • le parc (1:12)
  
• un jour au chateau • le matin (1:59)
  
• un jour au chateau • le secret (1:33)
  
• don juan • le bain [final] (0:37)

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art zoyd symphonie pour le jour où brûleront les cités compact disc this cult album was no more available since years. re-released with a new artwork and additional tracks. in 1976, a self-released lp by art zoyd appeared in belgian record stores. at the time, nobody knew symphonie pour le jour où brûleront les cités (symphony for the day cities will burn) would be the first of many albums from this strange chamber progressive rock outfit. all the ingredients of art zoyd's sound for its first decade are here: unusual acoustic instrumentation for a rock band (violin, cello, piano, and trumpet, plus guitar, bass, and percussion), dark and mysterious atmospheres recalling france's magma and foretelling univers zero (formed by art zoyd percussionist daniel denis), and complex pieces owing as much to contemporary classical as to progressive rock. the lineup for this first offering included patricia dallio (piano), alain eckert (guitar, vocals), gérard hourbette (violin), jean-pierre soarez (trumpet, percussion), and thierry zaboïtzeff (bass, cello, vocals). the album is split in two. first is symphonie pour le jour où brûleront les cités in three parts, an apocalyptic work opening with mad laughter, a vision of the end of the world with percussion clashing, frenetic violin motifs, and the trumpet from judgment day. part one, brigades spéciales, is the most striking moment of the album. then comes deux images de la cité imbécile ('two pictures of the stupid city'), two movements leaning more toward some warped chamber rock conception of the burlesque, especially on scènes de carnaval. features gerard hourbette thierry zaboitzeff patricia dallio daniel denis alain eckert gilles renard jean-pierre soarez