dub taylor “lumière for synthesized & concrète sound” long playing record

• lumière: side one (17:09)
  
  
• lumière: side two (14:50)

dub taylor “lumière for synthesized & concrète sound” compact disc

• lumière (for synthesized and concrète sound) part one (17:11)
  
• lumière (for synthesized and concrète sound) part two (14:52)
  
• variations on the ‘dudley do-right’ theme (3:19)

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dub taylor lumière (for synthesized and concrète sound) digipack cd this real masterpiece of concrète and synthesized music was no more available since its original manufacture in 1973. dub taylor is an us composer, producer, engineer and designer born june 22, 1948 in burbank, california. he has many creative facets: recording and mastering engineer, record producer as well as composer, graphic designer and visual artist. he has studied with pianist richard bunger and composer karlheinz stockhausen. not long after the release of lumière, taylor established vargod studios for electronic music and recorded sound, where in 1974 he created his second work, variations on the 'dudley do-right' theme for sampled and processed sound (never released before, this exclusive track is included on the cd version). taylor has bounced between the music world and the visual arts for most of his life and continues to pursue diverse creative projects. lumière evolved over a period of three years from 1969 to 1972. i started by recording random sounds: jets taking off at lax, my girlfriend laughing and screaming, my cat bartok biting a microphone, conversations, etc. i also sampled music, film soundtracks and tv and radio broadcasts. during this period i acquired the first self-contained portable synthesizer, the newly-designed arp 2600. i began to envision an electronic and musique concrete piece combining various natural and processed sound recordings with synthesized sound into a suite of noise. in june of 1972 i did a preliminary version of elements of the piece. by october i was ready to put it all together. i set up all these reel to reel machines with tapes i had pre-recorded and plugged them into a mixing board, feeding stereo to a two-track master 15 ips revox a77 tape deck. my idea was to create a sound collage with form but without losing spontaneity and an element randomness. so i rehearsed my fade-ins and fade-outs and the starting and stopping of the various playback decks and when i was ready i went for it, 'playing' all these machines like a musical instrument in this mad moment of creation. in effect, lumière was a 'live' performance. the only later additions were the silence gaps inserted near the end of the piece using pieces of blank leader tape. - dub taylor

charlemagne palestine / joachim montessuis “voxorgachitectronumputer” compact disc

• voxorgachitectronumputer (61:14)

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charlemagne palestine x joachim montessuis voxorgachitectronumputer sr326 digipack features charlemagne palestine / voice, organs joachim montessuis / voice, computer after two massive works from etudes to cataclysms - for the doppio borgato (2cd / sr272) and strumming music for piano, harpsichord & strings ensemble (3cd / sr297) charlemagne's work is now rooted in sub rosa for good ! but next to his solo records, we want to continue to publish collaborative works: we started with an aural symbiotic mystery (sr204) featuring tony conrad. we'll publish soon too some recent recordings done with z'ev. but this time, joachim montessuis is the special guest of another magical night with mister palestine ! 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, but likes new experiences too ! his earliest works were compositions for carillon and electronic drones, and he is best known for his intensely performed piano works. ... joachim montessuis since his birth in 1972, has lived in 15 different cities, including bordeaux, strasbourg, marrakech, abidjan, besançon, rotterdam, cologne. he is currently based in paris. he is interested in the links between art, sound, science and spirituality. since 1993 he has been developing a transversal sonic poetry praxis focused on experimental voice processing and immersive concert-installations. his noise and video events are devised as panic-poetic spaces in which sensorial disturbance and blurring occur, starting from silence to wall of sound. his current work is oriented towards a reflection process on the observation and perception of reality through a non-dual approach.

daniel menche “feral” compact disc

• feral one (17.33)
  
• feral two (14:12)
  
• feral three (17:31)
  
• feral four (18:00)

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new series framework #8 / daniel menche feral 700 copies limited edition / cd digipack sr322 new series framework an extension of our concrete electronics noise, a brand new mix-up of unusual conceptions of sound material by young unknown composers, well known not-so-young composers and old but clever composers. daniel menche has established himself as a musician with a sense of focus and determination uncharacteristic in a genre known for its randomness and chaotic structure. rather than creating 'noise,' he strives for order and cohesiveness. his presentation of sonic structures is similar to the way a writer depicts a story, an allegory seems to arise, which uses confusion as a symbol for the imaginative process of total sound purity; aural intensity is not a representation of confusion or the chaotic, but a concerted effort to provoke and stimulate the listeners imagination by generating intensely powerful sounds and music. daniel menche's work originates from the idea that there is no restriction to the potential sound sources and especially sonic energy. any sounds -all sounds are used and exploited to create the music. there are absolutely no barriers or biases in what can be used and have been used. self made and recorded sound sources, percussion and instruments are the main emphasis in creating a living and emotional feeling to daniel menche's form of contemporary music. subtle and patient compositions rely on long, dense layers of droning sounds, while abrasive pieces rely on sounds amplified and processed to extreme levels, pushing the full spectrum of frequencies to the most threshold of limits. menche has amassed a sizable discography on some the most discerning independent labels in the world. constantly performing live extensively throughout north america, europe and japan with performances that are intense and powerful. characterized as both extremely loud and patiently subtle, daniel menche's live performances define its own sonic presence, an entity that gives form to an emotional rawness with highly textural and dominating sounds. characterized by forcefulness of sound, music that strives for one goal: vehement beauty.

jac berrocal / david fenech / ghedalia tazartès “superdisque” long playing record

• joy divisé (4:11)
  
• human bones (1:45)
  
• cochise (2:59)
  
• quando (2:34)
  
• david’s theme (3:49)
  
• ife l'ayo (1:28)
  
  
• porte de bagnolet (4:47)
  
• j'attendrai (2:43)
  
• jac's theme (3:04)
  
• powow (3:06)
  
• sainte (2:15)
  
• final (4:46)

jac berrocal / david fenech / ghedalia tazartès “superdisque” compact disc

• joy divisé (4:11)
  
• human bones (1:45)
  
• cochise (2:59)
  
• quando (2:34)
  
• david:s theme (3:49)
  
• ife l'ayo (1:28)
  
• porte de bagnolet (4:47)
  
• j'attendrai (2:43)
  
• jac's theme (3:04)
  
• powow (3:06)
  
• sainte (2:15)
  
• final (4:46)
  
• zilveli (7:07)

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jac berrocal - david fenech - ghedalia tazartes superdisque cd digipack superdisque is the first album of the french trio formed by david fenech (electric guitar) with jac berrocal (trumpet) and ghédalia tazartès (vocals). somewhere beyond the borders of rock, jazz, punk and sound poetry... the vocals seem to come from another planet, with lyrics in an improvised language. the winds are blown from tibetan human bones and conch seashells. guitars sound like rubber and steel. expect the unexpected. david fenech is a french musician living in paris. he has played and recorded with musicians such as felix kubin, jad fair, tom cora, rhys chatham, bérangère maximin, james plotkin, shugo tokumaru, ergo phizmiz, and many others. his baroque style has been described as 'a kind of punk musique concrète'. he is at the origin of the superdisque recording project, using his own home studio as an instrument. jac berrocal is a cult trumpet player living in paris. he has played with various musicians including pascal comelade, jaki liebezeit (can), nurse with wound, sunny murray, jacques thollot, james chance, pierre bastien, aki onda, lol coxhill, catalogue, christophe. he's also known for his famous 'rock and roll station', recorded with the black angel of rock, vince taylor. ghédalia tazartès is an orchestra and a pop group in one person. his voice shifts constantly from child to diva, from african sorcerer to tibetan monk. his hypnotic, disturbing polyphonies draw us into an emotional universe. it's punk, sound poetry, folklore and electroacoustics rolled into one. ghédalia has been recording music in his parisian home studio for more than 40 years. he has also worked for theater (la comédie française), dance and more recently for cinema. both jac berrocal and ghédalia tazartès appear on the famous "nurse with wound list". features jac berrocal david fenech ghedalia tazartes zap pascal

henri pousseur “parabolique d'enfer • paraboles-mix avec leçons d'enfer” compact disc

• parabolique d'enfer (1) (6:02)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (2) (8:08)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (3) (8:10)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (4) (5:55)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (5) (5:45)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (6) (4:10)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (7) (4:52)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (8) (4:22)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (9) (5:02)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (10) (5:38)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (11) (8:20)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (12) (5:50)
  
• parabolique d'enfer (13) (5:48)

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henri pousseur parabolique d'enfer / paraboles-mix avec leçons d'enfer cd digipack sr318 this recording will be our first posthumous recording of henri pousseur. it is the sixth release (out of eight) in our catalog devoted to this composer's experimental and electronic works. it also marks the end of the trilogy on the parabolic works (following the 1972 unreleased recordings and the 2001 collective performance). this time around, we have a piece built through another major pousseur work: leçon d'enfer (composed in 1990-1991 around arthur rimbaud). this previously unreleased version was realized by henri pousseur in cologne in 1992. paraboles-mix avec leçons d'enfer - this release was important to henri pousseur, as it concludes, in a sense, the paraboles trilogy, after 1972's 8 etudes paraboliques (released as a 4-cd box set sr174 comprised of all the etudes to be used as the basis for all current and future mixes) and 4 parabolic mixes (sr199, 2001, on which four composers - robert hampson, philip jeck, markus popp, and pousseur himself) tackled those source tapes. this suite of works was gradually pushing composition further into the territory of destruction and abstraction. this final installment, a mix made from the 1972 etudes, as should be, integrates a major external element (something already planned in the initial design): another work by pousseur, leçons d'enfer, a complex piece of musical theatre dedicated to the memory of arthur rimbaud and composed in 1991 for the centennial of the poet's death. this work, over 100 minutes long, was written for two actors, three singers, seven musicians (clarinet, alto saxophone, tuba, harp, piano, and two percussions), tapes (including traditional ethiopian music and field recordings from that area), and electroacoustic devices. with this version, henri pousseur shows how the deep impression left by a work in constant mutation can take different guises. the rimbaud pictured in this flux is neither the promising teenager, nor the striking genius, nor even the desperate man struggling in vain in an empty landscape ; it is an appeased hybrid breathing the ebullient air of the final times.

adolf wölfli / baudoin de jaer “analysis of the musical cryptograms • the heavenly ladder” book and compact disc set

• part 1 : la couronne du roi (0:31)
  
• l'oiseau en cage (bird 1) (0:58)
  
• the high and lower nobility of the english-british union of canada on their ride to saltlake-seawest (0:20)
  
• riisen=kannaari: 10 meter spann=flügel=weitte (1:10)
  
• the swan / pandulen=wasser=fall (3:24)
  
• a l'ombre des arbres / rhodonus spain (1:25)
  
• les notes en bleu / die himmelsleiter (1:17)
  
• island neveranger (1:17)
  
• assiisen=des=mittel=landes (1:52)
  
• part 2 : la baleine / feeding of the fishes (0:30)
  
• joyeux et carré (0:41)
  
• island neveranger (1:14)
  
• pandulen=wasser=fall (0:50)
  
• riisen=kannaari (2:08)
  
• zweitter foliantten=marsch (0:27)
  
• march (geographische und allgebräische hefte, heft 11, s. 837) (1:16)
  
• the st adolf ring of oberburg (0:57)
  
• prélude aux notes en bleu / die himmelsleiter (0:35)
  
• la petite île / island neveranger (1:01)
  
• bird 2 (0:27)
  
• le cours d'eau (0:42)
  
• zweitter foliantten=marsch (1:55)
  
• le sacre de st adolf / the divine almighty and wisdom at the zenith (1:31)
  
• part 3 : bird 3 (0:20)
  
• lea tanttaaria (0:16)
  
• die oberste regenttschaft von sant maria st hall (0:54)
  
• st eugène ysaïe / die oberste regenttschaft von sant maria st hall (1:28)
  
• dans le fond de la crypte (1:37)
  
• march, 1913 (geographische und allgebräische hefte) (0:54)
  
• la tour de st adolf tower (0:28)
  
• dans les rues de berne (0:55)
  
• juno, die göttin der neger (2:12)

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adolf wölfli the heavenly ladder / analysis of the musical cryptograms by baudoin de jaer cd / book cd + book 52 full color pages french + english contains only unreleased before material. all tracks exclusively recorded for this project. sr312 cd / book baudouin de jaer's approach gives a new dimension to the works of 20th century's major artists. he had not been previously exposed to wölfli's work. he was completely moved by the artistic and human dimensions of the mystery surrounding this gigantic and universal body of work created within the waldau hospital in the early 20th century. he managed what none other had accomplished before: to decode wölfli's hermetic and emblematic scores. adolf wölfli (bern, february 29, 1864 - waldau, november 6, 1930) was a swiss artist who was one of the first artists to be associated with the art brut or outsider art label. wölfli was abused both physically and sexually as a child, and was orphaned at the age of 10. institutionalized in 1895 at waldau psychiatric asylum near bern (switzerland) where he spent the rest of his adult life. he suffered from psychosis, which led to intense hallucinations. wölfli started drawing in 1899, but no work prior to 1904 has been preserved. in 1908, wölfli started developing what would become a potentially endless narrative stretched across 25,000 pages interrupted only by wölfli's death in 1930. his images also incorporated an idiosyncratic musical notation. this notation seemed to start as a purely decorative affair but later developed into real composition which wölfli would play on a paper trumpet. after his death the adolf wölfli foundation was formed to preserve his art for future generations. today its collection is on display at the museum of fine arts in bern and can be seen in many museums in the world. features baudouin de jaer

luigi nono / hans van eck “la lontanza nostalgica utopica futura • nuctemeron” double compact disc set

• luigi nono - la lontanza nostalgica utopica futura - start tapes (4:25)
  
• luigi nono - la lontanza nostalgica utopica futura - leggio 1 (6:31)
  
• luigi nono - la lontanza nostalgica utopica futura - leggio 2 (9:03)
  
• luigi nono - la lontanza nostalgica utopica futura - leggio 3 (7:42)
  
• luigi nono - la lontanza nostalgica utopica futura - leggio 4 (8:22)
  
• luigi nono - la lontanza nostalgica utopica futura - leggio 5 (9:31)
  
• luigi nono - la lontanza nostalgica utopica futura - leggio 6 (7:16)
  
  
• han van eck - nuctemeron - 1st hour (1:57)
  
• han van eck - nuctemeron - transition 1 (2:32)
  
• han van eck - nuctemeron - 2nd hour (3:53)
  
• han van eck - nuctemeron - transition 2 (2:00)
  
• han van eck - nuctemeron - 3rd hour (5:01)
  
• han van eck - nuctemeron - transition 3 (3:48)
  
• han van eck - nuctemeron - 5th hour (4:27)
  
• han van eck - nuctemeron - 6th hour (5:14)
  
• han van eck - nuctemeron - 9th hour (3:08)
  
• han van eck - nuctemeron - transition 4 (3:00)
  
• han van eck - nuctemeron - 11th hour (6:32)
  
• han van eck - nuctemeron - 12th hour (4:37)

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luigi nono / hans van eck la lontananza nostalgica utopica futura / nuctemeron 2cd digipack + 16 page booklet cd1/ sacd, playable on cd and dvd players cd2/ standard audio cd sr309 - cd1 features luigi nono's la lontananza nostalgica utopica futura (1992), an original title, a unique aesthetic metaphor even: one could say that the past reflected in the present [nostalgica] brings about a creative utopia [utopica]; the desire for what is known becomes a vehicle for what will be possible [futura] through the medium of distance. performed by tiziana pintus /violin and hans van eck /sound projection (the schreck ensemble). - cd2 features hans van eck's nuctemeron (2008), a spiritual voyage as described in the text of apollonius of tyana (93 ad) which serves as the basis for the performance, connected by intermissions. aspects of number symbolism, the four elements and the road to spiritual perfection have found their way into the music. features hans van eck conducting, sound projection tiziana pintus violin caroline erkelens voice, gong ainhoa miranda gimenez bass, alto, b-flat clarinet wilco botermans stratifier evert de cock mixing jan-kees van kampen computers pieter suurmond computers luigi nono (1924-1990) italian avant-garde composer of classical music who remains one of the most prominent composers of the 20th century. nono studied with malipiero at the venice conservatory (1941-5) and with maderna and scherchen, both of whom orientated him towards 12-note serialism (he married schönberg's daughter nuria in 1955). his avant-garde partisanship was inseparable from a commitment to socialism, twin aspects of a revolt against bourgeois culture: hence his avoidance of normal concert genres in favour of opera and electronic music, his frequent recourse to political texts and his work in bringing music to factories. his works include the operas intolleranza 1960 (1961) and al gran sole carico d'amore (1975), the cantata il canto sospeso (1956), orchestral works and tape pieces. much of his music of the 1950s and 1960s has a fervent lyricism; later works tended to be more pessimistic (ein gespenst geht um in der welt, 1971). the schreck ensemble the magic of sounds is for me the most important aspect of music. the foremost goal of my compositions is to make the listener experience sounds as they are, taking him beyond the surface of the music. my musical style might be described as lyrical and colourful. the use of live electronics and soundtracks is so integrated in my way of making music that i cannot do without it. i co-founded the schreck ensemble with the late arie van schutterhoef in 1989 in order to perform music that combines the use of acoustic instruments with the new sounds offered by modern computer technology. my music is published by mcn/donemus, amsterdam.

ulrich krieger “fathom” compact disc

• fathom (50:19)

pseudocode “slaughter in a tiny place” double compact disc set

• growing down (3:13)
  
• you’re not alone (6:20)
  
• cut up (12:10)
  
• works (11:20)
  
• flesh shop (11:39)
  
• névrose obsessionnelle (11:25)
  
• fight back (the angels) (19:49)
  
• i don't say more (3:37)
  
• keep quiet (17:57)
  
• slaughter in a tiny place (0:33)
  
• sad song (6:00)
  
• kind of a bitch (11:00)
  
• another country (2:34)
  
• refuse the punishment (3:07)

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pseudocode slaughter in a tiny place 2cd digipack features xavier ess alain neffe guy-marc hinant stephan barbery legendary belgian electronic improvised music band including 12 unreleased tracks. recorded between the beginning of 1980 to the end of 1982. pseudocode features xavier ess (thrills) guy-marc hinant, alain neffe (insane music, benne gesserit, human flesh, subject, i scream ... ). while xavier s. contributes most of the lyrics and vocals, and it is guy-marc hinant who often plays the core melody on his pianet electric piano, neffe's contributions are particularly noteworthy throughout, as he weaves together the bulk of the sonic cloth through overdubbing and mixing. one of his parts are remotely virtuosic (hence his self-identification as a non-musician), but they are always unexpected and perfect in and of themselves, emotionally and sonically, and in that sense they are deeply musical. this record is the missing link between the 2 ep's / the 2 potlach cassettes and europa, the final recored - and probably their best work. captagon years in that time, the onset of the eighties, we had the opportunity to create from sound itself instead of notes, from noise, screams, any chord, relevant or irrelevant. xavier (with stéphane barbery, digital dance), had been in one of brussels' first punk bands, thrills. alain had over 10 years of music experience and was influenced by kosmische musik and all kinds of weird and experimental music; he had put together several improvisation ensembles in the area, including the noisy kosmose, which i joined as a teenager. now that i had digested punk, i was into throbbing gristle, cabaret voltaire, the pop group, red crayola, this heat... and all these influences show up upon listen. this cd was made with in mind the urgency of these times. all tracks are unpublished and in this sub-collection, we intend to release a series of releases like they would be released at that time. (gmh)

charlemagne palestine “strumming music for piano, harpsichord & strings ensemble” triple compact disc set

• strumming for bösendorfer piano (52:14) 1974
  
  
• strumming for harpsichord (35:25) 1977
  
  
• strumming for strings (24:26) 1977

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charlemagne palestine strumming music for piano, harpsichord & strings ensemble 3cd / 8 pages digipack + 16 pages booklet sr297 features charlemagne palestine betsy freeman john adams + musicians from san francisco conservatory of music these unpublished pieces are probably his most contemporary music work, build on the same principle with other instruments of what he discovered on piano with strumming mid-70. this is an unique variation of the way to compose. a perpetual rise in a continuum of sound. in the beginning were the bells all of the strumming music manifestations seem to have originated from charlemagne's physical relationship with the colossal carillon bells in the tower of st. thomas church on fifth avenue in new york. i met charlemagne palestine in 1968. the intensity of his listening impressed me as the intensity of his playing would later, when i heard him play on the carillon and the bells to "his church". i realized later, when charlemagne had started to develop his series of piano pieces called strumming, that he was assaulting that concrete ceiling and literally pushing through its three feet to release the sonic energy in the piano, much as he had with the carillon. charlemagne's interest and work in electronic music increased in the late 60's and in 1970 he decamped to southern california where he became a graduate student working with morton subotnick. it was during this year at calarts (1970-71) that charlemagne developed an approach to the piano that was not only extremely repetitive and physical but predicated on the theory that, given the right stimulus, the instrument had a voice of its own and could produce a whole array of high overtones that seem to jump out on their own as if by magic. over the next few years he developed and polished the music that came to be known simply as "strumming." the rapid alternation between single notes and chords and different registers became a technique that he seemed to own, and it really only worked with this magic piano. "strumming" was the physical technique ; the melodies and harmonies that resulted made the music breathe and feel alive. after a while, the ear doesn't distinguish between notes that are sounded by hammers and those which are harmonics, generated by the natural resonance of the piano and just appear because of the acoustical situation. extract from liner notes by ingram marshall 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.

“an anthology of noise & electronic music • sixth a-chronology 1957-2010” double compact disc set

• israel martínez - mi vida (6:59) 2007
  
• sote - turquoise gas in ice composed by - ata ebtekar (3:36) 2008
  
• joseph nechvatal - ego masher (7:05) 1983
  
• oliver stummer + liesl ujvary - trautonium jetztzeit #4 (3:44) 1930
  
• henry cowell - the banshee (2:23) 1925 / 1957
  
• dick raaymakers* - piano-forte (4:55) 1959-1960
  
• manuel rocha iturbide - estudio antimatierico n°1 (5:02) 1989
  
• tetsuo furudate - you are the man who crucified him (6:26) 2008
  
• pain jerk - aufheben (6:28) 1993
  
• hijokaidan - untitled (11:54) 1994
  
• incapacitants - shall we die ? (6:25) 1990
  
• torturing nurse - yes or no (4:49) 2010
  
• sachiko m - 28082000 (5:32) 2000
  
• ultraphonist - how to practice scales (3:07) 2000
  
  
• z'ev - 12 november 1980, melkweg, amsterdam (7:31) 1980
  
• daniel menche - fulmination (12:00) 2009
  
• john wiese - new wave dust (2:25) 2004
  
• the pain barrier - virus (5:29) 2003 julie rousse - flesh barbie techno fuck (4:45) 2008
  
• bird palace - phing (4:23) 2009
  
• robert piotrowicz - lincoln sea ice walic (8:09) 2009
  
• tzvi avni - vocalise (5:18) 1964
  
• else marie pade - syv cirkler (7:05) 1958
  
• john duncan - the nazca transmissions #2 (8:10) 2005
  
• stephen o'malley - dolmens & lighthouses (6:53) 2009
  
• ilios - the continuum of emanation from the one (6:06) 2009

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an anthology of noise & electronic music #6sixth a-chronology 1957-2010 sr290 2xcd digipack + 52 pages booklet the sixth volume of seven published from 2001 to 2011, curated, noted and edited by guy marc hinant. so here is the 6th and penultimate installment in our series. as usual, it culls old historical pieces, little-known gems, and even a few previously unreleased tracks from the greatest japanoise bands, a few representatives of the younger generations (from all around the world), some rare tracks from the '80s, and it all ends with a lull that lets transpire what may be felt as a kind of undefinable mystery. the avant-garde - the possibility of a new music (think about it). then it scattered into small communities whose best-known protagonists are totally unknown to people outside that particular circle. we are facing this fragmentation, and one form of avant-garde (you could say) ends up scattered into several (not exclusively musical) forms. it is not in avant-garde's nature to create one elementary form for each individual. other phrases used include "forays," "breakthroughs," "pushing the envelope," and then of course "going too far"...

henri pousseur “electronic, experimental, and microtonal 1953-1999” compact disc

• prospection (4:59) 1953
  
• racine dix-neuvième de huit-quarts (18:51) 1975
  
• at moonlight, downland's shadow passes along ginkaku-ji (12:38) 1989
  
• ex dei in machinam memoria (20:35) 1972
  
• figures enlacées (5:23) 1999

alireza mashayekhi / ata ebtekar / the iranian orchestra for new music “ornamentalism” compact disc

• pearly gates (5:38) 1999
  
• little tales 4point5 (2:03) 1993
  
• ornamental (9:51) 1995
  
• little tales 3 (3:17) 1993
  
• broken silence cmpd (3:20) 2002
  
• turquoise gas in ice (3:35) 
  
• aural blue (0:24)
  
•  phonata opus 11 remod. (6:35) 1999
  
• little tales 2 (2:02) 1993
  
• meta xy (12:58) 2001
  
• pattern logic (0:21)
  
• little tales 1 (2:25) 1993
  
• tonus (3:02) 2006

sub rosa press release...

ornamentalism ata ebtekar & the iranian orchestra for new musicperforming works of alireza mashayekhi     sr284  an organic electrocution perfect follow-up to the highly acclaimed persian electronic music (sr277), this new persian music album involves a cast of seasoned musicians performing works written by legendary iranian composer alireza mashayekhi ; in which ata ebtekar (aka sote) was granted complete creative freedom by mashayekhi himself to transform these compositions into fully realized pieces using his techniques of synthesis and electronic manipulation.it's an organic electrocution without sacrificing the beauty of the performance. these sound sources and compositions were metamorphosed via electronic processing, rearranged and decomposed using sound generators, effect boxes, modular synthesizers and samplers. finally, ebtekar programs synthetic sounds and adds new electronic harmonies, melodies and soundscapes to the sonic palette of western classical music and persian instrumentation for a unique musical experience. sote unites the grace and symmetry of noise and silence inside the magic circle of electronic music composition. the tehran contemporary music group cofounded in 1993 by farimah ghavensadri and alireza mashayekhi. in 1995 mashayekhi established the iranian orchestra for new music as a performing entity. the tehran contemporary music group's main goal is the presentation of new music in order to promote young composers and performers. the group has also helped to establish the biannual for composing and performing of contemporary music in iran. alireza mashayekhi: a short biography alireza mashayekhi was born in 1940 in tehran, iran. he is one of the pioneers of modern music in iran. mashayekhi's works have been performed in iran and abroad for more than 35 years. mashayekhi believes that contemporary composers should create music in wide range of styles. his own compositions have tended towards three major direction: pieces that are directly inspired by iranian music (e.g. symphony no. 5, persian suite and shahrzad) and compositions that are not directly related to iranian music (e.g. symphony no. 6, concerto for violin and orchestra,sonata for piano) and multicultural compositions (e.g. symphony no. 8 and the electronic composition east-west). at the time of stalin in the ussr, many pieces were composed with predetermined identities in honor of marxism and leninism by the request of the governmental authorities or by the artist's own whishes. among these pieces those with artistic rightfulness remained and they were honored in both east and west, but the political weight of the other ones did not succeed to help them survive. alireza mashayekhi alireza mashayekhi is regarded as a pioneer iranian avant-garde composer whose ideas and works, which have been performed in iran and abroad for more than 35 years, have greatly influenced the contemporary music in iran.. hooman asadi of the university of tehran, iran ata ebtekar aka sote: a short biography aka sote is an iranian-american electronic composer and sound artist. he was bornin germany to iranian parents, spent the first eleven years of his life in iran and the next six years in germany. at the age of seventeen he moved to the united states and lived inthe bay area for fifteen years. he has spent the last few years living in tehran and workingon several projects. one of these projects was released in 2007 as a double disc set called 'persian electronic music - yesterday and today' (sub rosa sr277) for which he compiled early electronic music from alireza mashayekhi who had created these compositions forty years ago. disc two features ebtekar's own electronic compositions to present a timeline in modern iranian music history. sote's compositions are sonic tales synchronously decoding and regenerating customary patterns of thought in nature; aural designs of crisis and harmony where contempo meets folklore, orchestrating an artificial saga with a variety of illuminations and analysis. he believes that music is a cultural habit of sound and anti-sound (silence). therefore, he generates music without a specific culture, which he believes to be 'the other sound'.

asad qizilbash “sarod recital / live in peshawar” compact disc

• raga darbari (27:22)
  
• raga bihag (13:49)
  
• raga piloo (13:32)

zbigniew karkowski / tetsuo furudate / zeitkratzer “world as will iii” compact disc

• mergence
  
• below the demarcation
  
• mix white

alireza mashayekhi / ata ebtekar / sote “persian electronic music: yesterday and today 1966-2006” double compact disc set

• alireza mashayekhi - shur, op.15 (1966)
  
• alireza mashayekhi - mithra,  op.90 (1982)
  
• alireza mashayekhi - development 2, op.24 (1970)
  
• alireza mashayekhi - east-west, op.45 (1973)
  
• alireza mashayekhi - chahargah 1, op.75 (1979)
  
• alireza mashayekhi - panoptikum 70, op.27 (1970)
  
• alireza mashayekhi - stratosphaere 1, op.46 (1973)
  
• alireza mashayekhi - yaad, op.66 (1970)
  
  
• ata ebtekar / sote - miniature tone
  
• ata ebtekar / sote - nashid
  
• ata ebtekar / sote - saint homayun
  
• ata ebtekar / sote - synthetic overture (satan's lullaby)
  
• ata ebtekar / sote - micro tuning
  
• ata ebtekar / sote - breadth digit (glass lung)
  
• ata ebtekar / sote - robot radif
  
• ata ebtekar / sote - tahrir (love-birds drowned in sorrow)
  
• ata ebtekar / sote - picture of a whisper
  
• ata ebtekar / sote - cry
  
• ata ebtekar / sote - lovaz
  
• ata ebtekar / sote - niaaz
  
• ata ebtekar / sote - plainsong

ibimeni “garifuna traditional music from guatemala” compact disc

• wadabuaguei marine snail trumpet call (0:50)
  
• aguhuya nidugueñu / my family has gone / hüngünhügü (2:50)
  
• vinu niguirayali / i:ll quit liquor / parranda with guitar (4:31)
  
• chagachaga / pororo (4:55)
  
• ñunsu garifunaou /spoken word (0:49)
  
• adari labugana / livingston boyfriend / parranda (2:14)
  
• ahurahali wadunari / the water has boiled / chumba (3:00)
  
• wala diru lumala / the cricket has sung / abeimahanei (4:13)
  
• came beyedana / why did you lie to me ? / punta (3:34)
  
• tari edna golu / edna:s gold tooth / pororo (4:08)
  
• chülüya ñunsu / news have arrived / hüngünhügü (4:09)
  
• wasanriaha / union / religious chant (2:26)
  
• nati conde / brother conde / punta rock (3:10)
  
• baroumuga / sleep / lullaby (2:18)
  
• lidan misiñeba / when someone doesn:t love you / parranda with guitar (3:03)
  
• monderubadina hama hara / i won:t join them / parranda (4:18)
  
• laguñeda / it:s getting dark / wanaragua (3:14)
  
• dodo fafa / sleep fafa / lullaby (1:03)
  
• san francisco / processional march (2:34)
  
• naluwahañadibu inina / i:m looking for you / abeimahanei (4:01)
  
• bonus track wanaragua (2:47)

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)

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 !!!

“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

“groupe surréaliste révolutionnaire, dotremont et broodthaers (1939-1978) • avant-garde in belgium vol.3” compact disc

• achille chavée - etant à tout jamais lié de par mes gestes oubliés (being forever tied by my forgotten actions) (1:57)
  
• achille chavée - angoisse (angst) (1:53 )
  
• achille chavée - dictée (dictation) (1:20)
  
• achille chavée - aphorisme comme système d'auto-défense (the aphorism as self-defense system) (0:48)
  
• achille chavée - 3 aphorismes (3 aphorisms) (0:26)
  
• pol bury - de la peinture à la sculpture en mouvement (from painting to sculpture in movement) (11:26)
  
• christian dotremont - en laponie, livre de bord (in lapland, a logbook) (11:10)
  
• andré blavier - avec odette blavier ubu rwè mètou è lîdgwès (ubu in liégeois) (0:48)
  
• andré blavier - les fous littéraires (literary jesters) (1:00)
  
• théodore koenig - propos sur marcel havrenne (words on marcel havrenne) (1:51)
  
• marcel piqueray - l'étrange histoire du grand chien saintongeois (the strange story of the grand saintongeois dog) (3:20)
  
• marcel mariën - l'entrevue du 29 janvier 1973 (interview from 29 january 1973) (7:55)
  
• andré balthazar - la fondation du daily bul (the inception of daily bul) (3:28)
  
• andré balthazar - la langue (mise en son par gabriel séverin) (1:20)
  
• marcel piqueray - manu loûrik (lu par gabriel séverin) (read by gabriel séverin) (2:06)
  
• marcel broodthaers - apprentissage et filiation (apprenticeship and filiation) (4:58)
  
• jean-pierre verheggen - monsieur panurge (mister panurge) (0:48)
  
• jean-pierre verheggen - avec jacques bonnafé toutes les langues (ma langue de fond) et commentaires (all the languages (my background tongue) and comments) (9:02)

bokar rimpoché “teaching, sacred chants and tibetan rituals” compact disc

• mountain soundscape (facing mount everest) (0:36)
  
• taking refuge by lama tcheupel (monk at the monastery of mirik) (2:00)
  
• excerpt from "the hundred thousand songs of milarepa" by kyabje bokar rimpoche and a young monk from the mirik forest (2:17)
  
• four-voice song: "calling the lama from afar" by kyabje bokar rimpoche, yangsi kalou rimpoche, khempo donyeu rimpoche and lama tcheupel (12:41)
  
• tibetan bowls (01:39)
  
• the "tsok" offering (excerpt from the songs of immortality) performed by lama tcheupel (monk at the monastery of mirik) (6:51)
  
• teachings on meditation (excerpt from "the hundred thousand songs of milarepa") (1:26)
  
• teachings on meditation (0:55)
  
• praise mantra for milarepa (2:25)
  
• dedication of the mahamudra meditation (1:12)
  
• mahakala ceremony (25:29)
  
• teachings on meditation (1:15)
  
• a river in the mirik forest (1:20)

luc ferrari “didascalies” compact disc and digital versatile disc set

• rencontres fortuites (23:14)
  
• tautologos iii  (21:19)
  
• didascalies (15:07)
  
  
• dvd: luc ferrari facing his tautology: two days before the end (52:50)

ben baruch “the complete recordings 1949-50” double compact disc set

• zol noch sain schabbes [zol nokh zayn shabbes]
  
• dos lempl
  
• rouah [ruakh]
  
• el molé rakhamim [eyl mole rahamim]
  
• shalom
  
• arzenu [artseynu]
  
• kol nidrey
  
• kaddish
  
• kadisch fin barditschev
  
• eli eli
  
• wie ahin soll ich gehn [vu ahin zol ikh geyn]
  
• s'wet geschehn [es vet gesheyn]
  
  
• zochrenou lachaim [zohreynu lehayim]
  
• zechor [zehor]
  
• yehi rotzon [yehi rotson]
  
• shabbes beim shalosh sudos [shabes baym shalesh-shudes]
  
• elou devorim [elu devorim]
  
• menashe
  
• veoulai [veulay]
  
• bearvot haneguev
  
• oifn pripetshik [oyfn pripetshik]
  
• kinderyorn [kinderyorn]
  
• fartweiflung [fartsveyflung]
  
• haben yakir