TOM ERBE / CHRIS MANN / LARRY POLANSKY / DOUGLAS REPETTO / CHRISTIAN WOLFF
Trios
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“Mann’s Schwitters-like Dadaist texts haunt the background,” says Exclaim, “Swept around by the mutated sounds of bent guitars and time-lag piano. Machine noises are netted overtop and through, lending constant awareness of technology’s plastic fingerprints all over the process. Each track possesses an identity all its own, different tempos, balances, densities, but the album as a whole has a consistency of vision likely not present at the music original moment of creation.” From 2004
Rex Xhu Ping
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Joining Margolis (on tapes, electronics, clarinet, and sundries) are Laura Biagi (vocals), Dan Andreana (speaker, tapes), Detta Andreana (tapes, bowed cymbals), and Orchestre de Fou. From 2005
Electro-Acoustic
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Four tracks by the founder and director of Studio de Recherches et de Structurations Electroniques Auditives in Brussels: “Electro-Acoustic Santur” (1989), for two santurs, four micro-processors and electronic sounds; “Guitarra Cubana” (1988), combining guitar and phonetic sounds; “Inflexions Vocales” (1982) with Françoise Vanhecke (soprano), a vocal composition with accompaniment by a stereo tape; and “Le Reveur au Sourire Passager” (1977) with Jean-Claude Frison (reciter), which explores in sound and word a dark, deep, incomprehensible, and mysterious world. From 1996
Death Of The Moon
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Electronic and concrete music from 1953 to 1960 by this Swedish composer, reissuing material previously available on LP via the Pogus and Radium labels.
Objekt 2
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Stark, mesmerizing and historical electronic and musique concrete — the remainder of the long out-of-print Radium double LP, recorded 1962-1988. 1998 reissue
Thousand Year Dreaming / Floating World
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Previously issued by What Next in 1993, the forty-three-minute Thousand Year Dreaming, performed by Lockwood, Art Baron and N. Scott Robinson, along with Libby Van Cleve (oboe and English horn), Jon Gibson (didjeridu), J.D. Parran (clarinets), Peter Zummo (trombone and didjeridu) and percussionists Michael Pugliese and Charles Wood boasts the extraordinary timing and a masterly sense of space. The acoustic beats of the conch shells’ microtonal inflections might recall Alvin Lucier, but openness to melody situates it further to the East. The previously unreleased three-part Floating World assembles field recordings from the wilds of Cape Kidnappers in New Zealand to the New York Public Library Reading Room, made by Maggi Payne, David Dunn, Larry Austin, Chris Mann, Sorrel Hays, Steve Peters, Ruth Anderson, John Cousins, Philip Dadson, Warren Burt and Brenda Hutchinson.
Alien Bog / Beautiful Soop
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Two long tracks of emotionally stunning electronic music from the 1960s, “revolutionary … in [its] use of tape delay and heterodyne techniques, coupled with experimental use of combination tones and supersonic frequencies, presaged techniques now being explored digitally.” The brain-eclipsing “Alien Bog” is a masterpiece of electronic tone squelch. Only an excerpt of this had been previously issued, while “Beautiful Soop” is released here for the first time. During her first year at The Tape Music Center at Mills College in Oakland, Oliveros utilized the original Buchla Box 100 series and her tape delay system. From 1997