5 CD
COMPILATION
ARCHIVES GRM
For the 30th birthday of INA, the GRM has decided to present in this CD box some of his archives. CD1 “les visiteurs de la musique concrète” : André Hodeir - Pierre Boulez - Jean Barraqué - Darius Milhaud - Roman Haubenstock-Ramati - Henri Sauguet - Edgar Varèse - André Boucourechliev - Claude Ballif - Iannis Xenakis - Olivier Messiaen. CD2 “L’art de l’étude : Pierre Schaeffer - Monique Rollin - Michel Philippot - Philippe Arthuys - Luc Ferrari - François-Bernard Mâche - Mireille Chamass-Kyrou - Ivo Malec - Philippe Carson - Akira Tamba - Beatriz Ferreyra - Alain Savouret. CD3 “Le son en nombres » : François Bayle - Dieter Kaufmann - Jean-Claude Risset - Ivo Malec - Denys Smalley - Gilles Racot - Yann Geslin - Bénédict Maillard - Jean Schwarz - Francis Dhomont. CD4 “Le temps du temps réel” : Bernard Parmegiani - Åke Parmerud - Denis Dufour - Horacio Vaggione - Alain Savouret - François Bayle - Gilles Racot - Daniel Teruggi - Ramon Gonzales-Arroyo - Michel Redolfi. CD5 “Le grm sans le savoir” : Bernard Parmegiani - Robert Wyatt/F. Bayle - François Bayle - Alain Savouret - Jean Schwarz - Michel Portal/J. Schwarz - Boris Vian/B. Parmegiani - Robert Cohen-Solal - Guy Reibel - Edgardo Canton - Christian Zanési.
30,00€
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COMPILATION
TEXT-SOUNDS COMPOSITIONS. A STOCKHOLM FESTIVAL
Back in stock. “Fylkingen Records in collaboration with the Swedish Radio released a series of LP records with text-sound compositions between the years of 1968-77. All of these were documentations of the international festival Text-Sound Compositions. A Stockholm Festival, which Fylkingen presented in Stockholm several times during these years. Most of the LPs were only pressed in batches of about 400-500 records, and most of the LPs sold out during the festivals. A re-release had long been planned, and this 5 CD box marks the complete re-release of the complete recordings. Apart from the 5 CDs with in all ca 6 hours of material, the CD box contains a 60 page booklet with essays by Teddy Hultberg and Sten Hanson, as well as historical photographs taken by Lütfi Özkök during the festivals.
The term text-sound composition was coined in 1967 in Sweden by the composers/writers Lars-Gunnar Bodin and Bengt Emil Johnsson, and was meant to serve to name a genre that was a vital art form in the no man’s land between sound, poetry, and music. Text-sound compositions had influences from previous modernistic waves such as futurism, dadaism, lettrism, etc., but perhaps the most important influence was the Swedish poet and visual artist Öyvind Fahlström, who had just over a decade earlier coined the term "concrete poetry". The term concrete poetry related to Pierre Schaeffer’s concrete music, and it is somewhere between concrete poetry and concrete music that text-sound compositions appear. The birth of the electronic music studio and concrete music’s idea that every sound can be freed from its original context and given a new meaning when it is reworked and put together with other sounds in the electronic music studio became the catharsis for text-sound composition. In the electronic music studio, voice and language sounds can be broken down, unleashed, and then fused together to become a poetry that had never been heard before. Certain text-sound composers would come to work only with pure lingual sounds, but most eventually came to integrate lingual sounds with other sounds, both concrete and electronic.
The CD box contains works by the following text-sound composers and sound poets: Charles Amirkhanian, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Svante Bodin, Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, François Dufrêne, Gust Gils, Jarl och Sonja Hammarberg-Åkesson, Sten Hanson, Bernard Heidsieck, C. Christer Hennix, Åke Hodell, Bengt Emil Johnsson, Sandro Key-Åberg, Bengt af Klintberg, Ilmar Laaban, Annea Lockwood & Harvey Matusow, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Ghérasim Luca, Arne Mellnäs, Franz Mon, Ladislav Novák, Dieter Roth & Emmett Williams, Erik Thygesen, Paul de Vree.”
The term text-sound composition was coined in 1967 in Sweden by the composers/writers Lars-Gunnar Bodin and Bengt Emil Johnsson, and was meant to serve to name a genre that was a vital art form in the no man’s land between sound, poetry, and music. Text-sound compositions had influences from previous modernistic waves such as futurism, dadaism, lettrism, etc., but perhaps the most important influence was the Swedish poet and visual artist Öyvind Fahlström, who had just over a decade earlier coined the term "concrete poetry". The term concrete poetry related to Pierre Schaeffer’s concrete music, and it is somewhere between concrete poetry and concrete music that text-sound compositions appear. The birth of the electronic music studio and concrete music’s idea that every sound can be freed from its original context and given a new meaning when it is reworked and put together with other sounds in the electronic music studio became the catharsis for text-sound composition. In the electronic music studio, voice and language sounds can be broken down, unleashed, and then fused together to become a poetry that had never been heard before. Certain text-sound composers would come to work only with pure lingual sounds, but most eventually came to integrate lingual sounds with other sounds, both concrete and electronic.
The CD box contains works by the following text-sound composers and sound poets: Charles Amirkhanian, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Svante Bodin, Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, François Dufrêne, Gust Gils, Jarl och Sonja Hammarberg-Åkesson, Sten Hanson, Bernard Heidsieck, C. Christer Hennix, Åke Hodell, Bengt Emil Johnsson, Sandro Key-Åberg, Bengt af Klintberg, Ilmar Laaban, Annea Lockwood & Harvey Matusow, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Ghérasim Luca, Arne Mellnäs, Franz Mon, Ladislav Novák, Dieter Roth & Emmett Williams, Erik Thygesen, Paul de Vree.”
49,00€
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Sven-Ake JOHANSSON
“More compositions”
KNM Berlin, Ensemble Zwischentöne, Eberhard Blum, Agnieszka Dziubak, Gunnhildur Einarsdottir, Sven-Åke Johansson, a.o. Rec.1992 - 2013.
“Italienische Vekehrsverständigung” (1983) for seven woodwindplayers
woodwind ensemble, conducted by SÅJ,recorded Ballhaus Naunynstrasse Berlin 1992. “Klingend und festgehalten” (1995) five stations for combo drum set
“Bom-Zeke-Bom” (1995) for septet, Ensemble Zwischentöne. “22 Miniaturen für Akkordeonorchester” (1991) for accordeon orchestra. Akeordeon Orchestra Berlin, direction by Gerhard Scherer, recorded Sophiensaele Berlin 2003. “Wagenstück” (1990) for sextet. Ensemble Zwischentöne, direction by Peter Ablinger, recorded Sophiensaele Berlin 2003. “Im Memoriam Tom Cora” (2007) for prepared cello and brushes. Agnieszka Dziubak cello, recorded Berlin 2007.
“Variations on Vimse” (2011) for harp. Gunnhildur Einarsdottir harp, recorded Berlin 2013. “Neue Kochstrasse” (2006) for grenaphon timpani and loudhailer.Sven-Åke Johansson grenaphon, timpani, loudhailer, recorded Technisches Museum Berlin 2006. “Konzert für MC(H-D) und gemischtem Chor” (2000) for motorcycles and mixed choir. Harley Davidson Ensemble, direction by Sven-Åke Johansson, recorded Marstall Berlin 2000. “Wegen Überfüllung bereits geschlossen” (1992), chamber piece for two voices, bandoneon, clarinet, piano, double bass, percussion. Ensemble Zwischentöne, direction by Peter Ablinger, recorded Ballhaus Naunynstrasse Berlin 1992. “Flötenquartett NR.1” (1992) for four flutes. Eberhard Blum, Johanna Kessner, Christiane Hellmann, Klaus Schoepp, flutes, recorded Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig 1993. “Abovensen zur See” (2005) for Ship horns, voice and percussion. MS Friedrich, Hafenamt 1, Piguin, Feuerlöschboot Bremen, Schiff Zwei. Sven-Åke Johansson percussion, voice, recorded at Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen 2005. “Die neue Zeit ist pausenlos” (2008) for the Ensemble Zwischentöne, direction, Andrea Neumann, Bill Dietz, recorded Ballhaus Naunynstrasse Berlin 2008. “Polis, Wachs und Pomade” (2000) chamber piece for strings, wind instruments and voice. Axel Dörner, Michael Gross trumpets, Andrew Digby trombone, Ekkehard Windrich, Marc Sabat violine, Jörg Winkler viola, Sven-Åke Johansson voice, recorded at Konzerthaus Berlin 2002. “Abovensen geht leicht gebückt…” (2002) for voice and percussion. Sven-Åke Johansson drums, vocals, recorded at Konzerthaus Berlin 2002. “Einen staubigen Klang finden” (1998) for trumpet, bass clarinet, violine and double bass. Winfried Rager clarinet, Michael Gross trumpet, Arnulf Ballhorn double bass, Imke Dithmar viola, recorded at Rundfunkhaus Köln 1999.
35,00€
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Sven-Ake JOHANSSON
“Jazzbox”
Box with 5 CD’s with Cool Quartett vol. I, Cool Quartett vol. II, Cool Quartett / Cool Sextett, Tune up, Candy with Borghini, Delius, Dörner, Johansson, Roder, Takase, Terzic, Walsdorff, Williamson.
35,00€
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5 CD
OMIT
“Enclosures 2011-2016”
Co-released with End of the Alphabet Records.
Since his first self-released cassettes in the early 1990s, New Zealand’s Clinton Williams aka Omit has been on a singular and personal musical journey. Described as one of the greatest outsider artists currently working in the field, Omit employs homebuilt instruments constructed from modified electric motors and salvaged sound sources to create a startlingly original soundworld. It is a world he inhabits alone, isolated in the small town of Blenheim in southern New Zealand, but it involves a deep exploration of the human condition. Over the years OMIT’s music has become less noisy and more sparse and minimal, as open signal patterns and oblique textures pass each other in haunted spaces.
“Enclosures 2011-2016” is a 5xCD box-set co-released by Pica Disk (run by Lasse Marhaug out of Norway) and End of the Alphabet (run by Noel Meek in New Zealand) and collects Omit’s most recent self-released albums, artefacts that originally came in super limited edition CDRs with hand-made covers between 2011 and 2016. Unavailable except directly from the artist, these beautiful works are now available remastered in a deluxe box-set along with OMIT’s famous surrealist drawings and science fiction themed artwork, plus liner notes by close friend and collaborator Bruce Russell (The Dead C/A Handful of Dust).
“Clinton Williams is the hardest-working man in minimal electronic music. He is one of two people I know fairly well who I honestly believe is possessed by genius.” Bruce Russell (from the liner notes)
Since his first self-released cassettes in the early 1990s, New Zealand’s Clinton Williams aka Omit has been on a singular and personal musical journey. Described as one of the greatest outsider artists currently working in the field, Omit employs homebuilt instruments constructed from modified electric motors and salvaged sound sources to create a startlingly original soundworld. It is a world he inhabits alone, isolated in the small town of Blenheim in southern New Zealand, but it involves a deep exploration of the human condition. Over the years OMIT’s music has become less noisy and more sparse and minimal, as open signal patterns and oblique textures pass each other in haunted spaces.
“Enclosures 2011-2016” is a 5xCD box-set co-released by Pica Disk (run by Lasse Marhaug out of Norway) and End of the Alphabet (run by Noel Meek in New Zealand) and collects Omit’s most recent self-released albums, artefacts that originally came in super limited edition CDRs with hand-made covers between 2011 and 2016. Unavailable except directly from the artist, these beautiful works are now available remastered in a deluxe box-set along with OMIT’s famous surrealist drawings and science fiction themed artwork, plus liner notes by close friend and collaborator Bruce Russell (The Dead C/A Handful of Dust).
“Clinton Williams is the hardest-working man in minimal electronic music. He is one of two people I know fairly well who I honestly believe is possessed by genius.” Bruce Russell (from the liner notes)
30,00€
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Jürg FREY
“L’âme est sans retenue I”
“L’âme est sans retenue I” (1997-98) for electronic tape.
Field recordings by Jürg Frey in Berlin, October - December 1997, composed and mixed in Aarau, Switzerland in 1998. Mastered by Taku Unami.
“There is music in which the time/space of sound and the time/space of silence appear in their own particular realms. Even if the sounds are often very soft, this music is not about failing into silence.. The sounds are clear, direct and precise. Since they have left musical rhetoric behind, there is instead a sensitivity for the presence of sound and for the physicality of silence. There are long periods of the presence of sound, and long periods of the absence of sound. The two together form the “time present” of the piece.” Jürg Frey from the liner notes.
Field recordings by Jürg Frey in Berlin, October - December 1997, composed and mixed in Aarau, Switzerland in 1998. Mastered by Taku Unami.
“There is music in which the time/space of sound and the time/space of silence appear in their own particular realms. Even if the sounds are often very soft, this music is not about failing into silence.. The sounds are clear, direct and precise. Since they have left musical rhetoric behind, there is instead a sensitivity for the presence of sound and for the physicality of silence. There are long periods of the presence of sound, and long periods of the absence of sound. The two together form the “time present” of the piece.” Jürg Frey from the liner notes.
43,00€
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Hartmut GEERKEN – Michael RANTA
“The Heliopolar Egg”
Documentary recordings of Hartmut Geerken and Michael Ranta’s November and December 1976 tour of the Middle East and East Asia. Geerken is known for his long relationship with Sun Ra including compiling a discography), but he wears many other hats too: musician, film-maker, archivist. Ranta is a percussionist best known for his famous “Improvisation Sep.1975” collaborative
record with Toshi Ichiyanagi and Takehisa Kosugi. This is a CD reissue of an LP boxset, originally released in 2010 as the last release on the now dormant Italian label Qbico. The tour started in Iran before moving east to India, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Korea, and ending in Japan. At their show in Osaka, they played together with Toshi Ichiyanagi. This edition includes the concert with Ichiyanagi, solo performances by Ichiyanagi and Shoko Shida, as well as a rare Delhi performance that was originally only included in the highly limited 6LP edition of the Qbico set. All the tracks overflow with rich multi-dimensionality, providing a glimpse of Ranta and Geerken’s depth as performers.
Boxset. Includes a 12-page booklet with flyers from the period.
Limited edition of 500.
Disc 1. rec. November 25; Baghe Ferdows-Zafaranieh, Teheran, Iran. rec. December 1; Max Mueller Bhavan, Delhi, India. rec. December 3/4; Max Mueller Bhavan, Calcutta, India.
Disc 2. rec. December 8, German Cultural Institute in co-op with the Academy of the Arts, Dacca, Bangladesh.
Disc 3. rec. December 13; Abelardo Inner Green (open air) in co-op with the U.P. College of Music, Manila, Philippines.
Disc 4. rec. December 15; Korea Drama Center, Seoul, Korea.
Disc 5. rec. December 18, Goethe-Institute, Osaka, Japan.
46,00€