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Artist:	RLW
Title:	Views
Label:	ANOMALOUS RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NOM 027CD

2004 release, available again. "In the 25th year of Ralf Wehowsky's recording career, Anomalous Records presents his first truly solo release featuring four new compositions based on instrumental improvisations. Using simple devices (tone-generators, percussion toys, music boxes, an electric toothbrush and an electric guitar) played in unusual ways, he builds up layers of each sound to create a suite of textural pieces. Each of the four tracks takes on an identity unique from the others, as the first three each focus on one of the sound sources while the last combines elements from the previous three to make something else. The disc opens with a 20-minute piece of mysterious and drifting electronic tones. Other tracks highlight very tactile sounds and bring a much more 'live' element to his work, while retaining his skillful use of dynamics and placement of silence which have gained him so many fans. Previous releases by RLW have seen him collaborate with such diverse artists as Achim Wollscheid, Bernhard Günter, Andrew Chalk, David Grubbs, Jim O'Rourke, Kevin Drumm, and Bruce Russell. He is the founder of the now defunct group P16.D4 and the label Selektion."

Artist:	RLW
Title:	Points Of Reference
Label:	PERDITION PLASTICS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	PER 011CD

2002 release, restocked. "Ralf Wehowsky (Germany) Is one of the most respected electronic composers of our day. Utilizing sound as a psychological platform, the music of RLW causes the listener to (re)evaluate what one hears and why. Points Of Reference is a rare accomplishment, an intricate pastiche of natural and electronic forms appearing, blending, fading and regenerating within six thematic narratives. Wehowsky has been involved in the creation of critically important music for decades, notably with his involvement in the seminal group P16D4 and his partnership in the Selektion label. Points Of Reference is adorned by beautiful cover art photography from Dan Burke (Illusion Of Safety), with all processing being completed within the camera. Bruce Russell (Dead C/Corpus Hermeticum) contributes liner notes that amplify the vast levels of meaning and varied connections between all points of reference..."

Artist:	RLW
Title:	I.K.K. Purpur
Label:	SIRR.ECORDS (PORTUGAL)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	SIRR 025CD

"The I.K.K.-project is the new project of Ralf Wehowsky (RLW), the influential German electronic music composer who started his recording career in 1980. And following his inclination for collaboration it counts with contributions from Dan Warburton, Andrew Deutsch, Chris Halliwell, Strotter Inst., Stephen Vitiello, and Frisch/Rainey/Wehowsky. I.K.K. Purpur started in 1794, when Christoph Schmid wrote the lyrics for Ihr Kinderlein Kommet, using a melody by contemporary composer Johann Abraham Peter Schulz. It was performed soon after in Thanhausen an der Mindel for the first time. In 2001, a few weeks before Xmas, RLW recorded his daughter Sonja (aged 5 then) singing some of her favourite Xmas tunes."

Artist:	RLW
Title:	Pullover
Label:	TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	TOE 032CD

Repressed. "RLW is German composer Ralf Wehowsky, founder of renowned ensemble P16.D4 and the influential Selektion label. Pullover is a text-based electro-acoustic piece that includes contributions by Jerome Noetinger, Francisco Lopez, Stefan Schmidt, and Gastr del Sol's David Grubbs and Jim O'Rourke." "RLW is impossible to locate, his music resists pigeon-holing and refuses simple labels. It's neither industrial music nor musique concrete; it's not really computer music but nor is it improvisational; perhaps it's all of these things." --EST.

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Artist:	RLW
Title:	Sechs Abstande
Label:	BLOSSOMING NOISE
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	BN 055LP