Browse by Label: ANOMALOUS RECORDS

Artist:	AMM
Title:	At the Roundhouse
Label:	ANOMALOUS RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	ICES 001CD

"The International Carnival of Experimental Sound, or ICES '72 for short, was an ambitious festival sprung from the mind of Harvey 'Job' Matusow (1926-2002). Jumping off from his associations with the influential Source magazine, Harvey brought together over 300 artists from more than 21 countries to perform in London, England over the course of two weeks in August of 1972. Based on the theme of Myth, Magic Madness and Mysticism, he assembled an amazing diversity of performers working in diverse range of audio-visual arts. Encompassing happenings, films, dance, a train ride, and the phantom soft pool table, the focus was on sound -- specifically that of artists who were both composers and performers. Most of the concerts were held at The Roundhouse, a cavernous structure that was formerly a railroad engine house. Now, for the first time in 30 years, these recordings can be heard. This first CD in a series documenting the festival features the complete concert given by legendary free improvising group AMM. Represented here by Eddie Prevost and Lou Gare, they offer up powerful explosions of saxophone and drums punctuated with their famous AMM silences. This is the first time this material is available, aside from two short excerpts were published as the only 7" release on Evan Parker and Derek Bailey's Incus Records (and a very rare and desirable record that has become)."

Artist:	COLECLOUGH, JONATHAN
Title:	Period
Label:	ANOMALOUS RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	NOM 004CD

2002 release, available again. "This reissue sees the original A side extended from the original length of 17 minutes to the new length of 50 minutes. It still includes Colin Potter's 17 minute remix Periodic which was featured on the B side of the LP. Period is beautiful piece based entirely on sounds from a Bluthner grand piano, looped and extended into long, drifting, calm drones with occasional punctuation of recognizable notes slowly resonating. The piece becomes 'Periodic' at the hands of Colin Potter, whose remix turns it into a more dark and haunting experience which reveals even less of the characteristics of a piano than the original. Two complimenting, yet also contrasting, views of the same material which both show a great deal of depth and cohesion."

Artist:	VA
Title:	An Uncommon Nature
Label:	ANOMALOUS RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NOM 006LP

2001 release, available again. "Coinciding with the 10th anniversary of Anomalous Records' existence, we are releasing a compilation album based around recordings from the outdoors, and featuring artists we release or are going to in the near future. Featured on this LP are new recordings from: Jeph Jerman, Mirror, Agog, Climax Golden Twins, Jonathan Coleclough, Mike Shannon, Monos, Richard Lerman, Dave Knott. While unified by a common theme, the tracks are quite varied including desert contact mic recordings of rain and wind on a tree (Jeph Jerman), processed sounds of a gate (Jonathan Coleclough), erhu played on a beach (Mike Shannon), mysterious singing 'water babies' (Agog), a mixture of seals' calls and transducer recordings of ice (Richard Lerman), and the straight recording of an approaching thunderstorm (Dave Knott)."

Artist:	INOUE & ANDREW DEUTSCH, TETSU
Title:	Field Tracker
Label:	ANOMALOUS RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	NOM 009CD

2001 release, available again. "Field Tracker was recorded at the Institute for Electronic Art, Alfred NY during the Winter of 2000. Inoue, utilizing his digital sound processing systems in combination with bells, guitar, and other odd sound making objects, constructed tiny improvisational sound moments each one having a shape and gesture of their own. These micro compositions were at times highly abstract and noisy and at other times extremely melodic and calm. Many of these micro compositions were used in the production of his recent release Object and Organic Code, the others (almost 2 hours worth) were handed over to Andrew Deutsch who was to construct another release combining sounds of his own. Being responsible for the overall 'Auskomponierung' or compositional unfolding of the work, Deutsch combined synthesized sounds, drones, chatter, loops and other d.s.p. techniques to produce what he hoped would be a kind of 'Gebrauchsmusik' or useful music that one might use in the home. The work has a notion of 'ambitendency' built into it, that is, the tendency toward change combined with an equal tendency toward stasis. The work could be described as 'meta-divisionism', 'Baroque Minimalism', or 'expanded systemic digital minimalism'. Sound works for our new recombinatory world."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Electrically Induced Vibrations
Label:	ANOMALOUS RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	NOM 013LP

"This is a collection of music created with electronic means by artists residing in Luxembourg, United Kingdom, United States, New Zealand and The Netherlands. Most of these people have been making music for 20 years or more, and have diverse histories. Their music as collected here is varied, but arranged into a cohesive flow. By all means experimental to the general population, the first side consists of what might be considered the more musical contributions, while the second explores more abstract and ambient territory." Artists include: Edward Ka-Spel, Cyclobe, Colin Potter, Steve Thomsen, Omit, Arkkon, The Silverman, Mistress of Strands, Fibrillation.

Artist:	ANIMIST ORCHESTRA
Title:	Wuwei
Label:	ANOMALOUS RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	NOM 014CD

"From the beginning, the focus of the orchestra has been on listening, and improvising in the moment. A group of people truly playing together and focusing intently on the present can be a powerful thing. the use of natural objects (stones, shells, pine cones etc.) as opposed to more conventional musical instruments, can help the players to not fall back on learned habits of musical play. There is no canon or book of rules to refer to when using everyday things as sound makers, and this may facilitate the removal of actions arising from taste and memory." - Jeph Jerman.

Artist:	FIBRILLATION
Title:	My Axis Is Undone
Label:	ANOMALOUS RECORDS
Format:	3" CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	NOM 022CD

2003 release, available again. "This collection of six pieces is the first official release by Fibrillation, following his appearance on the Anomalous Records compilation LP Electrically Induced Vibrations. Constructed with great care, these will reveal many layers over repeated listening. Though he works largely in the realms of electronic music, no source is considered outside of his realm, and in fact many fragments of sound important to his life are incorporated in the complex weave of aural communication. Fibrillation aims to create a sound compliment to mental images and evoke important personal experiences."

Artist:	SANDERSON, PHILIP
Title:	Reprint
Label:	ANOMALOUS RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	NOM 023CD

2003 release, available again. "Reprint was originally released on cassette by Snatch Tapes in 1980 and was credited to an unknown duo called Claire Thomas & Susan Vezey. Claire and Susan were infact a figment of Snatch Tapes founder Philip Sanderson's imagination. In addition to running the label, Philip was one half of the DIY electronic group Storm Bugs, and regularly collaborator with a then unknown musician by the name of David Jackman (one of these tracks they did together was recent issued on a 10" by Die Stadt). Reprint was in effect one of his few solo recordings. The music of Reprint is a peculiar combination of academic rigour married to an inverted pop art aesthetic. For whereas pop art incorporated the cheap intoxication's of consumer culture into the supposed lofty rooms of high art, here was an attempt to incorporate the form or perhaps just the smell high art into the low brutality of DIY electronics."

Artist:	DEUTSCH, ANDREW
Title:	Lung Cleaner
Label:	ANOMALOUS RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NOM 024CD

2004 release, available again. "Andrew Deutsch creates very human electronic music working with layers of sounds to create dense and immersive sonic environments. He draws his sounds from a multitude of sources sometimes beginning with acoustic sources such as bells, music boxes, baby toys and water, and other times drawing from digital sources, converting video images to audio or transforming the data left after a computer crash. Andrew takes these things and makes a music that is positive and energizing. In fact, Lung Cleaner was created for friend going through an illness as a sort of 'sonic cure'. His strong work with sound, both as an artist and educator, has lead to collaborations with Paulive Oliveros, Tetsu Inoue, Stephen Vitiello, Tony Conrad, and John Cage. On this CD, Andrew presents another of his collaborations with Pauline Oliveros where she provides samples from her unpublished early electronic works from 1966 for one piece."

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 G�nter, 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:	FULLMAN, ELLEN
Title:	Staggered Stasis
Label:	ANOMALOUS RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	NOM 029CD

2004 release, available again. "Over the last two decades, Ellen Fullman has been perfecting her Long String Instrument. This unique instrument of her own design is some 80 feet in length and played by literally walking through it. The resulting sounds are beautiful gliding tones with a rich harmonic content. The CD presents two works from her time in Austin, Texas in the late 1980's which beautifully display a sound you can get inside of. These long tracks envelope you in their cascading overtones. Even though she has performed widely in the United States and Europe, this is only Ellen's third solo CD, following previous releases on XI Records and New Albion. So hearing these gorgeous and important pieces from her archive is cause for celebration."

Artist:	KNOTT, DAVID
Title:	Natura Naturans
Label:	ANOMALOUS RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	NOM NOT1

1999 release, available again. "Veteran improviser and instrument builder as yet almost undocumented by recordings. This disc will feature improvisations on his 'stringboards', simple yet beautiful amalgamations of wood and prepared strings that draw to mind harps, gongs, and sound sculptures. 'At a woodshop I was renting I had been messing with attaching strings to collected throwaway (found) pieces of plywood. I had a collection of used strings of many types: guitar, bass guitar, cello, violin, dulcimer, harp, piano, along with some types of raw wire including brass and nylon monofilament. I had heard Ellen Fullman's Long String Instrument and wanted to experiment with making strings in long lengths. I enjoyed using two strings to make a longer combined length and found the results to be shimmering.' -- David Knott."

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