Browse by Label: FYLKINGEN (SWEDEN)

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	Sonatas and Interludes Vol. 1
Label:	FYLKINGEN (SWEDEN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	FY 1010CD

1997 CD release, recorded 1965. "The recordings of John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes (1946-48) with Yuji Takahashi on prepared piano was originally made in 1965 and released on two LPs 1966. It was Fylkingen Records first release with the intention to make documentations of Fylkingens concerts in public, and a test of the sound expert Stig Carlssons thoughts about recording techniques. The sonatas and interludes are an attempt to express in music the 'permanent emotions' of Indian tradition: the heroic, the erotic, the wondrous, the mirthful, sorrow, fear, anger, the odious and their common tendency to toward tranquillity."

Artist:	FERREYRA/MENARD/SMALLEY
Title:	Fylkingen Electronic Music Competition 1975
Label:	FYLKINGEN (SWEDEN)
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	FY 1012LP

Original LP from 1977. "In the spring of 1975, an international composers competition for electronic music was arranged in connection with the festival of new music and intermedia art organized by Fylkingen. The main intention was not so much to award prizes to individual compositions as to form a picture of exactly where electronic music stood, from an artistic point of view, at the time it had existed for roughly 25 years. Fromamong 250 compositions by 130 composers from 23 countries, the three prizewinners are presented on this record." Denis Smalley "Gradual" (for clarinet, bass clarinet, trombaphone, tape); Beatriz Ferreyra "Siesta blanca" (tape); Phillipe Menard "Reel-à-Phil" (tape).

Artist:	ROZMANN, AKOS
Title:	Implusioni I, II, III, De Tva, Med Tre Instrument
Label:	FYLKINGEN (SWEDEN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	FY 1013CD

1999 release. "Impulsioni is the collective title of three works which comprise the beginning of Rózmann's work within the field of electroacoustic music. Seen as compositions, Rózmann himself sees Impulsioni I-III as the earliest, almost primitively simple results of a line of composition which nonetheless has kept its importance for him. 'Impulsioni I' is a true start from scratch for him, with the low first tone followed by soft, silvery sounds. The second piece utilized a pulse generator, and the third a machine available at the Royal Conservatory called a 'synthi.' During this period, the composer used only synthetic sounds. It was not until later that he turned to concrete sound samples, such as organ tones, voice and other material. Despite the simple background of Impulsioni I-III, it was here that Rózmann became convinced that electroacoustic music is the greatest expressive device of all time, an opinion which he has steadfastly held throughout the years. Rózmann's art moves between many forms of society and civilization. Gregorian chant is placed next to songs by Buddhist monks, children's voices next to the laugh of someone who is probably the Devil himself." --Hans Gunnar Peterson

Artist:	BODIN, LARS-GUNNAR
Title:	Clouds
Label:	FYLKINGEN (SWEDEN)
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	FY 1020LP

Original LP from 1977. "Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Swedish composer and graphic artist, was one of those who during the first half of the 60's tried to integrate elements of different fields of art in his works: instrumental music, tapes, texts, actions, projections etc. In Clouds (1972-76) he developed an advanced form of musical drama involving electronic music in 8 channels, singers, dancers and slide and film projections on five screens. The music on this record is a shortened version of Clouds, especially created for this medium."

Artist:	PETERSSON, MATTIAS
Title:	Mimer
Label:	FYLKINGEN (SWEDEN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	FY 1021CD

2003 release. "This release is the debut album of the 31 year-old composer and sound artist, Mattias Petersson, based in Stockholm, Sweden. He works mostly in the area of experimental electronic music, but he has also been involved in more pop-like projects as arranger, composer, producer and musician. The music on this CD is based on field recordings made inside the defunct iron mine Mimer, in Norberg, Sweden, during the summer of 2001. Mimer consists of seventeen tracks that cross reference each other in various ways. Each track is based on one of the nine loops that were selected from these original recordings and then treated with different processing techniques. One basic idea was to recreate some of the original sound environment from the days when the mine was running, and also to capture the decay and corrosion of the once very powerful, but now silent and abandoned, machines, containers and silos in the closed mine."

Artist:	BACK, SVEN-ERIK
Title:	Electronic Music
Label:	FYLKINGEN (SWEDEN)
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	FY 1021LP

Original LP from 1978. "Sven-Erik Bäck was in his versatility unique among Swedish composers. Since his debut in the 1940's, he was regarded as a radical avantgardist and since Bäck was also a performer, the musical result became most interesting. Since his first electronic work -- 'In Principio' (1970) Bäck produced many electronic as well as instrumental and vocal compositions. He also combined music with other media such as dance and visual art."

Artist:	HANSON, STEN
Title:	Text-Sound Compositions
Label:	FYLKINGEN (SWEDEN)
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	FY 1022LP

Original LP from 1978; classic works for tape and voice. "Sten Hanson has worked in the area of experimental music, literature and intermedia art since the early sixties. His large and varied production includes instrumental and electronic music, music drama, performance, music for dance and theatre, works for radio and television, literary works and large outdoor events. This record presents his main work in the text-sound field -- The Trilogy of Vocal Energy -- and also two examples of the shorter works of which he has produced many during the years."

Artist:	BODIN, LARS-GUNNAR
Title:	Clouds
Label:	FYLKINGEN (SWEDEN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	FY 1023CD

2005 CD release, reissuing the previous LP from 1977, with bonus tracks. "Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Swedish composer and graphic artist, was one of those who during the first half of the '60s tried to integrate elements of different fields of art in his works: instrumental music, tapes, texts, actions, projections etc. In Clouds (1972-76) he developed an advanced form of musical drama involving electronic music in 8 channels, singers, dancers and slide and film projections on five screens. The music on this record is a shortened version of Clouds, especially created for this medium. This CD re-issue also includes Lars-Gunnar Bodin's both pieces 'For Jon II' and 'Syner (Visions).'"

Artist:	VA
Title:	Text-Sound Compositions - A Stockholm Festival
Label:	FYLKINGEN (SWEDEN)
Format:	5CD BOX
Price:	$60.00
Catalog #:	FY 1024CD

"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, Diter Rot & Emmet Williams, Erik Thygesen, Paul de Vree."

Artist:	FROBERG, DAN
Title:	15 Songs (Down at Jinxey's)
Label:	FYLKINGEN (SWEDEN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	FY 1026CD

"A lone thumb piano, a singing woman, children at play, howling and crackling electricity, chirping birds, tones from a toy organ, sounds of traffic -- Dan Fröberg's remarkable compositions are intersections of shapes, environments, times, places and wildly disparate contexts. As a listener you may recognize individual sonic fragments and create pictures and scenarios through private associations -- like an inner movie running parallel to the works -- but still the sound environments appear so curious and raise so many questions in our minds. What are these shapes, milieus and tales that Dan Fröberg illustrates for us, and what do they want to convey? Travelling Dan Fröberg's soundscapes renders you the feeling of a cloud passing freely between various geographical, temporal and cultural settings and contexts. Occasionally a dream appears. A folk music ensemble commences to play nearby, some giggling children run by, an orchestra of traffic looms large, and rustling leaves fall. The cloud hovers on, through walls, mountains and a brook, suddenly appearing in another time, in another place, where other figures tell their stories. In the world of Dan Fröberg everything is inspired: people, animals, places, sound, shadows, memories. Even though the sounds appear crystal clear in their purity, they convey many remarkable stories, while simultaneously leaving the field open for the listener's fantasy. Dan Fröberg's compositions and sound recordings are as clean as can be. No post-production processing of the sounds has been applied. Dan Fröberg works with a kind of sound magic. Nothing is left to arbitrary randomness. Each sound is chosen with care. When Dan Fröberg composes his pieces, each small detail of the soundscape is rendered vitality and with significance. The significations are gradually transformed and new tales emerge as the different sound worlds are confronted with each other. As a listener you are transferred somewhere else just as your questions have began to formulate themselves -- into a new world, quite familiar, albeit with something completely new and alien to tell. The properties of time and space are always shifting in these pieces where figures, occurrences and reflections approach, materialize, convey something only to drift by or dissolve -- as something novel appears, something else through the journey. Dan Fröberg prefers to brand his acoustic works folk music, rather than musique concrète, field recordings, sound art or something else that would be convenient. The compositions on this CD, or the journeys, if you like, take shape through 15 songs, wherein the shapes, environments and events constitute the voices that sing and establish this folk music that sounds like nothing else, in the borderland between here and now."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Stockholm Elektronmusikfestival 1982
Label:	FYLKINGEN (SWEDEN)
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	FY 1027LP

Original LP from 1982. "Since 1979, the Swedish Radio Company and the Stockholm Electronic Music Studio (EMS) have arranged an annual 3-day Stockholm Electonic Musik Festival. Its purpose is to present a sample of the electronic music being composed in different parts of the world. This record contains four works from the 1980 festival -- two are Swedish and two are international; two are for tape and two combine tape with live performance." Lars-Gunnar Bodin: Epilogue; rhapsodie de la seconde recolte; Sven-Erik Bäck: Annus Solaris; Charles Dodge: Any resemblance is purely coincidental; John Melby: Concert for violin and tape.

Artist:	ENSTROM, ROLF
Title:	TNT
Label:	FYLKINGEN (SWEDEN)
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	FY 1031LP

This LP originally released 1986. "Rolf Enström can look back on a fifteen year period as a composer. His list of works includes a number of very carefully crafted compositions of high artistic quality. Several of his works have become 'classics'; one thinks especially of Directions (1979) and Final Curses (1981). Rolf Enström is a composer who unceasingly seeks new artistic paths and new means of expression and this is something which has led him to combine music with other art forms, primarily the visual arts and literature. On this record, we meet Enström as a composer of pure electroacoustic music. The three works 'Dagbrott,' 'Sekvens i blått' and TNT span a period of eight years."

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Artist:	UNGVARY, TAMAS
Title:	Ite, Missa Est (Computer Music)
Label:	FYLKINGEN (SWEDEN)
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	FY 1028LP

Artist:	VA
Title:	5 September 1982 - A Tribute to John Cage
Label:	FYLKINGEN (SWEDEN)
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	FY 1029LP

Artist:	VA
Title:	Swedish Contemporary Music
Label:	FYLKINGEN (SWEDEN)
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	FY 1030LP