Browse by Label: MIO RECORDS (ISRAEL)

Artist:	BESOMBES, PHILIPPE
Title:	Libra
Label:	MIO RECORDS (ISRAEL)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MIO 008CD

"A chemist by training, Philippe Besombes was engaged in the French avant-garde music scene from the early 1970s. Abandoning his doctoral degree for his groundbreaking work with new electronics in a variety of musical contexts, he supported himself through the seventies creating and composing the sounds for theater and ballet. Besombes was also well-known as an audio engineer in the French contemporary concert scene. Perhaps best known for his group Hydravion, Besombes still records and releases music at his studio in Versailles. Conceived as the soundtrack (and, in fact, the ONLY sound in the movie) for the avant-garde film Libra, the music on this 1973 album ranges in style from electronic pop mixed with music concrete ala Parmegiani/Henry to psychedelic exercises, progressive rock, sitar raga, and fusion. By including a mix of rock musicians and electronic treatments, Besombes was a pioneer in a very new way of working. Bonus tracks will include three cuts from the Libra sessions that have never been released, and a lengthy, experimental minimalist prepared-piano composition will also be included. From the Nurse With Wound list. Libra is the first in a trilogy of Besombes's albums MIO will release." Last copies, deleted item.

Artist:	BESOMBES, PHILIPPE
Title:	Cesi est Cela
Label:	MIO RECORDS (ISRAEL)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MIO 010CD

Third volume in MIO's Besombes reissue program, following Libra & Pole. First time on CD. Features recordings made in France 1972-1979. "A chemist by training, Philippe Besombes was engaged in the French avant-garde scene from the early 1970s. Abandoning his doctoral degree for his pioneering work with new electronics in different musical contexts, he supported himself through the seventies creating the sounds for theater and ballet, and was a well-known audio engineer in the French contemporary concert scene. Perhaps best known for his group Hydravion, Besombes still records and releases music at his studio in Versailles. This 1976 release includes early ballet music that was originally recorded between 1974-1975 for several contemporary ballet groups in Paris. The recording was assisted by Jean Louis Rizet, with whom Besombes was then working in his recording studio. Bonus tracks include 2 early pieces from 1972 (recorded during his time engineering for Stockhausen, Nono and others at the Festival d¹Art Contemporain de La Rochelle) and thirty additional minutes of unreleased ballet music from 1975, which is among his best work for theater."

Artist:	DECIBEL
Title:	Fiat Laux (Complete Recordings 1977-2000)
Label:	MIO RECORDS (ISRAEL)
Format:	3CD
Price:	$50.00
Catalog #:	MIO 022/4CD

"A Chamber/Experimental/RIO & Progressive rock band from Mexico. The band started in 1974 as a trio and then they became a sextet. The band were influenced by European acts like Magma, Faust, Henry Cow and also by Avant-Garde composers like Pierre Henry, Kagel, Stockhausen. In 1978 they recorded their masterpiece 'El Poeta Del Ruido' which is considered by many as a Masterpiece. They evolved then into Nazca and only in the 90's formed back. The box set features a 28 pages booklet in a thick carton box with three CD's (Each more then 74 minutes). CD #1 is made from the 70's and featured for the 1st time the complete unedited 'El Poeta Del Ruido', Unreleased UNAM sessions which one of them was on the ReR sampler and never on CD plus the 1st RIO Festival live performance. CD #2 features the 90's material including the bands favorite improvised album Furtuna Virilis and other unreleased material. CD #3 is a new live performance of new material never on CD and with great interest plus 30 minutes if Archives from the 1977-1978."

Artist:	COHEN-SOLAL, JEAN
Title:	Flute Libres & Captain Tarthopom
Label:	MIO RECORDS (ISRAEL)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	MIO 025CD

"Jean Cohen Solal is a professional musician which majors are the Flute & Double Bass. In 1971, Jean released his first solo album Flute Libres and in 1973 Captain Tarthopom. Those two albums are considered as masterpieces among Progressive Rock collectors all over the world. The first album is build from three short compositions in side A which are really interesting and catchy in a way, Those includes great Bass lines and Hammond organ riffs while Jean is blowing the flute apart. The album includes also an Indian Raga (Sitar/Tabla & Flute) which is really one of the most exciting meetings between East & West cultures. Side B of this album is a 17 minutes epic which is pure research of sounds where Jean is experimenting in a way which sounds like early Tangerine Dream & Ash Ra Temple only not as electronic. Jean had it's own style with the flute which was a mix between classical and Jazz to Avant-Garde. His method consists among others the use of multiple tracks for different flutes and also the added value of effects like distortion/wha wha etc... He also played the double bass in a very unique way which took his music into more dark teritories.Captain Tarthopom, his most sought after LP was released in 1973. If we need to describe it in short then the best would be to say that this album is like a mix between Pink Floyd (Ummagumma era) , Magma & Focus (Or J.Tull). This was wraped with great sense of humor and a massive production with fantastic guest musicians.Jean Cohen-Solal is a name which you can find in the famous Nurse With Wound list and it fits their as best as possible." Limited stock.

Artist:	BIRGE GORGE SHIROC
Title:	Defense De
Label:	MIO RECORDS (ISRAEL)
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$30.00
Catalog #:	MIO 026/7CD

2 discs, one CD, one DVD. First ever reissue of this cult album from 1975, on the famous Nurse With Wound List! "Jean-Jacques Birge and Francis Gorge began to play together in 1970 and produced the first rock concert of their high school, at Lycée Claude Bernard in Paris. Gorge was composing the music and playing the guitar, Birge was writing the words and singing.
       Defense de was their first album, before founding Un Drame Musical Instantane, in 1976, with Bernard Vitet. Two bonus tracks were intended to be index 2 and 4 before Birge and Gorge met Shiroc a few weeks later. These two tracks were replaced with new tracks recorded with Shiroc and so they were forgotten until today.
       The four initial pieces were recorded in the family apartment of Sebastien Bernard, a free jazz producer, where his father kept a lot of beautiful instruments (a pipe organ, an electric piano, a xylophone, a cello, etc.) and a 8-track tape recorder. Antoine Duvernet, another schoolmate who was playing with Urban Sax at that time, passed by on a sunny afternoon and added the tenor sax parts. The two new pieces with Shiroc and Bucchi were recorded live in studio four months later. During the following year, Birge and Gorge played a lot of concerts as a trio with Shiroc, and sometimes as a quartet with Gilles Rollet (also on percussion). All their repertoire was recorded and it will be included on the DVD as 'June Sessions' (Over 6 hours of music). Over the years, the LP Defense de became a cult object people would buy a fortune, as well as appearing on the Nurse With Wound famous holly recordings list. So we are very pleased to have it finally available as a CD, specially with the four previously un-issued bonus tracks which were discovered recently in the Drame's archives. The band took it from this point to become Un Drame Musical Instantane. Un D.M.I (in short) who is considered to be one of the top avant-garde / experimental acts ever to emerge from France and the entire world as well.
       The audio CD will include the complete Defense De LP plus 4 bonus tracks (approx 80 minutes of music in total). The DVD will include the experimental movie La Nuit Du Phoque made by Jean-Jacques Birge and Bernard Mollerat in 1974. The movie is a mix between avant-garde French movie and experimental ambience which takes the viewer back in time to 1974. The second part of the DVD will include 'June Sessions' which are very long pieces made by the trio (or quartet at times). Total of about 7 hours of music and 40 minutes movie in a double CD & DVD set."

Artist:	MR. TOAD
Title:	Trench Art
Label:	MIO RECORDS (ISRAEL)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	MIO 028CD

"The Israeli band Mr. Toad was formed by Maor Arbitman and Shimry Mesica in 1998. The band started its way named 'Katross'. All the musicians are mostly classical trained. The lyrics written in English while as the music was characterized as British folk-rock reminding of Nick Drake , Gryphon, After Crying and Fairport Convention. The band decided to try and combine baroque reminiscence along with the original material. For that matter Dana Eizen, a baroque flute player came along. With Dana's arrival and her McDonalds like flute playing, the group established it's music as progressive rock in the early King Crimson spirit. The music material was rearranged and the band started recording it's debut album. The musical substance in the album Trench Art included along with the progressive basis classical music and jazz influences. The best references to compare the band are: Early King Crimson, Celeste, Lalo Schifrin, Gryphon, After Crying but Mr.Toad is not a clone but truly unique."

Artist:	MOSAIC
Title:	Ultimatum
Label:	MIO RECORDS (ISRAEL)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MIO 029CD

"A lost jewel in the crown of the French underground. Mosaic made this, their only album, in 1978. You'll hear similarities to Zeuhl bands, Hatfield and the North, King Crimson, National Health. The music is mostly instrumental fusion/progressive performed on acoustic and electric guitars, synths, cello, double bass, electric bass, keyboards, drums and percussion. This reissue includes their 1977 demo tape Cuvée 77 and two additional bonus tracks."

Artist:	PLATINA, THE
Title:	The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
Label:	MIO RECORDS (ISRAEL)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MIO 030CD

"A popular jazz group (think Perigeo, Dedalus, Wolfgang Dauner, ECM) who's members were Israel's biggest names in jazz, The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (1976) was The Platina's third album (recorded two years after their Newport Jazz Festival appearance). Unreleased until now, this 78-minute disk has the original mix-downs from the master tapes, live versions of the lost masters, and additional bonus tracks. Their best effort, the CD was released for a memorial concert for wind player & leader Roman Kunsman (1941-2002). Energetic, well-played, yet pastoral fusion. With their pianos (Fender Rhodes & acoustic), flute and wordless female vocals, Platina sound most like the mid-70's work of Hubert Laws on CTI. Fans of Kornet, Finnforest and Camel should like this."

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