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Artist:	RECCHION, TOM
Title:	Sweetly Doing Nothing
Label:	SCHOOLMAP (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	SCHOOL 001CD

"With a 30 year practice in sonic explorations -- including record manipulation, live tape loops, free improvisation, found and invented instruments -- Tom Recchion is one of the world's most established and finest experimental artists and musicians. Based in Los Angeles, Tom Recchion has co-founded the legendary music entity LAFMS (Los Angeles Free Music Society), collaborated with David Toop, Christian Marclay, Oren Ambarchi, Keiji Haino, Max Eastley, ROVA, John Duncan, Smegma (just to name a few). Tom Recchion plays in Extended Organ with Paul McCarthy, Joe Potts, Fredrik Nilsen and Mike Kelley and occasionally writes for the British music magazine The Wire. Sweetly Doing Nothing is Tom's first solo release after the critically-acclaimed I Love My Organ (Birdman, 2004) and will further serve to enhance the artist's cult status with an unmistakably unique mixture of underwater exotica-tinged minimalism, futuristic jazz, subtlety constructed dronescapes and a vivid orchestral pop sensibility. All the tracks were composed and realized in the 2005. For the first time in his career, Tom Recchion has used a computer -- an Apple G4 Powerbook with Ableton LIVE sequencing software -- as the main compositional instrument: 'I previously avoided composing music on the laptop for reasons of lo-fi purity and the belief that the 'mistake' and the unknown produce the best art. Much to my surprise, LIVE was the perfect environment to compose in. Not only did it work as a great import tool for non-idiomatic composition but it also served my interest in loopy tonal mood music.' The CD features instrument inventor Max Eastley on several tracks."

Artist:	RADIGUE, ELIANE
Title:	CHRY-PTUS
Label:	SCHOOLMAP (ITALY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	SCHOOL 002CD

Double CD of early Radigue music -- classic Buchla synthesizer sounds from one of the greatest minimalist composer/performers ever. There are a total of 4 versions of the "CHRY-PTUS" piece here, spread over 2 discs: two of the original 1971 versions, a 2001 Radigue realization and a 2006 realization by Giuseppe Ielasi. "Originally two tapes which are to be played simultaneously, with or without synchronization, which does not affect the structure of the work, but creates changes in the game of sub-harmonics and overtones. Three variations on this piece were performed at the New York Cultural Center in 1971, with variations of amplitude and location modulation as well as synchronization. Realized on the Buchla Synthesizer at New York University. The booklet contains a text by painter Paul Jenkins, who also realized the watercolor on the front cover, written on occasion of Radigue's first concert in New York, April 6th, 1971."

Artist:	RABELAIS, AKIRA
Title:	Hollywood
Label:	SCHOOLMAP (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	SCHOOL 003CD

"The birth of Akira Rabelais' Hollywood has its roots in the composer's lifelong interest in field recordings and in the desire to create a piece of work dedicated to Los Angeles: Texas-born Rabelais has used a Tascam recorder to capture almost four hours' worth of sounds on Hollywood Boulevard, between Betty Grable's and of Rod Serling's stars. These original recordings have been lightly edited, cut and mastered into a composition that encapsulates the sounds of casual chats, drunken tourists, peddlers, passing cars, music coming from surrounding shops. An extremely dynamic and always changing soundscape dedicated to 'the pleasure of being present.' Akira Rabelais, composer and software developer based in Los Angeles, has released records on Ritornell, Orthlorng Musork and Samadhisound. He has collaborated, among others, with Björk, David Sylvian, Harold Budd and Stephan Mathieu."

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