New Releases for April 2008

Index of New Releases for April 2008

ALGA MARGHEN (ITALY)

Artist:	PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE
Title:	Alloy (Golden 1)
Label:	ALGA MARGHEN (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	ALGA 035CD

2008 repress. "The Golden Research is the name chosen for the complete documentation of previously unpublished works by Charlemagne Palestine starting from the early 1960s to the mid-late 1970s. Such a huge project will include seminal collage and electronic music, Bell Studies, New York and California Drones, Piano drones as well as more specific compositions. All the recordings will be exclusively available through Alga Marghen. Be ready to change your own opinion about minimalism and music in general? Holy1 and Holy2 were both recorded in NYC in 1967. Charlemagne Palestine was listening to a lot of ethnic world music; he was also immersed in the late night New York soundscape and absorb the spatial sound diversity and beauty that such a big city could only express very late at night? He worked also at night building up a sound, oscillator by oscillator; then add tiny increments of white noise that would gradually make the sounds thicker and thicker until they were immense sacred machines humming like gargantuan Tibetan bees. The sounds were played very very loud making all the room and objects in it resonate while outside all was quiet and sleeping. Holy1 & Holy2 were done this way. Then, in 1969, Tony Conrad asked Charlemagne Palestine to make some carillon music for his film Coming Attractions. They were seeing each other regularly when the Free Music Store of radio station WBAI asked Palestine to create a piece for an event they were preparing to broadcast live on radio. So he asked Tony, his saxophonist Bob Feldman and his then wife and soprano Deborah Glaser to collaborate on a work that he would organise around an instrument that he invented at that time called an Alumonium. Tony Conrad played an instrument that he invented, the Long String Drone, that was a long string attached to a long wooden structure and amplified. Bob played the chimes and a conch. Deborah sand and played chimes and Charlemagne sang, also played the chimes and some percussion instruments that they found lying around the hall where they played. The piece became Alloy and the sound used as all electronic background continuum, played through loudspeakers in the hall, were Holy1+2 from 1968. Digipak CD edition with folded insert and liner notes."

Artist:	PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE
Title:	In Mid-Air
Label:	ALGA MARGHEN (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	ALGA 047CD

2008 repress. "The first electronically generated sounds that Charlemagne Palestine ever heard came from the machines he encountered in ordinary daily urban life. Machines like the refrigerator electric motor, or electrical generators; but it was especially the sounds of motion (race cars, motorcycles, war planes, rocket ships) that first excited his sonic imagination as a young teenager. Then he heard the electronic music of Tod Dockstader, Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaeffer, the famous 'Podme Electronique' of Varese, Xenakis and 'Gesang der Junglinge' of Stockhausen. He immediately reacted buying a cheap reel to reel tape recorder, cutting and pasting recording tape and making collage sound experiments. Then, one day, Charlemagne Palestine experienced at an electronic music studio what electronically produced sounds waves looked and sounded like through an oscilloscope and he began studying Helmholtz's on the sensation of tone. He started dreaming of an expressive continuous evermoving, everchanging sound form; an enormous sonorous, 3-dimensional sculptural canvas in mid-air using electronically produced sounds. The first experiments were done with simple sine tone generators emitting the purest sound waves without any overtones. With access to more complex systems the sound was constructed using the sine/sawtooth/square wave oscillators in a fluid everchanging mix of adding or filtering overtones and white noise to create sonorities constantly changing timbres and weight. Five early electronic compositions including 'Sine Tone Study' (1967); 'Open Closing' (1968), created through speed alterations of 'Holy 1+2'; 'Seven Organism Study' (1968); 'Negative Sound Study' (1969) and 'Timbral for Pran Nath' (1970). Late night electronic sonorities created on the Buchlas 100 & 200 systems available at the New York University Intermedia Centre. All compositions previously unreleased. 3-folded digipak cover with original photos and liner notes written by the composer."

Artist:	BRUHIN, ANTON
Title:	Vom Goldabfischer
Label:	ALGA MARGHEN (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	ALGA 066CD

"Presents for the first time on CD the classic experimental folk recordings with the same title first issued on LP in 1969. Anton Bruhin conceived some of the most original sonic art musiks, a double of his artistic work as an outsider painter and with the help of Stefan Wittwer on electric guitar and Cristian Koradi on bass and cello, recorded this masterpiece of far out sonorities well hidden in the Swiss mountains. Anton Bruhin sings and plays jew's harp (his favorite instrument), ch-phon (an instrument he invented constructed with a PVC tube with saxophone reed), harmonica, flute, fiddle, percussion, water. This record, surely one of the most psychedelic, experimental and private to be issued in Europe in the 1960s, should be of great influence for the actual renaissance of experimental folk music. Surely it was an important source of magick for Steven Stapleton, so no surprise to see it mentioned in the mythical list of references that Nurse With Wound included in their first LP. This CD edition also includes 5 jew's harp instrumental tracks. In the late 1970s, Anton Bruhin was asked to edit a record of folk and ethnic music, documenting the use of jew's harp in Switzerland. Bruhin climbed up the mountains in order to record some of the most obscure, old jew's harp players. Those mysterious sounds were issued in 1979 on a record titled Maultrommel, Mundhermonika, Kamm. This CD includes 3 solo jew's harp tracks where Anton Bruhin plays themes from the Vom Goldabfischer LP, plus 2 massive, maximal and resonating duos with W. Gwerder, recorded in 1979 at Radio Schweiz International. Beautiful digipack sleeve with photos and liner notes, also including a folded insert reproducing lyrics, technical notes and a group of ink drawings originally created for the Vom Goldabfischer LP sleeve."

Artist:	PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE
Title:	Sharing A Sonority
Label:	ALGA MARGHEN (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	ALGA 068CD

"Alga Marghen proudly presents a new chapter in the documentation series of Charlemagne Palestine's historical works. This CD of previously unavailable recordings not only presents you Charlemagne Palestine activities in 1974, collaborating with some of most important experimental artists and composers from either the New York loft scene and Cal Arts, but also features world premiere recordings of Terry Jennings and The Fundamental D Flat Group. 'Short & Sweet' is the title of a breathtaking duo for piano and sax performed on April 24th by Charlemagne Palestine and Terry Jennings. The two composers happened to play together in very private concerts at Cal Arts, but never recorded those sessions, until a special day when Charlemagne happened to have a little tape recorder around. The recording was considered lost for more than 30 years, when finally a copy was found thanks to Tony Conrad. The piano part reminds some of the early pieces by Charlemagne Palestine titled 'Piano Drones' (as the one pre-dating of a couple of years this duo and presented on the Continuous Sound Forms CD issued on Alga Marghen. The liner notes of the same CD mention this duo with Terry Jennings at the time considered lost). Terry Jennings' soprano sax is very elaborated and decorative. Around 1967, Charlemagne was experimenting mainly with voice and electronics. He also occasionally recorded piano and sax improvisations with his friend Bob Feldman. This CD featured a very special duo by Palestine and Feldman playing electronics and flute. The two artists met in 1961 when Bob Feldman worked in a jazz record shop in the Times Square subway station. Palestine didn't know much about jazz and Feldman guided him through the new progressive jazz styles of the times. Later at the Intermedia Center of NYU where they had a Buchla synthesizer, Charlemagne and Bob Feldman experimented between jazz raga and electronics. Very little was recorded. This is one rare duet that dates probably from around 1967. The last track on this CD is the first 30 minutes of a recording from April 22, 1974 by The Fundamental D Flat Group performing in Db. During one trip back to NYC from Cal Arts, Charlemagne Palestine was invited by Tony Conrad (together with Rhys Chatham) to Albright College in New Jersey for a Sunday afternoon concert. That was the first and last time The Fundamental D Flat Group played in public (Tony Conrad: violin, horn, string drone; Rhys Chatham: flute, organ, string drone; Charlemagne Palestine: voice, pipes, snifter). Although the piece lasted all afternoon, the first 30 minutes were the only portion recorded during the performance. The Fundamental D Flat Group invite you to listen and meditate in the mode of Db. To hear this is to enter the deepest realm of knowledge of the sound current. The ear, the understanding, and the core of the spirit resonate to the mode of the single tone and its harmonic family. You read, and hear, and feel the empathy of human spirit. This CD is housed in a beautiful digipack with a full color sleeve with photos and liner notes. The edition presents some of the best recordings ever issued by Charlemagne Palestine, a highlight in the Alga Marghen catalog and a unique chance to listen to the core of Charlemagne Palestine."

Artist:	PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE
Title:	Voice Studies
Label:	ALGA MARGHEN (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	ALGA 072LP

"The VocSon series presents on limited edition LPs the most advanced international vocal experiments and is mainly dedicated to the documentation of sound poetry. This series includes now the new LP record by Charlemagne Palestine titled Voice Studies. Charlemagne Palestine's introduction to music or sound was first with his own voice. He began at four years old to sing versions of popular songs and operas in his own way. Later on, a director of a Jewish sacred music choir auditioned him to sing with them, Charlemagne was seven years old at the time and for the next seven years, he sang all over the East Coast and the U.S. as a member of a choir that sang with many of the greatest European Chazans (Jewish Sacred Singers) who had fled Europe during the rise of anti-Semitism and resettled in America. From them he learned to sing in a long chanting style with his own natural voice. At the same time he met Pran Nath, the master of Kirana singing and studied a short time with him as well as Javanese singing with Ki Wasito di Puro at Cal Arts. Over the years, Charlemagne Palestine has performed and recorded vocal works as an important part of his output as a sonic artist. This LP includes the very early 'Surrealistic Studies,' recorded in Brooklyn in the beginning of the 1960s. Using a Webcor reel-to-reel tape recorder and discovering a technique of shouting into the microphone and immediately pulling it out, creating an interior echo chamber where the sound would turn around on itself, changing and distorting. No other electronic sound manipulation techniques were used. 'Voice + Piano Study I & II' are short and beautiful piano improvisation with tape superimposition of accelerated voice pieces. Recorded at Cal Arts on September 29th, 1971. 'Voice Study' was recorded in Manhattan in the mid-1960s. In this study Charlemagne sings in a falsetto duet with himself on two separate tracks. Sung in a resonant space reminiscent of a synagogue in the falsetto voice that he began to develop from Jewish male sacred chant falsettos. He searches for intervals that resonate together and respond like electronic sound wave oscillators played against each other. Finally, there is the fantastic 6-minute 'Beauty Chord + Voice' with Charlemagne playing piano and singing. Edition limited to 385 copies."

ALPHABET CITY (UK)

ANAGRAM RECORDS (UK)

Artist:	VA
Title:	Good Vibrations - The Punk Singles Collection
Label:	ANAGRAM RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	CDPUNK 036CD

"25 tracks showcasing the very best of of the legendary late '70s Northern Ireland label Good Vibrations. This important release features contributions from quintessential bands such as Rudi, the Undertones, the Outcasts, Protex, the Moondogs and the Bankrobbers (featuring Joby Fox who of course went on to join Energy Orchard with another legend -- Bap Kennedy). Also includes previously unreleased cuts by Shock Treatment and the Androids. This glorious package ends with the man himself: the debut 45 from label owner/founder Terri Hooley, backed up by Rudi and together they were Terri and The Terrors!" Artists include: Rudi, Victim, The Outcasts, The Undertones, X Dreamysts, Protex, The Idiots, Spider, Ruefrex, The Tearjerkers, The Moondogs, The Shapes, The Bankrobbers, The Bears, The Jets, Shock Treatment, The Lids, The Androids, Terri & The Terrors.

Artist:	EATER
Title:	The Album
Label:	ANAGRAM RECORDS (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	CDPUNK 143CD

"Deluxe 2CD 30th anniversary reissue of the one and only studio album by '77 punk stalwarts, Eater, voted into Q magazine's '100 Best Punk Albums Of All Time.' Includes all of their debut LP The Album plus a second disc The Singles Plus that features all of the band's ultra-rare and collectable singles plus tracks from the compilations Live At The Roxy and The Label Sofa, essentially all of the band's original recordings! 'Thinking Of The USA' was voted into Mojo magazine's Top 100 punk singles, while 'Outside View' featured in Record Collector's punk top 30. Completely remastered by Tim Turan, this revamp comes with sleevenotes by No More Heroes author Alex Ogg, which have been overseen by vocalist Andy Blade. Booklet contains original LP artwork, lyrics to all the songs plus pictures of all the relevant singles sleeves."

APNEA (SPAIN)

Artist:	TADEO
Title:	Cosmos Remixes
Label:	APNEA (SPAIN)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	APNEA 020EP

"Substance and Cassy are the chosen ones to remix one of our best records so far, Cosmos by Tadeo. The man behind Scion Versions, that wonderful new label run by Ren� L�we aka Vainqueur and Substance himself, has gone as far as possible with the rework of 'Reflection Nebula 056n,' creating a complete Pandora's box where different moods arise, from deep techno to even trance, all linked with absolute mastery. Panorama resident DJ Cassy has a special fixation with groove -- an obsessive interest that we share with her. Cassy's 'IO' remix builds on a constant rhythm that merges a vocal sampler with hypnotic beats & blips -- a very special journey of over 10 minutes."

APPARILLO (GERMANY)

Artist:	LOPAZZ
Title:	24 Hours EP
Label:	APPARILLO (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	APPA 001EP

"This unprepossessed attitude to electronic music provoke Jochen Trappe and Daniel Girresser last year to start their own label. Both known for their releases on Connaisseur, Meerestief and 9 Volt, started Apparillo Music as a platform for artists who do not want be limitated to certain music styles. Stefan Eichinger, aka Lopazz, kicks off with a very huge production. Armed with microphone, vocoder, analogue synthlines and pumping beats he ties up to his outstanding releases on Get Physical Music and Output Records."

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Artist:	BUCCI, PIER
Title:	Hay Consuelo
Label:	ALPHABET CITY (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	ALPHA 072EP