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It is amazing that Radigue could build such formidably organic sonic edifices in her home studio with the primitive machines given to her by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePierre Henry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e: three tape recorders, a mixing board, an amplifier, two loudspeakers and a microphone. Eliane previously worked for Henry at the Studio d'Essai of the R.T.F. from 1955 to 1957, after having met \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePierre Schaeffer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e almost by chance, who invited her to learn the techniques of musique concrète. Created 10 years after her Studio d'Essai experience, the feedback works of Eliane Radigue immediately take a new direction from the explorations of musique concrète. Her adventure intuitively goes towards flux, towards contemplative stasis -- a music of continuous sounds, of apparently simple structures, which permits the revelations and expansion of rich acoustic phenomena. It is as if her musical work was in some way a martial art -- as if she meditated for 10 years before striking the first blow, with impressive precision. This is the context in which Eliane composed \"Omnht\" in 1970 for the architectonic spaces of the visual artist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTania Mouraud\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e titled \"One More Night,\" presented at the Gallery of the Rive Gauche in Paris; \"Usral\" (the title comes from a phonetic compression of ultrasounds slowed-down, in French \"ultra-sons ralentis\") is one of the first works by Eliane Radigue to be given in public as a sound environment for a sculpture by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMarc Halpern\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e in the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs at the Grand Palais of Paris in 1969; \"Stress-Osaka\" was conceived when the artist was invited to create a sonic environment for the International Fair in Osaka in 1970. 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The story of The Garbage \u0026amp; The Flowers, by some measure Wellingtons most brilliant pop band, is equal parts classic underground rocknroll and a hazy ramshackle history pockmarked with bursts of genius and stoned rehearsals. Rare is it for any band to garner so much underground acclaim while leading such a nebulous existence. A small handful of releases, compilation appearances and few live shows make for a curious stop\/start history. Tension can produce the goods and tension was what watered The Garbage \u0026amp; The Flowers. Yuri Frusin (guitar, songwriting) and Helen Johnstone (viola, vocals, now bass) met in their teens sometime in the 1980s. Naming themselves after a line in Leonard Cohens Suzanne\" and taking cues from The Velvet Underground, the band has existed in some shape or form since, with help from Paul Yates, Heath Cozens, Torben Tilly, Rachel Davies, Kristen Wineera, and Stuart Porter. When asked recently about the group, original drummer Tilly offers a particularly apt description of their sound: \"What I loved about the music we created is that it sounded like it had come from somewhere faraway, that it had traveled a lot of distance and gathered some dust and debris along the way. That said, despite its unhinged qualities we were never really a noise-band even though some strange and beautiful electromagnetic noise would make it to tape. Most of the time it was all deeply rooted in a song.\" This, of course, is one of the greatest parts of The Garbage \u0026amp; The Flowers charm. They really did seem out there, on their own, absorbed in their own world, dropping gem after gem of fractal noise-pop onto slowly corroding four-track cassettes, willing these songs into existence just long enough to let them catch breath and glide away from the speakers for a few moments, before Frusin and Johnstone would knuckle down and write yet more beautiful melodies for beautiful losers. This is a rocknroll classic which will whip the wigs off all the crystalline clowns today. 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These exclusive recordings of Bruno S music were made in Berlin in 2009 shortly before his untimely death at the age of 78. They capture perfectly his distinctive voice, accompanied by accordion and glockenspiel, in the places where he performed for many years -- the streets of Berlin, a local tavern, and his own apartment. Bruno S was a street musician and painter who first came to public attention through the two films he starred in for director Werner Herzog, The Enigma of Kasper Hauser (1974) and Stroszek (1977), a film that in some part was based on Brunos own life. He was born in 1932, likely in Berlin, to a prostitute who placed him in a mental hospital as a child, where he was subjected to Nazi experiments. Bruno would go on to spend 23 years in institutions, including jails and homeless shelters. As an adult he began to perform on the street as well as working as a forklift driver, before ultimately catching Herzogs eye. 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Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of its recording in 1966, this reissue makes one of the cornerstones of the experimental music tradition available again in its original form, replete with Keith Rowes beautiful pop art cover and the terse aphorisms by the group that served as its original liner notes. A testament to the interaction between the experimental avant-garde and the countercultural underground, the album was originally released on Elektra, recorded by Jac Holzman (the labels founder, responsible for signing The Doors, Love, and The Stooges) and produced by DNA, a group that included Pink Floyds first manager, Peter Jenner (the title of Pink Floyds _¢‚Ǩ_ìFlaming_¢‚Ǩ¬ù is a tribute to AMMs _¢‚Ǩ_ìLater During a Flaming Riviera Sunset_¢‚Ǩ¬ù). 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Using a combination of conventional instruments and unconventional methods of sound production (most famously Keith Rowes prepared tabletop guitar, but also prepared piano and transistor radio), the group performed improvised pieces often running for over two hours and ranging from extended periods of silence to terrifying cacophonies. OnAMMMusic, long tones sit next to abrasive thuds, the howl of uncontrolled feedback accompanies Cardews purposeful piano chords, radios beam in snatches of orchestral music. AMMs clearest break with jazz-based improvisation concerned the idea of individuality. Initially through an engagement with eastern philosophy and mysticism and later though a politicized communitarianism, AMM sought to develop a collective sonic identity in which individual contributions could barely be discerned. In the performances captured on AMMMusic the use of numerous auxiliary instruments and devices, including radios played by three members of the group, contribute to the sensation that the music is composed as a single monolithic object with multiple facets, rather than as an interaction between five distinct voices.\" --Francis Plagne.","brand":"Black Truffle","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":52005426375,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/R-7979956-1461715830-2220_jpeg.jpg?v=1571718284"},{"product_id":"branca-glenn-symphony-no-1-tonal-plexus","title":"BRANCA, GLENN - Symphony No. 1 (Tonal Plexus)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Recorded across two nights in 1981 at New Yorks legendary Performing Garage and originally released in 1983 on cassette, Symphony No. 1 has been remastered for vinyl and reissued for the first time as a heavyweight 180 gram 2LP set in a deluxe gatefold jacket. The limited edition pressing features additional liner notes written by Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) alongside the original notes by Jon Pareles (The New York Times) and now includes photos by Paula Court (New York Noise). The ensemble of performers on this recording are: Glenn Branca, Craig Bromberg, Dave Buk, Ann DeMarinis, Barbara Ess, Robert Harrison, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, David Rosenbloom, Richard Edson, Ned Sublette, Wharton Tiers, Gail Vachon, Fritz Van Orden, Stephen Wischerth and Margot Zvaleko.\" - ROIR.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ROIR","offers":[{"title":"Double LP","offer_id":52009615239,"sku":"18364-ROIR","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/files\/RUSLP8245LP_CU.jpg?v=1684894470"},{"product_id":"smegma-lookn-for-ya","title":"SMEGMA - Lookn for Ya","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In 1973, when Smegma (the band) was born they had only one rule: No Musicians! 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It incubated an independent music culture as well as a host of fascinating, individualistic musicians. One of the more striking units was the male-female duo Maria 023. Non played bass for them, and it was here that she first attracted attention. However, Maria 023 was short-lived, and Non would not reappear until the following year, August 1979, on stage at the legendary concert event Drive to 80s. Her unbilled performance at the event consisted of several songs for solo bass and vocals, and her combination of intensity and a distinctly female emotionality made a striking impression. In the months that followed, Non continued to play solo and she became a pivotal presence among the female rockers on the scene at the time. Finally, she shifted from solo to group performance, and formed Non Band. After several member changes, the line-up stabilized into a unique trio with Kinosuke Yamagishi on violin and clarinet and Mitsuru Tamagaki on drums. . . . In February 1982 Non Bands first album was released as a 10-inch LP on Telegraph Records, the labels fifth release. In the early Japanese indies scene, if a release sold 1000 copies it was counted as a significant success. The Non Band album went through several repressing and sold 2000 copies. . . . Just six months after the release of the album the group would grind to a halt. Members quit the band one after another, and with no possible replacements to be found, Non herself faded away from the scene. . . . [Non] invited two fabulous musicians, Keiji Haino and Tatsuya Yoshida, to Hirosaki, and performed together with them as well as solo. This marked the beginning of a new phase for her, and she played live in Tokyo and released a solo album, ie (2002). She got back in touch with Yamagishi and Tamagaki and reformed Non Band. . . . 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There is a small piece of film which separates, seemingly, Gabi's daily life and her artwork. It is quite inspiring. Understanding this can instill the same mysterious allure into your own trials and leisures.\" - Recital.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLimited Edition of 300. 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Lucier has been crafting elegant explorations of the behavior of sound in physical space since the 1960s and is perhaps best known for his 1970 piece I Am Sitting In a Room (LCD 1013CD). He has written a remarkable catalog of instrumental works that focus on phenomena produced by the interference between closely tuned pitches, often using pure electronic tones produced by oscillators in combination with single instruments. Demonstrating the restless creative drive of an artist now in his 80s, the two recent works presented here both feature the electric guitar, an instrument Lucier has just recently begun to explore. In \"Criss-Cross\", Luciers first composition for electric guitars, two guitarists using e-bows sweep slowly up and down a single semitone, beginning at opposite ends of the pitch range. The piece exemplifyies Luciers desire not to \"compose\" in the conventional sense, but rather to eliminate everything that \"distracts from the acoustical unfolding of the idea\". In this immaculately controlled performance of \"Criss-Cross\" by Oren Ambarchiand Stephen OMalley, for whom the piece was written in 2013, a seemingly simple idea creates a rich array of sonic effects -- not simply beating patterns, which gradually slow down as the two tones reach unison and accelerate as they move further apart, but also the remarkable phenomenon of sound waves spinning in elliptical patterns through space between the two guitar amps. In the comparatively lush \"Hanover\", Lucier draws inspiration from the photograph on the cover, an image of the Dartmouth Jazz Band taken in 1918 featuring Luciers father on violin. Using the instrumentation present in the photograph, Lucier creates an unearthly sound world of sliding tones from violin, alto and tenor saxophones, piano, vibraphone (bowed), and three electric guitars (which take the place of the banjos present in the photograph). Waves of slow glissandi create thick, complex beating patterns, gently punctuated by repeated single notes from the piano. The result is a piece that is simultaneously both unperturbably calm and constantly in motion. LP design by Stephen OMalley; Includes inner sleeve with a portrait of Alvin Lucier by Kris Serafin. \"Criss-Cross\" recorded at Studios Ina GRM, Paris by Francois Bonnet and mixed by Alvin Lucier. \"Hanover\" recorded in Zurich and mixed by Alvin Lucier. 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Takayanagi (guitar), Kenji Kohsei (piano, electric piano), Nobuyoshi Ino (bass), Yasuhiro Yamazaki (drums). A \"cool jazz\" recording in the Tristano tradition, All improv sax\/drums duo action. cannot sketch well is nonsense. Its the same thing in jazz. I find no value in the free jazz of a musician that doesnt swing in 4 beat and plays a dreary in-code ad lib. Avant-garde music or Free Form does not exist without a respect for the classic, and thus, it turned out to be a special album reflecting Jojos sincerity.\" - Takeshi \"Tee\" Fuji, producer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Three Blind Mice","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":13354245980223,"sku":"20664-THREE BLIND MICE","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/files\/TBMXR5018_CU.jpg?v=1697483418"},{"product_id":"ambarchi-oren-grapes-from-the-estate","title":"AMBARCHI, OREN - Grapes From The Estate","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Black Truffle make Oren Ambarchis Grapes From The Estate available once more on vinyl. Originally released on CD on Touch in 2004 (TO 061CD) and reissued on Southern Lord as a limited double-LP in 2006 during Ambarchis tenure as a member of Sunn O))), Grapes From The Estate was a landmark release for Ambarchi, seeing him expand his sonic palette beyond the clipped, bass-heavy electric guitar tones he was known for at that point. Incorporating subtle layers of strings, keyboards, percussion over a bedrock of his signature guitar tones, in retrospect this album can be seen as the beginning of a broadening and evolution in Ambarchis work that would lead to his acclaimed, densely layered epics for Editions Mego, Quixotism (EMEGO 202CD\/LP, 2014) and Hubris (EMEGO 227CD\/LP, 2016). Beginning with the shuddering pure tones of opener Corkscrew\", which looks back to previous guitar-only releases such as Suspension (TO 033.18CD, 2001), the albums next two pieces show a progressive broadening of the instrumental palette and a corresponding move away from textural abstraction and sustained tones towards more traditional notions of musicality. This reached its high point on the albums third piece, the fifteen-minute long \"Remedios The Beauty\", where guitars, both acoustic and electric, strings, piano, and bells build from a murmur to an interlocking web of repeating melodic patterns over gently swinging brushed snare and cymbals. The epic closer, \"Stars Aligned, Webs Spun\", returns you to a space populated only by the electric guitar, but unlike everything Ambarchi had produced up until this point in his career, the piece has a liquid, psychedelic edge that looks forward to the shimmering harmonics of his more recent work. As Brendan Walls wrote at the time of the original release, this is \"another outpouring of personal, intimate and enduring music from Oren Ambarchi\". Original artwork and design by Jon Wozencroft. Redesigned by Stephen OMalley. Remastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates \u0026amp; Mastering, Berlin. Gatefold sleeve.\" - Black Truffle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Truffle","offers":[{"title":"Double LP","offer_id":13354254991423,"sku":"","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/files\/BT036LP_CU.jpg?v=1691408451"},{"product_id":"black-artists-group-in-paris-aries-1974","title":"BLACK ARTISTS GROUP - In Paris, Aries 1973","description":"\"Aguirre Records present a reissue of In Paris, Aries 1973 by the Black Artists Group. \"This outstanding free jazz session was recorded in 1973 in Paris by Chicago outfit. It was Lester Bowie, trumpeter with the Art Ensemble of Chicago, who suggested that the Black Artists Group should head for Paris. In 1972, several members took his advice and flew to France for an extended stay. The following year, a concert featuring saxophonist Oliver Lake, trumpeters Baikida Carroll and Floyd LeFlore, drummer Charles Bobo Shaw and trombonist Joseph Bowie (Lester's younger brother) was recorded and subsequently issued as In Paris, Aries 1973, a limited LP on the group's own label. Since their formation in 1968, the home of the collective had been St Louis, the city where the Bowies had grown up. It was there that Lester started to play, before moving, to Chicago in 1966, where he joined the recently-established Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). His close friend Lake visited, attended AACM concerts and meetings and was inspired by their artistic vision, integrity, and organization. In June 1969, the Art Ensemble had taken their music to France, with its reputation for audiences that were open-minded and receptive to the music of innovators such as Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, and others. In Paris, Aries 1973 offers a fascinating glimpse into that phase of BAG's existence. The album is dedicated to the memory of Kada Kayan, a bassist who had hoped to make the trip from St Louis but had grown ill and died. His absence adds special poignancy to the sound of the bass when it appears on this recording, played by Carroll. In Paris, Aries 1973 reveals BAG's musical affinities with the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Both groups preserved an independently-minded approach to the notion of free jazz and a carefully filtered awareness of pan-African musical practices, while their creative interest in space, mobile structure, chance occurrences and simultaneity also suggests parallels with the concerns of leading experimental composers working at that time. These performances in Paris of Shaw's \"Something to Play On\" and Lake's \"Re-Cre-A-Tion,\" plus two collective compositions\/improvisations, display the dedication to structural fluency and sensitivity to coloration that accompanied BAG's unorthodox group dynamics and their unconventional instrumental combinations. This is not a showcase for solos, but a shape-shifting and multi-centered statement of togetherness and discovery.\"- Julian Cowley.","brand":"Aguirre","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":13729820704831,"sku":"","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/ZORN054LP_CU.jpg?v=1571718575"},{"product_id":"saito-takako-spontaneous-music","title":"SAITO, TAKAKO - Spontaneous Music","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"Takako Saito (born 1929) is a Japanese artist closely related with Fluxus. In the 1950s, she participated in the \"Creative Art Education\" movement where she met later Fluxus fellow Ay-O. In 1963, she moved to New York where she was introduced to George Maciunas and became an important member of the Fluxus movement. Much of her work revolves around everyday life and everyday things, to which she adds her unique artistic gesture through small but deliberate and carefully crafted interventions. Many of her pieces involve the participation of viewers and only become complete when the audience fills a co-designing role. A sense of playfulness is evident throughout her work, seen in many of her performances and particularly in her various \"free\" chess games. In line with her general artistic approach, Saito recorded a number of musical pieces between 1982 and 1992. Retrospectively, she called these recordings \"Spontaneous Music\" because they involved very simple actions with voice and everyday objects that happened spontaneously. Some recordings have become part of sound pieces in her exhibition \"Games\" at Emily Harvey Gallery in New York in 1990, but none of them have been released so far. A selection from the recordings is published here for the first time. This double LP includes two solo vocal pieces: \"Tarori Po Po Po\" and \"Isokono Pasokono\"; two more vocal pieces in which Saito's voice interacts with the sounds of an everyday event: \"Toro Während Des Naturreiskochens\" (Toro While Cooking Brown Rice) and \"Mit Elektrohammer\" (With Electric Hammer); and two non-vocal sound pieces: \"Kugeln\" (Balls) and \"Am Rhein Mit Hammer\" (At The Rhine With Hammer). All recordings have been carefully digitized and mastered by Dirk Specht. Housed in a full-color sleeve; includes one insert with liner notes by Saito, a poster, and four postcards all designed by Takako Saito specifically for this release and relate to the notion of the music having been created simply with one's mouth and hands. Edition of 300.\" - Edition Telemark.","brand":"Edition Telemark","offers":[{"title":"Double LP","offer_id":13926663061567,"sku":"","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/ET86401LP_CU.jpg?v=1571718579"},{"product_id":"harris-frank-maria-marquez-echoes","title":"HARRIS, FRANK \u0026 MARIA MARQUEZ - Echoes","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lqzo9islei0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\"Echoes\u003c\/i\u003e is the ethno-wave love child of collaborators Frank Harris and Maria Marquez. A collection of sublime songs dating back to '85, avant-pop flourishes are married here to the heart strings of a synthetic Amazon -- think Music From Memory's \u003ci\u003eOutro Tempo\u003c\/i\u003e (MFM 016CD\/LP, 2017) meets a tropical Sade. With much contemporary interest in South American electronic music, \u003ci\u003eEchoes\u003c\/i\u003e is a window into two musicians prescient dreamings of tradition, melody, and technology. Reveling in the embrace of Maria's Venezuelan roots amd folklore visions, combined with Frank's custom Synclavier synth station, songs such as \"Canto Del Pílon\" and \"Tonada de Ordeño\" resonate with a charged future\/primitive electricity; Maria's song-to-a-siren vocals mainline with Frank's lush sonic alchemy. Mastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy. A portion of \u003ci\u003eEchoes\u003c\/i\u003e profits will go to Venezuelan charity. 180 gram vinyl with printed deluxe sleeve; Full size graphic insert; Includes two-sided, full-size insert.\" - Strangelove Music.","brand":"Strangelove Music","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":14345651486783,"sku":"","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/SL104LP_CU.jpg?v=1571718600"},{"product_id":"marks-karen-cold-cafe","title":"MARKS, KAREN - Cold Café","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"description\"\u003e\"Almost four decades since its domestic release, Karen Marks's 1981 single \u003ci\u003eCold Café\u003c\/i\u003e has finally reaped it's deserved international credit to become one of Australia's most recognized minimal wave recordings. Efficient Space now showcases the Melbourne artist's brief but entire discography, including two previously unheard demos, all produced with experimental synthesist Ash Wednesday (The Metronomes, Modern Jazz, Thealonian Music). A rarity in the then male-dominated industry, Marks found her footing in music, first through rock journalism and then in band management. Formally of Adelaide, newly arrived synth-punks JAB(Johnny Crash, Ash Wednesday, Bodhan X) approached her for representation, subsequently contributing tracks to seminal 1978 snapshot \u003ci\u003eLethal Weapons\u003c\/i\u003e and playing the Crystal Ballroom's opening night. Wednesday and Crash would soon dissolve JAB, enlisting Mark Ferry and Sean Kelly to create Models. Still under Mark's management, Models became one of the fastest rising new bands of the punk movement, playing to full houses of dedicated and frenzied fans everywhere. Sadly, internal frictions forced Wednesday and Marks to leave after two years, with Crash following three months later. Her creative relationship with Wednesday fortified with the co-production of his 1980 machine-pop prank \"Love By Numbers\", her swooning chorus uplifting his deadpan count to 100, before the two collaborated on Marks's own recording persona. Immortalized by the icy Oz wave of Cold Café, her Astor issued 7\" also boasted the caffeinated flip \"Won't Wear It For Long\" -- a should be hit with guitar from future Icehouse member Robert Kretschmer. Fans know of one more recording -- \"You Bring These Things\", a forlorn arrangement of an otherwise unreleased Paul Kellysong, gifted to her by the revered wordsmith. The track only ever appeared on the Astor promotional LP \u003ci\u003eTerra Australis\u003c\/i\u003e (1981), sinfully alongside \"Up There Cazaly\" and Joe Dolce -- hard proof that the label grossly misunderstood her talent (Marks recalls their persistent requests to show midriff and cleavage). Locked in a dissatisfying label arrangement and at this stage unwilling to follow her peers to greener pastures overseas, she felt her only way out was to cease all further activities. At the 11th hour of preparing this retrospective, two tracks unexpectedly surfaced via two cassettes -- a paranoid demo version of her signature tune \"Cold Café\", and a long-lost fourth song \"Problem Page\". 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In 1980 he was one of the founding members of Rat At Rat R in Philadelphia. He moved to New York City’s Lower East Side in 1982. He started working in his home recording studio experimenting with tape editing, found sounds, noise, and improvisation. He combined these elements with composition and released his first LP entitled\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFever Dream\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein 1987.  Ron moved to Oakland, CA in 1989 and shortly thereafter formed The Molecules; they released a total of 6 CD’s.  He and The Molecules were introduced to the European music community at the Musique Action Festival in Nancy, France in 1993 and since then he has been a regular on the European festival and club circuit, as well as touring in Japan, Canada and the United States. After living in Geneva, Switzerland for one year, he moved back to New York City in 1999 where he formed PAK. 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