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Each unique, thematically pointed multimedia performance narrative features frontman de Nieves inhabiting new personae in a sculptural actionist mode, brandishing oversized text-emblazoned props as if they were picket signs before their eventual destruction as Hairbone's near-opera burlesque freak shows unfurl. Obliquely political, theirs is a protest music without didacticism. Despite Hairbone's prolific, obsessively-documented life as a performance art group, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEarth To Momma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the band's first studio LP, distilling their sprawling live shows into 12 distinct pieces of lyrical, art-damaged rock and pop music. 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With tongue set firmly in cheek across Stead's ode to Chateau Diana bodega \"wine product\" and de Nieves' simulated \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eKim Gordon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e sighting, Hairbone maintain an irreverent authenticity in an era when the mere notion has become a barren field. With cover art by Jessie Stead, the record also features guest appearances from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eMudboy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eLucy Jean Powers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eSergei Tcherepnin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eYu Yamaguchi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. 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The album swung with influences from across the African diaspora and set the stage for a cult, but influential following. Hermes designer Christophe Lemaire picked tracks from Karl Hector and The Malcouns as amongst his favorites in the Now-Again catalog, and included them on his \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhere Are You From\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e anthology. Festival promoters intrigued by the possibility of resurrecting the careers of once forgotten African mavericks -- from Ghana's Ebo Taylor to the progenitors of Zambia's Zamrock scene -- brought Hector and crew across Europe playing festivals for ecstatic fans. 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Mixing Baroque, free-jazz, and world music, the unique album of the Baroque Jazz Trio (which is in fact 3\/5 of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eBach Modern Quintet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) is a difficult-to-label sound object which is far from being typical of the psychedelic sounds associated with the early 1970s. Because, although fusion with Indian music (amongst others) and jazz (but also pop) was popular at the time, rarely had all this been mixed together with Baroque music. Even mentioning \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacques Loussier\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e adapting Bach does not come close, as here, all barriers are broken down, with an audacity which begins with the highly original and extraordinary use of the harpsichord, an instrument which it is unusual to hear in such a context, even though indicated by the \"baroque\" in the title. 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But no, none of these references really makes sense, as they pale in comparison to the wild adventures of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorges Rabol\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, probably closer to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eCall Cobbs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlbert Ayler\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, or, better still, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eOdile Bailleux\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in another remarkable French group, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eArmonicord\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, than anyone else. With George, the rhythm section is no less outstanding: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean-Charles Capon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, who, two years later would record the magnificent \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eL'Univers-Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (FFL 046LP) on the same label, is a flying cello virtuoso, while \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilippe Combelle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a great drummer rarely heard in such experimental circumstances, plays daringly mixed percussion. Also noteworthy is the presence of flutist, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichel Roques\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e on one track, who was also behind a Saravah album, the splendid \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eChorus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(FFL 048LP). 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The exceedingly rare The First Recordings, Vol. 2 was also issued on Bird Notes -- at least in test pressings with photos of Ayler glued to the cover -- comprised of three extended meditations of discord, namely blown mutations of showtunes \"Softly As In A Morning Sunrise\" and \"I Didn't Know What Time It Was\", along with a growling cut of Count Basie's \"Good Bait\".\" - Alternative Fox.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alternative Fox","offers":[{"title":"Double LP","offer_id":15664306913343,"sku":"","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/FOX008LP_CU.jpg?v=1571718647"},{"product_id":"christopher-whatcha-gonna-do","title":"CHRISTOPHER - What'cha Gonna Do?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wA0TPRm3Evw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOfficial authorized reissue of the legendary psychedelic LP by Christopher from South Carolina. One of the absolute best American psychedelic LPs of the 1960's, and one of the rarest -- a copy went for close to $4,000 the last time an original copy sold online, and nearly double that changed hands off-line for an original! Every song is of the highest quality -- they're all self-penned too -- with an accessible sound the suggests that Christopher could have had more widespread success had they ever made it out of their native South Carolina. The What'cha Gonna Do? album was pressed in 1969 to use as a demo (which is why as few as 100 copies exist), but you'd never know it based on the overall quality of the production. When you've got blistering acid rock mixed with acid blues, with a couple of thoughtful melodic songs for good measure, you've got a recipe for something special. Christopher recorded What'cha Gonna Do? at Arthur Smith Studios in Charlotte, NC, a state of the art 8-track studio. 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And excellent use of rhythm boxes, sound generators and strange vocals, reminiscent of 23 Skidoo's \"7 Songs\", early Muslimgauze or O Yuki Conjugate's sound. Remastered by former member Bernard Filipetti. Edition of 300.\" - B.F.E. 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His original compositions vacillate between just intonation, silent music, noise, and instrumental electronic, often asking for elaborate amplification, and exist in the abysses of rock culture, refusing to accept stylistic boundaries. In his distinct style of amplified saxophone playing, Krieger processes refined acoustic and quasi-electronic sounds, using his saxophone more as an analog sampler than a traditional finger-virtuoso instrument. By amplifying his instrument in various ways, he gets down to the grains of the sounds, changing their identities and structures from within. Ulrich Krieger: electric tenor saxophone, saxophone-controlled feedback, pedals, delays, ¼-inch jack cable, vocals; Joshua Carro: drums (CD 1 tracks 3 and 5). In his liner notes, Ivar Bjørnson of Enslaved writes, \"When Ulrich introduced his 'acoustic electronic' concept, there was another door blown wide open, and another glorious field of pure expression revealed. 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Since the late 1990s, the hammer dulcimer has been the primary vehicle for his music.\n\nFrom the liner notes by Alan Licht: \"What's striking about Dan Joseph's music is that it's drone oriented but also mindful of timekeeping. This would seem to be a paradox: most drone-based music and\/or classic minimalism often reaches for a feeling of cosmic timelessness, or a sense of perpetuity via repetition, but the pieces on these discs all demarcate time in some way . . . Duration, another minimalist conceptual hallmark, is a means to an end rather than an end in itself for Joseph: the combination of simple harmonic material and extended lengths of time allows for more activity that is readily perceived, rather than to set up a near-static hypnotic state that is only occasionally jostled by a subtle shift in the music . . . In the computer age, digital memory and storage capacity are crucial technological attributes and an everyday concern; Dan's electroacoustic pieces set up their own kind of memory banks for both the performer and the listener. The musical information is being supplied to and retrieved from both electronic and mental repository systems. This is post-minimal music where repetition is a mnemonic device, rather than a tool for trance or head-clearing.\"\" - XI Records.","brand":"XI","offers":[{"title":"Double CD","offer_id":31313491361855,"sku":"","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/XI138CD_CU.jpg?v=1574436463"},{"product_id":"forward-fast-same-same-xi-records-cd","title":"FORWARD, FAST - Same Same","description":"1995 release. \"Fast Forward is a composer and performer best known for his compositions for percussion, and music theater works for diverse instrumentation. 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The works are: \"Room Piece Twenty-Four\"; \"Noema\"; \"Steiner Suite\"; \"Unintending\"; \"Scene.\" Sound Art, algorithmic composition, chance operations, multi-channel sound systems, immersive installations, computer music; these terms all intersect at a point defined by Michael J. Schumacher's Five Sound Installations. Schumacher is a composer, curator (he runs Diapason, NY's only \"sound art\" gallery), and performer. His output at the time of this release includes five solo CDs, but these were by necessity adaptations of works designed for more or less \"permanent\" listening situations, in which auditors could explore various modes of listening within sound environments. These works were composed with installation settings in mind -- they had no \"beginning-middle-end\" (even out of order) in the traditional sense. For the CD releases, the pieces needed to be manipulated in various ways to accommodate the medium. A better way needed to be found. Schumacher has always been interested in creating algorithmic works that extend the boundaries of the genre, investing them with hundreds of constituent parts that form sonic mobiles in space and time. Now he presents the ambitious (and technically savvy) listener with a means to experience Schumacher's installations in the home, through up to eight separate speaker channels and for as long as the computer keeps running. No question, this is not an iPod experience! For some, just understanding the reason for such a project will be difficult. But the composer and XI believe that the time is apt for challenging a complacent public and industry. This release, more than anything else, is a challenge to break boundaries in both content and distribution, a call for a new way of thinking about sound in the home, which is more than ever the predominant place for listening. NOTE: These compositions must be installed on a computer to be heard. Instructions are enclosed. 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When she started making the Long String Instrument, she saw it as \"sculpture as music\"; now she has come full circle in conceiving \"music as sculpture.\" For the most part, the music in Body Music relies harmonically on the diatonic scale. Because of the prominence of overtone content, more complex harmony is suggested. Through her studies of extended harmony, Fullman has come to realize that harmony is \"dimensional.\"\" - XI Records.","brand":"XI","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":31313491623999,"sku":"","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/XI109CD_CU.jpg?v=1574436468"},{"product_id":"radigue-eliane-trilogie-de-la-mort-xi-records-3cd","title":"RADIGUE, ELIANE - Trilogie de la Mort","description":"2019 restock; 1998 release. \"Voted one of 1998's top 15 Records of the Year in Modern Composition by the writers and critics of The Wire, Trilogie de la Mort is a work in three parts for anolog Arp synthesizer. The first third of the work, Kyema, is inspired by The Tibetan Book of the Dead and invokes the six intermediate states that constitute the existential continuity of the being. Kailasha, the second chapter, is structured on an imaginary pilgrimage around Mt. 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Gagaku unfolds with ceremonious slowness. Time seems to be suspended before the taiko drum sounds its next musical heartbeat. But the drum does sound, and when it does, it divides the music that has just passed and that which is to follow, all part of an elegant musical order. The elegance and order of Vierk's music, like Gagaku, touch the heart of the person who listens, who takes time, who is open. On Simoom we hear three of Vierk's works for \"big instruments,\" that is, multiples of the same instrument, treated more like single entities than like groups of voices: \"Go Guitars\" for five electric guitars tuned microtonally around \"E,\" \"Cirrus\" for six trumpets, and \"Simoom\" for eight cellos. All three works employ what Vierk describes as \"Exponential Structure,\" which utilizes exponential relationships to control time, pitch movement and rates of change. Within this system, Vierk creates very directional compositions possessing high energy. As in Gagaku, they unfold slowly. Although clearly building on the work of minimalist composers, Vierk's music is much more concerned with constant development and climax. This disc offers virtuoso performances by David Seidel, electric guitar; Gary Trosclair, trumpet; and Theodore Mook, cello.\" - XI Records.","brand":"XI","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":31313491722303,"sku":"","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/XI102CD_CU.jpg?v=1574436470"},{"product_id":"waller-michael-vincent-the-south-shore-xi-records-2cd","title":"WALLER, MICHAEL VINCENT - The South Shore","description":"\"XI Records is pleased to announce the debut full-length release from Michael Vincent Waller, The South Shore, featuring chamber works from 2011 through 2014, with album art photography by Phill Niblock. Waller has collaborated with numerous musicians and ensembles to bring this album to life. This kind of listening is for the brain to relax and enjoy, for the soul and emotions together as art for the universal. Reveling in subtext and subtlety, a symbiotic exploration of the history and future of musical life. \"Blue\" Gene Tyranny, in his liner notes to The South Shore, writes, \"The music of Michael Vincent Waller offers a welcome and rare alternative to the tempo and noise of modern life. These touching miniatures employ the pure modal scales first described by ancient Greek philosophers and sustained through millennia in the folk song of many lands, in religious chant, and in the modern era by the works of composers such as Erik Satie (especially his monodrama Socrate) and Terry Riley (especially A Rainbow in Curved Air). Waller's music convinces us by its honest emotion, which avoids any artifice that would dramatically pull us toward some effect. Although it is the first time we have heard these works, we seem to immediately understand the intimate feeling they refer to.\" Experimental Intermedia Foundation, founded in 1968 by Elaine Summers, has been presenting performances since 1973, produced and curated by composer Phill Niblock. As an offshoot of Experimental Intermedia, XI Records was formed in 1990, with the main purpose of presenting a series of compact discs highlighting the music of contemporary artist-composers whose works are original and galvanizing. The intent of XI is to extend the experience of these engaging and pioneering works beyond the performance space into the home. XI's catalog includes Phill Niblock, Éliane Radigue, Tom Johnson, David Behrman, David First, David Watson, Lois V. 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Charlie Morrow, for an artist who has been making music for over 50 years, has been vastly underrepresented on recordings. This three-CD retrospective set attempts to rectify that situation to some degree. The 15 works on these discs span the years from 1957-2007 and include: Morrow's first major work, Very Slow Gabrieli, a super slow motion performance of G. Gabrieli's Sonata Pian e Forte for double brass ensemble; Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves, a beautiful polychromatic, almost tactile collage where chattering sparrows and mellifluous songbirds join the measured undulations of devotional voices. Brass rings out over cradles of bells, doves coo, gulls mew and the wash of the tide ushers in the late medieval intricacies of dulcimer, recorder and viol. You can experience the sound made by herds of instruments through the two instances of Wave Music included in this set. 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After seeing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee perform in 1961, Cooper caught the blues bug and began to play the harmonica and formed The Blues Committee, supporting John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson, Alexis Korner, and Long John Baldry, while Cooper was also performing solo. Acquiring a lap steel guitar in 1963, he studied Blind Boy Fuller's work and in 1965, teamed with Dave Hall to support Bert Jansch, Al Stewart, and others; after releasing work on the Kennet, Sydisc, and Matchbox labels, Cooper soon began incorporating country blues aspects into his work, drawing from Son House and Mississippi Fred McDowell, as well as non-blues artists such as David Bowie, John Martyn, Roy Harper, and Dave Van Ronk. 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It's late in the evening and they have invited fellow Smegmateer David Morgan along with synthesized sculptors Brenna Murphy \u0026amp; Birch Cooper of MSHR, and psychedelic shape-shifters Corum \u0026amp; Suzanne Stone of Million Brazilians.  All have arrived to share conversation in a new potent brew of Sonic Fermentations about to be set into motion. A distant brass vibrates to initiate 'Batch 1' whetting the mug as we gaze through low glow haze of undulating electricity and nervous clatter. We are directly dipped into a volatile vat of saxophone trills, whistling lasers, conch moans, tense string vibrato, rattle snake shake, knife sharpening, gong burst, eastern flute, percussive clang, ratchet stir, guided all by the sway of upright bass to soothe the highly expressive ooze. 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Following directly from Cam's cultishly-acclaimed mini-LP Time Exercises (RAVE 022LP, 2018), which was surprisingly deployed in Richie Hawtin's \"CLOSE COMBINED - LIVE\" mix and hailed as \"Holy F#ck-What is This?!?\" by Brainwashed, his new album applies rich polychromatic color to his signature rhythmic constructions with a greatly heightened emotive traction and broader appeal while only going deeper on his radical ideas about the fundamentals of sound and composition. Using a computer-controlled modular synth, Cam takes the simple idea of layering pitches in multiple tempi to Nth degrees, resulting in a sensational and warped sense of temporality and gravity-defying physics. Effectively placing pitch on a scale in a similar way to Conlon Nancarrow's player-piano programming or even Ligeti's famous metronome experiment, Cam explores solutions to the problem of grid-locked linearity, or at least perceptions of it, by effectively ripping the rug from under electronic music convention to make his music appear as though in perpetual freefall, or a process of omnidirectional contraction\/expansion that never quite resolves - always the same, ever different. In Mechanosphere listeners effectively navigate through the music by a loose means of pattern recognition, picking out accentuated kicks and hits that pierce thru Cam's incredibly dense swells of endless metallic tone. But where his Time Exercises LP was unreservedly abstract and emotive in an alien sense, his follow-up practically sounds as though aliens have developed a form of 3D midi folk-jazz or court music for bacchanals and spiritual reasons. From the vertiginous scale of \"Ascension\", thru the jaw-dropping hyper stepper \"Slip\", to the controlled chaos of \"Reflect, Deflect\", and ultimately the deeply solemn yet discordantly lush finale of shearing metallic pitches in \"Solitude\", Cam offers an often shocking and ever fascinating grasp of electronic music's potential to relate hard-to-communicate but intuitively felt ideas to the body and emotions. It's a sober but incredibly wondrous sound, and only confirms that Cam's seismic stylistic transition this decade from preeminent, post-Takoma 12-string guitar player to visionary synthesist was certainly worthwhile. RIYL Autechre, Xenakis, Ligeti, Rashad Becker. Art and layout by Tom Kilburn and Cam Deas; Spot gloss digipak. 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The first volume flows from the eerie and levitating \"Entrance\" to the quirky \"Esplanade (Live)\", the gentle and reassuring \"Flius\", and the measured and ravishing escalation of \"Mensis.\" On the second volume, the nanoscopic neoclassical lullaby \"Les Trois Grâces\" brings attention to the importance of small details, \"Pulse at Soothe\" starts with the minimalism of a Satoshi Ashikawa piece and slowly drifts into mystical landscapes and cavernous echoes, \"Entomology\" and its melancholic artificial forest evokes a Twin Peaks mirage, and \"Atrium\" literally feels like a floating visit of a gigantic open space structure.  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