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  • Joanna Russ – How To Suppress Women’s Writing
    Joanna Russ – How To Suppress Women’s Writing
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    Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle–and not so [...]

  • The Serpent and the Rainbow
    The Serpent and the Rainbow
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    A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist.In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to [...]

  • Geklaper – Penitent Judge
    Geklaper – Penitent Judge
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    A rich, introspective journey towards the deep zone of repentance. The newest effort by Russian artist Geklaper is a broken, tape flutter-stained affair, retaining some moments of hopefulness but [...]

  • Doris Dana – Sentimental Atmospheres
    Doris Dana – Sentimental Atmospheres
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    Thought forms arranged on a timeline swept along by the dusty cacophony of emotional debris. Radiating vibrations trapped in memory vessels, existing in our constantly rotating loop of life. [...]

  • Diatom Deli – Time~Lapse Nature
    Diatom Deli – Time~Lapse Nature
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    Diatom Deli’s Time~Lapse Nature is a channel between cerebral ascension and somatic memory, tethered to the micro-present though humbled by a beyond. Dilated by celestial fluctuations and dynamic [...]

  • V/A – INASOUND: retour aux sources de l’électro avec l’INA GRM
    V/A – INASOUND: retour aux sources de l’électro avec l’INA GRM
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    What our staff has to say: “Found this gem hidden inside the modern comp section. Ranging from sparse musique concrete to early synth compositions, this comp is a fascinating document […]

  • Laurie Spiegel – The Expanding Universe
    Laurie Spiegel – The Expanding Universe
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    What our staff has to say: “I remember when this first got reissued on unseen worlds a few years ago. Its blew me away and began a 4 month tear […]

  • Marv – Basse Danse CS
    Marv – Basse Danse CS
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    What our staff has to say: “Magical little tape here, hits on all cylinders. Label hails from Boone NC, artists from Durham NC. Places both family and friends are located […]

  • The Tibetan Book Of The Dead
    The Tibetan Book Of The Dead
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    The most accessible and informative version of the Buddhist classic available in English, with instruction in meditation, illuminating commentary, and guidance in the practical use of the prayers [...]

  • Marv – Marv
    Marv – Marv
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    Marv is a keyboard duo based in Carrboro, NC. This effort is their debut, self-titled, LP, recorded in February and July 2019 in Campobello, SC and Carrboro respectively. Each track […]

  • Golden Braid – Golden Braid
    Golden Braid – Golden Braid
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    Ambient tone loop collage by Mike Adams (Crossroads of America, Burnt Toast Vinyl, Sounds Familyre, Joyful Noise)… special one-time 300 copy pressing LP that can be played forwards and [...]

  • Francesco Messina – Reflex
    Francesco Messina – Reflex
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    Francesco Messina is perhaps best known for his collaboration with fellow composer Raul Lovisoni on the album Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo, originally released on seminal Italian label Cramps [...]

  • Clarence Barlow – Talkmaster’s Choice-Three Versions
    Clarence Barlow – Talkmaster’s Choice-Three Versions
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    Previously unreleased recordings from the early ’90s featuring voice recordings manipulated by an Atari computer from the legendary Computer Music pioneer

  • Nikolaus Gerszewski – ART CD
    Nikolaus Gerszewski – ART CD
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    Feldmanesque string quartet in 10 parts from contemporary German composer.

  • Kieran Daly – Total Orderings For FLEA
    Kieran Daly – Total Orderings For FLEA
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    New release from singular musician who has consistently pushed the limit musical form.

  • Indiegubben – Morka Moln
    Indiegubben – Morka Moln
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    He doesn’t tell me too much about how he makes the music, it just happens. Wise decision making from a seasoned listener and (only recent) sound creator. Magnus Jensen is […]

  • Night Foundation – Reflection
    Night Foundation – Reflection
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    Reflection first began as a series of three recordings I made for my close friend and colleague, the performance artist Ana Mendez. The purpose of the music was to accompany […]

  • Roedelius – Jardin Au Fou (Japanese Pressing)
    Roedelius – Jardin Au Fou (Japanese Pressing)
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    Egg – GP-710 1979 Japanese Pressing Media Condition – Strong VG+ with only a few stray light marks Sleeve Condition – VG+ with light wear/discoloration

  • Adriano Spatola – Ionisation
    Adriano Spatola – Ionisation
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    Ionisation is the first LP by Italian poet Adriano Spatola. Born in Yugoslavia in 1941, by the age of 23 he became a major force in the Italian Avant-Garde. “Towards […]

  • Loren Rush – Dans le Sable
    Loren Rush – Dans le Sable
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    Dans le Sable is the first new album in over 40 years by composer, pianist, and digital audio pioneer Loren Rush (b. 1935). A surreal opera scene. A narrator dwells […]

  • Mary Mazzacane – The Art of Mary Mazzacane
    Mary Mazzacane – The Art of Mary Mazzacane
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    Her son Loren Connors writes… “These recordings, no matter how rough the sound quality, capture the essence of the art of bel canto soprano Mary Mazzacane. Born in an Italian […]

  • Sean McCann – Puck
    Sean McCann – Puck
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    Puck is here. Music for Public Ensemble, my previous album, was released three years ago. And three years before that was Private Ensemble. Puck is both public and private in […]

  • Geoffrey Hendricks – Stones
    Geoffrey Hendricks – Stones
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    The first audio document ever published by Fluxus artist Geoffrey Hendricks (1931-2018). There is a romanticism found in Geoffrey, that, in my mind, sets his work aside from his Fluxfriends. […]

  • Eric Anderson – The Crying Space
    Eric Anderson – The Crying Space
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    This double CD is comprised of two sound pieces by the Fluxus artist Eric Andersen (b. Denmark, 1940). Fragile narrations played over a streaming assemblage of tragic classical music. The […]

  • Molly McCann – Das Jahr
    Molly McCann – Das Jahr
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    The first published recordings of Molly McCann, my older sister, playing Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s Das Jahr (“The Year”, 1841); a groundbreaking cycle of 12 thematically interlocked character [...]

  • Charlie Morrow – Chanter
    Charlie Morrow – Chanter
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    To celebrate composer Charlie Morrow’s 80th birthday, Recital presents 80 minutes of voice-based recordings in his new album, Chanter. Curated by Sean McCann, this collection spans over 60+ years [...]

  • On Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures: (And Other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc)
    On Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures: (And Other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc)
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    Reviled, rioted over and banned as pornographic even as it was recognized by many as an unprecedented visionary masterpiece, Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures is one of the most important and [...]

  • Arthur Russell – Instrumentals
    Arthur Russell – Instrumentals
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    What our staff has to say: “Arthur Russell’s mid 70’s composition period with a cast of New York staples. Good vibes.” – Jon 2022 repress. “Remastered double LP with 12 [...]

  • V/A – La Musica Futurista Nell’italia E Nel Mondo
    V/A – La Musica Futurista Nell’italia E Nel Mondo
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    The Manifesto Of Futurism by Italian poet Filippo Marinetti, published in 1909, still has an intoxicating force. “We want to glorify war . . . to destroy museums, libraries, and […]

  • Karlheinz Stockhausen – Beton-Studie / Zeitmass für fünf Holzbläser / Klavierstuck XI
    Karlheinz Stockhausen – Beton-Studie / Zeitmass für fünf Holzbläser / Klavierstuck XI
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    Modern Silence presents Beton-Studie / Zeitmass für fünf Holzbläser / Klavierstuck XI compositions written by Karlheinz Stockhausen. A collection of some of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s earliest [...]

  • Edgar Varese – Music Of Edgar Varese Vol. 2
    Edgar Varese – Music Of Edgar Varese Vol. 2
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    “Arcana” – Requires an orchestra of 120 musicians: 70 strings, 8 percussionists playing some 40 percussion instruments, 8 horns, 5 each of the standard woodwinds, 5 trumpets, 3 [...]

  • Signal Decay – Derelict (Pump Song) CS
    Signal Decay – Derelict (Pump Song) CS
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    Label Description: Signal Decay – Derelict (Pump Song) Here: Cassette plus 1 Digi Track (Excerpt) Industrial Coast Big Cartel: Cassette Only An ill-at-ease musing on home and place. [...]

  • Morton Feldman – Give My Regards To Eighth Street
    Morton Feldman – Give My Regards To Eighth Street
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    Morton Feldman wrote as he composed music, carefully placing one element after another, producing some of the avant-garde’s most lucid considerations of what it means to make music Morton [...]

  • John O’Neill – Cine/Hollywood Tow
    John O’Neill – Cine/Hollywood Tow
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    After years of receiving many of his excellent recordings in my inbox, I’m excited to finally be involved in the materialization of the first proper release by Los Angeles-based artist […]

  • Walter Marchetti – In Terram Utopicam
    Walter Marchetti – In Terram Utopicam
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    What our staff has to say: “Noise heads should rep this one harder for the straight up harsh track from 1973, ‘Osmanthus Fragrans’ (Home-made electric music).’ Side A is pretty […]

  • Walter Marchetti – La Caccia
    Walter Marchetti – La Caccia
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    LP version, previously released in the Il Divano Dell’orecchio 5LP box. Includes the same materials as the original 1974 Cramps LP titled La Caccia (1965). The LP sleeve reproduces the […]

  • Anasisana – Ever So Beautiful
    Anasisana – Ever So Beautiful
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    Tunisian artist Anasisana makes his Noir Age debut with “Ever So Beautiful,” a lush ouvre of existential synth pads and droning embers coalescing in five tracks of electronic [...]

  • Zhe Pechorin – Signs
    Zhe Pechorin – Signs
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    Belgrade-based artist Zhe Pechorin makes her Noir Age debut with “Signs,” a seasoned burrow below the soils of contemplation, suspended synths swaying with the ether, against a [...]

  • Terry Fox – Audio Works
    Terry Fox – Audio Works
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    Song Cycle Records present a reissue of Terry Fox‘s Audio Works, originally released in 1983. Terry Fox (1943, Seattle-2008, Cologne) was one of the leading pioneers of American body art [...]

  • taupe set xl – shadow of venus
    taupe set xl – shadow of venus
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    What our staff has to say: “There is always a teetering feeling I have with ambient music. I’m on the verge of standing in place as the piece moves past […]

  • Distant Tongues – Ongue Ditas
    Distant Tongues – Ongue Ditas
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    A recent long-distance virtual studio collaboration between close colleague and fellow traveller Raphael Alvarez of Guatemala/Cuba via North Carolina, and Richard Vergez. Ongue Ditas is a melding [...]

  • History Of Leather – Courte Oreilles To 33rd CS
    History Of Leather – Courte Oreilles To 33rd CS
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    Brute rust belt concréte compositions of full spectrum, delicate yet hard-edged crumbling narratives from Chicago’s south side. released September 3, 2021 Recorded by P.M. and R.F. at the [...]

  • Cut Out – Interlude With Fun Machine
    Cut Out – Interlude With Fun Machine
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    Interlude with Fun Machine relies on textures, patterns, found sounds, presets, rhythm boxes, inversion of background and foreground elements, and the very deadpan sense of humor of Steve Fisk [...]

  • Petr Kotik – Many Many Women
    Petr Kotik – Many Many Women
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    Labor – LAB-6/10 1981 US Pressing Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+ with light shelfwear, includes booklet

  • Yair Elazar Glotman & Mats Erlandsson – Negative Chambers
    Yair Elazar Glotman & Mats Erlandsson – Negative Chambers
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    Miasmah – MIALP 038 2017 Norway Pressing Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+

  • Musica Elettronica Viva – Spacecraft
    Musica Elettronica Viva – Spacecraft
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    Musica Elettronica Viva, or MEV for short, was formed in 1966 in Rome by Allan Bryant, Alvin Curran, Jon Phetteplace, Carol Plantamura, Frederic Rzweski, Richard Teitelbaum, and Ivan Vandor. From [...]

  • Erik Wollo – Sources (Early Works 1986-1992)
    Erik Wollo – Sources (Early Works 1986-1992)
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    Unreleased music made between 1986-1996 by this Norwegian ambient master

  • Daniel Davies – Spies
    Daniel Davies – Spies
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    Have you ever felt like you’re being watched? Have you felt unseen eyes staring at you, monitoring your every move? Composer and guitarist Daniel Davies reflects on this familiar paranoia […]

  • Karima Walker – Waking The Dreaming Body
    Karima Walker – Waking The Dreaming Body
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    Tucson artist Karima Walker has long nurtured a duality within her work as a musician, developing her own sonic language as a sound designer in tandem with her craft as […]

  • Sarah Louise – Earth Bow
    Sarah Louise – Earth Bow
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    At first glance, Sarah Louise might seem an unlikely candidate to credit technology as inspiration for her new album, Earth Bow. After all, she has lived in rural Appalachia for […]

  • Jack Callahan & Jeff Witscher – Stockhausen Syndrome CDr
    Jack Callahan & Jeff Witscher – Stockhausen Syndrome CDr
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    “Composed and edited in Portland and Queens, September – December 2020.” – Flea.

  • Madalyn Merkey & Julie Moon – Conversation for Room with Piano and Loudspeaker Array CDr
    Madalyn Merkey & Julie Moon – Conversation for Room with Piano and Loudspeaker Array CDr
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    Julie Moon and I began collaborating in 2014 as a computer music and prepared piano duo. Over the years we have tried to create a sound palette that we can […]

  • Peter Thoegersen – Facebook Cantos CDr
    Peter Thoegersen – Facebook Cantos CDr
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    Peter Thoegersen’s new CD on Flea004 is a recording of his Microtonal Song Cycle «Facebook: What’s On Your Mind » (2016-2020). Sung with hair-raising power by Lore Lixenberg, this is […]

  • Jack Callahan and Jeff Witscher ‎– The Past, Present And Future Of Experimental Music (Uncut GRM) CDr
    Jack Callahan and Jeff Witscher ‎– The Past, Present And Future Of Experimental Music (Uncut GRM) CDr
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    A Reader Response Exercise for 10 Participants & GRM Sample Pack. Made for Erick Laska’s Lateral Addition websit.

  • S.E.M. Ensemble ‎– Concert For Piano And Orchestra + Fontana Mix CDr
    S.E.M. Ensemble ‎– Concert For Piano And Orchestra + Fontana Mix CDr
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    Performed at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in Asheville, NC on Saturday, April 27th, 2019 as part of Neo-Pastiche: Changes in American Music.

  • Ian William Craig & Daniel Lentz – FRKWYS Vol 16: In a Word
    Ian William Craig & Daniel Lentz – FRKWYS Vol 16: In a Word
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    In a Word, the sixteenth installment of the intergenerational collaboration series FRKWYS, brings together postminimalist composer Daniel Lentz with vocalist and sound artist Ian William Craig [...]

  • Switched-On Eugene
    Switched-On Eugene
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    Switched-On Eugene documents the Eugene Electronic Music Collective and some of the many synthed-out figures in and around Oregon’s iconic hippie stronghold during the 1980s. Whether connected by [...]

  • Tim Story – Threads
    Tim Story – Threads
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    The saga of composer Tim Story’s 1982 debut is a case study in the shifting sands of the early progressive music industry. Recorded on a Tascam 4-track reel-to-reel in his […]

  • Robert Nasveld ‎– Untitled  (Dutch  Modern Composition)
    Robert Nasveld ‎– Untitled (Dutch Modern Composition)
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    Attacca Records – Babel 8311-1 1983 Dutch Pressing Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+ (edge wear present)

  • Ron Geesin – Pot Boilers
    Ron Geesin – Pot Boilers
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    Sublime, unique, sexy, and peculiar unreleased scores by electronic and jazz pioneer Ron Geesin, made for the films by maverick director Stephen Dwoskin. Geesin made great music and worked with [...]