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ABRAHAMS, CHRIS: Glow Code:ABRAHAMSGlow Price:
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The Necks pianist solo CD. Own label. Australian import .Limited Supply. |
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ABRAHAMS, CHRIS: Streaming (dbl) Code:VEGE002 Price:
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| Necks pianist double CD of Necks style immediate-time pieces where the structure is all internal and focuses tightly on the progress from moment to moment. A borderline music of contradictions where simplicity arises out of complexity, openness flows from a closed horizon, facility is built on difficulty, where more or less all other distractions (composition, development, evolution) are put aside by repetition, leaving time and a feeling for sound at the centre of the work.. |
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AMM with John Butcher: Trinity Code:MRCD71 Price:
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| Flawlessly recorded in 2008, this is Eddie Prevost and John Tilbury with guest John Butcher in quiet mood; every tiny sound counts and every shade of timbre has space to make its presence felt. Track one is absolutely exquisite; no one else can get close to this level of concentration. Very nice cover art in double LP style card cover. Exemplary. |
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AMM: Combine+Laminates+Treatise '84 Code:MRCD26 Price:
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| A great recording of a great concert. |
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ANTHEIL, GEORGE: Ballet Mecanique Code:EMF-CD020 Price:
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| This is a first recording of a reconstruction of the earliest (1924) version for sixteen synchronised player pianos, 2 grand pianos, seven percussionists (4 xylophones, 4 bass drums, tam tam, pitched electric bells, siren and aeroplane propellers) which was never performed (because impossible at the time). It was a reduced version that caused such a sensation at its premiere in Paris. This realisation was made possible, finally, through computer and midi power (to co-ordinate those 16 player pianos). An historic recording of a groundbreaking work. The rest of the CD contains other pieces for player pianos, percussion and electronics by John Cage and Lou Harrisson, Richard Grayson, Amadeo Roldan and Felix Mendelssohn (a version of the presto from the 4th Symphony remade for 16 player pianos). Classic. |
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ARCHER, MARTIN: 88 Enemies Code:DISCUS10CD Price:
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| Highly interesting collection (bar one, I think) of pieces for virtual pianist, influenced by Stockhausen, Cage, Feldman, Boulez, Nancarrow 'New music has enabled anyone with a sense of sound and form to make great music' says Martin Archer, and then puts his sequencer and various devices on the line as proof. A courageous man, and you the jury. I think this is a fascinating record both for it's proposition, application and listening quality. |
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ARTEFACTS OF AUSTRALIAN EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC 1930-1973 Code:SHAM050 Price:
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| An important collection, not least for the oldest track, dated 1930, by the very elusive Jack Ellitt. If this dating is true, here is a genuinely groundbreaking work. Ellitt, who at this time was making soundtracks for the New Zealand abstract film-maker Len Lye - and whose later work was done for the most part privately, even secretly, to be tragically lost after his death in 2001 - has produced here musique concrete 29 years ahead of time. Presumably done on optical soundtrack (like its contemporary, Ruttman's 'Weekend') this is abstract, manipulated sound. The CD continues with a 1951 recording of Percy Grainger's 'Free Music' machines, a snatch of the Melbourne Dada Group (including Barry Humphries) and 11 more fascinating extracts of work by people most of us have never heard of - and whose inclusion here makes a very important contribution to the library of musical experimentation of the period. Importantly, not only electronic music is collected, but also small ensemble compositions operating far from the mainstream of contemporary music - even at this time. For instance McKim's 'Monotony for 8 trumpets' or Cantrill's 'Soundtrack for Elkon' are properly experimental compositions, while Nagorcka follows Cage with a piece solely for televisions, record players and radios. This is an important - and an enjoyable - document, with a useful booklet and offers a timely reminder of where we were 30 years ago, putting today's offerings into perspective. |
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BALAYANA, JOSEPH MARIA: Ultramarinos 451 Code:NCM5 Price:
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| A live recording of a concert at the Miro Foundation, Barcelona, for piano, prepared piano, public and a lot of plastic tubing. There are always more things to do with a piano - and here are a few of them. |
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BARTSCHI: Klang Klavier Code:RECDEC4 Price:
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BOKANOWSKI, MICHELE: Pour un Pianiste (EP) Code:Trace021 Price:
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| Normal-sized CD in LP-style sleeve with a seventeen and a half minute piece made in 1974 using raw and prepared piano material, strongly transformed through tape manipulation, and thus retaining many of the performative and musical qualities of the original material. An extremely good example of the aesthetic and imaginative qualities of this genre at a time when it was still marginal and attracted interesting people with ideas. It works because of - and not despite - its limitations, exploring a narrow field with rigour and elan. A modest gem. |
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BRENNAN, JOHN WOLF: The Well Prepared Clavier Code:CW1032 Price:
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| 24 tracks of interesting and listenable pieces for prepared piano, or pianos bowed or plucked, including tapes and a duet. This is an impressive document, of results not experiments. |
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BURN, CHRIS: Music for Three Rivers Code:VICTOCD050 Price:
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BURT, WARREN: 39 Dissonant Etudes Code:TP093 Price:
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| Each piano etude is 90 seconds long, each employs a different equal tempered scale - from 5 to 43 notes to the octave. Samplers and sequencers perform, though the sound is pianistic throughout. This belongs firmly in that small school of those following up on earlier experiments with microtanality (Ives, Nancarrow, Wyshnegradsky, Carillo, Grainger &c.). These pieces constantly shift the tunings, and they run together, making the experience even more precarious. Fascinating, and educational. The higher numbers, naturally, sound the strangest and the best. Perhaps best listened to in smaller chunks. |
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CAGE, JOHN: Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano (dbl CD) Code:MODE180/81 Price:
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| Early works dating mainly from1942-47 and all written for dance performances, (except The Perilous Night and A Room, which are concert pieces. Nicely performed and recorded, these are rhythmical, often radically reiterative, riff-driven, works, centred upon the legendary 1944 concert that defined the Cage/ Cunningham partnership and both established and defined the prepared piano as a viable instrument. Played by Philipp Vandre, these are Hessischer Rundfunk radio recordings made in 2001. Useful notes in English, German and French. |
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CAGE, JOHN: Sonatas and Interludes Code:Parallele20001 Price:
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| Performed by Mario Bertoncini, prepared piano. Fine performance, great document. |
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CARDEW, CORNELIUS : Four Principles on Ireland Code:ampere7 Price:
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| Reissue of the great LP of Cornelius' Piano Music. Full description in next. |
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COWELL, HENRY: A Henry Cowell concert Code:ACTA7 Price:
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| A very welcome collection of 21 Cowell's mostly experimental piano pieces, where many of techniques - clusters, work inside the piano etc - were pioneered, ably played by Chris Burns. An important part of music history well presented. Spot those Irish folk and classical Chinese influences. |
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CRUMB, GEORGE/EARL BROWN: Zeitgeist, Corroberee, Celestial Mechanics Code:MODE19 Price:
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| 3 Pieces for: 3 pianos, four hands, 2 amplified pianos. All are excellent and the Brown is a much spoken of but rarely heard piece of history. Fine work. |
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DIDKOVSKY/MACLEAN/VRTACEK: Flies in the Face of Logic Code:POGUS21008- Price:
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| Pieces by the 3 characters above for virtual and real pianos, sampled, treated, prepared and reconstructed pianos and one dropped from a crane from 100 feet.The Maclean pieces I have to single out for special mention- work of exquisitely integrated conception. performance, construction and subsequent manipulation; this is close to perfection by earthly standards. A lot of invention, thinking and pragmatics all round. Appropriately, 'None of us play piano. This is a common obstacle we shared, took advantage of and each dealt with in our own way' |
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FELDMAN, MORTON: Music for Piano & Strings. Vol 1. Code:MRDVD01 Price:
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| John Tilbury plays For John Cage, 1982 with Darragh Morgan (violin) and Piano and String Quartet, 1985, with the Smith Quartet, recorded live at the Huddersfield Festival in 2006. Exquisite, unsurprisingly. This is a sound only DVD - in this format because of the length - 3 hours (each piece is about 90 minutes). It will play on a DVD player and on a computer. Nice package too. |
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FELDMAN, MORTON: The Viola in My Life Code:NW80657-2 Price:
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| Reissue of the much missed CRI CD. The title track is a 29 minute piece for viola and small ensemble, conducted by Feldman himself: endlessly suspended and endlessly listenable - it could go on forever; cleanly articulated, always concentrated, in constant motion but without a goal; just rich in its going. There are longeurs that sink into silence, and there is great, and unfamiliar, use of blurry, quiet percussion. It is a work that transfigures time into pure qualia. If you are not familiar with Feldman, this, or Rothko Chapel, would be a good place to start. There are two other pieces on the CD, inhabiting the same timeless zone, 'Why Patterns', with Feldman himself at the piano, and 'False relationships and the extended ending.' For flute, percussion and piano. |
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FELDMAN, MORTON: Triadic Memories Code:CDLA03049 Price:
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| A Feb 1992 performance in Moscow by the excellent Anton Batagov. eccentrically packaged. Fine music Russian release. Limited Supply. |
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FELDMAN, MORTON: Triadic Memories Code:SUBCD0012-35 Price:
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FELDMAN, MORTON: Trio (double CD) Code:Mode216 Price:
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| For piano, violin and cello (Aki Takahashi, Marc Sabat and Rohan de Saram). An hour and 46 minutes that shifts irregularly from block to block, each exploring a different idea and each shifting internally in synchronisation, tempo and pitch between the players. Very nicely played. Excellent sleeve notes (English, French, German). For those who know what to expect. |
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FJELLSTAD, HANS : Hans Fjellstad 33 Code:Alp032 Price:
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| 13 pieces for piano (plain, vanilla, bowed, e-bowed, scraped, coaxed) and various other things (field recordings, sampler, computer accordion, megaphone and mysterious..) all constructed and reworked into a persuasive coherence. Varied and often intriguing, certainly an interesting investigation of the piano and its possibilities. Some information in the booklet, but not quite enough. Sadly that seems the rule now... and probably it only bugs me. |
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FRITH, FRED: Back to Life Code:TZ8045 Price:
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| An excellent collection of commissioned pieces for piano (played by Daan Vandewalle), the Callithumpian Ensemble (dir.Stephen Drury) and smaller groupings. They fall into the ambit of chamber music but are pretty instantly recogniseable as Fred's. Very nice work. |
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KURYOKHIN, SERGEY: Some combinations of fingers and passion Code:LR179 Price:
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| The incomparable Sergey, recorded in London, hauls his piano through thickets of sound with deceptive ease. Protean, hopping from one genre to another, scarily free of gloss and bluster, this is direct, sometimes irresponsible music that plays endlessly with form. A long cat and mouse performance with Brubeck's 'Blue Rondo a la Turque' forms the centrepiece; as cavalier with time as the early Dollar Brand. |
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KURYOKHIN, SERGEY: The Ways of Freedom Code:GY14 Price:
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| The legendary release reissued. A lot of vari-speeded pianos and some phenomenal playing. |
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LEE PUI MING: Who's Playing? Code:AM098CD Price:
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Pianist Ming improvisation using conventional techniques but mostly inside the piano with slides and scrapes and outside with fists and palms. |
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LERNER, MARILYN: Luminance Code:AM115CD Price:
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| Excellent Solo Piano pieces stretching the instrument in all dimensions (Cowell, Cage, Scott &c) but most interestingly through the planned use of microphone placing. You'll be amazed what this seemingly simple procedure can mean. It helps that Lerner's playing intelligence - and technical facility - are exemplary, but there is more than that. I'd go so far as to say that this is important work. Excellent. |
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LINGUIDO, SALVATORE : West mantra Code:ant02cdr Price:
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| CDR. Programmed piano pieces. |
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MACLEAN, STEVE: EXPRESSIONS on Piano Code:ReRSM4 Price:
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| Steve's fourth CD for us is a remarkable set of pieces for mediated acoustic piano that operates in the shadowy territory between what is playable and what is programmable; between narrative simplicity and performative complexity; between hopeful intentionality and flawless execution. Unusually, Steve has put our ear right inside the piano, sans artificial reverberations and blurring tools and, over the course of the CD, various musical dialects are explored and extended - from the plausible through the exquisite to the impossible. MacLean also mines a subtle complexity that offers more on each audition and, occasionally, an extreme (of Nancarrowistic speed or sound amplified through gongs). The process remains impenetrable, so what remains is the listening. In Steve's long and varied musical career he has consistently explored new compositional techniques and new technologies (he teaches at Berklee in Boston) and this is no exception; a unique take on the acoustic piano. |
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MENGELBERG, MISHA: Misha Mengelberg Code:AI010 Price:
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| New from Angelica and recorded live at the festival in 1996. A long piano solo, which you may like or not, some excellent pieces for orchestra, slipping from baroque to contemporary to classical bar to bar. Zorn for Orchestra, very well scored and performed, and another, I think fine, solo piano piece. Worth it for the orchestra pieces alone I think |
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METHOT, MAURICE : Vingt chansons pour Jean Cocteau Code:MAURICEMETHOT:VingtchansonspourJeanCocteau Price:
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| Piano pieces generated from software and guitar. Very listenable, tuneful, early C20 style piano music, but subtly different because not keyboard based. An interesting item. |
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MICHENER, LEON: Plays IVES, ZENAKIS, CAGE, SCELSI, MICHENER Code:FMRCD95-C0602 Price:
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| An engaging and unusual collection of contemporary piano works alternated with improvisations. The improvisations are made under self imposed rules, eg., drawing on early stride pianists, angularised; on distributed chords, pointilistically arranged; on increasing densities; through episodic fragments, drawing on Bartok, Scriabin, Sorabji, and so on. The last piece (Scelsi) is for amplified piano. The entire CD flows organically from start to finish. |
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MONAHAN, GORDON: Piano Mechanics (LP) Code:GM001 Price:
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| Active since the late '70s in the field of electronic music but more visibly in performances, installations and sound art, Gordon Monahan is famous for his extensions and deconstruction of pianos. This LP carries two classic works: Piano Mechanics - seven pieces that explore the outer reaches of the instrument as a source of complex sound - avoiding any conventional playing at all - a live recording for CBC made in 1984; and Large Piano Magnified - 9 pieces for studio manipulated piano recordings, made for CBC's Two New Hours in 1985. An important document. DMM. Last copies, LP now out of print. |
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MONAHAN, GORDON: Speaker Swinging (LP) Code:GM002 Price:
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| Already part of the Sound Art canon. Speaker Swinging explores the Doppler effect by manually swinging several independent loudspeakers in large arcs in an acoustic space. The speakers emit minimal oscillator tones which foreground the pitch-shifting caused by their motion. Eerie and fascinating, and it tells you a lot about ear/brain sensitivity; you can really sense this motion as motion. It could not be simulated. Recorded for CBC in 1987. On the B side is Monahan's Long Aolian Piano - recordings of a construction made with 50ft piano wires strung into the wind and fixed at one end to an upright piano that acts as a sounding board. Double fold-out insert with diagrams, notes, credits and an interview with GM. Last copies, LP now out of print. |
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MUKAIYAMA, TOMOKO: Hello Pop Tart Code:BVAASTCD9801 Price:
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| A collection of contemporary piano pieces (except for the title track). Works by Henry Cowell, Charles Ives (an unpublished score of Celestial Railroad), William Bolcom, John Zorn, Frank Zappa and Fred Rzewski, well chosen and excellently performed. Altogether a fine CD. Except for the title track. I have no idea what it's doing here. Tomoko Mukaiyama merely sings - and she's no singer, nor can you really understand the sub Zappa text she approximates (it is printed on the strange plastic fold out sleeve). The music is risible, the performers uncredited. Why ruin a fine CD with this I don't know. Sensibly the track only take up 4 minutes and is at the end of the CD so you can skip it. Highly peculiar, ungainly packaging. Still worth it for the piano music. |
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McCAVITT. MARTIN : White Bears and Stars Code:Duration8117 Price:
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| Quiet, slow, exquisite piano pieces. Not quite 'furniture music' because it does seem to want to be heard, nor Eno- style wallpaper music, because it's neither repetitive nor mechanical; nevertheless it colours the air and creates space rather than intrude on the ear and demand attention. A very medium to work in, here impressively well achieved. |
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NONO, LUIGI : 20 Yahre Inventionen V Code:RZ4006 Price:
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| Three related works: Quando Stanno Morendo, Canciones a Guiomar and Omaggio a Emilio Vedova, the first (1982) for four women's voices, bass flute, cello and live electronics, the second (1962-3) for soprano, six-voice women's choir and small ensemble, the last (1960) a short, important early tape piece. These are spooky, tense, ethereal works, filled with silences and surging noise; nothing is as solid as is suggested by the instrumentation (which is mostly transformed through real time electronic processing); the women's voices are mostly attenuated, high and diaphanous, or abstracted and distant, and the compositions hang by a thread. These are very substantial works, and significant historical documents. |
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PETER BEIJERSBERGEN VAN HENEGOUWEN: Bauhaus, De Stijl, Dada - the Nelly an Doesberg repertoire Code:LMCD2495 Price:
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| A fine collection of piano pieces by known and unknown composers written between 1912 and 1920 that were performed by Nelly Van Doesberg at Bauhaus, De Stijl and Dada events between 1921-25. It includes pieces by Josef Hauer (much referenced but seldom heard), Honneger, Poulenc, Schoenberg and Satie and names lesser known (and therefore more interesting). These are excellent, very listenable, and mostly very short, pieces. Good sleeve-notes with some appropriate documents. |
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POVALL, RICHARD: Impossible Rags Code:FP005 Price:
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| An extremely interesting and listenable suite of 4 early Rags stretched and twisted, rearticulated and embellished through the medium of disklavier programming. Reminiscent sometimes of Conlan Nancarrow, but essentially different in approach, though equally 'unplayable'. A well conceived, well realised project which updates the player piano. Also includes Enclosure, for electronics. |
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RILEY, TERRY: Solo Piano Concert, Moscow Conservatory Code:CDLA01032 Price:
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| Russian release of a remarkable concert where Riley swings through a programme of very varied music with a lot of additive rhythms, strongly inflected by jazz, show music, ragtime (prodigiously in 7/4), speed, tonal architectures with serious rhythmic underpinnings, relaxation, post jazz elaborations, pure pianistics and some piled up repetitions. A pleasure to listen to and conceived and performed entirely without braggadocio. The recording is fine and the music superb. Limited Supply. |
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ROSENBOOM, FLOYD, SANKARAN: Suitable for framing Code:Mutable17517-2 Price:
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| Document of a double piano and Indian percussion concert from 1975 featuring pioneer of American experimental music David Rosenboom, multi-genre pianist J.B.Floyd and percussionist Trichy Sankaran, comprising for the most part very fast materials organised in cyclic reiterant formats, similar to much of the minimal music of the time; except that this performance is infused with a passion and fiery improvisational propulsion that is sometimes breathtaking. Hurtling moments of Nancarrowesque and then Coltranesque energy wheel around in bizarre non-developmental structures. This isn't comparable to anything I can think of and it's one of the joys of recording that such events don't disappear without a trace. |
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SATIE, ERIK: Avant-Derniers Pensees. Vol 1 Code:LTMCD2501 Price:
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| Another excellent collection of Piano pieces, continuing in the LTM Satie series that includes many of the better known works - the Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes, Sports et Divertissements - as well as lesser known but equally exquisite short, mostly melodic, enigmatic pieces that are a pleasure to listen to. Fine playing. Useful notes. To be taken in small doses for best appreciation. |
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SATIE, ERIK: Cubist Works 1913-1924 Code:LTMCD2406 Price:
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| Excellent collection, beautifully played, of works Satie wrote for his collaborations with Picasso, including the two cubist ballets 'Parade' and 'Mercure', both of which are here interestingly presented both in orchestra versions and piano transcriptions. The other titles are 'Les Pantins Dansent', Trois Valses Distinguees du Precieux Degoute' and 'Divertisement (la statue retrouve)'. |
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SATIE, PICABIA, MILHAUD, AURIC, STRAVINSKY, RIBEMONT-DESSAIGNES, MESENS, DUCHAMP: Festival DADA Pari Code:LTMCD2513 Price:
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| A collection of piano pieces played at, or written for, various Dada events in Paris between 1921-3. One or two pieces are well known but most will be heard here for the first time. The whole CD is nicely programmed, getting progressively stranger before finally returning to more familiar ground. The Ribemont-Dessaignes pieces are particularly remarkable - you couldn't date them - and for anybody interested in the history of musical ideas, very valuable. They are world premiere recordings, so this is the first opportunity to hear them. The same is true of the three Mesens pieces. The collection ends with a restored 1925 recording of Stravinsky's played by Marcelle Meyer, the pianist who performed at the two Dada events listed here.Nice booklet, with useful notes and illustrations. A pleasant, eccentric and - for the recording premiere pieces - useful CD. |
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STANDELL, STEN: Frames Code:BAR9402 Price:
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| Serious and eccentric pieces for Piano, other keyboards, throat singing and small drums, some dollar brand, some non-world music. Unlike anything I can think of. |
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SUN RA AND HIS INTERGALACTIC SOLAR RESEARCH ARKESTRA: Helsinki 1971 (2 CDs and 1 DVD) Code:Transparency0314 Price:
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| Transparency's 20th RA release - and a real gem: a complete two and a half hour concert in high broadcast quality by the 29 piece early '70s band with June Tyson. Everyone on top form, it evolves like a great nomadic civilisation with one fine solo after another, great arrangements, lengthy extraterrestrial Moog solos, some great vibraphone and a succession of classic Ra compositions. And it's impressively cheap. The DVD contains a short interview with Sun Ra filmed on the day of the concert which has not been seen since its original broadcast. The whole thing licensed from The Finnish Broadcasting Company, with nice photos in the booklet. Tracks for those who wish to know are: Stargazers, Enlightment, Love in Outer Space, Watusi, Calling Planet Earth, Space is the Place, Angels ands Demons at play, Satellites are Spinning, Second stop is Jupiter, Somewhere Else, Nature's God, Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child and a couple of Discipline numbers. |
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SUN RA: Monorails and satellites Code:ECD22013-2 Price:
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| The classic SUN RA solo piano record from 1966-68 S |
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SUN RA: Disco 3000 Code:ArtYardCD001 Price:
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| Restored to its original luminous form, this was one of Ra's great classic era releases - with a band in radically stripped-down form: John Gilmore, Michael Ray (trumpet) and the minimal but perfect Luqman Ali (drums). Ra plays piano and a lot of electronic keyboards, including the mysterious Crumar Mainman, which he describes as being 'like a piano, organ, clavichord, cello, violin and brass instruments' and which also, importantly, has a facility for pre-programmed bass-lines and electronic percussion - which Ra uses constantly and to great effect in this small ensemble setting. Very electronic, often rhythmical and melodic, always economical, these tracks are like no other jazz ensemble and, although recognisable as Ra, are also unlike any of his other ensembles. A classic |
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SUN RA: Solo piano, Venezia Code:GY21 Price:
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| Sonny plays his own and other people's compositions (Handy, Strayhorn, Waller) in his own inimitable way. |
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TAYLOR, CECIL, MARILYN CRISPELL, PAUL PLIMLEY, JOHN OSWALD: Complicite (triple CD) Code:VICTOCD074-5-6 Price:
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One evening at the Victo Festival. CT and MC solo, PP and JO solos and together |
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TIPPETT, KEITH: Une Croix dans l'Oceon Code:VICTOCD031 Price:
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WOLFF, CHRISTIAN: Piano Works 1976-83 Code:MODE43 Price:
£14.69
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ZAGNY, SERGEI: 1-25 Sonata, electronic music &c... Code:CDLA00014 Price:
£12.50
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Series of short fragmentary piano pieces and two electronic works, made from pianos, mostly speeded up a lot. Moscow mid '90's |
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