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	HUGUENIN, JEAN 20: Solo Raye Code:HUGUENIN,JEAN20:SoloRaye Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
Solos and occasional duos, of acoustic rags and Guitar pieces, some electric, all beautifully played.
	Hayward, Charles: Near and Far Code:haywardNearFar Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	Honsinger, Tristan : This That and the Other Code:AIAI009 Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
	I.S.O.: I.S.O. Code:AMOISO01 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
New formation with Ground Zero alumni Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko Matsubara and interesting newcomer Ichiraku Yoshimitsu (drums, electronics). Slow, abstract, rich with extremes, ambient.
	IANCU DUMITRESCU/ANBA MARIA AVRAM: Musique Directe (vinyl) Code:dumitrescuDirecte Price: £15.00 Quantity in Basket: none
	ICHIYANAGI, TOSHI/MAKI ISHII: Music for a Living Process (vinyl) Code:EDRZ1008 Price: £10.34 Quantity in Basket: none
	IDEAS: Ives, Rimsky-Korsakov, Partch, Carrillo, Harrison, Beardsley, Varese, Cage, Coates Code:P-200212 Price: £14.50 Quantity in Basket: none
A very small, essentially handmade, edition of 300 copies of pieces researched and performed for the microtonal society at various venues in New York. Includes an alternative version of Ives's The Unanswered Question (prepared by Ives himself), a world premiere of Rimsky-Korsakov's Prelude for Strings, Julian Carrillo's unpublished I think of you, performed here on a 96-tone harp and voice, Harry Partch's Ulysses departs from the edge of the World for trumpet, string bass and 3 Boobams, Lou Harrison's excellent and interesting Simfony in Free Style (World Premiere) for strings, bassoon, flutes, horn, electronic hap and percussion, David Beardsley's Sonic Boom for guitar activated Korg Synthesiser tuned to 23-limit harmonic series, Edgard Varese's Graphs and Time (world premiere - worked up from a sketch of a graphic score made by EV for the legendary Teo Macero for jazz ensemble; I think this may have fared better in the hands of the jazz musicians it was envisioned for; in this version it doesn't add anything to Varese's reputation), John Cage's In the Name of the Holocaust for prepared piano and the seldom performed Gloria Coates' Lunar Loops for two guitars which are microtonally retuned in the course of the piece. Historic microtonal pieces are rare, so for those interested, this is a must have.
	IF, BWANA: L'Angelica (Dbl CD) Code:POGUSP21024-2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	IF, BWANA: Clara Nostra Code:POGUSP21019-2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
I'm someone not much enamoured of drones and this is, essentially, a 64 minute drone. But then it is a classic, bottomless, exquisite drone - the product of 106,476 clarinets "rumbling and growling" as composer Al Margolis has it, sped up slowed down and treated in uncountable ways - a pleasure to be in the room with.
	IKEDA, RYOJI: 1000 fragments Code:R-N089 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Contained noise of various sorts, arranged in extreme and radically opposing segments; very clean, very orderly, listenable in a perverse way, with no narrative content, but an engaging aesthetic wholeness, this is a good introduction to Ikeda's minimal but strict aesthetic. In three sections, one mobile and balanced, one extended and hollow, the third ghost-like. Austere and not for everyone, this is, however, also a welcome reissue by Raster-Notion of his first release (1995), though the minimal packaging won't tell you that, or anything else, so there is historical value here too, if 12 years constitutes history.
	IL BERLIONE: Il Berlione Code:BA9229 Price: £18.80 Quantity in Basket: none
50% fast and furious, clean and punchy, complex and super competent rock-kind-of-jazz-kind-of; convincing - 50% more jazz-rock as known.
	IL GRAN TEATRO AMARO: Piazza Orphelins Code:RECDEC69 Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
	ILAIYARAAJA'S MUSICAL JOURNEY Code:IDA021 Price: £12.34 Quantity in Basket: none
This will be for those who enjoyed the first CD. A (rare) live concert, exquisitely executed, this is a little less unusual than the first but contains a minor gem - an entire piece made from only three notes, beautifully arranged.
	ILAIYARAAJA: Wings Code:IDA019 Price: £12.93 Quantity in Basket: none
At last!! The long awaited first compilation of pieces by legendary Tamil film composer Dr. Ilaiyaraaja. For years a private enthusiasm of friends of Angelica (Fred Frith, Heiner Goebbels, John Zorn &c.), this music has circulated until now only on dubbed cassettes, with new material occasionally surfacing in local Tamil general stores. Massimo Simonini finally went to visit and came back with permission to make 3 compilations (from some 4500 pieces - the work never stops). What makes Ilaiyaraaja so universal is his cheerful adoption of much of the world's music and its instruments while remaining focused on the needs of song and the language of popular film; what makes him so addictive is his extraordinary sense of arrangement and instrumentation. Everything is detail with a small surprise lurking around every corner. This is work of painstaking subtlety, wrapped in simple forms - and luminous undemonstrative musicianship - the kind of work that grows with every listening and depends on its inner qualities and not on shock, dissidence or effect. These are perfectly crafted songs with mysterious arrangements and a catalogue of rhythms that are never as simple as they seem. A gem.
	ILLUMINATED: Rituals around the World Code:SUBCD027-29 Price: £13.05 Quantity in Basket: none
	INACTUELLES: PERCUSSION(S): (3-CDs plus DVD/video and book) Code:inactuellesPercussion Price: £52.88 Quantity in Basket: none
A collaboration between Mode and the Parisian art book store Tschann, combining CDs and DVDs of musical performances with an informative textbook. Volume 1 - a Euro-centric and very partial survey of C20 and C21 percussion music, performed by Roland Auzet and featuring 13 complete works (7 world premieres) for percussion solo (Xenakis, Taïra), percussion and voice (Xenakis, Pape), percussion and ensemble (Xenakis, Milhaud, Alsina) and percussion and electronics (Auzet, Bancquart, Campion, Jodlowski, Tanaka). Plus a DVD with Xenakis' Psappha and Rebonds and a 500+ page book in English and French written by musicologist Pierre-Albert CASTENE: Percussion(s): Gesture and Spirit, which discusses the history of percussion music and includes interviews with Auzet about the interpretation and performance of percussion music, especially the works and the composers recorded in this set. Preface by Pierre Boulez, postface by American percussionist Steven SCHICK. The book, though rather clunkily written (or translated) is the prize here, the 90 page essay on the history and use of percussion in 'serious' music in the C20 is extremely thorough, very well annotated and thoroughly documented. PLUS POSTAGE: UK £2.40, EUROPE £4.30, REST OF WORLD £5.50
	INDO JAZZ FUSIONS: Inja Code:FMRCD69-V)400 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Intelligent. It swings. With excellent playing all round, lots of additive rhythms, completely unforced integration of Indian (sitar, tabla, tampura), Western (piano, kit drums, trumpet, flugelhorn, saxopone, bass) and crossover (violin, flute) instruments. It won't change the world, but try it.
	INDO JAZZ FUSIONS: Shiva Nataraj ( King of Dance) Code:FMRCD86-0601 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Intelligent. It swings. With excellent playing all round, lots of additive rhythms, completely unforced integration of Indian (sitar, tabla, tampura), Western (piano, kit drums, trumpet, flugelhorn, saxopone, bass) and crossover (violin, flute) instruments. It won't change the world, but try it.
	INTERPRETING THE SOUNDSCAPE: Curated by PETER CUSACK Code:EMFCD066 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Luckily you can now buy the CDs that accompany the wildly expensive MIT Leonardo journal separately. This CD came with Vol 16, it's a soundscape compilation by Peter Cusack's that sweeps across the field, taking in an empty concert hall in Chenobyl, a super-close-up recording of fire ants walking, data sonification, real-time street recordings (Delaurenti's impressive and brilliant republican convention documentation), the electromagnetic environment (Kubisch, Stankieviech), some sonic postcards, underwater recordings and other field work. An excellent and useful release, with some real gems - and a useful a snapshot-overview of the field as it stood in 2006.
	INTONARUMORI ORCHESTRA: Atsuhhiro Ito, Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, Toshimaru Nakamura, Tetuzi Akiyam Code:OFF-SITE004 Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
Conceived and built in 1913 by the futurist painter Luigi Russolo as a logical extrapolation from his groundbreaking manifesto 'The art of noises', the intonarumori was a family of 12 mechanical instruments that could produce different kinds of controllable noise: the howler, the roarer, the crackler, the rubber, the hummer, the gurgler, the hisser, the whistler, the burster, the croaker and the rustler. There are no surviving plans, and no surviving instruments (all were destroyed in WW2). The current replica instruments - made in 1986 for a project in Tama Art University, Japan - comprise 6 of these, seemingly built without the glissando faculty of the originals, but still offering a very interesting array of unidentifiable acoustic rather than electronic, sounds. At least one can begin to imagine what these extraordinary instruments might have done. The 6 compositions here - one by each of the participants - explore some of these possibilities. Atsuhiru Ito and Otomo Yoshihide's, also the most complex and noisy, seem to me to be the most successful. Very skimpy notes accompany the CD, but it's an interesting and unusual project.
	INVENTIONEN 2000: 72ppBook and double CD Code:Parallele10012,10013 Price: £24.09 Quantity in Basket: none
Pieces by Francois Donato, Adrian Moore, David Prior, Mario Verandi, Alvin Lucier, Ron Kuivilia, Tom Johnson, Martin Riches, Jose Antonio Orts, Ed Osborn, Ron Kuivilia, Christine Kubisch, Wolfgang Mitterer. 2 CDs of Studio and Installation soundart in ring-bound book (approx A4) with exhaustive text, notes, meditations on acousmatics, soundart and large (colour) pictures of the installations. Programme and document of the 2002 Inventionen festival, Berlin.
	INVENTIONEN 98: 50 Years of Musique Concrete. Various Artists Dbl CD Code:EdRZ10009/10 Price: £20.27 Quantity in Basket: none
Excellent collection of recent concrete pieces from Unsuk Chin, Patrick Kosk, Werner Cee, Francois Donato,Robin Minard, Wolfgang Mitterer, Francis Dhomont, Erik Mikael Karlsson and Trevor Wishart. Some excellent pieces here - Wishart's featuring modified Margaret Thatchers, Princess Dianas and Ian Paisleys, Chins (Korea), silk paper, clocks drops of water and some beautiful gongs. Ice and empty interiors also feature and a procession of invented, stretched & remodelled sounds.
	IOLINI, ROBERT: Iolini Code:ReRRI Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Electroacoustic, Chamber Ensemble, Soundscapes and works for radio. Some will remember his two great small ensemble compositions from an earlier quarterly. This collection concentrates more on his (prize-winning) tape works and includes the great Hong Kong changeover cityscape 'In Between', extracts from works about Israeli whistleblower Mordecai Vanunu and Edwin Armstrong (inventor of FM modulation) as well as other radio works and three chamber pieces based on African rhythms. Enormous variety.
	IOLINI, ROBERT: Songs from Hurt Code:ReRRI1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Robert transcends the divisions between music, documentary and radio art. The bulk of this CD is built around the extraordinary testimonies of aboriginal teenagers, prisoners and witnesses of a world in which the interviewees are continually told that they are surplus to requirements. All are set in musical frames - using both instrumental and environmental materials. The result is constantly gripping, scary and convincing. Truly remarkable and highly recommended. Sometimes a description can't do a record justice, you just have to hear it. Full texts and pictures.
	IRENEUSZ SOCHA: Sztetlach Code:Dembitzer2005-08-17 Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
A hugely ambitious work, with an impressive ensemble of composers and instrumentalists performing a collection of pieces that feature mostly small, very differently instrumented ensembles, very varied - from percussive orchestra to solo clarinet. Rich, deep sounds, all wholly composed in the contemporary music direction, but with grittier undertones. Austere, but imaginative and accomplished.
	IRIONDO, MANCHION: Bias (8cm) Code:Wallace66 Price: £8.81 Quantity in Basket: none
A curious and unusual recording - linked fragments with harmonic and melodic components for guitar, electronic sounds, keyboards and all manner of other materials that sound neither composed nor improvised and that veers from one idea to another in an apparently organised way. Subtle, but I think this is a fine piece of work.
	IRMLER, JOCHEN et al PAPER FACTORY: Schlachfest-Session 1 Code:irmlerSchlachfest Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
For those keeping an ear of the Faust members, here is Jochen Irmler (keyboards, electronics), with Mike Svoboda (trombone, alphorn, drainpipe), Clive Bell (shakuhachi, khene, melodica), Sylvia Hallett (violin, musical saw, sarangi) and Mike Adcock (piano and accordion) in a new project mixing improvisation, electronica, experimental rock and contemporary music. Limited edition of 500 in a hand-printed cover.
	ISHIJIMA: title Code:PD13 Price: £10.34 Quantity in Basket: none
Exquisite concrete piece, sounds like manipulated bells
	ISLAND OF SANITY: New Music NYC. Code:NML8707CD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Rare sampler from No Man's Land.
	IVES, CHARLES - HENRY BRANT: A Concord Symphony (The Henry Brant collection Vol.7) Code:Innova414 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
What it says on the label. Brant (b.1913 and still kicking) whose unique poly-phonic, poly-metric, poly-stylistic and radically spatialised approach to composition was inspired by Ives decided in the late '50s to orchestrate Ives' luminous Concord Sonata (for piano). It took 36 years to complete and this is the result: an American Symphony on the grand scale - and impossible to relate to 1911 - when the Concord was commenced - although Brant has not updated anything, remaining true to Ives' score. A fascinating project. And interesting to compare with the piano version.
	IVES, CHARLES: Universe Symphony Code:SS007 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
This realisation of Ives' unfinished, stunningly original, and prescient score was assembled and conducted by Johnny Reinhard (composer, performer, academic and founder of the Festival of Microtonal Music). It is a nothing less than a revelation. Beautifully recorded, this is a massive, timeless work that seems to hang free in musical space, slowly existing, like a ghostly nebula. Unprecedented both in its use of multiple tempi and epic dynamically-static structure, this is a work you really have to hear. Just the first 19 minutes of enormous, inevitable, impenetrable percussion, embodying an extremely slow, felt rather than heard, pulse with instruments moving in their own orbits, seemingly at their own, mysteriously changing tempi, is a step into another world and into another way of listening.
	JABLKON & SVECENY: Mumlava Code:SUB0003-2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
A light, sure touch. featuring variously, acoustic guitars, violin, viola, bass, oboe, bassoon, percussion and keyboards, where every detail is important and which features an effective and unusual use of low-mixed voices to add instrumental colour. Highly articulated and imaginative music, exquisitely realised.
	JABLKON: Baba Aga Code:B+N9202 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
New CD from the eccentric acousticians. Not easy to clasify. Whoever heard the last will know what to expect. Newcomers I'd still advise to listen to JABLKON and SVECENY first. Two new releases.
	JABLKON: Devata Vlna Code:SU5365-2311 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Finally reissued on CD, this was one of the signature Czech bands, unplaceable really. Not electric, but tough - though highly eccentric. A bit of acoustic early Etron Fou, but stranger... Involved, twisty compositions for guitars, tuned percussion and junk. Reissued here with 6 extra titles. Welcome back.
	JABLKON: Machalaj Code:BABAN9504 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
More as known.
	JABLKON: Symphonic Code:F10003-2031 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
As the title implies, Jablkon had the Czech Symphony Orchestra to play with - and violin maestro Jaroslav Sveceny. 11 pieces. A curiosity with some fine parts. Someone did a monstrous amount of work for this. A document
	JACOBS, HENRY: Around the world with Henry Jacobs Code:Imprec299 Price: £14.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Radio art pioneer
	JACOBS, HENRY: Radio Programme No.1 Code:jacobsRadioProgramme1 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Originally released in 1955 on Folkways, this is an extraordinary collection of audio experiments, cut-ups, loops, Indian music, and spoof interviews (genuinely funny) based on Jacobsâ visionary radio programme ÎMusic and Folkloreâ in the early '50âs. A very welcome reissue.
	JACOBS, HENRY: The weird wide world of Henry Jacobs-The fine art of gooding off Code:Imprec054 Price: £14.50 Quantity in Basket: none
	JAPANESE INDEPENDENT MUSIC: Title (book) Code:JIMBook Price: £26.00 Quantity in Basket: none
An encyclopaedia, with a short historical overview, several more specialised articles, A-Z entries on groups and artists with full discographies, label contacts, publications, venues and website indexe and a couple of maps. 360 pages and pretty comprehensive (of course one can think of missing entries - mainly earlier groups whose vinyl records have not been reissued on CD) but that's nitpicking; essentially, this is the only resource of it's kind and invaluable. Congratulations to Frank Stoffer and his team of 20. Comes with a CD of 18 previously unreleased tracks (inc. Haino Keiji, Acid Mothers Temple, KK Null, Hoppy Kamiyama, Haco, Ex Girl, Ruins, Harpy &c.).