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	KUBISCH, CHRISTINA: Licht Himmel Code:kubischLicht Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Taken from a permanent 14-channel sound and light installation occupying the giant Oberhausen Gasometer, this stereo remix makes excellent listening on its own. Especially in darkness. The sonic materials employed include the now rarely heard Trautonium, glass harmonica, Tibetan metal bowls, double bass, field recordings, synthesiser, voice, tuning forks, glass gong and a glass cornet. Each sound speaks for itself and has a life of its own. This is a special form that requires special listening, or perhaps not listening but allowing the environment around you to be transfigured by sound.
	KUBISCH, CHRISTINA: Night Flights Code:IMPREC168 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Originally released on vinyl in 1987in Milan, this CD is a welcome record of Christina's earlier work (1983-6) and of her grounding in composition and formal music. Two are electroacaoustic, combining pure electronics with musique concrete techniques and exotic instruments (seashell trumpet, eagle bone and crystal glass bowls) alongside field recordings and an early drum synthesiser. Careful and with a fine sense of sonorities, these are airy, open pieces.
	KUBISCH, CHRISTINA: On Air Code:KubishAir Price: £16.45 Quantity in Basket: none
Elaborately packaged with an almost transparent CD (not sure how they achieved that) containing 7 audio tracks, one interactive track (Mac & PC) and an MPG movie. Christina Kubisch is one of the names that always comes up when SoundArt is the topic of conversation. - so these CDs don't contain 'music', that is to say, melodic, rhythmic or linear structure (though I would say they are a lot more musical than much of today's sonic release menu) so much as invoking atmospheres formed of te complex overlappings and interweavings of tones. The movie is especially welcome since it explains what these sounds are for, how they are encountered in the installation for which they were made, and how they relate to the landscape in which they were intended to be heard. Altogether useful document in particular because it restores some sense of place to work that is always site specific but usually presented in recordings devoid of the context that gives them power.
	KUBISCH, CHRISTINA: Sechs Speigel Code:EDRZ1003 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	KUBISCH, CHRISTINA: Twelve Signals Code:SEMI004 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Exquisitely recorded on-site at an installation in the Matthauskirche, Berlin that used a set of bells found at the disused St. Inglebert mine and using as structuring material the signal codes that informed miners about the status of the mineshaft elevators. Structured bell tones and silences. At one point the church bells sound faintly outside at the same time. Strangely compelling. Complex tones. Nicely documented with colour photographs.
	KUBISCH, CHRISTINA: dreaming of a major third Code:RZ10006 Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
From an installation at Museum of Contemporary Art in Boston, this piece is a slow mediation of bells (recorded from the long silent Mass MoCA clocktower) that have been pitch shifted and reshaped electronically and respond to information about the intensity and position of the sun in real time. Strangely satisfying and minimal. But bells are like people and their voices do seem to have a biological effect on us, Excellent full documentation, notes and photographs.
	KUBISCH. CHRISTINA - FABRIZIO PLESSI: Tempo Liquido Code:ampere10 Price: £15.57 Quantity in Basket: none
Circular music, rhythmical with riffing pitches, like radio blips and intermittent scrapings. From an installation, excellent booklet and case. Reissue of 1979 legendary Cramps release.
	KUBITSCH, CHRISTINA: Electrical Drawings Code:kubitschDrawing Price: £27.03 Quantity in Basket: none
Hardback art edition. 164pp -60 colour, 40 b/w. In English and German PLUS POSTAGE - waiting on weight... email to check
	KUHN, HANS PETER : S/T Code:hansPeterKuhn Price: £25.85 Quantity in Basket: none
From the great series of Soundart publications. Serious weight means we have to add postage to this - sorry 3.00 UK, 4.50 Europe, 8.5 World. Blame the postal services! That's the cheapest...
	KUPPER, LEO: Electro-Acoustic Code:POGUS21009-2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
6 excellent pieces for santures (Iranian 72 string, moveable fret zither/dulcimer..) microprocessors and electronics, and for guitar/prepared guitar. The other two works are more conventional electroacoustic pieces.
	KURYOKHIN, SERGEI: Divine Madness (4 cds) Code:CDLR813-816 Price: £58.44 Quantity in Basket: none
Released as a memorial tribute. The 5 hours of music covers all periods of his career and includes previously unreleased work, long deleted LPs , supplemented by a 20 page booklet.
	KURYOKHIN, SERGEY: Some combinations of fingers and passion Code:LR179 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
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.
	KURYOKHIN, SERGEY: The Ways of Freedom Code:GY14 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
The legendary release reissued. A lot of vari-speeded pianos and some phenomenal playing.
	KYRIAKIDES, YANNIS: A conspiracy cantata Code:u01 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Thoroughly composed 'electronic cantata' that juxtaposes 2 cryptic sources: short-wave radio spy number transmissions and the utterances of the oracle at Delphi. For Piano, 2 voices and electronics - fascinating work. Also includes hYDAtorison (for loudspeakers with sliding tones mounted inside piano, exiting varying pitches with feldmanesque playing alongside) and tetTIX for drum machines and heavy processing: unnatural sounds of nature as the machines call to one another in an'electronic Eden'. Altogether an impressive body of work.
	Kontrol Csoport: Elo feloetelek Code:kontrolCsport Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	L'EFFET VAPEUR: En Concert Code:AMO29 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Large sounding, inventive trio: Drums percussion, various wind instruments and banjo, and samples - excellent players all and inventive. Mostly rhythmic (slightly toward jazz rock) or quasi rhythmic, with the sampler used in very musical and intelligent way - as a member of the playing group, neither hip hop nor abstract carpets, adding virtually to the band (inter alia) Heiner Goebbels, Arvo Part, Derek Bailey, Brian Eno, Gyorgy Ligeti... Altogether this is an interesting and impressive set of pieces, the more so for being live.
	L'ENSEMBLE PIERRE CARTIER: Les Fleurs du Tapis Code:AM043CD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	L'ENSEMBLE RAYE: Ein Fest fur Pu den Baren Code:ENSEMBLERAYE:EinFestfurPudenBaren Price: £17.04 Quantity in Basket: none
A one off item, music for Winnie the Pooh. Very charming and, in essence, an Ensemble Raye record, but wrapped as concept. Digipack, booklet; no catalogue number.
	L'ENSEMBLE RAYE: The Cardinal Counterpoints Code:Kein&Aber Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Another great CD of tuneful, generically wide-ranging and beautifully played pieces; like Lars Hollmer this band misses every known category, and to say there are influences from ska to satie, Ireland to Brasil almost misses the point; this is deeply musical and never opportunistic. One of the treasures.
	L'ENSEMBLE RAYE: Vis-a-vis movers Code:rayees004 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Music for dance, usual high standard of composition and performance.
	L'ORCHESTRE DES PAS PERDUS: T'auras pas ta Code:AM040CD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	L'ORCHESTRE PAS PERDUS: Maison douce maison Code:AM060 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Bigband pieces, very charming, bordering on exotica.
	L-R RADIOMENTALE: I could never make that music again Code:SR249 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
I could never make that music again [£12.50] SR2497 pieces by Jean-Yves Leloup - three of them with Jean-Philippe Renoult and four with Erik Pajot - which are built around interviews made and found with electronic music composers, musicians and DJs, talking variously about their own work and matters technical, aesthetic or commercial. Each is a self contained work following a single idea which, though constructed around text, is largely composed of sounds captured from cities, open spaces, exotic locations, machines or media - all both raw and cooked. More like very stretched radio pieces than pure music works. Interviewees include Derrick May, Autechre, DJ Shadow, The Residents, Ryoji Ikeda, Simon Begg, Steve Reich, Richard James, Coldcut, Squarepusher, Davoid Toop, Thomas Brinkmann and Mixmaster Morris.
	L.VOAG: The Way Out Code:ALLVCD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Reissue of the genuinely strange and idiosyncratic masterpiece reclusive and light-sensitive LV. In the guise of VERY OPEN and stretched pop songs, experiments stream out at A LOT per minute. A melange of snappy tunes, highly unobvious arrangements, left handed humour, sound research, super radical mixing and one off words and singing style. With extra material including the legendary and wholly perfect Beauty Spreads 7-inch. In my view, this is a benchmark best of the late 70's Magnum Opus.
	LA 1919: Giorni Felici Code:MASO90094 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Guests on single tracks- Franco Fabbri, Henry Kaiser, John Oswald, Fausto Rossi.
	LA CASA - KWI: Fonderie. Paccard Code:mts04 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Fourth in this unusual series of place recordings capturing sounds from the region of Savoie, this one centred on the bell foundry at Paccard. Machines, the forge, the tuning room organised both in raw soundscapes and in transformed listening pieces. Interesting and fresh.
	LA CASA, ERIC: Secousses Panoramiques (8cm ep) Code:laCasaSecousses Price: £8.70 Quantity in Basket: none
The real Elevator Music.16 exemplary tracks of (mostly Parisian) lifts in La Defense, Radio France, La Villette and the Metro, plus a pedestrian tunnel in Anvers and the Unilodge building in Melbourne. A great example of where less is definitely more. A classic.
	LA CASA, ERIC: air. ratio Code:sirr2006 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
A further chapter in the series that explores ubiquitous and ignored aspects of the (mostly public) architectural soundscape; this time it's ventilation units in France. Eric has recorded some 30 different units, in hospitals, at Radio France, the Pasteur Institute, the Centre Pompidou, in a library, a restaurant, an apartment and at the Cite de la Musique. These sites span 50 years of construction and very different acoustics. Each extract is two minutes long and runs directly into the next (though they are separately track-marked). At the beginning and end, calibration tracks collapse all 30 recordings into one minute. Eric has consciously sequenced the 30 recordings with aesthetic intent, but he also says that 'this CD is intended to be an object without distinctive function'. It is certainly a recording that fulfils many different functions, documentary, architectural and aesthetic. It also changes radically according to what level it is played at, and what aural - or philosophical - work it is asked to do.
	LA CASA, GUIONNET, WARBURTON: Metro Pre St. Gerevais Code:chloe002 Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
Violin, saxophone and microphones in a hardly musical but sonically effective event. Unusual, interesting.
	LA LEGENDE DE LA PLUIE: Hetu, Parkins, Tenko etc Code:AM026CD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Written, Improvised, Studio work. A unique production of fascinating quality - prepared for and presented at the Montreal Musiques Actuelles Festival 1990. A travelogue, displaced narrative, collision..? Sublime moments and plenty of musical lateral thinking. Nice package.
	LA PEAUDE DU MONDE: S/T Code:FAI040CD Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
	LA PLANTE, SKIP: La Plante Code:P-200205 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
From the festival of microtonal music. La Plante is an instrument builder, and all these pieces work around the unique properties customised invented instruments: cloud chamber bowls, glass rods, fire alarm bells, bent stainless steel, jars, soda straws, yoghurt containers, cinder blocks, hoses, pieces of wood, conduit pipe, and so on. The opening track deliberately references Partch and is excellent. Subsequent pieces explore different ideas, and different sets of instruments; always eccentric, often effective.
	LABORATORIO DI MUSICA and IMAGINE: Colpi Secci Code:ERH008 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Another collection of compositions for films by the italian 14 piece mini-orchestra
	LABROSSE, DIANE /COTE M: Duo Code:AM031CD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Is Diane Labrosse and Michel Cote, main instruments keyboard and drums/percs added by electronics, tape, stuff. Fragments, Constructions, Episodes.
	LABROSSE, DIANE: Face cachee des Code:AM036CD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
'The hiden side of things'. Diane, of JUSTINE, at work with concrete sounds (diverse, everyday in the main, and annotated in the booklet), radical treatments and voice. From which- stories and music and great mirages, finely wrought and far from raw noise. Beautifully presented.
	LABROSSE, DIANNE: Petit Traite de Sagesse Practique Code:AM074CD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
With Pierre Taguay, Jean Derome, Joanne Hetu, Martin Tetreault, Michel F.Cote, Alexandre St.Onge, Rainer Wiens, Louise Labrosse and Robert Langlois (not all at the same time) this is a CD that is sometimes great and always intriguing.
	LABROSSE/MORI/TETREAULT: Ile Bizzare Code:AM055CD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Takes no prisoners. Radical electronics, employing no recognisable sound, but full of silence and definition. An impressive piece of electronic music, except that you know it was actually played in real time. Extreme and beautifully controlled dynamics.
	LACHEN J: Music for the Dying Forest Code:BAR0901 Price: £14.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Originally released in 1987, this is a wide ranging record - additive rhythms, interesting, broad instrumentation (all manner of keyboards, bass, guitar, violins, xylophone, brass, reeds, recorder, synthesizer and a few exotics - variously distributed) all set in a well-composed, very loosely rock based context - with some tape manipulation, studio experimentation and open form passages; a summary of the state of the art. Assembled over time in Lars' own studio, this marks well a craft aesthetic that has all but disappeared now. His track from the Recommended Quarterly 0203 is included as an extra track.
	LACRYMOSA: Joy of the Wrecked Ship Code:SSE4033 Price: £16.00 Quantity in Basket: none
	LAGOS, VENOSTA, MARIANI: Metamorphoses (Electronic Adventures in Flamenco) Code:ReRLVM1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
11 pieces beautifully played by flamenco guitarist Alfredo Lagos, and then put through an electro acoustic obstacle course by Venosta and Mariani. The raw guitar is reversed, inverted, cut up, re-played, propelled by processed handclaps and swathed in delayed vocals. The large-scale hypnotic structures contrast strangely with the pristine simplicity of the original guitar pieces, and the album works as a profound meditation on culture, technology, art and authorship. Unusual, genre-bending and enjoyable. Listen to a sample of this release