john cage 'live' (wergo LP)

i always had this love/hate relation to cage's works. i like a lot the ideas, etc but regarding his entire recorded opus must say that there are few recordings i fancy. besides 'variations', 'cartridge music' (especially the version w/ tudor of the split lp w/ wolf on time), roaratorio, hpchd (the lp version not the later emf) and guess a couple more like the cramps lps... 'live' (sometimes quoted also as 'empty words' too) on wergo is one of those exceptions too. a mesmerising piece!

vinyl rip @ flac

pt1 / pt2

henry cowell 'persian set' / lou harrison 'suite for violin, piano and small orchesra' CRI SD114

i must admit that i was never keen on both cowell's and harrison's musics. until a few years ago when during a trip to meet the duo of 'kalorifeur' i chanced upon this LP in their collection which they loved a lot. definitely is amazing especially in late night listening! for long was nuts with the cowell 'persian set' piece but upon transfering the vinyl to digital liked also harrison's piece as well.
hope you enjoy them too!

(flacs of vinyl rip)

pt1 / pt2

bozo and the big circus parade LP

hi happy new year / decade!
here's a record from my children's record collection that purchased recently at the flea market of piraeus. turned stellar! sooner or later i'll upload a few more of my collection too.
play loud!

bozo and the big circus parade

wiesbadener improvisations ensemble '1991' (hybrid)

hybrid for me in early / mid 90's issued some trully stelar improv recordings, the wiesbadener improvisations ensemble being one of them and certainly a highlight of european improv.

ulrich phillipp was a part of another great improv outfit, maxwells daemon who had a cd out on hybrid and a cd too on the italian fringes label too.

line up of this amazing trio is

dirk marwedel : alt, sopranino sax

ulrich phillipp : kontrabass, elektronik

wolfgang schliemann : schlagwerk

all titles were improvised by wie?!

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karel appel 'musique barbare' LP (1963)

here's a fave album. 'musique barare' of karel appel, dating from 1963. no comments, what you hear is what the title suggests! play ultra loud!

vinyl rip side to side (side a has 2 trax though)

A1 Paysage Electronique
A2 Poème Barbare
B Le Cavalier Blanc

for more infos on karel appel check here or here

flac & lame

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side a

side b


mp3 (@320)

scans

christian marclay takehisa kosugi 'merce cunningham dance company' kalamata, greece 03082002

it was a pleasant surprise to hear back then that the merce cunningham dance co were coming to perform in 2002 for 2 dates at the kalamata dance festival as long as christian marclay and takehisa kosugi were the sound engineers of the project. a friend was there and recorded both dates. the 3rd of august was transformed to a cdr so here it it. sorry cuts, missed must be the last 10 minutes more or less.

anyway enjoy this pristine set... here

i've never thought you would have done it... (a wedding compilation) cdr (rossbin 2002)

can't recall how the discussion bout this compilation emerge.. for sure i recall that alessandro of rossbin had asked me for a contact with sonic caterin band... i asked whether he wanted an archery target track in it or something like that and then were unearthed a couple of names he wanted to get in touch with and happen to know them so helped i think besides the scb also w/ stelzer / talbot... anyway that's not the point... as i check it now sounds still a great moment. compiled by alex for the marriage of sandro & anna, a friendly couple of his. can't recall the copies of the edition right now. however i think this one includes the sole (& for me the best) recordings of archery target (for this case - anastasis grivas, thodoris zioutos, nicolas malevitsis) recorded sometime in a july afternoon of 2002 at small music theatre. compilation / marriage were on september 2002.

& they lived happily ever after....