A key chapter in the career of the legendary Cluster -- one that has the German duo of Hans-Joachim Rodelius and Dieter Moebius stepping back from their fuller sound of records past -- hitting a spare, spacious, lightly electronic sound that would have a huge impact on modern music for many years... read more
A key meeting between 2 important forces in electronic music in the 70s -- the increasingly-experimental Brian Eno and the Cluster team of Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius! Unlike the trio's other album, this one's an all-instrumental affair -- one that takes the atmospherics of Cluster,... read more
Amazing sounds from Nicolas Collins -- an artist who plays the radio in ways that most other folks might play a keyboard or guitar! "Devils Music" is a wonderful experiment from the mid 80s -- one in which Collins takes sounds from the radio, then filters them into newly musical modes --... read more
Some of wildest music we've ever heard from Henry Flynt -- several lost experimental pieces that touch on Eastern influenced off tuned ragas, bloodcurdling vocalese, freewheeling primitive psychedelia, and wailing strains of free jazz. Raga Electric Includes "Marine Hymn" from 1971,... read more
Avant garde aggro protest rock from the Henry Flynt archives -- his 1966 blues & folk freak out I Don't Wanna with his group the Insurrections! It's a loose, aggressive and fairly wild outsider take on post protest folk and the outer fringes of small combo primitive rock -- Flynt on vocals and... read more
Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid --
NYC ... LP
Domino,
2008. Very Good+ ....
$11.99
The 4th collaboration between electronics maestro Kieran Hebden & free jazz drum titan Steve Reid -- a duo that might have seemed an odd fit at first, but actually makes a lot of sense given their adventurous sensibilities -- and their joint body of work keeps growing in surprising ways! NYC... read more
Amazing early work from Pierre Henry -- a perfect illustration of why he's one of the most important composers of the 20th Century! The work is filled with odd electronics, production effects, and a strangely atmospheric sensibility overall -- lots of space age sounds, but from the dark side of... read more
Rare avant work from the European scene of the postwar years -- two classics back to back! "Symphonie Pour Un Homme Seul" is a dark collaboration between Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry -- done with lots of weird sounds that are simply incredible -- odd recorded bits, weirdly-tuned... read more
One of the best early albums from the legendary Moondog -- a set that got wider circulation than his first few releases, and really helped expand his reach beyond New York City! Moondog's still at his simple best here -- working in a blend of rhythmic percussion, stringed instruments, flute, and... read more
Moondog's second album for Prestige -- and one that we almost like better than the first! The record features more of Moon's incredible spare compositions -- most of them played on instrumentation that includes piano, wood flutes, and percussion, plus 2 instruments that he invented himself: the... read more
One of the best early albums from the legendary Moondog -- a set that got wider circulation than his first few releases, and really helped expand his reach beyond New York City! Moondog's still at his simple best here -- working in a blend of rhythmic percussion, stringed instruments, flute, and... read more
Incredible work from the enigmatic Moondog -- his third, and to that point, possibly most angular record for Prestige to date! The work here is quite different than some of Moondog's later, more serious compositions -- in a mode that's much earthier, personal, and spontaneous -- a little more in... read more
One of Terry Riley's most enduring works, and a haunting record that contains two extended modal minimal jams -- "Rainbow In Curved Air" and "Poppy Nogood & The Phantom Band". "Rainbow" features Terry interweaving cool keyboard lines on organ, electric harpsichord... read more