Noisy brilliance from AMM – one of the most important avant acts of the 60s – and an incredible bridge between jazz, psych, and 20th Century classical worlds! The group were a powerhouse on the London scene of the middle of the decade – reportedly a huge influence on Pink Floyd, ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Some of the earliest work ever recorded by Laurie Andersen – "New York Social Life" and "Time To Go" – on a very cool collection of all-female electronic musicians! LP, Vinyl record album
Some of the most important electro-acoustic music to come from the Brazilian scene in the 60s – recordings that are every bit as powerful as similar experiments from Europe at the time, particularly the revolutionary talents working in Paris! Jorge Antunes takes a big page from their book, ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Fantastic electronics from a composer who worked famously at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the 60s – one of the most important American sites for experimentation in an analogue mode! Both the center, and the music of Bulent Arel, follow in modes that are strongly resonant ... read moreCD
Fantastic electronics from a composer who worked famously at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the 60s – one of the most important American sites for experimentation in an analogue mode! Both the center, and the music of Bulent Arel, follow in modes that are strongly resonant ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
One of the weirdest sound library records we've ever heard from Egiso Macchi – and that's really saying a lot, given how much weird music the man has given us over the years! The set is very heavy on sounds created by the theremin – but with styles that are often a bit different than ... (Sound Library, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A seminal session that forever put the British improvisational scene on the map – a great little record that features guitar by Bailey, soprano sax by Evan Parker, electronics by Hugh Davies, and work by Jamie Muir and Christine Jeffrey. Tracks are longish, and relatively free – and ... (Jazz, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Fantastic sounds from William Basinksi – an artist with an approach that's like nobody else we can think of, and which makes these two tracks sound very much in keeping with his famous Disintegration Loops project! As with that masterpiece, the work here revolves around the use of tape loops ... read moreCD
A collection of three pieces in this series of the complete works of Francois Bayle. The first, "Jeita", was composed in a cave in 1970, and the other two pieces are later reworkings of it. CD
One of the best records ever from Beaver and Krause – largely because there's not so much noodling! This one features the pair on moog and organ, with help from Dave Grusin on piano, Milt Holland on percussion, Howard Roberts on guitar, and Bud Shank on reeds. The sound isn't jazz at all ... (Rock, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
The original recording of Berio's dark vocal piece Sinfonia, and one of the pivotal moments when the Swingle Singers switched from doing jazzy versions of classical tunes to work that was more avant garde. Their high level of talent is apparent in this recording, and they give Berio's work a nice ... (Classical, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Stereo pressing. Cover has a tape along the seams and rips outside and inside the gatefold from the removal of old stickers.)
The first new record in years from the legendary Sonambient label – the musical home of sculptor Harry Bertoia, whose creations were always made with their sonic properties in mind! The two pieces here are from Bertoia's tape archives – and both feature his unusual sound sculptures in ... read moreCD
Beautiful solo piano work from Joep Beving – material that's maybe rooted in a tradition that goes back to French composers who include Satie and Debussy, but which also has some of the more contemporary warmth of some of his Deutsche Grammophon contemporaries, like Max Richter! Yet unlike ... (Classical, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
7 tracks – all unnamed – recorded in New York in 1987 with the power-hungry lineup of Jim Sauter and Don Dietrich on saxes, Donald Miller on guitar, and Adam Nodelman on bass. (Jazz, Out Sound)CD
(Out of print.)
Alessandro Bosetti —
Pinocchio ... CD Nat Nat (Germany), 2001. Used ...
$4.99
Reed duets between Braxton and Scott Rosenberg – on a variety of horns that has Braxton playing soprano, alto, C melody, flute, and bass clarinet; and Rosenberg on sopranino, alto, tenor, and contrabass clarinet. Features 2 Braxton compositions, 3 improvistions, and the tracks "Statk&qu ... (Jazz, Out Sound)read moreCD
(Out of print.)
Anthony Braxton/Richard Teitelbaum —
Silence/Time Zones ... CD Black Lion (UK), 1969/1976. Used ...
Just Sold Out!
A great CD that brings together 2 different albums by Braxton – one a mixture of electronics and reeds, the other a laidback trio recording in an AACM mode. The first tracks feature Braxton's 70s explorations with electronic music artist Richard Teitelbaum. Together, the pair laid down some ... (Jazz, Out Sound)read moreCD
(Out of print.)
Joanna Brouk —
Hearing Music ... CD Numero, Early 80s. New Copy 2 CDs ...
$13.9917.98
Beautiful sounds from Joanna Brouk – an artist who was sometimes lost amidst the new age scene of the 80s, but one who's got a much deeper, more intellectual approach overall! True, Brouk's music does have a certain meditative spirit – but she also was a student of Terry Riley and ... read moreCD
Ray Brown, Pinchas Zukerman, Mel Graves, etc —
Music Makers – Strings ... LP Chevron/Standard Oil, 1975. Very Good+ 2LP ...
$1.99
Quite an unusual little record – one that features examples of string instrumentation, produced for schools by the Standard Oil company! Includes Ray Brown playing and interviewed by Mel Graves – and Graves playing electric bass in a hip group with Mike Nock on electric piano and Arp! ... (Jazz, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Includes the booklet. Cover has a small stain on one corner.)
Bruckmann plays oboe, English horn, and suona – and the CD features 13 tracks packaged in a handsome cardboard wraparound cover. CD
(Out of print.)
Nick Butcher, David Castillo, Andy C. Jenkins, etc —
Free Jazz Bitmaps Vol 2 ... LP Sonnenzimmer, 2015. Near Mint- ...
$9.99
A strong second volume in the Free Jazz Bitmaps series on Sonnenzimmer label – an experimental, though thoroughly hypnotic set that reinterprets the brilliant solo improvisations on volume one into an alltogether new, just as compelling set of music! It features pieces by spearheading player ... (Jazz, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A really great record from David Byrne – songs and spoken bits that were originally designed to be used in Robert Wilson's Civil Wars – but which work great on their own! Byrne is completely charming in the spoken bits – with a sense of dry wit mixed with humanism, not that ... (Rock, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Nothing cheap about this record – as it's one of the most beautiful John Cage recordings we've heard from the 70s – a set of solo piano work, played with a sensitivity that's really surprising! The music is extrapolated from Eric Satie's "Socrate", and inflected with chance ... read moreCD
(Nice clean copy in the original slipcase.)
John Cage —
Fifty-Eight ... CD Hat Hut (Switzerland), 1993. Used ...
$16.99
John Cage with David Tudor —
Presents Variations IV ... LP Everest/Modern Harmonic, 1965. New Copy (reissue)...
$13.9936.98
A very cool album that presents Cage at the height of his "chance" composition stage – featuring him with David Tudor weaving an eclectic mix sounds on a sound system – recorded live at the Feigen-Palmer Gallery in LA! The work is the kind of stuff you always hear about with ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
The first release of a groundbreaking performance – David Tudor's 1956 recording of "Music Of Changes" – one of John Cage's first experiments of writing based around the I Ching! The work is based heavily on chance – following charts of possibilities put together by ... read moreCD
Nice 1968 recordings of works by Cage and Lukas Foss. The Cage "Concerto For Prepared Piano" is performed by Yuji Takahashi on a prepared piano, as the main soloist with a larger ensemble. The sound is as you'd imagine from Cage's prepared piano stuff, with lots of cool off-kilter piano ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(70s Masterworks pressing. Cover has a cut corner.)
John Cale & Terry Riley —
Church of Anthrax ... LP Columbia, 1970. Near Mint- (reissue)...
$16.99
An avant pop/offbeat classic from John Cale and Terry Riley! We'll be fast to admit that Cale's solo stuff don't always float our boat – but this collaboration with minimalist composer Terry Riley is nothing short of an amazing. It's an album of mostly long modal instrumental tracks (with ... (Rock, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A really different side of the deep talents of bassist Kent Carter – an artist you might know best for his improvised work with Steve Lacy and other members of the European free jazz scene – working here in a much more compositional mode! Music is by a quartet that features Carter on ... (Jazz, Out Sound)read moreCD
Kim Cascone —
Residualism ... CD Ritornell (Germany), 2001. Used ...
$3.99
Outside sounds in many styles -- musique concrete, electro-acoustic, minimalism, and many other experimental and avant modes!
Tetuzi Akiyama, Jason Kahn & Utah Kawasaki —
Ailack ... CD 
