An album with a really beautiful title – a reference to "My Favorite Things", perhaps – and one that's got a sound that's equally beautiful to match – very different than some of the noisier music we've heard from Eivind Aarset in the past! Yet as with all his other ... (Jazz, Out Sound)read moreLP, 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
(Recent Spanish pressing on Mental Experience, still in the shrink and includes the insert.)
A beautiful example of the really special sort of instrumental record that was coming out of Japan in the early 80s – music that's spare and minimal, but quite different than any sort of similar projects from other parts of the globe! Satoshi Ashikawa creates sounds in ways that resonate ... (Rock, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
One of the spookiest albums we've ever heard from moog maestro Mort Garson – way darker and more complex than his Wozzard Of Id or moogy horoscope projects – with a feel that's much more like his legendary Black Mass album! Like that one, there's a fair current of supernatural running ... (Rock, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A treasure trove of early electronic music from these two Dutch giants of the field – both every bit as important as the more widely-circulated French artists of the musique concrete generation! Badings is featured here on a number of great tracks – including the sublime "Capriccio ... 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
One of the most electronic albums that Beaver & Krause ever recorded – a set that was issued as a Guide To Electronic Music, but which has a way more to offer than just a simple demonstration record! Unlike most other B&K albums, which can feature a bit of rock mixing in with the ... (Rock, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Includes the booklet and Nonesuch inner sleeves. NOTE – Box has a split spine held with clear tape and black electrical tape at the top, and split corners held with clear tape.)
One of those great Candide packages of midcentury avant material – all handled by pianist David Burge! (Classical, Out Sound)LP, Vinyl record album
(Includes original insert.)
Bing & Ruth —
Species ... LP 4AD, 2020. New Copy 2LP ...
$26.9927.99
There's no Bing, there's no Ruth – just a trio headed by composer David Moore, who plays these fantastic lines on Farfisa organ alongside the clarinet of Jeremy Viner and bass of Jeff Ratner! The instrument was maybe used most famously in a setting like this by Philip Glass in the 70s – ... (Rock, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Fantastic sounds from Tim Blake – an artist who previously worked with Gong, and sometimes worked with Hawkwind – but who really came into his own on this legendary album of electronics! Tim works here on a self-constructed "crystal machine" – a bank of electronics that ... (Rock, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Shrinkwrap has a large hole in back where a promo sticker was applied to the cover.)
Patricia Brennan —
Maquishti ... LP Valley Of Search, 2021. New Copy 2LP Gatefold ...
$28.9929.99
Patricia Brennan is a vibist with experience in some farther reaches of avant expression – but here, she stakes her voice in a very beautiful way – with sounds that build slowly, take gentle shapes, and use both vibes and marimba at a level that has the songs opening up like patient ... (Jazz, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A very cool album that presents Cage at the height of his "chance" composition stage, and which features him and David Tudor playing a mixed bag of 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 Cage, ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Blue & red label stereo pressing. Cover has light ringwear.)
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
(Cover has some wear and an unglued top seam.)
Walter Carlos/Ilhan Mimaroglu/Tzvi Avni/Lewin-Rich —
Electronic Music ... LP Turnabout, Late 60s. Very Good+ ...
$11.99
Classic early album of electronic music that features some nice pieces by Walter Carlos – "Dialogues For Piano & 2 Loudspeakers" and "Variations For Flute & Electronic Sound" – both recorded in the years before he switched on Bach, and long before he changed ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A cassette-only rarity from the glory days of the tape-based new age underground – but a set that's much more strongly in line with 70s masterpieces from the German electronic music pioneers! Jeff Carney plays his instrumentation live here, and in ways that are hardly meditative or relaxing ... (Rock, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Carter Tutti Void —
Transverse ... LP Mute, 2011. Very Good+ ...
$19.99
Features Chris Carter & Cosi Fanni Tutti. (Rock, Out Sound)LP, Vinyl record album
A wild mix of electric and acoustic sounds from Henning Christiansen – done as a soundtrack for a film that's represented with images inside the cover – images that make the movie look as wild as the music on the record! Sounds come from a variety of sources – glass bowls, tubes, ... (Soundtracks, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Recent red vinyl pressing.)
Suzanne Ciani —
Flowers Of Evil ... LP Finders Keepers (UK), 1969. New Copy (reissue)...
Just Sold Out!
Suzanne Ciani has cut some sweeter sets over the years, but this album's definitely not one of them – as the whole thing is an early piece from the artist's career, recorded on the Buchla synthesizer, and based on the work of Charles Baudelaire! The core piece, "Flower Of Evil", ... (Sound Library, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Pascal Comelade is kind of a one-man powerhouse of sound here – turning out all these beautiful little short tunes on a variety of different instruments – pianos, organ, plastic saxes, guitars, vibes, toy piano, tenor, and lots more – often used in dreamy, lyrical ways that seem ... (Rock, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Some of the noisiest work we've ever heard from Bruce Ditmas – an artist who's best known for his 70s work that mixed together drums and electronics – an approach that's taken here to the farthest side of the sonic spectrum! The tracks are all recorded in Bruce's own studio, and ... (Jazz, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Limited to 500 copies.)
Double Fantasy —
Universal Ave ... LP Innovative Communication (Canada), 1986. Very Good+ ...
$29.99
A modern minimalist watershed – and maybe one of the first indications that Brian Eno was moving onto higher ideas in his music! The album's an important release on the Obscure series from Island Records – a special imprint that was curated by Eno, as a way of giving showcase to new ... (Rock, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(US pressing on EG. Vinyl has a mark that clicks for about 5 minutes during Side 1. Cover has some ring and edge wear, light peeling from moisture on front, and wide clear tape holding the bottom seam.)
Luc Ferrari —
Photophonie ... LP Transversales Disques (France), Late 70s/1980s/Early 90s. New Copy ...
$29.9947.99
A range of never-issued recordings by sound wizard Luc Ferrari – all pulled from his personal archive! Side one features the very extended "Photophonie" – done for a photographic exhibition, and with a sound that's in the noisier, more striking side of the electronic spectrum ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Sublime minimalist experiments from Pascal Comelade – music that's kind of a more offbeat, low-fi take on the territory of Terry Riley – as Comelade performs these beautiful long lines on both piano and organ! Pascal is working here on one track with guitar from Richard Pinhas, another ... (Rock, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Fantastic work – a mix of avant composition and improvisation – with Foss on piano, Howard Colf on cello, charles Delancey on percussion, and Richard Dufallo on clarinet. LP, Vinyl record album
(Includes large heavy booklet, too! Mono shaded dog pressing. Cover has some light wear, a slight bump on the bottom, and some light seam splitting on the top.)
Remi Gassman and Oskar Sala each present pieces of modern electronic music in this hard to find LP for Westminster, very much in the style that was in vogue in New York in the 50s and early 60s. Gassman performs his "Electronic Music For the Ballet Electronics", which has a spare spooky ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Seminal work from minimalist genius Philip Glass – a set that was issued during the same decade that saw his important opera box sets define his career – but one that also hearkens back to some of the leaner experimental modes of his early days! Part of the set was recorded in 1979, ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Don't let the 80s-styled cover, and the word "dance" put you off – as the set's filled with beautiful music from Philip Glass – two works done at a time when the composer was maybe at his greatest power, each for two difference dance-related projects! Side one features "I ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A beautiful orchestral work from Philip Glass – a set that features the long piece "Itaipu", and the shorter "The Canyon" – both handled with a mix of instrumentation and voices that really gives the music a sense of majesty! Although Robert Shaw recorded some ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Amazing work from Philip Glass – his second great opera, and a long-overdue follow-up to Einstein On The Beach – a set of music that's every bit as great as that groundbreaking work, but maybe even with stronger, fuller execution overall! The piece looks at the early political years of ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Dutch pressing, includes the booklet and lines CBS inner sleeves. Booklet has a cupring stain on the cover. Box has some wear at the corners of the spine.)
Some of the earliest work we've ever seen from Steven Halpern, and some of the best – a mid 70s set that predates some of his better-known new age records of later years – and which has a sound that's maybe a bit more compressed and focused overall! Steven's still playing plenty of ... (Jazz, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
The cover's a nice representation of the music – as things here are artful and minimal, although maybe a bit warmer than you might guess from some of these pictures! Hauschka works here in a series of slow-building melodic elements – often using just a few key instruments wrapped ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A beautiful extended composition for the coronavirus generation – a piece written for cello and percussion in a very minimal way that builds and shifts over time – all to examine the "care and empathy that emerge when two lives share space"! That care is very clear here ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Bizarre home made electronics from the enigmatic Iasos – an artist who later went onto a bit of fame in the new age, but who's working here in a trippier, spacier, almost psychedelic mode! The style is often quite personal, and almost naive – as Iasos works on guitar, keyboards, ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
An instrumental record with a very special promise – one that it "will tend to induce a three dimensional picture or hologram in your mind"! There's a few key conditions – you've got to close your eyes, use headphones, and focus on the music – but that last part is very ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Japanese electronic ambient at its best – a set of tracks created by Yasushi Yamashita and Makoko Inoue, and done in a way that's an effortless combination of natural impulses and computer technology! The tunes are very slow-moving and beautiful – unfolding like little flowers, and ... (Rock, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
One of the most unusual albums we've ever heard from Italian pianist Enrico Intra – and that's saying a lot, given his legacy of creative sounds from the 70s onward! This set has Intra playing piano, but also has all the spacey elements you'd guess from the cover – a very unusual mix ... (Jazz, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A haunting album of shorter chamber works by some lesser known avant garde composers of the 60s. The works are all played by the Hamburger Kammersolisten, with direction by Francis Travis – and instrumentation that includes flute, oboe, violin, cello, and piano. The range of composers is ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Rare work from the archives of Basil Kirchen – very appropriately titled, given the madness of the legendary UK composer! As Jonny Trunk explains in the notes, Kirchen left the music behind with little in the way of information – but that hardly detracts from the quality of the music, ... (Sound Library, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Pieces include "a3250" by Matthias Kriesberg, "Form" and "Form IV" by Stefan Wolpe, "Tableaux" by Milton Babbitt, and "Fantasy For Piano And Electronic Tape" by Arthur Kreiger. (Classical, Out Sound)LP, Vinyl record album
(Cover has some ring and edge wear and is bent at the bottom right corner.)
With the Columbia String Quartet performing Lewis' "Signs & Circuits"; and performers for the Rovics' pieces include Anne Chamberlain on piano, David Wells on cello, Lee Dougherty on soprano, and Sylvia Alexander on flute. (Classical, Out Sound)LP, Vinyl record album
An amazing sonic portrait of the modern city – one created on the early 70s Italian scene, but lost to the shifting sands of time, due to its release as a sound library-only album! We've heard Maria Teresa Luciani on a few other records of this nature – but this one may well be her ... (Sound Library, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Way more than just another set of soundtrack work from the Italian scene of the 70s – and instead, a record that stands equally well on its own, with a really complicated mix of larger themes, folksy currents, and some avant garde instrumentation! The music is possibly some of the warmest we' ... (Sound Library, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A really cool record, and one that, we think, was created just for Christian Marclay to use in one of his turntable performances! The record has a longish track on each side, but mostly features shorter selections that are lock grooves – all with unusual sounds that are most likely used by ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Test pressing, with two holes in the middle – maybe so that the record could also be played off center.)
A really beautiful record from Ann McMillan – one of the lesser-known talents in the female legacy of electronic music – but one we'd put right up there right next to Daphne Oram for her inventive genius! The set was recorded at the legendary Princeton Center For Electronic Music ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Beautiful heavy reissue – done just like an original Folkways album!)
Wonderful sounds from space – put together in a rare album that was initially issued in a small batch, to coincide with the Seattle Worlds Fair in 1962! For the set, Art Mineo comes up with an amazing batch of spacey sounds that were played at the fair in conjunction with a machine called ... (Now Sound, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
This was the first of Moondog's albums on Columbia – produced in a style that took him a lot more seriously than other albums on labels like Brunswick or Prestige, and handled in a way that slots it nicely between the label's experiments in modern music with artists like Terry Riley or Harry ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Includes download!)
Benjamin Mork —
Mechanical Piano ... LP Jazzland (Norway), 2021. New Copy Gatefold ...
$22.9929.90
There's nothing too mechanical about the sound of the piano here – although at some level, there's also some very interesting mechanics involved in the project! The music started out when Benjamin Mork bought an old grand piano that had been painted blue – and rather than try to ... (Jazz, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Ore is Sam Underwood on tuba, with contibutions by Kazuyuki Kishino, oud player Khyam Allami, trombonist Sophie Cooper, bassonist Thomas Stone, and baritone horn player Beck Baker. LP, Vinyl record album
Two amazing works from Belgian electronic genius Alain Pierre – both appearing in this form for the first time ever! Side one features 11 minutes of continuous music that Pierre created for the short film O Sidarta – music that mixes a range of electronics, keyboards, and acoustic ... (Soundtracks, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A contemporary record, but one that's dedicated to the older musical creations of Satoshi Ashikawa – and which has a similar mix of minimal and environmental modes! The sounds here are beautiful – like little instrumental flowers that open up slowly and tunefully – much more ... (Rock, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Cover has light wear and some application wrinkles in the front & back paste-ons.)
Neil B. Rolnick —
Solos ... LP Arch, 1983. Near Mint- ...
$9.99
The record consists of 4 pieces, one featuring solo trombone perfomed by George Lewis along with computer generated tape. Other pieces focus on percussion, flute and digital synthesizer. LP, Vinyl record album
The definitely got the title right on this one – as the album's got plenty of violin, but never in the way you might expect – as the instrument is used in all these weird and wonderful ways that really make the record a treat! There's neither classical nor jazz-based violin approaches ... (Sound Library, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Amazing! This is one of the coolest sets we've seen in years – and everything about it is fantastic, from the package right down to the triple-length set of music! The set features rare unreleased recordings from Raymond Scott's legendary Manhattan Research electronic music studios – ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Individually numbered limited edition of 750 – on heavyweight clear vinyl! Includes download.)
(Cover has a small rip on the top left corner and some light wear.)
Dave Smith/Jan Steele & Janet Sherbourne —
Albanian Summer ... LP Practical (UK), 1984. Near Mint- ...
$28.99
A long piece composed by Dave Smith, recorded at the Electro Acoustic Music Studio in Birmingham, and featuring two artists better known for their interpretations of John Cage material on a late 70s album on Eno's Obscure Music label! LP, Vinyl record album
(Cover has some light wear, and a bit of light wear on the top seam.)
A landmark early recording from Morton Subotnick – and a piece of music that really pushed analogue electronics forward from the previous academic generation! Subtonick's style here is much more freewheeling – with almost an improvisational feel at times – sounds and noises that ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Groovy performace of Messiaen's classic, played by the 70s Tashi modern music ensemble – which features Fred Scherry on cello, Ida Kavafin on violin, Richard Stolzman on clarinet, and Peter Serkin on piano. Not totally traditional, but a pretty good reading of the piece nonetheless. LP, Vinyl record album
(Cover has some ringwear, edge wear, some splitting in the top seam, split bottom seam, and a light sticker spot.)
Hardly the kind of record you'd expect with the words "castle" and "country" in the title – a madly tripped-out sound library session that's equal parts psych funk and experimental sounds! Some of the shorter tunes are nice and funky – with raw, minimal drums and ... (Sound Library, Out Sound)read moreLP, Vinyl record album