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Nonesuch Reich, Steve: Music For 18 Musicians (2LP-180g) LP
ESSENTIAL! The 1998 Nonesuch recording of the landmark minimalist work of the 20th century, Music for 18 Musicians, available on vinyl for the first time. Pressed at Pallas MFG, Diepholz, Germany on two 180g LPs, with old-style double pocket gatefold jack
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Reich, Steve: Music For 18 Musicians (2LP-180g) LP
C$74.99
Superior Viaduct Cacciapaglia, Roberto: Sei Note In Logica LP
Roberto Cacciapaglia is an Italian composer and pianist who started out in the fertile Milan avant-garde scene of the 1970s, which included Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio, Lino Capra Vaccina, Francesco Messina, among others. After studying at the conservator
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Cacciapaglia, Roberto: Sei Note In Logica LP
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Superior Viaduct Cacciapaglia, Roberto: Sonanze LP
Roberto Cacciapaglia is an Italian composer and pianist who started out in the fertile Milan avant-garde scene of the 1970s, which included Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio, Lino Capra Vaccina, Francesco Messina, among others. After studying at the conservator
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Cacciapaglia, Roberto: Sonanze LP
C$44.99
Sonambient Bertoia, Harry: Mechanization 1&2 LP
On this new LP, Harry Bertoia shows why he may have been the first industrial musician. Bertoia often referred to his sound sculptures as a "collaboration with industry" and on this new LP Bertoia is intentionally creating heavy, rhythmic music he describ
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Bertoia, Harry: Mechanization 1&2 LP
C$44.99
Blank Forms Hennix, Catherine Christer: Further Selections from The Electric Harpsichord LP
Rediscovered and compiled for release shortly before her death in November 2023, "Further Selections from The Electric Harpsichord" presents a never-before-heard recording of composer and artist Catherine Christer Hennix's early magnum opus. Originally de
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Hennix, Catherine Christer: Further Selections from The Electric Harpsichord LP
C$34.99
Black Truffle Sonami/Radigue: A Song For Two Mothers/OCCAM IX LP
Black Truffle presents A Song for two Mothers/Occam IX, the first ever solo release from Laetitia Sonami. Born in France in 1957, Sonami studied with Éliane Radigue in Paris before moving to California in 1978 to study electronic music at Mills College. S
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Sonami/Radigue: A Song For Two Mothers/OCCAM IX LP
C$49.99
Superior Viaduct Reich, Steve: Four Organs / Phase Patterns LP
Steve Reich remains one of the most important figures in 20th century music. Though he studied at the prestigious arts institutions Julliard and Mills College, by the mid-1960s Reich set about dismantling the very orthodoxy that he had been trained in. Fo
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Reich, Steve: Four Organs / Phase Patterns LP
C$44.99
Important Kubisch, Christina & Trondheim Voices: Stromsanger 2022: For Six Voices And Electromagnetic Waves LP
"The general theme of the composition is the idea of sounds which travel. During a tram ride from the city up to the hills with an old tram I discovered not only stunning views of the surrounding landscape but as well a special soundscape. Wearing a custo
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Kubisch, Christina & Trondheim Voices: Stromsanger 2022: For Six Voices And Electromagnetic Waves LP
C$44.99
Superior Viaduct Young, La Monte / Marian Zazeela: Dream House 78'17" LP
--- OUT MAY 17, 2024 ---

Originally released in 1974 on Shandar, Dream House 78'17" is the second full-length album by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. This first-time US edition reproduces the original gatefold sleeve with beautiful calligraphy by Z
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Young, La Monte / Marian Zazeela: Dream House 78'17" LP
C$49.99
ReGRM Cahen, Robert: La Nef Des Fous LP
In the 1970s, Robert Cahen turned to the burgeoning field of video art, where he became a pioneering artist. He was originally trained in musique concrète, his creative background, and joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in 1972. The pieces on this
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Cahen, Robert: La Nef Des Fous LP
C$44.99
ReGRM Vaggione, Horacio: Schall/Rechant LP
A discreet but essential figure in the field of musical creation, Horacio Vaggione has been crafting an ambitious, precise and highly significant body of work for over the last fifty years, coupled with a demanding research activity. This disc offers four
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Vaggione, Horacio: Schall/Rechant LP
C$44.99
Blank Forms Hennix, Catherine Christer: Solo For Tamburium LP
"Solo for Tamburium" is legendary minimalist composer Catherine Christer Hennix's first solo recording in nearly 50 years, since her vaunted 1976 record "The Electric Harpsichord". Using a keyboard-controlled suite of eighty-eight electronic tambura, Henn
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Hennix, Catherine Christer: Solo For Tamburium LP
C$40.99
Week-End Eastman, Julius: Stay On It LP
In 1973, Stay On It turned the coordinates of avant-garde music on its head. It is minimal, but un-ashamedly groovy; it is open to improvisation, grants performers all the freedom they could need, but it isn't jazz and never slips into the non-committal.
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Eastman, Julius: Stay On It LP
C$64.99
Important Dempster, Stuart: Underground Overlays From The Cistern Chapel LP
"This is where you have been forever and will always be forever." Stuart Dempster, speaking about what it feels like to be in a cistern where time seems to stop. Stuart Dempster created Underground Overlays From The Cistern Chapel in the same cistern wher
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Dempster, Stuart: Underground Overlays From The Cistern Chapel LP
C$64.99
Superior Viaduct Branca, Glenn: The Ascension LP
Back in print! Glenn Branca’s first full-length album The Ascension is a colossal achievement. After touring much of 1980 with an all-star band featuring four guitarists (Branca, fellow composers Ned Sublette and David Rosenbloom, and future Sonic Youth m
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Branca, Glenn: The Ascension LP
C$34.99
Frozen Reeds Eastman, Julius: Femenine LP
Double-LP version, black vinyl in gatefold sleeve -- on vinyl for the first time, in a revelatory new remaster by Jim O'Rourke. In 2016, Finnish label frozen reeds published the première release of Julius Eastman's Femenine, for chamber ensemble. Laying u
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Eastman, Julius: Femenine LP
C$69.99
Charly Musica Elettronica Viva: The Sound Pool LP
Formed in Rome in the late 60s, the ever shifting collective Musica Elettronica Viva included such luminaries as Fred Rzewski, Alvin Curran and Richard Teitelbaum among others, and aimed to conduct the most radical experiments in sound possible. Although
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Musica Elettronica Viva: The Sound Pool LP
C$41.99
Superior Viaduct Young, La Monte / Marian Zazeela: 31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM / 23 VIII 64 2:50:45 - 3:11 AM The Volga Delta LP
“La Monte Young is the daddy of us all.” —Brian Eno
La Monte Young was born in Bern, Idaho in 1935. He began his music studies in Los Angeles and later Berkeley, California before relocating to New York City in 1960, where he became a primary influence o
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Young, La Monte / Marian Zazeela: 31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM / 23 VIII 64 2:50:45 - 3:11 AM The Volga Delta LP
C$39.99
ReGRM Ferreyra, Beatriz: Senderos de Luz y Sombras LP
Decades into a career that began at Paris's fabled GRM, Argentinian innovator Beatriz Ferreyra is still worlds ahead, transmuting environmental recordings and snake-like foley rustles into cosmological whispers that ponder the universe's big questions. Co
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Ferreyra, Beatriz: Senderos de Luz y Sombras LP
C$39.99
Nonesuch Reich, Steve: Runner/Music for Ensemble & Orchestra LP
Nonesuch Records releases the first recordings of Steve Reich's" Runner" (2016) and "Music for Ensemble and Orchestra" (2018), performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and conducted by Susanna Mälkki. The New York Times calls "Runner," "a calmly luminous
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Reich, Steve: Runner/Music for Ensemble & Orchestra LP
C$29.99
Reich, Steve/Terry Riley: Six Pianos / Keyboard Study #1 LP
After the widely noticed performance at the "Acht Brücken Festival 2016" at Cologne's Philharmonic Hall, Gregor Schwellenbach, Hauschka, Erol Sarp (of Grandbrothers), Daniel Brandt and Paul Frick (both of Brandt Brauer Frick) and John Kameel Farah release
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Reich, Steve/Terry Riley: Six Pianos / Keyboard Study #1 LP
C$44.99
Portraits GRM Malone, Kali: Living Torch LP
Contemporary drone visionary Kali Malone gathers a new, electroacoustic ensemble for her monumental first entry to the GRM pantheon, factoring her pursuit of dynamic timbral horizons with a subtly re-calibrated sense of scale and heightened emotive levity
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Malone, Kali: Living Torch LP
C$39.99
Superior Viaduct Prima Materia: La Coda Della Tigre LP
Prima Materia was a vocal improvisation ensemble, founded by Roberto Laneri in 1973. Composed entirely of vocalists with no academic training, the group developed various techniques—revolving mostly around the use of overtones—that would embody their uniq
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Prima Materia: La Coda Della Tigre LP
C$34.99
Black Editions Higuchi, Keiko: Vertical Language LP
Heavy tip-on jacket with matte pigment stamping and insert. Based in Tokyo, Keiko Higuchi is a vocalist and instrumentalist internationally renowned both for her solo performances and extensive collaborations in the world of underground improvisation, jaz
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Higuchi, Keiko: Vertical Language LP
C$34.99