SOUND SCULPURES-VARIOUS ARTISTS, ARC RECORDS, LP, 197?, CANADA

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ARC Canada put together a lovely cross section of sound sculpture spanning 3 decades of works. The collection was housed for 60 days at the Vancouver Art Gallery. During the collections stay multiple recordings were made within the gallery's conducive environment. The collection was curated by experimental sound and tape artist David Rosenboom (who had a short stint at Mills College here in Oakland) The recordings feature sounds not found on the Sonambient series of Harry Bertoia, making this collection heavily sought after by Bertoia collectors. Additional recordings of works by Francois & Bernard Baschet, Stephan Von Huene, Reinhold Pieper Marxhausen and David Jacobs make for a wonderful and eclectic collection of outerworldly soundscapes. A must hear for any sound art enthusiast!

MINATURES-V/A, PIPE RECORDS, LP, 1980, U.S.A

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V/A- Miniatures
1980. Pipe records
A sequence of 51 tiny masterpieces edited by Morgan Fisher. Amazing collection of mostly British composers and sound explorers. Everything from abstract poetry, jazz, experimental, avant-rock and more. It's impressive to see the amount of creativity these artists back into a 1-minute (or less) piece. You can hear them having fun with the work and doing things they are not normally used to doing, full spectrum of composition, sound and explorations. Each track is wonderfully commented on by label owner and project producer Morgan Fisher. Stand out tracks for us were Andy Partridge, The Work, Fred Frith (who squeezes pieces from every Henry Cow song into a power mash up piece!) Metabolist, The Residents & Mary Langford.

JON GIBSON-VISITATIONS, CPS, 1973, L.P., U.S.A

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NYC, 1973. Chatham Square Productions, INC
First solo LP by this Phillip Glass part time collaborator and label mate. Beautifully done left field modern minimal classical work. A wonderful excursion in "non-monumental music". Instrumentation includes: wooden flutes, bells, cymbals, synth, brook, claves and various effects. A great example of field recordings interweaving with composed musical instruments to create sonic blanketing . Put this on in place of your morning and evening ragas for a similar effect on heads.

SEE/HEAR NO. 1/RECORD MAGAZINE, L.P., SHP, 1968, CANADA

see/hearExtremely rare Canadian-only private press electro-acoustic, avant-garde, sound experiments, poetry LP from Vancouver, B.C. the inserts are superb!

JOSEPH CELLI-ORGANIC OBOE, STEREO O.O., L.P., 1977, U.S.A

MAGGIE PAYNE

SOON!!

FRANK GARVEY-LABYRINTH (PRISON WALLS), LP, 1978, WARP RECORDS, U.S.A

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THIS ALBUM IS THE SOUND SCORE FROM LARYRINTH, A PIECE FOR ELECTRONIC MUSIC AND LASER LIGHT CREATED IN CHICAGO'S OMEGA INTERMEDIA CENTER.

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SOUND AND LIGHT COMPOSED BY FRANK GARVEY
PERFORMED BY "MEGATON" ; PETER SHEFF, PAM SLOAN, AND FRANK GARVEY

COPYRIGHT 1978


OBSCURE MINIMAL DARK SYNTH AMBIENT SCAPES SUPERBLY EXECUTED AND RECORDED.

IN SHORT A LOST

MASTERPIECE.


IF YOU WERE A PART OF,, OR HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON THIS RECORDING/PRODUCTION/LASER SHOW PLEASE GET IN TOUCH!!! ENJOY.


SIDE 1

1. ORIGIN
2. CAPTURE
3. ABYSS

SIDE 2

1. SOWETO
2. INSIDE
3. COMIC RELIEF
4. ESCAPE

PGR-THE FLICKERING OF SOWING TIME, 1986, U.S.A

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This progressive second lp by oakland's pgr exudes a washed cascading river of drones- experimental and found sounds all layered together perfect.

POISON GAS RESEARCH navigates through industrial, psychedelic, ambient and musique concrète.

do you enjoy windy and carl? nurse with wound- dead can dance-

try this.

as minty fresh as this vinyl appears hints of hiss and evidence of dirt do come thru
hopefully better than the post of this album on the excellent shards of beauty spot-
...enjoy

MARTIN O'CUTHBERT-B.E.M.S/FRAGMETS OF A POSSESSED EGO, ESOTERIC, 1978, U.K.

THIS RARITY FEATURES FRIED AND MELTED ELECTRONICS FROM THE MOTHERSHIP OF O'CUTHBERT!!! GREAT!

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JOHN WIGGINS- ANAGENIC AND PARTICLE MUSIC, RRR, LP, 1987, U.S.A

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