Oneiromancer
(Die Stadt - DS90) CD $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
Baker (ARC, Nadja) explores the deconstructive sonic possibilities of the electric guitar as a primary sound source (with help from bass guitar, drum machines, tape loops and vocals), creating music that ranges from experimental to post-rock to contemporary classical.
RICHARD CHARTIER / ASMUS TIETCHENS
Fabrication
(Die Stadt - DS99) CD $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
The first collaboration by these two renowned sound artists, which began during the production of Re-Post-Refabricated, a project where Chartier selected artists to rework and create new works from his 1998 CD Postfabricated for its reissue in 2003, and evolved into its present state after Tietchens continued to explore the source materials and suggested further formal collaboration. Include a limited edition bonus CD entitled Pre-Fabrication.
JONATHAN COLECLOUGH / ANDREW LILES
Torch Songs
(Die Stadt - DS93) 2xLP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Liles reworked a live recording of Coleclough performing solo at Intergration 3 in 2004, later adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing additional live recordings supplied by Coleclough. Gatefold jacket features “I dreamt I was a river,” the poem composed and painted by Geoff Sawers during a performance with Coleclough in Geneva in March 2005 (the sound of his brush painting this lettering is audible on side B). 180-gram vinyl.
Ninth Set
(Die Stadt - DS103) CD $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
A 67-minute masterpiece in five parts by this Irish composer who was awarded the Magisterium Prize at Bourges International Electro-acoustic Music Competition (open to composers with a minimum of 25 years of professional experience, with the objective of promoting and diffusing works that might become milestones in the history of electroacoustic music). Previous works include the 5xCD set Babel which took ten years to compose, the three-hour Passades, and Operating Theatre's Rapid Eye Movements (United Dairies, 1980). Doyle has worked with Fovea Hex, Clodagh Simonds, Brian Eno, Percy Jones and Colin Potter.
JOHN DUNCAN / KONTAKTE DER JUNGLINGE / C.M. VON HAUSSWOLF
Untitled
(Die Stadt - DS104) CD $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
(Die Stadt - DS104) Used CD $11.00
A collection of live recordings. Duncan’s was made at The Compound in San Francisco 2007. Kontakt der Jünglinge’s (aka Asmus Tietchens and Thomas Köner) is an excerpt from their live performance at Mutek Festival, Montreal, 2003. C.M. Von Hausswolff recorded his at All Tomorrows Parties, London, 2005.
Gone Every Evening
(Die Stadt - DS106) 7-inch $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Two strange songs — collaborative pieces with Fabrizio Palumbo, Clodagh Simonds, Laura Sheeran, and Michael Begg — delightful and faintly unsettling. Gatefold cover with printed inner sleeve designed by Liles.
Die Hennen Zähne
(Die Stadt - DS57/DS66) 3-inch CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Four-track mini CD combining tracks from two planned but never-released 10-inches Maus and Die Hennen Zähne. “Die Kralle” is a David Jackman track from his archives, recorded in the early 1980s. The title track recalls TNB/Organum material and includes the sound of broken glass and Tibetan horns. “Maus” is the centerpiece, typical old school Organum. The quiet and haunting “Kazi” is a live improvisation featuring Michael Prime and Emma O'Bong.
Amen
(Die Stadt - DS95) CD $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
A work in two parts using grand piano, Hammond organ, tower bell, gong and voices.
Omega
(Die Stadt - DS101) CD $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
The third and final part of the Organum trilogy that includes Sanctus (Robot) and Amen (Die Stadt)
Temporal
(Die Stadt - DS111) CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
David Jackman and Z'ev's third collaboration following Tinnitus VU CD (Touch) and Tocsin (Die Stadt). Z'ev reworked basic sound material from the Organum archive back in 2006, which resulted in a collaborative mixing of the material in early 2008, followed by Jackman's finishing touches. The overall tone owes more to the classic multi-layered and intense Organum sound than to recent works.
Marches Funèbres
(Die Stadt - DS112) CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Die Stadt - DS112) Used CD $5.00
On this installment of the ongoing reissue program of early works of Asmus Tietchens, the good Herr melds ambient funeral music with a modern classical / experimental touch. Two tracks from the original LP (Multimood 1989) plus one previously unreleased nine-minute bonus piece from 1979. Edition of 600.
Abfleischung
(Die Stadt - DS108) CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
The twelfth part in the ongoing re-release series of Tietchens albums, this one based on material recorded as early as 1967-1970, recycled into short, completely different tracks in 1989 (Hamster Records, 1989). With two previously unreleased tracks from the original master tapes.
Aus Freude am Elend
(Die Stadt - DS105) CD $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
Eleventh part in the ongoing re-release series of Tietchens albums, this one based on the human voice as a primary sound source: ecstatic religious people; other people making love; someone singing to Annette and Peggy out of the trash bin of a publishing company; the screams of furious teachers. Includes two tracks that were not on the original LP (Dom America, 1988).
Notturno
(Die Stadt - DS102) CD $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
The tenth part in the ongoing re-release series of Tietchens albums, this one an old-fashioned avant garde album that crosses over from industrial to academic electroacoustics, and uses grand piano with prepared strings played with electric beater, wire brush, coins and other unusual aids, and generously treated with studio tricks. With two tracks not on the original LP (Discos Esplendor Geometrico, 1987) but were on the first CD reissue (Barooni, 1992). Remastered from original tapes.
Zwingburgen des Hedonismus / Mysterien des Hafens
(Die Stadt - DS96) CD $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
The ninth part in the ongoing re-release series of Tietchens albums, this one combining the Fairlight CM1 composition “Zwingburgen des Hedonismus” (Multimood, 1987) with “Mysterien des Hafens” (Odd Size 1988), which uses underwater microphones. The bonus track “Faircomp 1K” is a previously unreleased different version of “Zwingburgen des Hedonismus.”
Geboren, um zu Dienen
(Die Stadt - DS92) CD $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
The eighth part in the ongoing re-release series of Tietchens albums, this one his industrial album originally released by Discos Esplendor Geometrico in 1986. Here Tietchens adds his own musical aspects to the general apocalyptic noises of the genre, inspired by the canonical topics of fear, hysteria, claustrophobia, machine and the imminent threat of the end. Tracks were recorded hastily, with little thought for dynamics, duration, precision and construction. What sounded dirty stayed dirty, the raw and the unsculpted part of the industrial dogma. With three unreleased bonus tracks from the same period.
Operations Of Spirit Communication
(Die Stadt - DS31) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
The classic album from 2000, partly based on (and also dedicated to) the work of Friedrich Jürgenson, who recorded the “voices of the dead.” Gatefold jacket, clear vinyl. 300 copies.
Operation Of Spirit Communication
(Die Stadt - DS31A) 7-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Two unreleased tracks recorded in 2006 intended as a companion to the LP of the same name. Full-color sleeve, clear vinyl.
Calcutta Gas Chamber
(Die Stadt - DS97) LP picture disc $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Inspired by nightmarish experiences during a visit to Calcutta in 1990, the late Australian composer conveys his impressions through electronic manipulation of field recordings made in an abandoned electrical power station in Brisbane in 1992. Grating and harsh, as indicative of nefarious activities related to death by machinery, beautifully composed and produced, completely remastered, with new artwork. Previous editions released by ND, 1993 and Cold Spring, 2006.