ROLF GEHLHAAR LP “Wege / Ways” – Metaphon
Rolf Gehlhaar (1943-2019) was an instrumental and electronic music composer, and a pioneer in computer controlled interactive music. He grew up in the US where he studied philosophy and composition at Yale University. In 1967 he moved back to Germany to become Stockhausen’s personal assistant and member of his performing ensemble. In 1969 Gehlhaar co-founded, along with Johannes Fritsch (Metaphon 012) and David Johnson, the Feedback Studios in Cologne, a new-music performance center and publishing house. He later moved to England, where he became in 1979 a founding member of the Electro-Acoustic Music Association and later on senior lecturer in design and digital media. Gehlhaar’s compositions include symphonies, instrumental works, experimental and electronic music, interactive computer controlled music and everything in between.
The three previously unreleased tracks on this LP only show a glimpse of the versatility of his adventurous and innovative musical ideas.
The LP comes with a foldout insert including photos and extensive program notes.
$27
TIMO VAN LUIJK – KRIS VANDERSTRAETEN – DANIEL DUCHAMP – LUIS FERIN LP Traces du hasard – La scie Dorée
This album is a bit of an accumulation of coincidences. It is the first recording session I did with Kris Vanderstraeten, back in 1994, together with Daniel Duchamp and Luis Ferin. The session recording had since disappeared from attention and 30 years later, while going through old DAT tape archives, I came across it by chance, initially even not knowing who/what it was… The tape started with a recording of cars, captured from my balcony in Brussels, where I lived at the time. I decided to integrate the cars as an intro to the music session that fitted in seamlessly. Both the recording quality and the musical performance were remarkably good. A lost and found little treasure. It was a refreshing time for me, playing with people from a jazz and free improvisation background. We became good friends;
A few copies $27
coming in the next days
In Camera ( Timo Van Luijk & Christoph Heemann)LP Arrival – La scie dorée
Four years after we got Lost in Spice we reached the point of Arrival. An altar on the surface of the water is burning with flames. Behind it you can see a half of the Earth’s globe, and on it there’s a bright throne. A pale, translucent ruler wearing a crown sits in the throne. The globe is surrounded by a ball of shadows on which sits a larger dark ruler on a dark throne. Behind the globe are mountain peaks, and all of it is reflected in the water. Above the mountains are clouds which merge into rivers and end in a curved horizon on which forests stand, and the sun rises between them. Above this horizon is another sky with lunar crescents and comets. Above this sky are rows of angels bent over, above which the stars shine. The sun shines in the top left corner and the crescent moon in the right.
A few copies available $27
coming in the next days
Michael Ranta / Takehisa Kosugi LP Multiple musics – Metaphon
ltd to 500
Previously unreleased live recording from the Ranta archives. The creative duo of Michael Ranta and Takehisa Kosugi performed many times in the 1970’s and 1980’s. On this outstanding performance, recorded at the Japanese Culture Institute in Cologne in 1987, the application of an advanced multi delay system, independently utilized by both players, plays a central role. The smartly treated cyclic tapestry of the delay system (modulated, transformed, harmonized) injects additional dimensions to the highly coordinated improvisation with voice, percussion, violin and electronics, creating interactive ‘composition-like’ textures being ‘Multiple Musics’.
A few copies $27
Mimic CD Works – Enban
Yasuo Sugibayashi, who has led the band “Kujira” since the early 1980s, played electronic music before forming Kujira. Around 1980, he released two singles and one album, but the albums were completely anonymous, with no artist name written anywhere on the cover, and the solid electronic sounds that could not be related to the rich world of songs that would later become Kujira, were only known to a small number of people as mysterious independent records. Perhaps because the electronic sounds were connected to the later world of electronica and acoustic music, some of the next generation of musicians in those fields whispered about his existence, and this time all of his works have been compiled into one CD. Mastering was done by Taku Unami, and his mysterious activities at that time are revealed in an interview with himself, liberating the unknown early ’80s electro music! After all, he only performed live once at that time! That one performance was the opening act for JUKE led by Shinro Ohtake, which shows his isolation from the scene and his solitary nature.
$24
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