Posted in incredibly strange music, spoken word on July 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
01 Rusty Lays It On The Line (24:35)
02 Am I Getting Old? (22:56)
Total time: 47:30
Recorded live at The Landmark, Dallas, Texas
LP released 1975 on Crescendo Records
Rusty Warren’s carreer in risqué stand-up comedy started in the 1940s, her sexual jokes appealing to middle-class couples and healthy women at a time when sex was not a fashionable [...]
Posted in electronic, sound art, spoken word on July 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Live performance Paris, March 30th, 2008
Duration: 34:07
Personal recording at Maison de Radio France,
During GRM 2008 ‘Présences Electroniques’ festival
Vocal sounds only+live electronic processing by an enchantress of the genre, Norvegian Maja Ratkje. Expect undecipherable utterings, abstract sound treatments, extreme dynamics, and total mastery of up-to-date audio trickeries (real-time sampler, sound effects a go-go and what not). [...]
Posted in contemporary european, spoken word on July 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Vagina, ceremony for voice and ensemble (46:29)
Maria de Alvear: voice
Ensemble Modern, Diego Masson cond.
Recorded 1996, CD released 2000 on World Edition, Germany.
Maria de Alvear’s music is a highly original mix of Alhambra, Darmstadt and Fluxus influences. Her art is rooted in 12-tone music composing style ; minimalism ; Spanish tradition and Flamenco ; Fluxus-like performance [...]
Posted in field recording, sound art, spoken word on July 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
01 Turkish Square (09:11)
02 Abbey Sounds (12:26)
03 Rain (07:05)
04 Solstice Sample (10:28)
05 Three Sunbeams (05:47)
Total time: 45:00
LP released on Igloo Records, 1987
As far as I can tell, this is Moniek Darge’s unique solo recording, and a major release in the field of location recording and sound poetry. She is well known today as a violinist, [...]
Posted in avant rock, sound art, spoken word on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
To this day, Danis Tragopoulos, Thanasis Chondros and Alexandra Katsiani form the greek avant-garde trio Δημοσιοϋπαλληλικό Ρετιρέ or Dimossioypalliliko Retire – meaning ‘Penthouse of the Civil Servant’. The band started organizing performances in Thessaloniki’s art galeries and self releasing cassettes and LPs in 1983. Their happenings were art events including sculptures and specific outfits, [...]
Posted in french, sound art, spoken word on June 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
01 Kristoff K-Roll ‘Jacques le Propagandiste - Portrait en Forme de Rebus’ (12:16)
02 Aka Bondage ‘E-lettrism’ (04:13)
03 Black Sifichi ‘Yours Faithfully’ (03:55)
04 Christine Webster ‘A Metaphysical Layback’ (10:21)
05 Costes ‘Tête De Mort’ (03:29)
06 Dragibus ‘A Dos de Chameau’ (03:16)
07 Jean-François Pauvros ‘Sans Titre’ (08:16)
08 Mika Pusse ‘Vide’ (04:24)
09 D.E.F. ‘ A Last Glass of White [...]
Posted in electronic, field recording, sound art, spoken word on May 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Traumpfad - A Travelogue In Three Acts
Act I: An Indian’s Death’s Sounds
01 Dead Slow (3:05)
02 The Sexless God (1:27)
03 Our Sleeping Mother Yamuna (2:52)
04 Aqua: Vita Mortis (2:39)
05 Ignis: Mors Vitae (3:40)
06 Leichenwasser (3:32)
07 Namaste (2:37)
08 Bang Lassi (6:34)
Act II: Everything That Exists is Transitory and Perishable
09 Everything That Exists is Transitory and Perishable (1:06)
10 [...]
Posted in avant rock, electronic, spoken word on April 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
01 Dull Knife Dull Life; Sharp Knife Short Life (6:53)
Graham: vocals
Michael Fitzgerald: synthesizer
Potemkin: guitar & synthesizer
Robert Kennedy: Farfisa organ
Sri (Scott Kerr): drum machine, synthesizer & tapes
02 Now a God Dances Through Me (1:52)
Text from ‘The Writing of the Disaster’ by Maurice blanchot
St. Deborah: voice
Sri: recording & mix
7” Released 1988 on Freedom In A Vacuum (Toronto)
The [...]
