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ARTAUD, ANTONIN - POUR EN FINIR AVEC LE JUGEMENT DE DIEUAntonin Artaud was a French poet, dramatist, and director and one of the most important figures in 20th century European theater, and especially the avant-garde. His piece 'Pour En Finir Avec Le Jugement De Dieu' was recorded in 1947 to be aired on French radio. But the ... read more » |
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BADINGS, HENK/DICK RAAIJMAKERS - EVOLUTIONS, CONTRASTS & ELECTRONIC MUSICOne of the most prolific composers of contemporary music in The Netherlands, Henk Badings was born in Indonesia in 1907, the son of an East Indies Company army officer, and orphaned at an early age. Back in Holland, Badings worked as a mining engineer and palaeontologist, ... read more » |
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BERIO/BOULEZ/MESSIAEN/STOCKHAUSEN - SERENATA I/SONATINE/CANTEYODJAYA/ZEITMASZEThe pieces collected on this album are all taken from performances staged for the 1957 'Le Domaine Musical' season, beginning with Luciano Berio's 'Serenata I,' conducted by Pierre Boulez, which debuted in Paris in March of that year; arranged for flute and fourteen ... read more » |
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BHATTACHARYA, DEBEN - MUSIC ON THE DESERT ROADThe late Deben Bhattacharya was a noted Bengali record producer, ethnomusicologist, poet, documentarian, radio producer, and all around renaissance man. Having moved from Northern India to London as a young man, Bhattacharya began working for the BBC as a radio producer. In ... read more » |
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CHAINO & HIS AFRICAN PERCUSSION SAFARI - JUNGLE ECHOES (IT)The African American bongo player known as Chaino released a series of sublime exotica albums during the 1950s, based around themes of "savage Africa," supposed tribal mating rituals, voodoo practices and other concepts of exotica excess. Born Leon Johnson in ... read more » |
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DEREN, MAYA - VOICES OF HAITIRepress! Maya Deren (1917-1961) was a Russian-American filmmaker and one of the most important voices in avant-garde cinema of the mid-20th century. When she decided, between the end of the 40s and the beginning of the 50s, to make an ethnographic film in Haiti, she was ... read more » |
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EIMERT, HERBERT - EPITAPH FÜR AIKICHI KUBOYAMA/SECHS STUDIENHerbert Eimert was a German music renaissance man, with his expertise ranging from theory to composition, editing, radio production, and criticism. He wrote numerous books on music theory, worked for years at the British occupational forces run Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk. ... read more » |
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ESKENAZI, ROZA - REMBETISSARoza Eskenazi was a giant of rembetika, the urban Greek music of Ottoman origin associated with the poor underclass. Eskenazi's life was extraordinary: born Sarah Spinazi to a poor Sephardic Jewish family in Constantinople, probably in the mid-1890s, after an itinerant ... read more » |
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ESTANG, LUC -& PIERRE HENRY- - SAINT-EXUPÉRYDuring his long and illustrious career the French composer and musique concrète pioneer Pierre Henry created a lare amount of incidental music to accompany literary texts, both on record and for the stage, from Jules Verne to Victor Hugo, from Lautréamont to ... read more » |
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GURDJIEFF, G.I. - IMPROVISATIONSG.I. Gurdjieff was an Armenian and Greek philosopher, spiritual teacher, and musician, whose teachings of The Fourth Way influenced thousands worldwide and created communities that still exist to this day. His goal was to teach humans to reach a higher consciousness out of ... read more » |
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HENRY, PIERRE - ORPHÉE BALLETScored for Maurice Béjart's choreography to the 'Orphée Ballet', based on the Greek god Orpheus, this is one of Pierre Henry's finest works of musique concrète, the genre in which Henry was an early innovator and to which he devoted his career. After ... read more » |
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HOLCOMB, ROSCOE/WADE WARD - THE MUSIC OF ROSCOE HOLCOMB & WADE WARDA magical collection of Kentucky's own Roscoe Holcomb, one of the most legendary figures of Appalachian music and a huge influence on the '60s folk scene, and Wade Ward, a Virginia fiddle and clawhammer banjo player who's style has been often imitated. Playing banjo, ... read more » |
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KULTHUM, UMM - LA YA HABIBIA titan of middle eastern music, the contralto singer Umm Kulthum was hailed as "The Voice of Egypt" or "Egypt's Fourth Pyramid," and as she reportedly sold over 80 million records worldwide during her lifetime, she is one of the most popular singers of ... read more » |
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LINDBLAD, RUNE - DEATH OF THE MOON & OTHER EARLY WORKSRune Lindblad was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1923 and began composing music in 1953. This was a time when composers in Germany and France were feuding over the merits of electronic music made by pure wave oscillators versus musique concrete, which used the tape recorder ... read more » |
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LOGOTHETIS, ANESTIS - HÖR!-SPIEL/NEKROGLOG 1961/FANTASMATA 1960The Greek avant-garde composer Anestis Logothetis was noted for his pioneering tape techniques as well as developing his own notation system for composition that incorporated visual symbols meant to be interpreted by the performers. '"Hör!-spiel"/Nekrologlog ... read more » |
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MORESCHI, ALESSANDRO - THE LAST CASTRATOAlessandro Moreschi (1858-1922) was the last known castrato, and the only one to have ever made recordings. He was born into a catholic family in one of the so-called Roman Castles, where he was castrated either for health reasons, or because of his singing talents, the ... read more » |
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ORAM, DAPHNE -& VERA GRAY- - LISTEN MOVE & DANCEThe British composer, musician and audio engineer Daphne Oram was a pioneering figure in the use of electronic music. Coming to prominence through her work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, which she co-founded, Oram was one of the first British composers to feature ... read more » |
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PERREY, JEAN-JACQUES - PRELUDE AU SOMMEIL (CLEAR)Repress of 300 copies on clear vinyl. One of the pioneers of musique concrète and electronic tape manipulation, 'Prélude Au Sommeil' is Perrey's debut recording but shows a composer already at maturity. Originally released at the end of the fifties, as a ... read more » |
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POUSSEUR, HENRI - EARLY EXPERIMENTAL ELECTRONIC MUSIC 1954-1961Henri Pousseur was a Belgian composer, teacher, and music theorist active from the the 1950s on. Influenced by Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Luciano Berio, Pousseur may be lesser known than those contemporaries but his composition and technique is regarded by ... read more » |
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RITCHIE, JEAN - SINGING THE TRADITIONAL SONGS OF......HER KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN FAMILY' - In the world of American folk music, Jean Ritchie was a truly unique presence. Most of the younger artists of the folk revival of the '50s and '60s were middle class urbanites and liberal arts college students who helped ... read more » |
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VARIOUS - MUSIC OF INDONESIAIndonesia, an archipelago of more than 13,000 islands including Java, the world's most populous island, and Bali, is as diverse as it is large. Having been a crucial stop on international trade routes since as early as the 7th century the influences on Indonesian musical ... read more » |
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VARIOUS - SPEECH AFTER THE REMOVAL OF THE LARYNXThe larynx or voice box is a small organ located towards the top of the neck in humans and some other animals. Constructed largely of cartilage, it houses the vocal folds that allow for the manipulation of pitch and volume, which are essential for the phonation of spoken ... read more » |
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