Various Artists - Frog Peak Collaborations Project
62 composers, 115 pieces, all based on a brief soundfile by Australian composer/poet/performer Chris Mann, reading a text he supplied himself. Plus the original..(read more)
Label: Frog Peak / FP007
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: 2CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Spoken Word.
Various Artists - Experimental Music from Lithuania
Unknown gems of the avantgarde in this Baltic state. Opener ‘Merz-Machine’ from 1985 by Sarunas Nakas is amazing enough, ‘Telefonika’ by..(read more)
Label: LCU / 2
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Composers, Eastern Europe.
Various Artists - As She Likes It – Female Performance Art from Austria
In the 1960s and 1970s actionism and happenings provided a foundation for performance art, the exceptional form in which women are as numerous but more recogniz..(read more)
Label: Index / 23
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Austria, Avant-Garde, Performance Art, Video Art.
Peter Tscherkassky - Films from a Dark Room
With an almost musical montage stye, Tscherkassky superimposes & juxtaposes black&white images, plays with illusions of peace & ecstatic release. He..(read more)
Label: Index / 8
Artist: Peter Tscherkassky
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Abstract Cinema, Austria, Avant-Garde, Experimental.
New Electric Chamber Music Ensemble - The Spirit of Eindhoven
Talking about obscure material at last being brought out again, here’s some history from the City of Eindhoven in the 60s and thereafter. This collective ..(read more)
Label: BV&R / ISBN: 978-90-9020691-2
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: '70s, Avant-Garde, Early Electronic, Free Jazz.
Wolfgang Müller - Mit Wittgenstein in Krisuvik (Zweiundzwanzig Elfensongs für Island)
Author, artist, founder of legendary cult band Die Tödliche Doris, fervent lover of Iceland and of .. elves. Their singing is inaudible to the human ear; it go..(read more)
Label: A-Musik / A25
Artist: Wolfgang Müller
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Eccentrics, Electro-Pop, Poetry, Vinyl.
Moondog - Moondog & his Honking Geese
Reissue of an old 10″”, only 100 were pressed and Moondog sold them in the streets of New York City. Four pieces for saxophones and percussion, vibr..(read more)
Label: Moondog's Corner / MOON45
Artist: Moondog
Medium: MCD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Eccentrics, Free Jazz.
Mara Mattuschka - Iris Scan
In this broad sampling of works, Bulgarian-born, Vienna-based Mara Mattuschka playfully moves through motherhood to monster flicks where an alien, out on the to..(read more)
Label: Index / 6
Artist: Mara Mattuschka
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Austria, Avant-Garde, Experimental Films.
Helmut Lemke & Andreas Mueller - Monophobie der Pelikane
Great stuff! Uncategorisable! Free jazz blowing, harp abusement, Beefheartian blues with a lot of tongues in cheeks, tape & noise madness, and still managin..(read more)
Label: el capitaino edition, elc. / 12002
Artist: Helmut Lemke & Andreas Mueller
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Improvisation.
