Henry Flynt - Ascent to the Sun
Volume 4 is the final release in the New American Ethnic Music series (but not the last Henry Flynt on Recorded) is Ascent to the Sun, a brilliant, sparkling hi..(read more)
Label: Recorded / Recorded 021
Artist: Henry Flynt
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Folk, New Folk, Strings, USA.
Harry Partch - The Harry Partch Collection Vol. 2
The Wayward: U.S. Highball, San Francisco, the Letter, Barstow / And on the Seventh Day Petals fell in Petaluma.
Label: New World Records / 80622
Artist: Harry Partch
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Composers, Instrument Builders, Microtonality, USA.
Tripod - Every Man has the right to make a Kite out of his Pants
US free-jam collective (10 musicians) take over the torch from Sun Ra and the Theatre of Eternal Music. ‘Every Man . . .’ is a Mexican saying by the..(read more)
Label: Own
Artist: Tripod
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Free Jazz, Free-folk, USA.
Micro-Phobic - Shallow & Trite
Texas Techno Music. Of course, why shouldn’t they make that in Texas? A critic once said: ‘Micro-Phobic is shallow & trite.’ Micro-Phobic ..(read more)
Label: Mad Mason
Artist: Micro-Phobic
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Techno, USA.
Elliott Carter - Holiday Overture / Suite from Pocahontas / Syringa
First work is from 1944 (revised 1961), Second from 1939 & played by the American Composers Orchestra, Third from 1978, by Speculum Musicae & Group for ..(read more)
Label: Composers Recordings Inc. / 610
Artist: Elliott Carter
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary, USA.
Donatello & Fosco Dubini / Barbara Obermaier - Hedy Lamarr – Secrets Of A Hollywood Star
Hedy Lamarr was called “the most beautiful girl of the century” and became scandalously famous in 1933 as the first nude on the screen in the Austri..(read more)
Label: Filmmuseum München / EF40
Medium: 2DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Documentary, Female Icons, USA.
Mary Jordan - Jack Smith And The Destruction of Atlantis
Fleeing the dreary Midwest of his childhood in the 1950s, Smith would influence and inspire a generation of filmmakers and artists while
Label: Arthouse Films / 670525
Artist: Mary Jordan
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: '60s, Documentary, Gay Cinema, Queer Culture, USA.
Kirby Dick - Sick
Bob Flanagan was an American performance artist, stand-up comic, poet, and lifelong sufferer of cystic fibrosis. He was also a masochist, who found that his S&a..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / BFIVD877
Artist: Kirby Dick
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Masochism, Performance Art, Portrait, USA.
Ut - Griller
For this record from Ut, Steve Albini was a smart choice for engineer, both being an Ut fan and having a way with dissonant, anti-rock kinds of groups. The guit..(read more)
Label: Blast First / 9333-2
Artist: Ut
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: New Wave and Post-Punk, USA.
