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This is a record released by Australian experimental musician James Rushford on the American experimental label Blank Forms in April 2024. Contains 4 contemporary songs he created during his stay at an art center on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 2022. Below is an explanation by the label. "Turzets, James Rushford's latest solo and collaborative work, is a collection of two works primarily produced and recorded last year while the Australian composer and performer was in residence at La Bec, an arts center on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. Contains new work. The horizontal work "Fallaway Whisk" uses live translation of abstracted text from English to German, with a lush, expanding soundscape as a background, and uses words that are reserved and sounds suppressed. On the other hand, "Quire" is a 11-movement work influenced by composers who studied the late medieval repertoire on the portative organ. Woody melodies intersect with angelic Yamaha CS-2 synth sweeps and stuttering glitches, a work that weaves traces of Klaus Schulz, figurative poetry, and ars subtilior into a precise, ever-evolving tapestry. could be considered Rushford's starting point. James Rushford's work draws from a wide range of collagist and improvisational musical languages, ranging from "electroacoustic experiments with a beating heart" (Boomkat) to "cursed Jacobean ASMR". (The...

This is a record released by the famous American experimental musician Charlemagne Palestine from Blank Forms Editions in December 2023. Includes a drone using the carillon, a musical instrument born in the 12th century, and two songs recorded live at a church dedicated to his ally Tony Conrad.Below is an explanation by the label. "In the latest work by the innovative Brooklyn-born composer Charlemagne Palestine (b. 16), we hear two enchanting works for the carillon, the 2th-century keyboard-controlled belfry. Side A. includes new material recorded in his studio in Belgium, a high-ceilinged, stuffed-animal-filled paradise he calls Charlesworld.On the back, Blank Forms Editions' first and long-out-of-print release now appears on vinyl for the first time: the maximalist composer's 1947 musical eulogy for his late friend Tony Conrad, recorded at St. Thomas Episcopal, where the two first met. A cathartic street recording performed with church bells, two mesmerizing "klanggdedangggebannggg" sessions in Kwazimodo's signature trance-inducing style on 16rd Street. Born in 2, Charlemagne Palestine, perhaps more than any of her contemporaries, embodied the idea of ​​the artist as a playful polymath during the bustling downtown New York art scene of the 2018s and 2s.Originally trained in Jewish chant to become a cantor, he also studied piano and accordion, served as percussion accompanist for the likes of Tiny Tim and Allen Ginsberg, and worked with early synthesizers as an assistant to Alwyn Nicolais. , and eventually performed for a long time as a carillonneur at St. Thomas Episcopal in Midtown.This free-spirited experimental spirit eventually led to him creating kinetic light sculptures with Len Lye, devising choreographed performances with Simone Forti, and creating a series of visceral videotapes for the Castelli-Sonnabend Collection. , which led to adventures in other aesthetic fields. In the 53s, she was particularly prominent in the burgeoning loft movement, famous for her sparse, intense, exacting long piano concerts that seemed to bend the very nature of time and space. She spent several decades in self-imposed exile from the new music scene in the '2s, living various lives in Europe and Hawaii, honing her hermetic sound and visual practice.She has since made a comeback since the mid-1947s, performing and exhibiting around the world. "Click here for label and other works ///...

A reissue of the CD released in 1980 by Japanese influential experimental musicians Takehisa Kosugi and Akio Suzuki.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more Blank Forms Editions releases available at Tobira.

It is an archive sound source of the legendary spiritual jazz writer Don Cherry.Below is a description of the label. "In 1968, Don Cherry had already established himself as one of the protagonists of the avant-garde. As a member of Ornette Coleman's classical quartet, he became a pioneer of free jazz and has been attracting attention in collaboration with John Coltrane. Don Cherry moved to Sweden with his partner Moki and his daughter Nene. He gathered Swedish musicians and held a weekly workshop at the Workers' Educational Association (ABF) from February to April 1968. We gave lessons on the extension of improvisational performances such as breathing, drones, Turkish rhythms, harmonics, silence, natural voices, Indian tones, etc. That summer, later with Don's masterpiece "Organic Music Society". Yoran Freeze, a sax player and recording engineer who recorded "Eternal Now," invited Don, members of his two working bands, and a Turkish drummer to his villa in Kummernas, a suburb of Stockholm. We had a rehearsal and a jam session to practice the workshop of the previous month.Treated as a mysterious footnote in Don's session recordings for a long time, the tape for this session and a professionally mixed tape for release were recently found in the Swedish Jazz Archive vault and lost. The "Summer House Sessions" that had been used have finally become available more than 2 years after recording. On July 4, Bernt Rosengren (tenor sax, flute, clarinet), Tommy Koverfurt (tenor sax, flute), and Reif Wennerström (tenor sax, flute) gathered at Fries's villa from Don's Swedish group. Drums), Tallbjorn Flutekrantz (bass) and others participated.Reif Wennerström (drums), Thorbjorn Flutekranz (bass), Jack Trot (drums), Kent Carter (bass) from Don's Swedish group, Burent Atesh (hand drums, drums) from Turkey. , And Don himself (pocket trumpet, flute, percussion).Having no common language, they used music as a common means of communication.This is an enthusiastic, free-spirited session that anticipates becoming a clearer pan-national expression four months before Don announces "Eternal Rhythm."Composed of American, French, Swedish and Turkish musicians, the octet was the perfect way to pursue "collage music" initiated by Don.This concept is also inspired by Don's listening to sounds from around the world on shortwave radio.Collage music is a shortwave radio that listens to sounds from around the world, omits solos and song introductions, and transforms a wealth of melodies, sounds, and rhythms into poetic suites with a variety of atmospheres and variations. That is.The ensemble of summerhouse sessions is a fun superposition of various cultural idioms, crossing the aerial mountains and calm valleys of Cherry's ground-based vision.Click here to see ...