Urban Sax - Urban Sax 1

Urban Sax was founded by Gilbert Artman, French saxophonist, in 1973. The first act was played at the Menton Musical festival and by this time, the group consisted of eight saxophonists. Since then the concept evolved and today it's not unusual for the performance group to have more than 50 musicians on stage at time. It's always with Saxophones as the main instrument, though Artman has let percussion and vocals into the ensemble occasionally.


Since he often integrates local musicians and dancers, the performances can have more than 200 participants. The performances are often of an almost occultic character - the musicians wearing space suits and gas masks, while playing their drones on saxophone.

Pictures, videos and audio can be found at their homepage.

Urban Sax 1 is their third album released on celluloid in 1986 along with Urban Sax 2. The album is minimalistic and droning unlike anything else really. The effect of all those sax'es playing together is undeniable, and.. Pretty amazing. This album is highly recommended, and you can

get it here

Anima Sound/Anima

From the Nurse With Wound list.

Anima Sound - Stürmischer Himmel and Anima - Via (track 1-4 missing)

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George Antheil - Ballet Mécanique

George Antheil was an american avant-garde composer (born 08/07/1900). With Ballet Mécanique he took the avant-garde music to new places by including, among else, 8 pianoes, several airplane propellers, an alarm, 6 bass drums, 3 xylophones and so the list carries on. Ballet Mecánique was created for a film by Dudley Murphy and Fernand Léger, but the common project was given up eventually, since the composition was too advanced to perform and record for the film. However the work was played as a concert in Paris in 1926 and later at Carnegie Hall in New York. This is one of the most fascinating avant-garde pieces ever written, and if you think that it is stupid, it is probably just because your toupee was blown of during one of the performance.

You can watch it being performed with modern technique here

Or you can watch the film with the music (rather bad sound though) here

This was written under influence of Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky

Morton Subotnick - Touch

This is not a 60's sexploitation record. This is not a sampling of speeches regarding the finer ways of subtle selfpleasuring. This is in fact one of the most abstract collections of bizarre rhytmic experiments that are ever likely to emanate from a single Buchla modular synthesizer!

I won't even try to describe this beast step by step. Positioned somewhere between the ambient sonic craftings of later times and the musique concrète of the very earliest electronic music, Subotnick manages to hypnotize the listener and leave him (or her) in an altered state. The different outputs range from grinding, formless pads to strangely complex yet attractive percussive arrangements that flicker in and out of the definition of a "beat" with the precision of a drunken tape-recorder in a convulsive tap-dance routine. Covering the entire LP with just two side-long tracks, Touch is an avant-garde mammoth, worthy of attention from anybody who doesn't think music was invented by Van Halen!

R-tards!

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