Outside the dream syndicate
By: Tony Conrad with Faust
The heavier side of American Minimalism.
Reviewer: Tommy
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Enclosure. 8
By: Harry Partch
This DVD contains excellent documentary films of Partch’s music and workplace. Totally fascinating material.
Reviewer: Tommy
Helvetica
By: Gary Hustwit
An interesting documentary that provides excellent perspective into this omni-present font’s place in the world.
Reviewer: Tommy
Patterns 2: design, art and architecture
By: Barbara Glasner, Petra Schmidt, Ursula Schöndeling
Part 2 of this wildly successful and satisfying book series, which connects works art, architecture, and a variety of other disciplines through patterns.
Reviewer: Tommy
Astral Glamour
By: The Homosexuals
Vampire Weekend was far from the first group to incorporate African influence into snotty white kid music, and Radiohead was certainly not the first to try to sell their music on their own. The Homosexuals were a shifting group of punk rockers in the UK who set out to make avant garde music in a totally insular, outsider manner. The result was they self-released a ton of projects on their own label It’s War Boys that ultimately sound like they may be the best DIY, kitchen-sink pop recordings ever. Collected on three CDs in this set are all of the recordings they issued as The Homosexuals.
Reviewer: Tommy
Obsolete systems
By: Laurie Spiegel
“When it was new, each of these music systems, now long obsolete, was state of the art, visionary, radically new and so revolutionary that it required extended explanations in response to common questions such as ‘Why would anyone ever want to do that?’ ” -Laurie Spiegel
Reviewer: Tommy
St. Giles Cripplegate
By: Jack Nitzsche
Here is Jack Nitzsche’s massive and beautiful orchestral work that brilliantly captures what’s compelling about the classical avant garde in the 20th century.
Most will recognize Nitzsche’s name for his work scoring films like “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Performance” as well as arranging for Phil Spector, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, and pretty much everyone else too.
Reviewer: Tommy
Jazz in silhouette [sound recording] : images and forecasts of tomorrow
By: Sun Ra and his Arkestra
Finally we have a good selection of Sun Ra material. This is one of my favorites. Eloquent and odd jazz that’s deeply satisfying
Reviewer: Tommy
Persian electronic music: yesterday and today
By: Alireza Mashayekhi, Ata Ebtekar
Some very fine electronic music from Persia. A compilation spanning 40 years.
Reviewer: Tommy
Films & videos
By: Zbig Rybczynski
Some of the most genuinely enjoyable experimental film and videowork, bar none.
Reviewer: Tommy
