Avantgarde Extreme

Nick Mason - Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports (1981) Music

Posted by v3122 at June 1, 2020

Columbia, apparently attempting to cash in on Pink Floyd's explosion in popularity, released this album in 1981 under Nick Mason's name when in reality he's simply the drummer in this incarnation of Carla Bley's ensemble; Ms. Bley composed all the music and lyrics for this project. It's possibly her most overtly pop-oriented album, with all eight songs featuring vocals by Soft Machine alumnus Robert Wyatt. The music, by Bley's standards, is fairly pedestrian if occasionally catchy, though the lyrics are often wryly amusing…

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Steve Reich - Collected Works (2025) Music

Posted by Rtax at May 18, 2025

Steve Reich - Collected Works (2025)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 5.6 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 2.8 GB
20:48:40 | Electronic, Non-Music, Classical, Contemporary, Organ, Sound Art, Abstract, Experimental, Modern, Post-Modern, Modern Classical | Label: Nonesuch

Bomb! Box set on Nonesuch with 27 discs (26 CDs + 1 DVD) in wallets, plus two booklets (132 + 120 pages). Nonesuch Records releases Steve Reich Collected Works, a twenty-seven-disc box set featuring music recorded during composer Steve Reich's forty years on the label, on March 14, 2025, available to pre-order here. The collection represents six decades of Reich’s compositions, ranging from It’s Gonna Rain (1965) to first recordings of his two latest works: Jacob’s Ladder (2023) and Traveler’s Prayer (2020). Two extensive booklets contain new essays by longtime Nonesuch President Robert Hurwitz, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, Steve Reich and Musicians percussionist Russell Hartenberger, producer Judith Sherman, and composer Nico Muhly, as well as a comprehensive listener’s guide by pianist and composer Timo Andres.

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By the Law / Po zakonu (1926) [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Oct. 25, 2015

Lev Kulesov's legendary "constructivist Western" (adapted from a story by Jack London) was a highlight of the Soviet Cinema of the 1920s and one of the most popular films of its time. Upon finding gold in the Yukon a group of prospectors descend into murder. The survivors are facing an existential choice. The DVD presents a new transfer of the film and a contemporary score by Austrian composer and musician Franz Reisecker. As an extra it includes the only surviving fragment of Kulesov's Vasa znakomaja, featuring sets by avantgarde artist Aleksandr Rodcenko.

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ICS Vortex - Storm Seeker (2011) Music

Posted by cha77os at Aug. 21, 2011

ICS Vortex - Storm Seeker (2011)
Mp3 | 270 VBR | 89 MB | Norway
Progressive/Melodic Black Metal

ICS Vortex has been one of the world’s most high profile extreme metal personalities since his debut on the international metal scene with Norwegian Avantgarde Black Metallers Borknagar back in 1998 on The Archaic Course album. In addition to handling the clean vocals and bass in Dimmu Borgir for more than a decade, Vortex has been heavily active as a studio musician and has 15 major releases in a large variety of different styles of metal to his credit, as well as a decade of restless worldwide touring experience with different groups. ….

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Galina Ustvolskaya - Piano Sonatas (Oleg Malov, Piano) Music

Posted by Swervedriver55 at Sept. 19, 2011

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Galina Ustvolskaya - Grand Duet & Duet (Oleg Malov & The St.Petersburg Soloists) Music

Posted by Swervedriver55 at Sept. 21, 2011

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