Fractal Repair

Iannis Xenakis - Musique Electro-Acoustique (2001) {Fractal Records Fractal 015}
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© 2001 Fractal Records | Fractal 015
Classical / Modern Classical / Experimental / Musique concrète / Electroacoustic

This disc comprises two works from the '80s utilizing electronics and tape manipulation, one involving voices and permutations thereof. The text for "Pour la Paix," much of it written by the composer's wife and recited in French, deals with the effects and psychologies of war. As recited by male and female speakers and augmented by a surprisingly traditional sounding choir, the words are sandwiched between and buffeted by various electronic attacks. The sonic components tend to be sequential, with little of the complex richness bordering on chaos found in a typical Xenakis composition. Many of the taped sounds also appear somewhat conventional, occasionally reminding one of the slightly loopy creations of early rock experimenters with the Moog synthesizer.

Praxis - Tennessee 2004 (2007) {ROIR RUSCD 8301 with Bill Laswell}
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© 2007 ROIR USA | RUSCD 8301
Experimental / Jazz / Funk / Dub / Funk-Metal / Avant-Garde

Bill Laswell led super group, featuring Buckethead (G n R), Bernie Worrell (P-Funk) and Brain (Primus). This live show from Bonnaroo, with over 100K in attendance, includes a jaw dropping 7-minute version of Hendrix's classic Machine Gun. No other Praxis album includes this track. Packaged in a Beautiful 4 Panel Digipak, it is over 58 Minutes long. Buckethead is becoming recognized as one of the top 10 shredders in the world. As Buckethead, with his customary aplomb, told Guitar Player magazine: Praxis is a big binge loaf, like terror long dangler buddies on a scoop rack. [To me], taking people away in their imaginations is a lot more important than freaking people out with the guitar. And who are we to argue? –Buckethead

Brian Eno - Nerve Net (1992) {2CD All Saints Records Deluxe Expanded Edition WAST031CD rel 2014}
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© 1992, 2014 All Saints Records / Opal Ltd. | WAST031CD
Ambient / Electronic / Avant-Garde / Experimental

Brian Eno will soon issue expanded versions of four of his albums originally released in the 1990s Nerve Net (1992), The Shutov Assembly (1992), Neroli (1993) and The Drop (1997) will each be reissued as a two-CD deluxe editions containing the original album and an additional disc of unreleased and rare Eno work specific to each record. Nerve Net includes the first ever commercial release of lost Eno album My Squelchy Life; The Shutov Assembly features an album’s worth of unreleased recordings from the same period; Neroli includes an entire unreleased hour-long Eno ambient work New Space Music; and The Drop includes nine rarely heard tracks from the Eno archives. Each album comes in deluxe casebound packaging and is accompanied by a 16-page booklet compiling photos, images and writing by Eno that is relevant to each release.

Frank Wright - Church Number Nine (1970) {Calumet}
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© 1970 Calumet | CO-4763
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Tenor Saxophone

Following on from the Fractal reissue of Frank Wright's two Center of the World albums three years ago, the French label Black Keys has unearthed and issued an even rarer free jazz gem. Originally released in 1973 on an obscure label called Calumet, only 300 copies of Church Number Nine ever made it into circulation. As was customary at the time, the sides of the original album were entitled "Part One" and "Part Two," but each is in fact a separate track and is presented as such on the CD.