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Bob Ostertag
Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat: Technics and Civilization in the 21st Century
PM Press
192 pages
Testo in inglese
€22,00
Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat è uno sguardo profondamente intimo intorno ai cambiamenti catastrofici tra gli esseri umani, la tecnologia e il cosiddetto mondo naturale. Nonostante il ritmo vertiginoso del progresso tecnologico e del collasso ambientale, Bob Ostertag esplora come noi stessi stiamo cambiando alla stessa velocità del mondo che ci circonda: da come facciamo musica, a come facciamo sesso, a cosa facciamo per sopravvivere e chi immaginiamo di essere. E anche se la crisi ambientale terrorizza e la tecnologia travolge, Ostertag trova abbastanza creatività, compassione e umorismo nel nostro comportamento in evoluzione per farci ridere e ispirarci mentre il mondo che stiamo costruendo supera il mondo che abbiamo trovato. Un vero eclettico che ha seguito le guerre in America centrale negli anni ’80 e poi ha pubblicato più di 20 CD di musica, 5 libri su argomenti sorprendentemente eclettici e un lungometraggio, Ostertag fonde i suoi viaggi come musicista in tournée con l’occhio del giornalista per i dettagli e la visione a lungo termine di uno storico. Vaga per il mondo sia fisico che intellettuale. Guarda i monaci buddisti scattare selfie mentre meditano. Pensa all’intelligenza artificiale con i ragazzi di strada a Java. Parla di sesso con le pornostar che non hanno mai fatto sesso fuori dalla telecamera nella loro vita. Guarda i DJ che guadagnano milioni di dollari fingono di girare le manopole davanti a migliaia di persone. Gioca a World of Warcraft sulle remote isole dell’Asia con gli indigeni. Rabbrividisce con le famiglie che si accalcano nel pungente inverno di Detroit senza riscaldamento o elettricità. Incontra gli abitanti delle Spice Island che non hanno mai visto lo sciacquone ma hanno sui loro smartphone app di collegamento tra gay. I nostri migliori scrittori hanno lottato per affrontare le catastrofi del nostro tempo senza distogliere lo sguardo. Ostertag riesce dove altri hanno fallito, con l’acutezza morale di Susan Sontag, l’astuzia tecnologica di Lewis Mumford e l’umorismo pungente di Jonathan Swift.
Audio/ Sound – 7”- 12”- LP – CD – Box
Audio
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Down For You Is Up
LP Easy Flyte Records – Flight 101
EXCELLENT RECORD CONDITION AND SLEEVE
€ 300,00
Recorded live in Cleveland the 4th of November 1966.
The record is inside the left page of the fold out sleeve. The right page reads “Down for you is up”, tracklist, and “For promotional use – Not for sale”. Back cover has an Easy Flite logo. The sleeve cardboard is strong.
The Ceyleib People
Tanyet
Recorded by VAULT Records, Los Angeles, 1968
Produced by Mike Deasy for Wednesday Child Productions
Recording engineer: Joe Osborn
Cover painting by Ida and Rick Griffin
This is an early and rather interesting project featuring a young Ry Cooder, Larry Knechtel, and Jim Gordon who would become Derek & the Dominos drummer, among others. Long-time Beach Boys collaborator Mike Deasy appears on sitar under the pseudonym Lybuk Hyd (as well as under his own name), and also Mike Melvoin who has appeared on album credits all over the place but covered his pension by arranging all those Partridge Family albums in the seventies.
This is supposed to be a raga album but really that only applies for the most part because of the sitars being played. The guitar tuning doesn’t sound like the modal or open tuning you’d expect in raga music, but rather is decidedly blues-based for the most part. The arrangements also have lots of western characteristics. This is to be expected because we’re talking about Ry Cooder here, but I thought this was worth pointing out.
This short-lived L.A. studio band was the brainchild of successful session musician/producer Mike Deasy (guitar, sitar) and prior Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band member Ry Cooder (slide guitar). They successfully blended Indian and Western instrumentation and music, creating a truly awesome late 60s psychedelic sound. Other members included Mike Deasy’s 6-year old son Michael “Sean” Deasy (drum, vocals), Joe Osborne (bass, engineer), Larry Knechtel (bass, keyboards), Jim Gordon (drums), Ben Benay (sitar), Mike Melvion (keyboards) and Jim Horn (woodwinds). “Lybuk Hyd”, who was also credited on the album, was actually an alias for Mike Deasy himself.
EXCELLENT RECORD CONDITION AND SLEEVE
€ 500,00
New Trolls
Concerto Grosso Per I New Trolls
Cetra – LPX 8, 1971
Vinyl, LP
Very Good Plus RECORD CONDITION AND SLEEVE
€ 300,00
MODERN ART TRIO
Vedette Records – VPA 8434, 1978
Very Good Plus RECORD CONDITION AND SLEEVE
€ 700,00
Accrediti
- Design [Cover] – Domizia Gandolfi
- Double Bass – Bruno Tommaso
- Drums, Trumpet, Whistle [Songwhistle] – Franco Tonani
- Engineer [Sound Engineer] – Paolo Ketoff
- Piano, Electric Piano, Soprano Saxophone – Franco D’Andrea
- Producer – Alberto Alberti
Note
Recorded at Soundworkshop, Rome on April 17 & 19, 1970.
Originally released in 1970 on Vedette VSM 385454.
License courtesy of Vedette Records – Italy.
A very special thanks goes to Sergio Sciascia at Vedette Records.
Gorilla Biscuits
Start Today
We Bite Records – WB 054
Vinyl, LP, Album, Germany,1989 (with insert)
EXCELLENT RECORD CONDITION AND SLEEVE
€ 400,00
Sonic Youth
Goo, 1990
DGC 24297
Vinyl, LP, Album, US
Barcode (Printed): 0 7599-24297-1 9
EXCELLENT RECORD CONDITION AND SLEEVE
€ 1.000,00
Gerardo Iacoucci
L’Avventura – N. 1
DENEB DNB 0103
EXCELLENT RECORD CONDITION AND SLEEVE
€ 300,00
Gerardo Iacoucci
I Bambini si divertono
DENEB DNB 0107
EXCELLENT RECORD CONDITION AND SLEEVE
€ 300,00
N.W.A
STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON
Priority Records – Ruthless Records, 1988
SL 57102
Very Good Plus RECORD CONDITION AND SLEEVE
€ 1.500,00
The Maytals Never Grow Old, Presenting The Maytals
Studio One, JBL 113, Jamaica, 1963
Produced by C. S. Dodd – coxSone
Very Good Plus RECORD CONDITION AND SLEEVE
€ 1.500,00
The Original Skatalites Ska Authentic
Studio One, 1967, Jamaica , sol 9006
Very Good Plus RECORD CONDITION AND SLEEVE
€ 1.000,00
SOUNDWALK
N.Y. CHINATOWN
CD, 2003
€ 800,00 NEW (wrapped)
Each SoundWalk is 50 minutes of walking adventure through a neighborhood, guided by a local personality, packed full of interviews and cinematic sound effects. SoundWalks are living documentaries about the city, but instead of experiencing it through the remoteness of your TV, you will savor the city in its reality.
“…If you can’t make the trek to New York City, this is the closest you can come to first-hand experience of the sights, sounds, and personalities of the Lower East Side… Guided by a local personality [Jami Gong], packed full of interviews, insights, recollections, and cinematic sound effects… This walking tour gives you the inside scoop on Chinatown’s opium dens, sweatshops, Buddhist Temples, Chinese Mobsters, and more.” –publisher’s summary
CD-Audio
LONTANO Homage to Giacinto Scelsi € 30,00 (Nuovo- New)
With: Sebastien Roux/EddieLadoire, Rafael Toral, Elio Martuscello, David Toop, Skoltz-Kolgen, Scanner, KK NULL, Alvin Curran, Efzeg, Eddie Prevost/John Butcher, Lawerence English, Rhodri Davies/Joe Williamson/Stefano Tedesco, Oliva Block
Second Limited Edition – June 2010
Printed in UK – 300 numbered copies
Cover by Riccardo Arena
This compilation is conceived, curated and produced by Stefano Tedesco
EnomisossaB – La merce perfetta, CD agosto 2012, EU 18,00 (Nuovo- New)
EnomisossaB: voce
Riccardo Parravicini: registrazione, campionamenti
Maiu: tastiere, registrazione
Roberto Leardi: percussioni, metalli
Fausto Balbo: registrazione, bordone, emissioni otoacustiche
Alessandro Battistini: basso, bordone
Mixed by Riccardo Parravicini @ Modulo Studio recording in Cuneo
mrminio: photo outside coverFirst of all, I hate captions.“Oggi a me, domani a te” ( “Today me, tomorrow you” ) is simply an inscription on the gates of a cemetery beneath the Barchi Tower.The tower is the most emblematic sign of the ninth century saracen invasion of the Alta Val Tanaro, a remote corner of north-western Italy.The place name, Eca Nasagò, is derived from two arabian phoenemes meaning “ferocious” and “battlefield”.It’s in Ormea: a small village on the outskirts of the Piedmontese mountains, it stands above the Ligurian coastline.Ulmosciu, the local dialect, is a weird mix of Piedmontese, Ligurian, Arabian, German and French.There are no similar languages in the area.For example, the train comin’ from the plain in ulmosciu is “sbrivotzu”.Meanwhile the train goin’ down the valley is “scuriatzu”.I’ve used these two rare, unique words, connecting to southern Italian traditions.In fact, at the start of the piece, my pronunciation is Neapolitan.And I’m talkin’ about “A’ livella”, a poem wrote by Totò, one of the greatest actors of the twentieth century.So deeply ancient, early Christian-like, a marvel of our popular literature.It’s about death as a spirit level for everybody; rich and poor.The whole track is a representation of chaos, and of the entropic energy on planet earth.“La merce perfetta” is made of circles and spirals.I’ve taken the most bitter phrases of Alberto Camerini’s “Droga”, a cut-up that I sing in the first verses as a vocal poem then as a soul song.And by the way, It’s not about the meaning of the lyrics, but rather the sound of the words.Using the voice in this way serves to introduce the second stanza: overtunes, glossolalia, falsettos, scat, blues, etc.What I’ve sung is assaulting me from the inside.The last part, the third one, is about sound perception. Therefore we have a drone, a low-pitched bass and glitchings.The singing is free improvisation, a fifteen minute take one. It’s not perfect (who cares?) but it’s imbued with emotion, so groovy.The only way to finish the number before getting lost in DPOAEs…But at this point you’re as well just to listen.(EnomisossaB)
**SMALL VOICES – picture disc Limited Edition of 150 hand-numbered copies.
Tin Toy – Hello, World! Vinyl, 7″, 33 ⅓ RPM, Picture Disc, Limited Edition, Numbered Italy 2003
EU 40,00 (Nuovo- New)
Tracks
| A | Hello, World! | |
| B | Pulse |
- Photography By [Inlay Card Photo By] – Massimo Drago
- Sounds [All Sounds] – Cesare Marilungo
LU – Done With A Space-Biter Vinyl, 7″, 33 ⅓ RPM, Picture Disc, Limited Edition, Numbered Italy 2003
EU 40,00 (Nuovo- New)
Tracks
| A1 | Done With A Space-Biter | |
| A2 | Is It Summer? | |
| B | Crepuscolo, Crepuscolo, Crepuscolo |
- Music By, Artwork – Gianluca Porcu
- Photography By [Inlay Card Photo By] – Massimo Drago
It – Displaced Vinyl, 7″, 33 ⅓ RPM, Picture Disc, Limited Edition, Numbered Italy 2003
EU 40,00 (Nuovo- New)
Tracks
| A | Displaced | |
| B | Mirror |
- Layout – M.H. Graphicks
- Photography By [Inlay Card Photo By] – Massimo Drago
- Photography By [Photo Picture Disc] – The Consumer (2)
- Written-By, Producer [Produced By] – Ivan Fusco
Asaf 288 – Dublay Vinyl, 7″, 33 ⅓ RPM, Picture Disc, Limited Edition, Numbered Italy 2003
EU 40,00 (Nuovo- New)
tracks
| A | Dublay | |
| B | Brain Store |
- Photography By [Inlay Card Photo By] – Massimo drago
- Recorded By, Producer [Produced By] – Simone Balestrazzi
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