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Updates – New Site, New Release, New Blog
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011Website Update
Thursday, August 18th, 2011Check out our updated website at unseenworlds.net. Further improvements coming in the next few weeks (including this blog being absorbed into the main site), and we will share details on an upcoming January 2012 release.
Dickie Landry “Fifteen Saxophones”
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
We’re extremely happy to be releasing Richard “Dickie” Landry’s Fifteen Saxophones this April, making it available again for the first time in over 30 years. Recorded in 1974, Landry’s album covers everything from pure sonic drone explorations to potent, steadfastly individualist free saxophone playing. As he put it in conversation with Clifford Allen, the author of our re-issue’s liner notes, Fifteen Saxophones was about taking the saxophone as far as he could take it, a tribute to the instrument itself. Landry grew up as a young artist under the inspiration of Robert Rauschenberg’s Bed (1955), knowing that he was allowed to do whatever he wanted as an artist. So what you get with this album is a mixture of his exposure to seeing Charlie Parker and John Coltrane live and devouring jazz records, studying flute with Toscanini’s principle flute player Arthur Lora, helping to form the Philip Glass Ensemble and performing five hour concerts with them, as well as in his own ensembles during all-night jams at 112 Greene St. and Leo Castelli Gallery.
The recordings here are special, too, for their use of intricate Revox tape delay. Landry being an extremely social player, and personality, it’s no wonder that he loves the rich interaction of the saxophone through Revox tape delay. The first two pieces of the album (“Fifteen Saxophones” and “Alto Flute Quad Delay”) feature him overdubbing himself, while the side-long closing piece “Kitchen Solos” exhibits him using this method live at The Kitchen. It turns out to be one of the heaviest, most breathtaking solo sax pieces out there, and – as others have begun to note – had Landry been blowing like this regularly in the free jazz scene instead of hanging around the galleries with Philip Glass, Richard Serra and other artists, he’d certainly have been a bigger name in the scene. But that wouldn’t have been Dickie, and it’s exactly that pigeon-hole-avoiding characteristic that makes his record so special.
This release is special to Unseen Worlds, as well, because it’s our first vinyl record. We decided to do it right and cut the vinyl using DMM (Direct Metal Mastering) and packaged it in a heavy-duty, tip-on cardboard sleeve.
Year-End Sale
Friday, November 26th, 2010We are extending a sale today, Black Friday, through the end of the year. All of our titles are on sale in the following price set, with free shipping in each respective territory. In the true spirit of Black Friday, this sale is aimed at helping us get a little extra funds to help us complete future projects for next year, including our first vinyl issue. This is a great opportunity to catch up on Unseen Worlds titles as well as promote the future of the label.
To participate, simply use the PayPal link below and be sure to list the titles you would like in the notes field along with the corresponding price for your order.
SALE ENDED. THANK YOU!
UW05 Listening Party
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
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Saturday, June 12, 2010
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5:00pm – 10:00pm
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Whetstone Audio -> then -> Baby Blue Studio
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2401 East 6th Street -> then -> 1522 E 12th Street
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Austin, TX
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We’re celebrating the fifth Unseen Worlds Records release – Elodie Lauten “Piano Works” 2CD collection - with a listening party on some of the very sublime sounding stereos at Whetstone Audio at 5pm. The audio will be enhanced by the inclusion of some Paris Manhattan cocktails, given that Lauten is a Parisian living in Manhattan, along with the usual beers or byo. Tips will be appreciated but not required, and we’ll of course have albums for sale.
Following the listening party we’ll have a concert at Baby Blue to celebrate.
Starting at 8pm:
Nick Hennies performing his Psalms solo-percussion works and a piece by Alvin Lucier
followed by
J.D. Emmanuel, whose 1982 private-press, meditative synth improvizations LP “Wizards” will soon be reissued by Important Records
Proceedings should be over by 10pm so you can have successfully prepartied for whatever comes next that night (i.e. R U FIT at Cheer Up Charlies)
The Baby Blue show will have a $5 suggested cover at the door and there will be drinks on hand to make it worthwhile.
We recommend riding your bike to and from these events, though parking is available.
Come on out if you’re in the Austin area.
Elodie Lauten Sonate Modale Video and Upcoming Live Event
Sunday, April 18th, 2010Elodie Lauten has a solo-piano concert upcoming, next Sunday, 4pm, April 25th at The Gershwin Hotel in New York, marking the release of her new collection Piano Works Revisited. She will be performing Variations on the Orange Cycle as well as a selection of early piano works and Sonate Modale. Suggested donation is $10.
With this we also bring you the second installment of video from Lauten’s 1985 performance at Music Gallery in Toronto. This is video of the extended piece Sonate Modale which is featured on Piano Works Revisited. Also available to view on YouTube.