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NITSCH, HERMANN 7. Sinfonie 2cd 32.00
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In the ongoing uncovering of recordings from Hermann Nitsch's actionist orchestrations, the Huntertmark Gallery in Cologne, Germany has released 7.Sinfonie from the massive Nitsch archives. Unfortunately, there is absolutely no information to be found as to the nature of this piece. Was it the score to one of his blood ritual performances? Was it a formal event with only an orchestra in mind? Maybe these questions are not that important, but since we've presented what information we could about previous Nitsch pieces, we're just trying to be consistent. ANYWAY! 7.Sinfonie follows the basic formula that Nitsch employed with his massive orchestrations for Island and Musik Der 66.Aktion, with discordant swells of horns and organs playing a singular note, increasing the volume to the trumpet's equivalent of 11. Drums and cymbals crash arrythmically in the huge walls of sound, punctuating the movement from the drone supreme into atonal stupor. Pretty fucking amazing.
RealAudio clip: "excerpt"

album cover NITSCH, HERMANN Das 6-Tage-Speil (Day 3 "Day of Dionysus") pt.1 (Cortical Foundation) 3cd 43.00
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Packaged in a deluxe gatefold LP sleeve with a handful of gory-but-beautiful, blood-drenched photographs overprinted with shimmering transparent lettering, this triple cd is a partial documentation of the third day of Hermann Nitsch's epic six day performance. Already, the highly dedicated and apparently well-funded Cortical Foundation has presented a huge amount of material from Day Five (a picture disc and an 8cd box set) and some material from Day Six.
Unlike previous releases of Nitsch's musical works where visual evidence of his "actions" (for which his music provides the soundtrack) appear only as album cover art, this time we get a CD-Rom with video of portions of Day 3's activities (the usual Nitsch spectacle of people stomping tomatoes, disembowling butchered pigs, crucifying naked participants, and pouring lots and lots of blood over everything). But regardless of whether that sort of thing interests you, the two audio cds in the set provide what we have come to expect from Hermann Nitsch's orchestrations: tense, swelling masses of atonal strings, the performers told to play loud, and then to play even louder. The major difference in these scores is in how Nitsch arranges the breakdowns of these swells. On one of the discs, Nitsch inserts some festive Polka tunes between his signature walls of sound; on the other, Nitsch required a drummer to back up the drones with stumbling, haphazard beats. His truncated fills and erratic rhythms making it into something almost "free jazz", if anything this dark and droney could be so described. You get the impression that this drummer is slipping and sliding off his drum stool because of all of the blood, and randomly striking his drums on the way down. In conjunction with the ominous, building strings and horns this creates a sound not at all unlike recent AQ fave Crystal Fist. As with almost everything we've heard from Nitsch, droning and mesmerising and magnificent.
RealAudio clip: "Day Of Dionysius 3pm"
RealAudio clip: "Day Of Dionysius 10am"

NITSCH, HERMANN Das 6-Tage-Speil (Day 3 "Day of Dionysus") pt.2 (Cortical Foundation) lp + cd 43.00
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Packaged exactly the same as the triple cd (in the same deluxe gatefold LP sleeve adorned with blood drenched photographs), this vinyl album is the second partial documentation of the third day of Hermann Nitsch's epic six day performance, and features different music than the 3cd offering of Day Three. However, the CD-Rom that comes in both packages is the same, so if you're a Nitsch completist (like some of us) you'll get both pt. 1 and pt. 2 and then have an extra CD-Rom to give to a friend. What a nice thing to do. The music on the vinyl version is of course akin to that of part 1 -- indeed, Nitsch employs both the Polka interludes and the clunky "free jazz" drummer (but to a lesser degree). And like part 1, it's utterly magnificent.

album cover NITSCH, HERMANN Die Geburt Des Dionysos Christos (Vinyl On Demand) 3lp wooden box 155.00
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Hermann Nitsch might just rank as one of our favorite modern composers, his pieces being huge atonal drone works for orchestras, accompanied by bloody 'aktions', with performers dressed all in white, or nude, faux crucifixions and gallons and gallons of bovine blood. It's precisely the disturbing dramatic elements of Nitsch's aktions that have kept him from ever performing in the US.
A few of his here have gotten pretty obsessed with Nitsch, his recordings always super limited and notoriously difficult to track down, one aQuarian (we're looking at you Andee!) even owns several of boxsets containing complete aktions, which result in upwards of 50 cds.
Like his live aktions, every release is a spectacle, Die Geburt Des Dionysos Christos is no different. Released by the always amazing Vinyl On Demand label, which means outrageous and over the top packaging, this time, it's a gorgeous silk screened and hand stained wooden box, with a hinged top, inside, three lps, each in a deluxe printed sleeve, also a massive gorgeously printed booklet, thick textured paper, metallic inks, the whole nine yards. It would be worth it even if the lps were blank and it was just the object. But thankfully, there is music, but unlike the grand scale aktions, the recordings here are much more intimate. Minimal drone organ recordings, some captured live in a cathedral, others recorded on the organ at his private castle (!) in Austria.
We only got two, probably can't get more. Fans of extreme and mysterious sounds will be blown away, it looks amazing, sounds fantastic, it even smells great, the box and the ink and the printed sleeves, so recommended. And so worth the hefty price tag.

album cover NITSCH, HERMANN Harmoniumwerk Vol 1, 2, 3, 4 (Cortical Foundation ) 2cd 35.00
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Oh shit. It appears that the Cortical Foundation will be reissuing the complete Hermann Nitsch's "Harmoniumwerk," which totals 40 volumes. Released four volumes at a time, this looks like it may end up being 10 double cds! While Hermann Nitsch is known mostly as the Vienna Aktionist who specialized in perfomances of ritualized bloodletting, his musical accompaniments to his performances have often revealed an incredibly developed aesthetic of dynamic dissonance balanced against subtle droning passages. The "Harmoniumwerk" series stands out from all of the Nitsch recordings, as not being made in conjunction with his performative productions. Nitsch describes this work, "In 1968, I got a harmonium as a wedding present from my wife. From then on, I sat at the harmonium and played almost exclusively long notes that never wanted to end. I tried to listen into the infinite structure of the stars, into the unimaginable spaces searching for sound. The joy of beautiful colors, of (almost intoxicating) combinations of sound was most important but at the same time it was carried by the almost presumptuous task to conjure, to sing of, and measure the extent of cosmic space. The course of the stars were to be put to sound."
The Hermann Nitsch "Harmoniumwerk" certainly rivals (and often surpasses) the magnificient tonal quality of such '60s drone suprematists as Charlemagne Palestine and LaMonte Young.
RealAudio clip: "Harmoniumwerk 1"

album cover NITSCH, HERMANN Harmoniumwerk Vol 5, 6, 7, 8 (Cortical Foundation ) 2cd 35.00
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Oh shit. It appears that the Cortical Foundation will be reissuing the complete Hermann Nitsch's "Harmoniumwerk," which totals 40 volumes. Released four volumes at a time, this looks like it may end up being 10 double cds! While Hermann Nitsch is known mostly as the Vienna Aktionist who specialized in perfomances of ritualized bloodletting, his musical accompaniments to his performances have often revealed an incredibly developed aesthetic of dynamic dissonance balanced against subtle droning passages. The "Harmoniumwerk" series stands out from all of the Nitsch recordings, as not being made in conjunction with his performative productions. Nitsch describes this work, "In 1968, I got a harmonium as a wedding present from my wife. From then on, I sat at the harmonium and played almost exclusively long notes that never wanted to end. I tried to listen into the infinite structure of the stars, into the unimaginable spaces searching for sound. The joy of beautiful colors, of (almost intoxicating) combinations of sound was most important but at the same time it was carried by the almost presumptuous task to conjure, to sing of, and measure the extent of cosmic space. The course of the stars were to be put to sound."
This is the second double cd in the 40 volume series of Hermann Nitsch's "Harmoniumwerk."

album cover NITSCH, HERMANN Harmoniumwerk Vol 9, 10, 11, 12 (Cortical Foundation ) 2cd 35.00
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Oh shit. It appears that the Cortical Foundation will be reissuing the complete Hermann Nitsch's "Harmoniumwerk," which totals 40 volumes. Released four volumes at a time, this looks like it may end up being 10 double cds! While Hermann Nitsch is known mostly as the Vienna Aktionist who specialized in perfomances of ritualized bloodletting, his musical accompaniments to his performances have often revealed an incredibly developed aesthetic of dynamic dissonance balanced against subtle droning passages. The "Harmoniumwerk" series stands out from all of the Nitsch recordings, as not being made in conjunction with his performative productions. Nitsch describes this work, "In 1968, I got a harmonium as a wedding present from my wife. From then on, I sat at the harmonium and played almost exclusively long notes that never wanted to end. I tried to listen into the infinite structure of the stars, into the unimaginable spaces searching for sound. The joy of beautiful colors, of (almost intoxicating) combinations of sound was most important but at the same time it was carried by the almost presumptuous task to conjure, to sing of, and measure the extent of cosmic space. The course of the stars were to be put to sound."
This is the third double cd in the 40 volume series of Hermann Nitsch's "Harmoniumwerk."

NITSCH, HERMANN Island: Eine Sinfonie In 10 Sätzen (Cortical) 4cd 42.00
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Four cds of intense, grinding drones. Beautiful, but intense and cacophonous. "Like a musical bloodletting" says Andee. Hermann Nitsch is perhaps the most renowned artist spawned from the Austrian Wiener Aktionismus movement producing some of the most brutal and violent art and performance ever. Nitsch always accompanied his Orgien-Mysterien-Theatre performances with walls off orchestral drones--and here they are. Beautiful packaging with performance photos and liner notes by Gunter Brus.

NITSCH, HERMANN Musik Der 66. Aktion, 21st May 1980 (Alga Marghen) 2cd 25.00
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NITSCH, HERMANN Musik Der 80.Aktion (Dom ) cd 14.98
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Hermann Nitsch may be best known for the charged visual documents of his blood soaked performance art pieces, but his musical output is so powerful as to metaphorically out-muscle any of staged crucifixions that are showered in pig blood and honey. One of his more sublime musical scores, "Musik Der 80. Aktion" is a variation on the organ-drone theme with a discordant tonal flow that resurrects the heretical musical notations of the dissonant tritones that the early church banned as "diabolica in musica." Recommended!

album cover NITSCH, HERMANN Requiem Fuer Meine Frau Beate, Musik Der 56.Aktion (Alga Marghen) 2cd 45.00
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MPEG Stream: "Requiem Fuer Meine Frau Beate, Musik Der 56.Aktion (Excerpt 1)"
MPEG Stream: "Requiem Fuer Meine Frau Beate, Musik Der 56.Aktion (Excerpt 2)"

album cover NITSCH, HERMANN Sinfonia Punta Campanella in 4 movimenti (Fondazione Morra) cd 38.00
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album cover NITSCH, HERMANN The Action Art Of Hermann Nitsch From Past To Present (Edition Kroethenhayn) dvd+cd+book 112.00
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MPEG Stream: "One (Excerpt 1)"
MPEG Stream: "One (Excerpt 2)"

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