Limited edition of 500 copies LP from legendary minimalist composer, pianist and artists Charlemagne Palestine. Less than 200 copies of this LP were ever put on sale, with 350 of them offered to the audience who attended a Palestine performance. Sound 1 represents the apex of Palestine’s experiments with oscillators as universal drone generators and features 16 machines played at full volume and subtly tweaked to generate gorgeous, complex blooms of clashing tone, ghost patterns, hypnagogic shadows and subtle orchestral movements. Palestine talks of the piece as a 3-dimensional sculptural canvas in mid-air, likening the sound to the humming of gargantuan Tibetan bees. It’s a mesmerising piece, one that fully occupies and takes over whatever space it’s played in, a classic slice of minimal electronic psychedelia in the tradition of LaMonte Young, Coil’s Time Machines and the recent Eleh LPs. Recommended.

Released on a new sub-division of the great Italian avant garde label Alga Marghen, this is an excellent experimental summit between the French Gol orchestra of Jean-Marcel Busson, Frédéric Rebotier, Ravi Sharda and Samon Takahashi (a group dedicated to a “lost rural tradition within a post-Dada spirit” and who use flute, horns, guitar, violin, toys, self-manufactured instruments, tapes, turntables, voices, various percussion instruments and electronics) and minimalist composer, pianist and artist Charlemagne Palestine. Here Palestine plays a church organ in the St. Eustache church in Paris while Gol use electronics, bass, guitar and flutes to create a “pagan ritual”. This is a wild set, peaking in plateau after plateau of explosive organ sonorities, waves of electronic drones and clusters of overtone activity that bears comparison to the soundtrack actions of Hermann Nitsch as much as the ecstatic noise of Richard Youngs and Vibracathedral Orchestra. A fantastic side, limited to only 300 copies. Recommended.