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Guionnet, Jean-Luc / Rhodri Davies: Dyslexic Harp (Deciphered In The Dark)

Label: Amgen Records
Product Code: 32752
Catalog Code: AMGEN 008
Country: UK
 
Price: $14.95



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Recording in Brussels, Rhodri Davies performs a composition for pedal harp written for and dedicated to him by composer and saxophonist Jean-Luc Guionnet, using liberal periods of space that creates hanging anticipation amidst beautiful moments of fragmented string sequence and percussive response using the frame of the harp, leaving the listener in a state of fascinated expectancy.


Common Objects: Butcher / Davies / Davies / Patterson: Whitewashed with Lines [2 CDs] [Used Item]

Label: Another Timbre
Product Code: 32751
Catalog Code: at85x2
Country: UK
 
Price: $17.95



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Sealed copy, corner dinged en route


Davies, Rhodri: Dwa Dni [Used Item]

Label: Amgen Records
Product Code: 32679
Catalog Code: CD005
Country: UK
 
Price: $8.95



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Two recording sessions yielding 15 recordings of solo harp improvisations in Rhodri Davies' fifth releases on his Amgen imprint, beautifully intricate works from exuberant to introspective, with titles borrowed from the works of Lisa Jarnot, Ed Luker, Nathaniel Mackey, Redell Olsen, Sun Ra, Nisha Ramayya, Sarah Riggs and Leslie Scalapino, and cover art by Jean-Luc Guionnet.


Davies, Rhodri / Nikos Velitotis: Hotel Art Head [BOOK]

Label: gwasg amgen
Product Code: 32567
Catalog Code: none
Country: UK
 
Price: $15.95



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A curious book of images from artists including Rhodri Davies, John Butcher, Angharad Davies, Richard Dawson, &c. photographed in a location familiar to a touring musician--a budget hotel room--pictured laying on the bed with each artist's head covered by that room's hotel wall painting, from typically insipid to perplexingly unexpected.


Davies, Rhodri: Dwa Dni

Label: Amgen Records
Product Code: 32566
Catalog Code: CD005
Country: UK
 
Price: $14.95



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Two recording sessions yielding 15 recordings of solo harp improvisations in Rhodri Davies' fifth release on his Amgen imprint, beautifully intricate works from exuberant to introspective, with titles borrowed from the works of Lisa Jarnot, Ed Luker, Nathaniel Mackey, Redell Olsen, Sun Ra, Nisha Ramayya, Sarah Riggs and Leslie Scalapino, and cover art by Jean-Luc Guionnet.


Davies, Rhodri: For Simon H. Fell

Label: Amgen Records
Product Code: 32565
Catalog Code: CD004
Country: UK
 
Price: $14.95



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Influenced by bassist Simon H. Fell since first hearing him in 1994 in a quartet with Peter Brotzmann, harpist Rhodri Davies approached Fell to work together, enjoying 20 years of collaborations in many group settings; in 2020 Simon H. Fell became seriously ill and passed in June of that year, this extended improvisation being Rhodri Davies' heartfelt tribute to the great improviser.


Mayas', Magda Filamental (w / Davies / Caddy / Theriot / Davies / Parkins / Thieke / Abdelnour): Confluence

Label: Relative Pitch
Product Code: 30436
Catalog Code: RPR1120
Country: USA
 
Price: $13.95



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Composed by pianist Magda Mayas for an octet of superb avant improvisers including Rhodri Davies, Zeena Parkins, Michael Thieke, Angharad Davies, &c. and performed live at the 2019 Music Unlimited 33, in Wels, Austria, this extended work uses a graphic score to interpret 12 photographs taken over an hour observing the merging waters of the Rhone and the Arve rivers.


Davies, Rhodri: An Air Swept Clean of All Distance

Label: Amgen Records
Product Code: 30208
Catalog Code: CD003
Country: UK
 
Price: $14.95



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First release on the Alt.Vinyl label in 2014, this album finds harpist Rhodri Davies performing on the same instrument as his prior album Wound Response, but here with no amplification, preparations or distortion, improvising through "tumbling phrases, arpeggios and articulate rhythms", in a compelling album of assertive and joyful playing.


Davies, Rhodri: Wound Response

Label: Amgen Records
Product Code: 30207
Catalog Code: CD002
Country: UK
 
Price: $14.95



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First released in 2012 on the Alt.Vinyl label and now reissued on his own Amgen label, Rhodri Davies performs solo in Newcastle upon Tyne on lap harp and electronics, using two main techniques: over-articulation of the strings (what harpists are taught not to do) and attacking the strings with a plectrum, forcing the tuning into new relationships until the strings eventually break.


IST (Davies / Fell / Wastell) + John Butcher / Phil Durrant: A More Attractive Way [5 CD BOX SET + 20 page booklet]

Label: Confront
Product Code: 30008
Catalog Code: core 21
Country: UK
 
Price: $44.95



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A comprehensive album of live performances from IST (Rhodri Davies: harp, preparations; Simon H. Fell: double bass, preparations; Mark Wastell: violoncello, preparations) between 1996 and 2000, beginning with their concert at Club Orange in London and including concerts in London, Billericay, Norwich and Cambridge, with a 20 page booklet of photos and text from the band & collaborators.


Sealed Knot, The (Beins / Davies / Wastell): Twenty

Label: Confront
Product Code: 29578
Catalog Code: core 17
Country: UK
 
Price: $13.95



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After twenty years playing together, the Sealed Knot trio of Burkhard Beins on amplified percussion, Rhodri Davies on amplified lap harp, and Mark Wastell on dual 32 past tam tams, gongs & nepalese singing bowls, performed live at Cafe OTO to record this beautifully captured, contemplative concert of tone, texture and ringing sound, like a 20-year dream reflected.


Davies, Rhodri: Telyn Rawn

Label: Amgen Records
Product Code: 29399
Catalog Code: CD001
Country: UK
 
Price: $14.95



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Dating back to the 13th century in Wales, the Telyn Rawn is a nearly forgotten horsehair harp; UK improvising harpist Rhodri Davies researched the instrument and its unique sound, commissioning the construction of a harp on which he performs 18 improvisations of impressive technique and sonority, launching his new Amgen Records label with this album named for the instrument.


Common Objects (Davies / Butcher / Davies / Lapelyte / Patterson / Thomas): Skullmarks

Label: Meenna
Product Code: 26633
Catalog Code: meenna-980
Country: Japan
 
Price: $16.95



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Distributing the group--John Butcher, Angharad Davies, Lina Lapelyte, Lee Patterson, Pat Thomas, and Rhodri Davies--inside the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, Butcher chose 4 shamanic objects from the museum's ethnographic collection, evoking water, air, earth, spirit, ritual and utility, used as a score orchestrating varying combinations of players; intense and profound improvisation.


Davies, Rhodri / David Sylvian / Mark Wastell: There Is No Love

Label: Confront
Product Code: 24019
Catalog Code: core 01
Country: UK
 
Price: $14.95



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Confront initiates their new Core Series with the text piece "There Is No Love" with David Sylvian on voice, vocal treatments and electronics, Rhodri Davies on harp, vibraphone and radio, and Mark Wastel on tam tam and percussion, a sophisticated spoken word piece of shadowy atmosphere and innuendo, leveraging approaches from experimental, improvised and composed music.


Davies, Angharad / Rhodri Davies / Michael Duch / Lina Lapelyte / John Lely & John Tilbury: Goldsmiths

Label: Another Timbre
Product Code: 22138
Catalog Code: at92
Country: UK
 
Price: $15.95



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An extended group improvisation and compositions by Lely, Sarah Hughes, and Jurg Frey, subtle and beautiful performances by Angharad Davies (violin), Rhodri Davies (electric harp), Michael Duch (bass), Lina Lapelyte (violin), John Lely (objects & electronics) & John Tilbury (piano).


Beuger, Antoine : Two . Too (For Erwin-Josef Speckmann) [2 CDs]

Label: Edition Wandelweiser Records
Product Code: 21823
Catalog Code: EWR 0903/04
Country: Germany
 
Price: $12.95



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Jurg Frey on clarinet and Irene Kurka on soprano vocals perform Wandelweiser composer Antoine Beuger's extended composition "Two"; then the duo of Rhodri Davies on harp and Ko Ishikawa on sho are layered on the first recording, creating a refreshingly new take on the piece.


Ist (Davies / Fell / Wastell): Consequences (of Time and Place)

Label: Confront
Product Code: 18751
Catalog Code: ccs 25
Country: Great Britain
 
Price: $12.60



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ist (The Improvising String Trio) of Rhodri Davies (harp), Simon H. Fell (bass) and Mark Wastell (violincello) performing at The Natural Music Club in London, 1997, using unorthodox techniques in indeterminate systems and free improvisation for fascinating results.


SFE - Simon Fell Ensemble: Positions and Descriptions

Label: Clean Feed
Product Code: 14780
Catalog Code: CF230
Country: Portugal
 
Price: $12.95



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Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 with an ensemble including Tim Berne, Joe Morris, Rhodri Davies, Jim Denley, Alex Ward & Steve Beresford, this amazing work is organized in traditional movements using a very modern and free language.


Halliwell, Graham: Recorded Delivery

Label: Confront
Product Code: 13376
Catalog Code: ccs 04
Country: Great Britain
 
Price: $13.95



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Saxophonist Halliwell appears here in three duo performances with Rhodri Davies playing E-bowed harp; Steve Roden with extracts from his "resonantlighttones"; and Mark Wastell on tam-tam.


Butcher, John / Rhodri Davies: Carliol

Label: Ftarri
Product Code: 13063
Catalog Code: ftarri-220
Country: Japan
 
Price: $14.50



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Dark and beautiful improvisation from saxophonist and electronics artist John Butcher and harpist Rhodri Davies, an incredible display of timbre, technique, and pacing.


Sealed Knot, The (Beins / Davies / Wastell): and we disappear

Label: Another Timbre
Product Code: 12423
Catalog Code: at23
Country: UK
 
Price: $15.95



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For a decade this trio has created some of the most interesting electroacoustic improvisation, captured in a 38 minute performance at the Ear We Are Festival in Biel, Switzerland, 2007.


Eastley, Max / Rhodri Davies: Dark Architecture

Label: Another Timbre
Product Code: 11577
Catalog Code: at-b02
Country: UK
 
Price: $13.95



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The duo of sound sculptor Max Eastley and electric harpist Rhodri Davies in an unedited recording performing live at South Hill Park Arts Centre in Bracknell, UK.


Yoshihide, Otomo : Core Anode

Label: Meenna
Product Code: 10261
Catalog Code: meenna-332
Country: Japan
 
Price: $16.95



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Core Anode is Otomo's roaring-sound project, 3 pieces recorded live at concerts in Tokyo (2002), Copenhagen (2006), and London (2006).


Furt plus: Equals

Label: psi
Product Code: 09585
Catalog Code: 08.02
Country: Great Britain
 
Price: $18.95



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The followup to Furt's expanded format as heard on Spin Networks in 2005, in electroacoustic trios with John Butcher, Phil Minton, Rhodri Davies, Ute Wassermann, &c.


fORCH: Spin Networks

Label: psi
Product Code: 08400
Catalog Code: 07.05/07.06
Country: Great Britain
 
Price: $25.95



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