March 2024 - A S T R E S D'OR

March 31, 2024April 11, 2024

EUGENE CHADBOURNE ~ CATALOGUE D’OISEAUX

LP (180 Gram)
Original Artwork by Eugene Chadbourne
Numbered & signed edition of 25 ex.
d’or079
Date of Publication: 7 April 2024

Price: 120 euro. Contact Astres d’Or for pre-sale

All artwork by Eugene Chadbourne
All music by Eugene Chadbourne

Eugene Chadbourne was born in Mt. Vernon, New York, USA in 1954. He grew up in Boulder, Colorado where he was exposed to an incredible range of music including locally based composers and performers such as avant garde composers Tod Dockstoder and George Crumb and guitarist Tommy Bolin. He began playing guitar in bands as a teenager, at first garage rock and then strongly influenced by Jimi Hendrix and the Mothers of Invention. He released his first album of solo guitar in 1977 and became a professional musician shortly thereafter. He performs and records an unparalleled range of styles–jazz, rock, country and western, classical from Bach to Messiaen–on guitar and banjo and as a vocalist.

We bsite Eugene Chadbourne

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Catalogue d’oiseaux (Catalogue Of Birds) is Chadbourne’s personal and free interpretation of Messiaen’s work with the same title.

Four pieces are in this catalogue, composed and played on Banjo especially for Astres d’Or.

1 Le Chocard des Alpes (16:50)
2 L’Alouette Lulu (7:26)
3 La Chouette Hulotte (21:13)
4 La Bouscarle (4:17)

All music by Eugene Chadbourne, an Alpine Chough, a Woodlark, a Tawny Owl and Cetti’s Warbler, 2024

Eugene Chadbourne ~ Le Chocard des Alpes (excerpt)

Eugene Chadbourne ~ La Chouette Hulotte (excerpt)

Artwork description:
Beautiful and unique Folk Art paintings of birds, by Eugene Chadbourne.
Gouache on white cardboard (gatefold LP cover)

March 31, 2024April 24, 2024

CHRISTIAN WOLFF ~ TRIO XIII

LP (180 Gram)
Original Artwork by Christian Wolff
Numbered & signed edition of 25 ex.
d’or078
Date of Publication: 7 April 2024

Price: 120 euro. Contact Astres d’Or for sale

All artwork by Christian Wolff
All music composed by Christian Wolff
Performed by Trio Ton

Christian Wolff (1934) studied piano with Grete Sultan and, briefly, composition with John Cage. Mostly he is self-taught as a composer. He has also been active as an improviser, with, among others, Takehisa Kosugi, Christian Marclay, Ikue Mori, Eddie Prevost, Keith Rowe, and Steve Lacy. He was part of the so-called New York School (with Cage, Feldman, David Tudor and Earle Brown), and close to Frederic Rzewski and Cornelius Cardew. He was long active with Merce Cunningham and his dance company. His music currently some 270 items, is published by C. F. Peters and much of it is recorded on over 70 CDs.

He has taught at Harvard, in Classics (Greek and Latin), and at Dartmouth, in the Classics, Comparative Literature and Music departments.

In 2022 Astres d’Or published Christian Wolff ~ A Complete Anthology Of Solo And Duo Violin Pieces, a 2LP with eight pieces for violin, among which are two unpublished pieces and one new piece especially written for the publication on Astres d’Or.
The same year Astres d’Or published Christian Wolff ~ Line Exercise / For Ordinary Affects. An LP consisting of two compositions for quintet by Christian Wolff with himself on piano and melodica.

We are honored now, to publish the world wide premiere of Trio XIII, a piece for trombone, double bass and snare drum. The piece is recorded in 2022 / 2023 by Trio Ton, on invitation by Astres d’Or and now published for the first time.

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Performed by Ton
Matthias Muche – Trombone
Constantin Herzog – Double bass
Rie Watanabe – Snare drum

A publication by Astres d’Or 2024

Christian Wolff ~ Trio XIII, Face A (excerpt)

Christian Wolff ~ Trio XIII, Face B (excerpt)

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Art description
Original drawings by Christian Wolff, in his own distinctive and personal style, which gives such a depth to his music. Crayon, gouache and pencil on paper.
White gatefold sleeve with title vignet on front. Inside is a transparent folded paper containing the drawing.

March 18, 2024September 16, 2024

tHe NeW bLoCkAdErS, rAyMoNd DiJkStRa, jAmEs WoRsE ~ A gLaStLy ThReEn

LP (180 Gram)
Original Artwork by Richard Rupenus, James Worse
Numbered & signed edition of 30 ex.
d’or077
Date of Publication: 29 September 2024
Pre-orders accepted. See below for ordering information.

‘A gLaStLy ThReEn’ is the ultimate collaboration of three masters of surrealism, Richard Rupenus, Raymond Dijkstra and James Worse, originally recorded in 1985 and published now for the first time by Astres d’Or… An exceptional journey through phantasmagorical projections of the mind leading us astray from preconceived reflections of the distorted self. The image is broken. Crushed in an all absorbing rage from years gone by. The field lies open in front of us. The air is clear. With remaining clouds of dust and scattered glass continuously being pushed to the side whilst we glide forward over a landscape of mud, shiny, in a far away sun.

James Worse is an artist from the UK, active in visual arts, poetry and music since the early 1980’s. His spoken word pieces include poetry written by himself. The poetry consists of self invented wordings with a direct link to surrealism and folk art. His artwork forms a beautiful personal, folk art inspired amalgan of free forms and letters, often very colorful.
James Worse currently lives in Melbourne, Australia and can be found here: (music) https://jamesworse.bandcamp.com/ and here (artpage on instagram) @flartitude

Richard Rupenus is an experimental musician, of a highly distinctive, easily discernible, personal form of noise music. The basis of his noise lies in concrete sounds- scraping, scratching of objects and surfaces, recorded from near by. His active years were from early 1980’s-2024. He recently stopped making music. Rupenus is working under the name The New Blockaders. Previously Rupenus and Raymond Dijkstra published two titles, both on Astres d’Or. An extensive discography and background information of Richard Rupenus can be found here: https://www.thenewblockaders.org.uk/

Raymond Dijkstra is an obscure outsider visual artist and musician since 1980. He has a large discography, mainly consisting of highly limited editions (1-10 ex) and tiny vinyl formats (3″, 5″). His publications are often a combination of music and original art. His to the larger public unknown music can be described as a very personal and original type of musique brut. Mostly made with acoustic sources like harmonium, pianoharp and scraping of objects. In 2022 he stopped making music permanently and is now fully engaged in the visual arts. https://www.rayastre.org , instagram

A gLaStLy ThReEn
James Worse- Voice, Poetry
Richard Rupenus- Scraping
Raymond Dijkstra- Other instruments, composition

Excerpt Face A

Excerpt Face B

Artwork description
Cover is made by Richard Rupenus. Consisting of handcut and pasted, printed paper collage with acrylic paint and glue. Each one is different.
Insert by James Worse, letterpress prints on colored cardboard (each different) (edition of 24)
Insert by James Worse, original oil crayon drawings on cardboard (edition of 6)

The publication of A gLaStLy ThReEn has artwork by Richard Rupenus on the cover, with inserts of James Worse. There are two editions- edition with 24 letterpress inserts by James Worse and another edition with 6 original oil crayon drawings by James Worse.

Price:
Edition of 24 (with letterpress inserts) 160 euro
Edition of 6 (with original drawings) 220 euro.
Contact Astres d’Or for orders.

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