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01. ROLAND KAYN - Czerial
01. ROLAND KAYN - Xattax
02. ROLAND KAYN - Xattax
01. ROLAND KAYN - Somitoh
02. ROLAND KAYN - Somitoh
03. ROLAND KAYN - Somitoh
01. ROLAND KAYN - Ykties
02. ROLAND KAYN - Naaps
03. ROLAND KAYN - Ykties
04. ROLAND KAYN - Ykties
05. ROLAND KAYN - Naaps
01. ROLAND KAYN - Rosonic
02. ROLAND KAYN - Ilay
03. ROLAND KAYN - Rosonic
04. ROLAND KAYN - Ilay
05. ROLAND KAYN - Rosonic
06. ROLAND KAYN - Rosonic
07. ROLAND KAYN - Ilay
01. ROLAND KAYN - Aseral
02. ROLAND KAYN - Aseral
03. ROLAND KAYN - Aseral
04. ROLAND KAYN - Aseral
05. ROLAND KAYN - Aseral
06. KAYN, ROLAND - Aseral
08. KAYN, ROLAND - Aseral
01. ROLAND KAYN - Ractil
02. ROLAND KAYN - Zearid
03. ROLAND KAYN - Ractil
04. ROLAND KAYN - Zearid
05. ROLAND KAYN - Ractil
06. ROLAND KAYN - Zearid
07. ROLAND KAYN - Ractil
08. ROLAND KAYN - Zearid
09. ROLAND KAYN - Ractil
10. ROLAND KAYN - Zearid
01. ROLAND KAYN - Radox
02. ROLAND KAYN - Radox
03. ROLAND KAYN - Radox
04. ROLAND KAYN - Radox
05. ROLAND KAYN - Radox
06. ROLAND KAYN - Radox
11. KAYN, ROLAND - Radox
01. ROLAND KAYN - Qyrials I
02. ROLAND KAYN - Qyrials II
03. ROLAND KAYN - Qyrials I
04. ROLAND KAYN - Qyrials II
05. ROLAND KAYN - Qyrials I
06. ROLAND KAYN - Qyrials II
07. ROLAND KAYN - Qyrials I
08. ROLAND KAYN - Qyrials II
09. ROLAND KAYN - Qyrials I
10. ROLAND KAYN - Qyrials II
11. ROLAND KAYN - Qyrials I
12. KAYN, ROLAND - Qyrials I
13. ROLAND KAYN - Qyrials II
01. ROLAND KAYN - Tachys
02. ROLAND KAYN - Tachys
03. ROLAND KAYN - Tachys
04. ROLAND KAYN - Tachys
05. ROLAND KAYN - Tachys
06. ROLAND KAYN - Tachys
14. KAYN, ROLAND - Tachys
01. ROLAND KAYN - Prahoxx
02. ROLAND KAYN - Prahoxx
03. ROLAND KAYN - Prahoxx
04. ROLAND KAYN - Prahoxx
05. ROLAND KAYN - Prahoxx
06. ROLAND KAYN - Prahoxx
15. KAYN, ROLAND - Prahoxx
01. ROLAND KAYN - Hatho
02. ROLAND KAYN - Hatho
03. ROLAND KAYN - Hatho
04. ROLAND KAYN - Hatho
05. ROLAND KAYN - Hatho
06. ROLAND KAYN - Hatho
16. KAYN, ROLAND - Hatho
01. ROLAND KAYN - Ecerit I
02. ROLAND KAYN - Ecerit II
03. ROLAND KAYN - Ecerit III
04. ROLAND KAYN - Ecerit I
05. ROLAND KAYN - Ecerit II
06. ROLAND KAYN - Ecerit III
07. ROLAND KAYN - Ecerit I
08. ROLAND KAYN - Ecerit II
09. ROLAND KAYN - Ecerit III
10. ROLAND KAYN - Ecerit I
11. ROLAND KAYN - Ecerit II
12. ROLAND KAYN - Ecerit III
13. ROLAND KAYN - Ecerit I
14. ROLAND KAYN - Ecerit II
15. ROLAND KAYN - Ecerit III
16. ROLAND KAYN - Ecerit I
17. KAYN, ROLAND - Ecerit I
18. ROLAND KAYN - Ecerit II
19. ROLAND KAYN - Ecerit III
01. ROLAND KAYN - Ritaces
02. ROLAND KAYN - Ritaces
03. ROLAND KAYN - Ritaces
04. ROLAND KAYN - Ritaces
05. ROLAND KAYN - Ritaces
06. ROLAND KAYN - Ritaces
20. KAYN, ROLAND - Ritaces
01. ROLAND KAYN - Icursim
02. ROLAND KAYN - Icursim
03. ROLAND KAYN - Icursim
04. ROLAND KAYN - Icursim
05. ROLAND KAYN - Icursim
06. ROLAND KAYN - Icursim
21. KAYN, ROLAND - Icursim
01. ROLAND KAYN - Arasa
02. ROLAND KAYN - Arasa
03. ROLAND KAYN - Arasa
04. ROLAND KAYN - Arasa
05. ROLAND KAYN - Arasa
06. ROLAND KAYN - Arasa
22. KAYN, ROLAND - Arasa
ARTIST
TITLE
A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound
FORMAT
16CD BOX

LABEL
CATALOG #
FR 007-022CD FR 007-022CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/3/2017

Sold out, no repress currently planned. Frozen reeds presents the première release of Roland Kayn's 14-hour masterpiece, A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound, as a 16-CD boxed set. Roland Kayn's truly epic A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound is both a major late opus and a summation of his vast contribution to the fields of electronic music and composition. Hearing the briefest passage of this piece, assembled in 2009, is enough to date the material of which it is composed back to the era of Kayn's noteworthy LP boxed sets, released on the Colosseum label in the late '70s and early '80s. Kayn's so-called "cybernetic music," to use the term he preferred, resolutely refuses to showcase the methods employed in its creation. The mass of logical interactions and correspondences underpinning the sounds are submerged so deeply below the surface as to defy analysis. One is left only with the results, which grant the listener a profound and unique experience. With A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound, Kayn provides both a vast sonic territory and the invitation to explore it. From glacial, drone-like vistas to violent staccato sequences, the piece's 22 movements chart the length and breadth of electronic music in as comprehensive a manner as has ever been attempted. The resurgence of the modular synthesizer as a popular musical tool in recent years belies the possibility that its boldest virtuosi may already lie in the instrument's past. In his work in Europe's electronic music studios alongside colleagues such as Leo Küpper and Jaap Vink, Kayn created sonic textures in such abundant variety as to make genre-categorization redundant. Photographs of the one-off, hand-built systems upon which they were realized have inspired the awe of electronic-music connoisseurs for years, but their output has been all too little heard and appreciated. In 2017, Roland Kayn represents perhaps one of the last titanic figures of 20th-century music to receive their due recognition, and to have their vital music restored to availability. Fresh from its 2016 release of Julius Eastman's Femenine (FR 006CD), which spurred on its composer's wider rediscovery and gave rise to performances, broadcasts, and festivals devoted to his work around the world, frozen reeds is proud to initiate the first stage of a similar process for Roland Kayn, which his incredible music so richly deserves. Edition of 750. Audio restoration by Jim O'Rourke. Artwork by Robert Beatty.