The Avant Garde Project is a series of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic torrents digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today. This is wild stuff, so check it out if you've never heard this sort of music before. The analog rig used to extract the sound from the grooves is near state-of-the-art, producing almost none of the tracking distortion or surface noise normally associated with LPs. 

AGP1-66 are now available for direct download in the archive at dream.cs.bath.ac.uk/AvantGardeProject

NOTE: The Avant Garde Project will be off for the month of August. AGP70 will be released this coming Friday, and AGP71 on August 31.

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AGP69 is the second installment dedicated to total improvisation, the first being New Phonic Art (AGP8). This one features the Italian sextet of multi-instrumentalists, Gruppe Nuova Consonanza, which was active starting around the same time at New Phonic Art. These five tracks are early work by the group, from an album in the Deutsche Grammophon Avant Garde series (137 007). At least one other recording by the group (under the name Gruppo Nuova Consonanza) is still available on CD, but I'm fairly sure this one is not. If I am wrong about this, do please let me know ASAP. 

Tracks 06 and 07 are two selections of German free jazz from the sixties, transcribed from volume 6 of the monumental collection Deutscher Musikrat--Zeitgenossische Musik in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Bestellnummer DMR 1016-18). One of the three tracks from that LP has not been included because it is available on the CD "The Living Music" by Alex Schlippenbach.

All of these recordings are clear and vibrant, with very little surface noise or tracking distortion. Track 05 is a piece of electronic improvisation and has been digitized at a level 6 dB higher than tracks 01-04 to make full use of the 16 bits of quantization. The torrent includes a PDF file with liner and booklet notes from the two LPs.

Equipment used for A/D conversion: Lyra Helikon phono cartridge, Linn LP12/Lingo turntable, Linn Ittok tonearm, Audioquest LeoPard tonearm cable, PS Audio PS2 preamplifier, Kimber PBJ interconnect, M-Audio Audiophile USB A/D converter. 

01 - ...e poi? [23:25]
02 - Quasiraga [6:28]
03 - Light music [6:59]
04 - Ancora un trio [3:30]
05 - Credo [7:32]
06 - cadenza [8:47]
07 - Filet americain [8:22]

NOTE: To the best of my knowledge, these recordings are currently out of print. If you know otherwise, please let me know ASAP, as I do not wish any artists to be deprived of the royalties that they so richly deserve.