Various Artists - The Alien Territory Archives: A Collection of Radical, Experimental and Irrelevant Music from 1970's San Diego [4CD]

Format: 4 x CD
Catalogue No.: NYAHH021CD
Barcode: 5056321698117
Release Date: 01 Aug 2025
Genre: Alternative

• 4 CD boxset and booklet of unreleased work by Pauline Oliveros, Harry Partch, Diamanda Galas, Warren Burt, David Dunn, Robert Turman, Joji Yuasa, KIVA, Ernie Morgan, Peter Gordon, Kathy Acker, Alexina Louie, Kenneth Gaburo and more.
• The 4 discs are separated into 4 categories: Drones and Tapes, Ensembles, Synthesizers and Vocals.
• This wild and wonderful 4 cd set came about from a meeting between Nyahh Records boss Willie Stewart and Bill Perrine, author of Alien Territory: Radical, Experimental and Irrelevant Music From 1970's San Diego. The two were chatting over email when Bill happened to mention that he had access to the archive at the University of California, San Diego which contained a large collection of unreleased work by many of the artists and musicians mentioned in his book. They decided to collaborate on a compilation album, which soon turned into a 4 disc set.

TRACKLISTING
 
Disc 1 - Drones & Tape
1. Robert Turman – Relay (circa 1977)
2. David Dunn – Arroyo (1975)
3. Warren Burt – for Charlemagne Palestine (1973)
4. Ernie Morgan – Remains (undated)
5. Robert Turman – Insecta (circa 1977)
6. David Dunn – Oracles (paragraph 6) (1975)
7. Warren Burt – French Fried Minds of Walruses and Caterpillars (1974)
Disc 2 - Ensembles
1. Harry Partch – Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales (1968)
2. Harry Partch – Two Duets from And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma (1968)
3. Allen Strange – Switchcraft (1970)
4. Warren Burt, with Pauline Oliveros & Reinhard Berg – Phrases Please, Or My Name is Country and Western Oatmeal, Boys and Girls (1972)
5. Citizen’s Band – Untitled Music from Citizen’s Band (1978)
6. Joseph Julian – Windows and Clouds (1973)
7. KIVA – Excerpt from Pure Intellect, Serpent Power, Inner Frames (1976)
Disc 3 - Synthesizers
1. Dary John Mizelle – Polyphonies II (circa 1973)
2. Diamanda Galás – Scalatron Music (1981)
3. Joji Yuasa – My Blue Sky in Southern California (1976)
4. Ernie Morgan – Mono-Melodies 1 (undated)
5. Ernie Morgan – Buchla Bounce (undated)
Disc 4 - Vocals
1. Alexina Louie – Molly (1972)
2. Kenneth Gaburo – Ringings (1976)
3. Peter Gordon (featuring Kathy Acker) – Greetings from the SLA (1974)
4. Dary John Mizelle, David Gamper, Robert MacDougall, Frank McCarty – Winter Voices (1970)
5. Kenneth Gaburo – Noyse (1975)