Shandar records was a French record label active in the 1970's that specialized in avant garde music. Shandar released several significant minimalist recordings, free jazz excursions, and musical experiments. As I understand it, the label was funded by the Maeght Foundation, a private foundation in Saint-Paul de Vence, France created by art collectors Aimé and Marguerite Maeght. In addition to presenting visual art by painters and sculptors such as Calder, Giacometti, Chagall, and Miró, among others, the foundation hosted musical events. Some of the events were recorded and are presented on Shandar along with recordings from various other sources. The Shandar address is given on back of the Albert Ayler double LP as 40, rue mazarine, Paris.
At least some of the records were issued with a few label color variations. The 10.000 series is the first issue.9 Many of the LPs have liner notes by Daniel CAUX in French with occasional English translation.
Last edited 9 July 2005.
There were two logo designs, the "disc" and the "vertical" logo.
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Personnel: Albert Ayler: tenor and soprano saxophones. Mary Maria: voice, soprano saxophone. Call Cobbs: piano. Steve Tintweiss: bass. Allen Blairman: drums. Recorded live 25 and 27 July 1970 at Maeght Foundation, St. Paul de Vence. This was Ayler's last gig. tracks: In Heart Only; Spirits; Holy Family; Spirits Rejoice.
Sun Ra Nuits de la
Fondation Maeght volume 1recorded: 1970 Aout 3/5 St. Paul de Vence.
ILLUMINATES
sound radiates
illuminates
articulates the symbol of
and what it radiates it is
on what it illuminates
it casts the touch of fire
Stockhausen
IllimiteAccording to the cover, this was recorded on October 29, 1970, but side-by-side comparison of this recording with the August 24, 1969 recording of Ubegrenzt published on Deutsche Grammaphon reveals the performances to be one and the same.15 Ubegrenzt is a piece from From the Seven Days.
Sun Ra Nuits de la
Fondation Maeght volume 2recorded 1970 Aout 3/5 St. Paul de Vence.
Sometimes in the amazing ignorance
I hear things and see things
I never knew I saw and heard before...
Albert Ayler Nuits de
la Fondation Maeght volume 2tracks: Truth Is Marching In; Universal Message; Spiritual Reunion; Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe
Recorded 1971 March 16, Paris, Theater de la Musique with an ensemble composed of Steve Reich, Steve Chambers, Jon Gibson, Art Murphy and Philip Glass!
Pandit Pran Nathragas Yaman Kalyan and Punjabi Berva. copyright 1971.
Sunny Murraytracks: A) Angels and Devils. Hilarious Paris. Elephant's Dream. B) Flower Train.
Sunny Murray: drums. Ambrose Jackson: trumpet. Michel Portal: bass clarinet, bassoon. Bob Guerin: bass. Francois Tusques: piano. Bernard Vitet: trumpet. Kenneth Terroade: tenor saxophone. Hart Leroy Bibbs: poetry. Recorded live 8, December, 1968, ORTF studio 104. Hart Leroy Bibbs' poem the Stroller is incorporated into Flower Train. Bibbs is best known as a photographer of jazz musicians.
Dashiell Hedayat Obsolete"this record must be played as loud as possible, must be heard as stoned as impossible and thank you everybody" from the cover. Personel: Daevid Allen, William Burroughs, Didier Malherbe, Pip Pyle, Gilli Smyth, Christian Tritsch, and Sam Wyatt (Robert's 5 year old son). Scan courtesy Andrey Henkin.
Francois Tusques Intercommunal
MusicJazz for the revolution. Sunnay Murray, Louis Armfield, Alan Silva, Beb Guerin, Bob Reid, Alan Shorter, Steve Potts. Recorded in Paris, May 11, 1971. Heavy photo of a hell-hole ghetto in the gatefold.
Live recording of Second Act of A on 1969 July 29, Saint-Paul-de-Vence with Cecil Taylor, Jimmy Lyons, Sam Rivers, Andrew Cyrille.
Terry
Riley Persian Surgery DervishesA confusing pressing. double album. recorded 1971 April 18 in Los Angeles and 1972 May 24 in Paris. This is a fantastic album of improvisation on electric organ and Riley-designed feedback system.
Terry
Riley Persian Surgery Dervishessingle album of the Paris performance
Double LP in gatefold cover. Disc logo on blue labels.1
Cecil
Taylor Nuits de la Fondation Maeght
LaMonte Young and Marian
Zazeela Dream House 78' 17"contains 13 I 73 5:35 - 6:14:03 PM NYC by The Theater of Eternal Music: LaMonte Young - voice and sine waves, Marian Zazeela - voice, Jon Hassell - trumpet, Garret List - trombone. Drift Study 14 VII 73 9:27:27 - 10:06:41 PM NYC
Blue labels with disc logo.
gatefold cover with vertical logo.1
Philip Glass Solo Musicrecordings of Contrary Motion and Two Pages during February and March 1975 in New York City. Philip Glass - electric organ, Michael Riesman - acoustic piano (on Two Pages).
Vincent le Masne and
Bertrand Porquet Guitares Derive
Charlemagne Palestine Strumming
Music"Strumming Music is a work developed over the past five years utilizing a note alternation technique with the sustain pedal of the piano constantly depressed. This technique allows the undampened strings to resonate and compound with each other creating complex mixtures of pure strummed sonority and their overtones. No electronics or special tunings are utilized; only the finest instrument available today, the Rolls Royce of pianos, 'Bosendorfer' of Vienna, all of Mr. Palestine's piano works have been composed especially for this marvelous instrument." from the cover. Now reissued on CD by New Tone (Italy).
Ragnar Grippe SandThe cover says: "The music was inspired by the sand paintings of Viswanadhan." Instruments used: organ, recorder, harmonica, electric guitar, bells, voice, thumb organ, maracas. Recorded at A.L.M. Studio, Paris. This is a minimal music created using consecutive overdubbing and delay. Now reissued with different cover art on CD by Streamline (Germany).
2LP box set with a 12" x 12", 12 page booklet (including song texts in French, English and Arabic). Labels are black w/ silver print, no mention of Shandar (though the catalogue numbers appear, very small) & no Shandar logo. LE ROSEAU is in caps at the top of the label. The album is a vocal/musical rendering of the Epic of Gilgamesh (text adaptation & music written by Azrie, who also sings/recites and plays percussion), recorded Feb 3-4 1977. The music is fairly sombre, droning middle-eastern (Azrie's singing/reciting -in Arabic - is mixed far louder than the music). oud: Marcel Khalife; nay: Abdessalem Safar; kanoun (kanun): Saad Rajai; viole de gambe: Marcello Ardizzone; harp: Helene Tristani; percussion: Darwish Al-Masri, Chris Hayward, Abed Azrie; 3 violoncelles, en alterance: Jacques Widerquer, Michel Choquet, Michel Lacrouste, William Stahl, Dany Duleroy, Gilbert Zanlonghi. Direction de l'ensemble: Dia Succari11
Richard Horowitz Oblique SequencesCover reports recording date as August - September 1978. Release date may be as late as January 1980 as a test pressing exists with that date written on it.16, 17
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