HALIM EL DABH-Xango Ka O-(Pointless music-Usa-199?)

Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh (Arabic: حليم عبد المسيح الضبع‎‎, Ḥalīm ʻAbd al-Masīḥ al-Ḍabʻ; born March 4, 1921) is an Egyptian American composer, performer, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who has had a career spanning six decades. He is particularly known as an early pioneer of electronic music.^[1] In 1944 he composed one of the earliest known works of tape music,^[2] or musique concrète. From the late 1950s to early 1960s he produced influential work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center ^{[3](taken from a wikipedia page  dedicated to him).
His official webpage is here,you can read there his bio,collaboration,artists works and much more.} 

^{Pointless Music  seems to have been the personal label of Mike Hovancsek.}

Veteran visual artist, writer and musician from US,here is actual webpage with lots of info about all his artistic activities.

This tape is old and doesn`t seems to be listed on his internet page,it is very interesting and will make happy the lovers of certain obscure concrete/tribal and ethnic music.You`ll find very useful info on the cover sleeve notes.

Enjoy it.

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POSTAL SOUND SURGERY-Postal Sound Surgery-(audiofile Tapes-Usa-1992)

Postal Sound Surgery is a mail music project co-ordinated by: Mike Hovancsek of Pointless Orchestra 
and Pointless Music :veteran visual artist, writer and musician from US.(here his actual webpage with lots of info about all his artistic activities)-quite few artists took part to this amazing tape via mail:Ethan Lebovics:drummer for the Minnesota band Gneissmaker and creator of Ramco Records label
 Roger Skullback also involved in Prose In Cannes.
Alan Bishop:Co-founder of Sun City Girls, owner of Abduction, and co-owner of Sublime Frequencies.  Alan's younger brother is Rick Bishop,also present in this tape-work.Henry Kuntz artists from the 70s playing here assorted woods and bamboo xylophones.

 There are many more artists involved in this tape,you`ll find all the details in the cover-sleeve.

The label is the legendary audiofile Tapes:New York industrial/experimental/electronic label run by Carl Howard and active since the mid-1980s. Now defunct.

I already posted quite few tapes by this very good label.

Enjoy it,this is a great tape of absurd experiments with various instruments reminding me a lots of strange passages of the cassette culture scene of the 80s.

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