House of POGUS


Pogus Productions features releases of Electronic, Electro-Acoustic, and Experimental music. Uncompromising, non-commercial, and definitely not for everyone (unfortunately), these releases are geared towards discerning listeners.

Spring is here and the discs are blooming.  Pogus has 2 new releases for your listening pleasure, Music by Lou Cohen, a 3 CD set featuring a fantastic overview of his works since around 2003 and a new If, Bwana - Red One, a little more intimate than the last with a denser, deeper sound.

February 4, 2013 Update:  Dear Pogus customers... to follow up on the US Postal Service postage rate increases - which hits international customers - it is particularly bad for those who purchase only one cd - now $9.40 as opposed to in the past of $5.40...

we have had to pass these costs along to the consumer - sorry - prices do get better if you purchase more than one CD so i do urge you to look at that..our apologies for this...

Important Shipping Information as of 1/29/13:
  Dear Pogus customers ... i just came back from the post office and the rude shock of finding out that the international postal rate here has just about doubled..is going to effect shipping costs...Pogus has tried to keep it reasonable - but the cost of shipping one cd for instance has jumped from around $5 to over $9 !!!!  So prices for shipping will rise..sorry...

As the year ends some bits of Pogus news...Frances White's Library of Dreams was voted into Wire magazine's Top 10 classical releases for 2012 - great...and folks have been listening to and digging Tensions at the Vanguard on Soundcloud - thanks (now if we could sell a few more copies...). Upcoming early in 2013 we should have Drums and Drones a cd/dvd release by Brian Chase (drummer for the Yeah Yeah Yeah's), plus a 3 cd set (for the price of 2) by Cambridge, MA based electronic music composer Lou Cohen - for more about him there is a great interview with him here - http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=43265. And we will be releasing another cd of works by Brazilian Jorge Antunes....plus more things down the line...stay tuned and happy holidays to all

This new Pogus 2 CD compilation, Tensions At The Vanguard, curated by Luis Alvarado (writer, journalist, sound poet), presents some of the most important pieces of the Peruvian musical vanguard of the 1960?s and 70?s, offering a representative sample of works and composers from this important period in Peruvian music. This release also includes a 24-page booklet - in both Spanish and English - with an essay giving an overview of the works, the composers, and a brief musical and social history of Peru during this time.

We are also trying something new here as well. This release can be listened to (mp3 version) on Soundcloud- soundcloud.com/pogus. So if you want to give a listen, go ahead.

And of course I would be remiss not to invite you to listen to some If, Bwana things: not on Pogus..but what the hell. These are works from 2010 and 2012 in Topolo, Italy: archive.org/details/oz062

Video of Experimenta 4 performance: with Leslie Ross on bassoon - Katherine Liberovskaya did live video that evening: vimeo.com/51538359

The following 3 are reissue with bonus material of Organs Life cassette (SOP 166)
nostalgiedelaboue.bandcamp.com/album/organ-life-extended
nostalgie-de-la-boue.blogspot.com/2012/10/if-bwana-organ-life-extended.html
discogs.com/If-Bwana-Organ-Life-Extended/release/3809636

And you can follow the further adventures of If, Bwana on the ifbwana.com site....

Nice Label review on Tokafi

If,Bwana - Assemble.Age! released on Mutable, check it out and read the review on Paris Transatlantic

"Grindstone Redux" has found a new home at Snag Films where it is being shown via live streaming.

Catalogue
NEW CD releases
  • Check out the new CD and the entire Pogus CD Catalogue!
       We now offer downloads for purchase through Ganxy.

  • A Bit of Alright

    Pogus offers titles from the following labels:

  • Anna Homler (Intermedia artist)
  • Ants (Italian based CD label)
  • Animul (Creative Music Productions by Ned Rothenberg)
  • Anoema (Finland based CD label)
  • Anomalous Records (experimental, abstract, surreal)
  • C.U.E. Records (Sunao Inami)
  • Frog Peak (A composer's collective)
  • GD Stereo (Combining music and architecture through psychogeography)
  • Nonsequitur (Wide range of adventurous music and sound art)
  • Oaksmus (Berlin based CD distrubutor)
  • plus some other goodies here

  • Reviews

    Articles, Reviews, and Interviews

    If, Bwana and Whorelovsky - WTM #1098: wReck thiS meSS ~ Radio Patapoe 88.3 more from Bart Plantenga

    Feature Interview - 15 Questions to Al Margolis / If,Bwana - Tokafi, 11/10

    Interview - I, Angelica - If, Bwana / Al Margolis The Wire (UK)#221 Summer 2002.

    Dan Warburton has written a nice piece for If,Bwana on Paris Transatlantic



    More Margolis

    If,Bwana All original compositions performed by a host of musicians producing sounds from the mundane to the sublime. Read a little history.

    Sound of PigSound of Pig (SOP) cassette mail order catalogue is now available online. Choose from literally hundreds of cassettes, brought to you exclusively from POGUS. Get your tapes now!

    Video highlight of Pogus Productions Showcase at One Thousand Pulses II on February 20th, featuring Tom Hamilton, Al Margolis and Jackie Martelle on YouTube

    A new and ongoing collaboration with Doug Van Nort... Live Outakes

    Read the tour diary from le grande tour, summer of 2010


    new releases
    "Red One"
    If, Bwana
    If, Bwana - Red One
    Pogus CD 21068-2

    "Music"
    Lou Cohen
    Lou Cohen - Music
    Pogus CD 21071-2


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