The artist and musician collective Slave Pianos (Danius Kesminas, Neil Kelly, Rohan Drape, Michael Stevenson) from Australia reinterprets and recontextualizes artists’ records from the 20th century. On the record there are piano versions of works by Jean Dubuffet, Jean Tinguely, Ross Sinclair, Dieter Roth and many others. On the CD you’ll find string quartet interpretations of pieces by Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Beuys&Paik, Christian Marclay, Bill Viola and many more while on the tape musicians and djs re-compose works of Martin Kippenberger, Philip Corner, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Christian Boltanski to name just a few.

This set of recordings is accompanied by a 128 page book with essays by Robert Adlington, Max von Schlegell and Giovanni Intra as well as photographs, documents and scores by the Slave Pianos. It all comes in a big box with a large photo of the Pianos’ archive of artists’ records on the cover. All in all it’s an incredible release by this Frankfurt based publisher and record label.