Shelter Press

Shelter Press is a French record label / publishing platform founded in 2012 by publisher Bartolomé Sanson and artist Félicia Atkinson, building up dialogues between contemporary art, poetry and experimental musicexperimental music through printed publications and records.
From 2021, Shelter Press is also carrying and collaborating on the releases of the Ideologic Organ, Recollection GRM and Portraits GRM labels (the last two previously carried by Editions Mego).
 
Regnéville-sur-Mer
 
126 titles
Series:
 
Laurel Halo - Octavia / Manifolds (vinyl LP)
2024
forthcoming
A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series bringing together two pieces by Jessica Ekomane (explores the multiple possibilities of polyphonic writing) and Laurel Halo (for piano and electronics).
Robert Cahen - La nef des fous (vinyl LP)
2024
Five pieces of musique concrète recorded in the GRM studios between 1971 and 1974 by the composer and pioneering video artist.
Horacio Vaggione - Schall / Rechant (vinyl LP)
2024
Four purely electroacoustic pieces recorded between 1994 and 2002 by the Argentine composer and theorist.
Lisa Lerkenfeldt - Halos of Perception (vinyl LP)
2023
Drawing from Lisa Lerkenfeldt's field work and electroacoustic practices, piano, cello and tape loop arrangements light up lost chambers and underground histories in a patchwork of reflective musique concrète, instrumental composition and surreal cinema.
Julia Reidy - Trances (CD)
2023
currently out of stock
Trances, Jules Reidy's follow-up to the celebrated World in World (2022), gathers twelve tracks shifting between fragment and epic, returning to familiar phrases between forays outward into uncertain expanses. Through its exploration of the cyclical movements of grief and emotional turbulence, Trances produces a sonic world as raw, absorbing, and surprising as anything Reidy has created to date.
Julia Reidy - Trances (vinyl LP)
2023
Trances, Jules Reidy's follow-up to the celebrated World in World (2022), gathers twelve tracks shifting between fragment and epic, returning to familiar phrases between forays outward into uncertain expanses. Through its exploration of the cyclical movements of grief and emotional turbulence, Trances produces a sonic world as raw, absorbing, and surprising as anything Reidy has created to date.
Spectres - A Thousand Voices
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
The fourth issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, around the topic of voice (with François J. Bonnet, John Giorno, David Grubbs, Lee Gamble, Sarah Hennies, Joan La Barbara, Pierre Schaeffer, Peter Szendy, Ghédalia Tazartès...).
Richard Chartier - Ni envers ni endroit que cette roche brûlante (pour Georgia O\'Keeffe) / Recurrence.Expansion (vinyl LP)
2023
A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series bringing together two pieces by Félicia Atkinson and Richard Chartier.
Anthony Pateras - Sept duos pour guitare acoustique & piano préparé (2 vinyl LP)
2023
currently out of stock
The second collaboration between Stephen O'Malley and Anthony Pateras, this time entirely acoustic, based around an acoustic guitar and prepared piano: a music that seems suspended, captivating by its almost organic coherence and modal simplicity, behind which resonances and subtle plays of pitch develop.
Abigail Toll - Matrices of Vision (CD)
2023
The debut release of experimental music artist Abigail Toll on Shelter Press: a compositional study using data aesthetics as a means to critically engage with the social and political mechanisms that surround us.
Félicia Atkinson - The Whisper
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Félicia Atkinson's new artist's book, bringing together photographs, drawings and poems.
Francesca Zappia - Flâneurs - Copies, Appropriations, Citations from the Collection of the Centre national des arts plastiques
2023
English edition
Copies, appropriations, quotations in the collections of the Centre national des arts plastiques
Dafne Vicente-Sandoval - Minos Circuit / Transfiguration 4 (vinyl LP)
2023
A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series bringing together two pieces by the French bassoonist and the Norwegian composer.
Ákos Rózmann - Mass / Mässa (7 CD box set)
2023
Ákos Rózmann's Mass consists of twelve electroacoustic compositions created between 1989 and 2004 in the composer's studio and at EMS in Stockholm. Like most of Rózmann's compositions, Mass is a long-form work with a duration of around seven hours. 
Ákos Rózmann - Mass / Mässa (7 CD box set)
2023
currently out of stock
The complete version of electro-acoustic composer Ákos Rózmann's epic masterpiece 12 Stations presented for the first time in its entirety as a deluxe 7CD set.
Daniel Teruggi - Sphæra (vinyl LP)
2023
An electroacoustic piece composed between 1984 and 1989, inspired by the ancient theory of the four elements and exploring the notions of matter and its transformation.
Ben Vida - The Beat My Head Hit (vinyl LP)
2023
currently out of stock
Where Ben Vida's music has previously explored the sound of text at the outer register of electronic composition, here, in collaboration with the Yarn/Wire quartet and the vocalist Nina Dante, the voice and the words it works to inhabit are placed back at the time-scale of a song.
Latifa Echakhch - The Concert
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
A vinyl release composed by Alexandre Babel in close collaboration with artist Latifa Echakhch, featuring significant contributions from the Berlin based musicians Rebecca Lenton, Theo Nabicht, Jon Heilbron and Nikki Schlierf. The record is meant to accompany the eponymous exhibition at the Swiss pavilion of the 59th Venice Art Biennale.
Beatriz Ferreyra - Senderos de luz y sombras (vinyl LP)
2023
A 16-channel piece composed between 2016 and 2020, inspired by astrophysics, the mystery of the pre-Big Bang era and some of the uncanny motions of the unconscious mind, where strangeness meets the ordinary, in memoriam Bernard Baschet, Bernard Parmegiani and Carlos Pellegrino.
Kassel Jaeger - Shifted in Dreams (vinyl LP)
2023
François Bonnet's new album, more vaporous, immersive and evocative than ever, explores a wide range of sound sources and techniques to blur musical codes and leave room for memory imprints.
Joshua Bonnetta - Innse Gall (vinyl LP + book)
2022
32.00 25.00 €
An exploration of the shifting acoustic ecology of the Western Isles.
Peter Rehberg - at GRM (2009, 2016) (vinyl LP)
2022
Two previously unreleased recordings of Peter Rehberg (1968-2021), live performances given at the GRM which, each in their own way, vividly illustrate the extent of his sonic palette.
Valerio Tricoli - Say Goodbye To The Wind (CD)
2022
A masterstroke of contemporary musique concrète and auditory conceptualism, dense with metaphor, allegory and meaning.
Félicia Atkinson - Image Language (2 vinyl LP)
2022
currently out of stock
A poetic and "environmental" record, weaving delicate instrumentals with spoken word.
Félicia Atkinson - Image Language (CD)
2022
A poetic and "environmental" record, weaving delicate instrumentals with spoken word.
Kali Malone - Living Torch (vinyl LP)
2022
currently out of stock
The first collaboration between the GRM and new label-partner Shelter Press, continuing the Portraits GRM record series which Peter Rehberg of Editions MEGO set the foundation for in 2012, Living Torch is a major piece by Kali Malone adds a significant milestone to an already fascinating repertoire.
Kali Malone - Living Torch (CD)
2022
The first collaboration between the GRM and new label-partner Shelter Press, continuing the Portraits GRM record series which Peter Rehberg of Editions MEGO set the foundation for in 2012, Living Torch is a major piece by Kali Malone adds a significant milestone to an already fascinating repertoire.
 L\'ocelle mare - Sans Chemin (vinyl LP)
2022
Thomas Bonvalet deploys all the instrumentarium of his project L'ocelle mare (guitars, banjo, tambourines, piano, flutes, but also body percussion, metronomes, switches, painter's tape, mobile phone, microphones, mixing board, amps, etc.) to create a true poetics of the object, focusing on the materiality of instruments as objects as well as on the musicality of objects as instruments.
 L\'ocelle mare - Sans Chemin (CD)
2022
Thomas Bonvalet deploys all the instrumentarium of his project L'ocelle mare (guitars, banjo, tambourines, piano, flutes, but also body percussion, metronomes, switches, painter's tape, mobile phone, microphones, mixing board, amps, etc.) to create a true poetics of the object, focusing on the materiality of instruments as objects as well as on the musicality of objects as instruments.
Claire Rousay - Everything perfect is already here (vinyl LP)
2022
Texas experimental artist Claire Rousay's new album inaugurates her collaboration with Shelter Press (two 15-minute pieces, with Alex Cunningham and Mari Maurice on violin, Marilu Donovan on harp and Theodore Cale Schafer on piano).
Claire Rousay - Everything perfect is already here (CD)
2022
currently out of stock
Texas experimental artist Claire Rousay's new album inaugurates her collaboration with Shelter Press (two 15-minute pieces, with Alex Cunningham and Mari Maurice on violin, Marilu Donovan on harp and Theodore Cale Schafer on piano).
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Un  hiver  en  plein  été (vinyl LP)
2021
currently out of stock
The third collaboration between Félicia Atkinson and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma—their first album produced together in the same studio: an electroacoustic, poetic, fluid and sensitive dialogue between the two experimentalists.
Andrew Pekler - Palimpsests (vinyl LP)
2021
Built from deconstructed layers of texture, tone, and arrhythmic percussiveness, Andrew Pekler & Giuseppe Ielasi's 'Palimpsests' distills 6 years of work into 9 splintered, airy reimaginings of minimalism—each surprising, creatively rigorous, and startlingly beautiful—that rest at the outer reaches of contemporary electroacoustic practice and musique concrète.
Thomas Ankersmit - Perceptual Geography (CD)
2021
currently out of stock
An album created as a loosely structured piece for live performance in 2018-2019, commissioned by CTM in Berlin and Sonic Acts in Amsterdam, and premiered there on the GRM Acousmonium. The music is inspired by—and dedicated to—the pioneering research of American composer and installation artist Maryanne Amacher (1938-2009), and created entirely on the Serge Modular analog synthesizer.
James Rushford - Lake From The Louvers (vinyl LP)
2021
The new solo work for concrete sounds, electronics and instruments from Australian composer-performer James Rushford: a shimmering and skittering piece inspired by the play of light and shadow on water.
Francesca Zappia - Les Flâneuses - Copies, appropriations, citations dans la collection du Centre national des arts plastiques
2021
French edition
Copies, appropriations, quotations in the collections of the Centre national des arts plastiques (also available in English).
Marina Rosenfeld - Deathstar (2 vinyl LP)
2020
The album from Marina Rosenfeld's complex audiovisual installation around the microphone, amplification, notation and listening.
François J. Bonnet - The Music to Come
2020
English edition
A manifesto for possible future music.
François J. Bonnet - La musique à venir
2020
French edition
A manifesto for possible future music.
Bernard Vouilloux - Gisèle Vienne - Plateaux fantasmatiques
2020
French edition
An essay on the singular universe of the director, scenographer, choreographer, puppeteer and visual artist Gisèle Vienne.
Kassel Jaeger - Swamps / Things (2 vinyl LP)
2020
Kassel Jaeger's first solo LP with Shelter Press—a remarkably intimate and forward-thinking aural balm, bristling with complex beauty.
Judy Chicago - To Sustain The Vision
2020
English edition
Monograph bringing together some fifty works by Judy Chicago and unpublished documents, accompanied by three critical texts by Géraldine Gourbe.
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