Music

Lisbon-based travellers Jibóia return to the Discrepant label with a new offering of globetrotting psychedelia.

Continuing his fruitful relationship with Discrepant, Tiago Sousa returns with two longform pieces for organ.

The long running vessel for Cameron Stallones' psychedelic excursions, Sun Araw, returns to Discrepant, using hydrophones and digital synthesis.

On "Cycle and Prayer," Indonesian experimental musician and instrument builder Wukir Suryadi expands the edges of his unique artistic world further, by digging in to meditative improvisation, art, and community building in his home workshop in the mountains of central Java.

Arbitrary presents the second in a series of 10" vinyl remix collaboration releases by Danish musician Mads Emil Nielsen and Chromacolor.

Two sides off shimmering, tense compositions—culminating as one of Alessandra Novaga's most creatively ambitious and conceptually rich outings to date—freely inspired by the life and work of the Russian director Andrej Tarkovsky and the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Four veterans of experimental music get together for a sunny studio improvisation.

The electro-experimental project of electronic musician Tanuki aka eRikm and author, cartoonist, illustrator and reader Caroline Sury.

A performance by Jérôme Lorichon (Buchla, electronics), Thierry Müller (electric guitar, iPad) and Quentin Rollet (saxophones), recorded live on May 5, 2016 at Le Détail, Paris.

A sonic adventure, where the Coax musicians' collective merges with the vibrant spirit of the Groupe d'Entraide Mutuelle de Montreuil, a mental health peer-help structure nicknamed "Les gens du 110". The ebullient, motley crew explores uncharted sonic territory, inspired by a series of workshops at the GEM, amid sculptures, frescoes, odds and ends, cries and laughter...

La Belle Brute's fourth release dedicated to "Art Brut" French artist Jean-Marie Massou, which delves his "novels", a series of sound fictions, created over the last two decades of his life, intertwining striking narratives via spoken text accompanied by collages of sound effects, music, and ambient sounds.

Jean-Christophe Thomas analyzes François Bayle's complete work in 52 recurring features (book augmented with 151 sound examples to download).

An artist's book in which musician and sound artist Claudio Rocchetti questions the act of looking.

Sound artist and composer Alessandro Bosetti paints a series of portraits from a collection of conversations recorded in Italy over the course of a Summer.

Interplay is performed by five singers, from tenor clef to treble clef, recorded in different places at different times. Each singer had not listened to what the others had recorded before.

A new voice+electronics solo CD by Jason Kahn: voice, modular synth, mixing board, electromagnetic transducers, radio, spring reverb tank.

Composed by Jim O'Rourke and pieced together by Jim together with longtime collaborator and trumpeter Eivind Lønning at Jim and Eiko Ishibashi's home in the Japanese mountains, this engrossing new album blows brass wails and tense fanfares across O'Rourke's manipulated Kyma tapestries for a deep, captivating trip into the aether.

An album of ritualistic electro-acoustic early music that label head Stefan Schneider, who recorded the session, describes as "Suicide meets Hildegard von Bingen".

A large survey of Marc Hurtado's cinematographic, musical, poetic and plastic work, with texts by some thirty authors, artists, critics, poets and musicians from all over the world (Lydia Lunch, Pascal Comelade, Nicolas Ballet, F.J. Ossang, Kris Needs, Nick Soulsby, Nicole Brenez, Vincent Deville, Romain Perrot, Alexandre Breton, Marie Möör...).

For their thirtieth anniversary, Ulta-red, the international sound art and popular education collective is releasing the first volume of Ulta-red: A Journal of Militant Sound Inquiry, investigating movement-based listening practices that take the forms of militant inquiry and political education. 

Experimental poetry, historical avant-garde, contemporary music, dance, visual arts, intermedia: the sixth issue of Jacques Donguy, Sarah Cassenti and Jean-François Bory's avant-garde artistic and literary journal, with Frédéric Acquaviva, Antonin Artaud, Philippe Boisnard, Bernard Bousquet, Augusto De Campos, Hélène Defilippi, Cassandra Felgueiras, Pascal Le Gallois, Raoul Hausmann, Eduardo Kac, Chris Korda, Thomas Laroppe, Alvin Lucier, Made In Eric, Richard Meier, Simone Osthoff, Nam June Paik, Céline Paul, Diamantino Quintas, Biño Sauitzvy, Raoul Vaneigem.

A series of recordings that unveils the diverse creativity of young Turkish female artists.

Performed by Musiques Nouvelles, conducted by Jean-Paul Dessy, Jean-Luc Fafchamps's eighth release, a kind of compilation of unreleased or rare pieces covering nearly three decades, is undoubtedly the best introduction to his work.

The cataclysmic meeting between Masami Akita (Merzbow), legend of the Japanese noise scene, and pianist Nicolas Horvath, great connoisseur of the classical repertoire and unparalleled experimenter.

Sonic manifesto by a post-anything quartet featuring multi-instrumentalists from the Mediterranean inland Sea / new folklore for a devastated planet, including members of Oiseaux-Tempête, H, Karkhana, Polyphème.

Sonic manifesto by a post-anything quartet featuring multi-instrumentalists from the Mediterranean inland Sea / new folklore for a devastated planet, including members of Oiseaux-Tempête, H, Karkhana, Polyphème.

The debut studio album from the Montreal supergroup Pangea de Futura, an octet that has been exploring since 2019, the many ways of—slowly—constructing massive textural musical shapes and droning tribal post-rock ambiances.

A comprehensive overview of the work produced by British musicians Graham Lambkin, Darren Harris, and later Tim Goss over the course of a decade, across eleven CDs and a DVD, accompanied by an nearly five-hundred-page book.

Turzets collects a pair of new works primarily created and recorded in 2023 while the Australian composer-performer was in residence at La Becque, an art center on Lake Geneva in Switzerland: somewhat a departure for Rushford, working in traces of Klaus Schulze, concrete poetry, and ars subtilior into a precise and ever-unfolding tapestry.

Midsummer, London by one of the world's leading voices in field recording explores the different accents, musics, and other sonic phenomenon of London at locations tracing the river Thames, moving from the outskirts in the west to the outskirts in the east.

The soundtrack to Murnau's Nosferatu composed / improvised / played by the trioof Emmanuelle Parrenin, Quentin Rollet and Jérôme Lorichon. The book accompanying the CD contains four versions of the Nosferatu story by four French artists: Marie-Pierre Brunel, Foolz, Caroline Sury and Alexios Tjoyas.

Anne Mathuri, Amal Khlif, Fanny Chiarello, Delphine Dora, Félicie Bazelaire, Dominique Grimaud, Kevin Orliange, the Fougère label, John Butcher...

A continuation of Jean-Guy Coulange's radio projects and his attempt to "show sound".

Social Engineering brings together thirteen text fragments from so-called phishing emails. Using speech synthesis, they are spoken, sung, and/or transformed into abstract textures. The result is a 36-minute language and sound collage devoted to the dark forces of phishing.

A major work by the American sound artist and composer, the culmination of three years' work inspired by nature and the animal world, introducing her voice, but also drums, into her sound palette.

The first vinyl release from French composer-performer Léo Dupleix, an active member of the international community of younger musicians working with just intonation.

A major archival release from legendary American composer and live electronics innovator Richard Teitelbaum, centred around his soundtrack for Suzan Pitt's cult 1978 animation Asparagus.

Originally released in 1974 on Shandar, Dream House 78'17" is the second full-length album by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. This first-time US edition reproduces the original gatefold sleeve with beautiful calligraphy by Zazeela and liner notes by Young and French musicologist Daniel Caux.

Originally released in 1974 on Shandar, Dream House 78'17" is the second full-length album by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. This first-time US edition reproduces the original gatefold sleeve with beautiful calligraphy by Zazeela and liner notes by Young and French musicologist Daniel Caux.

A performance for solo guitar and objects coming on top of a decade-long sonic exploration of the potentialities of the guitar as a pure sound generator by Modena-based composer and musician Luca Perciballi.

The French producer's 9th album features two time-stretched, profound analog-textured pieces based on the physical and emotional swaying motion suggested by its title and recorded during some concerts played in the summer of 2019.

Some of the earliest works by American composer Phill Niblock, including three never before released pieces: "Index" (1969), "Tenor," and "Boston III" (both from 1972). Until now, it's been impossible to encounter Niblock's compositions from earlier than the 1960s, a reality thankfully rectified by the long overdue publication of this LP on Alga Marghen.

An "ABC of the arts in transition" examining the ecological turn of the arts, the outcome of long-term collective research into the fundamental elements running through the art world and, more generally, the aesthetic and social universe in the current ecological crisis.