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:
 
Géraldine Gourbe - 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Monograph bringing together some fifty works by Judy Chicago and unpublished documents, accompanied by three critical texts by Géraldine Gourbe.
Géraldine Gourbe - To Sustain The Vision
2020
French edition
Monograph bringing together some fifty works by Judy Chicago and unpublished documents, accompanied by three critical texts by Géraldine Gourbe.
Okkyung Lee - Yeo-Neun (vinyl LP)
2020
Springing from a decades deep body of work, defined by a rigorously singular and adventurous approach to sound, cellist, composer, and improvisor Okkyung Lee returns with Yeo-Neun, her first outing with Shelter Press, and arguably her most groundbreaking and unexpected album to date.
Spectres - Resonances
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
The second issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, is dedicated is devoted to the concept of resonances, with contributions by Maryanne Amacher, Chris Corsano, Ellen Fullman, Christina Kubisch, Okkyung Lee, Pali Meursault, Jean-Luc Nancy, David Rosenboom, Tomoko Sauvage, The Caretaker, David Toop, and Christian Zanési.
Gisèle Vienne - It\'s Alive! - À travers l\'œuvre de Gisèle Vienne
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
The new book from French photographer Estelle Hanania gathers over ten years of collaboration and archives revolving around the artistic universe of Gisèle Vienne.
Félicia Atkinson - A Forest Petrifies - Diamond Feedback
2019
English edition
The first part of a larger novel in several episodes: a text about the perception of time and how some places mark people's minds.
Félicia Atkinson - The Flower and the Vessel (2 vinyl LP)
2019
The French musician, poet, and visual artist blends cut-up poetry, ASMR, Satie, Ravel and Debussy, on her new album.
Félicia Atkinson - The Flower and the Vessel (CD)
2019
The French musician, poet, and visual artist blends cut-up poetry, ASMR, Satie, Ravel and Debussy, on her new album.
Speaking And Listening
2019
English edition
A book conceived by the artists Yann Sérandour, Félicia Atkinson, Julien Bismuth, and the curator Sophie Kaplan, revolving around questions of narrative, listening and improvisation, centered around a long unpublished transcript of a talk poem by David Antin.
En parlant, en écoutant
2019
French edition
A book conceived by the artists Yann Sérandour, Félicia Atkinson, Julien Bismuth, and the curator Sophie Kaplan, revolving around questions of narrative, listening and improvisation.
 Black Zone Magick Chant - Voyage Sacrifice (vinyl LP)
2019
Black Zone Magick Chant is the newest moniker from French psych-drone artist Maxime Primault, who debuts on Shelter Press. Consisting of three longform compositions borne from what Primault describes as “a couple of very intense periods, in altered states of consciousness”, Voyage Sacrifice incorporates slowly unfurling drone, murky ambient passages and the reverb-heavy sounds of bells and pitch-shifted vocals.
 JAB - Erg Herbe (vinyl LP)
2019
John Also Bennett's first solo album.
Matali Crasset - Wood
2019
English edition
Matali Crasset's wild houses.
Matali Crasset - Les capes + Wood (2 books)
2019
French edition
40.00 30.00 €
The two books by Matali Crasset published by Shelter Press (special offer).
Spectres - Composing Listening
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
The first issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Spectres – Composing Listening presents a series of texts by composers (Félicia Atkinson, François Bayle, Brunhild Ferrari, Stephen O'Malley, Jim O'Rourke, Eliane Radigue, Chris Watson...) who discuss personal dimension in the practice of experimental sound art and music.
Uriel Orlow - Soil Affinities
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
currently out of stock
Soil Affinities explores the connections of (post)colonial history and the movement of plants for agriculture, from Aubervilliers, a northern suburb of Paris, to formerly French West Africa (Mali and Senegal). This publication and Uriel Orlow's eponymous project retrace the lines and networks of earthly connections between plants and humans through images, maps, texts, and interviews conducted in France, Senegal, and Mali over the span of two years.
Julien Carreyn - Les rendez-vous de l\'écluse
2018
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Polaroid works.
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Limpid as the Solitudes (vinyl LP)
2018
currently out of stock
Félicia Atkinson and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma have thought of this new collaboration as a series of soundscapes filled with literary and cinematographic references, from Sylvia Plath's poetry to the films of Hal Hartley and Wong Kar Wai. The album carries a strange echo of the 1990s, materialized in Julien Carreyn's cover photograph.
Eli Keszler - Stadium (2 vinyl LP)
2018
currently out of stock
The ninth solo album of the American composer and percussionist reflects his move to Manhattan, where he produced Stadium. Starting with urban field recordings, he then builds on these environments to create subliminal spaces for his percussion, keyboards and acoustic instruments. Central to his work, his drumset and acoustic percussion performances are pushed to new levels with mesmerizing string and brass arrangements.
Eli Keszler - Stadium (CD)
2018
The ninth solo album of the American composer and percussionist reflects his move to Manhattan, where he produced Stadium. Starting with urban field recordings, he then builds on these environments to create subliminal spaces for his percussion, keyboards and acoustic instruments. Central to his work, his drumset and acoustic percussion performances are pushed to new levels with mesmerizing string and brass arrangements.
Gisèle Vienne - The Pyre (vinyl LP)
2018
The score composed and recorded by KTL (Stephen O'Malley & Peter Rehberg) for the dance piece ‘The Pyre', written and directed by Gisèle Vienne. A tensed composition haunted by the voice of Dennis Cooper.
Thomas Ankersmit - Homage to Dick Raaijmakers (CD)
2018
For his first record in 6 years, Thomas Ankersmit pays homage to the late legendary Dutch composer, electronic and tape music pioneer, and multimedia artist Dick Raaijmakers. Inspired by Raaijmakers's composition and recording techniques, Ankersmit exclusively used analogue devices, creating three-dimensional and holophonic sound fields.
Thomas Ankersmit - Homage to Dick Raaijmakers (vinyl LP)
2018
currently out of stock
For his first record in 6 years, Thomas Ankersmit pays homage to the late legendary Dutch composer, electronic and tape music pioneer, and multimedia artist Dick Raaijmakers. Inspired by Raaijmakers's composition and recording techniques, Ankersmit exclusively used analogue devices, creating three-dimensional and holophonic sound fields.
Marie Canet - Juntos en la Sierra - Speech Act, Identité, Globalisation
2018
French edition
The production of alternative and solidarity-based knowledge through the linguistic, sexual, biological and geographical margins.
Justin Meyers - Struggle Artist (vinyl LP)
2018
Struggle Artist by Justin Meyers, the Minneapolis-based composer, artist, and head of the Sympathy Ltd. label, expresses the incompatibility of neoliberalism and non-commercial artistic practice through melancholic sonorities and the meticulous narrativity of the synth-based compositions.
Julien Carreyn - Photographies du soir
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
This publication by the French artiste focuses on his work with color. It gathers a series of 41 photographs, along with texts by Claire Moulène and Mick Peters.
Matali Crasset - Les capes
2018
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This catalogue presents a series of vases produced by designer Matali Crasset during a residence at the national porcelain manufactory of Sèvres, in France. The publication gathers 3 notebooks, printed on 3 different papers, including Polaroids of vases photographed by Julien Carreyn, drawings by Crasset and miscellaneous documents.
In Between
2018
English edition
Conceived on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Le Bal, Paris, this publication is a poetic, abstract, fragile attempt to translate something of our times: being in a state of suspension. It subverts the idea of a traditional catalogue to transcribe this intangible and indefinable state through a continuous stream of black-and-white images supported by excerpts from Jacques-Henri Michot's Un ABC de la barbarie.
En suspens
2018
French edition
Conceived on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Le Bal, Paris, this publication is a poetic, abstract, fragile attempt to translate something of our times: being in a state of suspension. It subverts the idea of a traditional catalogue to transcribe this intangible and indefinable state through a continuous stream of black-and-white images supported by excerpts from Jacques-Henri Michot's Un ABC de la barbarie.
Zin Taylor - Thoughts Of A Dot As It Travels A Surface (vinyl LP + leporello)
2018
During his exhibition at Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster, artist Zin Taylor invited musicians Christina Vantzou and John Also Bennett to interpret a 90-meter panoramic wall drawing as a musical graphic score. This vinyl edition gathers the recording of this minimal music performance, along with a 180 cm leporello reproduction of the wall drawing.
Tomoko Sauvage - Musique Hydromantique (CD)
2017
currently out of stock
The Japanese sound artist's second album is the result of a ten-year investigation on the sound properties of water, in line with her previous LP in 2009. Based on the use of waterbowls—porcelain bowls filled with water and amplified via hydrophones—her musical practice is now enriched with experiments with the environment and hydrophonic feedback.
 Gaillard & Claude - Oompah, Tom-tom, Tootle-too & Toot
2017
English edition
Oompah, Tom-tom, Tootle-too & Toot narrates the story of four members of an orchestra who animatedly chat during a break backstage at the Henry Le Bœuf concert hall in Brussels. Through gossip, arguments, and existential crises, they shake the axioms and notions of community, authenticity and happiness. The dialogues by Lili Reynaud-Dewar are illustrated by Kristien Daem's photographs of Gaillard & Claude's sculptures.
Gabriel Saloman - Movement Building - Vol. 1, 2, 3 (2 CD)
2017
17.00 13.00 €
Double album compiling all 3 volumes of the Movement Building serie, dedicated to Gabriel Saloman's music for contemporary dance.
Gabriel Saloman - Movement Building - Vol. 3 (vinyl LP)
2017
The conclusion of Saloman's musical trilogy for contemporary dance, this time inspired by a work by choreographer Vanessa Goodman. The bowed guitar, militant percussion and searing guitar eruptions, are joined by distorted guitar, minimalist piano attacks, melancholy guitar melodies, a patina of harsh noise, and a more contemporary approach to drums and bass. (download code included with one additional track).
Ellie Ga - Dialogue
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Taking as their starting point Susan Sontag's book On Photography (1977), Marcelline Delbecq and Ellie Ga embarked on a long-term words-and-images dialogue addressing films, books and artworks that have marked their individual trajectories, together with historical events related (or not) to the year 1977.
David Horvitz - A Disappearance from Winschoten
2017
English edition
currently out of stock
This publication documents a work by David Horvitz made on the occasion of a Bas Jan Ader-themed exhibition in Holland in 2012. Annoyed by the curators, Horvitz literally disappeared one month before the show, leaving all his belongings and quitting social media. He returned on the exhibition's closing day, and explained his piece to the curators.
Alberto García del Castillo - Merman
2017
English edition
A queer travelogue of a boating voyage on Belgium's inland waterways with merman and singer Steev Lemercier in the company of Chanel and Dolce, who are a cat and a dog, during the first months of their friendship with the author. With photographs by César Segarra.
Félicia Atkinson - Hand In Hand (CD)
2017
Atkinson's most ambitious musical work to date, Hand In Hand combines 80's sci-fi anxious aethetics with today's transparency of digital sounds. Placing the voice at the epicenter of the recording, the French artist and musician convokes fiction, composition and abstraction in the manner of Joan La Barbara, Robert Ashley, or Delia Derbyshire.
Xavier Antin - When ‘I\' met ‘K\'
2017
English edition
Fanzine-like artist's book gathering historical anecdotes on modern print culture.
 Native Instrument - Camo (vinyl EP)
2017
The music of Swedish-Australian duo Native Instrument graciously mixes vocal experimentations and wildlife field recordings. Their debut release compiles four sound collages moving between tropical ambience, club inspired bug beats and amphibian trance.
Gábor Lázár - Crisis of Representation (CD)
2017
Budapest-based composer Gábor Lázár debuts on Shelter Press with his second full length album, Crisis of Representation: these 8 tracks created from one single type of sound constitute a true example of experimentation in the field of extreme computer music.
Gábor Lázár - Crisis of Representation (vinyl LP + CD)
2017
Budapest-based composer Gábor Lázár debuts on Shelter Press with his second full length album, Crisis of Representation: these 8 tracks created from one single type of sound constitute a true example of experimentation in the field of extreme computer music.
Ben Vida - Damaged Particulates (vinyl LP)
2016
17.00 12.50 €
Ben Vida's new LP represents the conclusion of one body of work, Damaged Particulates, and the beginnings of a new long form project titled Reducing the Tempo to Zero, in which the american artist return to the durational drone based forms that he first experimented with in his early days.
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