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Antoine Hubineau - Dissolvè / Scillions (7\
2023
Arbitrary
Two works from the same series of compositions, drawn from modular synthesizer recordings which have been reworked, treated and composed in the computer.
Marian Zazeela - 31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM / 23 VIII 64 2:50:45 - 3:11 AM The Volga Delta (vinyl LP)
2023
Superior Viaduct
currently out of stock
First reissue since its initial 1969 release of New York minimalism and drone pioneers La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's first full-length album, popularly known as "The Black Record" or "The Black Album".
Marian Zazeela - 31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM / 23 VIII 64 2:50:45 - 3:11 AM The Volga Delta (CD)
2023
Superior Viaduct
currently out of stock
First reissue since its initial 1969 release of New York minimalism and drone pioneers La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's first full-length album, popularly known as "The Black Record" or "The Black Album".
Mats Erlandsson - Gyttjans Topografi (vinyl LP)
2023
XKatedral
Swedish drone alchemist Mats Erlandsson is sitting in a fictional room on "Gyttjans Topografi", imagining a virtual chamber orchestra using zithers, tapes, double bass, harmonium, organ, and various synthesisers to draft a treatise on alternative tuning and non-normative harmonic structures. Transcendent material.
 Bosch & Simons - Three Music Machines (vinyl LP)
2023
Staalplaat
22.00 17.00 €
First compilation on LP of the sound works of the two Dutch visual artists, demonstrating that sound produced by the Bosch & Simons music machines can also be listened to as autonomous "music".
Michèle Bokanowski - Musiques de concert (4 CD box set)
2023
Sonoris
currently out of stock
This 4 CD box edition collects all concert musics by French composer of electroacoustic music Michèle Bokanowski, eleven visionary and avant-garde works composed in 1974 and 2020.
Revue & Corrigée
2023
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Bill Noir; contemporary Arabic poetry: Mouna Ouafik; Bani Khoshnoudi by Carole Rieussec & Elena Biserna; Sister Iodine by Michel Henritzi; interview with Emmanuel Lalande; Stefan Fraunberger by Delphine Dora; Willem Breuker by Gérard Rouy; book and record reviews...
Otto Muehl - Musik 1982-90 (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Tochnit Aleph
85 minutes collection of previously unpublished recordings made at the Friedrichshof commune between 1982 and 1990. Performed by Otto Muehl and members of the commune. Includes actionist group-music, improvised conceptual pieces, and barpianist-songs.
Beatriz Ferreyra - Senderos de luz y sombras (vinyl LP)
2023
Shelter Press - Records
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
Shelter Press - Records
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.
 Muellie Messiah & Punk Not Punk - Exq I (vinyl LP)
2023
Faitiche
Faitiche presents the album Exq I by Berlin underground techno legends Muellie Messiah & Punk not Punk, mainly known under their 100Records moniker. Weighing in at 36 minutes, the track was recorded in 2010, effortlessly intermingling dub, drone and collage, a blend achieved thanks to the duo's jazz-inspired approach to improvisation.
 Langham Research Centre - Six Hands at an Open Door (CD)
2023
Persistence of Sound
The concrete, electronic sounds of the Langham Research Centre (here Iain Chambers and Robert Worby) combine with the acoustic qualities of John Butcher's saxophone in an extended improvisation session.
Richard Orton - Hemlock Stone (CD)
2023
Persistence of Sound
Persistence of Sound celebrates the British composer Richard Orton (1940-2013) with a selection of electroacoustic and computer music from across his career.
Éliane Radigue - Éliane Radigue / Ensemble Dedalus / Ryoko Akama (CD)
2023
Montagne Noire / GMEA
currently out of stock
Two pieces written by Éliane Radigue at the same period (2014-2018), one instrumental (recorded at the Philharmonie de Paris by Ensemble Dedalus) and the other electronic (performed by Ryoko Akama).
Tomoyoshi Date - 438Hz As It Is, As You Are / あるがまま、あなたのままに (CD)
2023
LAAPS
currently out of stock
The third solo release by a prominent pillar of Japanese ambient music, after 11 years of collaborations.
Tomoyoshi Date - 438Hz As It Is, As You Are / あるがまま、あなたのままに (vinyl LP)
2023
LAAPS
The third solo release by a prominent pillar of Japanese ambient music, after 11 years of collaborations.
Jens Brand - Motors / Ratchets (vinyl LP)
2023
Staalplaat
22.00 17.00 €
Recordings from two installations/performances by the Berlin-based sound artist that explore the physical presence of sound phenomena, by producing the impact of electronic music but with purely acoustic means.
Carl Michael von Hausswolff - Travelogue [Bali] (CD)
2023
Touch
The immersive sound diary of a trip to Bali.
Luc Ferrari - L\'œuvre électronique (10 CD box set)
2023
INA-GRM
A lavish 10-CD box set with a 106-page book, featuring more than 11 hours of seminal works by one of the most important electronic and electroacoustic composers of the 20th century.
Bernard Parmegiani - L\'œuvre musicale en 12 CD (box set)
2023
INA-GRM
An essential anthology gathering more than 30 works composed and recorded over four decades by one of the most iconic concrète composers.
Méandre(s) - An experience in spontaneous, collective creating (book + CD + DVD)
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
UNRec
A sound and music experience along the Dordogne river, with Le Chant du Moineau and the Ensemble UN orchestra (Pascal Battus, Benjamin Bondonneau, Michel Doneda, Jérôme Noetinger, Mathieu Werchowski...), and a group of invited researchers (with a composition by Lionel Marchetti on CD and a film by Camille Auburtin on DVD).
Neural - Strange Weathers
2023
English edition
Neural
Daphne Dragona, Jussi Parikka, Karoline Sobecka, Superflux, Lise Autogena & Joshua Portway, Open Weather, Jana Winderen, Phase Changers: melting, evaporating, breathing in Meteorological Art, Meta.Morf 2022, Ecophilia...
 Lilly Joel - Lilly Joel Plays The Organ - Sibyl Of The Rhine (CD)
2023
Sub Rosa
Lynn Cassiers and Jozef Dumoulin pay a luminous tribute to the music of the twelfth-century composer, abbess, mystic and poetess Hildegard von Bingen, in a setup of voice with electronics accompanied by pipe organ.
Otto Sidharta - Kajang (vinyl LP)
2023
Sub Rosa
Previously unreleased music by Otto Sidharta, pioneer of Indonesian electronic music, inspired by Indonesia's multifarious styles of traditional music.
 Sote - Majestic Noise Made in Beautiful Rotten Iran (vinyl LP)
2023
Sub Rosa
Limited green vinyl version of the latest album by Iranian-American electronic music producer Sote is an all electronic affair, harmonically maximalist, predominantly symphonic-synthetic, requiring active listening.
Emilie Roby - T A L O S (book + download)
2023
texts in English and French
Le laps
A semi-digital audio publication by performance artist and musician from Northwestern Quebec Emilie Roby.
Thomas Köner - Daikan (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Mille Plateaux
Thomas Köner's eighth album, originally released in 2002, pressed on vinyl for the first time, including a 12 minute bonus track.
Thomas Köner - Daikan (CD)
2023
Mille Plateaux
currently out of stock
Thomas Köner's eighth album, originally released in 2002, including a 12 minute bonus track.
 Groupshow - Greatest Hits (vinyl LP)
2023
Faitiche
24.50 21.90 €
Faitiche presents Groupshow's Greatest Hits: The ten tracks on this first vinyl album by Groupshow (Hanno Leichtmann, Andrew Pekler, Jan Jelinek), recorded between 2005 and 2018, document concert recordings and studio improvisations by the trio.
Jan Jelinek - Zwischen (vinyl LP)
2023
Faitiche
A short version of a radio play devised and produced by Jan Jelinek for German public broadcaster SWR2, bringing together twelve sound poetry collages using interview answers by public figures, from Marcel Duchamp to Lady Gaga.
Phill Niblock - Nurturing Exhibitions (book + 2 CD)
2023
English edition
Matière Mémoire
An exhibitions book including 2 CDs with new pieces by Phill Niblock performed By Stephen O'Malley, Deborah Walker, Kasper Toeplitz, Franck Vigroux, David Maranha and many others.
Éliane Radigue - 11 Dec 1980 (2 CD)
2023
Important Records
currently out of stock
On December 11, 1980 Eliane Radigue performed live on KPFA. Her full performance is included here, remastered, on two compact discs. Upon hearing these performances for the first time in many years Radigue declared them to be the best versions she'd ever heard.
Jim O\'Rourke - Tonic 19-01-2001 (vinyl LP)
2023
Black Truffle
A major archival discovery: a stunning document of the only performance by the trio of Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt and Jim O'Rourke.
Christian Wolff - A Complete Anthology of Solo and Duo Violin Pieces (CD)
2023
Black Truffle
The complete anthology of solo and duo violin pieces by legendary American experimental composer Christian Wolff, performed by the New York violin duo String Noise (Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris).
Charlie Morrow - New York 1982 (vinyl LP)
2023
Recital
An album of lost Derek Bailey sessions recorded with his friend and collaborator Charlie Morrow, that testifies to his art of collective experimentation.
Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic (CD)
2023
Superior Viaduct
1st time on vinyl for the Eno-produced ambient classic "The Sinking of the Titanic", Gavin Bryars' first major composition written between 1969 and 1972, inspired by the tragic event of the British passenger liner's cross-Atlantic maiden voyage.
Revue & Corrigée
2023
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Interviews with Valérie Vivancos, Alexis Degrenier, Lao Dan and Li Jianhong; what modes of travel for experimental music? by Heddy Boubaker; the French collective Muzzix, by Gérard Rouy; Antoine Freychet by Grégoire Bressac; focus on Fou Records; about sixty reviews of records and books...
The Listening Biennial Reader - Vol. 1:  Waves of Listening
2023
English edition
Errant Bodies
Listening as a creative and critical force, relational capacity, philosophical, political and ecological proposition, and research method.
Jeph Jerman - Listen - Jeph Jerman in conversation with Aram Yardumian
2023
English edition
Errant Bodies
A sketch history of the 1980s American home-taping and electronic music scene through the career of sound artist, field recordist, percussionist, and visual artist Jeph Jerman.
Matthieu Saladin - Evaporation (vinyl LP)
2023
Frac Franche-Comté - Sound Houses Series
Recording of the evaporation of 785 grammes of water, namely the average quantity of water that a body loses during an office working day, according to Carrier thermal balance statistics.
 Untitled Noise - Rozzo (vinyl 45\
2023
Tonini Editore
Live performance of the artists Jacopo Benassi (voice, guitar, dildo and japanese axe), Michele Lombardelli and Luca Scarabelli (guitar and analog devices) at the RetroStudio, Fiorenzuola d'Arda, 11 July 2022. Including a 16-page booklet of photos by Jacopo Benassi.
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