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Oceans Of Milk And Treacle is a soundtrack for an otherwise silent film. The title of the album, and of course the film, is borrowed from Mike Cooper's late friend Fred Hardy's book The Religious Culture of India – Power, Love and Wisdom, considered to be one of the most important books on the subject.

An evocative musical tribute to Greek architect and painter Dimitris Pikionis, based on field recordings and small "poor" objects such as tin whistles, music boxes and toy harmonicas: a meditative, whirring, vibrating and suspended sound piece, both "environmental" and particularly musical.

Array expresses the experience of a remote Antarctic research station through the convergence of sound, site and performance. The result is an immersive and affective experience of the spaces, protocols and conditions comprising the bracing polar environment.

10th anniversary reissue of this rhythmically churning one-man-band monster of an album, a hypnotic post-/krautrock pulsation recorded in a single inspired studio session, originally released in 2012 on Editions Mego.

10th anniversary reissue of this rhythmically churning one-man-band monster of an album, a hypnotic post-/krautrock pulsation recorded in a single inspired studio session, originally released in 2012 on Editions Mego.

An impressionistic and dreamlike sound portrait of the island of Borneo.

The last album, posthumous, of Ghédalia Tazartès, entirely conceived by himself: a melting pot of unreleased tracks which cover a large part of his career.

The last album, posthumous, of Ghédalia Tazartès, entirely conceived by himself: a melting pot of unreleased tracks which cover a large part of his career.

A pair of contemporary music giants re-release a long-lost 2003 live recording, previously available only as a CD-R.

Soundscapes, drones, disruptive aberrations, textures and perplexingly absorbing interactions between French guitarist, graphic and sound artist Xavier Mussat and saxophonist Quentin Rollet, performing live at Instants Chavires, in Montreuil, France, in 2020, for eight diverse and unusual improvisations.

Reissue of a milestone of ambient music, produced and released by Brian Eno in 1978, featuring Marion Brown, Gavin Bryars, and Michael Nyman.

Giovanni Di Domenico adds another superb piece to his prolific discography with the first of his works to ever feature voice and language as foregrounding elements.

Dreamtime X is a diary kept between March 2020 and March 2021, capturing the conditions of lockdown as experienced by the author. Articulated in the form of 100 short poetic entries, the publication veers across a set of ambivalent perspectives.

A gallery of portraits of people listening to a work by Frédéric Acquaviva in progress, laid out like a flip book.

Ai Hasegawa, Robertina Šebjanič, The Centre for Genomic Gastronomy, Kasia Molga, The Radiant Future of Solarpunk, Listening as Activism, Werkleitz Festival 2021, Climate Care...

Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist Midori Hirano and Tokyo based string experimentalist Atsuko Hatano have teamed up for their first collaborative full-length.

Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist Midori Hirano and Tokyo based string experimentalist Atsuko Hatano have teamed up for their first collaborative full-length.

An excerpt from the Album of a Pessimist by the suicidal writer Alphonse Rabbe, whose exaltation and licentiousness were made for Nurse With Wound, who musically accompanies the text.

A hybrid edition (a vinyl record with a newspaper and an insert) extending the artist's research on the links between sound, architecture and the history of spiritism.

For its 20th anniversary, Keplar presents an absolute milestone in the history of IDM and ambient music for the first time in its definite form.

A collection of biographical and musical essays about composer-performer Julius Eastman—a compelling portrait of Eastman's enigmatic and intriguing life and music.

An investigation of dubplate decay and the tactile relationship to the disc.

A series of in situ improvisations on Mount Tamborine in Australia.

The definitive edition of Fennesz's breakthrough album, newly mixed by himself.

Klara Lewis returns to Editions Mego with a surprising live set recorded in 2018. Expanding her exploratory vision into haunted realms of unheimlich sound, Live in Montreal consists of a single piece with three distinct discernible sections.

Editions Mego welcomes Powell to its roster with a bizarre and strangely emotive new album of synthetic computer works entitled Piano Music 1-7.

Editions Mego welcomes Powell to its roster with a bizarre and strangely emotive new album of synthetic computer works entitled Piano Music 1-7.

The first vinyl LP release from Fluxus pioneer Alison Knowles (remastered edition transferred from original tapes, with an expansive 20-page booklet).

Contemporary poetry in Arabic: Lamis Saïdi; Pascale Criton; homage to Peter Rehberg by Jérôme Noetinger; Romain Perrot aka Vomir; Michel Doneda; Wuppertal festival / Peter Brötzmann; Yosuke Yamashita interviewed by Michel Henritzi; 45 album reviews...

Two pieces based on Milan Knízak's canonical text Aktual University, dating from 1967, containing ten short lectures outlining the university's character—On Conflict, On Dreams, On Revolutions, On Love, On Belief, On Art, etc. These lectures were to serve as inspirational schemes for lectures, seminars and discussions held at an ideal university.

Following Palo Alto's previous Difference and Repetition – A Musical Evocation Of Gilles Deleuze 2LP/CD this limited 7'' edition features The Tears of Nietszche on side A with Richard Pinhas as guest musician and Vecteur d'abolition on side B with the voice of Gilles Deleuze.

Three pieces for speaking pianist by the American avant-garde musician, politically committed composer and virtuoso pianist Frederic Rzewski (1938-2021), performed by Stephane Ginsburgh (for whom two of the pieces were composed).

Philipp Mueller's photographs of the emerging techno scene in Switzerland in the early 1990s.

A staircase drips, not with water but with sound: book / CD dedicated to Fritz Hauser's impressive "sound drawing" for the Vincent van Gogh Foundation in Arles.

Dedicated to the widely loved character of Jack McCoy, portrayed by Sam Waterston in Law & Order, For McCoy finds Eiko Ishibashi further exploring the unique space she has carved out in recent years, bringing together musique concrète techniques, ECM-inspired jazz, lush layers of synths and hints of pop into immersive and affecting structures.

The first new album in over 40 years by American composer, pianist, and digital audio pioneer Loren Rush: Bay Area experimentalism meets 20th century classical modernism.

Jean-Marie Massou's double album presenting, in a raw way, the recordings made at the end of the 1970s in a giant tank.

Facsimile scores and documents about the work recorded by Luc Ferrari during summer 1977 and premiered in 1979 during Festival d'Automne at Centre Pompidou, Paris.

An unpublished text by Luc Ferrari from 1982, in which he expresses some of his hopes and concerns about what would become La Muse en circuit that same year. Forty years later, the present director Wilfried Wendling wrote a text in echo.

Edited from the composer's archives, historical documentation about the project & genesis of the work inspired by The Divine Comedy by Dante (1973).

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.