Room40

Room40 is an influential Australian experimental label run by Lawrence English.
 
Red Hill
 
19 titles
 
Beatriz Ferreyra - UFO Forest + (vinyl LP)
2024
forthcoming
"UFO Forest +" is the third and most alchemically satisfying archival anthology of unreleased material from the Argentinian composer, building on a growing recognition of her poetic, psychosonic investigations ongoing since her studies in the early 60's with Nadia Boulanger and Edgardo Canton, and at the renowned Parisian institute INA-GRM.
Liam Keenan - Your Music Encountered in a Dream (CD)
2024
forthcoming
A series of electric guitar duet meditations.
Mike Cooper - Oceans Of Milk And Treacle (book + CD)
2023
Mike Cooper's new masterful experiment mixing free jazz, Oceanic, and Hawaiian inspirations, in collaboration with Geoff Hawkins, Jon Raskin and Tim Hill (saxophone), Elliott Sharp and Michael Thieke (clarinet), Scot Ray (lap steel guitar) and choreographer and dancer Ariella Vidach.
Lionel Marchetti - Inland Lake (le lac intérieur) (CD)
2023
The new alchemical collaboration between Australian chamber ensemble Decibel, and French music concrète composer Lionel Marchetti.
Aviva Endean - Moths & Stars (CD)
2023
Australian composer and clarinetist Aviva Endean has developed an impressive capacity for creating work that merges intense control (of breath, of instrument, of composition) and a willingness to allow the music to lead. On Moths & Stars, her second solo work, she charts out a sound world that is equal parts timbre and tone, placing sounds relationship to space as a paramount focus for her pieces.
David Toop - The Shell That Speaks The Sea (vinyl LP)
2023
31.00 25.50 €
A realisation of a 20 years-long conversation, with results that articulate Toop's long held sound vision (here executed with his own voice, electric and lapsteel guitars, whistling, percussion, flutes and electronics) around English's stunning recordings of various insects, birds and exotic animals.
Annea Lockwood - Glass World (book + CD)
2023
currently out of stock
An exploration into the complexity of sounds drawn exclusively from glass (reissue of the record released in 1970, remastered by Lawrence English).
 Phauss - Nya Sverige - Nothing But The Truth (book + CD)
2023
currently out of stock
The recording from Carl Michael Von Hausswolff and Erik Pauser's tumultuous and inspiring tour of the USA in 1991, with a book tracing the adventure and documenting the context of the time.
 Phauss - Audiodrome (book + CD)
2023
24.00 18.00 €
Two discreet works by Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Erik Pauser that sit somewhere between field recording, chance composition and experimental soundscape.
Jérôme Noetinger - Outside Supercolor (CD)
2023
Leaving aside temporarily his practice of Revox and magnetic tape played live, Jérôme Noetinger proposes two drones: a monolithic vibration, enriched by sputtering and a few electronic elements, and a piece playing with the grain of sound matter, gradually densified before a long lull in a kind of white noise.
Philip Samartzis - Atmospheres and Disturbances (livre + CD)
2023
24.00 18.00 €
Through a concise set of spatially-connected field recordings, Philip Samartzis' Atmospheres and Disturbances registers the changes in high altitude ecologies caused by increasing global temperatures.
Stephen Vitiello - The Clear Distance (CD)
2023
The first collaboration recorded on CD between the two American artists and musicians, based on a process of reciprocal sending of electronic and acoustic sound sources, reworked successively by each and then together, gives rise to a series of delicately crafted and wonderfully evocative atmospheric pieces.
Lawrence English - Viento (CD + book)
2022
In 2010, Lawrence English made field recordings in Patagonia. You can hear abandoned buildings, lone trees folded over in fields of tundra-like grasses, quivering road signs, wailing fences and other objects shaken into life by the wind. In the booklet, the sounds are accompanied by pictures.
Mike Cooper - Oceans Of Milk And Treacle (book + CD)
2022
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.
Steve Roden - Oionos (livre + CD)
2022
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.
Eugene Ughetti - Array (vinyl LP)
2022
(last copies available!)
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.
David Toop - Breathing Spirit Forms (CD + book)
2022
A series of in situ improvisations on Mount Tamborine in Australia.
Marina Rosenfeld - Index (CD + book)
2022
An investigation of dubplate decay and the tactile relationship to the disc.
David Shea - The Thousand Buddha Caves (CD)
2021
18.00 13.50 €
David Shea's The Thousand Buddha Caves explores his deep and continuous interest in the nexus of eastern and western musical forms. The recording charts his life long fascination with the caves and their connection to sound, ritual and Buddhist teachings. The record transposes those interests and is an evocation to the mythologies spinning forth from the caves.
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