Music

Mike Cooper returns to Discrepant with The Dream Island of Birds, a release that blurs the lines between memory, field recording, and reimagined sound.

Música para Plátanos takes its name—and much of its inspiration—from the group's recording studio, situated in the heart of a banana plantation on the humid north shore of Tenerife, Canary Islands. The ever-present sight of the green, sun-drenched fields surrounding their weekly sessions seeped directly into the music: improvised jams that are playful, layered, and deeply connected to place.

The first catalogue raisonné of a Lettrist artist: a comprehensive collection of the 464 works (paintings, objects, multiples, works on paper) produced by Maggy Mauritz (born in 1941)—a pioneering artist in graffiti art and Lettrism—over more than six decades, featuring approximately 600 color illustrations.

The first monograph devoted to the entire multidisciplinary and unclassifiable body of work of French poet, writer, musician, and director F.J. Ossang, spanning more than half a century.

A meeting of Hervé Zénouda's musical world and Anne Van Der Linden's visual one (set includes a vinyl record, a CD, 10 risograph prints, an 8-page booklet, and a postcard).

Five songs that focus obsessively on the doubling of the vowel o. 

Four improvised pieces recorded in studio by Phil Durrant (amplified objects, electronics), Jason Kahn (voice), Mark Wastell (percussion) and Caius Williams (double bass).

The final chapter of the post-isolationist, deep ambient & folk classic Murder Ballads by M.J. Harris (Scorn) and Martyn Bates (Eyeless in Gaza) re-emerges in this first vinyl outing.

Many Many Women by Petr Kotík is a large-scale composition for voices and instruments from 1975-78 on the text of Gertrude Stein's novella of the same name. It was published in Paris in 1910 as part of the book G.M.P. – Gertrude, Matisse, Picasso.

Aeolian Suite is a publication that offers a porous extension of Jenna Sutela's work presented at the Pavilion of Finland at La Biennale di Venezia 2026, where meaning drifts, gathers, and slips away. Accompanied by a vinyl record featuring excerpts from the work's original score, it brings together the project's dispersed elements of sound, movement and atmosphere in a form that can be held yet remains in flux.

An artistic inquiry into "future nostalgia".

A collection of quotations from Thelonious Monk, organized as an alphabet book (new revised and augmented edition). More than a hundred entries based on the testimonies of musicians (Steve Lacy, Sahib Shihab, Henri Renaud) and journalists (Leonard Feather, Ira Gitler, Val Wilmer…).

Fifty verses by New-York musician Moondog (new edition).

A short story by Victor Segalen (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.

Comprehensive and previously unpublished documentation on the unproduced magnum opus of American composer Maryanne Amacher (1938–2009).

A hybrid project combining research, archival work, and creation, dedicated to Brazilian Candomblé—a possession cult that arrived in the country with the slave trade and reflects the beliefs and rituals of West Africa (bundle book + record).

A hybrid project combining research, archival work, and creation, dedicated to Brazilian Candomblé—a possession cult that arrived in the country with the slave trade and reflects the beliefs and rituals of West Africa.

For his debut release on Faitiche, in an award-winning radio collage, the well-known drummer and composer Martin Brandlmayr (Radian, Polwechsel) explores the quiet moments in music and film recordings.

Brunhild Ferrari's new work L'oreille voleuse (The Thieving Ear) and an extraordinary live reinterpretation by Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O'Rourke, recorded in October 2025 in Paris.

A retrospective of the visual work of Aleksander Lebedev-Frontov, a key figure in Russia’s post-Soviet underground culture.

An immersive road trip in the footsteps of American writer Harry Crews (1935–2012), by Yann Stofer and Julien Perez: a book featuring film photographs, video clips, and audio excerpts, set in "an America unaccustomed to visits from foreign tourists."

An intimate journey through the Lettrist movement via the collection and library of Hans Naumann (born in 1933 in Germany), one of Maurice Lemaître's most trusted collectors and one of the most important Lettrist bibliophiles, who has assembled a vast collection of rare or unique works and books related to this avant-garde movement founded in 1946 by Isidore Isou and still largely overlooked.

This multidisciplinary anthology explores the connections, uses, and tensions between music and what European modernity has grouped under the multifaceted category of "savage."

A poetic, gestural, visual, and semantic exploration that extends the Canadian multidisciplinary artist's work on language and the body into the pages of the book.

A hybrid project combining research, archival work, and creation, dedicated to Brazilian Candomblé—a possession cult that arrived in the country with the slave trade and reflects the beliefs and rituals of West Africa.

Le Un ensemble orchestra, accompanied by a group of guest researchers, continues its sonic, musical, and poetic experiments as it travels downriver along the Gironde estuary.

The first major retrospective dedicated to the work of photographer Andy Julia.

A collective exploration of the murky area where practices from sound art, visual arts, performance, digital technologies, science, but also poetry and philosophy intersect in a constantly evolving digital environment, drawing on the cross-disciplinary dynamics and experiments initiated by the international festival ]interstice[ in Caen.

A few months before the death of Edgard Varèse (1883–1965), Gunther Schuller (1925–2015) sat down with the composer for an in-depth conversation: his career and friendships, collaborations, new instruments, and the rare freedom he allowed the sounds they produced... A rare testament published for the first time in English and French.

With its second album, the Danish electro-acoustic trio Mesmer creates a sensuous and reflective space to inhabit in a time marked by speed, noise, and digital fragmentation.

Chuck Roth; Mark Cauvin; Keiko Higuchi; Aude Rabillon & Erell Latimier; Pauline Weidmann; Jean-Claude Éloy (1938–2025)...

Interviews with Machine Listening, Tomomi Adachi, Erin Gee, Pedro Oliveira; article: The Watery Graves of Electronic Speech, or Phonemes in Davey Jones' Locker; reports: Festival de la Imagen 2025, Choose Your Filter!...

A collaborative album born from a live performance rooted in a meticulous mutual observation of each musician’s playing style and setup: eRikm’s turntables, electronic devices, and vast sound library; and Pierre Bastien’s mechanical orchestra and range of acoustic instruments.

Miroslav Beinhauer performing Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Milan Knížák, Gordon Monahan, Elliot Sharp, Milan Gustar, and Yoon-Ji Lee, on a famous broken piano.

A musical journey that pays tribute to René Daumal's unfinished Moutain and his enchanting world of mysteries and magic, through sound with Bill Laswell, P.ST, featuring Nils Petter Molvaer, Henry Kaiser, Anna Clementi, Dorian Cheah, Percy Howard, Graham Haynes, Hideo Yamaki, Peter Apfelbaum.

A musical journey that pays tribute to René Daumal's unfinished Moutain and his enchanting world of mysteries and magic, through sound with Bill Laswell, P.ST, featuring Nils Petter Molvaer, Henry Kaiser, Anna Clementi, Dorian Cheah, Percy Howard, Graham Haynes, Hideo Yamaki, Peter Apfelbaum.

Phil Maggi's twentieth album is a body of work five years in the making, conceived between 2019 and 2024 across a period that moved through pandemic stillness and intense creative immersion, between ambient-atmospheric, soundscapes and free-jazz with a touch of concrete music.

How many equally skilled "second-string" drummers are hidden behind the iconic figures of jazz drumming (Max Roach, Art Blakey, Elvin Jones...)? In conversation with drummer Mourad Benhammou about his career as a musician, Sébastien Bertho set out to highlight a handful of them: Walter Perkins, Louis Hayes, Grassella Oliphant.

Schatterau's third album sees the German duo blossoms with beauty and sophistication through a broad creative language.