Music

The remastered anniversary reissue of the guitarist's first solo album, released in 1974, accompanied by a new album made by Fred Frith in similar conditions, celebrating the fifty years that separate them.

Kindling #1: Parazoan Mapping #2 by Taku Unami and Eric La Casa is the first edition of an ongoing series of artist-run digital+paper sound-art releases, only available as a newspaper plus digital file.

Musta Fior; Carla Bley; Amanda Guttiérez by Carole Rieussec & Elena Biserna; interviews with Nadia Lëna, Aude Romary and Audrey Lauro; Bruitisme festival; a survey by Michel Henritzi of three musicians and activists of DIY version 2.0 (Jo Fusiller and his Tanzprocesz label, Claire Gapenne for Accueil Froid in Amiens, and Jędrekp for the Parisian concerts Le Non_Jazz)...

Co-editor: Matteo Marangoni; interviews with Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Kexin Hao, Pei-Ying Lin, Vivian Caccuri; articles: Accessing the Fiduciary Transactions of the Intellect and Imagination, Folding the Past into the Present; reports: Transmediale 2023, KIKK Festival...

The Malakow Tower of Zeche Hannover becomes a space-consuming sound installation that transforms voices from different communities in Bochum into a physically palpable listening experience.

Five pieces of musique concrète recorded in the GRM studios between 1971 and 1974 by the composer and pioneering video artist.

Four purely electroacoustic pieces recorded between 1994 and 2002 by the Argentine composer and theorist.

Combining archive material with a wide selection of photographs of body paintings produced by the duo in the 1970-1980s, this publication retraces the evolution of gender identities and the treatment of the female body in visual culture from the 1950s to the present.

Ulyap is a village in the Caucasus, where one can find an enormous number of accordion and harmonica players. "Ulyap Songs: Beyond Circassian Tradition" represents an attempt to document ancient bards' chants and their entanglement with popular rural heritage as well as post-Soviet culture during modern times, through a critical prism.

Ulyap is a village in the Caucasus, where one can find an enormous number of accordion and harmonica players. "Ulyap Songs: Beyond Circassian Tradition" represents an attempt to document ancient bards' chants and their entanglement with popular rural heritage as well as post-Soviet culture during modern times, through a critical prism.

Ulyap is a village in the Caucasus, where one can find an enormous number of accordion and harmonica players. "Ulyap Songs: Beyond Circassian Tradition" represents an attempt to document ancient bards' chants and their entanglement with popular rural heritage as well as post-Soviet culture during modern times, through a critical prism.

A book of poetic texts by the performance artist, choreographer, musician and writer.

Out of the Grid presents a critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communication strategies across the territory of self publishing.

Drawing from Lisa Lerkenfeldt's field work and electroacoustic practices, piano, cello and tape loop arrangements light up lost chambers and underground histories in a patchwork of reflective musique concrète, instrumental composition and surreal cinema.

Trances, Jules Reidy's follow-up to the celebrated World in World (2022), gathers twelve tracks shifting between fragment and epic, returning to familiar phrases between forays outward into uncertain expanses. Through its exploration of the cyclical movements of grief and emotional turbulence, Trances produces a sonic world as raw, absorbing, and surprising as anything Reidy has created to date.

Trances, Jules Reidy's follow-up to the celebrated World in World (2022), gathers twelve tracks shifting between fragment and epic, returning to familiar phrases between forays outward into uncertain expanses. Through its exploration of the cyclical movements of grief and emotional turbulence, Trances produces a sonic world as raw, absorbing, and surprising as anything Reidy has created to date.

A collection of poems generated between 2020 and 2022 by an Artificial Intelligence trained exclusively on poet Charles Bernstein's entire corpus.

Focus on the question of the economic and cultural value of music, which has re-emerged with the advent of streaming platforms.

A piece for saxophones and electronics, performed live by Kasper T. Toeplitz (real time electronics) and Bertrand Gauguet (alto & baritone saxophones).

The first monograph devoted to the piano works of composer, pianist and improviser Frédéric Lagnau (1967-2010), whose music, with its communicative energy, offers a personal and poetic approach to minimalism. Sensitivity to sound, harmonic beauty and rhythmic intensity are its hallmarks.

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.

The new alchemical collaboration between Australian chamber ensemble Decibel, and French music concrète composer Lionel Marchetti.

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.

A previously unheard performance by rudra veena master Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar (1929-1990), recorded in the North Indian city of Vrindavan at the Druhpad Samaroh festival in 1982.

Sam Dunscombe's second album, Two Forests / Oceanic, uses field recordings and rational tuning practice to reimagine the music used for psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy sessions.

First vinyl edition of the record by the master of the Thai Molam mouth organ (originally released on CD in Japan in 2018).

An improvised encounter between the two musicians (Jean-Luc Guionnet, alto saxophone / Lê Quan Ninh, percussion): five pieces of different lengths, alternating long periods of subtle restraint with moments of incredible intensity.

"Spuren & Gegenworte" began with a quasi-telepathic collaboration between KM and RW. Both recorded a track on May 3, 2021, from 8:00 PM to 8:10 PM. These recordings were subsequently transformed, combined, juxtaposed, and further modified over the course of several months, resulting in the completion of the four pieces on the CD.

Sheet Erosion is the third episode in a series of works based around ideas of audio archaeology and found sounds. The setting this time is the city of Brest in France.

The first published recording by Amelia Cuni, Werner Durand (fusing her Indian Raga singing in the Dhrupad style with his minimalist and experimental approach) and Uli Hohmann (joining them in a range of hand drums from the Middle East and North Africa, plus a dulcimer-sounding hammered guitar).

A 62' minute piece composed between 2015 and 2019, published for the first time on CD digipak.

An artist's book by Berlin-based sound artist Stefan Roigk, documenting acousmatic compositions, sound installations, musical graphics and text-sound compositions of the years 2005 to 2023 on 144 pages and 2 audio CDs.

Classic DAUU 1995 debut album, first time on vinyl.

Classic DAUU 1995 debut album, reissued for the first time.

A live, raw, collective sound by Maurice Louca & his band Elephantine.

Univers Zero's first new album since 10 years, a major new contribution to the discography of the band celebrating its fiftieth anniversary.

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…).

Percussion by Paris-based Japanese improviser Seijiro Murayama and field recordings by sound artist Éric La Casa, "small, simple gestures" on the threshold of the musical, a low-key presence, listening to inhabited spaces.

Wesley Brown narrates the day when trumpeter Miles Davis was assaulted by the New York Police Department. A dramatic and humorous story, told from multiple perspectives including that of Frances Taylor, Davis's wife, and the musicians in Davis's bands: a timely meditation on the psychological impact of police brutality, through the lens of a day in the life of Miles Davis.

The penultimate Blank Forms anthology presents new, in-depth interviews with musicians Theo Parrish, Amelia Cuni, Akio Suzuki, and more.

A multimedia book featuring transdisciplinary works by composer, audiovisual artist and performer Marko Ciciliani, that illuminate different aspects of a fictional history of the electric guitar from varying angles (including an USB-Stick with audiovisual works).

SG is none other than Andrew Pekler returning to faitiche with an album of sentimental guitar escapism. For Lovers Only / Rain Suite features ten tracks made using only an electric guitar and a handful of effects pedals (plus some additional recordings of rain) and finds Pekler once again attempting to reconicile his tendencies towards kitsch, experimentation and minimalism.