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Laurel Halo - Octavia / Manifolds (vinyl LP)
2024
Shelter Press - Records
forthcoming
A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series bringing together two pieces by Jessica Ekomane (explores the multiple possibilities of polyphonic writing) and Laurel Halo (for piano and electronics).
 Nurse With Wound - Revenantes (book + CD)
2024
French edition
Lenka lente
forthcoming
Two revenant stories by Léon Bloy (1846-1917), with music by Nurse With Wound.
Philippe Robert - Free Fight
2024
French edition
Lenka lente
forthcoming
The complete texts and photographs published in the fanzine dedicated to free jazz.
OpticalSound
2024
French edition
OpticalSound
Optical Sound
forthcoming
Interviews with Michel Dector et Jean-Baptiste Farkas, Alice Dourlen, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jim O'Rourke, Steven Stapleton, Andrea Laszlo De Simone; Johanna Went and Dame Darcy by Nicolas Ballet; Mickael Vis; Yûichi Yokoyama; SMITH; Marcel Broodthaers; Current 93; IKHÉA©SERVICES; Alan Dunn; Oskar Schlemmer; Blaine L. Reininger; Martin Le Chevallier; Ludovic Chemarin©...
 The Shadow Ring - The Shadow Ring (1992-2002) (11 CD + DVD + book box set)
2024
Blank Forms
forthcoming
A comprehensive overview of the work produced by British musicians Graham Lambkin, Darren Harris, and later Tim Goss over the course of a decade, across eleven CDs and a DVD, accompanied by an nearly five-hundred-page book.
David Grubbs - Your Music Encountered in a Dream (CD)
2024
Room40
forthcoming
A series of electric guitar duet meditations.
Phill Niblock - Rhymes With Water (vinyl LP)
2024
God Records
forthcoming
Two monumental pieces for flutes and additional voices.
Phill Niblock - Boston III / Tenor / Index (vinyl LP)
2024
Alga Marghen
forthcoming
Some of the earliest works by American composer Phill Niblock, including three never before released pieces: "Index" (1969), "Tenor," and "Boston III" (both from 1972). Until now, it's been impossible to encounter Niblock's compositions from earlier than the 1960s, a reality thankfully rectified by the long overdue publication of this LP on Alga Marghen.
Pierre Schaeffer - À la recherche de Pierre Schaeffer - Portrait(s)
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
forthcoming
A vast selection of theoretical, philosophical and literary writings by Pierre Schaeffer, accompanied by testimonies of various personalities, providing a privileged entry into the multidimensional universe of the composer, engineer, theorist and radio man, whose tutelary shadow is constantly cast on the landscape of sound creation.
Revue & Corrigée
2024
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Pakito Bolino; Basman Aldiwari; Phill Niblock by Kasper T. Toeplitz; Dominique Grimaud; Félix Blume; Leandro Barzabal; Dror Feiler...
Giuseppe Ielasi - Rhetorical Islands (vinyl LP)
2024
Faitiche
First vinyl edition of the album Rhetorical Islands, originally released by Giuseppe Ielasi in 2012 as a limited-edition CD on his Senufo Editions label, with recordings made in 2011 as a commission by Jérôme Noetinger for l'Audible Festival, Paris.
Beatriz Ferreyra - UFO Forest + (vinyl LP)
2024
Room40
"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.
Hanno Leichtmann - Outerlands (vinyl LP)
2024
Discrepant
Centered around the Villa Aurora Organ, an intriguing and mostly unknown instrument built in 1928/29 by the Artcraft Organ Company in Santa Monica, California, "Outerlands" presents a deeply personal approach to the instrument's particular properties, very much in line with Discrepant's ethos.
Neural - Connective Theories, 30 years of Neural
2024
English edition
Neural
Anniversary issue: 30 artists celebrate 30 years of Neural + 20 of Crónica; interviews with Olga Goriunova, Siegfried Zielinski, Luciana Parisi, Hito Steyerl, Jussi Parikka; The Neural Archive; reports: xcoax 23, Renaissance 3.0 ZKM; books/DVDs & music reviews...
Rudy Trouvé - Musik F​ü​r Animierten Tonspurfilm (vinyl LP)
2024
Sub Rosa
The twelfth album by DAAU is the soundtrack to a series of short, abstract animation films by Rudy Trouvé, who also acted as a creative director during the recording process.
Kaoru Tashiro - Miragique (CD)
2024
Sub Rosa
This second project released on Sub Rosa by the Japanese artist Kaoru Tashiro, manages to create a subtle dialogue between four composers, and four musical pieces, mixing a delicate blend of Japanese and European sensibilities. Those different approaches convergence thanks to the highly recognisable sensibility of Kaoru Tashiro's way to play.
 Phaerentz - It\'s Not Quite That Inventive (Sixty Years with Broken Music) (2 CD)
2024
Sub Rosa
The album includes Milan Knížák's 1973 private recording BROKEN MUSIC, released as a multiple of forty copies by Armin Hundertmark in 1983 on Edition Hundertmark, and a live version of BROKEN REBROKEN, performed in January 2020 at the Museum of Czech Music in Prague by Milan Knížák, Petr Ferenc (aka Phaerentz) and Opening Performance Orchestra.
Éliane Radigue - Intermediary Spaces
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
umland / Q-O2
In the long interview that forms the body of this publication, Éliane Radigue talks about her work, her reflections and underlying research, as well as her historical context. The publication also contains a commented list of works and Radigue's programmatic text on The Mysterious Power of the Infinitesimal (new expanded edition).
Catherine Christer Hennix - Solo for Tamburium (2 vinyl LP)
2024
Blank Forms - Records
Solo for Tamburium captures Catherine Christer Hennix's most recent major work. Hennix plays an instrument of her own creation, a keyboard interface controlling a suite of eighty-eight recordings of precision-tuned tambura, creating a sweeping and continuous flow of rich harmonic interplay.
Catherine Christer Hennix - Solo for Tamburium (CD)
2024
Blank Forms - Records
Solo for Tamburium captures Catherine Christer Hennix's most recent major work. Hennix plays an instrument of her own creation, a keyboard interface controlling a suite of eighty-eight recordings of precision-tuned tambura, creating a sweeping and continuous flow of rich harmonic interplay.
Charlemagne Palestine - DINGGGDONGGGDINGGGzzzzzzz ferrrr SSSOFTTT DIVINI TIESSSSS​!​!​!​!​!​!​!​!​! (vinyl LP)
2024
Blank Forms - Records
Two mesmerizing works for carillon, the keyboard-controlled bell tower derived in the 16th century.
 DASDAS - Un zèbre bleu aux yeux de mouche (vinyl LP)
2024
PiedNu
A record of outsider music (sound objects and voices) made by patients at Le Havre psychiatric hospital, accompanied by Aude Romary on cello and Nosfell.
 Schatterau - Schatterau (vinyl LP)
2024
Hands in the Dark / Fragments Editions
The debut, self-titled album from German trio Schatterau: 15 elegant miniature pieces made with an old 4-track cassette recorder, offering a lo-fi walk through a patchwork of warm, nostalgic, dreamlike and strangely familiar soundscapes.
François Bayle - 50 ans d\'acousmatique (15 CD + booklet box set)
2024
INA-GRM
François Bayle's luxurious, monumental retrospective box set: 15 CDs covering half a century (1963-2012) of acousmatic creation, accompanied by a 160-page book with various texts, a 2012 interview with Thomas Baumgartner, presentation and annotated catalog of works by Régis Renouard Larivière, and photographs.
Switched On - The Dawn of Electronic Sound by Latin American Women
2024
English edition
Contingent Sounds
The first book dedicated exclusively to the female protagonists of Latin American electronic music.
Alexander von Schlippenbach - ... über Ursache und Wirkung der Meinungsverschiedenheiten beim Turmbau zu Babel (2 vinyl LP + DVD + booklet + libretto box set)
2024
Edition Telemark
A music drama performed in the Hebbel Theatre Berlin in 1994—a key work from Sven-Åke Johansson & Alexander von Schlippenbach.
Christina Kubisch - Zenger Station (vinyl LP)
2024
Edition Telemark
New electromagnetic recordings by Christina Kubisch: a suite of pieces focusing on the electromagnetic sound qualities of trams, buses and related infrastructure.
 Kunstkopf - 7 Stücke 1998 (vinyl LP)
2024
Edition Telemark
A unique 90s Berlin underground artefact by Kunstkopf.
Dan Warburton - Parking (CD)
2024
Swarming
Two works recorded 14 years apart, registering the behaviour and characteristics of environmental and instrumental sound resounding within multiple parking garages.
Roxane Métayer - Adage Vestige (vinyl LP)
2024
Matière Mémoire
The musician and visual artist's new album, somewhere between folk and experimental music.
 NPVR - 33 34 (vinyl LP)
2024
Editions Mego
NPVR is the avant garde duo made up of the late Peter Rehberg and Nik Void. Editions Mego is proud to present their second and final release. No this is not some kind of Beatles synthetic AI that raises the dead reconstructed recordings but rather a new album made by the humans and their machines.
Jim O\'Rourke - With pats on the head, just one too few is evil one too many is good that\'s all it is (3 vinyl LP)
2024
Black Truffle
The heavyweight trio of Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke and Oren Ambarchi return with their 12th and most epic release to date, a monumental triple LP.
Mike Cooper - Aquapelagos - Vol.2: Índico (vinyl LP)
2024
Discrepant
Presenting the second thematic volume on the "Aquapelagos" series, a collection of split LPs where selected artists offer their own take into water surrounded cultures and communities, Discrepant introduces an unique collaboration in the series in the shape of no other than two improvising giants, Mike Cooper and Pierre Bastien. This volume blows the lid wide open with a sound journey inspired by the equally majestic and mysterious Indian Ocean, a wide space of open ocean bounded by Africa, to the west, Asia to the north and north-west and Australia, to the south west.
Alexandre Centeio - Panorama (vinyl LP)
2024
Discrepant
Part of a (very) loose but somewhat like minded kaleidoscope where one can trace something like a Portuguese hauntology, centred around labels like Russian Library or Prisma Sonora Records, Alexandre Centeio joins Discrepant with the surefire release of "Panorama".
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