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Fluxus & NeoFluxus / Stolen Symphony (Vol. 1) (2 CD + booklet)
2023
Sub Rosa
29 Fluxus pieces, new and old, live and studio, finished pieces and scores to be performed, acoustic and classical, solos and pieces for ensemble, using classical and special instruments (with a 72 page booklet with texts and pictures).
Fluxus & NeoFluxus / Stolen Symphony (Vol. 1) (2 vinyl LP + booklet)
2023
Sub Rosa
18 Fluxus pieces, new and old, live and studio, finished pieces and scores to be performed, acoustic and classical, solos and pieces for ensemble, using classical and special instruments (with a 24 page booklet with texts and pictures).
Petr Bakla - Late Night Show (CD)
2023
Sub Rosa
Three "night music" pieces by Czech composer Petr Bakla, centered around the piano.
 Ogives - La mémoire des orages (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
Post-rock by a chamber music ensemble from Belgium, mixed by Steve Albini.
 Ogives - La mémoire des orages (CD)
2023
Sub Rosa
Post-rock by a chamber music ensemble from Belgium, mixed by Steve Albini.
 The Dwarfs of East Agouza - High Tide In The Lowlands (vinyl LP)
2023
Sub Rosa
Hypnotic instrumental improvisation-based explorations by the trio from Cairo featuring Maurice Louca (Alif, Bikya), Sam Shalabi (Land of Kush, Shalabi Effect) and Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, The Invisible Hands, Alvarius B.) are propelled by North African percussion loops and shimmering keys, a West African tinged free jazz guitar and a driving Krautrock-style acoustic bass.
La création dans les musiques traditionnelles en France - L\'écho d\'un monde musical en effervescence
2023
French edition
Mélanie Seteun - Misceallenous
A new milestone in the reflection on the challenges of creation in traditional music, and its recent aesthetic renewal.
Extra Muros - Switzerland (vinyl LP)
2023
Flee
A collective musical experiment based on the vast sound archives of the Museum of Ethnography in Geneva.
Jérôme Noetinger - Outside Supercolor (CD)
2023
Room40
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.
Giuseppe Ielasi - Down On Darkened Meetings (vinyl LP)
2023
Black Truffle
Giuseppe Ielasi's first album released on Oren Ambarchi's Black Truffle label continues the renewed exploration of the guitar that marks much of his solo work over the last few years: a major new work from a quiet master of contemporary experimental music
 Kink Gong - Tanzania 2 (vinyl LP)
2023
Discrepant
8 years almost to the day after releasing his unique re-interpretation album of his field recordings made in the late 90's in Tanzania, Kink Gong is back with another volume of bushmen madness.
 Lagoss - Imaginary Island Music Vol.2 - Ascension (vinyl LP)
2023
Discrepant
Sophomore album from Tenerife based trio Lagoss (Gonçalo F. Cardoso, Mladen Kurajica and Daniel García), moving away from their megamix vignette based first volume to experiment with a more song based approach whilst still keeping their trademark jam infused tropicalia and electronic freak outs with an offering to their 1970's sci-fi masters.
Boris Baltschun - Desert Dictionary (vinyl LP)
2023
Arbitrary
An imaginary dictionary that navigates between language and landscape, notation and noise.
Bana Haffar - Intimaa\' / إ​ن​ت​م​ا​ء (vinyl LP)
2023
Touch
A work engaging with the materiality of sound, the essence of cloth, and the symbiosis of the machine and handmade by transposing weaving draft notation into graphic scores and rhythmic sequencing.
Julius Eastman - Femenine (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Frozen Reeds
The definitive edition of the historical recording of Julius Eastman's major piece performed in 1974 by S.E.M. Ensemble, remastered by Jim O'Rourke, available on vinyl for the first time.
Alex Coles - Tainted Love - From Nina Simone to Kendrick Lamar
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The first book-length inquiry into the subject of the twisted romantic ballad, giving a sense of both its history and contemporary currency, from Frank Sinatra and Serge Gainsbourg to Kendrick Lamar via Soft Cell or PJ Harvey and Nick Cave.
Sakina Abdou - Goodbye Ground (CD)
2023
various
The first solo album of the French saxophonist, flutist and visual artist Sakina Abdou is the culmination of a path initiated more than twenty years ago on various aesthetic paths and in different contexts and artistic experiments, of a sound research started in 2021 around the solo saxophone, and of a tour in the United States in the fall of 2022.
Jeremy Deller - Art is Magic
2023
French edition
Frac Bretagne
First monograph in French: from Rod Stewart to the Industrial Revolution, Art is Magic collates all of acclaimed artist Jeremy Deller's cultural touchstones into one lovingly curated volume, balancing these artistic inspirations with examples of Deller's visionary work.
Philippe Robert - Guitare Conversation
2023
French edition
Lenka lente
In a long conversation about the guitar(s), Philippe Robert and Noël Akchoté sift through the history of the instrument and its practice, from the Renaissance lute to the 12-string, from the Stratocaster to the tabletop guitar surrounded by utensils and effects, from the blues to free improvisation.
Volume ! - Common Grounds – Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies
2023
texts in English and French
Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Mélanie Seteun - Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
This issue explores the crossroads, contacts and contrasts between two fields of musical knowledge: ethnomusicology and popular music studies.
Les Cahiers du son
2023
French edition
Naima
 Lagoss - Aquapelagos - Vol.1: Atlántico (vinyl LP)
2023
Discrepant
Lagoss (comprised of Tenerife based veteran producers Gonçalo F. Cardoso, Mladen Kurajica and Daniel García) and Banha da Cobra (Lisbon-based musicians Mestre André and Carlos Godinho) introduce the first volume on the "Aquapelagos" series—a collection of split LPs where selected artists offer their own take into water surrounded cultures and communities.
 Damāvand - As Long As You Come To My Garden (vinyl LP)
2023
Die Schachtel
The debut of the duo Damāvand (Gianluca Ceccarini and Alessandro Ciccarelli), a tribute to the 18th Century Armenian poet and musician Sayat Nova, weaves a sprawling sense of rhythmic abstraction from ancient poetic touchstone, offering further proof that the future of ambient music is now.
Claudio Rocchetti - Labirinto Verticale (vinyl LP)
2023
Die Schachtel
Occupying a remarkable middle ground between the operatic, the abstractions of experimentalism, and seductive qualities of popular music, Italian berlin-based composer, performer and publisher Claudio Rocchetti has created an entirely singular from of electroacoustic practice, as though Phillip Glass' Operas were tossed into a blender run by Alvin Lucier. Thrilling, deeply engaging, and bordering on the visionary, this transportive wonder taps the melancholic and ecstatic alike.
Thibault Walter - Audio Trouble - Étude sur les pratiques aurales d\'une école d\'art
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
A singular book resulting from an investigation on the arts of sharing sound in an art school based on experiments with Scott Arford, Mario de Vega, Kevin Drumm, Christina Kubisch, Randy H.Y. Yau, art students and Jason Kahn who offers here a text on his listening to the place.
David Toop - Alterations - Logos Foundation, Gent, 01​/​31​/​1981 (vinyl LP)
2023
Sub Rosa
Never released before recordings by the improvising quartet Alterations (active from 1977 to 1986, and reforming in 2015) from Logos Foundation live sessions at Logos Foundation, Gent, Belgium on January 3, 1981.
 Ensemble Dedalus - Discreet Music/Music for Airports/Thursday Afternoon (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Sub Rosa
The Dedalus Ensemble revisits the three pioneering works of ambient music.
 Hastings of Malawi - Choreological Exchanges (vinyl LP)
2023
Sub Rosa
Recorded at the height of the global pandemic, and at a time when remote communication was becoming increasingly prevalent, "Choreological Exchanges" is part of Hastings Of Malawi's continuing investigations into the medium of communication itself.
 Puce Moment - Epic Ellipses (vinyl LP)
2023
Sub Rosa
The new album of the French duo Puce Moment—a climatic music, often inhabited by a strong emotional power.
Laszlo Umbreit - Pas de regrets (vinyl LP)
2023
Sub Rosa
Laszlo Umbreit's album Pas de regrets combines electronic sounds with recorded memories and various materials to create a unique listening experience.
Latifa Echakhch - The Concert
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Shelter Press - Records
A vinyl release composed by Alexandre Babel in close collaboration with artist Latifa Echakhch, featuring significant contributions from the Berlin based musicians Rebecca Lenton, Theo Nabicht, Jon Heilbron and Nikki Schlierf. The record is meant to accompany the eponymous exhibition at the Swiss pavilion of the 59th Venice Art Biennale.
Dietmar Bonnen - Fries (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Edition Telemark
A piece whose structure is "visually inspired by the wall frieze in its various forms from antiquity to art nouveau, musically by the chants of the Middle Ages moving around a central tone".
Ernstalbrecht Stiebler - s/t (vinyl LP)
2023
Edition Telemark
A selection of recordings made by reductionist composer Ernstalbrecht Stiebler and cellist Tilman Kanitz between 2020 and 2022 and four improvisations with two short pieces by Stiebler.
Takako Saito - Space Music (vinyl LP)
2023
Edition Telemark
Two performances from 2020 and a selection of 1980s recordings by Japanese Fluxus artist Takako Saito.
Éric La Casa - Mobiles Barriers (book + CD)
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Swarming
The Parc la Villette, Paris, as told by a series of mobile barriers.
Jan Jelinek - Seascape - Polyptych (vinyl LP)
2023
Faitiche
Jan Jelinek's soundtrack for Seascape – polyptych, an audio-visual software developed in collaboration with Canadian new media artist Clive Holden.
Philip Samartzis - Atmospheres and Disturbances (livre + CD)
2023
Room40
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
Room40
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.
Pauline Oliveros - The Well & The Gentle (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Important Records
The Well & The Gentle, two of the major works of Pauline Oliveros, are presented here in a first time reissue on double vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with extensive liner notes.
 Material Object - Telepath (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Editions Mego
The new album by Material Object reveals a completely new sound for the artist as he combined acoustic and electronic tools to create stunning album of depth and beauty.
Richard Youngs - Modern Sorrow (vinyl LP)
2023
Black Truffle
The endlessly prolific and unpredictable Richard Youngs returns to Black Truffle with "Modern Sorrow", with a radical but deeply sensitive reduction of contemporary pop production.
Marc Codsi - Songs from the Aftermath (vinyl LP)
2023
Discrepant
Marc Codsi’s new Arabic infused synth oriented album.
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