Music

169 fundamental free jazzrecords recommended in 180 pages by Maurizio & Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien) and Philippe Robert, from must-have classics to indispensable curiosities.

A split LP from two leading voices in electroacoustic music.

An anthology.

Vladan Joler, Shinseungback Kimyonghun, Winnie Soon, Weidi Zhang, Trading Voices, Sonic Surveillance in the Age of AI, Through a Glass Darkly, Dither Studies and Straightened Trees, MNEMOSCOPIO & rs548049170_1_69869_TT (The Other Shapes of Me)...

First vinyl release of the classic album of 2001, remastered by Stephan Mathieu.

Two improvised concerts where are woven between the piano and the saxophone subtle games of harmonic textures, appearances of differential sounds, resonances and sometimes some more noisy sequences.

A subtle expanse of delicate ambiences and long tones, meticulously constructed into an immersive sonorous world.

The 2020 remaster & vinyl reissue of PM016 by Danish musician Mads Emil Nielsen, re-mastered and cut by Kassian Troyer, with cover artwork by visual artist Dane Patterson.

The 2020 remaster & CD reissue of PM016 by Danish musician Mads Emil Nielsen, re-mastered by Kassian Troyer, with cover artwork by visual artist Dane Patterson.

Hastings of Malawi's third LP—the antithesis of Christmas albums.

An exquisite study in dreamlike abstract ambience, a kaleidoscope of sounds and tones that engage the head and the heart.

This publication brings together the source material that has informed Marclay's visual practice over the past few years. It gathers nearly 600 black & white Xeroxes of found image collages compiled with the help of graphic designer Laurent Benner.

Two short stories by Lucien Jean (1870-1908), accompanied by a mini CD slipped into the book: an unpublished atmospheric piece, recorded for the occasion, by Lee Ranaldo.

Two previously unreleased recordings from Philip Corner's "Gong/Ear" series of works. Side A was recorded on a South German night train ride in 1990, side B in the Alps in 1994.

"Night Music" unearthes Sven-Åke Johansson's very first recordings from 1964—made with his Tandberg tape recorder in the Kronenburg Bar, a dive bar in the red-light district in Münster/Westfalen (West Germany). There he performed jazz versions of popular songs and standards with Uwe Wegner (piano) and Gerold Flasse (double bass), sometimes joined by Dutch singer Jenny Gordee. Young Udo Lindenberg was a frequent guest at the Kronenburg Bar

A split LP featuring two complementary experimental sound performances.

A collection of essays, librettos, lyrics, memories, photos, personal anecdotes by musicians, visual artists, researchers and archivers that pays homage to the work and life of African-American composer, musician, performer, activist Julius Eastman.

Stefan Römer's second deconceptual album: six gun shots and an algorithm.

19 poems and 23 chronicles of improvised music concerts (Albert Ayler, Sophie Agnel, Raymond Boni, Hélène Breschand, Steve Dalechinsky, Joëlle Léandre, Seijiro Murayama, Jean-François Pauvros, Barre Phillips, and many others).

Black Sifichi, Radio renversé by Elena Biserna & Carole Rieussec, Asmaa Azaizeh, Diamanda Galás, De l'utilisation de la musique sur les ondes by Jérôme Noetinger & Alphonsine Houëves, Cornelius Cardewby Matthieu Saladin, Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Akira Sakata, Le conservatisme musical (et la musique à venir ?) by Kasper T. Toeplitz...

This publication tells of the journey of a photographic research of the origins of cumbia music along the lower Magdalena river in Colombia.

A publication project about listening and sound relations.

Italian composer Mauro Lanza delivers a masterful and radical work of electroacoustic artistry with his contribution to Matière Mémoire's MMXX Series, between electronic and acoustic tactics, pushing the boundaries of experimental and avant-garde music.

With touchstones in electronic dance music, and forward-thinking, synthesizer based abstraction, Hampus Lindwall’s contribution to Matière Mémoire's MMXX Series weaves a singularly striking world of pulsing, organized sound.

A piece made with materials from four artists (Arne Deforce and Deborah Walker, cello; Erik Drescher, flute; Dafne Vicent Sandoval, bassoon), recorded in Marcus Schmickler's studio in Koln, with a Brauner microphone.

A vast expanse of intricate ambience, texture, and tone that encounters Stephen O'Malley exploring quiet, introspective depths.

The never released before piece Un Monde Lacéré by electroacoustic music pioneer Pierre Henry, a stunning special tribute to Jacques Villeglé and his work, recorded in 2008 in studio Son/Ré.

For his Spike edition, the artist Seth Price created an 8-track LP. The LP's back cover features a photo of the artist's last-minute Halloween costume from 2018, when he dressed as the Marciano Museum, his spooky masked persona foreshadowing the grisly detail that the museum would close, after laying off its entire staff for their attempt to unionise, almost exactly one year later.

Compositions and epistolary improvisations, in tribute to the writer François Augiéras.

Voce a vento (a vinyl LP + an artist's book) represents the result of a choral, visual and performative intervention realized by Claudia Losi in the Cilento countryside in Southern Italy in 2018.

A musical and poetic performance by the Italian artistic collective.

The first new Ilitch album since 2010—one of Thierry Müller's most personal, introspective and seducing recordings.

First encounter of two essential figures of the French underground and alternative music scene.

Sonoris releases both on vinyl and CD, with a new mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi, some important works from the influential and respected artist Steve Roden. These tracks, which mix conceptual composition and musicality, transcend the ambient or lowercase categories too quickly applied to his music, due to its ghostly beauty.

Sonoris releases both on vinyl and CD, with a new mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi, some important works from the influential and respected artist Steve Roden. These tracks, which mix conceptual composition and musicality, transcend the ambient or lowercase categories too quickly applied to his music, due to its ghostly beauty.

The first ever portrait album of Ash Fure's music, performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra, Rebekah Heller, Brandon Lopez, and Nate Wooley. Released as a limited edition hardcover book with a digital download code included, featuring documentation from Ash Fure's immersive performances, commentary by the composer, an interview with Nate Wooley (Sound American editor), and contributions from Zachary Woolfe (New York Times), Steve Smith (New Yorker), and others.

Formed in 2016 as the collaborative platform of composer Justin Hicks and artist Steffani Jemison, Mikrokosmos mines the history of Black music. This ongoing project has manifested in many forms: workshop, study session, concert, listening session, book, prompt, score. “Another time, this time, one time,” the first Mikrokosmos LP, uses Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson's “We Almost Lost Detroit” (1977) as the raw material for R&B songwriting.

The soundtrack of Lili Reynaud-Dewar's film shot in Marfa (a horror movie about gentrification, the privatization and commodification of art, land, ideas, freedom, and depicting a group of 8 young artists struggling to find meaning in their engagement in the field of visual arts), composed and performed by Nicolas Murer.

A tribute to William S. Burroughs.

The meeting of Vladislav Delay's electronics and Sly and Robbie's Jamaican rhythm section.

The meeting of Vladislav Delay's electronics and Sly and Robbie's Jamaican rhythm section.

A deconstruction of Dennis Johnson's November by legendary artist Lustmord and renowned classical pianist Nicolas Horvath.