Music

The role of blended musical genres and styles across jazz, rock, pop, funk, new wave, hip-hop, techno, and grime.

A live recording on giant acoustic horns installed on a cliffside in the French Alps, playing with the echoes inherent to the site.

A philosophical reflection on the place of sound, from musical aesthetics to sound habitat, at the crossroads of sound, music and technology studies, and phenomenology.

A musique concrète piece divided into five movements, based on the handling and editing of recordings captured within circuses between 1988 and 1993.

A limited edition repress of the remastered album "Descending Moonshine Dervishes" by Terry Riley, originally recorded live in Berlin in 1975 and released by Kuckuck in 1982.

Two revenant stories by Léon Bloy (1846-1917), with music by Nurse With Wound.

An essential guitarist for over forty years, and an enlightened partner to John Zorn, Tom Waits and John Lurie, Marc Ribot composes here, through memories, short stories and essays, a self-portrait of rare originality.

More than two years after the release of "Impressões de Outra Ilha", Discrepant's head honcho returns home under his birth name with the appropriately titled "Exotic Immensity". Conjured from the seeds of an exhibition of dioramas at Le Bon Accueil in Rennes, this double LP feels quietly epic in scope, a sprawling travelogue through imagined scenarios and what if possibilities.

Experimental poetry, historical avant-garde, contemporary music, dance, visual arts, intermedia: the sixth issue of Jacques Donguy, Sarah Cassenti and Jean-François Bory's avant-garde artistic and literary journal, with Frédéric Acquaviva, Antonin Artaud, Philippe Boisnard, Bernard Bousquet, Augusto De Campos, Hélène Defilippi, Cassandra Felgueiras, Pascal Le Gallois, Raoul Hausmann, Eduardo Kac, Chris Korda, Thomas Laroppe, Alvin Lucier, Made In Eric, Richard Meier, Simone Osthoff, Nam June Paik, Céline Paul, Diamantino Quintas, Biño Sauitzvy, Raoul Vaneigem.

A tribute to Derek Jarman manifold and vital practice.

A tribute to Derek Jarman manifold and vital practice.

Winter Family's 4th album tells a lot of stories; that of the musicians themselves and their loved ones, those of their territories, of their life in Jerusalem, Paris or Lorraine; that of women, "witches", conspiracy myths; that of capitalist and colonialist Europe; that of the blindness and violence of Israeli society and the indoctrination of its population; that of the occupation of Palestine; that of eternal lockdown and a laboratory rat; and maybe yours, too.

Winter Family's 4th album tells a lot of stories; that of the musicians themselves and their loved ones, those of their territories, of their life in Jerusalem, Paris or Lorraine; that of women, "witches", conspiracy myths; that of capitalist and colonialist Europe; that of the blindness and violence of Israeli society and the indoctrination of its population; that of the occupation of Palestine; that of eternal lockdown and a laboratory rat; and maybe yours, too.

Lee "Scratch" Perry's photographic works and writings, inventoried in the Black Ark studio in Kingston, one of the cradles of reggae and dub.

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.

Turzets collects a pair of new works primarily created and recorded in 2023 while the Australian composer-performer was in residence at La Becque, an art center on Lake Geneva in Switzerland: somewhat a departure for Rushford, working in traces of Klaus Schulze, concrete poetry, and ars subtilior into a precise and ever-unfolding tapestry.

Book-object: a collection of fifty drawings made on a train, within the meanders of a straight line.

A series of electric guitar duet meditations.

An album recorded in different parts of the world, in which the Canadian composer and sound artist explores how quantum mechanics profoundly influences the perception of sound.

An exploration of sound, space and time using found objects and flute. (new remastered version by Lawrence English of the piece recorded by Akio Suzuki in Berlin in 1994).

Christina Kubisch's Stromsänger finds this legendary sound artist at the top of her game mixing electromagnetic wave recordings with a score for six voices, creating powerful results. Stromsänger is based on a collaboration with the Norwegian vocal ensemble Trondheim Voices and on a special experience while researching and recording electromagnetic waves in the city of Trondheim.

The reissue of Chico Mello and Helinho Brandão's self-titled release from 1984, the first return to vinyl of this classic of Brazilian experimental music with its original cover art and complete track listing.

The first vinyl reissue of David Rosenboom's unique Future Travel, originally released on the short-lived Detroit label Street Records in 1981 and here presented in an expanded edition with an additional LP of wild, previously unheard live and studio material from the same period.

The long running vessel for Cameron Stallones' psychedelic excursions, Sun Araw, returns to Discrepant, using hydrophones and digital synthesis.

On "Cycle and Prayer," Indonesian experimental musician and instrument builder Wukir Suryadi expands the edges of his unique artistic world further, by digging in to meditative improvisation, art, and community building in his home workshop in the mountains of central Java.

Two sides off shimmering, tense compositions—culminating as one of Alessandra Novaga's most creatively ambitious and conceptually rich outings to date—freely inspired by the life and work of the Russian director Andrej Tarkovsky and the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Jean-Christophe Thomas analyzes François Bayle's complete work in 52 recurring features.

Two monumental pieces for flutes and additional voices.

Composed by Jim O'Rourke and pieced together by Jim together with longtime collaborator and trumpeter Eivind Lønning at Jim and Eiko Ishibashi's home in the Japanese mountains, this engrossing new album blows brass wails and tense fanfares across O'Rourke's manipulated Kyma tapestries for a deep, captivating trip into the aether.

An anthology of the constructivist movement, bringing together newly translated or previously unpublished writings by artists and theorists, accompanied by numerous illustrations and an extensive critical apparatus: this reference volume sheds new light on the multiplicity and diversity of the approaches of constructivism and productivism in the 1920s-30, and provides a major contribution to the studies of the Soviet avant-garde.

A large survey of Marc Hurtado's cinematographic, musical, poetic and plastic work, with texts by some thirty authors, artists, critics, poets and musicians from all over the world (Lydia Lunch, Pascal Comelade, Nicolas Ballet, F.J. Ossang, Kris Needs, Nick Soulsby, Nicole Brenez, Vincent Deville, Romain Perrot, Alexandre Breton, Marie Möör...).

An exploration of the ecologies of music and sound, from an ecosophical and emancipatory perspective.

Performed by Musiques Nouvelles, conducted by Jean-Paul Dessy, Jean-Luc Fafchamps's eighth release, a kind of compilation of unreleased or rare pieces covering nearly three decades, is undoubtedly the best introduction to his work.

The cataclysmic meeting between Masami Akita (Merzbow), legend of the Japanese noise scene, and pianist Nicolas Horvath, great connoisseur of the classical repertoire and unparalleled experimenter.

Sonic manifesto by a post-anything quartet featuring multi-instrumentalists from the Mediterranean inland Sea / new folklore for a devastated planet, including members of Oiseaux-Tempête, H, Karkhana, Polyphème.

Sonic manifesto by a post-anything quartet featuring multi-instrumentalists from the Mediterranean inland Sea / new folklore for a devastated planet, including members of Oiseaux-Tempête, H, Karkhana, Polyphème.

An artist's book in which musician and sound artist Claudio Rocchetti questions the act of looking.

Sound artist and composer Alessandro Bosetti paints a series of portraits from a collection of conversations recorded in Italy over the course of a Summer.

Interplay is performed by five singers, from tenor clef to treble clef, recorded in different places at different times. Each singer had not listened to what the others had recorded before.

A series of recordings that unveils the diverse creativity of young Turkish female artists.

The debut studio album from the Montreal supergroup Pangea de Futura, an octet that has been exploring since 2019, the many ways of—slowly—constructing massive textural musical shapes and droning tribal post-rock ambiances.

La Belle Brute's fourth release dedicated to "Art Brut" French artist Jean-Marie Massou, which delves his "novels", a series of sound fictions, created over the last two decades of his life, intertwining striking narratives via spoken text accompanied by collages of sound effects, music, and ambient sounds.

Midsummer, London by one of the world's leading voices in field recording explores the different accents, musics, and other sonic phenomenon of London at locations tracing the river Thames, moving from the outskirts in the west to the outskirts in the east.

Anne Mathuri, Amal Khlif, Fanny Chiarello, Delphine Dora, Félicie Bazelaire, Dominique Grimaud, Kevin Orliange, the Fougère label, John Butcher...