Music

An artistic inquiry into "future nostalgia".

Comprehensive and previously unpublished documentation on the unproduced magnum opus of American composer Maryanne Amacher (1938–2009).

A musical journey that pays tribute to René Daumal's unfinished Moutain and his enchanting world of mysteries and magic, through sound with Bill Laswell, P.ST, featuring Nils Petter Molvaer, Henry Kaiser, Anna Clementi, Dorian Cheah, Percy Howard, Graham Haynes, Hideo Yamaki, Peter Apfelbaum.

A musical journey that pays tribute to René Daumal's unfinished Moutain and his enchanting world of mysteries and magic, through sound with Bill Laswell, P.ST, featuring Nils Petter Molvaer, Henry Kaiser, Anna Clementi, Dorian Cheah, Percy Howard, Graham Haynes, Hideo Yamaki, Peter Apfelbaum.

A never released before live CD/DVD by Univers Zéro, a precious testimony to the band's artistic resurgence and stage energy.

A short story by Victor Segalen (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.

Two masters of field recording, and great promoters of paying attention to reality through listening, share recordings of their sound world (starting from a domestic environment changed by the arrival of a new electric stove).

For his debut release on Faitiche, in an award-winning radio collage, the well-known drummer and composer Martin Brandlmayr (Radian, Polwechsel) explores the quiet moments in music and film recordings.

Retrospective monograph.

Fifty verses by New-York musician Moondog (new edition).

A piece for specially tuned pianos that operates in the negative, by subtracting from the instrument's full harmonic range.

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

Blending Indian harmonium, analog effects, and electronic pulses, Jaime Fennelly's new solo album under the name Mind Over Mirrors, released 14 years after the magnificent Check Your Swing, evokes the wide open spaces of organic, pastoral landscapes.

The second volume of the composer's complete electroacoustic works, in 16 CDs, each designed as a listening program. The box set completes the most ambitious recording project ever devoted to an acousmatic corpus.

Red Rubber Road; Fatena Abu Mostafa; Inner Lifts (Sissel Vera Pettersen, Randi Pontoppidan, CTM, Sissi Rada, Meriheini Luoto, Berlinde Deman, Claire M Singer, IKI, Bridget Ferrill); Erell Latimier; Claire Serres & les Sirènes; Xavière Fertin & Louis Frères; Seijiro Murayama; Sophie Agnel; Tom Johnson (1939-2025)...

A series of short sound interventions, in pairs, in public spaces in Paris, both outdoors (passages, squares, esplanades, parks) and indoors (bridges, tunnels), from the Bois de Vincennes to La Défense, between May and October 2025.

This vinyl record brings together three pieces that play mischievously with the voice as a sound source, narrative source or diverted object: "Huellas Entreveradas" (2018), "La Baballe du Chien Chien à la Mé-Mère" (2001) and "Deux Dents Dehors" (2007).

Recorded live at Amsterdam's Oude Kerk during the 2024 Sonic Acts Festival, The Organ is the World's Greatest Synthesizer finds Charlemagne Palestine returning to the Staalplaat catalog. Taking its title and cover from a drawing made by Palestine during the performance, the work expands his singular mythology of sound and spirit (hand screenprited cover).

Created for instrumental ensemble, electronics and film, Castle Terraces in Barry Lyndon is a spacious and quietly enigmatic work by composer and writer Zeynep Toraman, bringing together clarinet, cello, violin, electric guitar and electronic textures with a subtly unfolding visual layer.

This interview of Brandon LaBelle with curator, artist, and researcher Berit Fischer offers insight into her transformative approach to contemporary art practice that challenges conventional notions of empathy and ecological awareness.

The meeting between Fred Frith's guitar strings and percussionist Karen Stackpole's gongs.

The totally remastered version of the fourth album by Belgian band Univers Zero, recorded in 1984.

The totally remastered version of the fourth album by Belgian band Univers Zero, recorded in 1984.

Released on occasion of his 75th birthday, Edition Telemark presents the first LP since 1986 by German composer and sound artist Ralf Hoyer.

A previously unreleased recording of Sven-Åke Johansson playing a solo set at the legendary Petersen Galerie in West Berlin, 1982.

Published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, this story introduces the legendary Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum.

An album entirely dedicated to the sound composition created by Éric La Casa for Luke Fowler's film A Grammar for Listening, based on recordings (images and sounds) made in Paris and Glasgow. A new stereo version from 2023 interacts with the original mono soundtrack from 2009.

The first album by the egalitarian and variable-geometry group of musicians/composers created by Hervé Boghossian, combining microtonal electric guitar, Turkish lute, hurdy-gurdy, and church organ.

Mémoire Magnétique, vol.3 allows us to discover some of unreleased rarities from Bernard Parmegiani's personal archives and unpublished recordings which were composed for the screen or the performing arts.

This compilation allows us to discover some of unreleased rarities from Jean Schwarz's personal archives and unpublished recordings which were composed for the dance, screen or the performing arts.

Morten Søndergaard (co-editor); interviews with panGenerator, Charles Stankievech, Mélia Roger, Adelin Schweitze; articles: Geofónie, Sonic Reorientations; reports: Electric Dreams, The Vinyl Factory: Reverb, Art Must Be Artificial.

Listening as a means of building community and knowledge.

Jacques Ponzio continues his tribute to Thelonious Monk by exploring the intense yet fleeting relationship between the pianist and saxophonist Steve Lacy.

Off The Record by French collagist Roméo Poirier is an amusing romp through the discarded history of recording studios. It contains fourteen miniatures based on accidental recordings of studio talk, revealing things that were never meant for the public.

A poetic wander through the city of Kyoto, between observation and listening.

Comprised of two expansive, sidelong pieces composed entirely on the Serge Modular synthesizer, The Dip signals a subtle yet significant shift in the Berlin-based artist and composer Thomas Ankersmit's trajectory, imbuing the hyper-physical, psychoacoustic intensities of his live performances with introspective, atmospheric, and even melodic elements.

Two new pieces highlighting the incredible voice of Amelia Cuni (1958-2024), the great Italian singer, based in Berlin in later life, whose mastery of the classical Indian dhrupad developed in parallel with a commitment to contemporary experimental approaches.

Second Black Truffle release from French composer Léo Dupleix featuring the quartet Asterales comprising of Dupleix alongside Jon Heilbron, Rebeccas Lane and Fredrik Rasten. Austere, elegant and seductive pieces for flute, guitar, double bass, synth, harpsichord, spinet and voice.

The first collaborative release from Giuseppe Ielasi and Jack Sheen: 14 pieces presenting a delicate balancing between abstraction and immediacy, austerity and abundance, imbued with a distinctive lightness of touch and a subtly psychedelic approach to the stereo field.

Black Truffle presents a new edition of Kassel Jaeger's "Fernweh", returning François J. Bonnet's electroacoustic project to the label five years after the acclaimed "Meith".

A book of drawings by artist/composer Nickolas Mohanna that mirrors various sound compositions with an economy of gesture at its core. playful in form,

Easily one of the most striking and memorable releases by either artist to appear in recent years, Sergio Armaroli and David Toop's "And I Entered Into Sleep", issued as the tenth and final album in Die Schachtel's Decay Music series, traverses uncharted realms at the borders of literary reference, sound art, ambience and abstraction through delicately musical sounds, revealing new depths at every turn.

An aural bridge between two distinct generations of Italian experimental and electroacoustic musicians, "Liminale" is the debut collaborative outing from the creative partnership of Luigi Turra and Elio Martusciello.

Sharpened to its core, Solids For Voices by the Danish group Valby Vokalgruppe dives deep into rhythmical architectures built almost solely from the voice.