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Pierre-Yves Macé - L\'Effet Rebond (Version Silicium / Version Iridium) (2 CD)
2022
Sub Rosa
A double-creation with four hands, surprising, intelligent and sensitive, between minimal experimentations, avant-garde pop and dissonance.
 Oiseaux-Tempête - What On Earth (Que Diable) (CD)
2022
Sub Rosa
With their sixth studio album, Oiseaux-Tempête unveils a new facet of its mythology through a dense work that carries darkness towards the light of day, that rumbles, calms down and warms up again. Like the silhouette of a lighthouse that reveals itself as its torch rises and shines, the powerful beauty of What On Earth (Que Diable) radiates into an expanding musical cosmos.
Ross Bolleter - Average Human Heart
2022
English edition
Lenka lente
In Average Human Heart, inspired by Eduardo Galeano's The Book of Embraces and Jorge Luis Borges's Ficciones, Ross Bolleter offers more than 100 vignettes (or "left hand stories") primarily on music and musical experience.
Christophe Bailleau - Shooting Stars Can Last (CD)
2022
Optical Sound
A lush, abyssal, labyrinthine and generous album, produced by Christophe Bailleau with a group of sound artists and invited accomplices.
Judith Hamann - A coincidence is perfect, intimate attunement (vinyl LP)
2022
Second Editions
A wonderful sophomore collaborative work pieced together over two years of changing seasons, ideas, moods, and feelings.
Jonathan Scherk - Toon! (vinyl LP)
2022
Faitiche
Jonathan Scherk's first solo LP immerses us in a highly distinctive world of plunderphonics-sampledelica-variations acousmatiques that's impossible to classify while feeling familiar nonetheless. Following a strict two-minute format, thirteen complex sound constructions offer a range of experiences—as if the neurosciences had developed an acoustic formula capable of triggering illusions of memory.
Eric Thielemans - ਚੈਨਲKAANALचैनलRÁÐעָרוּץ - Godbear Series 004 (vinyl LP)
2022
Matière Mémoire
An original meeting, powerful and explosive, between Charlemagne Palestine, Eric Thielemans and Oren Ambarchi.
Félicie Bazelaire - Bien à toi
2022
French edition
ARTDERIEN
A poetic story written in the form of an unanswered correspondence by the musician Félicie Bazelaire.
Alan Courtis - Discographisme maison / Homemade record sleeves
2022
French edition / texts in English and Spanish
ARTDERIEN
Discographisme maison / Homemade record sleeves is a project collecting and assembling a series of record sleeves. They were all reworked and customized by unknown artists who used the original cover as a support or a source of inspiration... This collection echoes an intimate, marginal and overlooked experience, which can be replaced in the history of iconography and pop music.
Hüma Utku - The Psychologist (2 vinyl LP)
2022
Editions Mego
The sophomore album by the Istanbul born and raised, Berlin based electronic music composer and sound artist Hüma Utku: a series of sonic essays based around themes of psychological phenomena, which can be read as a musical enquiry into the human condition.
Hüma Utku - The Psychologist (CD)
2022
Editions Mego
The sophomore album by the Istanbul born and raised, Berlin based electronic music composer and sound artist Hüma Utku: a series of sonic essays based around themes of psychological phenomena, which can be read as a musical enquiry into the human condition.
Jim O\'Rourke - Immanent in Nervous Activity (vinyl LP)
2022
Die Schachtel
Riding the razor's edge between bristling electroacoustic wizardry and the constrained structures and harmonic interplay of musical minimalism, "Immanent in Nervous Activity" is Die Schachtel's new release from the creative partnership of Giovanni Di Domenico and Jim O'Rourke, joining the conversant vision of two of the most striking voices within the field of contemporary sound.
 eRikm - Échoplasme - Paréidolie – Encres & Scanographies de eRikm (book + CD)
2022
bilingual edition (French / Japanese)
Bisou Records
A series of ghostly ink drawings and scanographs by eRikm, accompanied by a mixed sound piece, with sound texts freely inspired by fragments of stories about the universe of the Yokai, these ghosts and supernatural creatures that inhabit Japanese mythology, between hypnotizing soundscapes and bewitching instrumental devices.
Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic (vinyl LP)
2022
Superior Viaduct
1st time on vinyl for the Eno-produced ambient classic "The Sinking of the Titanic", Gavin Bryars' first major composition written between 1969 and 1972, inspired by the tragic event of the British passenger liner's cross-Atlantic maiden voyage.
Jason Kahn - Soundings (book + CD)
2022
English edition
Editions (Jason Kahn)
A collection of 77 texts by Jason Kahn, each text written in response to a field recording made by the sound artist in Zurich in February-March 2020 (CD with the 77 sound recordings included): a poetic and sonic cartography that reflects the constitution of the place by the way it "sounds".
Revue & Corrigée
2022
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Vanda Spengler; contemporary Arabic poetry: Rana Al Tonsi; interview with percussionist Lê Quan Ninh by Jérôme Noetinger; interview with David Chiesa and Nina Garcia, two of the 26 figures of the UN ensemble; interview with Lebanese musician, oudist and vocalist Youmna Saba; interview with Marion Camy-Palou by Michel Henritzi; Thierry Monnier (1972-2022) by Pali Meursault; RG Rough; 66 album reviews...
Alien Phenomenology (CD)
2022
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
Listening as the basis for social, bodily and passionate movement and transformation.
The Listening Academy (CD)
2022
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
A collective improvisation as part of a creative research academy focusing on listening as a philosophical, artistic, social and somatic issue.
Magda Mayas - SPILL - Mycelium (vinyl LP)
2022
Corvo Records
currently out of stock
Since 2002, Berlin based musicians Tony Buck and Magda Mayas have been developing their duo music as SPILL, recording, touring and occasionally collaborating with international guests. Having spent the last 20 years establishing their unique approach to the piano and percussion combination, SPILL celebrates this milestone with the release of their 5th album Mycelium.
Stefan Römer - ReCoder SOUND (vinyl LP)
2022
Corvo Records
currently out of stock
The third release on Corvo Records by sound researcher and conceptualist Stefan Römer, a soundtrack for one of his experimental films as well as a new addition to his meta project "Deconceptualize".
Roméo Poirier - Living Room (vinyl LP)
2022
Faitiche
The French musician and producer transforms the layering of different times into a free-flowing pulse that sounds both nostalgic and mysteriously ahistorical.
Pauline Oliveros - Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1960 -1970 (11 CD box set)
2022
Important Records
This dense 11 disc retrospective of Pauline Oliveros' early and unreleased electronic work includes her very first piece made for tape in 1959.
Free Jazz Communism
2022
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
Actualising the concert of Archie Shepp–Bill Dixon Quartet at the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki 1962, Free Jazz Communism contextualizes the politics of free jazz music in light of global decolonisation movements, anti-war activism, structures of racial capitalism, and forms of avant-garde music (new augmented edition).
Crys Cole - Other Meetings (vinyl LP)
2022
Black Truffle
A major addition to the body of carefully hewn solo work Crys Cole has released over the last decade, offering up two side-long suites of her radically intimate approach to sound.
Amelia Cuni - Mumbai 04.02.1996 (2 vinyl LP)
2022
Black Truffle
Black Truffle continues its documentation of the work of Berlin-based Italian singer Amelia Cuni, one of the great contemporary exponents of dhrupad, the oldest surviving style of North Indian classical vocal music.
Aquapelago - An Oceans Anthology (vinyl LP)
2022
Discrepant
An anthology introducing the first of a series of albums based on the concept of "aquapelago", with Sugai Kei, Andrew Pekler, Mike Cooper, The Dead Mauriacs, Babau, Vica Pacheco, Yannick Dauby, Sculpture, Franceso Cavaliere and Tomoko Sauvage.
Nicolas Bernier - Sur le diapason - Autour d\'un cycle de création, entre son, science et lumière
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
The art of the tuning fork: the manifesto of the sound artist, performer and composer Nicolas Bernier.
Lionel Marchetti - Le livre des falaises
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A book of poems by the composer of musique concrète.
Neural - Alternative Metaverses
2022
English edition
Neural
Lu Yang, LaTurbo Avedon, Lawrence Lek, Marco Cadioli, A genealogy of the metaverses, The metaverses performed sounds, Ars Electronica 2021...
 Deux Filles - Silence & Wisdom (vinyl LP)
2022
various
currently out of stock
The 1982 debut album of the fictional and conceptual girl band comprising Colin Lloyd-Tucker and Simon Fisher Turner is a series of musical vignettes, blending processed guitars, sheets of synthesizers, echoey pianos, and washed-out vocal snippets to surprisingly varied effect, like the score of an unrealized arthouse film.
 Deux Filles - Double Happiness (vinyl LP)
2022
various
The second album of the fictional and conceptual girl band comprising Colin Lloyd-Tucker and Simon Fisher Turner, originally released in 1983 on their own imprint, Papier Maché, full of meandering guitar, technically tighter and more refined, and with a more ominous tone, than the debut Silence & Wisdom.
Milan Knížák - Another State of Stagnation / Piano Pieces (1991-2021) (CD)
2022
Sub Rosa
Six unreleased piano pieces by Milan Knízák, written between 1991 and 2021, played by Czech piano virtuoso Miroslav Beinhauer.
Leo Kupper - Electronic Works & Voices 1977-1987 (2 vinyl LP)
2022
Sub Rosa
This release highlights Leo Kupper's earliest compositions with his GAME machine - Générateur Automatique de Musique Electronique (Automatic Generatorof Electronic Music) constructed during the 1960's. Purely electronic sounds into new structures, Leo Kupper shows through his 4 tracks a real spirit of renewal.
Eric Thielemans - A New Score for Koyaanisqatsi (vinyl LP)
2022
Sub Rosa
Dark-folk songwriter Chantal Acda and beyond drums-percussion musician extraordinaire Eric Thielemans propose, after Phillip Glass, a new score for Koyaanisqatsi, re-actualising the incredibly beautiful, raw, rhythmic and touching images of this 80-ties cinematographic masterpiece.
Peter Rehberg - at GRM (2009, 2016) (vinyl LP)
2022
Shelter Press - Records
Two previously unreleased recordings of Peter Rehberg (1968-2021), live performances given at the GRM which, each in their own way, vividly illustrate the extent of his sonic palette.
Valerio Tricoli - Say Goodbye To The Wind (CD)
2022
Shelter Press - Records
A masterstroke of contemporary musique concrète and auditory conceptualism, dense with metaphor, allegory and meaning.
The Cricket - Black Music in Evolution, 1968-69
2022
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
Complete facsimile of The Cricket, an important but underknown music magazine edited by poets and writers Amiri Baraka, A. B. Spellman, and Larry Neal in 1968–69—a rare document of the Black Arts Movement.
Marsen Jules - Herbstlaub (vinyl LP)
2022
Keplar
The third album by Marsen Jules, both introspective and visionary, modest and ground-breaking, remastered by Stephan Mathieu and with a new artwork by Umor Rex's Daniel Castrejón.
Bertrand Gauguet - Miroir (CD)
2022
Akousis Records
A dialogue between the saxophone and the viola.
From Scratch - Albanian Summer Picaresque
2022
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
An account of an album about Albania by British experimental musicians made in the eighties. Also involving stories about the Albanian Society, William Bland, A. L. lloyd, RCPB ML, and Cornelius Cardew.
Alvin Curran - Drumming Up Trouble (vinyl LP)
2022
Black Truffle
Collecting previously unissued works recorded between 2018-2021 and a side-long epic dating back to the early 80s, as the title suggests, "Drumming Up Trouble" focuses on a hitherto almost unknown aspect of Alvin Curran:'s encyclopaedic and omnivorous musical world: his experiments with sampled and synthesised percussion.
Paul Panhuysen - Duo Geloso (vinyl LP)
2022
Black Truffle
The first release to document the variety and playfulness of the concerts that Arnold Dreyblatt and Paul Panhuysen's Duo Geloso performed throughout Europe in 1987-88.
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