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A collection of biographical and musical essays about composer-performer Julius Eastman—a compelling portrait of Eastman's enigmatic and intriguing life and music.

An investigation of dubplate decay and the tactile relationship to the disc.

A series of in situ improvisations on Mount Tamborine in Australia.

The definitive edition of Fennesz's breakthrough album, newly mixed by himself.

Klara Lewis returns to Editions Mego with a surprising live set recorded in 2018. Expanding her exploratory vision into haunted realms of unheimlich sound, Live in Montreal consists of a single piece with three distinct discernible sections.

Editions Mego welcomes Powell to its roster with a bizarre and strangely emotive new album of synthetic computer works entitled Piano Music 1-7.

Editions Mego welcomes Powell to its roster with a bizarre and strangely emotive new album of synthetic computer works entitled Piano Music 1-7.

The first vinyl LP release from Fluxus pioneer Alison Knowles (remastered edition transferred from original tapes, with an expansive 20-page booklet).

Contemporary poetry in Arabic: Lamis Saïdi; Pascale Criton; homage to Peter Rehberg by Jérôme Noetinger; Romain Perrot aka Vomir; Michel Doneda; Wuppertal festival / Peter Brötzmann; Yosuke Yamashita interviewed by Michel Henritzi; 45 album reviews...

Two pieces based on Milan Knízak's canonical text Aktual University, dating from 1967, containing ten short lectures outlining the university's character—On Conflict, On Dreams, On Revolutions, On Love, On Belief, On Art, etc. These lectures were to serve as inspirational schemes for lectures, seminars and discussions held at an ideal university.

Following Palo Alto's previous Difference and Repetition – A Musical Evocation Of Gilles Deleuze 2LP/CD this limited 7'' edition features The Tears of Nietszche on side A with Richard Pinhas as guest musician and Vecteur d'abolition on side B with the voice of Gilles Deleuze.

Three pieces for speaking pianist by the American avant-garde musician, politically committed composer and virtuoso pianist Frederic Rzewski (1938-2021), performed by Stephane Ginsburgh (for whom two of the pieces were composed).

A staircase drips, not with water but with sound: book / CD dedicated to Fritz Hauser's impressive "sound drawing" for the Vincent van Gogh Foundation in Arles.

Dedicated to the widely loved character of Jack McCoy, portrayed by Sam Waterston in Law & Order, For McCoy finds Eiko Ishibashi further exploring the unique space she has carved out in recent years, bringing together musique concrète techniques, ECM-inspired jazz, lush layers of synths and hints of pop into immersive and affecting structures.

The first new album in over 40 years by American composer, pianist, and digital audio pioneer Loren Rush: Bay Area experimentalism meets 20th century classical modernism.

Jean-Marie Massou's double album presenting, in a raw way, the recordings made at the end of the 1970s in a giant tank.

Facsimile scores and documents about the work recorded by Luc Ferrari during summer 1977 and premiered in 1979 during Festival d'Automne at Centre Pompidou, Paris.

An unpublished text by Luc Ferrari from 1982, in which he expresses some of his hopes and concerns about what would become La Muse en circuit that same year. Forty years later, the present director Wilfried Wendling wrote a text in echo.

Edited from the composer's archives, historical documentation about the project & genesis of the work inspired by The Divine Comedy by Dante (1973).

The third collaboration between Félicia Atkinson and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma—their first album produced together in the same studio: an electroacoustic, poetic, fluid and sensitive dialogue between the two experimentalists.

Built from deconstructed layers of texture, tone, and arrhythmic percussiveness, Andrew Pekler & Giuseppe Ielasi's 'Palimpsests' distills 6 years of work into 9 splintered, airy reimaginings of minimalism—each surprising, creatively rigorous, and startlingly beautiful—that rest at the outer reaches of contemporary electroacoustic practice and musique concrète.

The new magistral piece from Phill Niblock, played by the Arditti String Quartet, David Watson and the Phoenix Ensemble Basel.

Sound American Publications' 27th issue, The Life Issue, proposes a reflection upon the smallness—and largeness—of living amidst a tumultuous, globally-shared moment (featuring Claire Rousay, Susan Alcorn, Jack Langdon, Lea Bertucci & Audrey Chen, Katie Porter, Ahmed Abdul-Malik, Henri Pousseur, Chris Pitsiokos, Catalytic Sound collective, Ka Baird, Mazen Kerbaj...).

A series of compositions using environmental sounds and field recordings from the five continents.

One of Ghédalia Tazartès' final recordings, with Rhys Chatham, in 2018-2019.

The biography of the singer and performer Mikami Kan, figure of the Japanese underground scene, with two unreleased concerts on CD.

The life and work of Amercian experimental musician/composer/intermedia artist Jerry Hunt (1943-1993)—an intimate portrait of a lifetime spent with one of the most eccentric figures in the world of new music

A memoir by Kawasaki-based writer and musician Kazuki Tomokawa, Try Saying You're Alive! offers a semi-fictionalized account of the vibrant Tokyo underground that he has been at the center of since the 1970s.

FLEE's new project focuses on the music of the pearl fishermen of the Persian Gulf and aims to honor the memory of the divers, their culture and their music, through a 2XLP compilation and a 240 pages long book in Arabic and English.

FLEE's new project focuses on the music of the pearl fishermen of the Persian Gulf and aims to honor the memory of the divers, their culture and their music.

FLEE's new project focuses on the music of the pearl fishermen of the Persian Gulf and aims to honor the memory of the divers, their culture and their music.

The new magistral piece from Phill Niblock, played by the Arditti String Quartet & David Watson.

The new magistral piece from Phill Niblock, played by the Phoenix Ensemble Basel.

A 1975 unreleased Strumming performance in Antwerp.

Spanning 1966-1993, Mémoire Magnétique Vol. 2 is a revelatory collection of short and secret music by electronic music pioneer Bernard Parmegiani.

An initiatory drift through the complex, multiple and singularly innovative sound art of Frédéric Acquaviva.

Terrine, Gabi Losoncy, Nour Mobarak; focus Bruisme Festival; Augustin Bette; 20 Italian records; interviews: Thurston Moore by Jacques Debout & Michel Henritzi ; Michel Chion by Jérôme Noetinger; John Tchicai by Gérard Rouy; Pole Ka; books and records reviews...

A beautiful reflective album built around the piano as a central element and inspired by the sound of whispering.

Mark Leckey finally presents the soundtrack to his autobiographical allegory 'O' Magic Power of Bleakness', a mind sluicing fantasy/autobiographical narrative inspired by folklore and half-remembered tales of teenage life growing up in the Wirral, a personal history woven into screwed 808s, ringtones, sacred chimes, smudged synths, sirens and levitating ambience that sounds like nowt else.

An absorbing sound collage album that emerged out of the production material of the film, The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) by C.W. Winter & Anders Edström, with musical excerpts from Tim Berne & Bill Frisell, Tony Conrad, Graham Lambkin, Mary Jane Leach, Alvin Lucier, Phill Niblock, Folke Rabe, Éliane Radigue, and Akio Suzuki.

Tetsuo Furudate's new album, featuring Keiko Higuchi and Olga Magieres.

A work for underwater performance that literally immerses the listener into an acoustical substance, released in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series.

Two compositions conceived mainly from researches on the inaudible and the unspeakable, as part of a series devoted to the representation of infraliminary sound phenomenons of the reality, of everyday life.