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A multimedia book featuring transdisciplinary works by composer, audiovisual artist and performer Marko Ciciliani, that illuminate different aspects of a fictional history of the electric guitar from varying angles (including an USB-Stick with audiovisual works).

SG is none other than Andrew Pekler returning to faitiche with an album of sentimental guitar escapism. For Lovers Only / Rain Suite features ten tracks made using only an electric guitar and a handful of effects pedals (plus some additional recordings of rain) and finds Pekler once again attempting to reconicile his tendencies towards kitsch, experimentation and minimalism.

A realisation of a 20 years-long conversation, with results that articulate Toop's long held sound vision (here executed with his own voice, electric and lapsteel guitars, whistling, percussion, flutes and electronics) around English's stunning recordings of various insects, birds and exotic animals.

An hour-long piece in four parts, scored for four cellists, featuring Tyler J. Borden, Laura Cetilia, Charles Curtis and Judith Hamann.

Black Truffle label's first release from Swedish-Finnish sound artist and electro-acoustic composer Marja Ahti: four lengthy pieces, partly inspired by the image of the senses and mind as membranes allowing for the passage between inner and outer spaces, sensation and its causes, creating a world.

An ideal introduction to Lucier's late music.

Double Pendulum is a selection of new material from NY-based artist/composer Nickolas Mohanna. Using a varied palette of percussive devices alongside the electric guitar and computer, hammered notes flutter into brushed cymbals to create pulsing and immersive shapes.

The third studio album from the Frenchmen Pointe du Lac offers a deep, catchy and classy dive into kosmische, electronica and jazz.

This album retraces ten years of practice by the contemporary mixed choir of sighted and blind people founded by vocalist, improviser, composer and researcher Natacha Muslera, which explores compositional modes distanced from the visual field, drawing inspiration from ecosystems and biotopes and blending ancestral and experimental vocal practices.

A sound project by Mattin operating a radical critique of the era of social media, which proposes to free oneself from it by reappropriating its own tools.

Francisco Meirino; Mona Kareem; Peter Brötzmann; Les Arènes du vinyle by Carole Rieussec & Elena Biserna; interviews with Limpe Fuchs, Quentin Conrate, Mayuko Hino, Yuki Fuji & Wamei...

The fourth issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, around the topic of voice (with François J. Bonnet, John Giorno, David Grubbs, Lee Gamble, Sarah Hennies, Joan La Barbara, Pierre Schaeffer, Peter Szendy, Ghédalia Tazartès...).

Extra Muros – Czech Republic is the result of the fourth edition of FLEE's creative residency program which took place in December 2022 on the dance floor of Prague's most infamous nightclub Ankali.

Four works based on four performances.

A rested development is a collaborative sound and moving image work that used chance as a process to develop a sequence of autonomous elements that intersect and diverge in their unfoldings.

An object book (with CD) featuring 29 concert reviews from the Parisian noise and experimental music scene in 2011 and 2012. It provides insights into a dynamic, radical, and deeply communal music scene (with a selection of photographs by Steeve Bauras, an experimental sound piece by DJ Fusiller created from concert recordings compiled by the author, and period flyers).

The debut album of Danish group Mesmer, an environmental project including field recordings, improvisations and live recordings, intrigued by the auditive landscapes of places where nature and culture meet and challenge each other.

New improvised quartet synthesizer / voice / accordion / saxophone / drums, recorded in concert in Paris then mixed / edited by Jean-Marc Foussat.

The continuation of the sound adventures of the duo after "L'impatience des invisibles". A new studio album plus a second CD including the tracks released on vinyl by Mind Records, on mini-CD by Lenka Lente and with a live track in trio with Richard Franès (Pointe du Lac).

Saxophones, voice, electronics and percussions, recorded remotely between France and Australia, with texts/poems by James Worse, and artwork by Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound).

A sound postcard by eRikm: an instant composition recorded on CD, somewhere between sound performance and radio creation, accompanied by a booklet of photographs.

The final issue of Sound American journal, , as a tribute to the musical community, with Eileen Myles, Ellen Pullman, Brandon Lopez, Ellen Fullman, Albert Oehlen, Natasha Pickowicz, Patricia Nicholson Parker, Michael Ranta, Sarah Hennies, Vincent de Roguin, and Lesley Mok.

Interviews with Vivian Xu, Abi Liu, Stephen Cornford, Timo Toots, Egor Kraft; reports: xCoAx 2022, Ars Electronica 2022...

From his early days with Henry Cow, Fred Frith was seen as a brilliant instrumentalist and improviser, but what has been overlooked is what a first-rate composer he is. This recording offers both aspects. His most complex orchestral composition and two selected improvisations with the Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles.

The debut release of experimental music artist Abigail Toll on Shelter Press: a compositional study using data aesthetics as a means to critically engage with the social and political mechanisms that surround us.

A musical work born of residencies for two musicians and a dancer in three natural parks in France, tuned to these three geographies as open-air studios, in dialogue with the mineral, plant and animal environment.

For countertenor, parrots, different voices & dead electronics.

Tori Kudo's ceramics.

7038634357 (Neo Gibson)'s first vinyl record, between soundscape, song, and silence.

The experiments of three musicians with different backgrounds who improvise together around continuous sinusoidal waves, between minimal and rock sensibilities.

The very first completely handmade and almost unreleased recordings of Graham Lambkin and Darren Harris under the name of Cat & Bells Club, prefiguring The Shadow Ring.

Graham Lambkin (of Shadow Ring fame) returns with a long awaited epic double LP, Aphorisms, his first major solo outing since 2016, continuing his synthetic-naturalist approach to sound-making, twisting disparate and unique elements together to create the sensation of a coherent sonic space.

Graham Lambkin (of Shadow Ring fame) returns with a long awaited epic double LP, Aphorisms, his first major solo outing since 2016, continuing his synthetic-naturalist approach to sound-making, twisting disparate and unique elements together to create the sensation of a coherent sonic space.

Recorded in Lary 7's legendary apartment studio Plastikville over nearly a decade, Larynx is the first full-length retrospective of the East Village icon's hybrid music and engineering practice.

Andrew Black aka blackbody_radiation's debut album gathers six ghostly drones, created with the help of sound masking, fully in line with the aesthetics of Jan Jelinek's Faitiche label.

Over the course of 40 minutes, the guitar treatments of composer, multi-instrumentalist and label head (Black Truffle) Oren Ambarchi (he also plays an audobon bird call) and the percussive work of Eric Thielemans perfectly merge in an outstanding improvisational session.

Unreleased tapes from the 70s and 80s.

Josh Mason's first vinyl outing since 2019, a pivotal release thoroughly shot through with the humidity, warmth, and "end of the line"-ness of the state of Florida.

Two discreet works by Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Erik Pauser that sit somewhere between field recording, chance composition and experimental soundscape.

Repress of Coil's final studio album and absolute masterpiece, re-cut from original Peter Christopherson approved masters.

The first release of celebrated London-based Canadian composer Cassandra Miller's music on vinyl, presents a pair of compositions for voice and ensemble that exemplify her gently absurd, strikingly beautiful, and utterly unique work.