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XKatedral Anthology Series II - An Anthology Of Slowly Evolving Timbral Music (2 vinyl LP)
2023
XKatedral
The second in a series of archival releases dedicated to presenting music by XKatedral affiliated composers working within the realm of slowly evolving harmonic and timbral music, featuring exclusive music from Kali Malone, Jessica Ekomane, Mats Erlandsson, Theodor Kentros, Wilma Hultén, and Maria W. Horn.
Sound American - The Thirtieth Issue
2023
English edition
Sound American
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.
Flash Art - Fall 2023 – The Always Already
2023
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Rhea Dillon, Art & Language, Nikita Gale, Precious Okoyomon, Rory Pilgrim & Carol R. Kallend, SoiL Thornton, WangShui, Issy Wood...
Mouvement
2023
French edition
Mouvement
Eileen Myles, motherhood and an artistic career, Kelly Reichardt, Pierre Creton, Julien Gosselin's sermon on the fall of Vienna, squatting on algorithmic video surveillance in Rotterdam...
 7038634357 - Neo Seven (vinyl LP)
2023
Blank Forms - Records
7038634357 (Neo Gibson)'s first vinyl record, between soundscape, song, and silence.
Frédéric Acquaviva - No Soy Un Robot (CD)
2023
AcquAvivA
For countertenor, parrots, different voices & dead electronics.
 blackbody_radiation - Ultra-Materials (vinyl LP)
2023
Faitiche
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.
Robert Bonaccorsi - La Bataille du riz de Gilles Aillaud  et la « Salle rouge pour Le Vietnam » - Itinéraire d\'un tableau singulier
2023
French edition
Loevenbruck
An essay by Robert Bonaccorsi on Gilles Aillaud's highly unusual painting "La bataille du riz", illustrated by a portfolio containing the historical documents mentioned in the text, from museum archives or the author's own collection.
Tiane Doan na Champassak - The King is dead, long live The King!
2023
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Bruno
An artist's book expanding on Tiane Doan na Champassak's iconographic research on the former king of Thailand (and amateur photographer).
 Coil - The Ape Of Naples (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Important Records
Repress of Coil's final studio album and absolute masterpiece, re-cut from original Peter Christopherson approved masters.
Jean-Philippe Delhomme - Studio Poems
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Perrotin
A collection of poems by French writer, painter and illustrator Jean-philippe Delhomme, accompanied by previously unpublished ink drawings.
Mette Edvardsen - Livre d\'images sans images (vinyl LP)
2023
Xing
A sound piece by choreographer and performer Mette Edvardsen in collaboration with her daughter, Iben, based on the performance of the same name.
Chihei Hatakeyama - Hachirogata Lake (vinyl LP)
2023
Field Records
Matching expansive ambience with environmental sound, Chihei Hatakeyama's new album continues Field Records' exploration of Japan and the Netherland's shared approach to water management.
Jan Kopp - Ronce
2023
French edition
Naima
An artistic and literary project based on the emblematic and ambiguous plant figure of the bramble.
Tori Kudo - Ceramics
2023
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
Tori Kudo's ceramics.
 Lary 7 - Larynx (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Blank Forms - Records
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.
Alan Licht - May 99 (vinyl LP)
2023
Blank Forms - Records
29.00 26.90 €
The experiments of three musicians with different backgrounds who improvise together around continuous sinusoidal waves, between minimal and rock sensibilities.
 Malayeen - Malayeen (vinyl LP)
2023
Discrepant
Repress of the Lebanese trio's 2014 album, born from Raed Yassin and Charbel Haber's love for the music of quintessential Egyptian guitarist Omar Khorshid, disassembling and re-configuring the work and style of the iconic guitarist's innovative take on Arabic music.
Josh Mason - An Anxious Host (vinyl LP)
2023
Students Of Decay
26.00 17.00 €
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.
Cassandra Miller - Traveller Song / Thanksong (vinyl LP)
2023
Black Truffle
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.
Florence Montmare - America Series
2023
English edition
Damiani - Photography
The first monograph by Swedish-Greek-American photographer and artist Florence Montmare showcases images made in 2021–22 while traveling across the United States from east to west (and back), to meet the minorities who make up today's America.
Pedro Neves Marques - Vampires in Space
2023
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Exhibition catalogue of filmmaker, visual artist, and writer Pedro Neves Marques's solo project "Vampires in Space" at the Portuguese Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2022.
Charlemagne Palestine - The God Bear Archives 1 (2 CD)
2023
Matière Mémoire
Unreleased tapes from the 70s and 80s.
 Pathé\'O -
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The extraordinary journey of the Ivorian-Burkinabé stylist Pathé'O, icon of African fashion.
Jean-Pierre Raynaud - Guernica / Ukraine
2023
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
A complete light on the unpublished work given by Jean-Pierre Raynaud to Ukraine, a modern version of Picasso's Guernica, a universal symbol of the denunciation by art of the horrors of war, whose exact monumental dimensions the French conceptual artist now takes up in order to realize, almost a century later, the counterpart according to his own aesthetic codes.
David Robbins - High Entertainment
2023
English edition
Reliable Copy
High Entertainment by David Robbins argues for a category of cultural production that combines the experimental ethos of art with the accessibility of entertainment.
Mathilde Rosier - Champ de visions
2023
French edition
Cirva
A little book-object that offers a perspective the installation by French artist Mathilde Rosier at the invitation of the Mucem: glass "seed-eyes" sown on the façade and in interior spaces of the Centre de Conservation et de Ressources (Marseille).
 Shela - TV Songs (vinyl LP)
2023
Discrepant
Lisbon based keyboardist João "Shela" Pereira's new strangely haunting album.
 Starving Weirdos - Atheistaregods (vinyl LP)
2023
Discrepant
More than a decade after the release of "Land Lines", the mythical Humboldt County, California based duo of Brian Pyle and Merrick McKinlay reappears seemingly out of nowhere with "Atheistsaregods".
Abigail Toll - Matrices of Vision (CD)
2023
Shelter Press - Records
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.
Valerio Tricoli - A Circle of Grey (vinyl LP)
2023
Xing
A Circle of Grey is an electroacoustic composition blending philosophical contemplation on transience, impermanence and musical exploration.
Jan Van Imschoot - Les nocturnes des bonnes-vivantes
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Templon
A series of flamboyant and exhilarating works by the Flemish painter, dedicated to his personal pantheon of the great female figures of History.
Mark Vernon - Call Back Carousel (vinyl LP)
2023
Discrepant
An audio time-travelogue, based on found reel-to-reel tapes of pre-recorded slideshow commentaries from the 60s and 70s, collected by Mark Vernon over the past twenty years.
Honza Zamojski - Rise and Fall of the Middlemen
2023
English edition
Nero
Artist book: a visual and poetic investigation of the enigmatic figure of the "Middleman", combining short punchlines and full-page illustrations, which are wryly reminiscent of Kafka's fictional world. The publication comes with a cardboard puppet, to be screwed and assembled.
Heimo Zobernig -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Galerie Chantal Crousel
New monograph.
Pierre Henry - Diary of my sounds
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Maison ONA
New expanded edition of an essential text for defining the thought of composer Pierre Henry (1927-2017): a musical biography in the sense of a diary and an autobiography in forty-two sequences that accompanied him in various forms between 1977 and 2005 (audio download link included).
Warja Honegger-Lavater - Pictograms
2023
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Nieves
A previously unpublished collection of 60 ink pictograms by the early progenitor of the artist's book genre (new edition).
Juliette Evezard - « Un Art Autre » - Le rêve de Michel Tapié
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
An analysis of the true theoretical and commercial system developed by Michel Tapié de Céleyran (1909-1987), who invented his profession of art entrepreneur by combining several activities—art critic, editor, artistic advisor, broker and collector—, contributed to the international destiny of some 200 artists (including Dubuffet, Mathieu, Pollock, Tapiès, Saura, Fontana, and De Kooning) and was at the origin of "Informal Art".
Laurent Buffet - Captation et subversion - L\'art à l\'épreuve du capitalisme tardif
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
Suspected of having been completely assimilated by the commercial industries, it is not so much against these that art must be defended as against a simplistic narrative imposed by a certain sociology of art. When one is finally interested in the artistic practices themselves, it becomes obvious that the art continues to resist: by its politics of the forms.
Jean-Paul Fourmentraux - Sousveillance - L\'œil du contre-pouvoir
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
On the border between arts and surveillance studies, this book analyzes the technopolitical role of new "machines vision" and considers sousveillance as a democratic counter-power.
Herman Parret - La délicatesse des sens
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – esthétique:critique
A collection of three new aesthetic essays, between the visual arts and literature, by Belgian philosopher and semiotician Herman Parret: a reflection on the "delicacy" in the various fields of sensoriality (the visible, the sound, the taste and the tactile)—a most suggestive reading for the construction or the development of a sensitive semiotics.
Strata - Italian Art since 2000 – The Words of the Artists
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Lenz Press
An interdisciplinary perspective upon Italian visual culture through the words of 37 artists active from 2000 to today.
Jean-Luc Parant - Soleil explosion
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The sequel, posthumous and almost completed, of the poem-fleuve initiated in 2020 by Jean-Luc Parant, which questions our being in the world with a freedom both new and timeless.
Steven Feld - La recherche comme composition
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – ArTeC
Two essays by Steven Feld, a leading figure in anthropology and sound studies, that challenge established acoustic perspectives and open up the exciting field of research-composition.
Christina Kubisch - Inaudible, invisible - Exploring the Works of Christina Kubisch
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
Espace multimedia Gantner
An incursion into a major field of work by Christina Kubisch, a pioneer of sound art who has been exploring the sonic potential of electromagnetic fields generated by our urban and technological environment since the 1970s.
 Cucina Povera - Terre légère (vinyl LP)
2023
Optical Sound
currently out of stock
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.
 Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles - Something About This Landscape For Ensemble (vinyl LP)
2023
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
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.
Enzo Mari - Singing Enzo Mari The Function of Esthetic Research (vinyl LP)
2023
various
currently out of stock
A musical version of legendary Italian designer and artist Enzo Mari's rare book The Function of Esthetic Research (1970), singed by a computer-aided software.
 Nox - Love, Emily (vinyl LP)
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Slow Moves
currently out of stock
The restored and remastered vinyl reissue of a sound performance by American writer Kathy Acker and French noise/experimental band Nox, published in 1987, with a poster and a previously unpublished set of documents, letters, texts and photos.
Eric Thielemans - Double Consciousness (vinyl LP)
2023
Matière Mémoire
currently out of stock
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.
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