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Miniatures
Since emerging in the early 1980s the French bassist, composer, and vocalist Joëlle Leandre has ignored the gaps between improvised and composed music, jazz and new music, inventively braiding post-Cagean concepts with the free jazz ferment she witne…
Live Album
Flute, harp, drums: a rare combination that this trio turns upside down. In the wake of John Zorn's experiences on the borders of jazz and noise, the collaboration between Delphine Joussein, Rafaëlle Rinaudo and Blanche Lafuente aims at pushing their…
In The Light Of The Miracle
Finally! The very first commercial release of two legendary remixes of Arthur Russell's "In The Light Of The Miracle". Both are widely regarded as transcendent masterpieces and very much befitting of the title “holy grails”. These long-beloved mixes …
The Sirens Of Titan
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, 'The Sirens of Titan'
To Dream Is To Destroy
*2024 stock. 103 copies limited edition* This is the fourth studio album of Kryptogen Rundfunk and the first one since the project moved from Russia to the Netherlands. Six tracks full of weird trademark radio noises and interceptions, heavy bass dro…
3+3
Much has happened to Tomeka Reid, who was already one of jazz's definitive figures in the 21st century, in the 4½ years since her last album by this all-star quintet. Most notably, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2022, one of the most prest…
1883 - Sound Model I - MMXX-19
Predominately working as a film director and visual artist, since the late 2000s Carlos Casas has occupied a remarkable double life with his work in sound, producing a handful of full lengths and EPs over the last ten years that span the worlds of mu…
Komora - MMXX-18
Bérangère Maximin is a fascinating figure on the French experimental electronic music scene. Having studied electroacoustic composition under Denis Dufour, since her move to Paris in the early 2000s she developed a highly individualized practice of a…
Before It Gets Better, It Will Get Worse - MMXX-17
A deft hand with a long history within the brooding realms of ambient, electronic, and electroacoustic music, since emerging on the Swedish scene during the 1990s, Joachim Nordwall has cut a wide path, not only with a stunning body of solo work and c…
Lost & Found - MMXX-15
With touchstones in electronic dance music, and forward-thinking, synthesizer based abstraction, the Paris based organist, composer, and experimental musician Hampus Lindwall’s contribution to Matière Mémoire’s stunning MMXX Series, MMXX-15, weaves a…
Fully Automated Luxury Communism - MMXX-14
Italian composer Mauro Lanza delivers a masterful work of electroacoustic artistry with Fully Automated Luxury Communism (MMXX-14), his contribution to Matière Mémoire’s stunning MMXX Series. Careful interwoven detail and buzzing electronics join to …
Vol Sombre - MMXX-13
Kassel Jaeger’s contribution to Matière Mémoire’s stunning MMXX Series, Vol Sombre (MMXX - 13), is a subtle expanse of delicate ambiences and long tones, meticulously constructed into an immersive sonorous world. Issued in a limited edition of 500 c…
MMXX-05
Rounding out the batch of Matière Mémoire Éditions’ first five releases in the MMXX series comes Daniel Menche, a musician and composer based in Portland, Oregon, who has been actively on the scene since the late '80s.His catalog of recordings - solo…
MMXX-04
The fourth instalment of the MMXX series comes from the dutch pianist Reinier Van Houdt, whose work pursues an escape from conventional notations of sound, timing, space, physicality, memory, noise, environment, and the points where interpretation, e…
MMXX-03
Carl Michael Von Hausswolff is yet another artist in Matière Mémoire Éditions’ MMXX series with decades of remarkable work behind him. Stockholm based, since the 1970s he has worked as a composer using the tape recorder as his main instrument, while …
MMXX-01
Franck Vigroux is a French musician, composer, and media artist, with a considerable body of work - integrating sound, new media, and performance - that stretches across the last 20 years. Primarily known as a guitar player, his musical gestures equa…
In Blue
When "In Blue" was released in 1995, many fans thought that this was the most typical Klaus Schulze record for a long time. They were probably right because Klaus did the songs a little bit with the fans in mind for whom the sounds of the previous al…
MRI
Room40 continues the publication of a series of editions from American guitarist and composer Norman Westberg with a remastered and expanded edition of the previously self-released MRI. Best known for his work with the seminal outfit Swans, Westberg'…
Analapos
Matte laminate CD, embossed artwork, insert card and 28 page book. In 1979, Akio Suzuki recorded a performance, ’New Sense Of Hearing’, at the Nagoya American Centre. During the performance, Suzuki used voice, turntables, glass harmonica and his self…
Hiss Lift
"What I remember … a car on fire alongside the highway in the middle of the night. Waking in someone else’s bed in London with an entire poem spilling into my head, and then recording it with Tim in the kitchen after breakfast. Seemingly endless car,…