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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 and in collaboration with notable figures like William Fowler Collins, Alan Courtis, and Kevin Drumm, among others - is sprawling, covering a vast range of discrete fields, from electro-acoustic, noise, and dark ambient musics, to field recording an…
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 making often controversial interventions into the world of visual art. For the MMXX series he created a work entitled For Marietta, a vast reverent expanse of ambience, filled with shadowy images of the natural world, presumably collected as field re…
MMXX-02
The second instalment of Matière Mémoire Éditions’ MMXX series - Panic@11000 Feet - comes from John Duncan, a near legend who, since his emergence during the 1970s, has straddled the complex territories of performance art, installation, avant-garde music, video art, and experimental film.Many will remember the widely heralded reissue of his debut LP from 1979, Organic, released in 2018 as part of Superior Viaduct’s États-Unis series, but Duncan’s practice began years before, carving a furious pa…
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 equally extend into electronics, modular synthesis, and compositions for contemporary classical ensembles. Unquestionably an artist who refuses to be nailed down, his sprawling output - both solo and in collaboration with figures like Mika Vainio, Elliot…
Piano Dazibao
To avoid the “Quésaco?” on the sleeve of Piano Dazibao, François Tusques explains everything: A wall mural on which the Red Guard expressed their opinions during the Chinese proletarian cultural revolution. So much for the “Dazibao”, very good; but the piano in all that? The piano, François Tusques was self-taught and his work was influenced by Jelly Roll Morton and Earl Hines before discovering Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell and then… free jazz. In Paris in 1965, Tusques mixed with Michel Portal, …
Dazibao N°2
Reissue of François Tusques's Dazibao n°2, originally released in 1971. This was of course not the first time that François Tusques was a "headline act". In 1965, he recorded, with other like-minded Frenchmen (François Jeanneau, Michel Portal, Bernard Vitet, Beb Guérin, and Charles Saudrais), the first album of free jazz in France, named... Free Jazz. In 1967, Tusques again served up Le Nouveau Jazz, in the company of Barney Wilen (and Beb Guérin, Jean-François Jenny-Clark, and Aldo Romano). Thr…
Learning
‘Learning’ - Sophie Agnel’s first solo LP, feels like the dark, physical inversion of her excellent ‘Song’ which came out on Relative Pitch earlier this year. Sinking her unique sound into vinyl for the first time, the LP arrives as Agnel recovers from a brain tumour - a shocking discovery that will require Agnel to start again with the piano. It’s a terrifying prospect, but Agnel has been here before, having reorientated herself almost entirely away from her early classical training over the la…
Deep Time
“Deep Time” is a tape composition commissioned in 1991 by the Deep Listening Institute for Deep Listening Band. Fritz Hauser’s tape features recordings of sounding stones (manufactured by Arthur Schneiter) and various watches and clocks (thanks to the Bucher family in Switzerland for permission to record that family clock!). The performers improvise with the tape. On October 26, 1994 Pauline Oliveros, David Gamper, Urs Leimgruber and Fritz Hauser recorded 2 versions of Deep Time. Both of these 3…
… In The Stillness Between Two Waves Of The Sea …
The works on this recording are: Viaggio Interiore [Awakening of Alice] (2009) for soprano, percussion, harp, 2 recorders and electronic tape; Equanimity of Old (2008) for mechanical organ and two players; Different Equations of Hesitation (2008) for prepared piano, harpsichord, percussion, 2 harps, trumpet, oboe, 2 recorders and 8-channel electronic tape; The Garden of Earthly Delights (2011) for solo accordion; ...in the stillness between two waves of the sea... (2010) electronic tape composit…
Shadow Machine
Shadow Machine is the first CD by Tom Hamilton and Bruce Eisenbeil, who began playing music together in 2007. Coherence without predictability, speed without tempo, direction without a roadmap - an unlikely foray into the world of out-jazz and free improvisation.
It's a duo that thwarts expectations of its specific instrumentation. The artists hybridize the language of electronic sound through Eisenbeil's guitar and Hamilton's virtual analog synthesizer, and the live-in-the-studio tracks insure …
Trios
Trios is a collaboration between five musicians, over time, and over space. It combines instrumental and electronic improvisation with non-real-time computer processing and editing. Chris Mann, Douglas Repetto, and Larry Polansky recorded several hours of live improvised material in one session. Months later Repetto, Polansky, and Christian Wolff recorded some more.
The recordings were then sent off to Tom Erbe, who culled interesting sections from both sessions and then processed, edited, and m…
Talking Drum
Binaural motion recordings composed as a dialogue of distances. Live recordings of music for electronic network music ensemble juxtaposed with location recordings of traditional music and environmental soundscapes. Made in Bali, the Philippines, Turkey, Europe, Cuba and America 1991-99. - Chris Brown
Four String Quartets
Alvin Singleton’s (b. 1940) approach to music-making has all along been involved in an interplay with listeners and their psychology. While this does not mean he has been centered on simply pleasing his audiences, his work seems to constantly draw his audience into confronting challenges of listening, and they tend to end up pleased. Therefore, with so many of his pieces, they might be extremely complex and masterfully crafted, but seldom do you feel he presents the listener with something they …
Wireless_Within
2026 stock Together with the album Oystered of Ambarchi - Müller - Voice Crack on Audiosphere, wireless_within are the very last recordings of the legendary Voice Crack. Together with Müller and Melbourne-based Philip Samartzis they create stunning atmospheric soundscapes -- recorded one day after they visited together a rain forest in South Australia.
Il Guerriero Errante
2026 stock La Bottega del Tempo a Vapore was formed in Benevento, Italy in 2014, by the fusion among seven souls. The name of the band can be loosely translated as "The Steam-Time Workshop" and their aim is to blend music with poetry, legend and history. Their album "Il Guerriero Errante" (The Wandering Warrior) is a concept album based upon a short story by Alfredo Martinelli that tells the legend of a mysterious Samnite-Longobard warrior. This story is carried on with progressive rock/metal ri…
The Hardest Way
2026 stock The Original Sins was a garage Rock band that formed in 1985 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. The group were known for combining the musical stylings of punk rock, psychedelic rock, and even pop music with their songs. The band released a total of nine full-length studio albums across their entire career before they band broke up in early 1998.
Un'Altra Mano Di Carte
2026 stock “Un’altra mano di carte” is the second album released by the band Limite Acque Sicure (Ferrara, Italy), two years after their debut. In this new album, the band explores a theme, a “concept”: through characters recounting their life experiences, they actually address highly topical social issues. Marginalization, oppression, and war are some of the themes that emerge from the stories contained in the six tracks. But in every story there is always a glimmer of hope, a small gesture of…
The Enigma Of Evil
** 2026 stock ** Experimental psychedelic doom from Lima, Peru. The album by El Hijo De La Aurora explores new sonic territories, and is a balance between classic 70s doom and experimental sounds with unconventional instruments like Tibetan bowls and gongs. The Enigma of Evil explores the origin of the cosmos, and how we establish our relationship with the spiritual world. The album recalls concepts covered by Copernicus and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky in her books Isis Unveiled, and The Secret …
Poison Gown
2026 stock Poison Gown is the 2016 album by Portland-based chamber ensemble Disemballerina, blending cello, viola, guitar, and harp into a haunting, doom-laden sound. Released on Minotauro Records, its six tracks evoke dark romanticism with slow, gloomy strings, subtle distortions, and atmospheric effects like hellish howls or cricket chirps.
The music merges elegant chamber arrangements with a metallic edge, creating a sense of primordial dread and internal turmoil. Tracks like "Impaled Matador…
A Bridge To Further Realms
2026 stock A sound. A vision. A key. Flames Of Genesis open the portal to another world, another dimension and beyond with Interstellar Transmigration Part I: A Bridge To Further Realms. The voyage is translated through cold ethereal cinematic dark ambient soundscapes - each piece telling a part of the story, conveying the experiences of the journeys across vast distances, crossing the border between what is known and unknown, embracing the mysteries and the wonders, transcending all limits and …