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**180g vinyl, 12″ sleeve with capped obi, 12pp booklet, gold-foil letterpress, offset printed, full colour on premium matt paper** In the final month of 2024, Meitei arrived in Beppu, a city long steeped in vapor, myth, and mineral memory. Invited to create onsen (hot spring) ambient music commemorating Beppu’s 100th anniversary, he immersed himself in the city’s geothermal psychogeography, where sound rises from the ground and time clings to mist. Known for his Lost Japan (Shitsu-nihon) works, …
2026 Repress! Custom die-cut rigid slipcase, 5 CDs in double card sleeves, 96 page perfect bound book including an interview between Seymour Wright and John Chantler and additional texts by silvia tarozzi, magnus granberg, nate wooley, valerie mol, pär thörn and lars grip and drawings by guillaume delcourt and aliocha delcourt. Limited Edition of 500 copies. [Ahmed] is the quartet of Pat Thomas (piano), Joel Grip (double bass), Antonin Gerbal (drums) and Seymour Wright (alto saxophone). Togethe…
Anonymous transmissions from a spectral, dead-of-night mystery zone. Recorded in 1996 and originally release by Japan's enigmatic La Musica Records label on limited cassette. A group that deconstructs and liberates the chance nature of contemporary classical and noise music enough so that their boundaries blur. Available for the first time on vinyl and digital. Recorded in 1996 and released without any identifying credits in an essentially private cassette edition, Bibiotheca Hermetica's sole re…
Fourth release by Petrovic on the label, distancing himself from the GEST instrument to re-explore conventional means. Seven pieces narrate an emotional arc - Disrupt, Obstruct, Shatter, Rejuvenate, Illuminate, Erupt, Arise - through which a Petrovic-figure works back out of an extended depression. The vocabulary moves from Moog-like dark tones and metallic percussion through bowed-guitar ambient writing to almost danceable beats in the closing pieces. A study of recovery in compositional form.
Haarvöl's fifth album for the label, departing from their previous trilogy. The work draws inspiration from the silence and solitude experienced during the heavy Portuguese pandemic lockdowns, while celebrating the act of coming together again - and is the first Haarvöl record composed live in the same room rather than by exchanging files at distance. Seven pieces of drone microsound and ambient electroacoustic writing whose titles describe a quiet, indecipherable tone under post-real time.
Sixth release in the MFR Contemporary Series. Greek trio Eventless Plot (Liolios, Giatas, Tsirikoglou), joined by bass clarinetist Chris Cundy, take recent research on music and Alzheimer's disease as starting point: that music helps both retrieve old memories and lay down new ones. Two long compositions are built from repeated patterns creating familiarity, then gradually layered with shifting tone combinations. Instrumentarium includes psaltery, tape (Revox A-77), modular and bass clarinet.
Composed during 2014, Haarvöl's second album consolidates the Portuguese trio's writing practice: a non-hierarchical compositional grammar where analogue, digital and electronic sources sit on equal footing, threaded with field recordings as structural rather than illustrative material. The trio favours density over experimentation for its own sake, building rigorously detailed cinematic textures whose internal consistency works through resonant correspondences rather than repetition.
A fifty-five-minute diptych. The opening piece transposes Yves Klein's Monotone Symphony (1949) onto solo electric guitar: a sustained drone on the pitch D, where variation arises only from durational shape and the changing morphology of resonance. The closing piece, live-improvised, marks Machinist's move beyond guitar-drone toward wider sonic terrain. Across both runs the same inquiry: spatial field recording against non-spatial computer tone, mediated by guitar amplifier as resonating body.
Suzuki's third solo album, framed by a single instrument she modified herself: a melodica re-engineered to play via foot bellows, so that high-pressure airflow overblows the small reeds into a sustained, loud excitation. The pumped breaths are amplified through time delays, layered with oscillators and manipulated highs to develop the combination tones that emerge at extreme volumes. A durational, psychoacoustic drone work that 'rewards endurance with transcendence', performed live.
Final volume of Haarvöl's trilogy. After the noisy beginning of Bombinate and the move toward the periphery of Peripherad Debris, the trio arrives at the frontier as a psychoanalytic empty signifier: an edge that holds both interior and exterior. The album is built from what they call 'whispering remains', material left behind by previous compositional decisions, here treated as a vantage point looking both backward and forward. Drone microsound at the limit of the project's own grammar.
Cinema Perdu's third album for the label, extending his investigation of human impact on landscape after Interventions in a Landscape and Amsterdam CS. The material here is drawn from trips through the Frisian polder, where the strict demarcations of the Dutch countryside change atmosphere with weather and light but above all with the geometric clarity of human marking. Field recordings are read as abstract forms and colours, then translated back into new compositions.
Two compositions on the social and ritual function of music, drawn obliquely back into the experimental frame. The first piece, L'Anglard de St-Donat, takes a Central-French mazurka recorded from Alfred Mouret as its hidden source, building solid drones and recurrent structures from bowed and struck metal objects with quasi-melodic counterpoint. In Le désir the strategy inverts: detuned organs provide the rigid harmonic context within which bowed metal sticks are tuned.
Second album in Haarvöl's trilogy, picking up where Bombinate left off. Where the earlier work announced its sonic intention (bombinate, to hum), Peripherad Debris turns toward the conceptual periphery and to remnants of what has already been said: away from the centre, toward the outer turbulence where residual materials remain most stimulating. The album moves between quasi-ambient stillness and dense mass-sound nearly turning to noise, holding all positions in the same hesitant qualifier.
Inspired explicitly by Eliane Radigue's Vice Versa..., Orphax records two source pieces in AudioMulch using nearly identical virtual modular settings, varying only a single parameter, and then sculpts the resulting material in Reaper into two strict twenty-minute compositions. The two pieces are conceived to be played independently or simultaneously, the listener encouraged to build their own mix; the album includes a download with both tracks plus a guide mix made with Jos Smolders.
Drawn from material composed between 2005 and 2007 and revised through 2010, the first standard CD under the Orphax name. Sietse van Erve's writing rests on minute compositional detail: slow-shifting drone fields that drift between long-tone minimalism, isolationist soundscape and lo-fi experimental ambient. A deepening of Orphax's investigation into psychedelic, mind-altering atmosphere through reduced means, where harmonic stillness and slow textural accretion carry the structural weight.
Four-CD box collecting reworks of Orphax's 44 Sketches of 44 Seconds, in which Sietse van Erve handed forty-four short source sounds to friends with an open brief to take them outside their usual practice. The contributing artists - TVO/Ruaridh Law, Modelbau, Fani Konstantinidou, Machinefabriek, Jos Smolders, Elif Yalvaç, Siavash Amini and Orphax himself - produce over four hours of new music, each retaining their compositional fingerprint while submitting to a constrained shared palette.
Two compositions built on what van den Broek terms parameter canons of sine wave generators. The canon, classically a counterpoint device producing imitations of a line after a temporal offset, is here transposed onto pure electronic material: custom-programmed sine generators allow exact control of phase shift, interference and frequency drift between initial wave and successors. The resulting beats, difference tones and spatial events expose the physical richness of pure sound.
Recorded in Athens in July 2014, the second album by 300 Basses extends the trio's move from free improvisation toward fixed composition. The investigation here turns on minimal but precisely framed actions: the beating patterns generated by long tones at slightly detuned pitches, the unstable timbre that emerges when reed sustains are layered with bowed cymbal, the slow permutation of a reduced interval set. A sound world built from infinitesimal elements, dense in vibration and microvariation.
Few figures have shaped the course of electroacoustic music as profoundly and as persistently as François Bayle. This lavish 15-CD box set on INA-GRM gathers fifty works composed across half a century - from 1963 to 2012 - into a single, staggering document. Sixteen hours of acousmatic creation, 228 tracks, accompanied by a 160-page illustrated booklet with a 2012 interview by Thomas Baumgartner, an annotated catalog of works by Régis Renouard Larivière, and photographs spanning the full arc of …