Music from France

Two pieces with music by Ryoji Ikeda and voice and words by Michèle Lamy: Echoes of Rights, recorded in Los Angeles in 2022, and Echoes of Nights, recorded in London in 2026. Red vinyl, 500 copies.

The only album by the French band Dün, self-released in 1981: an instrumental suite inspired by Frank Herbert's Dune, with flute, vibraphone and fast unison lines in the orbit of Magma and Zeuhl, plus five bonus tracks.

The first four volumes of Éliane Radigue's Occam Ocean on five CDs: solos, chamber pieces and orchestra, all shaped through oral transmission around images of water. Bundle of four Shiiin releases.

Second instalment of Éliane Radigue's Occam Ocean, a long suite for the 30-piece ONCEIM orchestra conducted by Frédéric Blondy: accordion, guitars, clarinets, saxophones, strings and brass merged into one slowly breathing tone.

First instalment of Éliane Radigue's Occam Ocean on two CDs: five solo, duo and trio pieces for harp, viola, birbyné and bass clarinet with Rhodri Davies, Julia Eckhardt and Carol Robinson. With a 40-page booklet.

1996 first CD re-issue on Futura of the solo leftfield jazz masterpiece by the French drummer from 1971, one of the most beautiful and original albums on the innovative label. Essential.

Companion to the expanded Comme à la Radio: unreleased ORTF radio sessions from 1969-71 with Areski Belkacem, plus four unissued studio takes, among them two instrumental versions of the title track and a full 10-minute "Leo" with the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

Guitarist Marc Ducret reworks Tim Berne's compositions, recorded mostly at home in 2021 with horns, flute, cello and a wide range of guitars, basses, daxophone and percussion, favouring colour and texture over soloing.

Three string works written between 2020 and 2023, performed by Ensemble Modern: a nonet locked in seven-eight, a piece that splits sound the way a prism splits light, and a score written in mirror notation. Ikeda's electronic precision, played on bowed strings.

Three late acoustic works from Éliane Radigue's Occam cycle, written with and performed by bassoonist Dafne Vicente-Sandoval and cellist Charles Curtis: solos and a duo built on minute shifts of tone and resonance.

Jef Gilson (born Jean-François Quiévreux, 1926) had played clarinet with Claude Luter in Boris Vian's band, switched to piano in 1947, and in 1963 formed the big band through which half of French modern jazz would pass. In 1965 he was musical director of Les Double Six. That year Woody Shaw and Nathan Davis played in his orchestra. New Call From France, released by SABA in 1966 and credited to the Jef Gilson Nonet with Jean-Louis Chautemps, is the record he made for the Black Forest label at the…

Numbered edition of 200 copies. Six LPs in a box, with restored original artwork reprinted in monochrome blue. Each record comes with its own extra materials: inserts, booklets, postcards and posters. Between 2011 and 2022 Alga Marghen devoted an archival series to the early, unreleased magnetic tape and feedback works of Éliane Radigue: five LPs, issued in small runs and repressed only in tiny quantities, that quietly rewrote the story of where her music came from. A few months after the compos…

A later album by the French avant-garde trio DDAA, active since 1977: six restrained, elaborate '(a)tonal songs & noises', 51 minutes, with Christine Coënon on voices. Oversized A5 gatefold cover, limited to 444 copies.

Brume's picture 10" Anastomose (Ant-Zen, 1996), the 7" Charlemagne (1997) and the 2012 cassette Seven Trumpets, remastered or remixed by Christian Renou in 2013. A5 gatefold cover, limited to 444 copies.

The second chapter of Gong's Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy, first released in 1973, remastered from the original BYG tapes and cut at half-speed by Lewis Hopkin, in a gatefold sleeve with a 16-page booklet replicating Daevid Allen's guide to the saga.

*200 copies limited edition* "“L’inversion des pôles” holds two tracks, “Anaphores” on the A side and “Syncopes” on the B side, both composed by Comelade and Saintlos. Comelade plays grand piano, vertical piano, Farfisa organ, an Emenee plastic guitar and a Roland RD 300 SX keyboard, with “Syncopes” adding an EMS-AKS synthesizer and a Koma Elektronik FT201. Saintlos contributes a Korg MS10, an Arturia MiniBrute, a Nord Lead X2, a Yamaha RX11 drum machine, an ARP Odyssey and a Poly D clone Minimo…

Jean-Michel Jarre's illustrated history of electronic music, built on his own collection of instruments: 150 machines from modular synths to one-off prototypes trace a century of electronic sound, with contributions from Vince Clarke, Gary Numan, Gillian Gilbert, Richie Hawtin and Hans Zimmer.

France's electronic guitar visionary. The Heldon founder folds searing, delay-treated guitar into churning synthetic drift: heavy, hypnotic and cosmic, where krautrock momentum meets sci-fi menace. Pinhas at full intensity.

French minimal-wave shadows from the cassette years, 1980-83. Fondation's cold drum machines, brittle synths and noir atmosphere distil an entire underground era: austere, romantic and hypnotic. A coldwave excavation.

Ten tones for ten bodies in orbit. Nothing else. The Solar System is one of Ryoji Ikeda's most reduced objects, a 12" containing ten locked grooves, each cut with a single sine wave at a frequency assigned to a different planet. Where Code Name: A-Z took language as its source, this record takes celestial mechanics, and pares it down to the purest signal available. It was produced by The Vinyl Factory in 2015 for the UK premiere of supersymmetry, Ikeda's large-scale installation shown at the Bre…