1970's re-issue on Erato's "Musique De Notre Temps" contemporary music series of two powerful works from the 60's for orchestra and for piano, wind and percussion ensemble, conducted by Pierre Boulez and featuring Les Percussions de Strasbourg.
Choral music by Xenakis and Messiaen composed between 1938 and 1969, performed by the Groupe Vocal De France and released on Arion's "Musique française d'aujourd'hui" series in 1984
*200 copies limited edition* French musician Bruno Duplant, who uses both analog and digital instruments in his performances, has produced a succession of excellent solo and collaborative works and released many recordings on numerous labels including Ftarri. Pierre Gerard is a Belgian improviser and composer. Like Duplant, he makes wide-ranging and skillful use of various instruments, including guitar, piano and electronics, and has presented many works on Ftarri and other improvised/experiment…
2025 Stock. 300 copies. Jac Berrocal and David Fenech have been recording together for over a decade, a partnership that has produced albums with Ghédalia Tazartès (RIP) and Vincent Epplay, and led to performances alongside Felix Kubin, Jean-Hervé Peron, Jean Noel Cognard, and Thierry Müller (Illitch). Their work together occupies a distinct zone in French experimental music—playful without being frivolous, structured without being rigid, drawing equally from free jazz, musique concrète, and the…
A monumental document of Magma at their most powerful! Recorded over two nights during the band's 30th anniversary celebration at the Trianon theater in Paris (May 13-14, 2000), this is the first and only recording to present the complete Theusz Hamtaahk trilogy in its entirety: "Theusz Hamtaahk" ("Time of Hatred"), "Ẁurdah Ïtah" ("Dead Earth"), and the legendary "Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh". Founded by visionary drummer-composer Christian Vander in 1969, Magma created one of the most unique a…
Bruno Duplant’s Rien de ça is a sparse and spectral meditation on presence through absence. Built from near-silences, fractured tones, and shifting aural shadows, it listens like an eroded diary—each sound a ghost of intent, each pause a deliberate, resonant void.
Multifold digipack edition + extensive booklet. Amgen presents the historic recording of Éliane Radigue's Asymptote Versatile (1963-64), widely recognized as the oldest surviving composition by the pioneering French electronic music composer. This monumental work was performed for the very first time at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival on November 26, 2023, marking a truly historic event as Radigue had resolutely refused permission for this work to be presented in concert - until now…
2016 release ** "The music created by French guitar iconoclast and electronic music pioneer Richard Pinhas and insistently inventive San Francisco Bay Area guitarist Barry Cleveland on Mu originated in just such a way, arising seemingly from "nothingness." The two had contemplated performing as well as recording together for several years before their stars finally aligned, and they played several Bay Area shows during the same period that Mu was recorded. Unfettered by genre conventions, Mu is …
6 x Black 140 grs Vinyl each one in spineless sleeve, heavyweight cardboard slipcase/custom numbered at the back, insert-photo individually signed but the artist, marketing sticker. Limited & numbered to 500 copies for the world. Pascal Comelade, the visionary Catalan composer, unveils his latest sonic meditation with Improperis - Compositions et enregistrements, a remarkable work that celebrates four decades of uncompromising instrumental music since his emergence in 1984. This extraordinary co…
Original 1972 LP on Les Disques Pierre Cardin, with typical sleeve with round corners, of superb fusion / free improvisation by the French masters, never re-issued on either LP or CD.