The Almond
The Almond started as a short study for trumpet for the British website Compost and Height. Nate Wooley, a rising young composer known mostly for his radical recontextualization of the trumpet in improvisation and jazz music, was, at the time, feelin…
Exécution des hautes œuvres
Roro Perrot is acoustic improvised songs by Romain Perrot, aka French master of Harsh Noise Wall Vomir. CD released by French label Premier Sang
Split E.P.
Delicious collaboration between Stefania Pedretti (?Alos, Allun, OvO) and Xabier Iriondo (Afterhours, NoGuru, Uncode Duello). Inspired and magic combination of two spirits from a different world.
The Seven Storey Mountain
a groundbreaking musical project by Nate Wooley, unites legends like Paul Lytton (Evan Parker’s longtime collaborator) and David Grubbs (Gastr Del Sol, Bastro) in an ecstatic sonic journey. Inspired by Thomas Merton’s spiritual exploration, the piece…
In The Blink Of An Eye
C S Yeh was born in Taipei, Taiwan, repped Cincinnati for many many years and is now based in Brooklyn, New York. Musically, Yeh is monolithically active both as a solo artist and improviser as well as with Burning Star Core. He has made seemingly hu…
Water days
The book and audio CD documents an exchange of pictures, texts, sounds and voices between multimedia artist Leah Singer and Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo. WATER DAYS began as two texts each inspired by the contrast between wanderlust and the desire for h…
IMPREC300
IMPREC300 is a vinyl only collection of exclusive live tracks from a handful of Important bands including Master Musicians of Bukkake, Grails, Mugstar, Cave, NHK yx, Bardo Pond, Chord & Bass Communion.
Important was started in 2001 in a small house o…
Improvisations January 1997
A double LP of acid-drenched improvisation, Improvisations January 1997 finds the GOL Orchestra and the now-defunct Telinga Ensemble navigating the outer limits of psychedelic sound and collective creation.
Puppet Island
Australian supergroup with Oren Ambarchi, Brendan Walls and Nicholas Kamvissis.
Only
Pieces by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Hanns Eisler, Giacinto Scelsi, György Kurtag, Frederic Rzewski, Henri Pousseur, Théodore Botrel, Rudolf Siecynski, and Sephardic songs. Performed/interpreted by vocalist Marianne Pousseur. "I like to listen to mus…
The Great White Silence
As a soundtrack, The Great White Silence probably exceeded everyone's highest expectations, as it manages to be sublime and deeply emotionally resonant without ever becoming too forceful. In fact, it may very well be a masterpiece, though I won't kn…
L'Eglise Des Crocodiles
This is the second release of max goldt's early tape music on gagarin records, and yet another brilliant collection of his percussive metallic miniatures. Max has been busy with his music since the late 1970s but is nowadays much more known in german…
Territerrortorium
This 7 inch contains extracts of the radio play territerrortorium commissioned by the austrian and german broadcasting stations orf and deutschlandradio berlin. On side a two famous battles are re-animated: in 1410 the order of teutonic knights suffe…
La Musica Sperimentale
*Italian language edition* La Musica Sperimentale is a firsthand account of the postwar, essentially Anglo-American musical tradition related to the music and ideas of John Cage. Published in 1974 in English and finally now for the first time in Ital…
divide by zero
NEW SERIES FRAMEWORKAn extension of our CONCRETE ELECTRONICS NOISE,a brand new mix-up of unusual conceptions of sound material by young unknown composers, well known not-so-young composers and old but clever composers.Benjamin Thigpen, nomad, born in…
Signs - Shapes
First CD collaboration of these two artists. ‘Shapes’ refers perhaps to the sculptural aspect of their work, to its connections to the visual arts, or to the immediate, tactile processing of the records. But it also refers to the ‘outlines’, the idio…
Grape Skin
Grape Skin is the focused outcome of a trio session between Michel Doneda, Jonas Kocher, and Christoph Schiller in a Zurich space, 2011. Doneda’s soprano sax curves and stirs in threadlike whispers, multiphonics, and percussive pops; Kocher’s accordi…
Choices
The first meeting on disc between two of the finest and most innovative electroacoustic instrumentalists in Germany: Argentine-born, Berlin-based Lucio Capece (soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, preparations, mini megaphone) and Hamburg-based Birgit U…
Color Him Coma
The first CD in this set is a reissue of an obscure cassette release from 1983 that was originally released in a small edition on the London based, It’s War Boys label. This C60 consisted of 2 distinct halves. Side 1 was formed around several mixes o…
Ricefall
Gravity Wave, a new CD label, curated by composer Michael Pisaro, designed by Yuko Zama. Icefall (2), a 72-minute piece for 64 separate tracks of rice falling on objects. This recording is the second part of a trilogy of the first disc length works b…