Portraits polychromes n°1: Luc Ferrari (book)
2007 expanded edition of the 2001 INA-GRM book, first volume of the "Polychrome Portraits" series, with three essays on the composer plus a biographical catalogue. French text.
Musiques dans les spasmes (book)
Enlightening collection of manuscripts edited by Brunhild Ferrari and Jérôme Hansen, with a preface by Jim O'Rourke, published in 2017. French text.
Luc Ferrari - Tautologos III (book+DVD)
Beautiful book+DVD documentation of the 2018 performance in Milano of the 1969 open piece, organised by Sergio Armaroli and Steve Piccolo, featuring Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari, Walter Prati, Francesca Gemmo and other musicians.
Por#1&2 Vol. 2
The second chapter documents Merzbow's genesis—the formative years when Masami Akita and Kiyoshi Mizutani were developing the sonic language that would reshape global underground music.
Por#1&2 Vol. 1
The first chapter documents Merzbow's genesis—the formative years when Masami Akita and Kiyoshi Mizutani were developing the sonic language that would reshape global underground music.
雀色 2 Sparrow Color 2
The companion volume to Sparrow Color 1 continues Merzbow's exploration of keyboard-driven synthesis, pushing the methodology established in its predecessor into bolder territory. Where the first installment introduced the parameters of this unusual …
Kaerutope
The title Kaerutope fuses "kaeru" (frog) with "biotope," creating a neologism meaning "frog habitat"—a characteristically poetic gesture from an artist whose veganism and animal rights advocacy have profoundly shaped his work since 2003. For Masami A…
雀色 1 Sparrow Color 1
Sparrow Color 1 marks a significant departure in Merzbow's methodology - a rare instance of Masami Akita returning to keyboard-controlled synthesis after decades of predominantly laptop-based and analog noise production. Here, he employs a carefully …
Indigo Dada
Celebrating four decades of uncompromising sonic exploration, Merzbow marks the 40th anniversary of his artistic journey with Indigo Dada—released simultaneously with its companion piece Kaerutope in 2019. This twin release strategy itself constitute…
Kaoscitron
Masami Akita, the relentless force behind Merzbow, delivers a crystalline distillation of his sonic universe with Kaoscitron. This album represents a remarkable synthesis—a deliberate reset that channels decades of noise experimentation into somethin…
Dix Ans D'Essais Radiophoniques Du Studio Au Club D'Essai (5x2LP)
Amazing complete set of 5 double-LP's produced by Pierre Schaeffer and released by French Radio in 1953, a massive anthology of radioplays excerpts produced and recorded between 1942 and 1952.
Musique Concrète N° 2 (7" EP)
Re-issue of the epochal second BAM EP of musique concrète from 1959, featuring Pierre Schaeffer, Luc Ferrari and Iannis Xenakis.
Eternal Music Society
*300 copies limited edition* Eternal Music Society is a Swedish supergroup emerging from the fertile experimental scene of Göteborg and Malmö, centered around the visionary Discreet label. The band unites members from some of the most distinctive und…
Mother Tongue
A Senegalese Griot singer, an Amsterdam improviser and a Puerto Rican jazz drummer find eachother on an open playground, a stage build for improvisation, an old cinema now used for minute made story telling. Equiped with an m'bira, a xalam, a drumkit…
Time Images
Katharina Schmidt is a percussionist, composer, researcher and radio host. A frequent collaborator, her artistic portfolio includes film music, sound art installations, and radio pieces as well as multichannel compositions. After years of playing dru…
Santur & Kamancheh for Electronics
In this collaboration, Maryam Rahmani and David Esser investigate the sonic and expressive potential of the Santur and Kamancheh beyond the frameworks that traditionally define them. Both instruments, central to the language of Iranian classical musi…
If protozoa connotes
Soft Items sends out their third release through Sensorisk Verden — An exercise of bringing another being to mind. Translating unconscious material into images or sounds, perhaps a past- or future self. The protozoa. A message abrubts. A door slams. …
Ultras Timido 2
Six years after the first Ultras Timido, Fanciullino returns to that initial spark not to preserve it under glass, but to see what still burns. Ultras Timido 2 is less a simple reissue than a palimpsest: the original record is there, but written over…
Decollare Verso il Mare
Decollare verso il mare (“Take off towards the sea”) starts like a simple story of long-distance collaboration and ends up as a small, resonant fragment of recent history. Across three tracks created in September 2022, Dav Cappai - a Sardinian drumme…
Day Hospital
Day Hospital began not in a studio, but between a hospital bed and whatever lies just beyond it - that blurred zone where time dilates, bodies stall, and thought starts looping on itself. Out of that suspended space, Copycat Department shapes a sound…