Brigitte Fontaine (LP)
2000 re-issue on Saravah of the fantastic 1971 experimental avant-chanson album by one of the most original French artists since the 1960's. Masterpiece on the NWW list.
Je Ne Connais Pas Cet Homme (LP)
1991 re-issue on Saravah of the excellent 1971 avant-chanson/folk album by two of the most original French artists since the 1960's. NWW list.
Possible Musics (LP)
Original UK edition on EG of the second electronic/ambient/experimental "Fourth World" album, featuring Brian Eno and released in 1981.
Dream Theory In Malaya (LP)
Original UK edition on EG of the second electronic/ambient/experimental "Fourth World" album, featuring Brian Eno and released in 1981.
Gwendolyne (LP)
Rare original edition on F.L.V.M./Frigico of the eccentric and excellent sole album of experimental art rock inspired by Faust by obscure French underground band released in 1978. NWW list.
Day Of Radiance (LP)
Rare original UK edition on EG of the experimental / new age zither player's debut album produced by Brian Eno released as the third volume in the Ambient series in 1980.
Le Marchand De Calicot (LP)
Rare 1981 album on d'Avantage with the eccentric experimental improvisations by Pierre Bastien and Bernard Pruvost, never re-issued on either LP or CD. NWW list.
The Crystal Suite
On The Crystal Suite, Paul Schütze channels J. G. Ballard’s The Crystal World into slow‑burn electronics and guitar haze, rendering time‑sick landscapes where matter ossifies, light fractures, and contemporary collapse glows with eerie, faceted calm.
Quiet Panic
*Edition of 100* On Quiet Panic, Mark Schaub sculpts a slow‑burn tension where stillness never quite settles, his compositions hovering between ambience and unease, finely honed and given extra dimensional depth by Andrea Marutti’s mastering.
Pianoise
On Pianoise, Emmanuel Lalande turns the piano inside out: specially retuned instruments become broadband noise generators, and composition becomes subtraction, where the notes you don’t play carve harmonic negative space as vivid as the ones you do.
The Habit
On The Habit, Go Hirano gathers decades of home and studio recordings into a single, slow‑glowing arc: spare piano, pianica and small percussion drifting through room tone and outdoor air, turning everyday imperfections into a warmly enchanted, lifel…
Vulcanalia
On Vulcanalia, AX - the solo vehicle of Anthony Di Franco - returns after nearly three decades to his original mandate: vast, beatless torrents of guitar, feedback and electronics, now scaled up into a molten, myth‑drunk monument to Roman fire and st…
Inside The Dream (LP)
1978 re-issue on Tapioca of one of the masterpieces originally on Pôle Records (Besombes/Rizet, Henri Roger, Pataphonie, Mahogany Brain, Verto... all on the NWW list), a beautiful otherworldly album of cosmic electronic folk and pulsing synthesizer s…
Strange City
On Strange City, Merzbow drags Sun Ra’s archival fire through a bank of howling electronics, turning rare Saturnian jazz fragments into towering, cosmic noise storms where horn blasts, rhythms and feedback fuse into a single, irradiated signal.
Une Éclipse Totale De Soleil (LP)
Very rare original edition on Celluloid of the third album from 1984 by of the most original and unclassifiable musicians of French experimental music, an unsettling masterpiece of musique concrète, sound poetry and experimental folk. NWW list.
Transports (10")
1998 EP on Syntactic released in an edition of 100 numbered copies in silk-screened black PVC sleeve with edited versions of tracks from the CD re-issue of the 1980 LP.
Il Regalo Della Befana (LP)
Rare 2015 one-sided LP on Holidays Records with a single long 1996 piece by of the most original and unclassifiable musicians of French experimental music, released in an edition of 200 hand-numbered and personalised copies not-for-sale.
Fake Man
Do you remember when albums used to be fourteen tracks long, with clear song structures and a sense of narrative development? No? Neither do we. And that is exactly why Artetetra is thrilled to welcome Orange Car Crash in their roster with their new …
États des lieux
Invited in September 2011 by sound engineer Philippe Teissier du Cros, double bassist Bruno Chevillon spent two days improvising alone in the Lutheran Protestant Church of Bon Secours in Paris. The building is as much a protagonist as the player — it…
Volatilités
A solo improvisation and composition by Lionel Garcin (on soprano saxophone) inspired by listening to natural environments and built on exploring the harmonic possibilities of the instrument.