Amelia
On Amelia, Laurie Anderson turns Amelia Earhart’s final flight into a 22-part dream-report: chamber strings, electronics and spoken word trace a route from Oakland to disappearance, where navigation data, weather reports and ghostly lullabies fold into one drifting, time-bent monologue.
The Reintegration of the Ear
Composed by Christina Vantzou between 2023 and 2025 after being commissioned by INA GRM, The Reintegration of the Ear defines listening as a radical, embodied act of attention: a slower kind of presence rooted in care, intimacy, and reflection.
The Figure In The Carpet
*150 copies limited edition* For the last 30 years Margarida Garcia and Manuel Mota have shared a common space of listening, risk, and reinvention. A singular language born from the absolute necessity of the moment. Following Domestic Scene (2024, Feeding Tube Records), The Figure in the Carpet confirms a body of work that continues to expand with rigor, subtlety, and an originality rarely encountered.
Here, sound is not merely gesture or melody; it is also fragment, remainder, residue — noise t…
Tapsalteerie, Depicted in Echo
*100 copies limited edition* Confront Recordings announces the release of Tapsalteerie, Depicted in Echo, a mesmerizing duet between Kurdish cellist Khabat Abas and Scottish improviser Ivor Kallin. Captured in the resonant hush of live performance, this album weaves ancient strings into ethereal echoes, where tradition fractures into boundless invention.
Abas's cello—rich with microtonal bends and nomadic grit—collides with Kallin's viola. What emerges is a tapestry of taps, scrapes, and shimmer…
Apophony
*100 copies limited edition* Confront Recordings, the vanguard of adventurous music since 1996, proudly unveils Apophony, the captivating new album from the duo Stuart Wilding and Mike Adcock. This release delves into the mesmerizing interplay of perception and pattern, where fleeting sounds coalesce into profound auditory illusions.
Apophony emerges from the fertile ground of improvisation, blending Wilding's intricate percussion with Adcock's masterful use of piano and objects. Across ten imme…
Metalurgia
*100 copies limited edition* Confront Recordings proudly unveils Metalurgia, a riveting new duet recording from Irish drummer Francis Comyn and pianist Adam Fairhall. Captured several improvisation, this album forges a sonic metallurgy where acoustic strings clash and meld with the elastic breath of bellows, yielding a dense alloy of texture, tension, and unforeseen resonance.
Comyn's percussive work interlocks with Fairhall's piano expanses and interventions. The result is a living forge: metal…
Lemures Loci
*200 copies limited edition* The latest release from Makoto Oshiro and Takahiro Kawaguchi, who have been collaborating since around 2008. Side A, loco, reconsiders the nature of improvisation by weaving together sounds from self-made devices and (non-)instruments—air horns, electromagnetic relays, air compressors, washers—alongside environmental recordings captured outside the studio. Side B, loci, brings together field recordings captured by both artists, each starting to record at the exact sa…
Shānti (2LP)
First and only vinyl edition as a double-LP set of the impressive and massive meditation music for electronic and concrete sounds realized at the WDR studios in 1972/73 and released by Erato in 1979.
Shānti (2LP)
First and only vinyl edition as a double-LP set of the impressive and massive meditation music for electronic and concrete sounds realized at the WDR studios in 1972/73 and released by Erato in 1979.
Gaku-No-Michi (2LP)
Impressive and massive 1978 electro-acoustic / musique concrète work realized at the NHK studios in Tokyo and released on Adès' "Le Verbe Et La Musique" series in 1979 as a double-LP set.
Hétérozygote / J'ai Été Coupé (LP)
Two pivotal electronic / musique concrète pieces realized ant the GRM in the 60's and released on Philips' silver covers "Prospective 21e Siècle" series in 1969. Beautiful and essential.
Und So Weiter / Music Promenade (LP)
Two pivotal classic pieces from the 60's, respectively for piano and tape and for realistic sounds, released on Wergo's "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" contemporary and electronic music series in 1969. Beautiful and essential.
Collection (CD)
Two marvellous pieces, one for piano and tape from 1985 plus one for piano, percussion and pre-recorded sounds from 1999, wonderfully performed and released on CD-only in 2003.
Fluide / Ausstrahlungen / Atemstudie (LP)
Three compositions spanning from 1967 to 1971 requiring improvisation and extended instrumental techniques, respectively for 20 musicians and a soloist, 9 brass instruments and 3 percussions, solo oboe, released in 1972.
Echanges / Res/As/Ex/Ins-Pirer / Discours IV
Two pieces for solo trombone plus one for 2 clarinets, with unconventional and extended instrumental techniques and sounding quite amazing, composed in 1973 and 1974 and featuring Michel Portal, released in 1978.
Airs De Voyages Vers L'Interieur / Voie (LP)
One 1965 composition for three choirs, orchestra and narrator and one 1972 composition for eight singers and two instruments, recorded and released in Yugoslavia in 1983.
Discours III+VI / Toucher (LP)
Three chamber pieces (respectively for 5 oboes, solo percussionist, string quartet) with unconventional and extended instrumental techniques, spanning from 1969 to 1982, released in 1985
Visions Cosmiques (LP)
1969 cosmic organ improvisations dedicated to the Apollo 8 team, released on Philips' silver covers "Prospective 21e Siècle" series. Mid-70's re-press with grey sleeve and green labels.
Messe Pour Le Temps Présent (LP)
Early 70's re-pressing on Philips of the adventurous groovy electro-aacoustic psychedelic music for a ballet by Maurice Béjart with the addition of excerpts from other three nasterpieces from the 1960's (Le Voyage. La Reine Verte, Variations Pour Une Porte Et Un Soupir). Like all Pierre Henry's output, beautiful music and essential record.
Variations Pour Une Porte Et Un Soupir (LP)
1968/9 edition on Philips' silver covers "Prospective 21e Siècle" series of the highly evocative 1963 masterful variations for a door and a sigh. Like all Pierre Henry's output, beautiful music and essential record. Green labels.