Electronics
All records with electronics · Solo electronics only
Issue 81: Faust - Freakatronica 1971-74
Viva freaktronica! For this edition of Electronic Sound cover stars are the legendary Faust, the wildest and weirdest of the 1970s krautrock outfits.
Printemps 2021
René Lussier, Érick d'Orion, Robbie Kuster and Martin Tétreault live at Victoriaville on 21 May 2021, for the label's 35th anniversary: guitar and daxophone, electronics, drums and turntables in one hour of collaged noise.
Fixing The Fluctuating Idea
Evan Parker's ElectroAcoustic Ensemble with Sainkho Namtchylak, recorded at Victoriaville on 19 May 1996 and released in 2021: saxophones, bass, violin and percussion processed live by Walter Prati and Marco Vecchi.
Seven ElectroAcoustic Septet
UK multi-reed master Evan Parker brings an all-star electroacoustic septet to the 2014 Victoriaville Festival for the massive and wonderfully detailed two part composition "Seven", performed with Peter Evans, Okkyung Lee, George Lewis, Ikue Mori, Sam Pluta, and Ned Rothenberg.
Issue 53: Berlin After Bowie - From Lodger to the Fall of The Wall (Magazine + 7")
When is a Berlin album not a Berlin album? When it’s ‘Lodger’ by David Bowie. When we talk about Bowie’s Berlin trilogy, what we really mean is ‘Low’ and ‘Heroes’ and, erm, the other one… ‘Lodger’ was the afterthought, the wobbly third wheel, a series of “planned accidents” stitched together into an album.
Issue 62: The Out of This World Story of Joe Meek ( Magazine + 7")
This eidtion of Electronic Sound main feature tells the astonishing story of Joe Meek, the king of space age pop and one of the most extraordinary characters in British music history.
Issue 73: Steven Wilson - The Future Bites (Magazine + 7")
We've been talking to Steven Wilson about his new album for this issue of Electronic Sound and we have a special limited edition cover based on the artwork concept of the record for our subscribers and our webshop. To accompany the magazine, we also have a red vinyl seven-inch boasting exclusive edits of two tracks from the album.
Rhapsodia / Battements Solaires (LP)
* Repress: Embossed cover artwork, incl. printed inner sleeve * A student of both Pierre Schaeffer and Eliane Radigue, since her emergence during the 1970s, the French composer, Michèle Bokanowski, has carved a fascinating trajectory with the fields of electronic and electroacoustic music. Working primarily for film, television, and dance, over a discography of works that span the decades, she has built a singular world of profound sonic densities, colours, and depth. In the words of GRM’s artis…
Tektra
Kayn's landmark of the early 1980s, out of print for decades, restored across five CDs. Jim O'Rourke mastered it from the original tapes in the Lydia and Roland Kayn Archive, following the composer's own directions on crossfades and edits and restoring almost five minutes never issued digitally.
Valvole (LP)
Library music operated by contract: titles that described a setting, tracks short enough to cut and paste, music made fast and under budget. Ugo Busoni's Valvole, originally released in 1975 on the Nuova Idea label, followed those rules on paper - and then proceeded to ignore most of them in practice. Reissued for the first time on vinyl by Musica Per Immagini, in a limited edition of 500 copies with new artwork, it is one of the more genuinely peculiar records to emerge from that world.
The tra…
Memory in Motion: Percussion in Surround
Five works for six or four percussionists in surround sound: Xenakis's Persephassa, Mâche's Aera, Zihua Tan's Sorites and two pieces by Alcides Lanza, played by the Music in Motion Ensemble directed by Aiyun Huang.
Live at Grenoble Jazz Festival 2010
Live DVD of Trio PAJ, formed in 2007 by percussionist Roland Auzet, Pierre Jodlowski and Michel Portal, recorded at the Grenoble Jazz Festival in 2010 and exploring jazz, improvisation and electronic music.
Electronic Works 2 - Hibiki Hana Ma; Polytope De Cluny
Two multi-channel electronic works by Iannis Xenakis from the 1970s, Hibiki Hana Ma and Polytope de Cluny, restored from the original tapes and mixed for 5.1 surround and stereo by Gerard Pape.
Rhapsodia / Battements Solaires (LP) + La grande vallee / Micro-climat
This bundle collects the two most recent Recollection GRM releases:Michèle Bokanowski "Rhapsodia / Battements Solaires" (LP)Lionel Marchetti "La grande vallee / Micro-climat" (LP)Since the mid-2010s, Recollection GRM - the celebrated vinyl only imprint attached to the archives of the legendary Paris based studio and collective Groupe De Recherches Musicales - has issued some of the most exciting artefacts of experimental electronic music to have graced out ears. Initially focused on the output o…
Dedicated to Dieter Roth
**Edition of 75 copies, wrapped in printed Schmid drawing, sealed with black rubberband** Visual and sound artist Eric Schmid improvising for an hour on an electronic piano. Schmid’s trampled notes and chords leak out of a big broken faucet on Dedicated to Dieter Roth. Relentlessly dripping and dancing down the drain, indifferent to anyone observing. Colloquial themes, “Chopsticks” and “Fur Elise” are discovered in the mist of his wandering, along with something he told me was an Idea Fire Compa…
Abstract Forms
**300 copies** By the time the 1980s rolled around, most of the old guard had either hung up their saxophones or sold their souls to the synthesizer in ways that made you want to weep into your Campari. Not Sandro Brugnolini. The man who'd spent the late '50s channeling Miles Davis through the smoke-filled clubs of Rome with the Modern Jazz Gang, who'd scored jungle goddesses and naked panthers for Ruggero Deodato, who'd descended into the psych-fuzz inferno of Underground and Overground when th…
Oscillations Planétaires
A 49-minute work in nine movements by Chantal Dumas, commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Kultur and premiered in 2018, on the undulating motions of the Earth: earthquakes, mantle convection, geysers, earth tides, geomagnetism and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
L’Inaudible
Five acousmatic works by Stéphane Roy from 2008 to 2019, from the hurtling machine pulse of Train d’enfer to Les aurores pourpres, shaped with an infrared hand sensor from sound banks he made at Stanford in the early 1990s.
Yegl
Seven works by the Argentine composer Elsa Justel from 2001 to 2017, from radio pieces and a danceable electroacoustic tango to commissions for the GRM and Musiques & Recherches, and Yegl, a lost file haunting everyday machines.
Univers Parallèles
Six acousmatic works by Belgian composer Todor Todoroff from 1991 to 2017, from the quadraphonic Baudelaire piece Obsession and a computer-simulated pendulum to Requiem for a City, written after the Paris attacks of November 2015.