New Arrivals
Seewetter
Marine weather reports recorded from radio broadcasts by Sven-Åke Johansson in 1970 at the Kollektiv für Kommunikative und Ästhetische Forschung in Mariental, Lower Saxony, Germany. Edition of 300 with printed inner sleeve containing liner notes by Thomas Millroth about forms of artistic appropriation in Johansson's work.
Night Music
**Edition of 300** "Night Music" unearthes Sven-Åke Johansson's very first recordings from 1964 – made with his Tandberg tape recorder in the Kronenburg Bar, a dive bar in the red-light district in Münster/Westfalen (West Germany). There he performed jazz versions of popular songs and standards with Uwe Wegner (piano) and Gerold Flasse (double bass), sometimes joined by Dutch singer Jenny Gordee. Young Udo Lindenberg was a frequent guest at the Kronenburg Bar. Side A of the LP features 7 songs …
Duos Auf Präparierten Instrumenten
Munich's legendary experimental ensemble Phren - active since 1968! First vinyl since 1989! Founded by Michael Kopfermann, the group developed a radical approach to prepared instruments and noise-tone synthesis, rejecting the limitations of tempered tuning. This LP documents the duo of Carmen Nagel-Berninger (prepared viola) and Inge Salcher (prepared flugelhorn) - recordings from 2010 and 2018 showing decades of refined practice. Gut strings, unusual tunings, extended techniques. A living tradi…
Norbert Eisbrenner
Norbert Eisbrenner (1935–2022) was a German improvising painter and musician. During the 1960s, he became involved with the West Berlin underground music scene and has played in the free-form group Human Being that evolved around the Zodiak Free Arts Lab, as well as in the trio MND (Moderne Nordeuropäische Dorfmusik), with Sven-Åke Johansson and Werner Götz, and in Schlangenfeuer, MND's later incarnation that was covered previously on Edition Telemark (cat. no. 903.07).
After having started out …
Fries
Dietmar Bonnen (b. 1958) is a German composer, pianist and singer whose music moves between the cornerstones of art rock, chamber music, blues, and new music. He has extensively collaborated with a large numbers of musicians in his hometown Cologne as well as internationally.
"Fries" (German for frieze) was previously released on CD on Bonnen's own label Obst Music and is presented here on vinyl for the first time. Bonnen states that the piece's structure is "visually inspired by the wall frieze…
Unfamiliar Home
A collaborative exploration of domestic space turned strange. Fromberg and Roigk transform the sounds of home into unsettling, poetic territories. Field recording meets electroacoustic composition - the familiar becomes alien, the mundane becomes mysterious.
On Perpetual (Musical) Peace?
This LP features the results of "On Perpetual (Musical) Peace?" realized in Mexico City in 2019 with Liminar, a Mexican ensemble that works at the boundaries between composed and improvised music, performance and sound installation. Conceptually rigorous, politically engaged, sonically adventurous.
Freedom Suite
**300 copies** The Kollektiv für Kommunikative und Ästhetische Forschung was an artist commune that existed for about two years around 1970 in a former monastery in Mariental (Lower Saxony), West Germany, close to the then inner-German border. It was founded by members of the West Berlin free art and music scene, many of them having been part of the scene based around the short-lived Zodiak Free Arts Lab. Among the residents were drummer Sven-Åke Johansson, guitarist Norbert Eisbrenner and bassi…
Kparr Dirè. Balafon Music from Lobi Country
LP plus DVD with full-length movie (125 minutes) of Balafon music of the Lobi people, recorded in and around Gaoua, Burkina Faso, on a two-week journey in June 2014, by Dirk Dresselhaus (alias Schneider TM), Julian Kamphausen and Arved Schultze. Packaged in a full-colour gatefold sleeve with DVD tray, with numerous photos and an extensive interview with Dresselhaus.The Lobi are an ethnic group of about 180,000 people living in southern Burkina Faso and bordering regions. The primary instrument o…
Church Waves
Double 12" exploring wave phenomena in all their forms - sound waves, water waves, the wave as universal principle. Site-specific installations captured on vinyl.
Waldkonzerte
**200 copies** Second LP release by The Oval Language on Edition Telemark after Hibernation in 2017, this time showcaseing Klaus-Peter John's Waldkonzerte (woodland concerts), recorded in 2016. The Oval Language is an autonomous art project founded in 1987 in Leipzig, East Germany, by Klaus-Peter John and Frank Berendt. Since Berendt left in 1995, it has been continued by John, sometimes with collaborators, but recently mostly for solo activities. Its fields of activity have included sound-noise…
Ernstalbrecht Stiebler & Tilman Kanitz
Stiebler is one of Germany's most consistent explorers of sustained tones and minimal structures - his work hovers in that magical space between sound and silence. Here paired with Kanitz for an intimate dialogue. Patient, luminous, endlessly rewarding listening. Music that demands - and rewards - your full attention.
Zwischen den Tönen
Between the Tones" - and that's exactly where Stiebler operates. Double LP of his sustained, luminous compositions. This is music of incredible patience and focus - tones held, shifted, allowed to breathe. The German master of reduction at his finest.
Opto_phon
Barbara Proksch explores the intersection of light and sound - synaesthetic territory mapped with precision and imagination. Visual art meets sonic art in a unified practice. Conceptually rigorous, sonically rewarding. Another hidden treasure from the Edition Telemark vaults!
Small Worlds
A 42-minute composition for improvising sextet by Austrian double bassist and composer Werner Dafeldecker. The score divides six players into two virtual trios, shifting constellations every three minutes - one player always serving as "dynamic leader" whose volume the others cannot exceed. A structure that forces deep listening without curtailing individual qualities. Conceptually rigorous, sonically stunning!
The Leopard
*100 copies lmited edition* Dialog, music, and elaborate sound design fold into a narrative fantasy about self-cannibalization and transformation. Written and recorded over five years, this is McCann’s first album since 2019’s Puck (Recital) and his first opera. The opera is voiced by composer Martin Bresnick, artist Nour Mobarak, musician Max Eilbacher [Horse Lords], and voice actors David George and Krystel Abimeri. McCann performed and recorded most of the music himself, meticulously editing …
Mikko
Wewantsounds is delighted to continue its Yoshiko Sai reissue program with the release of "Mikkou", the Japanese singer-songwriter's 2nd album released in 1976 on Black Records. The album, produced by ace arranger Isamu Haruna, keeps the same formula as "Mangekyou" with Yoshiko Sai's beautiful songs and dreamy vocals over cool funky arrangements, this time featuring legendary guitarist Masayoshi Takanaka. This is the first time "Mikkou" is widely available outside of Japan, with remastered audio…
Yanti Bersaudara
Sought-after eponymous Indonesian album by the Yanti Bersaudara (which means the Yanti sisters: Yani, Tina & Lin Hardjakusumah), released in 1971 and reissued for the first time. It is a very spiritual and magical Sunda album with haunting vibes based on a unique, creative and strong Sundanese cultural heritage. Active only for less than a decade (from the 1960s until the early 1970s), the three sisters originally from Bandung (West Java) sang traditional sundanese songs with beautiful voices & …
Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985–1987
Blue Abstraction compiles a selection of Jessica Williams’ lost prepared piano recordings. These recordings document the beginning of a vital, solitary phase in her career: a period of intense sonic experimentation that began with physically altering a 6’4” grand piano—creating a new instrument, and from there, creating a new music. The results are breathtaking; from melancholic soundscapes with Satie-esque lyricism to forcefully controlled cacophony, always grounded by the distinct emotional vo…
Africa Shangazi: More Early 1980s Benga & Rumba from East Africa
*The LP also comes with a free CD featuring additional material* This album is a compilation of hard-to-find 7" singles released in Kenya by the Audio Productions stable in the first half of the 1980s and most have never been released outside of East Africa. Amongst others, it features artists such as Super Wanyika, led by the legendary vocalist Issa Juma, originally from Tanzania, who played a pivotal role in the Kenyan club scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Also featured is Orchestra Sh…